skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this article seems to confirm my pet theory that most programs promoting "wellness" are rarely effective because it doesn't involve true intrinsic motivation (it talks about extrinsic carrots and sticks). you need to want to do something that has a side effect of wellness. for example, i started playing basketball again after i could find no other activity that would keep me at a healthy weight. i keep playing because i'm competitive, both with myself and with others. this is similar to how viral loops work - get people active by allowing them to 'level up' and feel good about themselves.
The largest failing, in my opinion, is that they've built the system into the helmet rather than building something which can be worn under the helmet or mounted to existing helmets.

I'd be willing to take the distraction risk of using the HUD while riding, but I'm not willing to take that risk while wearing a helmet of dubious quality. I'd rather stick one of the NUVIZ huds on my Arai and test it out with gear I know works.
He said he'd open source it, but it never happened. I think this pre-dates Mojang, but I'm not certain about the exact timing.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100301103851/http://www.minecra...
Well, and this:

> It was then that I realized that the fed I was talking to had been my coworker at Giganews since I started in 2009!

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I would instantly recognize any coworker I'd known for three years.
But it reads like a satirical manifesto. He certainly appears to be trying to be funny and wrote it as the Co-CEO. Ending with:

>Now that you know what we're about, start a free 14-day trial at Giganews.com and join the King of Thieves in the unholy war against God. We can only win with your help, and we need your soul to fuel Hells flames. Our servers are alwayson, always available, and run by a company you can trust. Giganews: Newsgroups Nonstop.
If you don't have any C in your executable or its libraries, then you don't need to have any C stack. For the purpose of system calls, the stack is just the memory pointed to by the stack pointer. It could be anywhere - heap, bss, a subrange of an existing stack allocation.

If you want to call into C code (it's rather unrealistic not to have any C in any of your library dependencies), then you need to make a C-style stack available, following the conventions of the system (e.g. growing downwards vs upwards, using a guard page for incremental allocation, etc.) along with enough reserve for typical C maximum call stack depth. It needs to be set up before the call to C, but it doesn't need to hang around when C code is not in the chain of current procedure activations.

The requirements of the stuff pointed to by the stack pointer for it to be considered stack is defined by the platform ABI, which in turn is heavily dependent on CPU architecture. But as long as you meet the rules, you're fine, with regard to the OS. Third party code may be more sniffy.
They're actually prohibited from wearing dosimeters... imagine that...
I'm pretty disappointed with google sheet at the moment. I built some mildly complex spreadsheets for time tracking, nutrition, planning and such. They worked fine a year ago but I have experienced a massive drop in performance over the past few months. They take a minute to open and awfully slow to update calculations and no longer work reliably offline either. This is on an quad core desktop ffs.

This will kill cloud office apps if what works today doesn't work tomorrow. Cloud should not mean total loss of control of the version of the application. Something like gdocs should be offering frozen past versions of the app to avoid this type of thing being possible. Its not like frozen versions would actually add any maintenance cost to google.

These sheets are small and just have a few array forumulae. Nothing excel 20 years would have broken a sweat over.
I travel a lot and I haven't seen these machines in a while. I thought they were all phased out in favor of the radio-wave types.

Regardless, I always opt out too.
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Ask HN: Does Anybody Run Windows/Visual Studio on their Macbook Pro Retina?
I'm seriously considering buying a Macbook Pro Retina 15" and plan on spending a lot of time in Windows, specifically with Visual Studio. I am a little concerned over threads where people have complained about "fuzzyness" when running Windows under non native resolution and scaling issues when using native (2880x1800) resolution with DPI scaling. Is there anybody who currently runs this setup and give feedback on their experience running Windows (either virtualized or in bootcamp)?
So is your goal to be a faster MathJax-compatible alternative? We currently use MathJax, but there's definitely a need for faster rendering. As an example, we sometimes run a page load through wkhtmltopdf, and MathJax content can take a LONG time

EDIT: Thanks for replying to my comment in spite of the downvotes
>Shutting down Etho, Yogscast, etc is likely to lead to hordes of 13 year olds hating MS for ever.

Can you say with certainty that 13 year olds know what Microsoft is?
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Funny thing is, when you opt-out, they don't send you through the metal detector. Or even wand one down with a metal detector. Whole thing is a farce.
The current "most recent" quote is pretty unfortunate; not only is it sexist, but also a pun! DOUBLE WHAMMY.

But I would implore folks to look past that type of thing (by voting it down) and find true gems :)
I was hoping for a huge stack of Doom frames rolling out of the printer.
Is there support for alternate math fonts (not sure what the proper term is) like \mathbf, \mathcal, \mathbb? Couldn't get it working. Looks fantastic though.
Yeah there's a lot of nuance there to be certain. Carmack is at least pretty Randian/Objectivist from what I've seen of his public statements, which deviates quite a bit from the traditional hippie left-leaning coder-type (though of course there are great developers all across the political spectrum).
If he wanted to walk away there are plenty of other options there that aren't about money. Open source it, give it to the employees of Mojang, or another variety of options along the same lines.

