skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same phenomenon. AFAIU, recent research suggest that the variance seen in such studies is caused by subgroups with impaired kidneys or other issues that interfere with blood salt homeostasis.

It's not controversial that sustained salt concentration is bad for cardiovascular healthy, or that higher salt intake correlates with worse cardiovascular health in large populations. The issue is whether healthy _individuals_ should care about salt.

Or to put it another way, salt isn't like sugar. A high sugar diet leads to insulin resistance, which leads to higher blood sugar concentrations, which leads to higher rates of related ailments.

It was once thought that a high salt diet directly led to hypertension, etc, etc. But that doesn't appear to be the case. Healthy people seem to have no problems clearing an excess salt (in amounts significantly greater than thought) from the body, even if sustained over their entire lifetime. And, somewhat contentiously, some research suggests that the recommended salt intake might be detrimental for some people, with the negative effect being masked by the subgroup who benefit from lower salt.

That's my understanding of things, anyhow.

It's probably a little like acidosis--a rare condition that gave rise to fringe concepts like the "alkaline diet". Consuming acidic foods is never going to cause problems for healthy individuals. The mechanisms for maintaining blood pH (calcium, rate of respiration, etc) are just too robust to even be minimally taxed by acidic foods (excluding extreme scenarios). If acidic foods cause or contribute to bad blood pH, you already have other serious problems.

The difference is that a substantial fraction of the population does have trouble excreting excess salt, and this readily shows up in epidemiological studies of dietary salt.
This depends on the person talking. In work situations I have dealt with some (rare) people who will just talk over you if you try to politely insert a suggestion or a question.

Very occasionally, the right response is to interrupt them impolitely. Much more often the best thing is to let them finish. It's an almost passive-aggressive solution, but sometimes it's the best you can do.
I have a manager now who spews out information like a water main and instead of natural pauses, they make weird sounds like 'uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and another thing'. They are also extremely hard to interrupt so if there's something they said that needs clarification, it's a pain in the ass to get clarification because they're still speaking at my second attempt to ask a question before diving deeper into the rabbit hole. Ah new managers.
I find it odd that this is the reason you would preserve these habitats. Humans have the technological capacity to wipe out all remaining forest habitats within a few decades, and probably will do so unless a wave of enlightenment comes over everybody. Wild animal populations stand at half what they were in 1975 and are headed for zero. Why would humanity stop the destruction for an obscure squirrel?
Zuckerberg actually understands that. So it is refreshing to see him receive advice from Sam[1], one of the five greatest founders in the past 40 years!

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html
> You analyze whether your explanations for good things are personal, general, and permanent.

What good things? I mean, not only can I not remember a good thing happening, but I have even forgotten how it is supposed to look like. For example, a good time? a good night of sleep? I kept the memory of these during a few years even though they were not happening any more, but for some time I have forgotten how they feel.

So the prerequisites for this method are not always present.
That is a great acronym. I'm going to hold onto that, thanks!
That is awesome, ... and it cures the stupid underline disease!

What I'm talking about is that text which is marked up as a code (monospaced font) in the troff source being rendered annoying as bold and underlined! That creates ambiguities with actual underline characters and general readability nuisance.

With these settings, the underlining is gone.
> They'll ask for things like your businesses tax return from the previous year when you try to open an account.

This seems far-fetched... I walked into my Credit Union with my corp documentation and left with checking & savings accounts in less than 45 minutes. It was painless.
They still use the branding but as "Nerf Super Soaker". Also, the guns look totally different than what Larami toys looked like.

http://nerf.hasbro.com/en-us/toys-games/nerf:super-soaker
My ex partner always said I didn't listen to her. I really want to be a better listener.

It seems to me that the key to listening is to actually be present and not half thinking about something else or what YOU want to say. Hard to do.

>> thus, if you’ve been criticized (for example) for offering solutions rather than listening,

guilty
I work here and this is a surprise to me, company seems to be doing well there has been considerable hiring in my organization in the past few months so I am not sure why 20% of the employees are being laid off.
* Most of the food crops we depend on both directly and indirectly are grasses and are wind pollinated (corn, wheat, etc.).

* There is no evidence of neonics disrupting food webs or destroying ecosystems. How do you even "destroy" an ecosystem? that doesn't make any sense, at least with an ecologist's definition of "ecosystem."

There has also been a coevolutonary arms race between plants and insect pests going back millions of years and many plants contains chemicals many times worse than any pesticide used on crops.
I'm not that sure about Valve. What they actually have for hats now is a system that withdrawals short of casino — you can't buy the thing you want, instead, you buy a "crate" that may (randomly) contain it, or other item.

