skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've gotten a few requests for modifications that we are looking at. Would love to hear more about what you are thinking here.

My email is in my profile if you'd like to be in touch.
Still, just because you were active in the ocean doesn't mean you automatically have to lose weight.

You can be extremely active, but still eat more calories a day than you burn.

If we have person A who eats 1500 calories a day and does no exercise and we have person B who eats 1500 calories a day and does 30 minutes of running a day, person B will lose weight much more quickly.

The reason that weight training and exercise is often said to make you lose less weight is because exercise also builds muscle.

Your goal during a diet should not be to lose weight really, it should be to lose fat.
> The fact it doesn't work just proves me right

I didn't say your "solution" won't work, I said it's a bandaid.

Maybe it wasn't clear what I meant by "bandaid solution". Let me explain a literal example:

I once cut my knuckle very badly with a cheap mandolin slicer. I didn't realise at the time, but there was basically a chunk of my finger - about the size of a very large pea - missing, and because my knuckle was bent at the time it was deep. Because the blade was so ridiculously sharp, it wasn't really very painful, and due to the blood I couldn't see how deep it actually was, so I put a band-aid on it and didn't think about it.

Three days later a doctor had to use silver nitrate to cauterise the wound, as it immediately started bleeding profusely whenever the pressure from the bandaid was removed.

That is what I mean by "bandaid solution" - you're not solving the problem, merely covering up the issue and trying to ignore it.

Upvoting any and all non-offensive comments simply to counter any possible errant down votes defeats the purpose of having votes at all - I then have to choose between keeping the conversation open and honest, and "supporting" comments I actively agree with.

As a side-note, I strongly suggest against using a cheap mandolin OR having a wound cauterised with silver nitrate. I've had entire toenails removed, and part of the nailbed scraped away (it's as horrible as it sounds) as a child, and that hurt less than the cauterisation.
Personally, I don't down vote - I only up vote articles/comments that are worth reading.
"After a few years I found out that this was due to the hard keys of my keyboard." Several years? Because doctors are not free? (joke)
I will refrain from commenting on the equity other than to reiterate that what you've described is highly atypical for a "real" startup and if you're seriously considering the offer, you could do a lot worse than to discuss further with experienced counsel.

As for the salary, ask yourself: how long will this company be able to make payroll with nothing more than "car money"? The all-in burn on you alone will be in excess of $11,000/month. Even if you assume that the four other roles are filled with folks who will work for peanuts (not likely), it doesn't sound like the company currently has more than a half a year of runway, and that's probably being generous. For all you know, the founders, who you say have full-time jobs, might be putting money into the company on an ad hoc basis and could bail after a month if they lose interest.

Frankly, in my opinion, barring some major details you've omitted, this offer sounds like you're being told you won the lottery but have an incurable illness and two months to live. The fact that the founders are still employed elsewhere, aren't being forthcoming and have audacious, unrealistic expectations about valuations and exits before they even have a product are huge red flags.
One more little wrinkle: I don't think I can recall ever seeing semi-skimmed milk priced at a discount to whole milk at retail. Someone's got themselves a nice little earner selling off that removed dairy fat.
Not really. There always seems to be some "friendly fire" whenever Google releases new algorithm changes meant to combat abuse. I doubt anyone is ever fired over it, or else they would probably be constantly firing people.
>One consequence of this method is that most of the survellance [sic] methods used on the Internet can't see me.

is right after the description of how he browses. It sounds like he doesn't want people knowing what he's browsing.

Although "most" could exclude the NSA and anyone capable of intercepting emails.
How many people named 'Richard Stallman' can there be in the world.
It is true that they have different effects, but they are not as big as net calorie intake.

You'll lose weight much faster if you eat 1500 calories a day with just chocolate bars than if you eat 1800 calories a day from meat.
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Interesting. I wonder if handling of an easily-spoiled food isn't a big enough part of the cost to explain the parity between the whole and skim products.
>One consequence of this method is that most of the survellance [sic] methods used on the Internet can't see me.

That's what I based my comment on.

Although he's changed, apparently, according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9559834
Doctors don't practice science. But I've heard the same thing, and it stands to reason like any piece of common sense.
Finding Perrin Pseudo Primes: Part 2
Believe it or not, an extremely high amount of people do not understand this. Even here at Imperial, otherwise very intelligent people still do not understand why they aren't losing weight even though they aren't drinkig Red Bull anymore.
The author of the book has an essay here that discusses some of the themes: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mpsha/ShanahanJCS2012.pdf

And here is a critique: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/271843/1/harnad-shanahan.pdf

Caution: philosophical zombies ahead.
What does it mean to balance requests across cores? To run T event loop threads/procs, where T is tied to the number of CPU cores? So like, a pre-forking, multi-proc, evented server?

