skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say you want as much money as you can get. This is probably not rational. Now let's say you have a choice of being given $5 or $10, which do you choose? Why was that not a rational choice? Because it's predicated on an irrational desire?
The service is currently free, there's a bunch of ways we might monetise it but for now we're happy putting out there to see how people get on with it.
RC4? Please don't. Use e.g. NORX for an embedded-friendly cipher that isn't dangerously insecure.
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OK health and nutrition people….. enough is enough.

For generations you have been giving us little correlations, tidbits of mechanisms. Vitamin X, High Intensity Sleep, Antioxidants, Kale, CR… Hot off the presses… new experiment reintroducing critically endangered carnivorous gut fauna…

There is nothing useful that we can do with this "information." It's just random letters from some book that you are throwing at us one at a time. "We found some Hs! It's the first letter in this chapter about Kano Jigaro and appears a dozen time a page. He had exceptional balance, grip strength and organizational skills. It's important. Pay attention to your Hs."

I demand a theory, preferably something simple and powerful like Darwinism that we can demonstrate by drawing sailboats. An equation would be nice.

Just this week I burned my mouth on a chili pepper. I fainted getting out of my ice bath after a 48 hour CR Fast and I went through the window doing HIIT sprints on an omnidimensional walking desk.

I'm going back to the food pyramid. Gimme some spuds.
Yep, that was exactly the use case we built it for. We scratched our itch. When you've got a group of people all managing domain names/SSL certs for various customers it's very easy to lose track of one.
I was complaining that it is "yet another time scale," which is not something we need. That it's arbitrary is also true, but not the thrust of the criticism.

I realize it may not have been obvious that that was the thurst of my criticism, but "yet another X" is a common phrase in the hacker community.

Looking at the wikipedia article for "Yet another," the very first sentence is this:

> Among programmers, yet another (often abbreviated ya, Ya or YA in the initial part of an acronym) is an idiomatic qualifier in the name of a computer program, organisation, or event that is confessedly unoriginal.

The point is, there is already a widely used system for dating years. Coming up with a new one adds nothing (except confusion).

Coming up with a new one that also overloads pre-existing English words is even worse.
and >300 this year
An easy way to share those ridiculous crowdfunding ideas you have without having to spam kickstarter.com / indiegogo.com with yet another fake kickstarter campaign.
See above comment from icebraining

> Some people manage dozens, or even hundreds of domains. It's quite common in the "custom website design" world for the company (often a small agency) to manage the hosting of the site and domain.
Security software (virus scanners e.t.c.) is snake oil.

The code required for them to do their thing is so intrusive into the operating system that it has serious effects on stability.

And they are not that effective anyhow. Since they won't be able to detect exploits in existing programs over authorised channels.
It says "Released under the MIT License" at the bottom
Is there an Azul equivalent for SmallTalk?
My favorite part!
Gah, I really should hit myself over the head, I read about that and I totally forgot to take you into account.

Storage systems obviously push a ton of bits.

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2014/07/open-sourcing-our-go-...
There's a third option - there's less speculation now that there was before. AFAIK, most commodities can be paper-traded as well - meaning that traders can buy and sell futures that are not physically settled, but only pay out the current spot price. - i.e. pure speculation. Is it possible that speculators stopped betting on the ever increasing prices of raw materials?
Could you get rid of the is_removed column again (by copying the delected row to the history table) so the main table again has only the currently active rows and simplify queries? (Moot if both tables are merged and views are used as suggested by others.)

Is it common to name timestamps _on, like version_on? That doesn't seem very clear to me. What's the rationale?
I just don't understand why so many people like to reinvent the wheel all the time. In PHP, there's filter_var() family of functions with plenty of filter types, like FILTER_VALIDATE_URL, or you could try to use parse_url() if you need to add further constrains to validated URLs - like forbidding localhost, etc. IMHO complex regular expressions should be avoided as they make debugging a PITA and are usually a performance bottleneck, too.
invites to what? CIA front for reverse engineering?
Guy works for a non profit that happens to be the biggest employee for RE coders, nobody heard of it _and_ its only client is DoD, all of this is dodgy as F

edit: quick google shows Battelle Memorial is a 'known' CIA front company.

/tinfoilhat mode

Now Im starting to suspect this SMM escalation was in their arsenal and he overheard some details in the cafeteria?
If search results that hit Yelp data linked to Yelp there'd be no problem. However if it links to Google Places because Google scraped the Yelp data and loaded it into the Places database - that's a problem.

