skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The article mentions a probiotic pill. I think that the microbiome is the place to look for answers, but not with pills, just with better fuel.

No, its the microbiome first.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-becomes-...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-gut-bacteria-...
This makes perfect sense, I guess they are swamps because that's the combination of rivers and flat ground
> China...government restrictions on expatriating capital, crypto becomes a valuable alternative denomination

Money is expatriated via Bitcoin from the PRC to, say, Vancouver. The point is that with a currency, people would be comfortable leaving it as Canadian dollars or US dollars. This is not what happens though, the Bitcoin is converted to Canadian dollars, and is then perhaps converted into other things, such as real estate.

It is more like a concert ticket or gallon of milk in this case - something which might be valuable for a time, but then loses its value. The Papiermark in the early 20s could be used to move money around as well.
There is no evidence for either of those claims.
You seem to misunderstand what we expect from a system like this.

We expect that the ratio of failure compared to the burden on society to be low and so far the real estate registry, notaries, banks, lawyers very occasionally corrected by courts of law are providing this. Even if in a few contrived, complex cases it doesn't work out, that's fine.

Here's an example: I am a resident of Vancouver, Canada and last year I was buying a house in Hungary and I needed to empower my brother to act as my agent, and, repeat, I was the buyer not the seller and yet to give a power of attorney that is recognized for real estate contract purposes I needed a "strong" one: either one with an apostille which you can't get in Canada or one sealed by a consul of Hungary. The honorary consul in Vancouver was on vacation. So my options were: visit the honorary consul in Seattle, visit a notary in Washington State and send the document to the Corporations Division in Olympia, WA for an apostille and hope it gets done in time or fly to the embassy in Ottawa or the high consulate in Los Angeles. Lovely options, all of them. Thanks god, I actually had business in Bellevue anyways and the honorary consul in Seattle was helpful.

This is the sort of documentary strength we demand and accept when exchanging goods of high value. I have a strong trust in seals, signatures and such when backed by the court and ultimately the monopoly on violence by the state -- I have this trust even in Hungary where systematic corruption is in place. If someone debates whether I own that house in Hungary, I have the contract bearing the seal of a lawyer to show I bought it and the title in the real estate registry shows that the previous owner was indeed the seller. That's the chain of ownership. Could you bribe the real estate registry? Sure, I did in 2008 to expedite the copying of an important piece of paper (that's Hungary for you, no express processing available) -- but I have serious doubts of the possibilities of bribing the registry to falsify the title as there is the chain to show it false.

Meanwhile I have zero trust whatsoever in a piece of software. I am a senior software developer / architect / whatever you want to name, and I know how this particular sausage is made and I would not trust it too far.

We could create systems that fail in even fewer cases but as always with engineering as you get closer and closer to 100% precision, costs skyrocket. We could demand that ten good people testify to your ownership like a minyan for The Mourner's Kaddish but society, so far, is satisfied with the current system enough not to do this because it would be terribly onerous.
One for each homie that died of a heart attack for attempting this.
OK, we changed the title from "Show HN: Stretch - A parody of Uber (free limousine rides)".
Plasma volume and salt concentration in sweat varies with where you're acclimatized, which could be a differing factor.
“My professor Gordon Willey at Harvard disliked Raiders of the Lost Ark intensely. The reason being that he was of that generation. He was actually an archeologist in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, and so for him, it was not okay to be caricatured in this way. The film did not show what archaeologists did. They did not go out and find prized artifacts and take them and run away. That is looting, not archaeology.”

Well, I don't know if all archeologists and museum directors subscribed to that view until quite recently. For example Russia is still holding on to the famous "Priam's Treasure" looted from Berlin in 1945 (which in turn was looted from the Tory dig by Schliemann) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priam%27s_Treasure#The_treasur.... Many other more recent examples can be given, for more information you can start with this Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jun/29/museums-loot...
This is actually true and I have no clue why you were downvoted for it.

