skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This study should be an eye opener for that 40% who largely believe "all carbs are created equal".

All carbs pretty much are equal, it tends to be the amount of fiber that comes with the carb that changes things. This study was about fructose, not sugar in general, and we've known for a long time that fructose behaves differently from other carbs due to the way it is metabolized in the liver.
Assuming that the homework is "practice" and not "instruction". A good bit of my older kid's homework is continuation of the instruction at home without the benefit of the teacher. Not that I fully blame the teacher for this, I blame the district for it as much, if not more.

But to continue the metaphor, I would expect a child receiving five one-hour lessons a week on piano to be proficient enough to show they have received lessons within a decent amount of time. Without extra practice. But what's the criteria to consider it a success? What amount of time? Do we consider whether the child has a natural talent for it in the equation? Personally, I don't think it's a good metaphor.
> It's 2015 and the best I can get from my 802.11n network is still ≈ 50mbps, even in the same room.

Odd. My 2007 laptop gets 160+ Mbps goodput in the same room using 11n @5GHz.

New Macbook Pro gets routinely 500 Mbps+ goodput using 11ac.

Maybe you should get a better router?
I find this hard to believe: "consume 100's of disparate data feeds and build alpha generating signals from it". Can you point to an example?
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I would honestly be surprised if this was the case, at least for the end customer.

At best we'll see immediate drone delivery as an incremental surcharge or a value-add for a subscription service (Prime).
You miss that the subject changed from media in general to NY Times. It is like mixing apples and ... well, rotten pears.

(Not claiming that NY Times is perfect. Of course. There are other good sources, too. But NYTimes isn't like the media I grew up with. At 20 I realized that all their coverage of subjects which I knew beyond the surface was garbage, at best. My specific example is DN, the largest Swedish morning paper, but could be most of the media.)

I'd be happy to be corrected of course.
That pill would be awesome. I would actually be willing to try one of those fecal transplants, if I could find someone who has a very high metabolism. It's a bit of a strange thing to ask someone, though. I have a relative with IBS, and he swore he'd never do it, even if there was a good chance at curing his disease. I guess it grosses out most people, but I don't really care.
I'm lost. This is a new paper. What's the argument?
Personal POV doesn't have to align with what you spend your day spouting on TV.

"Morning Joe" is a different type of program than the primetime "rage pundits" and Scarborough is one of MSNBC's more moderate hosts, but he still spends his day pandering to MSNBC's core audience. Bias goes much deeper than the words that do or don't come out of a host's mouth; the networks sets the agenda, frames the debate, and procures the guests that will cater to their primary viewership target, and Scarborough passively rides the gravy train. Anchors are performers more than anything, putting on the show that the network has paid them to put on.

What politician is going to turn down the opportunity to have his face in front of tens of thousands of viewers for 2 hours every day, even if it means he has to play nice with the other side?

If there were plenty of people who wanted a "diversity of viewpoints", you'd see this in the marketplace. Could you point out one place where this is actually true? Even NPR, which has a much smaller profit motive and thus should be less concerned with viewership and more concerned with integrity, panders constantly to its audience and refrains from creating a "diversity of viewpoints".

How often do you hear a fair story on NPR about what the conservatives perceive as problems with abortion or same-sex marriage (meaning, a story that doesn't reduce these, either the beliefs and or the believers, to a gross caricature)? Never, because it would make NPR's listener base really mad, because they don't agree that there are problems with those things.

Very few, if any, news outlets are neutral. They pander to their audience's beliefs and they set the dialogue by choosing the stories to give airtime and feed to the base.

Even the "neutral stories" are framed to push a specific viewpoint. They usually go like this: open up with a brief, slanted statement of events. Call someone who supports your POV and ask for their comment. Spend 2 minutes making their argument and bringing it in. About 75% through, put on a 1 or 2 sentence clip from the other side that basically amounts to "we disagree because bad reason x" (bad reason provided either by editing the clip or selecting a bad rep of opposite viewpoint), and then follow it up with another comment from the first person, the person whose argument and authority you spent the first 74% of the story establishing, that says "Well, bad reason x is just ridiculous". Then sign off.

I guarantee you 90% of TV and radio news stories that discuss a news event in a supposedly "neutral" way approximate that pattern. They do it because they're trying to reinforce the beliefs that they believe will make them more money.
"If, on the other side, you're suggesting to use MS Word or LibreOffice or similar, then I'm afraid we have dramatically different standards..."

