skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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SpaceX Rocket Detonates After 'Anomaly' During Test Flight in Texas
This is true to an extent for me as well, but nuts are extremely calorie dense. I think I could easily eat more than 3k calories of nuts in a day if just ate as many as I wanted.
Thanks.. The company is a pioneer in Movie industry and they have various software products ranging from editing tools to projection technologies at theaters...

As you said, it would exactly give me the environment to sit with like minded programmers and learn from them, but I am little skeptical whether I will be able to pick up another language for development while doing the testing job... Also, not sure how much programming is required as part of a Tester's job...
I learned of Dweck's findings before I had kids, and I faced that challenge, too: Others tell my kids that they're smart, but they want reassurance that Daddy thinks they are, too.

When they were younger, I told them that they were obviously smart enough to be successful, but beyond that it was hard to tell just how smart, because the harder they worked on something, the smarter they looked, to me and everyone else.

As they've gotten older, though, I've shared Dweck's research with them and told them that the details were a little more subtle than just growth mindset vs fixed mindset.

Instead, I've told them that cognitive skills were like athletic skills: some things do come more easily to some people--different things to different people. You might not learn a certain thing as easily as your friend does, but if you work harder, you'll still learn faster. The real success will come not from being born "smart" but from being born "smart enough" and then combining hard work with strategy. Find a few things that are hard for everybody but seem to come a little more easily to you than to most people, then work like crazy on those things, and you won't just look smart, you'll look like a genius.
There's a place between hot as hell and cold as a witch's tit that we call Earth. Let's not forget that.

The interface is an unmitigated disaster from tip to toe. There's too much going on. It doesn't need to get hit with the iBooks stick to make it better; it just needs someone with half a clue to delete half the buttons, tabs, modals, windows, panes, lists, checkboxes, and other crap.

Put another way: Eclipse is not the program you want to base your design on.
Calorie logging is actually probably the best solution to the psychological problem. Your stomach is saying to your brain that it is hungry and that you must eat. Sometimes you might be so hungry that you feel you are actually hurting yourself. But if you have been logging your calories and macronutrients, your brain knows that you will be okay. You're not gonna die even if your stomach says that you will. It's a triumph of cognition over biology.
Stalin is not a surname. It is a nom de guerre that means “man of steel”.
> But if a fat person simply eats less, no matter the macronutrient content, he or she will lose weight. This is well documented, and even Taubes doesn't disagree with that.

A low-carb diet doesn't have to be intentionally low calorie. That's the point. Eating very low carb allows the body to adjust hunger levels to match existing fat stores. If you're fat and you allow your body to do its job, you won't be as hungry because you have plenty of energy stored up and the body is eager to use it. In other words, we've evolved to survive times of plenty and times of famine, and our modern diet with extremely high carb intake throws this system out of whack.

Low calorie is just forced starvation and although you will always lose weight this way, it's an uphill battle because you're fighting the body's fat regulation mechanism. You might be eating high-carb but low calorie, causing insulin spikes, extreme hunger, and protein wasting. It's not an easy diet to follow and it might even be counterproductive.

This is the theory anyway. This queston has been posted to Taubes many times over though, and he himself can explain it a lot better than I can. If you're interested in the topic, this is definitely worth a read: http://garytaubes.com/2012/11/what-would-happen-if-thoughts-...
This is very cool. Shared group-editing sessions (a la ACiDDraw) would be icing on this cake :)
You linked a fat activists blog to try to prove a point? As far as I'm concerned, anyone who thinks eating less than you burn in energy won't lose you weight is selling something.
At the end of the article the author mentions IDEs, but also says "if only our compilers were sufficiently smart". Why? What do compilers have to do with the pretty-fied visual representation of the code, and corresponding input methods? Isn't this all about the IDE?

Also, what's the big deal with removing quotes? I didn't know they were hard to read or understand. Are we removing them from books as well?

I'd welcome a nice rendering of mathematical formulas, sure. But that's merely presentation.
Making jokes about any mass murderer trivializes their victims.

Uh, no. Comedy is the one realm within human discourse where we're allowed to discuss things and the normal rules don't apply. This has been the case since time immemorial and it's not about to change now.
Fair enough. I guess you don't really believe in UX design either, since how something looks and feels is orthogonal to its functionality.
EDRUPT does the following:

* Inhibits interrupts until the next RESUME instruction (as if a hardware interrupt had been encountered).