Suppose someone launched an 'Encyclopedia Search' service that searched Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britanica, etc and linked to their sites. The the service then started loading the Wikipedia and Britanica content into it's own respository and linked searches to that. It's still searching the same data, and taking you to the same articles, it's just that now you're not going to Wikipedia or Britanica anymore. Would that be ok? If not, what's the difference?
Really, the experiment seems to boil down to 'the decision happens before it is noticed'

It seems a big jump to extrapolate this to 'there is no such thing as free will'
In my opinion, the difference between a mafia and a government is the same than between a religion and a cult.
You are unsing a very specific example do draw a very far-reaching conclusion.

The only fact that the there are some 20 different languages makes the EU a much less omogeneous market than the US.

This withouth considering that each country has its own employment policies, social security services, healthcare system, education system, revenue service...

I'm strongly pro-union, but it's far from perfect, or even efficient, in the current state.
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This comment is abusive. It's also patently untrue. I will not respond further.
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After watching this talk [0] by Andrei Alexandrescu, I became somewhat sceptical about concepts (and type classes and traits). Nevertheless, it's probably an improvement for C++.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCrVYYlFTrA
> > Wow, that was good timing!

> You'll be disappointed if you're expecting a discussion of effect systems...

I'm expecting a discussion of why continuations are enough.
My n=1 case for spicy foods.

I have a secondary systemic inflammation to due a genetic condition that make my mitochondria to malfunction. Usual symptoms include a profound fatigue after working-out and muscle weakness, specially in the extra-ocular muscles.

I have been always centered around supplements to improve the energy output (ATP) of my mitochondria (Coq10, ALCAR, idebedone ... you name it). While this made a big difference in my everyday energy levels, I always felt that this systemic fatigue couldn't come only from a energy deficit, as I was able to workout with pretty good intensity and decent weights (I can squat 1.5 my body weight).

The first hint came a couple of months ago when a friend of mine went to the doctor because he was also profoundly fatigued and the doctor told him that he had some kind of auto-immune disease that was causing a systemic inflammation and this systemic inflammation was likely the main cause for the fatigue.

The second hint came right here from HN [1]. So, I just added turmeric extract to my daily regimen 10 days ago and the results have been really impressive so far. I can recover much easier from my workouts and my general energy level has also improved a lot, specially during the mornings. It is too soon to tell, but after so many years trying so many supplements I have developed a anti-placebo and anti-bullshit sense for all these things, and this one is working for real.

Now, I am not meaning that spicy food will make you live longer, but it seems clear that they have some potent active substances that "do" something in our bodies.

I am now trying to add some spicy foods to my meals. The first one has been a very simple curry rice with black pepper (to improve absorption) to eat it post-workout.

Some relevant references:

Curcumin database [2]

Good general info about turmeric [3]

Mitochondria as a target in the therapeutic properties of curcumin [4]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9960441

[2] http://www.crdb.in/

[3] http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=78

[4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25243820
What is "CRUM ADV LOCK ON PHONE"?
How so? I read it too, but I didn't see much impact..

It could have done with a few illustrations.
"All" the research and development was done abroad, not in Australia. The products were created abroad, so you can't expect the full added value to reside in Australia...
It is not just for experimentation.
The implementation is the basis of a Technical Specification, that will hopefully make it into C++17.

Finally the TS will be merged into the standard in the further future.
Quite possibly. The people I know who are really into spicy food tend to be people who cook for themselves rather than living off microwave meals. I'm no heat freak nor particularly a connoisseur of fine foods and I'm moving more away from repackaged foods as my taste for the spices develops and I'm starting to have preferences and opinions rather than just shoving stuff that is "easy and good enough" down my gullet when I eat at home.

Of course cooking for yourself does not necessarily mean eating more healthily, so even if this is something to do with the observed difference there are will be other significant contributing factors too.
An interesting side-effect of the scale and efficiency of current tech is this phenomenon of deploy first, ask questions later.

Ideas and tools can be conceived, developed, deployed and adopted before a (state-sanctioned) response can be formed. Significant results (and value) can be reaped in the inherent lag between deployment/discovery and responsive-legislation.

In tech, we've seen it recently as startups deploy faster than labor laws can (re)define boundaries.

In government, when it's the police doing the rapid deployment... well, it's kind of uncharted territory.

Has anyone modeled a system of checks and balances where one of the three processes has an n month setTimeout() before it can respond to inputs from another? Where does the system find equilibrium?
The problem with this joke is that Emacs is actually a terrible operating system: very poor concurrency support and no pre-emption.
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As long as the price / performance is not totally off, I'd always rather pay a bit more for a slightly worse service if I know VAT money will stay in my city, tax will be paid in my state, salaries would be paid in the same job market where I am, and the profit would be invested in my neighborhood.

