skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that kids that grew up without a healthy approach to food become the very parents that perpetuate the behaviour; they just don't know any better because they haven't been exposed to good eating habits, either at home, on the tv or at school.

It's a social thing. The parents are clearly responsible for educating their kids, but as a society we shouldn't think it's OK to advertise and serve dangerous crap to kids and just assume that this doesn't affect behaviour (the very purpose of advertisement is that it affect people's behaviour, I always found it strange that we then blame them for being influenced).
You have to start very early to educate kids senses to appreciate flavours more subtle than fat, salt and sugar.

When Jamie Oliver attempted to change the horrendous 'meals' served to kids in the UK, he hit this very issue: lots of kids preferred to eat their crisps and junk food rather than the balanced, healthy and tasty meals prepared for them by a top chef (meals that didn't cost more than the crap they were usually served).

Contrast that to the meals served in schools in France: they are balanced, varied, there is always some choice. You will always find a choice of starter, main course, cheese/yoghurt and dessert. These kids find it normal to eat their vegetables.
Parents wouldn't have it otherwise.

In France at home, most people actually cook. Everyone orders pizza once in a while, but the vast majority of meals are actually cooked from fresh. It's not a money thing: you can get cheap produces. It's a cultural thing: cooking is fun, it's a skill people pass down the generations, it's time well spent, it's something to be proud of, it's a part of normal life.
Don't assume your local laws apply everywhere in the world. (Hint: they probably don't in Finland, which allows private copies)
This raises some interesting points, and I agree in part.

I think docker makes sense in some cases, single, compiled binaries that adhere to 12 factor app standards, I'm all for putting in a docker container. I would then run them on a PaaS, if the reasoning is sound. I am working on a project doing this currently.

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. Doing something like this has caveats, becomes confusing and when you look into it, crazy.

I am fed up of the hype and people thinking that docker is the silver bullet that solves all problems, and should be used for everything.

Ultimately, I feel like a lot of people don't understand how docker works under the hood, and what it takes to deploy and operate applications in docker containers in production. The result of this is mostly scary.

I feel like I don't have to go into details about security, entry point scripts, gosu, multi processes, logging, sketchy build processes, mounting config volumes, persistent storage, layer caches, networking, links, SDN and more. These are some of the things you have to work with with, around or avoid with docker, they are the issues people are not aware of, or don't yet understand.
This is a very poorly written thinly-veiled rant along the lines of Mike Church's paranoid fantasies about how bad programmers have it.

I can't believe people are upvoting this. Are people just upvoting without reading?
> "unconventional" (1) and less charitably as "crank" (2) and "woo" (3)

those are socially defined terms (i.e. they don't say much about the validity or invalidity of a theory). only the facts & the system that ties the facts together.

the thing is, many of our "facts" poorly constructed assumptions. one has to be discerning & not afraid of ambiguity, nuance, & unknowns. i recommend to not lock yourself into a predefined box.

from your perspective, you don't see this as a "rebuttal". from my perspective, i see it as a rebuttal. ad hominem techniques are not evidence for a position.

i'm also open to neither of these models as being correct.

indeed, we choose what we are skeptical toward, based on our existing bias...
Fuel cells aren't just about cars.
Shameless self promotion, Pachyderm is a slightly different approach to this problem.

https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm
> Lower quality content results in monetization becoming more difficult, and thus prevalent. More prevalent monetization leads to ads

Don't you mean scarce not prevalent here?
And I paid $5 for 540GB worth of downloads from naughtyamerica.com
It might be, but it is also a shared culture. People like to work with people who have a shared background and understanding.

The natural sciences are similar in that you have to have a PhD to be taken at all seriously even though most of the time there is really no difference between a person with a BSc and 5 years of experience and someone with a PhD.
Most issues are people issues.
The issue with kids having lunch boxes prepared by their parents is that the kids are completely dependent on their parent's abilities to serve them a balance diet.
They don't get a chance to try and discover anything else.
Are you trying to say that the OP was not allowed to back up their own CDs? I have several boxes of space wasting CDs of my own that have all been ripped in lossless, and feel somewhat insulted by that notion. Note: I live in Australia, a somewhat less insane country for DRM than the US (AFAIK).
> The French attitude is "we live to eat"

I guess you've never been to Italy ;)
Like you said, a good cautionary tale. Even this incident, although definitely rough, isn't that bad compared to what can happen if you scale a full infrastructure improperly, or just overlook something involving a software-based business. Just a couple of months ago, a test EC2 instance that had been forgotten about got spun up by a very archaic piece of code, and ended up costing the guys I'm working with quite a bit. Always RTFM (especially AWS pricing docs) carefully, or feel the burn.
In the case anyone like me was confused about their use of the term "scale invariance", I'll say that for physicists, as the name implies, scale invariance deals with a symmetry of a system under a change of scale, say of the dynamics or the lagrangian[0]. However, it seems that a quick 10 second google seems to imply to me that neuroscientists and the like use scale invariance to refer to self-similarity[1]. This might be what the author means here.

