skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
«Is it really true that food companies deliberately set out to manipulate research in their favor? Yes, it is, and the practice continues,” Nestle added, noting that Coca-Cola and candy makers have both tried recently to influence nutrition research.»

Universities need to be held accountable for researchers' ethics. The article suggests that the Sugar Research Foundation merely followed the standard procedure of any other trade group, that is, this was not an isolated incident. Maybe Harvard would be more inclined to avoid such malpractice if its brand and credibility suffered from it. Universities should not act like a PR firm.

«Trained as a dentist, Kearns said she was shocked to hear a keynote speaker at a 2007 dentistry conference — on diabetes, no less — tell her there is no evidence linking sugar to chronic disease. She quit her job and devoted herself full-time to uncovering documents that show the sugar industry’s influence over public policy and science.»

This quote exemplifies Arendt's banality of evil.
Running a Deep Learning (Dream) Machine, Part II
Hungary started exactly that in 2011 (although soda is only taxed a minuscule amount for some reason).
InversifyJS2.0.0 has been released
Slightly related: I'm driving through West Africa now, and I loaded OSM onto my cheap-o used Garmin. [1]

I have been absolutely shocked and blown away by the accuracy and detail of the maps. In the tiniest dirt street village, with less than 100 people, it correctly maps all the roads and even all the walking trails.

Of course, in the big cities too.

I'm staggered they have this level of detail.

[1] http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/
Useful perhaps, in that it makes you feel good. But like another poster pointed out, nazi ideology made its followers feel pretty good.
It makes it easier to keep your money in a personal safe if you would rather not trust banks with it. It is not illegal or immoral to avoid using banks. It is your right as a free citizen. Governments don't like it because they want to have control over your savings.

Is this paranoia? I don't know, ask the people in Cyprus, Greece and Portugal.
It has high value in small volume - this is the point. It allows you to keep significant sums of money outside of a bank with relative ease. The abolition of high-value notes makes this significantly harder both for the 'good' guys and for the 'bad' guys.
^a I would remember it
Fun, but overal quality seems a bit lacking.

When I search myself; the top 10 results don't even have my last name ('Kusters') and just shows pages that have the word 'Nick'. I suppose you don't use a form of LSA to score the search results? Maybe it's too specific, but afaik mainstream search engines seem to give somewhat consistent results here.

https://deusu.org/query?q=nick+kusters

Looking at the code (https://github.com/MichaelSchoebel/DeuSu/) I notice that you have ranking modifiers based on the .tld; why not store the reported content language and score based on that? Isn't that more relevant?
One reason would be to store your savings yourself instead of entrusting them to a bank. Why would you not entrust them to a bank? Because of negative interest rates, capital controls (e.g. Greece) and concerns due to bank liquidity and bail-ins.

That said, the €500 note thing is a bit of a red herring (I've never seen one in my life BTW). This is just the thin end of the wedge. The greater goal is to make cash as unattractive as possible to nudge (or force) people to use surveilled electronic cash, so as to better enforce negative interest rates, bail-ins and redenomination.
I've seen reports putting the number of adults without a bank account/credit card/etc. in the UK at 1.5 million. Probably it's similar or even higher in the EU as well.

So these people pay everything in cash. While removing the €500 note might not impact them much, I think the €200 and lower notes are very convenient for them.
I think appropriate labelling is a must. Label things correctly and let the people decide, just like cigarettes.

I think regulation is a must only in countries with free healthcare, where sick people are treated with taxpayers' money. If that's not the case, people are free to do what they please with their own health as they're the sole ones footing bill.
Millennials Don't Care About Owning Cars, and Car Makers Can't Figure Out Why
I hadn't even thought about that. But it should be pretty easy to do in post-processing. I just have to take a list of "porn" keywords. If none of them occurs in the query, but in a search-result, then that result gets downranked.
Oh, well. Those are "smart", indeed.

User research made easier (and cheaper). I'm waiting for toothbrush that is internet-enabled.
Notebook para games pesados e até mesmo de realidade virtual
i've had a look in kj/io.h

I see the classes: ArrayOutputStream/VectorOutputStream, i assumed these are the ones you are discussing.
It feels good.

Jokes aside cash is (IMO) very important. If you have cash in your pocket you are not vulnerable to.. how to say this.. "being fucked over" by your government or, as is the case lately, someone else's government or corporation (my mother had this happen with her paycheck). This obviously ensures the basic freedom that is more and more threatened in the modern "civilized" world.

And, again, it feels good to have cash with you. That cash represents your hard work and that hard work is quantifiable by the quantity (and color) of bills.