I actually can't think of a case where a multi-threaded/forking-only web server would be faster than that. Again, assuming complete support for async libraries used throughout the web application.

Are there any web servers that have this architecture? NodeJS obviously doesn't. *

* Actually, for maximum absurdity, it looks like Kore, the web server we are currently discussing, has this architecture
Looking at this as an environmental problem makes some sense. I used to rent cheap hosted servers and moved to virtualized systems like AWS, Azure, and AppEngine partially because of environmental impact and partially out of convenience.

We need staging servers and redundant backups so getting really high utilization is not possible but I hope to see a lot of improvement.

The big companies seem to be doing things better. At Google, I had a bit of angst running 10k processor jobs but they do use solar, set up data centers near hydro electric sources, etc. Same as Amazon, Microsoft, etc.
Not if they're all Big Mac calories. Quality matters.
The difficulty is that there was just a general election where the Tories won a majority of seats and got the largest share of the popular vote.

I would suggest that part of the difficulty here is that while the Conservatives won a majority of seats and the largest single share of the popular vote, they did not win anywhere near a majority of the popular vote.

However you choose to look at our electoral system, the fact is that roughly 3/4 of those entitled to vote did not choose to vote for the Conservatives (or roughly 2/3 if you prefer to look at only those who chose to vote at all).

So even if you believe that voting for a party gives a mandate to every policy in their manifesto -- which clearly not everyone does -- in this case, a heavy majority of the electorate did not vote for a party that has these controversial policies.

It is therefore not surprising that when the new government have picked a series of big fights within a week of taking office, they are already encountering widespread concern about or outright opposition to their actions. Given their narrow majority, I don't expect the new Cameron administration to get much of a honeymoon period or any sort of free ride over controversial policies like this.
The weakness of type inference arises, as you note, due to subtype polymorphism. You can't escape from this when you've got class-based OO, it seems.
But the fish apparently does not work. So why is the fish still regularly hailed in papers as well as being still manufactured and sold (to first-worlders, at $25 a piece)?
And the very situation that has allowed the growth of things like the Islamic State demonstrates the failure of the kind of authoritarian approach that Cameron seems to crave:

A less tolerant government has never historically lead to a more tolerant populace other than in the very short term.
It's dirty (literally) down there.
This is very much tongue-in-cheek, and the name is play on the words "chit chat" and the swedish "skitsnack" which shit chat becomes the literal translation of. :)

Was a fun and quite rewarding project!
In England DBT is patchily available. You'd usually have to be very ill, or persistant, to get it, and wait times can be too long.

There has been a focus on CBT. That's great because for most people CBT is effective and short, but as this article says it doesn't work for everyone.

Very recently there is a lot of work to improve access to other talking therapies. Patients now have more choice about where to get their treatment; maximum times for waiting are going to be introduced; "parity of esteem" with physical health is more important. (Although watch out: You may have to wait 18 weeks to have a hip replaced, so you may have to wait 18 weeks to start your psychological therapy.)

One of the problems is that DBT needs experienced (expensive) practitioners, and tends to be used for people who are iller and who need a bit more support. So it's harder for health trusts to implement DBT programmes. Not trying to make excuses for them - I campaign pretty hard to improve treatment for people with a diagnosis of personality disorder and access to therapy is one of the main things.

> And as imperfect as my D.B.T. practice was early on, I found that just taking anxiety down a degree or two gave me a measure of control over my decision making in the presence of intense emotion. The lesson was profound. I couldn’t eliminate anxiety from my life, but I could learn how to tolerate it, and cope without making the situation worse.

This is a really nice point. It's an iterative process. You work at it.
That would assume it is unlocked. And i don't see anything about this chip being able to do so.
First Class Statements
Why use C instead of D, Rust, Go, C#, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Haskell, Swift, OCaml, Objective-C...?

C and Rust are not in the same play field of Ruby, Python or PHP. These languages are typed, compiled and MUCH faster.

You'll obviously build 99% of your application in Ruby, but you might need C or Rust for high-volume calculations.

An example that happened to me a few weeks ago. Scaling a financial application to make millions of calculations. The core App is made with PHP, and the difference between 0.1sec and 0.000764sec gets important here.
You are correct - but I also vividly remember a message playing as I went through security in a US airport a couple of years ago saying that things like inappropriate jokes etc. could result in arrest.
Tone policing is a form of hostility, too.
It's kind of amusing that this is news. Most folks involved in sports/fitness have probably heard the old adage, "Abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym."
I'd still always recommend cardio instead of weight training. Cardio is much more healthier than weight training.

It has been shown plenty of times that running/walking regularly increases life expectency quite dramatically. I've yet to find an article that says the same thing about big biceps :)
> There is no right to free speech in the UK.

Yes, and that's.. what? Not acceptable, but not resisted anyway? Do you think "putting scrutiny"[1] on people who support terrorism is fine, but imprisoning people for a tweet is not?

