skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People misunderstand General Relativity too... doesn't make it a fad.

A fad is a short-lived craze. Generally it's something that's done for fashion/popularity sake, but has little underlying benefit or scientific basis. Atkins published in the 1970's. Low carb diets have been popular for almost a decade now - and the evidence for their efficacy appears to be mounting. It's no longer a fad.

Regarding your points:

1) I've never heard that claim and I've been on some form or other of a low carb diet for the last ten years.
2) Magical? Hardly. The first time I forced my body into ketosis was the most difficult, though. When my metabolism switched to burning fat, I woke up that day feeling very different. That difference was a bit euphoric.
3) Being in ketosis isn't like being pregnant. There are varying degrees - hence the spectrum of colors on the ketostix. That said, there is a slippery slope where indulging "delicious things" can quickly lead to carb cravings that wreck your low carb eating regimen. Some people are better off just avoiding the treats because it makes sticking with their eating plan easier.
"Our vision is narrow and subjective; we are zoomed in on a small part of a line graph that is, in reality, much longer and plunging more steeply than we perceive. It’s hard to zoom out and internalize those changes stacking up across generations."
McDonald's toilets aren't "public", you're supposed to cough up for a cheeseburger. It's just that nobody checks.
No. You're required to not exceed the speed limit.
If you aren’t doing these 3 things you’ll never make it as a freelancer
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Yes I'm sure it takes more effort to close those ads than commenting here expecting someone will tell you all about the article...
The problem is that many Americans don't see anything wrong with their government depriving people of their human rights. And if you are an American that doesn't agree with this, you might just be detained or killed. And, of course, the first group sees nothing wrong with this.
Please add a mute button.
Keith Rabois on the "sub-optimal distribution of talent" in the Valley (video)
Yes, I think early release is critical. It keeps momentum and lets you hear feedback while you're still fresh in dev mode.
I noticed that too. The author is probably confusing the fact that you can compute the modulo for a power of two by bitwise-and:ing with (the power of two) - 1.

I.e. x & 0xffffffff == x % (0xffffffff + 1) (assuming more than 32 bits everywhere).
It goes without saying that my qualifications in aviation matters are only as an aviation enthusiast and for the full cause of the accident, we'll have to wait for the NTSB report (which has access to vital black box data and cockpit recordings).

However, I did give this accident some thought as well given the circumstances of the accident and came the pretty much the same final conclusion as the OP.

An airline pilot I once spoke to told me once that all the big jetliners use automated ILS with autopilot to automate the landings. The system is pretty accurate and reliable and can deliver landings as good as a well-trained and experienced pilot can.

When I saw the rather steep final approach the aircraft was making, I had suspected that the pilots were doing a manual landing. Now that we have information that the ILS was temporarily inoperational this appears to be what transpired and the pilots manually flew the final approach.

The precise reasons for why the manual approach ended up in this accident are still to be determined. One thing that I will point out though is that pilots for modern jetliners do relatively little actual manual flying of the plane. Modern airplanes have advanced FMS (Flight Management System) that allow for automatic flying from lift-off until landing with pilots overseeing the system. Given this lack of manual flying, there is a greater potential for human error when a pilot is required to actually do manual flying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
Tried out the app. A few thoughts:
- There's no way to tell what exercise is coming next, which breaks up flow.
- The music changes sporadically, so you can't trust it to tell you when the exercise is going to change. This is confusing.
- There is no audible signal that an exercise is starting or ending, so you have to watch the screen to check the countdown.
- The circuit re-starts eventually, but there's no indication of how long the circuit has been running, and no way to stop it.

Suggestions:
- Add an "on deck" icon, showing which exercise was going to come up next in the sequence.
- Change the "rest" message to "rest and prepare for [next exercise]"
- The app shouldn't require you to watch the screen, because this distracts from the exercise. Perhaps add audible queues counting down the end of each period.
- Add a round / step counter. E.g. "Round 2 Stage 3" for the second time you reach the third exercise in the circuit
"With iOS you're the product again, as the real customers are the mobile careers."

Can you give an example?
It's not clear why a place called "Hacker News" might be concerned with freedom?
From a reddit comment[1]:

"PPrune[2] also had a guy weighing in saying that when he flew for a Korean carrier he saw guys try to do banana-shaped approaches to get a smoother landing. Wouldn't be the first time the Koreans have pulled something like this."

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1hrewx/asiana_air...

[2] http://www.pprune.org
Yeah, I am, too.

A friend of mine works for Child Protective Services and gets exposed to some very volatile and unstable people. He gets threats from cases he's assigned, but thankfully nothing too serious or pervasive. Now that he's got a kid on the way, he's a bit more concerned. The only thought I had was to create an alias, but I'm really not sure how someone would go about doing that.

