skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am primed to believe the worst after learning that a container labeled as "100% Extra-Virgin Olive Oil. Product of Italy." might not bear even a single truthful statement. The barest of investigative scrutiny reveals it as filtered and deodorized Spanish third-pressing olive oil, cut with hazelnut oil, that spent a traumatic night in Italy once. Or when I learned that the "clover honey" sold in grocery stores might actually be Chinese honey, from hives supplemented with high-fructose corn syrup, with all pollen and particulates filtered out to conceal its origins, then cut again during bottling with high-fructose corn syrup.

The burden of proof is actually on the manufacturer to show that their "truffle oil" contains actual truffles. The question is whether or not I can believe their claim without proof--and I don't.

If it sells at a premium above a near-equivalent commodity good, my default assumption is that the claims are marketing bullshit aimed at credulous buyers.

But how important is the claim anyway? If it makes my food taste better at a fair price, I don't really care if it has any actual truffle in it. I don't even know what actual truffle tastes like--nor do I really care to learn, at their typical market prices.

But I think in the U.S., there would definitely be a problem if a food label stated "natural flavor" or "truffle extract" when it was actually "artificial flavor". The name on the front of the package doesn't matter much here, except for specific exceptions. But if the back read as anything other than "olive oil, artificial flavor" the manufacturer could get slapped on the wrist so hard.
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The laws of the United States disagree with you. Unless you are renting out part of your own residence, you do not have the freedom to select who stays there on the basis of race.
I've always found the fork bomb page on Wikipedia to be a good example of different languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb

The Python is example is both short and obvious, whereas the other examples tend to be either cryptic or complicated.
My favorite photo of a lockless monster ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster#/media/File:... looks like someone swimming the crawl with poor, but not terrible technique.

But, if you really want to see a sea monster I guess you can see a sea monster. Not sure just how large they think those waves are in a lake.
Maybe, but named ranges make the whole thing somewhat moot. Your formulas should be human readable, ideally.
A dump should not be tampered with. How are you going to verify what truly is malware and what is not, and how malware in itself is not of importance?
Subjects taught at school haven't really changed – math, science, writing, a bit of philosophy and languages, i. e. the liberal arts curriculum. None of that is "useless" as it's more about learning-to-learn anyway.

And young people today are better than previous generations in basically any category: SATs have risen steadily, political participation is at the level of the late 60ies, volunteering is commonplace, crime is at an all-time low and cultural output is exploding.

The only thing that could ruin the next generation would be teaching them "pratical skills" by which people usually mean stuff like accounting. That's the humans-as-economic-units view that leads to exactly the situation in Japan: Millions of super-educated, completely generic young people who work 12h a day as told without ever complaining or having an original thought.
Fair enough, but at least in the US, if you're not eating prix fixe or paying $30+ per plate, you should assume things that are "truffled" don't contain actual truffles.

Also: apparently (according to eGullet, at least), oil infusions of real truffle aren't all that powerful, and if you're trying to disperse truffle flavor in a fat, butter is the way to go (you end up with flecks of truffle strewn throughout).
Excel formulas are a spreadsheet DSL, and one with massive adoption.
It's a bummer but you couldn't have known. Just keep making smart investments.
I didn't even go into this. When the body is in the fasted state, it begins burning up whatever it can find (in priority order-- oldest/crappiest tissues first) to fuel its processes. This includes adipose tissue. In the process of breaking down this fat, stored/trapped toxins may end up released into the bloodstream.

Is this something that can be spun around to the point that it can be claimed water fasting results in detox? I don't know, but I suppose there is all around healing and rejuvenation during this time.

It's also good to give the body a rest from constant digestion, so it can see to other things, and as cravings are reset during the fast, it's an easy transition (afterward) to whatever diet you actually want to follow.

There are many things that detox the body (liposomal vitamin C (liposomal mainly due to the high dosages needed), liposomal glutathione, ashitaba, chlorophyll, Centrophenoxine, magnesium oil spray or magnesium lotion, mercury chelators like spirulina (unless you have amalgam fillings), etc).
> If you are recording stuff from your iPhone using the 3.5mm jack you are already suboptimal perhaps even to the bluetooth.

This isn't true at all, unless your hardware is legitimately bad. All but the worst cables and amplifier chains can carry a 20 kHz signal (again, we're talking audio here -- that's basically D/C to modern electronics) at better than the ~45dB signal/noise ratio needed by the ADC on the other side.

