skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A vegan or vegetarian diet alter the gut biome[1]

"Maintaining a strict vegan or vegetarian diet results in a significant shift in the microbiota while total cell numbers remain unaltered."

Another study[2] found that the biome changes as soon as one day after changing diets.

1: http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v66/n1/full/ejcn2011141a....
2: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/817769, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7484/full/nature1...
That's interesting. I wonder if it is within the realm of an organization like the ACLU to take on some of these problems for the poor
I misread this as " The Future of Dating ... "
We mostly had a ruby stack. It worked for most stuff albeit being slow. We stayed away from java until clojure came in.

Also starting with elixir - taking inspiration from functional clojure for networking stuff.
Marathon and Kubernetes are in the same level, why do you call it lower level. Mesos, yes, and Kubernetes can run on Mesos too.
If you're facing endpoints at the outside world and would like to do so easily and with pretty good reliability, Kubernetes on Mesos is probably the way to think about it.

Or should, when the K8S-Mesos stuff is a bit more mature.
Well they could take the fine directly out of their government assistance and then the fine would not balloon.
Thought of one on my lunch break:

Drones! Lately Drones have been seen as something that is going to revolutionize international development. You can map things quickly! Get tons of info! Etc.

However the problem is something like a drone tends to make host governments pretty nervous. Nepal from what I understand was a great example of that. There was a ton of drone usage there by NGOs, journalists and other groups. This increased the tensions that the government has with foreign aid workers which in turn slowed down the rate of recovery.

As a counterpoint there are great things like the 'contact tracking' apps used in the Ebola response. Various ICT4D companies made a mobile app that allowed field workers and local health workers to track who people had contact with and do followup appointments to make sure that they remained disease free. It's a simple concept but one that proved to be from what I understand very helpful.
Imprimis Pharmaceuticals introduces $1 drug in response to Turing Pharmaceutical
um, cross origin blocking has been a thing for... like a really really long time now.
I think it is extremely unlikely that 'funded lawsuits tend to be much higher quality than contingency ones.' I can imagine them being of slightly higher quality but not much for the simple reason that contingency cases involve attorney's making an investment decision and those attorneys frequently sink millions of dollars into cases and 'want to get their money back.' The only reason one could argue that funded cases may even be of slightly higher quality is that it is harder for the investor to assess the merits of the case than for the lawyers bringing the suit. But even this argument is pretty weak because any such potential investors can hire experts to assess the case.
>The other is developing a complex query and running it again and again, while watching the result...

I created a small Python/Flask application with integrated Ace editor that run in tabs for this exact use case..

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygmie

It has been a HUGE time saver for me. It also has a query history that is saved to browsers local storage. So no more lost queries due to a system/server crash.
Right, and I think it's a good idea. codemac and lisivka apparently disagree.
Of course it isn't a gateway drug. Complete nonsense.
It takes a bit of rhetorical agility to blame "Government officials fining the poor and imprisoning them when they fail to pay" on libertarians.
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I think his math is off:

$10 setup + $40/month * 12 months + $170 fine => $660 (or almost 4x the original)
I would love it if this turns out to be effective, but we've already seen something similar with Cogmed - bought by Pearson, can cost thousands of dollars, overhyped claims and highly dubious benefits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogmed

"Cogmed working memory training is sold as a tool for improving cognitive abilities, such as attention and reasoning. At present, this program is marketed to schools as a means of improving underperforming students’ scholastic performance, and is also available at clinical practices as a treatment for ADHD. We review research conducted with Cogmed software and highlight several concerns regarding methodology and replicability of findings. We conclude that the claims made by Cogmed are largely unsubstantiated, and recommend that future research place greater emphasis on developing theoretically motivated accounts of working memory training."

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211368112...
I feel like it might be some of the latter. "You can't really put a price on a human life" and therefore they can overcharge a bit
Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage (2010)
I re-read the article, and combined with your answer, it makes much more sense now. What was originally confusing me, was how the scientists were confirming the presence of tunneling when the laser was off.

I was mistakenly assuming that they were using some special method to infer that tunneling was taking place.

But of course they don't need to, like you said.
The tunneling can be inferred from the change in positions of atoms in different photographs. They don't actually need to see the actual tunneling in-progress (even if it were somehow possible/not very difficult to do so). Makes sense.

Thanks for that answer, it's very helpful for someone like me whose last brush with quantum physics was the physics/chemistry courses in year 1 of engineering.