* Loads the Z register into the ZRUPT register. (Incidentally, so far I've seen only a single instance of this instruction, in Luminary 131, and the return address is never used.)

* Takes the next instruction from address 0 (which presumably has been pre-loaded with "TC something").

The instruction also shoves a couple of register values onto the data bus, but does not save them into memory. My assumption is that some kind of external instrumentation was able to capture these values, but that they were irrelevant to normal execution.

Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/assembly_language_manual.html

Supposedly it was mainly used for self-testing.
I don't respond under the assumption that the recruiters are sending hundreds of messages and really only care about responses from people who are interested. I assume my lack of response won't be noticed and that notifying them I'm not interested only creates more distraction for them.

Also, I never accept connection requests from recruiters. The reason they normally request to connect is because with that request is the only way to deliver a message for free (and after they're connected they can message you forever). And I like my contact list to be only people relevant to me--it's nice to scan my contacts occasionally and see where people are working now, and to see status updates from only people I care about.
I do acknowledge (Or try to) that Common Lisp has plenty of problems. But aside from some design flaws, I think the majority of these problems are social, which in a way is a good thing: Fundamental characteristics of a language cannot be changed, but presentation and impression can and should be improved. What is needed is the right people making the right appeals to the community.
What is the software engineering scene like in Amsterdam?
I'm considering a move from San Francisco to Amsterdam. Obviously it's quite easy to find work as a software engineer in SF, but what is the scene like in Amsterdam? Is it easy to find work as a non-Dutch speaking expat? Any general tips for making such a transition?

Thanks in advance.
Linode. It's the host I currently use.
> the raw processing power achievable by your brain

But "achievable" is not the same as "achieved". To actually achieve the full raw processing power that your brain is capable of achieving, you have to work at it--not just in terms of developing skills, but in terms of realizing the processing power. Your brain is not like a computer with a fixed amount of CPU and memory that you just have to load with software. If you don't exercise it, it doesn't develop; exercising it doesn't just make you more skilful at using the processing power you have, it actually increases the processing power. Yes, there's a limit imposed by your genetic makeup as to how much exercise can increase the processing power; but no child is going to be anywhere near that limit, simply because the child is still growing and developing. (I would argue that most adults aren't really at the limit either, any more than most adults are at the limit for any capability. Few people have the genetic makeup to run a 100-meter dash in under 10 seconds; but how many people can run a 100-meter dash in the shortest possible time for their genetic makeup, whatever that time is?)

In other words, while there is a concept of "raw processing power achievable", I don't think it's a very useful concept by itself, because people can't help jumping from "the maximum raw processing power you can ever achieve is genetically fixed" to "the actual processing power you have right now is genetically fixed", and the latter is not only false, it's pernicious, because it creates the worst possible mindset.
> But Warren Buffet invests in individual companies using valuation technique to discover under valued companies which the market is ignoring.

Yes, this is true, but the possibility exists that Buffet realizes his early success might have arisen from chance, and that his present success arises from the announcement effect (everyone wants to invest in the same stocks he invests in, so he can't go wrong.)

I have no idea whether that's so, I won't pretend to have any inside knowledge, but it's certainly true that Buffet has set things up so his inheritors are in index funds and buy & hold, two ideas he has spoken well of over the years.
> The best way to actually learn the truth is to read something that runs counter to your viewpoint and analyze it.

The best way to learn the truth is to experiment for yourself and see what actually happens.

I'm always willing to read counterpoints - but I've yet to see anything that counteracts the fact that high insulin levels prevent the fat burning process from taking place. Insulin isn't evil and if you time it right - it can actually be quite beneficial, but chronically elevated insulin levels are a problem for people trying to burn fat.

I'm happy to read any links you want to send my way. In the meantime, I suggest you take a look at John Kiefer's work at http://body.io to see how your hormone levels can have a bigger effect on your overall body composition than straight calories.
I recently implemented TOTP authentication[1] for a webapp of mine. Then I decided to extract it into its own web service offering, because I thought it was one of those things that was easy for people to implement insecurely if they weren't careful.

This is the V1. I'm trying to get a sense of whether implementing TOTP auth is a pain point for anyone and to develop this project further.

The way it works is that you redirect your website's users to it for authentication or master secret provisioning, and it redirects them back to you with a pass/fail response when done.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_Al...
Most obese people have not been obese their entire lives, so obesity can't be a root cause of their obesity. At most, Taubes' writings might help explain why some obese people have trouble managing their over-eating.
1. What problem are you solving with this? This really seems like a solution in search of a problem.

