skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The fallout of these disclosures potentially contributed to a building coup attempt in Turkey by forces loyal to the US (which the US tacitly supported) that burst just a week after the disclosures.

I thought the conclusion was that that coup attempt was more or less theater by Erdogan. Organized with his approval and prior knowledge, destined to fail, and used to enact martial law.
We've been refactoring and decoupling code for decades in imperative coding styles. I think one of the problems we have as a community of programmers is the concept that it must end up in a ball of mud. Almost all of our extant systems are developed in imperative style. The system I work on today is many orders of magnitude larger than the systems I first learned on and yet it is dramatically easier to write useful code. That's because over time, we have extracted and polished functionality into useful and unambiguous pieces.

Back when I was a young programmer it was often said, "If you don't have time to get it right the first time, how on earth will you have time to do it again?". To me, this concept is why we get into the ball of mud. It will happen to you no matter what style of programming you choose, because you can't get it "right" the first time. You don't know what "right" is. Because we resist the rework/refactoring, we build balls of mud. We even blame it on the people before us "who got it wrong" (which is easy to do because average attrition is about 2 years and they've likely left the company).

I like functional style as much as the next programmer (well, probably more than most in fact), but FP isn't going to save you in this instance. The only way to maintain high levels of productivity in projects is ruthless rework in the face of changing requirements.
I'm particularly interested in vat grown meat.

As a consumer, I do care about the footprint of my meat based protein, although I don't want to give up eating meat.

As a chef, if they can get marbling in, I'm excited for the different styles we could create.

Note: a plant based reactor (sorry I couldn't remember the term, the seed for the meat to grow with), has been mentioned a few times as becoming close to ready, which would bring the costs down a lot.
The Dark Psychology of Dehumanization, Explained
I remember reading "New Orleans is going to flood" annually for 20+ years. Then it did.
How are you going to do aseptic technique and metabolic regulation rate for less energy than skin+immune system and a liver? Anyone who's ever cultured mammalian cells knows that you toss the medium with most of the carbon source remaining because it's gotten too acidic with lactate. Turns out that livers are a really energy-efficient way of keeping cells alive.
You got me. It turns out, there's no such thing as an xnu rootkit. That's why the elite hackers all backdoor Little Snitch.
And, as we know, overfitting is bad.

I think you hit it on the nose, I mean look at our Supreme Court.. like the TOP court, a set of people that are supposed to do their absolutely best at leaving out bias. I mean that's the resume - NOT BIASED PERSON JUDGING THINGS. Yet almost like clockwork, each Justice is delivering carefully crafted prose fully backed up by legal jargon to explain their final judgement. 90% of the time when the judgement falls into some political trap, the court is split down to the R or D President that got them there (with exceptions of course). Shouldn't those opinions basically be identical? Why are we not FIXING that, instead we let them die, and feverishly get a new president that matches our worldview more so the new Justice can fix our world.

I remember watching some news program like 60 minutes or 20/20 back in the day. They put on two fake trials, but I think the jury thought it was all real. In one they presented the defendant as a old man that had probably looked ugly. In the other they presented the defendant as a young man with good posture in a suit. All of the orchestrated words in both trials was the same. In the end they fried the old-ugly man and let the suit go. Why don't we change anything? Why is this acceptable? I can think of countless other crazy things in this planet that we shockingly let slip by.

Given that THIS is the world we live in, I'm absolutely not surprised the talking heads can easily just push completely biased information and everything goes unchecked. In the end it's simple really, it's just a big war of who's right and wrong, but we all lose. The EGO has taken over this planet.
Um, his win8 login password being a variation of password at some point doesn't automatically imply that his gmail password was "password".

I thought it was widely accepted that Podesta was the victim of a spearphishing attack (coupled with bad advice from IT), rather than just "hacked" via password-guessing.
I recall from previous versions that attempting to use junctions would seriously screw up the updater. Given the amount of problems I had to completely uninstall vs2015 a while ago, I totally believe it.
> The line made famous by clueless that everywhere in LA takes 20 minutes is completely true, with the caveat being, so long as you don't drive during traffic.