Well, honestly, it's way worse than that. Personally?

I've used them all, Word, LaTeX, InDesign... I believe I did one even in Illustrator once.

Now?

I have grown tired. I use Google Docs.

I use Verdana, with judiciously placed bolded words to highlight pertinent items, red color to highlight positions, and headers for a few places for structure. I export a PDF which I offer publicly.

And I love it. It's easy to tweak, easy to update, and most of all, I have a recipe that does exactly what I want my CV to perform most of all - convey the information for which kind of tasks I kick ass and can prove it.

Yes, it's more functional than pretty - I have changed the graphical razzle dazzle of my youth (which was a vain attempt to hide inexperience) for bullet points about professional experience.

I think we might have different standards, sure. I see nothing wrong if one writes his CV in Word. I know several academically pretty kick-ass professors who do. Like I said, it's not efficient use of time to learn LaTeX just for ones CV unless one really wants to and it would be unfair to judge a person just because he chooses to use a tool that is faster to use for him just as long as he takes care that the document comes out as brief and informative.
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I'm not aware that YC/HN have an anti-shameless-self-promotion rule, but submission of something other than the submitter's own (utterly irrelevant) blog entries might be a slightly postive sign.

Wish I could flag submitters and not just posts. You're wasting our time, Dave.
Some folks would argue that if you're in reasonably good physical condition, you're not going to see big results from any exercise program. The contention is that diet controls much of your body composition and all those other effects people are talking about. I don't know if I agree, but it's an interesting idea; the remaining hunter-gatherers in east Africa don't expend more calories than us even though they do a lot more physical activity every day. My own experience is that once I got used to biking 50 miles a week it had no effect on my body shape or composition.

However, once I stopped eating a few things that continually gave me sinus problems I didn't even realize I had, I did feel less depressed :)
That's very true. People are very averse to admitting that meat and dairy contribute negatively to their health, despite the many studies that show the contrary.
The other significant difference is that oil can be owned by corporations (around the world) or sovereign states. Whereas software is almost exclusively owned by a couple big corporations out in California.
It would be about as productive as you writing a blog post about how much you disagree with my comments.
Thanks. I don't think it really backs your claim that
"[X] students in America do as well or better than [X] students in their home countries on any measure you'd like to name."

but it's still interesting data.
> They're measuring something else. But they're measuring what most people are doing.

No lol, just no. The study was investigating high sugar consumption in obese children and kids with metabolic disorders. It absolutely was not measuring what 'most people are doing'

> If most people consuming a lot of added sugar also consume too many calories, and most people not consuming too many calories also don't consume a lot of added sugar, then isn't it still good advice to most people to stop eating so much sugar?

This is what I meant by intellectual dishonesty. It's a type of informal fallacy I believe is called appeal to consequences. I'll give you an example.

If it was true that Christianity was correlated with lower incidence of homicide, is it right of me to say that everyone should be Christian? I think that statement would be dishonest and untrue.

> Yeah there's probably some case of some kid eating his weight in bananas and getting obese from that. Or someone that has a lot of added sugar but controls their calories just fine. So sure, the statement "obesity is caused solely by added sugar" or "all added sugar is bad" may not be totally accurate.

Follow that reason to it's logical conclusion. If I believed that sugar was bad and caused obesity, and as a result I decided to eat bacon at every meal instead; I would be in a big caloric surplus and be pretty 'unhealthy' and obese, even though I'm not eatin any sugar. It's pretty obvious that the truth is a lot better and more accurate than creating arbitrary untrue rules.

Personally, the truth is also simpler. Rather than avoid certain macronutrients or lengths of carbohydrate chains, the truth is that too much food is probably unhealthy, and if you are obese you should simply eat less food and exercise more (bringing down your total caloric intake or increasing the amount of energy you burn). That sounds simpler to me than saying, "avoid sugar and carbs because after you eliminate all of those foods it's much harder to be in a caloric surplus even though you still can be unhealthy and obese following those rules"

Have I explained enough why your line of reasoning is really a terrible idea?

Saying I'm advocating counting calories is a strawman argument. Additionally, studies aren't intended to 'help' anybody. They are SUPPOSED to be an research into what is true to add support for or against some argument. The problem here is that the study itself was probably very reasonably written, but it was misinterpreted by an idiotic journalist to be something that it isn't.
I'm not the OP -- the term to google is VA, virtual assistant. It is, currently, something of a boom industry. One of my friends does it: marywuva.com
Question, how much NO does that produce?
close your eyes and try not to think of anything for few minutes
How can I tell somebody about my personal experiences without sounding like an infomercial? And why do you call it placebo? I have gone back and forth several times with the same results every time.

