skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And when some people start bringing up Coke's supposed rust-cleaning properties, others start bringing up Snopes and other contrary evidence.

Right now, there's too much "health noise" surrounding sodas, because they make so much money and so many people like them. We can't get a good "health signal" to "health noise" ratio to tell if these have healthy and/or unhealthy outcomes when we drink them. And so many of us just avoid them.
Add non-competes to point #2. I know they don't exist in CA but for the rest of us they still do.
The same way as I spend my mornings, days, and nights: nothing constructive.
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This paper asserts something innacurate: entropy pools can be "used". Entropy is not an object, it's an estimation. Just as you don't use temperature, or barometric pressure, you don't "use" entropy.

Further, once a CSPRNG is properly seeded, there is no need to concern yourself with whether or not it can produce "high quality random numbers", provided the cryptographic primitive behind the CSPRNG contains conservative security margins. The Linux kernel CSPRNG uses SHA-1 as the underlying primitive. While SHA-1 is showing weaknesses in blind collision attacks, it still contains wide security margins for preimage attacks, which is what would need to be applied to a key generated by a CSPRNG (you have the output, now predict the state that produced it). Even MD5 remains secure against preimage and second preimage attacks.

Again, once properly seeded, the Linux CSPRNG can produce data indistinguishable from true random indefinitely until SHA-1 is sufficiently broken.
I agree with the last sentence, but I wasn't making a legalistic argument.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the difference between us is that you see ethics as something that "lives" outside of society and I don't. Ethics are not one or universally shared so societies themselves decide which ethical norms are shared widely enough to form foundations for laws etc.

So right can be any feasible privilege that is widely enough shared.
I'm 37. I have been dreaming up the next big thing for 30+ years. That includes today and yesterday. Your question implies that 20 year olds have fresher ideas than myself. This is absolutely false.

Ageism is a real problem, just like racism and classism.

"Get more years out of it.. or .. feel lost..", what does that mean? Your question is ageist.

I was never really part of any culture since I generally don't integrate socially.

After a certain age, your brain chemistry or neural balance or something changes so that you have a much clearer worldview. Maybe just from thinking over and studying basic things for so long. On the other hand, I do feel that I can incorporate new information into my worldview easier than most people, including kids.

As far as 'hacking life', I think there is a limit to what exercise and diet and other 'hacks' can do for aging. Certainly of course some drugs can increase performance for both old and young. Whether there are downsides to those drugs I am not sure. However, I do believe that comprehensive approaches like SENS (as opposed to popular quick-fix ideas) to attacking root causes of aging will probably eventually yield strong results.

As far as technology selection, most younger people are actually using an outdated frame of reference that they adopted from either a few years prior when they picked up a particular technology, or from older developers that they copy on the basis of authority.

The trick to understanding and embracing the leading edge and inventing the next thing is not being young. It is having good comprehension of technology, being open, not deferring to authority or sunk costs, and being willing and able to rebuild your foundations when premises fall.

The other trick to being the next big thing is popularity (which is often quite disconnected from novelty), and for that it helps to be young and pretty, but older people can win the social network popularity contests and are good promoters also.
This is worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9193521

>Vulkan aims at doing less but predictably so, devs will have more work to put in at first, but at least they understand what going on.

The engine devs will probably know exactly what's going on and be able to optimize accordingly. The actual game/application devs will probably get a new, easier-to-use black box and be extremely happy about it.
right. its like how some doctors work in free clinics. Or how people do community service. For some its court mandated but a lot of people do it for personal reasons.

Contributing to OSS is a lot like volunteering in your local church soup kitchen. If you're thinking of making money you don't really get it. When you contribute to OSS you are helping people be more productive and that benefits all of society.
SEO, paid traffic affiliate marketing, infoproducts, SaaS, viral / social media-led stuff, paid blogging - those are the usual routes that spring to mind. Some cross over.

Good places to start learning:

"Four Hour Work Week", as mentioned, and Tim Ferriss' blog.
"The $100 Startup" - book.
Smart Passive Income - blog
Viperchill - blog
ProBlogger - blog. Ignore the guest posts, read stuff by the founder Darren Rowse.
You'll need a card with Vulkan drivers.

But as it has support from NVidia and AMD that won't be a problem:

https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-reveals-vulkan-ap...

