skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a good long while, starting in 2002, I tried to convince people to adopt and promise to use the term "criminal mass murder conspiracies" (CMMC) in lieu of "terrorism". Dinner parties, discussions in bars, whenever the language of the topic came up I flogged that point. I don't think I got a single convert even among people who liked the point I was making. "Terrorism" is a memorable and virile meme.

I never really decided to stop flogging that point. But I haven't in years. Maybe I'll start up again. Maybe people are more ready to hear it. Perhaps you would care to take up the term too?
I think it's somewhat poetic that the first document you get for your fake identity is the first one you get for your real one.
I would hope the difference between a landing and a crash is a little more than 'feet' otherwise we'd have a lot more crashes. Maybe the difference between a BAD landing and a crash is only feet :)
One way I cope with cluttered environment is to dim the light and only have the monitor as source of light.

So it is all dark but the monitor is not.

I can only look at the monitor and my work is more focused like that.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record (stuck cd player?), the foundation of this abuse is the War on Drugs.

If you want these abuses to stop then you should be actively supporting the end of this war. By actively supporting, I mean be willing to discuss it with anybody who is willing to listen.
I'm on IE10, it probably only listens for WebKit touch events then.
Why is this? Can they do a better (in terms of passenger comfort) job landing manually?
Looking for alpha/beta users for srcmap.com 
www.srcmap.com lets you browse/understand/document complex source code projects from any browsers.

You can try browse the linux-3.10 kernel source code now.

Let us know what you think.
Nobody really cares what you want to be, but thanks for using HN like it's your twitter account.
I'm with you.

An article like this shooting to the top of HN is a consequence of the rise in status of programmers. Probably nothing can be done about it, but an article on how to conform is the antithesis of hacker culture.
Ah, but the servant waits...
Which state are you moving to? Washington?
Is it for quantum mechanical games, or why are there objects tunneling out of the "lots of objects" container all the time?
> The problem is exactly that satiation doesn't work well enough, thus some people need a cybernetic add-on, just like some people need glasses.

Yes, but the important question is why. Why do an increasing fraction of people have broken metabolic feedback systems, and what can they do to fix them?

If we had cybernetic calorie counters that worked as reliably as glasses, it wouldn't be a big deal. But in practice, only a minority of people manage to stick to a calorie counting regime over the long term. And even the ones who succeed have to fight the battle their whole lives. It never becomes automatic.

That is why I think it's a mistake to pin people's hopes on calorie counting, when there is a lot of fascinating science about how to fix the built-in automatic system instead (see for example http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/, written by a biochemist who researches obesity and metabolism).
Exactly this. I haven't looked at the Reader architecture myself, but take a hypothetical "Hey, let's open-source Reader" project at Google:

Reader probably uses the Googlebot crawl infrastructure to retrieve feeds. We're not going to open-source the crawler, so now we need to rip that out and replace it.

Let's say Reader used Megastore to store feed data (the Megastore paper says "hundreds of applications" use it, so this is not an unreasonable idea). Megastore is a nice chunk of intellectual property in and of itself, plus it's built on top of Bigtable.

Throw in Chubby for locking/coordination and some MapReduce jobs for bulk processing, and you're basically down to either rewriting the entire core of Reader or open-sourcing the "crown jewels" of Google's infrastructure. Not to mention any number of underlying libraries (e.g. core C++ libraries) that have hundreds of engineer-hours of investment.
> This is a great way for career advancement - ever notice managers are generally better-dressed (ignoring Zuckerberg, the exception to this rule)?

Well, if you want to be a manager.
Some live footage of Dirac at FSU:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWo010EsiYk
I associate suits with making me feel like a million bucks -- at least when they fit well. And i firmly believe nothing looks worse than an ill fitting suit.

Also, black at night is fine but most people should avoid black during the day. It compliments very few complexions.

