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They're dispensing medical advice[1], so I do have serious issues with fad-diet pundits and talk show hosts giving advice based on weak science.

[1] It's medical advice, quack miranda warning[2] be damned

[2] http://scienceblogs.com/whitecoatunderground/2008/01/14/quac...
I agree Postgres is pretty awesome, but I think the one thing it has going against it is a good GUI client. MySQL has way too many good options wherease Postgres is stuck on this front.
That is a claim I'm not sure I believe. Why do you think removing Humans would reduce the complexity sufficiently to model the weather which any usable accuracy?
What do you mean pG isn't designed for scalability? Its SMP scaling is incredibly good, close to linear.
A question - does it matter for webcrypto API's trustability to have window.crypto be redefinable to anything a piece of JavaScript code desires? (Ex: extensions)

I find it hard to make any claims about safe local encryption using webcrypto API if, post encryption, a new extension can be installed that will sniff the keys as you decrypt to access your data.

Thoughts?
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No, actually, it's not, but nice story.
I thought cholesterol was said not to be a cause of heart disease after all?
Well the writing style is nonsensical for one.
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> GTK is probably the main reason Gimp isn't a serious competitor in professional work, then.

Xamarin Studio is built using Gtk and actually looks nice on macOS, or at least I have seldom heard people complain about it:

https://blog.xamarin.com/the-making-of-xamarin-studio/

I think the problem is that Gimp is understaffed to produce a Photoshop killer with any toolkit.
>In that case, multi-input "big data" approaches may prevail.

What do you think this would look like? Inferring voter preferences based on proxies or instruments?
None of this matters. What matters is the crimes committed by US officials when they illegally classified much of the information in the first place.

Of course Manning (or anyone who leaks) is likely to be an imperfect messenger. It's silly to focus on those details when there is a much bigger issue at stake.

FWIW I wish all of the Snowden data would have been given to Wikileaks. I have great respect for Glenn Greenwald, but the government has utterly failed to respond to the leaks in an appropriate way, which suggests a great lack of respect for the rule of law and the American people.

Instead, they pretended it hadn't happened and that no excesses occurred. I think several top level officials should have been removed and imprisoned and we should have seen footage of all the computers being carted out and put up for sale so that the money stolen to build the apparatus could be reimbursed to taxpayers.
Then goal one is to get some iron-clad evidence so your next recommendation doesn't make it worse. Just because a mistake was made the first time isn't an excuse to make the same mistake a second time.
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I'm located in Seattle I don't have a big network to find a career or entry job in web development

how did some of you overcome this obstacle? I'm just getting into the web development movement I know HTML5, CSS3 and JS still learning it.

Where does one find remote work to start of in? doesn't have to pay very high or anything just to get my feet wet.

What are some websites to find remote work?
I think sometimes people get confused about percent CHANCE versus actual estimated results.

All those people need to do is go to the election forecast page, which is still up[1], and look at the percentages under "Popular vote". Or down lower under "How the forecast has changed", click POPULAR VOTE to see the percentages over time.

For instance, the final pre-election estimate before the election gives:

- CHANCE TO WIN of 71.4% Clinton vs. 28.6% Trump, around a 1 in 3.5 chance for Trump to win.

- RESULTS ESTIMATE of 48.5% Clinton vs. 44.9% Trump, with a big overlapping margin of error.

[1]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
Yes! Pycket is a great language, I used your paper as a reference more than once while working on Pixie.
I agree that Haskell currently does it best (along with Rust, which IIRC does it identically). That said, there are two ways in which the situation is not perfect.

First, the dynamics you describe mean I can always add (which is great! that's usually what I need to do to get my job done). They don't help much in reorganizing. If I come out with a new package that introduces a typeclass, I'll usually provide instances for common types. If, down the line, we want to move those instances next to their definitions, both my library and theirs need breaking changes.

Second, related, if I want to provide instances for types that are provided by heavy-weight dependencies, other packages that might want to depend on me would have to depend on those dependencies.

