skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Food labeling seems to be getting excessively ambiguous, “spices,” “flavor”, “natural flavor,” and “artificial flavor” are all legal USDA terms. I'm not exactly sure what's legal or being used in food processing factories, but industrial solvents and other chemicals used to modify foods are not legally required to be listed as ingredients. Given the ambiguous black box of industrial food processing, it's only mildly disappointing to actively avoid processed foods like Girl Scout cookies and frozen foods.

Historically, it's often taken decades to discover the toxicity of chemical innovations thought to be safe like DDT, BPA, pesticides, asbestos, lead, & C8/Teflon [2] . Acrylamide is now suspected as carcinogenic [3] and forms from heating starchy foods, notably cooked potatoes.

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045156 [ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/dupont-chemist... ]

[3] http://www.who.int/foodsafety/areas_work/chemical-risks/acry... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide#Toxicity_and_carcin...
I get the feeling the web developers in britain are not as good as our american peers :(

I always have better experience visiting vox, vice compared to guardian and economist.
Is rescale's offering the equivalent of an Ikea table? I'm not sure of the relevance of the connection.
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While I have access to legal MS DOS 6.11 licences, it's not something the retro computing crow seems to care too much about.

Lots of people bought these when they where up-to date and most aren't interested anymore. You can get these for free from plenty of people.

The fact that windows xp needs to be activated in contrast to dos makes it bit more tricky, but cracks are aviable and legal 1) if you do indeed own a licence.

1) As for every legal discussion on the internet: Different places have different laws. However, I don't think MS cares about XP at this point. In contrast to DOS they don't sell it anymore.
Your linting demo is an incredible attempt to bridge semantic markup and non-tech-savvy user input: http://prosemirror.net/demo_lint.html

I haven't seen anything this user friendly before. Very well done.
Did you stop reading there? I have to ask because IMO this is such a wonderful article, and that particular statement (counterintuitive and questionable as it may be) is really a rather minor point to the larger thesis.

Though I can understand your point of view, I'm not a parent myself, but when I read that bit, I immediately had to think "whether this is actually true or not, most parents are probably going to disagree vehemently".

But on the whole, IMO it's a rather minor point. I'm not sure if it's true either (but if it was I can easily imagine most parents to have a bias that still makes them disagree), and because of that it distracts.
I already have, he keeps insisting that there are people out there that turn that off..he's willing to push back the development of new features until everything works in the older browsers..
You have to adjust for dividends.
Rust already guarantees zero overhead, and close to zero boilerplate, for FFI calls into C.

However, there's no fundamental reason Rust can't be a viable replacement language for C for these sort of things. As one example, I think it would be great to have Rust used more in the numeric/scientific computing space, where a lot of code is written by non-expert programmers (i.e. don't mix well with C/C++ to get reliable software), so having a compiler looking out is possibly nice.

Also, it should be possible to replace a C component with a Rust one in essentially a drop-in zero-overhead way since Rust can trivially expose a C-compatible interface.
Game Maker[0] has a pretty intuitive UI and comes with a very basic (albeit proprietary) scripting language, so making 2d games at least is quite simple. Although the scripting language may be too simple for more than a rudimentary introduction to programming languages. Better than Alice though.

Construct 2[1] is a game framework for HTML5 and javascript, and Unity[2] has tutorials[2a] for basic games and it uses javascript, C# and "boo" (basically python) for scripting.

[0] http://www.yoyogames.com/studio

[1] https://www.scirra.com/construct2

[2] https://unity3d.com/

[2a] for versions prior to 5 - I don't know how many tutorials for the current version of Unity there are - you may want to check first and consider an older version.
I wonder what would opinions be like if she was a guy...
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My wife and I actually do this. It saves quite a bit of money (we can buy a bushel of green beans from a farm 45 minutes away for $15) and it's kind of fun to experiment with.

We do the same with meat, but that is mostly frozen.

The whole pseudo-science around "whole food" and "too much processing" is just that. Bunk. I spent my college and 20s years getting fatter because I ate a lot of fast food and restaurant meals (loaded with sugar and carbs), drank a lot of beer, and spent a lot of time sitting on my ass at work.

The McDonald's cheeseburger isn't bad for you because it's "processed", it's bad for you because it's 350 calories, served with another 300 calories of fried potatoes and at least 20 oz of sugar water. The seemingly healthier burrito at Chipolte is pretty much the same... although you can contemplate the more humane treatment of the pig/cow/chicken.
Patents count I believe ;)
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I agree with you that contracts are "required" in a lot of situations.

"I also used to write about marriage law policy, encouraging traditional marriage for the good of children. My institution has a morality clause in all contracts."

