skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, maybe a bad choice of wording, or maybe not if you think about it. Definition of poison "In the context of biology, poisons are substances that cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism." I think we could agree that eating 200-300gr cake filled with sugars IS causing disturbances (certainly more than a 150gr peace of fish and 150gr salad) that are bad and when you repeat eating that cake we all know where that leads to and what adverse effects it has on the body and mind. Compare that adverse and permanent damage that sugar can cause to damage that for example LSD was proven to cause (none). And you can go to jail for taking LSD, but on the other hand we subsidies sugar production and we empower bad behaviour of eating junk food in many ways. For example I watched yesterday that in UK many people who are not sick, they just are overeating and are overweight so they can not work now are given large amounts of money and housing. There are people that are using that help for decades and are not working, not loosing weight and not expected to, they are put in the category with really disabled people (which is really sad, this people can help themselves and people without limbs cant grow another.. or maybe it just shows the power of sugar addiction for some people).
But large amounts of sugar will make you sick. Hence it's poison (in the large amounts we eat it in).
OGS (https://online-go.com/) is pretty good as well. It's web based and supports both correspondence and real time games. It's also pretty close to KGS in terms of features.
Probably yes.

As a non-native english speaker it is quite difficult to find an enough but not too much snippy/snarky response (had e.g. to lookup these words)).
In Java you also need recursion, even if it is not ubiquitous as in functional languages. Say you want to traverse a tree structure - a directory hierarchy for example - you need recursion.
Be aware that practicing against AI lead to poor play and very few improvement, playing weak or strong human is far better. Especially with handicap.
Actually, thermodynamics is absolute and adhering to the laws of thermodynamics is a certainty. You can estimate your daily caloric needs on your basal metabolic rate combined with a multiplication factor based on your daily activities. Then you can estimate how much you eat. Within a small error you will be consuming and expending known amounts of energy. Eat less than you use and you'll end up losing mass whether it's fat if you are more active or muscles and fat if you are inactive. It won't be reflected 1-to-1 in the scale measurements and your size but over the long run you'll lose weight.
I break out in pimples any time I eat sugary, carb-rich foods. A few weeks without these foods, and I have no issues at all.
Anyone with a kid knows that the body's first addiction is sugar.
It will become even more weak and dull, because the consciousness it produces is to dump to learn how a carbohydrate metabolism works and what are the sources of glucose and other simple sugars.

The idea is about the balance - proper ratios - not too much, not too little - just enough. The idea as old as humanity.

The problem is not the sugar, it is wrong eating habits, developed due to some methods of the food industry which, of course, tries to maximize its profits, including aggressive marketing of products with to high salt and/or sugar or fat concentration. This is what is wrong - amounts, concentrations and ratios.

The more correct answer is - avoid packaged, processed foods in favor of simple cooked raw foods, mostly veg. It is what some Nepalese and Tibetan tribes (actually everywhere around the world) do.

Also consumption of carbohydrates or any other substances cannot be considered seriously or studied without taking into account the behavioral patterns. If a typical couch potato is eating high calorie, high fat meals, intended for a docker or a peasant after full day of intense work, well, no matter sugar, he or she will end up in a well-chair. Same would happen to a vegan docker (there is zero of vegan Sherpas in a whole Himalaya).

Balance is the key word. It is ancient word. It is a cornerstone of the Yoga (which, surprise! is not about wearing cute yoga pants and forming fingers into mudras). The modern word is homeostasis has the same meaning.
The main problem is that these silly websites and applications are making money. I know it's hard to believe, but people don't want value. They want trendy. What's popular now.

Build the perfect social network and nobody will use it. Build a shitty one with a gimmick and people will come in droves. Unless you hit their sweet spot, people will not support you. They pay for value out of need, not because they want to.

Most people want toys, not tools. The market is just delivering.
Dude. From the article:

I had a boss once who knew he was sexist (also homophobic and transphobic), but was trying to get over it. He said some incredibly dumb things, like offering to have a company meeting at a strip club. He genuinely had bizarre concepts of what’s appropriate and inappropriate behavior. He was ashamed of this and really trying to improve. Listening to him quote the sexual harassment seminars was the saddest bit: on one hand he was really trying, but on the other, everything he was quoting made absolutely no sense. I frequently found him putting so much effort in where it didn’t really matter, like obsessively counting how many times he had asked a man vs a woman to carry heavy equipment. He always seemed overloaded with things to remember about “not being sexist” and afraid to get something wrong. It seemed almost heartless to risk getting him in trouble.