Another way to interpret this is: nowhere you want to go is ever < 20 min. from your current location. This includes places like grocery stores or other neighborhood locales because even though they are close, traffic can still make a half-mile commute take 20 min.
"Put simply, I believe that technology gives us all superpowers, and that every person should be empowered as much as possible. Developers should be able to build any application they can imagine, and we should all be able to use these applications, without restrictions."
- Ryan Pollock

I love this sentiment! Unfortunately, Mozilla absolutely disagrees this BSD/MIT license sentiment. Instead Mozilla's MPL 2.0 license makes a broad (hardware and software) patent-grab underlined with a "retaliation clause." So few companies will be "empowered" by this license, they'll have to avoid it like the plague. History shows they'll remake the software all over again, only under a truly permissive software license. An ungodly waste.
It's not hard, and I see 10-20 people per train car on the R going between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I've seen people standing and reading kindles in body-to-body crammed trains.
Yeah, I don't think it's possible to make interviews comfortable. They are assessments whose results have a direct impact on your livelihood. Even if the interview were "put your name in this hat; if we pick you, you get the job," we would have posts on Medium about the mathematics of optimizing your chances in the hat draw just to calm people down.
> That is, a properly functioning society shouldn't need to rely on leaks for corruption and abuse of power to be exposed

How do you figure? Abuse is just use you don't agree with. If everyone in control is perpetrating the abuse, the only way forward is leaking. See: the Snowden leaks.

Those in power have little incentive to restrict it. Leaks are very effective at letting people police their own government.
The author surely does like to heap praise on himself.
They create an artificially inflated demand.

Doctors are the one's the write scripts, not drug companies. Are you saying doctors can't tell when a patient really needs a drug?
I made Bard, a functional-first Lisp. It started out years ago as a version of s-expression Dylan and then, after I got an early compiler and VM for it working, began to accumulate changes as I went through successive phases of incorporating new ideas followed by redesigning to make it simpler.

The why of it is simple: I designed it to make me happy in my work.

I've made a couple of products with it, but I don't think anyone else has ever used it for anything.

It's between versions at the moment, experiencing yet another assimilate-then-simplify phase.
I wish I could say, I it's been a good two+ years since I left the genetics company, so I've been in a different industry for a while. I would say theres probably plenty of room, if people start taking more novel approaches that use more data, eg, full microbiome analysis. Also, I was just a sysadmin, so I don't really know anything other than keeping systems running, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Why not grow pseudo-animals that consist of tiled blocks of muscle + liver + dermis?
What heartens me is that the shift towards plant-base protein can be gradual while still having a large impact. Ingredients like ground beef make up the majority(?) [1] of beef sold and there are already good plant based simulacra on the market [2] with more coming soon.

I have my doubts we'll see anything marketable and cost competitive that could compete with larger cuts of meat in the next decade, but I could see a near-term future where Taco Bell is using a 50/50 beef/plant "meat" in their food with that ratio shifting away from animal products with time.

[1]: http://meat.tamu.edu/ground-beef-labeling/
[2]: http://beyondmeat.com/products/view/beefy-crumble
Looks like Chapter 15 in the Causal Inference Book agrees with you:

“Outcome regression and various versions of propensity score analyses are the most commonly used parametric methods for causal inference. You may rightly wonder why it took us so long to include a chapter that discusses these methods. So far we have described IP weighting, the g-formula, and g-estimation–the g-methods. Presenting the most commonly used methods after the least commonly used ones seems an odd choice on our part. Why didn’t we start with the simpler and widely used methods based on outcome regression and propensity scores? Because these methods do not work in general. More precisely, the simpler outcome regression and propensity score methods–as described in a zillion publications that this chapter cannot possibly summarize–work fine in simpler settings, but these methods are not designed to handle the complexities associated with causal inference for time-varying treatments.”
A big part of those 'macros' is farm subsidies. Meat is artificially cheap in the US. Kind of ridiculously so.
I disagree. You've created a variable for no reason. I hate having more variables than needed. I have to worry about things like its scope, its mutability, anywhere else it might be used, etc etc. It's pointless to me.

Like another poster below, I do agree you should spread that out over a few lines though:

window
.FindCanvasForObject(obj)
.Color(RED)
.MoveTo(10,30)
.LineTo(50,20)
Some people learn in a more hands-on fashion...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigiain/4081474667/in/photolis...

(not me, some local guy at a DorkBot meeting way back when...)
> For LA's drivers, even 37 minutes is pretty bad. [1]

This data is from 2014 at best. I would wager the situation is a lot worse now especially given the construction that has happened or is happening (e.g. widening the 405 or the new metro line being built by the airport).
No way. There are probably 7 US States that spend that much.

The Feds probably spend $700M just on Office 365.
I'd wager LS users are more tech-savvy and less likely to be using more mainstream tools like Norton or McAfee - they want one tool that gives them control over what programs have network access, not a bloated adware platform.
I'm not saying there aren't any great advances. I'm saying it's an easy line to draw. That's vs picking and choosing what modern treatments are included.

The HepC treatment, while remarkably effective, would bankrupt most healthcare programs if they were forced to pay the retail price.
Fitness Motivation
Many people set New Years resolution to stay active but give up in two months that lead to negative health effects such as diabetes and obesity. How do you stay motivated?
Love cooking. Don't love going shopping for groceries - dealing with time lost in traffic, checking out, walking aisle after aisle looking for things. It's also a lot more hassle doing it with kids - getting them in and out of a car, and then through a carpark safely while your hands are full with bags isn't very enjoyable.
Am I right that this is sarcasm?

