skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just FYI, Mercola is really not a good source to link to for anything. For instance, he thinks mobile phone radiation causes cancer and peddles anti-vax messages. Can't comment on the specifics of that article, but wikipedia does point out:

> Phyllis Entis, a microbiologist and food safety expert, highlighted Mercola.com as an example of websites "likely to mislead consumers by offering one-sided, incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading information."

Some more sources:

[1] https://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/mercola.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola
[3] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/9-reasons-to-completely-ign...
[4] http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/February-2012/Dr-...
[5] http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-...
In terms of implementation, what are you not quite agreeing with?
Why not? You can't shutter the program because you're contractually obliged for X to deliver. At that point you either eat the cost and deliver or your company is destroyed by fines and/or bankruptcy.
And again: sure, those types of contracts would be harsher than the current situation, but they're still so juicy I can't imagine companies not going for them. Currently it seems to just be a huge money tap for whatever contractor gets them, without any amount of oversight or accountability/liability.
Vocalise?
Telstra is apparently doing this in Australia but the full technical details I did not find. But it's basically an add-on within their existing network:
http://www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/telstra-l...
Those are fair points, but I was mostly focusing on languages that are still widely used. Fortan seems to be used the most of the three, and I rarely see it outside of niche scientific applications.
Who is ‘Source D’?
My dad used to have trouble with Enternet Explorer. Mainly, his sister in law would come visit, play a bunch of Flash games, and then his computer wouldn't work right anymore. So, I explained what Chrome was ("what's a browser?), installed an adblocker, removed the shortcut for Enternet Explorer, and replaced it with Chrome. He would say he understood he needed to click the Chrome logo and the internet would still be available like he was used to. When I would return days or weeks later, I would notice that Chrome was still there but IE had crept back somehow and he was using it. I think a similar pattern happens with phones. Whatever is baked in, gets used by the average user, regardless of how bad it sucks to someone in the know.
No string theorists allowed? ;)
Data Authorship as an Incentive to Data Sharing
The Day After
They have no bylines and cite no sources. It's the combination of the two that bothers me. Still I generally find it an entertaining read.
Please put a simple about page. It is difficult to get the idea behind the project in the first glance.
All the health benefits of meat can be obtained from eating salt-water mussels. Their sensory and motor abilities are extremely similar to that of plants, and they can be farmed on ropes with no environmental damage. This isn't true of bivalves in general (eg. scallops have primitive eyes and can swim).

https://sentientist.org/2013/05/20/the-ethical-case-for-eati...
The numbers must vary a lot depending on the definitions you use. I mean if you include everyone who's depressed sometimes you'd get about 100% of the population and if you don't think it's a real illness you'd get about 0%. I suspect it becomeing the leading cause is more down to changing definitions than the world getting more depressed.
I freelance with a lot of startups. I remember times when it did not work out well for people who hired me and I assume that they regretted hiring me. The problems were as follows :-

1. They had very vague requirements and they overcomplicated their MVPs. I had to charge them by the hour and because the requirements would change, their costs went up. It was quite difficult for them and I could not really do much - because they underestimated the development effort it takes and were overtly confident of their product market fit.

2. The other being that they were single business cofounders and overvalued what they brought to the table. Thus they were not able to get onboard tech cofounders quite soon.

This is from a very startup perspective where many times founders are very passionate and too optimistic about what they are building.

I think a good way to handle such situations for a developer is to mentor them early on and built trust with them; so that they let you help them simplify their MVP goals.

Also I think for the hirer, building trust with a developer who has the understanding of the product would be great. As a hirer, if you can gauze that s/he is truly curious about the product - would be good. You cannot expect them to buy into it; and it is more likely that they will have a lot of doubts about the product offering initially. It could take a while for a developer to buy into the offerings of a product vis/vis the risks involved.
The Economist is basic neoclassical nonsense dressed up as nuance. I wouldn't want my name on it either.
> I guess I cannot speak to how difficult zero calories would be for 2-4 days

I can, it's not difficult at all. I've done 7 days, no multivitamins or supplements of any kind. I did allow myself two espresso shots over lunch, but I can't image that counts much towards caloric intake.
Numberphile did a video a couple of years ago that featured the forklift in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

Cliff is a really neat guy. I met and talked to him briefly once (at Dayton Hamvention, 20ish years ago). He's a really, really nice guy.
The GNOME project has a standalone calendar cleverly named 'Calendar' [https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar] and mail-calendar application called Evolution [https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/.] Both are open-source and free (as in beer).
The greatest disadvantage of this is that sometimes they publish (repeatedly/often times) stories with provably false 'facts'. Since there is no byline, there is no 'single' person to hold responsible or call out for the false reporting.
After watching "What the Health"[1], it seems like there is no small amount of FUD coming from the meat industry. And the long-term health benefits of plant-based diets are well-established[2,3,4,5].

