skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To borrow an idea from math, "doing good" isn't a commutative, infections and diseases are. Have some respect for others and slow your roll before going out during the 21 day post exposure window.

It's a bit like saying, "Hey I've saved lives over here so I have earned the right to be irresponsible over here". Because you know, karma balances out. No, the world doesn't work like that. And you aren't doing any good propagating this idea either because it encourages this privileged way of thinking.

As much as this guy isn't being vilified (and say what you want about the government spinning its story of ebola being hard to transmit), lets think clearly and rationally. He knew the risks that he could possibly be infected and decided to endanger others when he could have easily stayed home or gone anywhere to a more isolated environment (upstate NY is calling). It is well known symptoms generally show up by the 10th day. Today is his day 10.

It's very interesting that the government has locked down this guys apartment, yet if you need contact with bodily fluids to contract the disease why quarantine the apartment and surroundings? Could it be that droplets are a transmission method as many people are starting to suspect. Sneezing and coughing may spread these droplets to the floors and walls? And if that is the case, what about other objects that come in contact with saliva and other fluids like utensils, door handles, glasses...
Determinism is clearly false
That's true, until you know who promoted Guthrie to lead the division.
It was Nadella
I had great success starting from a strict calories in vs. calories out diet, and then iterating on what I ate to make myself the most satiated per calorie eaten. Turns out that the diet that solves for satiation ends up being a lot of plain chicken and meat, beans, roasted veggies, modest amounts of starch, and no sugar. (Eating a handful of jelly beans would make be starving 30 minutes later).

The other thing I found, is that I had to avoid foods that tasted too good. Basically any food that combines fat, simple starches, and a sweet sauce will taste too good and give you an overwhelming urge to overeat. If I wanted to eat a burrito for lunch, I would cut it in half, put the other half in the fridge, and save it for dinner, before I even started to eat my lunch. Burritos are quite satiating, and you actually diet while eating them, you just have to portion control, and will yourself past the ten minutes when you are done with the first half and so tempted to eat the other half.

I've wondered if the reason why so many diet strategies succeed in the short run, but fail in the long run, is because they are all hacks to make you eat less tasty food. If you just eat fat, or just eat carbs, or just eat whole wheat, or whatever, your food will be less tasty. In the long run though, people like eating tasty food, and so they keep making exceptions to the diet in the name of taste, and they are back to their normal eating habits.
This reminds me of the net neutrality doomsday images ($49 a month to access OVER 300 websites, including Facebook!)

I suspect you're reaching for something like Universities' contracts with closed-access academic journals. But with newspapers.
Online harassment is not a small problem at all. It's a problem that definitely needs to be addressed, and women do see more of a specific type of harassment, which aligns nicely with what I said in my original post: "women clearly have it worse in terms of targeted sexual harassment."

Like I said, it's interestingly overstated, though. Both you and andrewvc are engaging in the same type of cherrypicking I'm accused of -- All of your posts statistics relate to men and women of ages 18 to 24 only.

The actual data for all women and all men tells a slightly different story[1]: 1.5x the stalking, and 1.75x the sexual harassment. This isn't great, it's positively shameful, but you're also exaggerating the aggregate problem by up to twice as much as the statistics show. To me, this very conversation seems evidence that communities make the harassment look disproportionate, but perhaps I'm just suffering from "cognitive dissonance".

[1] http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment/pi_2...
Because it's the 11% that matters. I mean this honestly, I'm not being dismissive. I could point you at plenty of data to back this up, but the simple fact that almost everyone's app goes iOS first should be sufficient to indicate that it's the platform that matters most.

Side note: I've got both iOS and Android devices, and nearly every app on Android feels like a cheap knockoff of the iOS equivalent. I can't think of a single situation where I prefer the Android app over the iOS app.
Though I've often found if you want a sense of the original, mostly imagine a book based on the complete opposite message of the film.

Spoilers...

In Minority Report (film), the protagonist does everything to save one innocent abused by the state. In the book, well, let's just say if you want a perfect society you've got to break a few eggs.

In Paycheck (film), he sides with government regulators to stop a corrupt corporation. In Paycheck (book) he sides with a corrupt corporation to take down the government.

In The Golden Man, the government hunts a powerful and dangerous mutant. In Next, the powerful mutant sides with the government to stop terrorists.

