skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Ok, then I'll rephrase my question: If I consume 3-4k calories of fat per day and exclude all carbs, will I lose weight? The answer is still "No, not if I'm using fewer than 3-4k calories in my daily activity.""

Question is still based on a fundamentally flawed premise, which is that we can just talk about the human body as if it's a bag in which you stuff a certain amount of calories, and the bag passively accepts the stuffing with no reaction. Stuff it with 2000 calories or 10,000, it doesn't care.

This is so obviously wrong that as soon as you examine the assumption consciously it's obviously flawed, but people don't, usually. The point is, if you eat nothing but protein and fat, you will find yourself unable to overconsume. (Barring a real medical disorder, like thyroid problems.) Whether you would hypothetically gain weight if you forced the food in isn't very relevant, except in a very abstract scientific sense.

The truth is that humans aren't special, and just like the entire rest of the animal kingdom, our bodies have no particular inclination to become morbidly fat. Even in abundance, your body will self-regulate. It is not as if abundance is that unusual thing in the real world, not even sustained abundance, but you do not see morbidly obese deer waddling around or fat squirrels getting splattered in the road. What's wrong is what we eat, not our bodies. The idea that our bodies could be this... stupid is frankly just absurd.

If you eat protein, fat, and natural high-complexity carb in moderation (not Russet potatoes or the modern biological candies that some fruits have been turned into), you body will regulate itself. Any discussion of weight gain or loss without discussion of regulation mechanisms is so flawed it can just be ignored; the body is full of them. I don't count calories; I watch what I eat. The calorie counting is done by ancient and well-honed parts of my brain I have no conscious access to, but I don't need that and don't want it. All "me" could do is mess it up.

(I find my body is tending to self regulate to the "just barely overweight" part of the BMI spectrum. There is significant recent evidence that this is actually quite normal and healthier than fighting your way down to the "officially" correct BMI.)
I think he misses the point of at least some of the criticism. It's not a matter of fairness, it's a question of whether it's a good idea for employers. You want to exclude all of the brilliant engineers who work on proprietary software? Go right ahead. But then don't turn around and complain about the "shortage of qualified engineers."

This part of a broader problem with the industry. Tech companies subscribe to stupid hiring fads (see Google's earlier reliance on brain teasers) and apply hyper-specific screening criteria (10+ years of .NET experience), then bitch and moan when they have winnowed their applicant pool to nothing and can't meet their recruitment goals.
>Yes, but when you're a caveman or peasant, there's not much you can do about physical trauma to your internal organs.

For one, you can sit still until they heal, and avoid straining them further.

Second, internal pain after eating something bad (e.g rotten or poisonous) for example, helps you avoid eating it again.

Just off the top of my head -- I'm pretty sure there are tons of other cases.
Those categories aren't exclusive.
What? There are tons of ways to turn BTC into any number of currencies.
I don't remember being scared by Daleks - but the giant maggots in "The Green Death" scared me silly.
Have another go at Go. The handicap system is wonderful. It make two players of what ever standard have an equal match. There is a reason why Go is old and globally the uptake is far bigger than Chess - it combines very type of thinking. Strategic versus immediate tactical. Thinking globally versus locally. Chess appears too 1 dimensional now by comparison.
Once you complete the transaction, there are also tax implications. An attorney wrote up a description with some broad strokes: http://www.bitcointax.info/

