skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems easy to tell the negative effects of eating meat (might cause cancer, etc).

It's absolutely not easy. For example, there is still no conclusive evidence on meat causing cancer. There is no mechanism - there are no carcinogens in meat. What was actually found was that processed meats, and also meat cooked on open fire or otherwise charred may contain carcinogens. Still nothing on meat prepared in other ways, i.e. boiled.

To provide at least somewhat credible proof, it would be required to find groups of people, who do not eat read meat at all ever, then other group - who eat read meat but not processed or cooked on open fire, and finally a group that only eats processed or cooked on open fire meat. And even if you could identify such groups of people, how could you possibly eliminate all other potential confounders?

Same with vegetarians vs meat eaters. Vegetarians on average are more health conscious: more exercise, less smoking and alcohol, more healthy habits in general. It is completely wrong and dishonest to just compare them to meat eaters and say "see, how many benefits you get from not eating meat".

But are all the effects of not eating animal products at all in the long-term well known?

Again, it is not very easy. Groups of people who avoid animal products on the grounds of i.e. religion (Buddhism) do not stand out as remarcably healthy. And groups of people who are vegetarians for health reasons have many healthy habits that confound meat avoidance as the reason for their better health. So no, it's not quite conclusive as well.

I've recently read "The Blue Zones" book[1]. The authors identified areas where the unexpectedly high percentage of centenarians live, and did some research to try and find out the possible reasons behind their longevity. The interesting thing is that people consume at least some meat in all of these zones, except for about 30% of Loma Linda's Seven Day Adventists, who are vegetarians.

So there you go: even if meat is not a hard and fast requirement for health and longevity, it certainly is not a source of sickness and shortened lifespan.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/The-Blue-Zones-Lessons-Longest/dp/1426...
Presumably, it would be treated the same as any other mail.

I receive perhaps one legitimate piece of mail per month in my mailbox at home, yet every time I open the mailbox, it is stuffed full of junk mail. I've asksd ny carrier to not place the junk mail in my box but she informed me that she has to. The senders are paying them to deliver it, so they do -- leaving me to have to constantly check the mailbox and throw it all away.
Porsche plans electric car to challenge tesla
You're welcome ericb. Yeah, I think they're interesting as well. Like the art style too.
(Both of your imgur links are the same.)
If we're doing wish-lists, I'd love to see React and Redux coupled with meteor.js.
How does this compare to the Google Identity toolkit (https://developers.google.com/identity/toolkit/?hl=en) ?
Yes, shrinkwrapp is a good solution to lock down your dependency versions.
Regarding the security breaches, this is a big problem because, as you mention, there are huge chains of dependencies, and also some of the vulnerabilities are not even in your direct dependency - which makes it hard to fix vulnerabilities.
Snyk recently released stats that found that 14% of npm packages carry known vulnerabilities. Also 64% of our users have found a vulnerability in a private repo, so the chance that your package also contains a vulnerable dependency is quite high.(I work there btw)
We released an open source cli tool that helps you find and fix vulnerabilities in your dependencies tree. You are welcome to try it - https://snyk.io.
You can also take a look at our open source vulnerabilities database with advisories and patches at https://github.com/Snyk/vulndb.
Counter anecdote to your calculator anecdote. I grew up using calculators all through school and excelled in knowing math. Using a calculator did not inhibit my ability to question the result of the calculator whatsoever. I don't think calculators are necessarily to blame here.
Challenge+Comdom+-+YouTube
Don't you have this backwards?

Fusion is the fusing of two hydrogen atoms into a helium atom - the process of the H-bomb.

Fission is the splitting of a uranium atom which releases neutrons and energy.

The latter reaction produces the energy to start the former reaction.
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That's assuming that the western gv's opponent is crazy groups. What if they were only red herrings? What if the real opponent were their own, law abiding citizens?
'Flik' Social Media Networking Mobile App Has a Fresh New Look
Richard Prince, the world’s highest-grossing “photographer”
This looks bad.

Did AWS comment on this yet?

To my limited understanding of the advisory, Xen's recommended mitigation would be for AWS to "convert" all EC2 HVM instances to PVM?

Is that even possible?
First: is it? I think that manipulating 3D objects on a tablet can lead to a much greater understanding than paper ever can (see: 3D modeling, even on the computer it was hard to grasp sometimes)

Secondly: This is a classroom where the teacher is in charge, just because you give kids iPads doesn't mean they rule the class now, give them the option of Lego or minecraft then and don't allow them to be on FB/CC...
key value store, easy to write unreadable code...

I wonder if a decade from now this will be said about current key value stores?
Okay, now compare their actions in the Middle East to those of the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

It's also worth pointing out that Iran has a very weak military compared to its neighbours:

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-conventional-military-...
> I think XKCD's "up-goer five" is a suitable counter argument against words that are too simple to clearly communicate complex ideas succinctly. Jargon has its place in language.

