skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weight and height are easy to accurately measure - tissue composition not so much. And while tissue composition is important for individuals, at a societal level, BMI (ratio of weight to height) is good enough because it's easy to show that the vast, vast majority of the change is due to people getting fatter. It's not like half of American women became bodybuilders.
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Yes. See the differences in the heights of the populations of the two Koreas over the past 50 or 60 years. Malnutrition in the north has resulted in a shorter population, while an abundance of food in the south has led to a taller population.
Never heard about it, is there any link with more details?
I've been at my current job for three years. It's a good job. A recruiter cold-called me after seeing me on LinkedIn.

If you have the common worry that your current employer will see "I want a new job!!!!" on your LinkedIn, then say something like "I'm always open to interesting opportunities."
"Zero hour" has a specific, different meaning though.
Interesting theory but the "caloric sweeteners", whilst dropping from that period, do not do so anywhere near as much or violently as fats rose, and continue dropping after fats stabilize (2002 onwards). In fact, corn-based sweeteners took over from the mid-1980s (mostly thanks to HFCS) [1].

Why would sugar and vegetable oil be substitutes in manufactured foods, other than for HFCS type sweeteners?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup#/medi...
They also run around and move garbage cans in the street where they can get hit by cars.

They also ride on the side of a truck, just holding onto a handrail and a step. If they lose their balance or grip that could be end badly too.
The "data" they link is this "Special Feature Report Card", presumably prepared for one of CSPI's newsletters or PR blasts:

http://cspinet.org/new/pdf/changing_american_diet_13.pdf

It has one "citation": "Source for all graphs: U.S.
Department of Agriculture."

Well, OK then, but I don't think this chart is well-sourced enough to criticize except by blasting the lobbying group that pawns it off as resembling research.

(I hope nobody thought CSPI actually did science!)
No, I think his point is before we had lots of food, but a lot of it was bad and because not everyone can tell the difference, we've paid a great price.

Now we have lots of information, and a lot of it is bad, and a lot of people can't tell the difference. What price will we pay for that?
Where's the one for Boston lol
The second book could have been in response to the popularity.

I have specific recall of someone I knew following Atkins prior to a high quality anchor event that occurred in April 2002 (I guess they were following it in 2000).
I remember using Voyage [1], a Firefox addon to get timeline-like history view. Seems like it hasn't been updated in a while though.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/voyage/
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If you are interested in the above text, this textbook might also be of interest: Applied Mathematical Programming by Bradley, Hax, and Magnanti for MIT's Introduction to Optimization. (15.053). Not as code heavy, but still enlightening.

http://web.mit.edu/15.053/www/
I really like Mailplane. All of the benefits of gmail in the browser (my preferred gmail interface) but wrapped in a native app for things like dock notifications, opening mailto links, etc.
The problem with unlimited information - it's getting harder and harder to tell what's good and what's bad for you:

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/13/8591837/how-science-is-broken

Take a look at the chart that's titled "Everything we eat both causes and prevents cancer". A picture that's worth a thousand words.

We need better science. But I don't know how that's going to happen.
Yes, diets low in proteins and certain vitamins/minerals (calcium, vitamins A and D) are associated with poorer physical development. This is why milk is fortified with A and D and we've bred rice (golden rice) that's high in these nutrients. That said nutrition probably only means the difference between 6' and 6'0.5", assuming you're not malnourished.
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This Dodgers accelerator is "Powered by TechStars". See http://rgaaccelerator.com/. The terms are exactly the same as all other TechStars programs. $20k for 6% equity + an optional $100k as a convertible note.
Will your self-driving car be programmed to kill you?
In dangerous situations, the brain works extra hard to process what's happening, perhaps so you can deal with a similar situation later. This can cause a "slow motion" effect, where your brain, by laying down memories more "densely", slows the subjective passage of time.

I think a less extreme form of this may account for the return trip phenomenon. I notice (very subjectively) that trips seem t take longer if:
* I'm stressed about getting there on time.
* I'm going somewhere unfamiliar (often the outbound part of a trip)
* Either of the other 2, plus NOT using a nav system to do the thinking for me, so I have to look for signs, landmarks, etc.

In other words, the more actively your brain is involved in the drive, the longer it seems to take.

