skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. If you want to have bing aerial images next to google satellite imagery, use this app to display bing maps in google earth: http://ge-map-overlays.appspot.com/bing-maps/aerial
Logo is all the evidence you need that anyone can program. When I was in 4th grade our computer lab had a bunch of machines that ran an implementation of Logo. We were required to perform exercises in the program and then we could draw whatever we wanted with the time left in the session. By the end of the hour, there wasn't a kid in the room that wasn't imagining up something to generate with those krufty commands.
Actually, the thinking is that if you eat right, you don't have to count calories. It's certainly easier to say "avoid food types A and B", rather than "take all the foods you eat, get the calories per gram, weigh them up, then count how much you're eating, make sure you stay below this limit, and just ignore that nagging feeling in you're brain that tells you you're hungry, you could avoid that feeling easily by eating right, but that's too complicated for you, just eat whatever and write down these numbers instead."

I don't know for sure what works, but arguing by "what's more simple" is stupidity.

"How much easier than "eat less calories than you use" can it be?"

Sending a rocket to space is easy. You just need enough fuel to get to space.
Here's the thing. Your advice has been constantly given to people wanting to lose weight for half a century. During that period, despite the people receiving the advice wanting to lose weight, the population has become massively obese. Makes me wonder why you're so cock-sure of yourself.

Anyway, Taubes deals very effectively with the argument you're presenting. The gist is that the number of kilo joules consumed does not have a particularly good correlation with fat stored, because the fat storage mechanism is mediated by insulin, which is heavily influenced by the consumption of carbohydrates.
How do you live in a rural area in the US without a car?
Don't be an ass. He's logging the "down for the night" and "up for the day" times. This isn't some objective truth.
This is a bit misleading. Those 100 work weeks are for workers on the business/finance side. Software folk are expected to work ~50 hrs / week on the sell side, closer to 60 on the buy side.

Source: I work at a large investment bank.
>>In my experience, this is not true.

Here's an interesting idea: maybe your experience is simply your own and doesn't apply to that many people.

That's why we have science, after all: so that we don't make important health decisions based on some person's "experience."
There's definitely feature overlap, and there are still problems running docker via systemd as show by the existence of workarounds like https://github.com/ibuildthecloud/systemd-docker
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[Chesterton's] leisure pastimes included an eclectic mix of the unfashionable and the bohemian- sketching, collecting weapons, and playing with the cardboard cutouts of his toy theater.

My hero for the day.
Hi. This is Ian, Threadable cofounder. Thanks for your questions!

We're sustaining Threadable by charging business users for business-specific features. Those features will actually be rolling out soon, and have to do with internal access control and integration with certain external services. We don't talk about that stuff on the site yet because it's still in beta, but expect to see it soon.

I definitely see Facebook groups growing in popularity, but we're a long way from getting rid of email. I think the reason Facebook Groups has been able to gain so much ground is because email-based products haven't really changed in a long time, and Facebook Groups provides a much better user experience. However, email is still the only place you can be sure to find everyone, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon, especially in business. Group communication products have a bunch of tiny network effects, one per group, and they succeed or fail on how well they can reach every team member.
I am trying to find a solution to ditch calibre(at least for library management) completely, and with the advent of cheap android eink devices, this seems more possible now. A simple app that communicates with a web backend to manage my library on such a device would be enough.

one recently released such device is Boyue T62 (http://www.banggood.com/Boyue-T62-8G-Dual-Core-6-Inch-WIFI-A...) Here is an overview (the review is for the same device, just rebranded and with previos generation specs) http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2014/08/11/icarus-illumina-...

You also get much better pdf reading capabilities with these devices.

Until the next generation displays for reading come into play, these look much better overall than kindle, nook, etc.
The "delaying expensive function calls" part gave me more of a clue than anything. I still have to admit that I don't get the benefit of plumb over existing lambda syntax, and that benefit still would have to be weighed against the additional requirement of learning plumb syntax for someone new to my code base.

I did read "When not to use Plumb" but, from the example, was looking at a single line. I meant that that single line is difficult to look at and say, "My bug isn't in that line."
From my reading of it:

>The size of the highest mountain of order ∼ εR can be roughly estimated from the inequality (292).

>P, P˙ and I are, respectively, the pulsar’s period, period derivative and moment of inertia [in inequality (292)].

Those terms are all just multiplied together in the inequality, so changes in any of them could affect epsilon (the "dimensionless parameter characterizing deformations of the star")
out of my network and out of my location is what i'm looking for. My location is my biggest problem and i need to be able to connect with people abroad.
This isn't how homeostasis works at all.

