skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at random "menu cantine" on Google, getting hungry already. For instance: http://dumezil-lyc.spip.ac-rouen.fr/IMG/pdf/menu_du_14_au_18...

On Tuesday, chicken curry (with white wine sauce). Wednesday, salmon with potato gratin. And lots of vegetables.

I can tell you some US cafeterias are not quite up to speed yet.
Is it?

I've been to Cognos presentations where they show the same functionality in both Watson Analytics and Cognos. Maybe they have merged some SPSS functionality as well?
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Re-read my comment, I did not mention optimizing the process of cracking natural gas.
Yep, since November 2014 all of the versions of Soylent are vegan. So, we'll see how that turns out. It would be really interesting if some results are reported.
I'm sure that was a commercial decision, not a technical one.

They could be running Glacier storage at cost (or even a slight loss).

But they make their profit when you try to get your data out.

I'm not implying anything nefarious - more along the lines that Amazon (could have!) looked at the market and compared demand to what they were offering. Then found something that scratched an itch...
Alternatives are good but.... well, disk-space based would push up the price of hard drives. Bandwidth connectivity and latency could again be owned by big players...

I don't know. What I do know is that in a centralised crypto-currency system you don't need any of this as the issuing authority merely signs the transactions and we're away. I hope that some bright spark comes up with a way to make a decentralised one almost as simple...
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Can you elaborate? I don't have an opinion but I am curious to hear why this might be a bad idea.
No. High-quality content results in easier monetization, and thus monetization that doesn't have to be as prevalent in order to be profitable.

In other words, when you have solid content you don't have to constantly churn out garbage and then blanket said garbage in ads.
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He installed Ubuntu Server, which does not have a graphical interface. Being "heard of more often" translates into the most up-to-date package manager, a well-known and long-term supported system, and wider software compatibility than any other distro, all great qualities for a server.
One of the remarkable things about the U.S. constitution is that it theoretically allows no escape rope from protection of rights; by contrast the constitutions of many European democracies as well as Canada contain "notwithstanding clauses" that allow free rein to the government when they deem it necessary for any reason to trample on your rights.

Not saying the USA is particularly good about upholding those rights... pur government has been looking for loopholes in the Bill of Rights since it was ratified.
>it'll just result in more generic ads that might not be relevant to you.

I guess I'm just coming from the perspective that wasting peoples time with probably shitty ads is where we are now in advertising, and if we can do better in making the overall experience better while also not wasting time and resources, companies might perform better. At least from my experience with getting people to download apps and pay a subscription online (not through the app store) for access to more of the content they want.
Tape storage is still the most optimal form of long-term storage. If you need to store things for an exceptionally long time, such as financial data, scientific data, etc, then you're going to get the most bang for your buck on tape.
The real cost of fearing an AGI now is an opportunity cost. The technology is a long ways away. Other events -- such as ecological collapse or nuclear disaster to name two -- are much more likely to irremediably affect our lives. So by hopping on Bostrom's fear wagon, you are making a bet on several levels: a) this matters now; b) this matters more than other dangers we could devote ourselves to minimizing; and c) something can actually be done about it. All three bets seem like bad ones to make to me.
Battery storage capacity is limited by the battery device itself and is subject to various kinds of decay over time.

Fuel cells on the other hand are the only high-tech component in the system while the hydrogen can be stored in bulk.

Certainly, hydrogen storage does have its own difficulties, but they don't require nanomaterials or precious metals to solve.

The only batteries that provide similar properties are redox flow batteries, which happen to be quite similar to fuel cells.
So avoid all animal products, then? Trans fat are found in all of them.
My feeling is the real things get lost in hype. I still feel given the current tool support for continuous integration docker containers are useful. But going from development to production is entirely different story. Moreover what docker calls single process (actually what they mean is single daemon, which might fork multiple processes).

You can use LXD in those scenario, where you needed extra security and run unprivileged containers as lightweigh VM. So containers in itself has evolved to support different scenarios. not sure when docker will better join forces with LXD and LXC teams whose work is phenomenal and was foundation of docker.
Bioinformatics. Thanks! Now that I have a name I can do further 'googling'.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10918462
I read the purpose was that they want to add USB-like power supply capability. To drive noise cancelling headphones, for example.
I've done a Texas HS cafeteria, a French public HS , and a French private HS

The private HS had the best food, but the meal was about $8 a day, and I lived close by, so I would often eat at home. I could make comparably healthy foods at home for $4 or so I think

The french public highschool was about $4.50. People complained about the food , but I had a little appetizer, main plate, and dessert. And it was usually all "real food". The kind you could eat forever and be fine. Main plate was usually some meat/fish + a little veggies.

