skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this discussion very weird.

Of course calories in/calories out explains your weight loss/gain. I haven't seen a single study that shows anything except this.

But of course that isn't the whole story.

The big issue with using calorie restriction for weight loss is that it take significant self control for long periods of time (months).

People take that as a moral judgement of people who don't lose weight: they assume that it means they are mentally weak.

But the truth is that there are alternatives. The thing that most calorie in/out advocates miss is that it's calories over time that matter. If one can spread digestion of the same calories over a longer period of time the subject will generally feel less hungry.

This is where high-protein, anti-processed food, anti-sugar and insulin reaction people have a point: High protein, high fiber and unprocessed foods generally have a high satiety index[1][2]. This means a person eating them will feel less hungry for longer for the same amount of calories.

Naturally this links back to calories in: if someone who is trying to lose weight doesn't feel hungry they don't have to have so much self control.

To me the low satiety index of confectioneries and soda drinks explains why sugar is so dangerous: It's digested very quickly and contains lots of calories, which is the worst possible combination for weight control.

I don't understand why satiety isn't discussed more in weight control, since to me it is the key factor.

(This is all from the perspective of someone who lost nearly 20kg via calorie counting)

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7498104

[2] http://www.ernaehrungsdenkwerkstatt.de/fileadmin/user_upload...
Mostly the Trance channels on DI.FM .. Vocal Trance, Epic Trance, Classic Trance, etc.

I find Trance has enough energy/momentum to motivate me, without being distracting like most of the rock/metal/otherstuff I listen to other times.
Not the surprise:
you need less than 3bytes on average to store a tick...
Going to second Fastmail. I've been a user of it for the past three months and it's easily worth the cost, especially considering it's for something as vital as email. Before Fastmail I hosted my own email server and used sup to access my email. Switching to Fastmail was one of my biggest productivity boosts in the past 6 months. Really wish they'd get CardDAV sync in though :-/.
Do you smoke cannabis and hack?
How do you define a "lie"?

It is full of misinformation and omission of fact which then creates a false narrative. There are a few options then:

a) Assange is omitting important facts intentionally (which I don't think is the case). In this case you can call this misinformation a "lie".

b) Assange truly believes in the narrative and honestly thinks the important facts are not that important. In this case, well, he is a bit of a lunatic...

Some examples of omission/misinformation:

1. DARPA funding. He omitted that perhaps 30-50% of all PhD students in one or another way get DARPA funding.

2. "$2M contract with NSA in 2003". He omitted that Google was selling it's "Search Appliance" left and right in 2003 and NSA was just a small fish.

3. "Caught redhanded with handing petabytes of data... via PRISM". He forgot to mention that Google was bound by law to comply with NSL and warrants and was one of the first ones among all the companies to push for more transparency.

4. "Google Maps are shopped to Pentagon". He forgot to mention that Google sells access to maps to everyone and Pentagon is just a small fish.

5. When talking about lobbying, he stops explaining why Google lobbies. It doesn't lobby for more contracts, like Lockheed, it lobbies for less regulation in search ;-)

I could go on.

Overall, I would say, the Lockheed-Google analogy is deeply flawed. Just follow the money. Google does not care for government contracts - virtually all of it's revenue is from ads. The key asset for Google is user trust, which as you can see, is very hard to retain. If user trust is lost, Google is toast. Why would it then have any incentive to bed with the government?

Disclosure: I work for Google. I sit next to security folks (not physical security, mind you). Everyone I know here is super super pissed about Keyscore, wiretaps, NSL, etc.
Pulled chicken with salsa - 3 pounds of chicken, mixed breasts and thighs. 48oz salsa, three cans of 15oz beans. Mix together, put in slow cooker for 4 hours on high. Pull the chicken and mix in a cup of cheddar cheese. Simple, satiating, and very good.

Pulled pork Put a pork butt/shoulder in the slow cooker. Douse with a 16oz bottle of root beer. Cook on low for 8 hours. Pull apart. Mix in BBQ sauce and cheddar cheese to taste. This can end up tasting too good, so you might need to portion control when you eat it.

