skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, I didn't give much thought to that piece. It was an interesting side-fact -- that her doctor had said she was in good health -- but that's about it.

It's really not up to strangers -- especially those not qualified -- to identify whether she is healthy. It's not even the point of the article.

Not saying that you are making it the issue of the article, just saying I didn't really even give that part of it much thought.
> For all you know she's already tried everything.

For all I know, her body might not obey the laws of physics that every other object in the universe obeys. But I find that possibility somewhat unlikely.

If your food intakes contains less metabolisable energy than you use, you'll lose weight. It's as simple as that.
The DMCA doesn't care WHY you want to have your work removed from the internet all it cares about is that she owns the copyright in the work.
But still, more and more it's not people who move objects, but robots and machines.

Today, are developed agricultural robots to plant and collect vegetables automatically. One agroengineer will watch out for thousands of robots growing and collecting food by watching and telling his computers.

Google's developping robot cars. But what will be the killer application, is the robot truck! Already, in mines the use robot trucks (because human drivers are too hard to find to work in those remote places, and to drunk to drive them big trunks without straying away the tracks).

Kiva System's developing warehouse robots that store goods and prepare shipments without human intervention.

Amazon of course has developped the computer programs to let us tell the warehouse robots what we want.

Soon we'll celebrate the first google truck taking the first tomatoes and potatoes grown by robot tractors, and bringing them to a robotic warehouse, where Amazon will send food orders that will be prepared by Kiva's robots and distributed to your house by Google trucks and cars.

From the ground to your plate with zero human intervention.
Well some human investment. And maintainance, until we develop the maintaining robots. Machines making machines! Oh my!

The only reason why it doesn't go faster, is that companies have a hard time finding out how they'll make any money, trying to bring food and stuff to people who don't have to work for it, and therefore who don't have money for it. Google and Amazon are cheating the other companies, selling them advertisement space, while developping the systems that will make those other companies (their real customers) as obsolete as human workers (already, half the US jobs can be computerized. Federal government shut down? My eye! Just send half the country home, we don't need you to do anything more! Well, not yet, we still have to set up a global robotized agricultural, industrial and distribution system to feed you. But soon. In any case, it's not a question of money anymore.
This has always been a terrible system and will continue to be. Giving an authority class an unchecked license to beat, harass, rape, and assault persons that may or may have not been intending to commit a crime is a recipe for brutality in a community.
It would actually have been a better plan though. What's interesting to me is that she doesn't seem to consider her weight to be the core problem. Her quality of life will remain lower because of her reluctance to lose it. The mean comments could have been a wake up call to her, like, "Hey, maybe I really do need to focus on losing weight."
It wouldn't surprise me if they had some sort of back door with Verisign or other certificate companies for this.
"And doxing is dangerous since it's in effect a call for vigilante justice"

Is it really? Not by definition but I'll admit that people often use doxing along with a call for vigilante justice. I wasn't proposing violence of any kind ... just that some people should be shamed using their real identity.
It needs a progress bar (more visual)
Maybe they read 1984 as a manual: don't destroy him, convert him. Or at least make an example of him.
Do you suffer from polycystic ovarian syndrome and a failing thyroid gland, too, or something similar, or do you just think that it's gonna work for everybody because it worked for you?

Overweight people are not spontaneously generating matter, sure, but it's not like people can just stop eating until they hit the weight you'd prefer them to have, they kinda stop working before that happens.
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The idea here is that it's better to let 10 guilty people go free than erroneously punish one innocent.

That idea is awesome. Nay, it is the lynchpin of a successful society. And it is all namby-pamby, Gandhi-an truth-and-justice until you have to live and survive in situations where crimes happen with impunity and go unpunished due to systemic apathy of the law-enforcers.

You can spew principles all day from your basement, but they mean naught until you have walked in the shoes of those you criticize.

I shouldn't have to explain that.
Launching early is certainly a good thing. Launching a product that is only a proof of concept so people can really see what you're trying to do is also a good idea. But taking people's money under the banner "WE'RE A COMMUNITY OF ENTREPRENEURS THAT HELP EACH OTHER." when no such community exists seems borderline dishonest.

When 5.5% of your initial customers feel scammed and are are upset about being deceived it may be an "acceptable loss" from a business perspective, but I certainly don't think that's a "great result". 5.5% is a lot. For comparison, an eBay vendor with that many unhappy customers wouldn't last long.