Useful if you're a US citizen or resident and have bitcoins you want to sell.
Pretty nice guys!
I used to use redis as a queue, but then I switched to beanstalkd:

http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/

That said I continue to use redis extensively, for storing data for dynamic websites (in preference to MySQL etc) and as a persistent cache for spam-testing, etc.
Ask HN: Are you legally required to disclose to your employer...?
that you are running a side business/startup, assuming no conflict of interest and you are not using your employer's resources at all?
Will my site not be penalized if the crawler thinks everything on it points to crawlspa.com?
Either he didn't want to reveal its identity, because he (they) knew well that the history will remain for a long time, or he simply lost access to those bitcoins.
No feedback from SalesForce; would you rate our hackathon project?
Hi fellows,<p>We're one of the teams who participated in SalesForce hackathon and built SumoSales in less than 5 days (from idea to the app).<p>Since SalesForce responded with a general "sorry, u're not in" email as well as didn't even look at some of the entries (now there is a huge scandal going around this hackathon), I want to ask real hackers to rate our work.<p>Basically, we built an app to gamify working environment (not just sales).<p>Check our hack SumoSales and imagine you can compete with colleagues on the number of commits / lines of codes per day for a prize of lunch.<p>Would be awesome to hear any feedback after the 5 days of work. Negative comments are as welcome as positive - better than nothing anyways :)<p>Thanks!
I wasn't being sarcastic, I for one think that incandescents should be banned (and I think they have been in several countries). The reason that has to happen sooner rather than later is not progress for progress' sake IMHO, but the environmental damage inefficient obsolete tech causes.
Impressive that it's scientific.

I think it also measures how much people are trained to learn all the historical games versus learn deep principles and truths of chess. The great ones should be able to thrive in chaos.

This is true in other fields. Some traders get crushed in non-standard markets. Others thrive.
NASA and Planetary Resources to launch asteroid-finding contest next year
True, but they were able to process a single quarter-million dollar transaction and easily turn that into 'real' cash. That's still a pretty decent accomplishment for magic internet money.
Question: How was this list generated, ie: how do you find out which hash number has a lot of bitcoins in it? I thought that was completely hidden.
This is one of the most disturbing things I've read today.
I'm sure anyone using the term hellbanned knows what it means. Sometimes automatic hell banning makes mistakes or is heavy handed (not sure what the algorithms are); some selective civil disobedience corrects the issue and lets the user at least ask admins to find out why.
The short answer is, that code is a lie. It should actually have been the integral of risk_profile(value(c)) dP(c).

But the python code is close enough to illustrate the point, and I've found people are far more likely to read and understand python code than equations.
First of all, thanks for this @yesiamhuman, I came across it a few days ago just when I was despairing of finding something with the right look and feel (somebody mentioned it in an earlier HN item about a curated list of CSS frameworks). It looks like it's exactly what I need.

For the project I have in mind, the client wants an HTML5 web app, not an App Store delivered container. On the docs, you state:

"Since mobile browsers often exhibit issues while in browsing mode that don't show while running under a "wrapped" native app, we recommend running all Ionic examples in a Desktop browser, PhoneGap or another native wrapper."

Can you elaborate on this a bit? What issues am I likely to see if I just deliver my project as an offline capable single page web app?
I really wish people would realize outlets like BoingBoing, Techdirt and the like are just trolling for rage-views.
Yahoo is selling stock (so it can buy it back)
Retweet Barter?
The most surprising thing to me is the number of those addresses that haven't had a transaction in several years now... how many of those people lost their "wallet" so to speak?
Froze my MacBook Pro with Google Chrome two times :(
The whole price of Bitcoin is an illusion that they use to get people to keep buying. It's the result of a bidding war.

There is an article here about that basically explains (this is my interpretation not his words) how the price of BTC is kindof like the sticker price on an item in the store. It doesn't represent the real value, it's simply the value as perceived by consumers and is, in a way, fixed -- http://falkvinge.net/2013/09/13/bitcoins-vast-overvaluation-...

But the fact that early adopters are psychotically rich for doing nothing is... one of the many signs of a flawed system. Basically if everyone started selling the market would destabilize because supply/demand curve would change & I'm pretty sure the value of what they're selling would plummet before they can unload most of their stack.