In case I am wrong about this being sarcasm, the reason cats need to eat meat to survive is that they don't naturally synthesize taurine like most mammals.
Actually non-Turing languages are very useful and can be quite powerful.

Consider for example TensorFlow and/or Theano. Before they added the loop and conditional Ops, they were non-Turing Complete. And you could do amazing things with it as it were.

In fact, I took a lesson from that when working on Gorgonia (https://github.com/chewxy/gorgonia) - I don't ever want it to be a Turing Complete language.
Of tangential relevance: On the aircraft I was trained on, it was SOP to set the igniters = ON when encountering some significant amount of precipitation in flight, as a defense against a water induced snuff-out. (I forget exactly how the precip threshold was determined.)

Otherwise, as parent said, the flame persists following engine start, and so the "spark plugs" (igniters) are not kept active.
That's a good 20 years of someone getting their christmas bonus because they didn't waste budget on repairs
LOL. You have to have guts, to ask such question.
Yes! Just signup and start creating :)

Would love to speak to you as well, my email is per@scrimba.com
Set Up is Hard
It's screenless, but I wouldn't call it upgradable when you compare it to the old metal Mac Pro
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13667470

His entire rant is based on fake news.

The whole “The radiation levels inside Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor No. 2 have soared in recent weeks” is bogus.

The new, higher readings are from areas never measured before[0]; levels measured from consistent points are falling consistently!

He revised the article to fix his misspellings of "Fukushima" as "Fukishima" but didn't bother addressing the basic facts.

[0] http://blog.safecast.org/2017/02/no-radiation-levels-at-fuku...
My wife is vegetarian and I eat meat analogues typically one meal a day. For almost all applications Mock duck, seitan, soy-based chicken are all inferior substitutes for their meat counterparts. They're less flexible when cooking, don't absorb flavors as well, and are generally either chewier or stringier than real meat.

I have a lot of hope for lab-grown meat, but there's still a lot of progress to be made for meat analogues.
Replicating the taste is the wrong way to go about it. Vegan food can taste just as good as meat and cheese, but it will never taste like meat and cheese because it's not meat and cheese.
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Sioux City, Iowa being maybe the most notorious, in the Western world, anyway. Or what we used to call the Western world.
>seems to be

>surely he would say something

These aren't exactly reassuring statements, at least not to me.
I don't agree...

but I also generally use languages that don't have equality and assignment operators that are so similar that people are prone to mixing up the two.
first of all its hard, really hard. (at least for me)

and then when you find some time it comes at a cost.

waking up early is an option, works well for me. but the catch is you get tired easily and then in long term it affects health.

my advise is to pick things very carefully, time is very limited.
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This problem has nothing to do with vegan foods. The problem is that meat and dairy benefit from government subsidies. This might be because of lobbyists, but that's none of my business.
Other than that the future of food will never be meatless? Well, nothing, of course.
This is not really true everywhere. I'd be really surprised if I encountered an interview like that.

I think it's just a weird California thing, kind of like "thinking In-n-Out is better than Five Guys", or "driving your state into bankruptcy".
I would argue the difference here is we could just, you know, eat the plants but we don't want to. 36% of US corn goes to feed animals for meat and dairy (3%-40% efficient). [1] There would be significantly more food to go around if the plants were just eaten directly.

It would be more like if there were plows at the time that operated on solar but nobody wanted to use them, and instead, decided to tie horses to the plows because they would rather.

Had a hard time working farm subsidies into the analogy.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-c...
In Australia, one major grocery chain has fruit baskets at the entrance for children to choose an item from, for free. Apples, bananas, pears, etc. It's brilliant and many parents specifically pick this chain because of it. The piece of fruit keeps the child from complaining about hunger (usually they're bored or angling for a fun snack instead of being overly hungry) or begging for a treat.
You gotta make sure that both entangled engines don't end up on the same plane.
Well, JavaScript was pretty darn close to NewtonScript, except for the bizarre way arrays work and the weird semi-implicit prototype inheritance. Since JavaScript has taken over the world, I wish that stuff was cleaner. :)

And speaking of prototype inheritance, I still think that makes a lot of sense in some domains (like UI programming) but hasn't gotten much traction.

Beyond that, having an integrated object store (as opposed to a filesystem) is an idea from the 90's that really should get more mainstream attention.
It's not clear to me that humans are going to think of a more efficient way to turn energy and matter into food in the next century.

We could potentially alter the animals into something that would be hard to recognize, but that'll be an evolution of animal husbandry, not something that will leave us bewildered at animals.