And bluetooth isn't in general lossless. If the codec sets match, it's theoretically possible to send a music file directly over an A2DP pipe, but in practice I find almost all audio gets re-encoded for the transfer. In my car, I actually get significantly clearer music with the jack than I do over bluetooth.
How long will it take me to buy the clunky charging dongle - one for my bag, one for the car, and just leave them there? I'm an outlier - I don't use the headphone jack to listen to music but rarely - I use it to make phone calls - because both the audio quality and the volume offered is much superior to any reasonably priced wireless solution I've seen - with the added advantage of me not needing to charge it.

I suspect that Apple has enough usage data reported from customers to indicate how many of its customers use bluetooth (which is a universal and open protocol) to justify this from a business perspective - while it'll be inconvenient for me - I understand that in many ways, I'm not the typical Apple customer.

The EFF article? its FUD, pure and simple. A couple of the early android devices had no headphone jack - there was no great outcry about the encroaching DRMed world, some minor grousing about the annoyance of not having a headphone jack was all. Apple will likely support the adapter as long as most everyone else does - as in the past they were never the first to get there, just the most notable.
doesn't seem to be accurate

"hello"

-> "you ready?"

"ready for what?"

->"I'll take care of that corey, but i need this now."

"need what"

->"I'm going back there."
> rent a large number of flats on it

Where "large" means "more than one". And not always that. If they own two, live in one but lease the other they're not allowed to discriminate on protected characteristics.
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My wife picked up a cheap bottle of what claimed to be truffle oil at a chain grocery store in Herculaneum (that's in Europe) last year. On inspection, it was actually a bottle of cheap vegetable oil with a slice of some other kind of mushroom in it and a hint of trufflesque flavoring. Maybe somewhere in the fine print it said what the flavoring actually was, but the rest of the bottle, from the "TARTUFO!" label on the front to the fake truffle chunk inside, was a blatant con.
Has anyone successfully compiled their benchmark code? https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-comparisons

I added code to the data generator to work with Timely (https://nationalsecurityagency.github.io/timely/) but can't get it compiled.

Also, it seemed that ingest and query were separate stages. Queries should be run while ingest is running to get real-world performance, but I understand it is more difficult to test this way.
> I mean, it's the hotelier's responsibility to get insurance.

Yes, its a requirement to be open.

> Is there no way for an Airbnb host to get the identity of their guest?

I've never used Airbnb so I don't know, but Airbnb hosts do not have the same legal protection as a hotel and they might actually be in violation of local and state laws plus any lease agreements they are a party to.
Cool idea. I didn't know if Confreaks would have these. ElixirConf 2015's talks were uploaded by ErlangSolutions' channel and when I messaged them the said they wouldn't be hosting this years talks but Jim would probably let people know when they were up somewhere.
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The Strongloop and Datapower people are working on API Connect:

http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/api-connect

It supports node.js and swift.
The money doesn't come off the printing press out of thin air, it's a redistribution of wealth. That is, additional wealth (or currency which is an abstraction of wealth) isn't created, it is redistributed.

That wealth can be used to consume the same amount of goods/services that it could have before the redistribution, but now many users get to make those consumption choices instead of one or few.

Yes, this redistribution will have a massive impact on the _pricing_ of different goods and services within an overall market. However, total wealth (ability to consume in aggregate) will remain the same within that market.
It was going to be called Anomalous. The idea behind it was that it would be an agent that gets deployed everywhere in your infrastructure that has collection, time series storage (either in memory, on-disk or both), alerting, and a basic web UI.

The agents would all call to a central service, which would have bidirectional communication. The central service would then act as a distributed alerting/query aggregator. So you could hit that and query a specific agent, aggregate across multiple ones, etc.

Kind of like a fully distributed time series, monitoring, and anomaly detection platform.

I still like the idea, but we didn't have the runway or resources to go down that path. Open source got us much more traction, combined with the fact that I personally like to work on OSS projects :)
> the main difference between a camera with a proper lens and the tiny flat ones that you would find in any smartphone is a feature of a photo called depth of field.

This is highly reductionist and thus, misleading. Optical design of photography lenses is a very complex field whose main purpose is not "giving photos a DoF effect", but to provide control on aperture and focal length and boost the received light while keeping chromatic and geometrical aberrations to a minimum. The Wikipedia article on lens evolution is very interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photographic_lens_d...
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Apple has a fairly small share of the phone market, which can matter for anti-trust legislation.
In addition to what others have said: Lisp and Haskell will still be around and relevant. (Relevant being defined as "as relevant as they are today or better", not as "large fractions of new software being written in them".)

