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> Anything that has LED or glowing lights will not pass my wife, especially if it is placed anywhere prominent in the living area.

Don't know about this one, but with the last one you could disable the LEDs completely.
I don't get why Google acting as a vertical monopoly in the data tracking -> advertising value chain makes it better.
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R Nozick's "Invariances" argues analogously that our survival mechanism is to construct serviceable truths. But he concludes very differently than you, saying that this relativism you expound, b/w humans and human groups, is false. I found his arguments dense but very compelling. You might as well.
I've only learned what I know on the topic from readings here and there, as well as a bit of research when I'm particularly motivated. I personally didn't notice an overwhelming amount of incorrect information in his post, so I'd like to take the opportunity to ask you to expand on this comment.

I don't think anybody is going to take some university courses in order to find the factual inaccuracies in a comment they wrote, so to be more helpful in dispelling these inaccuracies, could you possibly list a few of them and some relevant terms/concepts that could act as stepping stones to finding the correct information?

I am genuinely curious on the topic, but don't always know where to start and what data is bought and paid for by biased parties. I have been curious since first asked strong proponents of "natural" foods to explain to me why fruit full of sugar was supposedly better for you than anything else full of the same amount of sugar and received answers that were quite unsatisfactory.
There is an entire section of the popular research establishment devoted to "meta-studies" that find, consolidate, and review past research of a topic, judging each for rigor, reproducibility, elimination of bias, etc. Since these studies are separately funded, there is less risk of bias or exaggeration of results. If experimental results hold up to this scrutiny, broader, more dramatic conclusions can be made. The nuances of this (and potential complications) were discussed in Carroll's Healthcare Triage video about the worms and replication [1]. These are easier to trust (and safer to report on), since the heavy lifting is done by the meta-researchers rather than the time-pressured, under-paid pop-sci writer who is trying to fill a word-count quota.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCFlYlNlLQ
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Its very interesting reading these responses..
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Don't know if you'll be checking this after probably being downvoted out of existence but:

Would you have something apart from 'personal experience' to back your claims? It's an interesting issue: a cultural mistrust of financial institutions to take care of money, and is bound to have generated much research if there is any truth to it. If this is the case (as it may well be, I don't understand the downvotes, perhaps your generalization of 'black people'/'white people' instead of pointing out cultural issues at play?), social (non-economic) solutions are likely to be more effective than strictly financial/technological ones. As in, how east Africa has gotten people to put complete faith in mobile banking, but South Asia has failed completely. Perhaps lessons from here could be useful for South Asia?
I'd also add that the big problem in mental health treatment in the US is not identifying people with mental illness. The big problem is that we're not equipped (funded or institutionally prepared) to treat the huge number of people who we already know need it.

So seeking out the mentally ill isn't really the big problem either. We should imo be more focused on solving the big issues like stopping using prisons in lieu of real mental health facilities, etc.
Perhaps a combination of "Possessed of an ambition" (his egotistical behavior and treatment of others, producing generally negative situations that he doesn't realize are negative because he can't see beyond himself) combined with "Miracle of God" (the opportunity to redeem himself and finally become the best man he can be).
OP here: I developed this to meet my own needs as a developer to help keep me from getting lost in the sea of tabs that inevitably accumulated when using Chrome. Includes some hacker friendly features like keyboard shortcuts and ability to easily save and restore sets of tabs. Would welcome feedback from the HN crowd.
Yeah. I can imagine they have lots of problems with preventing tidbits of information from getting lost in an environment of multiple people chaning the same block of free-form text, but if the article is literally about some particular paper, then starting the file with:

NOTE: Study "Effects of X on Y given XYZ" by Researcher N. Here, http://address-to-paper.org

(not the placeholder, the actual data) should help. I don't see such a line getting lost, and even if they happen to publish it by accident instead of incorporating into the text (as sometimes happens, things slip through), it would still reach the same goal anyway.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10459316 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10459113.
No, that's not what I mean, and that's not what Qubes is.

Making security the primary goal of your operating system would be nearly as perverse as making swapping the primary goal of your operating system. The primary reason security seems special here is that we do have working swapping in our operating systems, but we don't have working security.

Nevertheless, if you try to add virtual memory to an operating system that was designed without knowledge of how such a thing could work (like nearly all 1960s operating systems) it is going to be pretty rough going! Today, security is where virtual memory was 50 years ago.