(See the "Industry Support" section.)
Vulkan is designed for modern GPUs, not the other way around. You would only have to wait for GPU vendors to write a new driver for their existing cards. NVIDIA, AMD, and a bunch of other large players are part of the Khronos Group designing Vulkan, so I wouldn't be surprised to see desktop/laptop GPU drivers a few weeks after the release of the finalized specification.

The only place you probably won't see a quick uptake is with mobile GPUs, since they essentially never receive updates.
Twitter is a hot potato. I don't see any potential buyers.
Very interesting and also terrifying - i'm trying to shift into the indie game space so hearing that my math may get worse than it already is terrifies me. I have a really hard time believing that comprehension of math would decrease with age though. It seems to me that instead people typically stop using it after a certain age and thus their skills deteriorate.
"The $15/hr fast food employee who delivers $30/hr in value to their company, or the $150K software engineer who delivers $2MM in value to their company?"

As a consultant I can actually measure the direct amount of money I bring in. I often wonder if I'm only worth the 10% I get of that money or I can do better elsewhere?
I'm getting downvoted for even asking the question. Awesome.
This week on "Sweeping, Unsupported Generalizations About Men Written by a Woman"...

This author has trends but no causal links, no direct evidence. She projects her own ideas of friendship and happiness onto male relationships. Despite trying to avoid "measuring male friendships with a female yardstick", that's exactly what she does when she departs from the data gathered to assert:

> [male-patterned behavior is] restrictive and dehumanizing. It’s oppression all dressed up as awesomeness.

> To be close friends, men need to be willing to confess their insecurities, be kind to others, have empathy and sometimes sacrifice their own self-interest. “Real men,” though, are not supposed to do these things.

> And it is part of why men have a hard time being friends.

> men often don’t have a lot of practice being a good friend

Thanks for your contribution, Lisa Wade. Maybe I'm the exception for having two confidants: a best friend from college and my current girlfriend. Maybe this is actually a problem in need of solving, but your projection (or perhaps begging the question) scuttled your argument from the beginning.
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I am much better at writing less code, though.

In other words, your thinking is organised.

Organisation is a skill you learn through experience. No other way. You can attempt to teach a newcomer about the virtues of refactoring (basically tidying up the kitchen after you've baked your masterpiece) but I can assure you, the mind at early stages of doing new things is less interested in tidying up the process than it is about seeing the exciting outcome.

That's by nature.
iTunes was a success for Apple sure, not for artists. And if Apple wants to move to a Spotify buisness model there is a reason for that.

As for Netflix it's only really successful in the US.

> Make it easy and the customers will come.

So why aint you rich already ? smart guy.
> the OCaml bytecode interpreter […] pre-compiles the bytecode into a threaded code

Wait a minute, how is that even possible? Or rather, what do you mean?

Here's my layman's view of things: the bytecode is basically a string of opcodes. The interpreter has to look up the opcode before executing it somehow. And it can be threaded, or use an ordinary switch, or perform some other bizarre optimization I don't understand.

But what does it mean for the bytecode itself to be compiled into a threaded form?
Honestly, I feel that adding cost (i.e. tax) really wouldn't discourage the drinking of soft drinks to much extent. Often the "cost" of soft drinks aren't even on the menu, and can often run upwards of $3+, and it doesn't seem to discourage things.

One area that could "help" (though at the same time I don't think that governments should regulate this), is for instance in the fast food meal concept of the "combo." I drink almost 100% water, and don't like soft drinks. When I occasionally eat fast food, I experience the following: (a) it is often difficult to navigate the menu, since it emphasizes the combos, and sometimes the price of individual items are not clearly labelled, and (b) I spend more time in line explaining what I want, sometimes having to insist several times that I do not want the combo meal. And to clarify, almost every time I've done the math, it works out advantageously from a price perspective for me to avoid the combo instead of just purchasing the combo and requesting water as the beverage. But given this experience, I can see how if you weren't dedicated to drinking water you would concede, and once you've paid for a drink, you "might as well" get a soft drink.

