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I like HN's move away from political discussion

I'm not sure if you're referring to attention paid to political discussions in general or the Political Detox Week. If the latter, the week-long experiment was terminated early. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251
And just how are you going to pursue happiness or use your freedom of speech if you do not have the ability to defend yourself? A healthy body to stand your ground with? An education that enables you to express what you want to say?

You are not advocating human rights, you are advocating social Darwinism in its worst form.
Here's an log of a chat with the game's creator that provides a lot of additional information:
https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/qa-chad-walker-crypt...

Which links to an indepth description of how the game works by the creator:
https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?781271-Cryptomancer-A-f...
Vitamin D yes, K should be okay for adults and children. Babies need K. Our kids both take D and the baby K.

You can OD on it so always read a label + take medical advise from a professional, not some random HN post :)

Source: my wife, pharmacist (a proper one, she has a doctorate).
Ps. We are currently working on a target fee of $995. We are testing various fee structures in different markets.
Almost forgot: we have Sonos in every room. Another technology that just works.
I heard a doctor say that North Americans have the most expensive urine on the planet. Most vitamins are flushed out of your system and then flushed away.
Maybe 'cause of HTML? Depends on what framework you look at. Web tech is everywhere, so you see HTML alot.
In some senses, I'd say it's more structured and readable that formats like JSON. e.g. compare:

<div id="parent"><div id="child">Hello World</div></div>

div: { id:"parent", members: { div: { id:"child", content:"Hello World" } } }
The terms and conditions are right here, you can evaluate it for yourself (you are the only person who knows if it suits your needs or not): http://www.mersenne.org/legal/#TCU
We already know vitamin supplements work. When people present with vitamin deficiencies, they are prescribed supplements, and the deficiency symptoms go away. The anti-supplement agenda is trivially undermined by well-known facts.

So now we're just talking about dose, symptoms, and lifestyle. Whether it's an orange or a supplement, the vitamin C still works.

Some studies indicate that a fairly high proportion of the population has "sub-clinical" vitamin deficiency, e.g., in C. I used to get nosebleeds pretty often. I have a diet that's very low in fruits and vegetables. When I started taking C, my nosebleeds went away immediately. I'd rather take the supplement than incorporate fruits and vegetables into my diet.
Post: Simulating the C switch statement in Python
Does any layman expect GR NOT to break down? To me it's intuitively only correctly describing emergent phenomena in the limiting case of large scales; it's bound to be less accurate than something that is correct on small scales.
the whole purpose of the detox week was to move conversation away from too many politics - so while the experiment is over, the improvement everyone saw leaves lessons we can remember. HN was just better.
Show HN: JSON incremental digger based on jq
I think this shift towards early liquidity is really good for 2 reasons:

1) Society benefits when people work on what they love and do best. Founders, with rare exception, are best at innovating and building new things -- not running large organizations. If we allow founders to exit early, they can work on their next idea, which maximizes the amount of time they spend doing what they love (innovating). This is a net good.

2) Liquidity in the form of early exits attracts more founders, which leads to more overall innovation. I think there's a social judgement against trying to "make a quick buck" which should be discounted. Real value was created whenever an acquisition takes place, and this value isn't destroyed when founders sell -- it just exchanges hands (and sometimes gets transformed).
Setting objectives keep my focus on the race. Of course you first have to reach some level of fitness (otherwise it just feels like failures — You need to be able to reach 1hr every time, for example), but when you find a lap of 10-15 minutes and you attempt to beat your speed on 1hr by a few seconds, the race to run as fast as your last record becomes as interesting as hearing the radio anchor commenting your own race. Laps help you measure whether you're later or early – in both cases it's a mistake. It's surprising how the body is precise when you're at your maximum, precise to a few sconds every 3km.
Just in case anyone isn't aware, vitamin D is technically not a vitamin but a steroid.

