skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Diabetes and inflammation is actually easily googled, but here is a respectable source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1087185/

PDF: The underappreciated role of muscle in health and disease

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/84/3/475.full.pdf

There is a long and wordy section about muscle and insulin resistance, some choice outtakes:

However, over the past few years it has become evident that changes in the metabolic function of muscle itself plays a more direct role in the genesis of insulin resistance than previously appreciated. (This is rebutting the idea that higher fat levels explain insulin resistance.)

as little as a single bout of exercise [thereby stimulating triacylglycerol deposition in muscle intramuscular triacylglycerol (IMTG) oxidation] can transiently reverse insulin resistance (44).

The section concludes with:

Regardless of the specific intracellular mechanisms
at the molecular level, it is clear that insulin resistance is not simply the result of increased fat mass and release of FFAs into plasma at an accelerated rate, with the muscle responding to elevated plasma FAA concentrations. Rather, alterations in the metabolic function of muscle are central to the development of insulin resistance and ultimately diabetes.

I am not finding an exact point at which it explicitly says "Muscle loss causes insulin resistance" but that was my personal takeaway from reading this some time back. (On the other hand, maybe it does explicitly say that and I am just rushed for time and have crap eyesight, so maybe I am just not finding it. Whatever.)
Why would parties that trust each other, and don't let anyone untrusted in, have a need for trustless consensus?
If you really want to decentralize, take down all the "DON'T WALK" signals, and let pedestrians use a smartphone app to tell them when to cross the road.

"It's like Uber, but for crossing the road!"

Hans Monderman would have loved it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Monderman
How is it that Southwest Airlines -- which is also a publicly-traded company -- continues to offer low fares, while remaining laser-focused on customer service in this environment? It's unfortunate that the reporter doesn't take any time to explore this long-standing exception.

It's easy to blame the public market system, but when exceptions like this are readily found, it's worth investigating whether there are other factors in play than the income statements alone.
Also: A terminal-based text editor written on top of node using parts of Atom.

Well, I'll give it a try if I have some time. I'm very curious what those "amazing features that make you drop Emacs" might be ;-)

Edit: Actually, does anyone know what the problem with a single core might be? If it's written in Javascript, it can't be that strongly relying on concurrency, can it? Or is it just the fact that it has to share "its" CPU core with the rest of the system?

Edit2: TIL: There's a library providing react-bindings for terminal interfaces[1]. I have to admit, I would've never expected that.

[1]: https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed
"He is right in some way, but he also misses that german workers had to take a lot of cuts in pay, benefits and working conditions. "

This didn't give Germany much of an economic stimulus although it did help to filter the wealth created by their export boom upward.

Hartz was good for profits though, which a lot of economists seem to confuse with being "good for growth".
We agree to disagree.

> Do you think all these people in the west don't see this? See this math on privacy vs efficiency? They do. And they've seen what it does, and it's been bad enough that it's been burnt into them through generations.

I won't be using the people in the "West" as a benchmark to determine what is right or wrong. There are equally dumb, superstitious people in the West as they are in India.
Source: [0][1][2][3][4][5] and many many more...

[0] https://today.yougov.com/news/2016/12/27/belief-conspiracies...
[1] http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_Nati...
[2] http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18710759/kyrie-irving-cle...
[3] https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/militi...
[4] http://www.newsweek.com/what-does-alt-right-movement-want-52...
[5] http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/senate-dems-block-sanctuar...
I've gone a similar route for my VPN needs, though instead of using a script I configured StrongSwan directly. I skipped the whole L2TP thing since the only things I care about routing are IP packets and IPSec does that just fine. I tried OpenVPN for a bit, but the iOS app felt like it was main an ad for Private Internet Access and turned me off of it.

My VPN needs are, roughly:

- Remote access to my home network from my phone/laptop/tablet. This is mainly to check on my security cameras, but being able to access my NAS and everything else is a nice bonus. I can even turn my Philips Hue lights on and off via my VPN connection.

- Remote access to VMs running on a rented machine at Joe's Data Center. Basically the same scenario as above, but with different stuff on the other side of the tunnel.

- Seamless integration of my home network with the remote one. This is where things get fun. Basically, custom routes on my router tell it to send packets destined for the remote subnets to the VPN server, plus some custom dnsmasq configuration routes DNS requests for remote machines to the appropriate server.

Honestly, the only thing that bugs me about my setup is that I can't figure out what the secret sauce is to get Windows 10's native VPN client to connect to my servers. I'm pretty sure that my certificates are missing something that Win10 needs in order to use them, but I haven't figured out what it is yet. Fortunately, this isn't something I need right now, but it would be nice to get it working.
Great question. My take is that we already manage to supply basic needs for 99% of the population, so inflation doesn't seem likely. But also, the idea is that by eliminating the welfare trap more people will work to supplement that income, so we can expect more production and more demand in general -- any inflation for basic goods should tend to increase the pressure to work to supplement the basic income, which would be good.

