skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There could be some fishiness to it. However...

One of the things I noticed right away is that the therapeutic programs prescribed to the patients patients in the study combined autophagy/ketosis (fasting 12 hours at night), low-glycemic diets, daily exercise, stress reduction, and sleep optimization.

A recent paper [1] concluded that "[...] the term 'type 3 diabetes' accurately reflects the fact that AD represents a form of diabetes that selectively involves the brain and has molecular and biochemical features that overlap with both type 1 diabetes mellitus and T2DM."

Something to think about.

[1] De la Monte SM, Wands JR. Alzheimer’s Disease Is Type 3 Diabetes–Evidence Reviewed. Journal of diabetes science and technology (Online). 2008;2(6):1101-1113. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769828/
Ask HN: Is unethical or nonmoral only way to create and grow startup?
There are so many startup that participate in unethical and/or nonmoral practices. Many YC startups are forefront of it. In fact to put in President Underwood's word ( House of Cards ) it is "kill or be killed in politics" that is practiced by many startups.

Here are few examples - Uber calling Lyft rides and canceling it to affect their supply.
Uber disregarding local and city laws.

AirBnB spamming continiously all users who posted on Craigslist

Homejoy refusing to give employee status ( and eventually shut down )

Facebook - a stolen idea and later experimenting with people's emotional response by modifying their news feed

Google - Modifying search results in favor of those who buy from ads from adsense.

There are many many examples of such activities. If you are creating something, is "Hack" aka "FUCK YOU I WANT TO SCALE" only way to grow ?

I am leaning towards the understanding that , Yes, this if not only, rather fastest way to grow.

Life is short - PG
I was helping out at a coder dojo, and it's typically scratch. I was helping a kid with his code in batch (I can't make this up, he was writing a simple game in batch). In talking with him, I mentioned that python would be a good next step. He indicated he installed python, but didn't know how to use it.

I showed him how to run it, and then I showed him turtle. His mind was blown, and that's all he did for the rest of the time.
There is a very strong, unmistakeable relationship between democracy and quality of life, by almost any measure

What relationship is that exactly? I haven't run a regression or anything, but eyeballing lists seem to show a link between a high GDP/capita and quality of life.

Singapore and Hong Kong are both pretty rich, have high quality of life but aren't very democratic. They generally rate higher for quality of life than more democratic but poorer countries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_D...
What's productive to me isn't always considered productive to society, but I do "objectively productive" things like exercising and personal projects.
Yes I can. My personal reasons are, when coding on a laptop with no secondary screen you can take advantage of transparency to see realtime updates (behind) without switching windows. Or at times to read some crazy long command from the docs and type it at the same time. I do this with VIM, though I can turn it on/off with iterm cmd-u
> I'm curious how having this data in the cloud could ever be considered more secure than local storage

It's not, I didn't mean to give that impression. It increases your attack surface, which is a tradeoff that 99.99% of users are happy to make for the convenience of having instant and strongly secured access to all of their passwords from anywhere.

I meant to point out that this is no different than how the vast majority of 1Password users configure their database: with Dropbox syncing.

For me, this is a required feature to using a password manager. If you do not need this feature, local storage only is better. However, I'll argue that if you have that level of concern then you should also not be using any closed source password manager in the first place.
Evolution produces promiscuous reuse of component parts, and everything is linked to everything else: a cell is a bag of interacting feedback loops in solution. At a detail level, researchers still only have a sketch of the high points of cellular biochemistry. Any particular protein may have numerous roles, and scientists continue to uncover new important roles for even very well known proteins, those studied heavily for decades in some cases.

Modeling is prevalent and helps. Deducing function with any accuracy requires much better and more comprehensive models of cellular biochemistry, however. Those models lie decades of work from here, meaning that altering genes and watching the outcome in mammalian cells and individuals will be the primary mode of exploration and validation for a while yet.
To add to this slightly, The race detector built into Go is fantastic and very easy to use (simply "go build -race")
To me it is in the same league as those "theories" that support intelligent design that run along the lines of "Well we can't prove God didn't do it" and Ancient Aliens theories where that manic guy with the crazy hair says the same stuff.

Filling in knowledge gaps with the the word "aliens" is a laughably childish approach to science in my opinion.
Can we get this title changed? It seems excessively click-baity while not making sense. If comets could explain it, it wouldn't be an 'alien megastructure' star, right?
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I've used almost this exact pattern (in Go) for a data normalization system. Considered sharing the code, but "never got around to it". What I built actually closely resembled node.js's streams.

Really convenient when you've got various chains of transformations that need to be combined/reordered/dropped while processing streams of data.
Comparing 2 wildly different countries with wildly different cultures and histories and attributing the reason one's better than the other to a singular property is absolutely meaningless.

