skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is it about the therapy that is Frankenstein?

The principle of BIG ZAP followed by pronouncement that IT LIVES! We like this kind of drama. It makes it easy to claim credit for the outcome. Subtler approaches get a whole lot more "correlation does not prove causation" type feedback. But it sort of overlooks the fact that the body is the battlefield and if you have a scorched earth policy towards the disease, the remaining shelled out husk may not support life.

Lastly, I would like to agree that if possible, a light touch is always valued over a heavy one if the outcomes are the same.

In my experience, the outcomes are not the same: A lighter touch gets superior results because it does not leave one with a shelled out husk that cannot support life.

Without going on at length, the TLDR of what my mother did for my father was she focused on keeping him hydrated and adequately nourished. He lost a third of his body weight prior to finally being diagnosed with colon cancer. At a time during his treatment that most colon cancer patients are losing weight, he was gaining weight so rapidly that his doctor yelled at my mother to slow it down. My father had a longstanding heart condition and the doctor was concerned that the sudden weight gain would be too much strain for his heart.

I have followed some similar principles in recovering from my incurable health issues. My condition involves significant gut impairment, so much so that CF medical teams routinely include a dietician. Yet, the last time I checked, the state of the art was to encourage CF patients to feast on junk food because CF patients are encouraged to eat a high fat, high salt, high calorie diet. I never counted calories. I did work on getting enough fats and salt, but a higher priority for me was to eat nutritionally dense foods and high quality foods. I did a fair amount of research (or took advice from other people who had done so) and I got very picky about the kind of salt and fats I would eat, as well as the kind of food. This has yielded good results and allowed me to get off a long list of drugs and other treatments. I am gradually getting my life back when the norm for CF patients is steady deterioration until they finally die, often at very young ages.
Even if it was -- not all illegal (or wrong) things are equally wrong.

I'm much more okay with, eg, petty theft than murder, and would find it weird if people tried to make people stealing candybars from Walmart out to be equal to murderers.
Twitter-speak for some federal-level government spokesperson gave some sort of verbal approval.

Musk is trying to drum up momentum for it. It'd be wrong to think he's gotten anything terribly official done, here.
In fact the tolling around Solidity and smart contracts is quite rich. It's possible to write unit tests, execute contracts code on a private chain in a similar way to integration/API tests, and measure the code coverage.

Sadly, it's not a common practice to develop contracts with full use of such tooling. See [0] for an analysis of the recent 2017 ICOs and their use of the tooling in crowdsale contracts. A few gems exist, that do quite thorough testing including a CI approach.

[0] https://medium.com/@bocytko/would-you-trust-your-money-to-a-...
Law enforcement could have easily MITM'd the PGP.
They replace the public key of a vendor with their own public key (on the vendors's page, without the vendor's/buyer's knowledge), then the buyer address gets encrypted with that public key. Then they decrypt and resend the message using the sellers original public key.

I really wonder if this happened at all
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If Bitcoin becomes such a fringe currency that only criminals use it, what value will it have? Even criminals need to trade for legitimate goods.
I'm guessing with it being underground it may make things a little simpler?
OK, but they would be non-physical. And that would mean that a materialist understanding of humans would be incomplete. It might also mean that we cannot ever build a human-equivalent AI.
Analysis of 2M Hijacked Passwords (in Python) – Data Science Central
> unfathomably large grid of bank safes

The size of the grid makes encryption work.
Write in Python, sprinkle some Cython, compile to C. The replacement is via compiler.

