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Your best bet is to learn about the Elo Rating System [1], and then
about the strength of human players throughout history [2]. Keep in mind
that "Elo Rating" is imperfect, particularly in historical context, but
it's still a reasonably solid measurement.

Next up, learn about computer chess, past and present. The main
computer chess wikipedia article [3] is a good place to start. Finally,
start looking at current computer chess competitions [4] and the
programs being used. Whether the claimed "Elo Ratings" of computer chess
programs are realistic, is another matter. Suffice to say, many of the
current programs can beat most human players.

When Magnus Carlsen became the current (human) chess champion in 2014
(FIDE Elo:2882), I recall reading how uses computer chess programs for
practice.

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

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess

[4] http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/
Interesting.

I would argue that from a civil liberties standpoint, the efficacy really doesn't matter, the intrusion onto privacy from such a technology is so great that it essentially grants a total awareness by the FBI into all the citizen's lives as they pursue their 'life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness'. And, if the surveillance is more effective, the ability to control harmless behaviour is more, and thus the infringement is worse.
>Everyone knows that the terrorists will detonate a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl when it's in Denver.

No, no it's gonna be a blimp in Miami!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_%281977_film%29
$57 trillion in world debt is something quite unlike a savings glut. And that is just public debt, and it is growing quickly.

http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock

But in general I agree with your overall statement... everyone talks about China's "ghost cities" as if they are some sort of quixotic or keynesian tomfoolery... but a simpler explanation is simply that China wants to urbanize and grow a middle class as part of the development cycle you mentioned. They probably need a "hard landing" in order to cool off their real estate market and clear out the dead wood of their malinvestment in order to realize that goal.
I thought that approach always worked, but it looks like it doesn't for this article. What gives? I thought that was a requirement from Google that users see what the googlebot sees?
Phabricator for task managment, project management, and code reviews. It's open source, great software, and has a fun personality great for internal use.
I see that its using 'redux-router' which within the last few weeks is no longer the official binding between react router and redux. [0][1] Any plans to upgrade?

0:https://github.com/rackt/react-router-redux

1: https://github.com/acdlite/redux-router
I recommend you read The Fig Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz. You will be quite surprised how completely wrong your view on the subject is.
Thank you and I apologize for offending you.

Both of those studies are too small and too short. The second article even says, "questions remain about long-term effects and mechanisms," so it doesn't address my original concerns. Short-term decreases in blood sugar, cholesterol, and triglycerides are a result of suppression of appetite, followed by semi-starvation, which are the underlying mechanisms of a ketogenic diet, and are not sustainable in the long-term.
> Your automobile doesn't have a clock?

Nope. But I have had cars with clocks, and they were unusable due to:

1. They stopped whenever the electrical system had troubles. So they were either behind or showed what was essentially a random time, because they needed constant resetting.

2. They were either woefully fast or slow.

3. They were digital (no hands) and small, requiring you to peer at them to read the time, taking eyes of the road for seconds.

4. They were accessible through a 'mode' button, which of course I never could remember how to scroll through the modes while trying to drive in traffic.

5. My analog watch I can read in 1/10th of a second with just a flick of the eye.

TL,DR: all clocks in cars suck. Not that they have to suck, they just do because of lousy human factors design.
Red Hat is still open source.
> during a five-year probe of the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation methods

"Harsh interrogation methods", the latest euphemism for "torture except it doesn't count as torture when a Western nation does it".
China purposely engineered its economic growth to capture the lions share of the reward, which leaves China with the lions share of the risk. Moreover with capital outflows at record highs the only money going back into China is sovereign so this shouldn't create a net flight of capital in the west that would lead to a liquidity crisis.

China's been in an economic boom for 37 years and for the most part people don't know what a bad market is. This is healthy for China. It will help shine the light on poor management. The question is whether the CCP will make the necessary changes which are antithetical to their stay-in-power strategy.
This is pretty much a farrago of unsupported claims, but one thing I'd like to note (as a fan of all four languages) is that Elixir is still not as suitable as Ruby for scripting purposes.
Probably the toy compiler I wrote for a c like language: https://github.com/claassen/CmC and the parser generator it uses to parse source code: https://github.com/claassen/ParserGenerator
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The number of humans involved is a FRACTION of the number involved otherwise. That's part of how they command the margins they do.
On-site meetings, catchups, what-if conversations can fill up a good chunk of the week

These are exactly the things you should be charging for - otherwise your clients won't respect your time.
Ring has some UI problems but I hope it'll get better. It's open source and a company in Montreal contributes a lot to its development.

The big problem right now is the scope of the app. They want to do too much at the same time (text, voice and video).

Anyway, I like the effort and I hope it succeeds.
I don't think that's possible, it would be sheathed in extremely thick steel and not something you can just splice onto.
The thing you don't get with Nix is the ability to package software that was developed for some silly legacy distro. Containers embed the required bits of whatever OS the app was built for; Nix requires the app was written for Nix (or written to be autotools-style flexible.) Pragmatically, in the case where the app developer isn't the app packager, containerization wins—I can just slap together a container-image formula that pulls in the e.g. Ubuntu-PPA-only libs the software depends on, that might not be available in Nix's ecosystem.

If you're writing software from scratch, though, by all means, target Nix as your package-dep ecosystem, and make your own software into a Nix package. Nix is a great source for creating "community verified-build" container images, for any "legacy" container ecosystem. Where a Nix package exists, it's exceedingly simple to write a container-image formula sourcing it. Thus, having a Nix package makes the software much more accessible to many platforms.

It would also, as an aside, make perfect sense to enhance systemd with the ability to run Nix "units" that are just references to Nix packages that get resolved and downloaded+built at launch-time. (systemd would still be better off turning those Nix units into container-images, though—systemd relies on containers to provide runtime sandboxing, ephemeral container filesystems, and cross-image deduplication of base-files.)
Student loans are awful because they entice students to take on massive amounts of debt that they will have a really hard time repaying. Taking on a mortgage eliminates your rent cost. Taking on a student loan eliminates nothing.

Additionally, with student loans there is essentially no due diligence on the lender's behalf because the loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. So students are paying a hundred+ thousand dollars for a masters in art history that will have no return (other than intellectual). Compare that to a house, where a bank won't give you a loan if they don't agree that the house is worth that.
Is laughter the right response? Perhaps they have several decades of counter-evidence or question the soundness of the research done supporting the lipid hypothesis? I feel like curiosity is always appropriate.
7 months in ketosis, and I can confirm all of your points. I don't bother with supplements though. Well seasoned meat has everything the body needs.
This isn't on Earth. At all. It's on an entirely different planet. It's in a place you could conceivably go, but it's too hard, and you'd be all alone, on an entire planet. And we sent a robot there. To take photos and wander around. On a different planet that's nothing like ours. And there's a sunrise and a sunset and everything.
I'm currently a month into a ketogenic diet. I've lost 10 lbs so far (moving average, not spot measure). I had done it once before, 5 years ago, for a length of 3 months, where I lost 30 lbs, but then I gained it back over the course of two years after getting married.

Hydration is extremely important in any diet, but this particular diet on me seems to especially need it. I get extremely lethargic if I don't get enough water. I also find I have to force feed myself. To have enough energy and therefore willpower to avoid carb-loaded food, I generally have to eat 50% more than I feel like I "want" when first sitting down to a meal. I find myself getting bored with the food before I'm done.

But it works for me. If I play by the rules, it's the only diet I've been able to see results and thus stick to.

I've been lazy lately and eating a lot of deli meat, so I need to reduce my sodium. Otherwise, I eat a lot of ribeye steaks, porkloin steaks, chicken thighs, eggs (often fried over easy and served on top of the steaks), peppers, onions, broccoli, spinach, romaine. Small amounts of cheese, beans, and tomatoes. Lots of spices.

And that's about it. Probably most of the weight loss is the fact I'm not drinking beer or eating cheeseburgers all the time. An ounce of lean protein is only about half the calories of an ounce of bread. Does one feel different than the other in the stomach? I think I'm probably de facto calorie reducing. But whatever. I don't care what the mechanism is. Leave that to the researchers. I just care that my knees don't hurt as bad and I have more energy.
-> It all started in 2013 when Microsoft employee, Sean James, who served on a US Navy submarine submitted a ThinkWeek Paper.
> It's also puzzling why one would not prefer the only diet clinically proven to reverse heart disease, the top cause of death in the US.

Because bacon is delicious.

Mmmmmmmmm.
If you save another dollar in the bank, that's another dollar of global debt that the bank owes you - it's how the accounting works.
And yet, people will continue to praise people like Bernie Sanders. Centralizing government authority does not make the world better.
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It is a bit of a bait-and-switch since no other CPU feature works this way and Intel never mentioned this "feature" in all their years of disclosures about SGX.
> Perhaps they have several decades of counter-evidence

They don't. At best, they are armed with a few dozen recent, biased, cherry-picked publications with illogical conclusions, which I'm happy to pick apart if anyone can actually cite them.

The downvotes only affirm my point - people would rather be in denial than search, find and read the research for themselves, and admit they had been fooled.
I don't get it. If this is all about heat, I would think that putting the data center beside the ocean and then pumping seawater around to cool things would be far easier than sinking the entire kit. Even if they really really want to be underwater, I'd assume digging an artificial lake and pumping water in and out would be easier than dealing with an actual ocean.
Obviously overstated but not a completely untenuous position.

1. Since it is basically Erlang with a better syntax and a few superset features, then the contention is pretty much a given in this case.

2. The fact that it is something like 40x faster than Ruby and the syntax leans on Ruby a fair bit, it makes a good case here too, although I would argue there are a few bits of syntax that aren't so clean, and, being functional, it isn't as easy to program. (Prepare for a lengthy learning curve.)

3. As for Clojure, I think you'd be hard pressed to convince the brotherhood of lispers, but you might get away with calling it a push.
I don't really get that part. You have everything needed to build it yourself (and so host it) on the wiki [0].

Also, everytime someone builds something now, it seems to be the first comment out there "it needs to be self-hosted". I get that this is a security oriented communication app, so it needs to be audited and open sourced so we can trust it, but now that this part is OK, people are finding something more to ask: the self-hosting part.

0: https://projects.savoirfairelinux.com/projects/ring/wiki/How...
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Well, I understand why the reviewer did not feel the need to make a scientific rebuttal out of a book review. It was not the reviewer who convinced me by the way, I had a look at this book myself. And the claims made compared to the studies cited to support those claims, it's fraudulent, I can't put it any other way.

I will not be able to convince you. Nutrition for many is such an integral part of who they are, that it is similar to criticising someone's religion and they are deep believers. If it works for you, I congratulate you (and I mean that, honestly). Nor do I want a debate in which everyone cites studies left and right that he has found on the internet, and then it is my job to go through dozens of them to find out exactly what they are saying and assess their methodological quality. I don't have the time right now, nor the motivation.

Let me just say:
Science is hard, studying nutrition is very hard and especially regarding nutrition, there are so many things to think of and to take into account. And nutrition is also an individual thing, I doubt there is a one-size fits all. I was not the one speaking of truths where in reality we should be more careful about such claims.
Same here, really great as it packs a lot. The new Gitlab 8 with the CI integrated is great as well but we preferred Phabricator for the extended feature.

Ultimately we decided not to embrace fully yet the Phabricator CI (harbormaster/drydock) as it's been changing a lot (it's a prototype after all) and breaking frequently so we have a mix of Harbormaster and Jenkins which works very well.
China recently and Japan from 1960-1990 took very similar paths to prosperity:

Click on the max timeframe for the first charts below to see the similar growth curves:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/china/gdp
Can I say: people seem surprisingly emotionaly invested in arguments for or against certain diets.
I expected more presentation of data and less ad hominen from HN on a subject that as far as I knew wasn't the most contentious our society was facing.
> I once solved a thorny problem in some rather complex XSLT by adapting a technique that's quite normal in Forth, but would be considered downright weird in many other languages.

I'd be very curious to know what technique you used here.

I sort of stumbled on Forth recently, and while I'm not sure if I'll do anything with it, I like the philosophy behind it more than any other language I've yet found.
>It's also puzzling why one would not prefer the only diet clinically proven to reverse heart disease, the top cause of death in the US.

Because it really isn't. The dietary recommendations we get from the USDA are soiled with non-scientific politics (see: http://goo.gl/bjk0Ik). Moreover, the state of nutritional epidemiology is absolutely abysmal -- even worse than social psychology -- so you have to be very careful about which papers you take seriously. The fact that it's still possible to publish studies relying on BMI is a disgrace, as is the fact that they're still applying linear models to body-mass/mortality curves, which are known to be U-shaped.

Moreover, if you were to go on pubmed instead of pro-vegan sites, you'd find plenty of papers that raise serious questions as to the link between various types of fat and CHD (not to mention glycemic load and all that other jazz). Here's a good starting point: http://goo.gl/ObRJAx

Assuming you're serious about health, rather than being vegan for reasons pertaining to animal rights, I encourage you to read both of these papers. In all seriousness, though, I doubt any of this will change your mind, as I strongly suspect you're vegan for other reasons.
Did not work for me.
It's a 20 minute drive from Redmond to Seattle.

It's a 3 hour drive from Seattle to the ocean.
Reminds me a bit of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireworld
length illusion happens higher up the meat stack. You see the picture for what it is, but visual cortex gets overridden. Happens all the time, blue dress, motion blur, saccades. A ton of stuff seen by the eye is filtered out or overruled by upper layers.
Likewise, except my recommendation for you is How Not to Die by Michael Greger, or just see http://nutritionfacts.org
I'm aware - I worked there. But it's pretty close - certainly not far enough to be oblivious to the ocean
You can set the github tab size via query parameter [1]. The Doom 3 code formats quite nicely then [2].

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8833953/how-to-change-tab...

[2]: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3/blob/master/neo/game/a...
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Casual observation, but hackers seem to gravitate toward vegetarian and caveman diets more so than the general population, which is probably why this thread is so frothy.
Hmmm, worked for me.
Well, I do believe there is such a thing as a "well balanced diet" which includes food from all groups.
Well, that's what happens when you put the former head of Homeland Security in charge of a university.
To the downvoters:

mwfunk is making the incredibly exclusionary statement that human beings should not (and that he does not) take pleasure in the pain and/or misfortune of others.

We can infer from this things like:

* mwfunk does not chuckle when a series of unfortunate and highly improbable events results in someone suffering very minor injury.

* mwfunk enjoys almost no comedy, because the vast majority of humor revolves around the retelling of stories where at least one of the participants has been harmed in some way, however minor.

* mwfunk does not feel any form of pleasure when a Bad Guy has gotten his comeuppance and is now being punished for the wrongs he inflicted on others.

It seems rather unlikely that these three points (and the hundreds more like them that could be inferred) all apply to mwfunk. The more likely explanation is that mwfunk is speaking from a rather high horse, and hopes that we groundlings can't hear when he chuckles at a rather good joke in a stand-up skit.
These sorts of problems wouldn't exist if *nix didn't think everything is a file...
Please, not Gary Taubes - see http://plantpositive.com/1-the-journalist-gary-taubes-1/

The second paper you've linked, the systematic review, is actually mostly in favor of a vegan diet. How does that raise questions about consuming animal fat and CHD?
I did a couple of months and quite liked it. Couple of downsides/notes.
1. I do a lot of sport (sprints/track & Field) and it's no good for the dynamic sports as I found out. Energy from fat explosive events because the free fatty acids can’t produce ATP quickly enough. Carbohydrate metabolism occurs faster that fat metabolism, refilling ATP stores quicker, and improving short range (10-60 seconds) recovery better than Fats. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/uosc-fts06021...
2. You're thirsty a lot - just keep your fluids up.
3. Your partner may not appreciate your acetone breath
4. Eat too many nuts and you'll probably get an itchy bum!
How good are various states at choosing “good” presidents?
I live on Lake cochituate in natick. The fish still contain unsafe levels of toxins from a Natick Labs accident on the bank of the lake in 1984. Interesting choice of project name.
I know that Elixir isn't supposed to supersede Erlang, and Jose Valim had made it clear that he wanted to create a community that could also benefit Erlang users. For many, Elixir users won't have to even touch Erlang. But for some, this new language community is a great stepping stone for those who want an easier path into Erlang.

Making broad and dominating statements shaming other languages is truly not one of the community values.
Intel gives a fuckton of information to any and everyone, they submit code to the TianoCore project, they pretty much bend over backward to say, "here, take this, make your stuff not suck." The UEFI forum's pretty similar in access to tools and specifications. This all comes down to a race to the bottom for coders because software's a liability to a lot of the companies developing hardware, even if things are handed to them pretty much on a silver platter.

Poke around Intel's firmware developer center http://firmware.intel.com/develop . There's pretty much everything there you need to make a firmware that isn't terrible, but companies will find a way to provide one anyway.
You saw the part in the original link about how Liberty Reserve laundered the proceeds of credit card fraud and identity theft, right? How is that the government's fault?
That is not an example of how weak our brain is. That is an example of how incredibly intelligent our brain is.

If you saw both tables in the real, physical, natural world, because of the effect of perspective, the table on the left is indeed physically longer than the width of the table on the right. Our brain is correctly inferring this from perspective/trigonometry. The visual system is designed to correctly interpret the natural world, not correctly interpret lengths of line segments on a slide. This illustrates how hard it is to create computer algorithms that robustly infer 3D from 2D (this inference requires taking cues from shading, perspective, etc.)

Almost all optical illusions are examples of the strength, not weakness, of the human brain.

EDIT: I've emphasized the word "natural". The problem with the below examples of "illusions" constructed in the physical world is this: what do you expect the brain to do otherwise? When you see a scene in the world, is it a weakness that our brain discards the (extremely unlikely) possibility the scene is just a massive hologram five inches from your eyes, or a meticulously painted and lit cardboard scene? I don't.
Good point - it should definitely be dismissed without any further explanation. What possible relevance could anything from 18 months ago have to today?
I'm not sure what nitrogen has to do with humidity. I don't think anything. If humidity was the problem there are other ways to deal with it (the water doesn't come from nowhere, and once it's gone, you won't get any condensation anymore).

Sounds like (pressurized) nitrogen had more to do with increasing the air density for heat transfer. But I still don't know why they chose nitrogen.
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In an ideal world yes. In realworld, many "founders" are not there because of any great skill to competence. I now a couple that are just rich kids playing with a few million of family money. They hire their friends and work on getting investor money to keep the party going, but nobody has any real hope for the long term. Being involved with a tech startup is almost a fashion trend for some people.
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