skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. The proclamation was made after the civil war started. But the war was because the North started to act as if it no longer agreed with slavery, which the South saw as a threat, since it depended so much on it. Lincoln promised that slavery would not be allowed in new territories, the south states saw the writing on the wall, and that caused the war. Yeah, the United States didn't exactly quit cold turkey before the war but close enough I think.

>>[1] The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America. <<

[1]http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/?referrer=http...
> don't eat too much ... red meat

I believe everything else you've said is correct. But the health effects of red meat and dietary saturated fats have not been unequivocally established.

There are studies saying it is harmful, there are studies saying it is not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef#Health_concerns

> The Harvard School of Public Health recommends consumers eat red meat sparingly as it has high levels of undesirable saturated fat.[34] This recommendation is not without controversy, though. Another study from The Harvard School of Public Health appearing in Circulation (journal) found "Consumption of processed meats, but not red meats, is associated with higher incidence of coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus."[35]

> This finding tended to confirm an earlier meta-analysis of the nutritional effects of saturated fat in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition which found "[P]rospective epidemiologic studies showed that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease or cardiovascular disease. More data are needed to elucidate whether cardiovascular disease risks are likely to be influenced by the specific nutrients used to replace saturated fat."[36]
Please don't, regardless of the provocation. It just makes the thread worse.

If you see an egregious comment, flag it instead. (You can flag a comment by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag' at the top. This requires > 30 karma.)
Eggs are cholesterol you eat, or dietary cholesterol. DC has been shown to have little or nothing to do with the amount of cholesterol in your blood.
Firejail (https://firejail.wordpress.com/) seems a good first step before jumping through those hoops. (Though, to be fair to the post, you can't use firejail on a *BSD, since it needs seccomp-bpf and other Linux specific things.)
Let me know when the government wakes up and inverts the food pyramid, so that breads and grains and carbs are scarce, rather than fats.
Facebook does that data collection, but not the data that the article discusses - no social widget is responsible for figuring out your income or what you do at physical retailers.
Insinuating shillage without evidence is not allowed here. An opposing opinion does not count as evidence.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280008 and marked it off-topic.
Almost everything you mentioned as 'clever' is trying to achieve either type-safety or memory-safety. To your coworkers I would reply: would you like the compiler to handle error-prone memory deallocations? Or do you want to keep doing it manually and wait till runtime to find potential mistakes?
The problem I have with it is that Facebook decides what "improve" means -- it tries to groom me like cattle rather than ask me how I want to experience it or who I want to be "optimized" in to being.

And that's okay, so far as they're open about it. But I don't think they are, especially the sophistication of their psychology research (and experimentation).
It's like they're saying "Russia made us order the wrong pizza. We will sanction Russia, but we aren't going to change our order to get the right pizza."
These are actually quite good.

I never thought about teasing the red flags, but it makes more sense than just asking directly.

You could publish a list somewhere, I think a lot of people would find these valuable.

How did they work for you in practice?

Best/worst reactions to them?
I remember doing all sorts of "clever" arcane things to get a smooth high frame rate for a program on my old IBM PC. Next generation, they have actual graphics cards with overlays, easy vsync, and double-buffering where the buffers can be swapped with a simple toggle instead of trying to find some way to shuffle the bytes faster.

I was able to replace pages of "cleverness" with a few lines of code in the same language.

These guys are very impressed with their improved hammer. It might not be the best tool for the job.
This needs a (2015) added to it.
<<< The new view on cholesterol in food does not reverse warnings about high levels of “bad” cholesterol in the blood, which have been linked to heart disease. Moreover, some experts warned that people with particular health problems, such as diabetes, should continue to avoid cholesterol-rich diets.

<<<The greater danger in this regard, these experts believe, lies not in products such as eggs, shrimp or lobster, which are high in cholesterol, but in too many servings of foods heavy with saturated fats, such as fatty meats, whole milk, and butter.

Here is my paraphrased takeaway:

Cholesterol you see in your blood results is still bad. Whole milk, butter, and fatty meats is still bad. Foods like eggs, shrimp, and lobster might be good.

I don't think this changes any of my mental models. The foods that I always thought of as "probably not great" are still classified as such, according to this article.
Interesting, for those who enjoy reading (which I guess are probably quite a lot) I'd recommend the big fat surprise[1], a very interesting book about this, which goes way beyond this article.