This is completely about money, which is fine, but let's not pretend like their is some superior moral virtue going on here.
It was actually surprisingly popular while I was going to college and I graduated this year. Most people used it with Sickbeard to automatically download TV shows, but some people thought our university was using deep packet inspection and encrypted Usenet was more secure than torrenting.
I feel like an hour of consulting work at that rate is slightly different. I personally wouldn't expect to bill for 2000 hours of work in a single year as a contractor.

As a technical co-founder, I would expect the full 200k/yr as salary, plus equity and a cash bonus if goals are met.
VCs in the dot com bubble were not confused about whether companies should make money or not. VCs knew exactly what they were doing: making money for themselves. They were raking in millions by pumping up companies and dumping them on the public market. A classic ponzi scheme. Eventually the public market realized what was going on and the party stopped.
I've always been told that wellness programs existed to obtain discounts from the insurance providers, akin to "honor roll" discounts with car insurance. As long as you have the bare minimum to qualify, you get a nice chunk of $$$ chopped off your rate.

I get that plenty of rate modifiers have strong links to driving safety like age and marriage status. However, in my limited opinion, there's no way "honor roll" has anything but the weakest link to safe driving as the barrier to achievement varies drastically on a school-to-school basis. Insurance companies are data driven but data (especially healthcare data) lags so long that I wouldn't be surprised if discounts for running a wellness program were founded purely in speculation. This article seems to back that assumption with hard proof as well.
I'm a senior consultant (mostly rails) and I find much easier to find clients in the US (CA, NY) and Europe than locally. Local rails boutiques are charging $60/h and senior/experienced developers/architects have a hard time finding startups that could afford hiring "competitive" people.

p.s.
by "competitive" I mean experienced people that could be hired remotely at SF rates.
A lot of this story suggests that a diagnosis of delusional paranoid schizophrenic seems plausible. They are also have issues with reasoning abilities, thus the disjointedness.
I always hold my stuff up before it enters the scanner; this serves the dual purpose of making it harder to ignore my request and keeping my bags safer. Usually they'll then ask you to hold your belongings outside the line or put them on a shelf somewhere in eyesight.
The bigger problem are the TSA agents operating the scanners. They are constantly getting exposed to these machines during their workshift. I think that's the biggest upcoming "disaster" surrounding these lame ineffective scanners.
My pet peeve: when you opt out, they say "please stand right next the machine for a few minutes while we get somebody."
Well, there is natural products chemistry, which is anything that is produced directly from biology. It is a useful thing to keep track of as if something complex is being produced by a biological process you can hook into it for precursors to make other complex molecules more easily. You can also completely synthesize a natural product and it doesn't stop the status of the chemical. All the name means is that it is known to be existent as the output of a biological process.
In the cloud do you even have a "collection"? It's nothing as tangible as a rack of CDs or even an mp3 file, in this case it is just a UI abstraction over a set of database flags.
The idea, I think, is that humans have been sharing the planet with everything else for so long that anything especially dangerous that occurs "naturally" is likely to have been already tested- ie "artificial" drugs should be more unpredictable, and therefore potentially more dangerous, than whatever stuff some exotic culture has been fucking with for hundreds of generations (which is pretty much any interesting compound you can find "naturally").

Of course, unscrupulous-types will lean on whatever marketing stunt they feel will sell some short-term product, with little respect for the long-term dangers/benefits, so naturally words like "natural" and "organic" get abused.
> That would imply that they don't even have a log of what requests are passing through their system. I find that extremely hard to believe.

They damn well better not be.
He answered your point in his comment. The TSA said these measurements had a fair amount of error associated with them, and since their still trivial amounts it's unfair to say the TSA lied when the number is within what they said it would be.
"has been largely neutered by automatic DMCA requests"

For top 40 pop music and hollywood movies released within maybe 6 months of todays date.

For the rest of the cultural universe, no not really.
I don't think Microsoft has any interest in building their own Steam, beyond just building an all-purpose App Store on the Windows platform. Games For Windows Live was a disaster, and their main focus on games today is with the XBox, not the PC.
what is different about this than the original arc90 readability algorithm with an URL field added to kick off the processing?
Sounds more like rsync over WebRTC.
We try to test in lots of different environments, so it should work reasonably in most environments. To get the speed we wanted, we had to ditch much older browsers (we don't support IE 7 and earlier), and we only render to HTML/CSS, not things like MathML. However, we're so far very happy with the look of the math in the environments we've tested.