I know Dick wasn't in favor of killing cops or corrupt corporations or hunting down people who are different, but the best thing about all of those stories is that they put the protagonists in these sort of awful lifeboat ethics dilemmas, dilemmas that are apparently far too interesting to waste on film audiences.
That is a very good point. An initial idea of Wolf was to create a platform that could trade virtually anything (Craigslist, Amazon, Ebay, Stock market, Forex, etc) as long as there's a trading API, and could make use of data from just about anywhere. Not just ticks. Imagine you can write a trading rule like this: "if Mr. X invested $ in company A and Ms. Y recommends buying stocks of company B or an epidemy spreads in country C or product D received great consumer reviews then trade E for F". That would require a lot of data: news articles, financial data, customer reviews, geopolitical events, etc. One of the Insight data engineer found some cool correlations between geopolitical events from GDELT and Forex. Wolf was created end-to-end in 6 weeks so... I focused on Forex.
P.S. One year of compressed Forex ticks from HistData.com is about 100GB.
I don't expect Google to gather personal information for the government. However, I expect them to continue to adopt the political role of the mainstream media: furthering an agenda which is
* pro Israel,
* anti-China,
* anti-Russia,
* ambivalent towards Europe, and
* anti-racist (except when this racism is against Palestinians, Muslims living in Muslim countries, or Chinese living in China).

Like the media, I think the main role Google will play is by controlling how information is spread through youtube. Google already plays a political role by
* promoting certain political agendas directly,
* making a big show of not removing "Innocence of Muslims"
* while at the same time quietly censoring equivalent "anti-Semitic" videos in Europe (e.g. "Jews and Gun Control").

Apart from that, Google is a big part of the internet infrastructure, and so they naturally work with the government to keep this secure. I think this is the extent of their technical cooperation with the government. The political stuff they mainly do of their own accord because of the political views of their executives.

EDIT: Jared Cohen sounds like a guy they hired to further a fairly mainstream liberal/Jewish agenda (to spread openness and democracy around the world, especially Muslim countries) through very mundane means. However on occasion he decided to do a lot of crazy stuff like "regime change" of his own accord (see wikileaks stratfor emails), much against the desires of Google.
There's the Intel vice president who told me via email that GamerGate was "doing great work" and that he was "sick of slander and self-loathing from the press". He was talking about male journalists who do misandrist feminists' work for them.

"I am pressing that team, it's not mine, but I am exerting influence when I can, to stop spending money with people who hate themselves and hate our clients," he added by phone later.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/10/23/Gawker-...

Intels own words. Are you saying they're misogynists or threatening because they agree with GamerGate?

Besides it's the media that pushing away their advertisers, not just gamergate. They turned on their advertisers after them wanting to distance themselves from pro-bullying, sexist & racist articles/messages.
I thought it was well known that ebola can be spread through any bodily fluids and that this includes droplets from coughing and sneezing. What they don't yet know is whether ebola is 'airborne' - i.e. dried droplets that can float in air as is the case with measles for example.
Tl;dr its all in the mind of the receiver (aka psychological). Though I suspect that by rephrasing the exact same thing you said, I shall be down voted to [dead] shortly.
Thanks for the second example. It's a more clear use-case than the mischievous do_damage() function I had in mind.

I think intent would definitely play a role in establishing liability for damaged equipment (i.e. the user misusing the device versus the company tampering with the user's equipment).
I am currently reading "Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity" [0].

The author starts with the observation that in the world of fine art, it seems that the artists who encountered great success are divided into 2 broad groups: the ones who had a clear vision (often groundbreaking) of what they wanted to accomplish, did it while they were young, peaking early (Young Geniuses); and the ones whose approach was more iterative, built upon theory and learning, who never stopped improving over their lifetime, and whose vision was established over decades (Old Masters).

To support this thesis, he looks at concrete data: for example, for the artists whose paintings sold for the most money, at what age did they paint the works which would later sell for the most? Or, to use an alternative method of approximating "success" - for the works that are most often included in art textbooks, at what age were they painted by their authors? [1] He goes over several measures of "success" in this way, and the data maps pretty well with the commonly accepted wisdom for each artist (e.g. Picasso peaked early, and his later works are nowhere as remembered as his earlier stuff, while Cézanne took a lifetime to build his approach and vision).

He then looks into what those artists had to say about their processes, and how that relates to those findings; and he then explores this thesis beyond just the world of fine art.

It's a fairly dense read - especially if, like me, you have very little knowledge of fine art (in which case I recommend looking up the works as you read the book, even if it doubles your reading time) - but it's extremely enlightening. Highly recommended.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Old-Masters-Young-Geniuses-Creativity/...

[1] http://i.imgur.com/YmexHi8.jpg
> 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.

Not to get into a pissing match, but I think "well proven" needs some citation here.

The role of insulin does not bypass thermodynamics.
I bummed a cigarette off him a couple years ago. Nice guy, and had a great conversation.
As someone who has been using Windows Azure since '09 I have to really congratulate Scott Gu and others involved for turning things around. It was a serious hot mess back then. Deploying your code took way too much work to configure and 20 min to wait for it to deploy. The Visual Studio integration is pretty slick now.

