skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, a ton. Turns out I'm celiac, so gluten was the first thing I cut (to solve digestion issues and sinus headaches). My nose cleared up significantly, but not totally. Years of eating gluten messed up my small intestine so I have digestive issues with high fructose food (HFCS and some fruit), so I cut out HFCS soda, that helped a lot. Next was caffeine to try to correct my sleep schedule, it helped and it also helped clear up my nose. I was still getting sinus headaches with all that and tracked it down to pepperonis in a gluten free pizza I was eating (from a dedicated restaurant), turns out it was sodium nitrite which is found in many deli meats and smoked foods. Most recently was sugar once I noticed withdrawal symptoms, sinus headache, vomiting, etc. when cutting it out. I was on and off it a few times, but the last time was a really brutal headache, so I just said no more.

I've given up and started again on all of these multiple times to confirm each one. My body seems to have a sensitive withdrawal reaction. I notice symptoms if I eat most of those foods too regularly and then mess up the schedule, and a bad reaction if I stop all together within a day or so. I'm super curious about it medically but don't really have time to work with a doctor and learn why all these foods cause similar reactions. I'll just chalk it up to celiac.

Given other people's stuffy noses and bad digestion, I believe a lot of people have foods that are no good for them. I highly recommend elimination diets. The less I eat, the better I feel. I discovered decongestants a year or two ago, which makes life a lot more bearable when I mess up and eat the wrong thing, but I don't want to rely on that stuff to feel normal when I could just not eat the garbage I was eating.
"There's no interpretative reasoning required when you're looking at a graph of the level of violence in society"

Yes, there is.

Imagine a society without justice/police in which people must fend for themselves. It would quickly deteriorate to the point wherein there would be a fair bit of violence.

Imagine you - the same person you are now - in that situation.

It would be a completely different dynamic of 'violence' and represent a completely different situation - and yet it could very well have little or nothing to do with our moral position (i.e. 'better angels').

Second - I think that 'war' is a completely different kind of violence than regular violent crime.

One could argue that the only thing that has made modern countries less apt for war is MAD, i.e. the fact that there's no real possibility for gain or winning outcomes, with nuclear weapons, the borders are largely frozen. Point being: a weapon, of all things, could have such geostrategic importance that it quashes violence, irrespective of anything else ('better angels') etc..

"There is a wealth of evidence about how bad things have been over the past 200 years or so, and every metric shows that things are getting better. "

This is also false.

From 1960 to 1992 crime in the Western world grew by 800%.

That's almost a 50 year period out of 200 and is not 'cherry picking'.

Violent crime today is still about 600% greater than it was in 1950.

It's a paradox few want to face: that the 'liberation' of the 1960's was also coincident with a massive increase in crime, which peaked in 1992 and has come down somewhat, but still quite high compared to the 1950's.

Anyhow - I don't think it makes any sense to look at violence outside the big contextual things.
Sigh, Why isn't just "Cloud"? They thought "cloud" sounded old and lame, so they made up an even dumber name to sound futuristic?
Continuous (Dis)Integration
525k a year to rent a basic apartment?
That’s why I didn’t really commit to that argument, leaving it as hypothetical.

For one thing, not all women would even consider abortion of pregnancy as an option, due to personal beliefs. There’s also emotional impact of such decision to consider.

The point was not to put absolute values on the risk of unprotected sex for either gender. I’ve only tried to illustrate that men have, just as women, enough of an incentive to consider protection a very serious matter.
Well, of course it doesn't work for vodka. The definition of vodka is to be odorless and flavorless. "High end" vodka is almost literally a scam. (Read up on the founding of Grey Goose... the business plan was basically "Hey, I bet if we charge way too much for vodka we can get gullible Americans to pay it!")
I also have been thinking of other examples. Imagine someone sued a vaccine manufacturer claiming that the vaccine cause autism. Imagine also that years later it turns out that vaccines can "cause" autism, but only in case of things like leaky gut. Was the court and legal system designed for cases like this?
Author here.

A bit of context missing from the article. We are a small shop with a few hundreds servers. At core, we're running a financial system moving around multi-million dollars per day (or billions per year).

It's fair to say that we have higher expectations than average and we take production issues rather (too?) seriously.

I updated and fixed a few points mentioned in the comments. (Notably: CoreOS).

Overall, it's "normal" that you didn't experience all of these issues if you're not using docker at scale in production and/or if you didn't use it for long.

I'd like to point out that these are issues and workarounds happening over a period of [more than] a year, summarized all together in a 10 minutes read. It does amplify the dramatic and painful aspect.

