skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure, I always assumed UHT was a bit cheaper but never paid attention (or if I ever did look at the difference I've forgotten).

I just had a quick look at a UK supermarket's online site and both seemed similarly priced with some comparable options being cheaper on one side or the other. Without bothering to spend more time actually doing the maths, and looking at more than one store, it could be that there is a significant difference on average.

In France/Belgium I equally never bothered to check the price difference (I'd still be choosing pasteurised where available if it cost 5x as much), but anecdotally I saw it more in higher-end (most expensive) supermarket chains.
Thanks for the comment, that is a good way to articulate the problem I'm interested in. For instance, seeing novel topics, but retaining some form of high quality results - "low quality" would also be an opposite result, but clearly isn't the right answer.
I have the book in paper (I just checked, it is right between Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, and Cory Doctorow's Little Brother :)), but I also managed to find an ePub version online. It has no DRM. If you are okay with that I guess I can send it to Sidnicious. I was going to say that it could save you the trouble of digging around your attic but since it's you for all I know it consists in playing with an R/C car equipped with a camera which doesn't sound like trouble :D.
I like this idea. Furthermore, it could be used as a preparation for basic income: one of the problem with BI is where do we get enough money ?

One solution is making things cheap.

And one way to make that happen, is by collaboratively creating assets that may have high fixed-cost, but very low variable cost - which what we'll need for BI.

For example, shared community fiber. or on a bigger scale - build together a city ?
I wonder what the history is here. Neither the article nor Wikipedia really get into why the differences by country. Certainly, if one were to go by national prejudices, one would assume the US would be big on UHT (when in fact it's relatively hard to find) and countries that we would assume would be into the less aggressively processed food aren't. Maybe habits developed when refrigeration was less universal?

I agree with your general observations. I tend to keep some UHT packs at home as backup (as well as hotel-type half-and-half portions). But I would never use them on a day-to-day basis especially to drink straight.
"UHT" milk is just pasteurization with a much higher temperature. It's still pasteurization. Sometimes this milk is branded as "ultra-pasteurized."
> appendages

a.k.a. digits!
>ShellReplFactoryInstanceFactoryFactoryBean

You forgot to include Adapter, Builder, Strategy and a few other words in that.
The UK is at this point far worse than the US. At least in the US you can publish very nearly anything on your own servers, fully self hosted, and not get it taken down unless it is explicitly making terroristic threats or hosting child porn. There's a huge amount of first amendment precedent set for parody, satire and generally offensive things (Hustler Magazine parodying Jerry Falwell, for example) that meets the criteria for being protected by the first amendment.

The UK at least pays lip service to being a secular society. Where it gets scary to me is politicians in religious countries actively implementing sharia law in relations to internet/telecom to appease a fundamentalist base.

I agree that the UK is going a very worrying direction, forcing retail ISPs to operate a "porn filter" and have it enabled by default, and so forth.
Your last sentence isn't crass, you are right and there are plenty of public health studies to back you up. An unfortunate truth I suppose, but not insensitive.
Ooh I wonder if this is based on Dummynet
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If I walk into tesco right now I can guarantee that their freshest milk will have a use by date of about 5-6 days from now. It should also be used within a couple days from opening - I would definitely buy a new bottle every 4-5 days. And nope, my fridge sits at a solid 2C, thank you.
>Kids these days would of course use json instead

JSON? How last week. The cool(est of the cool) kids are already moving on to TOML and its ilk.
I completely agree. The fact that there are so many abstractions that compile/transpile into javascript is also a big red flag. What other languages do you see that in? And then of course there is the horrible standard library, where the most obvious functions don't exist and require a package and maintainer.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/7126249140717281...

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4bjss2/an_11_l...
Vegetable farming kills animals outright and displaces others. It's often a smaller number than the animals killed and displaced for animal products, but not always. Veganism is about keeping your body "pure", it's not actually about doing a real accounting of your relationship with the animals in the ecology that feeds you. At best it's a rough heuristic for "low animal cruelty", but it's rough enough that e.g. many hunters have lower animal impacts than the standard vegan diet, despite outright murdering animals.

How many fieldmice do you have to maim for it to be considered equivalent to a quick death for a deer, after a happy, wild life, in a region where that animal was effectively torturing other animals through overgrazing? How many rivers can you dam, destroying entire ecologies, before it's equivalent to someone taking care of a pig like it's their own child for a year and then bopping them on the head and slitting their throat before the pig knows what's happening?

Certain vegan products constitute outright animal torture. Palm oil from burning orangutan habitat is the classic example. How is torturing orangutans to get palm oil better than killing a deer who is torturing other deer?

