skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But do you have links to any research to show that people lose weight - that people lower their fat percentage?

Read through this thread. Sometimes people spout utter nonsense about nutrition. While "exercise makes you lose weight" sounds reasonable I'm keen to see what the research says.

So far someone told me that I'm talking shit and a bunch of people downvoted the post that requested research, but no one has provided any links to any research.
Livelock
It bothers me how some of those charts lend themselves to possibly wrong conclusions. For example women tend to score higher in courses with more women. But it seems unlikely that men suppress women in courses, thereby lowering their scores. For one thing, students don't tend to interact that much in those courses. And a couple of charts earlier they showed a strong difference in percentage of women in, say, humanities vs engineering. That seems like a much more likely cause.

At the end of the day, these are free courses, so it seems unlikely there are less women because they are excluded in some way. Lack of interest seems the more likely cause.
I agree, I just was relaying what was stated in the article (1981 to 2000 birth years).

When I hear "millennial generation", I think not of birth year, but rather of the set of people who grew up along with what we now refer to as the "technology industry".

We tend to take for granted nowadays that next year is going to be phenomenally different than this year, in terms of the tools that we use to communicate, have fun and get things done.

For "millennials", this is very easy to comprehend, because our whole lives are constructed around this constant change. I think it's much harder for people even slightly older (or later exposed to tech).
Your reasons are flawed even if your conclusion is right. People want non dense housing, it isn't required or even promoted by most city governments....quite the opposite in a city like Seattle that is trying to become more dense with incentives. Ditto with free parking.

Americans can't buy euro trains because our tracks share freight traffic, so passenger trains have to be built to survive collisions with heavier freight trains.

Tl;dr people want cheap driving, it isn't the evil government that forces them to drive.
If common sense applied to patents, we wouldn't be in this mess. No doubt they've added some ridiculous limitations that add trivial "advancements" to what the patent office can find documentation of, but it will cost millions of dollars and a trip to Marshall, TX if you want to fight it out with them.
The core idea is simple, but explained this way it seems to give wrong impression. Also, the title is somewhat misleading. So if somebody is interested in that kind of things I'd suggest reading Erich Fromm's "To Have or to Be?"[1]. It's also heavily influenced by eastern philosophy and zen buddhism and is supposed to explain the same thing as this article does, but in my opinion does it much better (although I disagree with Fromm in many details, but it still feels like a good read).

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Have_or_to_Be%3F
With all these price cut talks, you would think we are getting some kind of bargain.

But I have 3 subsidized smartphones (2 galaxy s4, and iphone 5s) on my old AT&T 450 minute plan, and my bill is around $155/month (including fee & tax). For couple years, my bill was as low as $110/month, until we gradually grew out of $15/200mb data plan. Can you imagine paying $110/month for fully subsidized 3 smartphones?

AT&T rolls over unused voice minutes, so 450 minutes is more or less unlimited. I don't have text plan, and with free texting applications, I have no use for it.

But with forced bundling of unlimited voice and text, my bill would be $240/month.

AT&T must hate its customers with old plans.
You should check out what typical remuneration, even from big publishers to well-known writers, amounts to these days.

Being able to give up your day job has always been a dicey decision for writers, and that situation has not improved.
Indeed. My money is on "bomb" just because it's hard to come up with a maintenance problem that causes such a rapid disaster at altitude. It would have to be something that caused a massive explosion like TWA 800. Possible, but unlikely. The lack of a claim makes a bombing less likely too, but IMO less so than the improbability of a mechanical problem.
> I'd need to find the backstory on the title

This might be of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map-territory_relation
I could agree with that line of reasoning.

But then I would also have to point out that software freedom isn't some great revelation that came to Dr. Stallman and started with him alone. Free software existed before the movement. Considering that, would you really have Stallman's idea of Free Software without what came before?