Nobody prevents you from buying local right now, so that's a red herring. If you want to force others to do the same, you should pay their increase as well. Are you prepared to do that?
I feel like this guide comes about 5 years too late - RBMs as density models have been shown to be relatively weak, except in the case of binary data. For continuous data, you can often do better even with a simple Gaussian mixture model. Other than that they are cumbersome to train (the gradient needs to be approximated), and the for continuous variants training can be unstable unless you use very low learning rates.

They were very popular for unsupervised pre-training a while ago, but the utility of pre-training has greatly diminished. Unless you have a ton of unlabeled data and very few labels, it's not worth the effort. And if it is, you are better off using autoencoders for pre-training anyway. They are conceptually much simpler and easier to understand, and you'll get roughly the same results.

If you want to get started with deep learning, focus on feed-forward and recurrent neural nets instead, you'll get much more useful knowledge out of that. For most of the common deep learning use cases there is no need to bother with RBMs anymore.
> it is always better to go for the new places where there are no dominant players

It's funny, I've heard several times the total opposite from startup founders ("It's easier to go for a big market and to chunk some % in order to get viable, rather than going on a totally new market in which you'll have to both be better than the competition and convince the clients that's it's actually a promising market")

> If someone offer you a product cheaper than you can make it yourself, take the offer and find something better to do. Everyone looses(sic) by protectionism.

Uh? Protectionism has historically worked exceptionally well to develop your own industry, as a matter of fact, all the big players heavily used protectionism in their time to nurture their industry before being big (England, USA, China, South Korea). You just cannot compete with an on-going industry while starting from scratch, so your industry will never take off.

Protectionism is only good if you're already the best in town & want to be sure that you keep the upper hand, but it helps in no way the under-developed country.
If I go too hot or if I'm making a really hot hot sauce, I'll go for citrus. The acid counters down the oils and help faster. In the sauce, it balances things. Same for pineapple.
Google's search was - for me - much better some years ago than it is now. But now there is no alternative (well, duckduckgo, not yet on googles niveau but getting better).

Don't see the innovation with Ad Words: as _every_ small company can use it, you fight towards the bottom and sometimes against cowards instead for quality which an independent non-ad-financed search engine would much better reveal.
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I have family in Germany who get their internet through Deutsche Telekom. When visiting I've found its faster to watch YouTube via a VPN through Switzerland than directly through Deutsche Telekom. While this doesn't prove anything it sure does feel like they already violate net neutrality when it comes to YouTube
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http://googler700.blogspot.com/2015/08/c-file-programs.html
We need to register a company in each EU country we want to ship stuff to, otherwise we would quickly hit the sales tax limits in each country.

From our perspective the EU common marked is pretty much just a pipe dream. Being able to start a business in one EU country and just automatically have access to all of the 500million EU citizens would be awesome, but right now that not how it works.
Microsoft is working on 4 Bridges of which this is one of them.

Android is another:

https://dev.windows.com/en-us/uwp-bridges/project-astoria

The other two are for web apps, and legacy win32 apps.

They all take different apporaches. So this one for iOS is a recompile and modify approach, Android is more of an Android SubSystem within the OS approach (like the old Unix subsystem that they had)
Really I've seen so many terrible psychological experiments that spawned huge articles that I am not taking any of this seriously anymore. I don't doubt that we will get somewhere at some point, but it's very clear that at this point we are mostly bluffing.

Just because you set some kind of experiment that turns up some kind of data shouldn't mean that you compare your studies with science on the level of physics or astronomy. Unless your experiments provide a model that has any kind of predictive power you are probably getting nowhere.

The scientific method got where it got, because it started with people doing small experiments that turned up to generate incredible models with a great predictive power, and started building up from there. Just copying the method, disregarding the predictive aspects, and just bluffing from there to generate nice sounding headlines is hardly a similar path.
That's discussed but without a proof. I'm working on a blog post (to be published today or tomorrow) which links to the proof and provides a more in-depth discussion.
WebGL allows you to build completely custom UIs, and these are well suited for 3D apps (which typically use OpenGL on the desktop, so transferring knowledge is trivial).

However, between custom OpenGL UIs and HTML-based UIs, there is an entire spectrum of native apps (mobile and desktop) that make use of platform conventions and standard functionality. This space is difficult to cover with web technologies because you have to simulate the look & feel and make the site feel like an app.

Many people have tried to build "just like native" toolkits from WebGL and DOM, but it's pretty tough. WebGL is very low level for this, and DOM is much too high level for many things.
well, you are simply having too much chilli in the food. good curry for example isn't one that burns your mouth (if you eat it regularly), but rather enrich all flavors present, including many other herbs and spices. if you don't feel anything else but burn, your cook ain't that good :)
I didn't see any discussion of this in the article, but could it have just fallen off a ship, maybe from the Romans or something? It looks like the only dating they've done so far is of the area it was found in, not the monolith itself.
many technologists have the whole suite of Apple products. The have invested thousands of their own money and years of their own time on Apple products. This changes their relationship to the corporation and leads them to defend their investments. To say "you made a bad choice" when someone has invested. so. much. will naturally lead to a defensive response.

