skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who recently lost 40 lbs, I should say that it is generally true. A hard ergometer exercise can have a net effect of 240 kcal for one hour and gross effect of 320 assuming 80 kcal per hour body burn. 240 kcal is not much at all, provided that my body generally burns 2800 kcal a day. Not even 10%

However limiting food intake reduces not only the calories, but vitamins and micronutrients plus minerals.
Also not exercising at all means muscle loss and not so much fat loss, which can have severe effects in 3-6 months.
So regular exercises are must, swimming for example 3 times a week plus some brisk walk in the park twice a week will do miracles.
Not to forget proper feeding is it is as much important as reducing calories intake and creating calories deficiency. If one can't balance his food to have proper vitamins and minerals, one should resort to food supplements at least for calcium, potassium, magnesium, vitamins C, B6, B12 and E if you want to keep you heart and liver healthy during the process. Know what you eat and do the numbers.
I started with 39% body fat and 33% muscle.. Now I am 30% body fat and 35% muscle with a lot of cardio.
A close friend of mine reduced his food intake and albeit he achieved serious weigh loss, that was on the expense of muscle and tissue, rather then fat loss..

Personally I achieved my loss with the help of numbers and constant measures - get a proper scale that can report body fat/muscle/tissue, cross check with calipers, get a fitness tracker to track daily steps and calories, track you food, exercise, calories and progress.. There are so many sites and applications to do so..
And really important - do a blood work each 3 months for you heart and liver. A few drops of blood can give you so much intel

Hope that helps
We need corporations to stop funding shady research, or at least be more upfront when they do. You might be skeptical if the Association of Nebraska Corn Growers publishes a study saying HFCS is healthier than cane sugar, but you wouldn't bat an eye if they paid an organization named America First to publish it for them. And then paid the WSJ to put it on the front page. And then paid the FDA to put it into the food pyramid.

PG's "submarine" isn't a fiction piece (http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html).
WSJ (paywalled): http://www.wsj.com/articles/visa-glitch-stalls-workers-strai...

"[M]ore than 1,000 workers who expected H-2A agricultural visas are stuck on the Mexican side of the border, where motels are overflowing... California agriculture, already stressed by drought, is losing $500,000 to $1 million for each day of delay."
Hired.com is a similar type of common app / digital recruitment firm that just recently launched in Boston.
The problem is that "absolutely correct" is a slippery concept. Even the most tightly written standard is likely to have some areas of ambiguity through which bugs can creep. If the way that a particular device deals with that ambiguity is known only to those under NDA, then you can have two drivers that are both "absolutely correct" per the standard but only one actually works in all the edge conditions.
why is a billion dollar company using kickstarter?
They choose JavaScript as the preferred language for Gnome Shell plugins, afaik.
The worst is that Safari needs a new type of favicon disrupting other web browsers but still doesn't display standards favicons natively.
> Since it doesn't use the normal ways to download extension, I would assume it does not use TLS connection

If this was some random enterprise Java app, yes, that would be a reasonable assumption but you're talking about one of the most heavily audited codebases in existence, which has one of the best security teams in the world working on making TLS stronger and aggressively pinning certificates. Their track record would merit actually looking at the source rather than simply speculating.
I never played any of the Shenmue games. I know a couple people that are big fans, though, so I'm happy for them.

As a devops guy, I was more entertained by the effect of Shenmue 3's announcement on the Kickstarter servers. Props to them for the quick recovery!
Hmm ... has the average american woman grew new limbs, extra appendixes, wings, gills or something like that?
> If doctors and professionals are using BMI blindly

They aren't.

> The fact is, 'boring' or not, the calculations for BMI most definitely give you skewed results because it doesn't consider muscle mass.

They most definitely don't give you skewed results. How can the results be skewed if they are straightforward math from the body mass (independently of it being mostly lean or fat)?

Wrong interpretation of the values are what's problematic, not the "values". But, as I said above, professionals aren't using it blindly

> 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.

