skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe you have much idea what your great-great-great-grandmother did or didn't have access to, or what she was or wasn't familiar with. I'm sure you never met her. Did you read her diary or something? Have you tried cooking from her recipe book? Or are you just assuming, based on no evidence, that East Kentucky in 1810 was basically the same as East Kentucky in 1920, or whenever your grandparents grew up?

It's plenty likely that you and your own parents wouldn't have been familiar with the bigger portion of what your great-great-great-grandmother ate, either. And some of that was fresh food. East Kentucky had a lot more fresh plants in it back then than it does now.
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Difficult or no money doesn't do that either.
> Well the research has shown [too lazy to come up with a citation for that] that it is very beneficial for patients to be well informed and involved in the therapy process

That's an irrelevant point: You won't see me advocating against having the patients fully informed and making decisions, after being given "alternatives" and respective pros&cons by their physicians. But what I was discussing was the knee-jerk reaction to the "thinking for yourself is untenable" argument.

> This works, because you don't have to an expert on athletes' foot to manage your diabetes well, you just have to be an "expert" of your own case.

I would say it's very oblivious to think you're an expert on your case. It means your emotions are way too much present: the fact that something is terribly relevant to you doesn't imply that you're an "expert" in it.

> And that, my friend, is the definition of individual free-thinker.

Quite a strange definition. But OK: if that's a very important point for you to make, great.

Just don't say that this is "thinking by yourself". You may have made the decision yourself, but the "thinking" part was on the physician all the time. He had the knowledge, he presented it to you, alongside the pros&cons, and he was there to warn you if you by chance made a wrong/worst decision.
Related: "The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) is a 1988 book by The Timelords (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty), better known as The KLF. It is a step by step guide to achieving a No.1 single with no money or musical skills, and a case study of the duo's UK novelty pop No. 1 'Doctorin' the Tardis'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual
> Does surviving the holocaust count as a stressor? Yes. Would going through that probably involve a bundle of stressors, of which some are likely to produce epigenetic mutations? Likely.

So because the conclusion of the original study is probably sort-of-maybe okay-ish, we can excuse the shoddy research that was performed to get to that conclusion? I don't think that's how science works.

The final paragraph of the post reads

> Every week there are uninterpretable epigenetics studies published, the Holocaust study is merely one of many, these authors are merely following prevailing beliefs in over-interpreting their data. However, every such study damages the ‘brand’ of epigenetics a little more. If we want human disease epigenetics to be sustainable as a field of research, we have got to start to do substantially better in designing, executing, interpreting, reviewing and funding these studies.

Being afraid that bad research might damage the reputation of the entire field of epigenetics doesn't seem like something I'd worry about too much if I didn't believe in epigenetics as a valid object of scientific study.
> Space: O(n). No code is ever duplicated, so the one-lined code produced is linear in the size of the input code.

Seems like a non sequitur?
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This has little to do with Haskell as a language, and more to do with this specific tool. Your argument is a little like saying about paying for an editor "For example, VIM can do the same thing, too, or even better...".

What you get is a nice looking environment with a built-in playground alá Swift's, that can visualise data, types and even games.
The notion that this feels refreshing enough to be compelling news is a testament to how incredibly convoluted our use of browser technology has become. It's nice to be reminded of CSS's humbler, less-radioactive days...
It's only $25.

I've been interested in playing with Haskell for a while but I've been put off by the need to setup existing tools. Having an all-in-one package with neat presentation, packaged libraries, and immediate feedback sounds like a great deal for $25.
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Thanks for a comment, this is really valuable for me. So to present my template on a landing page I and my developer created this slide carousel: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u1g6io7gxzuq44u/Screen%20Shot%2020...

But as I understand, you want to see all slides in one document, am I right? Perhaps a PDF version of template may work here. What do you think?
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WordPress+Κεφάλαιο+2.+Φιλοξενία+και+όνομα
thanks for sharing! The homepage is http://netjson.org
During the initial production of a new iPhone, which seems to start a month or two in advance of the release, parts are regularly smuggled out of the factories - especially case backs. They're sold to case manufacturers mainly who want the specs so they can design iPhone cases that are out on launch day.
That's exactly what I was thinking. If you leave a GPS logger running and make sure the time inside the camera is accurate, you could fix the scaling to match the train's speed and make it look a lot better.

Or, even cooler, change the framerate of the camera during the trip in real-time with the GPS speed as input. :-)
Are there any facilitators (i.e. freelancers or consultants that have a proven track record of having brought projects to production) that are affordable? I assume most of these professionals end up at a larger company faster than you can look.
So stereotypes and racism is OK on HN, as long as the victims are Asian?
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For a very limited definition of "any python file".