And the answer to your question isn't very obvious. There are many reasons to pick either answer. I'd guess for an individual the answer would depend almost entirely on their personal value system (e.g., someone very religious, or someone who values having 2 or more kids very heavily would almost immediately exclude China from the equation. On the other hand, there are few values which would lead to someone immediately eliminating India as an option).
> In middle school and high school, what the other kids think of you seems the most important thing in the world. But when you ask adults what they got wrong at that age, nearly all say they cared too much what other kids thought of them.

That doesn't mean they were wrong when they were kids.

On the one hand, we want to believe the adults because they have perspective and experience. They were those kids. But on the other hand, we should also believe the kids because they are actually living it.
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This rule is one of many that make Hong Kong better for visiting mainlanders and worse for the actual locals living there. For decades the escalators ran perfectly. Nowadays, it just takes one yokel with a suitcase to block an entire escalator, oblivious to the fact that there is no one on front during rush hour. Unfortunately, the HK population is quite shy and timid in general, and these things go unpunished.

The rule is a sad attempt to make this situation the status quo. When this isn't happening, people walk on the escalators all the time. London is silly to take an example from this.
I'd be curious to understand the downvotes. I felt I gave this essay a very objective treatment.
The above is completely correct.

In addition to this, there is a lot of `reflect` usage. This in and of itself isn't really a problem, but this will really slow down the usage and I imagine there are relatively high performance use cases for the observer pattern.

Not trying to discourage you or anything! It is great that you built something and made it available for the world. Just trying to give some hints from someone that has worked with Go a lot (parent has as well!)
> I don't have time for bullshit. I don't build my own PCs, I buy Macs.

It is sad - and disgusting - to see this degree of arrogance in bluntly categorising those who use (or build) PCs (and not Macs) as indulging in bullshit!

I am happy that you have found a useful computer in Mac. At the same time, though, please realise that hundreds of millions of computer users choose otherwise too. And, please do not conclude that they have time for bullshit just because of that!
I remember reading about this story in one of my favorite books growing up, The Giant Book of Strange but True Sports Stories: http://www.amazon.com/Giant-Book-Strange-Sports-Stories/dp/0... .

One of my favorite books. The stories are only a few pages of big text at max. I've occasionally looked into some of the tales to see if there is truth to them (particularly, the Slippery Rock one mentioned in this article) and I have seen some evidence that the book ought not be taken as gospel. But I think I kind of knew that as a kid, and loved it anyway.
Isn't this something you would generally want your WM/Compositor to handle?
> Life is short, as everyone knows

I've never got this sentiment. Life is the longest thing anyone has ever done. Life is long, very long. I think back ten years ago and it seems like an age ago. It was. I'm early 30s and I feel like I've lived a long life; seen a lot and done a lot and had my kicks. That I've maybe got another full 60 years if I play my cards right is amazing to me. It seems like eons.

The only funny thing about time I've noticed is that as you age (and if you read) the past gets closer and closer. When I was a kid finding out people were born in the 1940s was amazing. SO long ago! Now Napoleon's reign seems very relevant and modern to me.
China today, but I'd bet India in 25-50 years.
Alternate point of view here from someone who has done a lot of hiring.

I find this advice really odd because it's a struggle to find someone who can actually do the job and you are always desperate for technical talent.

I have never seen any emphasis placed on cover letters or resumes when screening candidates. Instead it's usually things like online coding tests and phone interviews.

I can see this being more important for executive/sales/marketing positions that require soft skills that aren't easily gauged.
You can fly to Europe round trip ~$700 or cheaper if you look around and are not particular about which city you start in. Why not see it now?
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Awesome yes, but how is it instructive for today? We are talking about completely different worlds.
Iran is an authoritarian country like North Korea. No foreign press is allowed in without first requesting a special permit. Among the information they have to present is who they are and what they are planning on reporting on. This is the first filter.

For example, if you request a press pass to enter Iran and report on the persecution of Bahais, don't be surprised if you are turned down.

But once allowed in, that's not the end of it. They are monitored and carefully managed to only present the positive. Also, who they speak to and what they say and hear is also monitored.

This is well known and routine. Therefore, to think that a choreographed and superficial 'feel good' anecdotal video like Rick Steve's presents anything approaching reality is the height of naivete.
#registered users != #active users

Just saying.
As I understand previously only C1 was used. The range has been expanded now though you'd have to read the code to see exactly what it's doing.

It seems to produce acceptable power draw figures on a ThinkPad X250 in any case.
>"His argument was that technology is the creator of inequality and it can't be stopped."

Not quite. The argument was that technology is a lever that multiplies the differences in productivity between us, not that it is the creator of it.

>"That startups (and stock options) capture a lot of that wealth is a side effect."

Businesses generally capture this wealth. PG has argued in many essays that start-ups are a great path for the most productive of workers to capture the value of their contributions rather than cede them to existing business areas.

>However the counter to the capitalist thesis the most direct way to address inequality is taxation

But is this really what we want? Do we want to broadly discourage all wealth creation at the same time? Or would it make more sense to focus on the non-productive drivers of inequality, rent-seeking behavior etc?

The essay suggested (quite accurately) that actual taxation rate doesn't change much due to tax avoidance issues. Even now, we have what appears to be a very progressive system on the surface. But due to its complexity and many, many loopholes, those with more income pay a lower rate than average in practice. Simply declaring a top tax rate of 90% wouldn't stop this and hasn't in the past.
9/11 terrorists were not from Iran or Iraq, they were Saudi nationals.
These need not be conflicting viewpoints, it depends on how much value you ascribe to certain activities, and how much joy (intellectual or otherwise) you get out of it.

Sometimes meandering in the manner of Vonnegut means your mind has chance to work on other things in the background, and as a result of this it gives you inspiration, etc.

Slightly on topic: Something I realised lately is that a lot of the activities I do are nothing but stress relief. So to have time to do things I want to do (studying, etc) I attempt to limit stress as much as possible, and not add more stress to the pile by accosting myself for the occasional daydream, etc.
The term dates back to the 17th century: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=computer
Apple has a few Swift repo's on their company Github account: https://github.com/apple

Since the Objective-C code of the AFNetworking library was very well written, I expect the Swift version to be of similar quality: https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire

Apple also published a Swift book: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book-series/swift-programming-se...
Live is too short to read this article in full :)
Keeping in mind that PG is a venture capitalist -- as in, a financier -- how should we apply your interpretation of his essay to PG himself? His current job is incubating companies and then collecting returns, so are you saying that PG was arguing that he is the problem?

Edit: s/rents/returns/
This thing is quite hard to use. We had one in office but after some time everybody stopped using it.
If you could manage to give someone gene therapy, they're already screwed.

Consider that the only reasonable mechanisms for gene therapy on grown animals is to infect them with a virus (or something similar). If you can infect someone with a virus, they're already dead.
Most likely they used L1B visas.
One of my undergrad math teachers once held a job as a computer. She liked to tell the story of how she once spent about a week solving a complex integral. The answer turned out to be 1. She said she felt both elated and kind of disappointed.
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I'm surprised that this also doesn't cover spoofing, which I'd expect to see grow more, but it's probably harder to detect if "real" (read: seen in the wild) browser settings are used, especially if done on the http implementation/network level.
I read it as claiming that there are lucky driven people, unlucky driven people, lucky undriven people, and unlucky undriven people. And then that most rich people fall into the first category.

This is totally compatible with all poor people being in the second category, and no poor people being lazy (3rd and 4th categories).

(I disagree with his essay, but for different reasons than this.)
Sure, for some people finding more money might be easier than finding more time. For others, not so much.
This would get you twice as many escalators, twice the maintenance. Here in Washington DC they do a miserable job with the existing escalator fleet, I hate to imagine doubling it.
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The subways in NY are much shallower than in most places in the world (including London I think?). So the stairs aren't so bad there.
Wasn't Yanukovych voted out? I don't think US was involved militarily or otherwise. EU powers could have been supporting pro-EU protests, however.

Libya certainly had serious civil unrest before receiving US support. But it certainly has been going in the wrong direction since the fall of the Gaddafi government.
You can be a counterweight without being an asshole. If not, you're just contributing to the problem.
Sorry, but I don't think some of your assumptions make much sense.

Tube train tunnels are large. If we were developing some alternative method of transport, why would we reserve the entire cross section of current tunnels for single occupancy vehicles? As demonstrated by the Tube itself, much higher densities could be achieved, even with private vehicles, either by having multiple people per vehicle or by using smaller vehicles that didn't require as much space and could run alongside others.

Of course density isn't the only thing that matters. Consider that the average speed of an Underground train is about 20mph. A fit person can run faster than a Tube train moves over short distances.[1] Clearly if you had a system where loading and unloading happened without blocking the main tunnels, significantly higher speeds could be achieved over the kinds of distances a typical passenger might be travelling.

[1] No, really! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH_Z8Ghuq6E
The web works fantastic in a browser but it seems like as soon as you try and port it to a native mobile application or desktop application; you can tell there is a performance difference from native code.
FYI multiple cursors is a big feature of Sublime and Atom. Are you perhaps triggering that without realizing it?
This is the first pg essay I have read and fully agreed with at the end without reservation. Good advice.
Beautiful post.

As a father of young children, and a cancer survivor, these words resonated more with me than anything I've encountered on hn in a very long time -- maybe ever.
The Iran deal has probably saved a lot of money for Americans. What matters here is if Iran honors this deal in letter if not in spirit.

While the Iranian regime is going to hate all things non-muslim the population with good access to other countries and trade is likely to get de-radicalized at much faster rate.
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I do this, minus the "dedicated computer and printer" part. Pretty simple, really. Another option is dedicated smartcards that hold the keys.

I'm genuinely curious. Can you envision any possible distributed internet currency that wouldn't require human interaction for the highest level of security? Keep in mind, the threat model here is someone gaining read access to a few kb of data. With an automated, internet-facing system, I see an airgap as the only reasonable defense against that threat.

If someone gains read access to, say, your bank session cookies, they could also feasibly clean you out. The only difference is the bank might be able to reverse the transaction (undesirable a decentralized currency) or cover your losses (not a bad idea).
I see what you mean, but wouldn't that make PG's point a tautology? If the difference is "productivity," and "productivity" is defined as the intersection of luck and drive that make people rich, then all PG is saying is that "the irreducible core of [economic inequality]" is having come into possession of wealth.

It really seems like one can either read PG's essay as a Randian screed or as poorly argued cant. I saw it as the former, but I can understand reading it as the latter.
Peter Böhm's looking very cyborg there:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/evolution-eyes/img...
I just had to reply. OMG, you are totally stupid and naive.

Please don't breed. Your stupid ilk will inherit the earth and will doom the human race!
In German too. "Rolltreppe" = rolling stairs/steps.
Ask HN: What technologies would you like to invent?
If you are provided with all the resources required,what new technologies would you invent or would like to be invented within your lifetime?
And then Nymag has a Taboola ad section which has titles like "This drug could cure cancer, find out how"... this doesn't help the problem.
One loophole was the use of corporate benefits in lieu of higher pay. So yes, ideally you should organize to capture your value. Either in a startup, or a union, or a country, or a planet. Wealth is not capital. It is human ingenuity.
I think there might be some misunderstanding here so I'll try to be more specific:

I did mention network level blocking in the article but just didn't have enough space to cover all the details regarding how it works in apps. This is why I used the word "mostly" for those apps. Even network blocks can be overcome though when using closed platform apps like Apple News which runs it's own iAds over the same secure backend. However, thanks for the feedback, I'll definitely strive to make things clearer in future content.

As far as network blocking, my comments were regarding 2 issues: how widespread this type of blocking is and how in-depth the blocking will occur.

I do agree that it will increase in usage but as soon as it gets to any major sized organization, the issues of net neutrality/censorship might come up which is why I think it will remain used by individuals with home networks and small businesses rather than large enterprises and network carriers. Considering the use of adblockers is almost perfectly correlated to the ease of installation, I just don't see widespread adoption here of router/network level blocking given the expertise and effort required. Even if the entire HN audience uses it, that's negligible part of the entire online audience.

In regards to the blocking depth, network blocking still works the same as most blocking does now, by using domain/dns block lists. This opens up the possibility for embedded advertising content to come through and while I understand that HTML can be parsed and edited, it's a far more challenging to implement and maintain that kind of filtering reliably. Domain block lists also remove the vast majority of ads so going further in page processing is what I meant as very diminishing returns for the amount of effort involved.
Not just on par, for those of us who want reliable cross platform behavior and gui tools (TortoiseHg), git seems lacking compared to mercurial.

Github is pretty shiny and popular though :|
". The issue is people crowding to the right to make room for the people doing it,"

Yes, the problem is the people crowding right to stand still. People that won't even make the effort to climb the escalator at all should just stay home with fast-food delivery and watch their butts grow. The rest of us have places to go and enjoy making a little effort to get there.

Instead of walk-left, stand right it should be walk right, run left, and stand at home where serious people don't have to waste time queueing behind you.
> then all PG is saying is that "the irreducible core of [economic inequality]" is having come into possession of wealth.

Not quite. He's saying (in my reading) that even if you legislate away all the other sources of inequality (even to the point of wiping out all assets and giving each citizen an equal amount of cash to start anew), inequality would still arise due to differences in personal productivity / drive.

Seems true to me, although entirely irrelevant to the topic of real world inequality.
Josh Smith has several very good ones on GitHub [1], including one related to the development of a Swift based tic-tac-toe game as an end to end process, which he blogged about [2], which is the first article in the series.

[1]: https://github.com/ijoshsmith

[2]: http://ijoshsmith.com/2015/11/27/developing-tic-tac-toe-in-s...