>The percentage of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes declined from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 16.8 percent in 2014. Cigarette smoking was significantly lower in 2014 (16.8 percent) than in 2013 (17.8 percent)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_tobacco_consum...
but isnt git pretty much the best thing in the world since it was made by the who who remote linux? Why do u need sugar ontop of it?

Oh wait, thats right, cause guys who make operating systems dont make human software.
A month or two, typically.
I don't know how anyone can look at China's transformation over the last 30 years and think capitalism is a problem. When China altered its policies form socialist to free market, it brought a billion people out of abject poverty in less than 20 years.

The data doesn't show that there's a better solution to innate human corruption than capitalism.
I love this, for a number of reasons.

This is a great example of taking a coasting or downward-trending venture and pivoting into something new, without sacrificing your existing cash flow.

It seems like the proof of concept is going well, confirming that the basic model is sound. What comes next is to scale it up.

The farmers are also researching existing innovations in the field (i.e. harvesters), with the goal of extending those innovations to meet the field's unique challenges.

They are also selling initial product, which although is much more expensive than similar products of this type, is serving to bootstrap continued and expanded production, with the goal of reducing price by increasing supply.

(Huh, I think I went off on a tangent and started taking about Tesla.)

I don't understand why people would throw shade onto this. Not only is this entrepreneurial spirit, it's _successful_ entrepreneurial spirit.

I wish them all the best!

EDIT: Spelling
Level 34 also

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Also had a wtf reaction to that number. "Cup of joe" implies black coffee, or at most cream or milk added. The most expensive cup of black coffee I've had is one from a vacuum style system in Japan ($10~). Pour over cups in shops are usually on the expensive side due to labor, and are $4-5.

Espresso based milk drinks at a boutique shop are 3.50-5.00.

Obviously you can order ridiculous Starbucks drinks that add up, but all things considered, a $12 cup of joe is a pretty rare purchase for an American.
gitflow is comparing OOP and FP. If git is C then hub is C++. I don't believe you can compare the two. hub just adds some convenient commands to git for working with GitHub.
No, there is no single universal neutral standard of cognition. Memory tasks are different from mental rotation tasks, which are different from emotion-reading tasks, etc.

But, it turns out that performance at a huge variety of sub-tasks is highly correlated. E.g. reaction time (catch a falling ruler as fast as you can) correlates with ability to solve math problems, which correlates with ability to control impulses.

This is why IQ, as a general measure that covers a wide variety of tasks, is so useful. (Of course, that's not to say IQ covers everything about cognition in some absolute way; it doesn't measure ability to balance on a beam, for example, AFAIK).
I assume he means added sugar
By pure happenstance, my wife and I took a tour of the Eastern Mediterranean and ended up in both Rhodes and then Malta where we learned about the Knights of St. John, the seiges by the Ottomans and the rest.

The fortress of Rhodes, now much restored by the fascist regimes of the early 20th century as a showpiece, is indomitable. The recorded histories say that Suleiman the Magnificent brought nearly a quarter million men to take the island. The defense was 700 knights, 500 archers and about 5,000 lower units.

After six months, as the story goes, the fortress was much battered, but still had not completely fallen. The Knights of St. John had lost the bulk of their men, but were still defending. Suleiman's forces on the other hand had suffered massive casualties -- depending on the source somewhere between 5,000 to several tens of thousands.

One of the local stories says that after the six months of siege, Suleiman communicated with the Knights something along the lines of "I am in awe of the defenders of this fortress. I have lost half my men, and you no doubt have lost half of yours. If you lay down your arms, you and any who wish to leave will be granted safe passage off of Rhodes."

Other histories I've looked into have different, but similar terms along those lines.

The Knights accepted and moved to Malta. The locals of Rhodes thus count the Fortress at Rhodes to have been surrendered but never to have fallen.

