skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So.. what open source software are they using?
Some studies say the opposite. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3555979/

"Low-carbohydrate diets were associated with a significantly higher risk of all-cause mortality and they were not significantly associated with a risk of CVD mortality and incidence. However, this analysis is based on limited observational studies and large-scale trials on the complex interactions between low-carbohydrate diets and long-term outcomes are needed."

It's very difficult for a layman to come to a conclusion using scientific articles. There are many and they are sometimes contradictory. One should do a synthesis of the state of the art in order to draw an informed conclusion. In practice, I think it's reasonable to be conservative and follow the current consensus (given by government guidelines).

What I found disturbing is that the ketogenic diet has emerged as solution to obesity in the US. But as an outsider, obesity in the US is obviously a consequence of the prevalence of junk food and the marketing power of the food industry. There's no need for a new miracle diet to solve it: basically, replace "low carb" with "low junk food ".
People talk about "corporate subsidies" as though a corporate tax number was sent down from the heavens and any amount collected less than that number is somehow equivalent of taking tax payer dollars and sending them to shareholders.

No one likes a complicated manipulated tax code that favors certain firms/industries, but equating a complicated tax code that sets a higher tax rate than is normally collected to transferring tax payer dollars to shareholders of corporations is dishonest.
A review site would be great to have. But wouldn't someone who runs a scammy coding school be likely to pay someone to post a great review? To ensure accuracy, you would need a way of confirming that (1) the person writing the review actually learned to program at that coding school and (2) they now have the job and salary they claim to have. It seems like a hard thing to do, and the high monetary incentives for posting fraudulent reviews would encourage scammers to put a lot of work into gaming the system.
The OP's post when read carefully was actually a lot more nuanced than you give her credit for.
My high school math teacher used to give us extra classes that weren't directly connected to the curriculum. They were always about structure, elegance, and beauty. Quite a lot of time was also spent on history: who was studying what, when, and why. (Also there was a cult of Leonard Euler, which maybe is not so surprising if you did high school math.)

I found it to be the most important glue in my math education. In fact, all the natural science ought to be taught in this way. Kinda like Bill Bryson's Brief History of Everything, plus actual calculations.

We won a math contest in my last year. I was expecting it to stay interesting.

Unfortunately when I got to university math (and the rest of engineering) was taught in a very utilitarian way. There was very little context, just a lot of similar looking derivations.

I blame the exam culture. In a way it's good because it motivates you to learn something, but it's bad because you end up learning it in a way that isn't useful. At the end of your college days, you are unlikely to remember just how Stoke's theorem works or the coefficients in Runge-Kutta. That's just because the size of the curriculum is huge. But if you had a context, a set of stories about when and why something was studied, you'd have a much better chance of being able to recall that it even exists.
How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction
The title of this submission is extremely misleading.

The landlord, Russell Flynn, is raising the rent of 10 units from $1,080 to $3,870 per month, ostensibly because they are located near the site of a new luxury high-rise tower which will generate more demand for those 10 units.

He is not raising the rents 3-fold for all of his 3,600 properties in one go as the title suggests.

The article is also very light on details - it mentions that the landlord gave his tenants 1 year notice, and it's doubtful that these were rent controlled units.

Developers and landlords are going to jack up prices whenever they can, so this is a pretty common occurrence and shouldn't come as a large surprise. Cities are apt to go along with these plans because it brings in higher income families/individuals which means more tax revenue. As long as the landlord follows standard procedures, the best that these tenants can hope to do is to raise enough hell so that they get a decently sized settlement, and then relocate further outside of the city.
@rayalez I couldn't reply directly to your last comment, the thread looks like it's too deep now. The biggest challenge is definitely the size and amount of things to track. If I slack on one day it's hard to pick up the pieces the next. The patterns are still hard to discern, but I'm definitely seeing that the biggest factor in my success day-to-day is amount and time of sleep. It's literally the biggest leverage point, so I'm investing more resources in perfecting that as well. The amount of projects that arise from this list of metrics can be overwhelming, so the ethos of "keep it simple" is the best way for me to make any headway.

If you ever want to continue this convo feel free to email me, it's my HN username at gmail. Maybe you could use an accountability partner or someone to bounce ideas off of? Either way, good luck with your project!
Thanks, I almost lost hope that I will get a sensible answer. I don't buy the argument that real world code cannot be pretty; what would be the reason to use Haskell, then?
And if someone disagrees with his ability to do this, does that person disagree with tech companies charging huge margins on their products?

