skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please give the cite(s) for that assertion, I'd like to review them.

Among the Type 2's aggressively treating their metabolic disorder (a significant fraction whom drop out of Type 2 biomarkers and can stop taking medication, and are re-classified as insulin resistant at worst), overwhelmingly the diet used is various degrees of low carb, with some experimenting with various fasting regimens mixed in. As long as total caloric intake does not exceed one's TDEE, so far it seems daily high saturated fat consumption (like some ketogenic diets) doesn't adversely impact blood sugar nor cholesterol metrics; some advocate not subjecting the saturated fats to overly-intense heat before consumption, but actual quantity (within reason) seems immaterial as long as the carbs are cut down to fractions of what is "normally" consumed by everyone else. Sweden's national health system has collated a lot of this research and is doing a lot of their own original research; they have recently come out officially in favor of low carb.
Interesting that you say that. There is a spot on YC applications that asked if you had any other ideals that you may have applied with or something along those lines. I mentioned pivoting to just that sort of thing.
>Theory 1 is that Dell doesn't want to own VMware. On this theory, Dell and EMC belong together, but VMware belongs apart, as its own separate company. I am unable to evaluate that theory because I honestly cannot figure out what any of these companies do.

>Anyway, on this theory, the right thing to do would be for Dell to just buy EMC, spin off (some or all of) the VMware stake to EMC's shareholders (as Elliott demanded last year) and keep the rest.

If you have no idea what these companies do, you probably shouldn't comment on what you think they should do. It just makes you look like an idiot commenting on a situation you openly admit you're ignorant about. You literally have no basis for your comments other than citing someone else's thoughts (who also has no idea what they do). Just don't - this is why everyone hates Wall Street.
Ghostery counts 57 trackers. How many different ways are there to count sheep anyways?
Software Model for How to Implement a Modal Dialog
And if you look at computers based on drum memory, then you probably didn't have a PC, the optimal place for the next instruction then wasn't the next address, but instead how far the drum rotated during execution, at least in some of those machines the next instruction was encoded in the current instruction.

Having RAM seems to be important to having a PC, that works well.
Two things:

1) In countries where health costs are at least partly absorbed by everyone, then it does have a right.

2) In the case of the US, the answer would be what right does the govt have to subsidy soda drinks (due to corn syrup, the main ingredient):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/United_S...

(note how there are no subsidies for fruit or veggies)
There is economic externality for the healthcare system in the future for excessive consumption of bad diets. If we want to reduce punishment to other taxpayers, it might be rational to nudge people towards healthier behaviors.

Such policy might include tax breaks for exercises, taxes on cigarettes, soda, etc. Tax subsidies for veggies, etc. Obviously solid evidence is needed before it is initiated.

There could be philosophical arguments that the government should not interfere with their citizens' lives. But this is more about charging the true (future) costs of actions, like carbon tax, rather than dictating behaviors.
Twitter lets go of 8 percent of its workforce
Or maybe it's just hard to change what people are already used to. Switching from sugar to sweetener can take over a week of drinking a beverage every day before your brain finally starts liking the sweetener more than sugar. It's much too long for people - "trust us, you'll like that in a week" doesn't really work as a sales pitch.

Doesn't mean companies don't try though; in my city (Kraków, Poland) there were already several Coca-Cola campaigns trying to switch people to Cola Zero. One of them included disguising cans of Zero as regular Coke, attempting to show people that they probably won't even notice the difference if they don't know they're drinking a sugarless coke.
How do you feel about cigarette taxes?
Snowden Drives a Wedge Between the Democratic Candidates
Most of my intro classes were in Java. Some classes were in Python, and others were free to choose depending on the project.

I think it helps a lot to be well versed in a c-family / type language (C, Java, C#...) and a a dynamic language like Ruby or Python.

While I was pursuing my undergrad, I had internships where I used Java, Python, VB, C#, Ruby, and JavaScript.

I don't think that a college should be responsible for teaching students the popular/hip languages. There are clubs and special topic courses for those that are interested.

My college had a mobile development club, a web dev club, artificial intelligence club, etc. Bleeding edge frameworks, languages, and other technologies were usually the point of discussion.

I do wish however that the CS curriculum included at least one course on functional and declarative programming.
Not everyone believes in that, but I personally accept "we have a top-level view, we see clearly the stupid things you're doing that you can't see yourself" as a valid reason.
On Ada Lovelace Day, here are seven other pioneering women in tech
Isn't there a large body of research that show unexpected negative effects of diet drinks?