We toured that fortress and it's one of the most obviously formidable fortifications I've ever seen. Ever single square meter of it was designed to trap humans and place them into undefendable positions where they could be caught in an easy cross fire and slaughtered. It almost looks like something from science fiction in parts: layers of walls with straight line shots between them, approaches to gates with multiple overlapping fields of fire.

This approach in particular has really stuck with me - http://l450s.alamy.com/450s/cx91gf/knight-fortress-in-rhodes...

Nearly every hole you see there at ground level was designed for cannon with support fire from above by archers and other small arms. A person trying to breach this gate would be consumed by shots from nearly a dozen positions. The alternative approaches along the wall were all clear cut open spaces that could swallow thousands of men and set them up for easy pickings.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/115461818.jpg

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/greece-rhodes-july-fortress-...

Succeed in that, and you get another layer of walls with more places to get killed. And more and more and more. If you look down this corridor, you'll see some stone spheres. Those I was told were representations, and perhaps even some original, canon balls. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Rhodes_o...

Imagine scaling the wall to the right in the picture, making it across that open shooting range, then setting up ladders or something to scale the wall on the left.
What are your recommendations for dealing with noisy roommates/hallmates?

There have been nights where I had to put on my ANC headphones to get some peace and quiet. (I've heard a good pair of earplugs may work?)
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I guess it's once again time for my standard PSA response to this genre: various chronic medical conditions can interfere with sleep. If you consistently have trouble sleeping or sleeping well over an extended period of time, it very well could be something more than "poor sleep habits".
And that's only the living people, we got lots of dead human bodies lying around, too!
> Villiers (the leader of the defenders) had ignored the many warriors who told him the same (that the city was no longer defensible), but listened to the engineer (Tadini).

This made my day. :)
The 5B mark was ~1987 according to wikipedia's population numbers in 1985 and 1990.
It actually does not tell how to sleep, it only discusses common sense strategies like taking melatonine and avoiding (or not) caffeine. Kind of a let down.
The important question is: is it good? I typically spend around $25 / pound on coffee beans, which is a fairly large amount of money. But: the beans I buy are very freshly roasted right near where I live and make excellent coffee (which I make by the cup, pour-over style), and I only drink a cup or two a day.

I'd see my way to paying more if the beans were somehow qualitatively better - I had some $50 / lb coffee once that was totally worth it (I hate to use the word mouthfeel, but this coffee really legit had a velvety rich mouthfeel that I'd never experienced in a cup of coffee before or since, and a great aroma and flavor to go with it), and I've tried other coffees that were high up on the expense level that were totally not worth it. Most probably aren't worth it.

So: how does it compare? Is the ridiculous price just because you're from california? No thanks, I'll take my ethiopian amaro gayo, tyvm.
You're right - with a bit more thought, I would have given a less "terminal" example of sudden unavailability. Will keep that in mind, thanks.
Brood War AIs aren't beating pros yet, but they are putting up a credible fight and can reliably beat decent human players. The one built in to the game are a joke, but that's a result of zero time being spent on it and not because the problem is intractable.
Ammonium Chloride is also used. Indian cooking uses it as an ingredient in chaat masala, and the Nordics use it to flavor licorice to make salmiakki. It's typically called noshader or sal ammoniac if you're looking for it in a market.

It's still a salt, but a salt of ammonia instead of sodium. And very different in flavor.
I'd like to say I spend around that for 8 O'Clock 100% Colombian whole beans in 3 pound bags; which is incidentally the cheapest drinkable coffee on the market (Maxwell House and Folgers, imnsho are nigh undrinkable; for those that grind yourselves, you can get both as whole bean, you just sometimes have to hit up a restaurant supply store to find it).

The only way I'd pay more than, say, $5 a pound (nice round figure, both of us are paying slightly less) is if it was _really fucking good_. I mean, really good. The kind of good that when other people told me how good it is, I'd tell them that I buy the damned coffee, I know how good it is, you don't have to tell me how good it is.