Steve Gibson has documented his research: https://www.grc.com/health/vitamin-d.htm
I work with video codecs now, but anything computationally intensive and/or close to the hardware will benefit from some assembly code. The three that you mentioned are good examples. The web browser you're using to view and respond to this thread is another example. Among other things, the JavaScript engine most likely does dynamic recompilation and it may use sandboxed webviews.
Depending on where you live, those can probably easily be fixed by just spending some time in the sun in the mornings and eating more greens. If you love avocado then it should be easy.
Vitamin D pills definitely worked for me, I had what I can only describe as "brain fog" while mostly being inside during the winter. On a whim I bought some Vitamin D pills off amazon and within a few days the difference in how I felt was significant.

I no longer take them every day but I pop one periodically if I'm more tired/irritable/fuzzy than I would consider normal.
Some days ago someone posted https://github.com/simeji/jid here. As jq is a much more powerful, ready, battle-tested, beautiful and useful language for parsing and using JSON data, I forked it and created this jiq tool, which is the same, but supporting all jq features.
CIA concludes Russia interfered to help Trump win election
I am not advocating. It's just what we have. Decreeing we have the right to health doesn't make diseases disappear.

I am advocating not calling this a discussion about human rights but about human wants.
similar to OpenHAB it seems but perhaps more recent? like most open source it's a thing for tinkerers. I absolutely do not want to compile python-openzwave after making sure I have at least cython version x..,
I don't find this kind of stuff straigtforward at all, and I enjoy a dentist chair more than a bash prompt :D

I'd rather pay for a proprietary system. The best thing would be an open proprietary system, i.e a future-proof and moddable one, but one where I have paid humans to do tons of testing and polish.
Very interesting..
How about my article on http://ferry-bachtiar.blogspot.com/2016/11/staedtler-pensil-...
They are doing to to compete in the high margin part of the market, which is workstations, cloud rendering, GPUs, and console contracts. They care zero about low end linux desktop. But what nvidia learned is that the people who do all that high end stuff would much prefer it to just work, and will steer business accordingly.
Great game, but it seems to be a clone of http://kingz.io/ , so check that out too :)
All the LLNL computing tutorials are great---they tend to be clearly written, with good examples, and cover a wide swath of use cases. The OpenMP https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/openMP/ and MPI https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/mpi/ are fantastic (when I google "mpi tutorial", the LLNL one is the top hit). Blaise is extremely knowledgable, but probably doesn't have time to respond to questions (unless you're a lab employee :P ).
> On the other hand, you're not going to find a study proving vitamin C supplmentation is harmful.

But I don't think that you'll find a good study that says that it's beneficial, either, unless you had a deficiency.

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edit: and megadoses could certainly turn out to be harmful...

"[...] Take vitamin C, Pauling’s preferred supplement. At the correct dose, vitamin C neutralises highly charged free radicals by accepting their free electron. It’s a molecular martyr, taking the hit upon itself to protect the cellular neighbourhood.

"But by accepting an electron, the vitamin C becomes a free radical itself, able to damage cell membranes, proteins and DNA. As the food chemist William Porter wrote in 1993, '[vitamin C] is truly a two-headed Janus, a Dr Jekyll-Mr Hyde, an oxymoron of antioxidants.'

"Thankfully, in normal circumstances, the enzyme vitamin C reductase can return vitamin C’s antioxidant persona. But what if there’s so much vitamin C that it simply can’t keep up with supply? Although such simplifying of complex biochemistry is in itself problematic, the clinical trials above provide some possible outcomes."
You'd actually need more than three limes to meet the RDA.[1] Just two lemons[2], though, or one orange[3]. ;)

[1] http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/...

[2] http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/...