[1]: http://thebigfatsurprise.com/
LinkedIn's incredible algorithm was reading your contact book without your permission before those kinds of permissions existed or had any sort of granularity between none and complete access.
I think that there is a second assumption which is overlooked:
Hypothetically, let us assume that the Russians did break in and steal emails etc. Governments do so all the time so it could well be true. Now the question to me is: why would they release all the emails to Wikileaks? The emails seem relatively benign and not very damming of HRC. Why not keep the information in your back pocket until they can be researched and leveraged? Releasing them diminishes their value to an intelligence agency. And why not release selected HRC's (herself) emails? Surely the Russians could have gotten those of they tried. Assuming she's not squeaky clean, they could have released selected individual emails anonymously and ensured a Trump win, plus keep other assets for later.
Would a better hypothesis be that US intelligence services saw break-ins and so released the information they knew foreign governments could be used as leverage aagainst a likely future president? This way they immunize against the information's use, plus blame the Russians but the US would dearly like to punish Russia for their victory in Syria anyway. This makes more sense to me but am interested in why this hypothesis is wrong or less likely.
Agreed. It took me about two months to really understand Rust, and I was coming from a background of languages like C++ and Scala. It pays off, though, for what I want to do with computers.

The rise of "it demos well so we should use it" is in a lot of ways troubling. The inflection point for productivity doesn't need to be "five minutes in" to be worthwhile if you're doing something that is, itself, worthwhile.
But your facts and reasoning regretfully interrupts the circle jerk of the Bernie bros who are convinced their democratic socialist was on the brink of revolutionizing the American political system and finally delivering us to a Denmarkian utopia.

Never mind the fact that Sanders was treated much more gently by the Clinton campaign than Obama was in '08, the only salient fact is that minority voters should have yielded their preference for a man who has spent 30+ years in Washington and yet has largely failed to build any power base.
> If Facebook were only gathering information necessary to improve the experience of its users, and were not selling that information or lying about it, I don't think you'd see the same backlash.

Facebook doesn't sell information, it sells ads. That's not the same thing.
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Facebook et al are only paving the way for the future where more and more people and smaller organizations will have such tools and data at their disposal for whatever means. These walled gardens of data can only maintain this advantage for so long.
Aren't jails one of the things that BSD is known for? (Now that Docker is a thing.) And the primary goal of jails in the first place was security, so what does this offer over running your browser in a jail?

There are a ton of rebuttals I can imagine but I don't know nearly enough about any of the stuff involved here to determine whether any of them are true.
I'd suggest to you to consider that the VR is not the issue. DPDR is often an anxiety issue, one that you sometimes reach out to other events in your life to blame.
Just eat in moderation and try to maintain healthy weight.

The last time I checked, average woman in the U.S. is 5'4" but weighs 165lbs; average man clocks in at nearly 200lbs. We can do better.
Go's not been receiving any piles of money from Google. Compare Go's API documentation to Rust's API documentation. Where's the `cargo` and `rustup` equivalent for Go? Compare the number of Go packages to the number of Rust packages. Seems Go's not doing so great despite being stable for much longer.

> I just don't see Mozilla having enough resources to keep-up the momentum long-term.

Did you forget about Samsung? Mozilla and Samsung aren't the only two companies backing Rust.
> Whole milk, butter, and fatty meats is still bad

You're sure of that?

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/02/12/275376259/the...

My main takeaway:

> "Almost every single nutrient imaginable has peer reviewed publications associating it with almost any outcome," John P.A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine and statistics at Stanford and one of the harshest critics of nutritional science, has written.
I would like to add some details about a username in case someone didn't understand its meaning. The github username spells like 'nullers'. 'Nulling' is a slang word meaning removing license protection from commercial web applications like CMS (and usually publishing them for everyone to use like some type of modern Robin Hood) and 'nullers' are the people who do it.

The code has a payload (probably a web shell) encrypted with a password that should be sent via a cookie or a variable in the POST request body. The encryption has some serious weaknesses.

The @masrermike's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13281312 has a link to the tool that could be used to encrypt the payload.

In case if anyone is interested I can post a formatted code (the payload is still encrypted): http://pastebin.com/sVLsGTub
Not without knowing more.

Would I get a 100,000x bigger head, and die of a snapped neck? Would I get a 100,000x increase in daily calorie requirements and die within a day? Would I get a 100,000x increase in heat output in my head and have my brain cook itself? Would I get 100,000x more neurons but untrained, so I need to live 100,000x more lifetimes for them to learn something? Would I have 100,000x more intelligence but bottlenecked by one pair of eyes, ears, vocal chords, arms and legs so it's no more applicable?

A 100,000x more intelligent me only represents ~1/50,000th of the world's combined brainpower (assuming 5 billion reasonably capable adults) - why would I think myself to have the best chance of saving the world compared to "everyone working together", if a 100,000x boost to one person represents a fraction of a fraction of a percent of a change to world brainpower?

