skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"thats certainly a valid opinion, however, with those regulations come housing shortages and conditions like in the Bay area."

These are scapegoats. If the city started building social housing the shortage would be over.

If those pesky zoning regulations were eliminated property developers would flood in and build thousands of luxury apartments which would be bought by Chinese investors and left empty much like all the other property they've bought.
> There's lots of 'randomness' from the historical nature of our roads that I suspect it would be hard for a self driving car to deal with. Mostly I suspect they'd end up being overcautious where real drivers need to be a bit more aggressive to actually progress.

Funnily enough, this was recently brought up in the TV series The Good Wife where the self driving car manufacturer had to add in a certain amount of 'law abiding fuzziness' into the algo to match real people and to actually advance at an intersection.
What you are saying is true to the same extent that it is true about any drug. Statins are unexceptional in this regard, except that they have a lot more lines of evidentiary support than most drugs due to the importance of coronary artery disease.

Even ignoring statins, again, the genetic evidence paints a clear picture of the causal role of LDL cholesterol in coronary disease. The jury is largely still out on inflammation.
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> Tons of people roll their own interfaces to their source control,

And how do they compare with github's megatons? I argue the numbers are not comparable. My most generous estimate is that less than 5% of all git users work without ever touching Github.

> Mercurial isn't as popular as git, but neither are dependent on GitHub/bitbucket for continued relevance.

I am convinced that if anything ever replaces git, it will have to come with a website that greatly simplifies deploying software. Git alone is not enough for sharing with the masses -- it requires Github or equivalent. I am also certain that git's meteoric rise would have been completely impossible without Github.

Every time I see a newcomer trying to deploy a Mercurial repo, I see them struggling with Bitbucket's implementation of hg hosting. It pains me that there is nothing better to direct them to.
Actually Stripe does have anti-fraud (https://stripe.com/docs/fraud) just unfortunately it is not that great.
Speaking from experience - I would pick Stripe anytime, even if they are not perfect, the simplicity to start using them (and stop, if needed) + the all-over attitude and possibilities are way better then the old-school behemoths like authorize.net or braintree.
It's a Trap: Emperor Palpatine's Poison Pill
I moved to Scandinavia and got a MSc which was very strong in formal methods: static analysis, model checking and theorem proving; some big names in the field teaching there.

I was able to access highly technical programming jobs, those where you are using formal or semi-formal methods to build critical and/or real-time systems. These are very well paid and very nice to work on. You end up designing and implementing very elegant systems with nice guarantees. It feels like high-end engineering. So from a pragmatic point of view, you can access better jobs.

From a more idealistic perspective, you will understand computation better.
I think this is a bit unkind:

> dismissed in a pseudo-intellectual manner by people who know a lot (just not about the subject at hand).

I'm the one who's potentially sick here, and this (perhaps wrongly) smacks of appeal to authority. What I absolutely don't want to do is disregard medical opinion, but neither am I inclined to abdicate all responsibility for my own health and well being.

> The genetic data currently supports very little role for inflammation in important diseases like coronary artery disease, whereas there is crystalline evidence supporting the connection between LDL-cholesterol levels and mortality

I'd be very interested in learning more about this, do you have anything you could recommend? I'm fully aware that the majority of what I read on the internet is likely to be along the lines of "don't sweat it, eat natural and you'll be fine" and I'd very much appreciate some exposure to the opposite point of view too.
What things did they do beside marketing? What was achieved?
This is precisely not what Brooks meant by 'plan to throw one away'. Brooks point is, that you gather information while writing your prototype and incorporate the new-found knowledge into your second, hopefully sound, design.

Rees never learned anything new from the first system (what could he learn anyway, what he described sounds like a nightmare), but proceeded to implement it from scratch.

Funny thing, I'm reading 'The Mythical Man-Month' right now :D
[1981] Round Rects Are Everywhere
You can run Windows, some Linux distro and Whonix (a Torified VM) all at the same time. You also get "disposable" VMs that are deleted when you close them.
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I didn't detect entitlement in the article. It seemed to me that she was just describing the cold economics of being a vlogger.

Thousands of people see you on social media and many of them mistakenly assume you're making a decent living. They're so ignorant.

What's more, it's those opinionated viewers with their snarky comments about selling out who are entitled. They expect free, adless entertainment by selfless, sharing Internet personalities.

I'm grateful to this vlogger for having the courage to speak out on a painful and embarrassing topic. It's given me a lot to think about.
I'd give Peter Attia a look: http://eatingacademy.com/start-here

His writing is incredibly in depth, and he's covered cholesterol extensively.
>The fact that you made up a reason for your actions only shows that deep down, you know what you're doing is not right. Your mind just makes up justifications for it.