On a more personal note, i'd like to get paid in cash 'cuz banks are the biggest pieces of.. they are bad people doing (mostly) bad things legally.

edit:
Here's a story;
We had a debt with a company. That debt we settled quid pro quo as that company did some damage to our apartment. After a while that company got bought by another company and soon after we got a letter that said that we owe them money (with interest calculated in, ofc). That fell on my mother as her name was on the contract. She, being the "don't make trouble" kind of person, didn't want to sue them (and we didn't have much money to pay lawyers at the time), although she would probably win. The way those kinds of debts are payed in my country is by them sitting on your paycheck (you can pay them in cash, ofc). That goes through the government financial agency. Thing is that the amount payed shouldn't go over 2/3 of the pay you get, for obvious reasons. But said agency took her whole pay.

In other words: To whoever downvoted without explaining why s/he downvoted, you are probably a financially safe person that knows what to do (or your lawyer knows what to do) when stuff like this happens. Or in yet other words: go f yourself.
Good for what? Even though this isn't good for use as an every day general purpose search engine, it could be good for a particular use case perhaps with some adaptation or for learning from.
the total amount of payouts per flight is limited as well as premiums and individual payouts. there is a non-negligible legal risk of such action and the payout limits in the end will converge to the price of the risk someone is going to take.
Well, but does it? How do you know?

Voting obviously is the biggest problem, but other uses have similar problems. Especially in terms of how you could ever figure out if it's actually not working well. You say that it serves other purposes quite well--how do you actually know that? Is it just because noone has demonstrated yet that, I dunno, the smartcards have a backdoor that is actively being used to sign stuff in other people's names? How would you know if that were the case? How would you convince a judge that you didn't sign some document when they ask you to explain how it comes that their computer tells them that you signed it?
"Let's talk about that CVV for a moment. ... PCI DSS is very clear about how the CVV (or CVV2 as it is these days) should be stored ... It shouldn't be stored and that's what makes this breach such a big issue. Violation of PCI DSS guidelines can lead to pretty serious fines and even loss of merchant facilities; the card providers take this very seriously.

It checked out - this is the CVV."
Every time I see new search engine projects I remember this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil

I note that Dr Anna Patterson is back with Google. She wrote this in 2004: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=988407
>An astute reader might realize that computing the cache line on every invocation is not enough for user space code: It can happen that a process gets scheduled on a different CPU while executing the __clear_cache function with a certain cache line size, where it might not be valid anymore.

Doesn't ARM have an "Enter Critical Region" instruction?
Slightly OT but it's well worth watching the recent film about Ramanujan, "The Man Who Knew Infinity".

It has kept me thinking what "intuition" really is, how it develops and happens in the brain, and what would be needed to build AI that has intuition.
In my experience this is usually caused by the fact that even 2bn pages aren't that many nowadays. The index needs to get bigger to better find (and rank) long-tail results like queries like this.
If you do this, please make it a continuous scale rather than green/yellow/red. There's a big difference between "the worst that connection can get you a green" and "a really good connection".
Indeed. The LiveImage example reminded me of the paintings on the walls at Hogwarts :)
The data bandwidth between main memory and that which the GPU works with isn't speeding up by the same factors though. This is fine when working with a dataset that fits into the GPU's memory pool and your workload involves relatively few (or zero) changes because you can transfer it once and repeatedly ask the GPUs to analyse it in what-ever ways. As soon as the common dataset doesn't fit neatly into the GPU's RAM (leaving enough spare for scratch space) you end up thrashing the channel and it becomes the main bottleneck.
Show HN: Dutch app helps you find a Döner place for your after party cravings
You have a panic room/war room or etc. Somewhere with significant physical security and dedicated ports that skips the bastion entirely. You might have to go for the axe method in getting into the room during an incident but you can if need be.
FWIW: I used to pay my rent in cash to my roommate. (€1,000) and the ATMs happily handed out €500 notes in Finland.

But I also like to keep an "emergency fund" of high denomination currency in a spare hidden wallet, in that wallet I have 10x£50, 1x€500 and 10x500SEK.

My wallet would be easier to carry if I had just one of each note type instead of 10.
Ask HN: Why is camel case a standard in JavaScript ?
Hello,

I've always wondered how camel case became a standard, rather than any other convention ?

In my opinion, Snake case is much more readable.
Speaking of which, it seems possible for a computer to detect content which is just mostly marketing, versus content which is not (based on how spam filters work). The search engine should just show a "marketing index" score right next to the result. Even better is to whitelist certain sites (Wikipedia,popular .edu and .org domains) to begin with and prioritize those results.

It would likely be really niche, but it could become the anti-Google, which would be great when people actually seek an alternative to all the noise.

I think it has to be a non-profit like Wikipedia itself, I cannot imagine a model where it can also make money. The submitted site is a candidate but it has to improve the search quality as other commenters pointed out.
> Even if it seems highly unusual to pay for a car/vacation/house in cash this is not a reason to outlaw it.

