skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's seen as a fad because of the large initial water weight loss and the numerous myths about it, e.g.:

1) it's impossible to gain weight while in ketosis

2) the first time you go into ketosis, it has magical fat-burning effects that are lost after you go out of ketosis and back in

3) that ketosis is in fact magical in any way, and in any way better than simply -moderating- carb intake (as opposed to cutting it to 50g or under, and giving up delicious things that you enjoy).

Fact is, plenty of people have tried it as a magic bullet and eaten copious amounts of cheese and bacon only to find that, surprise, fats are insanely calorie-dense and things like salt can still happily make you hungry enough to overeat.

On the positive side, trying keto also permanently changed the way I felt about food - I permanently reduced my carb intake, increased protein and fat, and have a much better understanding of how high-carb foods create 'hunger'. And it happens to work very well for some people, which is awesome.
This is really interesting, and seems to work. My simple searches for porn returned no results. Searching for wine returned results, but searching for "buy wine online" returned nothing. I cannot look up "bikinis", but I can buy lingerie.
> I don't get why Germany (or any sovereign nation) allows foreign military bases anyways.

Exactly.

What happens when the US gets out of control? (And with the power that the NSA has, that kind of corruption is not science fiction anymore.) There would be no Europe to try to push back and correct things. The world would be f##ked for real, this time.
Was he reading Dreaming in Code? For everyone unfamiliar with this book, the co-founder of Salon.com, Scott Rosenberg, wrote a book called "Dreaming in Code" that's basically about why writing software is so hard.
This is great. Someone obviously asked "What's our social media strategy" and got sold some "AI" by someone who said "It's just like SIRI, only better!" and this is what they bought. Sigh.
What do you mean when say that you wish CoffeeScript was this? I mean GorillaScript exists, so if you prefer it to CoffeeScript then use it rather than CoffeeScript.
That might be true in the case of the first version of Instagram and Twitter. It was probably far from trivial once they had significant traction. Why do you think no one copied them at the early stage?

You'd think that Twitter with all their resources could have copied Instagram in a snap. Instead, when he saw the product and the traction, the founder of Twitter invested in it. He then got upset when Facebook brought them and is only now copying them.
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Entrapment seems to be a common tactic. The details of most of the arrests of would-be terrorists that they catch in the US are clear cases of entrapment. The FBI/NYPD/some paid informant finds some antisocial/inept guy who's floundering in his life and try to radicalize him and then give him a plan and tools to carry out some terrorist act.

Here's one case, but there are many: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/26/taliban-sympathi...

Pay attention to the details next time you read about a foiled terror plot in the US. A couple of them seem to have been legit but most follow the pattern.

[Edit] I became curious about what happened to this guy so I Googled him and found this: http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/04/26/alleged-taliban-sy... looks like they threw the book at him and sent him to prison for 8 years for having fired a gun at a firing range. [/Edit]
Hey Jon, yeah i have a kind of support group, its a small IRC room i run that a few regulars hang around in, you're welcome to come in. www.chatwebdev.com
You could start by not masking your condescension with some sort of vague higher purpose.
Are there any reliable statistics quantifying this? I found some numbers for Germany on Wikipedia [1] but not for the US. The article states that per year for the period of 2007 to 2011 the German police fired between 36 and 57 bullets at humans killing between 6 and 12 of them. Older numbers are less reliable but similar regarding the number of people killed (peak since 1970 24 in 1983) but with a larger number of bullets fired where reported. Are the numbers for the USA way worse after compensating for the difference in population?

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffengebrauch_der_Polizei_in_D...
http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AEJ2JLv5...

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AEJ2JLv5...
Here's a documentary you might enjoy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125653/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Here, in Russia, basic medical assistance is mostly free (or costs peanuts compared to US), but on the flip side you have to sit through enormous queues, talk to incompetent doctors and doctors themselves might extort you. Paid medicine is better and sometimes better qualified, and you get better service, but it's totally out of budget for anyone below middle class.

Good news is that you won't be charged bajillion dollars after you broke your hand, bad news is that you'll have to wait and suffer in horrible insanitary that is Russian polyclinic.

I have mixed feelings about our health care system. I believe, it will gradually disintegrate as doctors from soviet era get older and retire.
No American police are generally resistant to training of any type, such as firearm training. They don't like other people telling them they don't know how to do their jobs, that would make them lose confidence. It's why they need to shoot at you sixty times in order to hit you once.
> "If this is true, why don't we become incredibly fat or skinny over time?"