Suit advice:

I'm 30. Most the people I work with and talk to about clothing are in my age range, say, 25-35. Not "young" still, but we don't feel old and certainly don't want to put on a suit and see our fathers in the mirror.

If you relate to that, and want something more contemporary, I'd suggest taking a look at Theory. They are on sale right now 50% off and are a value at that price. I don't love them as much for the full price. They are sold as separates and you can pick one up now for $375 or so.

These jackets are partially canvassed (not bad, not great), have spandex or lycra in the blend that gives them a TINY bit of stretch, and the single vent and width of the lapels is modern enough to look good on a young man, and classic enough to still look OK in 5 years.

http://www.theory.com/mens-suiting/mens-suiting,default,sc.h...
They'll make a preliminary, primarily "factual" report within days, or weeks. This will be based on the FDR, Quick Access Recorder, statements by crew, passengers and witnesses to the NTSB investigators.

Even though I'm a former pilot, I've not made any posts prior to this one, because I didn't want to speculate.
For one, people who wear sneakers often do it because they are comfortable. To equate them to high school teenagers if they are not personal trainers is quite unfair. You are free to advocate a more professional look, but if you get disrespectful on the way, people are going to hate your stance for it.
Hi Luchs, you can also touch the screen;
https://github.com/azer/7min.io/blob/master/lib/view.js#L28
Oh, I was actually thinking I was reading a post on Medium.
I personally haven't met anybody who, given the choice, prefers looking like a disheveled slob.

I prefer wearing gym shorts to slacks. If that preference qualifies as "wanting to look like a disheveled slob," then a large fraction of the population wants to look like a disheveled slob.

More generally, I prefer not to worry about things like brands of clothing.

It's fine that others do. I'd agree you didn't say anything controversial or offensive. But, fashion isn't for everyone.
Royalties to some components.

You can't really opensource a project if it includes, say, a movie playback component or 3d engine or audio code with royalty-based licencing; the code won't even compile with it, and it may be customized/integrated to an extent where it would be a lot of work to even identify which of your source code files are "contaminated" by licenced stuff that isn't yours to publish.
Perhaps ironically, I feel like my Android phone (Samsung GS3) helps me manage clutter much better by letting me arbitrarily arrange my app icons. As a result, each "screen" in my home screen tends to be less than half full of apps, organized in rows of arbitrary length by type (ie. Yelp and Opentable together, Dropbox, Drive and Evernote together).

In contrast, on my iPad, the enforced layout of app icons makes each screen seem cluttered and muddled.
Buy pants long enough for your legs, and have them altered.

There are lots of body types that clothes don't fit off-the-rack!
You've seen a lot of pictures of people here? Or are you purely basing that on stereotypes?
I stand by that statement more-so than any of the other ones, and I'm sorry if you found it offensive. Sneakers have no place in a professional environment. There are plenty of comfortable options for professional footwear.
yeah but how would you arrange your song plays corresponding to the exercise moods and times ?
Note that lying to a federal investigator, even when you don't even realize it or realize that it has any bearing on anything, is a crime (in the US). It's inadvisable to lie to the police, FBI, etc.
neat ideas! thanks!
Really amazing redesign. I really like the overall look and feel, I think it's also pretty well organized
>This is precisely it: its not economically beneficial to be involved in politics

That was the case at other times and places too. And their solution to that, was to shame citizens that only cared for what's economically beneficial.

The solution is to make active participation in politics (= active citizenship) a virtue that people want to be identified with in the same way being "in fashion", "in shape" or "rich" is one.

Of course we have the contrary. Active participation is actually discouraged -- except if you are a career politician.
You stand behind the I/O issue and then later admit to benefitting from fasting techniques which are most likely affecting your insulin cycle, which is the purpose of a low carb diet.

Atkins dieters experience positive results due to calorie restriction

When you're on a low carb diet, your carb cravings are reduced or go away. You tend to eat less.

