skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I arrived in California, I weighed a bit over 250lbs (I'm 6'3") and was grossly out of shape. I'm in my early 30s.

Things I've been doing to improve my health:

Improved my diet. This alone caused me to shed about 30lbs.

Stopped drinking alcohol. I'm a recovering alcoholic, so this was a pretty important one. Next week will mark exactly 6 months since what I hope is my last drink ever.

Started weight training 3 times a week. I've only been at this for about 6 weeks, but my strength has gone up a surprising amount. When I started, squatting 90lbs was a huge struggle, I could maybe bench press about the same amount, and I could maybe deadlift 120lbs. I could barely overhead press an empty bar. As things stand now, I can do the following in 3 sets of 5 - squat 180lbs (2x starting), benchpress 135 (1.5x), deadlift 205lbs (1.7x), and OHP 85 (2x).

The weight training has really helped with the little aches and pains that start to pile up as you get older and fatter. My weight has actually been going up slowly as I weight train (220->225) but I've lost about three inches off my waistline.
Mixed comments on resource usage so far. Some examples:
* "Besides beeing a bit slow, VS suddenly felt like a proper IDE"
* "a bit more sluggish than using vanilla VS, but made up for it in terms of usability"
* "even after I've opened the project and everything is parsed, Visual Studio slows down too much for it to be acceptable"
* "once resharper had completed (warning up) though, everything was fine and Visual Studio + performance was pretty good"

(these are all from a recent reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/31xbrt/jetbrain...)

Seems that it depends on the size and complexity of a solution, takes trying to see if it's acceptable in a given environment. That said, a lot of performance work is ahead provided that the team has input on what's going wrong and in what circumstances.
Right. It's not really a block-chain, but a block-tree (whatever that is supposed to be).

I suspect to make smart contracts work, one needs a different time-stamping/incentive system altogether (non-blockchain), but haven't seen any progress in that direction.
This sounds like a really, really cool concept, but with some rather significant regulatory, legal and tax implications. Have you consulted with specialists in these areas to determine the U.S. and international legality of the concept? Are there people using it already (and in what country)?

At any rate, very cool!
People tend to like it because it's plain text, easy enough to sanitize input, represents most of the typical syntax people already used for a generation in marking up plain text. Doesn't require knowledge of HTML tags, and doesn't introduce the copy-paste pain that WYSIWYG editors introduce.
I'm curious what prompted installing Baidu analytics in the first place.
Deep Learning for Decision Making and Control [video]
As I read the title of the chair, my reaction went from "I can't believe Mark Cuban as a Chair named after him" to "That's just about right". Good for him.
I Am Near is a platform that allows any type of digital content to be associated to a particular context where context is the intersection of who, when, and where. The first URL is the landing page the other URLs are test accounts that bypass authentication. For some reason the test URLs can be a bit touchy, ripping them out tonight, if you get a blank page just refresh.

Landing Page URL.
http://www.iamnear.com/

Test account URLs not authentication required.
http://www.iamnear.com/?#access_token=test-john-doe
http://www.iamnear.com/?#access_token=test-jane-doe
http://www.iamnear.com/?#access_token=test-bobby-doe
http://www.iamnear.com/?#access_token=test-sarah-doe

FYI The best way to understand I Am Near is create a post with one of the test accounts, otherwise there is nothing to view.
Hmm, didn't he just said opposite?
> Finally, I don't understand why more entrepreneurs don't do startups in energy.

The risk vs. rewards isn't as good as it looks like. First, energy is one of those hightly regulated fields, where outsiders face hell on Earth. Then, energy is normaly a market where huge investiments have tremendous economics of scale and dominate the market. Finally, even research in energy takes big-to-huge initial investiments, where "big" is already way outside of normal people budgets.

