skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that pain points are impossible to predict. It's that you'll get some predictions wrong. False positives will cost you from the start and false negatives will bring you problems when they surprise you.

Instead of planning for future predicted problems, plan for change. Embrace the fact you know little about the future and that both the problems and the way you tackle them will always be mutating.
I think it's a reverence thing. Had things not worked out for the chap inevitably the footage would end up on Reddit where endless jokes and mockery would ensue.
Sarbox rules have made it very difficult to list a company.

No more pets.com because no more floats.

When was the last time you heard about a small operation with little revenue, no profits and not much of a business model getting floated ?

These days it just doesn't happen much. The floats are all giants like Facebook. Back in the late 90s these things were listing monthly.
The CoG is actually pretty low. Here's an example of a tilt test:

http://therighttrack.millbrook.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010...
If you have a big calories surplus it will take a looooot of exercise to lose weight.
Not to mention out-of-domain performance.

I'm not familiar with computer vision, but in NLP taggers are hovering around human-level performance, and parsers are quickly approaching that level. But if you take a state-of-the-art system and test it on a slightly different corpus (even something as simple as text from the same newspaper, but a year later!) performance drops by a lot.
>> "We appear to have no problem with that when it's photographers in third-world countries."

There's a goal with those photographs. To make people aware and get them to help usually through donation. There is nothing to gain from a dozen people standing around videoing a man suffering under a bus in central London other than morbid curiosity. What will become of the videos those people made? What use do they have. If you can't help move on as you're probably in the way.
Why do you let his website set that colour on your screen?
In my experience, I run late because I let other people take advantage of me. The doctor sees you late; your client starts the meeting 15 minutes late and wants to stretch the meeting past it's allotted end time; your mother calls as you're packing up to leave; your boss blows through meetings.

It's hard to put your foot down and stand up for yourself, like the author did with his dentist. But that's what you have to do to solve the problem.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763382/

> CONCLUSIONS
>
> Reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful
> weight loss regardless of which macronutrients they
> emphasize.

Edited to include an additional quote from the study:

> The principal finding is that the diets were equally successful in promoting
> clinically meaningful weight loss and the maintenance of weight loss over the
> course of 2 years. Satiety, hunger, satisfaction with the diet, and attendance
> at group sessions were similar for all diets.
The Lazarus IDE(Delphi Clone... 1,500 downloads a day) uses it for at least their downloads.

If projects need to host binaries what are the best alternative to sourceforge?
Tony freestyle
> ie, humans disagree with other humans more often than their systems disagree with the average human rating[0].

I wonder why google has that new image categorization captcha when it's a task where computers fare better than humans.
Sure hope it's not an emergency!
> People are late because whatever they were doing took longer...
I am wondering why can I always be on time and others don't? Don't let other people wait for you.
>"Running a marathon every day would also work, but both of them are pretty tedious and sub optimal ;)"

Nop, you can still eat enough calories to gain weight while running a marathon every day.

Eating at a caloric deficit isn't independent of eating micronutrient dense food.
Is training of the Google AI the reason that reCAPTCHA is now showing pictures and asking users to select all images of a certain kind?
(See other replies) the low centre of gravity of double deckers is common knowledge here in the UK.
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If a dentist office always runs on time, that means that quite regularly they're sitting around doing nothing. The no-show rate for a typical office is around 10%.

Like any scheduling problem, the amount of slack in the schedule is crucial. Most schedules work a lot better with a little bit of slack, but a lot of people see slack as a horrible inefficiency that must be excised at all costs.
>"I'm not sure I entirely buy into the if it fits your macros (IIFYM) way of thinking,"

IIFYM is a misleading acronym, it was born out of frustration with people asking "can I eat x? can I eat y?", it it meant to mean "If it fits your protein, carbs, fat, fiber and micronutrients".
Beautiful read.

> I keep looking for meaning, but all I've found so far is that in order to be at peace with the present, we must be at peace with the past, because the present is a product of the past. Accept. Accept. Accept. Learn to love the present moment.

Sometimes it helps me to remember that the present is literally the only thing that exists. Looking too much into the past produces guilt; too much into the future, anxiety. I hope in this new world we're building with all the great technology, we put a stronger emphasis on learning contentment which can only come from accepting the present in all its myriad forms.
Simple stuff. Don't do this. Why risk a life so you can feel good in a BBC article. The reason people don't know what to do and freeze, is because they don't know what to do, get experts, this situation seemed stabilised.

It's luck the person in the train incident didn't loose a leg from the rocking.

Want to actually save a life, very boring, give money to a 3rd world charity.