EG: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/0...
That was actually my point. The areas of SF that have gotten ridiculously expensive are areas where the housing is actually sub-standard to what you'd see in most of America.

The house that just sold for $2M wouldn't even be worth $200K in most US cities. The house is just beat up and old.

I could see paying $2M for a gorgeous house that is either new or recently upgraded. There are houses that are basically condemned going for >$1M!
That's not how tax brackets work.
Meanwhile, there were four or five in my back yard just a few minutes ago (same as every night).
Yes if you need more memory bandwidth, POWER is where its at. OTHO, as I've been saying the base cores don't do as well on single threaded loopy or problems with a decent L1/L2 cache hit rate. The specint_rate numbers look good because of the x8 threading, the single core results probably don't look that good.

So for many workloads it won't be that great. For the one I was working on out of the box, the power was 1/2 as fast. But that wasn't fair because we had a couple highly optimized x86 code paths. Doing some basic POWER optimizations brought the performance in line with the x86. But on some benchmarks it would win, and lose on others. So while we utilized a _LOT_ of memory/IO bandwidth the fact that there was nearly 2.5x available in the power system over our E5 didn't give us enough of a boost to make it worth the higher price tag (nearly 3x in our case, cause we were comparing with a supermicro machine). Maybe this newer power machine changes that a little.
I think the standards for large languages like C++ should really be developed in parallel and released together with a reference implementation - that way others would have a baseline to compare behaviour with, and it'd discourage adding features that turn out to be ridiculously difficult to implement correctly (e.g. export templates) or diverging dialects. The reference implementation doesn't have to be optimised or produce optimised code, but should be written to follow the standard closely, favouring clarity instead of efficiency.
Yeah, that is probably the least plausible part of the story, but then again, not everyone is a technology-conscious person. My SO used to deal with "general population" on the phone and after hearing weird stories almost every day, I stopped being surprised about people anymore.
GNU assembler types cheatsheet for x86 and x86_64
Not really the creator of COBOL, it seems http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/9/191176-innovators-assem... [A¢M paywall]:

> On page 117 Isaacson credits Hopper as "the technical lead in coordinating the creation of COBOL," a hugely important standard language for business programming that was defined jointly by several computer companies. Standards committee work is a difficult thing to dramatize, which is presumably why Isaacson gives COBOL no more than a passing mention, but as historian of technology Janet Abbate recently noted, his omission slights several women who, unlike Hopper, were on the technical committee in question. Among them is Jean Sammett, who made the largest single contribution to the design of COBOL. Sammet has stated that Hopper was "not the mother, creator, or developer of COBOL," an idea Hopper reportedly endorsed by calling herself the "grandmother of COBOL" rather than its creator.

> [...] Sammet has not been forgotten, as a fellow of the Computer History Museum and a winner of the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award, but sits on the wrong side of a growing chasm separating the handful of women chosen for public veneration from those whose names are known only to specialists.

> This is an example of what sociologist of science Robert K. Merton called the "Matthew Effect," the tendency for the most famous person involved in any collaborative project, however peripherally, to be remembered by the public as the key contributor. He named it after a passage in Matthew's Gospel, noting that "unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." Over time the famous become more famous, while the moderately well known are forgotten.
JSDB: JavaScript for databases
Call me old fashioned, but as a father and husband I do try to act this way:
"He should always be ready to sacrifice his present personal pleasure to the future well-being of those who have the first and best claim to his regard.”
I actually work in the industry and this has to be one of the best overviews that I've seen on drug pricing.

It does a great job explaining all the challenges that go into pricing pharmaceuticals. This one quote rings very true to me:

I don’t know for sure, but I would guess that one can buy today, at rock bottom generic prices, a set of small-molecule drugs that has greater medical utility than the entire set available to anyone, anywhere, at any price in 1995.

It sucks having to pay high prices for a drug, but they don't last forever and once they go generic, you get a great drug that only costs a fraction of the value offered.
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ROCKS clustering software was doing this before Facebook. We'd use it to reinstall Redhat on ~6000 Linux nodes. Could reinstall the entire cluster in 15 minutes while still running jobs for end users.
Keep in mind that the skills required for the remote jobs differ largely due to culture. Most large corporations that use .NET or Java do not allow remote work. Smaller shops, which tend to use open source software are more relaxed when it comes to remote work.
Speaking privately was not, historically, the bedrock of free speech. For the entire history of the First Amendment, the government has been able to get access to private speech with a warrant: they could search your person, house, papers and, effects and even compel people you talked to to tell the government what you said.