Insulin levels cause fat storage in order to lower blood sugar levels. If all you did was chug two 2-liter bottles of Coke, you'd temporarily go through lipogenesis, then go back through lipolysis to pull the stored calories back out for use later in the day.

Insulin doesn't magically make you fatter if you're consuming the same number of calories. A high protein/fat diet is more satiating and you consume less calories, but insulin is not evil.
> Because we have no way to accurately measure how many calories your body actually uses.

Of course we do!

Weigh yourself every week for months and months on end.

If you're gaining weight, you're eating more than you're using.

If you're more or less maintaining weight, you're in balance.

If you're losing weight, you're eating less than you're using.

And yes, absolutely your body will adjust and adapt and these values will change. That's why we re-adjust and re-evaluate constantly - in fact weekly!

The entire point is to lose weight, which by very definition will reduce your calorie requirements, which will then require you to again eat less calories, which again will make you lose weight,
which.......

> This is why an "eat this, not that" approach works a lot better than an "eat less calories than you use" approach.

They're actually the same approach, one is just at a lower level of abstraction than the other. You're "eat this, not that" is basically just saying "avoid things that are very calorie dense, and as a result you will reduce your calorie intake". Of course, if I eat a lot of "this", I'm still going to put on weight, so your advice is too abstract to always work.

AND to include the "emotional" part, telling me I can't eat chocolate cake or have a beer sucks and it's too hard. I'm never going to sustain that for the rest of my life. Everyone slips up.
...except that, with literacy, we don't talk about "task-oriented reading" or "no-fuss setup". The intrinsic value of literacy is widely recognized. Where resources permit, people are willing to spend time learning to read and write, and societies are willing to allocate significant resources to teaching these skills.

Why should programming be different? Is it really that much to ask for someone to invest (gasp!) hours of time setting up an environment? Is it unreasonable that a person might have to seek help getting started?
> the market more or less succeeds in ensuring that food's available at a reasonable price (generally with quite a bit of help from the government)

The government doesn't help; it hinders, by subsidies, protective tariffs, and other distortions of the market. These policies help certain politically connected groups (mainly large agribusinesses), but they hurt consumers overall.

> imagine a natural disaster is expected and suddenly everyone needs to stock up on water and food

How long will the natural disaster last? How much can people economize on food and water during that time by simply eating less? How much can people economize by eating cheaper foods that provide nutrition but might not taste as good as what they normally eat? And so on.

Retailers can't inflate prices as much as they want because sane people will be asking themselves all the above questions, and will simply refuse to buy food and water at a price point that isn't worth it to them, all things considered. People need food, but the need is not infinite.
yes yes yes

I think every single consumer facing company should have an API for developers. So many ideas of mine usually end in "one day when that data is available". 20 years from now I imagine it will be the norm.
Thanks for the reply.

Analytics for what data set? What media?
wow, very eye opening. What an arrogant douche.

Anyway, I still rely on Calibre to manage my ebooks, and have donated a couple of times. Despite the messy and confusing UI, it's the only ebook manager I found that does what I need (Kindle sync, multiple layers of tags and categorization, download metadata).
A battery swap only costs labor if you do it manually. I don't see why you would do that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY
Luckily they lowered their rates dramatically during 2008 for obvious reasons, and I think we managed to get them to match that daily rate again in 2012 :P
A normally functioning competitive market responds to changes in external conditions that cause changes in the relative scarcity of goods and services. Such changes should cause changes in prices, because the prices are signals that tell consumers about the relative scarcity of goods. If the price of bottled water goes up during a natural disaster, that's telling you, the consumer, that water is scarce and you should economize.
I think the difference between the two scenarios is largely dependent upon the source materials and the quality of the analysis. The author knew that the photographs were authentic because they were sourced directly from ISIS. It wasn't a matter of determining who--out of many potential matches--might have fight a given profile (young male, bomb and backpack as people were searching for after Boston), but comparing the photographs to others in order to find matching geographical points of reference.

The bridges in the photographs weren't going to change their looks. Even if you grant the possibility of a false positive in one instance, the use of multiple source photographs and different angles all combine to increase the accuracy of the analysis. This analysis in this blog post was thorough, precise, and clear. Professional. The responses to Boston, on the other hand, lacked such rigor and amounted to little more than a witch-hunt, despite the fact that most of those going through photographs were simply trying to help.