I hear good things about MicroPython as well.
You're right, of course, which is probably why he's tweeting about it: once the public is sufficiently hyped about the hyperloop happening, it becomes harder for those governments to say no.
What you said is essentially meaningless though. "I don't like a blockchain-based currency because the record of transactions is permanent." Well...yeah, that's the whole point of blockchains. The strength in Monero's case is that everything is so obfuscated (and amounts + addresses are encrypted) that it's the best option out there. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than its competitors.

e.g. Facebook isn't perfect, but it sure obliterated MySpace.
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Title should be changed. "Verbal government approval" doesn't imply green light.
For the Boring company to really get going and work like Elon Musk is dreaming about, I think the laws for mineral rights (underground property rights) will have to be modified in the US. Sort of like how the ownership of airspace was modified when airplanes became a big thing. Imagine every airline negotiating with all of the property owners they flew over for a coast-to-coast flight. Air travel would just have not developed in the US.

Maybe below ground property rights should not be quite as absolute and people would have to allow tunneling below a depth where disturbance to the near surface is far below the background. They could receive some kind of predetermined fee and/or rent. I hope America is still flexible to implement such a legal change.
Exactly, which is why NIST is soliciting feedback on novel uses (because lots of existing uses of random seeds are intended for use as secrets).
I checked wikipedia:

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

The LISP interpreter is written in C. I was trying to suggest that it may be useful to rewrite that in Rust. That is a necessary step in getting rid of the C dependencies for emacs.
I mostly read HN, the morning paper, go to the bathroom.

Would love to see more answers to this.
Building a 50 Teraflops AMD Vega Deep Learning Box for Under $3K
"I'd guess a not insignificant number of them would be willing to live in Baltimore where housing is cheap if they could get to the city in 20-30 minutes."

And I'd bet the cost of Baltimore housing would no longer be cheap when commuting options are expanded.
As a T-Mobile subscriber, I face none of the problems you mention. I am on the walmart plan and it's been working great for many years now.
To be fair... If you commit a crime, you have to expect there's a risk of being caught and punished. So how is this "really bad", except from the POV of the users who may face repercussions?
Not everyone changes their diet exclusively to lose weight. Some people would rather prevent medical issues, and or increase their well-being. This fixation on the calories in - calories out ignores all of this and is detrimental to people's health.

Further, many people would rather not have to track their calories everyday for the rest of their lives in order to maintain a healthy diet. They'd rather condition their body to prefer healthy foods, and to prefer healthy quantities of healthy foods. To do that you have to look at the source of the calories, not just the amount of calories.
Summary:

"My plea to designers and software engineers: Ignore the fads and go back to the typographic principles of print — keep your type black, and vary weight and font instead of grayness. You’ll be making things better for people who read on smaller, dimmer screens, even if their eyes aren’t aging like mine. It may not be trendy, but it’s time to consider who is being left out by the web’s aesthetic."
In my experience, it's usually LTE but speed capped.
Opposing opinions make for good discussion and having such opinions does not make you a jealous sour grape. Yours is likely the first hostile comment I've seen surrounding cryptocurrency on HN.
I just want my wireless BT speakers to work without a minute-long re-pairing ritual every time I want to use them. Can they squeeze that in there as well?
It won't stay cheap for long in that scenario.

(I moved from Brooklyn to Baltimore, in part because of the >30% difference in housing prices.)
Just want to mention that there are always people who don't read the literature or properly follow a "diet plan" for lack of a better word to call it.

If you are doing the Ketogenic diet, right at the end of Gary Taubes' book entitled "Why we get fat and what to do about it" which is about the diet (and is the same the guy who wrote the linked article) it says this about your daily diet in regards to vegetables:

FOODS THAT MUST BE EATEN EVERY DAY:

Salad Greens: 2 cups a day. Includes arugula, bok choy, cabbage (all varieties), chard, chives, endive, greens (all varieties, including beet, collards, mustard, and turnip), kale, lettuce (all varieties), parsley, spinach, radicchio, radishes, scallions, and watercress. (If it is a leaf, you may eat it.)

Vegetables: 1 cup (measured uncooked) a day. Includes artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, eggplant, green beans (string beans), jicama, leeks, mushrooms, okra, onions, peppers, pumpkin, shallots, snow peas, sprouts (bean and alfalfa), sugar snap peas, summer squash, tomatoes, rhubarb, wax beans, zucchini.