It's already outlawed in most EU countries. In Italy the maximum cash payment is 3000 euro. In France, 1000 euro. Especially real estate is great for laundering money if cash payment is allowed.

> Second, with inflation, what seems to be a high sum today may not seem so 15 years down the road.

Inflation in the Eurozone is essentially at zero.
In addition to the lack of removing porn and the ordering of the results not priorizing "quality" sources, some of the indexed site data is at least 4-6 months old and has heavily changed since the last crawl. I even got 404 errors. That makes it very hard to really find use in the project other than for academic interest.
Marketing strategies to increase customer loyalty
I always had an inkling for a Search Engine that ONLY indexed the root page of every domain. Not sure if I'm right about this, but it sure would sort the chaff from the wheat for general purpose queries.
I wonder what data source it uses. Google? OpenStreetMap? Does it take opening hours into account?
I live in a pretty well off, but not the wealthiest East Coast suburb and out local newspaper occasionally prints a list of folks who have to report their salaries and make over 100k.

My guess there were periods in the past when new teachers started with decent salaries and given guaranteed yearly raises, seniority moved them beyond this.

Im interested now myself (did I make a mistake?) and will look for an online copy or save next version
They are doing it 10 years later, so probably computer simulations are going to simplify the job more for them than they did for SpaceX.

Also Bezos has more cash and less dependent on external funding or public opinion - if several of his rockets blow up in a row it won't stop him, and he can proceed quicker.

Also, New Shepard uses hydrolox. That is harder than Falcon's kerolox. Not to say New Shepard is more comples than Falcon 1 - they are very different vehicles hard to directly compare - but it's definitely not a toy.
In some Paris suburbs, a 500€ note can be sold for 550€ or more. I'm pretty confident this is not for its legal uses.
How to get a solid mathematics base using Functional Programming
If the the research grant process wasn't already screwed up, it would be the perfect place to enforce ethics. "Sorry we can't approve your grant proposal due to ethical lapses at your institution." It wouldn't take long for universities to wise up and take ethics seriously.
I'm not an Apple user. One day I had to install or upgrade some software (I don't remember exactly), on a Mac. The instructions said that I had to first start iTunes. That's a program for playing music, right? You can imagine how underwhelmed I was by the UX on this so-called user-friendly platform. Since then, I never felt any urge to switch to or even try out an Apple product.
it isn't yet. the current implementation relies on the flightstats API and oraclize.it to call the API from the contract. I think we are still far from truly decentralized applications, and it needs experiments like this to slowly get there. as a next step redundant data sources and oracles might help.
A fresh recrawl is currently running. Should take about 2-3 months. Newly crawled data will gradually replace older data during that time.
Yes I guess filtering them out would at least make the website SFW, and it would make it easier to show it to people. The issue seems to happen mainly with common words (which results also appear to be polluted with heavily SEO-ed websites).

I've also searched for less generic things like "xperia z5" and the results looked good.
works really fast!
Space Between | Ashford, Kent, UK | ONSITE | Front End Web Developer / Web Developer

We are a 6 person agency, based in Ashford Kent. We've been running for two years. We're a developer & technology focussed agency with a flat and friendly structure. We have a nice office about 3 minutes walk from Ashford International Station, which is only 30 minutes from St Pancras in London.

We're looking for someone to join the team with Front-end experience. We like using Angular.js and React.js. We write BEMy SCSS. We work with Node.js tools and we like express on the server. Git and Front-end build tooling experience would be great.

If you feel that you're not growing where you are, or you feel that your restricted by the technology used by your current agency, you should definitely apply. We're truly technology agnostic and we always make sure we're using technology that we think is growing.

More information can be found on our blog, here: http://spacebetween.io/space/between/2016/08/23/front-end-we...

The interview process will be a telephone interview, followed by a coding challenge (some javascript), and then an onsite interview.

To apply, please send an email to hello@spacebetween.io, preferably with a CV but otherwise your LinkedIn, Github or something!
> So these people pay everything in cash.

In India, those numbers would probably be much higher than in most other parts of the world.

The Indian government launched a scheme called Income Declaration Scheme 2016 [0] so that people could declare their undisclosed income.

It was recently followed by a notification [1] stating that taxes resulting from such declarations could be paid in cash.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_declaration_scheme%2C_2...