Yes, if somebody comes with a way to make anything (production, storage, transmission, even colaboration) cheap on this market, he'll probably get rich. But any product that isn't completely revolutionary will be completely destroyed.
Have you contacted Mozilla to see what they recommend in this type of scenario?
React / Angular Meeting
It's hard not to be excited about the potential of being apart of YC but YC is by no means a golden ticket to success. YC is potentially a catalyst depending on the stage you're at and what problem you're trying to solve but focus on building and executing instead of an individual opportunity. For us, YC is one of many opportunities to achieve our ultimate goal: product success. My day has been spent building and my co-founders have been busy on the phone all day w/ potential customers all of which are interested in our beta!

In short, focus on building and GL!
Whitelists are always easier if you're OK with false positives.
The OpenPower alliance has some Chinese companies who develop chips and servers using the IBM IP, and there would be servers released at Q2-2015. And the Chinese government is encouraging Chinese companies to use that architecture.

This current move might deter the Chinese from using the OpenPower and counting on that design, because it might have similar restrictions in the future, although it's hard to tell how big of an impact such restrictions would have on IP.

And on the other hand, in the context of the Chinese computing shift, the u.s. or intel don't really lose much from this move.

BTW: Could china seriously compete(and take large shares) in the cloud/hosting businesses using servers installed in china, assuming hw and power is cheaper,given the latency limitation ?
On the rejection-of-OOP thing; I agree that seems like the biggest similarity between Go and Rust, but even then, the major replacements for those features are completely different – Rust's traits are more like typeclasses and C++ templates (to some extent) than they are to Go's interfaces (though "trait objects" are like interfaces, but used less often). It also seems like Rust will eventually add some form of more traditional OOP features like inheritance, because the servo project would like such things to implement the DOM (and I think others are also interested for different reasons), which I doubt Go will ever do.
Given the sponsoring legislator, I would say this has nothing at all to do with encouraging worker-owned co-operatives, and instead is reducing reporting requirements for highly-paid executives.
It would probably be cheaper with AMD CPUs, slightly more IBM/Power. It won't be a financial inconvenience. But, why would they need to use a different CPU? They shouldn't have any trouble sourcing Xeon processors despite the "ban".

FYI, The Chinese already own the #1 spot. (at least of the supers that are known about). http://www.top500.org/lists/2014/11/
First, loved the technical writing here.

Second, if we're willing to make people learn a different keycap arrangement, why aren't we willing to make them learn a different physical layout? I suspect a completely different physical layout would likely reduce the error rate from confusion between keycap arrangements (e.g., you'll still have to use QWERTY).

Anyone remember "Fitaly"? It was a big timesaver on my Compaq iPaq. From Wikipedia:

FITALY is a keyboard layout specifically optimized for stylus or touch-based input. The design places the most common letters closest to the centre to minimize distance travelled while entering a word. The name, FITALY, is derived from the letters occupying the second row in the layout (as QWERTY comes from the first row of standard keyboards)...

The aim of the design is to optimise text entry by organising keys to minimise key-to-key finger movement, allowing faster input through one-finger entry (compared to 10 fingers required to type efficiently on QWERTY layout). As compared to the 3-row QWERTY keyboard, FITALY has 5 rows with at most 6 letters in a row (as against 10 on QWERTY).

Keys are arranged based on individual frequencies of letters in the English language, and the probability of transitions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITALY
Adversarial examples – Machine Learning [pdf]
Show HN: The Masters API
But the students are at exactly the stage where calculating with negative numbers has been introduced and needs practice and precision, so this works out very nicely with the curriculum.
I've never heard of anyone deloading because they were making too much noise. What kind of gym do you go to?
We don't really know how to use Methane Hydrate even today. And thorium is not easy to use by any reasonable account.

If we lose just a bit of our knowledge, we'll be restricted to biomass.
Five reasons why Python is a popular teaching language
What an awesome day! The sun is shining. WiFi works! And our little team is brainstorming, breaking, building and dreaming.

Enjoy good ol' McFerrin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU and hum along with us =)
Can you sue Facebook for patent infringement and still use React.js?