The vegetables that he says you need to stay away from:
"...“starchy” vegetables such as slow-cooked beans (pinto, lima, black beans), carrots, parsnips, corn, peas, potatoes, French fries, potato chips."

So clearly the guy who wouldn't eat lettuce didn't do his research or just heard "to cut all carbs is what you must do".

The book is a great read, very enlightening, and I've successfully done Keto several times and lost a lot of weight and body fat using it, all the while feeling better. I surely do not eat that many vegetables a day, if any, because I hate most allowed vegetables (I just have Caesar salads occasionally), but I still manage to feel good and lose weight. This feels like a lot of vegetables suggested for a "meat only" viewed diet, and it seems like more than I'm sure most people eat daily anyways, which I guess is probably sad, but hey.

One last pitch for reading the book, it's essentially just science of the body and fat and talk about the history of various studies and how they relate to the science you just learned until the very end where in the appendix it basically says, ok here is how you actually do it, if you didn't figure it out by now (at least that's how I remember it).
that sounds like the software design itself was at fault. labview is a programming language. if one writes poor code, then labview can't magically fix that.

since labview is dataflow and has static typing, it shares a lot in common with functional languages. this means you can trace your data and execution in a very deterministic manner. i often write code that just works. there are almost always no bugs in the final software. that's almost impossible in python.

labview also has OOP, which any respectable labview developer uses heavily on any project. for larger projects and systems with concurrent processing needs, it's multithreaded features and actor framework are necessary.

labview makes it easy to code simple projects, and so people don't treat it with respect. labview code is often written by non-software engineers, who will write poor code in ANY language. people seem to forget that. if one treats labview as any other language and with respect from the perspective of a software engineer, then it has a lot of functionality that is very difficult to replicate in other languages. for example, async is all the rage these days, including in python. labview has had that functionality for many years now. and the dataflow paradigm pays off big time.

labview is different and people don't respect it. that's okay, because i do which makes me pretty valuable and quite efficient.

and i do think labview could be improved. it's just i wouldn't put any effort into python, especially for real embedded systems. many, many languages out perform it in many vectors.
I have focused on JVM, CLR and C++ the last 20 years.

Of course I also used many other programming languages throughout my studies and career.

The fun is more what we build, not with what.

For example, the cool thing in a recent project was taking measurements from medical data readers used by health care laboratory robots.

The programming language wasn't relevant for the experience.
Just to be clear, it's still 100% possible to keep your 1Password vault in Dropbox etc and not use the SaaS version [1]. I felt like this fact was buried in the article.

Edit: Here's the link to buy the standalone license [2] which is hard to find on the site now.

In a post from the founder one week ago [3] he said, "We know that not everyone is ready to make the jump yet, and as such, we will continue to support customers who are managing their own standalone vaults. 1Password 6 and even 1Password 7 will continue to support standalone vaults."

[1]: https://support.1password.com/sync-with-dropbox/

[2]: https://agilebits.com/store

[3]: https://blog.agilebits.com/2017/07/13/why-we-love-1password-...
This new language for Ethereum by Vitalik is exactly what you said: https://github.com/ethereum/viper
> To change society you would need politics, and that's another matter entirely.

That's the point - it's not another matter entirely. If society is damaging people's mental health, it's entirely unethical to look the other way and pretend it's each individual's problem. If mental healthcare professionals want to ensure the wellbeing of their patients, they need to be fighting alongside us for widespread societal change, and they need to fight against the myth of poor mental health being an individual anomaly.

But getting to that point requires an understanding that mental health isn't individualistic in the first place, which is not what we're told, and it's not what our doctors are taught. What we have right now is, a lot of the time, treating symptoms and providing coping mechanisms instead of treating the causes. Imagine a doctor did that with a broken leg - refused to touch it, but instead provided you painkillers and explained how to plan routes around the city with lots of seats you can sit in when the pain gets too much.
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Edit: Ok it's actually talking about contrast. With ironic low-contrast quotes.
This is easy to say when you're young.