That said, it almost certainly is the case that ever-increasing student loan guarantees caused the massive tertiary education inflation of the past three decades. Which is why yours is such a good question to ask here.
What puzzles me about all this is why the investigators did not compel the companies to produce the exact mechanisms by which they cheated emissions as part of the settlements. I guess it doesn't really matter, since what you're chiefly interested in is the manufacturer ceasing the behavior and not repeating the offense, so that might be why they didn't.
Great point, it all depends on how the problem is framed.
More common is submitting their code to a regulatory agency, as in the medical and gaming (slot machine) industries. They can also confirm that the code submitted is what is actually running on the device.
OpenAI’s new approach for one-shot imitation learning
Or simply a "simple is better than complex" from PEP-20 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

Also, "Explicit is better than implicit." and "Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.", etc.
This looks pretty great, I'll try it out thanks.
But as it is now the Economy class tickets are a fourth of the price of the business class, and the only thing you get is more of everything. Where is the alternative to pay 25% more for the ticket, yet skip the extra stuff, but just get a nicer smoother experience?
Sorry, court documents and legislature say otherwise.

There's a problem with banks as well, but they are private bodies which are not in the business of exercising power.

Is your bank responsible for your peacekeeping and policing ? It is not.

You misunderstand the stakes here, this is the house on fire and someone is mildly saying "oh that's a terrible idea"

Accusations of lack of rationality are valid when you have the locus standii proven by base knowledge of subject matter. Your various assertions here and in other parts of the thread do not suggest that

But if you cn prove that those words do not augment the argument I'll concede.

So how is this not a matter of rights and trust. Please demonstrate.
Wouldn't it make more sense to make `point` a factory method on instances of curves?
In order for a decentralized and autonomous blockchain to live up to it's name it needs to provide value to those who verify the transactions on it (ie. the miners or those who hold a stake in case of PoS). So the two extreme outcomes are: Truly decentralized and autonomous blockchains will disappear an be replaced by private, regulated versions and the value of most current implementations (ethereum, bitcoin) will go towards zero. Or people really value blockchains which can't be controlled by any government and prices will remain high. Most likely we'll see the emergence of both kinds of blockchains - depending on the use case. So to me this is where the analogy to Linux breaks down. Linux became one of the most important - if not the most important - operating system because it was free, open source and had a non-restrictive licence. Truly autonomous blockchains on the other hand can only prevail if they are exclusive and not free.
As I said Germany was already the world's second largest exporter in 1960. Behind the US, which has 4 times the population.

Germany then became the largest exporter in 86, 87, 88, 90, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

In 2016 Germany is the third largest exporter after China and the US. The account surplus (goods, services and investments) was the largest, next is China.
> See the automated rename example. How do you gain the same safety and ease of resolution without git mediate? This is, unlike you say, an incredibly common scenario.

Is it? I'm not sure if I've ever had a conflict that would be resolved by a global find & replace. Globally renaming symbols isn't really all that common. In my experience conflicts are not "usually due to very wide, mechanical changes", they're due to two people modifying the same file at the same time.

> It is true for not only renames, but also whitespace fixes which are infamous for causing conflicts …

Most projects don't go doing whitespace fixes over and over again. In projects that do any sort of project-wide whitespace fixes, that sort of thing is usually done once, at which point the whitespace rules are enforced on new commits. So yes, global whitespace changes can cause commits, but they're rather rare.

> Instead of having to tediously compare the 3 versions to make sure you haven't missed any change when resolving (a very common error!) you now have to follow a simple guideline: Apply the same change to 2 versions.

> This guideline is simple enough to virtually never fuck it up

You know what's even simpler? "Apply the same change to 1 version". Saying "Fix the conflict, and then do extra busy-work on top of it" is not even remotely "simpler". It's literally twice the amount of work.

The only thing git-mediate appears to do is tell you if a project-wide find&replace was sufficient to resolve your conflict (and that's assuming the project-wide find&replace is even safe to do, as I mentioned in my previous comment). If you're not doing project-wide find&replaces, then git-mediate just makes your job harder.

From reading your "process" it appears that all you really need is a good merge tool, because most of what you describe as advantageous is what you'd get anyway when using any sort of reasonable tool (e.g. jumping between conflicts, showing correct diffs, making it easy to copy lines from one diff into another, making it easy to mark the hunk as resolved).
No Proposal for European Perl Conference 2018 Yet
Serious question: what would you replace the free market with?