Anyway, the issues from the past are already in the past. The most important section is the Roadmap. That's what you need to know to run Docker (or use auto scaling groups instead).
There's no cowardice involved, and the sooner you realize that, the sooner you'll be on a path to a rational discussion. The argument's validity isn't based on who says it, and continuing to harp on this point really shows the hoops you're willing to jump through to avoid making a rational point.

> You don't want to limit your "hiring options", while you work to retain the limit on hiring options for women and black people.

I'd hire women and black people for every single position if they're the best for the job. It's amazing how somehow Asian males have a significant presence and we're all the better for it! Somehow they pulled it off without your help, and I'm sure they're proud they didn't need to play the race card or invoke white guilt to get where they are. They're there because they were determined to be the best for their position, and they earned every bit of it.

But yeah, maybe I'm just racist because I don't doubt women or black people's ability to do the same.

If you want to talk about making it easier to account for white privilege, I'm all ears. But equating hiring people based on skillset to doing so based on genitalia or skin color is dishonest. It's condescending to even think we'd buy it. Make an honest argument for hiring someone based on gender / race and we'll take it seriously.

> But I will happily repudiate the notion that those who aren't white dudes aren't really people, aren't deserving of the same respect, consideration, and privileges that accrue to white men.

Nobody said this, and the gap between "people who think we should hire the best person for the job" and "people who think those who aren't white males aren't really people" is colossal.
Uncertainty about the future maybe, but our experience and training into dealing with randomness and chaos is near zero.

I find the modern world a bit absurd now. The industrial revolutions have diminishing returns since a few years. We're chasing pokemons instead of dealing with the important things (social structures, education, health). Things are done but still at the surface only.

Economic and quatifiable indicators might be higher than ever, but I'm not sure existences are better.
For some time now, we have been in a era where we have the knowledge and incentive to act, yet we haven't acted strongly enough to combat climate change.

Nearly everyone benefited in the short term, but those with great wealth also have much more power to speed or slow the change away from fossil fuels. I think in general that power has been used to slow the fight against climate change.
Thanks for the feedback!

It's unclear to me whether your pains were specific to Scala on Android or with Scala tooling in general. I'm already familiar with server-side Scala development using IDEA and I'm relatively comfortable with it, so that's not a problem. Is IDEA awful for Android development?
IIRC that was one of the few the AWS docs specifically called out as unraisable.
Why adored? Why not adore?
I still have my N9 and I use it every day.
I think some Steve Jobs-ian thinking about the experience as a whole is called for at this point. VR/AR equipment needs to be friendly to the social experience and to social experiences, otherwise it's going to be out-competed through network effects by other equipment that has an advantage there.

Current VR "room-scale" equipment seems to be optimal for 1) god-like player experiences, where you can survey a world, teleport within it, and command/change/tinker/destroy what's within it or 2) the highly immersed "stage." By "stage" I literally mean it's like you are standing on a stage. It's about the same amount of space, and the immersive feeling is very much like being on the set of a movie or show.
t-SNE of TF-IDF of Hillary (blue) and Donald (red) tweets, created at a hackathon.
Hover to see tweet text! Notice how tweets that are close in space share related ideas (blue cluster in top left quadrant is Spanish, for example).
Learn more about t-SNE: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.man...
Election data GitHub repo: https://github.com/WiMLDS/election-data-hackathon
The number of people who I know only voted for brexit because of his nonsense campaign over vacuum cleaners and EU regulations, quite frankly I hope they go bust.
Please don't be surprised by this behavior. It's in the guidelines to do this and is what most of us would prefer.

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted.
Interesting. I use AdBlock on this page and the ads keep popping. Have they a way to bypass AdBlock? (maybe with websockets I dunno). I can't really read the article.
No - for violent crime at least, the 1950's was the 'low point' - the 1990's were actually a high point.

Violent crime in 1992 was about 800% higher than in the 1950's at least in America.

It's come down a little, but crime is still about 600% greater than in the 1950's.
The question is about who you trust and how you make sure that all the actors are being fair.

Would you feel better if the government designed the machines? A lot of people would probably feel worse.

Right now, you have each state's board of elections making decisions - they get observed by both parties so that they can all sign off on what's happening. Idk. You can never eliminate the possibility of fraud. I just think the likelihood of all of these actors colluding is really low... I mean congress can't even pass a budget.
Tiny Linux/Android module offers embedded version of Snapdragon 410
Well then we're pretty much left with the option of go live in the woods.
If one facet of someone's faith is enough for you to dismiss their entire belief system, you clearly don't even try to understand others' differences to yourself...
I don't understand how "meaningful work," when the Dalai Lama says it, means "40 hours into the system."

