skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - It looks like the predicted delta from going from a "nosleep" day to a "sleep" days is about 1.4 pounds (sleep coef minus nosleep coef). That seems fishy, or at least like it will stop working fairly soon because you can't actually lose 1.4 pounds/day sustainably. Is it possible there's something weird going on with the data or those variables don't have the obvious meanings?

That weight loss doesn't add up in the long term. You lose a lot of weight during your sleep both due to evaporation of water and by burning glucose/fat which you exhale. Obviously longer sleep translates into more water lost and more glucose/fat burned, but it will quickly be compensated by the body taking that water back up again and a larger appetite. You can't consistently lose water weight.

After a night of drinking, I can lose up to 3 kilos due to dehydration. But of course, I've probably gained weight due to the calories in the booze.
I made an app for a friend that completely failed. We worked on the project for a couple of months during which I built an MVP. But we never got any users. My friend tried all kinds of things to advertise it (press releases, looking for distribution partners, etc) but nobody seemed to care.

Early warning signs: Nobody was interested in it. If you can't get a single one of your friends to use it, that might be a sign you are doing it wrong.

Edit: My friend is still working on this. He's invested a lot of time and money into the idea, and keeps finding things that will get him closer to success (if I just get this one strategic partner on board...). He's spent a lot of time on all the formalities of setting up a company and following all possibly relevant regulations, no matter how costly. I really like him, and I like the idea, but in the end there's no point in it when there are no users...
Very true - also, this being their technical report, I'd personally be surprised if there wasn't some amount of technical jargon present, sufficient to establish the facts of these events. All they do is identify a set of sophisticated actors who have tradecraft and technical expertise to rival a nation state, and then further established a series of similar attacks have been conducted on targets of Russian foreign interests by these same groups. Short of an indictment a la Chinese hackers, or declassification of the information pertaining to the attacks (something that's apparently being prepared), there are not facts present to make a formal attribution.
Are the IPs being added to blocklists without ever having sent spam?
My technique has been: eat only when you're hungry, instead of succumbing to imposed eating schedules (breakfast time, lunch time, dinner time). It has worked well for me.
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This feels like a pretty loaded question. It seems like you can have math with quick wins, keeping excitement and interest. When you say "boring" math, are you referring to the overall content or the way it's taught?

Most of my experiences with "boring" math was because it felt taught poorly or I wasn't ready for it.

ML is such a broad canopy that it probably includes many who aren't ready for the math, and will find it boring. It's the same with the distinction between appliers and "methodologists" in statistics.

Breaking down "people getting started with ML" into what they want to do with it feels more tractable. Maybe it's an issue of courses signaling who they are geared for.
Really it was doing ok, they were warned about the bug and released it anyway. Their problem is simple, you can't have people or persons in charge of the blockchain, it's not their property. Same old same old in crypto, human greed and egos ruin things everytime.
A point of contention: "imitation" is too ambiguous. Let's go with "vanillin" vs. "fake vanilla".

Artificially produced Vanillin (the primary compound in natural vanilla) is a fantastic substance and perfect for anything for which the preparation would destroy the complexities of natural vanilla (natural vanilla in high heat/prolonged heat baked goods? What's the point, you're just destroying the subtleties). This is marketed as "artificial vanilla extract", which is a correct description: it is an artificially created equivalent to vanilla extract, lacking the (tens and tens of) trace compounds that make real vanilla a complex aromatic substance.

But on the other side of the "immitation" spectrum we also find crazy things: "using things that are like vanilla, and selling it as if it's vanilla", of which there are many instances. Since vanilla is so scarce, rather than going the (cheap!) artificial production way, small scale operations will try to cash in on the higher price of real vanilla by passing off extracts that are similar to vanilla as the real deal. Some of these can kill people. Notable in that category in recent history: tonka beans.
Ah, that wasn't clear and punctuation was the most glaring issue with the sentence. Nevermind!
Yes. I do this. It gets rid of the spam folder problem while allowing you to host the incoming email yourself.
Neither of those things are related to the presence or non-presence of my lawn. I could rip it up and replace it with gravel and nothing would change wrt taxes and subsidies.

Your clear disdain for and anger toward suburban life is leaking over in to a discussion on lawn care. Must suck to tied up in how other people choose to pursue happiness rather than just enjoying your own life.
Infinite Jest thought it'd be a single ultimate piece of media that does it, but that was underestimating our ability to create addictively stimulating media wasn't it?
That's a very good suggestion. I pretty much do that every time I make setup changes.
>Mother jones has great reporting in general -- they're not an outfit that is a corporate ad extension.

