<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: blauwbilgorgel</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blauwbilgorgel</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:37:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=blauwbilgorgel" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Ask HN: Anyone try semaglutide / Wegovy for weight loss?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every drug has its sets of mild or severe side effects.<p>But few drugs, including Wegovy, have a Black Box Warning. Even fewer where the increased risks in humans are unknown at the time of FDA approval, and only backed by rodent studies.<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538521/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538521/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:27:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733871</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Ask HN: Anyone try semaglutide / Wegovy for weight loss?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is hard in the beginning, but it gets much easier after sticking with it for a few weeks. Your body and hunger adapts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:59:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733516</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Ask HN: Anyone try semaglutide / Wegovy for weight loss?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> A recent review of the evidence suggests that this type of diet may help people with type 2 diabetes safely reduce or even remove their need for medication.<p>> However, people should seek the advice of a diabetes professional before embarking on such a diet.<p><a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/can-intermittent-fasting-help-treat-or-even-reverse-type-2-diabetes" rel="nofollow">https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/can-intermittent-f...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:57:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733484</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Ask HN: Anyone try semaglutide / Wegovy for weight loss?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Indication and Important Safety Information<p>What is the most important information I should know about Wegovy™?<p>Wegovy™ may cause serious side effects, including:
Possible thyroid tumors, including cancer. Tell your healthcare provider if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, hoarseness, trouble swallowing, or shortness of breath. These may be symptoms of thyroid cancer. In studies with rodents, Wegovy™ and medicines that work like Wegovy™ caused thyroid tumors, including thyroid cancer. It is not known if Wegovy™ will cause thyroid tumors or a type of thyroid cancer called medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in people.<p><a href="https://www.wegovy.com/FAQs/frequently-asked-questions.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.wegovy.com/FAQs/frequently-asked-questions.html</a><p>edit: For a safer way to lose weight, including other benefits in regards to reducing cancer risks, look into intermittent fasting. Success with your weight loss, great step into becoming more healthy!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:39:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733269</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just because a data aggregation site does not show your data on the front-end, does not mean they deleted it from the back-end. So now you can charge 50$ for people to search in the "special" data pile, where people took the effort to remove it from the front-end.<p>These data brokers crawl publicly available information. Telling them to remove your data, only slows down the doxxer, it does not stop them at all, since the data was already shared. It is not plugging the leak, it is mopping up some of the water. A false sense of security and a clear sign to the doxxer that you care about your anonymity (so more "lulz" to be had).<p>A proper doxxing is also much more than entering a name in some search engines. Especially hackers do not like to be doxxed. For internet civilians who already put this data out there (on social media) a simple data broker doxxing is a mere reminder that such data is public to everyone, not just friends.<p>Doxxing defense is guarding your anonymity online. Everywhere. Doxxing defense is knowing when to change persona's, and when to log off. That is: If you care about it at all. If you care about keeping your identity a secret online, see: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU</a> (The Grugq - OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:10:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8636383</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8636383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8636383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "How do you get to write so well in HN?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The guidelines say to write as if you were face to face to a person. You wouldn't probably mention those nasty things, or at least you try to hide it behind constructive criticism.<p>Take this one step further: For everything you write, imagine the utmost authority on that topic reading your post. A blunt example: A rant about Python syntax. Imagine Guido van Rossum reading that during his coffee break.<p>Do not post if you can not add anything to the discussion. Assume your debater is smarter than you and knows more on the subject. This is still HackerNews. Ask someone if they have won the Putnam prize, and you may be unpleasantly surprised. [1]<p>Read and practice: <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html</a><p>Use your spell-checker. Write shorter sentences to avoid grammatical errors. Nobody is too smart for short, simple sentences.