California has dominated the olive oil and wine lists, but it doesn't mean I'm going out and buying $50-100 bottles of wine and $10-20 tiny ass bottles of olive oil. I buy what is good, not what is perfect.
Current Tesla owners seem to be OK with the supercharging system.
Deus Ex (released 18 years ago) was great in this regard. You could try to fight an army (well, a regiment) in open combat and have a chance to survive. You could build a tank out of yourself for that. Or you could stealth your way through without killing anyone, or even being seen by anyone, being physically feeble but fast and good at hacking things. The game did not force you to use any particular approach; it just put you into a situation to tackle.

Regarding shooting. the game had the best difficulty level menu I've ever seen:

* Easy
* Medium
* Hard
* Realistic
>The Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite or Edgerouter X is cheaper and able to handle gigabit network traffic, and can terminate OpenVPN

After a quick look at ubnt forums looks like it'll max out around 15mbps doing openvpn https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX/EdgeRouter-Pro-OpenVPN...

You can do 100Mbit IPsec on the EdgeRouter I guess, but I think last I checked the cipher support was a bit lacking.

The supermicro board with QuickAssist should easily do gigabits of IPsec.
While dkarapetyan used the term factory, which awakes deep rooted emotions in anyone who learned Java at university, the point is not really one of using a pattern or not (even though the pattern may make sense here).

If you have a curve already, it makes sense to get one of its points. Having a method on the curve class that gives you a point would be just as easy, if not easier, than creating the point and passing in a reference to the curve.

The reason you might use a factory is because we have different kinds of points being returned (Point and Ideal) - why not use a factory do return the correct one? The reason of course, which may not be obvious, is that these are points in a projective space and the ideal point doesn't have an (x,y) representation. (x,y) really means [x:y:1] and the ideal point is [0:1:0].

So using a `factory` is not necessary, as you know when you are creating the point what type it will be (either Point or Ideal) - there is no case where you would get the Ideal and not already know that it is the Ideal (at the point of object creation, that is).
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Isn't it false to assume the human body (and the human brain) is a 'closed system'? This is going to sound mighty stupid, but doesn't the fact that we ingest variable amounts of food (i.e. energy) suggest that in surplus situations this energy can be used 'on the spot', rather than converted to long-term storage (i.e. fat)?
But I'm sure, by the scale of successful conquests on the ottoman side; there are several successful engineering innovations at their end as well. What makes Tadini's work note-worthy is the usual 'David vs Goliath' emphasis and also Ottoman Empire did not survive; history is written (mostly re-written) by the victors !
> which takes half a decade to produce.

So what you are saying is that in about 10 years California could match Hawaii output?

That doesn't seem very long to me, not for this business.
>The US auto lobby was the reason the US NOx diesel emission requirements are more stringent than EU in the first place

No, that was a result of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 for the reduction of acid rain. Though it was targeted towards industrial emissions of SO2 & NOx, but stricter regulation for vehicles were an additional effect.

>specifically disadvantaging European diesel cars

That's a weird argument given that diesel passenger vehicles in the US are held to the same standard as gasoline ones, but to a separate standard from their petrol counterparts in the EU. I mean, one could argue the opposite, that an EU emissions policy favorable to diesels amounted to an equivalent 13-16% import tariff. [1]
Several domestic rather than just foreign diesel engine manufacturers were also penalized for using defeat devices in 1998.[2]

> (which are much cleaner overall)

That's quite arguable, trading lower CO2 & CO for increased NOx & PM.

[1]: http://www.eugeniomiravete.com/papers/MMT-Diesel.pdf

[2]: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-10-23/news/981023011...
This is an interesting article if only for the nugget that only 1% think they function well on 4-5 hours (though they may be mistaken).

The title isn't great - it cautions against common fallacies about aids to sleeping.
I'm not waiting for anything. I'm simply recognizing that "encouraging" engineers to be heroes is the lazy way out and is not a real solution to anything. This is a political problem, it can only be met by an appropriately collective effort.