2. There's no emitter, just a parser. This suggests to me that there's no such thing as a canonical LCON transformation for a given input. This is bad.
Well, you can't practice "naked licensing".
See also [0],"PACER, RECAP, AND THE MOVEMENT TO FREE AMERICAN CASE LAW", with memories of Aaron Swartz.

[0]http://blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop/2011/02/03/pacer-recap-an...
Is there anyway you, or some other moderator, could repost this in an environment that allows a proper discussion? Something like enabling the "pending comments" system.
The deal with having string literals not be delimited by actual characters is that you don't have to escape characters. What you see is what you get.
> I think it is funny that the author manages to blame everything and everyone except bad software.

That's a good point about bad software, but to be fair the author is reciting actual things he has seen, not hypothetical scenarios. The part of the quote you hid in an ellipsis is important for context:

> In my limited experience I’ve dealt with long-lived network partitions in a single data center (DC), PDU failures...
Very few people even bother to track calories. Some people do have trouble sticking with it, but for most, the eureka moment happens sometime in the first week when they realize that they are consuming far more calories than they had believed. It's not a problem of perseverance when most people aren't even bothering to get started.
Well, whether you like it or not, US elected officials in charge of the entire country chose to pass the Affordable Care Act.

The new Digital Services group is a huge step in the right direction for IT projects all over the spectrum, not just healthcare.
and that is exactly why we don't pay attention to anecdotes for this kinda thing.
ok, ok, this I have thrown into the basket marked 'complexity'.

I think it is unlikely, but definitely not that unlikely that reality will nicely balance for a wide range of values of CO2. I would like us to plan against that but it would be nice if it were so.

We are probably somewhere near a local minima, in terms of temperature stability, however we have no fucking idea really where the edges are or how deep the next valley may be.

The future doesn't have to be like the past, especially if we kick it.
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There is a sort of analogue to this: parents praising their children as beautiful/pretty or brave/strong. Both vacuously reduce the childs ability to reflect genuinely on their strengths and their source of self-worth. Beauty (or the appreciation of) becomes solely reduced to the physical (and external), and courage reduced to dare-devilism/ego-centrism instead of the appreciation of fear and acting to overcome it.
I'd love to have this problem.
I guess the canonical JSON could be considered the canonical LCON...
As an Oregonian I really, really want to see the code.
Yeah. For example, if your parents freak out over small failures, you will learn to freak out over small failures. And how about the message that it's helpful to be "smart" and work hard?
> Like you said, the body must obey the laws of thermodynamics.

Perhaps I'm reading more into it than you intend, but a pure thermodynamics view assumes if you eat an extra 1000 calories that it will be stored as fat, does it not?

I know from personal experience this is simply not true.

But maybe you're only referring to the weight loss end of the spectrum? In which case yes, there are certain laws that the body simply cannot defy - however, with very small variance in calories, evidence suggests the body can switch metabolism levels, so once again, it's not quite simple thermodynamics - conversion efficiency varies.
There is a war against Terra.

Or terror.

Can't be terror though.

You can't have a war against terror.

That's obvious.

Must be Terra then.

We surely aren't led by idiots.

After all.

I too am generally in favour of the world.

---

satellitecat:

Release the kittens.

I repeat:

Release all the kittens.
I remember watching your video dude, I like your work
Depending on how carefully you want to track how you eat, I would recommend dropping the weight loss to ~1lb per week (~500 calories under TDEE). Any faster than that and you'll probably be sloughing off whatever muscle you already have, and you probably won't like the result of that.
I hope that wrapping one of those values in quotes was a mistake, because I very much do not want to work in a language where concatenating two strings which happen to contain integers returns the sum of those integers.
And if you blast coal with it ... Guess what comes out ?

(Granted you'd also need to make coal out of co2, which is so much harder. but every little bit helps)
1. It's a byproduct of another project I've been working on, a programming language that's essentially JSON Lisp. I tried both YAML and CSON as syntax for the language, and neither worked quite like I wanted. The features that make it useful for the language are:

- Easy chaining of one-element maps. `a b c d` = `{a: {b: {c: d}}}}`

- Only a few reserved characters, so just about anything can be an unquoted string (symbols, etc.)