It seems like you wanted to be snarky about the analogy I made but you didn't really understand it.
How to Pick a Cofounder (2009)
Oldie but goodie. Not sure I agree with the "you must have one builder and one seller" claim. But of course, nothing is ubiquitous in the startup world.
I smell what Dirac is cooking!!!
The Harris-Benedict study is from 1919 on a population of 239 subjects . I'm just wondering - Do you know if it has been re-evaluated in more recent years, and was found valid?
A typical airliner approach is a 3 degree angle touching down at 1000ft past the end of the runway. That means that they pass over the threshold at about 150ft. Let's say there's another 1000ft past that before things get problematic (at SFO it's considerably less, I believe), that means that the airliner passes over the dangerous bit at about 300ft when operating normally, and 300ft lower would cause a crash.

This isn't normally a problem, because detecting and ensuring that 300ft difference is not really hard.
> "But if you put intelligence agencies in charge of cybersecurity, they’re more likely to apply an offensive mindset to the problem than ministries of interior.”

That's exactly what I thought would happen, and exactly what did happen. They keep asking for more funds and new bills to increase the power of cyber "security", and to "defend" us, but instead they go and make stuff like Stuxnet and Flame with that money, and committing countless acts of war against other countries (including hacking and spying on their systems).
Five die, 40 missing after Canadian freight train disaster
I've played around with Angular quite a bit lately as well and I definitely prefer Ember. You should really try both of them out and give them both a fair chance.

Also, you don't have to use data with Ember, it's just a benefit.
Biometrics is going to make fake identities a thing of the past unless you figure out how to effectively cross borders. Biometrics is even becoming a problem for CIA HUMINT operations because its hard to fake who you are when fingerprints and iris scans are being used.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/cia-spies-biometric-...
I would like to provide a counter-point. Disclaimer: I am a girl...

I hate wearing "fitted" clothes and shoes...god how I hate shoes...I have spent the last several years of my professional career wearing flip flops or sandals around the office.

I have never worn pants suit, in the winter I opt for a hoodie, tshirt and jeans - and generally substitute the jeans for a skirt in the summer.

As a result, I am biased towards people who wear suits (especially with ties!) - The question in the back of my mind is "what are they trying to hide?". (It should be noted that these observations are from corporate land where I no longer reside.)

I have met people who believed that simply because they were in a suit they should be listened to...even when it was clear they had no knowledge about the situation at hand - this tends to apply to project managers and the like.

When I met somebody in t-shirt and jeans I tended to get along with them, they tended to be knowledgeable and could stand their ground.

I have since moved out of corporate land, and into an environment where tshirt and jeans is the norm - and these people "get shit done" - their career development and self esteem comes from the fact that they are the best at what they do...not because "I look good this morning"

You shouldn't get respect from the clothes you wear...you should demand respect from the skills you have.
I care, because it matters to me that there are others who feel the way I do.

Please don't make sarcastic personal comments on HN.
Any particular reason you need to run the X display on the vm, rather than forward it?

Last I checked Xming worked reasonably well from windows (with putty doing X11 forwarding) - and OS X still has an X server?

(Now if you're doing GUI-testing across systems, I guess running "everything" in the VM makes more sense...).
The Average American Spends $9,122 per year on their car
CharityVid - User Auth, Jasmine Testing, and Dust.js
I couldn't say in terms of comfort, but they need to be able to perform a manual landing (for example if certain equipment on board is not functioning correctly, or the airport is not equipped for autolanding) so it makes sense that they would take every opportunity to keep their skills current. There's probably also a sense of pride in wanting to carry out a smooth landing by hand - especially given that most of the climb/cruise/descent will likely have been controlled by the autopilot.
So... eat a carrot?

I will admit there is a societal trend to just relabel high meat low carb atkins type diets as paleo, and be done with it. That doesn't mean the paleo diet is "eat organic steaks every night".