Maybe you would. But in any case I find it wrong to portray Stallman as the father of it all, let alone as the father of Open Source.
This looks like a better version of Minecraft. Probably the final product won't be on the same level of polish and constant updates.
yeah, forget if it's a hacker house or not, you're going to have a bad time living there.
Are you implying that increased internet access would somehow reduce the diversity of media people are exposed to? That has not been my experience.
Unless you pay, I guess.
Self driving cars will be bigger in china before they are in America given chronic road capacity and pollution problems. There is just nowhere left to build roads in dense cities, and going self driving city-wide would automatically use limited infrastructure 10 times more efficiently. Americans just don't have as bad traffic and wouldn't want to give up manual control, while china has no problem dictating these kinds of things top down.
Paddle is the easiest way to discover and buy digital content
For some background on the language, check out Stephen Wolfram's intro video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik

The demos are all pretty impressive, and putting aside the breathless marketing of the programming cloud page, this looks awesome.
My personal favourite by Ted Chiang is The Lifecycle of Software Objects. I'm certain a technology paralleling the digients will arrive.
Much closer to the former than the latter, according to the Failed States Index Rankings:

http://ffp.statesindex.org/rankings

On that list, Somalia is ranked 1, while Ghana and South Africa are 110 and 113 respectively. (For comparison, Finland is the champ at 178.) Certainly there are other ways to compare nations, and Ghana is not a perfect society. However, Ghana is exceptional among African nations, and it is a measure of the cluelessness of TFA that this fact isn't mentioned.
I thought the problem with Black-Scholes is that it didn't factor in the use of Black-Scholes by participants.
It doesn't require jQuery at all. Where are you getting that? Also, it's one of the smallest markdown editors out there even including all the included themes. We did that on purpose.
I lived there this summer for a couple weeks, and I really enjoyed it, although I don't think I ever heard anyone refer to it as a "hacker house" (perhaps they rebranded?).

When I was there, it seemed like the manager lived there and was taking care of everything, although some parts of the space had not yet been completed. I'm surprised to see it in this condition.
Mine is divine intellect with God's endorsement.

God says...
what_a_nightmare oh_oh Dean_scream This_is_confusing Oh_Hell_No
Zap absetively_posilutely Jesus basically drama to_infinity_and_beyond
music rubbish chill crash_and_burn battle flat daunting
busybody commanded on_occassion That's_gonna_leave_a_mark
I'm_not_sure small_talk umm_what_now vote fun manufacturing
I_planned_that happy by_the_way do_not_disturb horrendous
absetively_posilutely hobnob chill_out that's_your_opinion
You seem to think their current system is hard to use or in any way broken. No, it works very well, it is easy to use, it is easy to train on, easy to change menu's and taxability. It is very extensible. Management has around a decade experience with it.
Ah. Nice. Thanks. Need to dig down.
Checked out the site a bit, looks good. Also good domain name :)
I wasn't trying to mimic anything, and was primarily saying things that derive from longstanding principles. Your wording is a bit more straightforward, so please chime in with further improvements.
I've got no trouble analysing the music I listen to. In a way, it increases my appreciation of it, sort of like watching a film and being able to enjoy how well a specific shot is put together without, well, losing the plot.

Then again, I listen to loads of ambient instrumental soundscapey stuff so it might be a genre that is given to analysis.

On the other hand, I get a similar problem every time I've tried to play a musical instrument. I try drumming and it initially sounds pleasing, at which point I think to myself "hey, I'm drumming!" and it all quickly goes to hell.
You jacked my scroll bro
Ippolito is well known in the Erlang world for his work at Mochiweb and he is sharing with his community his explorations in Haskell. What's the matter with this?

Juxtapositions between Haskell and Erlang have historically always come up so a comprehensive summary is always welcome.

Also, out of all the possible epenis measurement metrics for 1337est programming languages, popularity is the absolute dumbest one and is the bastion of mediocre codemonkeys.
There are lots of solutions.

