skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's hard to make healthy choices, but I think it's a bit more complex than that...

I packed on an extra 20-30 pounds working in a catered, snack-heavy silicon valley company. I decided to change my diet completely. I slowly cut out all processed food from my diet, and then all snacks, so that everything that I ate was homemade by myself, typically "healthy" (similar to mediterranean diet), with no sugar, no juice, lots of vegetables and fish, some fruit, and relatively portion-controlled (eyeballed.) I lost 8 pounds but then plateau-ed - I continued to be overweight. I also exercised 4 times a week.

I started monitoring calories for a couple months and realized I was eating at a slight "calorie deficit" - I should have been losing a pound every week or two but I wasn't. Only when I cut my calories and STRICTLY portion-controlled my healthy food (to a calorie deficit where I should have been losing 2-3 pounds a week), did I finally start losing 2/3 pound a week. I'm proud to say I'm now a healthy weight but I eat FAR less and exercise FAR more than I should "need" to.

The journey really helped me realize there's something wrong with our food (not just the processed food but the ingredients themselves) and that there are some environmental factors involved (something in the water? the environment? pesticides? I really don't know. I'm not sure what it is.)
5s is a -long- time for page loads
Isn't it a bit redondant ?
not quite news, should be probably marked appropriately with (2013) tag
Timing seems to be very different on different computers/browsers which is just stupid.
Baby on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind album turns 20
"Without the intensely pleasurable flavors that drive you"

Try to get fat eating steak or carrots. More or less on a dare I found I started feeling sick after the second pound of steak couldn't finish the third, and a daily diet of that doesn't contain enough calories to fatten me, only 1500 for two. Ditto the carrots, I've done the "orange skin" thing on a dare (so I'm an idiot, whatever) but again its literally not enough calories to fatten me and my stomach feels really sick after maybe two pounds of carrots. Maybe the fundamental problem is my stomach only holds two pounds of solid food, and two pounds of healthy food can't fatten you up, but two pounds of junk food most certainly can.
The speed is very very different depending on the computer/browser which kind of ruins it.
Thanks for sharing! Do you think that one day swift could be used on android as part of a cross-platform effort ?
Gaza is a bit like a concentration camp - an area where a group of people are contained and kept from moving freely. Generally concentration camps aren't big enough to support markets, but other concentration camps have allowed journalists, and forced labour is not a prerequisite for one either.

It is better associated with the Warsaw ghetto, but your requirements for a concentration camp are not actually definitive of one.
Thanks! I had always figured that, along with long options, they were a GNU thing.
the last time this happened, when unions were created, the government was basically forced in to supporting the unions by virtue of the fact that communist revolutions were happening all over the world
Once you take VC money, greed is necessary - your customers are the VCs, and they expect a several multiples exit.
Your first comment wasn't about debate, so it's curious you'd imply otherwise.

You'd do well to consider that not all teachers act the way you describe; but that might require some small effort on your part to get over yourself.
True, I can't get over 3000.
In southern Europe, at the moment the idea is to give as much flexibility to hire/fire people and at the same time reduce as much as possible any benefits for people that fall on hard times.

Quick example, unemployment used to be at 75% of net income (give or take). Then they changed it to 70, then 65%. Then they capped it at 1600 euros, then 1200. Now it is capped at 1000 euros for the first 6 months, and then 900 afterwards (and the length has also been shortened).

Doesn't matter if you were earning 10,000 euros a month or 2,000, now you both get max 1000 euros unemployment, even thou one of you paid 5 times as much in social security payments.

(quick note, values are approximate as I remember this from 2 years ago).
A issue tracker I built awhile back. Has quit a bit of stars but I haven't updated it in over a year. It's hard to work on something you don't use.

https://github.com/mikelbring/tinyissue
Its useful because you can

(1) get a hold of the raw data and then do cool stuff on top of it.

(2) you can contribute your own local area in a way that you want -- doesnt just have to be streets, can also be trails, riverside views etc.