Roast beef (or roast lamb, or roast anything) Buy an oven roast and rub in salt and pepper. Cook according to the times laid out here http://www.thehealthybutcher.com/livetoeat/volume23/TheHealt... Very simple, yet amazingly delicious right out of the oven.

Baked Chicken Buy a mix of thighs and breasts. Slice the breasts in half so they are the same thickness as the thighs. Brush with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cook at 400 degrees until they are 160degrees internal temp (37 minutes in my oven, when laid out on a rack, not on the baking pan directly). Once you have baked the chicken, you can eat straight up the first night. Then in succeeding nights you can mix with tomato sauce and do pasta, mix with cheese and make a quesadilla, mix with coconut milk, red curry paste, and peanut butter and do a thai chicken, etc. By doing the work of cooking the chicken all in one night, in following nights you can make a variety of healthy, delicious meals in under 10 minutes. Just reheat the chicken in a sauce and you have instant goodness.

Roast veggies But three 1pound bags of frozen veggies - brussel sprouts, "fiesta mix", brocoli, whatever you like. Put in strainer and run water over to thaw out a bit. Dry. Put on baking pans. Brush with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Put in oven at 425 degrees for 25 minutes. If using multiple pans, switch the racks half-way through. It is even better if you do fresh veggies, but it is more prep work in cutting them to the proper size.
I switched to Fastmail about a year or so ago, and love it. Custom domain as well.

Reliable, nice UI, works flawlessly on all my devices (would like Push notifications on iPhone but 15 minute polling works fine for my purposes).
he is suggesting it as an explanation for retirement contributing to premature death in men more than in women, not the difference in life expectancy in general.
YC: Summer Reading and Startup Program
This is something I've always wondered - how do programmers who don't natively speak, read, or write English cope with the sheer amount of literature they have to parse to have a career programming?
certainly we would expect that people in good physical health are less likely to retire, that those in poor health are more likely to.
I'm not afraid of Ebola as much as the "experts" who keep intentionally misleading us about Ebola. I don't know why they do it, and that scares me. But it's very obvious that it's intentional.

See the first three sources I found about Ebola transmission in sweat:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/ebola-ask-well-spre... (claims that sweat doesn't contain Ebola)
http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemi... (claims that Ebola can be transmitted through sweat)
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html (hard to tell whether they think sweat is a transmission mechanism or not... they define "body fluids" twice, once including sweat and another excluding it)

I also heard on NPR that sweat contained a lot of the virus (don't have a reference handy).

Real experts don't shoot their mouth off with false assurances about a disease we don't know much about. The "hard to catch Ebola" mantra was going on long after that was discredited[1]. These aren't experts, they have some kind of agenda, and I'm not sure what it is. For some, it's probably just being on TV. For others, it's to feel smug about how the ignorant masses under them are panicking irrationally. As for the rest, probably political.

Again, I'm not panicking about Ebola. We'll have a few isolated cases in the West. It will remain in Africa in all of the hot zone countries until we have a vaccine. And hopefully that happens before it spreads to Nigeria, India, Brazil, or other areas where it might be hard to control.

I am not panicking. I am just mad at the irresponsibility of these "experts" we keep hearing from.

[1] No references here, but I think everyone remembers that the first story was that, unless you were engaging in some unsanitary funeral practices deep in an African village, it was impossible to catch. After doctors began to catch it, the story changed to be that they don't have enough resources to protect themselves. Then several Western doctors got infected while in hospitals in Western countries (Spain and the US at least), and the story changed into something about how the protocols will protect us, but were just not followed properly these few times (despite not knowing the specific protocol violations that lead to infection).
>"You need to eat less

In the first 4 words you've already missed the entire point.

Never once has it ever been said you should eat less.

