skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's the government's responsibility to ensure people have a minimum quality of life. It's naive to expect corporations to act charitably — a company is an organisation mandated to make as much money as possible. Even when a company does seemingly charitably things it's rarely anything other than a marketing/branding exercise.
I think the NHS (UK Health System) just announced this week they are recommending people take Vitamin D supplements, particularly in winter. I can't find the link now but I definitely read it and it was in the major newspapers etc. AFAIK the problem is more 'multi vitamin' pills than specific ones.
That would be a very interesting experiment, please do blog about it and post it to HN. Some real world data on what this stuff does with you, even with sample size = 1, is very valuable if you go through stuff like blood tests.

I'd like to join the mailing list for the blog entry if you decide to make one!
I think you're stretching the analogy beyond the limit of its usefulness :)

A phone is always on you anyway, usually in your pocket. What disadvantage do you see from making it the "universal compute unit", so to speak, driving your tablet, your laptop etc - which then just become combo display/entry devices?

If you don't need a device in a particular form factor, then you just don't buy one, and the question of storage doesn't arise. People can make arrangements depending on their specific use cases - someone might do phone/tablet, another person might do phone/laptop, yet another would span the full gamut with phone/tablet/laptop/desktop etc. And if you think that you don't need something, and then later find out that you actually do, it's easy to add that capability.

Cost is not really an issue here. Phones today are already powerful enough to serve as compute devices for all desktop tasks for the majority of the users, so we're not talking about anything more expensive than usual. And those user for whom it is not the case - developers, 3D designers, hardcore gamers etc - can still have dedicated devices, where it makes sense (i.e. usually for a desktop and/or laptop).
There really is only one myth that needs to be busted for the universe to retain order.

"they rush out of university to start companies regardless of having no experience of working in the private sector, thus increasing the chances of failure."

These successful entrepreneurs never rushed out of university to become entrepreneurs. They were successful entrepreneurs already. When you're so successful, staying in school stops making sense. And if you're at that point, you aren't taking a risk by quitting school. The risk is with staying there.

Bill Microsoft, Steve Apple, Mark Facebook, Larry and Sergey Google, Elon Tesla. They all tried to stay in school. They were good students with no intentions of leaving.

So just like any other college student trying to balance school and work and play, replace the work and play with entrepreneurship, and when you are successful, do what makes the most sense. If you graduate, then get a job and do the same. Now replace school and play with entrepreneurship.

These kids who quit school just want to quit and are using entrepreneurship as an excuse. Good for them. No one can say if it's better or worse for them. But if anyone thinks they're mimicking successful entrepreneurship behavior, they're misinformed, be it the students dropping out or the media portraying it as such.

Good entrepreneurs quit their day job when they have to. Not when they want to. And they have to because they're successful already.
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Doesn't your body produce vitamin D from sun exposure? Just get outside more.
This reminds me of xbattle or europa. Only thing missing is when you set a direction, it just works one. It's be less of a click fest if you could just click on any of the 4 directions any it would continue to feed armies. That way you have supply lines and battle fronts, limited more by strategy than speed of clicking.
I don't think people object to being nice. They object to the current cultural climate where any sort of debate is impossible because any opinion that's outside of the norm is maligned. Hence why so many sites, subreddits, etc..., turn into "circlejerks". Why there's safe spaces and shit in universities. Why opinions, even relatively benign ones, become so polarizing.
There are some reviews of different options here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2015/oct/0...
To me HN is more like 1999-2004 era slashdot. Certainly not like reddit.
Write a toy strace and gdb
If you could also provide this format I'd be grateful:

#date 2016 December 10

(no time preferred, but either way)
Free speech just for white men isn't free speech at all. When you don't kick out the racist bully, they turn your space into one that is exclusionary toward minorities. Do you shut up some idiots who have nothing but purely harmful things to say, or all people of color?
> the writing has been officially on the wall ever since 2011 so at that point you have to admit you did choose to incur tech debt and do nothing about it, so the claimed loss of productivity is on you.

When Python 3 was released, it offered Python users a trade: In exchange for a productivity loss (porting your Python 2 code), you'd get a productivity gain (new features in Python 3 and removed cruft). Some projects and companies thought this was a good trade, and have upgraded over the years, and many have not, and haven't. The interpreter I've been working on tries to improve on the terms of that deal for people who have not switched to Python 3.

> What a terrible, terrible situation. Now you'll have "python" code that will neither run on 2.7 nor run compliantly on 3.x.

