skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I feel I need to be clearer about my position, because it's being misconstrued as being a "race thing" - It's just to do with the fact that Master/Slave is innappropriate when it comes to describing a subordinate relationship. I am certain that the terminology emerged in a context (I'm thinking mechanical engineering for instance) where the slave analogy was a commonplace way of describing this but it isn't any more. Slavery thankfully is behind nearly all of human society now and it should stay there. We need to be making an effort to describe these relationships differently, and to use a set of terms just because "they've always been used" is just laziness. The fact that "some" people are offended by it (whether justly or otherwise) is just a supporting argument for this line of thought - not the sole reason.
A 5 year old can figure out an awful lot.

The 20 to 30 years is what it takes to get to where you are thinking about something new to humanity.
I'm not denying there's a lot of unsubstantiated or over-inflated advertising within the supplement market, not at all. It takes hours and lots of digging into personal reviews and other sources to begin to find things that are both 1) effective and 2) legal. It's not a quick fix, which is what most advertising claims to provide.

If we're talking about wasting money and health though, then I think it's equally important to point out that homeopathy is apparently a multi-billion dollar industry as well in the US ($6B in 2012 [1]) and if we're going to rank things on effectiveness, I'm pretty sure homeopathy is just about on par with drinking water from a clean toilet.

[1] http://www.nutraceuticalsworld.com/issues/2013-07/view_indus...
- Lost 4 kilos;

- Read 3 books;

- Studied a lot of math (according to rescue time, something like 100 hours in Khan Academy); and

- Finished a 45 hours/class discipline in Collge (did an intense program for that).
I found this related article on chelated minerals as a mood stabilizer. Others might find this interesting, too.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11780873

BACKGROUND:
To determine in open trials the therapeutic benefit of a nutritional supplement for bipolar disorder.

METHOD:
The sample consisted of 11 patients with DSM-IV-diagnosed bipolar disorder aged 19 to 46 years, who were taking a mean of 2.7 psychotropic medications each at study entry. Three additional patients dropped out prematurely. The intervention is a broad-based nutritional supplement of dietary nutrients, primarily chelated trace minerals and vitamins, administered in high doses. At study entry and periodically thereafter, patients were assessed with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D), the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), and the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS).

RESULTS:
For those who completed the minimum 6-month open trial, symptom reduction ranged from 55% to 66% on the outcome measures; need for psychotropic medications decreased by more than 50%. Paired t tests revealed treatment benefit on all measures for patients completing the trial: HAM-D mean score at entry = 19.0, mean score at last visit = 5.4, t = 5.59, df = 9, p < 01; BPRS mean score at entry = 35.3, mean score at last visit = 7.4, t = 2.57, df = 9, p <.05; YMRS mean score at entry = 15.1, mean score at last visit = 6.0, t = 4.11, df = 9, p < .01. The effect size for the intervention was large (> .80) for each measure. The number of psychotropic medications decreased significantly to a mean +/- SD of 1.0+/-1.1 (t = 3.54, df = 10, p < .01). In some cases, the supplement replaced psychotropic medications and the patients remained well. The only reported side effect (i.e., nausea) was infrequent, minor, and transitory.

CONCLUSION:
Some cases of bipolar illness may be ameliorated by nutritional supplementation. A randomized, placebo-controlled trial in adults with bipolar I disorder is currently underway, as well as open trials in children.
I believe the main problem with googles cdn is it can prevent Chinese users from visiting your site
> Why should an honest trader pay more for a stock just because Computer that is physically close to one of the exchanges sees his order?

It is not possible to see any traders orders before they execute on any exchange that I know of. Regardless of colocation, custom built asics etc. That people believe this is possible is largely down to a lack of understanding of how exchanges work and the fact that many powerful market participants (hedge funds and ibanks) are natural competitors to HFT firms.

> I don't want to argue with anyone.

I completely understand and commiserate, that said I hope it doesn't count as arguing when you clear up factual incorrectness rather than opinions.
I think you're missing the point. If someone gets off on being a dick to other people in any context, whether it's online or in person, then that person has a psychological problem. They are under the impression that what they do online is not connected with "real life", and they enjoy being a dick to other people. Both of those things are very negative qualities for a kid to have (although not uncommon, because kids), but if someone still has both of those qualities as an adult then yes, it is absolutely a symptom of a psychological problem.
When we talk about healthcare, we talk about financial toxicity. Americans spent $3 trillion on healthcare in 2014 [1], much of which had very poor outcomes. Should the healthcare system get a defacto blank check to charge insurance companies as much as they want? Sure. Are the patients getting utility from it? Not the utility they're hoping for.

1 = https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...