The latest management portal though? I'm not so sure about that...
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You're totally right, and even over some long period of time your losses from extra muscle will be dwarfed your losses due to lifestyle changes.

My philosophy is that if you don't enjoy your health regime, whether its a diet, running, lifting, crossfit (I know, booooo) or some combination -- you're going to give it up as soon as possible. Lifting is something that I think a lot of people find enjoyable because it really doesn't have that misery factor of other workouts (I personally love that, I'm a rower which is basically a sport predicated on collectively loving misery more than the other team). People tend to stick with lifting longer, if not forever. That extra 200 calories 3 or 4 times a week, plus the boost in metabolism over the lifetime of a person is more valuable in my opinion than only dieting/running for a year and then being relieved when you cross the finish line and stop.

When people ask me how to lose weight (I cut pretty hard every year and it's dramatic), I point them towards lifting -- maybe they would lose more weight short term by controlling their diet and running, but people never stick to that stuff. A lot of my friends, mostly girls, have been doing some lifting program now for a couple of years (5-3-1 is my favorite) and they have stuck with it because its enjoyable. They eventually get dragged in and discover protein and macros and by then they're already invested in lifting and enjoying it -- it's part of their lifestyle now.
> I'm currently living in Guadalajara and looking for a new gig.

Drop me an email; we're hiring.
Two months ago I ordered an original ZX Spectrum 48K, on board series 3B for about $200. It is the same I had as my first computer when I was a kid. I knew I could have it all on the emulator, and, I didn't expect how much excitement and inspiration I had after loading several games from a cassette recorder and playing on a pixel-crawly TV. In fact, had to take sleeping pills after the first time. Now I am thinking to buy myself a C64, a separate small TV, and an Apple ][ with a monitor... will have to buy a separate table for that.
That's actually a great point, and something I've told friends in a "broscience" fashion: There is nearly nothing in nature that combines fats and carbs. It's almost like you need to choose one or the other - balance is how you get into trouble, because then you think everything is legal.

Take, for instance, potato chips -- and not the low-fat Baked Lay's or Quest Chips kind. If you're on a "balanced diet", they're legal. But good luck measuring them and not eating the entire bag.

It sounds like your success was mainly in portion control. Eating standing up helps you get full faster too, as does focusing on chewing a lot (also prevents choking and other benefits).

The biggest problem I forgot to mention above, however, is that people will read all sorts of literature, but when it comes to actually weighing their food with a food scale (costs literally $20) and counting their calories and macros, they all fail. Yes, it's a pain in the arse, but you learn so much by recording everything you eat. But people simply don't want to do it, and it drives me nuts.

This also leads me to believe that there's a massive business opportunity somewhere in there to make it easier to do (I have ideas but am too busy).
This is how Google kills your app
"It's about ethics" yet most of the moderators of the subreddit /r/KotakuInAction are also moderators of distinctly misogynstic subreddits http://i.imgur.com/3j7uzXZ.jpg

EDIT: You might be taking downvotes too personally.
I get recruiter spam and harassment alike. How's that for fun?

There is no way they're on the same level. The worst recruiter I've had to handle is way easier than the tamest of harassers. It's not about frequency in the slightest.
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Right, that's why I said "supposedly".
The implication that psychological damage is not "real" damage is false.
Calorie counting already takes this into consideration. When we say '100g of raw tomato has X calories' we are talking of what your body gets out of it when you eat it, not the calories theoretically in the tomato.
I've often wondered how we've come to the consensus of:

carbohydrate = 4 kilocalories
protein = 4 kilocalories
fat = 9 kilocalories
alcohol = 7 kilocalories

It seems difficult to quantify this accurately without fully understanding human metabolism and how it utilizes energy sources.
McMoon's: A Control Center to Hijack a Decommissioned NASA Satellite
Perhaps because that is the one thing that anybody with even the slightest academic computer science background in the US will immediately recognize as utter nonsense.

There are many other ridiculous associations in Assange's essay, some of which have been pointed out by others in the thread, but that one jumps out of the page, grabs you by the ears, and screams crazy.
I thought better of HN before this. It looks like if you don't toe the line you get downvoted and your comments get [killed].
"its all in the mind of the receiver (aka psychological)"

Two points:

1) Except when it isn't.
2) Isn't that enough? What are we, robots? It's true that some people might be able to treat the two things the same and not be affected, but they're a tiny minority. Harm is harm, even if you think that everyone should have thicker skin.
> He knew the risks that he could possibly be infected
> and decided to endanger others when he could have
> easily stayed home

That may be over stating things. Given that he is a doctor, and he is confident in his process with keeping clean, he might actually have a really hard time believing that he was infected. People have faith in their own abilities, that lets them do things which might put them at grave risk.