Unless you're just handwaving hoping for a techno-magic wormhole style fix, we already know what kind of things we'd need to stop an asteroid destroying the world - nukes on rockets, mass evacuation of ground zero areas, maybe high powered lasers, underground survival bunkers - generally things which take large amounts of teamwork and resources way beyond a single person's abilities to build.

It's not clear cut that the button would be automatically a good thing to press, especially when there's no talk of trade-off's or compromises. If you had to get to work in 1 minute instead of 1 hour, would you press a button that made your car 100,000x faster? No, because that would be completely uncontrollable and you'd die as soon as your car hit the first corner and you didn't steer fast enough and hit a building at 1Mmph.
Cool.

Yeah, I have been thinking of ways to build passive circuits into structures so they can be actively scanned by light, rf, etc. Modulate the return pulse based on the value being measured. Measuring internal forces on a parts of a crankshaft, piston connection rod, fan blade, etc would be amazing. Could actively derate a machine based on internal part fatigue. Now if we could have internal sensors using TDR we could spot cracks as they form.
Java/Sun really could've been a serious threat to Microsoft. Microsoft knew this, which is why they rushed to create a competitor (.NET).
A simple answer is anything with the fibre removed, such as white flour & rice, and with artificial flavours and colours. No risk in eliminating these from your diet...
I'm pretty sure anyone can submit stuff to chromeexperiments.
The idea is you put your passwords into this box. This box can only be opened with a Chip&Pin card. This magic box can be backed up and restored if ever lost or stolen. The magic box is also "physically-ish" sperated from the computer. It's Impossible (TM) to compromise the security of all the passwords in the magic box. It goes something like this.

Setup goes like this:

1. User buys device which comes with keycards.
2. User selects pin code for their device

Usage goes like this:

1. User attempts to login to site
2. Browser plugin requests login details from device
3. User is prompted for chip & pin from the device
4. User puts card into device and inputs pin
5. User clicks a button physically to aprove transaction
6. If correct data is sent to the browser for login
7. Subsiquent chip and pin signins aren't needed for X timeout

The interaction is more 'tedious' for some people but it's not meant for the people who are concerned with typing in a 4-digit pin. It's meant for people who would otherwise have to remember 20 digit alpha-num-sym passwords for 30 different accounts for which this is much easier and safer to do. It's also something people know how to do. If you've gone to a super market you are now prompted for Chip & Pin. People are already motivated to learn how this works (want your groceries for the week? Use the chip and pin!).

On the other hand, the average person doesn't need code words to get access to a protected resource. Bar "special organizations" I'd say there are very few people who are trained natrually into the concept of passwords. It's simple but it isn't done nearly enough for everyone to understand it which is in stark contrast when compaired to using a credit card with a pin code. Also, they could use similar or even the same pin code as their bank pin if they aren't concerned about security.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were more government warnings and less restrictions / regulations?

Imagine if the FDA, instead of blocking new drugs for 10 years and $1B, it simply withheld its endorsement until satisfied by the clinical trials. Consumers could then take the government's recommendations into consideration when making a decision and drugs could get to market much faster.

The history of medical reversals -- and in this case, nutrition reversal -- shows that the government isn't magic.

A whole raft of restrictions could be converted to warnings and recommendations, freeing up industry to innovate and consumers to take a little more responsibility for themselves.

Imagine the history of the past few decades if the state had outlawed any foods with more than X% cholesterol. Or trans-fats. Or any of the other food fads over that time. It would have been terrible, especially now that the recommendation is reversed. The whole time, consumers were allowed to factor government warnings into their decisions, but food producers weren't breaking the law by selling foods with (X+1)% cholesterol.
I suppose that depends on the expected reaction to either believing or not believing. In this case, from my perspective, I see two intended reactions to the claims of Russian subversion:

1) To delegitimize the President-elect
2) To foment war with Russia

I didn't vote for the guy but I don't think he's near so bad as his political opponents try to paint him. I'd like to at least give him a chance and to whatever degree he turns out to suck, I'll still blame the Clinton campaign for promoting controlled opposition 'pied pipers' rather than promoting a robust debate in the interest of the American people.