These days, I can just put on a podcast, put the destination in my phone, and feel like the trip barely took any time.
Most GNOME apps started today are done in Vala afaik. It’s just starting to get traction. Maybe not at fast as $HipsterLang, but steadily.
A few options: Some people mount trackballs in their ergo dox. Some keyboards like the keyboard.io include mouse movement keys. You can also find desktop keyboards that include a track point. No ergonomic ones as far as I can tell.
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I don't know where to link you to, but here is a more detailed statement, which I think could be straightforwardly expanded into something precise.

Consider a signal S[i], i=1...N. The human eye isn't actually perceiving S[i], it's perceiving some convolution of it S[i] \conv w[i] (for a window function w). I.e., an area with 50% white pixels and 50% black pixels appears grey.

Suppose for simplicity w[i] = 1/k on i=0...k.

Now add noise g[i] to the signal in a region where S[i] = alpha. Then S[i] + g[i] = alpha + g[i]. The number of pixels above a threshold T within the window are then 1-cdf(T-alpha), where cdf is the cdf of the distribution of g.

Assuming your cdf is approximately linear near T, then 1-cdf(T-alpha) \approx C + alpha.
About an inch, but actually less than an inch and even less so for women. So women are ~1% taller and 18.5% heavier. I don't think height is a factor.
> Downvotes? So you agree with this?

Whether we agree or not is not really relevant. Advising people to not read a bug report because one of the comments in the discussion associated with the report doesn't appeal to you is... strange, to say the least.

How do you manage any kind of discussion format if opinions (however wrong they may be) you don't like make you leave the discussion entirely?
It definitely works under the following conditions(I have done it dozens of times when a dangus has written on my whiteboard with the wrong marker):

1. You have just applied the permanent marker

2. You have a fairly wet dry-erase marker

3. You blot the perm with the dry-erase so as to flush the site with ink

4. Attempt to wipe/remove

5. Do this fast
Do you mean Imperial pint (568 ml) or American pint (473 ml)? :)
Just a side note:

The mentioned Christofides algorithm only works for metric TSP. In metric TSP the edges satisfy triangle inequality.

There doesn't exist any polynomial approximation algorithm for general TSP. If it existed we would be able to solve existence of Hamiltonian circuit in polynomial time by a simple reduction and therefore would be able to prove that P = NP.
Nice code examples.
If you read the article it's right there.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9720033 (237 points, 21 hours ago, 119 comments)
> We shouldn't assume other professionals are "dumb"; we shouldn't assume that we are a brilliant bunch, capable of seeing beyond an indicator, while doctors and nutrition professionals use them blindly.

Um... what? If doctors and professionals are using BMI blindly, that absolutely classifies their opinion as 'dumb'.

The fact is, 'boring' or not, the calculations for BMI most definitely give you skewed results because it doesn't consider muscle mass. As has already been pointed out, this classifies athletes as obese very easily.

This isn't just a 'woe is me' from athletes. It could have real-world implications.

1) What happens when they want to get life insurance, the company blindly calculates their BMI based on height/weight, and classifies them as obese? Tada: Higher premiums.

2) What happens when a self-conscious teenage girl who's very fit and active realizes she's 'overweight' without realizing it's muscle mass causing it? Agree or not, this scenario is a real one and could cause her to eat less, thus depriving her body of the nutrition that she needs.

3) While on the subject of kids... blindly following BMI rules and enforcing standards based on them, schools basically assume that every kid of overweight. As a parent with a child who fluctuates between normal and underweight, it baffles me that he's actively encouraged to eat low calorie meals.

The criticism of BMI is there precisely because it doesn't apply in a large portion of cases. The 'obesity epidemic' doesn't excuse it. It's irresponsible from a healthcare standpoint, and these people are being called out.
I had a feeling that Gadyukin sounded wrong, and sure enough. So I guess they were foiled by not having basic Russian knowledge.
If one were looking to steal a bunch of jewelry, would it make more sense to hit a jewelry store or some large shopping mall?
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Men have gone from ~166 to ~196 since 1960.

Men gained 17.6%, women gained 18.5%, so pretty similar.
It worked before, it stopped after a change in the kernel, another change made the problem disappear: the root of the problem was definitely a bug in the kernel.

That said, it's perfectly fine for the kernel developers to clarify that a flag is for their own exclusive use, and indeed it seems that this is how things ended up. Note that there are multiple userspace applications parsing the flags on the kernel command line: the most striking example when discussing the "debug" flag is the "quiet" flag.
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I'm not sure a lot would...
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Thanks for the brief explanation. I wish there was some indication of whether you're in insert mode or normal mode.
The way I understand that image: Each bar is the equivalent of a tab, and the linked circles are the visiting history for that tab.

