skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just moods, it's also hunger. AFAIK, fMRI studies have shown that in morbidly obese people, the hunger part of their brain is constantly activated. They're actually hungry all the time, they have an irresistible urge to eat. I'm sure the large majority of them wish they were thinner, but to them, it's a painful struggle against biological urges.

I used to be overweight, lost weight, but it's a constant struggle for me to keep a normal weight. I've spoken to some very thin people, and they don't seem to experience hunger in the same way I do. These people forget to eat, get full very quickly, and when they get full, they lose all of the sense of pleasure they get from eating, they immediately want to stop. Me? I have an urge to eat quickly and I can eat way past "enough". I'm pretty sure I could eat 2000 calories for dinner if I didn't stop myself, but the reasonable mark is at about 900. I can never "forget" to eat, my body/brain doesn't let me.

It's pretty clear that some people have stronger sex drives than others. I don't understand why it's such a radical notion that some people have a stronger sense of hunger than others. If you've never been overweight, chances are it's not an active effort or perfect habits on your part, it's just the way your body/brain works, it's largely genetics.
Converting it to a LESS mixin (or similar) would be interesting, it'd allow you to bring in only the needed styles for the graphs you've used :)
Paranoia is one thing. But I don't think it's paranoid to state that conspiracies exist. 5 years ago, people were called crazy for suggesting that the NSA were eavesdropping on the entire internet.

This particular article outlines the well-known links between NGOs and the US administration, and the probable ulterior motives underlying NGOs' stated objectives (i.e. 'human rights' etc). I don't think this is a paranoid theory.
Ford cars will soon start scanning the streets for wayward pedestrians
I would disagree that it is entirely a mug's game.

There are some EAs for MetaTrader that will check if your broker is manipulating your SL/TP and stop the trade. Also if you're a medium/long term trader then it doesn't really matter what your broker does.
I'm guessing the negative comment was due to a jocks vs. nerds cultural thing, combined with the fact that your advice was well.. bad.

I'd argue "the best first step" is not to start pumping iron, but to develop and execute a strategy that helps you to reduce your number of daily fork lifts.
My understanding from regularly reading fitness forums is that the actual calorie loss you get from having muscle instead of fat is pretty negligible (maybe 100 calories/day depending on how much muscle you have). However, perhaps it could still help if it gives you esteem about your body (causing you to show more discipline with respect to diet).

I think a really good first step is to 1) drop soda, sweets, or other things that are relatively effortless changes and then 2) just track everything you eat (you don't even need to look up calorie information initially) so you have the data in case you want to start making other dietary changes. I have also found that restricting your diet to a small set of foods where you deeply know the nutritional data, etc. and can build a routine out of it and moving from carbs to proteins are also really helpful.
what are you trying to accomplish? ie. What problem are you solving? Sorry, its a little unclear.
59% of maintained packages support Python 3
I wasn't proposing that the leaks be published without names being redacted, so with your comment regarding having names and such redacted to protect people.

I'm not sure I agree regarding slow leaks to keep pressure up. If that was the purpose, do you think that has been effective?

I don't think we all have 'political agendas', I would hope that most of us have humanitarian agendas which manifest themselves through political influence. There are definitely those with political agendas, but I don't think it's the majority.
So Google does business with the U.S. government? No duh. It's not exactly a state secret, it's not like Google doesn't post job openings at the Washington D.C. and Reston, VA locations for people who want to sell and support the government.

Here's the contract awards

http://www.usaspending.gov/search?form_fields=%7B%22search_t...

https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/search.do?indexName=awardfull&...

Of course they want to sell to the government. The government has money.
Have you looked at any of the backends as a service? E.g. Firebase/parse or self hosted alternatives like hood.ie?
As somebody who writes backends in my day job, I've found them to be a huge time saver on Mvps and reasonably capable.