But nobody is going to front the money to get it FAA certified so that it can be a required solution given that the most you will sell is 1,000 a year.

This is the real reason why air technology is so far behind. There is no profit in it.
I'd probably also bring up that building up a car culture in SK caused a domestic demand for product, which the government could then foster with protectionist tariffs.

It took a while, but as a consequence, these days nobody laughs at seeing a Hyundai or a Kia on the road. And the entire SK economy got a huge technological boost as well as countless "feeder" industries that provide products to the car companies.

But of course, SK also managed to cram in world class subway development, world class bullet train and two world class long haul passenger airlines into the economic development model as well. It's almost Elon Musk audacious.
"The author's argument against automation in these life-saving contexts is weak."

I think you missed the point of the article. Its not that existence of automation is bad, its the implementation of it that (in a lot of cases) is wanting, useless, distracting, or even detrimental to the items purpose.
Notice the pattern of blindness: If something ain't happening in one of big tech hubs (SF, NYC), it's invisible to the media.
Despite the title, I found the OP makes good points against scrolljacking.
Another "look at this awesome game" which is really "there's really no game, but Kickstarter!".
These little villages in the middle of nowhere typically have 1+ million people my wife's hometown, chenzhou Hunan, is connected on the Guangzhou-Changsha line. It's a small town by Chinese standards but would be huge by American standards. They are even getting a Starbucks soon...times are changing quickly.
FYI, the author of the post owns and pilots a modern jet plane, and is a seasoned pilot. His post was not just about airliners, but any planes up in the sky. And he is right, that the technology in many cases is outdated and prone to errors.
"Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis" Hah... Good one.
You're right that it would be wrong to conclude that men suppress women in courses -- certainly we found no evidence of that (I helped write the post). As we note in the post, while the correlation is unequivocal, causality is complex and worthy of further study.
Why is it restricted to writers? Is it less expensive than two one-way tickets?
Men's and women's brains are the same, says scientist
go / rust / idris

I think there are lots of interesting new things happening in the world of programming languages, and its not all related to the web platform by a long shot. The thing that I find most encouraging is that LLVM and things like pypy make it much easier to create a language that stands a chance of performing half decently even without years of writing your own optimization code. I actually think the world of programming languages is currently more diverse than it was 10 years ago, although perhaps less diverse than 20 years ago.
Currently in active (crowdfunded) development, but I would recommend www.mailpile.is once it's more stable. Crypto, security, privacy and everything that gmail does.
"Missing" is an euphemism for "very likely crashed" here. They won't say crashed just in case it is later found with people alive, but not communicating and gone from radar over the sea usually ends only one way.

It could be hijacked, landed, and held hostage, but it's incredibly difficult to hide a 777 anywhere in the world where it can safely land. It's possible it was hijacked with intention of being held hostage but crashed, hence no claims of responsibility.
You can't have free software without it being open source.
Because of your comment I tried the site in my installed browsers: stock CyanogenMod browser, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Dolphin. I tried looking at the source of the page, and I've looked at it in w3m and elinks.

Bottom line? Works great.
I highly recommend his collection, "Story of your Life, and others". Probably the best SF collection by a single author I've ever read.

http://amzn.com/1931520720
This is one of the most brilliant comments I've read in months. How can we make this perspective more mainstream?
I agree with many of the sentiments expressed in the article but am totally mystified as to why he was sleeping with the watch on. Maybe it was because he was testing the device and wanted to try different scenarios, but I just can't imagine any normal user scenario that involves getting in bed and going to sleep while wearing a watch. Is this something that people do? If so, that's the first problem right there.
I don't see how it would be an illegal contract?
Our customers could not care less about the design stuff as long as it looks decent, so it is not something I have bothered with even now that I have some money I could spend on it.
Yeah, I've been holding back on rooting my Nexus 5 for a while just because I don't want to deal with the full wipe, but this convinced me. Obviously this article is somewhat AV FUD (just don't download the sketchy Spanish night vision app with WRITE_SMS permissions), but it's time I got my permissions in check.
The bullet train stations are as inconveniently located as airports though. Beijing south train station is much farther for me than Beijing capital, and the same is true in Changsha and Guangzhou. You've also got to budget time to get through security, but it's more lax than the airport. I fly more often because bullet train tickets can be hard to get, the train ministry isn't as efficient as an airline ticketing outfit.
I applied. I'll let you know how it goes.
High-altitude balloons are above the airspace that matters -- the service ceiling of the country's surface-to-air missiles.