Veganism is appealing to people who want to pretend that violence doesn't happen. But violence is an inevitable part of ecologies functioning. Consuming calories is violence, despite what it might feel like in the supermarket. The best we can do is deliberate respectful violence in place of unnecessary violence (torture).
I'm hardly one to jump on the "CS degrees are useless" bandwagon -- different discussion, but suffice it to say that I believe they're a great thing to have and are generally a good stepping stone to a career in software.

I interviewed a man last week who had a CS degree from a good school and had been working in industry for two years, two different companies. Couldn't answer any of my technical questions. Couldn't describe, even in broad strokes, how his websites worked behind the scenes (as in "request sent to this server, server accesses DB, server sends this response, mail server sends an alert, etc") Couldn't answer basic questions about his own code (I believe he wrote it, but perhaps with a lot of copy/pasting)

I asked him why he majored in CS. He says that the recession had a big influence on him and he wanted to make a lot of money :-p Okay then! That explained a lot. I don't think programming is as hard as it's often made out to be on HN, but it's a really difficult field if you don't like it.
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I count any third party candidate getting 20% of the vote as a good situation.
I worked as an intern at a couple of companies spending a lot of money on digital marketing, and I was amazed by the assumptions underpinning the marketing 'attribution models' that they used.

Both used 'Last Touch', and apparently this is industry standard for many firms. This assigns 100% of credit for a sale to the last marketing channel that the customer used. For example, if you clicked on a sponsored search/banner advert for the product and then buy, that channel will get 100% of the profit from the sale.

Implicit in this is the assumption that had the advert not been shown, the probability of purchase would have been 0%. This is wildly optimistic. Both were spending a lot of money on 'own brand keywords on Google, and it doesn't take a genius to realise that customers searching for Company X trainers may well have ended up reaching the page and buying, in the world where the ad didn't appear in the top 3 links for these searches.

However, none of this seemed to be clearly conveyed by the very marketing consultants/analysts in the presentations with countless charts and acronyms that they gave to their relatively untechnical managements. My assessment was that both companies were horribly overspending, and I was agnostic as to whether the marketeers where dishonest or misguided.

This has also been studied, and seems to confirm the intuitions I had. In one experiment, Ebay did A-B testing on all of its own-brand marketing paid search advertising and this had ZERO impact on short run sales [1]. Other A-B tests have found incremental sales advantages a small fraction of the values found by these horribly optimistic marketing models [2].

One interesting analogy is with political campaigns. A wise politician campaigns in battleground regions where they have the biggest chance of changing the result in their favour. A wise firm markets to similarly marginal customers. Digital marketing offers the benefit of being able to carefully avoid customers that are totally uninterested, but naive (or dishonest) attribution can cause companies to 'preach to the choir' and then over-credit their marketing activities. Lots of current industry practice would be analogous to a member of the Obama campaign telling him to avoid Texas and campaign in New York, and then congratulating himself after he won with a landslide!

[1] http://cn.cnstudiodev.com/uploads/document_attachment/attach...

[2]
http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1399&c...
If you require Rx drugs long term that no american doctor would Rx and would be working remotely anyway, I would of moved to somewhere in south america.

You could of gotten a lot of that kind of stuff over the counter fairly easily, and if you were stopped by the cops, you could of given him a bribe and just get out of it.

I don't know how simple that would of been with your prior convictions and all after the fact, but it's an option.

Anyone else in this guy's situation, take it as a lesson and leave the drugs in your house.
Cynically: No, it's "Cyber" prepended to "jaya" (used to mean "city" in Malaysia, but apparently derived from Sanskrit for 'victory', ie. a place where a battle was won) - ie. a rebranding of "The city at the place of the victory of the battle of Cyber" to "digital free trade zone".

Realistically: Maybe in part. It looks like in part they are trying to challenge Singapore for air freight logistics. Unfortunately KLIA is miles from KL and nobody really lives out there, so even though you get "express freight handling" the only major nearby markets accessible by road are Singapore and KL (plus some second-tier peninsular Malaysian cities) and in the former case you have to pay to cross another border.

Amusingly: On their promotional video they tout the future as being "borderless" - quite funny as KL is known to be a global center for forged, modified and stolen passports and other identity documentation.
I've had so many jack-mormon friends over the last 20 years. We'd drink beer and whiskey, and smoke a joint. Anti-depressants are straight-up drugs. It's like removing the fructose from fruit and leaving the fiber. The mormons I've known that were still devout wouldn't even consume caffeine.

Edit: Over the last 30 years my 3 best ski days were at Solitude, Snowbird, and Alta. I just wish you all had more realistic laws for beer and weed.
The issue is that "hostility toward" is interpreted differently.

