skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like there's a big difference between the unfairness inflicted on you by a Random Number Generator, and the unfairness inflicted on you by being hounded through the streets by a gang of other players.

The two games share the same medium but are very different in nature.
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Clickable,
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/12/ubuntu-touch-plans-2014

I think you put the link into the wrong field nzonbi.
Maybe I can answer this question, been on a ketogenic diet for over a year now. As mentioned above there is an adaptation period to the diet that can take up to 4 weeks. During that time symptoms can be flu like, this is caused by an initial hormonal change due to low blood glucose levels and in return a low and stable insulin level. Because of this the kidney excretes more sodium, potassium and water, leading to low blood pressure. This can be prevented by supplementing broth, or adding more salt to servings, for as long as the symptoms occur. Once this phase is over you get to experience the real benefits of a ketogenic diet, constant energy levels throughout the day, controllable hunger, better sleep, elevated HGH and more. It really sounds too good to be true I guess, which is why a lot of people dismiss it right away. I'd encourage anyone to give it a try, at least 4 weeks however to ensure adaptation.
The Problem is Civil Obedience by Howard Zinn
mm and bn are standard financial notation for million and billion. M and B are used by everyone else.
Ignore posterity; build features
Also automatically setup the github or bitbucket repo, create a subreddit and you could also throw in an exchange with the new homepage.
That's part of why I gave up on EVE Online—I felt that to make any sort of progress towards having fun, I would have to be a terrible person.
Listen: CEO on running a business while facing terminal cancer
I think over-estimation of AI comes less from the understanding the position of the technology on the s-curve, but more from easily conceivable vision of machine behaving just like human. Nobody wants to listen to people who predict AI in future being pattern-scanners, optimizers or programing languages, because that, as you said, isn't romantic or dramatic at all.

And I would dare to argue that the AI is at the beginning of the s-curve. The field of study have been around for many decades already, many applicable results found and it is used in the industry. It's kind of like saying that current transportation technology is at the beginning of the s-curve, because I am waiting for near light-speed transportation, and current speeds are very small compared to my arbitrary expectation.
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Generic reply:

When I'm recruiting I ask two questions of a candidate:

* What value do you add to my company?

* What proof do you have that you add that value?

I want to know that you will be of net benefit. To try to satisfy that you need to know what my company needs. Then you need to claim to be able to fill those needs, and finally, you need to back up those claims with evidence.

So you think you want to work for me? I do soft real-time processing of image data, extracting features, compressing the data, transmitting it, displaying it for action by operators. Show me that you can learn about these things - you won't have the explicit domain knowledge, but I want to know that you can acquire the domain knowledge, and then have the skills to do the necessary processing. Have you already read about, understood, and implemented some algorithms? Have you made small improvements to them? Have you chosen the right language for the job? And so on.

I'm unusual, so you need to remap everything I've said into the industry you're interested in.
this is the nicest looking task manager ever!
This link should have a giant NSFW next to it.

It would be interesting to read a blog post about the C code, but simply linking to a clip doesn't warrant discussion. Doubly-so for this particular scene, since it contains nudity. I personally have no qualms with the content, but common courtesy dictates that one warn others about nudity.
This really struck me: "Preventing burnout is part of your job. Staying well rested is part of your job". Many would rather consider optimizing one's productivity as being part of the job, usually by introducing new self management techniques, faster typing, etc (thinking of the lifehacker variety). However all these gains would be obliterated by a single burn out (think of it as a Black Swan event).

Staying well rested comes not only first, but will also increase your productivity when measured over a longer period.
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> I can count on all those pro-gun people to have a solid stockpile when the need arises. I actually think those in power know this too.

Unless the pro-gun people are stocking APCs, anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles and nuclear weapons, they are exactly zero good against the government when the need arises. We are long past the times when civilians could stand up to the armed forces.
There are lot of companies that hire project/engineering managers where the work will mostly revolve around dealing with people - clients and your team. They will still be 8h work days, but far less intense.

Some will suggest software consulting, but there is a lot of things to manage there unless you're familiar with how the consulting world operates already and you've done it in the past. You will have to spend a lot of time setting up schedules, deadlines, prospecting for new customers etc.
Architects propose 136-mile cycling network above London
Who runs the nodes for bootstrap?

If the server that runs this is US based and they allow trademarks through, you'll get a C&D within a week. Lawyers make their money googling for this stuff.

All someone has to do is register "paypal" or "amazon" or "exxon" etc. and the fun will be over shortly.

Creator might want to take their name and home address off the domain registration.
I'm a physician. While it's good to lose weight (at least if you are overweight), keep in mind that losing weight is not the only interesting outcome. Any diet might have long term side effects. Such as an increased risk of cancer, arteriosclerosis etc.