Seriously though, there's no recognized boundary for sovereign airspace:

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA436627
Imagine a VC that buys 50% of a company for $50 million,
for a $100 million post-money valuation. If that company
then sells for $75 million, the VC gets more than 50% of
the $75 million. The VC gets his or her $50 million out
first, and then half of the remaining $25 million ($12.5
million) for a total return of $62.5 million. The common
stock holders split the remaining $12.5 million.

That's a 1X liquidation preference. ...

A 1X liquidation preference isn't unfair. The people who
bring the capital should have some protection.

I was at a startup in the late 90s and discovered liquidation preferences. I agitated to get them dropped from the B round, succeeded, and the VCs then scrapped them. Which saved me from exactly this fate.

I don't agree that even a 1X liquidation preference is "fair". VCs are taking a risk, that is supposedly their business model. Reducing risk on the backs of the people sacrificing their personal lives doesn't strike me as fair at all.
Hey!
Writer here, I just thought it might be worth saying that I am indeed 17! :)
I started programming aged around 7 or 8, and have won a couple of awards (Most recently a Google Code Award for ProjectHermes - a natural language analysing bullying detector for twitter), and spoken at a few events as well.

I'm incredibly surprised myself by the things I've done over the years, it's a pretty awesome world!
I travel on Amtrak when it makes any sort of sense to do so (which isn't often). I just like trains.

Sleeping in a bedroom has never been a problem for me on a train. The swaying sort of lulls me.

Sleeping in a chair in coach is very difficult for me, though I eventually catch naps that way.
I'm not conflating those things.

You don't have to be Richard Garriott to be credible. Why even mention the guy? The only way you can be him is if you have decades of published games, it's not useful advice for people who are relatively unknown.
Humbling to read - you did an awesome thing that day, but it's incredibly sad that it was ever necessary.
Sure, but free software in the purest FSF sense is a small subset of open source, which is a much broader and more inclusive term.
I have been developing javascript since the late 90's and love it. I don't understand the hate for it today in the sense that everyone tries to get away from it, why create so many code generators essentially?

Javascript is not that complex and in most cases maintaining the javascript and sugar syntax version with a code map for debugging seems like overkill (depends on the situation but in most cases it is more work). Many of these sugar syntax pre-compile libs/steps to javascript also act alot like Python which is great, but javascript compels people for some reason to stop creating it directly. So in that sense it is a bit like assembly in people wanting to wrap it, but it is very high level in itself.

That being said I do use pre-compile steps for CSS/JS including LESS, SASS, and Coffescript when the project fits which do have some productivity gains, but unless it gives me immense advantages like asm.js and native speeds, why the extra layers for minimal gains?
I'm a light sleeper, but sleep pretty well on trains, all things considered. Planes are another matter, as it takes an iron grip on the armrests to keep the things in the air!

I wrote a lot of the early bits of Hecl ( www.hecl.org ) on trains between Padova and Rome.
No worries. And THANK YOU. Guile is a very interesting place these days to me (I keep stumbling upon Wingolog's blog) and I was looking for cool projects to read and understand the language. I am sure this will not disappoint.