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079</a>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:45:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8534511</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8534511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8534511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Others"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> ... how exactly none of those are the ones with the necessary PhDs in statistics and algorithms to get anything of any value done.<p>I see it almost the other way around: Companies strictly demand PhD's for Big Data jobs and can't find this unicorn. Yet we live in a time where we don't need a PhD program to receive education from the likes of Ng, LeCun and Langford. We live in a time where curiosity and dedication can net you valuable results. Where CUDA-hackers can beat university teams. The entire field of big data visualization requires innate aptitude and creativity, not so much an expensive PhD program. I suspect Paul Graham, when solving his spam problem with ML, benefited more from his philosophy education than his computer science education.<p>Of course, having a PhD. still shows dedication and talent. But it is no guarantee for practical ML skills, it can even hamper research and results, when too much power is given to theory and reputation is at stake.<p>In my experience Machine Learning was locked up in academics, and even in academics it was subdivided. The idea that "you need to be an ML expert, before you can run an algo" is detrimental to the field, not helping so much in adopting a wider industry use of ML. Those ML experts set the academic benchmarks that amateurs were able to beat by trying out Random Forests and Gradient Boosting.<p>I predict that ML will become part of the IT-stack, as much as databases have. Nowadays, you do not need to be a certified DBA to set up a database. It is helpful and in some cases heavily advisable, but databases now see a much wider adoption by laypeople. This is starting to happen in ML. I think more hobbyists are right now toying with convolutional neural networks, than there are serious researchers in this area. These hobbyists can surely find and contribute valuable practical insights.<p>Tuning parameters is basically a gridsearch. You can bruteforce this. In goes some ranges of parameters, out come the best params found. Fairly easy to explain to a programmer.<p>Adapting existing algorithms is ML researcher territory. That is a few miles above the business people extracting valuable/actionable insight from (big or small or tedious) data. Also there is a wide range of big data engineers making it physically possible to have the "necessary" PhD's extract value from Big Data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:35:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8487526</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8487526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8487526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Massive electrode array will do first large-scale recording of brain activity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This will be the first of this scale. On both those sites the most channels I could find was 64. This program is planning 10.000 channels for unprecedented resolution and scale.<p>Since 16 channels is enough to predict if a subject is looking at a face or not, it is exciting to research what this large-scale system is going to be capable of. Next to neuroscience, it could help with healthcare (research into dementia, epilepsy and schizophrenia).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:03:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8413446</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8413446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8413446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Google Apps Security Vulnerability Puts Organizations’ Data at Risk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't see a security vulnerability, but bad security practice.<p>Either they: Delete the account. All is well.<p>Either they: Take over the account. It is common sense then to change the phone number associated with the account. All is well.<p>You could solve this "bug" by reading the documentation and creating a better security protocol (which is currently putting your organizations' data at risk).<p>I clicked the title with just one thought it the back of my mind: "If this is an active serious vulnerability then why did OP not apply for the vulnerability program and have it fixed beforehand"?<p>My experience with the vulnerability team has been great (one honorable mention and one pay-out). If you did not get an honorable mention then it means the security team did not file a bug report. Your feedback could probably still be used to improve the UI.<p>As an aside: Hunting real security bugs on Google domains is insanely addictive (because they are so hard to find). Try to generate all their different error screens. Try to find the Google property running on aspx. To practice there is also <a href="https://google-gruyere.appspot.com/" rel="nofollow">https://google-gruyere.appspot.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2014 22:10:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8378354</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8378354</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8378354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Dear Rupert"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did Google notify you of a link-based penalty? You should set up Google Webmaster Tools, if you haven't already. Then you can read notifications about suspicious links pointing to your site and disavow the ones that are spammy.<p>I am not so sure that you are under a link-based penalty. I know you did not ask for this, but I had a look at your website's link profile, source and index health.