Just eat less calories, not less quantity.
I'm in a similar boat. I majored in "Information Systems" which was practically a glorified business degree with some IT, networking, and a tiny bit of programming thrown in.

I was able to pick up comp sci fundamentals from various awesome online tutorials and even just good old Wikipedia.
Identities don't change anything. I don't know what the solution is, but that's not it.

My current, occasional stalker - someone in the tech industry, a fellow dev, someone probably reading HN, even - gave away his name, phone, address... and it checks out. Police won't take him as a serious threat though, so neither will anyone else (like Twitter). Police also won't just check on him because I think he's schizophrenic from the very weird things he has sent me in the past. I just block him everywhere after the fact and hope that he has family/friends that will eventually check on him.

My last favorite game I stopped playing because people were harassing me, people that were easily tied to their FB accounts with their full name, employer, address, and more. They didn't give a shit. Neither did Blizzard. No care about rape threats. Okay. I'm done.

I'm also super disillusioned given what some people I know in this industry are saying about GG. They don't care that their real name and sometimes their employer is on their Twitter profile, even if they harass people with it. And of course, brace myself for the "but that was out of bounds and evil!", the handful of folks I can remember that have been fired for harassment on twitter - all happened because they had a real name+employer written down somewhere, and they thought they would get away with it.

Not to mention I'm really glad I'm out of the dating market because my okc and other dating site inboxes were cesspools. Again, real names or more than enough info to tie a person to their real name, and still they persist. I had the courtesy to reply to every message that wasn't some variation on "wanna suck my %&#$"/"your hot"/"i wanna do _____ to you" and yet some people still ended up going "you're a bitch"/"you're so fat i feel sorry for you i bet you don't get laid"/(rape threats).

I only wish real life identities were a deterrent, but that only happens if there are consequences. Given what's going on, apparently there are no consequences except in the oddest direction ever (with all the doxxing going on).
> The degree of difficulty in (not) eating an additional (something)

You've missed the entire point.

Never once has it ever been said you should eat less.

Just eat less calories, not less quantity.

(This reply is so important I replied to two different people with it)
Family has farms... <family name>.farm has worked well for us so far. The TLD becomes a talking point that makes people remember it... "Oh, no .com at the end?" etc.
> And in this case, the car's only missing the hood ornament.

A more appropriate analogy would be a car that has its chassis number filed off and written back on with black marker.
I'll argue that good programmers need to have a working understanding of algorithms, databases, compilers and all that. Sure, it's not something you will use day-to-day in a software engineering job but it's important to know how all the low level pieces of your stack fit together in order to write good code.

There's nothing worse than a programmer that fits together code snippets from Stackoverflow and similar sites without understanding what it is actually doing.
I don't natively speak, read, or write English. Speaking for myself, you cope by studying English. Blood, toil, tears, and sweat are involved.
Sounds like a (very) simple version of Parse. Here are some more similar concepts: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9024819/free-cloud-data-s...
Surprisingly, one of the best overviews I've seen was in Reason: http://reason.com/archives/2014/10/12/gamergate-part-i-sex-l...

Unlike most of the other references people tend to cite in answer to questions like yours, they don't have an obvious stake in the matter.
I don't think I've ever seen a story with so many dead posts.

EDIT: Everyone is downvote-happy. I'm going to do my best to upvote anyone who was downvoted unfairly.
I've been using Zoho Mail [1] service for past one year. While it's not very fancy it gets the job done for me well and is lightweight. Even got a custom domain for free!

https://www.zoho.com/mail/
> A Natural A/B Test

Or, as more honest and less conceited people would call it, an anecdote.
For what it's worth, your English is pretty good.
...uh...seems to have paid off well for you.
I currently work with a bunch of people who are "business majors" or whatever and are similarly self-taught in the Tech/IT/Programming space.

It's interesting to watch how they work and the kinds of outputs they produce. Quite a lot of the stuff works... mostly...

It's entirely untestable, not repeatable, undocumented and just stuck together with flaky glue code.

