skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fecal transplants seem to have a high success rate of fixing some gut health issues[1]. I've never tried one, though.

I take probiotics on a daily basis, but research is much more scant for them[2]. That said, I notice a marked difference when I stop taking them for a few days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotic#Research
Indeed: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=efficient%20shockwave-based&so...

And your comment is the first one with this two words: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=efficient%20shockwave-based&so...
Apparently, the biggest holdup in Colorado is the backlog required to get the state to issue the actual card. But, since recreational use has also been legalized, you can still get cannabis, you're just paying higher taxes on it without the MMJ card.
Facebook Brings in Microsoft Researchers for AR and VR R&D
Ugh, never mind, I confused IA-32 (x86, in this case a stripped-down x86) with IA-64 (Itanium).
Back in the mid-1990s they went through a four-year-long famine called the "march of suffering" in which somewhere between hundreds of thousands and several million people starved to death (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine). Nobody really knows how many died.

But the regime is still there, you know? The North Korean people are so thoroughly indoctrinated not even an apocalyptic famine could shake them. I'm not sure exactly how bad things would have to get to pierce that level of belief.
"The [2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test] is the largest recorded creation of space debris in history with at least 2,317 pieces of trackable size (golf ball size and larger)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...

The US did their test in 1985. At this point, shooting down satellites is easy, but it has big consequences. The more debris we create, the harder it is to keep satellites up there.
I think I have this sort of career.

I take theoretical paper and turn it into practical implementation. I make money on consulting. Lot of independence and freedom.

I dont think it is possible to do such thing in academia. Software guys I know in astronomy are underfunded and on short contracts. Most guys will leave for commercial company before starting a family.
Yes indeed, that's who I used. I didn't notice any change after just a month, it took a year; I'm taking a break at the moment to see if any symptoms resurface. The original article for this thread mentioned that the mouse model the researchers are building indicates that successive generations of mice with weaker biomes did not improve after starting on a heavier-fiber diet (though long-term, who knows if it might start improving). Might there be a possibility that biome damage has a similar pathology, and reconstitution via probiotics takes an especially long time? Nobody knows at this point.

GB is not exactly cheap if you are on a student budget, so in the interest of full disclosure and crufty, messy, crowd sourcing pseudo-science, I'll offer some caveats of what else I was trying at the same time that might have also yielded my results. I tried two other brands of probiotic before settling on GB: Dr. Ohhira's and Bio-K+. Six months on Bio-K+ followed by two months on Dr. Ohhira's. At the same time, I went to a 20 mg / day maximum net carbohydrate, high-fat, moderate protein diet. I used testing strips to verify that I actually went into ketosis, and cycled to a 100 mg net carbohydrate day once 1-2 months to break weight loss plateaus. So before you "follow in my footsteps" and commit to a year of GB, be aware I had confounding factors that might also explain what happened to me (the ketogenic diet is the next candidate for a cause, but I've never heard of anyone being able to eat spicy foods again by starting that diet).

If I had the time and access, I'd pay to try bacteriotherapy using donor material from an athletic donor who likes spicy food. I suspect bacteriotherapy is good for more than just CDI.

The GB guys are super helpful and friendly, and you go month-to-month. I found suspending or cancelling super easy and hassle-free. So if you are curious to partake in your own N=1 experiment on gut microbiome reconstitution for just a month (though they themselves say don't count on any changes before within months), I encourage you to try it out and share your results.
Another good explanation:
http://www.cnbc.com/2014/11/26/beware-of-the-year-end-mutual...

If these securities have been held for <1 year, their gain/loss goes into the short term bucket. So losses (in this case, writedowns) can offset the size of distribution, which is a bad deal for investors.

To a personal investor (e.g. mentioned in the world of WealthFront/Betterment), this is 'tax loss harvesting'.
I see Chevy when advertising their new diesel Colorado put great emphasis on the validity of the testing it underwent.