Are you saying up-goer five is a good example of simple word usage or a bad example?

Anyway, parent poster is talking about how we should add rare and hard-to-understand words to make reading a more mentally challenging exercise as opposed to using words that describes the subject matter clearly and concisely, using the simplest words and phrasings that can adequately convey your message.

Your "extreme example" is abused by thousands and thousands of academics as an excuse for poor, hard to read and hard to understand academic writing. You can in fact write clear and concisely in a phd thesis. But since the author assumes the reader has a large background knowledge in the field, it will still not be accessible to the average reader.
> ... can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must.

I wonder what the reason for removing these are. They are basically evidentiality and epistemic markers [0], and don't really mean anything in and of themselves. Then again, perhaps that was the point?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidentiality#Evidentiality_an...
And what's a "gathering rug", anyway? Are desks too rough on their little sissy rear ends?
Show HN: Helping Canadians find homes around good schools/neighbourhoods
I get a nasty hotlinking image
I read through their terms of service and you as a developer hand all rights to your work over to them. That's normal.

But there's little mention of the rights of their client. So maybe they are trying to get a bunch of reusable ip on the backs of consulting engagements, like every consulting shop ever. But maybe doing it in a more scalable way.
> Apple devices are imminently non-configurable... they are designed to walk you through the computing experience

Which probably seems tempting for budget-strapped schools which can't afford replacing equipment every year nor have the staff to build something themselves around RasPis.
In the same vein, here's an alternate title for this post:

"How Our Brains Think Your Brain Decides Without You"
2500 raids, 230 illegal weapons?

We could say "Oh, this means there were almost 10 illegal weapons at every raid", but, they were not evenly distributed, just like raiding every house in a dodgy estate will turn up a lot of illegal items, but most of them will be centered in a small % of properties, so, yeah, for 2500 raids, most of them will have returned nothing.
John Rassias, Who Pioneered Foreign Language Teaching, Dies at 90
This is actually one of the few cases I have seen where I think "fair use" is not fair. Most European copyright systems do not know the concept of "fair use" and would have found his work as clearly derived from the originals and therefore infringing.
Great point. Humans growing up without others we call "feral"

Have you read Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral mind? A psychologist analyzes historical signs of "consciousness", like the transition in the Ilyad of men's motivations shifting from parts of their bodies & god puppeters to their "will".

One of his interesting conclusions is that schizophrenic voices were these connections, or in hackerspeak, daemons or programs running. With so many programs competing for attention at once, the "consciousness" program was formed to "decide" how to spend its newly alloted attention.

Peter Watts, marine biologist, explores this in his Firefall series (fiction) - the idea of consciousness arising out of conflict. It fits nicely with the folk wisdom that in "Flow", there is no sense of self.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618057072? : Origins of Consciousness
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765328038 : Sci-fi featuring Consciousness as conflict as a central theme

.. why do I feel like this exact discussion has been repeated on HN before? Like different neurons of the HN-brain are running across this idea of "automatic decision making" and sending it up to the neo-cortex (front page), again, and again..
I think that's sort of the point of "teaching the children not just how to use their computer but how to take responsibility for keeping it running".
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Typically the kind of things that makes me thing democracy as it is is broken. It's a self-sustaining low-hanging-fruit race. I wish I knew how to tweak it back into sense.
It's only our first draft and it's natural to have similarities. You can expect big changes and improvements in the future!
As our first landing page for the product, we have to redesign a lot of things and this is exactly why we are here! We want to make it easier for people to understand what services we are providing.
We noticed a demand on payments so we are planning a lot of effort into making it happen.
Thanks a lot!!!
Does everything need to be skill building and development oriented? I think a lot of the issues we've got right now with our youth are squarely on the fact that we're engineering their little lives from the delivery room to the end of high school.

More importantly I don't believe that in person interaction is so critical. For many introverts like myself, forced F2F interaction in school was torture and did nothing but make me hate speaking publicly (which strangely, got a whole lot better once I was older, a little more confident, and actually understood what I was talking about).

In short: They're kids. It sounds like this school went a little too far into iPad territory, but frankly I think those kids will likely get more value out of skills manipulating screens than they will get out of skills involving legos.
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Hi HN,

After months of customer development and prototyping, we've decided to build an online real estate marketplace for Canadian families to find the perfect home.

We've just launched our MVP and would love to get your feedback on the app.

Thanks!
Right. "Program or Be Programmed"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgicuytCkoY
> Whether you think terror could ever escalate into a full-blown war […]

Funny words: full-blown war scares me much more than mere "terror".
Yes, very freequent use of computers in classrooms are linked to significantly worse outcomes[0]

0: http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/educati...
The Productivity Obsession. What Time Tracker Software Shows
On the other hand, all of the medieval castles I've seen have holes in the walls (somewhere high, in the name of security) where one would dump one's faeces out. Failure to take that in account is an error muchly similar to what is described here for sci-fi.
All I can say is that day to day, you must be speaking to different Thais than I am. Chai/mai-chai are only used - again, I must stress, by the 10-50 Thais I speak to in Thai each day - to mean "correct" or "incorrect".