Sure, if you aiming to "make it work" you can do that. If you're aiming to do well... I suggest learning proper technique.
Obviously not. The account was deleted and banned shortly after the tweets were made. Note that that screenshot was taken about 3 minutes after the account was created.

It's basically just Internet trolls registering Twitter accounts behind proxies and saying the edgiest things they can think of to stir the pot.
I actually enjoyed WebForms ~10 years ago. But for personal SaaS projects, free/cheap hosting space seems somewhat unrepresented. And I really don't want to go Mono-way...

As for ASP.NET itself - nowadays it seems ASP.NET MVC is recommended, but I find it way too bloat.
Except for maybe Haskell[0] and Lisp[0], I've begun to feel like there isn't any language that I can't quickly learn with how I'm able to google at the moment.

For example, I'm currently helping some fellow students with their F# assignments, even though I don't do F# at all. I just know what to google, because I know the concepts that I need translated to the specific syntax.

[0] Maybe Lisp, but Haskell is way too different from other languages in the way to programme. I'm currently learning it, but it's by far the language that has taken me the longest.
There is no reason to delete a post that presents a rational argument without use of insults or ad hominem attacks, regardless of if you think the viewpoint is "destroying [insert any topical political or current events issue here]".
Have an alternative option you are willing to pursue if they don't give you what you want.
The closest I've seen to neutral coverage is this:

http://www.popehat.com/2014/10/21/gamer-gate-three-stages-to...

I'm not going to claim it's anywhere particularly close to true neutral, however.
Your point about context was well made, my response was a tangent inspired by your post, not an argument against it.
This is excellent. To it I will add: help beginners wherever possible.
> actually, almost ANY diet works. if you are over weight and reduce your calorie intake: you.will.loose.weight.period.

What we are saying here is that you reduce your calorie intake within the range where gut bacteria can act, it might not have any effect, or even negative effect.

If you reduce your calorie intake below the level gut bacteria activity matters, you will lose weight, but only if you can sustain the diet for basically the rest of your life.

If the diet doesn't fit you, you will be fighting your body every single day, and your body might cave in and it becomes your new norm, or you can't stand it anymore and go back to your previous behavior.

Fighting your body until it gives up is such a brute force method it's just hell on earth (we say "your body", but litteraly you're punishing yourself). Experimentally the vast majority of people won't be able to brute force their behavior And metabolism, and have to find a diet that fits them. S

What I'm saying is sustaining low calorie intake is a result of having a diet that works. The relevant part is to find that diet in the first place.
This was here 3 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8485480
"The best we can do is create systems to help guard against our own mistakes."

Like enforced isolation of some kind? The thing that people have been asking for since the beginning, but is a bad idea for some reason that nobody can explain?
I think it's fair to say that you can be effective without necessarily being good and vice versa.

I think the some of the best developers are those who are smart enough to have gotten a CS degree but skipped a bit of the academics. (A bit self serving: I graduated high school in 1996, had my first intro IT job by the fall of 1998, and had my first real programming job in January 2000, while my contemporaries were still in college)
Nope. I use gmail exclusively as POP3/SMTP server. I can't imagine why someone would prefer using gmail web interface over some powerful desktop e-mail client (The Bat!, Thunderbird, Claws...).
I'm really sorry you had to (and still have to) deal with that kind of harassment and threatening behavior.

The only question I'm left with is what can I do as an individual to help curtail it? I almost never see this behavior myself (presumably because bad actors intentionally hide their behavior) in real life so it's hard for me to call it out directly. How can I help out people that are being harassed in this way? Providing moral support doesn't feel like enough in the situation...
Matchstick – The $18 Streaming Stick Built on Firefox OS
This has to be pretty high up the list of "Most creative uses of Zookeeper". I'm really impressed with the ingenuity involved with building such a glorious hack.
I think it's a mindset thing; either you have the mind of a developer or you don't, degree or not. I'm self-taught, and early on I had a inferiority complex when it came to those with CS degrees. Didn't take long for that to wear off as reality exposed gaps in their ability/knowledge.
"Background:
21 days has been regarded as the appropriate quarantine period for holding individuals potentially exposed to Ebola Virus (EV) to reduce risk of contagion. There does not appear to be a systematic discussion of the basis for this period.