In this case her job was to uphold the institution that she was violating. She was part of supporting the "moral disaster".
It is if you've watched it already, since you can't look at it without hearing the Strongbad-being-a-female-teenager voice in your head.
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White it's not unique to you there would likely be many people here who are aware of the concept of trust boundaries and would appreciate this product :)
Question: Do we know that there are any benefits of having longer or shorter intestines? Is the decreasing of elasticity linked to any problems, or is it just muscles that are more worked out and has no effect at all? Is there any research done on the subject at all?
> There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine.

So long as you don't use a web-browser.
I've done some experimental work, yes. However, I haven't found many places where it will obviously help a lot: it's very easy to use it for 3D transforms (which does a pile of 4D matrix ops, exactly what the matrix benchmarks in the post measure), but other things are less nice.
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The code is open source? or do you plan to write about how to generate that noise?
Okay, it works now.
It was giving me a 502 before.
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7594583.
The hypothesis is very believable. Still, every player should know there is a bunch of ways to get biased results in a study like this.

Older gamers could be devoting less time and instead using experience to place in high leagues without practicing as much and getting low reaction times. The study can be biased by the set of people of each age that chose to play games, and so on.
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This is the (broken) link in this post:

http://%20https://www.codementor.io/ama/8352906341/craig-cof...

and someone upvoted this too...
Then there is all the alternative naming. Some people don't want to buy crap loaded with MSG, so it gets called by names like "hydrolized vegetable protein".
That's a good question. Speaking from experience: I am a programmer like my father, but my older brother is not. My dad and I discuss programming all the time, but he doesn't take much interest in my brother's hobbies. For what it's worth, he tried to steer me towards programming from a young age, but it never really stuck; we never built anything interesting. I did, however, write some simple games for my TI-83+ calculator, and finally I rediscovered serious programming in college.

My guess is that Ryan is primarily interested in programming as a means of making games. And since his father basically wrote the book on that topic, he's in a perfect position to nurture that interest. If John instead wrote, say, the world's best accounting software, I think Ryan would be more likely to pursue a different hobby.
At 10, it may not be a passion for programming as much as a passion to do something with his father.

I think back to my past, my dad is obsessed with baseball statistics. He would spend hours studying everything baseball... honestly I don't get why he likes it, but it's where he spent ALL his time. I was also interested in computers and video games, he found no value in either so he would never participate. If I wanted to spend time with him (and every boy does) i'd have to go to baseball games with him. So for several years I did. Honestly though, I hate baseball.
Generate buzz, file patents, get bought, never produce anything.
It's all about thinking about some idealistic past.

If great-grandma wasn't wealthy, she ate lots of tinned beef smothered in potassium nitrate, all sorts of stuff packed in gelatin/salt, etc over the winter. And lots of beans.

Most of my great-grandmothers were the daughters of Irish farmer. She probably shared a house with a cow and a dozen siblings, if they were lucky enough to own one. They had fresh milk with no anti-biotics, but also with no pasteurization or medical care for the cow. (Hopefully she didn't get sick.) No plastic bottles, but they drew water from a hand-dug well in a treeless landscape where cattle were the main farming activity. (ie. high probability of a contaminated water source) When you got to march, you didn't have to worry about pesticides in potatoes, but you did have to watch for worms.
It's really just a question of absorbing the hit of one's initial reflex and then looking again.
The theory that it was an inside job seems plausible to me, but the reasoning behind the theory that it was a woman seems weak. Unless there is other information that John is keeping from us, assuming gender based on a few word choices doesn't convince me at all. It almost looks like John is grasping at straws while attempting to find _any_ reason to blame a woman for the hack.
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The kind of institution that has people

"Write about marriage law policy, encouraging traditional marriage for the good of children."

Is it enforceable, IANAL but I think it really depends on where you are.
> I have also practiced social engineering since the word was first invented and I can very quickly identify gender if given enough emotionally charged words from an individual.

what

> How did I discover that it was an inside job? From the data that was released, it was clear that the perpetrator had intimate knowledge of the technology stack of the company (all the programs being used). For example, the data contains actual MySQL database dumps. This is not just someone copying a table and making into a .csv file. Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

what

> If that fails to convince you, then this must: In the first manifesto two names of male members were released. In describing one of them the perpetrator states the he "spitefully" joined Ashley Madison the day after Valentine's Day. Anyone who ever had a significant other knows that women rate Valentine's Day higher than Christmas, and men think so little of it that they have to remind each other the day is nearing. To call an act the day after Valentines Day "spiteful", is a thought that would enter few men's minds. If this does not convince you then you need to get out of the house more often.