I could just as easily argue that Google keeps too much of their ad revenue. Should we as a society force them to share with the website owners?
You are correct and at $3000/month the tenants would be better off getting a mortgage and buying own property

Here in Ireland there is now calls to cap rent increases which is stupid, the reason for recent rent price rises is the lack of building after the Great Recession from which the country is only now emerging, making property investment pointless by putting a cap on rent rises at inflation levels would mean even less homes being build. And of course the state and counties dont have any money for Social housing, the only way they can get more money is by raising taxes to even more absurd levels or cutting public services even more, neither is an attractive option for politicians of course.
If non-compete is legal in your state, then you may have to sign it if you want the job. However, make sure that the non-compete has a time limit which usually should not be more than 12-18 months. This means that you may work for the vendors once that period is over. Never sign open ended non-compete.
The wealthy will, in effect, receive nothing, as their taxes will increase more than they will receive from UBI.

Yes, but what about the working/low-middle class who currently mostly doesn't pay for nor receive welfare? That's money that could be allocated for the actual poor.
I honestly don't mind the downvotes. Obviously libertarians would downvote. I did mind the bit where dang decided for whatever reason to move the whole thread from it's correct position.
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That's the fault of a poor education process and not that of education or even testing for that matter. This was posted on HN the other day and it is certainly something I had to overcome as I transitioned from being told I was smart to almost failing out of college.

http://akaptur.com/blog/2015/10/10/effective-learning-strate...

I think we need more methods for teaching (I wish I had Kahn Academy when growing up!). Everyone gets to where they understand basic math and reading comprehension in their own way, and that's fine. But if we are not checking up on students progress and making sure they have some basic level of general education, we are failing the students.
> no systematic evidence that cash transfer programs discourage work

The article might as well be titled: "The Myth That Those in Lower Socioeconomic Classes Respond to Incentives".

Maybe it's true, but I think a higher bar has to be set to disprove a fundamantal building block of modern economics.
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It's incredibly counterproductive to make statements like in the title. If you need your product to be better in terms of how it looks and feels, you get a UX Engineer and expect them to be able to do data analysis, modify analytics on their own, and apply what's learned from that analysis in dimensions beyond the X and Y in Photoshop.

Reducing a task graph is exactly the role that I'd expect a UX Engineer to be perfect at, and yet the article is titled "Engineers Build Ugly Products" while going on to state exactly the expected benefit of having a UX Engineer deeply involved with the product team -- reduced tasks, focused functionality.

Where this kind of thinking blows back on real decisions is when someone says, "Look, I know how you engineers think..." suffixed by some opinion completely drawn from the realm of speculation. Subscribe to such thinking if you want to arbitrarily override the work of your best modelers.

The absolute worst kinds of push-back are fueled by identity politics statements like these bait into. You wake up in a conversation about prioritizing core value and someone pushes on wanting to change the color of the drapes and calls the entire engineering team anti-design like we don't get anything outside of text-highlighting in our code editors. It's infuriating.
> Every kind of redistribution must sum to zero across all people. Basic income is no different in this regard. So to say that basic income is different because the right and poor both receive it is pure sophistry.

I agree with the zero-sum idea; I should have been more clear that the point was only that making basic income universal might help psychologically. Here's my comments to a different post along the same lines above:
People are foolish. That's the whole basis of behavioral economics. The point is not that a rational homo economicus would be any more comforted by the fact that the basic income is universal, but that normal people would be. I don't think this universal nature is essential to the basic idea, and would be happy to have a negative income tax.
This title is very misleading, it's only 10 units.
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think SV is overweight? try going to the midwest or the south..
> The Stack That Helped Medium Drive 2.6 Millennia of Reading Time

> For a site as seemingly simple as Medium, it may be surprising how much complexity is behind the scenes. It’s just a blog, right? You could probably knock something out using Rails in a couple of days. :)

> In past lives I’ve raced snowboards, jumped out of planes, and lived in the jungle.

Looking past the annoying, "look how cool we are" tone, I do appreciate their sharing what they use.
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You must of course subtract cost, the real estate itself, the maintenance, marketing to fill vacancies, the cost of empty non-income producing units (most apartment complexes are rarely at full capacity across an entire 12 month span) and of course the taxes on both the rental income and the property itself (and possibly finance interest on the properties). I doubt this guy is losing money mind you but its not pure profit either.
I have a friend, former colleague, who I regularly make jokes about pushing in front of a bus to his face. He knows I'm joking so guess what... he doesn't care.