Bootstrapping communities is notoriously difficult, and I'm well aware that the use of "community building hacks" are more the norm rather than exception, but I'm still not going to applaud this behavior.
There is a huge disconnect between the "justice" system and technology which needs to end. You've seen it before if you're in IT, that glazed eyes look when explaining why their Word document is missing…

Anyone with judicial experience know if judges have trusted advisory panels that can help wrap their heads around technology to better rule on cases such as this?
In the tribe there was inequality of status (eg best hunters) and mate choice.

Between tribes there was inequality of where to live, or living at all due to border clashes, raids etc
My 5S is consistently 2° off compared to my colleague's 4S.
This is great news, and comes as a bit of relief to some. I remember talking with a professor at the University of Edinburgh who was concerned about delays with CERN referencing the fact that the Nobel prize isn't awarded posthumously, and not as many are saying, not for theory without proof. Really glad to see he made it!
Is this some tragedy of the commons thing? Individuals have to have facebook accounts or they'd be socially isolated because everybody else has facebook accounts they hate too? And it's not worth it to the individual user to cut themselves off?
Actually, my premise is based on a universal predicate, which should be falsifiable (it can be true if she did indeed try everything). And his statement is not a tautology in logic, though perhaps in rhetoric it may well be.
I thought one of the more interesting points, at least in the context of HN, was that the Facebook users didn't even know she could read her posts.

Not that I feel sorry for them, just that so many people use Facebook all the time and have no idea how simple things like this really work and who is able to see their content.

How much is posted on Facebook in the view of the public that wasn't intended for the public?
After. The live drawing was before they removed the merch from the store back in 2011.

Krahulik repeated (he'd already made the sentiment clear back in 2011) that his main regret had been the merch being pulled at Prime 2013, early this september.
Unfortunately, like Whatsapp, it's also only one device per account.
Because it's an extremely good, extremely efficient communication tool for keeping in touch with people you know. Much better than everything else there is so far.
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"For all you know she's already tried everything." - well, not really... By her own admission, she doesn't "generally view her body size as positive or negative". Why would she have tried "everything" then?? It's illogical. Generally, if you don't see something as either positive or negative, you don't go to great pains to do something about it.
Should programmers be held responsible for bad code
Its the ongoing expense. Look over time, what does it cost to maintain the ability to use one?

Inflation adjusted cost of the entire B-52 program including all maintenance and crew personnel and their training? I donno, like a billion?

A missile field is cheaper to maintain (I think?) and not much more to develop, so its probably a bit under a billion.

A nuke launching sub might cost a billion but it holds alot of them so divided out is probably only hundreds of millions

Grats you've now got one so small and light a plain old fighter-bomber plane only 10 million or so can drop one.

Finally small and cheap enough to do some million dollar class cruise missiles.

I'm sure we'll eventually have cheap drones as delivery vehicles.

The point is minimizing spent money during peacetime. A bunker full of cruise missiles is infinitely cheaper than multiple operating wings of B-52.

The other (obvious?) idea is burying history. Say Canada wanted to nuke us for invading and regime changing them to steal their maple syrup. It could happen. IF we used 1940s techniques which only require a billion or so and a couple months or a whole year, anything their spies steal is very dangerous. On the other hand, "Go ahead, steal these 1980s kryton switch designs, it'll take you 50 years and a trillion bucks to figure out how to use them not to mention all the extra stuff that goes with those handy dandy trigger mechanisms". A good analogy is the time machine. So you can visit Bavaria in the 1300s if you sneak a 1500s level wooden clock escapement that would probably revolutionize Bavaria in the 1300s one way or the other. On the other hand sneak in a modern AMD64 CPU, just the bare chip, not even a heatsink or a PCB or anything, just the chip, and they're going to be all "WTF" all they have to do is get to the 2000s or so, and this will chip will leapfrog them into the 2010s, but its going to take a heck of a long time to get them from 1300s to 2000s without any help. So, yeah, go steal that modern US design, a mere couple trillion bucks and 70 years experience and you'll be stamping them out like license plates just like us. I guess by the 2080s we should be worried, but right now no problemo.
You seemed to have jumped from talking about integers to floating point!

And the example you have given is a problem with all floating point implementations, not just Javascript. You will get that exact same answer in C, Java, etc.

The only way to avoid this is to represent rational numbers directly, without simplification. For example:

(3/10) * 3 => (9/10)
It is unacceptable, regardless of circumstance.

Weasely hogwash from someone who clearly has no idea of ground reality.

Otherwise, I agree with your highfalutin talk, um-hmm.
That's seems immoral and just wrong.

The angry customers you get can ruin your reputation very very quickly. Angry customers are the ones that usually go out of their way to write bad reviews.
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Your issue is with copyright in general, not the DMCA process in particular, I assume?

You kinda come off as more offended by her trying to get out of a shitty situation as best as possible than by the abuse she's receiving in the first place.
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You should take a look at the Chrome extension "Dictionary of Numbers". It reads through text on a page and any time it sees a quantity, it replaces it with something equivalent that you might actually know.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dictionary-of-numb...
Civic hackers aim to crack open public data
You're a right idiot if you think it's as simple as that. And your reference to the laws of physics does not make you any more knowledgeable than the hordes of assholes who simplify these issues for an easy insult.

Go google hypothyroidism and PCOS. Then come back and tell us what you learn. I'll have crayons and paper so you can show the whole class.
I don't see the relevance of this comment to the story at all.

You are commenting on a difference of ideology and really just changing the issue.

This story is about single human beings and our indifference to them when anonymous and in a group and perhaps unaware they might see our comments.

These are totally different issues. Most people would be horrified to think she read our comments if they were negative.

Most people stand by ideologies.
This is usually common practice. It serves two purposes 1) Makes it easier to find the dataset that was used for experiments. And 2) Improves citation count for the author which is usually important in research.
The internet becomes much more tolerable when you learn to tune out the trolls who find their only happiness in trying to bring down others.
You're right. The comment that you should buy stock with legal income and pay back a mortgage with the illegal income misses the point completely. Buying stock was just one example of how transfering illegaly acquired funds into something that increases in value does not protect your initial investment. Anything you do with illegal income would be seizable property.

Paying into a mortgage as the same effect. As you pay back a mortgage you acquire equity in the property. The government would then be able to seize your equity in the house, meaning they could sell the property and after paying back the remainder of the mortgage keep the difference.
Thanks for responding, I didn't realise Foursquare actually gave so much of their data away freely. Which makes it slightly more seedy someone has scraped the rest and dumped it online.
He doesn't say that. He says "I have nothing against the kickstarter approach" but it's insane and it sucks that they're legally forbidden from giving you an ownership stake. way-to-keep-the-little-guy-down etc
For the fortitude he has shown in fighting the good fight, please consider donating to his defense fund: http://lavabit.com/ (link at the end).
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Yeah, that endocrine disorder that scientists have been trying to cure for the past 30 years or so can be solved. By diet.

I reckon you should make a phone call to the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Foundation with your astounding discovery, I'm sure they'll be really happy to be told that sufferers can just eat less. Who knew all this time?
Did you check : http://calip.so/ ?
This is specifically what services like Kickstarter were designed to address. And there is plenty of evidence to suggest that crowd-funding services are viable funding models, especially for low budget projects like this.

This feels like deception for the sake of deception and I would have been among those who were pissed had I signed up.
> I assume you'd want to see those in the Lein toolwindow?

Exactly.

Good plugin BTW. I like the jump to Java code (I work on a mixed Java/Clojure project), and was very happy to find out that renaming a Java method fixed the Clojure calls, too. And find usages works across languages! Keep up the good work!

EDIT: One problem I've found: If a function is defined not with defn but using a macro that expands to defn, then the symbol is not resolved.

EDIT 2: Just checked: refactoring and find usages works with Kotlin code, too (in a mixed Clojure/Java/Kotlin project).
Putting a Speed Limit on the Stock Market
Android Studio, who is based on IntelliJ, didn't like the fact that I was running OpenJDK on my notebook but it worked. You should probably check on IntelliJ again.
> Why do you think it’s proper to give random people unsolicited health advice

Why do you think it’s proper to give random people unsolicited internet posting advice? Is there any good reason I shouldn't regard you as a hypocrite?
I love this from Abraham Lincoln: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/281050-you-can-please-some-o...

The reality is: Yes, angry customers are never good for business or brand building. Neither are bad reviews. Trust me when I say that I hate the fact that I had angered even one individual.

That said, I interacted with every one of the angry customers and explained the rationale behind the decision. I managed to resolve the emotion to the extent that they were appreciative of my explanation / reasoning and would even consider becoming a customer in future.
I have mixed emotions about this strategy.

On the subject of deception, Adii hasn't yet replied to my comment about this section from his previous article:

"So I took the testimonials that they had left on my Clarity profile, reworked them (for the purpose of my book) and sent it to the individuals (along with a sample chapter of the book) for approval."

http://publicbeta.co/how-to-validate-your-idea-with-a-landin...
Stop digging. Who said her weight was a "core problem"? Seems to be just people like, erm, you.
I don't agree that the joke and hatred go hand in hand. I'm not fat (which perhaps somehow disqualifies me from having an opinion), but it doesn't come for free. This is the case for majority of non-fat people. Most people understand that although there are exceptions (e.g. the OP), being fat is a result of circumstances that you or your parents have control over. In the majority of cases, it's very different from racism, sexism, transphobia and homophobia.

Now, you are right that this doesn't mean fat people deserve to be ridiculed. Neither do smokers. But I'll happily jest with my friend's smoking, because I care and it would do her good to stop it. Poking fun at such things is a good motivator (I've been at the receiving end of this), you just have to be careful to use it only when you know it won't hurt the person's self esteem. That's why I think it is ok when you know the person well.

> The amount of shit fat people get from close friends about being fat is just as bad as a society from a whole

If you get shit from actual close friends, perhaps you should explain to them that's how you feel about it. Perhaps they are unaware. Seems more of a communication issue.

> People are fully aware of what they post.

No, they are not. I reiterate my analogy of a toddler with a gun.
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MERS-CoV. Could this be the next pandemic
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The data set has been removed?
Being shamed for something is not the same thing as nor implies a necessity of being ashamed of something.
Yeah, her body size. She didn't say anything about the awful endocrine disorder that she seems to be trying to manage.

Health is more than just body size.
Is it really so hard for you to see the difference between medical advice and advice about polite behavior? The difference seems very clear cut to me. One is most definitely not like the other.
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This is really great. I listen to sounds like this alot as I find they help me focus. I've used environmental recordings of rain, storms, and ocean waves for years (decades, actually) and I usually loop them in Banshee while I work. I've seen a few of these noise generators in the past but never really came back to them because they weren't superior to my recordings.

Your generator, however, is exceptional.

One request: when we make a selection, say a preset, would it be possible to have an indicator that shows what we had set? I find myself selecting something, then working a while, then coming back and being a bit forgetful!
You'll see in the article that Kickstarter or crowdfunding would not have validated this idea, as the difference between backing / pre-ordering / investing in a product versus purchasing a product is significant. To validate an idea, you need to know that you can actually sell it in a repeatable fashion. Kickstarter or crowdfunding is generally a once-off process, so doesn't give you that validation.

(I know that many Kickstarter projects that were successful have turned into longer-term, sustainable businesses.)
I tried this before... but it doesn't sound anything like a known animal. But who cares actually, if the noise title is right? ('Imaginary Birds') So, let's try it again ;-)
Very good presentation for someone like me with no knowledge in physics but still facinated by all those discoveries! :) Thanks
You can't use a pithy quote to excuse bad behavior.
how does that work if it's a fork of la clojure? are you paying intellij? did they licence their code under a very open licence?
Decent point. I don't know her either, and it was wrong of me to imply she should try everything to keep her weight down. I actually didn't mean to say this at all, but the comment does look that way.

I apologise for my terrible phrasing.
When Does The Universe Compute?
That's not a significantly lower number of people.
"taking people's money under the banner ..."

He didn't actually charge people before the product was finished and they were able to opt-out after they knew what happened. Would have been a whole different story if the cards had actually been charged.
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Also, Outlook 2003¹ PST files, also when created with the "strong encryption" option, are no more then obfuscation. libpst convert them to MH with no worries.

[1] Not that updated, I know, but I do not use Outlook since then.
Actually, I'd love a generalized countdown clock. Not necessarily for my lifespan, but set it up for goals like, "My side project will be profitable in 2 months."
Might that simply be because there's more things you want to do? Isn't this a basic psychological tendency, to want more and more when you have more?
Thom Yorke would know a thing or two about dying farts from desperate corpses if his Radiohead's recent albums are anything to go by.
I think that's a great approach, especially when handling a new client. The worst situation is landing a client who also personally designed or developed the last iteration of their website or app. They need to be dislodged from the work they've done and sometimes that takes kid gloves.
Responded to your comment on there now. :)