[1] https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whatthehealth/203617202

[2] Vegetarians less likely to develop cancer than meat eaters, says study https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jul/01/vegetarians-...

[3] Vegans live longer than those who eat meat or eggs, research finds - Every three per cent increase in calories from plant protein was found to reduce risk of death by 10 per cent http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

[4] 16 Studies on Vegan Diets – Do They Really Work? https://authoritynutrition.com/vegan-diet-studies/

[5] How Not To Die: The Role of Diet in Preventing, Arresting, and Reversing Our Top 15 Killers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXXXygDRyBU
What is the GDP impact of an effective military though? Maybe the spending on the A10 etc deterred Soviet ambitions in Europe. We are certainly seeing a loss of US influence in Europe and Asia due to Trump devaluing NATO.
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There wasn't any direct observation, only interpretation of the data from vastly complex instruments which has been made according to some set of beliefs (like Egyptian pyramids).

That's the point - there were no direct observation.

The "proof" of existence of, say, photons is that green thing outside your window. The proof of correctness of the atomic theory you could see in the mirror. The proof of existence of antimatter are some petabytes of data from some man-made tool.
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Why not `rehtet` ?

Even "./rehtet rt" sounds better.
Interesting.

And to clarity my earlier statement, there are plausible reasons to not eat meat: animal suffering, cost, environmental impact.

Avoiding absolutely all meat on the basis of health reasons (the original context of the discussion) is bogus.
I get the sense that that's exactly how these were created. The transition from ground view to aerial view gives no hint of a full-sized aircraft's ideal lift-off point.

These are probably all hand-stitched though, with photo manipulation tools, and not programmatically generated, since it seems to be a one-off project inspired by the surrounding environment and terrain. It's likely possible to program a utility that creates these, as a follow-up phase to the general concept.
I respect the no bylines approach. But using initials on the website is a misleading feature, if, like they say, these aren't disambiguated between different authors. If you have four staff members with "J.P.", I'd suggest using JP1, JP2, ...
Humans produce our own creatine if we eat enough of certain common amino acids that are found in plants. So it's not actually necessary to eat creatine.
Roland made it possible for me to learn to play button accordion. My landlord runs a psychology practice upstairs, and my wife is not fond of loud noises, so I would have very little practice time with an acoustic accordion. So I bought a Roland V-Accordion instead, which has allowed me to practice regularly even at 1 AM (as I just did) without disturbing anyone.

The V-Accordion was a personal idea of Mr. Kakehashi's [1], one I'm very glad he was able to usher into this world. I'm musically richer for it.

[1] http://www.accordions.com/index/squ/archives/0811/roland/his...
You can't ignore the health concerns with meat and only focus on the good stuff. Especially when health is the focus, and you can get all those things from plants without the health concerns.

Less unhealthy does not mean something is healthy, and since meat is basically saturated fat, hormones, cholesterol, not to mention all the drugs fed to the animals that are recycled through it and shows up in the meat too. And about B12: that is recycled too. Livestock are fed B12 (and other stuff) which is why it's prevelant in meat as it is. If you worry about B12, it would seem to me that you worry about health, so getting B12 through meat where you also get all kinds of bad stuff sounds illogical instead of just taking a vitamin pill.
I once discovered that a paperclip had been taped to one half of the magnetic door seal of a former employer's NOC. It was up at the top of the door, so it would never normally enter your line-of-sight, so it was very unlikely to be noticed.

After thinking about it for a moment, I put my shoulder into the (locked) door and confirmed my suspicion as to why this had been done: the additional space between the magnets weakens the field just enough that you can ram the door and pop it open, but it doesn't weaken it enough that anyone would ever notice otherwise. Pretty clever!
Checked exceptions would be neat but still, if you don't catch the exception it will be propagated further up the chain, so the claim that it is impossible to create an unopened file handle still holds :)

Yes, object lifetime management is not provably safe in c++, due to lack of borrow checker, but that's a general problem for all types of objects, not specifically file management.
In college, I talked to a Japanese friend about it (I was studying Japanese at the time, so differences between the languages were a natural topic). He could tell the difference between "right" and "light" when I enunciated them clearly, one after the other to provide an immediate contrast between them, but couldn't otherwise. In most cases, context was enough to disambiguate the meaning.