And the Kitty Genovese story is generally these days considered not that simple as the common 'Just so story'

There's stories here that are important, just skip the BBC tabloid version.
A slightly related Bill Watterson comic-- http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists...
Is it correctly understood that in "Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge" the competitor's biweekly runs ahead of the final submission is against the set that actually determines the final result of the contest?!
This is the relevant website of my university: http://www.polinternational.polimi.it/how-to-apply/fees/

The total cost for one year is ~3000€ however, depending on your financial situation you end up paying less, ~2000€ but even less honestly...

However the bachelor course are in Italian.
Wow, this is one petty evil comment.
This makes sense, however I would make sure to not be late on certain meetings.
Quite the opposite here (USA): infuriates us to no end when trying to make an appointment for home service (plumber, wiring, whatever) and are told "will arrive sometime between [insert 2-5 hour range here]". Only reason we tolerate it is, for some industries, there is no alternative - it's a systemic problem which customers hate hate HATE.

When you have to take a half (or full) day of vacation just to get your home internet connection fixed (or new sink installed, or air conditioner fixed, etc), and you only have 2-4 weeks of vacation per year, "just drink your coffee, wait 'til 16:00 and go away and turn up a week later" feels like theft, stealing your $X/hr time.
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"The perfect balance of number of units with the amount of things a player's human brain could possibly track at any given moment was completely lost on me."

The human brain can actually abstract things away and starts thinking in groups rather than in individual units, regardless if the game mechanics allows the player to treat them as such or not. That units-limit was something I did not particularly enjoyed in those games (and appreciated instead games like Command & Conquer in this regard). I agree that there is more than technical features that make or break a game, but the units-limit in RT tactics games is a flaw and it's not a technical one.

For those who argue that units-limit encouraged unit-quality over unit-quantity thinking, I concede. It's a valid point that perhaps contributed to the *Craft success series. That feature could however have been left as an over-ridable game parameter (set on by default, if you will).
>"From what I understand about modern nutritional science, this is not all that useful without having a look at e.g. the amount of carbohydrates and the glycemic index of the food you eat."

GI becomes irrelevant once you eat more than once every 24 hours, which for most people is the norm. [1]

[1] http://alanaragon.com/glycemic-index
However... I think before we judge people, we need to find out if the routinely late people are using excuses to create a cover for a health issue.

You see, this "late" person is me. If I work for you. If I have to come to your office for a meeting. Anything. I'm late.

But it's because I have IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome).

I make up excuses for being 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes late. I blame the kids, the traffic, the car, the plumbing. It's exhausting, but it's just easier and less embarrassing than saying I had to go to the bathroom 7 times just to be able to get in my car.

Plus, you don't want to hear that. Do you really want to sit across from the guy who can't stop sh*ing because the SMALLEST deals in his life give him anxiety???

This can happen for ANYTHING I have to be on time for. Like a scheduled phone call, meeting a friend somewhere, just knowing I'm going to be outside for a few hours, etc.

As I go through life, and I spill my secret, I am constantly meeting people with issues like Crohn's and IBS that deal with similar issues, and most of us don't have a good solution.

So, leave earlier right? My body tells me I can't stop until the last possible second. The earlier I try to get somewhere, the worse the problem is, and the later I end up being.

So, anyway, maybe it's not rudeness, but a nightmare.
I agree mostly. My main point of concern was the "just count calories, you'll be fine" completely ignores anything we know about a healthy died in terms of nutrients.

The fat one I find interesting:

> I think it's fairly common knowledge now that fats are largely good (saturated fats help with testosterone regulation for example) even though food producers seem to be wilfully slow in catching up (low fat items being filled with sugar thus making them far more unhealthy).

While these things mostly go over my head, I could get my better half (PhD in nutritional epidemiology) to make a comment. Her answer:

"Saturated fats are not accepted to be healthy by the scientific community. Unsaturated fats are healthy, reduce cardiovascular risk, and promote satiety, so eating some is good, even if they have a higher calorie count per gram"

That being said, this comment mostly targets a healthy diet to prohibit e.g. cardiovascular diseases. While those usually correlate to reducing weight to a normal level, they might not be the same :)
> Schoolkids will love these exciting tweaks, no doubt.

Plenty of money in that demographic; when Google can track schoolkids habits they can predict their future habits as adults and be the first to sell the best ads. Google (and Target) knows about the first pregnancy before the mother.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
Former Facebook CFO launches health startup
Not intentionally being a jerk doesn't mean you're not a jerk when you keep doing the same obnoxious behavior - and know it.
This is not an intelligent approach in my opinion.
Every diet which involves a caloric deficit over a prolonged period of time will result in weight loss.
That is a good question. For me it works and for a lot of people it works. But for a country as a whole I don't know. Travelling a lot between Spain, UK, Netherlands, Portugal I must say that for instance a very bad economic country like Portugal has people working like maniacs. And they are going worse than Spain; in the UK the people I meet are punctual but very inefficient with time overall and they do great. Netherlands are super efficient in a lot of ways, so those meetings are the best; usually 5 minutes and done.
This is largely a cultural thing. I've been on both sides having lived in the South East U.S. where being late is considered the rudest thing you could possibly do and on the West Coast where everyone lists their dinner party 1 hour early and if you show up "on time" you're the only one there...and the host is surprised.