So it's absolutely impossible for anyone's morality to ever differ from yours, and if they claim it does, they're just lying to themselves?
Would love to know where you got this information from as in Chromebook C201 has no hardware blobs except for 3D acceleration.
True - and once you are a merchant eager to sell and make a living, you really don't pay attention or maybe don't realize that money charged and received is not yours yet to keep. One thing that all users should do is enable CVC check. Believe me it is better to deal with some user complaints and manual processing then refunding fraudulent payments and screwing with your cash flow.
This was my first thought also. They invented a name for the pattern but it is just a facade with the development responsibilities delegated to the front end team. Nothing ground breaking. This is probably more of a communication solution between front end and back end developers. The concept is very similar to GraphQL and Falcor. There isn't a benefit BFF gets with multiple end points over a single end point interface. I was trying to explain what Falcor was to a friend a couple weeks ago. It's a facade pattern and a correct use case for javascript and its asynchronous nature that has the added benefit of also being the language Facebook and Netflix frontend developers are using when they use React. Outside of the interface on the backend they are not using javascript but rather Python, Java, and in the case of Facebook, PHP, yuk. The point here is that even where the frontend interfaces with the backend it is still in the frontend's domain. The word, phrase, that came to mind, although I rarely use it, was clearing house. This pattern of managing transactions already exists in the business world -- the software used in clearing houses might already reflect this, that would be curious. It makes sense and there are similarities including error checking between a financial clearing house and these APIs. A clearing API might be an appropriate name.
It's not really eliminating competition though. The wells are already tapped in the US. They'll just shut them down until it's profitable again, and then start them back up. They've already made the initial investment, now they just have to wait it out.
Docker container orchestration for Java and JEE apps
>actually gives you much more of a grounding in non-drug therapies than someone who can read the original research

I don't think one can actually "read the original research" (with the all the prerequisite and pressupossed knowledge that entails) without either having been to medical school and have similar training of his own to such a level.

Having access to said research and being able to read it (in the nominal sense) is not the same as actually being able to "read it" (e.g. understand all that it entails, even things that are not explicitly said).

Even less so for "well referenced and balanced synopses of said research from people one's trust" unless said people are doctors AND have examined you personally. Some well respected pop science journalist's online synopses won't cut it.

In case you doubt your doctor's results, which can of course be not up to par (doctors are fallible too) the prudent thing to do would be to seek counsel with another doctor(s) for a second opinion.
> sort of like a TODO but with super-powers.

Funnily enough our team just introduced an eslint warning (https://github.com/eslint/eslint/blob/master/docs/rules/no-w...) to discourage those TODO comments as we found they just always sat around forever collecting lint.
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By the way, does anyone know of a SCM written in Go? It seems that the feature list of Fossil would fit Go pretty well, the networking/local web UI stuff for example, self-contained binary as well.
I tried to find the Tos for the sites you listed.

I only managed to find the ToS for Stackoverflow [0] and it does not mention adverts or adblockers anywhere.

Please provide links to the ToS of the sites you mentioned earlier where it is stated that you have to display the adverts on their site.

[0] http://stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service
>> The genetic data currently supports very little role for inflammation in important diseases like coronary artery disease, whereas there is crystalline evidence supporting the connection between LDL-cholesterol levels and mortality

> I'd be very interested in learning more about this, do you have anything you could recommend?

I'll let the OP chime in if I'm wrong but I believe s/he is referring to the numerous genetic association studies[1] that have implicated LDL biology in coronary artery disease. Look at ref. 2 for a publicly-accessible review. The article details the genes that have been associated with coronary artery disease, none of which appear important for inflammation.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_association_study

2. http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/128/10/1131.full
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What's more, people are forgetting that normal traffic does not go through wilderness, and roads are not just slabs of concrete in a line. We draw markings on the road. We put signs next to them. It stands to reason that as self-driving cars will be slowly deployed (I don't see them rolling out simultaneously in sunny California and in snowy Switzerland), we'll be updating road infrastructure with signs and other objects designed for AI drivers - ones that could help them determine road conditions better.
Does that mean the US Treasury is a ponzi scheme if they pay for their printing equipment parts in USD?

I mean, come on. The Bitcoin ecosystem has so many notable issues now that trotting out that ridiculous "ponzi scheme" canard is just plain lazy.
Peace and prosperity, I hope.
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I'm coming from the US, but the tests that are run by a doctor are often constrained by what the nearby laboratories offer. New, validated tests may be delayed until the relevant laboratories deem them to be cost-effective.
That's something you can easily attain in Git as well, your central repository just denies non-fast-forwards, which gives you exactly what fossil is giving you.