So, he can (of course) physiologically hear the difference, but he wasn't conditioned to listen for it. There are features like that for me in other languages (tones in Chinese, as one glaring example).
Samsung exit strategy is Tizen. But they forgot to use the exit strategy back when Samsung produced 80-90% of all Android phones about 3 years ago. Now many cheap but equal as good Chinese phones got released. But Samsung might still try it, and partly migrated their users as their SmartTVs and watches run now on Tizen.
Why do you figure that since it's established that it's less healthy than the alternatives?
Because people who start with economics to provide commentary on social issues need some anonymity to express themselves freely. Economics is the dismal science, and you don't want to have a face associated with the sourpuss who keeps giving everyone these dismal reminders.
> the burden of evidence is yours, not ours

That could be a good operational definition of what is meant by the word 'sectarian'.
Against human piloted space flight. There's no argument here against human passengers going off to explore.
If you're going to eat meat, fish has the least ecological impact. That is, if it's produced in systems that don't trash natural ecosystems. Or use wild-caught fish as food. The point is that fish, being ectotherms, don't waste energy keeping warm.
Do you have more information about that? Maybe a blog post?
I was thinking more "Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack"; guess it depends on your cultural exposure :-)
It'd be neat if there were an app for one-click deployment of OpenVPN using one's own AWS or Azure account. That would be much safer than picking from a list of shady VPN providers.
They do in simulations and exercises.
The F-35 is a great plane until it runs out of missiles.
Why does the Economist republish its own articles on a different subdomain with a current dateline?

This one is dated 27 March, but it has a link right at the bottom to the original, from 5 September 2013: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec...
What is a bad angle for the spine? I don't usually fall large distances, but something like this seems useful to know, just in case.
The editor.

(Unfortunately, that makes the editor's job that much harder.)
That's not a bug, it's a feature. The institution takes the blame and bears the good and bad of its reputation. Firing the "bad egg" is never enough on its own, anyway — the existence of a bad egg is proof that the institution itself needs fixing.
It'd run out of ammunition before they ran out of ships. Then it'd get swarmed by tens of thousands of angry sailors.
I wonder if you could also get an evil kleinstein, were the handle connects to the outer chamber at the top and the main inner chamber at the bottom. Good yoke that.
Once I had a situation where I was the developer assigned to a particular interface and my code was synonymous with the code.

Unbeknownst to me, a defect was entered and another programmer made a change. It wasn't really a bugfix but more like a change in the desired functionality. His change worked perfectly well but I wasn't made aware that someone else had changed the code. When I was assigned another defect, I used the version of the code that I had from my last checkout to make the change. When I checked in, I overwrote his change.

We quickly discovered this during testing and I reverted my change. I used his last checked in code as the basis for my change and all was right with the world but we had a confused user and two confused programmers for a couple of hours.
> grunge musicians tended to use whatever horrible old guitars were languishing at the back of pawn shops

Roland had a connection to grunge too - Boss effects pedals were a division of Roland, and Kurt Cobain used the DS-1 and DS-2 Distortion pedals on Nirvana's albums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_Corporation
No. Just no. If your comment is this long you're doing it wrong.
I'd like to see you grow some skin.
A friend who works in banking says that around the office, they call it the e-communist, because of its left-leaning stances.
Okay; mislabelled fish happens but it always has. Boycotting things you work with is a bit of a trend once the the initial shock kicks in but usually when we look from the inside we overblow the impacts of these things.. How many of us in the marketing/analytics/tracking/social media biz have Facebook profiles or browse signed into google?£

A lot of restaurants also sell ox or bison instead of beef.

Fresh fish is loaded with omegawhatever and is completely delicious.

Instead of cutting out one thing instead just maintain a balance like a grown up. Eat fruit, nuts, fish, cattle, paper clips, the fear of junior developers etc etc. If you only eat loads of cheap mislabelled fish then the problems warned in this story might come true but who really does that?

I buy whole breams once a month or so and with some greens on the side I consider it a completely healthy (and delicious) meal.

I grew up eating crabs and lobsters weekly and it didn't kill me.

What's the case here?
Well, article mentions computer not being able to properly identify same target by merging different sensor data (it shows two targets instead).

I'd say that reason alone warrants a pilot.
The runtime could take care of that, just like it happens in another languages.
>There are no humans that "can't" hear the difference between L and R.

You'd be surprised.

There are no 100% objective sounds the ear directly hears -- interpretation and identification of sounds happens at the brain, and a person that was raised with a specific language/pronunciation can be "deaf" to the difference of certain sounds.