(3) This is good if you're irked that Google has all the interesting street imagery that they hoard for themselves (mostly).

(4) You'd be helping openstreetmap volunteers look at your imagery when then edit the local map thus helping create our only shot at an open, fully flexible map of the world.

There's probably more, but this should be a good start. Yay, mapillary!
I agree with your point overall but disagree with one point:
>Your co-worker's path is dangerous. Replace "Microsoft" with "COBOL" or "Fortran" or "Mainframe" and you'll see that this is a problem.

The coworker is described as being "in his fifties." It's probably not unreasonable at that point to have significant depth in a single ecosystem. COBOL was exactly the case I was thinking of: very few (if any) new COBOL programmers are being minted any more and there is still a lot of legacy code. It will probably be a good, if dull, career for the next 20 years for that coworker who will at the end be able to write his own ticket to fit around his almost-retired status.

For someone with 40-50 years of working life ahead of him/her, this sort of specialization is indeed premature and dangerous.

For me that kind of specialization has never been attractive, an attitude that has served me well. But that's not true for everyone, at every stage of life.
Open Pixel Platformer: https://github.com/DDR0/open_pixel_platformer
A sample game using a custom engine. However, the organizer, Hapiel iirc, got busy. I got busy and couldn't take over, but it had some nice support from the artists at Pixel Joint, and I'd be willing to continue implementation work on it. I don't feel I have the time at the moment to organize it, though. Currently, you can walk around, and ctrl-e gets you an editor.

Editabled, the editable pixel editor: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/138485812/editabled/full...
(live demo) Broken on chrome, because they effed around with web workers. So I need to look at that. It's basically a JS-based rendering engine. If you look closely, you'll note the lines you draw aren't antiailiased, which lines drawn with the canvas2d API are. Fast compositing engine using typed arrays. Async rendering using Web Workers. Infinite canvas, you can scroll with the arrow keys and no matter how large it gets it never seems to slow down. ^_^ Potential, might have the time to pick it up again, but that was before I was properly employed. Very technical atm, but I might get back around to it in a bit. :/
That's about it here. There's also http://ddr0.github.io/cube%20trains/index.html, my attempt at an indie game, which is downloadable from Github. I am no marketer, so I only sold a handful of units. (ie, I can count sales on one hand) Also available on http://ddr.itch.io/cube-trains. There's more potential here, and I think it's pretty easy to extend. The game comes with an editor, so you can make and share your own maps. Sort of cute, really pushing my graphics abilities, and ended up with it's own pathing algorithm which I never did add the people for. It was scheduled for v2, but I was pretty tired of the project by then.

Eh, hardly an impressive folder compared to some of this stuff (nanopond), but oh well.
License appears to be GPL v3 now

https://github.com/Hextris/hextris/blob/gh-pages/LICENSE.md
I take your point -- unschooling is perhaps best done by parents who are at least self-educated, who are intelligent people, curious about the world, and enthusiastic readers themselves. If the parents can't feed the kids' minds in some way, they should recognize that and find someone else in the neighborhood who can (other parents, perhaps), or use some source of lesson plans, or something.

In this case it sounds like it might be too generous to call this unschooling -- it sounds more like simple neglect. If parents aren't unschooling out of a conviction that they will actually give their kids a better education than the schools would, why are they doing it? Sounds more like sheer laziness to me.

Anyway, the question now is, what can these kids, now adults, do about their situation? I'll hazard a guess that they watch as much TV as the average American. If that's anywhere close, I'd say the first step is to get the TV out of the house. That will free up several hours a day. The second step is to get online. That will give them a reason to read and write. Even just doing that a few hours a day will, in a few years, change their lives. There's Wikipedia, there's Khan Academy, ... well, I don't have to explain this to you, I'm sure.

I can't accept that it's too late for them to turn this around, but it will take quite a bit of initiative on their part. If their work ethic is as good as it seems, maybe it's possible.