[0] Specifically, a scaling of the system corresponds to a simple scaling of the Lagrangian. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_invariance#Scale_invaria...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_invariance#Fractals
Would you really go all electric if you didn't have access resolved at your residence? Seems like a headache you'd always be managing.
The same could be said about electric cars which are powered to a large degree by electricity from fossil fuels.

The key aspect is that electricity decouples production from consumption.

The same can be done for hydrogen, i.e. one group of people can work on optimizing the hydrogen-electricity conversion while another group of people focuses on optimizing the renewable-hydrogen conversion.
Anyway what's the alternative prediction? If you don't take predictions from the experts, who do you ask for predictions? Lay people? Just make stuff up? It's the best we can do.

One way could be to come up with one or more plausible, step-by-step stories for how AGI will be developed, then model how long each step might take to happen. This would open things up to discussion and criticism instead of having to take the word of experts as gospel. It still wouldn't be scientific, but at least it'd be closer.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/data-ret... and https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/data-retrieval-policies-aud...

were linked elsewhere in the comments.

Edit: By user?id=re.
tehthread
that's common in many European countries, especially southern countries.
What they call lunch in France, in Italy we call it "a snack" ;)
I use Infrequent Access Storage for backups, through a tool called duplicity (or more aptly, I use a GUI front-end for that tool called Deja Dup). Instead of uploading every individual file, it gathers them into 25 mb .tar files & uploads those along with an index describing where each actual file is. That has made the requests negligible for me.
Depending on what you use it's not much lock-in. In most cases you'd delegate the handler to some package/library anyway so you're just interpreting the Lambda "event" and "context", much like writing the bulk of your HTTP handlers inline is usually a bad practice.
Actually it is more the other way around. The last 6-8000 years or so we have been genetically adapting to our historically poor diet. The average peasant has been eating nothing much more than a very limited range of grains and most of us have become pretty well adapted to this diet. This is one of the ironies of the palo diet craze.
Real things get lost in hype cycle, as it is said right tool for right job.

If you are looking for lightweight container VM use LXD. This let you use saltstack, ansible, chef or puppet etc. CM for system management. Same configuration can run on bare metal, VM based vagrant on desktop or cloud services like AWS, Azure, Google or many others.

If you are looking for application containers running single daemmon use docker (I am not using the term process since many daemons fork multiple processes and docker still call it single process).

Docker by default doesn't yet support unprivileged containers which poses security risks on multi-tenant system so can only be used with added overhead of virtual machine in AWS, Google, Azure etc. But its still good for continuous integration and development given hype resulted in integration of many tools around it.
> Occams's Razor

precisely why i find hancock's model more compelling. it better fits occam's razor. if you look at the models in more detail, the bugs become obvious

> trumps any vague theories about comets

the evidence is mounting & more attention is being paid. like software, social,geological,archaeological,etc models are a developed system. studies are being conducted that show things like a layer of nanodiamonds across "50 million square kilometers across the Northern Hemisphere at the Younger Dryas boundary".

here are some models that were once "vague", "woo", "controversial"

the earth being 4.5 billion years old, plate tetonics, the earth orbiting the sun.

> But the archaeological evidence is looking pretty good at present

funny how all sides declare victory with their "evidence" ;-)

http://www.theironsamurai.com/2015/10/03/clovis-comet/

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014368/nanodiamonds-are-foreve...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/09/130910-comet...

note the "absence of a crater" is explained by the comet impacting the ice cap (a thick layer of ice) during the younger dryas period. seems worthy of consideration...

i encourage you to look into the methodology of radio carbon dating & other technologies; also look into the advantages/disadvantages of each technology...
This article seems to suggest science is hopeless when we can't conduct randomized controlled trials. I don't think that's fair: the methods used in econometrics for learning from quasi-experiments (e.g. natural experiments, regression discontinuity) seem like they would be perfectly good for studying nutrition too.
Interesting that the cure for scurvy is used as the example of the first clinical trial. The story is an instructive one, since the real reason for the cure was not understood, leading to the cure being lost for ~150 years, due to a variety of bad assumptions, eg that it was the acidity of the fruit that was preventing scurvy. This lead to lemons being replaced with limes (that had far less vitamin C but were more acidic) because they could be sourced from within the British Empire rather than outside.