What I've learned is the rigor of adherence to punctuality is directly related to the difficulty in being punctual in that area.

For example, in most places in the S.E., Midwest, etc. it takes about 1 hour to go 60 miles. The only thing that slows you down getting across town are red lights and stop signs. That's it. Even in large cities "known" for horrible traffic conditions, I've been able to get across the entire city in a reasonable amount of time fairly consistently.

In other words, it's trivial to be punctual. And so punctuality is taken as a sign of respect.

On the West Coast, this isn't the case. It can literally take 45 minutes to an 1 1/2 hours to get 5 miles in L.A. by car. And that's during normal traffic conditions. If absolutely anything happens on that route, you could walk faster. In fact, my wife and I have done just that on a 5 mile commute in L.A. when traffic would lock up. Park the car, get out, and walk. Take the early bus and pick it back up in the morning.

Let that sink in for a bit. You've got a meeting. It's only 5 (or god forbid 10) miles away. Anything even slightly irregular happens, and it could take you hours to get there.

Starts making "minor" delays of 5 to 10 minutes or even 30 seem pretty trivial. Cancelations happen much more frequently. Sorry, buddy, someone had a flat. Can't make it today or it'll take me 3 hours to get there.

That's why out east, companies would dock workers if they clocked in 5m late. Out West work hours are more like "ohhh, sometime between 8:30 and 9:30 is when so-and-so shows up." It's not because they're lazy or inconsiderate or rude. They're probably getting up at 5am just to make the commute.
Interestingly, Tumblr already implemented some of these suggestions. With such features like "explore" or new search, The discovery of content is unmatched by other social networks. It is also way easier to get likes and reblogs than on Twitter (if you're a regular person, not a celebrity). Having your post go viral (into 1000s of notes) is quite satisfying and would never happen on Twitter if you're not already popular.
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Hahah, often it is. That's why you often see houses with crap in the badroom for weeks. People are not all that bothered.
>It seems that most studies agree that losing wait is most successful with a low carb + high protein diet.

We've also seen studies that say that this is actually gives you an increased risk of regaining weight, once you lost it.

It really seems that the old recommendations: Everything in moderation, exercise and balanced diet are the best. Every "shortcut" modern diets present seems to fail in one way or another.

I think the issue is that we've created a culture where a people who loss weight, what ever the method, sets out to write a book or blog, detailing their new found wisdom. It's all anecdotal, proof is retrofitted to fit the result and claims are never properly verified or tested on a broad cross section of people. These weight loss anecdotes sells because we want them to work. Have you ever seen someone ask another person: "How did you loss all that weight?" and then their disappointment when the answer is "I eat less and workout". That's not what people want to hear, they want you to say that you just eat a lemon and half a pound of bacon every Tuesday.

Eat less that you burn, and try to get your basic nutrient requirement meet - That every single healthy diet summed up.
Yeah that's the biggest issue for me. When you schedule something for a specific time and the other person is late, without letting you know they're going to be late, it's them essentially saying "My time is more important than yours; fuck you, deal."
Sure. Lots of websites have really questionable javascript behavior, like replicating mobile behavior where dragging the mouse around makes you "swipe" between articles, or in-line image resizing (wikipedia), or auto-rotating image galleries, or shitty page-loading effects like fading text in, or breaking your scrollbar.

NoScript eliminates that kind of garbage.

In addition to this, there's the privacy benefits, lowering your page load time and CPU usage, and avoiding running arbitrary programs on your computer loaded off the internet, which is how GitHub was DDOSed last month.

For an average, non-technical user, I wouldn't recommend NoScript. But if you're willing to put up with a little annoyance of allowing two or three domains now and then, it really makes a lot of webpages behave better.
Why founders must be on their toes during exit from their startup
Let me use some terms from criminal law here, to dispute your claim (excuse?) of them 'intentionally' being a jerk.

There are three kinds of 'intent' (roughly, 'mens rea'):

- 'objective' (it's a lousy translation but I don't think there is a better work for it in English); this is when you find a man in bed with your wife and you want to kill him, so you put a bullet in his head. No discussion here.

- 'knowledge of necessity': when the crime is not something you intended to do, but you knew that it would happen if you did something to get to another object. The text book example of this is a ship owner who wanted to collect the insurance money for his ship, so he sank it; the crew drowned. He didn't 'intent' to kill the crew, it was just a side effect of his actions in sinking the ship (he knew they were on it).