As a programmer/hacker community the best analogy I can give is my impression of a venn diagram of a atkins/low carb type diet is the circle for the diet mostly contains meat and not much else. And the venn for a paleo diet also contains a small circle for meat, along with a whoppin big circle for fruit/veg/nuts. True both don't have grains/beans, and neither are vegetarian, but thats about it for similarity.

Another interesting analogy is the ideal stereotypical atkins low carb meal probably is a steak as per your example. The stereotypical paleo meal is probably a big ole salad full of veggies with a normal sized grilled chicken breast on top (not one of those mutant ones the size of your forearm).

Finally having fooled around with both diets a low carb ketone mode diet is super sensitive to what you eat; highly disciplined. Eat one apple and you've ruined days of work getting into ketone mode. On the other hand a paleo type diet has more to do with priorities and general trends. Always have more bags from the produce aisle in the cart than bags from the breakfast cereal aisle, that type of thing. I had a bowl of ice cream at a celebration for my son last night; under a paleo diet that's fine, once in a while... just don't eat that kind of stuff every day (or every week). Its not good for you. I drank a beer last weekend too.

Finally grains and legumes will make you fat then die, assuming you get enough of them (not starvation mode). If life's worth living, find a way not to fail at it. Right back to the first line, eat a carrot or something.
> Sneakers have no place in a professional environment.

Tell that to Billy G, Stevie J, and just about every programmer that works for IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and Google. I'm guessing you don't really know that many programmers that work at mainly tech companies.
That's all true, but still irrelevant to the question of fixing the obesity epidemic.

"Calories eaten per day" is not a free variable. It's governed by a control loop within the brain. In a healthy person, appetite adjusts to compensate for calorie surplus or deficit. We have an epidemic because that control loop is getting damaged. People have a hard time discussing this because they treat it as a moral issue. But it's clear that recruiting our frontal cortex to count calories should not be necessary -- every mammal needs to automatically maintain homeostasis, and does so just fine in its natural environment.

And "calories burned per lb bodyweight" is also not a simple constant. It has been observed swinging significantly. A starving person's metabolism will slow dramatically to conserve energy. An overfed (healthy) person's metabolism will ramp up and favor burning the excess over storing it.

So of course we can't cheat thermodynamics, and of course eating less matters. But how to eat less is an animal behavioral question, governed by biochemistry.
I happen to really like this. I used a few lines in vimrc to make mine a little more practical for me:

"" airline settings
" remove separators
let g:airline_left_sep=''
let g:airline_right_sep=''
" remove unused modes
let g:airline_enable_fugitive=0
let g:airline_enable_syntastic=0
" set second section to filename
let g:airline_section_b="%f"
" empty third and fourth sections
let g:airline_section_c=""
let g:airline_section_x=""
" put filetype in fifth section
let g:airline_section_y="%Y"

curious to see how other people have theirs configured.

my full vim config is on github [1].

[1]: https://github.com/daturkel/vim-config
Your choice of dress depends on both your age and the environment you're in. I definitely wouldn't wear trainers (sneakers) to work, but equally I also wouldn't wear anything other than trainers to certain clubs. It's very easy to look over-dressed and pretentious if you're 18. Equally it's very easy to look like an idiot trying to wear teenager's fashion if you're 30 and cruising about in high tops.

I absolutely agree that fit is crucial for clothes. However, everyone has a different context and you really don't want to look woefully out of place. Sometimes that means wearing (nice) trainers.
In a professional environment where you're trying to sell/ negotiate, I agree with you. It's a natural reaction to make assumptions about people based on how they dress, and anyway in which you can give yourself an advantage is valuable.

Any other professional environment I disagree. Why?
I wear crocs to work. I wish I could go barefoot. What does footwear have to do with software development?
> Yes, but the important question is why. Why do an increasing fraction of people have broken metabolic feedback systems, and what can they do to fix them?