Mutatis mutandis for if I am introducing the types and the libraries have the typeclasses.

Peeling instances out into separate packages means a multiplication of packages or retains a coupling of dependencies, and raises maintainability concerns around orphan instances.

IIRC, Backpack might fix this.
I think we're both right.
I started a new project in RethinkDB over the weekend, and this postmortem makes me want to start my next one in it even more so. It really is exactly what I want in a database. Relational document storage, with a sql like language, and realtime change feeds. Who WOULDN'T want to use that?!
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Ask HN: Best career opportunity for a distributed systems/performance lover?
Hello HN,

I work as a generalist software engineer at a relatively small company with interesting scalability problems in the valley. I mostly focus on infrastructure operations but, unlike most devops I encounter at meetups, I very often like to go into low level details of distributed systems and system troubleshooting, it's pretty typical for me to fire up perf and troubleshoot a kernel performance issue by tracing some kernel code path (in other words, I really enjoy following the amazing work of performance experts like http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/index.html).

In terms of programming, I do ok, I am proficient in a few languages (mostly C and Go), but I really don't like doing what most programming in my company means (REST APIs with filters and paging, plumbing code to interface with DBs, ...), and I don't feel I have skills strong enough that I would pass a coding challenge at one of the big companies (although I have a very solid understanding of basic algorithms and data structures, for instance I could easily implement a simple hash table on a white board), at least for a pure software development role. And honestly I really wouldn't want a position as a "feature developer" writing yet another REST API.

I really feel my area of expertise, and the one where I would like to specialize further by learning from world class engineers, is system troubleshooting and performance engineering, focused in a world of distributed systems.

My question for HN is: in your opinion, what companies would need such a role and what companies would have extremely talented teams to learn from in these areas? And what are the best way to apply to those teams? Also, I am strictly looking for companies who can pay considerably well, my compensation is already decent for the valley (total comp ~$200k) and in order to jump ship I would also appreciate an incentive compensation-wise.

Thanks
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Would you have any examples of that? Sorry I don't know much about Breitbart. "Racism" has kind of lost its meaning nowadays.
There probably aren't that many xamarin studio users on mac and most of them would be developers anyway. If something looks out of place, developers are often oblivious to it (how long would it take you to spot a font out of place?) but artists are hyper-sensitive to it.
That's Exploding Head Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome)
Why not just root your Android and install Adaway? That way you wont see ads system-wide, not just within the browser.
Once you have iron-clad evidence of a diet better than all other diets, you've reached the end. Congratulations.
>Snowden released a large volume of information to well qualified journalists who very carefully combed through the data

Snowden stole a huge amount of highly classified information and gave a tiny amount to journalists to comb through. Now we only have his word that none of it went to Russian intelligence though all signs point to the contrary.
Awesome, love it. What a change from ad infested torrent search engines...

Also, it's FAST!

Does it by chance use Elixir/Erlang?
I wonder what sort of svg support there is.
The climate is perfectly chaotic without human involvement.

Much the same way that the three body problem is chaotic whether there are people involved or not.
Suicide is a leading cause of death in men ages 15-34--the #2 killer. SOURCE: https://www.cdc.gov/men/lcod/2013/allagesmen2013.pdf

Men's lives don't seem to matter, so this doesn't get much attention.

Maybe this sad trend among women is just "equality" catching up as barriers are removed from their lives. Or maybe they're defining "self-harm" more broadly here. If you include non-suicidal death by one's own hand (accidents, etc) it is the #1 killer of men, too.
I assure you, I can reliably signal turn. I also assure you that any time an item fails to scan on the first swipe, it accuses me of being either an idiot, or a thief.
U3 has political value, but from say a military standpoint it's not that useful. The reality is the employment rate is not 1 - U3.

Further just looking at the published unemployment rate in the US there has been several changes to the definition over time. On top of that other countries use different metrics. So no you can point to U3 and call it a day.
componentDidMount is the right place to call for an API.
if you are interested in server-side rendering would recommend this post https://blog.tableflip.io/server-side-rendering-with-react-a...

yes we use redux and strongly follows its design pattern.
Do you use The Employers' Association by any chance?