The busy blue bar near the bottom shows that you visited six links, went back to the third link and visited four from there, then went back to the second of those four and visited one. The large size and white color of that one last circle means that it's what you're visiting now?

Or I'm totally off, and this is an alien interface in need of interpretation by Hoshi Sato.
Often in metric Europe, a pint is exactly 500 ml. Same as the pound that has become exactly 500 g.
try right clicking on the thing, click uBlock link, paste:

## .post-sharing-button[href="javascript: void 0;"]

into the box (or delete the other text till you get that) and click create
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This calculation is not exactly scientific, but :
if U.S. women were an inch shorter then, that would make them 63 inches tall, instead of 64 inches (5'4). This equates to a 1.6% increase in height. If we assume that they have grown proportionally in all directions, we cube it, to get roughly a 5% increase in volume (which I will assume leads to a 5% increase in weight).

The increase in weight of women was a lot more than this, roughly 18%, so it seems to me this is not the important factor.
Yeah, what kind of steak sandwich would only have 459 calories? I wouldn't expect any reasonably sized and palatable steak sandwich to pack less than 800!
A related effect I've noticed (perhaps a kind of "expectation" effect) is that it seems to take much longer when travelling over uninteresting terrain. I've recently moved from Toronto to a smaller city that seems to be one large suburb and even though Google tells me the distances I now travel are less, they feel so much longer. I'm convinced this effect is due to visual stimulation, a kind of time compression through distraction. This is why I prefer travelling through a city, even if I'm not always travelling quickly.
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A great read but I really was hoping it would involve at least one jet leg using the real Concorde :)
FWIW, memory has plenty of bugs too. With respect to the original point, these are usually not visible to drivers (unless you count EDAC) because they're handled at the chipset level. However, for certain kinds of systems - especially embedded - that don't have chipsets these issues can become painfully visible. My own exposure to this was at SiCortex, where the memory logic was directly on the same single die as everything else that comprised a node.
Yeah I thought it was ironic that Twitter switched to black favicon given their logo guidelines [1] specifically say to never change the color of the logo.

[1] https://about.twitter.com/company/brand-assets
It's not like half of American women became bodybuilders.

No, but it has become socially acceptable for women to be visually muscular. In the 70s, a body conscious woman would not likely be lifting weights and drinking protein powders.
Boston is coming very soon (I am an engineer at underdog.io).
True. And scary. The goals are completely different (protect the homeland/our entrenched political and monetary positions! and protect me from the world at large!) but the result is very much the same. Censorship makes its way into daily life, and before you know it, it feels "normal."
I didn't think someone would wrote a plugin for that. Thanks. I would be good to revive it.
I once was a huge fan of Samsung. But with the EVO disaster and this one, I really regret to have bought one of these.
A pound of sugar has ~1,800 calories in it.

So at the peak price of ~$0.30, the calories per dollar is about 6,000.

The peak price of canola oil there is $1.70 per kilogram, at 9,000 calories per kilogram, the calories per dollar is about 5,300.

Both provide so many calories per dollar that I would not expect strong substitution between them.
Here's an idea. Go to the USDA website. Note they do food surveys and post all of their raw data tables online (gotta love the internet!):

http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=80-40-05...

Now check the data if you don't believe it.
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Super interesting.

If you read the Feynman speech that he references at the beginning, he actually mentions that as you scale machines down, things like mechanical rigidity will degrade and you will need to change your design rules accordingly. I always assumed that when you reach the molecular level, thermal motion and the constant bombardment by water molecules would mean that the only viable option is to use proteins, just like nature does, so it's very interesting to see that this guy is aiming to use more rigid structures at the molecular level. I guess this is a way to reduce the complexity (degrees of freedom) compared to designing protein tertiary structure. I wonder if this is too constraining though, he admits he has yet to figure out how to build mechanical machines using this approach, and intuitively I'd expect that to be very difficult with this degree of rigidity. You might need the additional flexibility of peptide chains to do many of the interesting things that are possible.

He does point out the advantage of durability, but this raises the obvious issue that one of the questioners alluded to, namely toxicity/pollution risk. I'd think degredation by biological or other means would be a feature, not a bug, since as he points out, even conventional plastics are a huge pollution problem.