Hit me up at noah@noahpryor.com if you want to discuss the space/your options
"Many signs point to the viral load not being highly infectious at the beginning. Duncan was sent back to his home by the hospital and lived with his fiance who was taking care of him for two days before being readmitted. She wore no PPE yet appears to be uninfected. If sitting next to someone infected on a bus or subway is enough to pass it on, there would be a million cases in West Africa by now, not 10K. It appears to be primarily caregivers at the later stages of the disease, and the custom of kissing corpses that appear to be spreading the disease because the viral load is extreme at that stage. This doesn't mean that the potential contacts of this person should not be traced or that it was good idea for him to go bowling, but the sky isn't falling just yet."
wfjackson
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8501792

Please look at this first
NaturalVR – Handsfree First Person Shooter
I don't think you can. Don't they lock them after the deadline?
Why would removing disincentives for being fat reduce the number of fat people? Should we also make smoking cool to reduce the # of smokers?
Yes. Users wising up will hopefully put an end to that money. Your statement is similar to saying that ending the NSA is not a practical solution because "power". So our personal autonomy is fucked because money and power - I'm willing to admit that this may be the inevitable answer, but in what way is it productive?

It's indeed hard to imagine a world in which users control their data - that is the extent of how hard we've been pwned.

Some of these systems were in place long before the issue could possibly be on anyone's radar, and would/will take quite a lot of work to extricate ourselves. anonymous payments - hard, especially now with Bitcoin on the scene. cell service - a bit harder, TOR+wifi+bearer payment for programmatic wifi access. physical address obfuscation - even harder, physical package mix network backed by repu (fuck, I give up).

But Youtube? You could write a software frontend tomorrow that avoided being Google's slave by not sending cookies. Comments would be a little harder, but that's a feature - I think a recent study showed glancing at those actually causes brain cancer. Beyond that, I guess TOR to scrub IPs until a better (high-latency) mix network comes along.

Email is a broken naive protocol like HTTP which relies on centralized identities, and can thus never really be secured. But secure messaging itself is a low hanging fruit. The fact we don't have it already shows that we seriously need to invest effort into building the ladder.
There are six categories of harassment, all of which are online. In three of them, men are higher by a small margin. In two of them, women are ahead by a significant margin, and in one ahead by a small margin.

So yes, by and large, women are more harassed online. I never said otherwise. What I said is that, based on my experience, women (while they are over-represented) are not as over-represented when it comes to harassment as the common perception seems to be. This is not data taken from the study, it's not a quote, and it's not cherry picking anything. Reading it as me attempting to skew the results of the Pew poll to support is incorrect. I'm not saying the study is wrong, I'm saying common perception is.

We also might have completely misaligned expectations of what "tangible" means. You've already said you're predisposed towards dismissing harassment towards men, and that's "BS". My question is what makes it "tangible" for women? Do you consider online stalking tangible, but online physical threats not? Why?

These aren't semantic quibblings. Whether nor not harassment is perceived as serious or not makes a huge difference towards how it is dealt with, both in individual circumstances and in society at large -- in this case, evidenced by you dismissing harassment towards men due to it not being tangible enough.
I think Neil Postman wrote the most concise examination of this topic in the foreword to "Amusing Ourselves to Death"[1]:

"We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.
But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right."

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Busi...
Yeah I get a lot more done in a shorter amount of time at 42 than 19, but the 20 hour days are really punishing, although offset by being able to work some of it remote, but for companies that chart success by sheer number of hours and face time clocked rather than projects completed these are in general a poor match for any effective developer.
> to provide busywork to welfare recipients

well they wouldn't exactly be welfare recipients if they're working
Bleen – Real holographic display
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We're all real people, you're the one who created a throwaway account to question other peoples motives.
They're not http so would guess they don't go through the proxy.
Sorry. Here's a good link that should help you get started:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_server

Since this is in early stages, I would say that if it's not clear after looking at the examples/* files this project may not be for you... (yet) :)
I did this. We broke up within six months after 5 years together. The firm - though no longer a start up (the breakup juggled priorities and set us on the path of a bootstrapped traditional firm) is still run profitably, nearly 9 years later, by us as cofounders. Both of us are now married to wonderful spouses. We found out that we were much, much better as business partners than we were as life partners.

I don't know that I'd recommend it - but I love my life, and this is how I got here.
He was a passenger in an Uber. It doesn't sound like they've made any effort to ensure the vehicle was cleaned.

http://blog.uber.com/nyc-statement
Why did Chas not do it this year?
Checked my Wife's Verizon iPad on LTE and no UID header.
Notes: http://jonalmeida.com/posts/2014/10/23/htsas-lec10/

This lecture so far seems like the mystical missing one that I left at the back of my head but didn't consider it as important to visit until you're already 100+ employees in.

By what Brian says, it seems extremely hard to hire anyone who doesn't have the same culture you're looking for. I say that, because I think of culture as being tightly twisted with your company products. How do you find people with the same cultural values, when they haven't grown with your product idea the same way that you have while building it?