What I mean by that is... do you actually need this patent grant to use React.js? Since React.js is BSD licensed, can you distribute a fork of React.js that does not include this file?
That's like saying "a judge acquitted him" without considering the efforts of the defence.
They are now actively sponsoring attacks against private corporations that (indirectly) assist Chinese citizens in circumventing blanket information censorship imposed by the government. I'm not a fan of making enemies either, but that sure doesn't sound friendly to me.
I'm honestly just guessing at the meaning (I live in New Haven but have very little association with Yale). There's definitely some history between them.

Like the time a group of Yale students dressed up as "Harvard Pep Squad" and got Harvard to do this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Harvard%E2%80%93Yale_prank
For a more contemporary example, see the so-called revolutions of the "Arab Spring." Ask an Egyptian how that particular revolution's going for them.

The rise of statist apologetics is probably the one thing about Internet-based discussions that disturbs me the most.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356508.
this is good spending, goes straight into R&D and education.
The performance of bittorrent has almost nothing to do with the performance of the language the client is written in. Its not an io-bound task. Performance in bittorrent comes from selecting the right chunks at the right time from the right peers. I think utorrent uses its own algorithm whereas both deluge and transmission use libtorrent's built in algorithm (which is configurable, but only to an extent).

Transmission and deluge often max out my bandwidth though, so its not like they're poor performers.
We could have a vast range of help screens available for instantaneous recall when in trouble.

Oh yes. 20 tabs open when hunky-dory. 120 when in trouble.
Cloudflare can't find Cloudflare.com
katm (Kat Manalac, I guess) YC Partner said midnight about 1h ago. So that would be in 10 hours. Good luck!
The 3D part used a more conventional 16-colour mode. Though it's a testament to how well Scali's code and VileR's palettes work, if they can be mistaken for the 1K colour mode!
Thank you for updating the title, it is much clearer now. The EFF does not invalidate patents on their own, much as we would like that to be the case.
Amazon gets green light from U.S. regulators for new drone tests
I'm doing something similar to Starting Strength and I really enjoy it, but it's not the be-all end-all. If bodyweight exercises are your thing, more power to you.

I have to disagree with you on the machines though. From what I've read, they tend to train large muscle groups but fail to build up stabilizer muscles, which can cause some nasty problems if you keep at it for a long time. A good friend of mine worked out exclusively on machines for a while and wound up having to work (as a developer) in wrist braces because the muscles in his arms were all out of whack. He thought he'd gotten carpal tunnel syndrome or something similar, but his physiotherapist did a quick exam and asked him if he worked out on machines X or Y. He answered in the affirmative, and she told him to stop immediately and start stretching and do some bodyweight stuff.

Bodyweight or barbell exercises won't lead you down that path, but machines can and do cause problems. Be careful!
> Does China respect the no-space-weapons treaty?

A quick search showed China followed the US's lead in not respecting the no-space-weapons treaty.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mis... ...

In January 2001, a (US) congressionally mandated space commission headed by Donald Rumsfeld recommended that “the U.S. government should vigorously pursue the capabilities called for in the National Space Policy to ensure that the president will have the option to deploy weapons in space to deter threats to, and, if necessary, defend against attacks on U.S. interests."

Moreover, the U.S. withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 has allowed the United States to pursue missile defenses, including space-based.

In response to US weaponisation of space, the Chinese started a space defense program, including anti-satellite defense.
Yes, I believe you're right. However, I don't think they're likely to do it for a random user who wants to try a new layout given that each one of these is not a negligible calculation.
In what world is that a "common sense" ruling?

A world where the John Robertses and Antonin Scalias don't have to worry about it happening to them.
It is refreshing to get this direct of an effect for my money. This must be how lobbyists feel.
Can you give a little more detail? After reading this article and some of their web page I still have no idea what this actual is (beyond the fact that it's a decentralized platform for decentralized applications).