[1] Violating the right to free speech

What Western person in their right mind would proudly proclaim his support for actual terrorists? Do you think there are enough people in the UK to find that many people deranged in that particular way, or do you think some of them might be paid to act like it?

Free speech is limited in the US too, whenever it gets too inconvenient to the ruling class: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/14-speci...
It's 2015, not 1985. Most people are not paying IBM for every CPU cycle (used or not) on a mainframe. Should IT staff try to look "good" on a "CPU utilization" report that belongs in a history book by buying lower-end hardware, or should they spend a tiny amount of extra money to ensure that customers get good performance during peak periods?
10 Steps for Entrepreneurs to Drive Real Innovation
I find the often-preachy-and-self-absorbed explanations of why someone was downvoted really obnoxious. People here aren't stupid, we usually have a pretty good idea of when we're saying something controversial and/or why someone might downvote it. And some of the explanations I've seen, just wow... Explaining to someone that saying "thanks" is meaningless and adds nothing to the discussion is just a slap in the face.
I'd love to see a RandallMunroe `what if processed food was reduced to almost zero`. How many things would disappear (factories, their consumption and polluants, shops, pesticides), how much healthier would we be, wealthier, how much free time doctor would have for worthy cases. The whole shebang.
A cool trick for better JavaScript functions
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But both arrows disappear when you vote.

[edit] Or are you suggesting a way in which the site could be modified to reflect your vote? In that case yeah, I think that would work.
At least electric cars and tesla and musk have a connection... Elon and tesla are both idealists that hope their work will change the world and it will. Electric cars are about transitioning to using electricity to run cars, tesla discovered ac and his work transitioned much of the modern world to electricity. This site has nothing to do with any of that.
Data doesn't grow in tables: harvesting journalistic insight from documents
Thank you @eezis for linking to Kennetts blogpost. What a painfully sad story. Lets hope that Adelaide recovers completely and the driver won't be allowed behind another steering wheel.

Just yesterday afternoon I had another reckless driver deliberately drive up close to a few centimeters behind my rear wheel because he saw me as an obstacle. This was just 30 Meters away from a red light. The argument through the driver window, as always in situations like this, lead nowhere. People like this know, that there will be no consequences to their behaviour, so they keep on risking other peoples lives...

You might be interested in the german project http://wegeheld.org, which mainly focuses on documenting parking offences. Sadly the interface of the app is not there yet.

Being able to use a phone to document and upload an incident report complete with pictures/videos and GPS location and GPS track info would be a great plus to any such app. Also being able to warn other cyclists of reckless drivers in a specific area or of an ongoing incident might be helpful (i.e. if witnesses are needed).
Having a strong core is a great thing (of course, self centered anecdotal revelation), no need to go into bodybuilding but I'd suggest anyone to strengthen and stretch every two days.
Update: Endless.io, the company behind Endless Horse, has announced $2.5 million in seed funding from a who's who of prominent Silicon Valley investors, including Dewey Cheetum of Pyramid Partners and Richard Ponzi of Greater Fool Capital.
Why is no one competing with airbnb?
$1000 computer had 1 MB of RAM in 1987. $699 for Amiga 500 (had 512 kB) and $159 for A501 512kB memory expansion.
Isn't it funny that they dubbed the non-english speakers with english with very heavy accent?
Whole milk is usually 10% – 15% more expensive where I live, though the lower-fat varieties are all priced the same.

People in the Natural Golden Age™ didn't generally drink whole milk, either — they skimmed the cream off to use separately.
JavaScript with Dragons: Learning Call() and Apply() Methods in Depth
> They're following the VC model

Just a little more honest about the labelling.
and most of the people in coders at work, including

https://geeki.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/ken-thompson-on-c/

(when this topic comes up, I always find it funny that url's rarely contain ++ or # when talking about the descendants of C)

and apple of course, with their objective c.
You get to do projections
as in the Pythagorean theorem.

The coefficients you need in the
projections are just the
values of some inner products.
With random variables, those
coefficients are covariances,
that is, much the same as
correlations, that commonly
can estimate from data.

In the multivariate Gaussian
case, uncorrelated implies
independence.

Fourier theory is easier in
L2 than in L1. E.g., in
classic Fourier series, the
error in the approximation
is in L2 and is from the
L2 orthogonality of the
harmonics.

Yes, L-infinity can
also be nice: The
uniform limit of a sequence
of continuous functions
is continuous.

Or, with L2, often get a
Hilbert space but with
L1 or L-infinity usually
get at best just a Banach space --
that is, a complete, normed
vector space. Then, yes, can
get the Hahn-Banach theorem,
but the same thing in Hilbert
space is easier.

There is a sense in which L1 and
L-infinity are duals of
each other, but L2 is self-dual
which is nicer.