Evidence from Best & Strange (1992) and Yamada & Tohkura (1992) suggest that Japanese speakers perceive English /r/ as somewhat like the compressed-lip velar approximant /w͍/ and other studies[4] have shown speakers to hear it more as an ill-formed /ɺ/. Goto (1971) reports that native speakers of Japanese who have learned English as adults have difficulty perceiving the acoustic differences between English /r/ and /l/, even if the speakers are comfortable with conversational English, have lived in an English-speaking country for extended periods, and can articulate the two sounds when speaking English. Japanese speakers can, however, perceive the difference between English /r/ and /l/ when these sounds are not mentally processed as speech sounds. Miyawaki et al. (1975) found that Japanese speakers could distinguish /r/ and /l/ just as well as native English speakers if the sounds were acoustically manipulated in a way that made them sound less like speech (by removal of all acoustic information except the F3 component). Lively et al. (1994) found that speakers' ability to distinguish between the two sounds depended on where the sound occurred. Word-final /l/ and /r/ with a preceding vowel were distinguished the best, followed by word-initial /r/ and /l/. Those that occurred in initial consonant clusters or between vowels were the most difficult to distinguish accurately. Bradlow et al. (1997) provide evidence that there is a link between perception and production to the extent that perceptual learning generally transferred to improved production. However, there may be little correlation between degrees of learning in perception and production after training in perception, due to the wide range of individual variation in learning strategies.

The same can happen with colors (for them, depending on whether the language/culture has a name for them).

So what you write is not 100% true. At best, it's debatable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_of_English_/r/_and_...
l/_by_Japanese_speakers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...

https://eagereyes.org/blog/2011/you-only-see-colors-you-can-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-is-blue-and-how-do-w...
You realize that's specifically talking about farmed Norwegian Salmon and not all fish everywhere, right?
I do not necessarily disagree with your claims, but few people will take you seriously if your sources are a sensationalist newspaper and youtube. Even the nutritionist's blog in not particularly reliable, given how poor replication is in this discipline.

Also, OP made a specific claim about controlling for health-conscious behavior that is not countered here.
> what exactly should be done with the program?

While the US is already committed to the F-35, discussion of the plane's shortcomings is important for NATO and other allies who haven't yet signed up to buy the plane (e.g. Canada). Maybe the plane will mature into an effective platform, or maybe it will never be anything more than an expensive turkey. Right now it seems like the right thing to do is hold off making a purchase.
very true. i was so excited as a young teen anarchist to land a copy. and soon decided that unless I planned on committing suicide, there wasn't a lot I could do with it.

I invited over some friends and told them to take whatever books they wanted, I was moving. someone took it.
The editor's job should be hard though.
From what I'm aware, that was largely attributed to regular bathing in the mikveh (ritual bath), rather than diet.
There is nothing wrong with that. All my comments are based on a few simple assumptions. First, that probability itself is a social construct and cannot be used as a tool to establish any criteria of existence. A close-enough model could be made but there still will be a gap between the model and actual reality, which could not be removed by any amount of math or modeling. Only by replicated empirical validation, like in the case of proving that DNA is indeed the genetic material.

The second argument is based on the first, and it is the principle that a simulation is not a valid experiment for confirming an existence of any phenomena whatsoever because it is based on dogmas created out of math and modeling, not measurable and replicated direct observations. The process of producing a highly sophisticated model is closer to a theology rather than a science, and this is the point.

With these principles it is easy to argue that this or that advanced theory could be mere a socially constructed set of beliefs which exists, like any other such social phenomenon, to benefit certain social group, say, clergymen. There is no idees fixes here. Just a bit of scepticism, philosophy of mind and sociology
What would you want your name on then?
I totally agree with you. Most of these tools seems really neat and have seductive examples. Then when you use it for a project you end up needing some kind of customization which they do not accommodate.

I've saved countless hours by doing as you suggested - only using the tools that have matured, where all standard questions are already answered on stackoverflow and common corner cases are covered.

So when I see Google App Maker, my response is "cool, this might be something I can use in a year or two, let's see."
There is an exhaustive list in tmux' official FAQ [1]: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/fa27cbd03/FAQ#L15

Edit: I pasted the whole thing, but it's too big for comments.
Diversity is good, seems our digestions evolved with the ability and perhaps even requirement to eat a lot of different things.. Mix it up a bit? Venison is a far superior meat to beef in my book however Ive never tried panda or zebra but I would.

Why don't you eat fish? I can't work it out :)
An intro to programming for non-technical by explaining programming jokes
I've always like this aspect of the economist. It also protects individuals from state bodies that disagree with their views.
No I am not, I am no longer programming in the mid-90's and even on those days, Turbo Pascal had more features than Go.

I only advocate Go as a replacement for those that would use C for user space applications, or possibly some kind of low level stuff.

If Python and Ruby eco-systems had blessed compilers, instead of just CPython and MRI, I doubt people would be flocking to Go.

We already see this happening in the Ruby world, just let Crystal become a bit more mature.
You can get all those things from plants and supplements. As there are strong environmental arguments against raising meat, as well as strong ethical arguments against raising meat, "avoid meat" is sound advice.
I'll echo this, I have a Samsung tablet with an S-Pen, and S Note is really good and has improved a lot over the years. S-Pen & S Note were my entire reasons for buying the device. I think I mostly avoid the other Samsung apps though.