Maybe my body is different from anybody else's body and my results apply only to me. That's obviously a possibility.
It states that the raw values come from the school database with a sample size of around 3,000 children. Also the teachers were giving the responses at the end of the school year.

The parents did have to sign a letter at some point to be apart of this but it appears that there is an issue with the outcomes. I fully believe what is happening in my Head Start really is making a difference, but it seems to be harder to see the advantages right now with this research paper.
The best "dad jokes" on TV are on Modern Family. I got a good laugh from this Dunphy as a Service.
Hahaha amazing, simply amazing. Well done.
So is fatherhood the end of a man’s career prospects?
So how do they explain refusal to correct obvious anti neutrality parts of this "neutrality" legislation? By too much money from ISPs in their pockets?
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Workday's first product manager, now VP Product at Percolate, reflects on what makes the best SaaS companies.

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Except that the issue I have, and some others have, is that jargon is not a problem.
Most days I get 80% of my calories from fruit. Actually, eggs increase the risk of diabetes.

http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-diabetes/
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The school in my first high school school district did that, and had disastrous results. Too much time between related courses (essentially 9 months between each math class).

I preferred the way my second high school did it. We still had 8 periods a day (magnet school, so the regular schools had 7). Monday was everything, it was a busy day. Odd classes on TR, even on WF. So you only had to do homework for 3-4 classes a night. And you had the benefits of nearly two hours of instruction most days.

It was more like college structure, but with additional courses (where most college students take 4-6 classes a semester, we took 6-8; some of our classes took multiple periods).
Url changed from http://www.polygon.com/2015/10/27/9620600/halo-5s-constant-6..., which points to this.
Yes, and here is the thing: you can't control for the total calories and vary only sugar intake. The change in sugar has to be offset by something else to keep the calories constant. So then to know whether a sugar change is responsible, we have to try different experiments with the same delta in sugar, but varying compensating substitutions.
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The upvote anchor seems to be the only unique anchor that exists for each comment, making this the only way of linking to a comment in the middle of a page.
This response (via email, I'm not aware of a project announcement yet) came only a few days after I'd asked about why ID permissions were being requested.

It is, it turns out, an Android thing -- call state (my device doesn't take or make calls) is only available if device/phone ID is also available. Which is fboggingly stupid.

In my follow-up email (prior to the response above) I'd noted that I understood and that I'd appreciate Android devs pushing back at Google on this. The response received and quoted was both utterly unexpected and a distinctly positive outcome.

My heartfelt thanks to the VLC for Android team on their decision.
Google is an ad company. 91% of their revenue comes from selling ads. They just happen to be an ad company that started with a successful search engine.

All the amazing software Google develop is to support their ad business, more or less.
How many generations do you reckon have passed since the mid '90s?
The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor is wearing nothing at all. What a sham company.
> stay healthy and happy

> have a clean mental state for coding.

First, you need to pick one of the above. If you happen to get both, that's great and lucky, but you cannot aim for both.

Health and happiness are dependent on the complex system that is your body, mind and heart. If you want to find the true answer, you can't start off with a presupposed one (a clean mental state for coding).
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Keep in mind that calling an argument "propaganda" inherently attaches a negative value judgment to it. The only difference between "persuasion" and "propaganda" is the reader's attitude towards the message and (unfortunately) the speaker.
The wages housekeepers make are offset by the expectation that guests will tip them --- the same is true of every tipped job, and it's unavoidable. You benefit directly from their low wages by paying less for your room. Hit the ATM, pull out some cash, and leave it on the desk in your room when you leave.

Or don't, but don't pat yourself on the back for not doing it.
> However, labor is cheap, even in the software industry.

I think by this point we're accustomed to dealing with large software players who have scaled their businesses to the point where labor cost is indeed marginal to overall profit picture.

Back in the days attempts to build a small-scale software company (local Web design firm) or even a medium-scale software business (seller of compilers, industry-specific tooling, shareware) basically broke down because of unfavorable economics.

So we're dealing with a bit of survivor bias here - smallish and medium software firms for whom labor was a major cost center are either out of business, commoditized or both. In energy business, while the large companies still enjoy large budgets and economies of scale, it's still quite possible to be a small to medium size player and enjoy a steady cashflow.
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How does it remove anything beneficial?