I used to work for a company that used their data. The reports they provided did not have any technical positions included. There was no transparency on their process.

Comparing those numbers to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the salaries for anyone doing technical work were below market rate. https://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm

BLS data is transparently provided and very specific.
It's a bookend to the recurring point that building a business requires a good understanding of markets and how companies fight for their place in them.

The Economist covers a lot of macro-economic news and frames the world in terms of market forces.

I think Slava is saying the type of biz-savy "personal development" he experienced (belatedly) could have been accelerated by more of this perspective.
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Humans have survived and thrived on a wide variety of diets both now and throughout history.
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That's exactly what my cardiologist explained to me after my heart attack (myocardial infarction) -- that cholesterol and obesity account (in his anecdotal way of speaking) for only half of cases. I was in great shape at the time (hiked > 4 miles in hills every day), but very stressed and depressed.
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There is no need to get personal here. I am stating my opinion of these two people as a bystander, you are making a personal remark to me.

There are limits to an agreement. In terms of respect, I respect people who value logic, reason and morality over terms of an agreement. Your point taken to the logical conclusion means that agreements can override everything including human rights.

400,000 is unreasonable. Although the tenant didn't set the penalty she was rewarded not compensated for her troubles. Sure the word of the law is final, but did the tenant deserve 400K? No. The tenant does not deserve 400k as much as the tenant does not deserve to have rent prices used to kick her out.
Slava (coffeemug) is very brave to introspect publicly and whenever I interacted with him, behaved with greatest integrity and kindness. Unfortunately, his hypothesis here that devtools are a tough market does not ring true. Making a business is always tough, making one that does something new is even tougher. There are many tools and database companies doing extraordinarily well, from Atlassian to Cloudera to Docker to Elastic. The difficulties that RethinkDB faced, as it pivoted from closed source MySQL DB backend, to open source independent database with a very cool update mechanism, were in my analysis much more mundane. Simply, RethinkDB was not easy. Here is a flavor of their thinking, when they rejected a REST HTTP interface: "The RethinkDB query language is so simple, expressive, and pleasant, that trying to make it available over HTTP would be quite difficult and a disservice to users."

Developers have a big advantage when making devtools in that they are their own target market. They are, but only at the start of the project before they become embroiled in it. Ironically this feeling of making it for oneself leads to a mistaken urge to thrust complexity onto the target. As an infra engineer myself, this is something I always try to keep in mind -- I worked on a modelling language at a large company and I credit its success to its absolutely straightforward and accessible syntax, lack of dependencies and straightforward integration into workflows. The temptation is always to make sure users are aware of the choices, force them out of bad habits and make them consider the tradeoffs (this Strange Loop talk from Peter Alvaro addresses the social treatment of users https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Aa4PivG0g ). For RethinkDB, it was wrong to try to force people to learn a new language to use a DB, when there are just tons of interfaces already, and the new language has incremental benefits over say SQL.

However elegant the design of software, the deployment that is the largest or most demanding for it will always find problems. There's no point seriously trying to claim great reliability or quality for a nascent project. It's unbelievable. Instead you need to focus on getting it used in some friendly project that is willing to pay the cost of these teething problems for some particular feature. Once battle tested, reasonable tech leads can choose to use it, comfortable that they won't be the biggest deployment (e.g. git bootstrapped by its use in the Linux kernel). Alternatively, and less scrupulously, you can try to bootstrap by providing a very convenient experience at the start of a simple project for junior engineers - there are many NoSQL DBs that promise the world and are incredibly easy to set up (see the https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen Jepsen blog for many sad examples, RethinkDB proudly did well in this test).