On the whole, however, I don’t hold against him all the inappropriate things he did. The best I could do was kindly remind my boss when something made me uncomfortable, but he always looked panicked when I did. I didn’t want to get him in trouble; in fact, half of my comments to him started with phrases like “you know people are going to take it the wrong way if they hear you saying that.” I wish my male peers had helped him more in this regard. I feel they could have done it without making my boss feel like he was being directly threatened with a huge HR complaint. It’s a real shame for our tech culture that there is no way to get somebody tutored about what is and isn’t appropriate without also landing them in deep trouble.

And yes I think with a larger family you're less likely to have men thinking its OK to corner a woman in office, because they'll have better upbringing. If you want to change culture the best chance you have is the educate your children because of all people they will be most receptive of your perspective.

Thanks for the snark anyway, I deserved it because I see family as a good thing to have, and as such I'm a rapist. And thanks for derailing the points OP and I were making. I deserve to be hanged by the side of the road, by social activists like you (according to your profile).
How utterly disgusting, you will write that "What exactly is "common sense" in such a world, and why does waterboarding or drone strikes run counter to that "common sense"?"

You are simply a stooge, a lawyer in DC suckling at the government teat, you have the gall to defend torture as nothing but common sense. Sickening, go head and down vote me, you are worthless trash and a fascist.
between 4 and 6 dan is closer to truth
The sickness is industrial food uses mass amounts of sugar, artificial sweeteners, fat, salt, and manufactured 'flavor' to hide what was otherwise made to taste terrible in the process of being engineered to be easy and shelf-stable (and to a degree to exploit human food-psychology).

Sugar, fat, and salt are all essential to a healthy properly functioning body – it is just that industrial foods give you these things in unhealthy proportions and in foods deprived of much of their original nutrition.

Artificial sweeteners can also do weird things to your taste and metabolism.

A big source of the problem? Caffeine. Not it's slightly addictive stimulant properties, but it's bitterness which has to be covered up by extreme amounts of sugar and carbonation.
Nice framework!!
Are we re-inventing "Tragedy of the commons" principle, which is as old as social inequality itself?
The subway makes the culture in NYC different than almost any other major city in the US.

If you lived in NYC maybe you understand. In other cities you can get around with public transportation, in NYC it's unquestionably the way to get around by everyone from day laborers to movie stars.

Also, your narrative of grittiness is very different than the other popular narrative, that NYC is now "disney" full of tourists, cops and wealthy transplants.

The simple fact remains that people want to be here in NYC despite whatever criticism.
Because AT&T lost its case.
> if your tastes line up with mainstream cultural production, you're probably all set wherever you live.

Up to a point, and then you're selling Cleveland short. The points on Broadway and the Orchestra both bear repeating - literally world-class in both regards, at half (or less!) the ticket price. On the hipster/contemporary side of things, I was spoiled for choice as a student in Cleveland - fantastic craft beer (I prefer it over most on the West Coast), concert venues like the Grog Shop[0] that rival most places in Seattle, and Ohio City (Cleveland suburb) is nigh indistinguishable from any other yuppie district over here (well, until you look at the prices).

In fact, the only thing that sticks out as missing is the lack of good clubs and an LGBT district, although Cleveland did just host the Gay Games last year. I'll echo other comments here - if someone offered me a 5% pay cut to move to Cleveland, I'd actually give it some thought.

0. http://www.grogshop.gs/
Is Ndamukong Suh Worth $114M?
Yes, I forgot fiber. In Europe they are not counted as carbohydrates because they are indigestible. In the US you can subtract fiber content from total carbohydrates. Yes, fiber helps slowing digestion down and thereby reduces the height of spikes in the blood sugar level. But No, it's not OK for everybody to eat a very high amount of fruit because it may still be too much easily digestable sugar.

Fruit as such is no saint - partially because our current crops are optimized for sweet taste.
Yep, the cognitive dissonance here is pretty strong.

What is a public corporation, but 'a bunch of people [C-level,VP-level,Manager-level] spending other people'[sic]s[shareholder's] money on things that they[shareholder's] don'[sic]t understand and they[shareholder's] don'[sic]t really care about[shareholders seem to only care about 'ROI' and/or 'ROE']'.
>If not them then who? Or do you not agree that women aren't obligated to fix male problems? OR, are you going non-gender binary on me?

I think there are two reasonable answers.

1. The people that do the abusing are the only ones responsible.

2. The people that set society's expectations are partially responsible.

Group 1 is a subset of men. Group 2 is 99% of adults, though men have more responsibility because of how the patriarchy works.

I do not see any reasonable way to declare all men responsible and zero women responsible.

>Men are rarely punished for speaking up about harassment.

I'm going to have to ask for statistics about men and women speaking up about the harassment of third-party women.

>"but what about the men"

It's not meant to be. I'm not trying to ask for any sympathy for men. I'm completely ignoring any men that get harassed, because that's not the problem we're focusing on here.

