skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I'm engaged in a major effort of weight loss at the moment, I got close to my personal peak weight (210) and had to put the effort in again. When I was younger, I simply ate better food and did some working out and that was enough to drop back to a standard weight (170ish, on the high-but-normal side for my height).

Recently, being about 10 years older now really makes it more difficult - I've had to be very careful about what I eat in a way that I don't expect most people will have the ability to do. It's a grind to lose a pound where previously I wouldn't have had to think about it.

It does take a lot of willpower and effort - I think people who underrate that are doing themselves a (future) disservice, as judging by the obesity rates worldwide, if you don't have it now, you certainly will have and struggle with it in the future.

It's akin to claiming that alcoholism is a moral failing - if you've never had a moment of truth with alcohol, it'll seem innocent and inconceivable that someone would have problems with it, making it possible to underestimate the power it can have over people.
Just so readers don't deduce you're talking about core.typed, core.typed is plenty expressive enough to represent many idiomatic Clojure data structures, and very succinctly.

eg. Heterogeneous keyword maps https://github.com/frenchy64/core.typed-example/blob/master/...
A lot of management time is actually spent "conspiring". But software make a lot of this trivial. (Networking, synchronising, monitoring). software indeed threaten the power foundation of current elites. Just look at the banking industry where gradually, traders, then quants , then programmer (think hft) started taking a greater share of the revenue pie away from traditionnal bankers.
This seems to be a response to Shopify POS being released and now they are both creeping closer and closer to each other.
> Not to mention that this is an investment which will pay back to the government.

According to NBNCo modelling, which has never been published. We are told that it has been reviewed by Deloitte (as I recall). But we weren't told what Deloitte reviewed, we weren't told what assumptions Deloitte were told to make. You can get an "auditor" to pass anything you want if you control the assumptions of the model.

NBNCo have already had to progressively change their projections for rollout time, rollout penetration and end user takeup. Multiple times. Does this change their model? I am kinda sorta prepared to bet that it does.

This goes back to my personal beef about the very poor transparency and governance of the NBN project.
Isn't it a bit pretentious to call a bootcamp that will teach you how to build modern web apps: "The CS Degree for the 21st Century."?
I agree about the smug attitude, not necessary. As someone that was big and now has no belly, I believe calling someone fat is actually in accurate. More accurate to say the person has a lot of fat, or doesn't.

Also, eat less and exercise more is NOT the solution. I cannot stress enough how hard it is for people to lose weight because they surrounded by a system that just wants them to buy shit to consume. That goes for the food industry, as well as the fitness supplement industry. The answer is eating the right foods and to be on some sort of food plan.

I read at the end of 2011 a comment here on HN about the 4hb and how it changed some dudes life. So I read and applied and it changed my life, as well as some of my family members. So I am going to recommend to the people that want to lose their body fat, The Four Hour Body.

Obesity is a big problem in this country. At my local grocery store there is an entire section cut out for scooters and I kid you not 20-30 people in a scooter when its busy. And these aren't old people scooters. I saw scooter traffic jam the other day, made me feel like I was in South Park. But not even sure where these people would start, its almost like they committed suicide with food and now are just being. Life is not easy and eating shit is a legal way to cope. We all have our crutches.
"It takes effort to recommend a colleague" Oh... I always ask them to provide the text. Now I feel guilty.
You are right to say obesity is a matter of lifestyle choice, but it does not exclude what he said about 'partial treatability'.

Elaboration from my personal life: I never get fat. I eat well, I don't do any regular excercising and I can eat as much junk food as I desire while still being the skinniest person around. I don't think I have any excess fat to show in my body.

I don't know if it's some sort of condition or if I simply have a very efficient metabolism (and I can't even read the article right now, maybe it would contain an answer), but I also know a few other people with similar "gift".

So if I am basically immune to obesity, I'd say it's definitely "at least partially a treatable medical condition" as he said above.
Looks like I've misread the current state of supply:

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/net-capacity-down...

Looks more like an oligopoly of 5 companies. Australian bandwidth charges are well above international benchmarks.
Spain raises age of consent from 13 to 16
After three to four iterations (cannot remember precisely) I couldn't split up my computer its capacities any further to qualify for any decent OS its specifications which could run another VM. Please note that this was years ago, I suggest you should try it!

Unless you want to waste a lot of time installing the nested OS's, like I did, I suggest using pre-installed images you can throw right in.
Obese people have a large carbon footprint, perhaps like a Yeti. They should be sent on a one-way space expedition!
Being successful is positive, but in the context of the article (paypal not releasing their money) the statement is negative.
The Debian OpenSSL snafu showed that even rather blatant changes get missed.