Cheers
> If this thing can apply negative pressure to a lung, the airway isn't totally obstructed.

Conversely, the instant this thing succeed in dislodging an obstruction, it will apply negative pressure to a lung (or, really, two of them.)
Sounds like any passengers in the rear seat would have been doomed in that last crash. A modern car probably would have fared much better.

Your second story is pretty amazing! Sometimes it's all about luck.
> I always think of Japan as being so technologically advanced.

Ask anyone who has lived in Japan for a sufficient period of time and they will laugh at this statement, especially as it relates to programming.
Marketers, "growth hackers", and senators don't get to define spam.

Users -- especially those hitting the "spam" button -- define spam.

Whether or not something is considered spam depends largely on whose interest you're serving by sending it: the sender's, or the receipient's.
Particularly since there is no reason to limit password length unless you're storing them in the clear. Hashes are all the same length.
Just to tie this to Ferguson:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/08/fer...
That does not make sense.

Lawyers who are taking contingency cases have no incentive to 'escalate conflicts.' Their only interest is to make their case and reach a settlement.

Ironically, it is in cases where lawyers are paid hourly that they have an interest to 'escalate conflicts' to draw cases out and keep drawing fees.
I'd add the amorphously defined 'weak' to the things that make people targets. News media, for example, has long been exploiting the basic human weakness of having an appetite for sensational news even if it contradicts facts. The absence, in people, of various types of self-control drives profit in entire industries: collection agencies, banks and credit, dietary plans, fitness centers (people not cancelling memberships), pretty much every marginally useful subscription-driven product or service, alcoholic beverages, pubs, etc. One of the downsides of capitalism is that it is often considered perfectly acceptable to capitalize on these basic human defects. What makes the whole thing worse is that, many people don't have a choice over self-control. Research, in behavioral economics, for example, has established that some flaws are so basic to human behavior that they are hard to overcome.

Obviously, the democratic state, being a highly regulated not-for-profit (for the large part) entity answerable to the people, has no business exploiting people's weaknesses!
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I got a degree in CS at UC Berkeley. There were exactly 2 lectures on ethics, both given by the same professor. Kudos to him (Ousterhout), but shame on the department. I'm not singling out UCB, I'm sure many other schools have the same problem.
Uh, source? I can't imagine anyone was too preoccupied with dieting 4000 years ago.
The lack of security for major OSes and the exploits that were caused by the freedom to install software from any source, which lead to the said software being able to do anything in user's name, is what lead to solutions like application stores and things like SGX.

Because the average Joe and Jane users don't understand anything about security, and prefer to loose freedom than having their computer exploited.
>Toyota had more than 10,000 global variables.

Oh my.
Doesn't matter that much for the majority of people:

http://examine.com/faq/does-metabolism-vary-between-two-peop...
Do you actually have specifics, here? I'm happy to discuss things like how to model fork() in-kernel.
Some googling (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2011&q=dechoker&hl...) suggests there are no trials on the Dechoker yet. While that makes sense (realistic choking must be hard to induce experimentally, and any sort of experiment in the wild suffers from choking being rare), it does make me wonder how well it works.
I think the real differentiator for a company in this field would be to let you pay full price for your genome, but with the guarantee that they will not retain any copies of it once you have received it.
Not sure why you are downvoted and not parent comment; both make the unsubstantiated claim their position is rational and another position is not.
> It's still the driver's fault for not reacting properly.

But in the scenario I gave the driver DID react properly. The break was applied and the car brought to a halt. It didn't stop damage being done or a dangerous situation from occurring.

Same thing with sudden acceleration. A driver can react appropriately and the condition can still be incredibly dangerous or even deadly.

> Instead, what is the obvious answer is that panicking drivers hit the throttle when they meant to hit the brakes.

Saying something is "obvious" when it is disputed just makes you sound arrogant and dismissive. Many experts don't agree with your "obvious" conclusions.

> Especially since at least one of the drivers testified that they hit the brakes and it was unable to stop the car, which is total baloney.

You're again contradicting the experts. They said that it is possible for the car to ignore brake input, but were unable to determine how corruption could have occurred to cause it.

I'm not saying I know for a fact that unintended acceleration occurred and that the brake was ignored, I do not, nobody does. But I think the way you're dismissing it and stomping all over a dozen or more experts is absurd. You cannot know it didn't occur any more or less than they know it did. You certainly don't have the expertise for your "obvious" conclusions to be meaningful.