>"Other people" doesn't make a difference. I don't see why you think it would.

I have no idea what you mean. I will assume my sentence was unclear and restate it. I am talking about a situation where Man A harasses Woman B, and then person C, who has significant resources they can use to help, does something about it. I think if person C has an obligation to help, they have it regardless of their gender.

Edit: Also the answer to "if not them but who" would be the police. (In an ideal world)
Although I read the answer from the OP, reading the original message made me think of something slightly different. The debate is almost impossible to characterize because nobody is arguing apples to apples. When we talk about incompetence, almost nobody will agree to its meaning.

Thanks to the Dunning Kruger effect, people who are incompetent do not realize they are incompetent. I remember reading a follow-up paper to this study (I wish I could find it again!) which concluded that when people have their mistaken beliefs pointed out to them, it actually reinforces that mistaken belief! This means that when people actually engage in debate, the two sides entrench and become more confident in their positions.

I have actually argued that this may be what leads large corporations to have a kind of "talent inversion". The people with the least talent have the most confidence and volunteer for the craziest projects. The projects fail, but due to politics the failure is hidden and spun into a success. The original developers begin to believe their failure was a real success and any debate to the contrary only strengthens their belief -- which fuels their confidence. This confidence allows them to be promoted where the cycle continues and multiplies.

This leaves you with a strange situation. Everyone will agree that incompetence is a big problem in the organization. Unfortunately, everyone will point to completely different people when asked who is incompetent.

Let's say that you want to improve the level of talent on the team. In other words, you want to hire only people who are more talented than the average person already on your team. I think this is not an unusual situation to be in. If talent is normally distributed on the team then half of the team is below average (I hope I got that right because I suck at statistics ;-) ). But thanks to "talent inversion", you may have a higher proportion of people in senior ranks that are in the "below average" section.

Now you can have a debate about the what kind of people to hire: If person A thinks that they are at the top of the talent scale, they can't expect candidates to be as talented as they are. Probably they think it is completely reasonable to hire people who are considerably less talented than they are. Person B may actually be at the top of the talent scale and may be arguing strenuously that candidates must be considerably more talented than Person A.

Clearly such a debate will have a lot of heat without a lot of light.
Sugars is what the body runs on. Saying it is poison is equal to saying water is poison, because too much water will kill you. Or salt, or fats, or anything the human body depends on - you can have too much of it all, but it isn't poison.
> …we eliminate so-called “structured programming” constructs like “for” and “if”. Only function calls, variables, and constants are allowed. The result is that we end up with something that looks a lot more like assembly code; but instead of “GOTO” statements, we use callbacks…

Oh god please no.

Building a nontrivial app in node is already a nightmare.
>> How is that legal, are you invoking the Bush doctrine[0] of pre-emptive strikes, although to call that legal is a stretch.
>The nuclear bombing of Japan was not a pre-emptive strike. Pearl Harbor was a thing.

The OP is using the present tense(unless he edits his comments), perhaps he would like to edit what he wrote to suggest that in the past it was considered a legal action to drop a nuclear weapon on a nation the US was at war with, but if the OP continues to use the present tense I can only continue to believe he is INSANE to believe it is CURRENTLY legal to drop nuclear weapons on ally nations.

The OP never responded to what he so clearly believes are "clearly-defined lines." and he will not respond to direct challenges of 1: clapper lying under oath, 2: US engaging in torture and refusing to prosecute. We can even give a historical example, was imprisoning US citizens of Japanese decent and confiscating their property within a "well defined line" no, it was simply a government run amok with fear and hatred trying to defend itself.

Go read some more Hobbes and Locke.
> This points to a need for a new language that avoids these issues.

They already existed back when C was UNIX only, but then UNIX became widespread....
If you just want software to play against, without the client aspect, I'd recommend an older version of Sen:te's Goban (version 3.2). Unlike the latest version, it's free (the latest version is $10). It's quite old, but it seems to still work. It uses an older version of the Gnu GO engine. It used to be able to connect to the Pandas server. I don't know if that part still works. You should be able to find download links.

If the Mac version of SmartGO has features similar to the Windows version, it should be excellent. But, they've been focused on iPhone/iPad apps so it hasn't come out yet.
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> Last but not least, C had not yet taken the world by storm, and a lot of those developers and companies had never even heard of C, and the ones that had heard of it were pretty dubious, more often than not.

Specially since some of us were exposed to languages (Modula-2, Turbo Pascal) that were more feature rich than C while allowing similar performance levels on the same systems.
What I wanted to express is that white flour which is usally used in industrial food is a simple carbohydrate and its digestion is so fast that it doesn't really make a difference compared to pure glucose.