You're right, in a sense, that it's easy for this type of analysis to be mishandled. But that's dependent upon the analyst and the materials they're working from. Rather than fret in this case, I'm happy to support it. Good examples should always be highlighted and praised, if only in the hope that such examples might help prevent poor examples in the future. A bit of a pipe-dream, but it's a nice one to imagine.
Great suggestions. I'm not actually familiar with WorldCat myself. I'm going to look into it. Thanks!
That was one of our selling points in college when trying to raise money for the racing team. If you donated more than $1k you'd get to drive it in the parking lot. $5k got you to drive it on the track.
> Makes me wonder why you're so cock-sure of yourself.

Because I've seen it work for hundreds and hundreds of people, and I know for a fact Weight Watchers (which is 100% what I'm talking about) has worked for millions of people.

> The gist is that the number of kilo joules consumed does not have a particularly good correlation with fat stored, because the fat storage mechanism is mediated by insulin, which is heavily influenced by the consumption of carbohydrates.

You're going to honestly tell me if I only put 9 gallons in my tank every day, but I burn 10 every day that I won't "run out" and burn up my reserve tank?

You're wanting to make it so complicated you can't see the simplicity in front of you.
I'm actually a participant in the Gardner study -- they're testing for a ton of other factors, including microbiota.
A letter to the strangers on that Friday train
In the US, the "making it easier" part can make you liable as well. In fact, a huge amount of copyright-related cases have considered this exact issue. Take a look at all the P2P suits, as an example.

In my uneducated opinion, I believe this would be similar to YouTube. YouTube allows anyone to upload anything, and they aren't required to preview the content before it is publicly available on their site. However, they must comply with DMCA takedown requests.

I think ClickShirt would have to do the same. Anyone can print any image until the owner of the image issues a takedown request.

The added wrinkle is that anything being put into the ClickShirt system is from a different website -- it's hosted somewhere else, not on a user's computer. That's different from YouTube, because it's fair to assume that ClickShirt is ALMOST ALWAYS using copyrighted images.

Regardless, I think they'll get shut down in the US. This isn't the kind of thing that courts are very lenient about. Neat idea, though.
My experience is Weight Watcher's experience, which I'm going to bet has some of the biggest body of experience about weight loss in the modern world.
If it were that easy, we wouldn't have an obesity epidemic. I get that the solutions for individuals seem straightforward, but something is affecting most of our population, and it's problematic.

Let's say that they're not be looking for "the perfect personal weight-loss diet," to sell, but working toward larger systemic changes that will reverse or halt the trend in the greater population (like mandating vaccines, but I doubt the answer here is a "fat vaccine").
Would be cool if they did a reverse image search on Google to find the largest-available version of the image. No idea if that's available via API, though.
Or you'll try to bargain with the merchant, explaining that you're dying of thirst. Or you'll try to take the water by force, since the merchant is obviously being unreasonable. Or...

In other words, your scenario does not just assume that you are dying of thirst. It also assumes that the merchant is evil, so evil that he will take everything you own in exchange for a single bottle of water when you are dying of thirst. Most humans are not like that. Why should you just happen to run across one that is at the precise moment when you are dying of thirst and he is the only merchant around? That's way too improbable to worry about.
Right.

I didn't say this was easy, I said it was simple
One-off t-shirts are expensive. I recently got 8 t-shirts made by Custom Ink, and each one was $40. I didn't even choose the expensive American Apparel shirts, either.

Custom Ink is probably one of the more expensive companies (and I chose them because of their excellent customer service), but you get my point.
I've lost 270 pounds over 2 years by simply eating less as determined by calorie counting, so I think it depends a lot on the person.
Cool one, great find!
How to cost account HPC compute hours?
I was recently granted some hours at a high performance computing facility. I have asked for a cost accounting, but since I'm a federal employee, there is no cost. I'm trying to figure out how to calculate the value of this resource. I'm not sure EC2 prices are a comparable commodity. Any recommendations?
Greetings from a place called Canada. Different laws up here. It's not so cut and dry (we've already checked this with our attorneys). That said, we'll defend vigorously.
In the first paragraph of the post "he claimed the page ... contained defamatory material" so this isn't the normal cut and dry copyright infringement notice. I'm sure they know how safe harbor works.
> wear and tear on the battery, which isn't a problem with hydrogen fuel cells.

Sadly this is not the case. Fuel cells have similar lifespans as batteries.
Yeah, I'm not an expert in this area, but my casual reading seems to make it out to be similar to the problems you have with a lot of VR stuff, where the hardware just hasn't needed to be ultra-low-latency before now, but that there aren't necessarily hard limits that would prevent it.