<p>1. SEO: The online web form market is hugely saturated. You probably can not compete with Wufoo on terms like "web form builder". Honestly ask yourself if you currently deserve a top 10 spot for this term. Are you a top 10 player in this field? Explore more specific and longtail keywords. Create better targeted pages and page titles. "Documentation - NicSoft Software" is a missed chance. Create more content on the blog (inbound marketing).<p>2. Links. You do not have enough natural links to beat competitors. They get linked from webdeveloper forums by real users of the software. You also should check out Google's stance on "Powered by"-links. If this turns in the majority of your backlinking profile, you get links from a lot of bad neighborhoods. These links may thus do more harm than good. It is not an editorial link, but probably in exchange for a free version of the product. Much safer to nofollow links created for profit or SEO/online marketing purposes.<p>3. Site HTML is not well-structured for information retrieval. For every page on your site, the first heading is "Home". Browse your site with styles disabled. Reorder repeating boilerplate code below the relevant page content. Specify a canonical or make sure only one version is served to visitors with redirects (both www- and non-www versions of the site return duplicate content).<p>4. Index health is poor. Robots.txt file is indexed. There are a few inactive subdomains, an unattended Wordpress and Drupal install in a subdirectory. Includes are indexed as separate pages "/inc/footer.php". Documentation (the content "meat" if the site) is off limits for bots. Over 90% of pages on the site are in the secondary index, which is not a good sign.<p>About 10 hits a day from Google is far too low for any commercial site to survive on. You could get more than 10 hits on a random wordlist.<p>Do not solely think about in-links. Are you even linking to reputable sources yourself? End-node sites are far less interesting for visitors than hub sites.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 19:53:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8369363</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8369363</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8369363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Navdy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am not so afraid of the loss of attention. I think this takes a little getting used to, like using a route planner.<p>I didn't see a comment yet about placing a loose object in front of your face. During a head-on collision you will eat that thing. Don't even put a box of matches on your dashboard. CD's become chainsaws. And this hunk of plastic?<p><i>Every year, loose objects inside cars during crashes cause 
hundreds of serious injuries and even deaths. In this paper, 
we describe findings from a study of 25 cars and drivers, 
examining the objects present in the car cabin, the reasons
for them being there, and driver awareness of the potential 
dangers of these objects. With an average of 4.3 potentially 
dangerous loose objects in a car‟s cabin, our findings 
suggest that despite being generally aware of potential 
risks, considerations of convenience, easy access, and lack 
of in-the-moment awareness lead people to continue to 
place objects in dangerous locations in cars. Our study 
highlights opportunities for addressing this problem by 
tracking and reminding people about loose objects in cars.</i><p><a href="http://www.star-uci.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ubic489n-avrahami.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.star-uci.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ubic489n-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:23:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315366</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google has another program for startups without funding or accelerator program access.<p><a href="https://developers.google.com/startups/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/startups/</a><p>I applied and received $500 in credit for free (also free access to online training and local events). To get 100k in credit would of course be nice, but I would have no way to spend that much in a year.<p>In the light of this two-tier startup program already existing a lot of comments in this thread become uninformed. Stop looking a gift horse in the mouth (unless it is a Trojan).</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="http://consc.net/norms.html">http://consc.net/norms.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304135">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304135</a></p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:13:03 +0000</pubDate><link>http://consc.net/norms.html</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "A Revolutionary Technique That Changed Machine Vision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you think that computers are better at chess than humans? If yes, how does this relate to pattern recognition. If not, what makes someone or something better at chess, while still losing against a computer? Is that a beautiful move? Tactics? Irrational sacrifices to cause confusion?<p>Do you think that a machine's situational awareness can not achieve or surpass the level of a human? If not, what is holding the machines back?<p>Why do you think that instinct works better to create more rational, consistent and correct predictions? Are 100 security guards better than a single security guard at dealing with ambiguities? Do you think an algorithm to detect fights, drug dealers, and pickpockets from street cams can not exist? What if a NN could detect these cases faster and flag this to a human security guard for action/no-action.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:35:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8298187</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8298187</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8298187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "A Revolutionary Technique That Changed Machine Vision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google trained a NN on unlabeled Youtube stills. It was able to detect/group/cluster pics of cats without ever seeing a label. This still needs supervision to teach the NN that whatever name it created for this cluster, us humans call this "cats".