skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can't actually quantify nor do we fully understand all the vitamins, chemicals & molecules in your average vegetable, or how they are digested and used in your body. It might be bad to peel a carrot prior to eating it, since you lose the nutrients in the skin (that may only exist there) and oxidize the rest of the carrot breaking down other potentially good nutrients, similar to how garlic loses certain multi-drug resistant infection killing abilities when chopped or crushed[1].

If we did have a good grasp of the nutrients that the human body needs, and in what form (particularly to prevent your bowels from shutting down or having mass dieoffs), then something like Ensure, Soylent, etc might be practical with a group of people who were well versed in the science of nutrition designing it, but I do not have that kind of faith with our abject lack of understanding & the present lack of nutritional skills Soylent, and many other processed food companies have shown.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allicin
eh, as the first trying to bring science in food science and use microbiology instead of dietary esoterism I'm willing to give them some slack

sure this turn of people getting sick is worrying, because coming late and sudden hints at contamination, and I hope they can mature enough to go past manufacturing problems

but the data they're collecting will be extraordinary for bringing down the layers of encrusted myths about how the body works.
> No innovative features? What do you call a ribbon display that no one has ever done before?

A definite step back for the sake of introducing a gimmick, whose consequences have not been given enough thought.

They could have tried buying a Lenovo Carbon Gen.2 and using it for half a day, and realized what a stupid idea it is.

I actually had one of those laptops for a little while - issued by my workplace.
It came with the same concept - a touch-sensitive strip, with (limited) display capabilities and which could change its function depending on the context.

Even if the touchstrip hadn't been an utter piece of junk (which it was - hello lack of feedback and failing to detect extremely deliberate touches), I wouldn't have hated it any less. I don't want to have to constantly look away from the screen when I'm working. I'll avoid mentioning all the other problems of the Lenovo touchstrip (or the rest of the keyboard, which was an utter abomination) because hopefully Apple gets those right - but it doesn't really matter. Give me my ESC key back, and stop breaking usability.

In their boneheaded move, actually Lenovo _at least_ had the presence of mind to realize that ESC is really off limits, so they moved it to the row below. At the expense of the ` key, which isn't really an optimal solution, but it shows some modicum of reasoning about the usability impact of that gimmick. Apple doesn't seem to care.

I gave that mostruosity back shortly after, am now a happy user of a T450s which even has an ethernet port!!!, very happy with it. Lenovo shortly after retired the gen2, replaced it with a gen3 which has an absolutely normal keyboard, issued an apology, probably fired the idiot who suggested that horrible usability compromised. I'm afraid Apple may have hired that idiot.

I now may need to have the Courage to spend my own money on a non-Apple laptop after so many years.
Put on your tinfoil hat, it's conspiracy time...

I think he's referring to this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/59p4tx/the_latest_...
This is still affecting us. Our customers on Heroku seem to be the worst affected as Heroku is unable to resolve the DNS
> In the trenches of WWI, when it was time to fight, soldiers would have to climb up a ladder onto a battlefield. The problem was that German snipers could see the tops of the ladders. The Germans would keep their rifles fixed on where they knew the enemy would emerge and simply shoot them down once they saw helmets appear.

> The European Allied soldiers were so disciplined that they just kept climbing up the ladders and getting killed one by one, following their orders to their deaths. The Americans saw this and said, "fuck that, I'm not climbing up there."

Wow, that anecdote explains American supremacy better than anything to date. /s

Without a citation I'm going to have to call bull-shit on that one, I'm just trying to imagine their CO standing there with an ever mounting heap of corpses at the bottom of the ladder and not once thinking 'this doesn't seem to work'.

Some googling does not turn up any evidence for your story either.
A cautionary tale that produces a fast-growing company now worth at least $100 million dollars? I'll take it.
Waiting eagerly for shit on a stick at $999!
Whether something is safe to eat has nothing to do with identification. If you don't know what something is then obviously you shouldn't be eating it.
Hilarious, we like the broad and deep. Because the broad are not deep and the deep are not broad.