Complex carbs are less bad - but still, eating too much of them is not good.
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Postman is an integral part of my workflow. Keep up the good work guys!
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716444
This, I can't imagine anyone reaching toxic levels of glucose in their bloodstream by oral means, as nausea and vomiting are symptoms of hyperglycemia, preventing further intake.

Though I might underestimate people's addiction, maybe there are IV glucose junkies out there now?
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This perfectly puts an handle on what is happening:
http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/
> watching a frustrated care troll twist

What are you talking about?

> Negotiating with irrational actors is risky

They never even tried it.

I'll make this simple. The only justification for the fire bombings and nuclear bombings that has any possible merit is that they were necessary to end the war. However, the US never even tried to negotiate, nor did they try to communicate to the Japanese that they would be willing to allow the Emperor to remain nominally in power. They could have used that to end the war far sooner.

So how could the bombings possibly be necessary to end the war when the war might have been ended by other means? I'm sure you'll say that that wouldn't have worked, but how would you know? The lack of any attempt shows that the US wasn't interested in ending the war: they wanted revenge, and therefore the bombings were not justified.
Me too but to be honest I think this is way better. It actually got me much more interested in the service than if it was just about number fiddling.
It's telling that the US embassies and State dept. are using Microsoft products. Aged ones.

Shows that they must not really handle any particularly sensitive information.
>I have been raped by a colleague — not just once, but several times over months.

Stopped reading there - obvious feminist propaganda.
PoetryDB is intended to be a database of poetry consumable via an API. You can try it out at http://poetrydb.org. The API is documented on github at https://github.com/thundercomb/poetrydb.

There is definitely overlap between Digital Poetry and Poetry Technology. However as the name suggests, Poetry Technology is more than the resulting instances of poetry. It is as much, if not more, about the technological process and mediation.

Digital Poetry is perhaps more apt as a marketing label to a consumer (just as we might say, “I like listening to electronic music”). From the point of view of a practitioner, my objection to Digital Poetry as a label is that it is two dimensional, and casts poetry technology as a variant of existing poetry, whereas this is misleading.

Digital Poetry, unfairly or not, is not on the whole viewed too seriously by the literary establishment. It is considered to be gimmicky and perhaps even a failed attempt to achieve “serious” or mainstream literary work. Poetry Technology aims to set that right, by drawing attention to the technology, the process, the body of knowledge that it draws from, the theory that can inform the practice and application, the potential works that could be created. It is much more than a label.

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Your markup project sounds intriguing. Would love to keep in touch to hear how it progresses, do you have a preferred way of being contacted?

I also tried the poetify weblink but the website doesn’t seem to be running at present.

Thanks for the links.
I know how patents work and I'm listed as inventor on some.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/07/22.html

Is the reason why I claim most software patents are nonsense.
I admit that I don't know a great deal about the Soviet angle, but it doesn't seem to logically fit. By that I mean: why would the Japanese be more afraid of a Soviet invasion than an American invasion? I know that Japanese soldiers had been trained to believe that Americans would retreat in the face of Japanese force, and that the Japanese had a pretty negative experience in dealing with the Soviet military. But I'd think that by the end of the Pacific war the Japanese would have been keenly aware of the fact that the Americans were not running away - they preparing to invade the homeland.

The only way I can logically fit the Soviet angle in is if Japan thought that they might be able to divide the Allies with a Soviet peace treaty. It would have been a real long shot, but not uncharacteristic of them at that time.
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Recently tried to avoid processed food, and it was almost a revelation.

Raw food with no additives (oil, vinegar, any kind of sauce):

- is quite rich in taste, that taste is good AND bad
- meaning it's pleasurable but your brain is gonna be sick of very fast.
- you can't over eat

This resonnates with R. Lustig talks [2] IIRC saying that processed food tricks your brain into "hunger" by coating things into fatty sugary content.

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[1] I don't know how well founded his ideas are
[2] you won't eat 5 carrots or 1 kg of salad

WARNING: May be completely subjective bias, or just biological clock changing my senses.
>> Taxes are paid out of those new dollars

Interestingly, here in Belgium, the press often states that Google pay his taxes as requested by the law. And that Google have some very expert accountant who read the law in suach a way that those taxes are close to zero.

I'm afraid Google doesn't pay his taxes like we, the tax payers, think it should...

Of course, that's totally proof-less, but well, I've heard that quite often (cf. intérêts notionnels)...
The author of this piece should not fret. Soon enough computers will program themselves, and they will be vastly superior in this task to their human counterparts. Perhaps then the author will bask in the glory of programming perfection while waiting to be processed in the unemployment line.

Seriously, get over yourself. If the programmers you hire fail at their task, blame your lack of leadership, mentor ship, or hiring skills. They can't all be the A-team, can they? Learn to win with the B-team.