My thinking is that hats aren't that profitable without these kinds of tricks, and Steam effectively sponsored everything that happened at Valve before they implemented "gambling".
There are a few qualifiers to your mortgage question - good credit history will make it easier to take out a mortgage at the lowest possible interest rate with as little as 20% down and monthly payment constituting as much as 30% of one's monthly income.

If you take out a real estate loan at 40-60% LTV vs consumer-grade 80% LTV, banks will care less about the underlying credit score - their models will tell them they can always repossess and make most (all) of the principal back relatively quickly.

Do the LTVs, interest rates and debt-to-income ratios transfer to those other countries as well? US is known for one of the most lenient and dynamic mortgage market, so those are just some rules to play by if one is optimizing for lowest possible rate.
Lisp. Because it's not a language. it's an idea. And it is effing awesome idea. I'm pretty sure if humans don't drive themselves to extinction, even 200 years from now Lisp (in some form) will exist. Today - Clojure, Racket, LFE, PicoLisp, Common Lisp even Emacs lisp - they are loved and being utilized by many.
Interesting. I live in the south bay right next to the Cisco campus, and the amount of new employees they are hiring is staggering. I wonder how many of the 14,000 are being rehired as a contractor or something?
You are right, I jumped the gun and read the opposite. Cheers. Sorry Parent.
Much of their hardware is just commodity x86 or ARM parts.
At least they didn't try to connect it to a marginally-related bit of pop culture. Remember when some Berkeley guys published a way to bend light around an object, and every goddamn headline included the words "Harry Potter invisibility cloak"?
Only brief experiences with both gmvault.org and Takeout, so take this with a grain of salt.

Gmvault gets chats as well (I'm assuming hangout chats also).
A pro I see, is with gmvault you can restore the backup to another Gmail account, right from the terminal.

Takeout stores chats separately, not in the mbox file.
To restore from Takeout, you need to add the mailbox to Thunderbird (or some 3rd party email client), add the account you want to restore to, and then drag and drop emails between them. Not ideal.
Fork() without exec() is dangerous in large programs
Three cybersecurity firms (Crowdstrike, Fidelis Cybersecurity and Mandiant) have said so:

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/heres-know-russia-dnc-hack/

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...
You may not. But large enterprises that pay billions a year for networking gear, who can save a billion by buying whitebox, and still get that Cisco feel that they have spent years training and acquiring expertise will and already are. It may not be IOS. But Cisco will come out with something that feels and operates like IOS that runs on x86. Juniper has already ported it's JUNOS to run on x86.

Between whitebox and SDN. These companies won't be selling hardware for the 1-200% markup the have enjoyed all these years.
But it seems PIE was a very difficult language.

Proto-Indo-European had nine noun cases, three genders, and no regular verbs at all.
Awesome thing !
It could also be called taking a sociological view on the way the media works.
Even if we accept Russian responsibility for the hack how do you know their motive is to sabotage the election? It seems to me that insider knowledge of the party is valuable on its own. Why do you think they are trying to influence the election?

It is likely that Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States. Would it not be valuable for Russia to have knowledge of her party? Do you think the CIA would be interested to have inside knowledge of United Russia?
nice job on this
How does this work for correcting actual systemic issues? If all the negative is temporary, impersonal and specific, how does one notice and correct things that are consistently and generally wrong with oneself?
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Sorry, I'm a little slow today. Can you elaborate on that last statement? Are you invoking a trick meaning to the word "average"?
We don't (yet), but we are growing rapidly and always looking for ways to help our customers solve optimization problems. Fwiw, we do support categorical parameters (as well as continuous and integer) and our ensemble of Bayesian optimization techniques are able to solve this mixed type problem much more efficiently than techniques like gradient decent. Although the way we handle the purely combinatorial (only category) problem isn't as flushed out as our mixed type problems. We are looking to grow the team (and our offerings) if you're interested though [1].

[1]: https://sigopt.com/careers
> I don't need to hear compliments on what's right... just what can be improved.

I used to say the same thing, but now I think I was wrong. I didn't want to hear compliments on what's right. But I did need it. Focusing on negatives helped me reduce error rates. But ignoring the positives limited my ability to grow.

What got me to slowly switch was learning about appreciative inquiry. It's a practice of focusing strongly on the good aspects of something and seeking to amplify them. I looked into it because a team I was working with had these brutally negative retrospectives. They were in a rut of flagellating themselves every week about all their failures. They were a great team, but weren't performing well because they became gradually more stressed and discouraged. And after I saw that in them, I eventually saw it in myself, too.

I'm now 6 or 7 years into consciously switching approaches and I'd never go back. Just today I was pairing with a younger programmer, and we even took some time to appreciate their anxiety. That fear of failing was causing them a lot of problems, but instead of asking them not to worry, I asked them to channel their anxiety into areas where it was useful, like writing good tests.