Qubes is interesting especially because it doesn't break compatibility with everything else.
One of the issues that are continually brought up by 'regulation' is that there are hundreds of thousands of pages of regulations in the Federal Register that are not enacted by Congress, but enacted by the agency that does the regulation. Congress usually says, "And Agency such and such will be responsible for crafting regulations surrounding this power we just gave them" and then we're at the mercy of unelected bureaucrats.

This is done for a few reasons:

1. If Congress had to actually pass laws that would include an implementation, they'd have to pass a lot less laws and they'd be politically responsible for stupid regulations. Right now, Republicans can rail against regulation and still enable it, all at the same time!

2. At some point, all bureaucracies become enamored with sustaining the bureaucracy. There is a lot of political pressure involved in letting unelected bureaucrats make law.

So while the change in this regulation may be a net win for us; it can be changed back at any time, as long as they warn the public and give us a chance to 'comment' on it.

The deeper question is why we're letting unelected bureaucrats make law in the first place?
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> How can you perform live tests on patients and still be in stealth mode?

That really hit the nail on the head for me.
I think you could describe Groundhog Day as the sum of a few of those plots listed.
horrible? its BRILLIANT, just think of the placebo effect alone!
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Is anyone using your pipeline? There are lots of fully developed commercial pipelines for human WGS (Illumina BaseSpace, DNAnexus, Seven Bridges, etc.) Depending on the hardware you have available bowtie2 might not be the best aligner. What are you using for variant calling? If you're using the GATK Haplotype caller you're going to have issues with commercial licensing.
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> Now I don't want it to sound dismissive or personal in any way, but tell me - if say, few of great software devs now drop everything they do and come to NYT to help, sit down for months and develop the most awesome software package the world of press has ever seen, will it actually solve the quality issues articles have?

This actually happened and that's how we got d3.js. It didn't fix journalism though.
Some European countries handle this by allowing it to be legal, but designing the tax rates so that you pay the same tax either way, so it's not really a tax dodge. In Denmark, for example: marginal income tax rate on salary/wages for higher earners is around 55% (including all the payroll taxes and such). Marginal rate if you pay yourself dividends instead: 23.5% corporate income tax up front, plus 42% personal dividend tax on the paid-out amount, or effectively... 55% again. In fact I believe the dividend tax level was chosen precisely to make it come out the same overall. (The story comes out similarly if you look at effective instead of marginal tax rates, e.g. for $100k income, it's about 40% effective tax either way.)
I was homeschooled and I'm on this site. Homeschooling in fact is why I'm on this site and well employed in the lucrative world software development. Without homeschooling my education would have been far less than it was. In fact I was homeschooled because my parents saw that I was getting lost in the system and pulled me out of it.

You make a lot of statements without supporting evidence in this conversation.
Just a quick note; but "sugar in general" contains fructose. Given that you're talking about simple sugars.
It's crazy. I was at a big data conference and had a sales person tell me that they are a broker for several of the large telcos and that you could use the real world data of the as a datapoint for your programmatic ad buys. His example was horrible—but he said that they found that diaper companies had a shot at advertising to dads and getting moms to try a new brand so they used cell data to look at porn usage, browsing patterns that show that they have a child to do programmatic buys. It's getting way too creepy for me.
Is anyone else experiencing rapidly increasing health care costs?
If you're over 50, it seems the health insurance companies are raising rates every 2 or 3 months now. For 2 of us, we expect to pay $900 for a PPO plan soon, $800 now.
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I'm not really sure what you are saying, sorry.
Yeah, I was using that as an example -- but I'm sure you can think of other things you could measure using bulk cell phone data that would give you insight into the future financial performance of a company -- often before the company itself knows.
Yeah. Keeping in mind that this is the list of basic plots. Most stories will involve some combination of these, perhaps without a strong overarching basic plot to use as its primary category.
The classical Christian interpretation of enlightenment is (3) A miracle of God.

This tells me the counterpoint to Groundhog Day is any Michael Bay movie, which are all (23) Struggle against God.
Is it going to crush my processor?

No, all the processing is asynchronous.

That's not an answer to the question. If every keystroke kicks off a compile-execute-report cycle, then the processor (and drive) are definitely going to be taking on a lot of additional load. It doesn't matter that it's asynchronous; all that does is prevent latency between keystrokes so long as your machine can keep up with the additional load.