I'm sorry but are you kidding? Upon visiting this page I was presented with this ad that had no dismiss button: http://prntscr.com/c5bb9h

If you were a raging liberal, then I suppose you'd consider Mother Jones and its insistence on giving your email to the "Progressive Turnout Project" before reading their content to be "great reporting" (by the way, Mother Jones was paid for this - does that not qualify as a "corporate ad extension"?). But personally, I can't stand political propaganda sites that masquerade as journalism, and I especially can't stand any site that requires me to give my email to third parties before I can read their content. That's a nonstarter.
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The existing shareholders would like to own Cayman shares because of future corporate inversions.

There may also be questions of "which entity should own the IP?" If the shareholders own holding company stock they are assured of ownership of IP even if the IP is parked in a separate corporation.

Then you look at the exit. If this company is ever sold, what exactly will be sold? If you are a shareholder you do not want to be left behind with an orphaned element of the business. Owning stock at the top tier helps avoid this.

OTOH if this is a "keep it forever and milk the cash flow" business, you have to think through the tax outcomes there too.

U.S. shareholders in foreign corporations are punished by the IRS TaxBot for their impudence. The paperwork and accounting cost overhead are daunting. That is a significant reason to avoid a structure such as this.

It ain't easy. Startups don't usually have the cash to get the thinking done correctly at the front end. So later on they are boxed in -- change may trigger massive tax costs that are unacceptable. IP ownership and exploitation is a major offender here.
It's not ruinious for them.
I think the parent's hypothesis was that MTAs would negatively weight any MTA that isn't the custom ones running on Gmail/Outlook/Yahoo servers.
> If I remember correctly, Great Value Parmesan cheese was rated the worst (highest) level of wood pulp additives when tested vs other major brands.

I buy that brand too and recommend it. The label clearly lists cellulose among the ingredients and it has a legitimate function as a decaking agent. At 7.8%, it did not have the highest cellulose level in that study, though it was close. I've bought grated parmesan with low levels of cellulose, and some of it's more clumpy. However, it seems the 4% brands have the right mix. WalMart's doubling that does seem to be working as a cheap filler. The cheese in it is actually parmesan though. Much more interesting in that study though was that some brands such as Market Pantry, Always Save, and Best Choice all contained absolutely no parmesan cheese at all.

Buying a brick of hard parmesan and grating it oneself is by far the best way to go, but cheap bottled stuff that isn't too bad is more convenient for kids to work with.
Seriously? Dude if you haven't made money on these two then your doing it wrong. Mining trading even buying into the ico which I never do has been extremely profitable. Plus the entertainment value has been spectacular
How do you know weed caused demotivation, and demotivated weed users weren't already demotivated?
Yeah, it's funny I had the same experience with Evernote. Erased some notes during sync and I noped out of there. Went to Simplenote, which has been flawless for me but obviously your experience shows that the service isn't flawless.

I just wish there was a note company who made "don't lose data" the #1 priority and built the architecture around treating that concept like a religion.
Speed is distance / time, acceleration and deceleration is distance / time ^2. If you accelerate at say 9.8 m/s^2 for 1 second that's 9.8 m/s/s * 1s = 9.8m/s aka if you fall for 1 second your going 22 miles per hour and still being pulled down at 9.8m/s/s.

Using a star a solar sail can change it's speed by ~60km/sec by accelerating much much slower than that for months. The problem is the further from a star get the lower your acceleration. To maximize final speed you basically want to get as close to the star as you can in a huge elliptical orbit and then on your final pass just keep accelerating. Or do the reverse on the way back.

Is that clear?
It reminded me a lot of "Source Code" in so many ways. I thought both were decent movies.
> By the way, I noticed from my time in some European cities, that olive oil is sold for a very high price.

It really depends on the country the olive oil is from. I think Italian olive oil is the most expensive and Greek olive oil is one of the cheapest. In fact the cheap olive oil I buy from the discounter here is from Crete :)
pglogical works over the logical decoding code introduced in 9.4, so instead of sending over binary changes of the data files (SR just sends a change that says change these bytes on page X -- well, not super exact, but it gives you a picture of whats done), while logical decoding will read the WAL log, decode the changes so you can apply them else were by some plugin (pglogical would serve as a plugin in this case).
I think the best way to show how it would work (and this is not what pglogical does as it would be inefficient) is by writing a plugin that feeds the logical decoded changes from the WAL and builds SQL statements from them UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE, etc. You could easily apply those on any other PostgreSQL server, or maybe even some other SQL server.
Very handy for online upgrades.
I'm running small scale mail servers. It's not nearly as difficult as the common folklore makes you believe.

Make sure you don't send spam and your server is properly configured. If you are sending mails to people that don't want it then it is spam. "They silently agreed to get our newsletter because it was listed in our ToS on page 357" is not acceptable. No other excuse for sending spam is acceptable. Whenever you send any automated mail there must be an easy way to unsubscribe.