I'm also quite surprised at how frequently I run into situations at airports, food courts, sports venues, etc. where you either (a) the only form of water is bottled water and costs as much or more than soft drinks, (b) you can purchase a cup of water, but it costs you as much as a soft drink, or (c) in the most extreme cases water is not even available for consumption even if one wanted to pay. I recently experienced the latter. So perhaps if we were going to regulate something, perhaps it should be ensuring that all food establishments provide water as a beverage, and furthermore if we want to encourage consumption of water perhaps there should be some form of price cap, for instance that it can't be priced more than X% of cost to provide the "service." Though I typically think that regulation should be kept minimal, this may be something that could be good for the public.
It's blatantly false. Most unions represent skilled trades. You might be able to replace a laborer easily but what about a highly experienced welder?
This... I have the same observation and coincidentially we have the same age :)
In terms of originality, we wanted to keep that up to the user. Personally, I would rate the first as very original and the sequels, albeit less original, still held their own stories (despite being far inferior).

There's currently no importing tools but that's a great idea!

Thanks for the feedback!
"Within the first few months of being completely flat, slowly but surely a few things started to feel quite odd. People were easily lost, especially those that had just joined Buffer. More experienced people often didn’t quite see a place to help out and share ideas around which direction a project could take."

Was this really news to them?
I absolutely agree that there exists terrible code and that there are incompetent individuals or folks that simply don't care. But if one assumes that as the default response, I don't think that is very helpful.

Even in your example of shared data/synchronization - what if the original developers were told that the code would never need to be thread-safe? Or what if there was a constraint that required this trade-off to be made? It's not so black and white.
I'm jealous of you having a paid off house in Austin right now as I'm sure your property value has risen significantly in the last few years.

I just graduated UT with a CS and got a nice job, but now is the time to buy a house and unfortunately that probably isn't going to happen for a little while.
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I've used Dropbox for a long time, and it's been really useful in school (as others have noted) and for sharing files, but recently I've actually moved to ownCloud (https://owncloud.org/). I hooked a 500GB HDD into my RasPi at home, spent some time on configuration and setup, and now I've got functionally the same product, but limited in space only by how much storage I want to buy (one-time cost, obviously) and plug in instead of the 13.25GB I have on DB that I had to scrounge around for offers and promotions to get.

It's nice because I have a backup of whatever files I'd like at home instead of somewhere else, and if I were super paranoid I could make that into redundant storage, back that up daily, etc. It's a little more work but a lot more control.

If the linked post is accurate, it sounds like an absolutely horrible work environment.
Cultural-Marxist? I thought he was an economist.
DTLA is increasingly becoming like this.
Hangouts is "okay" at best.

I continue to be amazed that companies like Microsoft and Google are so bad at instant messaging that upstarts like Slack can eat their lunch with essentially hosted IRC and a pretty client.
This is what people don't understand. Even competing non-union wages go up when the union negotiates better pay (or benefits) for their members.
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Source on the insulin claim? Your link deals with saccharin, but diet soda uses aspartame and ace k.
This reminds me a lot of eMule but without being able to see the IP address of the people you are sharing with.

I wonder if the servers you connect to are required to log the traffic though?
Does it support WebRTC phone calling from the browser?

Hangouts annoys me for a number of reasons however. And the biggest one is the fact that Google used it as a pretense to kill their federated XMPP service. This literally cut more than a half of my contacts off (i.e. those who use Google), because they don't accept bugs for enabling server to server encryption anymore.

I don't remember being upset about Google messing up things more than that.

UDPATE: Nah, still no WebRTC. Hangouts - fail.

Hangouts needs the Google Talk plugin to make calls.
“Anti-biotechnology activist group has targeted 40 scientists, including myself”
The abstract maybe a tad general, but the paper specifically refers to the movement of a single proton :

" As initially proposed by Delbruck et al. (1935)
and Schrodinger (1944) and Watson and Crick
(1953), spontaneous mutations are initiated by
quantum jump events such as tautomeric shifts in
single protons of DNA bases."

You reference catalysts and there are some indications this is a quantum tunneling phenomena :

Here is a talk by Professor Nigel Scrutton of the University of Manchester who has many papers on this,
Quantum effects in biological catalysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnxmHlbtJDI

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Here is Donald's paper criticising McFadden and al-Khalili's ideas
http://people.bss.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mjd1014/qevrev.pdf

and their rebuttal : http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110083v1

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The 2012 Quantum Biology Conference at the IAS has some excellent papers - which are (too briefly) summarised into the OP article. http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/quantumbiology/
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I agree people reinvent the wheel all the time, but instead of seeing it as something naive people do, I see it as fertile earth that genuinely new things can grow from.