Yeah, but this is not a problem with the indicator, nor the . It's a problem with (lack of) honesty.

> the criticism of BMI is there precisely because it doesn't apply in a large portion of cases.

My criticism of the criticistm of BMI is exactly because this is somewhat wrong, depending on what you define as a large portion. BMI applies to most people, and people who really should look at BMI for their job (i.e. doctors an nutrition professionals) are aware of its shortcomings.
> If someone has MitM'd Google, it's gonna be a bad day for a lot of people.

Didn't foreign government agencies already do that? (e.g. NSA?)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753882

Enjoy.
We are currently at $392/month from 3 customers who has signed on as early bird users on the TimeBlock method, we wrote the first line of code mid march, after 1 month of interviews with potential customers.

Besides being a tool to do project management easier than in trello, it is primarily a new methodology that helps Makers and Managers understand their differences and their needs.

The method helps Makers be in flow by teaching Managers to leave them alone, help minimize procrastination by helping Makers divide projects and plan their week, thereby increasing their internal motivation.

Sign up for our launch list and read more at http://timeblock.com

Edit: Changed the number, signed on a new customer :)
Bloomberg Gives $100M for NYC Tech Campus
Correct. Regular applications are still mostly written in C, but newer projects tend to use Vala more and more.
Actually, getting crushed by the waste truck is probably still a major risk. When you run around and move dustbins, and this running around is done near a truck that is constantly starting and stopping movement, people sometimes end up in a wrong place.
I think the suggested solution of 'ignore <link> tags that have a "mask" attribute' also creates needless work, and is backward-incompatible --- existing browsers are looking for "rel=icon" for a favicon, and will ignore "mask" or other unknown attributes.
What excited me most in that article is the line "The press event also saw Sony announce that long-awaited game The Last Guardian would soon be released."
The EVO was well covered, but these being from the PRO line it's even worse... Intel SSD have been praised for a long time, they seem the only stable brand around.
Let me add to this amazing chain two important points

1) The FED is basically printing money out of thin air.
2) To close this open loop:

SF Landlords and Fancy Toast Restaurants -> IRS -> THE FED
I never said anything to the contrary?

I just said nutrient timing is not important; i.e. the exact moment when you eat things, or don't eat things, is not important, for most normal people.

And they are not "my sources"; I'm refering to the available scientific evidence, they are everyone's sources.

And, lastly, the idea that you need to "break down" muscle in order to build it up is not really correct, either. Muscle breakdown happens yes, but it happens whether you workout or not, working out just elevates muscle protein synthesis, thus both the breakdown and build up of muscle protein. But it's not like the breakdown causes the build up, and it's not like there can't be buildup without breakdown, it's not a very good analogy and it's not a really good illustration of the mechanics at work.
There's a comment there indicating that FF has done the same in the past with an H.264 blob.

The conspiracist in me wonders why both these major browsers have downloaded and maybe executed binary blobs. Is it purely a convenience feature in the browser? Is it a secret order? That last question would have been silly a decade ago but we all know it's entirely possible now.
I think you're underestimating the effects of content warnings. As an example, studios routinely alter films so as to achieve more favorable ratings from the MPAA.
It makes sense as a way to gauge interest, similar to pre-orders.
Consumer Groups Back Out of Federal Talks on Face Recognition
So, being a taxi driver is almost twice more dangerous than being a police officer?
Why Does a CS Degree Require So Much Math? – CodeProject
Show HN: Hack Cancer Hackathon
I get aggressive recruiter calls anytime I update my profile - even if it's to say that I just got a new job. LinkedIn must actively surface people that have updated their profile recently. At the very least, I'd recommend that the OP update his current tasks/responsibilities on the LinkedIn resume.
Badass: 22 Incredible Facts About the Life and Career of Sir Christopher Lee
C-/ and C-y are from readline which mimicked them (and many more) from Emacs.
I've learnt a lot reading this thread. Thank you all.