Also remember that weight loss is not the only benefit of exercise.

That said, congrats on losing weight. Now start exercising :-)
I think streaming Netflix requires a slightly different approach in how you watch them.

For ages I found myself ignoring Netflix recommendations based on the descriptions, but when I watched them I actually enjoyed them. If I wanted Netflix for well-known movies and safe choices I'd be disappointed, but as a way of watching unknown (to me) movies, I find it great.
How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses
That paints the prosecution in a horrible light. Has anyone gotten further on who applied such pressure? Folks like the Secret Service[1]?

"The heavily redacted documents released today confirm earlier reports that the Secret Service was interested in a “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” that Swartz and others had penned in 2008. In May 2011, a Secret Service agent and a detective from the Cambridge police department interviewed a friend of Swartz and inquired specifically about the political statement."

If you are a hammer, you must smash all nails as hard as possible until they commit suicide? Is that prosecution discretion?

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/swartz-foia-release...
I don't know what are you talking about (obviously not about the USSR), but I'd love to return to the Soviet Union if that was possible.
Not only that, but now Google has an exclusive license deal to do this, and nobody else can do it.
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I'm not sure if this is a parody.
Citation? I've seen a lot of studies saying intermittent fasting might not help bodyfat loss as much as you'd hope; but no studies saying it increases cancer risk.
David Cameron's Internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep
Take your post.

Append: ", so far." and ", yet."

Now you understand the concern.
I was going to do this too[https://twitter.com/xyzgra/status/408947104455745536]. Oh well. Congrats.
New Years Resolutions Don’t Work. Habits Do.
>his idealistic mission

We don't know what he intended to do with the JSTOR data.

>being on the MIT subnet without permission was wrong

MIT grants guest access to its network while on the physical premises.

>MIT’s open-network policies at the time allowed anyone visiting campus to access services like JSTOR.
You will have to prove that you can "ship it". I suggest that you start off by picking a domain that you're interested in and building a body of work that demonstrates your ability. Be sure you pick some thing that's neither too wide nor too narrow. For e.g. picking something as broad as "web development" is too difficult - these days that involves everything from knowing semantic HTML to CSS to JavaScript to CSS to Rails.

Picking a practical "project" will help you stay motivated in learning things and you will also have the benefit of "publishing" it as something you "shipped".

Once you start feeling a little confident about the code you write, start putting your projects up on github. Also, start contributing to other projects in github (e.g. libraries you have used in your own project). There are many projects where you can easily begin by fixing small bugs. Then you can slowly learn the code base enough to contribute features.
> So next time you’re planning a vacation, announce it with pride.

Don't ever do this unless you understand the financial situation of your employees. I've seen so many complaints about bosses taking even reasonable amounts of holiday when they go somewhere fancy tell everyone about it excitedly or with pride come back and yammer about it all day or longer... working class common sense is to not do this :P

although by working class magic when a co-worker does it thats fine...

you are probably fine in a tech office and if you are US based the level of wealth is high enough that its pretty likely your employees can afford a holiday abroad, or even somewhere local and nice and don't use their holiday days sitting at home trying not to spend their money...
It's the tip of the new crypto-currency craze: trading crypto-currencies themselves as a currency. We're moving onto a higher order now, folks!
My experience with Kaggle's data-science competitions
It should be fine as long as you Check Your Privilege (TM) at the door.
Yup, “Vacations are for the weak” is most certainly a very effective way of disguising the reality:

“Vacations are for the affluent/rich”
The new blink is coming on your devices.

This is such an useless and annoying feature.
Regardless of intention, I see it as a kind of performance art project: it underlines the absurdity of the massproduction of innovationless altcoins. It speaks to how a successful cryptocurrency requires something more than just tweaking a few parameters and recompiling; it requires a skilled developer able to maintain the system and handle crises, it requires a network effect, it requires a meaningful purpose.
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Regarding the diet above, which limits your sugar intake to 20 grams a day, what are some potential consequences of starving your body of sugars?

Sounds good in theory (sugar is bad), but it sounds stressful (body starts producing ketones due to suck a lack of sugar, flu like symptoms for a week).
Hackdays should be a free space to play, not a competition
Facebook sued over alleged private message 'scanning'
The recommended practice in Islam is actually to fast two days a week, in addition to the month of ramadan.
> Wouldn't that prove that language inherently affects cognition, and thus proves linguistic relativism?

No, it wouldn't. It's not the language that is affecting how the brain works here; it's the other way around. The theory of universal grammar can be viewed in part as an explicit rejection of linguistic relativity.

> I don't think you actually made a point in favor of linguistic relativism, but that was the theme of this whole discussion thread.

I was responding to your comment:

> If I've misunderstood your usage of the phrase "Universal Grammar", I apologize for my ignorance.