Hate to say it, but I'd bet that Windows in some form will still be around, with an API that is recognizably similar to today's.
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> your argument is yet another conspiracy theory

Not at all, neither of us knows what information was submitted to WL, so perhaps the issue is that nothing as significant as the war logs was submitted. We know for a fact that the US has significantly tightened up its infosec policies since Chelsea Manning's revelations. These are facts and no conspiracy theorizing is involved whatsoever. My friends who work for the Federal government would never even read this HN thread while at work, so there has been a legitimately chilling effect on the culture as well.

> sloppy, irresponsible journalism

Holding WL to some imaginary journalistic standard is absurd. It would be one thing if the NY Times got the story and overshadowed WL by publishing a carefully redacted, professional piece. But the major news outlets do not for the most part have systems in place for anonymous drop off of data, and simply do not report on much of what WL gets access to. If you ask me, that is the major journalistic failure. Can Assange, with a tiny team, copy edit and responsibly redact everything? Of course not, but we know from his previous releases that he strongly prefers to and that he is operating WL in survival mode at the moment due to harassment from some of the parties he's leaked information about.

> It seems that every time Assange has a bowel movement, all of the major news sources write about it as front-page news, and immediately every comment is about how no major news outlet is reporting on wikileaks.

This statement does not make sense. Assange is not Wikileaks, and Assange's personal failings are not Wikileaks. The stories which don't see much reporting are the actual factual content about corruption and misdeeds by government officials! The problem is that we get stories about Assange's personal details but not any real substance.

I'd rather not sidetrack this discussion into the content of the DNC emails, but would be happy to do so in a different thread.
Thanks for this, I misread the headline and jumped to the comments to see if they would shed any light on who Brian is.
This reminds me in some ways of Eric Snow's (rejected, afaik) proposal to extend "subinterpreters" to allow parallelism in Python.

https://lwn.net/Articles/650489/
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Nintendo's biggest asset is their intellectual property portfolio with very strong franchises (Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, etc). In theory, any of their games could run on a PC, or a rival console. But they leverage their IP to sell their subpar hardware. This business model worked great for decades, but as new strong players like Sony and Microsoft joined, now their influence and revenue is not enough to keep them afloat.

Nintendo needs a share of the mobile gaming market, beyond handheld consoles. This is why they invested in DeNA (and DeNA invested in Nintendo).
You can use array formulas to achieve the same result in Excel.
(creator of DTMF.io here)

I don't see WebRTC as being too much of a hurdle. If the user is running recent-ish Chrome or Firefox, they don't need to know about WebRTC any more than you need to know about HTTP in order to load the website. It just happens to be the technology we use to make the voice calls work: you still type a number into a box and click a button and then talk.

If they're running Safari, they're unfortunately completely out of luck for now - but SMS will still work!
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How about "only Apple earbuds or Apple-approved devices"?

Surely, the point is Apple can easily control what works and what doesn't. Whatever the situation is today is no comfort against the potential abuses of the future.
Doesn't that say that "Answering your own questions with the other account(s)" is one of the things that a sock puppet account should not be used for?
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Might be of help to someone else to realize that you are talking about Martin Shkreli, rather than Spolsky.

I missed the parent you were referencing, and thought one of the child comments was saying that Joel Spolsky was out on bail for securities fraud (which was the result, obviously, of me not catching who you were talking about)

oops!

:-D
I'm pretty sure you are misreading.

(b)Nothing in section 804 of this title (other than subsection (c)) shall apply to--
(1)[...everything you quoted...], or
(2)rooms or units in dwellings containing living quarters occupied or intended to be occupied by no more than four families living independently of each other, if the owner actually maintains and occupies one of such living quarters as his residence.

Since (2) applies to AirBnB, it doesn't matter if (1) does because the exception is (1) || (2).

Volokh (a very good law blog) has blogged on this topic a while back, also useful to read: http://volokh.com/2012/02/08/does-the-right-to-choose-a-room... http://volokh.com/2010/11/05/federal-government-acknowledges...

Apparently people also have a constitutional right to choose "intimate associations", which includes who you live with. However, you can't advertise that you'll do this.
Science is not a white/black min/max field. Failure in science is to end up not knowing more about why your original idea or theory is either wrong or right. It's the literal equivalent to a sealed glass of water containing the same exact (to the molecule) amount of volume after a period of time attempting to change it through external forces. You've learned nothing.