That book might be a great start for him, but if anyone has recommendations, I'm ears.
> the old version still works well, but since it's deprecated new features won't get added

While it's deprecated, the author is actively working on this: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline, which works well and has even more functionality.
If losing fat were as easy as "calories in = calories out", then more people would do it. While it is strictly true, the problem is that you we don't understand the exact equations for both calories in and calories out, and we often don't have control over the parameters. What will you do about you gut flora, which can alter just how efficiently calories in concerts to calories out?

There are many and powerful issues at hand. You cannot just dismiss the issue as thermogenic.
why isn't this post flagged since it doesn't has to do anything with CS?
'Quantum Mechanics by Paul Dirac'

Other historical theses:

1. 'Gravity by Newton'

2. 'Evolution by Darwin'

3. 'The Earth Orbits the Sun, Not the Other Way Around by Copernicus'
You used to look through a graveyard to find a dead child born a similar year as you.

You then got their birth certificate. Birth Certs say "MUST NOT BE USED AS IDENTIFICATION", but it's part of the paper bundle that builds credibility.
Startup working on making computers understand our emotions
Rdio is available in Italy, but I can listen only the first song
In a landing flare, you want to raise your negative V/S to near zero. A positive vertical speed means you're no longer descending, but ascending. Having a positive vertical speed during the landing flair is something you don't want to have as you're basically floating (and possibly climbing) above the runway and bleeding your airspeed which, in a couple seconds will most likely end in a hard landing as you've stalled while floating over the runway.

The positive rate of climb to me, indicates that they attempted to climb (go-around) but their low airspeed resulted in a stall.

It's important to remember that this data was pulled off Flightware which is basically aggregated data. and not from an accurate source such as the FDR. So my guess could be totally wrong.
Security through Obscurity?
I thought we disliked that.
Interesting. Looks like a more solid implementation. It includes more useful audio queues, and a "what's next" display.

Doesn't have the nifty music though, which seems to be the main point of the 7min.io implementation.
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My summer project
steal someone elses
Flagged for linking to blogspam on a site filled with nonsense.

Yet medium.com links are still OK.
Of course it's that simple. People are just lazy slobs.
It was snarky, and I expected the down votes. But, I think it needs to be said. Neither I, nor the OP, have enough information to make any conclusions. It is just a lot of observations, rumors, and opinions.

I love speculating about everything from government policy to interpersonal relationships. (It helps me validate my mental model of the world.) But, in this case, I know the NTSB currently has a better picture of the situation than anyone on the internet.
If you're talking about a real world fake identity (eg. social security, passport, etc) then it seems to come down to falsifying documents or paying off a worker to create the documents for you. This is a lot easier in some countries than others - for example, getting a fake Egyptian passport or Zimbabwe passport is likely to be incredibly easy right now. Once you have the passport, getting a tourist VISA to just about anywhere is generally incredibly easy.

If you're talking online fake identity, way easier. Head over to some local place that has internet access - a coffee shop, etc. Sign up for a facebook account and a google account using a fake name. Well done, you're now a new person.

If you plan to use these fake identities to commit crimes, however, then I wouldn't recommend it. Once law enforcement has a warrant it becomes easy enough to head over to that cafe and tracking someone down is what cops do. But for privacy and posting stuff online? Works 100% as long as you keep your fake traffic completely separate.
Great job, I love it!
This has happened to a product I worked on. There were 2 companies working on it, and when we were done there were 2 backups that I made after we'd finished it.

Backup #1 (USB HD, kept by development company A) was lost in a flood. Of course, this sort of thing is why you have 2+ backups...

Backup #2 (USB HD, kept by development company B, the one I worked for) was lent to the client after they wanted to take a copy of it themselves. Then fast forward 6 months, and:

US: Please would you return our backup drive of product XYZ?
THEM: [paraphrased] Who are you?

This product was a one-off, and not key to company B, so nobody chased this up (not that they could do much anyway because the backup drive was presumed lost forever). We only found out about the loss of backup #1 when company A asked us for our backup, because they needed the code for a project they were thinking of doing...
There is definitely a need. In 3 years time we could get Dual 10 Core CPU on a server with PCI-E Based SSD card at insane IOPS speed for a very reasonable price. So very soon, year or so we will be bottlenecked by our Network Port. And I dont see 10Gbit Ethernet price coming down anytime soon.
Yes freedom is analog and has rewards and consequences. There are countries which have decided that giving the common person guns is not worth it.
In US intellectual property law, a company's trade secrets are no longer secrets if they get out, and a company cannot pursue those who use the information after it has been leaked. They can sue the person(s) who released the trade secrets, but that's it. No such luck with classified information.
Spherical Flight Vehicle
Like I said, I have filmed a lot of police interactions. I have been harassed many times, but never arrested. I /have/ been arrested for obstruction of legal process once. Ironically, it was a time when I wasn't filming and just standing off to the side taking notes.

