skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an internship ending in August. I come home and study so yeah, I'm coding every day. I don't consider this work. It's fun for me so it's easy to keep at it for hours, it's like I'm playing an endless video game.

Thanks, using the time off to work on apps :)
Some more data on lawns:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Lawn/

Which estimates around 31.6 million acres of lawn in the US.
My goal is iOS apps, though for the next few months until I get a mac I'll be focusing on mobile web apps and responsive design.
s/their/they're/
I experienced something similar a while ago as I was moving from Sweden to Japan. I could only ship a few things. Once moved, while waiting for those few shipped things to arrive, and living on yet fewer things in the meantime, I realized how few things we really need and how many things just tie us down and consume space. It's liberating to have just a few things.
Do you mind to elaborate? Because I've never heard anything about that and my (admittedly short) googling didn't bring up anything relevant.
> Also, it isn't like these devices are able to pilot themselves,

If Google can figure out how to make a self-driving car, I think the government can (or has already) figure out a way to make self-flying drones.
corrected, thank you... my stupid coming out.
Not really, though (and this relates to the first of your examples) I do what persisting (avoid loss) changes made distinct from committing (identifying as in a done/stable/ready-for-some-use-besides-continued-editing state) changes.
Hope the book page he's writing follows the same simplicity as in the article.
It is speech that is most universal -- words. Drawing came after, and relegated to being foci of rituals and stories that were spoken and symbolic of spoken agreements.
No, they used to hang so you could "hang up".
Many sites, including most home pages (remember those?) had a page of links, a small curated set of links[1]. Ooh, and guestbooks! Thousands and thousands of guestbooks!

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/19991022011955/http://www.geociti...
Interesting read; I've encountered many of the problems signaled out here.

I'm overweight, and I've changed my life and my diet to try and fix it. When I took note of where I was, I was drinking between 4 and 8 mountain dews a day. I ate candy in prodigious amounts, and constantly ate until I was full.

Since then, I altered my diet and eating habits to where I drink no pop, and rarely have any kind of sugary treat. I eat only until I'm satiated, and in usually get out to exercise daily.

The end result? I'm the same weight as I was before. My weight has not changed in over 9 years now.

I sure I could go on a starvation diet (< 1,000 calories a day) and exercise for hours on end - it's worked to a limited degree in the past - but that's not willpower, that's torturing myself. The last time I tried, I was constantly tired and sickly, and after coming down with a nasty bout of the flu and recovering from it, all of my progress had been lost.

I've come to terms with my weight. I'm eating healthy, I'm exercising regularly, and I'm thinking of getting into a gym and working on my strength a bit more. I have accepted that getting to a "normal" weight again is not within my reach, unless something outside of my control changes.

[EDIT] Before critiquing my story with the usual tropes of "you're still eating too much and exercising too little", please read the entire article and realize that it may not be the perfect answer you think it is.
“Don’t quit your day job” - A letter to the hobbyist on the ledge.
People love this quote and the comic that goes with it, but its much deeper than most are willing to take it. For the intrepid I recommend: "Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation & Political Control"
When I was a kid, the Soviet Union was declared bad _because_ it did these things. So it's hard for some of us to shift from a mindset that it was bad on its face as proven by the Soviet Union, to that it's only bad if it's done by a bad state. I mean, right or wrong, this is the conditioning society gave us at the time. I happen to think it was right. I don't really care about their reasons, no legitimate process operating under the principle of limited government and consent of the govern gives it the power to collect extensive data about the private lives of citizens without some kind of cause to believe the citizen is engaged in wrongdoing.
I think from watching all the videos of self navigating quadrocopters that do tricks I can safely assume that a lot of people (including the government) can
Speeding things up with sessionStorage
This story is a great example of what happens if you mix up employer branding with recruitment process. Attracting talent is one thing, while defining what actually "talent" means for your company (in terms of competencies required for the job) and how to measure it - now that's completely different story. In an extreme case you can end up with ultra-smart, over-qualified people who will be disappointed by the boring, uninspiring every-day tasks they're assigned to. The goal of recruitment is not to get "the best people", but to get the people who will consistently deliver business results.
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"Dear obese PhD applicants: if you don’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won’t have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth."

ha, what a jerk.
The citation I was thinking of was from Daniel Goleman's Working with Emotional Intelligence, where one of the findings presented was that a moderately high IQ (usually in the 120-130 range) is often a prerequisite for entering a demanding profession like doctor, lawyer, or computer programmer, but continued success in the field depends more upon emotional skills like confidence, perseverance, resilience, social skills, and leadership.