(lol, sorry. $10 billion on supplements is a drop in the bucket.)
Daala's advanced coding techniques – FFmpeg implementation and AOMedia's codec [pdf]
You don't have to be an admin to run emacs on Windows:

To install Emacs, simply unpack the binary package into a directory
of your choice. To complete the installation process, you can
optionally run the program addpm.exe in the bin subdirectory.
...
For instance, you can now run Emacs
directly from a CD or USB flash drive without copying or installing
anything on the machine itself.

I used Code::Blocks maybe 6 years ago. I agree with your assessment. It was so bad, it was the main reason I ditched Windows and switched to GNU/Linux + emacs. After Code::Blocks I thought that IDEs were best avoided. (Edit: For what it's worth, I didn't like Visual Studio any better, I should have used emacs + a Makefile all along.) More importantly, I found compiling OSS Unix software on Windows was just too painful. On any decent GNU/Linux distro everything is set up for you!
>Trolls don't care what you think.

False. Trolls derive joy from the grief of others that they have inflicted. That's what trolling is. See also: Sadism

Being a 'Contrarian' is different than trolling, but that takes some mental work to see how it can be constructive rather than simply a knee-jerk habit to elicit a negative response.
Another titanic red flag is this:

The possibility that magnesium deficiency is the cause of
most major depression and related mental health problems
including IQ loss and addiction is enormously important
to public health and is recommended for immediate further study.

This guy concluded that all depression is caused by lack of magnesium from a sample size of 4 people?
Valley Speak: Deciphering the Jargon of Silicon Valley
The future of virtual assistants lies in them learning children's stories
I don't intend to pick a fight. I am pointing out one deficiency I perceive in this widely shared article.

On the philosophical questions: I think even with the greatest technological advances, the question remains: will we adopt AI? I have seen too many situations where machine learning is not adopted even though algorithms can enable great functionality: usually the reason is lack of financial incentives or simple entrenched human interests (low-grade Ludditism). This resistance will lead to more (to use terminology from the AI debate) paperclip maximizers and fewer general AIs. This is already happening, the future of 2001 didn't happen to be HAL 9000, but an ingenious model and linear algebra algorithm to deliver better search results.
> I think it comes too close to taxing assets for the rich to embrace it.

What's wrong with taxing assets (wealth)? I don't know the full economic implications, but I think it may be more fair than taxing income. Wealth is a much better measure of a person's financial strength. Consider:

* Because we tax income, a person with $1 billion in assets who makes $100,000 pays less tax than a person with $0 assets and makes $150,000.

* Because we tax income, a person who loses all their assets in the housing collapse but earns $100,000 pays more tax than the person whose assets appreciate $1 million but earns only $50,000 in income.

* If we tax wealth, future taxes are much more predictable, enabling more efficient long-term investment and planning. I could make a pretty good guess about what my tax bill will be next year, 5 years from now, etc. The billionaire can make much longer-term projections.

As a rough estimate of the wealth tax rate: One estimate of total wealth in the US is $80 trillion and the federal government takes in ~$3 trillion in revenue. By those numbers, the wealth tax rate would be 3.75% for the average American, if all that revenue were replaced by a wealth tax.
I think we already have that... It's called "bank fees", i.e., depositors pay the bank to keep their money instead of the bank paying interest.
I've been exclusively using netbooks for personal use since they came out. Now that I've switched to RK3288-based netbooks, all the problems I had with the Atoms are long-gone.

I know I'm a minority, but some of us did jump on the revolution and stay.
An effect, from the same charts, which partially mitigates what you're highlighting is that Norway has a totally different balance of exports versus imports:

Canada: Imports $437 B Exports $438 B
Norway: Imports $92 B Exports $147 B
I don't think it's half as bad as you seem to think. My wife's an NP, so I have an inside view of Syracuse, NY's medical situation. There's two issues at hand:

1. The quality of evidence for most supplements ranges somewhere between Bigfoot and Flat-Earth society. That's not to say it's all bad, but it's generally unstudied and unproven.

That being said: it's standard practice to strongly recommend vitamin D supplements for us northerners. That's reasonably new, high quality supplement data and it's not ignored. There's no bias for these types of medical practitioners, the data's just not there.

2. A lot of older docs are untrained when it comes to new studies about various things: pain meds (don't use them), alternative pain management (can be useful), H. Pylori (a proven explanation for stomach ulcers). These docs don't keep up to date. They're otherwise excellent doctors. Most of them care deeply about their patients and are fiercely defensive of them and their care (exceptions abound, but giving people the benefit of the doubt is a good way to live life a lot happier).

There's tons that's wrong with our medical system, try not to generalize it too far.