That's the point, yes. Obviously any interpreter that's backwards compatible with 2.7 but includes new features from 3.x is going to let people write code that doesn't run under 2.7 or 3.x. But what does it matter if your code doesn't run under interpreters that you aren't using and don't intend to use?

> Just call it anything else

I'll change the name.
I take it you agree with kicking out the minority on websites that prefer racist, hate spewing bullies then? I take it you wouldn't suggest they be forcefully closed down or anything? As long as the majority is happy, you wouldn't oppose a state to kick out their minorities right? Consensus rule is the right way to go right?

All of these questions are meant in a sarcastic tone.
Are you dumb enough to think a sufficiently motivated attacker couldn't infect someone without them being "dumb"? I guess you must be running a special OS and software that's bug-free and completely immune to exploits. Lucky you.
I assume they are now too busy fixing the performance issues :D
But he's still the republican candidate (who will also unfortunately be the republican president of these united states). The issue here is taking all of the moderate republicans and putting them in a situation where they only feel welcomed by the extreme variant, and limiting their ability to see coherent counter arguments to what the extreme variant says.

If we set up this dichotomy we will create many problems for ourselves down the line.
Well they certainly shouldn't break the law as they did in the case you linked to. But if law is insufficient to ensure people that have a minimum standard of living — it's the law that should be updated rather than trying to shame companies on an ad hoc basis.
It's not my only source of information, but I generally check Snake Oil Supplements for these things: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-o...

Vitamin D has a pretty strong position for "general health, all-cause mortality."
> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Anybody know of issues with taking D3 supplements? I take 1000 IUs per day. I can't drink milk or eat anything with lactose or milk protein, and am a sun-avoiding ginger
The primary point of my comment was to remind people that most HN readers are very against cyber capabilities/surveillance/etc - so when someone calls for those agencies to do something, it is important to remember that people are against those agencies even existing, having any capabilities at all.

Now as for providing you the argument for why they should or shouldn't exist, I think it's political and I like HN's move away from political discussion so let's not have it. But I think it's not going too far to ask people to be explicit about some of the contradictions. If you look at the comment phrasing I "suggested", you'll see it's a contradiction. I don't mean to resolve that contradiction but we shouldn't ignore it - my point was to write the contradiction explicitly.

One possible way to address your question briefly would be with reference to some films and books. but we don't need to answer your question in order to acknowledge the contradiction and I wouldn't like to answer it (one way or another - why they should, why they shouldn't exist.) it's good for HN to step back from politics a bit so let's leave it at that.
I like the suggestion here that one of the ways running could help is by the eye tracking back and forth. Going for a run works, full stop. You can search my comment history and see that I recommend four specific things to help immediately alleviate PTSD symptoms like depression and anxiety (take a shower and do some laundry, do some exercise and run, hydrate and eat some leafy greens, and make an appointment with your doc), in which "going for a run" is a central ingredient. I've helped a pretty big group of people over the last ten years (myself, former members of my unit, friends and family, etc), and it works. Incidentally, people always seem to have an opinion about this, even when they've never experienced the problems themselves. It's a bit surprising actually how many people rush to get a word in edgewise, when it concerns someone else's feelings. Anyway, this is a very interesting theory.
I meant -- entertaining great -- people see Python2 vs Python3 as a holy war, it's just software guys.
None of these sync up with actual standard Apple Care. I maintain a fleet of iOS and Mac devices and have never had this much of a run around with Apple support. With iOS devices it's pretty much here's a new one and with Macs they go out for repair and come back just fine. So either you're really unluck, or it's something else.
As always, the devil is in the details. Different vitamins have different effects, they aren't just "antioxidants". Showing that one vitamin supplement is harmful doesn't remotely prove that others aren't beneficial because antioxidants.

This article makes sweeping generalizations that vitamin supplements "don't work" based on a couple of studies on beta-carotene. Many of us already thought beta-carotene supplementation would be worthless. And I bet once they do a study of vitamin E supplementation, it will also be worthless or harmful. On the other hand, you're not going to find a study proving vitamin C supplmentation is harmful. And I very much doubt if they did an isolated study on non-beta-carotene vitamin A, they'd find harmful effects.
Where do they teach you to talk like this? What evidence do you have that giving people money makes them lazy?

There's no evidence for what you just said. It's insane that you believe that.
How about just going on scholar.google.com and seeing what that dredges up instead?