<p>If the error rate gets low enough, a NN could start labeling pics.<p>Finally, recent work has shown that running a dictionary through an image search engine can yield high quality labeled images automatically.<p>Aside: Thank you for contributing to sklearn. Really feel like I am standing on the shoulders of giants when I use that library.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:15:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8297647</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8297647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8297647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "A Revolutionary Technique That Changed Machine Vision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is just extrapolating the error rate reduction over the last few years. Spam filters have become better than moderators in labeling spam only in the last decade or so.<p>When computers first started to become faster than mathematicians this was really a breakthrough. The same is happening now with object and speech recognition.<p>The computer succesfully completes a task. That it is not how humans intuitively approach these same tasks is irrelevant for this accomplishment. What if the results were only half as good, but the system behaved more like humans, who does this satisfy?<p>The state-of-the-art is capable of detecting far more than 1000 objects, does not need labeled data, is robust to changes in light and does not care about the camera used. No preprocessing the data needed, features are automatically generated (preprocessing the target labels is a bit silly BTW).<p>So yes, in the very near future, algorithms will be better security guards than well... security guards.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:26:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8296986</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8296986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8296986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you are right:<p><i>"Forbid META redirections inside <noscript> elements"</i><p>but then I immediately wondered, what about META redirections outside <noscript> elements? I tested this with a fresh install of Firefox and latest NoScript, and those still work. Also: To forbid meta redirections inside noscript elements you have to toggle an option, it's not standard for non-trusted sites.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:37:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8288151</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8288151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8288151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The proof of concept is foiled. But how about something similar like:<p><pre><code>  <noscript>
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600" 
    url="phish.php"> 
  </noscript></code></pre></p>
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<p>It is ok. Thank you for submitting an interesting article.<p>This attack vector is very relevant to this day. It works remarkably well on mobile phones, especially with the new trend of hiding the URLs to save screen estate. Together with throwing up a fake website, you could also try throwing up a fake address bar.<p>Also with mobile phones you can emulate a native application. This will show when the phone is re-activated with the browser app on.<p>A redirect to something like a Googleusercontent domain would be tricky, even with a visible URL. The author could also mine the referrer: visitor from HackerNews? Phish the log-in form with a bad gateway message.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 21:07:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8287272</link><dc:creator>blauwbilgorgel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8287272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8287272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blauwbilgorgel in "I disagree with Turing and Kahneman regarding the strength of statistical evidence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Turing believed in fairy tales. Gödel believed in ghosts.<p>This was also at the start of the cold war, where the US suspected that the USSR was funding millions to ESP research.<p>One of the most publicized projects was the Stargate Project: <i>Even though a statistically significant effect has been observed in the laboratory, it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated.</i><p>I think Turing was closer to the machine learning camp than the statistics camp. On that note I'll quote a competitor in the MLSP 2014 Schizophrenia Detection Challenge:<p><i>To the people that are going to write papers for this one...<p>What really strikes me is the fact that stats fail really hard in this problem. I have a couple of 2-variable combinations that score around 0.87 on training set with logistic regression and a couple of 3-variable combinations with training AUC 0.9 (ish). All results were "statistically significant" at 0.001 (not even 0.01) . I have tried the same selections with SAS, SPSS, R and scikit (with regularization) . All results are consistent (and similar) with all packages, yet again they scored around 0.5 (random) in public and private leaderboard. This makes me think about all the PhDs' thesis and medical science papers I've seen being carried out on mickey mouse sets , claiming statistical significance gives credibility to their findings ... Is machine learning more reliable than stats? I say, if you can't predict it consistently on a hold out set, then you got nothing whatever the t,F,Chi-sq distributions say.</i> KazAnova - <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/users/111640/kazanova" rel="nofollow">https://www.kaggle.com/users/111640/kazanova</a></p>
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