EDIT: Since I was immediately downvoted, please note that this happens regularly any time you speak ill of Bitcoin's pyramid scheme aspects and is completely expected/anticipated when I post these responses. It's a public service that I will drop eventually, but think about this -- even people who own a ton of BTC (article I linked to) criticize it as being insanely flawed. They only stay with it because as they point out, they believe the price will continue to rise. Speculators love it because they KNOW it's flawed, but still feel confident in a bet that the price will rise. I think it's why ultimately it will take gov intervention or a market catastrophe that screws over all the speculators to finally destroy such interest in Bitcoin and finally give it a chance to start over again... as a currency.
Right, but try cashing out $85 million. You'll have a hard time.
Simply Statistics interview with Daphne Koller, Co-Founder of Coursera
PDL or Perl?
Ya, I've noticed that, too. My wireless VLAN has blocked outgoing traffic on several uncommon ports.
It shouldn't, because the crawler should only see your server (your server stands in front of crawlspa as a proxy). If you don't have access to your server config and redirect in the code, then it's possible.
$250,000 for a flight. That puts it at about 333 BTC right now.
There are some LED bulbs that are explicitly rated for use in enclosures with no ventilation. The other thing to pay attention to is whether the light dispersal pattern is pointed mostly straight down (i.e., for a recessed ceiling lighting fixure) or omni-directional (i.e., for a sconce or a table lamp). Reputable stores will make this clear --- and yes, it's a bit more complicated than just grabbing a random 100W incandescent bulb. For example:

http://store.earthled.com/collections/led-light-bulbs-suitab...
I know an engineer at Boeing who leans on it heavily for his research. I'm not sure exactly what his department/responsibilities are, but there's one data point anyway.
They may have all the addresses in the same wallet.
Question: Where can a Canadian passively invest $50 - 200 a month safely and watch their investment grow?
While "[l]ooking at a code portfolio for people who program is fundamentally no different from looking at past experience, at educational credentials, or at any of the other standard resume screening techniques..." may be true, I think that it sidesteps another important consideration: What does requiring a code portfolio signal to potential applicants about the employer? Does it signal that the employer will be inconsiderate of those who can't share their professional work, or those who don't have lots of spare time for side projects? Does it signal that an employer is more interested in the placement of curly-braces than the ability to communicate verbally? Does it signal that the employer is solely interested in getting tomorrow's work done, or do they balance increasing the value of their codebase with increasing the value of their employees?
My assumption is that because they have the username 'unethical_ban' they probably understand that they broke the spirit of the Hellban, but did so intentionally.
If they then try to reuse those new seeds. In the US at least.
Blog post: Where does the Ionic Framework fit in?

http://ionicframework.com/blog/where-does-the-ionic-framewor...
Ever wonder why a "Halogen" light bulb has that name? Well, what happens if you try to create a very bright incandescent lamp is that when pumping so much electricity through a filament and heating it up to incredible temperatures you'll actually start to evaporate the filament. This is a common failure mode for incandescent bulbs, a part of the filament will get thinner due to evaporation and then the reduced thickness will increase resistance in that section, accelerating evaporation and eventually causing a break. But if you put a small amount of Bromine or Iodine gas (halogens) inside of the bulb, and a small amount of Oxygen, then the evaporated metal will form a Tungsten OxyHalide gas which will then redeposit Tungsten metal through an electro-chemical reaction back onto the filament, increasing the filament's longevity even at very high power levels.
Technically, your post is probably only DH2.
I know. I disagree with the practice, especially when I look through the history of the account and see no flagrantly offensive remarks. HN mods might think this site is a temple, but it's disrespectful to waste someone's time and mislead their expectations of feedback for months at a time.
This line was really interesting to me:

> From the perspective of the employer, Github, Bitbucket and other code sharing sites simply do not have these biases - when employers look at these sites, there is no demographic information on users to look at other than what the user voluntarily puts up.

But there is demographic information there. Ashe Dryden's original article (http://ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-and-th...) called it out in this paper on gender in FLOSS: http://flosspols.org/deliverables/D16HTML/FLOSSPOLS-D16-Gend...