> EDIT: Also let me just state as a disclaimer I do not work for Toyota, never have, don't know anybody who does, I don't own any Toyota cars and never have. I just can't deal with people spreading bullshit.

Right... And you essentially saying that the conclusions of experts in the field is wrong without any proof, cite, or good explanation definitely isn't "bullshit."

The fact you need a disclaimer saying "I am not a shill" (paraphrasing) means you yourself must know how absurd you're sounding here.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/supplemental-nutrition-assistan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assista...

Basically food stamps
Idk maybe the valve system to dispel air and liquids requires an expensive manufacturing process? There are also lawyer fees to recoup
Um, from taking walks a few blocks from my apartment and doing volunteering in such communities. Also just reading the local news. Also reading lots of ethnographies. Go read American Millstone (http://www.amazon.com/American-Millstone-Examination-Permane...) or Ghettoside and maybe you will rethink those scare quotes. I'm not sure how "void of civilization" is an unfair label for what is described in those books.

There were white (mostly Irish) inner city areas with a complete void of civilization, such as old southie, but those areas are less prevalent these days. That said there is lots of degeneracy among the white population in some areas too. I'd call those areas more of a partial void of civilization rather than an utter void of civilization.
IANAL, but I doubt you can patent recursion either.
Phonetikana
Imagine the comments in here if IPOs were already available to everyone and we were reversing it to only allow big banks and partners to participate.

I personally am for everyone having equal access to IPOs and start-up funding and such. Anything else is opposed to the founding principle of this country of personal liberty-- and it's also opposed to reducing the wealth disparity.

In summary, it's not your job to protect me from myself.
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I don’t understand this perspective at all. If transitions and transforms had been introduced this way, it would have taken many years longer for them to bleed into commonplace use. No normal user is going to jump through the hoops necessary to turn experimental flags on.

The blink tag disappeared, table-driven design disappeared, unnecessary vendor prefixes will gradually disappear too. That's a small price to pay for progress.
lambda

end of story.
There's no shame in reaching out to others when problem solving, that's part of (and should be part of!) the problem solving process. In my experience, Interviewers love when you ask intelligent questions.
Father Mulcahay certainly had no trouble performing one with no medical training, just a doctor on a radio to walk him through it. Must be pretty easy.
It is a great deal more complicated than that. Taking antibiotics kills gut bacteria. Doctors almost never tell you that needs to be actively counteracted. I have been told (by a phd chemist) that coconut oil does good things for gut flora. People with certain conditions where they get prescribed antibiotics routinely see higher than average incidences of c. diff infections, which are sometimes resolved by surgically removing a portion of the colon.

Another comment suggested we have more obesity due to less gut microbe diversity caused by eating more processed foods. It can readily believe that is true, but I would suggest that use of antibiotics may play an unrecognized or underrecognized role.
If your blood isn't already boiling here are other examples: http://jonathanturley.org/2013/04/07/the-rise-of-debtors-pri...
The Google and FaceBook IPOs were considered a failure (by conventional wisdom standards). Of course, the money went to them and not the wall street bankers.
Maraton schedules long running tasks, but doesn't offer any explicit facilities for binding a homogenous group into a relible responder set.

At least, last time I checked. I can see components in the Marathon API to help you build such a thing. But Kubernetes deals with a fundamentally more abstract set of primitives: groups of containers (pods), replicated pods, and automatically managed dispatch points to said groups called services.

The Marathon documentation literally recommends you hand-roll a periodically updated haproxy service to accomplish that last bit. While K8S introduces a fair amount of overhead to accomplish this feat reliably, that overhead pays off by having a very responsive and available system.

So yeah. K8s is working one level up the stack, as I see it. I think you can make something reasonable with only Marathon, and that thought is backed up by the reality of people doing it. But my own experience suggests K8S does more for you here. Hence my excitement about K8S-mesos.
I have a beard, and that's the first thing I thought of. I would guess that it's designed to be pretty forgiving, i.e., no needing a perfect seal.

I'm assuming the company knows the answer to this, I think I'll send them an email.
Sure. Just tell me what the fucking thing is, even. Half the time people want to meet to coffee to discuss it without telling me. Sorry, but probably not. If there is a link I will at least click it.
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I think this video is a good explanation you can use to refer to people with that misunderstanding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQfSm6o-KlQ

(Assuming it's correct - I'm not physicist)
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Just ignore this question and don't worry about it.

If you like it, and are ready to put in the effort - just keep learning and you will become a good programmer.