That said, I'm with you on not wanting "nice" versions of things, which I see as a social performance, and not actual kindness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
Maximizing code performance by thinking data first – Part 1
> all new deployments must be on Openstack

you have my sympathies
HOAS representations can only contain junk if you have not taken appropriate precautions. See the paper "Boxes Go Bananas" for one technique.
>>> thus, if you’ve been criticized (for example) for offering solutions rather than listening,
>guilty

This is not necessarily a question of "guilty". There are two major directions a conversation can go - "sympathy" or "solution". If your partner wants one, and you give the other, you operate under wrong premises due to an unstated assumption. On both sides.

(If your "guilty" was a request for sympathy, I'm currently failing majorly. :)

You could do worse than ask people what they want out of a conversation when you start the conversation.
part-2 discussing the machine is available here: https://fuzzyreflection.com/2016/08/15/maximizing-code-perfo...
I do the repeating thing when I'm in danger of zoning out. I repeat their words, and then try to rephrase it. It signals to the other person to give me a second or two to come back into the conversation.
Wait, 1980 Olympic games were in Moscow, USSR. It was Winter Olympic games that took place in Lake Placid in 1980.

I applaud, even the USSR did not built GULAG camps in Olympic villages. What an exciting time we are living in. Democracy, freedom, you know the drill.
Deis isn't pivoting away from Docker and has always required additional pieces of infrastructures that are not strictly Docker (Kubernetes in v2 and CoreOS in v1). I haven't tried Swarm but I'd be surprised if it came close to Kubernetes in terms of stability and community support given the latter had a good head start and is backed by Google which uses it in production.
PaaSes also require a lot of operational prowess. Once you have the engineering prototype up and running, keeping it running is a whole other story.
Dear lord. Why not just use optional fields?
Either you frequently deal with very not nice people, or you for some reason have negative assumptions about those around you. I'd like to assure you that there are many people out there who use repeating back what other people say (a critical component of active listening) to sincerely verify whether they've understood someone correctly, as well as validate the idea that they are indeed listening.
Drop me a line (andrei @ discordapp.com) and I'll at least take a look.
Of course, too much of anything is bad. At the end of the day to be a good listener, you need to listen.
In fairness, Cisco has offered excellent severance in the past...but then again, they've never done layoffs on this scale
It's a little ironic that you used this insider information to gauge the reception and audience to your talk about optimism? It's easier to be optimistic when you can more easily expect an outcome, isn't it?
The average number of legs per human, worldwide, is slightly under 2. However, the vast majority of people have 2 legs.
I would have hoped there would be a category that basically means "stop what you're doing, we're in danger of wiping this thing out in our ignorance".

For better or worse this is this is the case with too many species.

I'm not a huge treehugger, but this drives me to despair. [0]

Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century.

[0] http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/ele...
I live down the street from Cisco HQ. I share an apartment building with many of their engineers. Perhaps it is anecdotal, and my evidence comes purely from speaking with them (I have never seen their work), but they come across as absolutely terrible as software engineers. They seem like the kind of company destroying people that are the death knell of every software giant. They have no care for the product, good programming, or their company. Their main goal is to just have a job and fly under the radar.
They make no sense when compared with alternate method like launch loops, which can be built with current tech
> I really am curious why anything "R" and "Tutorial" gets massively upvoted to the Top 3 of HN like clockwork nowadays.

Same thing I was wondering. Is it simply that R is gaining popularity among a more mainstream audience, while it hasnt changed that much recently ?
If any of the sophia developers are here, please take note: your site is absolutely unreadable on mobile.
EPICDOWNVOTE :-)
What you say is true, but "thousands that are online at any given time" doesn't accurately reflect what's going on. First of all, I would think most of streams are 0-10 viewers. Then we have people that stream to multiple services simultaneously (most programming streams do this and majority of people are not watching them on twitch).
Since some people have one leg, and some have none, but nobody has three legs, the average number of legs is slightly less than two.
That doesn't necessarily identify good listening skills, which perhaps was OP's intent.
I can guarantee you most of them are Indians.
Wikiverse: a galactic reimagining of Wikipedia
|> With all these companies exiting the hardware space, who is going to be doing the hardware?

The manufacturers that have been actually making the hardware for the last 15 or more years, that's who. The only difference in many cases is the color and brand on the case.
> wormholes either can't exist or can't transmit information.

This would contradict known physics. Again, please provide a better solution.

> Just because the maths says it can exist in one set of equations

That "one set of equations" is everything we know about the universe.

> but anyone sensible knows the outcome.