Long article here:

http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

and shorter summary of above here:

https://lonechemist.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/82/
This has been a great read! It seems to me that clinical medicine and medical research is in need of some serious computing power to help sift through all the data and come up better diagnosis and treatment of common or rare diseases.

Actually does anyone here know which field in CS deals with this sort of thing? And what study/learning path one would have to follow to make meaningful contributions?
Is that necessary? They report a checksum for every file when you request an inventory.
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Yeah, Hetzner also has this strange habit of spitting out SQL errors when you put apostrophes into forms on their website.

I'd avoid them.
This is a problem even with EC2 unfortunately, maybe less so, and you can actually do something about it which is nice haha. At very least boot up a new node etc. There's definitely a certain amount of trust required for them to do a good job, but frankly having their team of developers on my side is great for a single person team, so far at least. I'll definitely write about any issues I have in prod.
Listen this, it might help: https://sivers.org/ml
You can deal with this (or, at least, this is how I deal with this as a parent) by reminding children that there are only twenty-four hours in a day, and everyone sets aside some goals[1] while pursuing others, so that they have autonomy to decide what their most important goals. What I've learned as a parent after bringing up four children to at least teen age is that I fare better when I remind my children that they don't have to be like someone else, but they will tend to be happier if they work toward better at something tomorrow than their former selves were yesterday. They largely get to decide what to be best at, based on their interests. (Their interests are informed by economic reality of the job market to a much greater degree than mine were at the same age.) In other words, there is no particular reason to fear children thinking "I am not as good as Peter," if indeed they do not choose to be like Peter.
> fortunately it is fairly strait forward to cap your data retreival rates.

Amazon has done a great job with this feature. By doing a poor job implementing something for an extremely narrow usecase, in a technology that is outdated and then providing the most complicated pricing structure surrounding every aspect of the product one can't helpbut use the feature: any other provider or service.

Like, wtf would be the usecase for amazon glacier in 2016? I dont think I would put hubdreds of petabytes of sata into 20 year cold storage, and the author of this post certainly wouldnt use it again. The fact that i need to read 2 pages of pricing docs and then the 2 pages you linked to control them because I cant estimate them myself, is a sure sign this is absurd
Can you explain what you mean here? I'm fairly certain it isn't true.
Thanks, I guess I glossed over that part of the article but when I got to the end and saw the original quote I assumed the worst. The title alone is pretty inflammatory in my opinion.
If that were the case, then theoretical physicists and mathematicians would be getting paid high salaries to do what they love, rather than decamping to Wall Street and wasting their lives performing financial gymnastics.

Both supply and demand matter, and the vast majority of coding is something the average person could be trained to do, especially given how accessible the resources required to learn are. The problem is that the majority of people are not interested in spending their lives sitting in front of a computer for 8+ hours/day editing text files essentially reinventing the wheel.
I think the main problem is, for YouTube, it violates ToS so the app usually gets blocked.
Also, bad name: http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/
When that happens I always just click “New Tor Circuit for this Site” repeatedly, until I get one of the other two forms of CAPTCHA, both of which are solveable.
Thanks for clarifying, I guess I missed that part.
Perhaps a naive question but why would glacier try to discourage bulk retrieval? Is it because the data is fragmented physically?
It doesn't download. It just has UI for video; so does Pocket.
> I think almost any idea is a better idea than that.

Okay I'll take that as a "no", then.

Again, this is a fine, not even a tax. Whatever ethical considerations are bothering you about levying fines for corporate criminal behavior are not going to be addressed by handing over the fines to some third party instead, or whatever you're going on about.

Frankly, they could take the money collected from the fine and launch it into a heliocentric orbit, for all I care, because the primary aim of levying the fine in the first place i.e. as a punishment for criminal behavior is still achieved.
I don't even know what all of those words mean exactly (they are your words, not mine). 'Ruinous' in particular would seem to be a difficult one to precisely define. Where one sees ruin, another may see and proclaim justice.

If it is so easy to find sources of these ruinous settlements, as you claim, why don't you list some too?

Try searching for "Argentina IMF", "Zapatistas NAFTA".

[0] http://www.tc.umn.edu/~fayxx001/text/naftawar.html
Huh, that's...surprising. Glad it exists, though, as Glacier definitely is opaque. Thanks for pointing that post out (to you and to `re).
What you're saying (and the somewhat muted point in the article) about advertising is totally true, but I don't think it just applies to children. People are hugely susceptible to advertising, which is why it is, and always has been, extremely effective if done correctly. It's especially disturbing when children are specifically targeted by advertisements pitching products are that demonstrably harmful, but it's not the exception. I think that one of the main reasons that most parents don't heavily discourage or forbid their children from watching these ads is that they themselves aren't aware of the broader picture. In that vein, I think education is just as important, if not more-so, than regulation of advertisers.
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There is a certain sort of HNer who likes to make fun of literary criticism and the humanities more generally. Perhaps this is the sort of literature they appreciate?
FFC :) this is a European product, and since all of the "software" side of things is in your phone this can be available in other regions, and in the worse case scenario you can hack it in yourself.
Any radio equipment which is compatible with FRS/GMRS will work with PMR446/KDR444/FREENET and the likes which legally "support" mesh networking and repeaters.