I don't know how close you are to them, but if you have any ability to reach them, I would encourage you to try. Their lives could be very different in ten years. I know that and I hope you know that, but they don't (else they would already be working on it).

I know I'm being presumptuous here. Please forgive me if I'm belaboring the obvious. I hate to see wasted potential.
Don't focus on placing every tile perfect, just get them evenly placed across the hexagon. The game seems to slow down after a while as well. I got 17800 points after a few trials..
You are not your code, even though a lot of people will try and convince you otherwise, EVEN YOU!

Just write shit that makes you happy, side projects are about exploring and having fun.

Often times the negative Nancy voice is right when he is talking to me. I often don't know what I am doing, I write horrible stuff all the time that does not work!

Realize this though, you are in control. Whenever those thoughts appear you actually have a choice, listen to them or say no.

By listening to them you will never get anywhere, you will constantly second guess yourself and tweak minor details that can be changed easily at a later time. Your free time is limited, you have to cut corners to see significant progress. Once you realize that everything is a compromise, it gets easier.
> Out of curiosity, what are some of the things you're trying to combat the 2nd type of procrastination?

Yeah, like you, changing habits/organisation is a big thing. Another is that I've set things up such that it's far easier to exile myself from the internet. I try to restrict my leisure browsing to one VM and my work to another VM. So on.

> This is moderately successful for important tasks with important consequences, but not so helpful when I really should, say, do my laundry. But I figure that if I can get the hard things sorted out, I'll slot the laundry in somewhere later (textbook procrastination rationalizations, yes, I recognize the irony).

I don't mind letting these things languish. If it takes me a long time to do laundry, so what?

Thanks for sharing your findings about todo lists. My todo list is essentially the same thing as my calendar, and I wonder if I'd benefit from separating them a bit.
I was interested, but you lost me at the pricing - no middle ground, 500gb -> 3tb - and a $200 gap right there.
STRATEGY!
American food is crap. I don't know what they add in the US, but a lot of stuff seems artificial. Even the milk seems over-processed. Source: European who had 2 trips to the US, in supposedly healthy states: California, Washington.
For my first go project, I decided to emulate Perl's popular Params::Validate library: https://github.com/joslinm/validate

Honestly though, I got sick of go and sick of writing the library. I'm not much of a fanboy of anything, but ya generics. They woulda been nice. I operated on the blank interface type a lot, and it's honestly just annoying doing all those case statements checking what type it is when I coulda just wrote a polymorphic method for the types I support. I always read on here though that you gotta adapt to the go style.. so maybe there's some more elegant way to go about it than I was, but meh, not worth diving into for me personally.

Now I'm writing my first Scala library and I looove Scala! I'm taking this library very seriously and expect to have a Show HN within a month or two.
While reading the article I was thinking what changed so drastically in the last hundred years.

Is it possible that pension funds, social welfare funds and insurance companies are behind it all?

They have loads of money and they kept getting it throughout the recession. They do not like or are not allowed to invest into risky ventures. Therefore they just keep propping up what is deemed "safe".
That's the point: these are experimental treatments. We don't know. And experimental human treatments have gone bad for no reason at all -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGN1412
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An ECMAScript to C compiler. Sort of the inverse of Emscripten. The goal was to compile ECMAScript to LLVM IR but it's not quite there yet. It currently implements version 5.1 and nearly has full test262 coverage:
https://github.com/kindahl/descripten
I have a feeling the only thing that will stop the obesity epidemic is heavy food regulation which people will fight tooth and nail against

People rightfully should fight against that heavy regulation. You don't want to go down that road. Whatever unhealthy dietary choices that people are making is a much better alternative to government regulating people's diet. Think about it for a while.
That's why I eat oats. Not porridge, just plain rolled oats with cold milk and bluberries.
To be fair, COBOL stopped evolving a long time ago, while .NET hasn't. He's in his fifties, but he's not working on legacy code; he grew up with the tip of Microsoft's technology. For example, he has pet projects on Azure and just completed a project at work in .NET 4.5 and Entity Framework 6. Sure, it's still a lock-in, and potentially dangerous, but nowhere near as COBOL or Fortran.
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> I'm sure they realize this makes straight image uploading slightly more of a hassle, but from their perspective the business benefits of community far outweigh the loss efficiency-oriented uploaders. They know it's annoying and they don't care.