Fascinating stuff nonetheless.
You're right. It is rendering your Browsing history as Tree basically.
You're assuming increased height only leads to a stretch in the z axis. If you linearly scaled someone up from 5'3 to 5'4 in every direction, the increase in volume would be 5%. So maybe not the main factor, but definitely a factor.
I doubt the government needs an app installed to track the traffic.
While visiting a Maker Faire in my area last week I happened upon a Cognizant booth staffed entirely by 30-something Indians. While they showed my daughter how to make a windsock out of duct-tape, one of their number told me about his background and their difficulty being separated from their family back home and why it is still a better choice than living in India.

As I listened the term "Digital Sharecroppers" came unbidden to mind. But this is worse than sharecropping because an H-1B worker can't switch employers.

What Cognizant and the rest of the H-1B abusers are doing is exploiting the promise/hope of US Citizenship while suppressing near-term wages (and the value of the citizenship they use as a lure), with indentured servants.

Cringely is right. The E2-B program is an appropriate alternative. Another good option would be the Entrepreneur Visa. I say trade an Entrepreneur Visa program which creates new jobs in exchange for killing the H-1B visa which only suppresses wages and supports corporate dinosaurs trying to cut their bottom line rather than actually innovating.
Except the majority of sweetening is done with HFCS, not sugar.
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The source code being downloaded, compiled and run or a script being download and run would be a as much a security incident as what happened.

In this context (Chromium on Debian) having a closed source binary downloaded and executed is an additional problem to the security incident and that's the reason it is mentioned in the statement. There are two problems conflated in the same sentence:

1. A binary was downloaded and executed without explicit user intervention or consent.

2. A closed source binary was downloaded and executed by a primarily free and open source software in a free and open source distribution without explicit user intervention or consent.

So, answering the questions, having the source available would not make it ok but being closed source in this context is a problem on its own.
> (this also raises the question why dictators in the north were not able to do the same)

Different strategies. Also, the DPRK made a number of big mistakes which doomed its economy, and much of its economic output is immediately spent on bribes.

> This shows how thin is the layer of democracy in the society.

It's not the only "democratic" East Asian country. I'm skeptical of Japan and Singapore where the same party always wins.
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How many users do you actually have?
Yup except for the large image, you got everything right.
The large image _was_ the topmost suggestion of autocompletion at the time. This one in particular was "search the string in the url-bar with duckduckgo". It does not exist anymore. It has been replaced with three neat columns that organize suggestions in a better way.
It mentions "sites", but how you can know if browsing happens over strongly encrypted connection? Or part of it is MITM'ing these phones?
And it's 88.7kg for men.

For comparison, average men's height is 177cm, and average women's height is about 164cm.

Americans sure are heavy. On average.
Honestly I find that a single global "debug" option would have been useful, instead of having to know which component (the kernel, the ramdisk, sysvinit, sysv-rc, systemd, upstart, udev, whatever) is at fault.

Unfortunately such mechanism introduced a feedback loop in the presence of a bug in the kernel. I understand that it would be difficult for the kernel to guard from such loops, but my sincere impression is that they threw out the the baby with the bathwater.
Didn't they choose JavaScript as their preferred language to write new applications?
None of what you just said is correct, not a syllable of it, really. You should read up on the available scientific evidence.
> what would I gain by learning GO? I already know Python pretty well.

A significantly easier deploy story. Compile once on your target platform (i.e. Ubuntu), run on any of the same platform, without having to worry about installing (or how to install) all of your third party dependencies.

It's also more friendly to less skilled developers, with its type system and limited metaprogramming.

It also has a really compelling concurrent programming paradigm which doesn't involve libraries or pickle.

Of course, those same strengths are also weaknesses - the language is less expressive and flexible, and it requires extra steps to compile and distribute those compiled binaries.
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Also firefighters are rarely more than a few minutes from an ambulance.

I should look up the urban/wildland split on that death rate
Switched to Firefox as the primary browser just to be sure :)
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Trigger warnings aren't censorship, they're a renamed content warning. People might voluntarily avoid consuming works labelled with warnings in some cases, but that's it.

Safe spaces are not fundamentally different to ordinary social spaces with rules. Was the introduction of anti-bullying efforts in schools some alarming new dawn for censorship?
Golden rice is genetically engineered. The pathway to synthesize vitamin A has been inserted.
Reporting changed. Per the CDSI

(In 2000, the number of companies reporting data to the USDA
jumped, so the rise was probably less steep than it appears.)
Found the data [1] from [2]

There is indeed a 17% increase in grams of fat between 1998 and 2000. That's 25g per day - around 5 times the olive oil you'd put in a portion of salad. Amazing increase for an entire population, no?

[1] http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/179795/carbs_intake_d.html

[2] http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-availability-(per...
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