I feel like "young developers reinvent what we already had 30 years ago" kind of ennui gets espoused here on HN a lot. To me, this is less wisdom gleaned from experience and more a preference based on shifting priorities. There's nothing wrong with not being interested in new shiny stuff, but there's also nothing wrong with being interested in it.
>People like nice things. There I said it. Most people like nice cedar lined floors, expensive drinks and well cut clothes. And when you have those things, it's marvelous how quickly your disdain for the 'institution' evaporates.

People are made to want nice thing, big difference. It's the result of the exploitation of a natural need (fear) by corporations and the 'institution' through modern advertising and propaganda.

The fact that the disdain reduces/disappears for some is not of any credit to their acceptance of the 'institution', it just shows it works as intended (generating individuals that will not question).
I just want the company to buy me a new mouse but I end up buying it myself.
Are there any limitations I should be aware of before trying to switch to Telegram?
> Has the phone been sleeping / screen off / locked for a long time?

Mine has been sleeping for an hour, but I'm right next to it and would answer an IM if sent.

So no, not so simple.
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Do you think there is no relationship between the state of regulation of banking (which I'd argue is less central to the policy story than tax rates but that's a side note) and the state of organized working-class power? How do you think those regulations get made?
> I'm 35 and overall am feeling at the top of my game.

Don't you feel you connect the dots easier now than 15 years ago? That's something I notice I get better as time passes
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This can be a major pain for larger software projects. At work we have to contend with:

* A database so large that even a minimally empty one cannot be created from scratch in less than 10-15 minutes. This creates problems for CI, integration testing, etc.

* The developers spent a good chunk of the late 90s/2000s writing Oracle PL/SQL code; hundreds of packages and thousands of stored procedures with oodles of business logic.

* We store reports, pdf attachments and other documents etc all in the DB as well.

* Since we put so much stuff on the database, small problems and schema fudges tend to creep in over the years, which makes every customer database a little bit different.

* Oracle licensing can be very unkind and the upper management mandate that we can't use the oracle XE version even in development/testing.

We ended up using a combination of Flyway for schema changes, hand-rolled scripts to apply stored procedures and packages, and we had to roll a database provisioning pool as-a-service for developers, and it's still a massively janky and fragile setup. We really need better tooling for this.
Rigidity helps you for the same reason using a jointed arm is easier than controlling a tentacle. Limiting the number of degrees of freedom can make things a whole lot easier.

Yes, there are interesting designs with biopolymers, but they probably cannot get you the type of atomically precise manufacturing that you need for most "cool" MNT applications.
While scores are almost never directly manipulated "as we are not hitting the curve" my experience is that you know what the curve is supposed to look like and people on the bubble one way or another are pushed in a particular direction during calibration to make the curve line up. Then at the end you all look at the curve and pat yourselves on the back for another round of matching what you expected to see rather than asking if expecting to see a particular curve influenced the results.
On point 1, that depends if the college itself is accredited or of good standing such that employers won't scrutinize it.

On point 2, that depends on the state you're in and what goods/services are in demand. If you're in Louisiana and want to be a florist because there's demand for them, good luck (they have a licensing scheme for florists).

On point 3, this is only true if you have access to the Internet in a reliable manner.

On point 4, this can only work if you have enough money. Having five hundred bucks saved up as part of your yearly savings isn't going to move much even in risky investments (if a brokerage is willing to take such little money for their accounts).
Yep, this is why I said it. I assumed everyone knew about Ubuntu's update strategy.
This post reminds me of the mouse experiment showing mice preferred the reward of refined sugar over cocaine, even when the mice were already addicted to cocaine. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1931610/

Perhaps their should very basic study on general health/weight of people who regularly consume refined sugars and those who abstain from refined sugar (with neither group engaging in structured exercise. Or have these scientists answer a more basic question about obesity...all things being equal, if you took a person (whether they exercise or not) would that person be more likely to be obese if they consumed a 200 calorie soda every day or replaced the soda with 200 calories of almonds. I think people would be greatly surprised to find out a calorie is not simply a calorie as is often suggested and that sugar has a lot more impact on obesity than fats.