KaTeX works great in a headless environment. You can even do server side rendering if you want a browserless environment which can serve up straight HTML with no JS.

Both KaTeX and MathJax's biggest slowdown is the font loading. However, since KaTeX's CSS can be included manually (instead of letting MathJax put it in the DOM after load) it should load a little faster.

Also, looks like your use cases are similar to ours at Khan Academy! We've been struggling with MathJax on slow computers and iPads for a while, which is why we made this. Let me know if you want more info!
Could you please wave your sarcasm sign? I won't understand that you are joking, otherwise. Because you're joking, right?
The problem with a lot of the data in electronic medical records is that they are not structured but in natural language. This is exactly where Watson can help.
Well, in this case, 1st/2nd generation devices do function properly with Android 2.3/3.0 - you just can't install some apps on them...
Yeah. I am not a medical professional, but I have spent a lot of time around schizophrenics and other folks with paranoid delusions, and this does not have the same highly disorganized and repetitive character that their speech and writing tend towards.

EDIT: To be clear, I still don't really believe the story, but if he is suffering from paranoid delusions, he is VERY high-functioning.
If you try hard enough, you can find a dystopian police state anywhere you want.
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This claims that VyprVPN is logging things for the government and other actors. I use VyprVPN on a regular basis, so I'm curious about what exactly they are logging, how long they keep the logs, etc.

I don't use the VPN for anything illegal, mostly just to get around Verizon's stupid bandwidth limiting on Netflix, Amazon S3, and other services, and for an extra layer of protection when connecting from a sketchy public wifi, etc. But I still would like some answers about these claims especially since their privacy policy says:

Each time a user connects to VyprVPN, we retain the following data for 30 days: the user's source IP address, the VyprVPN IP address used by the user, connection start and stop time and total number of bytes used.

and they say:

Does not log a user's traffic or the content of any communications
In fact I’d half-expect that synthetic products be generally safer, since you know exactly what you’re making and the extent to which it may be adulterated. If I want to eat everything that comes from the vanilla bean, I can buy extract. But if I want just vanillin, I can buy exactly that.
The word coworker can mean a lot of things. I worked at a company of 14,000 and while technically they would all be my coworkers, I probably would struggle to recognize more than 100 of them that I sat in the same room as every day. I've met more than a few "coworkers" from that company who drove a semi in Florida for the company while I worked five states away in an office.

Even at my current company with ~100 employees, damn if I could recognize the accountants just by seeing their face out of context.
What's your opinion on why the X-ray machines have been decommissioned?
I find it ironic that the laws that allowed Notch to cash out were expressly created to forward the progress of science and arts. Yet we find ourselves at a place where the dream is not to work and perfect craft, but to Get Rich Quick so we can relax for the rest of our lives. I, too, find it sad.
Two one-ways, two different airlines. Fly from, say, LA to Indianapolis via Denver on, say, Delta and get off at Denver. For the return trip, fly Denver to Anchorage via LA on say Alaska Airlines and get off at LA. You have completed your travel plans, and from the perspective of each airline, you just missed your connection on a one-way trip.
Props to the coders for improving upon the LaTeX/Web use case space, but I can't help but feel something other than LaTeX is going to be necessary for the internet. LaTeX was fundamentally about document-level typesetting, and the internet is fundamentally not a place where that happens.
Please! I find MathJax unusable because of this shortcoming.
A friend of mine said "I knew it! You're a Mason too, what other secret organizations are you part of that you haven't told us about?"

Yeah, how was this guy going to go back to working at the same company under a fake identity, if everyone there already knew him? "Oh no, I'm not Bob, I'm his twin brother Jim"?
Not clear to me exactly what Microsoft is buying here. As far as I know the development studio Mojang is tiny, maybe a few dozen people. Minecraft itself has a huge community, and made a lot of money, but it's not clear how Microsoft leverages that into anything other than goodwill.
"MALE OPT OUT!"

And then you get to watch the employees' form of protest as they chit chat for a few minutes before heading over to fetch you.
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You are incorrect. The article did not "strike a nerve" or otherwise provoke a strong emotional reaction in me. You may wish to stop and consider why you assumed that.
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I've been using this for years, now I can't read an article without it.
I've never been allowed to. They always make me run them thru the X-Ray and wait in the separate line until the guy shows up... which varied between 5 and 15 minutes. Then the guy usually shows up and starts making faces and keeps reciting the rules. I told him: I'm in a hurry, I agree, I've heard this a million times already, but, no, he needs to repeat the same thing over and over again.
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Ask HN: Where is the best place to find a co-founder
I have looked at the usual suspects like CoFounders Lab, but nothing really seems intuitive or a good match. Any suggestions to find a CoFounder with web development skills?
To add to this reply... http://blog.tsa.gov/2011/06/tsa-cancer-cluster-myth-buster.h...