It exists and it's not only painful to know how many people don't know about, but the people who trust anecdotal evidence, a small sample size (ding!) a random person with goods to sell (ding!) or healthwayfoodblogvitamins.biz.co

Not saying that the claim isn't true, but scholar.google.com exists and so do .edu, .edu.country, .gov and .gov.country
> if you don't play nice you get modded

did you mean muted or does modded not mean "promoted to moderator" on izmy?
I program assembly as a large part of my daily job, and we generally target between 500% and 1500% speedup for our assembly routines. That number being compared to C code with all compiler optimisations enabled. 1.0x - 2.4x is indeed pretty awful, but it does sometimes happen. For example, many algorithms are fundamentally serial in nature (e.g. entropy decoding).
Codes have been around since forever; isn't the problem that you have to make sure the receiving party knows the algorithm, too?
As a point of data, I have been taking Vitamin D supplements for a couple of years now. My blood levels have gone up from below the normal range to within the normal range; but they're still in the lower part of the normal range so I've upped the dose since I would like to get it up to the high end of normal. I'll see what the blood work at my next annual physical shows.
It's hard in the winter in the northern hemisphere.
Interesting, I had a 2nd generation Moto G that would only bog down if I had a misbehaving/badly coded app running (Pandora, and basically any app or game that contained ads). It was a surprisingly peppy device for $100.
If you use the existing affiliate systems, yes. But building a darknet (or just distributed) affiliate program is not exactly rocket science.

Note: the point of the affiliate marketing is to make your an affiliate of /spreading the infection/ not pumping some third party product.
They only talk about neurogenesis here but here's an article that says it's not as good for neurogenesis.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/which-type-of-exerc...

I could find being forced to randomly run on a treadmill and then slow down to be extremely stressful, which is bad for neurogenesis, so I don't know how representative this experiment is.
Well if players want to get pedantic, in typing, a word in "words per minute" in considered 4 or 5 characters, so as the DM, clearly it's your prerogative to use that definition.
The author talks of a variable reward. The variability is importance because of monotony associated with a repeated reward.
Or a lime. ;)
What I dread is that how many books like those written by Pauling - who was a Nobel prize winner - do we consider true and follow its advice because says so? How many placebos might be laying around?

What would be a practical way for folks that don't have anything to do with X field to test if what scientists say is actually true? - at least in such important field as what we consume -
> Doesn't your body produce vitamin D from sun exposure?

Yes, but (a) your body's ability to do this decreases as you age, and (b) sun exposure has other downsides such as increased risk of skin cancer, so there's a tradeoff involved.
Super Mario Run will require constant Internet connection due to piracy concerns
The script may say not to answer, but contact the ACCC. You absolutely have consumer rights here, even if purchased overseas.

They shipped it to you here in Australia, so are beholden to the rules.

Valve, Yellow Pages and other overseas companies have been punished for ignoring those rules.
Bad advice. Sunlight exposure causes skin darkening and increased risk of skin cancer.
The paper is behind a paywall, but the abstract makes me wonder about this reference:

"Describes 4 progressive models that provide a conceptual basis for a curvilinear relation between intelligence and an individual's influence over other group members.

"Model 1, the intellectual superiority model, by assuming that influence is a function of percentile placement in intelligence, predicts that beyond an IQ of about 120 intelligence bears a negligible connection with influence.

"Model 2, the comprehension factor, adds the consideration of the degree of comprehension by potential followers, yielding a nonmonotonic function with a predicted peak IQ of about 108, approximately 0.5 standard deviations (SD) above the mean.

"Model 3 incorporates the criticism factor that acknowledges a group member's vulnerability to intellectual superiors, and thereby predicts a 2nd nonmonotonic function with an optimal IQ of about 119 (or 1.2 SD above the mean).

"Model 4, the intellectual stratification model, expands on the fact that the mean group IQ varies across different groups and, consequently, predicts a high correlation between the group mean IQ and the IQ of its most influential member, with a leader–follower gap of between 8 and 20 points, depending on the submodel.

"It is surmised that other factors besides intelligence must participate in the determination of who becomes the leader of a group. Even if intelligence is not the exclusive determinant, the models strongly imply that published validity coefficients are biased downward."

I don't see any evidence for the existence (beyond the assumptions of "a model") of a "window".
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Last year, I was sick all the time, just for a joke a co-worker offered a box of vitamins (1 month of pills). I took them just to try.
My big surprise was that when taking them I wasn't feeling any "better"... but when I stopped, I clearly felt that I wasn't sleeping as well as few days before.
I tried again several months later, and to my amazement, it worked exactly as the first time.

