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Idlewords always a good read, the history of Scurvy and Vitamin C has some great content relating to science and diet, how difficult it is to get conclusive evidence, and how easy it is to jump to the wrong conclusions over and over:

http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

including quotes / sections:

- It has been known since antiquity that fresh foods in general, and lemons and oranges in particular, will cure scurvy. Starting with Vasco de Gama’s crew in 1497, sailors have repeatedly discovered the curative power of citrus fruits, and the cure has just as frequently been forgotten or ignored by subsequent explorers.

- 1747, James Lind proved in one of the first controlled medical experiments that citrus fruits were an effective cure for the disease. [..] the experiment involved two sailors eating oranges for six days. Lind went on to propound a completely ineffective method of preserving lemon juice (by boiling it down), which he never thought to test.

- Knowing that citrus fruits deferred scurvy, but not knowing why, assuming it was to do with acidity, and switching to a cheaper British source of 'limes' instead of a foreign source of 'limes' - and accidentally switching from effective fruit to ineffective fruit, without noticing.

- Knowing that citrus fruits avoided scurvy, but not knowing that copper breaks down Vitamin C, and keeping the juice in copper containers on ship.

- the time Pasteurized milk was found to be better for preventing bacterial infection in infants, so rich parents switched to it. And the heating denatured Vitamin C so their children developed scurvy. Poor children, being breast fed, didn't get scurvy, only richer children.

- The sickness could be fitted to so many theories of disease—imbalance in vital humors, bad air, acidification of the blood, bacterial infection—that despite the existence of an unambigous cure, there was always a raft of alternative, ineffective treatments. At no point did physicians express doubt about their theories, however ineffective.

- Finally, that one of the simplest of diseases managed to utterly confound us for so long, at the cost of millions of lives, even after we had stumbled across an unequivocal cure. It makes you wonder how many incurable ailments of the modern world—depression, autism, hypertension, obesity—will turn out to have equally simple solutions, once we are able to see them in the correct light. What will we be slapping our foreheads about sixty years from now, wondering how we missed something so obvious?

And plenty of other things they thought about ptomaines, contaminated tinned food, stuffy air, lack of light, poisons to avoid, and all without good experiments and with plenty of grabbing a ray of hope and committing everything based on it.
I didn't call anyone an idiot, a fascist, a libtard, or a 'whatever'. Good try at a straw man though.
It seems like these articles about AI taking away jobs is just a distraction from the real wage depression caused by temporary work visas, illegal immigration, and workers being classified as contractors. Perhaps Silicon Valley elites wish to signal they have other options for labor as a sort of threat to combat increased scrutiny of their labor practices. Perhaps the message is: "Don't take away our cheap labor or we will release the AI overlords."
I found this article about recovering data from SSDs very interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11608568
> There was the now infamous

> Trump has as much chance of winning as Cubs

Are you referring to this “The Cubs Have A Smaller Chance Of Winning Than Trump Does”[0]? If so, I don’t understand why you would consider such a headline to be inaccurate or not objective.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-cubs-have-a-smaller...
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A Silicon Valley down payment could buy you an entire house in much of the U.S
That's probably more of an echo from the boards.
It looks like Instagram's change disabled refcounting too, otherwise they'd still be doing copy-on-read for the refcount variable?
The reality is that Mr. Manning possesses an X and a Y chromosome, that he has male genitalia, that he is at risk for prostate cancer, that he will never have ovarian cancer, that he was able to father children but was never able and will never be able to bear them: the reality is that he is a man, regardless of what he thinks.

I'm not saying that rudely, or cruelly. I think that his condition — to feel to the core of his being that he is a woman, when every objective fact says that he is a man — must be truly horrible to experience, and that he deserves our sympathy and our kindness. To feel so alienated from one's own body is not something I can relate to, but it must be terribly unpleasant. As I've noted, I think it would probably be kind to treat him as a woman, and I would probably do so myself, since there's no reason for me to cause him any more distress than his condition already does.

But the objective reality is misaligned with his perception.
>So far, Williams has failed to appear for multiple hearings in Indianapolis. Marion Superior Judge Heather Welch issued a default judgment in September and ordered Williams pay the college $248,350 in damages.

sounds like you're right
> It's not an "opinion" about which people can reasonably be on different pages in 2017

So by what objective standard is Manning a man/woman? Her gender is just her opinion, so why can't others have different opinions?
I feel the same way; however, I like to do races and different events. I don't do it to win, although when I get lucky it's fun, I do it mainly to run in different places and to run with others. I really enjoy travelling to just run in a new location. I also like to stretch myself and go further so events give me a timeline to do that. I've even done a few triathlons too now. My next goal is the full marathon, only did a half so far.