I think be broad by default and acquire depth when you need to...
That's sad but I totally believe it after some interaction with teachers.
chewing is what stimulates the bile gland, bile is what you need to help with toxins removal, you need to chew, no short cut!

http://www.spinelab.co.uk/chewing-is-foreplay-for-digestion-...

http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/live...
I wouldn't be surprised if the fact that it's a powder contributes to this. I've vomited from strong green tea on an empty stomach before, but never from green tea with food. Solid food works as a sustained release mechanism for the nutrients/phytochemicals. A sudden burst of polyphenols won't necessarily have the same effect as the same dose spread over time.
Yeah, need to mix whole food in there to keep your bowels functioning well & avoid having the flora in your intestines from dieing off.
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work (2015)
I'm not sure how daily news relate to that. The amount of bigotry in a given country seems orthogonal to quality of math education.
being the first* there and having a chance of becoming the de-facto monopoly of the industry

*there are food substitute in use already for in-patients with certain conditions, but are pricey, incomplete and not really into the nutrition substitute space, more like into the 'survive a week on this because you can't eat food' space.
I get these calls now and then, and I always say I'll mail a check. A legitimate call will say ok, the illegit ones will demand payment over the phone.
try this, eat what you normally eat, except take twice as long to eat it, after eating sit quietly for the same amount of time and meditate on how awesome you are for getting feeding yourself right.
Some of the very worst teachers I've ever met were in Canada.
My experience was different while in Jerusalem - Christian churches were free to visit, synagogues required you to "donate" and mosques were immediately kicking you out.
In fairness they have developed an active and engaged online community with customer support that resembles a tech product I can't think of another food product that's done this, it's definitely a part of what's allowed them to take off.
I spit in the blender, of course.
Sounds more like white noise to me. What makes it pink??
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Since they're producing an actual food product they arguably have higher costs than most software efforts that get investment backing.
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They can just read this:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110310-00/?p=...
If you love typewriters, or any form of functional machinery, you must read this
Similar systems built around transparent salaries work for companies bigger than 500. Look for stories from Morning Star or Semco for example. Obviously, with a few thousand people you need at least a bit more structure, but in principle the model is the same: people collectively set their own salaries with respect to economical constraints of an organization.
Stealing this shamelessly
It's not racism, it's Ethnicity! /s

> Unfortunately, it's so sensitive few will want to talk about it - for fear that the general public equates educational outcomes to 'intelligence' and try to strongly correlate ethnicity + race to this, which would be fodder for racist/KKK types, which wouldn't really help the overall social situation in America.

Fortunately we have you.
You mean the price paid for stable kernel ABIs, so proprietary drivers can use them?

The Linux kernel is the most safe operating system component to upgrade, mostly because the Linux kernel people care deeply about compatibility and not breaking user space. While it is still not free to upgrade, the cost is minimal compared to the cost (in real money, risk, security) of backporting major components to older kernels, like Red Hat is doing.

Red Hat is maintaining old kernels for having a stable kernel ABI (among some other reasons), not for general "stability".

Personally I run only CentOS, but always with a recent kernel, albeit usually a LTS one. Mostly to get exactly these type of features described in this article.
I think you mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRivxlG8Bmc#t=25s
It’s not "research research" but it is "does this phenomenon actually exist in the literature" research.

Insisting on testing the phenomenon in an actual car crash seems superfluous to me. A car crash produces a loud noise that can potentially damage hearing, which can be alleviated to some extent by triggering the acoustic reflex with a quieter noise immediately before impact. So long as the generated noise is well below the threshold of damage then I’m really failing to see why more specific research is required in order to believe that this would be an effective intervention.
(1983).

Which partially explains the high quality of the piece. I wasn't expecting it and was surprised. Harder to find nowadays.

It's not a simple minded rant, and has a good lot of factual historical details, accurate as far as I can tell as someone way less expert than the author.

The perspective on the facts is also reasonable, if not fashionable (nowadays it goes more "yuck, not us.")
It blows my mind that these birds spend summer in Europe, then migrate to Africa where they stay most of the year -- without ever touching ground there.
No male pill yet.

Can't trust anyone else with birth control.
> unless your job role actually involves negotiation.

Every job involves some level of negotiation.

Even as a junior you have to negotiate with senior devs to give you time of day. Even as a junior you have to negotiate on features and estimates.

As you move up the chain it becomes more and more important.
I think the question was how to earn money, not spend money :)
How is the selection bias relevant to the discussion? The fact remains.
Given the 1983 date on the piece, probably. It was the only one I noticed, too. The phrase is about Pompeii, so A.D. 79, obviously.
It is just more nutritionally sound and low effort compared to almost all other quick fixes.
This article debunks the Washington Post claim about a majority of kids in public school being in poverty.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/01/no-...
Not a lot of people read Plato but pointing out the horse was filled with troops isn't a spoiler.
I haven't seen "Ive" at the beginning of a sentence before and it's surprisingly hard to parse.
I think emphasizing Servo is the wrong goal.