But I can't believe almost everyone here, talking about security, is talking about Dropbox even as a hypothetical cloud option for storing password related info.

- Dropbox (and most of the other cloud storage services) do not encrypt your data, or if they do now as they claim, with SHA256, I'd say they must be able to decrypt it whenever they want to, as they give you the "Did you forgot your password" option to change it, so they have to be able to decrypt it and encrypt it with your new password o whatever they use to encrypt) and they hired ¡Condoleeza Rice! for their board of executives (she puts "national security" over any privacy so...), so you can count any worker at Dropbox can peep at everything you upload whenever they want to.

Of course you'll think: "I'm not a terrorist, I don't care." Well, if a worker can take a look, and you don't even know him... The threat is quite clear to me.

MEGA, for example, does encrypt everything you upload taking as seed some derivation of your password, but they DO NOT store your password, so they can't ever decrypt it for themselves. Probably no one could know even the names of the files you have uploaded unless they already had your password (of course, if you lose it, you lose all of the files uploaded!!! Beware!!!).

I rather trust MEGA than Condoleeza's (big-brother government) Dropbox, seriously.

There must be other cloud storage services which encrypt data not storing enough info to decrypt it without your input. I just stumbled upon MEGA and liked the synch app.
Rating systems have teeth, yes. But the "some viewers may find the following images disturbing"-type warnings, to which trigger warnings are equivalent, don't have teeth. They're voluntary guidance. Think also of epilepsy warnings.
Shoeshine boy was really surprised
Trojan uses steganography to hide itself in image files
The UX is amazing. Good job!

The domain name itself is awesome. How much did it cost?
A POST request to https://top.st/top/1/GB is good enough for my needs. Can you email me commercials if you would allow me to do so (email in my profile).
Because the BBC apparently stopped fact checking. It's a separate studio, not a part of Sony.
It doesn't sound wrong, actually. It's a surname produced from the Russian word for "viper" (гадюка), which would make it unusual due to negative connotations, but not incorrect.
(this also raises the question why dictators in the north were not able to do the same)

Presumably the continuation of the proxy war; the US would have been a lot more open to South Korea.
LastPass breached, hashed master passwords compromised
Developer Communities for Women
Email Marketing Lessons From An Email Marketer
Hackers Targeting Kaspersky Used Stolen Foxconn Certificates
The Wetsuitman
I don't know the reason, but I feel nearly intellectually crippled since losing access to the multitudes of blackboards available on college campuses. White boards do not even approach the utility of blackboards for me.

People in this thread have suggested fine tipped markers and washable crayons—I will try them both!—but I truly feel I will simply not be able to recover the efficiency and value of a blackboard any time soon.
it's secure and open source.
Push for facial recognition privacy standards hits roadblock
Why all those CAPS?
Guide: Anonymity and Privacy for Advanced Linux Users
TIL that I weigh as much as a 1960s man, too!

(Or a 2015 woman, depending on how I go about looking at it.)
I googled about autojump, then found fasd and decided to go with it.

https://github.com/clvv/fasd
New WiFi Tracking System Counts People – Even Without a Connected Device
Very nice reading on PR. Thanks for sharing.
Minor bug:

On https://www.javascript.com/try when submitting more than one command a horizontal scroll bar appeared and blocked my view of what I was typing at the bottom of the console. (Making the console unusable.)

I fixed it by sticking overflow-x: hidden; onto the element's style. A bodged fix, but the bug should probably be looked into.

Using latest Chrome on Windows 7.
hi @richerlariviere.Thanks for the notice. Fixed now J.
Tracking Customer Satisfaction with Google Analytics
I can't understand why anyone would be on LinkedIn, after their nefarious practices.

The last straw was the one where they requested your email login details, and proceeded to spam your contacts with join requests. What kind of a prick of a company does that?

I guess they factored in the people that'd pay attention to that kind of scumbaggery, and those that wouldn't and figured they'd end up on top. Guess they did too. You're a product, not a customer, when you're on LinkedIn, much the same as Facebook.