I'm still at a bit of a loss on this whole rogue employee scenario. I'm a little more concerned about the rest of the software if this is true.
“If Firefox for iOS implements WebRTC on top of Webkit, for example, that's a clear win for users.”

In its current state, at least, I wouldn’t call it a ‘clear’ win for users:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893561

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9960504

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9112717
Not proven, but

Eat Fermented foods, lots of fiber, more veg, occasional fatty meats. Eliminate sugar, reduce carbs, exercise.

Edit: I should probably add: Slowly introduce the fermented foods. If you're not used to them, might cause a few visits to the toilet if you have too much.
The hype all sounds well and good, but it seems to be what they're really offering is an opportunity to do "large scale" monte-carlo simulations. Which is also a great thing, but the results of said simulations will only be as good as the detail to which they are modeled.

The example that they give about utilities modeling usage in a city is great, but someone is going to spend a whole lot of time modeling the details of the city, and constantly verifying that those results match up with the real world.

I spent a lot of time doing these kinds of simulations in school...
Can you explain the mechanism where it is a tax loss and show where Fidelity has used it? That sounds like a gotcha, but I'm genuinely curious if it is clearly the case that they can recognize a tax loss here.

I think the mark down mostly does two things. It allows Fidelity to honestly inform their customers what they hold, and it signals to the startups that things aren't necessarily going the way Fidelity would like to see them go.
The Psychology and Neuroscience of Curiosity [pdf]
I certainly held off buying for a fairly long time because I didn't want to be locked down in that way. In retrospect I might have done things differently but hindsight is 20-20 and all that.

In my case foresight was 20-20 since I bought in 2012 and I knew that when interest rates on a 30 year fixed were the lowest they had been in 30 years that this was the time to lock in a mortgage. At the same time, housing prices in my city were the lowest they had been in 15 years so it made sense to buy. I knew if we didn't make a move then that we'd regret it once interest rates and prices started to rise.
This is exactly the use case for signed commits and pushes.
In the UK at least, doctors may advise you to take probiotics but do not write you up a prescription for it as it is considered experimental.

I'be personally used acidophilus lactobacillus after an oral yeast infection which I got after taking preventative antibiotics (took pretty much everything - azithromycin, flucloxacillin and ciprofloxacin) for a severe bout of reactive arthritis and it seemed to make a difference. However I was still very messed up for at least 6 months.
Well, the CEO stepped down and multiple managers were suspended. New management might actually want to know, not find someone to blame.
For a number of years it also produced code that ran much slower on AMD processors. The Intel compiler is used to compile a bunch of benchmark tools that tech sites use in their reviews, so this (in conjunction with certain other brutal strategies on Intel's part to pressure and bribe vendors into selling Intel only) basically contributed to the destruction of AMD's market share in the early-to-mid 2000s.
What amnesty means is clearly defined, as you quote from the article. I don't see why the amnesty offered by a company would be so different from that offered by the government.
A government could similarly make your life unpleasant, just as a company, and in neither case is it customary to exhaustively enumerate things. Ultimately it is based on trust, and governments have also been known to renege on their promises. I'm not saying this promise is trustworthy though, just that the fact that it is from a company doesn't disqualify it outright.
Unfortunately there is no definitive test for CFS. The closest is measuring morning cortisol, or measuring ACTH during a stress test.

Also, rest isn't necessarily the best option. Reducing stress and increasing activity (within limits) is a good start.
> At least it wouldn't be intercepted on that hop

It wouldn't be passively intercepted. It could trivially be actively intercepted. Gmail would not display a warning in this case, thus making the user think their password/reset URL was safe when it really wasn't. And trying to inform users about the difference between passive and active interception, and expecting them to make a risk evaluation based on it, is just not realistic for the vast majority of users.
Yes, I understand what capital gains and losses are. Is there one actually involved here?
If that were so obviously true as you make it out to be, VW wouldn’t have needed to even offer this “amnesty” to begin with – employees would have felt free to come forward without fear of being fired. Since VW did offer this “amnesty”, this is clearly not the case. Therefore, somewhat paradoxically, since VW have made the offer, it is an empty one.
(Ignoring the article ATM).