RethinkDB refused to make the market fit compromises necessary. Market fit is about timing. Don't read the Economist. Ship early and keep your users on board through whatever engineering compromise necessary.
Hack something cool and show it around.
You don't need to be better than all other diets. You just need to be better than the previous recommendation.
Seems to be built on top of svg: https://github.com/legomushroom/mojs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...
Yes, actually, it is, but thanks for the reply.
Some study from last year (I don't have the citation) stated that _ingesting_ cholesterol (i.e. eggs) does not lead to plaque buildup. It's eating saturated fats that cause the body to produce cholesterol that then builds up in the arteries. tl;dr worry about the bacon, not the eggs.
> Manning is a woman, not a guy.

No, no he's not. He has never had, nor will he ever have, a period. He will never worry about ovarian cancer. His medical prognosis will be most like that of an average man than that of an average woman for any particular issue. He's not experienced the fundamental biological issues which all women experience, and he never will, while he has experienced, and will continue to experience, the fundamental biological issues which all men experience (and if he has himself castrated, then he will experience those biological issues all adult-onset castrati experience).

It's misgendering him to ignore those fundamental physical facts and pretend that he's a woman.

As I've noted elsewhere, it might be kind to refer to him face-to-face as a woman in order to avoid distress. But there's no need for those of us talking about him, in a forum he is unlikely to encounter, to pretend that the facts are not what they are.
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This is a red herring argument. You don't need iron-clad evidence of a diet better than all diets. You only need iron-clad evidence for smaller specific recommendations. This doesn't have to be an all or nothing diet.

In fact with nutrition it probably can't which means advice should be both well-researched and more nuanced than it currently is. Neither of which changes the point that making recommendation with little to no quality research is more likely to make it worse than make it better and you'd be better off just staying where you are until you understand the problem better.
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The belief that proven exists is the bigger problem.

Things are proven mathematically within a single model, nothing in reality is proven. There is only a scale from models that are more useful and likely to give us what we want, and models that are less likely.

But, things can be disproved. So if we have a single case against a model, we know it does not hold 100%. The model is then insufficient.

In that sense, we need to know: are the medicinal models presented to us known to not be the most useful and likely to help us? If they're not, then they're still valuable, and we should be happy that we're improving them at a high pace, giving us the impression previous models were wrong, yet models are not wrong, just less useful and likely to help us, but if it was still the best we had, your chances were still better following it.
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Roughly half the population of the USA disagrees with you.

Not only that, but you show "a tremendous lack of respect for" them. Don't you think they might find that "deeply offensive"?

You are so easily offended, yet you care not for the fact that you offend those on the other side of this issue. You are full of hatred for them.

This is hypocrisy.
Healthcare and finance firms run conservative IT departments and you'd be unlikely to get them as the first customer.
Quiver is another awesome note taking app, native and superfast on macOS:

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I don't have a medical explanation for you, but I can tell you what it feels like. I've experienced many pangs of deep loneliness at times when I feel like I'm by myself and should be out being social. It feels like a tug on your chest. Like there's a void and some gravity is sucking things down into it. Or, I know it sounds corny, but something heavy sitting on your heart while you simultaneously experience anxiety.

When I am deeply lonely like this, in the moment, not just as a general idea, I definitely do feel it as a physical thing. I don't know if it's the same as what they're talking about here, but it seems reasonable that loneliness could be a type of depression, and I strongly believe that regularly experiencing the type of physical feeling described above could do damage to you.
There could have certainly been some of that but it didn't feel like it in the context (which I realize I didn't provide). I read the question as sincere but admit there's a chance it wasn't.

At any rate, I tried to answer him honestly with what I'd have told myself and it didn't have any bearing on the outcome one way or another.
One of the really interesting artifacts from the NASA flight software programs is that it helps put an upper bound of god honest ground truth level of effort to produce "perfect" software. Everything else we do is approximation to some level of fidelity. The only thing even reasonably close is maybe SQLite, and most people think the testing code for it is about 10x overkill.

It makes one start to contemplate how little we really understand about software and how nascent the field really is. We're basically stacking rocks in a modern age where other engineering disciplines are building half-km tall buildings and mile-spanning bridges.

Fast forward 2500 years and the software building techniques of the future must be as unrecognizable to us as rocket ships are to people who build mud huts.