Wrt #2, I will certainly demand very strong evidence before yielding any resistance to that notion.
They would likely require people to upload multiple photos to build a profile to "opt-out" and even then there are FPs and look-a-likes that make such an opt-out hard to guarantee (e.g. identical twin where one opts-in and one opts-out)
<...but I believe any claim that "Physics is solved" that might be stated after that would be as misguided as lord Kelvin's claim at the time.>

Perhaps and maybe even for a long time but you can't have an infinite progressions of "fundamental" theories at some point the questions will be answered such that "this" is as far as we can go. The problems and questions in physics are philosophical (more specifically epistemology) and revolve around what is a valid measurement when you get down to the limit of measurement?, what is an observer and what distinguishes the observer from the observed? Unfortunately, the vast majority of physicists disdainfully reject philosophy as bunk and continue to mathturbate even as their own theories become indistinguishable from bunk.
Rotten movies at rotten tomatoes that you actually like?
Existence is simply perceiving something while simultaneously being limited to how much perception and interaction you can conduct with the reality over a given moment. Consider it a resolution/cost of time, if you will. It's also the side effect of everyone believing they are them and not someone else "playing" them.

Limiting perception should not limit the objective reality, but I hypothesize it does limit the ability of the perceiver to easily manifest their own non-objective reality here in this "real world". Strangely enough, I just picked up Galapagos by Vonnegut yesterday and he's presenting a similar concept and I'm curious to see where he goes with it. I've been remiss in reading more of him.

When you are going in or exiting a VR or gaming existence, it feels just like shifting existing "goals" into existing "get it done slots". In Astronomer, for example, the "goal" is gathering Oxygen to breath/live and the "get it done" part is gathering building materials to construct devices which help you learn how to do more things. It feels like a life because I've done similar things in the real world to survive. I get sad when my little guy/gal dies, so who's to say they aren't "real"? I hope someone is sad and happy for my existence as well!

I wonder if the the dissociation may result from the resistance to comprehending an eventual truth which cannot be "unheard"? I'm OK with it because I think about it all the tim, but I'm sure it's frightening to just have it spontaneously happen to you without realizing what it is that is occurring.
I respect your position. When you are trying to pay the bills, every dollar is the same shade of green.

When you are trying to establish enterprise value, it's different. The value of a company is roughly (m/(i-c+g) - f) where m = margin dollars, i = the interest rate of your funders, c = churn, g = revenue growth and f = fixed costs. If you have a repeatable (and growable) cash flow, then it's worth a lot more than consulting work that you have to win every year. The math is highly oversimplified, but this is why a company like LinkedIn (Or Ariba in Web 1.0) can sell for 8 or 10 times revenue.
> Memory safety is important for everything because it is a prerequisite for any other form of correctness.

That's obviously true, but not what I (or the OP) was talking about. My point was that in many applications memory safety doesn't rank highly as a separate concern, in addition to computing correct output from expected input. Because of this, describing Rust as a language that solely focuses on memory safety isn't very interesting to large groups of developers that work on such applications.

> The rayon library offers similar functionality to OpenMP, including a parallel map/reduce (etc) over a vector, all in safe code for the user.

I did look at rayon when I skimmed through the available ecosystem. The runtime cost of that approach wasn't obvious to me from the documentation, and it doesn't quite let me keep the loop-based control flow usually employed for numerical calculations (because of the need to refer to different indices within the loop, etc.), but it's certainly a viable approach. Not a direct replacement to OpenMP loops, though.

On the subject of -ffast-math, I did not encounter these recent additions you mention in the language documentation, but I'll take another look on the issue tracker and elsewhere. Thanks for the information.

On tail call optimisations, I don't believe your statement is entirely correct. It's true that C++ compilers don't guarantee TCO (although, empirically they're very good at it), but Rust doesn't seem to be able to do it at all. It's explicitly stated in the language documentation and there's a recent issue on the subject [1].

And on explicit vectorization - I'll take a look at the latest nightly Rust and edit my post accordingly if explicit SIMD is already usable. Glad to hear it.

FWIW, I think Rust has made great progress considering the age of the language, and I'm glad to see SIMD and other improvements being implemented. My objection was simply against the hyperbolic assertion that Rust has already attained full parity or even superiority over C++ in performance.

By the way, is there a way to turn off runtime bounds checking for vectors? That's another common performance sink in numeric computing.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/217
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Sure. For that matter I use the mbasic Facebook view, which has zero client-side processing. Makes for a much better experience.
Wait what? I (@levelsio) am not doing that. I've made €2000 out of speaking total and only spoke 3 times. I don't consult.

My revenue doesn't come from speaking, it comes from product. I don't like those people who do that at all because how can you trust people that only speak but not make product?

I speak if I want to spread a message (although blogging is way more efficient).
[ joke abut how people oversimplify the universe differently depending on their field of study ]
Gee, wouldn't it be nice if Valleywag was still around for this type of news, but the Thiel free market has decided otherwise.