Anything in the leaked docs on that particular incident?
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LG "When Life's Not So Good"
That was a personal remark. He's most probably a Christian. For others is Qur'an above all. And so on. For me is Bible+Church Fathers above all. :)
Has any mass surveillance country avoided becoming totalitarian?

The UK?
Encrypting twice is not guaranteed to not make the end result easier to attack than either of the two single methods.
People in this thread might also be interested in the following. GmailTeX allows you to see LaTeX in your Gmail and GChat. Works in real-time, but browser plug-in required.

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Socrates is a website for writing instant Markdown and LaTeXing in the browser. It's hyperlink-shareable, no plugin required.

http://socrates.io/
That's actually not really unique features for Line games. Many of puzzle games in social network enforces play count that recovers over time. Some way, I find a lot of FB games worse in this respect that a lot of games practically make spamming to play mandatory. (or you could pay yourself out of The requirement however...)
The main thing you can do is to not use PayPal. Unfortunately there's not really a good international online payment system. Netherland has the excellent iDeal system, and I wish the rest of the world would start using that or something indistinguishable from it. PayPal and credit cards are just too unreliable.
I don't look down on these people, I pity them.

If you don't look "right" in the sense of our society, you're pretty much fucked.

You can wait for society to change it's attitude, which won't happen soon or you can change yourself to get better responses from the rest of the world.
Do you log your calorie intake?
I found it distracting...
Especially in light of recent events where we definitely learned that, while some of the players might have changed, the power structure is still the same.
What happens when automation means there is an oversupply of labor? You will have many people not working at all because there are no jobs for them.
How to build a bridge in 10 days
Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges
Also, it's going to be hilarious when those folks hit their mid-30s and their metabolism changes and they get fat real fast.
Sedentary Lifestyle? Like ... working 60-80 hours for someone else company, because we are so great at this startup and we will change the world? And I thought, after reading all the usual comments to this topic, that we should all life like this.

(As I've been asked to mark it: YES, that's sarcasm)
My parents' car has something like this (DSG). It takes forever between pressing the gas and actually moving forward. After that the car is fast and has power, it's just not fast to get going when you press the gas, you gotta anticipate. It's really very annoying and I much prefer a normal car, I really can't recommend it to anyone, but maybe it just takes getting used to.
GameAnalytics for Developers goes free
It may be an attack on the network in the DOS sense, but it should not compromise anonymity because these bots are simply acting as clients, not relay (or exit) nodes.
Thanks. I'll give that a try.
Nobody is stopping you. There is the door. Add to your list commenting on articles about said technologies on a site for nerds.
Here's the problem: If you've never had to count calories, stick to a diet and exercise, and have had to so in a lot of challenging life situations where you have lots of other stuff to think about on top of that, you can't really claim that you have more willpower than those obese people, and that's the reason why they are fat and you are slim.

Not any more than I can claim that I'm just better at pulling my self together and lighten up compared to some other suicidal, depressed person.

If this willpower theory was correct, then it should be easy to confirm that the current obesity epidemic is caused by a matching lack of willpower epidemic in the population during the past 50 years. AFAIK, that's not supported by any evidence.
> Software in East Asia would export better if it grew in a more meritocratic environment.

That sounds about as antiquated as "Asians can't innovate, they just copy". I actually heard that line out of an American kid who had just arrived in Asia. He was, needless to say, a complete idiot.

The penetration rate of Line in Thailand is very high. My friends and I were early adopters and saw it grow organically, mostly because of the stickers included in the app (they're funny).

Having used Line daily for one -- probably closer to two -- years I can say it's a well made app. You don't need a conspiracy theory or to insult Japanese culture to account for its success.
are onions a luxury in India? this seems really bizarre to me
This is a peculiar reaction.

This research does not mean "take a pill, become slim". It means "Take some pills, and eat less and move more".

Some people have gut flora that help them stay slim. Some people have gut flora that help them stay fat.

You can see that not having the slim flora, and having the fat flora, is the worst combination and would make "eating less, moving more" harder.

Taking a pill to modify the gut flora would support the attempts of those people to eat less move more.
To the first pain point - there's a good "scm sync configuration" Jenkins plugin (however it's not saving history...)
Having dealt with both Braintree and Stripe as a merchant

Braintree's business is not worth anything, they are neither innovative nor streamlined nor work as well as Stripe
> Life is not easy and eating shit is a legal way to cope.