Where in Thailand do you live, and what level of Thai fluency do you have that you're running in to frequent counter-examples?
Texture and pattern recognition in images
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Depends on which apps do you use - there are also a lot of quizzes, puzzles, math and grammar exercises etc. But the problem is, what I also observed on my daughter, that when the exercises are printed on paper, she can just focus on them, since there isn't anything else on the paper. But when on iPad, there is always a lure to just close that educational app and switch to another entertainment one. The attention span is shorted and the focus is shallower, since there is always a temptation to be distracted by something else.
The thing is, these iPads aren't meant to teach about computing. They're tools for teaching other subjects, like math or geography or English or whatever. Just like a geography textbook is a bad way to learn about papermaking, so is an educational iPad a bad way to learn about computing.

I still think they're awful for other reasons, but their lack of hackability is a feature, not a bug.
It's true they lose institutional knowledge, but it's possible they get someone better to replace you (you in the general sense). I think these shake ups are generally good for an industry as a whole, even though it may (or may not) be good for any individual company.
In fact, soon we want to switch away from Python pickles (which also could have security problems) into serializing to msgpack. And that makes everything much better in terms of cross-language compatibility.

So, things people dreamed about inside ZODB, pretty much :-)
> An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur.

Even when this regression is finite, it has a name: anxiety.
That seems a bit one-sided. It is not all or nothing.

My son (age 5) gets to use a tablet from time to time, mostly to watch "Sendung mit der Maus" which is a famous German educational show. They cover various topics in 10 minute blocks. My son has already learned a lot from that.

I recently visited an elementary school and all the kids were having lessons about squirrels (it was in autumn). I guess "under the hood" they were learning more than just squirrel stuff, like reading comprehension, writing, structuring information and so on. But other than that, I am pretty sure what takes them days to learn about squirrels in school would be easier taught by Sendung mit der Maus.
Here's an example of fairly extensive use of construct:

http://amnesia.gtisc.gatech.edu/~moyix/minidump.py

Explanation:

http://moyix.blogspot.com/2008/05/parsing-windows-minidumps....
Yes, but since students usually do better without computers it's better to use it on the library or simply not take the money.
The idea he's criticizing is that constant GDP, zero-growth, would result in a mad-max future even if that constant was the 2050 level.
A few of us yesterday combined our Swift Ubuntu Docker efforts. The source is here https://github.com/swiftdocker/docker-swift . We would like for this to be adopted as the go to Ubuntu docker image and perhaps more :). PRs are welcome
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The police found more than 300 illegal weapons during their searches. People that were put under house arrests have a file on them because of their links with terrorists or terrorist organizations. I don't feel the government is abusing the state of emergency, I just feel they should have done all this before the attacks.
The author lists all the ways CSS variables are better than preprocessor variables. But that is the same reason that the design is flawed.

JavaScript has shown us the value of designing new features in a way that they can be polyfilled or emulated via a preprocessor, so that features can gain adoption without developers having to wait for older browsers to die.

CSS variables were overdesigned in a way that makes this upgrade path impossible.
How to classify images with TensorFlow
Eh, I know a number of masochists who "quite like the experience" of pain.
Chattering classes
Naked eye comet Catalina live
I had a long conversation with my friend's daughter as she showed me the entire world she build in Minecraft. The barn she built. The corrals she made and put different animals in each one and named each and every one of the animals. The picnic area she built with a cake a presents for her dad. The roller coaster she made which we took a ride on. Her underground fortress she had hidden under the barn but which you could only get to if you knew where to dig. The house she built with 7 rooms and filled out each one with furniture she built. And on and on. Her dad setup a server so they can play together side by side. She's 8yrs old
> The ones who give in this scenario only lose on paper but they wouldn't notice any difference in their day to day.

Not losing anything noticeable doesn't stop the super-rich avoiding taxes today. Why would that be different in the future?
Speaking of hiding in an asteroid belt: How big and how far apart are the objects in Saturn's rings? I can't find a discussion of it except for an oblique mention in Wikipedia's article that they can get up to 2km in size.
Secure your :GitHub sources in your Gemfile
Thanks, that totally flied over me.
Show of hands: who here would want to be the admin for a network you know is going to be routinely infected with any number of malware or rootkits.
~37.2 trillion cells and ~372 trillion microbes first and foremost
This is awesome. Akatsuki failed to enter Venusian orbit five years ago and the team managing it managed to make it hibernate for almost 5 years.
I'm like 99% certain it's in reference to the movie "The Last Starfighter"[0] where the protagonist, an avid player of an arcade game with the same title, finds himself recruited into an alien space fleet based on his stellar performance in the game.