Also tell your doctor about ALL supplements you take. Some can react terribly with other medications and supplements.
I'm not sure how reputable the journal is that this was published to, and not experienced in determining that.
'An alternative exists': the US citizens who vowed to flee to Canada – and did
Nice product. I've been using evernote for this kind of stuff for a long time.
I have an issue with the load local copy code:

<script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="local_server_path/jquery.min.js"></script>')</script>

In the browser I always end up with a ') at the top of all my pages. I'm assuming this is because the script tag actually closes inside of the document.write instead of the actual end. Am I the only one with this issue? Not sure what went wrong here.
NIH points out that "Early signs of magnesium deficiency include loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and weakness."

And "An analysis of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) of 2005–2006 found that a majority of Americans of all ages ingest less magnesium from food than their respective EARs"

Link: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfession...
That depends on your latitude, altitude, and the season. The type of UV that most effectively produces vitamin D (UVB @ 296 nm) cannot penetrate the amount of atmosphere between you and the sun if it is too low in the sky.

And natural synthesis reaches an equilibrium after about 15 minutes of exposure.

So for many, the most efficient way is swallowing a 10000 IU capsule 1 to 7 times per week.
Chromebooks are $250 new, with a haswell proc.
Humans do require training, they're slow, they sleep, rest, lose concentration, vary greatly in performance etc. All true and economically significant.

That is however distinct from no machine being able to do some of the things humans do as of now. It just means that most things they can do, they do better than humans. But first they must be able to do it.
part of this is definition -- what is "venture funding" -- b/c if you simply count any type of private finance I think you'd find it is more of a continuous distribution (if still coastally-weighted). it's fair to say VC is mostly SV or NY, but I think that says more about how small the world of "venture capital" is compared to the larger world of private finance. this is not necessarily about where innovation happens, and certainly not about where economic output happens.
1 is behind a paywall, so you can't see how many patients were in the study or what the effect size was. 2 and 3 were in mice.

Mice are useful model organisms for many things, but it is very important to remember they are not humans. For one, they have wildly different inflammation responses, (http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/02/13/mou... ) and inflammation is yet another thing that seems to influence mental illness.
There was an extensive discussion about a similar situation a few month ago. Read the article and all the comments. Good luck. "Candy Japan hit with credit card fraud" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10237697 (293 points, 137 days ago, 204 comments)
If you've got the time, I'd like to get some reflective thought from you: Based on your glimpse, what did you learn about people, online communities, or morals and ethics that you believed or didn't consider before?
“Mixed Reality Lightfield” – AR Startup Magic Leap Just Got $793.5M
If you're going to downvote, you should provide an explanation.
You may not spend, but you might invest. The options at that point are:

0% Bank accounts
0% Mattress/Freezer
?% investments (stocks, bonds, direct to businesses)
We can also put the people on trucks or planes or boats and move them to where the food is. Expensive, yes, but only necessary once.
Tree-shaking and ES6 modules are coming. Rollup[1] supports them and Webpack will in the future. They can't come soon enough!

[1] https://github.com/rollup/rollup#a-next-generation-es6-modul...
Capital is quite mobile on this planet.

No reason you can't set up in Joburg or Pittsburg.
Would it have been possible to launch supplies and a repair kit to the shuttle using a more traditional unmanned rocket launch?

I imagine the preparation time for those rockets is less than the shuttle and that it'd require a much smaller payload, which could make it even more flexible.
To what fees specifically are you referring? If you mean things like low balance fees or overdraft fees I think they're both appropriate when they're not implemented or marketed in a predatory manner.

I'm not aware of any fees that are instituted "instead of the bank paying interest" unless you're talking about something like a low balance fee on a non-interest bearing checking account.
> Presumably negative rates are a response to deflationary concerns. Under that scenario, cash under the bed would lose value faster than it would in a savings account

>As a borrower you are getting paid to borrow, thats a good incentive to go spend..
I don't think the risk is as low as you think.

Easy example: St. John's Wort

It's a proven effective anti depressive. It also reacts badly with just about every medication on the market.

Without more studies you can't make the types of statements you just made.
At some point, people might be afraid that the cash will be stolen or destroyed in a fire or something, and not think the risk is worth it. (But it seems like an easier compromise option might be to find a bank somewhere in the world that offers a non-negative interest rate and try to transfer the money to an account there. Though in the specific case of Americans, some foreign banks don't want them as depositors now because of U.S. account disclosure regulations.)
An oldie but a goodie : http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-04-03
It's an incentive for the bank to have as little money as possible. The banks will do everything to get rid of cash, which, in theory, should devalue the currency.