There's no magical mysterious "talent", there's just intelligence, work ethics, and skill.
While there is improvement some local sellers can do they also are not getting a fair fight. E commerce giants are funded by massive amounts of VC money and selling products are unsustainable prices. That has lessened now but it is hard to compete if your competitor doesn't have to make money for a while.
Where Movie Ticket Income Goes (1987)
"The horses lost to the cars and didn't find new jobs"

That's a good line. I hope you don't mind if I pinch it.

I agree that there is not obvious rule in economics stating that most humans must remain employed. I also agree that without close to full employment (say long term >80% of people that want/need jobs) the basic economic and political paradigms we have no longer work.

I'm kind of agnostic whether or not we are headed there. Technology taking skill out of the equation like in Adam Smith's famous pin example is somewhat similar to driverless cars. Generally technology has affected the demand for labour all throughout history, and it's affected the demand for labour of all kinds. We used to need musicians to listen to music, bars & cinemas employed them. Is that brain power or manual labour? We used to need engineers to do calculations by hand. Demand for engineers stayed high because we just do more engineering.

Also, in my agnosticism, I think there's a bunch of room for middle ground outcomes. Unemployment that stays around 30%, for example. That is also a political paradigm shift.

I don't expect we'll soon run out of demand or that people will not have an effect on our productive capacity. But perhaps the bar for economic productivity will be higher. That's potentially a problem.
When I look at the field when commercial microcomputing started, it's hard to complain too much about any "permanent damage" Gates' might or might not have made. He was the one who survived, and he was smart, but remember software companies at the time were completely taken over by some of the biggest assholes in modern history. On that topic, "In Search of Stupidity" is a book which is very revealing of the times, and of much worse characters. I completely recommend it for anyone who likes to think Microsoft is especially evil.
Many people do not have a choice over taking on credit card debt, in at least two ways:

1. Expenses over which they have little or no control, like health, addictions, etc.

2. Behavioral modifications are necessary to get out of debt, and often that is more than just a simple choice that people can easily make. The allure of credit cards for banks is that too few people are thoughtful enough to know that borrowing from the future is equivalent to spending money in the bank, unless you are anticipating an increase in your income, etc. So in a meta sense, they don't have a choice over how wisely they use their credit cards.
Motif allows you to make personal baskets and invest in it with one click and one fee. You can also share your basket with others.

If you were to try and make a basket of 30 different stocks with some other broker you would have to pay 30 different transaction fees.
So you can work around this patent with a fog machine?
If you've read the paper you'll see they have an optimization process that produces passphrases which are more easily memorized, this process allows you to build a specific dictionary, so you can build a hash table which will include all the hashes of all of the possible passwords that can be created by this method.

The password cracking numbers they reference in their paper refers to bruteforcing LM passwords using a GPU by randomly generating characters, using a rainbow table increases that number by several orders of magnitude, using masks and dictionary attacks also increases that number considerably.

Other assumptions like knowing the maximum password length supported by the authentication mechanism you are attacking can make this even more trivial to attack because while their average input is 52 or so chars per poem if you are attacking a system that does not allow more than 36 chars for example you pretty much limiting the password entropy to a few thousands of passwords in their case.

This was an interesting read but it lacks quite a bit of stuff to work in the real world, just like the fact that a 2048 bit RSA keys are in theory almost impossible to factor doesn't mean you can't do that if you can assume allot of things about the key, when you can employ work reducers you start shedding quite a bit of that on-paper entropy.
Well my first question would be (and this doesn't seem to be the first question that "justice" systems ask), what situations are these kids in?

I'm not saying that the situation completely excuses a severe punishment but when you looked at stories like these, did you even wonder:

- Maybe this kind of robbery has happened to them, or to their friends, family or neighbors. It's not hard to imagine someone turning cold after seeing bad things happen to loved ones.

- Maybe they know something that the store owner did and it was a kind of "mob justice". (I'm not justifying them shooting the guy. Yet, based solely on the knowledge that the owner was begging for his life, you don't know enough about the situation to understand why the kids shot him.)

- Are these things happening because of other factors? Economics are frequently a reason. I can imagine giving a lot less of a crap about society if I was dirt poor and I couldn't see any way to make it better.

I think the first solution they should consider is if they can make the perpetrator's life better. Prison makes it undeniably worse; ironically, if being poor got them into prison, they'll probably be even worse off after prison (what with people refusing to hire convicts and such).
> The main effect would be a transfer of wealth from debtors to the indebted

"debtors" and "the indebted" are different names for the same group. I think you mean "debtors to creditors".