The parallels should hopefully be obvious: have fun playing the game. But if you stand out, it's because you've demonstrated some set of marketable skills that other organizations are looking for. If you've set the 'contact me about potential jobs' bit in your Starfighters profile, they'll spend some effort trying to land you a gig with their client companies.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/
It actually finds relevant gifs - nice piece of algorithm here!
If you're looking for a way to use JavaScript variables directly in CSS styles there is an Element Query polyfill that includes that feature: http://codepen.io/tomhodgins/pen/MKWOWW

You can reference one line of JS in your CSS style, and the returned value is what is output in your CSS at the time the (responsive) style applies. This value can be a Js variable set elsewhere on the page, the output of a function, or a string or single line of JavaScript that is evaluated in-place.

The var() feature is new and only in the v1.0.0 branch right now, but to read about the other features of this plugin check out https://github.com/eqcss/eqcss and http://elementqueries.com
The Wikipedia article specifically mentions that the auxiliary uses of "to be" are also disallowed under E-Prime. (see Different functions of "to be", as well as Criticisms)
Computers will rot your brain. Or... not?

I'm 40. I come from an Eastern-Bloc country. Back in the day we raised ourselves, running outside all day, building and breaking friendships by playing sports and other more stupid games (e.g. throwing small rocks at cars - yes, THAT stupid).

Just like kids today have Internet, we had a drug - TV. Grandma said: it would rot your brain, it is the Satan, stay away.

Apparently the TV did not rot my brain. I do not watch it today (other than Netflix). I cannot stand it. Yes, we did not have fun exactly like Grandma had in her youth (I bet she had some fun ;-), but we had fun.

So perhaps tablets are not that bad. Perhaps Internet is not that bad. Sure, it will change us, but - just perhaps - in a good way.

Perhaps it is just us, older folks, who cannot see what is good and what is bad for our kids.
jwz really doesn't want to be linked to from HN
Let's Encrypt with NGINX and Docker
(9* 7) * 2 :)
should be interesting. Especially the reduction in cost of administering welfare
There is no You in the brain. That You is an illusion produced by the conditioned mind. Animals doesn't have any You.

99.9% of activities which brain controls are "non-verbal", which means have nothing to do with the prefrontal cortex, Wernicke's areas, etc.

To put it simply, almost everything is non-verbal (doesn't require your self). We grossly overemphasize importance of that You we are obsessed with.
I know most people are excited about humans on Mars, but I'm far more excited about Venus. 40 or 50kms up Venus is actually quite habitable. Similar gravity, pressure, calm wind speeds. We could build floating cities and create oxygen with floating bioengineered plants that slowly change the oxygen content of the planet. We could use particles or strategically placed solar panel arrays to shield off excess sunlight while we slowly change the atmosphere from CO2 to O2 + other gases.

Mars is just a cold crappy desert.
Principia Mission
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> We could evolve our economic systems to redistribute obscene wealth and build a more egalitarian society.

There is not enough of what everyone wants. There's no way to get it. Let's take a trivial example. There are a number of companies out there making smartphones. What if everyone wanted iPhones? There may be enough iPhones out there to give one to everyone in, say, New York City. There is not enough, and there will never be enough iPhones to give to everyone in the entire world.

If you're just talking about money, then that's even worse. If you redistributed all the wealth in the entire world among 7 billion people, every person in the whole world would get a check for the princely sum of $8.57. (Obtained by dividing the entire world's money supply, found on Google, by 7 billion, roughly how many people there are in the world right now) Meanwhile every single organization, every single company doing anything useful for the world has been completely decapitalized.

There simply isn't enough wealth in the world. And making everyone equal is the best way I can think of to ensure that no one will ever have the ability to make more wealth. Like it or not, we're stuck with inequality for the foreseeable future. Either people are going to be unequal in purchasing power terms, or in the fact that production capacities for all possible luxuries people might want are not and will never be world-scale. You can't give everyone on the planet a NYC penthouse. And until you do, people will complain about inequality. We need another way of thinking about the problems of the world than that some people have lots and lots of things that other people don't.
If you're looking for 'living' CSS with variables supplied by JS at the time the styles (or responsive queries) apply, there's a polyfill for IE8+ that includes this functionality that you can use everywhere today!

http://codepen.io/tomhodgins/pen/MKWOWW
10M is a pretty cheap singularity.
Used on the splash screen on thunderbird email
Linux, Raspberry Pi and robots are very specialized topics... we are talking about general education of 8 years old kids.
How would you categorize this content? It is a unique post that links to Reddit which in turn links to a different article from a couple of days ago http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/02/what-like-see-a-hundred...