I mean, we do. One of the big tricks here is that your basal metabolic rate is not a constant. As your weight increases you burn more energy than before simply existing. If you're running a very slight caloric surplus this will be neutralized as your weight increases, thus stabilizing you.
It almost sounds like the situation in unstable Central American or Arab nations where the police are hated by the people, while the military is seen as their protectors.
While the answer boils down to "diet and exercise" the point of the article was explaining the changes in mindset it took to get the author to change his habits. Knowing that diet and exercise is the most effective way to get healthy and putting that knowledge to practice are two different things entirely.
Maybe our government isn't the problem
I think that the latter could be addressed (for those familiar with the idea of the workout) by replacing the circles at the bottom with icons representing each workout. An interim hack might be to just crop the workout guy out of the images being used already, and shrinking that down to icon size.
Some blacks like to be called nigger, what's your point??
Reach into the computer and grab a pixel
Legality doesn't stop regular occurrences of filmers being arrested for "obstruction of justice".
That may be true but weight gain/loss wise, it's the same.
THIS! That diagram is just ...
If you're talking about games then the answer is licensing. There are a zillion licenses around the audio stack, the video stack, perhaps the game art or the game characters etc etc. None of that licensing allows you to release the source code (and thus the source material) to the public.

For non-games it can also be about licensing (or as others have mentioned providing evidence that you used code in an unlicensed way) or about support (nobody wants to answer questions about the code).
6. Become a mormon (mormons are highly regarded by the NSA as naturally suited to following orders).

7. Become a cop. A proper one, not just a security guard or something.

I wonder how applicable 7 is if you're an immigrant. You might get charged with espionage or something.
> Sadly, yes, it is the America that America wants, as far as I can tell.

Many young people coming out of school seem to have no conception of rights. To them, it's excusable for rights to be violated if they feel enough justified anger. They are unclear on the concept that rights apply to people and situations in ways they may not like.
This is the first time I've seen someone else on here reference/recommend this title. I quite enjoyed it, as well. (My copy ended up water damaged and I can't refer to it right now, but from memory...)
People saying that are talking about -weight-, not fat.
OpenJDK, not "Java".
Using a hosts file to make the internet not suck as much
Agreed. At first I thought he'd just woke up on morning and been like "Wow, I've lost a lot of weight".
The presumption of innocence is not directly enshrined in the constitution, and in the case of some crimes, like rape, has been deliberately and explicitly weakened.
At my company we've open sourced a ruby gem for an elastic search client but kept the rails integration closed for some of the same reasons. I just don't have time to write a version that runs with vanilla rails. Our gem relies on a bunch of conventions and libs that are not standard for a rails app. Sure we could extract it, but we would have to rewrite parts that depend on other tools. Sure they could be open sourced as well, but we've hardly got the time to do that. The reality is that most oss projects are small and are maintained by one person with occasional patches from others. Without that one person most die.
The data doesn't go directly to amazon it goes to canonical who passes the query on to Amazon without personally identifiable info.
Well, they did just come out of schools where metal detectors and police patrolling the halls was the enforced norm. They rode to school in busses with cameras that watched their every move.

How can we expect them to suddenly expect freedom, when they've never had it?
Very cool!!

Would be very amazing if the background image is a sea only during the rest
Also the Glycemic Index of the calories that you consume matters.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/w8079e/w8079e0k.htm
I'm starting to get the feeling that the Bilderberg conspiracy theorists haven't been so far off, after all.
this is all very standard stuff for a physicist. Any first or second year grad student should have an easy time digesting this.
Imagine, all of this is standard.
I heard a reporter on TV reporting that the airplane was doing cartwheels on the runway, and I pictured the semi-truck being flipped over in Batman. And then I thought what the hell could have done that? Fishtailed makes more sense, thanks for the clarification.
and a sound that alert you if time is over for that workout
The readme says it works with any "persistent backend such as a REST API or socket connection".

It looks like it tries to be backend-agnostic, and do the sync work on the client side.
Maybe I made a simple mistake of unintended rudeness in a post, how does that make it worthy of me being autistic? Fuck you douches!
A lot of people lose the carb craving after a few days, but it doesn't work for everybody. While I didn't "crave" carbs per se, I really did not enjoy not eating bread. What really worked for me is skipping breakfast and skipping carbs for dinner (just meat and veg). Even though I don't do that every day due to social events, I can lose 1lb/week or so without much trouble.