Still brings me back to highschool, where we toyed with that kind of tricks (someone builds something, the others try to figure out how it works). Fun times!
I think the playground is probably its most unique feature. Other languages have it, but they're either too heavy to be practical (scala worksheets), embedded in a browser (python), or just not languages I care to work with (Swift). I love the idea of being able to throw some quick code together in a window, see immediate results and tweak things until I get what I want.

Haskell is particularly well suited to this king of workflow, everything being immutable and evaluating to a value. You can think of it as the best programmable calculator in the world.
Wow, I hope you're not serious -- this kind of intense parental pressure is much more likely to detonate in early adulthood than it is to generate whatever the hell it is you're trying to generate. There are many examples of prodigious kids that have profound struggles in adulthood, but one particularly poignant example is Todd Marinovich[1], who has since become an excellent speaker on the peril of pushing youngsters too hard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Marinovich
SO I can replicate everything this DOES with off the shelf tooling (maybe). And like any setup for a new language, or development environment I may have to RTFM and fiddle.

For 25 bucks, I'm going to get a bunch of limits (including the aforementioned sandbox ones) and these ones too:

"Haskell SpriteKit code can currently only be used in Haskell for Mac."

"can currently not be extended"

"We recommend to only use Haskell for Mac with Cabal files generated by the app itself."

Will these things be a problem? How long before I run up against a wall with this? Am I going to kick myself over the 25 bucks in 2 weeks cause one of these is a show stopper for some common task in haskell?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10114767
Couldn't resist :)

Asian parent: "You doctor yet?"

Kid: "No"

Parent: "Talk to me when you doctor!!11"

(Family guy reference)
oh sure here it is:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonbaseotago/onerng-an...
The login page seems to have taken over the back button of the browser. Pretty annoying...
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My comment is at +15 currently. ;)
Yeah, the political factor was that I didn't know anybody who had a copy of Plan 9 to give me, because Bell Labs had a government-granted monopoly on giving people copies of Plan 9. Meanwhile my uncle was sending me SLS disks...
Any plans for Linux support?
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Grab and build Servo? To quote https://lwn.net/Articles/647969/ :

But the results are already impressive; the team said that Servo provides a 2x speed increase when rendering the CNN homepage and a 3x speed-up on Reddit.
It was loud.

Liverpool late 70s: offices tended to be divided into larger numbers of small rooms. Typing in some of them. Really loud phone conversations in others. Relative quiet in others. Electric typewriters quietened things a little.
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This works pretty well if you are behind a HTTP Proxy and the proxy is limiting speed per connection. This was a common scenario in my university.
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Hm? After typing "xyz -fo" I will get completions beginning "-fo", such as "-foo" and "-foobar", but I won't get completions that don't begin with "-fo".

But yeah, I don't like the cycling, either. I'd also prefer to get a list of the possible completions.
The same can be said of any downloadable thing - music, templates, ebooks, wordpress plugins etc. And yet, there are many businesses thriving selling these.

Not everyone is a pirate on the internet
Mozilla lost me today. It's no longer an organization I can support. Let this be a lesson to you. Don't indulge the perpetually offended. They will never be happy. Their presence is a cancer in your organization. Should they apply, reject their applications. Should they be hired, fire them. Should the cancer metastasize, leave.
Feels like a response to:
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com
and
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com

But it breaks the font sizing. Also it would be cool if H1 would be smaller inside an ARTICLE than H1 outside of an article like the default setting in Safari etc.

Would be good if useful defaults wouldn't be destroyed by too general css.
>I would say it's very oblivious to think you're an expert on your case. It means your emotions are way too much present: the fact that something is terribly relevant to you doesn't imply that you're an "expert" in it.

I wouldn't discount emotions as being irrelevant for health. Patient involvement is very important in the empowerment process, and the patient is the expert in the ways that physician can never be: [s]he, not the physician, knows that drug A causes his/her skin itch; he, not the physician, cares for the quality of life, etc. And, sadly, you miss the point completely: experts have broad knowledge of the situation, while the "expert" patient knows (with the help of experts, of course, of course, of course) his exact case. And the "thinking" part is not done by physician all the time. Empowered patient does the majority of "thinking", the physician is there for support and information. Physician is the expert systems' knowledge base, while the empowered patient is the expert system doing the "thinking" and making informed/educated decisions.

Edit: e.g. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738399109...
(emphasis mine)

>Conclusion

>Unlike the traditional approach, empowerment is not something one does to patients. Rather, empowerment begins when HCPs acknowledge that patient are in control of their daily diabetes care.