closes tab, gets out of the house
This is cool! A lot of use of SIMD is working on a large array. How does the bounds checking not make this prohibitively expensive? Also, how are the alignment requirements managed?
Why is it 7 minutes short?
On Mac keyboards, F5 doesn't require Fn because it doesn't have a media key alternative. F5 always does F5 whether you push Fn or not. (F6 is the same way.)
I wrote an utility in C# to make it easier to uninstall the offending updates: https://github.com/schumann2k/UpdateAntiSpy

Feedback & pull requests welcome. :)
I'm in Toptal, with a rate that has been steadily dropping and is now listed at $60/h gross. That's not including their markup for the price-to-pay by the clients, and on my side, there are also currency conversion, transfer fees and all the taxes to deduct from that.

Meanwhile, I'm getting declined as 'too expensive'.
While this is true, waiters, particularly in higher-end establishments tend to make much more than minimum. It's small comfort that your manager has to create a floor if you're used to $15/hr and due to some bad tippers you end up at $10/hr for the night.
acrylamide is a byproduct of cooking a
Starches, a practice which goes back centuries older than our grandmothers, and seems to be as dangerous as everything else, now that scientists at able to detect toxins at 100-1000x more dilute concentrations than are health threats.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide
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Rachel Laudan (the author of the post) was interviewed on EconTalk last week: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/08/rachel_laudan_o.htm...
One of the more valuable things I've found when teaching is to always establish "the path forward". I wish that the CS Ed community had more established paths that I could share out. It's easy to point people towards CodeCademy, for instance, but I don't always have a glib answer after that.
As a user, if I delete a tweet, I want it to be deleted. I don't want it to be on the internet anymore, because else I wouldn't have deleted it. Twitter management is defending their users.
The drug is phentermine. It has at least three positive effects: appetite suppressant, stimulant, and a separate "weight loss" factor. The "drug facts" include a statement that after accounting for the first two, it is not understood how phentermine causes weight loss. It also has a list of side effects, one of which is that it raises blood pressure, so if someone has blood pressure issues already, this isn't something your doctor is likely to want you to take. Fortunately, I don't have that problem.

A fourth effect that it seems to have is to make exercise stop being terrible, which was a whole other revelation for me separately from the one I talked about, above. I've taken stimulants before, and none of them ever made me eager to go run around and do physical activity; phentermine has. I'm not sure if they classify this under the stimulant effect, though.

In January 2012, I was about 380 pounds. I'd hovered around 335 for years, and the higher figure was shocking enough to me that I immediately went to a ketogenic diet intermittent fasting, and shed about 65 pounds in six months. It then became quite difficult to continue the loss, and I stopped trying so hard. On February 9, 2015, I was 336. I started keto again and lost about 10 pounds through mid-May, which was when I finally had that meeting with my new GP, where I talked about being discouraged because keto wasn't working the way it had three years before. :)

As of this morning, I'm 286.
Supposedly, it will work on Wayland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2L_ihO_rI
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My favourite so far has been "dehydrated cane juice".
No, it's just positioning in the wake of Snowden leaks. If it was a core philosophy/value that the company collective felt then this image wouldn't exist: https://imgur.com/iHEtqaE.jpg
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The Box–Muller transform method (also mentioned int he article) is kind of fun. You generate two Gaussians at once. You rejection sample from the unit square into the largest contained circle (generates a point about 3/4 of the time). You then roughly log-transform the distance along the radius (sending (0,0) to infinity) and the two points are now independent Gaussians.
Now you're talking. I can't wait to print out nicely formed brushstrokes from a digital painting.

Something along the lines of embedding a bump map into the 2d image to give subtle depth information. Let me know if anyone needs an artist to do the art side of this.
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Seems my download was truncated at 2485374429 bytes, a mere 137934 over the 2 GB mark for some reason. I'll fix it and post the new link. EDIT: The link was updated.
> From what I see in movies, intestines are fairly stretchy. Do you measure without tension? How does one do that? Under 1g tension? What if that turns out to make a difference because Japanese intestines are longer but harder to stretch?

Just create a length-tension curve: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/length-tensi...
No to facebook and I'm working towards moving away from gmail. Still using google search though for now.
Woah. Apparently I was actually on topic!

http://www.homestarrunner.com/flashisdead.html

(requires flash)
Since the strokes are recorded, is it translated into positional coordinates and movements? Is it possible to adjust the "code" post-recording to perfect a replicate or add changes? Cool project!
Yeah, I'm not saying you should ignore it. Only that compared to real life international freedom levels, it is a minor problem.
> The seemingly healthier burrito at Chipolte is pretty much the same

But will leave you feeling fuller for longer because it comes with more volume and with more complex carbs and stuff.
The vaccine situation is somewhat different, because of the government's involvement in it. If and when there is a government mandate to have chemotherapy, we can talk about them together. Until then, it is reasonable to be more skeptical of vaccines that are required by law than of other treatments. History supports very strongly the idea that you should avoid anything the government tries to force upon you, and that evidence offered by or on behalf of the government is to be ignored.