30lb/9 month is pretty impressive, good luck with your endeavours!
Misleading title. Was expecting article on some mystery disease.
Is this any surprise for people who grew up in a country where invading countries on false pretexts was seen as the right thing to do, where criticizing the government was seen as bad no matter what the reasons are, and where the threat of terrorism is somehow hyped up far beyond the perceived threat of nuclear annihilation in the Cold War?

I saw this coming when the WTC rubble was still smoking. The government could have potentially worked to calm down the populace, but instead they amplified the fear. We've been paying the price ever since.
Can anyone explain/summarize what this is? I gather it was/is feed reader, but I can't find much more and she (?) is very vague. Or I don't know how to navigate her blog.
Not just a different program, a better one, and easier to understand.

It especially annoyed me when he praised Eric for going back to understand the function first, when that function isn't even present in the novice's program.
Thanks :) Unrelated - is there any way to get some sort of indication when someone replies to a comment of mine? Sometimes I see others' replies to one of mine too late, and so we cannot develop the conversation any further because they don't know I replied back.
> For those who find it a pain to use [a calorie-counting app], I recommend sticking with it for a few months at least initially. After a while, your mind gets attuned to the idea of how much food is enough for you to be satiated.

But satiation is a built-in feature of your body. A healthy human body counts calories automatically, and governs appetite and metabolism appropriately to keep body weight in a narrow target range.

A calorie counting app is basically a prosthetic replacement for the part of your brain that's supposed to be doing the job automatically. And it's much inferior to the real thing.

Many people can at least remember a time in their youth when their weight was extremely stable, despite widely varying inputs. That's how it feels when your metabolic control systems are all functioning correctly. Many people assume that this ability naturally disappears with age -- but it seems much more likely that the system simply breaks down due to years of exposure to a very unhealthy environment.
If this is true, why don't we become incredibly fat or skinny over time? It would require incredible precision to maintain weight. But a lot of people seem to be able to do it with no effort...

Because the amount you require for maintenance is proportional to your bodyweight. If you eat more than you need, you become fatter. As you become fatter, the amount of calories you need for maintenance goes up as well.

The calories in/calories out theory explains weight stability perfectly. Thermodynamics is sufficient, no complex theories required. I do the math here: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/weight_stability.html
Culture-bound syndrome
There is a non-zero chance of China becoming a larger economic player. Also, China exports a lot of immigrants to other countries. I don't have any data to back this up, but it does not seem like an totally 'out there' idea.
Why, you couldn't say it yourself?
I received the same rejection letter to my request. What's the point of being able to request it if they can arbitrarily reject it?
I concur. Even edgy teens on 4chan know about trigger discipline.
Is not scripting your emails to clients hurting your process?
Ah ok, I don't have flash on this machine; usually you get a missing plugin error, but no, nothing.
I'm assuming - and this could be a bad assumption - but based on the continuing updates architecture, if client a changes model a, client b will see an update on model a. How does client b get notified of the change? Does it have some kind of fallback system ala socket.io? Is this not yet part of the project?
I probably failed to set the context. :)

I felt an extreme position was needed to respond to brilliant but highly principled people (who I wished were joking) but I felt were saying things like:

"How dare you suggest that I would ever ship a product that won't work with JavaScript turned off."

"How dare you suggest that I would charge for something that doesn't even have feature X."

"How dare you suggest that I would ever let a design loose that I hadn't spent 6 months refining."

"How dare you suggest that we shouldn't spend the last of our savings before we launch finishing the product."

"How dare you suggest that I would ever ship a product that wasn't web standards compliant and passing every accessibility standard."

Maybe I should write a joke post that uses some of these?
Yep, no audio in Europe! Just the first song!
Would be great also just some sound to distinguish the start of one workout to the end of it
The problem that makes this case even more dangerous is that the US and Germany are 2 distinct and independent political entities.
Well, not any longer. The US has started owning Germany. If there is no real push back now, we should just go ahead and merge officially and be done with it.
One could question whether micro-funding efforts will ever take off, but let's leave that conversation aside for a moment. Of those sites that have focused on micro-funding, I've noticed that Flattr seems to be on the cutting edge of every good decision that a company in this space can make. I used to work for a competitor, Kachingle, and I am sad to say that Kachingle lacked the vision to keep up with this space, or add the features that the users of these sites wanted. Flattr seems to understand their own user base, and also seems willing to think creatively about what the users might want next.
Rdio is available in quite a few countries outside the U.S.
http://www.rdio.com/availability/
Firefighters/EMTs also put their lives on the line - responding to medic calls in the wrong neighborhood is dangerous, combative patients (such as those with weird blood sugar levels or medication issues), mean dogs, and so on are risks. Perhaps we should grant them special protections and reasoning to start putting people and animals down at will too. Right now if an EMT killed a combative patient or a dog, all hell would break loose on them, yet they are in danger too. Yes, police are in a different situation, but not IMO different enough to warrant free reign.
Some numbers from a 2011 NYPD report (only New York City):