A few more tips:

* Check your mail server on http://multirbl.valli.org/ - if it's in any blacklist try to find out why (there are a few rogue blacklists, ignore them).

* Hotmail allows you to receive a report for every mail that a hotmail user thinks is spam. Use that. Act on it.

* Check your logs for messages that indicate that others think you're spamming.

* E-Mail forwarding is a tricky business these days. Avoid it.

I occasionally get dubious spam rejections, but they don't come from the large hosts. They usually come from some small ISP using a proprietary antispam solution that gives you no insight what's going on.

My suspicion would be that qmail is your problem. There are a great many details that a mail software has to get right, qmail often doesn't do what the email ecosystem expects.
That just means there is an untapped marketing opportunity here. An artisanal brand of high quality olive oil could do very well in the Bay Area.
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Thanks. Well... that's just terrible.
Fully agreed
Did you know that many religions use drugs as part of meditation?
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> would people be interested in contributing their data in exchange for analysis?

I am not overweight but I would certainly not mind doing this if it helps others.
Actually with two nodes, if one node goes down, you don't have a BDR cluster anymore ;-)
Try Russia:

https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/warning-this-is-not-chee...

> If you live in Russia, you may already be worried about what you’re eating.
> If you’re not worried, maybe you should be.

> Watchdogs say dairy producers routinely added starch, chalk and soap to their
> milk. One-fifth of caviar brands contained bacteria linked to E. coli. Bread
> bakers were discovered to use “fifth-grade” wheat, the sort usually intended for
> cattle. More than half the sliced salmon on shop shelves has been judged unsafe.
> And those are only the most recent revelations.
Though that's a fraud on the origin of the olives, not on the quality of the olives or oil (quality of the oil made of olives of fraudulent origin may have in fact been higher than the usual one :-) ).
> An Electron powered status bar?

Chromium and Javascript to run a status bar? A panel is a relatively simple program; it shouldn't be using more than ~1MB of memory (maybe more with large icons). Using Chromium adds many useless layers of abstraction (e.g. HTML, JS engine) and wastes an incredible amount of memory.
I might go down that route. What service are you using? Thanks
Yes - I just started doing it again. I'm glad I did. I just made sure that I could send/receive mail without issue from the large email systems.
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Thanks for that! Beautiful piece. Haunting in places.
This is pretty hilarious. Thanks for sharing. It may be showing how much noise there is in a random data-set with too few data-points to draw statistically significant conclusions. It might also mean that you're on the right track and now that you have the tool, you can keep going until you find real enlightenment.

I really like your comment because you're one of the very few that actually tried the idea. Thats the #1 reason I put this on github, to help others conduct their own experiments on whatever they care about. If you ignore all my weight-loss journey story and data and just use some of these ideas to improve your own life, it was all worth it for me.
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This just reinforces what northern europeans think of southern europeans. Basically fraudsters.
One thing I learned from my spam filter's logs is that sending email in a slightly weird way is great way to marked as spam. I used to receive a few thousand emails a month that didn't have a Date header - all spam - which is strictly required by RFC2822 but sometimes allowed to be absent. amavis-new easily and correctly detected them.
Hah! They think that JavaScript without a framework is "bare metal"...
I have been running an Exim4 email server servising several domains for many years, mostly without issue. I do have SPF configured and it is running on a commercial VPS server.

For spam defence I use grey-listing based on DNSBL lookups, some standards-enforcement ACLs and then SpamAssasin via MailScanner on the messages that get through.
Freezing it is kinda pointless. Oils store very well - they don't have water, are on the acidic side - so bacteria growth inside them is very hard. Keep it in a cool place, in non reactive container, away from sunlight and oxygen to prevent byproducts and rancidity - it should be fine for long enough. So a mason jar in a pantry is enough.
Some peeps at UC Davis published a report on olive oil quality of various brands back in 2010:

http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/files/oliveoilfinal0...

More here: http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/reports
Spain produces three time more olive oil than Italy, but I am yet to see any shop in London selling Spanish olive oil. Why? Because usually it's packaged in Italy and sold as Italian since that is what customers have come to expect.
? I did exactly this with an entire Google account the other day: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

It's all standard formats. Not sure what else you could want aside from a literal Gmail clone.
I might go down this route. Great advice! What service do you use? Thanks
> Many people will tell you that implementing your own reliable message system on top of UDP is foolish.

It is foolish: both SCTP (over UDP) and RTP+RTCP (over UDP) already exist, and in combination do exactly what the author wants. There are more things in this world than TCP and "your own custom protocol."

It's almost like the 'network engineers' in gaming have never looked at the network architecture of a telecom system. Same problems: well-known standard solutions.