Essentially, I can guess that any particular GitHub user is a white, upper-middle class man and be right most of the time.

I understand that this article isn't saying "We Use Only GitHub Profiles" when hiring but acting as though the code present there exists with zero social context seems willfully wrongheaded.
Cashing out $85 million of pretty much anything would require some special efforts.
I thought we were talking about converting to cash, not buying. I agree that the hard stop on buying is extremely annoying, and that makes coinbase a bad choice for playing the market. If you want to do fast transactional orders, CampBx is probably a better choice.
Turing completeness has little to do with it. JS was always Turing complete, yet these little exercises were not possible 5 years ago.
PDL is the Perl packages for numerical science. Unless you did a lot of mathematics computation, PDL is rarely used in my daily routine.
If you're looking for something close to chess, you might enjoy Xiangqi, or Chinese Chess. It has a similar layout, but with a few changes, e.g. rook-like pieces that capture not the closest piece, but the second-closest piece. Two on the same file creates all sort of weird possibilities.
First true cross-platform phone game
A Rational Approach to Managing Acute Pain in Children
Top 100 richest people using bitcoin control 20% of bitcoins.
It's likely the Winklevoss brothers have all their coins spread over many addresses. Their wallet will show 100,000+ coins but you can't tell because they are spread among many addresses inside the single wallet file. If they use a brain wallet seed they can create unlimited deterministic addresses but only have to remember one key, and you won't see large accumulations of coins.
This is the most sensible thing I've heard for years.
I would be inclined to agree with you. Yes, my post was reactionary, but I don't really feel like expending much effort on an article that calls Jeff Atwood a white supremacist. Sometimes my patience runs thin.
Xiangqi (Chinese Chess)
Let's not say that the look "oh so hipster." Instead, let's say they look "oh so not in a bad dystopian movie."
Probably holding accounts/cold storage for a single group or a small number of groups using a similar division plan, say an exchange. I bet the idea is keep them in separate wallets to ensure that one compromise doesn't lose their whole investment.

All just wild conjecture though.
Unfortunately, on FreeBSD:

===> scsh-0.6.7 is marked as broken: fails to install on amd64.

And I really wanted to play with it. Seems like I will have to help in Scsh reimplementation in Racket before I can do this.
I agree that education is key. Also language / wording and what they see on a landing page to pull them down a path to actual use. I see this is MY problem, but I'm generalising about whether other tech folks also encounter(ed) it. I expect to get beyond it, either with this product or the next :-)
This blog post really misses the point of the previous discussions about using Github as a recruiting screening tool. It's fine to use it as a small 'plus' factor, but to screen candidates who have no public code portfolio out is silly, counterproductive, and discriminatory.

Also, for a guy who graduated with a degree in Sociology he sure does talk like an asshole.
> Perhaps the candidate has little experience because previous employers he interviewed at did not wish to hire a Black Muslim Lesbian T____ due to fears of getting sued.

First of all, I'm confused about how someone can be a lesbian and take 'he' pronouns. Second, 'black', 'muslim', and 'lesbian' are names for identities, while 't____' is a slur. Its presence in your post is incredibly jarring and I nearly stopped reading there.
Stopped reading at the unnecessary photo. Sorry, this is getting stupid.

On topic though, I didn't see where he linked to his "portfolio" or his company's body of OSS work that these OSS rockstars he's planning on hiring will be able to continue the great work they have been doing. Seems to be all talk no action here.

I think most of us can agree that FOSS contribution is relevant and interesting and we'd certainly pay it due notice. I would always consider it, check it out and even in some cases expect it from any senior hire. However, I don't think this is a very groundbreaking or controversial idea on it's own. The idea that it's mandatory on the other hand... well honestly the entire post is click-bait crap so way comment on that thought any further.
Monsanto does all the time.
You're asking people to think? People don't have time to think!
Nah. Consumers are meat. Product to be packaged and sold in bulk. Nothing personal, but the corporate masters just don't care that much.
Can't tell if fiction.
Go is not boring, but what you see in the game evolves a lot with your level. I have stayed a couple of year at 5 kyu with monotonous games. Once I have improved to 3kyu, games were a lot more funny.
Coding artists use programming to create mind-bending digital artwork
I was just trying to explain how even an "efficient" lamp can overheat. Sorry I overlooked the CFL.