In Texas I had a lot of mashed potatoes and chicken nuggets. I have no clue how my body didn't completely fall apart . but hey, it was $2.

BTW French Uni also had a cafeteria . for about $5 I could have a lunch similar to HS (if a bit more on the greasy side). A lifesaver for a college student too lazy to buy proper food.

There are important details (hard to get a lot of good fresh fish in the middle of Nevada), but the school meal thing really is another example of how the US really isn't as rich as it likes to portray itself.
Can someone explain a business use case for a blockchain-based data store? What is a situation where someone is going to say "let's use a blockchain solution instead of just replicating a traditional db across several data centers."

I think the idea of using a blockchain to store generic structured data is really interesting. I'm just not clear on exactly what advantages it has over other ways of storing data. Is this not a solution looking for a problem?
Having the ambition to be a manager is great, however I'll advise that you first focus on building some functional expertise (engineering in your case). Great managers command respect of their team by showing that they understand what their team is doing, asking right questions and hiring great people. How will you develop all these without having some functional experience yourself? I think you should start as an engineer and develop management skills on the job, through mentorship, reading, taking initiatives etc. (and if needed, pursuing MBA later). Feel free to reach out if you want to talk more 1:1.
You're absolutely right, my apologies. -- I recall looking for this quite a while ago without success, but I should have done a fresh search before posting.
It can be for some kids. I see no reason a child should have to eat less healthy than any other at a public school.

I'm a reasonably good cook (definitely "above average", but nothing spectacular). I would much prefer my kids' meals to be prepared by someone whose job it is to cook than me, for the simple reason that I doubt I'd have much time to prepare whole meals every evening. For me, it would be worth the price.
The companies still comply with the laws. The laws have not been overridden. The companies get compensated for a change in the laws, but compensation for changing something doesn't mean the change is overridden.
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If one wants to embark on a moral argument present in the theory of evolution, where no organism is more special than the other, then you'd probably avoid consumption of food coming from animals, or you'd be setting yourself up to some contradiction in the brain. :D

Or, if one wants to embark on a moral argument that humans are special and that life is worth conserving. Then, you'd probably also want to not include animal products, due to high pollution implicitly killing off humans, and animal agriculture being one of the causes of global warming.

Or, if one feels he's compassionate, good, then murder is not the way, or maybe humane murder is? Is there such a thing as humane murder?

Or, one wants to embark on a moral argument that in this universe that is so vast, it's entirely meaningless to ponder over ethics, and morality, and that you just want to maximize your utility function, which includes enjoying the flavor of baked flesh, cooked embryos and sweet vomit. Then, it doesn't matter at all what you eat, if you feel great.
I tried that, but I never got an easier captcha even after many attempts.
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> I am working on a project doing this currently.

You would find OpenShift or Cloud Foundry interesting references.

> However, shoe horning something like a php-fpm & nginx stack in there, or anything that doesn't fit the aforementioned spec, seems and mostly is complicated.

Different stacks have different ecosystems with different patterns of historical evolution. PHP grew from a shared hosting world and pretty much everything written in PHP assumes some version of that.

I used to work on Cloud Foundry buildpacks. "Shoehorning" is the entire point of the buildpacks abstraction. Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, Golang and NodeJS developers all have the same interface to a Heroku or Cloud Foundry installation.
I expect that as we improve machine intelligence more and more, aside from the fact that we will simply keep moving the goalposts of what we consider "intelligent" like the irascible scamps we are, we're going to discover that embodiment is absolutely necessary. Not just any embodiment either, but we will need to place the neural networks in bodies very much like our own. Neuroscience continues to find surprising things that link our "general human intelligence" to our bodies. Paralyze a face and a person becomes less able to feel happiness or anger, eventually forgetting what feeling those things even meant, as one example.

We shouldn't forget that the mind/body split is a wholly artificial construct that has no basis in reality. The brain is not contained in the head. The nerves running down your spine and out to your toes and all over your body are neurons. Exactly the same neurons, and directly connected to the neurons, that make up what we think of as the separate organ 'the brain'. They're stretched out very long, from head to toe, sure, but they are single cells, with the exact same behavior and DNA, and there is no reason to presume that they must have some especially insignificant role in our overall intelligence.

Then there is the fact that it is probably reasonable to presume that a machine which has human-level intelligence will not appear overnight. It would almost necessarily go through long periods of development. During that development, when the machine begins to behave in ways the designers are not able to understand, what will be their reaction? Will they suppose that maybe the machine had intentions they were unaware of, and that it is acting of its own volition? Or will they think the system must be flawed, and seek to eliminate the behavior they didn't expect or understand?