Can you give an example of what this would be used for and how?
As opposed to the entirety of legal history before 2010, when rich newspaper owners had just as much power to exercise free speech as scruffy-looking homeless people?

(Shrug) The Internet has fixed that.
Unspecified vulnerability in Boosted Boards skateboards
it will be a core part of the story of our era.

ROFL, wow... that's not grandiose at all.

It's a database. On the internet. I'm gonna go out on a limb and bet at least a few billion folks on the planet likely won't see their lives change much any time soon because Etherium was conceived.

Edit: Ahh. Zapchain again. Now I get it.

Times like this I wish there was a way to filter my Hacker News RSS feed to cull out posts from particular users or sources...
I know if it happens it happens and if not that's not the end of the world. But I can't help but not to think about it every couple minutes...I have to believe that all of us that chose this path have many things in common and one of those is obsessive compulsion...good luck to everyone. Everything happens for a reason.
Yes, the person you responded to has it completely backwards. Strength training is important, but volume training is what will give you big muscles. Look for any body building routine(which is solely focused on aesthetics, and not at all focused on strength), and you will see that it has a very large volume. I lifted for strength only for 5 years and saw very little progress in aesthetics. I've seen more progress in 6 months of GVT(a volume focused training program) than I did in 5 years of heavy weight training.

Here is Kai Greenes(runner up Mr. Universe) take on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8wZNGL4iA4 . You probably don't want to look like him, but you have to admit he knows what he's talking about.

Just google "volume vs intensity training" for a million hits on the subject.
How in the Hell Will Any Cloud Ever Catch AWS?
There's also the TLS Cipher Suite Generator [1], for when you need fine-grained control over which ciphers you want to support.

[1] http://geoff.greer.fm/ciphersuite/
Some people do! Check out the top story on HN right now, which is about EFF invalidating a patent held by a patent troll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356767. Nobody was suing EFF (admittedly, that's almost a technicality since the patent holder was suing others, but EFF was trying to advance the public interest).

Also check out Ask Patents, which works on invalidating patent applications: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/07/22.html.
Origins of Mysterious Radio Wave Bursts (FRBs) Discovered
The point I was trying to make is that when you use CMake on any not-completely-unknown compiler, it will do this for you. If you are writing your own makefile, you either need to take the different compilers into account or implement it just for gcc ("screw the other guys") or simply resolve to "make clean && make".
You do not understand medical ethics.

First, it's more that those two conditions. Modern ethics requires informed consent. If your doctor lies to you to get you to agree to a treatment, then just because you are of sound mind and agree to it doesn't make it ethical. If this doctor says there's a 5% chance of success, and that number is pulled out of his ass, can the patient really make an informed decision?

Second, this falls under futile medical care. The chance of survival should this work is well under 1%, and would normally suggest palliative and comfort measures rather than a highly experimental procedure. There is nothing special about this case which makes it outside the normal guidelines.

Third, experimental surgery can be warranted even under this case, but only if the knowledge gained is worthwhile and effective. The estimated cost of this surgery is over $10 million. As a straight cost/benefit analysis, the cost to do the same on a mouse or dog is much cheaper, so there can be more experiments, giving better overall information, and provide concrete data used to make a real informed consent.
Indeed, and thankfully, this unlike the Arab countries in Middle east, where it's more-or-less routine.

I think it is made worse by the fact that no one gives a shit for the people who don't speak English in India.
We're working on bringing AI and automation to shift scheduling at https://www.StaffJoy.com - we are being deployed to production by a client for the first time this coming week :-)

On the back-end, it's a lot of integer programming optimization with custom heuristics that we use to keep the solve-times sane.
Any figures on how much this invalid patent costed people?
That seems entirely reasonable to me. If you want a free license to Facebook's patents, you have to implicitly give them a free license to yours as well. If you want to get money from them for patent violations, you should be prepared to then have to pay to use their patents.
typically lights out 10-10:30 as I get up at 6:30 each day.

edit to add: during this time I:

1. walk the dog
2. read (book or kindle paperwhite which doesn't impact sleep)
3. tidy up
4. lay out clothes for the next day, pack lunches or bag as needed.
5. sit and chat with my partner (shocking!)
Ask HN: Current YC applicants, what's your plan if you're not accepted?
I'm not sure I've ever heard of this concept, tbh. Categorically, you have arrows. Haskell is often modeled by the category Hask of types and arrows between types. If we denote these categorical arrows in notation as fat arrows then things like

Int,
(),
Maybe (Maybe (Maybe String))
forall a . a -> a

are objects and things like

Int => (),
() => Int
Maybe (Maybe (Maybe String)) => Maybe (Maybe (Maybe String))

are arrows. Arrows are often called morphisms so you might talk about the morphisms as the elements of a Hom set like Hom((), Int).

Notably, the Haskell arrows, the type of functions, happen to internalize the categorical arrows. This makes Hask cartesian closed. Thus, we have a correspondence between the arrows

a => b

and the objects

a -> b

This is why we often talk about function types as being categorical arrows.

---

All that said, the type `m a` is not a function type let alone an arrow unless we happen to specialize `m` to be one. More specifically, the type `forall m . m a` is never a function type no matter the choice of `a`.

The notation `(-> m a)` or `(m a ->)` is... not actually a type. It's a type constructor at best (though it's illegal Haskell notation) which fits into a different kind of categorical construction if you want to go there.

The type `(a -> b)` "is" a valid arrow via the correspondence I mentioned earlier. The thing that's being referred to is the fully applied type constructor. If we have

type Arr a b = a -> b

then `Arr` is a type constructor of kind `(* -> * -> )` (e.g. a "type constructor constructor") and `Arr a` a type constructor of kind `( -> )`.

The type* `Arr a b` is in correspondence with the morphisms of Hask. A combination of arrows would be a morphism from pairs of internal arrows to... something else

(a -> b, c -> d) => r

we can represent that with an internal arrow

(a -> b, c -> d) -> r

and then use the currying natural isomorphism

(a -> b) -> (c -> d) -> r

which is the (internal) type of "arrow combining morphisms".

That's the clearest I can explain what I'm on about. Where do you fit your notion of categorical morphism into there?
This is nothing more than some IT consultants who just happen to have built some of Grails getting new jobs at one of the many IT consultancies in the US. How is this "Grails has a new home"?
Does anyone know what the obstacles are to an official 64-bit Windows build? There are multiple unofficial builds in the wild and at least one (linked in the parent comment) builds without patches.
In Berkeley? Work on side projects together
That's right, the default. (but also, see teraflop's comment about ambiguous implied patent license)

It seems that any variation either hurts my defense or comes off as aggressive (which is what happened to facebook).

In a hypothetical situation where the patent language matters, it's total war. Multiple concurrent lawsuits in opposite directions, ITC injunction requests, etc. Maximum pain to make the opponent capitulate. None of these patents are really valid anyway, it's either math or implementation detail. There's no reason or logic here.

Better to make no statement, leave the default unsaid, and stick your head in the sand, it may keep you under the radar of involvement.
Right, but if that were possible, it would have already happened. Cosmic rays hitting the Earth's upper atmosphere can already have much, much more energy than the LHC achieves. So the LHC is being ramped up to produce 13 TeV collisions... but we've measured cosmic ray impacts as high as 300,000,000 TeV. That was the so-called "oh my god particle", which had as much kinetic energy as a 60mph baseball, even though it was probably just a single proton. Sure, it's an outlier, but you can look at the overall distribution of cosmic ray flux:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#/media/File:Cosmic_r...

Let's move beyond "seems plausible" and try to work with "supported by the data".
This is in response to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9314269
It's hard to really summarize ethereum well... it's just so different from any existing system, IMHO.

Unless you're really into the nitty gritty of cryptocurrency technology, it won't really make sense until people manage to build some compelling apps for it, hopefully around the summer time.