Ultimately the "devops" term is widely applied to a bunch of things, usually meaning one or more of:

* automating things as much as possible - infrastructure as code, continuous deployment, chatops, etc.
* building tools for your organization to use to run your own infrastructure
* fixing cultural and process problems between development and operations and cutting down on change requests, fixing communication, etc.
* Often, about getting developers to build environments where the code they deploy uses the same automation in dev/test as in prod, and more closely resembles prod
* Getting developers to care about production issues
* Getting operations to understand more about development details rather than have a black box they are less likely to understand.

Sometimes the title "Site Reliability Engineer" can mean that, sometimes. Sometimes DevOps means that. Lately "DevOps engineer" means some mix of infrastructure automation (basically systems administration) and writing a few tools or scripts (often these tools require some degree of coding). It can get more custom code heavy depending on the organization, but there's no real standard.

But ultimately, "DevOps" is a (usually confusing) catch-all. Most "DevOps" conference are really a mix of agile, process, and systems administration topics, and many DevOPs meetups are usually about elevating one's game at systems administration and sometimes about Continous Deployment -- though even this can vary.

Personally I like the tech parts and don't care as much for the cultural parts, having found a lot of it, once heard 4 or 5 times, becomes a bit "preaching to the choir" - i.e. folks know it already. Which is why I think once you learn the agile/process/communication bits, the meetups get to be more about tools - these things change and can be new, but there's some percieved duty to keep educating the new folks on the cultural stuff (especially as folks may feel some industries that are less startup-like are slower movers, or for folks in large corps that are slower to adopt things).
Hum...

To take a realistic example, let a panel of laypeople read 20 studies, half saying that smoking does cause cancer, and half saying that it doesn't. Then, let the experts of both sides speak to them (not needed to say that the ones defending it doesn't cause cancer are much more confident and charming than the others).

I don't think those people would have reached the correct conclusion.
"Sure I've followed the issue enough to know (some of) the jargon. But labeling it doesn't solve it, that's my point."

Labeling is part of identifying problems which is necessary to figure out what needs to be fixed.

"But in the end, a theatre showing films of interest to a minority will close, if they haven't got enough population to support them. Markets squeeze folks out all the time. All the laws in the land won't change that."

Again, your example isn't even applicable to the real world problems that pose POC and other minorities. Can you actually stay on topic?

"But its tilting at windmills to try to legislate much of it."

And yet even George Will of all people in an interview on Econtalk (years ago) said that affirmative action may have done some good considering the time it was enacted.

So, I think you're in the minority here in terms of opinions.
Well yes, "bombed IPO" is a relative term. If you float a pile of trash onto the stock market and rake in a lot of $$$ then sure cash out and go live on a nice tropical island somewhere while leaving a smoking crater behind full of employees holding worthless options. From the early investors standpoint that's a win.

However, that can only happen so many times before the "suckers" that were buying these things at IPO catch on and lose their appetite. That sort of thing is in part what's happening and in part why these write downs are occurring. The paper valuation during funding rounds is only real if the "real market" (i.e. everyone, not just a few VCs writing founders a cheque) is willing to buy shares at that value. If the market continues to get more skeptical, and there's every indication that this will continue to be the case, then down rounds are an almost certainty moving forward for many firms.

That's also a big problem for employee options, which typically only have value if the valuation keeps skyrocketing.
Does this also apply to large industrial labs, e.g. MSR, IBM Research, Google research etc.? Or are there software developers who work together with researchers in those places, perhaps resulting in better quality code?
It goes well beyond "unpopular ones tend to get downvoted."