Look to the paragraph where people outside the workforce are implied to feel superfluous. Perhaps the people outside the workforce are the most self-actualized of us all. But that possibility is ignored, both in the op-ed and by the reader. Not even the idea that they have the opportunity to be.

I'm going to butcher the sentence I quoted earlier. Perhaps you think it changes the meaning, perhaps not. That's not the point, see below...

"Leaders [] must create [] opportunities for [] work"

My point is, it's a well-worn political trope to call on leaders to increase employment opportunities. If that wasn't the point, why use language that is so similar, or at least could be confused for it. Why not call on leaders to segue our society to one where people can focus on meaningful work that typical job time commitments get in the way of?
State of security in Apache Solr 2016
I doubt I'd ever look at the code, I'm addressing the idea that we shouldn't open source things be default because someone will get upset about it.
Kadena: The first scalable, high performance private blockchain [pdf]
Full Guide to WordPress AMP: How to Configure and Customise AMP
that demo video is the worst! It doesn't even show what the darn thing does!
> Find what you like and drink that, and don't pay attention to anything that anyone else says.

This is of course the right approach to most things in life. But just because "to each their own", that doesn't imply there aren't real complexities and nuances in foods that exist only in more expensive things.

Take for example someone who eats fast food burgers every day and try to take them to eat sushi. They just won't like it.

In the case of wine (heh), sure different palates like different wines. But I think a lot of people take that and jump to the conclusion that "all wines are the same, the only difference is the palates". I don't think the conclusion is true.
Most wine I have in a restaurant is good. If they do a good job picking wines there shouldn't be a problem and you should trust their staff. If they don't have good wine selection I guess you could get a glass of wine from this thing, but it's probably a better idea to get something they do a good job of selecting. After all not much sense in trying to find the best wine in a beer bar.

If they don't do a good job selecting things then why are you there?!
How to get real-time data and glucose alarms with Freestyle Libre
This phenomenon exists everywhere. Who's an expert? A person with a history of being an expert, of course.

It's a socially distributed form of confirmation bias.
China's 'Artificial Sun' achieves fusion breakthrough
I don't know if he's the originator, but Penn Jillette said one of my favorite quotes:

"Everyone always thinks the world is getting worse, but the world is always getting better."
Hedge fund managers are usually not causing collapses, they just see the reasons why a collapse is likely and pile in before everyone else knows what's going on. Black Wednesday 1992 is a very good example of what I mean.

It's too easy to blame and hate hedge fund managers as a group, but personally the only ones I detest are the lawbreakers. Apart from them, these guys have virtues and vices just like everyone else.
How would you review PC3 versus C4? It seems like C4 (https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:42/C4) is the latest evolution of this design. It seems to embrace optimistic merging even more than PC3 and does away with reviewers.
> Some lucky folks can take hormones with very little effects.

There aren't any actual 'hormones' in birth control. These drugs are supposedly hormone-analogues, but they are only partial replacements for genuine ("bio-identical") hormones.
I have alexa and use it all the time. Play music, weather, alarms, sports scores, control the thermostat, read the news, call ubers, tell a joke.

It's not that smart though compared to google search bar, though. It knows a few knowledge areas like movie actors and so on, but can't really search the internet. So I'm excited to get a Google Home and try it out.
* this is not a scientific paper, it an editorial

* it was published in 1999

* in a very sketchy journal

* did you even read what you linked ? it is arguing semantics:

>If they would say that smoking increases the incidence of
>lung cancer or that smoking is a risk factor in the
>development of lung cancer, then I would agree. The
>purpose of this article is to emphasize the need to use
>language appropriately in both the medical and scientific
>literature (the media, as a whole, may be a lost cause).
"On python" can mean a few different things. It can mean a straight port, running in the python interpreter, or it can mean Cython (or similar) with all of the tight loops running as auto-generated compiled C code.

Numpy is a great example of this; all of the numerical operations are running on very fast compiled code, and being good at writing fast numpy involves knowing the ins and outs of how to minimize passing information between the slow python interpreter and the fast numerical engines. You want to just do all of the computation 'inside' of numpy, and then get the result at the end.
Time for a Foreign investment tax[1]? I am a big proponent of global trade and having money flow easily but I can't find a good argument against what Vancouver did here.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-22/foreign-bu...
> As much as I herald the ongoing march toward mass HTTPS adoption, I'm not sure Google should be taking the credit.

The post seems to say that they're trying to get out of the way of https adoption. It doesn't even mention their initiatives such as requiring encryption for http2 or the location API.