Thus, the bending over backwards to excuse the richest company on the planet is very understandable. Especially within HN with it's fair share of early innovator and rich pockets.

It's understandable and utterly depressing.
You should check ML programming languages family, like Ocaml.
This is the first time I've heard of a pen register, apparently somewhat broad, modern parlance for things that capture phone data. It seems pretty damning that they spent the time to fax MetroPCS but couldn't, ya know, even get the pen register or ask a judge to ask if they thought it was a good idea.

Maybe the bad guys are really bad, but sometimes I hope that they get off just to make the point that the cops are suppose to do the "right thing", otherwise the cops really are the bad guys.
You know… I'm not sure the press and the readers are more culpable that scientists and scientific institutions.

First, Universities have PR offices, a army or administrators and marketing people. They want attention and "clickbait"in their own way. It's not like they don't know that a nutrition study finding a correlation between chili and stomach fat will get traction in the world of "one weird trick." I don't think they are ticking all the boxes and misinterpreted despite all efforts.

Second, a lot of the science just isn't good. Not enough independently corroborating studies, hypothesis fitting… The world of health and nutrition has produced bad information that passed through to official recommendation used by governments, doctors… remember when we were supposed to be scared of eggs because of cholesterol? What was the evidence for that?

Third, science has rejected other knowledge systems like folk traditions, wives tails and such. That's great when they give us an alternative. The planets are not being pulled across the sky by chariots, no argument. But when it comes to nutrition, if you look back over the last 2 generations… listening to your grandmother would have been better than listening to science. They haven't earned credibility of "science."
Give them some credit: they've figured out that consuming food and fluids is good for you. I had been making the mistake of eating nothing at all so this is all a big help.
So exactly which webserver is Heroku recommending atm? Your article says Unicorn and the Heroku devcenter docs says Puma
This is why Indian people eat Curry!

Jokes apart on a more serious note the crux of the study is --

"Compared with those who ate spicy foods less than once a week, those who consumed spicy foods 6 or 7 days a week showed a 14% relative risk reduction in total mortality. "

Although this study is very vague, in Asian cultures health benefits of spices and various plant products is well known.

Ginger : Has Cox2 inhibitory function. Acting in a similar way to Aspirin and other NSAIDS. Helps prevent heart attacks

Curcumin : found in turmeric has anti-inflammatory similar to ginger but is poorly absorbed. Hence mad more benefits for the Gut.

Arjuna Terminalis : Bark of the plant is known to have anti-hypertensive benefits.

And the list goes on.

The problem is that in the traditional way these plants are consumed (unprocessed in food and NOT in EXTRACT form) these have very poor Bioavailability.

The only way these so called health benefits would be apparent is if they were part of the diet (you eat them everyday - as noted in the study) or they are consumed in the form of Extract.

Also many of these compounds can not be patented and this deters the pharmaceutical industry to make large investments in the clinical trails and bringing them to the market.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/?term=curcumin

http://time.com/3984504/turmeric-supplements-curcumin/
I have to say I feel very proud that this comes out of Pompeu Fabra University.

I learned so much there, so many amazing people.

Great work guys!
> helping out a company that takes part in the usual tax and labor law evasion tactics

Irrelevant. The moral question being raised here is about potentially hurting Apple users via irresponsible behaviour, not about helping Apple itself. Just because Apple does it (by sitting on the problem) does not make it right for other people to put the public at risk as well.

Both parties can be in the wrong at the same time, the behaviour of neither of them is not valid defence for the other.

You do have to be very careful in these cases because of the way the law is set out and how easily companies turn to litigious defence instead of actually fixing problems. In this case I would recommend anonymously informing the controlling party. Of course if he had already done that then things are different and public disclosure is probably the only other thing he could have done.
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..well, it's not cognitive dissonance - it's not holding two contradictory thoughts, it's more a refusal to believe and more so a defence of investment.

Early innovators, technologists and many Hacker Newsers have spent thousands in both time and money on Apple. To attack Apple attacks their investment leading to defensive behaviour. To think to yourself "oh, now I'm going to ditch Apple and choose Linux" causes psychological harm as you have to 1) admit that your time and money was wasted on Apple 2) You made the wrong choice and 3) You don't want to learn another technology.

Thus it's easier to fight an attacker than to admit defeat.
He could basically be sent to jail for weapon smuggling, receiving any compensation is irrelevant.