I'm very skeptical about the studies around vitamins and I prefer taking some in the winter since it's the period of the year I feel the most stressed and sleepy.

I already spoke with other people having the same experience and none of them has more insights of how healthy this is or not...
No, Pixel is not exclusive to Verizon. Verizon may be the only carrier with a promotion for the Pixel, but on other carriers (or on Google Fi) you can just buy a Pixel from Google and put your sim card in it.
But my job is inside.
Do you live in the middle of nowhere or something?
Not everyone eats an orange every day though. If you eat a variety of fruits some don't have that much vitimin c. An apple only has 15% of your rda.
You may be interested in this PDF[1] which describes what you're talking about.

Title: Triple-Triple Redundant 777 Primary Flight Computer

[1] http://www.citemaster.net/get/db3a81c6-548e-11e5-9d2e-00163e...
Frontline has a great piece of the problems with vitamins and supplements in the US.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/supplements-and-safet...
Good point. GCC has a whole bunch of options here: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FloatingPointMath, and icc's default setting is some, possibly unknown, combination of them.
I'm curious: what kind of job requires assembly programming nowadays? high frequency trading? game dev? neural networks?
A comment like this takes us even further away from civil, substantive discussion. The guidelines ask us not to do this:

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Stop putting shit computers in shit.

My house is ~140 years old. We've put lots of smarts into it. Nest thermostats that just work and flip on AC or heat when our phones connect to the house's WiFi. We've replaced all the common area light switches with Lutron Caseta switches. These too remove 3-way wiring by replacing remote switches with little remotes that fit in your now empty work box. They have a hub you can use to connect to the internet, but they also work fine by themselves. In some rooms we use Philips Hue lights because there are no built in lights (or if there is infrastructure for lights, it's for gas lamps). The Hue stuff does need its hub to work. Our smoke detectors are all Nest Protects. They just work without issue. None of this stuff has ever failed, and it can all be programmed by mere mortals using IFTTT. Or controlled by Amazon Echo, which is what we actually do.
No drug company owns a patent on vitamin C. And this BBC article is barely above clickbait journalism. Don't pretend like this is some example of great high quality science reporting.
OSes will have to start detecting processes that do a lot of disk read/write, and perhaps network upload, and quarantine them.
Also, checkpoint/log based file systems like nilfs2 can let you roll back to any point before infection.
Key Vault is an MS service for sure, but you can use it for anything as it has rest api.

It's not as friendly as drobox/slack but it's far more secure.
Different camera systems are best at different things. Are you shooting sports and action and wildlife photos? Are you into portraits? Shooting video? Dark clubs at night? Street photos? There's lots of types of photography. For me I'd personally look more into Fuji and Nikon stuff, but there's a lot of options.

I'd second looking more at the glass you'd need to get than the camera. The camera body you spend 1000-2000 or more on today will be available on eBay for relatively cheap in 5 years, but good glass will retain its value and use for decades. There's 20+ year old lenses that are better for some tasks than any modern equivalents: they just lack a few modern features.

Depending on your type of photos, look into spending more of your budget on lighting. You can do more with a junk camera and Lens and great light than you can with poor light and a great camera and lens.
P.S: I love using all the things that replace my mom and fully support them being built. But, there's obviously other problems to solve.
"A study published in 2007 from the US National Cancer Institute, for instance, found that men that took multivitamins were twice as likely to die from prostate cancer compared to those who didn’t. And in 2011, a similar study on 35,533 healthy men found that vitamin E and selenium supplementation increased prostate cancer by 17%."

They do cite quite a few articles that show negative effects of specific vitamins.
Even though I haven't tested it, not bad coming from a "15-year-old computer hobbyist".
Congrats!
Hey me too. Same convo with a health nut friend. Only, I bought a Tespo (mainly because it'll easily fit into my daily routine without cause to remember multiple pills a day). I'm gonna keep a daily log and see how it effects my energy levels over the course of the next few weeks.
Ransomware in Libraries
I know I won't, it is too far away I would probably not be alive even it came to pass.

My point was that at least some people recognize that these rights are made up and want to be in a place where they may be offended, they may be riled up, and laugh, and be insulted, and be seriously challenged in their beliefs. We are the smartest known species in the world and yet most of us make such a darn effort not to upset our childhood-imprinted beliefs.