These are just my initial thoughts for now..
"Please tell me what part of the source code infringed copyright?"

Judging from your question, your confusion about why this is illegal stems from two problems: you're unclear on both the law in general and the charges in particular. In this case, there is no complaint that the code has been improperly copied from someone else. Indeed, the code may well be an original work, freely distributed by its author, and being used in full accordance with his wishes.

However, copyright law covers more than that. Here, the complaint is that the code exists principally and primarily to violate the law, which is a violation in its own right. In this regard, publishing it is a bit like distributing sawn-off shotguns, which are generally illegal regardless of what's being done with them.
not quite the same, but haskell:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_A...

java 8: http://info.typesafe.com/COLL-2014-10-20-Java-8-II-Survey-Re...

scala: http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2013/06/scala-productivity-a-...
Though the article was focused on middle-east related activities, would your argument change if the article mentioned an equal number of South American or Asia focused conferences/think tanks, etc. etc.

It's interesting that we keep saying US foreign policy, but I wonder if it truly is US only, or if Google's connections in other countries have similar connections and activities? If they do, does that change how we feel about these?
Does anyone know of a case in which a judge made the FBI comply with their agreements
According to the article, the author received one unwanted message every 50 days. How is it "cognitive dissonance" or "denial" to describe pressing delete every 50 days as a minor problem?

Note that in a typical 2 week period, I probably get more than 36 recruiter spams. Could you concretely explain what you feel is being denied?
The Rainbow Connection
>However, as a philocalist and masochist I felt compelled to write legible code and decided to use C.

Having looked at the author's boot.c, I now understand that legibility is in the eye of the beholder.

Still, it's a neat and impressive hack. I wish I knew more about operating systems.
It's calories in, calories out, only if you stick to specific foods.

It's well proven that raw foods, despite being slightly higher calorie content than their cooked version, contribute significantly less calories because FAR less is digested and absorbed.

And it's equally well proven that weight gain is significantly due to the consumption of processed sugars (most carbohydrates that people eat these days), as they contribute far more sugar far quicker to the blood (and hence kick off an insulin reaction to lower the blood sugar by storing the sugar as fat). 1000 calories of white rice will contribute far more to weight gain than 1000 calories of, say, plain chicken.

So we _know_ that it's not just calories in, calories out. It just seems that way sometimes, because most studies don't really change the fundamental type of food (that is, it's almost assuredly cooked food still, and at least somewhat similar in the processing done (e.g. no candy bar but they're still eating white bread)). Everyone's just repeating the same study over and over, not realizing they weren't fundamentally changing the inputs.
We deal with this all the time when recommending diet supplements at my startup. When it comes to losing weight, yes, calories in vs. calories out is the most important step to start with.

Sure, protein has a higher TEF (thermic effect of food), and yadda yadda yadda there are some other minor things involved, but they're just not enough for you to discredit the calorie situation.

However, when it comes to burning fat, the next most important thing (after you have determined a reasonable caloric deficit) is to maintain a "high" level of protein.

Too low of protein, and you're going to lose too much muscle mass. Ultimately, this is what's leading to so many "skinny fat" dieters. You get a lot of it from people who do nothing but cardio cardio cardio.

It turns out that all the low-fat vs. low-carb wars are really meaningless, because most of those studies don't control protein - which is MORE important! That last low-fat vs. low-carb study that came out was miserably guilty of this, because protein intake has actually been shown to be more significant than carb or fat control[1].

After you've situated your calories, then your protein (and you are consistent about it), then you choose your carbs and fats however it pleases you. There are extremes on both sides.

What's important is you find something that you can be successful with, and keep that protein number up. Lest you be skinny fat, which I personally feel is worse than being "muscular fat".

In the bodybuilding community, some people have taken this to extremes with Flexible Dieting, or "IIFYM" (If it Fits Your Macros...). Basically, the idea that proper quantities (as discussed above and below) are more important than food quality. I will err on that side of the argument, but the truth likely lies somewhere in the middle when attempting to achieve overall health.

Finally, it's worth noting that while total caloric intake and macronutrients are most important when it comes to weight and aesthetics, please eat some damned vegetables too. And corn is not a vegetable.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22935440
The extreme nutshell version is that a female indie game developer supposedly slept with a male video game journalist, and this supposedly let to favorable coverage for her game that would not have happened otherwise.