I had thought you might be interested in more information on what "universal grammar" is supposed to mean. I was not attempting to take a position on linguistic relativism.
Yeah that's what we'd do. Initially COD seems the easiest way to do things with an iPhone POS.
> The category of "obscene content", for instance, which is blocked even on the lowest setting of BT's opt-in filtering system, covers "sites with information about illegal manipulation of electronic devices [and] distribution of software"

WTF
Running and testing Puppet master locally
وظائف خالية بجريدة الاهرام اليوم الجمعة 3/1/2013
PSYOPS101 - Make it public that you seek something you already have.
It's not appropriate for Hacker News at all.
Nothing there indicates behavior that lies outside my threat model.
Part of the key is that its a mod of a "realistic" army simulation. This is what makes the slow parts still fun. If you were just bunnyhopping around in a quake engine style thing, yeah it would be boring.

The environment is HUGE, and the engine is designed for the maximum draw-distance. When you start, you have no map. When you do get a map, its just a graphic, and your location is not marked on it. All the markings are in russian. Later if you're lucky, you might get a compass, with which you can manually take bearings.

Basically, the engine and the setting is realistic enough that you become invested in the apocalyptic survival thing for it's own sake.

An important fact not mentioned in the article is that you need regular water and food to survive. This forces you to go into towns to raid buildings, which is extremely dangerous and tense, involving a lot of creeping around in the dark. This turns the "hiding out in the woods" part of the game into a blessed relief compared to crawling in the gutter at a snails pace in the pitch black, gently wetting yourself.
That helps, thank you.
Perhaps related to this? http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/12/how...
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"Respect for a partner" is another WTF topic:

http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/images/3_Scr...
Pregnant women are exempt from fasting during ramadan.
Wait what? The NSA is still going? Surely it should be shut down after its discovery, and the mass outrage it caused worldwide.

The fact they're continuing their work, is blatant contempt and disregard for not just the citizens of the U.S. but for the rest of the world, too. American tax payer money goes to fund this, it's absolutely criminal. They're expecting you to pay for them to spy on you, for you 'safety'. We need counter measures or to target them directly. They need taking down.

It's absolutely insane, 'okay, you caught us! But we don't care!' is the message this act emits.
Every person on this planet should have her own currency.
You Won’t Believe What This 15-Year Old Kid is Doing.
Thanks. I think I'm going to start using £10M and £10G
Where's the API ?
Yeah, even cellular data needs to come from somewhere. The towers generally connect to the same backbone used for ground line Internet. You wouldn't do satellite internet connections for cellular towers because of the awful latency.
Trained as a locksmith out of college, dad and sibling still trade mainly on "warrant runs" for the large energy providers when they need to get access to house to cut people off.

It's really cool seeing people take an interest in picking, but just wanted to point out that professional & hobbyist picking is completely different.
A professional’s first priority normally is to get into the property, damage generally not being a huge issue so the approach changes dramatically.

First you try all the doors, as you would be surprised by how many people just simply don't lock their doors whilst making a judgment what will be the easiest entrance.
Then you target the door with the worst lock, normally a UPVC door with a euro cylinder and use an electric pick gun to give it a quick blast. This gets you in within 5 minutes 90% of the time. [1]
If the pick gun doesn't work you snap the cylinder in the door and replace the lock for a total cost of about £5 [2]

The hardest part of the whole job is when you have to identify a mortice lock in order to bypass it and knowing if it's worth an attempt at a pick. (Simple 3 lever locks are worth a pick first before a drill)
Once the lock has been identified though it's easy to drill, you get your template out [3], mark up the holes and drill out the stump

There are also other methods and the general gist of the story is you use the method which takes the least amount of time with doesn't leave an unreasonable amount of cost!

Some other methods/products to look at which are interesting and commonly used:

- Mica, a specifically made plastic for slipping rim latches, most commonly referred to as "yale locks": http://uklockpickers.co.uk/mica-shim.html

- Letterbox tool, very basic (its just posh string on a stick) but also very effective at knocking off deadbolts or opening a latch that won't slip: http://www.walkerlocksmiths.co.uk/bypass-tools/letterbox-too...

- Try out keys for mortice locks with a low number of levers: http://www.walkerlocksmiths.co.uk/mortice-picks-tools/try-ou...

- Plug spinner for when you pick the lock the wrong way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUmCUj44BPg

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mTt...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqhhXyROxQM

[3] http://www.eltonlockservices.co.uk/drill%20template%20new%20...
Obviously, living in a house of 5 male students, I won't opt into this.

I will be sending my MP a weekly write up of what we've been watching though. I hope you join me! (In writing, that is)
I prefer a pen and paper.