With a bit of Googling, I've found some other support for this, including the Terman study:

http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/grady/emptypromise.html

"Our conclusion is that for subjects brought up under present-day educational regimes, excess in IQ above 140 or 150 adds little to one's achievement in the early adult years." - Louis Terman, 39th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education Part I, pp. 83-84
> NOTE: my blog is being slashdotted by Hacker News

:) I think we need a new verb here.
you didn't mention how many calories per day you're eating, and what type of macronutrients.

you also didn't mention what kind of exercise you are doing. if you aren't doing deadlift, squat, overhead press, bench press, you're probably doing something way too ineffective to burn fat (hint: you need to build MUSCLE, as a man)

you have a general casual attitude about your descriptions, which is probably why you aren't seeing results.
Node.js and Firebase work very well together.
These changes seem like an excellent step. But it's worth noting that even under the new proposal Aaron would have likely run afoul of the "access without authorization" component. I'm also not sure the new language around repeat offenders would have made a difference given the plea bargain, but I could imagine it would have made the maximum sentence sound less scary.

In addition to the two changes listed by Ars Technica, there's another tweak making it clear that the court should consider the "fair market" value of the information, which I guess for JSTOR would have still looked quite high.
Use a hardware write blocker. They make them for forensics:

http://www.wiebetech.com/products/USB-WriteBlocker.php

http://www.tableau.com/index.php?pageid=products&category=fo...
> We don't currently do "anonymization" so web browsing can be an issue.

What does that mean exactly?
Sometimes, you don't have space, you don't want to promote use of the function or maybe it's clear enough without words.

An example of the latter one: an [x] in the top right hand corner.

Or the magnifying glass inside an input box.
As a practicing Endocrinologist I will go out on a limb and say excess carbohydrates are the problem leading to obesity. Sugar (or sucrose) is a particular problem as it will stimulate insulin release from the pancreas. Insulin promotes storage of glucose and I am convinced, the growth of fat cells. I have seen patients lose a tremendous amount of weight (34 lbs over 7 months) and lower blood glucose and their amount of diabetes medication simply through cutting out sugar and flour. They also reduced their overall carbohydrate intake. I presented the data at our annual Endocrinology conference recently. https://endo.confex.com/endo/2013endo/webprogram/Paper9044.h...
I agree with what you're saying, my point is just that all of the current IQ tests (including the ones Terman used) were not designed to be measures. That is, someone with an IQ of 200 isn't twice as smart as someone with an IQ of 100, which is what the term 'measurement' implies. (C.f. the book Measurement In Psychology, which was recommended by tokenadult a while ago.) Rather, they are designed to compare people relative to one another. In other words, regardless of whether or not there is some underlying thing called IQ, no one (to the best of my knowledge) has ever tried to measure it.
I respect your experience with your body and in weight loss, but did you keep track of what exactly you are eating every day and its energ content? It's easy to trick yourself into thinking you are eating less.

There might also be medical conditions that prevent you from losing weight.
I don't think you can really get a feel for the site without signing up for it. I wonder if you'd have gotten better feedback from HN if people could actually use it without signing up. This is probably a different issue entirely than relying solely on Facebook Login.
This does, however, make me wonder if there's a way to (ab)use the charitable deductions system to make it a zero cost thing. Spun right, I can see a lot of people (myself included) find donating it for free to be a more satisfying idea than paying to throw it away, provided it's a minimally irritating process (remember that in both cases you're competing against "put off throwing it out for another month/year").

As a good example, some friends of mine who work in a networking team will turn up with a land rover and collect whatever pile of old computer equipment you have; they aggregate it and sell it to scrap merchants and the proceeds go towards drinks at their office christmas party. Their management have concluded the fuel costs are less than the recovered beer costs, and I know I can reliably get rid of old tech I don't need and even if it doesn't go to a charity as such it's going to buy beer for people I know and like.

The point here is that making it almost entirely free of effort on my part, plus at least the illusion that the money raised is going for something I consider to be of at least marginally more than zero value, makes it a proposition I'm quite happy to work with.

Or: Find a way to make people feel at least a little good about making as little effort as possible; the marginal value of a slight good feeling to me is far more than $10 especially if the $10 requires more effort to get.
The truth is, Apple has made a clear statement that they can't intercept the contents.

That's more than anyone else has said about their products. Saying 'nobody knows' is pure FUD. It's equivalent to saying nobody knows whether Google pipes all their data direct to the NSA even though they've denied it.
No dice on the gmail android application unfortunately, where the icons are indecipherable.

Anyway, I am confused as to why the librarians would think college students have never seen floppies, particularly "a few years ago". Flash drives really only started to cut into floppy use in around 2003-2004 from my perspective. Before that everyone of course used CD's for big stuff, but floppies if they wanted to shuffle documents around. I remember submitting assignments to teachers on floppy drives as late as 2004.