Exactly. We have a bit of an alcoholism problem where I live. It mostly affects the poor. When I visited the US it was strikingly obvious that obesity is very similar in that regard.
There is another site called http://www.writelatex.com
The Solar System's second-largest volcano found hiding on Earth
kudos.

did Linus ever comment on the roll-back ?
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I'm getting to think we're more like symbiotes every day.
Because the King James bible had considerable effort to translate original texts into best possible English, preserving meaning but also creating a suitably "glorious" text.

Very many concepts, words, metaphors, etc come from the King James translation.

Ignoring any religious stuff - it's a good read.

EDIT: corrected my st / king error!
The analogy doesn't really help the argument, either. "Here are two companies that are massively successful primarily because of branding. So, clearly, the even more significant branding of higher education will be unsuccessful."
Continuous delivery: What works (and what doesn't)
Dead posts have been killed by either automated spam prevention or the editors. See "In my profile, what does showdead do?" here: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
You are absolutely right. I owned a RC sailplane (wingspan 2 meter), with an electric motor to get it up in the air. That motor had a sharp propellor on it, and was incredible powerful for its size; it was fearsome. It probably had enough power to cut off fingers.
Inserting such a keyed backdoor is much more difficult to do undetected, and more limited in scope (has to be done separately for every crypto algorithm being backdoored), than introducing a flaw in a hardware or software RNG implementation.
It is just too lame humor, I wasnt criticizing or questioning the smarts of the author.

If anything, Im critizing his writing style, the blog article is not fun to read as it comes from a presumptions and arrogant/entitled position.

Or maybe its just me I dont see anything funny in that article, I just dont find the poking at virtual Linux users and people interested in cracking from a position of authority funny.

Effectively the entire article is making fun of hackers, people who are curious how to break software and make it do unspecified things, people who dare poke and dare crack. But its his software, so it is ok for him to make fun of others right?

The cracking culture is many peoples first step into hacking and programming, we wouldnt be here if all of us really payed for the stuff we used as kids.
No, you're right. It's easy for me to say "A troll writes the same horrible nonsense to everyone", and I had forgotten about the impact upon the receiver of the message.
I need to do more. I've made some steps towards doing most of my browsing over Tor (because it's no use if you /only/ use the proxy when you're doing embarrassing stuff!) and I plan to start encrypting my email using Ars's guide (http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/encrypted-e-mail-how...)

At the moment I'm afraid I still use Gmail. I'm a real newb at this.
I'd say it is definitely because of sites like Facebook. Why bother getting peoples screen names for AIM when they're already on your Facebook contacts list?
Programming != CS
This isn't an obese person making excuses, this is medical research. Rather than discuss the science, you just seem to be against any medical treatment of obesity on the grounds that you are personally emotionally invested in making obese people feel bad about themselves. Frankly, I'd keep that quiet if I were you, it makes you look very bad.
That's Clarke's Third Law. I'm fond of the First Corollary to Clarke's First Law (allegedly first mentioned by Benford):

"Any technology which is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."

There's work to be done, fellow hackers, so let's get to it. ;)
I'm fairly new to Line, but with anime/manga lovers bias aside, I find those stamps feature very useful. It's not necessary the way to augment conversations but it helps to respond to subject that I don't have insight or prefer not to respond in details; I think it lowers a bar on burden to prevent awkward silence.

As for the software, my 91 years old grandfather in Japan just got iPhone as his first smartphone ever. He also signed up to Line as well so he can communicate with rest of relatives (including myself) who happened to be three different all over the US. I am impressed that he is learning it quick. I think the part of it is the fact it's not as intimidating as other solutions.
Why is that even a question? Of course it's legal. It's in the terms of using their service in the first place. Nobody's forcing anybody to use Gmail, after all.
Geospot now is open source
This is a new product from the people who made ScribTeX (http://www.scribtex.com/).

ScribTeX helped me a lot a few years back when I had a conference paper due in a couple of days and only an old PowerPC machine at my disposal at home that had trouble running MacTeX (for reasons I had no time to fix). I ended up writing most of it in the browser. Then the killer feature of ScribTeX for me was that it didn't require registration; you could use it from anywhere right away if you had your TeX files with you on a flash drive. It wasn't that registering or logging in was hard, mind you, but not having to do it completely bypassed the mental barrier of entering your password in a potentially unsafe environment like a malware-infested university computer lab. Later you would be at a safer computer (e.g., your own), log in to ScribTeX and upload your document to it as an off-site backup.
I don't believe this is the end of the disclosures. The gradual, step-wise release of information about the NSA's surveillance capabilities has been quite effective in two different ways.

First, it has kept the NSA in the headlines for almost three months now (quite a feat when you consider our cultural attention span is usually measured in fractions of days).