FFC regulations are pretty much bull in regards to many handheld radio frequencies and pretty much force limitations on communication equipment which doesn't require a fee.
If you pay for GMRS license you all of a sudden can have repeaters etc. which you can't with FRS even tho they share a frequency range.
Wealth of richest 1% 'equal to other 99%'
No, it's not necessary at all, I hope. I probably should have called them just "Par2" files not Par2 checksum files. They aren't just checksums. They allow reconstruction of the original file even after fairly extensive damage. Which isn't likely, so, yes, not strictly necessary, but who knows, could be useful in the what-if scenario. The checksums you mention only help with checking, not with repair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
What are they about then? Stationary applications? Which can be served with station battery packs charged with renewables?
Very interesting. Figured the day would come but the dev finally did it. Re-decentralizing the web is a great goal and with simple demonstrations like yours, we'll get there! Cheers mate
OT: I'm curious about something with electric cars.

In a gasoline car, if you run out of gas at night on a country road in an area with no cell coverage and so need to wait a few hours for someone to come across you, you can at least listen to the radio and use the interior lights and still use the emergency blinkers, because those are powered by the battery.

Suppose you run out of power in a similar situation in an electric. Do the interior accessories and emergency blinkers and the motors run off the same power pool, so everything dies together, or do they have a separate power pool for the interior accessories and emergency blinkers so they keep working after the car can no longer move?
Disagree. There's no point in wasting time refining the process of burning natural gas into the process of cracking it into hydrogen, when you can simply cut out natural gas entirely and use solar, wind, hydro, and utility scale battery storage.

Fuel cells are a dead end, except possibly in space travel.
So expensive? Can you please provide some data / your usage to back you statement?
Pricing plans FOR CONSUMERS should always be straightforward and easy to understand. This is not a consumer product.

Pricing plans FOR B2B should model, as effectively as possible, the underlying costs -- this allows the provider to offer the lowest possible pricing for the services that cost them the least to provide, with expensive services priced accordingly. As others have mentioned on this thread, utilities are really, really good at this -- they come up with extremely complex rate plans for their largest customers that help them achieve whatever economies they are aiming for, for example incentivizing customers to provide level-loading (which is effectively what Amazon is doing in this retrieval scheme).
I would rather say "goodbye docker", period. Having used it a bit, I have concluded that it is just not a very good or mature tool. Once you scratch under the surface, things cease to be easy or stop working at all. It makes you wonder how it's been this long and nobody stumbled upon an issue that you uncover 30 minutes into tool's use.

Docker does have it's uses, but in the majority of cases you are better off using native OS package and dependency management (RPM/YUM in the case on Redhat-based distros). One very obvious thing is that package managers usually track versions and dependencies and allow for install actions to happen based on the versions delta. With Docker you just replace the whole environment, which is fine, unless some of the data context is outside of Docker.

I think the majority of Docker uses are of a class "I can't figure out how to manage dependencies for a given OS, so I am going to skirt the issue by using Docker".
I've really enjoyed learning about nutrition science through http://nutritionfacts.org, especially in videos about the conflict of interest present in modern research.
We don't actually know how glacier data is stored (though there are several theories from regular s3 to tape robots to experimental optical media).
Know what's funny, life is short, and life is too short for a lot of the crap you'll spend your life doing, but you'll do it anyway because... that's life!
Bioinformatics with extensive understanding of molecular biology. The reality is, you will have a hell of a time getting anyone to loan you tools for meaningful contribution without a PhD.
What a coincidence, I was just playing with this for the first time last weekend! They also have an npm package that can be used for both torrent streaming via node and the browser (https://www.npmjs.com/package/webtorrent). Awesome project.
Square already has a wireless reader which is currently used for chip cards as well as NFC payments (including Apple Pay). This reader does not currently have a mag stripe reader on it, but I imagine it won't be a huge leap to add it if future iPhone and iPads get rid of the 3.5mm port.
My impression: here's an article from people publishing outside of their area of expertise, in a crap journal that has not much to do with their topic, with shady statistics and the implication that people should avoid vaccines (which have been demonstrated to prevent disease).

Why was this even published?