In terms of energy efficiency, CFLs are halfway between incandescent bulbs and LEDs. So the same comparison holds, only the differences are less extreme.

60W-equivalent CFLs use 13-15W of energy. That's approx. 1.25W into light (because the amount of light is more or less the same in all cases) and the remainder (11.75-13.75W) into heat. That's why CFL lamps get rather warm after a while. Very bright CFLs often have slots in the base for ventilation [1].

You just don't notice it as much because:

1) The heat source of CFLs is much larger than LEDs, so the average temperature is lower even though the total amount of heat is higher.

2) With all those coils and folds, CFLs have a larger surface area than most other types of lamps, so they cool easily.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Compact_fluorescent_light...
Why would anybody want to use CFL? Is it more for the migraines or for how they make everything look sickly?
If a bunch of folks pitch in to build a communal well, are they being exploited by perceived "social rewards"?
Top of the list for single address, most people in Bitcoin have their wealth in one wallet but many addresses inside that wallet.
Perl is better at that than Python.
They're likely referencing mobile Chrome's habit of resizing text in unexpected ways. (You can really see this on HN, sometimes.)
Very true, and you're right that these are totally different forms of validation. It's a steep learning curve (for me), but I figured this particular blind spot may be encountered by some (definitely not all) other tech folks on this path.
David Foster Wallace wrote (I'm paraphrasing here) that "tennis is a combination of chess and boxing". Maybe try that.
The terminator gene made them still broadcast, but the end result was sterile seeds. Which is definitely a risky option to take, and deserves backlash.
Horses for courses - I've been programming since the pre-GUI era and much as I love modern IDEs and advanced interfaces I still find text entry of traditional programming language code via keyboard incredibly expressive for many things.
I'm actually a little bit confused by this - is this serious? It all seemed normal (well, normal being relative) until the last bit about ex-drug smugglers and cash-lined suits.

Maybe I'm just not rich enough to fall into this kind of R&D mindset where these things even warrant consideration by sane humans.
Your claim that "misses don't cost much" wasn't about the OP, it was about a hypothetical thought experiment. At the very least, misses cost the labor/opportunity of building, marketing, and distributing a generic executable (eg malware inside a windows screen saver). PPI payout rate provides a market estimate of the cost for that service.
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 1941, Harrow School
You can try Chinese chess (xiang qi) or Japanese chess (shogi). I particularly like shogi because it has the rule that you can reuse the pieces of your opponent you capture.

Both are a bit hard to learn though because the pieces are oriental characters.
Last week I worked about 80 hours (salaried, large co.). I have a wife and three kids. Any time not spent at work is spent with kids or chores, usually simultaneously. GitHub is somewhere south of these priorities. If you as a potential employer are not ok with this, that is certainly your prerogative; I would even agree that spending that amount of time at work is not ideal.
Valid point, and I definitely see biting off more than I can chew as part of the problem. But I suspect architecting (in a lean way) for that bigger market, whilst hitting a smaller niche, may be the balance to be struck.
Yup! The problem is, without a more substantial statement, it's very hard to actually refute, because there's basically nothing there. This is why discussions don't work very well when they aren't far up the hierarchy.
I don't know why Google gets called out on brain teasers. Companies like Microsoft were using them long before Google's founders were even in college.
T-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding
Clearly you should be in the next final of the world championship of chess.
"What is Amazon Coins?"
Who? The original article was written by someone who clearly identifies as "he" - Lee Carp is one of the two cofounders of BayesianWitch. He graduated from the University of Chicago...