If I made the same joke behind his back, but still without any wish for him to die... is it suddenly bad? Arrest me!
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fill justify doesn't work.
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When I read the title I first thought about mammoth ivory, which is another kind of legal ivory. I still find it hard to believe that so much mammoth ivory can be found and wonder wether if it is also used as a way to sell poached ivory.
Does anyone know whether the semantics available in Cypher would be practical to use when querying a distributed graph database? Or is it useful to have a closer to the metal implementation considering the distributed system tradeoffs?
Do you experience 90 hours of Internet downtime every year? That's "two nines".
A lot of the keto people make the same mistakes we made in the past - demonising some foods, promoting other foods in their place, ignoring mainstream science while also ignoring the severe limitations of all nutrition science, especially to often piss-poor studies they link to.

It's not all like that, you find some people posting links to useful research and reasonable advice.
Slightly related: back in 2003, pg has written an essay about programming languages. A few paragraphs talk about wasting cycles and how it also occurs in other fields than programming: http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html
Ain't Capitalism great.
I know that but racer is not yet as "ready" as i liked.
Currently go is far ahead especially https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime

However I liked rust more, for what I'm doing.
Israeli startup Everything.me folds, despite $35m funding and 15M installs
do you know of any research applying this to females?
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For the visualization, I prefer a dispersion graph like this: https://imgur.com/0k9loNC

In case you are wondering, the four outliers at the right are:

author num_sub perc
pkrumins 133 75.2%
whoishiring 126 100.0%
jaf12duke 123	85.4%
katm 82	85.4%
Poverty statistics in the US don't include government programs. How many of those kids are hungry after welfare and food stamps?
A salient point for the Valley as a whole when he mentions "re-inventing the obvious"
Agreed that rust and go need better IDEs, but I have also seen a lot of c++ code that IDEs are unable to do much with because of the language's complexity and ambiguity.

VS is easily confused by typedefs and forward declarations, in my experience.
Could you compare and contrast Quill with some of the other editors that have popped up on HN recently? Are there philosophical differences, or major differences in approach between Quill, Trix, and ProseMirror?
Obviously the premise is a generalization, but everything I've seen has led me to believe that the design skills of engineers (and the engineering skills of designers for that matter) fall on bell curves, in both cases leaning towards a lack of skill. It's not that engineers are universally awful at design, but rather that the majority of engineers don't prioritize and/or aren't especially good at making products that are usable.
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If I'm reading this correctly, the increase applies to 10 units impacting 16 people. I suppose the 3,600 properties mentioned in the title are to help us hate him more, since he's wealthy, but they are otherwise unrelated.
I don't know, I haven't thought about their motivation and interest yet too much. But talking to a few of them in the past (one was worth probably $100m+) I undestand they want to pay more taxes to maintain infrastructure and and not push the poor too much over the edge. Prisons are already full, crime is high, inequality is high, enough kids are already starving. So it seem the more forward thinking of the wealthy can see the current course of action might not be end well for everyone.

But I have a hard time believing that each poor person with less than a month in savings, working for some fast food chain, is making a rational decision voting against nationalized health care or rasing taxes, just in case they reach the American Dream, and become a successful owner of a small busininess who will be strangled and starved by high taxes from Uncle Sam when they do.

One of the biggest lies is that the rich got the poor to think of themselves as not poor, but pre-wealthy. They are just a few hard working years ago from being Donald Trump, if they just worked a bit hard (because if they don't they are just a lazy and deserve it). So as such, they sure wouldn't want to vote against the interest of the future successful selves...
> But why are most schools spending almost all their time teaching to the test so to speak.

Is this really problem if when taught the test someone can do general math and reading comprehension? At that point, teaching the test is teaching the basic skills we expect a member of society to have. The only problem I have with teaching the test is it gives a disincentive to push gifted students beyond the test material.

> "Looks like you are struggling here with teaching these kids, ok, well we'll cut your budget, that should help..."

Welcome to the perverse federal government. States handle education so they could simply tell the feds no, but the feds use tax dollars to twist the states arms. This is also how highway speeds get set. The federal government takes a bunch of tax money from the states and then holds it hostage unless the states implement what the federal government wants. This is one of the big reasons for people wanting smaller/less federal government.
2.6 Millennia of "reading time".

I just love these made-up PR metrics that can make any audience look big or any business seem successful.

Really, if you write a post about infrastructure you shouldn't have a metric that say absolutely nothing about your site's load.
25 millions unique readers per month is more fitting, but still quite lacking (too big a timeframe and no way to infer how many pageviews there are).
Thanks for this perspective. I've never tried this kind of automated visual regression testing except in very specialized circumstances, but I've sometimes thought that I should.