I'm not an "anti-vaxxer", but I find nothing more abhorrent than the government dictating that something go into your body. It's the darkest of the dark, makes V For Vendetta look like rainbows and unicorns, etc. I would almost certainly believe that vaccines are overwhelmingly beneficial and that the benefits outweigh the risks for nearly everyone, if not for the government's involvement. Once the government is involved, I simply can't trust anything.
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very cool, thanks for sharing
Dollar cost averaging lowers risk and increases returns. If you can afford it, you may also want to have a look at value averaging.
I think there's a great opportunity for investors to sell "put" options* to startup founders.

*In exchange for "premium" (payment could be made in shares at a future date), person gets the right (but not the obligation) to sell their stock at a fixed price over a specified period of time.

If the value goes up, you lose the premium but keep all your other shares. If the value goes down, exercise the option and sell at the agreed-upon price.

CAUTIONS: (1) clear this with your attorney and tax accountant; (2) if the writer of this option goes bankrupt and your shares plummet in value, you're probably out of luck.
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>>In fact, the VAST majority of Americans are better off than they ever have been. Check out this [1], for example, based on US census data.
Yes, the middle class has been disappearing, but they haven’t fallen into the lower class, they’ve risen into the upper class
http://www.aei.org/publication/yes-the-middle-class-has-been...
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You need to pick your sources a little more carefully. The organization whose article you cited is an ExxonMobil-funded conservative thinktank that was involved in some notable controversies, such as trying to bribe scientists with $10,000 to critique the International Panel on Climate Change.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/feb/02/frontpage...

I'll be more specific with my criticism: the alleged increase in upper-middle class membership tracks extremely closely to women entering the workforce. Note that the data they use is family income, although the author has conveniently omitted that keyword from the graph title.
IMHO, A Linux VM for every user sounds like overkill. A separate *NIX user account should be sufficient for teaching things like "Navigating the Filesystem", "Configuring the Environment" etc.
I dunno. This site seemed to work well for me. I didn't notice any choppiness when scrolling through the graphics.
There is nothing harder to understand about indentation levels than curly braces, if you haven't already developed a preference for curly braces. Go is really not designed as a tool for new programmers, you are just projecting your preferences onto kids.
> BPA

When BPA was added to plastics it was known to be toxic. The issue was that it was thought to be inert and encapsulated in the material. The revelation came when we found that extreme heat (e.g. in your microwave) or extreme cold (e.g. in your freezer) causes it to leach out of the material and into (e.g.) you food.
Well it may be instinct, but I also happen to agree with that instinct.

I believe I have free will at least in the sense that I can choose whether to follow my instincts or fight them. Remember, we have many instincts other than caring for our children, and a bunch of those aren't really meaningful in today's society anymore, and a few of those actually need to be fought, and the majority of well-adapted people succeed at that just fine, because they choose to. There are other instincts we do not fight, because they align nicely with our sense of what is "good" and what is "right" (which I believe is not based on instinct), and in cases like raising children they even aid us and strengthen our resolve. Sounds like a win to me.

(not a parent, btw).
I'm only in my early fourties and I was quite late into my teens before I realized that almost no-one else did this like my family.

We grew up on a farm, dirt-poor and did it out of necessity but it was all delicious food: pickles, relishes, canned fruit, jams, jellies, home-made tomoto sauce.

We also laid in bushels of produce into cold storage - potatoes, squash, apples and cabbages.

Do I need to mention what we froze?

Blanched peas, green and yellow beans, corn (cut off the cob) and home grown lamb, pigs, beef and chicken (both kinds).

I am far more well off then my parents were at the same age, but my kids are not nearly as well fed (nutritionally) as I was at the same ages.

Now that we are in prime harvesting season for a lot of this stuff, I might have to rethink what we're eating and
preserve some simple, homemade foods.
Here's my source code for Box-Muller

http://svn.code.sf.net/p/sharpneat/code/branches/V2/src/Shar...

Note it's a lot simpler (more elegant) than the Ziggurat method!

Also note the while loop rejects sqr==0 because that would cause Log(0) to throw an exception. I convinced myself that was correct when I wrote it in 2011, but I'm struggling to remember how I came to that conclusion.
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