Be proud of your alphaware; some of us have nothing but the vaporware in our mind. :-)
Sudden explosive decompression?
Guía para Educar un perro, funciona o no? Mi Revisión Honesta
What makes it much broader and more inclusive?
Satellites can listen to radio signals and take photographs. As for the third complaint, about airspace, I suppose you're right: a few exotic aircraft do fly up 20 km or above, so these could interfere slightly with aviation. So, presumably, they'll have to get a license to fly above the countries they fly above. Ho, hum.
>How about some actual evidence? Not even a single peer reviewed study is mentioned.

I agree. Some interesting points are made-- but it does all seem like a bit of handwaving.

>Will this be the beginning of an antibiotics scare?

Given the expanding prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria coupled with the shrinking pipeline of new antibiotic drugs, I think we should be at least a little worried. At this point, additional restraint in antibiotic use (especially agricultural) would be prudent.
This is really really really hard to believe, unless man and woman play the same role in the process of evolution. Think in this way: if evolution made man and woman physically different, how come it made man and woman mentally same?

Read: Who is Against Evolution?

http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2008/08/who-is-against-ev...

Read: Is There Anything Good About Men?

http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm
Okay, now you seem to be setting up a strawman.

Yes, legal frameworks that support things like property rights are important. The parent, however, was making a point about how the law has gotten overly complex over the decades, so much so that we now have an entire cadre of people whose sole job is to help others navigate that complexity.

It doesn't help that most legal documentation is written in bizarre, arcane language, as opposed to plain, spoken English.
What are other modes of treatment? Genuinely curious.
Ask HN: What's the most popular development setup used at home?
I want to know what developers are actually using at home. There are tons of opinions. If you’re writing Python you probably should be using Sublime Text, but if you’re in a café use VIM, and if you want street cred use Emacs. Two monitors are better than one, three is worse than two, but four is better than three. What are you actually using?

I posted a quick 2-minute survey here (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9YLSQJN)
The problem for them of course is that they exist in context to everything else in the world. So a "huge" innovation to their local context, because they just realized something everybody else knows, is just "meh" or "already tried" and determined to be uninteresting or useless.

The problem for everybody else is that there's just enough interesting in Wolfram's output to make it hard to dismiss outright.
It looks like a better version of minecraft that will probably melt my computer down into slag. Hopefully they keep low system requirements in mind during development; minecraft has benefited greatly from that.
One of my favorite New Year's Eve parties was on an Amtrack over a decade ago. I was headed back up to college and because of my schedule had to overnight it on a Northboand Amtrack on New Year's Eve. I'm not sure if it was because it was New Year's Eve, or a particularly long route, or just a special train, but it's the only time I ever remember seeing a liquor bar on an Amtrak (the entire bar was smaller than any closet in my house). I had brought my own liquor, and did my best to keep it out of sight.

Several hours before midnight, the coach I was in started morphing. Normally people didn't really talk to each other. That night, seatmates started talking, impromptu cardgames were started, I was certainly not the only one with hidden alcohol, and the bar was providing plenty for those without. By midnight the car I was in, and the adjacent car with the bar, were in full party mode. It was simultaneously one of the most surreal and awesome trips I have ever taken.

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As for the Amtrak writer program - very cool. As a young serviceman, I would frequently catch a Friday night Amtrack away from the military town I was stationed in, picking a random location that I could spend Saturday in, and then ride back Sunday afternoon. I didn't write about or photograph my travels (wish I had), but I can't image a writer worth their salt not being inspired by the scenery, events, or people met on such random jaunts.
Thanks!

By the way: I’m very curious about your “zen markup language” in the make. Got some unfinished work in my drawers on “the best possible tool for writers”, too. Some more research, wireframes, and a few drafts on an _extensible_ markdown-like lightweight markup language. E.g. this little discussion: https://twitter.com/rhythmvs/status/423123272809455616

I sympathize with the idea of poet-turned-programmer. Maybe have a chat?
More than the 'dated' technology they rely on, it's the overall system and protocols that have been crafted and polished. New tech often result in unknown regressions.