I have a hard time imagining that an AI system will be trained on image classification and one day suddenly say "I am alive" to its authors or users. If it instead performs poorly on the image classification because it is pondering the beauty of a flower in one of the images, what are the chances that nascent quasi-consciousness would be protected and developed? I think none. We only have vague ideas about intelligence and consciousness and our ideas about partial intelligence are utterly theoretical. Has there ever been a person who was 1% intelligent? Is mastering checkers, or learning NLP to exclusion of even proprioception 1% of human intelligence? You optimize for what you measure... and we don't know how to measure the things we're looking for.
Am I the only that can't fucking scroll down on this site. I didn't know this was so annoying.
A reply to Russell Okung
I think you misunderstood my comment.
The problem is that obesity increases risk for all sorts of conditions: heart disease, arthritis, type-2 diabetes and all the problems that that brings on (neuropathy, retinal degeneration, kidney failure), nevermind the stigma from being too fat. And so on.

It's easy to say that it's the parents' fault that their children are overweight, but everyone else gets to deal with the fallout. With childhood obesity rates approaching 30 % in places, the extra burden on the medical system is staggering. Horace was very much to the point when he said it's your problem when the neighbour's apartment is on fire.
Thanks for posting that link to my interview. Austin Seraphin now does a lot of work on software accessibility.
That actually seems like a great idea. Not enough kids know how to cook and I feel this is a reason a lot of the younger generation eats out rather than at home. Having a class rotation where every day of the month (or week, depending how big the school is) a different before-lunch class will instead go to the cafeteria and prep meals would be awesome. Students would get to learn and the school may be able to cut costs by hiring less lunch attendants. Of course kids would have to wash their hands and be trusted not to taint the food, but that goes for current lunch attendants as well.
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> i do wonder what aspects of Go make it good for the container use-case.

Same as JARs or C/C++ binaries. You can ship the compiled product to the target runtime and expect it to launch and run as-is.

Languages with an interpreted nature require containers to also ship an additional runtime, plus a dependencies mechanism.
Summary of the follow-up: the heart of the 'Growth Mindset' is believing that one's intelligence is changeable; the other aspects of the theory are consequences of that central proposition. So, while the choice to praise effort (rather than immediate ability) is a natural consequence of believing that intelligence can improve, it's not enough to skip over the point about changeable intelligence, and only praise effort, for example.

This makes a lot of sense: if people believe their intelligence is changeable, they'll understand the value of effort on their own. More than anything, praising effort is just another way of getting across the point that one's intelligence can be improved.
Yes but if you were in this target market you'd likely want your information on your own tape with a reading infrastructure you control.
You know the dogma is bad when even an innocent comment like this gets downvoted.

While I think the term 'pseudoscience' gets thrown around way too loosely these days, it's no secret that the science surrounding nutrition is a convoluted mess, with various peer reviewed studies showing seemingly conflicting results.
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US schools have among the highest per-student funding in the world. Funding has been steadily increasing for decades, though test scores haven't budged: http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/cracking-books/t...

Perhaps that money should be going into school lunches instead of wherever it is going at the moment...
About a year ago NetApp bought Riverbed's old SteelStore (nee Whitewater) product -- it's an enterprise-grade front-end to using Glacier (and other nearline storage systems). It provide a nice cached index via a web GUI that let you queue up restores in a fairly painless way. It even had smarts in there to let you throttle your restores to stay under the magical 5% free retrieval quota. It's not a cheap product, and obviously overkill for a one-off throw of 60GB of non-critical data ... but point being there are some good interfaces to Glacier, and roll-your-own shell scripts probably aren't.

As noted by others here, if you treat glacier as a restore-of-absolute-last-resort, you'll have a happier time of it.

Perhaps I'm being churlish, but I railed at a few things in this article:

If you're concerned about music quality / longevity / (future) portability - why convert your audio collection AAC?

Assuming ~650MB per CD, and the 150 CD's quoted, and ~50% reduction using FLAC, I get just shy of 50GB total storage requirements -- compared to the 63GB 'apple lossless' quoted. (Again, why the appeal of proprietary formats for long term storage and future re-encoding?)

I know 2012 was an awfully long time ago, but were external mag disks really that onerous back then, in terms of price and management of redundant copies? How was the OP's other critical data being stored (presumably not on glacier). F.e. my photo collection has been larger than 60GB since way before 2012.

Why not just keep the box of CD's in the garage / under the bed / in the attic? SPOF, understood. But world+dog is ditching their physical CD's, so replacements are now easy and inexpensive to re-acquire.