I don't think the government needs encryption backdoors either. But I also don't think they implicate free speech, at least in the First Amendment sense of the concept. That has always focused on protecting public political and artistic expressions, not on making personal communications beyond the reach of law enforcement.
Wow, this is incredibly stupid: conflating http and https with minor errors. It should show half a lock icon and half of a page icon, diagonally-split to indicate mixed/unsecured content. Globbing the two together creates false comfort and hides problems.
Yeah and it may alter your gut bacteria in terrible ways http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweeten...
Except it's a core concept of economics and is done everyday for basically everything that can be purchased.

In your head you have a maximum you will pay for some good or service based on the marginal value it would give you compared to the marginal cost. The goal for a seller is to find this number for each customer and sell to them at that price. In such a case, both parties are better off in total even though there may be a very wide delta between COGS and income.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility
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My main suggestion would be to first find some concrete customers, and then ask what they need. (As I said, I’m not likely to be one of them, so don’t prioritize just based on my opinions.)

All the best luck!
There need not be. 1+1=2 is true whether we are adding dollars or lines of code.
Another answer is that I'm trying to make a puzzle with different solutions, all of which can't be solved simultaneously.
The Ronco Principle
> Instead you're left with a bunch of low-quality rip off sites that have nothing original of their own.

Isn't that what we mostly have now? Before the net was commercialized, it was mostly people sharing things they had created or discovered and talking about things that interested them - original content. People would also post interesting scientific papers, books, etc. and discuss them.

Once people decided to monetize the net it filled with spam and duplicated content alongside payperclick ads. People started cranking out 'original content' that isn't very original and doesn't have much content either just to make a few bucks on the ads. Those papers and books that used to be shared became imprisoned behind paywalls. The volume increased a lot, but signal-to-noise ratio dropped significantly.

That's not really an argument to eliminate copyright, but vigilant legions of lawyers were never been needed to produce content, suing people doesn't increase its quality, and the net wouldn't necessarily be a worse place if a lot of that was gone. At least some places are opening up and starting to share educational content.
Yes. The first time you click, it returns a blank page (with an adblocker). The second time you click, the article's contents can be seen. Has happened to me on all the Forbes articles posted here.
Easy. There is zero incentive to build a better car when the one you can buy now is so cheap. This is why in the States, SUV sales follow gas prices [0].

[0] - http://www.npr.org/2015/01/05/375201451/car-sales-surged-in-...
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Banning smoking indoors is a better example. A nice example of externalities.
It wasn't. The people doing it just pretended it was.
So basically, "because science."
Man. Most of my favorite video game soundtracks are from JRPGs and I'm very envious of live performances of these soundtracks in Europe and Japan. I'd love to hear Xenogears, Chrono Trigger/Cross, and FFXIV live one day.
I'm sure Dropbox has the engineering resources to support Zeroconf is they want to :)
I wish I could upvote this a thousand times. I don't know where this idea of getting "bumped up a tax bracket" comes from. I occasionally hear it from smart and otherwise informed people.

It's easy to dismiss as a wonkish point, but I actually think it's important. Some people think it's unfair for millionaires to be "taxed at a higher rate" when they've "earned their money." I wonder if they would still feel that way if they understood the millionaire is paying the same rate as everybody else for the first $75k, for example.

Of course, the truth is the millionaire is probably paying a lower tax rate due to clever accounting and large portion of earnings being subject to capital gains tax instead of income tax. But that's a different topic.

Anyway, not trying to make this political. :) I just wish more people understood how tax brackets actually work.
At the company I work for, we have 5 (off the top of my head) different micro services written in Sinatra. Two front end applications built in AngularJS, running off a NodeJS backend (which serves the static content), and one Rails application.

For the micro-services, Sinatra does the job very well, there is no need for all of the components that Rails provides; we like the flexibility.

Our front end developers have complete ownership of the two front-end apps, and they rolled with NodeJS because it allowed them to take advantage of their JavaScript skills.

The Rails app is an internal consumption app. It doesn't need to be fancy or have a need to scale. Rails and Bootstrap keep it simple stupid.