If you do get arrested, you can both win damages for yourself and often change the entire written rules of a police department by suing.

But again, normalizing this will go a long way to people not getting harassed and cops knowing that they could be being filmes in any public interaction at any time.
It looks nice. Can't you create the whiteboards so that the users don't need to login (except the creator of the whiteboard)? Maybe just creating a url that is a guid.
yes, but now there is plastic surgery which can replace your skin so it is always a check checkmate situation.
I just share moments and enjoy it. She has her needs, like anyone else, dinning, watching a show, etc. I try to make everyday 2 o 3 hours of full atention then i go to my stuff. It works for me.

Some days you may lend more hours but other days you will be free from them.

The other solution is plain simply: return to single state. No need to waste time on anything more than, you.
>>If losing fat were as easy as "calories in = calories out", then more people would do it.

It is simple, not easy. Do not confuse the two.
Ahh yes, I accidentally missed a few words there.
Well, the whole blog design is very gray-area 'theft' of Medium's design.
In this case - What the author wants to do in life besides working is travel and gain some rich experiences by meeting people across the world. To me - that's really freaking cool.
This is precisely it: its not economically beneficial to be involved in politics, unless you basically make it your absolute sole concern. That is to say, there are clear benefits to becoming a politician, or a lobbyist, or interest group. However, just becoming "informed" generally has a lot of negatives (depression), with no real positives (as you said, its not like you can do much about it other than complain). So unless your goal is to make a living in politics in one way or another, it is completely rational to be apathetic towards politics and put your focus somewhere else.
> He's obviously not advocating treason, but one of the comments goes to great lengths explaining that those controlling the data collection are duly elected.

I certainly didn't elect them.
I've lost over 120 pounds. It's not very hard. I started powerlifting and eating extremely clean, counting all my calories, getting in 8-9 hours of sleep a night.

Now I can squat 315lbs+, Deadlift 450+, and bench 250+. Feels good.
Furthermore, here in particular, you have the instincts of a entrepreneurial community.

It isn't difficult to conclude that the foundation of support for authoritarianism from the general population comes from a desire to preserve order, and a fear that unregulated or unrecorded speech and communication is more likely to enable bad changes and events than good changes.

Entrepreneurs however tend toward believing that disruptive innovation on balance does more good than bad, and believe that one of the hurdles that must be surmounted is to undermine the influence of established businesses and centers of power that have a stake in limiting innovation.
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I wish the same thing specifically for domain names and hosting.
Wow! Thank you so much for your thoughtful response tagabek, you've listed some great tips that are easily ignored by newbies like myself. I'll definitely check out the three blogs, thank you once again!
Sure, the us constitution is written that way, but other one that explicitly mention privacy (eg article 8 of the European convention on human rights
The Key to Innovation
Everything is weird the first time you see it.
When you use fake-quotes like "freedom enhancement techniques" and someone discovers that no three-letter agency or government organization has ever actually said such a thing -- that such a quote isn't exactly grounded in reality (Google only turned up http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/01/31/832543/-President-P..., which was satire), they're inclined to believe "Hey, if they weren't entirely truthful with this aspect of their argument, maybe I shouldn't bother checking out the rest of the stuff they said."

Call it seeing the forest for the strawman; either way, there's enough of an argument to be made by sticking to the facts.
This is pretty valid.

It is probably also true (generally speaking) that people tend to use lists when the cardinality is not fixed and tuples otherwise.
Where does the Node part come into this? It looks like client side javascript game engine to me?
With this you can get a library card, now you have two forms of ID, which you can use to get a state ID.
Serious question: why are private bets on private games illegal? Is it because money changes hands without the gov't taking a slice?
The URL in the location bar seems to update with the steps you've done (here's one showing the first construction: http://www.sciencevsmagic.net/geo/#0A1.1L0.1A0.3L0.3L1). Undo/Redo can then give an animation like appearance.
Wow! This must have been a lot of work to write this all down.

We are creating tools for PhD students so they can work more efficiently. bohr.launchrock.com
I agree with much of what you say, but I'm not sure I agree that "Americans won't accept that".

- Obama has a secret "kill list" and has bragged about killing Americans without due process of law.

- We have widespread surveillance of our phones and email.

- The FBI admits that drones are now being used for domestic surveillance.

- The activist Supreme Court is continuing to gut our laws and give Big Business everything they want.

- The TSA is groping and nude scanning everyone, they've never caught a single terrorist, but are expanding beyond airports.

- Half of the inmates at Guantanamo have been cleared for release but are still detained a decade after incarceration.

- Half of America is in poverty.

- The Obama administration is trying to gut the Freedom of Information Act by denying certain doesn't even exist.