> - most probably because Google are suppressing any mention of it in their results or in Google News

Is the world going completely mad[1]? This is so obviously wrong, simply because people don't google [news] to be informed, nor does Google News have enough influence to be meaningful. You think the WSJ/NYT/Daily Mail/SPIEGEL depend on google to find out the news? Then where would these news reports actually come from that google is supressing?

> There are no web standards anymore - if Google want to add a feature to Chrome[...]

Which isn't actually true, because Safari is large enough to require support. And because Google is a dependable participant at the WHATWG. It's also the only way that actually works, because you need an implementation for any specification. Looking at the pace of browser improvements and level of compatibility – if that's the result of Google's corruption, I want more of it.

> forcing the other browser makers to adopt that feature lest they be left behind

Or as they used to call it: competition. It's markedly different than MS's extend-and-extinguish strategy back in the days. I can't think of any features that disproportionally benefit Google.

> You simply cannot do anything on the web without Google seeing in one way or another.

There seems to be some sort of newfangled "adblocking software". I'm also not quite sure if google correlates analytics data with user profiles – I know they don't do it on my sites because I'm using their feature to anonymize the last 3 digits of IP addresses (as required by law in my country).

> Put simply, the Internet is dead; All we have now is the Googlenet.

As long as I can substitute "Google" with "Facebook" and make the sentence actually more believable I don't think we're quite there, yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_Nut(Gullible)
The most significant improvement comes from the BootFromTemplate, which improves speed and saves memory. And the boot sequence and guest kernel have been optimized.
Is it still badly documented and near impossible to setup a cluster?

Single node performance is good. Jespen tests are there. But devops says no. After two days they simply couldn't get it to run it in a cluster. So for now we switched back to ES for AP stuff and Rethink for CP stuff.
Erdogan is trying to stall protests, but protesters saved his rear end just a few months ago.
I've had plenty of cases where it's taken time, and required escalation and justification to get even relatively modest instance limits raised, depending on the data centre and instance types.

It's not technological - it's about ensuring they have a reasonable handle on capacity and what they happen to have plenty of.

It's not a problem as long as you're not asking for astronomical limits, but people need to be aware of it and request increases in advance of starting to hit limits rather than assume it'll be near immediate to get them lifted.
Exactly correct. McMansions are expressions of middle-class "success" yet are often just "normal" cheap houses built on a bigger scale -- same contractor-grade fittings and finishes.

For example, I bet you'd rarely see actual Venetian plaster in a McMansion, but you'd see a "faux finish" version of it. McMansions are movie sets and the owners are playing a "role" of a "successful" person/family.
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Comparing IoT Platforms
We'll always be able to say "But what if things get worse again?!" just as we'll always be able to say "What if things carry on getting better?". Any answer to the question is useless. We should guard against doing things to make the world worse, obviously, but I don't see much value in pessimism, especially if it requires ignoring a long term trend.

That said, speculation about the future beyond a few years away is largely pointless anyway. We get things wrong far more that we get things right, and when we are right it's mostly because we were either lucky, we've only looked at the predictions we want to look at and ignored the wrong ones, or we were so vague we couldn't have been wrong. Predicting the future is hard.
That depends on the person's beliefs.

Whether or not you experience the feeling of security is just as much about your internal representation of the world as it is about the external world.
I feel like the world would be better if some nation(s) were legislatively stream-lined for experiments in secession (perhaps with trial periods and other conditions). Would allow for governance innovation without the calamity of conflict that's required for carving out space today.

EDIT: Perhaps it could involve a hypothesis of sorts before secession, with baked-in options to re-join the parent state if the parent considers adopting some learnings after a successful experiment. Lots of possibilities. Would likely involve re-gearing the concepts of how quasi-independent states (child + parent) would keep relations open, so as not to polarize populations unnecessarily. I don't normally think of diplomacy as exciting, but learning how to make such a system work effectively would be pretty interesting
Not really in every aspect. Frank Sinatra was replaced by Justin Bieber. How is that better? :)
That Microsoft was convicted to pay millions, for actually harming users for profit, might be another difference.
> The people fleeing to remote places because of instability are the very same people causing these issues in the first place.

Do you have any evidence for this, or are you just spouting generic edgy anti-capitalist tag lines?

The vast majority of crime in first-world nations is associated with generic poverty-related activity like gang violence, not imaginary cabals of evil hedge fund managers.
In the Late 1960s, Singapore Was Gripped by a Genital Panic
Hopefully they release an update within a year with a 32gb ram option. I was for sure buying a new MacBook Pro until I went to the order page and couldn't find the ram option. My late 2013 will just have to last another cycle.
From https://analytics.usa.gov/#explanation it sounds like it just happens to use Google Analytics at the moment, but could switch in the future.