The nail in the coffin for me has been recruitment agencies stressing I should be on it - any advice from the vampires like that is a good sign you should be doing the polar opposite.
Featureforge 0.1.6 – A library to build and test machine learning features
I'm looking at

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=18349 (2001-2012)

and

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=14392 (1935-1998)

I'm really suspicious that such a large jump happens to coincide with "new" vs. "old" surveys, and indeed the pre-2000 page says:

CHANGES IN METHODS AND OPERATIONS ACROSS SURVEYS… It is important to consider that survey methods and operations including questionnaire wording, data processing methods, and the survey nutrient database used to calculate the dietary intake were changed from survey to survey based on new data and methods available at the time. Comparing data across surveys must take into account these types of changes.

Does anyone think CSPI really spent the time digging into this anomaly that they would have if it had been purported "good news"? Did they spend any time digging in at all? Who knows... which is why, as I said, I don't take their chart very seriously.
I've been flying between Brazil and Europe a lot and I can tell you both ways feel very long.

Someone needs to resurrect the supersonic passenger carrier.
But mindfulness is not about re-framing or answering back with an argument. Its exactly the opposite!
Deleting accounts will cause him to create new accounts. The positive of a hellban is that it lets the person still use their account to broadcast to those who explicitly want to hear it, so there's much less reason for the person to make a new one.
Right, I'm wondering about the assertion that the SP3 came with a "poor man's BitLocker called Drive Encryption" enabled. The BitLocker preferences tell me I have BitLocker enabled.
Building an IOT Platform: Centralized vs. Decentralized Models
In operations research, it's common to stop when a solution is provably within 1e-4 of optimum. Off the top of my head, reasons include: we don't want to optimize FP error, limited precision in the input data, and negligible real world impact.

That said, it's also well known that non-OR practitioners have less confidence in our results when there are trivial local suboptimalities, in some cases even when they don't affect the objective function (e.g., off the critical path in a scheduling problem); I've heard of several professionals who pass the output of exact (modulo stopping criteria) methods through stupid local searches just for that reason.
The Directory Dilemma – Why Facebook, Google and Skype May Win the Mobile App War
This is such a great example. I used to have like 1 or 2 snickers a day, then noticed that it was basically 100% of my daily recommended saturated fat intake in a single bar.

Snickers bars are one of the worst things you can put in your body.
Firefox 38.0.5 / Linux x86_64
I am not sure what you mean. Safari shows favicons of sites I visit?
How are you acquiring the visitors that are bouncing?
I think plenty of people would alter their content to avoid warnings, regardless of context. But, I only have data for the MPAA and also maybe recordings with explicit lyrics. I don't necessarily think warnings are bad, I just think that in general, if you're going to label people's work in a negative way, some people would rather change their work so that it doesn't get labelled like that. I mean, I try to be polite on HN so that it doesn't get downvoted and greyed out, but this isn't really that bad of a thing.
New Relic Boxes – Monitor your servers and applications
Since you seem to be the higher voted and showing on top, could you update your bit about queued stuff with this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724192
Yes, BMI is practical because it relies on two simple measurements, weight and height, and it is most useful when you're talking about populations of people rather than individuals. There are other ways to measure body fat percentage which will give you a more accurate measure for individuals but they're not practical for large populations. The "gold standard" for body fat measurement involves dunking the body into water to measure volume-- this not done at a routine physical exam !
My problem with LastPass is that the Android app is not for free (ok to me) but I find the price too high (I haven't compared with others and Spain economy is right now pure shit, just my situation).

That's the only reason I'm gradually moving to localy stored Keeper.
I never knew this was a thing. I haven't experienced it. Does it only happen on vacation trips? Or does it also happen with, for example, commuting?
Alibaba is Taking Over
When the most boring thing you've done in your life is playing Dracula in a movie, you know you've lived your life to the full.
I remember started incorporating SSDs into their computers and didn't support TRIM. Windows users were telling Mac users their Macs were practically obsolete because it couldn't do this one thing that was enabled for Windows. of course they sent that back to Apple and Apple replied, for years, you don't need it.