So I would recommend trying longer distances and doing some events. It's really enjoyable.
Hey all, author here.

FYI, the post is still in its unpublished state. It's basically right, but I've been meaning to edit it for tone and rewrite the market failure section for clarity. Didn't get the chance to do that before it made it on HN, so keep in mind that you're reading a (late) draft.
Not sure what you mean by rule but that has not been my experience. I'm unsure how up the ladder my raises have been but I've gotten 16%, 18% in the past year and half.

Maybe CEO approval just means the company is belt-tightening.
My first and only contribution to-date of OSS
https://sourceforge.net/projects/imcycletimeest/

10,719 downloads since 2010 on several different sites including mirrors. Not bad for a program I wrote in about a day to help me do a portion of my job quicker... Maybe it helped someone else. One can only hope.
Which PSU are you using? Do you have a graphics card?
Please try Postage. It's free for all users, open source, comes in server and desktop distributions, and we listen to our users. You can get it at https://github.com/workflowproducts/postage

If it doesn't meet your needs please file an issue, our goal is to remove the no-good-GUI limitation that was imposed on postgres sixteen years ago.
It seems like these articles about AI are just a distraction from the real wage suppression caused by temporary work visas, illegal immigration, and workers being classified as contractors. Perhaps tech companies want to signal they have other options for labor as a sort of threat to combat increased scrutiny of their labor practices. Perhaps the message is: "Don't take away our cheap labor or we will release the AI overlords."
Really nice effort!

It seems really "fast" and it supports markdown! I'm super happy about this.

As a longtime Evernote user, this app is highly comparable. The choice to only allow tags is interesting, and I think I could live with that.

That being said, the lack of support for:

- Images (I should be able attach an image inline into the document)

Would make it difficult for me to switch. That being said, I love the markdown and this is definitely an amazing MVP! Good job!
wtf. After reading this comment my ears started to rumble. So that's weird.
> Your best engineers will tell you that your fancy new ML system needs to have a silent, behind-the-scenes _heuristic_ system backing it up.

This should have been in guide somewhere. Makes a lot more sense than the "data not updated" example, which is a bit too narrow.

> So between developing the heuristic system and chasing down regressions in unit testing, it turns out ML isn't going to save you 90% of your engineering time.

There are 2 rules about whether to use ML. First, there has to be some underlying rules for the machine to learn. Second, you only want ML if it's harder to figure out the rules themselves.

Of course you can bend the second rule a bit if you are a ML expert (and maybe even have the heuristic system lying around already).
I'm still confused about saturated fats. Can I eat butter with abandon or not?
Google,(or Alphabet) from my perspective,has lost the plot.

I used to view the company as a place where world-changing technologies got developed, where smart engineers could get to work on the future without beancounters looking over their shoulders fretting over beans, and where the acquisition of a company meant it would finally get to grow and develop, instead of being expected to be a money-maker from day one.

Now Google is the company where technology goes to die. It's a place where once promising projects get scrapped without warning. Or get neglected to the point of irrelevance.

And why? To focus on ads!? Isn't that a dying industry? Is Google in financial trouble? Why not just stop pretending to be a center of technological progress(and stop acquiring promising startups to kill off)? Is Deepmind next? How much beans do they generate?

Why not simply get a business development team to go and market some of those incredibly promising projects instead?

I guess that's why Elon doesn't want the Wall Street gangs making decisions on SpaceX.

Mini-rant over. As you were.
Not all depression is severe depression. Same with anxiety. In many cases people can manage it by themselves (e.g. without medication or extensive counseling).
I was gonna put up something full of sarcasm. Then I realize engineers are the least responsible for enterprise business failure. This could happen to any of us. Company goes under water and job security fades away. Thanks for contributing to the open source world. And best of luck to all of those brother and sister engineers.
I could imagine a visual form of it being a conditioned reflex. The stapedius reflex is also triggered by vocalization, so clearly some level of top-down modulation is possible.
Based on the postmortem, you weren't alone in thinking that way, it's just that all the people who did think so, didn't value the difference enough to actually pay for it. And, indeed, when something like Postgres is free...
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If you haven't already subscribed the author (Dr Aaron Carroll) runs his own YouTube channel - Healthcare Triage (https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage)

Highly recommended if you're interested in the space
The torrents still contain unencrypted http tracker urls, no thanks.
Come on now, there is a good amount of scientific evidence, doctors do know some things ... it's just that, if you're not a decent doctor, you can't tell the bullshit from the useful information.

My mother is a GP, but I'm a software engineer, so I'd like to make a software metaphor.