Near as I can tell capitalism is not like Marism and friends in this respect: capitalism wasn't some guy's idea that then got forced on the rest of us by governments. No, capitalism appears to be an emergent phenomenon, emerging when people are given a high enough degree of freedom. If that's the case (and I think it clearly is), then what do capitalism's antagonists propose to do with the freedom whence it comes? You might reject the premise, in which case please explain. Or you might reject freedom, which is what capitalism's antagonists generally do when given the chance. What am I missing?
A new "basic economy" class, that doesn't allow you to take carry on baggage and makes you sit in the middle of the row? That's exactly what I want, pissed off people in the middle of every row.

Now introducing "coffin economy" - once you climb into our sleek new fully reclined seatboxes, you'll wish you were dead!

One thing the article doesn't point out is that oil prices have been on a tear lower, which allow the airlines to get more profitable. We'll see how long that lasts. There's a reason why the P/E multiples of the airlines is well below that of the rest of the S&P
I do not exactly get the arguments author present here. What the author sees as a tension is only for a moment -- the accuracy/truth prevails eventually even if a scientist fools himself into believing a wrong theory for
some time (and eventually deriving the correct result). Its like when people assume the opposite when trying to prove some theorem in mathematics (ex: assuming there is an intergral solution to fermats theorem.. so on)
Thanks for this very informative post! However, I think you disparage good old win32 just a tiny wee bit. It was quite well designed for its time - perhaps a little too ahead of its time. Everything was async, to communicate between windows you needed to post events to queues, you could customize the window classes any way you wished - it was perhaps an extraordinarily sophisticated and flexible framework and lots of talented folks made it dance. It had a really good and long 20+ year run. (and still running strong in some desktop software)
Great read!

"...an early genius of military engineering, Gabriele Tadini." But more than 1500 years before him there were others such as Archimedes and Caesar.

I wonder if Tadini was a polymath similar to other great military engineers like Archimedes and Leonoardo who would have been living at the same time as him.
You pay to publish in a journal, you pay to have access to the papers of the journal and you review for the journal for free. Do you see the problem? You review for free but pay to access the content and to publish.

Note: the journal is not related with the people who pay you to do research.
This seems like a really interesting page, unfortunately it's currently hard to consume on a smartphone: no mobile view and not possible to enable Reader Mode even on Firefox for Android :(
Exactly. If you want a better experience, you can have it, but you have to pay for it.

Airline crap bothered me a lot less once I realized this. I still shop almost exclusively on price, but now that I've internalized that tiny seats are ultimately my choice, it's less annoying.

Blaming Wall Street doesn't make sense to me. Companies would still want to make more money regardless of Wall Street. Blame the customers. Airlines are just giving us what we want! Ask the typical airline passenger what they want and they'll probably say they want a double-wide seat with 6ft of legroom and a free filet mignon meal, but when you watch what they buy it's obvious that they much prefer a cheaper seat that they can barely fit into. Turns out I prefer that too.
Okay, so who decided on that? Is it a PM or a developer? What's their reasons and why didn't they document it?

Do I have other "invisible" files around that I can't see?
This is untested to my knowledge, but I feel like the best prevention for suicide is mentorship...that every teen has someone they're attached to.
There is a program called "Stolpersteine"- they have put little bronze-bricks into the streets before houses where Jews and others who where "Transported" lived. There are little bronze bricks in nearly every street of the town i live nearby. Yet many of the old people there claim to never have known. And many claim they have helped the prisoners in some way.

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

The Wehrmacht shot and torched whole villages for partisan activity. And soldiers talk- they have convoys through the hinterland- they knew exactly what the SS was doing in the conquered territories.
They guarded millions of war-prisoners while not giving them food and shelter until they succumbed.

Im not singling out germany. Every country, and all people on the planet are capable of this. WorldWar2 or the holocaust where not something particular unique.
They where just humanity's worst behavior combined with organization skill and industrial capacity's.
Stalins Holdomor, the Archipel Gulag or Maos Killing spree are similar in dimension but lacked the cultural scenes echo chamber for sentimental political reasons.