Ideally, when rewriting a large legacy app you want to take the StranglerApplication[1] approach. Netscape tried rewriting its software from scratch and we all know how that ended for Netscape[2] - Netscape is no more. Luckily, Firefox came from that whole mess. But I assume a lot of effort was lost, going from Netscape to Firefox.

In idealized scenario, Servo slowly starts taking replacing parts of Firefox. First URL parser and media player, then slowly DOM, CSS, Renderer, and finally takes over and rewrites JS VM.

The takeover is silent and gradual and user doesn't notices anything outside speed improvements. It's like some kind of silent Borg infection.

[1] http://paulhammant.com/2013/07/14/legacy-application-strangu...

[2] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000027.html
Could you elaborate on the data they are collecting?

The human body with it's organs and molecular pathways is quite a tough black box to crack, and there is not a spark of a doubt that Soylent - and no one else - will not understand it for quite a while.

And then there is human human variations.

The concept was flawed from the very beginning. It's sad to see them fail, and I feel bad for the people that suffer because they believed what was marketing and not hard science.
does death suck ? I've never tried it, personally I find life has it's downsides, so to fear something I've never tried seems irrational ? I like children, and old people, if the old people don't get going at some point, where do we put the children?
> I'm going to try Linux for the iftiest time.

When you do that please, please buy something where it's preloaded onto the system (e.g. Dell XPS) so that you get the same sort of hardware/software experience that you get from the integrated apple. It will cut out so much fiddling and possibilities of a terrible experience!
I think the give away was how many of them focus on the UK.
Xcode 8.1 does that (visible in the TouchBar simulator). They add a global key to control the debugger (Pause/Resume program execution, toggle breakpoints…) while you're in your app, and away from Xcode: https://cl.ly/0v0z3b2S3Q0a
Congratulation Apple. You have added the worst feature ever: the touchbar with adaptive keys.
I discover this feature with Lenovo X1 Carbon (not the first generation): I would have paid not to have it.
I lost so many minutes everyday.
[Yes, I know this is optional on MacBook]
I won't argue the economic difference, but what important historical conflicts had slavery at the heart?
"Smoking will destroy your lungs"

Gonna give me a counterexample there too?
I'm still sad about the second MagSafe - the first one was much better imho.
I don't know really know what this means tbh, but here's an explanation: http://www.acousticfields.com/white-noise-definition-vs-pink...
Let’s not forget the context here. We’re talking over-WiFi (not cellular) opportunistic sharing between two phones running an IPFS node.

If you have anything to share at this point this is probably a good indication that both clients have some content in common. So first of all, transfers over WiFi while the phone is in use anyway are not that expensive, and more importantly there’s an opportunity to save a lot of battery, and data, that results in substantial net positive gain.

To illustrate imagine the likely scenario of two people using some form of Youtube with a distributed IPFS cache while on a plane. If those two people have anything in common—and certainly there are things like news etc. that are always in common, those can be shared instantly over the WiFi.

So for an insignificant battery investment, you can potentially save a lot of data and modem power in the long run.
I think this was discontinued as of yesterday. It was definitely available on Apple's website until then.

I have one and it's great. Of course I ordered it with SSD, since the default spinning rust would have made it behave like a slug. But it is 1 pound heavier than more modern 13" models, and 1.5 pounds heavier than the newest ones just announced.

Normally I'm OK with the extra weight, but it makes a big difference for the occasional time that I'm a "road warrior".

Edit: someone linked to a story about it being discontinued.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12811050
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_ingredient

"An active ingredient (AI) is the ingredient in a pharmaceutical drug that is biologically active. " Does it also reduce the amount of rainbows and unicorns? Your own wikipedia link does not say eating garlic is helpful to humans.
The key to math education is practice. Even drilling, maybe.

Other fields deal with concepts more or less mapped to the real world. Physics is about real world, more or less (right until you get to quants, then the level of abstraction rises dramatically). Same goes for biology, and even computer science in general. There, you can rely on words, which usually convey meaning.

In math, you can't rely on words. You'll never understand even relatively simple things like complex analysis or Fourier transform just by reading about it -- words are never enough to transfer the knowledge to you. You need to play with it, solve actual problems, understand in practice how various "moving parts" are related to each other, and then accept the naming convention (which is almost an afterthought, born as a mean of reference, not as a way to describe things). Therefore, relentless practice and solving abstract problems (a lot of them) is the only way to teach (or learn) mathematical concepts.