- The Supreme Court and various politicians are finding more ways of restricting the right to vote.

But people won't shut the fuck up about Kim and Kanye's baby.

It's 1984 meets Brave New World.
I didn't say that I or Taubes denied thermodynamics. You're spinning. I said that the caloric intake explanation of weight gain is "noise" in this discussion. It's useless. Taube even covers why it's a useless statement in the provided link.

Secondly, I disagree with your assessment of anything I said as "vitriol". If it's vitriol to call someone's statement ignorant or point out that they're committing the very act they're complaining about through that ignorance, then I would claim that you're confusing "vitriol" with "directness".
Bite me, Poindexter.
The first thing to do is realize that there are only a few limited situations in which you are ever legally obligated to tell the truth (or to say anything at all).

Allow that to empower you and the truth will literally set you free. Truthfully, you are almost always free to lie. Find those boundaries and tiptoe without crossing them.

I imagine that even if you are able to take advantage of some of the other advice in this thread about gaining actual documents and whatnot, you are more likely to get caught if you aren't willing to stretch the truth or lie.

"Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

I really enjoy watching fox news or listening to rush limbaugh and I find that the longer I take it in, the more I learn how to hone this practical skill.
A brief look at the code seems to suggest the game engine is running on the server and the client is simply a renderer, must like how multiplayer games work. I could be wrong though.
No obviously not, but you should have a sense of speed enough to not deviate much from the last time you checked.
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Oh come off it--he's just using quotation marks to emphasize sarcasm.
I wrote a response here, but with the current state of government surveillance programs, I thought it was better to remove it.
I'm not sure we can believe the last data point - it's possible that's a real ascent, or it's possible it's caused by failing hardware as the plane crashes.
I like it, it's quite a bit more then a tutorial.
If I press a key it just changes to a giant "3" and then a giant "NaN".
11k more than they needed
I believe this is sourced from reddit's MFA FAQ.

http://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice sidebar has more useful info.
Snowden’s contribution
There are still issues on rev13. For example, when binding to the didCreate event after committing a model, the model.id is not defined. You would think `didCreate`, fired when a response is returned from the server, and that response includes the complete model including the ID, your client-side model would now include the ID as well. Not so! You have to do tricks like `model.addObserver('id')` to get what you need.

Ember.js is great fun, until it goes horribly wrong. On the other hand, the Ember Core team does not call it a 1.0 — and they certainly do not say Ember Data is finished. I think it's unfair to judge such early builds.
I've been a long-time HN reader (i.e., lurker), but I've just become a commenter to say: Very cool. I'm sweating already. It also really commendable you've made it available open source. One small suggestion: Give a preview of the next work-out in the corner.
This is damned cool. Having something like this makes it easy and convenient to explore geometry without the inconveniences imposed by physical media. Having specific goals to work towards and target move counts is icing on the cake.

Thank you for making this. Find a way to get this out there to geometry teachers. They (and their students) will love it.

--

Suggested improvements:

+ Option to switch between a couple colors or line types, to make it easier to track what one's doing. (E.g., laying down foundational lines in black, then experimental lines in blue or dashed lines.

+ One minor thing I'd like to see fixed: the proximity of the numerical goals to the shapes they're associated with doesn't make it clear whether (e.g.) the 8 move goal is an easy version of the "build a triangle in X moves," or whether 8 moves is the least amount of moves for building a triangle inside an origin circle.

Suggested fix: make that more apparent by tweaking the order of the symbols (e.g. Triangle, 5, 8, OriginTriangle) and/or adding a divider of some manner to make them stand apart more.
Why are you assuming that the phrase is not a 1337biz creation, because he prefaced it with 'your'? Quotation marks don't always have to equal spoken/written communications.
Traditionally there are five methods to get a fake identity:

1) Work for a governmental agency that has a reason to give you one. [https://www.cia.gov/careers]

2) Enter a witness-protection program by testifying against murderous criminals

3) Buy one on the black market. This can be as simple as a barely-passable driver's licence for underage drinkers, or as sophisticated as a complete set of papers (birth cert, etc) forged by a master [http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kaminsky.html]

4) Steal (or trade) someone else's established identity

5) Create an identity for a child who died shortly after birth.

To do this last one you:

- Ask the birth registration office for a copy of the birth certificate

- Use that to get a national id number (like a SSN in the US or SIN in Canada)

- Use those to open a bank account

- Use those to get a credit card (probably a secured card meaning you have to keep a positive balance on the card)

- Buy a course at a driving school. Let them get everything ready to take the driving exam and as a bonus you get to use their car. They also add legitimacy by implicitly vouching for your identity

- Get a driver's licence

- Use everything you already acquired above to get a passport

(Good luck finding such a child though)