Situations where firearms were discharged

36 - Adversarial Conflict

36 - Animal Attack

15 - Unintentional Discharge

02 - Unauthorized Use

03 - Suicide Attempt

---

124 - Total officers firing

416 - Total shots fired

003 - Total officers shot and injured by subject

001 - Total officers shot and killed by subject

019 - Total subjects shot and injured by officer

009 - Total subjects shot and killed by officer

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_plan...
It's not that America wants this, it's that the politicians we elect do not keep their promises. Those that try are forced out, shaken down, relegated to stay at the bottom of the ladder. In our current political climate, a politician must barter ethics and morality for the power to do what they promised. And by then, it's too late, they're already gone.
"I might make myself look a bit messy by releasing this. I also imagine that some other people might have to put in some amount of work (much less than the work I put into writing this in the first place) to get this to work, so I'll make them rewrite it all from scratch if they are in need of this functionality." I don't believe this person understands empathy.

I realize if you want your project to flourish as an open source project, you need to make it palatable. However, a tarball of shit is better than NOTHING. This person isn't even deluding themselves by saying they'll "get around to open sourcing it." You won't do the world a disservice by releasing working code. Seriously, just come out and be honest and say "I don't want to open source it because I don't wanna."
How big was your table of contents?
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>it appears necessary that SWAT teams are required to arrest people within their own homes given the fact that people are free to own weapons and use those for protection.

No. The guy was an optometrist with a local business, your suggestion that he was some undercover cop-murderer waiting for the slightest provocation is absurd and insulting. He had every incentive to maintain civility in his neighborhood/town. There is very little reason to believe that he would have reacted violently to any of the following alternative tactics:

- A phone call from an investigator requesting a meeting.

- A knock on the door from a pair of polite/professional investigators.

- Police could have waited for him to leave in a car and had patrolmen stop him on the street.

>I'm just arguing that when people need to be arrested (lawfully or otherwise)

How can you defend SWAT as a valid way to make an unlawful arrest? Have I misunderstood you?

SWAT is only appropriate for hostage and other situations where danger is imminent. In other cases of people "needing arrest", the use of SWAT is abusive.
They do not "like" it. It's just that, to be very blunt, most people are basically peasants at heart. They're going to go along with whatever the king says. Twenty years ago, on that side of the line on a map, the people believed in capitalism, while on the other side the people believed in communism. On this side of the line people believed in this god, on that side, they believe in that god.

It has nothing to do with some kind economists' "rational utilization maximization" function and everything to do with basically a "k-nearest neighbours" algorithm on their social graph for assigning beliefs.

And that is precisely why control of the media is so important.
OSH Park does pooled PCB orders; didn't have time to wait for an order to get together. You can definitely save money if you don't mind waiting up to a month for your board. Although, perhaps as pooled orders have grown in popularity, the delay isn't as bad these days?
I don't know. Scripts have to be somewhat rewritten in Py 3 anyway, I think it would have been a good time to fix it.
6. Do not come into posession of short lobsters.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/rightsandfreedoms/a/alobsterst...
Ask HN: How does one create a fake identity?
I imagine it depends on how this identity is to be used, and what sorts of scrutiny it must hold up to, so detailed information on the topic would be much appreciated.
A thorough PGP tutorial
Don't even try to blame this on the youth. They are still to apathetic to even count. We only have ourselves to blame for this. It is our mess to fix.
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My thoughts exactly. One way of changing public opinion would be to use the same tactics that the opposition uses. Mainly taking back the airwaves and presenting unbiased information, rather than pre-chewed, here's what you should think, distillation of ideas. Unfortunately that takes tons of money and those with the money aren't going to do something that takes their own power away. Fortunately there are future generations that are more apt to find their info on the internet, which isn't perfect, but at least there are many perspectives presented. That is why it is vitally important that we continue to evolve our free networks, whether it be darknets or balloon nets, or whatever.
"The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac" is a good read if your interested in learning more about Dirac's life.
For how long have you maintained your weight? Personally, I lost 40 pounds and since then have got about 35 of them back over 8 years. I'm not going to follow any diet advice from someone who hasn't maintained their weight for at least 10 years.
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Have you seen one of those products before? If so why did you not copy it?