[3] http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/...
It's not bad. Nutraceuticals didn't invent themselves.
This comment violates the guidelines by being uncivil. Hacker News is not the type of community where it's OK to demand that other members shut up, or to write like a "real person". If you're asking for care and consideration, you must offer the same yourself.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13146693 and marked it off-topic.
I was literally looking for such a Slack chat up until half an hour ago. Haven't managed to find one yet. Can we make one? :)
Pretty much everything that can have a positive impact on the body can have a negative one if you overdo it (e.g. water, salt). If someone is claiming something can have a positive impact on the body, it doesn't make sense to me to assume it's harmless as well without evidence.
You should be more than skeptical. Soylent should not replace a normal diet. It will definitely take years off your life.
Your example re wifi is not great, works fine for me. Dell hardware.
Gotcha. I thought that might be the case from your phrasing. There have quite a few people who weren't aware it had been rescinded or assumed that it was a permanent thing. I appreciate your desire and efforts to focus the discussion.
If they can't do the acoustics right, this is the solution. But the focus should be to push good architectural design. Which is lacking almost everywhere.
I do think the split is in use-cases. I've worked in film at both small and very large places. You can get by very easily ignoring things like color management and frame rates when you're doing small, homogenous work. As soon as you need to take it seriously, the only real way to handle these things is to tag and/or convert these things at the perimeter so you can reliably handle things internally in a consistent way, then convert on the way back out. Even knowing this upfront and being highly motivated, it can take companies years to transition with pain in the meantime.

Text handling is the same. The thing is, many people just deal with ascii compatible English so they don't realize this is a problem for other people and aren't motivated to change. The reason both sides can't just do their own thing (i.e. Python2) is because of libraries and shared code makes it miserable for people using other character sets (most of the world or any company growing bigger than a certain size).
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/07July/Pages/The-new-guidelines-...

They've been hinting at it for a while now, and the new advice came out in July.
That's the median household income; i.e. two incomes. The median personal income is more like $30,000.
Stroboscopic hallucination inducer
Michigan approves cars without drivers or steering wheels on its roads
SmartThings is Z-Wave and Zigbee compatible. SmartThings is just a hub to control devices that work on those protocols. If you decide you don't like SmartThings anymore for whatever reason you just replace it with a different hub that also supports whatever protocol you've got devices for.
Eat real food. Mushrooms have vitamin D, kale has vitamin K.

All of these things have varying degrees of volatility, so cooking can making them more or less bioavailable, and in pill form they oxidize and have a wide range of potency. Cheap supplements almost certainly have no potency so you're just throwing your money away. Most people should just eat real food and not so much of it. (And pizza is not a real food sorry.)
I cured my anxiety and depression with vitamin B supplements. It turned out I had a B12 deficiency, and the lack of B12 was having a compound worsening effect on my nervous system, probably depleting the other nutrients and causing me constant stress. (A bad habit of negative thinking also was the problem.)

Now I don't believe that vitamins are some kind of cure-all either. Vitamins, by their design, are supplements. Meaning they augment an existing healthy diet. From what I read in the article, the people in the study were overloading on vitamins, which I wouldn't be surprised can cause health problems. It's no different that say, overloading on sodium. I often wonder if the synthesizing process and the "filler" material used in vitamins can be generally bad for you.
> How can we possibly create a healthy food-replacement system if we don't fully understand what makes food healthy?

Well, in order to finally achieve that understanding, what are we going to need to do?

Basically, attempt something like Soylent and see if it works, adjusting it as we learn... which is what they seem to be doing.
Yeah, on second thought you're right.
Steve Gibson... well known health expert, ha.
Supposedly you shouldnt wear long sleeve clothing and not take a shower frequently either too, since washing away your body surface oil reduces the effect.

Reasonable things to do in our tribal days, not so much nowadays. Much easier to spend $15 a year and take a vitamin d after your first meal.
All these "vitamin supplements aren't doing anything" articles I see are talking about general population people eating standard diets and then supplementing them with multi vitamins.