I use ReSharper, with pretty much default options because it's too much of a pain to figure out the magic combination of hundreds of options that will improve performance without disabling the features I like to use. ReSharper does its work on a background thread, but that doesn't stop it from making VS crawl when I open up a large solution after doing a scripted (external) rebuild. Async != Free Work.
Right...specifically fructose, not sugar in general...
I posted a comment earlier today describing my own experience. I never said that everybody should stop eating food with added sugar, I just said it worked for me.

One main thing we don't mention in this thread is that sugar is addictive. Cutting sugar was hard like quitting somking was hard. If you never got addicted like I was, I guess it os hard to understand the problem. But when you are addicted it is hard to just know if you are hungry or not. So I choosed to go on the other extreme which works better for me.
Not a conflict of interest in the legal sense, but more of a conflict of interest in the ethical sense since venture capitalists have a lot to lose if the allegations have any truth.

I edited the parent post for clarity.
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> 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?

Not necessarily, because that may not solve the problem if they are going to eat just as many calories from other sources. I don't know if that actually would be the case; you'd need to study that.
"Fake it till you make it."
Also I'm going to rewrite it to a different language, Shell was really just a quick hack. Probably in C. I want to keep it minimalistic in dependencies.
I'm ashamed of how Mr. Woolf handed this issue, and I think we should collectively apologize to Mr. Leybzon for flipping our shit over nothing. This is total silliness.
My day-job role is pharmacist. Although 'Pharmacy Manager' is a more accurate[1] description of what I do. I also work as remote sys-admin for a couple of US-based startups. Add to that I'm studying for my final MDPharm exam(!).

My side-projects are argosnap[2] and on a RoR application which came out of the need for an application to manage/keep track of customers credit and I'm planning to make a SaaS out of it.

[1] I micro and macro-manage our family pharmacy. I also work on the bench. I have 5+ years of managerial experience in the secondary sector (~ 150 ppl business) and I assure you that the amount of managerial work required by a medium-sized pharmacy in Greece is astonishing.

[2] http://www.convalesco.org/argosnap/ - a tarsnap notification utility.
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I would like to see the idea of a city as 'wealth creating' proven. It does seem much more complex an establishment.

That said, if people don't own land in the city and can't afford to rent some then they should not have a 'right' to use other's land there. Land ownership is a pretty basic part of society and I'd be hesitant to give everyone 'rights' to land in a city.

Those are the easy arguments to make. Let me also make a hard and unpopular one: Spreading our resources to people who won't provide ROI is a waste. In defending this, let me first claim broad experience here; I've let homeless people I barely know stay in my house and given them my keys for weeks. I have given out loans without paperwork. I've hung out with a lot of segments of society from prison inmates to college students from small towns. Just anecdotally, I think the ones who can provide real value are already finding their way through the system. For example, owning a computer and occasionally an internet connection is pretty much the only capital investment for getting a median-income job programming. I've lost count of how many poor people won't even try. Is that their fault? The fault of their upbringing? The fault of their genetics? It doesn't matter. If we throw our value away on them no one will get anywhere. Even putting aside questions of morality and property rights, if this was a communist dictatorship, the optimal choice is to play favorites with those that produce good value. And naturally we do invest in the ones that can generate value. One day that might not be true, but it still is today. Just last week I read about Ortega using Zara to turn himself from rags to richest person in the world. That's incredible upward mobility. There is more opportunity today than ever before. We just have to accept that opportunity != reality for everyone, ourselves included. I have limits. I know I won't reach the that level because I'm not good enough. But I'm good enough to admit I don't want to bring down those that can.
The offending medium post has been taken down, and the "copy" author removed the post from his facebook (or at least made the post private). Looks like he may have deleted his reddit account too.

And from one comment on medium, the guy was also trying to get help covering his tracks on Stack Overflow by cleaning up some code [0]. Seems like he outsourced pretty much every part of this ripoff.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33263015/converting-day-o...
Would be nice if their website gave even an extremely vague idea of what features it has implemented...
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"without having to ask a philosopher"? What does that even mean? The distinction between scientist and philosophers is pretty recent. Clearly Aristotle was also a scientist even though we call him a philosopher, and clearly Bohr was also a philosopher even though we know him best as a scientist. Science and the philosophy of science have developed together, and often by the same people.
It doesn't look like there's a conflict of interest (Morin, as far as I can tell, is not a Theranos investor), but I think you're overlooking the fact that a lot of prominent tech investors are sitting on investments in companies that have been significantly overvalued, and the cracks in some of these companies are starting to become apparent.