But as someone currently watching his parents and grandparents suffer from the long-term effects of a lifetime of obesity and poor diet, these things can have long term consequences that don't catch up with you until it's too late.
> It gets dark at 6pm in the winter and 10pm in the summer

I dont think its natural anywhere in the world. What time is sunrise during winter?
Pretty much the obvious answer, because the company died?

All you're doing is making Ha-Joon Chang's point for him!

Having not personally read "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", I assume the argument is that companies should grow, not chase investor returns. Thus they contribute to the society and the eco-system of suppliers and employees they support. Investors don't depend on them, they can just move their capital elsewhere.

One might say that it's called "investing", not "extracting". If you want to move your capital elsewhere, because you think you can get better growth elsewhere, fab! That's capitalism at work and easy to do, sell your shares.

Which reminds me of all the films in the 80s about the company raiders (e.g. Pretty Woman) being bought and broken up, the pieces were worth more than the whole?

Destroying companies for short-term profit. I have no idea whether it's overall a net loss for an economy, but it destroys more than just the one company.
Cython for Data, Scientists, and Data Scientists – SciPy 2017 Tutorial
No - Your coins are safe under the single private key (i.e. wallet) on both chains, as all transactions prior to the fork are safely recorded on the blockchain for both forks (assuming the transaction out to the paper wallet was recorded to the existing single blockchain before the fork).

Your private key can be imported from the paper wallet to a wallet for both branches of the fork, meaning you'll have two wallets with the same amount of coin on each of the two blockchains - these can be sent independently of each other to wherever you like (as each branch of the fork will ignore the transactions of the other - in theory).

The only reason to commit to one of the two would be the perceived value of one over the other, and whether you want 'double' your eggs in one basket (perceived financial value ratio of one to the other notwidthstanding).

Again, the value of both will more than likely take a hit during (and for a while after) the fork, so please don't harbour illusions about doubling your investment overnight!

There will be plenty here on HN who know more about this however, so any corrections to the above are welcome.
Is there any research backing this up?
Yeah, the breakdown is something close to that.
I meant to say "Don't build a solution to a trivial problem".

The probability of someone releasing something that makes your work obsolete is greatly reduced if you work on something nobody else does. That's one of the ideas in Peter Thiel's Zero to One.
O'Reilly just published an updated edition of their bestseller on Bitcoin technology, "Mastering Bitcoin," earlier this month.[1]

For a more general/conceptual understanding of blockchain technology and its applications, including non-cryptocurrency applications, "Blockchain Revolution" is a good read.[2]

[1] Mastering Bitcoin
http://amzn.to/2uewdK9

[2] Blockchain Revolution
http://amzn.to/2vniXSf
This little USB stick is designed to make AI plug-and-play – The Verge
>Doesn't anybody work in those small shops?

It's not a break if they make up that time later. Sounds more like working a shift, and then starting a second shift later.
U.S. Nuclear Lab Mistakenly Ships Radioactive Material on Commercial Plane
> lettuce is a carb

The typical advice I've seen is to limit 'net carbs' which is the difference between the total carbohydrates and 'dietary fiber'.

Also, a serving of lettuce contains a very small amount of carbs, e.g. 1.2 g per cup for butterhead lettuce. Low carb diets seem to usually consist of less than 50 g of 'net carbs' per day so eating even lots of lettuce seems entirely compatible with them.

Overall tho, nutrition just seems like an inherently 'causally dense' subject, i.e. there are lots of seemingly plausible explanations for any phenomenon. Maybe there is no one simple explanation for everyone everywhere, in general.
Exactly, SQL minimization is a real problem. While there is no canonical form of all SQL in general, it is still possible to reduce Query.

There is some existing work. You might want to look at this one:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c243/25d76c3ba91388e16085c1...