[1] https://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/notification/PDFs/NT623376E...
The site's interface is just incredibly pleasant compared to Google.com. I really hope the author sticks with it. Unfortunately I'm not sure it's usable right now, searching "group theory Wikipedia" never brings up a Wikipedia page (although maybe I should just be directly searching Wikipedia if that's what I wanted).
What prevents people from withdrawing all their money in 500€ notes from the bank, trading them in for 550€, exchanging the money for 500€ notes at the bank and repeating this until they're filthy rich?
> What if it was the contrary? What if it was fat (beyond trans fat) that was taxed and regulated based on BS studies?

I don't understand your posit. Are you saying sugar would be taxed based on BS studies?
The topic of discussion is that older studies have downplayed the detrimental effect of sugar, while upplaying the role of fat.

If sugar was taxed it would be according to current studies. If fat was taxed it would not be.

Is your question a thought experiment or what are you saying?
Suicide Squad Special Ops Hack (Android/iOS/Windows)
Damn, I see so much frustration from you for not being able to understand JavaScript here... once you understand it's a different language instead of trying to write your favorite language with JavaScript syntax it'll get better, buddy, relax :)
I replying to let you know. :)
I don't know why would people use it to be frank. Lot better alternatives exists.

> it could be good for a particular use case

Namely?

> or for learning from.

The author admitted in the github readme that the code quality is rather bad. I also don't see a link to the search index, the only valuable component of this project.
Deusu can't find deusu (or deusu.org)

https://deusu.org/query?q=deusu
Did you know Ctrl + / is like undo while composing a command? So when you for example delete a word with Ctrl + W, you can get it back with Ctrl + /.
Scarcity of 500 euro notes I would assume.
Something to keep in mind when people point to GM studies that concluding that everything is perfect (or "pop-sci" apologetics, with arguments like "farmers did it for millennia anyway" conveniently forgetting the several orders of magnitude increased volume, speed, targeting, and the ability to do arbitrary matches -- nobody combined insect genes with fruits in the 12th century...).

Back in the day tobacco was a-ok by similar studies. Same for sugar.

Of course it's even worse for softer sciences (economics, social studies, urban development studies, etc.).
No, well programmers just knowing JavaScript is but catering to a wider audience is a good thing.
And why should it? You are already at the destination. No need to find it. :)
1) JS is a wart. "but it's not relevant to people actually building things day to day." - look at all those crappy electron apps...
4) Very young community not giving a * about optimisation and quality.
For me if anything it's the opposite. I blog rarely, because I spend a while thinking over my posts and getting them right. (That said, I commit frequently even there, because I maintain my blog in git).
https://www.fastcoexist.com/3027876/millennials-dont-care-ab...
thanks, very good point. this is great feedback and a really valuable discussion for us. we need to have more experiments with decentralized applications and insurance markets to explore that. we are looking forward to address these questions with insurance and financial service providers.
Is embedding interfaces still composition, in your opinion? And if not, does this means you recommend not using composition?
Interesting concept but I struggle with the practical aspects. The reasons for central underwriting authority are clear...

1. Economies of scale needed to deal with regulatory, dept. of insurance, etc.

2. Economies of scale needed to administer policies

3. Economies of scale needed to administer claims

4. Expertise needed in pricing and actuarial

In an ethereum based true P2P system the individual is more or less self insuring and re-insuring their risk via an ethereum contract.

I think there's something worth paying for to be able to say a financial institution is covering you. I have a hard time believing the financial saving for an individual is worth the trouble. I also have a hard time believing the regulatory and administration needs are met without some staff supporting the contract.
It's everywhere - in the US.

Natural yogurt should be relatively easy to find. Add some real fruit if it's too dull for you (after a while it's not).

Basically try not to eat processed stuff. Sure, you're not going to die if you eat a pizza here and there, but the baseline should be to eat as much real food as possible, as opposed to processed food. Even for pizza, you could find a place which uses fresh ingredients as oppose to a big franchise where everything is heavily processed and frozen. Finally, give it a try to make your own pizza/yogurt/etc. It can be a lot of fun.
Granite gold daily cleaner
Try making it yourself. I use a variety that ferments at room temperature (Caspian Sea): just add some left-over yogurt from the last batch to a fresh carton of milk, stir, and wait 12 hours.
I think the problem is not with the actual IP routing part, as that is relatively straightforward, but with all the other value-added "features" that get crammed into the same and often underpowered hardware. At the least, a consumer WiFi router will contain an IP router, a NAT, and an AP, and it's the NAT that probably contributes a lot to the connectivity failures people are seeing that go away when the "router" is rebooted --- NAT tables filling up due to many half-open or lingering connections that didn't get closed properly. The aggressive nature of many applications' connection usage (e.g. "why does my router stop responding when I use torrents?") doesn't help either.
To pay for things when your bank is an idiot which won't let you spend over your limit, but will let you withdraw as much as you want in person.

I paid for my first car in cash because of that. It was idiotic, but physical money beats bureaucratic idiocy.