(There is one case where inventing your own transport protocol instead of reusing the standard ones makes sense: when every higher-level protocol but one is blocked, forcing you to tunnel over that one protocol. Thus WebRTC. But now that's a standard too, so don't reinvent that either!)
And setup reporting and forensic reporting. I have a domain that seems to be the default for a botnet, so my daily reports from GMail and Yahoo! always include at least a few IP addresses attempting to submit as admin@[domain].

The reporting sets my mind at ease that those big guys are blocking it and that the (low) legitimate volume of mail to those guys is reasonable.

It's also interesting to note that with DNSSEC, DKIM, SPF and DMARC, the pattern seems to be that some large Chinese mail providers drop DNS responses to try to overcome the "-all" token in the SPF record and "p=reject" token in DMARC. At least the reports show that the authentication (by SPF/DKIM) failed, so that makes me sleep a little better.

Par for the course, I guess. :P

*edit: grammar
Although that's true, they also shouldn't be surprised that people call them out for it, and try to organize actions against them.
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Umatrix makes it work for me. Even if you set it to default allow, and blacklist sites like this, it's worth the time to set up, imo.
Actually, I just remembered an example in your domain: Cavium Octeon II and III for networked applications. SDR, firewalls, VPN's, etc combine general-purpose algorithms with specific ones easy to accelerate in hardware. Also doesnt take what's in Intel/AMD CPU's that have tk run huge range of workloads. So, Cavium started with 16 MIPS-ISA cores, added TCP/IP offloading, encryption engine, compression engine, and so on. A PCI card on 45+nm could handle multi-Gbps processing with 15 cores idle. My Core Duo 2 isn't going to pull that off. Their 28-nm has 48 cores and "hundreds of accelerators" to pick. Heteroginity is not just future: it's the present in many markets.

Another example is the Automata processor that similarly represents protocols in an ideal way. Check it out. Crazy efficient in a way you can only do with atypical, hardware-level thinking.

Not to mention entire FPGA ecosystem that accelerates algorithms faster than Moore's Law systems while their own hardware is less efficient & cost more. :)
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Because if everyone sat and waited for someone else to do it, no one ever would.

Lots of the features we take for granted in commodity tech originated in something exotic.
Had no idea there was a person in there. I thought it was a little radio controlled robot.
What is the temperature point for vanilla degradation? I use the real deal (pod with seeds) in custard ice cream and it is the most expensive ingredient there. And I get it to 80c/175 F
At the highest level, philosophy already is part of the STEM subject. At lower levels, it's up to the teacher, but in my experience the best teachers would make me think and juggle abstract ideas, which is pretty much philosophy in a nutshell.

Philosophy as a lone subject is rather broad and less relevant, as most scientific philosophy has already transferred to STEM courses with real scientists doing a better job incorporating them in their classes.

Here is a course description lifted straight from MIT's CS course list:

> 6.833 The Human Intelligence Enterprise

> Analyzes seminal work directed at the development of a computational understanding of human intelligence, such as work on learning, language, vision, event representation, commonsense reasoning, self reflection, story understanding, and analogy. Reviews visionary ideas of Turing, Minsky, and other influential thinkers. Examines the implications of work on brain scanning, developmental psychology, and cognitive psychology. Emphasis on discussion and analysis of original papers. Requires the completion of additional exercises and a substantial term project. Enrollment limited.

http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m6c.html
Well that was my usual issue with C and the lack of knowledge of older languages like Espol.

But yeah, I guess you're right. :)
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I never understood this argument, it feels to me a post hoc rationalisation. Yes, with toplevel only yield you know all suspension points, but doesn't really buy you anything, as calling an unknown function can potentially mutate any object possibly by invoking user callbacks or other generators. If the function behaviour is well documented, then whether it is a suspension point would be as well.
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I hadn't heard there was a different version of C for Plan 9. Got a link showing differences/advantages?
What are those statistics?
I'm going to assume this is a serious comment and that you are attributing global warming as the cause of the feared extinction.

In that case I think you should dial it back a bit. Humans are pretty adaptable. Even assuming the changes in temperature and sea-level are on the high end of predictions, we will adapt. People will move, infrastructure will be built, and so on. Mass extinction certainly isn't going to happen from global warming as we understand it today.

You might argue there there will be mass casualties, but that is also uncertain, difficult to quantify, and is quite a different thing than 'mass extinctions'. Of course, mass casualties due to weather has and is already a problem -- it isn't something that is uniquely associated with global warming.
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Linode + Postfix successfully for years.

Reverse DNS very important and the SPF

Linode have excellent setup documentation ( https://www.linode.com/docs/email/postfix/email-with-postfix... )