Filling in all these details and
more is part of functional analysis
101. There tough to miss at least
three books of W. Rudin:
Principles of Mathematical Analysis,
Real and Complex Analysis,
and Functional Analysis.

There's more, but I've
got some bugs to get out
of the software of my
Web pages!

I like the question -- asked
it myself at the NIST early in my career.
The answer I gave here is better
than what people told me then.

I've indicated likely most of the
main points, but my answer here is
rough and ready (I typed too fast),
and a quite polished answer is
also possible -- I just don't have
time today
to dig out my grad school
course notes, scan through Rudin,
Dunford and Schwartz,
Kolmogorov and Fomin, much of
digital filtering, much of
multi-variate statistics, etc.
>Surprise! Dairy fat actually helps avoid obesity

I think the study over looks the most likely physiological reasoning for this, primarily suggesting it is a matter of satiety (feeling fuller consuming less). People like to hinge on the concept of calories in/calories out, then highlight short term diets of ice cream and Twinkies where people still lose weight because of the caloric intake management. Notwithstanding temporary loses due to reduced calories, such diets do prime one for obesity. On the other-hand diets high in protein and fat (good fats: like almonds, chicken skin, red meats, ect...) do prime one to avoid obesity.

Each body and metabolism is different. However, the rule of thumb is that sugars (Twinkies and ice cream) release insulin which enlarges things in the body including tumors and in this case fat cells which does prime a body for obesity even if one is not currently obese. But healthy fats will trigger the release of glucagon which has the opposite effect of insulin resulting in smaller fat cells which does help in avoiding obesity.
I think that's the norm in this world. Most things are ubiquitous by accident. Nobody planned it from the start.
Having done CBT, I found the complaints in the article really puzzling. Glad the author found something that worked for him, though.
Surely democracy starts out as an alternative to war, rather than be the solution to all our problems. We need a Parliament because we are so divided and would come to blows without it.

Of course that assumes that people can be corralled together into groups. The experience of the last ten years suggests that society is dividing into small sub-cultures that don't understand each other, or talk to each other.
I am not surprised that a treatment that is so effective to the author has remained unknown to him for so long. I have had feelings of suicide for the last 14 years. I personally hate meeting psychologists, because they can be so unpredictable. Some of the better ones prescribed me medicine, some of the worse ones, told me I had to stop crying and find solutions to my problems, that I was lazy. I was also told because I could do my job and earn a good living, I had nothing wrong. Few acknowledge that having no friends for 14 years can be disruptive. I am in a state where every moment is sad, but over the years at least I have learnt to keep a happy face on the outside and wait for something to happen. I just wished psychologists be more scientific and stop considering everything trial and error!
Don’t be loyal to the company, but be loyal to the mission
TreatJS: Higher-Order Contracts for JavaScript
It's also for the species that conquered the world by relying on smart use of animal resources for survival.

I see two legitimate uses nowadays for "cow milk is for calves": raising awareness about the cruel aspects of our relation with other animals and promoting breast feeding.
Maybe I should have said "a PC" instead of "a computer." As in, something that actually had a hard disk. Did GNU software run on Amiga 500? Had it been a good decision to target it instead of the PC-compatibles? I don't think so.
I've felt the same way. I randomly found a therapist who has been very helpful to me and who I think is quite talented, but I only found her long after I'd given up on searching (many years later). It was essentially random happenstance. Though it also required me to become more open minded about the value someone could provide despite what I consider a less than ideal scientific literacy (in this case Myers-Briggs).
The credibility of all nutrition recommendations/research has been shot to hell by decades of flip-flopping. Trans-fats are safe! No wait, they really aren't, so forget that they were in pervasive use for 25+ years. Don't eat cholesterol! No, forget about that. Coffee is healthy! No it's unhealthy! No healthy! Unhealthy!

There's no way to trust any of this. Whatever decisions are made now I expect to read about the benefits of the opposite decision in ten years.
The Problem With Single-threaded Shared Mutability
Both arrows disappear when I vote (Chrome)
one of my favourite quotes from stroustrup says that 'don't use malloc and free, unless you want to debug 1980s' problems.

which i find curious, given the truism about debugging and understanding code taking longer than writing code.

personally i would prefer 1980s problems people in general know the answer to, rather than up to the minute esoterica.

all that said, the scott meyers modern c++ book is out, so i should really start and finish that before forming an worthy opinion in 2015.
I assume (I'm not an expert) that it's fairly easily processed into butter, anhydrous milk fat https://www.fonterra.com/au/en/NZMP+Ingredients/Our+Ingredie... https://www.globaldairytrade.info/en/product-results/anhydro... and other valuable and relatively non-spoiling products.
I don't know, I appreciate his convictions and what he does, but I don't believe software in general would be where it is today if it weren't for commercial and closed source software. Google and Apple have done a lot to shape the world we live in today despite being "unethical" in terms of openness.