When a rocket explodes on a launch pad, and you've gathered petabytes of telemetry data and sensory data from all of it's systems, you can study and research that data to figure out what went wrong and put procedures and systems in place to mitigate that in the future. You learn from the mistakes, thus the outcome of the failure is a success. This doesn't mean we should stand in the viewing area of SpaceX's control center and cheer them on for their work in making a rocket explode. They still failed their mission, but they can make their future missions more safe and more robust because of what they learned in a real world failure situation.
But saying something is insecure doesn't make it secure.
If you and your parent poster are right about why Excel is so prominent, and I personaly think both of you are, then we might be able to see a shift in economics and businessmanship and in the way Excel formulas play a large part of what it is that makes the world go 'round, once business men start to learn how to program, or when Excel start's to learn to talk "business", but no earlier than that.

Which movement do you think is strongest? The AI camp or the ones that think programming should absolutely be a part of a proper education in business or economics? I hope for the latter, because I think it will be the end of the huge gap there is today, between the decision makers and the engineers, two groups who quite often but for no good reason feel alienated from each other.
There's an indie film I quite enjoyed called The Hunter, starring Willem Dafoe, that fictionalizes the demise of the last remaining tiger. I recommend it highly for the outdoor landscapes and non-traditional plot alone.
They're not independent - they license the proprietary Lightning standard from Apple at a fee [1] [2].

As a potential headphone manufacturer you can't even know the exact agreement (including terms and royalties) without signing an NDA.

[1] - https://developer.apple.com/programs/mfi/

[2] - https://mfi.apple.com/MFiWeb/getFAQ.action#1-1
This is totally off topic, but just checked out your website and damn, you're a hell of a runner. I'm thinking about signing up for my first ultra real soon!
I appreciate the summary but I was speculating about things that weren't said (in the article). Specifically, as you point out, the article makes no statement on whether they will dogfood Apigee for internal use, but recently they acquired Firebase where dogfooding it was a part of the play.

Meanwhile, there's these lines:

> Google cloud customers are already benefitting from no sys-ops dev environments, including Google App Engine and Google Container Engine. Now, with Apigee’s API management platform, they'll be able to front these secure and scalable services with a simple way to provide the exported APIs.

>As always, we'll make sure that these capabilities are available in the public clouds and can also be used on-premises.

It unnecessarily combines two different things in the same sentence; "you can continue to rely on your stuff running in Google App Engine and Google Container Engine"; and "you can front your stuff with Apigee Edge" -- yes, I can already do both of these things today. So what's the difference?
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Adding a simple spoken/typed passphrase or passcode would turn the iphone into a full blown three-factor auth method.
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Inflation has more to do with the amount of money in circulation. If you finance with taxes and not debt, the value would stay constant.

But a bit of inflation may not be the worst thing – the current almost-deflation is a lot worse and both private and public debts could finally be lowered. Unfortunately, it's a pretty imprecise mechanisms and there are some people that suffer disproportionally such as those around retirement age getting fixed pensions.
Thanks for the link, I'm going to look into this!
"why should they know about something so far outisde their specialty"
Fwiw, the title was edited by somebody else. It was initially titled "ElixirConf community github repo of slides and links"
This is the first time in my computer science career that I've heard Excel (and spreadsheets in general) called a functional programming language! What an excellent, excellent point!
I've done a reasonable amount of work (and even more investigation into) Graph search.

I believe the story is that they shipped it, and then found that the people who were using the most powerful parts the most weren't exactly the kind of customers they wanted.

Since then they have been modifying the API so less and less of it works. It is very difficult to work out exactly what and what doesn't work because it depends on the the account you are using and that account's relationships with the people and groups you are searching, as well as the rights each of those gives. The FB default permission schemes have changed significantly over time (to be less open) too.

Also, there seem to be bugs, and it is difficult to know what is intentional, what is because of permissions and what is a bug.

For example, it seems impossible to read posts made by other users to a page via the graph API even when that same account can read them when logged in interactively. This doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, and there are plenty of online sources showing code that seemed to have worked previously. So is it a bug or deliberate? Most seem to assume it is deliberate, but who really knows?

To be clear: I have no internal FB sources on this.
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> How many times will it take you forgetting your dongle
> to just pony up and buy the apple approved headphones?

Uhm, Apple headphones are right there in the box. You get them with your iPhone.