>Empowerment occurs when the HCPs goal is to increase the capacity of patients to think critically and make autonomous, informed decisions. Empowerment also occurs when patients are actually making autonomous, informed decisions about their diabetes self-management.

And this is not a new thing in heathcare either, there is a plethora of articles saying the same since 1994.
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After a quick glance at your project I have one suggestion regarding the main value of PitchDeck. IMHO the most valuable aspect isn't the visual design of the deck, but the (battle tested I assume) structure to prepare the presentation.

I think that's the point were most people struggle: which content do I need? Which should I omit? What content do i need to produce? How to structure all of this into clear, powerful presentation? After finding the answers for all these questions, comes the time for graphical design, typography etc.

So, your product seems to have a potential to be more a guide than a template. And that's something worth emphasizing. Not to mention, that it opens new possibilities for you to monetize different services.
The original article is using a sample group which is just much too small to make any reasonable statistical correlation, and in it's conclusion is making claims about causation without even being able to prove correlation.
The dos games aren't even distributed anymore. These flash games are actively distributed. I think that's a difference worth noting.
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Insightful graph: The Windows 95 ship date predictor
Is this history? Is it art? Some strange blend of both?

So many other areas (music, food, fashion) see revivals and modern takes on older styles why not the web? It almost makes me miss the bad old days tiny animated gif's and the blink tag!

Almost.
Like you, I am also sick and tired of people trying to come up with easy-to-use tools for learning Haskell. I love the language, and feel that if someone wants to learn it in a "sandbox", then there's no point. I can't even imagine Haskell without network connections, as we all know that Haskell's main appeal lies in web services and systems-level programming.

This developer better think again before he gets my 20ish dollars!
The London Hackspace Wiki has a little write up on how to test plastics for Chlorine: https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Laser_Cutter/Instr...
1) It's a win situation only for greedy employers. If Chinese workers could leave their factories and move to US, they would. But they can't afford it because of low salaries. Win-win? Hehe.
Sidenote: greed is required for healthy economics, I don't judge employers for it.

2) "Do you think that's fare?" - yes, your colleague can change location to some cheap country if they want to make more savings. It's not employer's business how you spend your money. They only care how much value developer add to their company, nothing else.

> "And why on Earth people will hire a remote developer of same quality if he has to pay the same to get a onsite developer in the same time zone?"

- because some remote developers are better, I'm trying to underline it few times but you again missing this point. There are employers who choosing cheap developers just because they are cheap but it's especial kind of projects with awful codebase, ftp-deployment and so on. If your skills are better than US developer with N rate, your English is good enough and you are ready to work in US time zone(s), put your rate to N and start looking for employers - you'll find them when you'll prove your skills.

> I'm getting way more than my friends are making in local companies

I'm glad you are happy and I'm not trying to say you shouldn't be :)
One of my friends (not imagined one, I can give his Skype to prove it) followed my advices to increase his hour rate and now he can afford to be happy not only in his current country - that is the point of my advices. When you can afford to change country of living it's real freedom.

And for me personally regional rates are humiliating - I know I'm not worse of developers living in US and I can prove it.
I searched for a few games I'm playing now and have played recently and out of 10 there were 4 that had no entry on the WINE database.

This might be enough of a barrier to stop me using it right now.
Is it considered a racist stereotype if it is true though? My wife is Chinese and most of her stories do corroborate what parent said. In big cities the school system is very demanding and if you want to land in a good college you have to land in a good high school and so on. With an extremely competitive job market it is not unconceivable that parents push their kids very hard.
I can't say I've had any issues with performance on Win10. Some games seem to actually run a bit better for me.
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I use the https://revolut.com/ app, which is awesome as it doesn't change any fees ever.
You also need to factor in any foreign currency fees your card issuer imposes. For example, in the UK, most banks impose a "non-sterling transaction fee" of 2.75-2.99% on transactions in a foreign currency.

There's a UK startup called Revolut - www.revolut.com - which allows you to hold GBP, USD and EUR on the same (pre-paid debit) card and convert money between them at mid-market rates, using an app.

It's pretty slick - I've literally stood at the counter, converting GBP to USD while the clerk rang up my purchase, then handed the card to the clerk and had the notification hit my phone seconds after he swiped.
Or this: https://revolut.com/
I'm not very interested in what you believe, actually. My point—which is that the way people subsisted on the Kentucky frontier 200 years ago would probably not have been congruent with Pollan's idyllic notion of the good food granny ate in the old country—doesn't seem to be of anyone else's interest. I won't belabor it.
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+1 for Y Combinator :)
Reminds me of a project by Patrick Tresset @ Goldsmiths, UoL...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbdQbyff_Sk
http://research.gold.ac.uk/9255/
What about the games that have no entry in the WINE database? Are they just untested or do they not work at all?
Hi!