What do you see that indicates we're going to make massive leaps beyond what animal life has already provided in turning sunlight and air into useful lipids and proteins?
I'm hesitant to believe you've had modern, high quality (or even moderate quality) meat-replacements. My girlfriend is vegan so I've been exposed to an array of options, and there are plenty that I would have never even guessed weren't meat had I not already known. There are members of the vegan community that won't even eat some meat-replacements because it tastes and feels too much like flesh and it grosses them out. Granted, part of that effect likely comes from not exposing oneself to meat for extended periods of time, but the technology really is making rapid progress. Getting some big, mainstream money behind it is only going to accelerate that process.

It doesn't always even come down to technology either, you just have to know some of the methods. Prepare a jackfruit the right way and it becomes delicious seasoned shredded chicken. Textured vegetable protein can become seasoned ground beef just as easily. Yeah, the flavoring plays a big role in those cases (which it often does for meat-replacements, to be fair), but it does in many situations with meat preparation too e.g. adding cumin to make taco meat, marinading your meats, slathering them in BBQ sauce, etc.
Founder, big data startup
4 kids in 4.5 years
Lots of patents and nerdy stuff.

I have no hobbies.
I don't go to networking/startup events.
I don't watch TV,Netflix, etc and I don't have cable.
Rarely go on vacation, unless a family obligation to visit grandma.

Tactics:
Office with 24/7 access outside house (worth the rent)
Coffee shop open at 6 am/closes at 1 am with wi-fi.

Basically I work every morning at coffee shop before kids get up. Partner works late after kids go to bed at 8 pm.
We work at the office lab every weekend, taking turns, with a sitter, or we just bring kids to office with coloring books, games etc.

Doing this you can work about 35 - 50 hours a week, but obviously it's not for everyone!
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11992684
Everyone, including experts, makes mistakes. In fact less than an hour ago I corrected a respected intellectual property lawyer in an email discussion about patent law. Yet it is clear to everyone, including me, that he has better insight into the law, and intellectual property law specifically, than I do.

Edward Snowden's special expertise is on the state of our covert cyber operations as of when he fled in 2013. He said that this leak is naming real departments whose existence is classified. I pay close attention to that because he is the one saying it, and there are very few sources on that topic that I trust. He may be wrong, but his judgement is more likely to be accurate than mine.

When you move away from that topic, lots of people can have similar expertise.
/opens Terms of Service.

/CTRL-F, "Arbitration" .. Match found. No opt-out clause.

/closes tab without signing up for yet another service because mandatory, binding arbitration clauses in business-to-customer services are a cancer that deserve to die and it's a shame that "bootstrapy," "customer-focused," "friendly" start-ups have fallen for this trap.
I'm the father of 2, ages 3 and 2. My wife is due with number 3 in May. My son (3) was diagnosed about 18 months ago with level 3 ASD. I have a beautiful family that I adore. I'm a software engineer, and I was just promoted a couple months ago. I'm definitely not superhuman. I have several unpublished blogs, but haven't been able to get to them lately. I open source more projects than contributing to existing ones, and most of my contributions are in some way work related.

It's very challenging, but at the same time, much more fulfilling. I find myself more focused and therefore more efficient with my time. I learn but don't spend time going down rabbit holes. I ponder philosophy as I play with my children, and I often learn so much from them. And, their bed time is 2-3 hours before mine, so naturally I'm able to spend quality time with my wife, enjoy a hobby (I'm a guitarist, thinking of picking up piano), or get in some extra work or side projects.
The future of food needs to be meatless.
Unfortunately the printed logs only show what has been downloaded, not what is currently downloading. I know - that's not very helpful in this case. It would be really useful to see the more detailed logs, which are stored in the %TEMP% folder. It might be that it's not hung at all - if it's a really large file that's being downloaded. If you're willing to mail me at tims@microsoft.com, I'd be happy to work with you to grab your detailed logs and investigate further.
Good for making mayo and the like by hand and for thin slicing potatoes and carrots. The biggest issue for me is setup + cleanup >> use time for most cases.
Indeed,

It may require a series of truly extreme disasters.

The US has become unimaginably prosperous and that power can be wielded to mislead and misguide and protect those who would siphon off its wealth for their purposes. And even to allow those the disasters which have occurred to benefit this same group - the "lesson" of the September 11th attacks was that we needed an even larger military-industrial complex and so-forth ad-infinitum. Fear so far has only kept one group in power and not even made that group itself fearful of the actual disasters looming but only fearful of losing that power.
"What, exactly, are people doing that gives them so little free time that this is necessary?"

Young kids are a big part of it. Also, in my case: run own business, multiple side projects, partner does some work from home, plus freelances also, keeping on top of a shared co-working space we own, upkeep of the house, garden, etc. There is not much down time.

I enjoy talking with family and friends, but not really as interested in extended interactions with random people at the shop.
Networking firm risk $200M due to “Do Not Distribute” files exposed on Google