This seems to be the modern equivalent of: "I bet you've never seen one of these before!" * points to a vinyl record *.
1.) Insurance providers are, unfortunately, set up that way in Canada. Bulk processing of applicants is cheaper administratively than lots of individual applicants. I think any insurance company that wants to rock the boat will take a long hard look at this group vs. individual practice.

2.) GWL's 50-75% coverage vs. Blue Cross' top-tier 90-100% coverage is a no-brainer if you want to spend the extra (a lot) of money.

3.) They are, which is why I haven't switched. I get minimal life, dependent, ADD, and LTD. In fact, it is so minimal that I went and got extra that isn't tied to my employment. The company won't stop paying for it though, because they want the $60k they'll get if I die or am permanently disabled.

4.) Fully passed.

5.) I've heard this before. I'll have to look into it. Despite being more fiscally conservative than most other Canadians, budget is still tight.
Lesson #1: Hacker News is not your audience!

Just forget about the nerds with a megaphone up their collective butts yelling about the evil Facebook and go for your actual market: everyone else.
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Problem is then that you have two cases that need to be tested and taken into consideration when designing etc.
This is one of the most frustrating things about how we, as a society, talk about obesity - we act like you can know something meaningful about a person's lifestyle and health from a single glance. Not to mention the related assumption that a thin body is inherently desirable and worth striving for.

A measurement like BMI, which is a great way of looking at a population, is a terrible way of understanding an individual, and the use of weight and BMI as a stand-in for health is infuriatingly wrongheaded.
No. The more 'outlandish' a theory is, the more trivial it should be to dismiss with a simple statement. Bullying is never called for.
From "it's only to catch terrorists, guys" to potentially "it's also used to prove guilt in minor domestic cases."

I, for one, hope this succeeds. Maybe then we'll have a way to get the masses to understand just how bad this surveillance state really is, for all of us.
Context tells me he meant "with enough"... touch screens are a wonder for us fat fingered folks.
Most people don't find it unreasonable to see the FBI using drones for surveillance as sparingly as Mueller claims in his testimony, it's later when they have something like a few thousand ARGUS-like platforms constantly surveying everything all of the time that makes it an egregious violation of privacy. Traffic cameras and license plate scanners are a prime example of the way law enforcement perceives its mandate to advance such things.
I've considered GitHub and Bitbucket logins to be great options if you have a product that targets developers, but want to try and avoid (for a while, or forever) handling usernames/passwords/password resets/etc yourself. Both seem to have a general sense of "trust" that many do not have for Facebook.

I'm implementing Google & GitHub (w/ BitBucket to follow just after) OAuth2 flows on a small project I'm building now. Both services are extremely pervasive amongst the specific developers I'm targeting, so I consider users unwilling to sign-in with either of those services a minority (but one that I won't ignore, if they clamour for it!). I just had to draw the line in the sand somewhere if I'm going to get this out the door this summer (winter, here).
They have stated that, but no evidence of end to end encryption has been found by people reverse engineering FaceTime/iMessage. It appears to use SSL/TLS to and from Apple's servers, but there's no sign of it being encrypted otherwise.

Messages can be sent to all devices of a user, which means if there was end to end encryption the key would have to be distributed across those devices, which would presumably require it residing on Apple's servers at some point, where it could be stored.

And people have received other users' iMessages in the past, unencrypted.
Learn you some chemistry for great good.

Silver Chloride causes Argyria. Not colloidal silver.
if you aren't doing deadlift, squat, overhead press, bench press, you're probably doing something way too ineffective to burn fat

People trying to lose weight tend to overdo it and eat less than (or the wrong type of food) than is necessary to maintain their muscles. Building any more of them, as unlikely as it is to happen if you eat under your daily consumption, will not help with reaching their goal.
If anyone is interested in trying this diet, there's a good support community at reddit.com/r/keto
lol that's great. Wonderful to think that even Larry and Sergey had to hustle. Everyone has to put in their time.
But how can they accurately identify a request as being by an actual US citizen?
Is it just me or has the gov't clammed up and stopped making incredible & dishonest denials?
Apple, Google and Facebook can store communications for evermore. And NSA can easily get a copy anytime, via a rubber stamp by a judge in the secret court.

Now, in light of this, are we all (the good guys) permitted to use strong encryption to protect our data in storage by these third parties... since we can't trust them to do so?

Unless we have a HIPAA-like law to cover all data, not just our medical records, then may we resort to self-help?
I'd be interested in solid numbers, but my own guess is that they will differ in the opposite direction, with the average farmer dumping many more chemicals per acre than the average lawn owner does. Crop-dusting in some areas happens daily, and when not daily, 1-3x per week. By contrast, very few lawn owners will apply pesticide to their lawn every day. Few will do it even once a week. The norm where I've lived seems to be 1-2x per year, which is hilariously infrequent to a farmer. Even if they over-apply in their very occasional pesticide treatment, they're starting from a baseline of much less frequent application.
That said, there are millions of copies of unpatched systems running on VPSes across the internet. I think that the lesser evil is automation. Possibly the upstream can borrow from continuous delivery and only "announce" the upgrade progressively, testing as it goes.