I want to be clear that I am not pretending, and do not intend to pretend, that the Church condones homosexual behavior. Nor do I intend to pretend that the Church ever will condone homosexual behavior, because I think they're doctrinally forbidden from doing so (whereas there was no explicit doctrinal barrier re: priesthood eligibility or plural marriage).

The difference is that Mormons do not consider themselves more hostile toward homosexual behavior than they consider themselves hostile toward other types of sinful behavior, and as detailed above, the leadership goes to lengths to try to ensure that everyone understands that those who practice homosexuality should be treated with the same civility and respect to which anyone else is entitled.

Pro-gay activists, however, interpret "hostility" to mean any disagreement whatsoever with their activities and demands, up to and including disagreement with the demand that these activities enjoy state sponsorship via marital benefits.

We have to accept that there is a basic moral disagreement here. No one is trying to hide that or say it doesn't exist, or imply that it is going to disappear.

The difference is that Mormons are trying to maintain friendly and civil relations despite that, and trying to encourage people to be sympathetic to the homosexual POV without abandoning their moral standards. Meanwhile, the activists on the other side do everything in their power to lay the blame for suicide, death, and many other massive social malignancies on religion, history, culture, politics, and anything else that disagrees with them.
We had a milkman when I was growing up in the US in the 1960s although it was already something of an anachronism at that time as we went to the grocery story for other dairy perishables. (I drank a lot of milk growing up so having the scheduled delivery was probably still somewhat convenient.)

The adjacent town to where I live did have a dairy farm that delivered until fairly recently but I'm not sure they do any longer. I imagine there are still milkmen in some places but I'm not aware of any.
I don't find pasteurization to make as much of a difference as other things like fat content. Whole milk is sooo much better than skim milk, for example.

I love milk and since moving to California I haven't been able to find anything nearly as good as what we had in Boston. There was this brand High Lawn Farms that had tangibly better milk. You could even notice the difference when used in small amounts in tea/coffee, which is probably why every single local coffee shop used it. Someone should figure out what they are doing differently.
12 hour days in 100+ weather and you think they were coddled?

The more disturbing parts are the political pieces. Because of this manager you've now lost a bunch of good people (and maybe a good team). And of any company google should be able to find a new job for a qualified person who requested a less demanding role due to a health issue. There should be HR and executive review of these actions.
I like to imagine so! :D

I presume you've seen https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
C and C++ are in use but it has become easier than ever to bridge in higher-level languages. It is also hard to code sanely on a large project without a higher-level language.

Not every line of a program must be ultra-fast, and maintainability is still huge. If you are not offloading the less-critical parts of your project to languages that are easier to program in than C++, you are doing it wrong.
Given that UHT has a huge advantage in areas without access to electricity or refrigeration, I wonder if it took a foothold in Europe as it was being rebuilt after the wars in the twentieth century?
Whenver IEEE 754 and its quirks are discussed a potential alternative (but so far without hardware support) called Unum - Universal Numbers - should not go unmentioned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)

Previous discussions (>2y old):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9943589 and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10245737

A slideset:
https://www.slideshare.net/insideHPC/unum-computing-an-energ...
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I read the linked religious texts and the story doesn't seem compelling enough for me to stop drinking the Leffe at my elbow. The fictional story has to to good enough to resonate as a truth. Aesop had the right idea.
For the US, I agree as well. Maybe about 2 weeks on the outside for regular pasteurized milk and it will generally start to taste somewhat off within a week. A month? No way.

ADDED: Sounds as if there's something called micro-filtered milk that I've never heard of in the US. It's certainly not a standard item.
Well, same arguments as with guns, really. Smartly, UK police has figured out that a policeman can't shoot anyone by mistake if they don't have a gun - so UK policemen don't carry them at all. If you reduce a number of people carrying long knives, you reduce the number of people stabbed with long knives. Obviously, just like with guns - people who want to have a knife and use it to commit crime, are still going to.
That's what they should be: command line interfaces for people who don't use computers.
It's interesting that you described the concept of milkmen as specifically relevant to the U.K. In the United States, milkmen are well-established in pop culture, particularly as a quaint symbol of pre-WW2 domestic life. I would have assumed that milkmen were standard in most every developed country before refrigeration became widespread. I also would have assumed it's still common in developing countries.
Without an alternative mechanism of toxicity, it's an untestable alternative hypothesis.
How would you get to having the right SSH settings for timeout and keep alive?

What I've done when using a slow connection is run emacs with w3m on a remote server and get the rendered text through SSH. I'm realizing more and more that a lot of our interfaces are more visual so I might try your method.
This is great. It is really nice to see someone take the time and effort to create large usable dataset. Only the break through research and next big thing in neural nets seems to get all the attention. But an average Joe as no easy way of getting access to data sets.