In the military service you will hear it as "trust in your training." Basically you believe you won't be the guy that gets shot or steps on a land mine or what ever because you trained really hard and you know you are implementing that training flawlessly.

It is entirely possible this person was so confident in their training, and their own competence in putting that training into action, that they believed it was impossible for them to be infected. They do the self monitoring because that is what you are supposed to do, but it never comes up positive because you did what you were supposed to do. This gets worse the more times you do something and the outcome is exactly as you expect it to be.

So I can believe this guy didn't believe he was at risk. Just like I have foolishly believed this small change I am checking in can't break anything[1]. One hopes he was asymptomatic when he went out. Unlike the guy in Texas who was showing symptoms and went home, or the nurse who had a fever and got on a plane anyway.

Sure you could put anyone coming back from West Africa in an airstream trailer [2] for 21 days but that is impractical if you want to support the process of fighting it in West Africa.

[1] I know, hugely different scale, but illustrative of my fight against my own assumptions in the pursuit of better process.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Quarantine_Facility#medi...
How about "Doctor Returning From Guinea..." to more accurately reflect the geographic relationship instead of creating a bomb of a headline as if some random, yet-unknown vector resulted in Ebola in New York.
Why read only three sectors when you can read the whole OS into memory. Take a look at these:

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/boot

They're assembly language MBR and Linux boot loaders I wrote long ago. The bootloaders understand EXT2 or FAT, yet still fit in 1K.
I know that kids making fun of me in school really motivated me to lose weight.

Not.
> A calorie = a calorie is as true and as useless as answering the question "Why are there so many people inside the Super Bowl stadium during the game" by saying "Because more people entered it than who left, if only people didn't get in, it would be empty".

"Why is it warmer in the summer than the winter?"

"Because your hemisphere took in more calories than it gave off."

True! And anyone who denies it is just arguing with thermodynamics.
Actually, there's a very simple and elegant answer to this: Tor doesn't save anything from relayed traffic to disk. So if forensic traces exist on the behavior, it was PROBABLY the node operator.

(I used to have a source for this, but I think I bookmarked it on my dead laptop.)
Thermodynamics have nothing to do with it. Human bodies can vary when it comes to efficiency of converting food to energy. It may also depend on hormonal situation or genetics or w/e else. It may also well be that "calorie out" part depends to some extent of what is eaten.
It's not like human bodies are perfect 100% efficient engines of converting food to energy and that rest of the body doesn't take into account what's "in the tank" at any given moment. Thermodynamics argument just doesn't mean anything. It's probably the most silly way to end sensible discussion on this topis.
Automatic email logging to Salesforce.com
This is great from a data storage perspective, but i've always struggled to figure out the best approach for utilizing multiple regions to comply with legal issues like this.

That brings me to my question: How do you store your data so that you comply with the laws of a country, when you actually export your product to several countries? Having multiple instances of your system seems impractical and sharding data by country across regions could be rather hard. I.e. I am in Canada, we have US clients who desire their data to be in the US and Canadians who want it in Canada. Either we add complexity or someone doesn't get what they want.
Disclaimer: I agree there is a real social problem here. The rest of this message is solely about statistics (inspired by the language of statistics used in the article, like "A/B Test," "statistical significance," and "99.9% confidence level").

The article opens with an analysis of messages to one male and one (self-selected) female from a community which has a large male majority.

Most people in the world are heterosexual, and in my opinion people are more likely to sexually harass the gender they "like." Let's say 3/4 of people are straight and 1/4 are gay. Let's also say that 2/3 of sexual harassment is directed at the "preferred" gender" of the perpetrator.

Imagine a population of 80 boys and 8 girls, all equally "good." Half of them never say a bad thing to anyone. The other half lash out once a month and say something disgusting.

Now, we have 60 straight boys, 30 of whom behave badly once a month. That's 30 nasty messages a month, 20 of which go to girls and 10 to boys. We also have 20 gay boys generating 10 nastygrams monthly, 7 to boys and 3 to girls.

As for the girls, there are 6 straight ones, 3 of whom are bad, so they send 2 threatening topics to boys and 1 to a girl each month. Of the 2 gay girls only one is malfeasant, so let's say she sends her only "love letter" to a girl.

How many total bad messages are sent each month? 20 + 3 + 1 + 1 = 25 to girls, and 10 + 7 + 2 + 0 = 19 to boys. With 80 total boys, each will receive about one salacious message per four months. But each of the 8 girls will absorb, on average, just over 3 per month.

I tried to use conservative numbers here, and still the girls in a male-majority group get 13 times as many unwanted notes as boys. This is deplorable, but it is also unsurprising given the population.