The surface phenomenon is that a lot of people united under the banner of #gamergate to protest this breach of journalistic ethics. The dark side is that it seems like it's really just a bunch of people who want to see someone's life ruined, and they are wildly overreacting.

I think the underlying phenomenon is similar to what happened to Brendan Eich, even though the ostensible cause and the people involved are completely different.
> I'm guessing the negative comment was due to a jocks vs. nerds cultural thing

Oh, yeah that happened to me a few times in the past, but more explicitly. The funny thing is my main activity is actually devops.

> daily fork lifts

LOL
> few factory workers [...] would consider their work 'basket weaving'.

I had the pleasure of working with a machinist named Bill who was probably 70 years old. He was an artist with tools twice as old as I was, sometimes five times that. After decades of experience there were no doubts about his products, no mistakes. He even included ergonomic touches not specified in the plans so that people using his products as tools downstream would have less chance of mistakes themselves.

When asked about some of the other people working in the factory, mostly 20-somethings, he said, "They are strong, but they have no finesse."

Bill was a 10x employee, and he wove the hell out of those baskets.
I don't believe you. Let's take a random sample of videos and see how "every" it is.
So you're seriously equating getting an unwanted job offer with a threat of sexual violence? What?
It's not a radical notion. It would be radical to assume anything else without very strong evidence.
I am the same way as you are btw. What changes it for me is very low-carb diet. After few days of suffering I actually stopped being hungry and went some days with one/two small meals. I forgot to eat few times until like 7pm. I imagine that people who are like that by default have it much easier to keep healthy weight.
More likely it's just pattern matching. Just like people are more likely to relax in a room painted green, than one painted red. It has nothing to do with evolving to like green rooms.
Good overview here: http://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-a...
NYCs Ebola Patient Visited:

-Harlem

-An Uber car

-The High Line

-A restaurant

-A Train

-Jogged 3 miles

-L Train

-1 Train

-The Gutter
Do you really expect me to read through 1000 comments to enumerate which ones exceed a minimal threshold for snark?

If that's a prerequisite for being considered civil, fuck civility. I value my time too much for that.

Furthermore, my suggestion of "everyone has been mean to me" was intended as absurd hyperbole. The worst thing I've dealt with from HN is silent down-votes without an explanation of what they didn't like about my comment, which isn't even in the same league as, say, Youtube comments. (To be explicit, the preceding sentence is NOT a complaint.)

Sometimes I make ironic statements to make a point.

Disclaimer: I'm normally an asshole. I don't think pointing things out and merely appending "LOL" is in the same league as, say, telling Comcast that all their lobbyists should commit seppuku to make the world a better place. Which I did this morning.
> And few could object to that.

I think you'll find that more than 50% of the world population object to it. Let's have democracy ! For example, the prime example of anti-human rights behaviour, killing gays, is favored by ideologies that together have ~72% of the total human population (and is a quite popular idea in most of them). I mean everybody knows about this in muslim countries, but it's no different in a number of Indian states, or African dictatorships with a LOT of people in them.

Europe and America, together, are around 700-800 million people, or a little under 10% of the total world population.

And ... Europe has a muslim population that is at 6-7% and growing rapidly, and those people are most definitely not in favor of human rights, rule of law, and absolutely not in favor of democracy (well, to be honest, most actual muslim immigrants are very much in favor of that, because they've seen and felt the alternative. But they let, even demand, their kids be educated by islamists, and very few of them share their parents' viewpoints. And of course second-generation muslim immigrants are using violence, just like their counterparts everywhere else, which ironically means they often attack newly arrived muslim immigrants. Or at least, that's how it works in Brussels. For example muslims in Brussel use violence against women to enforce their idea of "correct" marriages (no ethnic mixing, no religious mixing, no faction mixing, and especially no converting religion), but a lot of people ran away from muslim countries in the first place because they married "wrong" in some way or converted.

There are other large factions in Europe (like the extreme right, which is 20%-30% of the total population, the fact that it's mostly outlawed makes it hard to tell. If you're living on the countryside, it's far more than 20%) these factions are certainly not uniformly in favor of human rights (at least, you might say they feel the need to be selective about who receives those rights)

Every year the world is looking closer to what it was in the early 20th century. Of course, this means the current wars are but a slight taste of what's to come.