I also like that they even leveraged stuff like "x for y hours" style videos on youtube. (Eg: Dog barking to 10 hours).

I remember Andrew Ng mention something about being able synthesize even more trainable data by using combination of data as noise. (Eg: Women talking + dog barking (as introduced noise)).

Good job google, keep it up. I wonder when I will see other major players publish large data sets? Maybe Microsoft is next?
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What you stated IS the circle jerk. I can't come to a single thread mentioning node without 1/4 of the comments being your complaints.
Monthly. My ex's psychiatrist visits generally were $160 each visit without the insurance some years back, and a regular doctor visit was around $80. I'm thinking most insurances now have you pay for the full amount of the doctor's visit until you reach your deductible, though admittedly it has been a few years since I've lived in the states. I worked in a pharmacy, though, and realize that morphine and other opiods have controls requiring a physical prescription, no refils, and limits on how many days you can have on each prescription. Regular trips are actually necessary. The limits used to be around 30 days, and i'm not sure they made allowances for 90 day prescriptions with these.

Plus you have to be able to do things like get off work to go to the hospital and have transportation - and he had prior drug convictions, which makes it much harder to even get a doctor to prescribe the drugs.

If these things are "no major undertaking" to you, you've lived a consistently more privelidged life than I have. I might not personally gone his route, but I'd often not be able to get the drugs for myself anyway. Heck, I lived for years without hot water or proper heat because I couldn't afford the gas.

On another note: I'm not familiar with the prices of drugs enough to know if they are actually cheaper than the doctor's office + transport + prescription. Especially with meth, something I've never thought about trying. I am guessing there are more folks in this situation using pot.
Counteranecdotally, I spent most of my young years in Germany drinking uht, and coming to America for university I found regular milk "sour" in comparison
I live within an hour of the Utah border and there is great outdoor opportunity. Unfortunately, it's easier to have four wives than smoke a plant.
Either by pushing the settings from the ssh client (http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?topic=ssh_config) or by changing the settings on the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file of the machine that is both hosting the VNC server and hosting the ssh daemon.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ssh+timeout+keepalive+sshd_c...
The point is that civilisation is nothing else than working together as a society. The retirement system is not philantrophy, it's retributions for those who spent a good part of their life as a cog in the machine. And it's not like the retired receive their pensions ex nihilo, they pay in advance through the social security cuts (1). We teach our children to become a part of the civilisation and take care of them until they actually do so. And we should equally take care of the elderly because they've already took their part in the civilised society, and now they have the right to enjoy their last hours in peace. But we always like receiving, and giving always torments us. That's no civilisation, though, but just a bad likeness thereof.

(1) That's, at least, how it functions here in Turkey: every month, a certain amount of your wage goes to your retirement fund, and when you retire, you receive your pension, an amount that depends on your past contributions to your fund and on the height of your position.
Interesting... I grew up in South of India and about 30 yrs ago, I used to drink fresh raw milk as soon as my Granddad finished milking the cows.. Back then, not sure if anybody even knew about pasteurization outside of big cities in India.

Things have changed a lot now though.. Everytime I visit India or my village I see Cows being injected with a concoction of drugs and hormones .. :(
> See IEEE754

Only in the original 1985 version, however: IEEE 754-2008 actually specifies decimal floating point types; decimal arithmetic was already specified in IEEE 854-1987. Of course, the default representation is almost always one of the binary formats, but that is no longer the only option.
Are you comparing untreated vs pasteurized milk, or pasteurized vs. UHT? The article is mainly about the latter.
It's not a case of exclusive or. Gather a list of a 100 or so human stock pickers. Train a model to predict the effect of following their suggestions (buy, hold, sell) to both identify which experts are most right, and which particular experts do well for particular kinds of stocks. This model will do better than random guessing, and quite likely, better than any individual stock picker.
2011 was six years ago.
This unfortunately breaks with something like [+1, +1] / [-1, +1] which yields (-∞, -1] and [+1, +∞), the result falls into two separate intervals. Now you can either turn this into (-∞, +∞) or use sets of intervals instead of single intervals. The first option gives pretty useless results, the second one can become really slow and consume a lot of memory. You can make this work, but you have to be really careful what you are calculating and how you are doing it.
That would be my theory as well although I'm not sure it totally squares with the huge variations by country. [1] There is some alignment with Northern Europe (less UHT--less lactose-intolerance) vs. Southern Europe but even then there are outliers like Greece.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-temperature_process...
The USA tries to have a worldwide tax jurisdiction, and fails at it

The Large global companies spend millions on ultra complex business structures to avoid US (and EU) taxes.

See GE and Apple as the most publicized examples but they all do it