> Let's face it, there are other programming jobs out there.

OK, let's run with that for a moment. Where else would you have expected the VW whistleblowers to get jobs? Not every engineering job is a fungible web dev position. Those skills are useful for that one industry only, and that worker would have to uproot his family and move to get a less-desirable position.

No matter how you shake it, leaving a job is a major life decision for most people not in Silicon Valley, yes, even most engineers. And even in the fungible sectors like finance and the web, word gets around.

I have wondered if a distributed whistleblowing network ala Wikileaks but focused on putting public pressure on the most egregious offenders would be a worthwhile thing to build. Essentially we'd run outreach campaigns for high-impact sectors that use lots of software engineers and encourage them to spill the beans, which would end up into a select group of news reporters / lawyers who are positioned to take action.

I have a feeling that's not quite the right approach, but I think with a bit of refinement we could come up with something better.
The transaction fees will kill you, rather than the spamming of penny stocks.
The candle that burns twice as bright illuminates things twice as strongly and definitely has no downsides whatsoever which is why it's the top seller in the candle industry. Did I remember that right?
$25 is not very much when you compare it to other luxury goods, like wine or whisky or cask-aged beers. I started drinking coffee because it was a relatively inexpensive hobby.
This might be for sampling the book, but my SO and I had fun trying to guess the books. We got quite a few of them!

Pretty neat!
And it very well couldn't. Slapping medical name to everything is not a solution either. Sometimes sleep disorder is as little as the wrong diet.
1. Room temperature should be between 60 - 67 degrees F.

2. No electronics, games, and minimal to no blue light 30min to 1hour before sleep.

3. Do not exercise less than 3 hours before sleep. Exception: sex.

4. Coffee and other stimulants before 12pm, not after.

5. Avoid naps longer than 15 minutes day of.

6. Stretch before going to sleep, particularly if you experience minor restless legs or periodic leg movements.

7. Avoid alcohol, will reduce sleep quality.

8. Avoid stimulating TV, conversations or books before sleep.

9. Controversial: Sleep in late if you can. Adequate sleep is more important than consistent sleep rhythm. My opinion only.
A project I'm working on at work is utilising it for confidential computing between a number of parties that want to share data between themselves, but are direct competitors and don't trust each other.
Unfortunately, I don't know what the metric is. I just have this snippet from the article:

> A year earlier, Coffee Review, a trade publication, had given Good Land’s Caturra coffee a score of 91 out of 100, and depending on the roast, brew and time of harvest, the farm’s coffees have scored from the mid-80s to the low 90s on other quality tests.

Unfortunately the article is a bit light on details like which roasteries are selling product. But I imagine some research would find the info, including current varieties and prices.

As for the high price now, I think it's because of the in-development and scarce nature of the product.

So, keep drinking what you're drinking (and kudos for finding your fave), but keep an ear out for future news!
As with the wine industry, University of California at Davis has established a coffee research program, in part funded by Peet's Coffee. I did a double take the first time I heard of this, but it make sense and now I wonder why it didn't happen sooner, given UC Davis' focus on specialty agriculture:

https://coffeecenter.ucdavis.edu/

http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article100401787.html
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The firmware is ultra-generic but highly configurable. The default device isn't in the firmware itself.

Many different engine types will use the exact same firmware, the manufacture supplies a huge array of configuration values to make the ECU run the engine correctly.

All the firmware knows is that under some manufacture configurable situation, the engine will switch from one manufacture configurable mode of operation to another manufacture configurable mode of operation.

This presentation from 32C3 explains it in much more detail: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7331-the_exhaust_emissions_scand...
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Nothing that is not as easily done with a database. Once you remove the proof of work which enables pseudonymity you are left with a kind of replicated database.
It's strange to think you heard anything in regard to good earplugs.