You mean like Kip Thorne, Leonard Susskind, Mat Visser, David Deutsch, and any other physicist who's studied wormholes? Because all those people agree that either we're wrong about physics or wormholes are theoretically possible. Causality violation, probably not, but wormholes don't violate causality just by existing.

> They will not be possible not matter how much you want them to be true

I have no strong opinion one way or the other. However, I accept that, based on the best physical theories we have available to us, wormholes are physically viable.

It seems like, for some reason, you really want them to be false. Perhaps it's your sense of "sensibility", which does not appear to be based in fact (unless you know something physicists don't).
I generally agree with your views. I think a large part of the problem is that we've all been (self) deluded into thinking technology can solve all our problems. The older I get, the clearer it becomes, though, that the root of all our problems is psychological. Outside of transhuman genetic engineering or human-replacing AI, I don't see how technology can fix our psychology.
It's like this already -- you pay yearly maintenance fees for access to software upgrades. If you let it lapse and then want to re-enroll, you're still on the hook for the lapsed time. Maintenance fees typically don't include your support contract fees, either.
You need to calculate your freelance rate (stop putting it off)
I disagree. They don't care as much as techie people do, but I think the average person does realize that Facebook/Google/whoever has too much information about them, but there is no usable alternative.

Also because of Network effect, even if there was a usable alternative, there might not be enough people actually using it to make a change worthwhile.

On the Australian ABC news the other day, the anchor was describing how "creepy" she found it that the google doodle on her birthday was a special birthday message to her.

I think the average person is becoming more and more aware of such privacy and data ownership issues with every creepy experience.
China Launches Pioneering 'Hack-Proof' Quantum-Communications Satellite
Error-filled state gang database lists 42 people less than 1 year old
PlanGrid (YC W12) Is Hiring Fullstack, Data, Windows Engineers and More
I too am guilty of every characteristic of bad listening. It's turning out to be a hard thing to work on.
One of the easiest metrics I've found to determine whether or not oneself is a good/great listener is to honestly assess:

Am I busy thinking about what I'm going to say when I get a chance?

The more the answer is "yes" the less listening a person is performing.
Curse has a not-bad generic mod client, but many games have homegrow utilities that blow it out of the water. Many MC launchers or ModOrganizer for Skyrim come first to mind.
Perhaps it will work better in 3D?
Most of the things you mention are not things engineered by small -- or even large -- teams, but are evolved products of whole societies. And for all their absurdities they also embed a lot of knowledge about how to get things done in the real world.
The article is freely interchanging the concepts "being a good listener" and "being perceived as being a good listener" from one sentence to the next. That's worse than arbitrarily changing the definition (but being consistent with it).
Bad Is Stronger Than Good: Evidence-Based Advice for Bosses (2010)
Freesmartphone.org – Middleware for Linux mobile/embedded devices
why do they share that advice then? to disinform their competitors?
Fish pee is crucial to the survival and growth of coral reefs
So what you're telling me is that healthy, fit, intelligent, and wealthy person isn't going to have more dating success than a sickly, scrawny, impoverished idiot? Interesting theory.

> you cannot reasonably predict it.

I think I just did.
> Streamers don't do any of that; they literally sit in their basement and play video games all day. Why do they need support?

The way you chose to phrase this hints at your opinion towards playing a lot of video games.

I personally have subscribed to a tournament host and various (ex-)professional players at times just because I valued the content they produce enough to be okay with giving money to them.

> Does a streamer with more support produce better content than a streamer with less support?

In many cases yes they do, because higher income can make way for dedicated streaming hardware, better gaming hardware, better internet connections and probably other things too.
Easy clustering,registration and distribution of worker processes for Elixir
Yeah, it's certainly true that the existing SoC product plans were canned. But a lot will need to happen before Intel comes to the point of reevaluating its x86 ISA platform strategy.
The usual reference is this[1] paper which outlines most well-known results on biconvexity and optimiality thereof.

[1] http://www2.math.uni-wuppertal.de/~klamroth/publications/gop...
> Juniper has already ported it's JUNOS to run on x86.

huh :) i was/am under the impression that with junos, juniper started with freebsd as the core, and then added lot's of stuff to it, specifically in control-plane and a bunch of kernel extensions as well.

if that is true, they were already x86 compatible...

with cisco things are very different. i don't think ios ever ran on a bare-metal x86. this is not for the lack of trying though (if you know folks who have worked on ios, check with them, writing about it here, doesn't seem right)
This seems to be Cisco's standard operating procedure. They do big layoffs from the product groups that are underperforming. But all those affected can apply to jobs in other groups that are making money still. It seems to be Cisco's way to de-staff a product area quickly and let the employees figure out what to do.
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