Great work. I guess my question is - do you use 'averaging' of word vectors or the Chinese Restaurant process - to get to sub reddit vectors. You describe the Chinese Restaurant process as a "more sophisticated method" that you "can" use, but in my experiments with word2vec and reddit (https://github.com/utunga/gensimred) I quickly discovered that simple averaging just does not work. Averaging has this awful 'revert to mean' thing that turns all the paragraph vectors into a sort of bland gray goo where they are all the same.

If you did use Chinese Restaurant process (I love that phrase - brings back memories of an occasion at a Dim Sum restaurant where this almost literally happened) it'd be great to see any source code you may feel like releasing ;_) ... well, it can't hurt to ask..
There's a strong push to get patients to be more involved in their own care and to make decisions about their health and to be experts in their own health condition.

There are expert patient programmes http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/doctors/Pages/...

There are expert patiet groups.

Patient choice is (in the UK) written into law and into Department of Health, and NHS, and Clinical Commisioning Groups, and Trust guidance documentation.

You might want to learn what people mean when they talk about expert patients because it's not going away and you seem to have some misunderstanding about it.

> Just don't say that this is "thinking by yourself". You may have made the decision yourself, but the "thinking" part was on the physician all the time. He had the knowledge, he presented it to you, alongside the pros&cons, and he was there to warn you if you by chance made a wrong/worst decision.

This assumes that doctors are not subject to the same cognitive biases that patients are. But doctors clearly are subject to those same biases. The RCT for knee arthroscopy shows us that.
> Anything worth vectorizing will be written in C/assembly.

This isn't the way to go. Once you have to call an external function, you lose all compiler optimizations that might take place. If you write low level "primitive" operations (e.g. matrix multiply and inverse), you will get worse performance by doing external function calls rather than having your code made visible to the compiler so that it can be inlined and optimized.

Additionally, you can't write assembler SIMD code that is portable from architecture to architecture. This can be done in C using extensions but not if you stick to the standard (and support MSVC). Quite a lot of SIMD code can be written portably without having to use architecture specific instructions.

It's definitely a good thing that languages like Rust have native SIMD.
Looks amazing, I really want to try it. Maybe a trial version? Because with current exchange rates in Russia, $24.99 is a shitload of rubles :)
Nice.

This made me think of this video with Jim Weirich demonstrating functional patterns, transformations and the Y combinator:

https://vimeo.com/45140590

Highly recommened. It's very related to what seems to be going on here, and actually quite funny.
Time for the image macro https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7RQK6LC3gdg/VGFsmQBX0RI/A... again.
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Forcing TLS makes almost no difference as the mail is unencrypted at rest. It's also totally impossible to have private mail on a webmail service, since in order to operate it provides you with the mail, the keys, and the code that handles it.

PGP usability is poor, but S/MIME also exists (and is nicer in some respects) and hardly anyone uses that either. The real problem is key distribution. keybase.io have improved this slightly but not much.

Most people also prioritise ease of use and ability to read their mail in varied situations over mail privacy.
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For a long time the founders didn't have employees and didn't draw a paycheck.
How much vodka can you buy with 25$?
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I honestly can't see why the Writ stylesheet is better than the standard html output. It seems to me that he just used a new font.
The only clear case is that of bad science.
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(Minor typo corrections; "Biopython", not "BioPython" and "strcmp" not "strcomp". I co-founded Biopython. We chose to avoid CamelCase.)
This looks so good and nice. I would definitely use it with some modifications for a drop in replacement of markdown block inside some blog. But will wrap it in a class ( e.g. .article-content ).

What is a beneficial stylesheet system, according to me, is a system that can scale and gives you the opportunity to create a complicated website. This unfortunately doesn't. Sorry.
Arek,
great ideas to consider! Millions of thanks!
> Your code was not valid: 'try-except' is an open problem.

Well that was disappointing...
The thing is, those of us who prefer braces or other syntax elements also indent. It's not either/or. I want the redundancy. I can more easily see how things line up.

> With braces, you have to search for the opening and closing brace

It's probably been 20-30 years since I used an editor that couldn't highlight the matching brace, and that wouldn't show me which opening brace the closing brace I just put down matches up with.

But it's just been a day since the last cut and paste "accident" left me with a badly mis-indented piece of code... which I happily could auto-format back to sanity with a couple of keystrokes because the indentation was not all the editor had to go by.
>As a Chinese