I look at DI, or really the dependency inversion pattern, as a guard that encourages better/more maintainable code. Can you write good code without it, sure, and you can write bad code with it, but it's much more likely that code written with it is easier to trace and maintain. Not to mention much easier to test.

The configuration based, hot-swapping of dependencies...that I've never seen much need for even in larger projects.
I can eat 8-9 bananas in one session. I prefer smoothies because it is harder to get the necessary calories from fruit in whole form.
I agree if it had examples and support for the IEnumerable 'where', 'Select', etc and foreach loops I'd easily through down the $100 for myself but I just don't write many 'for' loops anymore
Walgreens recently halted all Theranos expansions (currently only 41 Walgreens have Theranos centers... there were plans to expand to many more): http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/walgreens-halts-theranos-te...

And it recently came to light that Elizabeth Holmes was misleading people when she said her company voluntarily stopped using nanotainers -- it seems she was forced to stop by FDA: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/business/theranos-quality-...

Between all of this, FDA coming in for tests, and other strange things, it seems they have a lot of answering to do.

Or, alternatively, them being in stealth mode is the reason for all of these strange happenings and lack of better information out there.
This refutes their statement about the halt of the Nanotainer having been a voluntary decision, as it was clearly mandated by the FDA.

"Theranos founder and Chief Executive Elizabeth Holmes confirmed the company had sharply curtailed its use of the vials, which it calls nanotainers, but presented it as a voluntary move."

So they lied /again/, something which appears to have been a recurring pattern, taking into account their statement about supposedly doing trials with GSK/Pfizer: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/26/9618390/Theranos-glaxosmi...

I guess it will be hard for them to keep raising money at that $9B valuation at this point :/
Understanding is a far more important part of learning in my opinion.

You know where repetition is really important? In sport.
Muscle memory really work that way, with a "conscious enabled" repetition.

But for learning? Frankly you don't learn multiplication by repeating the tables, you really learn it by visualizing the repeated additions, thus by understanding it.

That being said, homework can be smart if it promotes self-discovery of a specific domain.
I notice the big 50% preorder deal has wrapped up. A mad scramble of buying as people believed they were saving $2000... The clock counting down to when the price would apparently return to the normal RRP.

But of course that didn't happen. When the countdown reached zero it just went from 50% off to 40%.

I'm curious about sales tactics. Is there a term for the imaginary inflated price used as bait? It's quite effective but is there a risk of being accused of cheap tricks? Or is the risk outweighed by the volume of sales generated by such tactics? Are buyers forgiving or will we see a flood of order cancellations.

The dollar ticker on the site, does it go down in response to cancelled orders? Or does it only go up?

I predict between 5 and 10 million worth of cancelled orders will happen before August 2016. I may or may not be inflating or exaggerating information and using cheap tricks in this comment.

And finally, I don't believe the hepa filter can make the fumes vanish without trace. It's a hepa filter not a black hole to another dimension.

I'm not the Hn community I'm a person on the internet it doesn't matter at all if people come from Facebook or YouTube or wherever. Not sure what u mean by anti Hn sentiment. I've heard a lot of anti cloud sentiment in that the cloud is needed to print. And that calling it a 3D laser printer wasn't cool. I don't have any real questions.
The reason articles about studies leave out a link to the paper is that the software doesn't support it? Why not just put the URL in, or just cite it normally?
Since there's so much interest in unicorn valuations today, and Theranos is a prominent unicorn, anyone wondering about the potential implications of all this news on Theranos' valuation might find it useful to look at Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a publicly-traded company (ticker: VRX).

It is facing a number of issues, a few of which have led some to speculate that it could become pharma's version of Enron[1]. In July, VRX hit a high above $260. Today it's trading at less than $110.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/opinion/is-valeant-pharmac...
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In addition to it just sounding weird to my ears, this is why I'll never refer to myself as a gamer.

Hobby communities usually do not have any news presence, because the default behavior is, "${Hobbists} are doing their own thing without bothering anyone." Major news coverage occurs when something negative happens e.g. Gamergate, and the only way for a hobby community to recover in the eyes of the public is for those directly responsible to get their comeuppance. Therein lies the issue: it's a gaggle of immature brats acting out via the internet.

Now people who play games regularly or are at least interested in a specific game (say Street Fighter or Smash) have to put up with stuff like this. The only thing you ever read in news is something about Gamergate or Grand Theft Auto causing mass shooting. The games themselves were causing unjustified negative coverage to begin with. Now the participants are fueling the fire.