Bottom line: negative rates are all about devaluing the currency against other currencies in the world so that the exports become cheaper.
My jaded view would be that the banks would just borrow free money, but not pass anything onto the consumers, instead using it for more high risk trading. Seems to me that the government has a much better way to stimulate the economy: lower rates on existing student loans. If the Fed can afford to give negative rates to the banks, shouldn't it follow that the DoE can afford to give negative rates to students?
which tablets have larger batteries than phones?

I've been using mostly chinese tablets/phablets, but they never have good battery life. How long does a Nexus 7 last on a charge?
Khaled Ipsum: The DJ Khaled Lorem Ipsum Placeholder Text Generator
To make matters even worse, the ones that did have adequate RAM suffered from those terrible 8/16GB SSD drives. Heck, I bet even my 32GB SDHC card is faster than those drives were.
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We are looking for:
Core / full-stack engineers: http://orbitalinsight.com/jobs/core_software_engineer.html

Computer vision engineers: http://orbitalinsight.com/jobs/machine_vision.html

Data scientists: http://orbitalinsight.com/jobs/data_scientist.html

Some press about us and the overall GIS ecosystem:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/stunn...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-08/satellite-...
Vanguard is actually quite good just for the nice web site and ease of use.
One of the major features of this application seems to be it's transparent, documented, and presumably stable data format. This makes it practical to run it on top of an external encryption layer. Safe[0] seems to be a good free encryption system that works on Mac and would be compatible with dropbox's synchronization system.

It might seem ugly to factor out the encryption like this, but even though it requires a little configuration, it's an example of elegant software composition. Its also good from a security perspective relative to every little notebook application containing its own encryption system.

[0] http://www.getsafe.org/about
Steven Spielberg Working on a Project “Solely for VR”
You can put a box with a thousands of dollars under your bed, but a company that needs to hold onto a few million to make payroll can't just put it under their collective beds. Maybe they decide to put it in the money market, which invests in commercial paper, instead of a bank which parks it at the Fed.
Are there any documented cases of a business failing because their JS payload was too large? I get that smaller code is easier to understand/work with, but I've never been able to internalize the desire for small payload -- just doesn't seem like it ever matters outside of philosophic reasons for saving user's bandwidth (especially if it comes with a steep tooling cost).

It strikes me as a technical pursuit in search of a problem -- but certainly willing to be convinced otherwise.
Prenatal Multivitamins and Iron: Not Evidence-Based
Most big banks in the US have monthly fees for keeping your money in an interest-free checking account. This ends up costing you something like $5-25/month unless you (a) also set up direct deposit with them or (b) maintain a minimum balance that is typically relatively large. This is why I keep my money with a credit union instead: better customer service, better rates, no stupid fees.

Edit: for example, https://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/checking/personal-che...
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We'll only start making real progress in curing these kinds of illnesses when we form a deep understanding of whatever is going on in that very large component that we already know is not purely genetic.
"""

You have zero clue regarding what you are talking about. Your comment is just meaningless combination of platitudes. Even if we find a target and develop a drug that treats 20% of the cases, it still counts as a real progress if not a revolution. Look at the other comment in this thread by Chris Patil.

As you say in your "But I'm no scientist or medical expert", yes that's the reason why you find an obviously flawed blogpost appealing. Since the post was written/designed to make you feel better about your pessimism/skepticism.

This trend of "Contrarianism for the sake of contrarianism" is a sophisticated version of click-baiting where bloggers/commenters displaying classic case of dunning kruger spread FUD about any new discovery/result.

Commenters on Reddit/HN quickly lap up these articles/comments since it resonates with their sense of technological pessimism, often disguised as skepticism. As a result its now fashionable to criticize every new discovery/progress and get guaranteed pageviews/upvotes. It helps if its in form of a scary slideshow or contains assertions or scenarios that are not under question.
"""
We'll only start making real progress in curing these kinds of illnesses when we form a deep understanding of whatever is going on in that very large component that we already know is not purely genetic.
"""
You have zero clue regarding what you are talking about. Your comment is just meaningless combination of platitudes. Even if we find a target and develop a drug that treats 20% of the cases, it still counts as a real progress if not a revolution. Look at the other comment in this thread by Chris Patil.

As you say in your "But I'm no scientist or medical expert", yes that's the reason why you find an obviously flawed blogpost appealing. Since the post was written/designed to make you feel better about your pessimism/skepticism.

This trend of "Contrarianism for the sake of contrarianism" is a sophisticated version of click-baiting where bloggers/commenters displaying classic case of dunning kruger spread FUD about any new discovery/result.

Commenters on Reddit/HN quickly lap up these articles/comments since it resonates with their sense of technological pessimism, often disguised as skepticism. As a result its now fashionable to criticize every new discovery/progress and get guaranteed pageviews/upvotes. It helps if its in form of a scary slideshow or contains assertions or scenarios that are not under question.