- 'conditional intent', in many US jurisdictions aka 'willfull blindness': this one is the fuzziest. It's when you knowingly and willingly took the chance that someone would die (or other crime would happen). Text book example: 'eggshell skull' (Wikipedia has a whole page; in short: guy throws a slipper at wife's head, wife has a medical condition that causes her to have a skull that is literally as thick (and fragile) as an eggshell; guy didn't know; slipper breaks skull, killing wife - still murder).

(I'm not interested in discussion on legal technicalities like the nuances of tort law under various legal regimes and mens rea as a precondition for qualification as murder)

So, to come back to the point: people who are chronically late know that they are late. They could do something about it; like adding extra time to their estimates of home long things take, or not doing certain things when they know they're late already (like the 'getting coffee' mentioned in the GP, that infuriates me - my wife does it too, making me go through customs with a screaming toddler and 20kg suitcase in one hand, and coffee in the other once, but I digress). These people just choose to not work on their flaws and inflict their (easily fixable!) bad habits on others. That is most certainly 'intentional' in all but the most literal interpretation of the word.
But it WILL work, and in most cases, it doesn't take much exercise to see results. The point is there's a lot of ways to lose weight and there's no "best way" that works for everyone.
I totally agree with your opinion here, and especially that "cheating and petty corruption" - and the breakdown of public trust that follows - is an actual existential threat, something that may ultimately lead to a collapse of technological civilization. The current trend of trying to figure out trustless solutions for everything actually worries me.
Well, I just so happen to have a Russian IP, so this particular issue is quite important to me. I think censorship should be everyone's concern, even if it doesn't personally affect you. What if your government is next?
No to be fair, if it is a one on one meeting and I know the person is a stickler for being punctual I try harder. Like said; it's not something I do on purpose, but especially with MORNING (9 am) meetings, I just don't like getting woken by alarms so I don't set them.
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If you have been doing 10 short code challenges a day for 15+ years, I would assume you would have enough experience to estimate properly and take into account some margin.

He's not saying your not ever allowed to late, ever ever, but that if you are systematically late all the time, then you are doing something wrong.
This is not my experience. I lost my best friend in the world about... 17 years ago now. No, he has not been with me, nor will he be with me for the many events which have and will make up my life. This hasn't actually changed the events which have occurred, though, nor the joy I've derived from them. At most, my thoughts about him in these events amounts to "Steve would have loved this".

Some of it is forgetting, but more of it is accepting. He's not here, but my friends that I have today are. I will smile and feel a bit melancholic sometimes when I note his absence, and cherish the memories we had created together (like singing Monty Python songs at the top of our lungs on the Ames college campus while wearing togas)... but not at the expense of today.

He was here, and the time we spent together was glorious. He's no longer here (as with so many others), but that's OK. I've made new friends. I've lived and will continue to live for today, for the friends and family and just other people who are here today... not yesterday.
Out of curiosity, what sort of problem would you apply this to?
I'm in Canada, so I currently call myself a software developer, but I expect to be awarded my professional engineering license soon (P. Eng.), after which I can legally call myself a software engineer. The title signals that I have a certain level of technical education and have been vetted through a licensing process.
What font is used to show the minesweeper example in the readme? It survives copy-and-pastes into other editors: http://i.imgur.com/21QzHYJ.png
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While people understand & accept (to varying degree) others being late, the standard fallback is: start on time. If you tell me X starts at Y:30, and I'm not there at Y:30, I'll get the message if you start at Y:30 anyway - and stick to doing so. "Acceptably late" becomes acceptable because people accept it. Don't get mad, just start on time.
... Or just should a fulfillment provider that is halfway competent. Perhaps one that isn't doing you a favor and actually does similar stuff for other people.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9653389
When budgets depend on covering up cheating, cheating will be covered up. Educational institutions are failing to uphold their responsibility to society (partly) because society has largely abdicated its responsibility to educational institutions by slashing funding and grants. In the absence of public funding, the student (or the donor), not society at large, is the customer, and the customer is always right.
> font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace;

But how can that be? Especially in vim. Does not happen on Linux.
Buddhist example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashi-Dorzho_Itigilov

Unless we have some corpse preservation domain experts involved in this discussion, I generally tend to suspect that these "outlier" examples of corpse conditions are just misunderstandings by lay people. It doesn't help that death and handling of corpses is not a widely-discussed topic in most cultures.
When is a 4:00pm meeting ever a good idea for an office that closes at 5:00?
Wasn't that an issue with the overwhelming demand (and not having sourced enough ingredients) as opposed to shipping issues? I don't think your shipment of Soylent was in transit for six months.