If they ever get it ironed out, it seems like the kind of thing that could offer pretty huge advantages for gaming, if just one person is looking at the screen (I have no idea if anyone's considering multiple sets of eyes to track or if that introduces particularly novel problems that wouldn't be covered in solving the single set of eyes)
You probably know more about DMCA than me, but I thought it was just about copyright infringement? The post claims the guy who complained in this case was complaining about "defamatory material".
And of course the infamous "calibre-mount-helper" fiasco: http://lwn.net/Articles/465311/
Also - DMCA (AFAIK) is copyright infringement. This suit alleges defamation.
While that's absolutely desirable in terms of priority, calibre's UI has been not merely ugly for its entire six-year history, it's been a jet-powered unicycle ride to Crazytown for its entire six-year history. We're talking about things like just following generally accepted conventions for how to structure GUI menus.

I don't think this is a matter of calibre de-prioritizing fixing the UI. I'm pretty sure it's a conscious choice. They know their UI backward and forward and it works for them, therefore anyone who complains about the UI Just Doesn't Get It. That unicycle is BEAUTIFUL, dammit.
Please don't be personally rude on Hacker News.

This comment would be best with just the middle sentence.
This may sound stupid, but...why does Wall Street care about "talent?"
Thanks for your point. You're right. My fault
I'm in the middle of aggregating lists of APIs for review at https://techendo.com/

Hopefully things like this will be useful.
Yeah; I'm mostly interested in this for HD VR applications where the screen necessarily needs to be at a much higher resolution to cover a wide field of view, and being able to dynamically adjust depth-of-field effects and such would also be pretty interesting. I wonder how much it would impact the perceived reality of the situation
I just showed you specific genetic conditions that lead to excess body fat without over-eating. You have to reckon that. Science doesn't work that way. You can't just ignore evidence that counters your hypothesis, waving your hands and saying "pah, these exceptions to the rules." On a similar note, do you think most females develop breasts because they consume more calories than they expend (v.s. males)? By your line of reasoning, you should believe that.
Setting up the environment is just wasted time unless it is also a learning experience (which it probably isn't).
We have the code, just run the binary through a disassembler.

What I think is more interesting is the open source clone: http://freerct.blogspot.ca/ and the indie clone: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=39904.0

There was also an effort to migrate the ASM to C as a fan project, despite the glaring copyright issue.
What will make you appreciate the development cycle even more is that it was one guy, Chris Sawyer.
It's very similar to branch prediction in modern cpu architectures. Branches are expensive, so both sides are executed. It is a good idea, and I'm wrong for my remark equating any of this to webforms.

I believe we have a lot we could do to make latency lower, and effort should be focused there. Branch prediction would not be necessary if branching were cheap. This latency prediction system would not be necessary either if latency was low, but it's not. Our hardware sucks. All of the layers of software suck. OculusVR is a testament to how much room for improvement there is in regards to latency.
upvote for describing a UI experience as "a jet-powered unicycle ride to Crazytown"
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Now thats a word I havent heard in a while. Memories come rushing back of the 90's scene with 0 day, iCE, ACiD, DaRK etc
1997: I left the law because it is an inherently unpleasant profession and I wanted to pursue something else.

Present Day: I left the law because I had no choice.

http://online.wsj.com/news/interactive/LSCHOOL20120625?ref=S...
I strongly agree with part of this, and am reservedly skeptical about the rest. What I agree with is disputing "calories make us fat because thermodynamics". Yes, of course the laws of physics still apply, and energy in minus energy out has to equal stored energy... but there are all kinds of ways energy is entering and leaving the system.

I do think that calories eaten and expended are an important part of the equation - having seen some people lose weight through simply restricting portion size - but I am unconvinced that it is (or is not) typically the most important piece. I am convinced that "... because thermodynamics" is a poor argument for it being the only thing that matters.
At the very least, quantitative analysts are some of the most technically gifted people I've had the pleasure of working with.

Another area of finance dominated by talented people would be high frequency trading. It's one of a few industries where system latency is often more important than system throughput, which leads to some very interesting low-level problems.
You've got to hand it to them for the clever name. They manage to imply that it's better than Sublime while using fewer letters.
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I don't think I would call spamming Twitter as being tech savvy.
Former lawyer here. I left the law for similar reasons. I used to be a software patent attorney. I got fed up with the kinds of things people were filing patents on. I felt it was all a complicated extortion scheme.

I left the profession and took a 70% pay cut my first year out. I'm still happy I did it.
Actually, in my code I always start with low():

low('foo').insert({ name: 'foo' })
low('bar').insert({ name: 'bar' })
low('foo').insert({ name: 'foo' })

So never really considered this way of writing or had this bug.

But I can see that it's a flaw and unexpected behavior. I'm adding this to the enhancements for the next version.

Thanks for spotting it :)
Having Safe Harbor option doesn't mean that one have to use it as the one may just happen to decide to take a stand against the things s/he doesn't like.