What fossil is denying you is the ability to rewrite all history for whatever reason, whether that's because you want to squash multiple commits or have decided (after audits etc.) that you really want to rewrite your central history and start anew.

Nobody needs audibility on unfinished work that hasn't been pushed to the central repositories (and would thus be protected by non-fast-forward).

To the extent that you would fossil doesn't make the situation better, if I can't fix up my commits after the fact before I push them I'm just not going to make those intermediate commits in the first place, which gives the system no more information to work with, and results in a less convenient workflow for me.

This whole "we preserve history forever" statement is a red herring. They've just picked a data model which is hard-immutable, but it doesn't mean that they're categorically preserving more information, or that tools that have configurable-immutable datamodels (like Git) preserve less history in practice.
Yes, I assume you are indicating that I think my skill is greater than it actually is? Which skill are you referring to? Or whose skill are you referring to?
A sum type (union type) solves the problem by making the list homogeneous. A `car` against such a list would return a member typed as this sum type and it would then need to be extracted (e.g., with pattern matching) to get at the value.
I saw the Cosmonauts expo [1] at the Science Museum a few weeks back; strongly recommended if you're interested in the Soviet space programme and are in London. The expo includes a real Soyuz capsule and onboard computer. I'll be tuning in at 7pm tonight to see the Soyuz dock with the ISS.

[1] http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/...
AIUI you can't have HLists in languages without higher-kinded types, and H-M becomes incomplete in that case.
Tricky part that nowadays you tend to optimize your business.. so if i would host e-store, stock all my things in fulfillment center, and automate it all. I would be left with empty warehouse, and negative balance in the stripe account...
also -
In stripe - if you refund and mark payment as fraudulent there are no fees. If someone disputes payment later on - there is a fee.. so.. as long as you are honest.. no extra fees occur.
Isn't this the same problem Facebook is solving with GraphGL and Netflix with Falcor? Doesn't it also make sense to use node.js and express where the front end meets the back end for two reasons; one, javascript is asynchronous in nature, and, two, javascript is the language used by frontend developers?
Git is the same, if you rebase many hashes will be recalculated, and the "tampering" would be obvious to anyone who had a copy of the repository. It is possible to implement the equivalent of rebase in any distributed VCS, the authors of Fossil simply chose not to. If it becomes more popular, somebody else likely will.
When the "system" becomes an adversary in one's fight for health, as a result of cost, restricted access to doctors and their time, and when an ocean of credible (and non-credible) information is available relating the mechanistically uncertain world of medication, it is not surprising to see many people feel as if they have looked behind the curtain in a wizard of Oz sense and begin reaching for alternatives. Statins are probably among God's greatest gifts to most people with high LDL as clinical trials show, but many in the HN community might be willing and able to make drastic lifestyle changes that other individuals are incapable of. Many entrepreneurial and data-driven types have the thick headedness to be that 1% of patients for whom lifestyle changes work, or at least we like to think so. In any case, starting a statin (in the case below) and then proving to oneself that one is supreme commander of diet and metabolism may be the optimal route. The issue lies in which pathway to choose for our attempt at supreme commandership--ketogenic, paleo, low trans fat, etc. Once again, the results are unclear in some trials and the mechanisms are as elusive as ever, which is why we reflexively search for explanations in the fey realms of inflammation, microbiome, epigenetics, and so forth. Addendum: Most clinical trials are aimed at helping the general population with a specific condition; it would be interesting to try clinical trials of diets in only highly educated and fairly affluent people who know python (usually not part of the subgroup analysis).
This looks great. I'm doing something similar, albeit not real time when learning about DNN right now and it helps hugely to understand what's going on.

Will definitely try it in the coming weeks. Thanks !
Wrong, wrong, wrong.

The fist 3 minutes is a misinterpretation of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox [1] and the Bell's inequality experiments [2]. (The page he shows is [3].) The experiment don't refute Special Relativity, it only "almost" [0] confirms the current formulation of Quantum Mechanics.

The first theory that joined QM and SR was the Dirac equation for the electron [4].

Currently all the "serious" equations to describe particles mix QM and SR. For more details, see [5]. It's difficult to understand, but each column in the table describe a different kind of particle. All the Greek subindex and superindex means that each equation is compatible with SR. (It's a very nice notation when you are use to it.)

All the calculations in the LHC and other particles accelerators relays in this equations because the particles go extremely fast, so they are very well tested.

Then the video gets worse, but I don't have time to refute each sentence.