Which means they'll most likely die quickly. Nobody cares about their "business side", they were an Internet No 1. image hosting because they were hassle-free and mostly bullshit-free. What I expect to see is most users leaving to someone willing to provide no-bullshit upload service, and imgur to crawl into hole and die, like PhotoBucket or ImageShack.

The sad thing is, many links will probably get broken. Web, unfortunately, is extremely fragile.
It seems like you just made an argument where expanding income inequality is in the end better for those in the "have not" column, because the investments of the rich aren't doing amazingly well, so there take that.

When the rich are getting measurably richer, measurably faster, that theory kind of falls on its ass.

Unless I misunderstand you?
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I'll sit down tonight and see what I can source and add.
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That's why we're probably bound to replace our image hosting services every few years. It's a waste of good links though, that will get broken in the desperate attempt to recoup for fleeing users.
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There is no mystery. It's the Fed. And frankly, it's disingenuous for Schiller to pretend that he doesn't know why.

Quantitative easing is working exactly as the Fed had hoped. It's causing bond prices to be sky high, mortgage interest rates to be as low as they've ever been, the stock market to be sky high, house prices to be sky high, etc.

Now, what happens when the Fed takes away its QE? No one knows for sure, but many speculate that all these bubbles will burst, because they are all artificially generated.

Personally, I am going to be taking all my money out of the stock market some time next year, and wait for the crash in October 2015. Crashes usually happen around that time, and then hopefully the economy survives this second recession. Until then, the sky's the limit in terms of where Wall Street is going to push the stock market.
Did you actually get your base metabolic rate measured? I'm curious why you think you were eating at a calorie deficit.

I control my calorie intake using published calorie counts (for mass market stuff), and a kitchen scale for anything I make myself. I also record every single thing in a diary. I eat a lot of crap (breakfast is either a hot dog or a bag of mustard pretzel bits), but my weight loss is exactly what I'd expect given my measured calorie deficit. If anything, its easier to measure your calorie consumption if you don't cook at home, because many mass market places now publish nutrition info, and they have a strong commercial incentive to maintain uniform portion sizes.
Fantastic idea. Beyond the feedback already given I wanted to commend you on the valid use of permissions on Android (just Wi-Fi). Very specific and reasonable for the game.
Tangentially, anyone know how to make zsh less greedy about parsing wildcards? Something like this will fail with "no files matched", and the command won't run:

rsync example.com:/foo/* .

My workaround is to quote the argument, but it's annoying.
believe it or not, a slice of toast has a higher glycemic index level than just plain white sugar
I might have missed this in the article, but were the brokered queues tested in or close to their default configuration? ActiveMQ in particular needs to be tweaked to get decent performance out of it in a production environment.
I'm just sad for the content that will go missing. Internet is a fast-forgetting place, it's damn hard to find anything beyond few years ago, because most of the links are broken.
Try this: Go to your favorite grocery store and look for Kashi 7 Whole Grain Puffs, what we used to call Puffed Kashi.

This is the original product from the Kashi company: Whole hard red wheat, whole brown rice, whole oats, whole barley, whole triticale, whole rye, whole buckwheat, sesame seeds, and nothing else. Puffed, but just barely puffed so it's still chewy and crunchy. Great stuff.

So try to find it. Your grocer will probably have over a dozen varieties of Kashi cereals, every one of them sugared up concoctions. But they are very unlikely to have the original Puffed Kashi, the real thing.