I'm interested in what happens when someone takes meal replacements that don't necessarily cover the micro nutrients and then takes multi vitamins.
You'd be surprised. Many of these illicit affiliate networks have been existing for years and continue to thrive. Especially with cryptocurrency nowadays, they have ways of safely cashing out.
Cryptography, image/video processing, scientific computation (analysis/physics etc), game dev/graphics, microcontrollers/embedded devices, hardware interfaces, compiler/language development. There are probably at least a dozen more major areas I'm forgetting. I've at least used assembly for 3 of those myself (crypto/hw interfacing/compiler dev).

It's maybe niche, as far as the job market/skills go, but when you think about it, a hell of a lot of the stuff on a modern Linux system you might use every day is powered by hand-optimized assembly. If you're even visiting this webpage -- the cryptographic stack your browser uses to negotiate TLS, with almost 100% certainty, relies on deep assembly optimization. JavaScript engines are relentlessly optimized at these levels. Any time you visit a page and render an image, systems like libjpeg-turbo are, in no small part, a piece of the puzzle. Using disk encryption or ipsec, too? Assembly in your kernel. It's everywhere!
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I suspect this is a cultural thing. Here in Germany, most journalists and writers use the term "hacker" for both, the constructive and destructive parts. For example, the Chaos Communication Congress is described by media as "hacker congress" even though it has a wide scope where presentations about breaking into systems are just a minor part of it.
Now that I've read it again, my comment seems rude and offensive. I'm sorry if it sounded like that, I'm not a native English speaker so sometimes these things happen (with me, personally, they happen a lot).
Perhaps the era of a condom keychain in every pocket has finally come.

(probably not)
Would you have preferred an elf dude?
Yeah, and when autovectorization fails it can be really hard to tell why. The diagnostic messages aren't the best (or, at least, they weren't when I was doing this ~4 years ago)

EG: ICC has a AVX version of atan2(), which you can use through intrinsics[0]. But it refused to vectorize even the simplest loop with the function call in it. Even with every possible fast-math flag or every #pragma(please vectorize), it wouldn't do it. I assume due to reduced precision? Nothing I could find online had the answer (again, 4 years ago)

[0] https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/524364
As a kid I used to idolise scientists, and Linus Pauling was one of them - having been one of only two people to ever get two Nobel prizes - the other one a Peace prize.

Now I count him as a delusional and deluding self-promoter.

On the other hand, I'm sure that it is good to take small doses of many different vitamins in addition to well-balanced diet.
Mealsquares are really small unfortunately. I found it hard to be full on them if I used for my full calorie intake.

Tasty things otherwise, it basically tastes like dense chocolate pastry.

If you want 'fast food', then a combo of prewashed veggies, frozen food like trader joes dumplings and things like mealsquares and soylent can work. I myself dont really like soylent.
You only need mingw for building. Wine is for testing.
Anyone want to give example inputs for the calculator? I find it very confusing. Are the Odds input as percentages? Decimal Odds?

I created http://sportsbettingcalcs.com/#kelly_calculator which I have pre-filled with an example which is much more intuitive to me. This calculator is more advanced, as it can maximize over multiple bets, but I'm finding it difficult to use. Another calculator which I have no affiliation with is http://www.sportsbookreview.com/picks/tools/kelly-calculator...
I also had a pleasant experience and didn't hit a dead end. I documented my experience here: http://gilmi.xyz/post/2016/05/09/ld35
The Linux kernel has used the SLUB memory manager (and Android is just Linux) since major kernel release 2.6.23 so I'm very confused by your post?

Remember, memory is like a keg of beer, if everyone drinks it all, it's gone regardless of how you "distribute" it to people into smaller sized Solo cups or whatever.

I can think of a few things that could help but not solve the problem, but the crux of the problem is that it's still a finite resource:

https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/memory-overv...

Working against that, you also have Gates' Law.
> unless they provide broadly similar guarantees that different points of view can be expressed.

Note, once again, that Imzy does allow this. They just ask you to remain polite while you do so. (Which appears to me to be a reasonable request.)