There are people who, having posted something "controversial" only because it bucks a common fallacy or "political correctness", will enlist all of their social media candidates to downvote someone who dared disagree with them... even if only via pointing out factual fallacies with objective references.

I took a 50-point hit once on one posting simply by posting objective references that challenged (actually, disproved) a political rant.

Like any form of "social media", it's partially a popularity contest.
If Gmail did this, the MitM would be sure to correctly validate Gmail's certs.
It's not outdated.

Rumor: "Pale Moon is just a rebranded rebuild of an old Firefox version"

FALSE

Pale Moon has been on a divergent path with its own code for a long time already. It was a rebuild in 2009, yes. It was a rebuild with minor changes in the Firefox 4.0 era, yes. But we've come a very long way since then with an increasing amount of different code being carried over each time it was re-based on later Firefox code. It's a true fork now and has been employing rapid development (as opposed to rapid release) to solidify this independent direction with its own focus and attempt at keeping the browser sane, lean, and offering users choice and stability.

At the same time, Pale Moon's focus on security and evolving networking standards has added features and kept pace with those developments in other browsers, by e.g. adding TLS 1.1/1.2 support a while back, by offering OCSP-stapling, by keeping a close eye on encryption and the browser's security by continuing to port or re-implement security fixes that apply to Pale Moon as a browser. It is neither old nor outdated, it is not a "rebuild" and it does not use obsolete technologies or have security holes.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7818&p=50895
It doesn't look too bad... wonder how many millions of dollars it cost to set up?
>This means that some people legitimately believe that legalizing it would get more people into these other drugs and increase the overall number of drug crimes.

Okay, but according to the ACLU 52% of drug arrests are for marijuana. I know we've already exited the realm of logic with the gateway drug theory but to believe that legalizing marijuana would result in an instant increase in drug arrests -- that is, enough to overtake the majority of drug arrests in a single category, seems patently absurd.

[0]https://www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers
It looks very different on my system.
I think the key bit with this news is that they're doubling down on "the employees snuck this by us. We had no idea. Absolutely no clue whatsoever. Pinkie swear."

They may even be able to "find" an employee who has some kind of plausible story.

The reality is that most auto manufacturers cheat on emissions tests in europe. Mechanics who work on the cars know it. Even the regulators are hesitant to reform emissions testing.

The silver lining is that perhaps an actual improvement in emissions is happening, with the EPA adding road-testing to their emissions test suite.
But facts arent agreeable to your opinion;-)

Loved the old sync personally. New one's okay
> chicken breasts are frequently around 2 dollars a pound.

Minor nit pick with this.. idk about where you live, but here the only "chicken" that gets down to that price is what's called "pumped".. ie, you buy the chicken, but it's 30% chicken broth "for enhanced flavor" and so when you cook it, it ends up tasting absolutely terrible.. not to mention reducing the weight of the cooked product considerably. If you've ever tried to pan sear some chicken or something and you end up with a cup of water in your pan, this is your problem.

This shit should be illegal to be sold it's so deceptive. You can tell if you have pumped chicken by looking for the "enhanced with up to 30% water/broth/liquid".. I won't buy any chicken that's "enhanced"(or with "retained water") by more than 5%. Typically that ends up selling here in Cleveland Ohio for around $5/pound or more at a run of the mill grocery store.
"whatever strikes my fancy" is very likely not something we need to survive on this planet as a species.

Do you have any idea how much mindless, painful, miserable work the people of Earth do to allow you to have a computer connected to the internet, with food in your belly, streets to your house, a house to live in, with electricity to turn on? Only on a site for programming could so many people honestly believe such a white-collar-centric hypothesis.
Hopefully internet and mobile phones change some of that.
Excellent points. I really like your reinterpretation as "a zero price tag is...subsidized with something else...The cost is lock-in." It is definitely more accurate with respect to Google Inc. Though to my ears it sounds like a more generalized version of "if you are not paying for it, you are the product." But don't we almost always think of Google when quoting this line anyway?