I saw a documentary on tv a while back, it contained some research that showed that overeating can break your ability to feel full.
No, autoland is pretty good. But there are two factors that cause pilots to land manually most of the time: 1) pilots think they are better at handling last-minute unexpected contingencies like wind sheer or bird strikes (and they may well be right about that) and 2) pilots don't want to give the Powers that Be any additional data to suggest that they aren't actually needed to fly a plane at all. The fact of the matter is that there are no technological barriers to making aircraft completely autonomous, but pilots want the world to remain in denial about this for as long as possible for the sake of their job security. (FWIW, I'm an instrument-rated private pilot.)
It's been said, but I want to add weight to it: this is not at all expected. You never climb during a normal landing.

I'd wager that 120fpm climb reading to be due to a measurement error of some kind, not actually something that really happened.
Most people don't actually want to lose weight. Rather, they want to already have lost weight. So they look for shortcuts that will get them there. That is why there is such a massive signal-to-noise issue in the fitness world. Fad diets and magic pills are invented because people are willing to pay for them.

I agree completely, though I would phrase it as "most people don't want to be healthy: they want to be thin."

On top of this, food has become a "social currency" for them.

This is something I struggle with a lot (and I say this sipping a latte) -- so much of socializing revolves around food, it sucks to be the guy/gal who refuses the donut or orders a salad at the pizza place. Not to mention the black hole that is alcohol (though in my case, I'm more than willing to take the extra few pounds of fat if it means enjoying my whiskey and beer.)

In order to lose weight they need to reverse that and make exercising and not eating an equally big part of their lives. ... And as with all hard endeavors, success is a matter of discipline.

Absolutely. There are dozens of anecdotes about people who lose a serious amount of weight, hit their target, and then slowly regain all the weight because that's what happens when you're 160 pounds and you go back to eating junk. To use a poor metaphor, personal fitness isn't like an MMO where once you hit max level you stay there -- you've got to take care of yourself or else you'll wind up back at level 1.
I think the solution there would be to buy pants as close to fitting as possible and take them to a tailor to have them adjusted.
This is amazingly fun. I'm a little stuck on the pentagon, but I'll keep thinking.

Side note: You should add "Square the Circle" as a super bonus ;)
This is incredibly American centric and ignorant of variant weather conditions.
Try wearing a fit shirt, long pants and leather shoes in 90+ weather...
Really tough to use. The fullscreen button just shows a static image fullscreen, so you can browse the whole set in fullscreen. Even at fullscreen, the text is blurry and tiny and the diagrams too complicated. I know a little bit of the language, but don't even want to attempt it. Without fullscreen, it's impossible.

I think maybe these are just bad scans from a magazine?
Oh, thanks for that! I don't use unity -- I'm too prone to RSI to really use anything with a mouse -- and I'm too stingy on my screen estate (I run xmonad). But either way it's nice to be aware that there are extentions... the result page(s!) for alt tab was both encouraging and a little scary...
Here in Brazil even the black slavery part is propaganda, using half truths and exaggerations to portray slavery as result of monarchy and monarchy as absolute evil.

Professional historians already found out that slavery here is not a black and white issue, but also found that the republican government made law that schools were to teach anti-monarchy propaganda, even if it meant using half-truths about how slavery worked here.
Pure CSS animated 3D molecules
Curious as to why autopilot isn't being used to land planes yet. My understanding is that pilots can choose to use it to land, but only do so when visibility is very low. (ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOFs-oa-bbc)
Exercise moods? Times? I'm not sure I know what you're talking about.

The music I want to listen to while I'm exercising is pretty personal/subjective to me. I'm not the kind of guy to play Eye of The Tiger to "get pumped", or whatever. Or to think "hey those lunges have a real gangster rap mood to them".
I didn't realize that academia mandated a sign up for download of content. IIRC their position was that signup would be optional in order to differentiate themselves from traditional academic publishers who protect access to their content with paywalls/subscriptions. Clearly, either I was mistaken or they have changed their policies.