The meat of our stack is actually on the big data technologies we deal with, RedShift and Hive. We could honestly re-write any of the micro-services in .NET or any other stack for that matter, and still keep our infrastructure mostly the same.
Not really, smoking indoors means other people in the house/apartment also get the radioactive particles and toxins like benzene.
Public health is and should be a major concern of the government.
There's no end to that road. What people do in the bedroom affects their health as well. Shall we tax the more risky sex practices?
Why do you assume people can't see what they're doing? Why can't it be that they're making the choices they want to make?
Game of Life: Total War (competitive multiplayer conway's game of life)
So are you saying that back in the old days people used to unselfish and now they aren't?
I went to Video Games Live years ago and I have never seen this particular performance venue as full as that night, ever. I think this might be the way to go in the future for the symphony orchestras out there. I go to several performances a year but the audience is clearly greying. I do wonder if the performers feel this is cheapening their art. I still really like the classics but I have few people to talk to them about. Most of my friends play video games however.
It does, and there's apparently something in it that's not what Avahi expects, which causes Avahi to spam your syslog with "invalid packet received" maany times. And there's no option to tell avahi to shut up about it :/
Good to hear from the other side of the table.

Perhaps you are an exception to the general rule. In my experience, most managers will opt for "saving the company money". I've seen many ruses by which they justify their low-ball offers. A desperate candidate usually gets less than what they are worth.
Smoking is bad for you, no doubt. But, radioactivity?
I checked and indeed there is a large amount of background usage.

I've set videos to not autoplay to see if that helps.
I purchased and assembled this kit. It was fun, although it's pretty time consuming.

Do you want to get better at soldering? You'll get better at soldering. In fact, if your kit works, you'll have made 2700 good solder joints.
And if you are making that kind of effort, might as well switch to something sensible.
The manual (http://www.transistorclock.com/tranmanual.pdf ) has the spec. Answer: 5.7 Watts.
Usually the earlier post doesn't have any comments, since we only invite reposts when a story hasn't had significant attention yet.
I think it's official, we moderns owe an apology to medieval barbers and conjurers.
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1) By that logic, the government could expand its moral authority by absorbing the costs of certain behaviors. One could argue that because STD/STI treatment "costs are at least partly absorbed by everyone, then it does have a right" to tax or ban homosexuality.

2) The fact that a government does one thing wrong does not mean that it somehow gains the right to commit more wrongs.
They do get society to give them easier access to better housing. That's what the rent is for. Being "on top of the hierarchy" doesn't mean that they can get access to everything for free; it means that they have enough money that they can spend it and write it off in exchange for the things they want.
Yeah. That and the fact that I recognize the concept of global optimization. Sometimes things you think are in your best interest turn out not to be so if you take a global view.

Take gasoline. Of course cheap fuel seems like it's in my best interest because it means I pay less for travel. Still, I want the carbon tax badly because I understand that if we don't start accounting for the emissions, we're going to cook the planet in few decades.

Or a different example - traffic lights and signs. People bitch about the timings all the time because they see a red light often when driving through their area, without stopping to consider that they're being optimized to give optimal traffic throughout half of the city.
I don't know enough about American law to understand this comment. Is there something in the constitution about fizzy beverages not being taxable? That seems unlikely, though very forward thinking for the founding fathers.
It has everything to do with internet ubiquity. They've realized they can't sell a product everyone can get for free.
"Demonstrably untrue"? Are you arguing that there's no more gender inequality in software development?
It's the same right that government has to restrict the speeds of vehicles on the road... the public good.
The modern perception of "the brand" of the stereotypical classical symphony, with formal attire for performers and audience, completely silent audiences, etc, is the biggest reason that symphony attendance has been on a long, continual decline. It makes middle-class types who might otherwise like the music but don't want to get looked down on by snobs like Mr. Branch himself go elsewhere for their entertainment.

Compare, for example, to the popularity of musicals. They operate under the same basic "spend a lot of money to sit your butt in a seat for two hours and listen to musicians perform" principle, but many musicals have intentionally aimed themselves at all kinds of audiences, like politically-conscious artists (Rent), middle-class white girls (Wicked), families with children (Lion King), twentysomethings worried about their futures (Avenue Q), people who are into furries (Cats), etc.
I used a simpler technique (character level language modelling) to come up with an Australian real estate listing generator: http://electronsoup.net/realtybot

This is pre-generated, not live, for performance reasons. There are a few hundred thousand items though, so the effect is similar.

The data source is several tens of thousands of real estate listings that I scraped and parsed.
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Dude, his trusted family members are telling him to see a doctor. It's not a straw man, it's the only way he's actually going to resolve his question. I agree it's likely he should stop taking the adderall, especially if it's not prescribed, although doing that suddenly can also have serious consequences. A doctor is the best way to answer these questions.
The choice I see they have is either stop doing it anymore, or enforce payment. Continuing to do it with out pay, whether they were originally paid or not is no longer viable.