[0] I wrote "almost" because I think the "no loopholes" claim is an exaggeration. It closes all the weird and very weird loopholes, but there may be some extremely weird loopholes that no one has imagined. If this were Mythbusters, I think this experiment would be more than enough to put a "confirmed" sign.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments

[3] http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/experiment-confirms-t...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_equation

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_wave_equations
There's no Wikipedia page for "Priorité a Droite", but it's an internationally known, if mysterious, aspect of the rules of the road in France. It doesn't have a counterpart in the UK as far as I know.

Here's an unreliable source:
"The overriding rule of the road in France is Priorité a droite which basically means that you must give way to traffic coming from your right. It is an archaic law that dates back to the times of the horse and cart and for some unknown reason has never been repealed. It is true to say however that the French have spent thousands of millions of Euros to indicate that it does not apply in most circumstances. We have tried to explain some of the mysteries surrounding this law, but the old driving proverb is very apt here. "if in doubt put both feet out" i.e. Slow down or stop."

From http://www.vendee-guide.co.uk/priority-a-droite.htm

(That's not good advice, obviously, as if it was the only principle you knew it would lead to hopelessly tentative driving.)

A slightly more comprehensive source:
http://www.france-pub.com/forum/2012/04/14/la-priorite-a-dro...
Wrong: Candy Crush is getting installed on a "clean" install of windows. Straight from the ISO that is straight from MSDN. No "OEM" involvement. Zero.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/securedownloads/?#F...

Color and movement don't bother me since I use a menu replacement ( https://ninite.com/classicstart/ ). I find it less cluttered and, for some strange reason, I have less issues with search.
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From what I just read, the "shun" method means that you can rewrite history by adding a shun, rebuilding a copy, then switching copies.

Not db rewrite, but the same end result.

edit: bad english
I believe it'll happen quicker than you think. Even if we can't move beyond having to create and maintain detailed road maps, once the concept has been proven to work, you can expect many companies simultaneously jumping to map their local regions. That's one thing capitalism is really good at - distributed, simultaneous deployment of solutions that have money-making potential.
Loved the list. It would be even more awesomer if it had a small blurb description, so if I were to choose to watch, say, 2 videos, I would know which one to pick. But I know this is asking way too much, just having a curated list like this is amazing. It happens to be a subject I'd like to dig deeper in atm, so I'm really pleased to see this.
> What is the value in having history be static?

[Edited for formatting]

Section "3.9 Audit Trail" of "http://fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki" puts it best. It's about being able to audit the history, instead of using history as a kind of documentation of the intent of the changes:

Git features the "rebase" command which can be used to
change the sequence of check-ins in the repository.
Rebase can be used to "clean up" a complex sequence of
check-ins to make their intent easier for others to
understand. This is important if you view the history of
a project as part of the documentation for the project.

Fossil takes an opposing view. Fossil views history as
sacrosanct and stubbornly refuses to change it. Fossil
allows mistakes to be corrected (for example, check-in
comments can be revised, and check-ins can be moved onto
new branches even after the check-in has occurred) but
the correction is an addition to the repository and the
original actions are preserved and displayed alongside
the corrections, thus preserving an historically
accurate audit trail. This is analogous to an accounting
practice of marking through an incorrect entry in a
ledger and writing a correction beside it.

To put it another way, Git remembers what you should
have done whereas Fossil remembers what you actually
did.

The lack of a "rebase" command and the inability to
rewrite history is considered a feature of Fossil, not
an omission or bug.
The Snowden revelations showed unequivocally that the NSA surveillance did not help stop a SINGLE attack in the United States. All of the attacks were foiled due to regular people targeted intelligence. Forget about the ethics of surveilling millions of people indiscriminately, the sheer tax money wasted on this project alone is abhorrent.

And secondly, I'm sorry but i don't buy the slippery slope argument. As intelligent people we have clear boundaries about what is acceptable as the mandate of an organization and what isn't. If we took your approach to social issues we would never protest illegal wars because everyone else is involved in them or protest BP for polluting the Gulf because everyone drives cars. Its a ridiculous argument m
Sorry I was too harsh, but to me it reads much like: I personally don't like this code, so I threw away everything.
For an analogous tool, see http://shorewall.net/Shorewall-Lite.html - text configuration files instead of web UI. Also, Shorewall is much more mature - although I don't know if the Shorewall-lite distributed configuration is as bulletproof as single-host Shorewall is.
Agreed, I should make it clear that I do appreciate that the post itself was made. I don't think it's whining. I just think the view of "many followers" = "should at least make ends meet" is a bit optimistic.

But then again I have the same view that I criticize when it comes to OpenSSL not getting enough money (how can this possibly be it's so valuable for so many people) so maybe I just don't get youtubing for a living. It's the same argument...mmmm...food for thought :)