> No one is arguing for allowing death threats.

I didn't say anybody was. I am saying that they are being made anyway, and that that is one of the things we need to stop if we want a culture conducive to a civilized online discourse.

> When German police can arrest people for having the wrong opinion, something is badly wrong.

I agree, but you misunderstand the difference between free speech and free thought. German police cannot arrest you for holding the wrong opinion, they can arrest you for voicing that opinion in a way that wrongfully infringes on the honour and dignity of another person. (This is the basis for libel and slander laws.)
>vigorous aerobic exercise, said Karen Postal, president of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology. “That’s it,” she said. “That’s the only trigger that we know about.”

Actually that isn't true.

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/25509
I can't tell if you are trolling: Many parts of the world don't have ample sunshine or nice weather, particularly in winter.
Why would an untranslatable word take on bizarre values? If there are enough training examples of the untranslatable word, why couldn't it actually have a sensible mapping in the vectorspace?

p.s. thanks for the reference to that thesis. I've been wondering about uncertainty in predictions for a side project to predict athletic performance that I'm working on, so this is very timely.
I used my student super powers on that and now have the answer!

There was actually 4 similar studies described in the article. But the first one is the most important.

The setup was that the kid would watch a video where a toy was hidden in one of two cups. The helpful person would point out to the kid in which cup the toy was hidden. The unhelpful person would not give any hints at all but rather just explain which toy was hidden. The kid would of course follow the helpful persons advice, but would have to guess in void of any advice.

The kid would then get to guess in which cup the toy was hidden, whereafter the answer was revealed in the video. However, in the successful condition, the answer was modified so the kid would guess right no matter what.

This was repeated eight times, after which the kid got to choose which person would give them advice for four more trials.

It was in this situation it showed that the kids who had always been successful did not seem to value the better advice they would expect to get from the helpful person while the kids who had failed due to lack of advice chose the helpful person.

In the article they discuss this being due to the kid trusting their own ability to guess, not needing any help.

I'd say that the results are academically interesting as they increase our understanding of children's decision making. But I don't think they should be taken out of context and be applied as a some kind of answer on how to do parenting and teaching.
But thats the whole point though. To combine knowledge from insiders with outsiders. Never said anything else.
That was quite a long-winded way of saying that you don't really have any argument against such agencies.

Hiding this behind the 'no politics discussion' experiment was a bit odd though.
Program languages could be so great if it were not for those pesky users.
I'm with you. I think the whole "good" advice and "bad" advice is relative. It could be misconstrued and applied to the real world. Someone could say that "good" advice is stealing, ripping off people's accounts because if you do it right, you get to reap the rewards earlier than hard work and you don't have to suffer the consequences. In this case, it sounds to me like the researchers are painting "good" and "bad" by their own subjective opinion, and they end up getting the obvious "I didn't agree with your conclusion" result, but from children. When those children grow up and start calculating the extra time it takes based on poor advice, they will probably learn and come to different conclusions like we all have. But as it is, children are naturally trusting and don't expect some jerk is going to lie to them. Too bad the world is harsh.
I try to avoid telling a 3 year old what they are incapable of doing.

The 3 year old will tell you what they want to do.

At 3, my little guy's favorite toy was rated for 8+ years old, and his favorite game was chess.

He never cared if he won or lost at chess, his primary purpose was to push his pawns, castle, and then get in at least one en passant.
Several firms (not the one I currently work for) have implemented their own variants of NASDAQ's "MOLD" reliable udp protocol:

https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/technicalsupport/specif...

It is actually quite good.
> You're assuming the second exists

You stipulated that it did. If it didn't, then on what basis do you determine that the first article is wrong?

> We agree on the underlying principle here.

Maybe we should just leave it at that.
I'm completely lost. I work in affiliate marketing and I don't understand what you're saying.

Could you explain very slowly how this would work in your mind? Who is paying the money, and who is receiving the money?