Trader Joe's used to have it. Whole Foods used to have it. Safeway used to have it. Now they all just have Kashi's sugared products.

But lucky me, I found one place that still has the real Puffed Kashi: Amazon!
How that compares to https://hn.algolia.com/ ?
I was a whitewater guide in the Mountain West as well. It was super weird to come back from a week long trip, and catch up with all the texts and calls in about 15 mins. They fell so pressing, but they are not.
Facebook can just buy cool if they're losing money
Chrome on a brand-new MBP here, I got 5233 but by the last 30 seconds or so I was barely reacting, just getting lucky with where they fell. It was about four drops per second at that point, just a steady stream.
Euro milk always tasted burnt to me. I assume it's the UHT vs. HTST pasteurization.
> Diabetes, I think in some cases restricting carbs can be fatal as diabetics can suffer from ketoacidosis, where the blood turns acidic due to an uncontrollable amount of ketones present.

Ketoacidosis is extremely dangerous for diabetics, but it occurs in cases of extreme high blood sugar, not low blood sugar. These ketones can lead to serious kidney damage, or even kidney failure. Your point about hypoglycemia is dead on though.

As a type I diabetic myself, carbs are actually life saving during a low blood sugar episode (and low blood sugars actually occur more often for type I diabetics with tight control). As an aside, I find it perpetually frustrating how keto-fans like the OP conflate type I and type II diabetes as if there is no difference (because the answer to everything is "keto" \s).
My complaint from about a year ago was that they only supported contributing if you had an iPhone¹. Have they fixed this yet?

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948368
A static single serving site generator that tells you if a TV is a rerun or not.

https://github.com/imjustabill/ishousearerun
Yup, I changed the license.
I read a book by Felix Dennis (was featured on HN when he died), in which he strongly recommends against taking VC money for the very reasons pointed out in commends here - VCs will want to get their returns, they'll be merciless, so you'll have to either become a shark or let your company die.
How about one of

rsync -a example.com:/foo/. .
rsync example.com:/foo/"*" .
When Flickr announced 1TB of free storage, I thought it'd be funny to build a way of mounting it as a filesystem which encoded your files as pictures. It reliably stores files and trees, I just never finished up the FUSE binding:

https://github.com/zackbloom/flickrfs
As a Greek, I can safely say you don't know what you're talking about. My favorite foods are beans, lentils, peas, etc. I will happily eat them until I burst, and they aren't processed at all and don't contain much more than salt/pepper/oil/tomato. They are delicious.
Right now we base iterations on framerate, which has proved to be the wrong way to do it. We're going to work on making it time based.
how about doing collapse check only after all of blocks that appeared at the same time have landed?

This would allow combos even if the pile heights are different.
So, basically you're suggesting massive scale nanny-statism. Do we really want a world where government can tell us what to eat and not to eat, what we can smoke and not smoke (etc)?

What if instead of being reactionary and waging another war (War on Drugs, War on This, War on That), we step back and think about what caused this phenomenon in the first place.

Cereal, junk food, cheap low-quality meat all point towards the same culprit: farm subsidies - esp. corn and soybeans. It's time we phase them out and start eating real food again.
You raise an interesting point about licence compatibility with Github's T&Cs, although it's no longer relevant to this project because the licence has been changed to the GPL v3. To quote the relevant part:

"By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories."

However, there's no further mention of the word "fork" in the T&Cs. Simply forking a repository does not imply that a derivative work has been created. A fork is simply a verbatim copy.

To create a derivative work, someone would need to both fork and then commit a change back to that fork. Of course, it's sort of implied through common (imprecise) use of the word that this is what it's intended to mean, but it's not actually what it says.

While I'm not a lawyer, I believe that a more precisely-worded licence in the repository would take precedence over the ambiguously worded T&Cs. However, Github could at any time clarify the T&Cs to more clearly state that forking does imply creation of derivatives. And as with most online services, if the terms do get changed, "Continued use of the Service after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes."