skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we talk about pharmaceuticals, we talk about financial toxicity. Americans spend over $10 billion on nutritional supplements annually [1], most of which have very poor supporting evidence. Should people be able to spend their money how they see fit? Sure. Are they getting utility from it? Not the utility they're hoping for.

1 = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/04/ameri...
Something only two people know about Haml
You'd probably have to insufflate (snort) it. That's the recreational method for most users, at least.
Machine Learning is Fun
OK. That's not really clear from the article. It makes the strange statement that the update function must be called "at a moment when each thread is quiescent – that is, not doing anything else." I don't believe there is any way in C++ to have a thread be doing more than one thing at a time, so if a C++ thread calls update it must by inspection be not doing anything else. Maybe you could restate this. I assumed since this had been stated this way it must really mean that all threads must have reached this state, and one thread must call update.
I would contend that:

(a) everyone universally fantasizes about nonconformity at one time or another (go ahead, disagree),

(b) almost everyone has too much of a stake in their life to actually follow through on it, so they bottle it up,

(c) a number of hobbies exist to "blow off [that] steam" or otherwise find catharsis, but not everyone finds these,

(d) those who troll like this have found their hobby that works for them and are actually more psychologically healthy than those who have not.

Just a theory. I've known some trolls who are easily among the smartest, sanest people in the world, and who are totally normal in all other aspects of their lives. Some are dear friends. This activity has been described in these terms by more than one of them. Countercultural behavior is practically a rhythm throughout history, and trolling is the Internet's counterculture, which can be mean because of anonymity. Some people go too far with it, yes. Some people go too far with anything, though.

My point is be careful ascribing psychological illness to something you do not understand. That is crazy. Trolls don't care what you think. If you and many others respond by calling them crazy, what are you really saying? Think about it. Appealing to a good and decent society that ought to do something about this menace is pretty strange, too.

I have trolled before. I'm not good at it, but I have. I can vouch for the positive feeling it produces and I've come to terms with what that means about me and my self. This is the thesis of numerous psychological works as well as, say, Fight Club (it's uncanny how well that story fits the big points I hit on, including taking it too far and plurality of self, and I don't think anyone disagrees that Palahniuk was onto something).
There doesn't seem to be an option for on disk encryption. I don't want to leave my notes on dropbox or another sharing service in plain text - something that Laverrna has baked in. I just wish Laverna was as polished as this app.
I wouldn't read too much into that. If you can't patent it, good luck getting any sort of medical research funded.
The underlying data is from 2012, pretty sure it is wrong for 2015. Asia (China, India, SE Asia) have seen huge investments in the last few years (post 2012).
Was it a NIH thing or licensing?
Web developers need more homotopy type theory, and to curb their NIMH hypermodularization epedemic.
My Experience – The Entrepreneurial Career Ladder
I think in general, healthy adults should not and usually do not have people they would genuinely describe as "enemies."

I have a couple of exes that, if I see them in public somewhere, make me feel just a bit awkward... our conversations are brief and awkward. But I don't hate them, by any stretch of the imagination.

There are some former bosses and co-workers where things weren't good, they didn't end well, because of a layoff or bad politics in a work situation or being ignored or "thrown under a bus," but again, I wouldn't call it hate. They aren't my enemies. They are just people I'd be very hesitant to want to work with again, or to recommend that anyone work for, or with (although even though I don't think people really change that much, I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt; maybe they are better at it now? I know I am.)

There are politicians I would not shake hands with or sit down to a meal with; people I think should be prosecuted, for their war crimes or corruption. But they aren't my _personal_ enemies.

So... no?

I know there are some people out there who are just really toxic, and will make _you_ their target, or enemy, sometimes for ideological reasons, or toxic family history, or one bad incident when they "flipped a switch" on you and never reconsidered, but I feel like that is their issue, not mine.
It's just as likely that they have done extensive testing and found out that for whatever reason, ads for products you already own still encourage you to buy other stuff.

A lot of assumptions we make don't hold up when you start gathering real data.
URX drives mobile commerce through relevant product ads
Start with the premise that the single most important factor that determines startup success is hiring quality talent, specifically engineers and scientists. High quality engineers and scientists are currently a small percentage of the entire world's population. They are attracted to areas where they can find jobs, and usually stick around universities.

Going with that premise, would you rather start your company in Oklahoma City or Boston? And if you are an investor, would you rather invest in a tech startup in Oklahoma City or Boston?

Finally, as an engineer, I highly value the quality of the area I live. There is literally nothing that could make me move to sprawling city like Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Atlanta, Houston, Phoenix, Detroit, etc. Nothing short of an environmental or man made disaster that made all highly desirable, walkable, densely packed cities unlivable.

And so it is with many people, I'm sure.
Yeah, I was able to reuse a lot of the path tracer code for this.
How is it relevant that they were Jamaican? Why point that out?
The results from ketamine are very impressive, however there is still the possibility that it is due to the placebo effect:

"Consistent with all of the published randomized, placebo-controlled studies with ketamine, we also found short-lived perceptual disturbances26,49,50; such symptoms could have affected study blind. Hence, limitations in preserving study blind may have biased patient reporting by diminishing placebo effects, thereby potentially confounding results. One potential study design in future studies with ketamine might be to include an active comparator such as intravenous amphetamine (a dopamine agonist), which also produces psychotogenic effects."

http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=66819...
Remix (YC W15) is hiring sales and marketing leads
Drive Massive Traffic from Facebook (For Free): A Sumo-Sized Guide
What could this comment mean, I wonder.
The modern JS ecosystem have that enterprise java feel to it of 2010.
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9.8g is actually a perfectly reasonable deceleration value at time of impact. So if it detects 9.8g followed by 0g, it's likely that it has bounced!
The hilariously small sample size of this article and the lack of peer review aside, if you want to try this just for the hell of it, be sure to not buy a bunch of magnesium oxide (the cheap stuff), as the bio-availability is terrible (~4%).

Instead, buy chelated magnesium, something like this:
http://amzn.com/B000BD0RT0
There are benefits to having a pure, native app. Quiver starts literally instantaneously without any lag, partly because it's less than 5MB(!) in size.
Here's a good read from the author: http://yaoganglian.com/2015/11/21/Quiver-3/
LSD Microdosing: Part 1 of my microdosing self experiment
How visualizations give you total control over your software’s release workflow
Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous
You raised a fair point, but filled it with unnecessary rage and derogation.
They make their data format public, so a Linux app could be built.
.. but then you have to run a power cable anyways. Plug this into your usb hub and forget about it.
That's in general but it doesn't necessarily work for that example unless you are talking about a more general classification of a car like a ford or maybe a ford fiesta (do they still make thos? ah the 90's!).

If you just bought a brand new 2016 model BMW 525i there's a good chance that if you start seeing more of them it's because there are actually more of them now. :)
I find myself using brightness/contrast/gamma a lot.
BPA-free plastic accelerates embryonic development disrupts reproductive system
Maybe we should take a cue from John Searle and consider AI an extension of human intelligence? Often, what we call "AI" is really a codification, automation, and scaling of human intelligence. Machine translation is a good example of this.
The output reminds me of Blender's Freestyle plugin. This looks great though because it's not part of a software suite! ;)

[0] https://www.blender.org/manual/render/freestyle/export_svg.h...
The most efficient way of getting vitamin D would be from sunshine.
That's my experience as well. Electron/NW.js is the best option, but 1) it's like designing a website, which can get annoying at times, and 2) the file size :(
That's what many of the surviving *nix's in the world are.
You're absolutely right, and persistent datastructures are exactly the right solution for this problem domain. But that doesn't get round the fact that they are a hell of a lot harder to implement and to understand in comparison to what you had before in an imperative, mutable world (as a UI programmer I now deal with diffing and versioning whereas before I simply mutated variables).
> Do you personally feel more safe, or better, whatever the adjective you want to use would be... about logging in to a remote server that uses software you can read the source for versus software you can't read the source for?

Ah, sorry, I see where the confusion is. This is a different issue entirely:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

Source code wise, the problem is non-free JavaScript served to the client:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

It's desirable for the program running on the server to be Free so that I could run my own (if I chose to do so), and therefore be in control of my own computing. For example, I run my own GNU Social instance.
The superhuman fallacy is the nemesis of all AI research: if it isn't better than the best human who has ever attempted a problem, it is worthless and derisory.

I've done a lot of work on artificial creativity, and am constantly thrilled when code generates something at the level of a creative 3rd grader. But show it to most people and you get "It's hardly a Michaelangelo, is it?"

Frustrating.
There are also a ton of business uses like kiosks, point of sale, and field work. These users aren't going to be upgrading every year, but they are quite sticky.
Pulp Fixing
But then why call it AI? Perhaps the work that it does is not actually intelligent?
KeyBase.io Google Chrome Extension
I really can't agree with you enough. What's troubling though is that any ideas of nationalism are often confused with extreme right-wing or jingoism, largely (and possibly rightfully) due to history. So it sounds bad to even say Japan is a nationalistic society.

But you've hit the nail on the head - and it is something many foreigners have little to no concept of. Being proud of one's cultural heritage and history. Even if that means recognizing the bad stains on the tapestry.

I've recognized the ones who have the worst problem with nationalism are those who are completely full of guilt of their own culture/history.
Interesting article! However, Deep Blue, Watson, and AlphaGo are very different from one another. I don't think anyone deemed beating humans at chess or jeopardy impossible at the time Deep Blue and Watson were built. On AlphaGo the point about generalizing AI is valid, yet I think the author doesn't fully appreciate the novelty of approach described in the AlphaGo paper. Their work advances the field, has more general utility than Deep Blue's chess or Watson's jeopardy programs. AlphaGo paper specifically represents an advance in machine learning algorithms for games in general. As I understand, Watson's new NLP algorithm is PRISMATIC [1]. PRISMATIC is a rule-based NLP system and AlphaGo is more statistical inference/neural networks. Even if AlphaGo's 'policy-network- value-network' framework is not too generalizable, the philosophical implication is that we can build AIs that can mimic 'human intuition'. Jeopardy and chess have lesser components of 'human intuition' than Go. They are apples and oranges. So, I wonder if the author errs in bringing Deep Blue and Watson-Jeopardy into the picture.

In my opinion while Watson-Jeopardy and Deep Blue were 'over-fitting' for Jeopardy and chess respectively, AlphaGo algorithms are more general and over-fits for the larger category of 'games'.

[1] http://brenocon.com/watson_special_issue/05%20automatic%20kn...
It's faster to just drill out the lock. A worker can handle more clients per day that way. Also, they get to sell you a new lock, and install it too. It makes perfect rational sense from the locksmith's point of view.
It is certainly valid, but is also covered by my original case. I just wanted to be explicit about the connection between the posts.
Let me kick off by giving my choices:

BOOK - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/05533809...)

ARTICLE - The Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment (https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin...)

PAPER - Are we living in a simulation? (http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf)
I was trying to figure out if it was some Markov chain built from the article.
Exactly. AI is such a loaded term with high expectations...
Integration Tests with Docker
The Fed Wants to Test How Banks Would Handle Negative Rates
Often the quickest replacement for an `unwrap` is an `unwrap_or` with a sensible default.

Other times where error-handling is important use a `match` there and then. And don't nest the arms of the match instead use the return of the match expression.

On the other hand, I found `try!` pretty awkward. Especially since quite often you need to create custom errors alongside it and can go down a rabbit hole in which you have to read confusing compiler messages from within macros about traits not being implemented correctly, and lifetimes missing, etc.
"In real life, ..."

"His real life and his virtual life were completely separate."

I think we need to stop validating the delusion that the activities one engages in online are somehow not part of "real life".
Comments from the last time this was posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9735358
I doubt it. Responsive design techniques solve a lot of problems regarding flexible window sizes and the multitude of phone screens. Tablets can quite easily come along for the ride.
>I would have had to buy those $50 pants at least 17 more times over the years, spending more than $800, to get as much use out of them as I have from my Moonstone pants. Not only would I have had the cognitive, emotional and logistical drain of perpetually having to replace the old pants, as I’ve alluded to in a previous column, but I would have spent more than twice as much money in the long run.

On the other hand, with the cheaper boots:

1) you could also follow fashion (different style every year or so),

2) you wouldn't care as much about damaging/etc them (like some people e.g. buy an expensive car and then are paranoid about keeping it new and mark free to the point that they don't enjoy it [1]).

3) You would have $250 left on hand that first year (that instead took you 5 more years to recuperate), which, depending on inflation, your needs at the time, etc, might be better than saving $500 over 17 years.

4) And, of course, while this might work for boots and similar ever-same goods, for stuff whose tech progresses rapidly and market is commoditized, e.g. smartphones, the $1000 model you'd buy in a year would end up useless compared to modern devices in 3-4 years, and with no resale value (a twice as capable new model could end up costing $200).

[1] Ferris Buller's friends father would be a typical example.
Sufficiently large integers (and FP numbers too) are directly supported by Go's standard library: https://golang.org/pkg/math/big/
There are analogies but that one clearly went off course. Sarcasm sure invites responses. Here's an analogy about the actual content: Athletic tape while initially effective has been shown among a large population to eventually lead to arthritic states. That would make sense except that persons using athletic tape on their knees for example, already need it because they are tending to have soreness and stiffness (leading toward an arthritic condition already). Doesn't that sound familiar?
Millions of reasons, but the problem is that scientists are not accountable. Especially, if their violation agrees with pre-existing intuition.
As far as I know, Apple can decide to shut down any app on their appstore if they wanted. Refer to the flux incident.
> This can be seen in the marketing/'re-evaluation' of opiates like Oxycontin, where once the establishment type leadership said it was okay, a lot of doctors started writing up scripts with this encouragement, and now the US is in the grips of a horrible addiction crisis.

To be fair with doctors when someone goes along and says "I have crippling back pain" and gets told "You need to lose weight and exercise" they bad mouth that doctor online and then they go to a different doctor.
> People take libraries like lodash – or jQuery, as we analyzed earlier – and insert the whole thing into their codebases. If a simple bundler plugin could deal with getting rid of everything in lodash they aren’t using, footprint is one less thing we’d have to worry about.

If you use Google CDN, why does it matter how big jQuery is? If N people use their own "smaller" M-byte copy of jQuery, browsers will have to download M*N bytes, as opposed to 0 bytes if you use the cached full version. A profound waste of bandwidth.

My advice: Use Google CDN, for less common stuff use cdnjs. Don't adulterate libraries!
Not everyone wants to store their personal notes in the cloud.
The author claims to be working on an native iOS app right now: "An iOS app is currently under development. A web-based viewer (read-only) is also planned, which will work on Windows, Linux, and possibly Android."
http://yaoganglian.com/2015/12/06/What-is-Quiver/
U.S. And Europe Agree to ‘Safe Harbor’ Data Deal, but Legal Fight May Await
Sorry I was vague. I was including VSC in "them".
Free business idea
Saw a tweet by James Tamplin:
Free business idea: Digitizing already digitized content (CDs => Cloud Storage)

Just want to share it with you guys. I think it's a brilliant idea.
The more I read about different applications, the more I think you can't understand them unless you look at the underlying data format.

"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious."

— Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month
Long Dormant, the First Super Bowl Is Resurrected
I run a werewolf bot on an IRC chat. The key to keeping it fun and not dramatic is to reduce the time duration of the game. We also have a forum dedicated to mafia which gets diabolical. But when people are on chat, it's all fun and games and our own inner jokes/memes. Nobody is /really/ pissed off.
It's fascinating that nature has created human-level intelligence using blind randomness, albeit over a period of 1+ billion years.

My theory is that with renewed global focus on AI, we're going to have a lot of minds looking at this problem from various outside perspectives. I believe a breakthrough in AI will come about not from the computer science sphere, but a very unlikely area that will surprise many.
@brudgers thanks for asking. We really started as a review tool for e-learning courses which are primarily html courses. We realized with remote teams and a lot of visual content, it is very hard to share feedback on emails, so zipBoard was born. As we started working on it, we realized that the same is applicable for any web based product that is created. For every iteration, there is a need to gather constant feedback from the stakeholders. It is not always possible to huddle in the same room or to add bug for each feedback. Do share what are your thoughts about the product.
That's an interesting argument, but as the p[rice drops, less companies will be willing to drill it, and that will provide an upward pressure from lack of supply, will it not? At some point I imagine it will stabilize at a new price (based on then demand), I guess the question is do we have models of something like this happening before?
Giving up on people
I'm not a poweruser of Evernote, and maybe not of Quiver either. The syntax highlighting and Markdown support is nice, but the main thing for me is really how quick and responsive Quiver is, compared to Evernote which is buggy, slow and clunky. All in all, I get the feeling the author looks for the same qualities in an app as I do.
I've got a few d3 + maps tutorial videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI_sHchSmdCDH0ooOKSWS...
Starting at #4 in the series I show how to use d3 + mapbox (basically Leaflet) and then d3 + mapbox-gl.
Each video has associated blocks
No idea, but it was and in some ways still is superior.
The Secret UX Issues That Will Make (Or Break) Self-Driving Cars
In August 2014, the Government Pension Fund controlled assets were valued at approximately US$884 billion (equal to US$173,000 per capita) which is about 174% of Norway's current GDP. It is the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
That they're both open source editors built on Electron is just about the only thing that Atom and VSCode have in common.
You can make your own magnesium bicarbonate solution by adding 90 mL milk of magnesia (Mg(OH)2 aq. susp.) to 2 L carbonated water. This has a taste to it. Some people find it unpleasant, but I think it is tolerable.

I have also used magnesium diascorbate.

The anion does affect the absorption of the magnesium, so 1g of Mg in MgO is not going to have the same effectiveness as 1g of Mg in magnesium citrate. Also, zinc supplementation interferes with magnesium absorption. Generally speaking, the aqueous solubility of the compound predicts absorption rate by the body.

MgO and MgSO4 (epsom salt) are cheap, but poorly absorbed. They will have a laxative effect.

Your entire body has about 25 g of Mg in it, and your kidneys drop about 120 mg of it per day into your urine if you are not deficient. Low magnesium cannot be detected by a blood test unless you are abysmally deficient; the best way is probably a urinary clearance test.
i think it isn't that cheap oil is bad for the economy but that cheap oil can be a sign of a bad economy, one where the destruction for the demand for energy has outstripped what should ought to be a tight supply.
it would be nice if you could customize the cursor movements. block travel is something I find essential for editing with atom/sublime.
Can't you just take a pill?