In analogy with scientific modeling, there's a risk of over-fitting your tests against the exact circumstances of your product as it exists today. You want tests to capture the important aspects of your product, while having a little bit of flexibility for the "noise" related to differences between platforms, and changes to mostly but not entirely unrelated parts of the product.
The people who live in the Bay Area could certainly change the zoning laws to allow higher-density/lower-cost housing, leaving this guy (and others like him) to twist slowly in the wind, but so far they haven't.

There seems to be some movement in that direction of late, but it's going to take years.
what are wealthy suburbs doing right that they're able to get such bang for their buck

Teaching students that live in wealthy suburbs.

there are good reasons this high school asks $50k -- they have top of the line 3d printers, souped up computers, etc.

Those things probably account for $5k of value, with the other $45k being the ability to list the school on the kid's Ivy league application.
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Can you expand a bit on that?
Looks like it could be good.
Folks, this is why you invented texting, email, online community, almost the entire web world and mobile revolution is due to people having social anxiety like you.

Yet software eats world, digitization eats world, you conquered, and there is a purpose you're born this way, that's why you strive.

Having some arrogance will help in your situation. Take pride of what you're, change world to suit you, don't change yourself to suit the world. The funny thing is, the world is moving towards this direction already.

Screw the social norm, screw those extrovert psychopath, they're the root cause all human evil. Stop whining about who you are, you only need to prevail.
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You hope, one of the areas where technology really solves the problem, through the self driving cars. But there is still some time for that as it seems.
Another rich text editor that doesn't enforce good typographic rules: You shouldn't underline text, except hyperlinks. Text shouldn't be both bold and italic. The text alignment of the body should be block or left (right instead of left in right aligned scripts).

Also no semantic information like what is a caption at all.
> But outside of word processing

I'm not sure what you mean by that, surely word processing is exactly what Quill is meant to be used for? Table use outside of word processing could just be achieved by something other than Quill entirely.

> tables are just not used very much. ... None of the big sites using Quill are clamoring for tables.

That's fair enough, I doubt they would be used in the context of writing an email, blog post (but that is debatable, I often include tables of figures/results) or a task manager description. But there are many, many back office applications that take user input through a WYSIWYG editor and put it into some kind of report. I think tables are critical here (I was also surprised to see nested lists[2] are not supported in Quill, that's also pretty important). Maybe Quill isn't aiming for those kind of use cases though, but it's just such a shame that TinyMCE is the best solution.

It's possible to do right, we used to use Redactor[1] and that handles the basic use cases extremely well while producing super clean output.

1. https://imperavi.com/redactor/plugins/table/

2. https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/118
The other thing that the keto proponents really don't promote (or know offhand) is that one can still reap the benefits of keto in a mild nutritional ketogenic state.

Dr. Terry Wahls in her book, "The Wahls Protocol" points out research that shows that medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) manufacture more ketones per calories than other fats. This allows for a higher uptake of carbs & protein, but with the body still generating a mild excess of ketone bodies.

MCTs are basically the richest in coconut oil and palm oil, so a MCT Keto Diet tends to be far more adoptable than a fully keto diet.
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We regulate all kinds of things that the free market does not deal with well.

I would argue that Google does keep too much of their ad revenue and the government should tighten tax rules so that they can't just sequester money away overseas without paying any meaningful taxes on it.
That's because it doesn't work on a large scale. It especially doesn't work during periods of crisis:

http://www.democracyjournal.org/32/the-voluntarism-fantasy.p...

http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/30/business/la-fi-hiltz...

http://www.salon.com/2009/03/16/turse/
There is an intellij plugin for golang - https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/5047?pr=idea
> Some enterprise software already works like that (especially to generate Web/mobile/desktop versions from the same code & description).

Can you name a few?

> And I would argue against software being "one size fits all". Different styles approaches might make software unattractive for some users, but in the same way can be the critical decider towards your software for other users. Look at the mountains of different text editors out there. They all edit text completely fine and have tons of overlapping features, but they still can be a near religious topic.

I meant that software that currently exists is 'one size fits all', and that we should get away from this.

> You can't automate support for different language. And other people might use a competitor that doesn't even have threads, because that's their preferred style.

Not if software can adapt to its user's needs.
does that apply to contractors?
Another possible thought for the roadmap would be some sort of pluggable architecture for encryption. Let third-parties develop open encryption plugins that this runs inside prior to uploading.