One problem is that bag semantic chase is very complicated to implement. We are actually working on a new chase algorithm on our SQL formalization right now.
No, he means each "bank safe" is a "user profile". I.e. controlling the site didn't automatically come with the users' history on the site.
All I really needed to know this article was shit was this sentence:

"She was immobile and constantly squirmed and shook her head."

Uhhh... That's a pretty fast and loose use of "immobile".
MongooseIM connects millions of real-time video calls
Can't tell if this piece is genuine or not; ads taking up most of the space on the screen to the left and right; ads every 5 paragraphs; a video ad; constant moving of the article text as ads load.. ads popping in and out as I scroll... at least it's a great showcase of an unreadable article.
> The Peak never truly competed with Fitbit devices, and it certainly didn't stand up to the Apple Watch when that device debuted in 2015.

I actually really liked my Peak, whose battery lasted nearly a week, and which had a reliable heart rate monitor. After the recall, I tried an Apple Watch (v1) and various other smartwatches. The Apple Watch was, for my purposes, inferior to the Peak in several ways: the battery life was very short, it had no HR monitor, and it was very expensive. In my experience, the Peak even pushed notifications from my iPhone more reliably than the Apple Watch.

To be sure, the Peak wasn't beautiful, but as a V1 it seemed like a product with legs.

disclosure: I received my Peak for free from Intel at their ICAP conference.
Agreed, it's definitely the way to go. Hope the project will continue to evolve. Both Aragon [0] and Storj [1] are making active use of them, if you look for example usage.

[0] https://github.com/aragon/aragon-network-token

[1] https://github.com/Storj/storj-contracts
How long ago after the police had taken control of it did this message appear?
Everybody has the right to expect a fair and reasonable treatment and punishment. If that can't be guaranteed it might be imperative to not share the identity, because sharing it would imply another injustice without righting any other.
> ...Firefox Desktop is probably headed for extinction over the next couple years,...

Yikes! I hope that was an exaggeration! I'm a long-time Firefox user on desktop and mobile, and I certainly don't want to see it die on the desktop.

I prefer FF both because of the motivations behind the browser, and because on Android it supports extensions, making it much more useful to me.

I do wish they'd release an iOS version that had the ad blocking of Firefox Focus, and the tabs and Sync and such from regular Firefox.
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In my free time, I try and automate things. This ensures smooth and fast solutions during crunch time.
For me, the single biggest boost I found to help cut my carb cravings was cutting out diet soda and other artificial sweeteners.
I love having T-Mobile. I know their music unlimited streaming stuff breaks net neutrality, but god damn is it super useful to listen to music without having it eat into my data.

But yeah, sometimes I contemplate swapping back to AT&T or Verizon simply because if I'm not in a big city, T-Mobile becomes super unreliable. This has improved with time over the last 6 years that I've been with them (I mean they used to be flaky even IN LA, and that has really changed), but I get reminded often when I go on road trips or hikes.
You'll never be able to get from Baltimore to NYC in 20 minutes. You'll be able to get from the Hyperloop station in Baltimore to the Hyperloop station in NYC in 20 minutes. To get to/from the station from/to your place of residence/work will take most people another half hour on each side. So… more like an hour and 20 minutes. Yes, it makes living in Baltimore and working in NYC reasonable, but not easy as "20 minutes" implies.

Not to mention the difference in housing cost would have to support the cost of travel. Who knows what a single Hyperloop ticket will cost but a 3-digit figure wouldn't surprise me, especially during rush hour. You could be looking at $3-$4k/month for a daily commute (which granted, is not too far from the difference in housing costs between parts of NYC and parts of Baltimore).
I guess the idea here is that it will be self-configuring.

So if a central node in the network goes down, the rest of the mesh will reconfigure their connections without human involvement.

And thanks for reminding me of the term, i had a feel something like this was already in Bluetooth from the early days.
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For which I expect some of them to be charged with tax fraude or racketeering here in Holland. A lot of financial crimes, especially regarding taxes, are punished heavier than other crimes.