If you can't tell the difference between high-quality audio and originals now - why would you think your hearing is going to improve over the next decade such that you can discern a difference?

And if you're going to buy a service, why forego exploring and understanding the costs of using same?
8000 years is basically an eye blink, for evolution and natural selection to select a whole population (through death and differences in reproduction) with those who are thoroughly well adapted.

Yes, humans might be better off for it than we were 8000 years ago, but that's necessarily not saying much.
"Mr. Canfield" here,

I don't know if I would say I was "trusting of authorities" but I'm definitely distrusting now. I didn't bother with FDE because I figured it was more trouble than it was worth for a server that I ultimately don't own and can't control or protect against the oodles of key recovery attacks I'd have to worry about. In the event of a seizure I don't want to be like "hey uh they might have gotten everything maybe not!" so it's just not something I bothered with.

The situation is different now though as the service is being colocated instead of hosted on a rented server, which gives me a lot more freedom what can be done to secure the server against data theft. I'm also hosting with a privacy-conscious host (FlokiNET) I know will cooperate with me and fight bullshit government requests if/when they arrive (not saying what happened with Germany is bullshit, it's yet to be seen and I've been advised not to speculate).

Data theft aside, the service is in a more secure position it's ever been in. There's comfort in that, at least...
> This is why docker containers are composed out of other containers. You use an elasticsearch container as a basis and extend it out

My limited experience is that this recreated all the worst properties of single-inheritance subclassing. In particular, a lot of subclassing for construction.
> Roosevelt was fooled too. This is what he wrote to one of his diplomats in 1943, before the war was over: "I think that if I give [Stalin] everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace."

That quote is unbelievable for someone so experienced in war and politics (but I see it has a good-looking cite in Wikipedia) Thanks. Wow.
I wish that Debian installer (and other distributions) would have encryption on as default, especially if the installer ask you if you intend to install it as a mail server. Users are entrusting their communication to the server which means that the sane defaults should address their need for privacy and control.

Law enforcement always operate on what is easiest and cheapest. A common practice seem to have been established to raid a data center and take anything that could be valuable and then have it put on the backlog to be sorted in the next 5 years or until statute of limitations. By adding encryption to the situation, its possible to change the economics so its more economical to go through a judge and compel the service provider to provide the specific record that is being requested.
It's worth noting that Docker is not the only containerising system for Linux.

Just as assuming that the limits of MySQL are the limits of relational databases, assuming that the limits of Docker are the limits of Linux containers is mistaken.
The entire model was totally different. Door games were usually shareware. Authors wanted sysops to pay a registration fee, and they used different tactics to encourage that. Sometimes the game had extra features crippled unless you registered; sometimes there was a time limit after which the game would be unplayable if you didn't register. But note that the registrations were paid by SYSOPS rather than the individual end users. (Though sometimes users on a BBS would chip in together to help their sysop register a favorite game)
Hm, interesting topic to pick. What kind of alternatives do you imagine?
Can't pick just one comment to respond to. Short version: y'all are bonkers.

Assuming that home prices can only go up is harmless when that mortgage is manageable. But holding on through several business cycles is problematic when debt service is a high proportion of income. If you miss a few payments you'll learn that you never really owned the home.

Again, the harmless part I mentioned applies to many places but certainly not London.
Well... that might be a reason why it's popular. I think the very snappy boot up process for a container is also very appealing. For example, t2.micro's on AWS seem to take at least 30 seconds which is frustratingly slow if you're changing stuff often but only touching application/service dependencies.
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I use docker to build a particularly complex (at least to me) NDS project. I do this because I regularly develop on Windows or Linux, so do my friends, and none of us have simple working arrangements. The toolkits for NDS are a bit of a pain to set up, and I want the source for my project to be usable by anyone in the community, regardless of what platform they use, or what changes happen to the development tools over time.

Thus, docker. It lets me figure out compile-time libraries and dependencies once, ever, on one platform. (Debian base.) Then magically everyone else on the team can just hit up the build script, which calls into the docker image (building it first if needed) and viola, project built. It's not nearly as efficient for compiling and making frequent changes, but in our case, the lack of complex setup and differences between build environments is worth the extra overhead.

I think there's something to be said for Docker as a development tool in general; it's nice to be able to play around with development libraries without (a) cluttering up my main machine's list of installed packages, or (b) spinning up a virtual machine and sapping my workstation's RAM.
I've used this thing to reduce the size of scikit-learn's TfidfVectorizer, which stores a giant dictionary of words --> occurrence counts, and have seen close to 10X memory reductions. Great project!