There's a decent discussion on this here[1]. Red flags, like reports of late-stage investors marking down the value of some of their unicorn investments, are starting to mount and I think that has to be worrisome for investors who are sitting on large unrealized gains that could easily evaporate.

Expect to see a lot more hand-waving on the part of investors as prominent unicorns come apart at the seams.

Morin, according to his AngelList profile, is an investor in a number of unicorns, including AirBnB, Dropbox, Evernote and Slack. Two of the mutual funds that invested in Dropbox have reportedly marked down their investments[2] and some media reports suggest Evernote is in trouble[3].

[1] https://pando.com/2015/10/27/techpocalypse-coming/

[2] https://www.theinformation.com/mutual-funds-mark-down-dropbo...

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/evernote-is-in-deep-trouble-2...
A very interesting perspective -- that I happen to agree with. There's also nothing preventing you from using web components from React.

> Imagine all of HTML implemented purely in JS, and the browser only exposes the primitives needed to do that.

It would be interesting to see if that's even remotely feasible with the current "limitations" of Shadow CSS and/or how Shadow CSS would have to be extended to support this.
Doesn't trust factor into this? I have friends that I would trust with asking for fitness related information/suggestions. I may end up doing more research on my own, but I trust those friends to leave out doing a lot of the work myself, even if their agendas don't align with my own.

And when I don't have friends to ask about a particular subject, I might end up going to an online community like HN or a subreddit to ask individuals or groups of individuals those questions.

I tend to trust people who don't have a profit motive more than I do a big company which has an incentive on pushing their product.
Having a chance to peek at a tiny area in manufacturing process, I can sort of imagine software replacing a more manual process by something faster, but much more messy and generally worse. It starts with three layers of corporate management above a subcontractor hired to write the software. Of course all requirements go through the entire chain, in what resembles and adult version of the game of telephone (aka. "deaf phone" or "Chinese whispers", the latter being particularly appropriate since what I saw, I saw in China...).

Somebody could probably sit down with the journalists for few weeks and come up with a software package that would fit their needs perfectly - if the development consisted of direct communication between the developers and journalists/editorial staff, without any management middlemen in between. Alas, that's not how software is procured in large organizations.

But I'm also skeptical. It could explain NYT's problems, but it doesn't explain the even worse problems every other news outlet has.
Oh, I understand now and I agree wholeheartedly.

There's been some exciting progress in the formal verification department in recent years, though.
Hi guys,

Author of the medium post here. First I want to apologize to Max for not linking back to his blog, as he said I referenced his work and image multiple times and did not provide his name or blog in my post. I was in no way trying to pass this off as a novel idea as I said multiple times in the write up.

As for what was perceived to be critiques of his work I was merely trying to emphasize what I was doing differently in my analysis and project. His project is great, I just used a slightly different approach and wanted to highlight the differences. I definitely did not mean to come off as malicious or mocking, but upon rereading I definitely see how it did come off that way.

I stumbled across the code to make the day of week and times here https://github.com/minimaxir/hn-heatmaps/blob/master/hn_heat... after I had started the project. I had posted on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33263015/converting-day-o... and had gotten an answer that seemed close but not quite perfect. So I researched it a bit, and happened to find that GitHub code. I figured that a couple of lines of code probably weren't worth attributing, but I can see now that I should have been more thorough in my attribution. I have since taken down the article.
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"The icon doesn't necessarily have to look like anything ... we just have to evolve in a way that gets us to jump out of the way."

Well, the icon does have to look like _something_, if we're going to see it. So seems good question of why it looks like a snake, rather than something else, whether there's something about the "real" snake that constrains how we must see it if we're to use icon to successfully adapt our behavior. E.g., an icon of a snake that was shaped like, e.g., a sphere or a box, would not be very helpful if we wanted to pick the snake up with a stick to move it out of the way.
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Max Woolf is not the kind of person I would want to work with, and his complaints are almost incomprehensible. He is very emotional over something trivial, and his accusation that there was "ego" involved in this "incident" has no basis.

I'm surprised and disappointed - Woolf's victim complex is truly something to behold, and I hope it's not a sign of larger changes in our culture.
Every policeman, every day, must make that call. Its nothing new. So much of it revolves around intent, and that's hard to determine after the fact.
Phone lines for resale makes sense if I end up having to sell in the next few years.
They are using public airwaves. "We" can regulate them. If there is any "we" remaining in our shitty excuse for democracy.
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