Eventually, they relented and enabled it on their SSDs. I'm pretty sure the marketing and engineering butted heads over this one stupid bullet point.
The "condensed version of {{book.title}}" is an interesting idea, but not easy to pull off. Many concepts are inherently complex, and don't lend themselves to compression. For many topics though, a 2x -- 5x compression ratio is probably achievable.

The part about paying hungry people with graduate degrees to do the summaries is spot-on---they have the perfect balance of deep knowledge (ugrads might not have enough context), but also not being too indoctrinated and crusty (profs have a hard time seeing the world like young people see it).

The part where I disagree is that TED is something to emulate. There is rarely something of substance in a TED talk. Sure each talk introduces you to a concept, but it's more of a political speech (aimed to convince) rather than a lecture aimed to educate you. So IMHO, the TED model is definitely not to be emulated: we need more substance.

I have been thinking about this notion of "information condensation" for many years now, though I call the idea "information distillation." I run a publishing company based on this idea...

Our first book on math/physics achieves an 8x compression ratio, compared to mainstream textbooks (from 2500pp to 300pp), but that was only possible because ugrad math/phys textbooks are full of bullshit and padding... so just removing that was a big win. I'm now working on a second book about linear algebra, and having trouble reaching even a 2x compression ratio. I wonder what it would be like in other fields of science (bio, chem, etc.)

The main problem with compression is you lose information, so it remains an open question whether it can be done well, as in, can you lose the least important information to cut out, while leaving the essentials in? Don't misunderestimate the work involved in writing a book---it took me years to write the math book.
The oral contraceptive pill is approved by the FDA in 1957. Griswold v. Connecticut, which declares state laws against it unconstitutional is decided in 1965. Since we are already having a conversation about women's bodies, the fact that (according to http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contr_use.html, whose veracity I know nothing about) 16% of women aged 15-44 use daily hormone pills is probably relevant to a discussion of their bodies' tendency to retain adipose tissue.

To be clear against uncharitable interpretation: I think the ability to decide when/if you get pregnant and have kids is fantastic.
the selection of Drafting Pencils and stationary are top notch!
How Rust Compares to Other Languages and More
It my be abusive but there is a lot of side things in the shenmue game so ...
> That said, it's perfectly fine for the kernel developers to clarify that a flag is for their own exclusive use

Oh for fuck's sake. It's a parameter passed to the kernel. Programs shouldn't parse it for precisely the same reason why Firefox doesn't parse sshd's arguments. I.e. because they're passed to sshd, not to Firefox.

It's a ridiculous clunky hack that stinks of large company coding practice: what they actually needed was a way to pass arguments to systemd itself.

The logical way to do that in an OS that has to be portable and flexible is to implement a mechanism for the kernel to pass some of the arguments it receives to init. Because there's no reason to assume that init is going to be systemd, that there's going to be a procfs ready for it so as to be able to read the kernel's parameters, or that the init process can read it for that matter.

The way the systemd development team chose to do that (widely seen in many other projects from the same lineage, like Pulseaudio) was ha look at that we can see the kernel's arguments so how about we use those and what do you mean "this can have unwanted side-effects", it works perfectly fine on my system.

The fact that the developers (again, it's a known pattern) decided to play the PR game and call it "expected behaviour" doesn't make it less of a bug. It's also expected that a division by zero will crash your program. It doesn't mean that blindly accepting any input values is not a bug, nor that the correct way to solve "your program crashes if I pass 0 as the first argument" is "well stop passing 0 as a first argument ya evil bastard."
Sounds like a plot for a sci-fi novel, but things get serious when software can kill you.
In the bookmarks bar, no favicons show up. This is the major reason I can't switch to Safari: most of my bookmarks bar items have no label in Chrome, I just visually recognize their favicons and that's sufficient.
Mail. Works good enough for what I need it to do.