Some teachers want to make math more accessible with bringing it "down to earth", mapping mathematical concepts to more concrete problems. It is theoretically possible, and I was a supporter of this approach until very recently. However, math just doesn't work this way. Math is pure abstraction; linking the abstractions to earthly affairs too early shuts down mathematical thinking (creates biases that prevents applying mathematical insights to other fields that are different from the one learned).

Mathematical abstractions cannot be transferred by words and formulas alone; they need to be internalized by practice and drilling.
It isn't that they cannot learn X, they just cannot learn it in the same time frame

This is exactly the argument I use when seeing people criticizing or laugh at others over their profession or education. I also think that the time frame one needs to "learn X" greatly depends on what they already know, i.e everyone is born a genius; training is what makes the difference.

[...] and they shouldn't be expected to!. Hats off for this too. Probably the biggest flaw in most of the world's educational systems.
It is effective because nobody ever knows if they own the IRS money or not. When you have a tax system like the USA it is impossible to know what you owe.
I worked with an audio engineer on real-time video encoding hardware and he said that in audio compression, you can throw away audio data immediately after a loud noise because the ear can't pick it up. This is probably an oversimplification, but sounds like a similar technique in this safety feature. I like it.
Why not a Virtual Machine on your PC?
I don't think you can expect a buy the pound to the dollar advice from these guys.

The article is about what scares a selection of reputable market observers and does a pretty good job of telling their story.

As a casual observer I think it is obvious that we are at the end of a good long run. And I were to make a bet I would say that things will become obviously bad just after the US election.

Whether it will because of China, a rate hike, an inflation hike or some political event is really of secondary importance.

Death needs a cause as they say.
It's white noise with a different power distribution; low frequencies are louder:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/MMr0a.png
Why is Scaleway so cheap compared to for instance: DigitalOcean?
From his website

> He studied at Yale, where he graduated magna cum laude and phi beta kappa with BAs in History and Literature, and at Columbia, where he was a FLAS fellow in Persian and South Asian studies.
The bit about the noise from a car crash being loud enough to damage hearing after a one-time short exposure is what I doubt. Sure it's loud, but does a split second exposure to it really do permanent damage? I don't know what the answer is, but I am skeptical about the usefulness of this feature.
You could have no fee for the first X intellectual properties you defend or the first Y DMCA requests you file every year (whichever is lower), and then introduce fees when you go past the limit.

It feels odd to price a public legal request like it were a commercial service, but it might be the most fair solution.
The comment I was replying to used the expression "viciously murdered".
Apple raises UK Mac prices by hundreds of pounds thanks to Brexit
Interesting! Can you completely discard it (as in, complete silence immediately after) or just compress the immediate bits after a lot more than normal?
"Good morning," said the little prince.

"Good morning," said the merchant.

This was a merchant who sold pills that had been
invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one
pill a week, and you would feel no need of anything to
drink.

"Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince.

"Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said
the merchant. "Computations have been made by experts.
With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every
week."

"And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes?"

"Anything you like..."

"As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I
had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should
walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water."

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
>>>Every app feels like it was designed and built specifically for Loki...

Yes, but unfortunately there are only half a dozen or so Elementary native apps... and they're pretty much all just "viewers" (in some sense of the word) for existing content. If you want to actually do any work, you'll have to install something from the Ubuntu repos —at which point, bang goes your visually consistent OS.

The screenshot of Elementary's App Store is also a bit disingenuous. Again, it looks nice, but there's nothing in it, apart from what came with the default install.

I do like the notion behind Elementary and was excited to come across it a couple of years back. But the lack of progress on the app front killed it for me and I went back to Ubuntu (Mate). With each new release of Elementary, my interest is momentarily piqued again —until I read the release notes and see that (tweaks aside) there is nothing new here.

Elementary is an (admittedly very pretty) desktop environment, with some well designed alerts and preference panes, but it's a long way short of what I'd consider qualifies as a complete Linux distro.
I've been drinking that breakfast and lunch for a few months and have felt great. Only downside is occasional dehydration if I don't keep my water inkeep up, but that's easy to fix fast and self inflicted.
OTOH, the terrible truth is that it was necessary to order thousands of soldiers to their almost-certain deaths in order to win the war, and without a disciplined army this would not be possible. This says something about the value of discipline (in war or maths!) even when it's not obviously in your personal interest.
Wow! I thought it's Apache Hive.

We're officially out of names :(
Twitter data report
.IO is DOWN at the moment
None of the top level dnsX.nic.io servers seems to be responding to requests right now. More and more users are seeing the lights go out on .IO domain hosted websites.
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Yes, i do. I replaced the hdd with a ssd 2 or 3 years ago and i still use it every day and love it.