These messy large scale crimes where not ended by education, a protest generation or self civilization of the species, but by the invention of the nuclear bomb, which limited the war like activities of larger, well organized nations.
Among non nuclear deterred groups or within country's, such breaks of civilization can happen anytime even today.
(See Yugoslawia, Iraq/Syria, The Hutu/Tutsi Genocide)

I also assume some dictators started to turn away from ethnic scape-goating, after in several countrys riled up masses turned against them and China showed that even a crony-corrupt-dictatorship can be economically functional.
Not per transaction it doesn't...
I have no problem with basic economy for a short flight (say around an hour). It's no worse of an experience than dealing with an hour commute on public transit.
UPDATE your VirtualBox to the latest release FIRST!
>P/E multiples of the airlines is well below that of the rest of the S&P

umm that means they're discounted right? you're suggesting contradictory things
If I was an evil VP, I would give my eningeers the incentive to do something without giving them a direct order. So, you might tell them: If you can improve gas millage by X% you get a huge bonus and I don't care how you do it.
> To be creative, you need to recognize those barely formed thoughts [...] And if they seem important enough to be worth pursuing, you construct a creative cocoon around them

This seems really close to the standard creativity advice, to write down ideas before discarding them: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/03/05/how-to-speed-up-... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/22/will-self-rule...
100% correct answer!
From what I have read, investment in family, children and education goes a lot further to reduce crime than harsher prison sentences and the like. I have seen it said that every dollar spent on preschool saves multiple dollars years down the road on prisons.

The two cultures are undoubtedly different in many different metrics. It is incredibly hard to compare two different cultures in a way that yields specific meaningful conclusions for a single metric. Each difference has multiple different implications. Teasing apart the complex web of differences is vastly harder than most comments in internet discussion seem to appreciate.

Best.
You can actually get that (and more) in first or business class. Most people don't want to pay for that level of service though.
Weird conclusion. This kind of activity should just be deemed illegal instead of treating it as an arms race between the manufacturers and regulators. Have 3rd party code auditors look through the code and flag any shenanigans. Instead of treating the code as an unregulated black box.
Define normal traffic. Last time I read on it, the autonomous vehicles couldn't handle rain and some other weather conditions without a human operator. Then abnormal situations can still require a human operator. The AI has to correctly detect its own inadequacy and then hand ig over to human who must react in time starting out distracted by whatever they are doing. Safe, automated handling of these situations might take a broader AI thaf understands context.

Note: I'm all for getting data that shows the narrow AI's have been corrected to handle what I described.
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Isn't that basically what economy+ is on several airlines? You get a tinge more legroom and priority boarding, but no of the other niceties.
That's what Delta calls Economy Comfort, which is economy with a little more leg room and earlier boarding. At 6'7" it's well worth the extra cost for me.
One concern is work forcing you too book the cheapest flights for business travel. In that case, it is in your interest for the lowest fares to be more comfortable.
It's called "premium economy" generally. You get slightly bigger seats, maybe better food options (or it's included as part of your ticket) and sometimes early access to the cabin.
I am also unable to connect to my pi via Cisco ipec from Windows machines. Not sure why, but don't really care that much to dig in. Apple for life :-)
"Monderman found that the traffic efficiency and safety improved when the street and surrounding public space was redesigned to encourage each person to negotiate their movement directly with others."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Monderman
The rave that changed British law
This reminds me very much of the tension between conservatives and liberals, where the liberals are generally higher in openness (-> creativity) and the conservatives higher in conscientiousnes (-> accuracy).

Here's an interview with Jordan Peterson that discusses this: https://youtu.be/01Tln_6Bxk0?t=9m40s

Sorry for pulling in the two-party system, I'm in it for the theory on openness vs. conscientiousness.
It means the market expects lower profits in the future.
One of the most recent Planet Money episodes, #773: Slot Flaws Scofflaws, explores slot machine design, to some extent. It's a fun listen.

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money
Actually, a primary focus of a business owner must be on tax planning, because (assuming a successful business) it is going to be their largest expense by far.

Unfortunately, the way tax laws are applied usually makes it impossible to apply in retrospect - you have to build it into the business structure from before day 1; and often the non-monetary cost is prohibitive -- e.g., you can reduce your tax burden by 70% by moving to a different state / country.

As a successful business owner, tax is going to be one of your largest expenses. Makes sense to a major optimization target.
A+, options are highly leveraged instruments and the regular investor will loose a lot of money if speculating...
Why does the word “emcee” exist?
Haven't read the article, but from personal experience I'd say yes.
Yeah, that was it.
Elon Musk's recommended books
"I tried installing this on the latest VirtualBox release."....
The pilot who landed in Red Square
its actually closer to a multi level marketing scheme, so only slightly less shady. but hey bitcoin works, the others? like gnosis, not so much
If you want to call it a discount, that's fair, but it's not really. People aren't willing to pay 15 or 20x earnings, they want to pay 9 - 12x earnings. You might call this "value" investing, or a "value" trap. This generally suggests that the income stream is less reliable to maintain, and allows for heavier discounting of future earnings.

On the other hand, for a "growth" company, a high P/E might be justifiable, because in a few years they will have higher earnings.
Where is this data?