Methods:
The prior estimates for incubation time to EV were examined, along with data on the first 9 months of the current outbreak. These provided estimates of the distribution of incubation times.

Results:
A 21 day period for quarantine may result in the release of individuals with a 0.2 – 12% risk of release prior to full opportunity for the incubation to proceed. It is suggested that a detailed cost-benefit assessment, including considering full transmission risks, needs to occur in order to determine the appropriate quarantine period for potentially exposed individuals."

http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/on-the-quarantine...
https://gun.io/
In essence you are saying that you don't agree with Assange so his name should be smeared to keep his opinions from reaching the public. You are claiming that you are able to parse and analyze his statements for their truthfulness, whereas the rest of the public will be hoodwinked. What an arrogant and elitist way to think.

Arguments should stand or fall based on merit, not on labels like "nutjob" or "conspiracy theorist".
Very easily. But that might be because in Denmark, it's rather the exception than the norm that people don't know english. Of course with varying degrees of proficiency.
I started seeing the phrase "Social Justice Warrior" used a lot as soon as #Gamergate happened. I have yet to see it well defined, though.

I realize it's tangential to your point, but I'm curious how would you define or describe a SJW?
Based on the limited sample, you write it better than many "native" speakers.
But you can send them to NYC instead?!
Fair enough.

I have a Software Engineering degree (certified Engineer), so I already have a superiority complex anyway ;)
> Recognizing the right answer is the hard part.

Very true, but even further than that: There are very few clearly right or clearly wrong answers. There are actually very few wrong answers - but there is a stupendous amount of right answers that are bad answers. Especially: bad answers for you.

Recognizing a wrong answer is the easy part. Taking a dozen or so "right" answers and selecting and condensing them into the best answer that makes the most sense for your programming context is the hardest part.

It is astonishingly easy to accrue a tremendous amount of technical debt because you just chained up solution after solution into a grotesque mix of "works, but could explode any minute".
Learning iOS development Swift or Obj-C?
I'm keen to learn iOS development (just for fun/curiosity), am I better off going the Obj-C or Swift path?

From a quick search Obj-C obviously has a lot more learning material and tutorials, but Swift seems like it's going to be the "future" of iOS dev so might be better to learn now?

I come from a web background (LAMP, JS, CSS) if that matters. No CS background, this will be my first "real" programming.

Any pointers to the best learning material would also be much appreciated.
The call for donations to support the particular project is the way the Church makes appeals to "a billion people". Its how the Church funds pretty much everything it does, from a new roof for a parish church to missionary work to the much of the annual operation of the Holy See (through the Peter's Pence). So, this is no different from how the Church takes care of any of its property.
This is an article discussing a scientific attempt to quantify the levels of harassment. It seems odd to declare discussing the validity of that point as somehow off-limits in this particular context.

I'm no fan of abuse. I have faced harsh abuse and even been sexually harassed by a coworker in a fairly shocking manner. But that has nothing to do with the merits or statistics of the A/B test.
"But I’d never even heard of the words front-end developer or full-stack. What was Heroku? Never heard of Xcode. Wasn’t git just the thing you used to make sure your partner had access to the code you’d written? Frameworks? Didn’t you just need HTML and Javascript? What the hell was an API?!"

If you literally never heard about any of those during your computer science courses, you attended a sad, sad university.
Take a look at APL. There will be three.
It's weird to see the term "sjw" used by someone who isn't a repellant fuckwit. It's been a reliable flag -at least on HN- so far. That's something you might want to be aware of.
That strategy certainly worked for the Venetians. Merchant ships had to chill off shore for 40 days before unloading their cargo to make sure no one harbored deadly diseases. Hence the quarter in quarantine.