Second, it has let officials make denials and give reassurances come back to haunt them and tarnish then credibility when further disclosures are made (consider that Senator Feinstein, chair of the Intelligence Committee supposedly providing Congressional oversight of these surveillance programs, who spent weeks claiming said oversight was quite robust, admitted to not knowing about the internal NSA audit finding thousands of privacy violations).

I'm pretty confident there will be more disclosures. But given the realities of the news cycle and the political process, they are much more effective if they happen gradually.
Good memory—we have been around for a little while. I waited to do a Show HN until we got the website revamped earlier this summer. The web work was done by a couple of freelancers that I met through a HN freelance post, as it happens. The HN community is awesome, and it's great to bring it full circle!
Wait, we can print TITANIUM? Up until now, I thought 3D printing only involved plastics...
My phone number was hidden - that's why they would ring me at work, having looked up the company phone number. They would also spam (more often) via LinkedIn messages.

Of course, no privacy settings make any difference when the recruiters offer prizes to your friends if their recommendation leads to a placement. iPads are often given away around here in exchange for contact details if they lead to a hiring.
IOS is (still) for startups
Eating a lot of sugar does that to you, as you gradually develop insulin resistance and you get fatter and fatter. And they put sugar in everything these days, even in bottled water.

The funny thing is, the fatter you are, the more sensitive to food you get.

If people want to maintain their normal weight, they only need to stop eating sugar. That's it.
I'll counter with this:

https://twitter.com/thinkofthought/status/192967196413149185...
I've asked people why they endorsed me for tech I don't know. The answer, every time, is "I know you, if you claim to be an skilled in .Net, you are".

Except I never claimed that I was skilled in .Net, LinkedIn suggested it.
DotCover 2.5 Released: Hot Spots and ReSharper 8 Integration
Is there an (unofficial) HN keyserver? Are there any HN web of trust key exchange events?
Why many app developers in Asia are prioritizing Android over iOS
Hey Xiaoma,

how many of the people who were admitted to your cohort were kicked out before graduation? This may be unfair to Hackreactor but it appears some of the dev bootcamps would look less attractive if they included everyone who started with them[0].

[0]http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/18/floor-employment/

Ctrf + F "A warning: some friends here mention that these companies’ claims of “90+% job placement rate” are misleading, as halfway through they expel anyone who they don’t think will get a job in order to keep their numbers up."
So how long till this drug/supplement is on the market?
I really like the idea of making the readers the customers instead of the advertisers. It will be interesting to see the direction the Washington Post takes with Bezos at the helm.
No, I don't think what MS did is worse. But "writing useful software" was not the reason they were hated. That's the strawman, and it detracts from your argument.
A Crowdfunded, Open source satellite
Privacy, now thats become a huge concern for many people recently. We can't do anything without corporations and governments nosing around.

What if we were to produce an open source communication satellite, ie. the satellite's blueprints the software that runs it should be shared freely under a license such as the GPL and then launch it into space, thereby enabling everyone to connect to them.
The idea is for the community to select an organization to build it and to have no one single "owner" once its launched into space. Perhaps the organization that built it and is composed of anyone and everyone willing to participate can "own" the satellite.

How much would something like this cost, in terms of time, people, money and other resources?
Would you fund an idea such as this?
What are the legal implications of someone undertaking such a project?

I know, this does sound a little absurd, but I cannot help wonder what if this was the case, what if we could connect to a satellite anywhere anytime and communicate privately. I would definitely fund such a cause.
A script in the transaction cannot check if the the item sent was as described. No matter what, you will need people/courts/judges involved.
I don't really see that happening, I know a lot of people in their 30s that are just as thin as they've always been. Did you see Brad Pitt in Snatch? He was 37 and sported a great physique; that's what you're looking forward to with just a little bit of daily exercise.

EDIT: I bet the downvotes are all from people unwilling to put in a bit of effort to improve their lives. The truth is, even if thin people could stay fit without the least effort, the majority exercise every day, running, lifting weights and cycling. Which is more effort than that (most) fat people are willing to put in, and they're facing a potentially deadly condition.
Amen. The continued use of a glaring white background is asinine. It's a failed product of the late-'80s/early-'90s "desktop publishing" fad, in which some developers sought to make the screen an analogy for a piece of paper.

This fails because paper does not EMIT light. A white background on a screen essentially forces people to read text off the surface of a light bulb all day. Dumb.

At least every modern GUI except the Mac's allows you to set up a decent, non-inverse color scheme like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/forensicpics/528235909/in/set-7...
Selenium grid built with NodeJS
I am working on http://contactsanalytics.com/ I call it "Google for email" why? You can build your email list depending on niche you want to target. Check it out. Why I made this? I think that marketing field is really challanging and I think that "big data" thing is really exciting nowadays.