The experts have come up with best practices and agile methodologies. If you follow the Agile processes rigorously and use industry-standard tools ... often the results are total crap, like the Military or the State of Virginia spending 300M on an accounting software project over 5 years and then just throw it away. I guess we don't know anything about software, do we?

Well, some of us do. Some of us are reasonable about how much various techniques help, what the trade-offs are, the inherent uncertainties. Some get good results fairly consistently. And it isn't by rigorously following Agile Methodologies, it's more than that, you have to be thoughtful about the code itself.

And, medicine is often like debugging a large complicated messy system. It takes time, and many practitioners are a bit lazy. They have a lot on their plate, the don't have the time to really dig in and figure out each case. They guess, patch in a work-around, and move on.

But, frankly, western medicine has been massively useful, and I think we all know that.

EDIT: and of course there's the hype cycle: everyone, especially those who are managers or customers rather than practitioners, are looking for the secret, the trick to getting good results. Before agile, it was object-oriented, etc...
Postgres neither scales vertically or horizontally.

v9.6 finally brought some parallel scans but is still limited in scope and far behind the commercial databases. Same with replication and failover, although there are decent 3rd party extensions to get it working.
Considering how much pulp fiction consists of a kid discovering (s)he is royalty, it's surprising so many people think the average person dislikes aristocrats. We love celebrities. Heck, the UK still has a monarchy.
No Erlang plz, Only C
That's true but you will reach a breaking point, like what happened in 1992 in the la riots, but this time the working class will spontaneously loot and burn the entire country. The LA Riots hit so fast and hard and spontaneously there was no way for the powers to be to prepare. After a couple of weeks the troops came in and started using machine guns on local people, that shut it down. My prediction is that Trump will drop a nuclear weapon on one or more major US cities to put down a rebellion. No one else has his level of mental instability, not even Bush would do that but I would be not at all suprised to see Trump drop a nuclear weapon on a major US city.
This will get you started https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine

Evidence based medicine. An idea that is really less than 50 years old, and still strugging to gain widespread acceptance.
Given the Simplygon team's commitment to customers - I am sure they will make sure everyone is supported as the service evolves for a wider audience with Microsoft over time.

As you probably already know, the name Simplygon - is a play on Simplify Polygon - since the product started as a polygon optimization tool (but has evolved to be far more than just this today). Donya Labs - the company that develops Simplygon platform has been around for 10 years.
The Simplygon tech is widely used by major game studios and major manufacturers for creating automated 3D asset optimization pipelines for game production, visualization and VR/AR applications.

Given Microsoft's Creative Update and Windows Hololographic platform and Simplygon's proven capabilities- this is a strategically important acquisition for both MS and the professional 3D industry. Its going to be interesting to see how this evolves.

Disclaimer - I have worked with the Donya Labs team in the past and more than a little biased - they are a great team and this is a great result for them and MS.
Can you run a US company from Canada? I'm pretty sure CRA are just going to say "that's a Canadian company".
Expecting employees to stick around when they find out they're 20% behind peers is also ludicrous.

I can't imagine the majority of managers fixing it and I can't imagine an employee doing anything other than finding a new job. Everyone loses this one.
I really wish there were at least one mass market device that wedded a good eink screen to a reasonable CPU / RAM. There was a crazy expensive Sony PDF reader. But I really just want a Kindle DX (Aura One okay too) sized screen that doesn't struggle to render PDFs.
I really like Google Photos for it's excellent search capabilities. Being able to search for photos with my dog or from a time or specific places is fantastic.
jibalt should have said they don't respect your conclusion given that the parties involved came to an agreement.

The tenant is not getting $400k, there's no world where the attorney doesn't take at least half of that through hourly and itemized billing. We also don't know how this would affect the landlord's ability to retain, sell, or lease the apartment in the future had they lost this suit.

I'm going to go ahead and assume, however recklessly, that the landlord can afford the penalty since they both agreed on it and were the beneficiary of at least one estate.
Anyone compared this product to say Postbox or any of the other newish clients out there?
It helps you view things through the lens of market forces. Most regular media is just pundits channeling some moral position based on the writer's politics.
Thanks for that link.

Have you guys looked into MobX?
I on the other hand find Bear horrible. You are completely locking yourself into their system and if you stop paying the monthly fee, you even loose the ability to sync your things to your phone or Mac.

On top of that, I find their organization features not very good. The ability to tag notes seems neat at first but it can become very messy very fast. Completely freeform tagging requires a lot of discipline to not get out of hand, nested tags make this even more difficult. This is especially true for a notes app that is supposed to last you over many many years and possibly hold thousands of notes at some point.