I'd also be interested in the upgrade system itself. Systems which have atomic snapshotting would be more un-borkable, for example.
I happen to be married to an American and have discussed this topic at length with many of my American relatives.

The big problem is that Obamacare is nothing like a universal system or even the Canadian system, and it does not address the colossal spending costs.

Also, I think Canada happens to have built its medical system at a bit of a sweet spot time. We have enough people paying enough taxes to give a pretty decent average quality of care (assuming you don't live in the boonies). Too many more people or too little taxes and the system will fall apart.

As run4yourlives said,
> There is a reason your health spending is almost double per capita to the next highest nation, and it has nothing to do with your population.

Ditto. Canada and other countries aren't doing that. So in the mean time our skilled workers will keep going to the USA to get salaries 3-5x higher than what they would make and keep on taking the money out of the USA.
This doesn't address what I think was one of the most interesting points in the article - weight gain is present even in lab animals with strictly monitored diets.

The implication being, of course, that this isn't the whole story, and we are doing ourselves a disservice by chalking up everything to diet.

(I don't mean to say you are wrong about this fact by any means - I'm not any kind of expert, and you sound very convincing.)
Alex3917 brought up the same point in the other sub-thread where I raised this, and my response was basically "What's the point then?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5915459

Yes, you can define a concept as a normal distribution centered at 100 with a standard deviation of 15. But if you claim that this concept can be measured with IQ tests, and then the observed distribution of IQ scores doesn't match the predicted curve - it's the curve that's wrong, not the tests.

The studies that the "fat tail" results were from all used the Stanford Binet L-M test, which has a ceiling of around 230.
I think these are used more for PM interviews. I interviewed there once and was asked to design an evacuation plan for Manhattan (not San Francisco). I've also heard from employees there that such questions were preferred for PMs rather than engineers.
Why We Love Mashape
The title seems irrelevant.

With the exception of frameworks like Ocsigen/Eliom[0] and Dart[1] (Eliom being the closest thing to what the presentation hints about), I've never seen any production web apps that have been compiled from languages like Ruby, Python or C (I don't consider desktop applications like Banana Bread a web app). Lack of frameworks and best practices for DOM manipulation seem to be roadblocks.

The presentation didn't list any examples of web apps written in other languages, so I'm forced to conclude that if I have a big web app, compiling it is not the most sensible option.

[0] http://ocsigen.org/overview/eliomapplications
[1] http://www.dartlang.org
The Internet has a voice and Microsoft isn't the only one that needs to listen
> Retain and make use of "inadvertently acquired" domestic communications if they contain usable intelligence, information on criminal activity, threat of harm to people or property, are encrypted, or are believed to contain any information relevant to cybersecurity

So if they "inadvertently" discover you're breaking a law during their mass surveillance, they can forward it to the relevant authorities.

> Access the content of communications gathered from "U.S. based machine[s]" or phone numbers in order to establish if targets are located in the US, for the purposes of ceasing further surveillance

Brilliant. In order to prevent spying on citizens, they spy on citizens to make sure they're citizens who can't be spied on.
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Webapp Builder, rapid static assets in node
Just remember that the distribution of the test results depends on the tool itself as well as testing conditions. So I would say that such anomalies are rather the problem with the measurement than characteristic of the population.
They can store inadvertently collected US data without a warrant (with a written letter from the NSA director outlinig the reaons), but can they listen or read it without a warrant? That key bit of data is missing from this article. It appears that the answer is "yes" but it's not clear.
> we act like you can know something meaningful about a person's lifestyle and health from a single glance.

Based on your sibling comments (which as of this moment consist of "you're still eating too much food and not exercising enough"), I agree.
It generally only included the northbridge and southbridge.
"an" or "a"?

It's a long story. If you've never had to deal with this quaint piece of British pedantry, count yourself lucky. But you can still sometimes here BBC journalists who say "This is an historic occasion." with both the "n" and the "h" pronounced clearly.
This is quite the future right? The problem isn't the save icon, it is the notion of "save" itself, which is completely unnaturalistic; i.e. the floppy disk icon is not anachronistic, the floppy disk itself is! When I write into a physical notebook, I don't have to "save my work", this just happens automatically...you've probably heard this before.

What we really need is a good icon for "bookmark version", and there aren't many good time travel analogies to leverage to come up with good metaphors.
Remember the original IBM PC and PC AT motherboards that used discrete chips like the 8259 and 8254?
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