Android has bad IMAP support -- is this a limitation of Android, or of IMAP? (are there push notifications for iOS?) IMAP has been a thorn in my side for ever, but I assumed that was the fault of an old outdated protocol?
It's not just trust in strangers - its trust in the strangers and whomever may have infected the stranger with a mind-control parasite.

For web-sites, that includes direct hacks that make the site distribute malware, as well as "malvertising", etc.

So that old lady next to you may actually be the gang of thugs waiting in a dark alley.

But I don't think that the malware distributors are likely to choose an uncommon channel like copy-and-paste as a distribution vector, so you're probably still OK.
Thanks, but then again I guess it removes some nutritional value and buffs it up with water.
Looks like you need to use Scala for this.

As for the comparison with supercomputing: this falls decidedly in the abstracted/virtualized/cloud category, which is basically the opposite of a supercomputer, where you're very close to the metal (i.e. C/C++ or Fortran). Efficient supercomputer usage requires hard thinking about communications (both between nodes with MPI and between the RAM and the CPU on each node), avoiding cache thrashing at all cost, and making use of all the performance intrinsics you can.
Agreed. See similar confusion about what "Cloud" or "Agile" means :-)
I understand your point, and yes the active users for a particular period is going to be a lot less than the total number.

However, my goal here was to know about the total number of accounts existing on Github. I guess that the title could be changed to "How many accounts does the Github have right now?", that would do the justice.

Btw, I didn't know about BigQuery. It is pretty amazing and free. Thank you for sharing.
That headline ... #nottheonion
At this point they seem to be simply trying to figure out how all this happened and went on for so long.

I don't think I'd take it. The article says you can still be transferred to a different department or given different duties, and they can't insulate you from criminal charges.
WPO Stats
Vincent Asaro, Accused in 1978 Lufthansa Heist, Is Found Not Guilty
Recent News is quite interesting. How is it different from Prismatic?
So go hunt morels after a forest fire. You won't confuse them with the destroying angel. The advice to start with someone who knows the difference among the species that might be confused with morels would still be good to follow.

It's also totally fine to not do anything, I just wanted to point out that your position was extremely conservative on the matter.
And I thought it was ridiculous when someone had cut and pasted a page from an Oracle manual in response to a set of pre-screening questions for a hiring round, headers included (for a generic SQL question we expected a one sentence answer to).

At least that guy didn't pay for it - to my knowledge at least (he did cut and paste most of his answers from various places, though, and got many of them wrong, including an word-for-word copy of an answer from a forum where the answer he had quoted was torn to pieces by other commenters right below).
> NAUTY (and SAUCY) were good practical implementations
> that found solutions efficiently (except for some
> harder class of graphs, maybe).

There are good practical implementations of SAT solvers as well (except degenerate cases), even though SAT is the canonical NP-Complete problem.
ICL creates huge libraries, especially with all the flags I use (-O3 -no-prec-div -Qparallel -arch:SSE3 -QaxCORE-AVX2,CORE-AVX-I,AVX,SSE4.2,SSE4.1,SSSE3). XUL generated like this is about 150MB (and for comparison offical Firefox XUL DLL is about 37MB)!
Conjecture from the first link: "Raising questions about other problems. This a surprising result. Is a similar result for factoring around the corner? [...] Placing factoring in this complexity class would be a huge difficulty for cryptography."

If factoring is indeed in the quasi-polynomial class, the above may well be the understatement of the decade.
I'd argue they are not. For a start, there'll be no campaign contributions to deal about later, and no seeking of campaign funding.
Running a startup – perception vs. reality
5 Reasons Why NYC Beats the Valley for Enterprise Software
I much prefer using NearlyFreeSpeech. I like being able to outsource the server management to them. Since my sites are static and largely cached by Cloudflare, I think I've paid them less than $10 for the last year's worth of service.