I personally bought Ulysses and use that as my notes taking app for text-only documents, and Apple Notes for short-lived image related notes.
Use a hosted seedbox then?

For many people this isn't really a problem, seedbox or not.

For others it's not exactly their problem but yea someone upstream may get a "letter".
I understand your perspective. As a landlord myself, why can't I choose to charge whatever I want for something I own? It makes sense but you must be empathic and understand things from the tenants perspective as well.

The tenant lives on your property not because he wants to, but because he has no choice. The tenant cannot afford property, and if things remained lawless the balance of power would unfavorably shift to the landlord. Without law you literally have the power to make the tenants life a living hell. You can raise rent without notice. You can kick him out the second there is a higher bidder, you can kick him out simply because you don't like his shoes.

Imagine that! a person left with no place to live because someone didn't like his shoes. This is obviously not moral, and thus that is why laws exist to protect tenants.
Respect for people's identity and humanity is not negotiable. Failing to live up to this standard is called "bigotry".

The words "bigotry" and "transphobia" aren't identity labels, they're accurate descriptions of behavior. Respect for people's behavior is an entirely different matter from respect for people's identity, and people who act on their bigotry (by, for instance, misgendering trans people) aren't entitled to my respect. That is, in fact, not hypocrisy.
True in some measure of any product in any stage of development.
The point is that I can't respect someone who so blatantly misdirects blame at the tenant when, as I said, the terms of the agreement are due to facts not created by the tenant.
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Agreed, I think there is room for improvements and the design leaves me cold. I found https://www.taskcade.com to be a good alternative to Workflowy, but it lacks native mobile right now.
What do you mean with "imposed"?
Always like seeing what people are building for note taking. I've left Evernote for the system provided by the Synology guys. It works really well. Having something you control soup to nuts though would be best. I always worry about using any of these systems and how long I'll be able to 'have' my data.
I'm saying that all people should get equal justice under law.
> especially if your are reducing your computer pricing slower than Moore's law

I agree with most of your comment, but I take issue with that last part. Moore's law has no relation to the price of computing. It only makes predictions on the number of transistors in a CPU, not the performance of the CPU nor the price/performance ratio of the CPU. Even if it did, compute costs much more than the CPUs; memory, disk, power, cooling, networking, enclosures, and more all cost a significant amount relative to the silicon.

I know Google Cloud declared they were going to decrease prices at pace with Moore's law, but even if they can deliver on that it will be through innovations outside of the CPU.
I am sure that the people that were getting murdered by Gaddafi disagree.
It doesn't get much national media coverage because it is not exceptional. Nationally, there are about twice as many opioid overdose deaths as homicides. Colorado's rate of opioid overdose deaths is only roughly 20th of the states.

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html
User 'wtbob has posted three comments in this thread full of really appalling transphobia and they don't seem to be getting downvoted. Meanwhile i'm down 30+ points.
It's also very difficult to have a "well-planned" vegetarian or vegan diet, especially for children. The chance that you get it right is pretty low.

A vegan diet for children is borderline child abuse in my opinion.
> Williams told the school the password had been saved on a laptop computer that he returned to the school in May. The college, however, claims Williams erased the laptop's hard drive and installed a new operating system. Williams' lawyer told IndyStar that the college must have erased the hard dive.

Not as clear cut as the title makes it sound. I wonder if their are also ambiguities as to who's account and password it is? Either way, the school is also guilty of only having a single administrator account, they were still only a single bus away from the same issue occurring.
Same thoughts here, but if there are enough Keep users on Android, Google will likely try pushing some mobile subscriptions to upgrade.
Reading that thread was great. Thanks for the link.
I suppose the parent comment was more about scaling up for transactional workloads - the story there is a lot better (although there's still issues left we haven't tackled, but mostly on very big machines) than for analytics workloads. But yes, while we progressed in 9.6, there's still a lot of important things lacking to scale a larger fraction of analytics queries.
Yes it's really an empty talking point considering the OP claimed it was more than a 50% drop, and the tuition rate has climbed well above the 11% drop
> The CH-correspondence breaks down as soon as you your computation includes non-termination, concurrency, timing, distribution etc.

No it doesn't. Each of those features leads to a different logic. You can even reason about the composition of logics via category theory to see how various features interact with each other.

> Classical logic doesn't really have wholly convincing CH-correspondences either.

Sure it does, first class continuations: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~tgg22/publications/popl90.pdf

I suppose you have the right to remain unconvinced.
Imposed, as in, to put something in place on purpose.
This looks pretty slick. There's a well done explanation of the architecture process in the blog.
Mainly thinking for shortcut keys for the desktop.