- Parenthesized maps

2. This is the first version. An emitter will probably be in the next version. The canonical version is essentially "JSON, but with unquoted strings where possible, no colons, and parens instead of braces".
For those of us missing context, care to share?

I'm definitely not a fan of every launch of Calibre showing me a prompt to update, but I'm also not sold on apps that upgrade without my express consent.
This makes sense. For me, the main problem of Google is trying to retrieve a treasure out of garbage. While the Internet has a lot of good information, much (most) of it is incorrect -- sometimes on purpose as you suggest. I would be much more interested in a learning system that is able to retrieve information from authoritative sources such as books, for example.
JSON is not object notation
As 'croddin pointed out, this is flat-out wrong - and that attitude is hardly conducive to a constructive discussion.
*edit - Tired of these armchair analysts dismissing anything new coming outright. Not a kind of mentality I would expect from someone interested in startups.

Ok, But no one asked if it will work or not. And your comment doesn't have any extraordinary analysis or information that someone with even a small understanding of the topic wouldn't know.
We live in a world where a lot of people are still living on $2 a day or less. And you consider $10k/year on soccer and music lessons a necessary living expense? Gimmie a break.
The examples are all LCON versions of JSON documents that are out there on the web. I provided a link to the JSON before each example. Side-by-side JSON and LCON would have been nice, but you can't do floats in Markdown, and putting the JSON and LCON one after the other would have made the overly-long README even longer.
Yes. Those are traditional mottos from the way Jewish religious books are used. My wild guess is that they are more likely a sort of inside joke here, but it is conceivable that they are intended in all seriousness. Anyway, a person may write in the beginning of a book not only their own name, to mark their ownership of the book, but also that motto averring in humility that despite human claims to possessions there is one true owner of all the world. The second motto is used by the author of the book to express not only the end of the book's text, but also the author's hope that the goal of the book is worthy and is fulfilled.
I'm consuming ~140g/protein a day. Enough to build muscle while shedding the fat, but not enough to damage my kidneys during the process.

EDIT: Here comes the Pubmed!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23219108

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17383270

TL;DR High protein diets increase kidney filtration rates; whether it causes kidney disease is inconclusive. Non-animal protein is preferable to animal-based proteins.
This project was partially a response to CSON. CSON was almost (but not quite) good enough for my purposes, so I made something that was.
email providers and all other providers need to have access only to encrypted data eventually, hopefully soon (to remove the temptation to use this valuable data...)
Why is boot2docker a mess? I find it unusable due to lack of file sharing from the host through to a container. Are there any other showstoppers?
Fair enough; this seems to be the most common complaint I've seen here. There's nothing stopping you from including colons, at which point it would look exactly like YAML and CSON, but then I suppose it would have very little added value beyond YAML or CSON. For me, the killer feature is chaining one-element maps on a single line (CSON can do that too, but it doesn't have unquoted strings).
Startup seeking volunteer software engineers
I'm using Hired to get a pulse on the the market for Software Engineers, my target compensation is 10% more than I'm getting paid in my current position. So far, Hired has delivered quite well by connecting me with companies that value my desire to rationally allocate myself in the market. It's all about return on investment: your salary and other compensation in exchange for your time interviewing and developing software at a company.

Then I see this in a company's pitch:

"""
PS: Please note that I'm looking for kickass engineers who want to build the backbone of an industry. But Hired encourages a bidding war. We don’t play along with that. Everyone here at _____ makes sacrifices to be here, because that's what it takes to be a startup, to build a successful company. You should be interested in _____ because of what we do, what you can learn here. We can figure out the salary / equity package once we both agree this is the best next opportunity for you. However, if the minimum salary is what matters to you, _____ is not for you and we’d just be wasting each others time. Please keep that in mind. Thanks!
"""

Software Engineers: please remember that everyday that you go to work is a market transaction and that transaction is something worth optimizing.
If you're really looking for efficiency, take a look at baconification ;)

http://pastebin.com/RGRfewBY

...comes in handy for those occasions when the courts order you to hand over some data - especially effective when printed.
I dunno, colored boxes around strings instead of quotes sounds an awful lot like format being part of semantics.
What exactly is it that I was reading. It's hard to tell.
Why is this not supported during docker build? I'm not very familiar with the --privileged flag - isn't that only related to sharing on the host?

Edits to /etc/hosts in a container don't affect the host, so it seems like everything should Just Work.
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> Does anyone know of a good introduction to philosophy

I don't know if this qualifies as "good", but it is certainly interesting: http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html .