skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been happily low-carb for the last couple of years or so. It's worked great for me.

Occasionally I relapse (hmm, chocolate), and every time I do for any substantial period, I see the effect on my weight. So long as I stick to low-carb, I don't have to worry about what I eat... just eat as much as I feel like, whenever I feel like - but low carb.
Power to thee if you actually acknowledge the risks and consciously choose to indulge yourself. Most people don't quite understand the risks involved, and with the specific example of fireplaces: how damaging it can be on the kids around. It is well-known that humans are poor judges in evaluating the chance of occurrence of black swan events.
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This approach is a dead end.

The electric resistance of the skull is way too high to send any useful information through electric stimulation, and magnetic stimulation is inherently blunt.

For the same reason, the complexity of the information that you can get with EEG is very limited. There's a lot of noise, and the spatial resolution is very coarse.

Useful brain to brain communication requires invasive surgery, in order to put sensors and stimulation electrodes next to the cortex. It will happen, and it will be revolutionary, but the method described in the article is not a progress in that direction.
I score 33/36 on this test and very highly on others like it, yet I consider myself pretty rubbish at reading people's emotions. Still pictures are very different to real life - here, I can rely on pure technical understanding trained by years of being obsessed with art (looking for eye creases, angles of eyebrows, and imitating the expression in my head), without the distraction of people saying things in direct conflict with the range of things briefly written on their face.

I suppose it's a works-in-a-test-setting trainable sort of thing. Thanks, comics!
Have I worked before? Been in the industry for almost 25 years now.

The benefits from complex software should be so disproportionately massive that the users would be willing to adopt it. The C++ language and the compilers come to mind: they do come with documentation, are complex, but that's nothing compared to the entire worlds that you can create with C++.

On the other side of the spectrum you have things like Parallels Plesk: an awful piece of software that always creates more problems for you than it's trying to solve, even if you read their tomes of documentation, knowledge bases, searched their forums etc. The existence of Plesk and software alike can't be justified really.
Scary, this is exactly the reason I stay away from gummy vitamins and anything that tries to make it anything less like medicine.
Two #1 HN posts confer rockstar status.
"Only good reason I can think of is where multiple shots are required to weaken / overcome some kind of hardened defense."

If there's a simple window, you can kill everyone along the wall by a simple application of a high-precision-timed grenade. "Explode 50 cm behind the window" is simple to achieve these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25_CDTE , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh4uy5A-lI
I think the major concerns with "infantry drones" are signal hijacking/jamming and physical tampering - the latter could be remedied with a well designed body, as well as a fast self-defense system (a gun or at least a high power laser to quickly disable any approaching enemies)...
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None of these are new or improved and they all have the same consequences because we are talking about chemistry (what happens to wood when it is burned).

This pseudo argument is akin to those who, after some initial evidence came to light about the harmful effects of smoking 50-60 years ago, argued that with a filter, smoking was safe (because the filter would 'catch' the bad stuff).

No matter what kind of technique or equipment you use, nothing will 100% prevent the escape of the carcinogenic compounds produced by the chemical reaction of burning wood.

So the question becomes, do you want a little bit of carcinogens in your air? a lot of them? or none (produced by you in your enclosed space/home)?
The collapsing comments feature, of the chrome extension I use, has also helped me actually read through comments without getting side-tracked with endless pedantic debates. You can find a lot of good perspectives below the first thread.
Isn't there something else we can burn that also gives off that nice wooden smell? I smell a market opportunity here - bio natural imitation fireplace wood - 100% carcinogen free smoke, asbestos free, cholesterol free, contains no hydrogenated fats.
Do you think maybe it's a self-selected audience? Like these are the people that know and love you as a self-hosted product, and now you need to reach a different, more SaaSy crowd?
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By the middle of the test I couldn't stop thinking that I was being played. I thought that at the end there would be a paragraph informing me that in fact most people in the pictures had a neutral expression and that if I got an answer right it was because that was the emotion most people
taking the test before me judged that person to have.

There is potential for a study about prejudice there.
Please help me define "hipster"
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I score 33/36 on this test.....I consider myself pretty rubbish at reading people's emotions."

ditto and ditto

I failed on 20, 23 and 29

It might be interesting if there was a pattern to this?
This is interesting to me - I had precisely the same reaction.

In fact, I've noticed that throughout my life my initial reaction on reading something that contradicts my previous beliefs is not rejection but extreme interest at the possibility I may have been wrong.

I don't know if that makes me very skeptical or very gullible. I think it's the former.
Not after some timeout (24 hours?). I noticed it when I was glancing over my comments the next day looking for replies.
I would highly recommend watching the BBC documentary "The Men Who Made Us Fat". This reaches broadly the same conclusions. Fat is fairly innocuous, but the real danger food is Sugar, and artificial sweeteners tend to make things worse.
I had a special square cutter tool specifically designed for this purpose. Just slot the disk in the tool, punch, done.

It helped when you were putting out hundreds of disks of pirated games on a regular basis.
I wonder, if Hitler was such a peace lover…
31/36. The darkest photos were the hardest to gauge. I'm a reclusive programmer that likes to hang out with people. And I have an interest in body language...

Regretful, doubtful, friendly, defiant, interested. That's quite the emotional spread.
Jazzhands = Javascript + Leap Motion
I wrote a Javascript library for Leap motion controllers. I built it for quick integration with web apps, and have a forgiving UI.
Actually the experience so far with drone pilots shows that they get PTSD at the same rate as combat pilots who were physically there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/us/drone-pilots-found-to-g...
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aaaaand your database crashed! :(
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too much traffic i guess, will try to get it back up
I believe you're right. The thing that probably stops most modern democratic nations from going to war, if we're being pragmatic, is the political backlash to its leaders stemming from the loss of citizen lives. If you remove this from the equation, nations will likely be more predisposed to engage in conflict; its leaders will be shielded from the most immediate downsides of war, and the population more predisposed to ignore it.
They have a "notable customers" page: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/unternehmen/referenzkunden

There are a couple NBA.com subdomains and Der Speigel appears to be hosting 'local' CDNable content for their Germany-based readers
Agreed. "I had a different experience" isn't snark, it's a counterpoint.
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yup HN is ruthless to weak servers. DB down.
There's enough smoke now that we can safely assume that all these actions by Google are to sabotage the experience on Microsoft products.
We have a fireplace. It's our primary source of heat. It's efficient, however - an EPA approved catalytic model. The smoke from the chimney is very light, and once it's burning dissipates very quickly. Plenty of stoves/fireplaces produce a blue pall of smoke that hangs over the entire area for days, and it's not one of those.

I'd be curious to know if studies included modern and correctly-installed stoves as well.
I used to do R&D for the US defense industry. Three years back I was catching up with a friend from that industry and asked what they're up to these days. Her answer? Hacking into connected appliances (furnace, video games, espresso machines, etc) with the goal of turning them into listening devices, making them explode or catch fire, or otherwise malfunction.

If you can dream up a sick way to mess with people, odds are there is a government somewhere funding research into it.
As a Google Engineer, I can assure you that nobody who interviews you will give a damn about your code in github. [...] it might be the absolutely horrible way to interview candidates

It works as long as majority of the CS population dreams of a Google job. There are so many candidates that having a high false negative rate really doesn't matter. However, as Google slowly becomes less popular, it's current interviewing procedure might not work anymore.

I think that having high-quality open source project is a reasonable indicator of a person's technical abilities. For companies with a smaller stream of candidates, it would be silly to ignore such sources of information.

By the way, I am always surprised how obsessed people are trying to get into Google. After some persistent bugging, I went through a phone interview. I was invited for a follow-up interview, but decided that they could not offer the kind of position I was interested in. (No, I don't want to work 18 months in site reliability engineering when my interest lies with natural language processing.)
How do you measure the facebook shares?
The Xeon Phi resembles a GPU much more than it does a CPU. The original project, Larrabee, was at one point meant to be a GPU that competed with NVIDIA and ATI.
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Ask HN: Who are the optimists out there and how did you get that way?
You deserve it and your luck was with you. Finally will say Lucky(2%),Work(49%)and Content(49%)makes your post #1. But i can understand this awesome feeling when you receive traffic more than your month in a single day. Keep going
I made a bad score,22, but people tell me I am really good at reading emotions.

I never fix myself in a static moment, but I follow the movements like dancing. I also tend to match them while sensing their language.

Using just images is a very incomplete way of looking at this.
Research shows that nearly 70 percent of chimney smoke reenters nearby buildings

Well, then the "research" is obviously wrong. What else in the article is wrong?
If the file is opened read-only, then programs should fall back to save as. Unfourtuantly, the only standard way to signal read-only is with file permisions. This will work, but many programs would likely have report a permisions error prior to the save as. Also it will cause problems for programs that transparently modify the file on disk while viewing.
I suppose you could hard code the read only parameter into the command that is used to execute the external program. Or have the external programs check if they are in a tmp-directory.
Here is the post if the blog is down https://gist.github.com/rukshn/7061578/raw/76bf217fccd6e0ff9...
Here is a forum that sells DDoS attacks. Attacks are much cheaper than protection.

http://www.hackforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=232
http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming

"Recently, some people have mistakenly attributed the "live coding" concept to me, but it's not a new idea, it's certainly not "my idea", and it's not a particularly interesting idea in itself. Immediate-update is merely a prerequisite for doing anything interesting -- it enables other features which require a tight feedback loop. An action game with a low frame rate is a bad game, but simply upping the frame rate doesn't magically make a game good."
> hey all have the same consequences because we are talking about chemistry (what happens to wood when it is burned).

Inefficient fires don't get as hot and cause more smoke. efficient fires get much hotter, and have better airflow. These burn more "stuff", and it burns cleaner.
The problem isn't civilian casualties, it's our propensity for war.
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A question:

For sticky situation #1 ("You make a reference to some memory allocated to a region and try to use it outside the region."), the solution is reference counting - ("When we leave the region and it’s time to deallocate the memory, we raise an error if the reference count is greater than zero.")

How does this work with circular references? I think, if I understood it correctly, that if you had a circularly referenced data structure you would get a RuntimeError as soon as the MemoryAllocator goes out of scope, as the reference count would be >0.
The sea change will come when someone makes an FPGA that's an order of magnitude easier to program.

I think it's not as much a matter of making an FPGA that would be easier to program as it is a matter of coming up with an order-of-magnitude of improvement in programming techniques. What you're demanding is not far removed from saying that better programming models require improved transistors.
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One of the annoying parts of this article was that the author dismissed the comment as "non-factual" without providing any evidence or explanation.

Apparently whenever someone writes something that the author disagrees with, it is automatically categorized as snark.
HN people rediscovering the /. effect? Learnt nothing new at all.
I do think they could sometimes be more nicely phrased, taking into account that the author of the post being commented on will often read the critical comments, as opposed to only third party readers.

But generally I agree, as a reader the critical comments are often the more useful ones. Shortcomings of a post, pointers to existing products that already do what a given product does better (or at least differently), etc. are all useful things to know, even if I don't always agree with them. Whereas congratulations and statements of agreement are rarely that informative, unless they come with additional information expanding on the original post.

Part of the trickiness, imo, is that HN comments occupy an odd in-between space, between blog comments (which are clearly responding to the author on their own blog), and third-party mailing-list discussions about an article from outside the mailing list (which are typically not addressed to the author, and are for the benefit of the discussants).
It's not about the harm you're doing to your own body, it's about the harm you're doing to other people and their property without their consent. Snowboarding or missing sleep doesn't harm anyone else. Burning wood does, and that's why it's different.
The "action by Google" of maliciously adding themselves to a quirks-mode list[1] maintained solely by Microsoft, that Google had no access to or ability to add themselves to, when their website works perfectly well in IE11 if that list is disabled[2]?

[1] "What appears to be happening here is that Google’s search engine has somehow been added to IE11′s Compatibility View list."

[2] "Uncheck “Use Microsoft Compatibility lists” and Google’s search engine should work again."
We used this at the place I work, but we reached the 50 site limit quickly and were baffled that there was no pay-for-more option.

Anyway, we ended up using StatusCake[1] instead, if anyone is looking for an alternative with more features and less restrictions.

[1] https://www.statuscake.com/
> This is fairly standard.

True.

> It's quite irritating that hosting companies
> seem to see null-routing as a solution to
> a DDoS attack.

Not everyone can afford a proper solution. In fact, I don't think anyone, except OVH, is able to offer a server for less than $100/month and include proper DDoS protection.
The problem with low-carb diets is that most people use it as an excuse to consume animal products. A vegan low-carb diet is fine.
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What does it mean to be reclusive but like to hang out with people?
Have you read the article at all ? Google is set in IE's "compatibility mode" list. That means someone at Microsoft itself has made a mistake or has no faith in their browser rendering google's site properly in their normal rendering mode. Nothing in the article indicate that Google has done anything.

You really shouldn't draw any conclusion about issues when you can't even bother to read the entire article.
Geotrust (RapidSSL) isn't too expensive either.
So when people say, "the science is decided," remember that science almost unanimously pushed high carb low fat diets for decades before people challenged it.
"Fat that you eat can be converted handily into energy" What is this supposed to mean? That an overabundance of carbs is bad, while an overabundance of fat isn't? This is getting ridiculous.
Is anyone capturing this somehow? I can't watch it now, but would really like to see it later.
isocpp.org are the standard guys.