1. Doesn't require a login

2. Is always visible on my desk and not lost behind a window.

3. Supports crude drawings.

4. Doesn't require power or an internet connection.

I have yet to find an online equivilant which comes close to being as fast or useful as pen and paper for creating and maintaining a personal list of to-do's.
NSA 'developing code-cracking quantum computer'
I am really interested in intermittent fasting for the health benefits, having watched BBC's Horizon on it.

The thing is I am fairly skinny, and struggle to put on weight. Does anyone know if I am likely to loose weight?

And are there any good site to learn about it in a fairly scientific way? I see lots of blogs, but never sure how much is worth reading.
Evgeny vs. the internet
Oh give me a f*cking break. Attempting to regulate the distribution of pornography on the internet is no different than attempting to regulate the distribution of pornography via other media - magazines, video, television etc.

We've had rules and regs and laws for decades on pornography, these were/are no more an attempt at "censorship" than this attempt is.

It may be badly implemented, it may be impractical, it may have issues, but lets stop all this 1984 conspiracy bullshit.

The Guardian is just churning out more bollox tailored to the world view of it's largely young, largely left-wing, largely public sector readership who believe David Cameron and the Tory party is some sort of devil incarnate.
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A lot of the diets mentioned on this thread are a long way from the diet used in this article. Note it is not mentioned in the article, however it is mostly vegetables with some fish. That is a long way from 'chipotle'!!!

It is worth bearing in mind that a lot of things we consider to be food really does not want to be food. Grains want to be carried away by the wind to plant themselves somewhere else. Their ancestors invariably had toxins in them to dissuade any creatures (including us) from eating them.

Not one single animal, insect or fish has evolved specifically to be eaten. Hence the wide range of defensive measures most animals/insects/fish have to make sure that does not happen too often. Again, toxins come into play. As you move up the food chain so you get an accumulation of those toxins, hence we tend not to eat apex predators.

Compare and contrast with fruit. Fruit has evolved specifically to be eaten, particularly by primates. The idea being that we eat some fruit, wander off to somewhere new, have a dump, eject some seeds from the fruit complete with a handy amount of manure and water. Yep, those pesky plants tricked us into doing all of their work for them! They even managed to get us to cover up our leavings, thereby planting their seeds properly.

Our vision system co-evolved with fruit, we (as in primates) see in colour not because god wanted us to live in some world of puppies and rainbows but so we could eat fruit that is ripe and ready to eat. The plants, knowing that we were evolving colour vision, kindly evolved through some process of natural selection to produce fruit that kick in to 'eat me' colours when they are nice 'n' ripe.

With this colour coded system it is possible for plants to avoid waste. We (as in primates) only pick the ripe fruit, the stuff that is still green is identifiably no good to us so we leave it until it magically changes colour.

Obviously there came a time when grasslands took over and we had to leave the trees, learn to stand up and walk on two feet (so we could see over the grass) and find new meals to try. At this stage the cult of eating dead animals was borne, we adapted, but not that much, our intestines are still a million miles longer than that of a dog, we still have hands for nabbling fruit rather than vicious claws to rip apart stray wildebeest and we can still chew, as you need to do for fruit, in a way dogs don't do.

Much like how multi-vitamins are of dubious benefit to you, so it is with fructose. Sugars in fruit are fine, nobody has died of diabetes due to eating too many apples. The 'fibre' is an important part of it, you need 'fibre' if you are to consume sucrose.

The problem with diet in America is corn. There is nothing edible about corn grown in America today unless it has been processed by an industrial process or another animal first. All of those corn-stuffed animals Americans eat get killed before the corn kills them. If Americans are not careful they will be remembered as 'the corn people' like some of those American Indian tribes that tried and failed to build corn-based civilisations in pre-Columbian times.
UK ‘Porn Filter’ Blocks Legitimate File-Sharing Services (And TorrentFreak)
Wow, that whole section is staggeringly stupid. Is that seriously going to be blocked? Seriously?
This already happens on Giff-Gaff (a mobile network) and is opt-out only. It's not uncommon to find out a security-related blog on the front page of HN is blocked by the filter, and sites for projects like Metasploit are also blocked.

It's silly.
I read that the liver is the only organ that can process fructose directly. I tried taking honey before bed in order to avoid hangover. Seemed to work, but may have been placebo effect.
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The other WTF BT did is implying being gay/lesbian is a 'lifestyle choice'.
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If I was British, I would do anything I could to urge politicians and the public to dismantle this firewall. Our biggest problem, not just in Britain but in all countries, is that the public does not understand how serious this is at all.
If I recall, Cartier has wood glasses BUT I believe they have a metal backing. I dig the wood frames but yes, I would be skeptical of having that drift wood feel over time. On the flip side, have you heard of anyone with negative reviews on wood frames?