Q: Why aren’t your officers permitted to wear dosimeters?

A: There is a really good reason for this. The emissions from our X-ray technology are well below the requirements that would require their routine usage. To help reassure passengers and employees that the technology is safe, however, health physicists with the U.S. Army have been conducting area dosimeter surveys at multiple airports nationwide.

Sounds like nonsense to me... at the least, I'd like to see the resulting data from those surveys posted online and kept up to date so the public can see it.
As a thought experiment, let's assume at least parts of this story are true.

I would actually be very happy if the FBI was plugged into a USENET feed, sifting through the crud and fighting crime. This isn't like the NSA privacy incursions — USENET is public. Whatever you post is out there for everyone to see.
I run Windows but not Visual Studio. I'm using bootcamp. It works fine.

When you're first running the installer, the dialogs/interface elements are tiny because of the retina resolution. However, once the full operating system boots up, text and interface automatically scale and look great. That's assuming you're running at the native display resolution. If you play games or whatever at non-native res, you do get some fuzziness from interpolation. Also, some applications appear to have issues with high-resolution and look pixelated.

Also, I've only been using Windows on my 15" retina macbook for a little while. There may very well be issues I haven't run into yet that could come up in the future.
Google music does it all the time.
Didn't this help U2's album sales on iTunes? It seems like it worked out pretty well for them and for Apple.
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The TSA has never admitted error in their numbers. On the contrary, they have guaranteed the public that they will get less than 10µrem/screening.
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all about rechargeables? :

http://www.lygte-info.dk/info/indexBatteriesAndChargers%20UK...
Random? What are you talking about? You've never seen that amazing iPad app that the TSA officers use to tell you which line to get in? You know... the one where they tap on the screen and a large arrow tells them whether to send you to the left or right? And for which they probably paid tens of thousands of dollars (maybe more) to have built? Wish I had gotten that contract! :-p
Um, here’s an, uh, map that shows where Americans use “um” vs. “uh”
There's still a difference between the kind of radiation exposure that occurs during a flight compared to during a screening. My understanding is that radiation exposure during a flight is due to cosmic rays which are equally likely to cause damage throughout the body. The X-rays used by the TSA are at lower energy and are deposited almost exclusively in the skin. Since the volume of skin is much less than the total volume of your body, the radiation dose that your skin is receiving from the TSA is much larger than the dose during a flight.
I haven't seen the particular estimate but it's very difficult to extrapolate repeated low doses into a high dose.

Lets take the case of water toxicity, if you're a little dehydrated and you drink 5 litres of water in one sitting you'll die. However, if you drink a few litres of water everyday over the entire day you'll have no issue.
Yep, that's our goal. Khan Academy does a bunch of math rendering, and our exercises were suffereing because of it. Hopefully some time we'll be able to stop using MathJax.
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We do not terminate customers for violating the Copyright Alert System (aka "six strikes"), which is a non-punitive, educational and voluntary copyright program.

Since when is this "voluntary"? I'm guessing in that if you choose not to subscribe to any ISP, I guess you wouldn't be 'enrolled' in the program, but you also wouldn't have internet service, about as 'voluntary' as breathing is to life.
Well, they addressed the content of the allegations, but not the source, other than saying that the chat transcript was "inaccurate". In what way, we don't know. Was it completely fabricated? Was the Comcast representative misinformed? Have they backtracked on their policy?

The fact that they don't address it at all suggests to me that they haven't drafted a damage-controlled explanation yet.
Out of curiosity, how are you using plex for comics? The photo gallery feature? I keep asking the developers to add cbz and cbr support but it doesn't seem to be coming.
Honestly, networking. You'll need to vet a lot of people, which means you'll have to talk to at least 10x as many before you find a good match that your comfortable with.

I've also used services like CoFounders Lab, and several others which have been suggested. They're all pretty mediocre at best.
Well, I guess you can really say that the album went "viral".
This 'Friends dont let friends build alone' day sounds like a neat idea, it would be awesome if these popped up in other cities too!
2.5B is a lot of money anyway. But your right. I dont think you need to half it for the founders (+company people)
Because you like other features of the language and you just want to get on with it.
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This[0] twitter account GigaNews links to makes mention of "FBI agent Scott Kibbey" and has been tweeting stuff like this for months:

Angel Vehuel counters the demon appearing as an angel that teaches geometry, speaks of hidden things,& causes anger. Eg:@Windows &@BillGates

See our tweets to know why the counterfeit food, the so-called #MightyWings from @McDonalds are dedicated to a winged bull demon of Hell.
https://twitter.com/AngelicPsalms/status/438490809164263425

[0] https://twitter.com/AngelicPsalms/status/509857806057762816

Which seems pretty off the rails. Poe's Law and all that, but still...
Any plans on adding support to \newcommand and \newenvironment?
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