I am not sure how to navigate that site, but it does not look like modules are planned for C++14. At least C++17 according to the picture on this page: http://isocpp.org/std/status
>Eating lots of eggs, bacon, steak

The problem with that is that the consumption of animal products is unethical. You should consider switching to a vegan low-carb diet to decrease suffering.
Which extension is that? This sounds like a great feature. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether a lower comment is a new thread or part of the same one.
It's like a traffic jam. You can solve it by stopping the incoming cars at the ramp or by making the road wider, but both are outside of your control when you're just running the toll gates at some point ahead. You can only ask your "host" to do that (in this example, the owner of the road).
IE stopped identifying itself as IE - that's confusing. (I know it didn't just happen in IE11 on Windows 8.1)
Now, I am not familiar with temperature's effects on the reactions found in burning wood. However, your invocation of chemistry is misguided at best. Chemical reactions CAN and DO vary based on energy input into the system. Reactions can happen one way at normal wood fireplace temperature, but another way in an efficient burner at higher temperature. Not to mention that higher temperatures can also simply burn away compounds that lower temperatures cannot. They can also vary based on outside inputs; for instance, wood burned without oxygen becomes charcoal.
I don't think they can detect DDoS attacks, just an unusually high PPS.
This article misrepresents the underlying research and seems to invent some facts from whole cloth.

> Sweden has become the first Western nation to develop national dietary guidelines that reject the popular low-fat diet dogma in favor of low-carb high-fat nutrition advice.

Where is the evidence that Sweden has developed "national dietary guidelines"? All the sources link back to the paper [1][2] entitled "Dietary Treatment for Obesity". Clearly, dietary treatment for obesity is not the same as national dietary guidelines, and the conclusions of a paper are not the same as government policy.

Further, the paper found low-carb diets more effective for weight loss only in the first six months. Long term, it found no difference in the effectiveness of low-fat vs. low carb. To quote from google translate:

> In the long run there are no differences in efficacy between weight loss tips on strict and moderate carbohydrate diet, low-fat diets, högproteinkost, Mediterranean diet, diet focuses on low-glycemic load diet or a high proportion of monounsaturated fats.

Further, on the "diet doctor" website, under the section "Warnings Against LCHF Dismissed" [3], it quotes the study criticizing some studies that concluded low-carb diets are unhealthy for not adequately distinguishing between different classes of low-carb diets, specifically those high in fast-food and those not. This may be a valid criticism, but is not the same as endorsing the long-term health of a low-carb diet. The "diet doctor" concludes "We simply don’t know" about the long-term effects of various macronutrient compositions on health, which is fair, but this is a long way short of the national government of Sweden endorsing high-fat low-carb diets as unequivocally healthier than high-carb low-fat diets.

It may appear that I'm against low-carb diets; I'm not. I just think this is a very poor and misleading article.

[1] [pdf warning] http://www.sbu.se/upload/Publikationer/Content0/1/Mat_vid_fe...

[2] [google translation of conclusions] http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&prev...

[3] http://www.dietdoctor.com/swedish-expert-committee-low-carb-...
Why do artificial sweeteners make things worse?

Are 2 little sweetener pills in my coffee really worse than two cubes of sugar?
Guess not :)
I've lost 48 pounds in the last 2 years (188 => 140) by simply cutting all carbs and most processed foods out of my diet. No change in habits, no additional exercise. My cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood were good to begin with, but are now EXCELLENT.

My typical day I eat 3-4 eggs, half avocado, 1/2lb of red meat/chicken/fish, 2 servings of greens, 1 serving of vegetables, 2-3 servings of cheese.

Never felt better. It is frustrating because people never believe me and just tell me that I have a fast metabolism.
For that matter, doing everything right and avoiding absolutely anything that could harm you still has a 100% mortality rate. Not holding my breath waiting for Calico to fix that...
This doesn't seem to be what the article is about at all though. It sounds like you accept evidence whereas he's trying to draw a parallel between the difficulty of arguing with people who reject evidence.

But you're also framing this in terms of personal experiences with limited spheres of effect. Operating wood burning stoves in a neighborhood would appear (I'm not 100% sure on his evidence here, but going with it) to lead to the harm of others. As he opens: "There is no amount of wood smoke that is good to breathe."
While it can be confusing, that by itself should not be an issue for anyone, they did it to avoid all the older IE specific fix as they become compliant with a more recent set of standards, and any website should use feature detection rather than browser detection.
"especially when consumed late in the day"

That's a myth.
I sure hope this was meant to be sarcastic and isn't just a ridiculous attempt at spreading FUD.
The "chemistry" of wood burning only implies that CO2 and water will be produced. These are not particularly harmful compared to smoke.
There's nothing wrong with not being ambitious. Some day I may not be. Until then, I'd rather be around people who are.
damn I know I wouldn't be able to focus on my work if I lived in Thailand...and it's definitely not the women