skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To extend your metaphor a little, we can transcribe a pseudo source-code (nuclear DNA), a preprocessor or macro language that we have learned a little about (epigenetic regulation), and there are still two levels of IR after that. The object code might be the trillions of combinations of amino acids that make up the proteome.
At best the benchmark results will be answered with "the compiler got lucky that time." Someone like that needs to understand the details of the error in their thinking along with multiple benchmark examples proving it.
Glycerol in triglycerides will be converted to glucose, there isn't much, roughly 10% IIRC.
The things you know about when you listen to Neil Cicierega
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzQ-ZFSQic
Yes, it's fast in many aspects, but totally not lightweight. It eats memory like there's no tomorrow, and spams the OS with processes. But to be fair, that's not super relevant for most users.

I've seen technical people switch because of performance, and I occasionally use it for certain tasks too for that reason.

But almost every time I see it on a non-techie computer and ask them something like, "ah, you're using Chrome?", they look at me like I'm speaking a different language. So I suppose they were not aware when they installed it.
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Test Driven Rest
MIT's Ten-Minute Networking Extravaganza [pdf]
I'm curious how Star Trek is a useful iconic yardstick?

I suppose it's sentimentality. If you watch TNG (which is difficult nowadays -- it's so far out of time), the writers made some interesting observations.

We now have the capability to ask the computer for information (Google), the ability to send each other messages (email), and we can verbally ask the computer questions (Siri). Touch interface (iPhone). These are landmark achievements, and they were all predicted by a show which ended in 1994, before the advent of the internet. The technology predictions have generally been on-point, and it seems like a useful metric for how far humanity can progress.
My original source for those numbers is from the book Protein Power https://www.amazon.com/Protein-Power-High-Protein-Carbohydra...
> when the qubit is measured (read queried) it will return a value of 0 or 1 with equal probability

To clarify, qubits don't necessarily have equal probabilities of |0> and |1>. If the probabilities were always equal, we wouldn't be able to use quantum computers for anything besides generating coin flips! The "answer" from a quantum computer is encoded as output probabilities of the qubits, which are found by running the calculations a bunch of times and counting the frequency of each |0> and |1> state.
This comment swings way too far in the other direction-- of course there is more to being an entrepreneur than privilege. That might help give you a chance at success, but it doesn't come remotely close to making that success a reality!
I go so far as to wear the spongy orange ear plugs when I vacuum and do any thing with power tools at home. I already have (what I think of as) pretty bad tinnitus, so I am trying to mitigate future deterioration.

It is surprisingly difficult to convince people this is a good idea though. I played in a band for a good 5 years, and while we practiced in a 15' x 15' room, with our amps cranked to 11, I could not cajole anyone else in to wearing ear plugs. It irked me that I could not get my friends to wear earplugs, even when it was just the 4 of us, because it was "uncool". And these are smart guys in their mid-thirties.
Actually, there are only limited public policy exceptions to contract enforcement. In theory, almost any court should enforce whatever the parties agreed to. When they encounter "bugs" (usually ambiguity), the court might need to choose a side. Sounds a lot like choosing a fork, right?
> Literally nobody here takes 3 hour lunch breaks. [...] Small shops do close for 3 hours in the middle of the day

Doesn't anybody work in those small shops?

> There's a mid-morning and late-afternoon snack

The mid-morning snack is not generalised and the late-afternoon snack is mostly for kids (after-school "merienda").
Why not have an electromagnet at each face and ball-bearing in a 3 way race. You weight the device by turning on the opposite number's coil. You don't guarantee a particular roll but the statistical weighting should be pretty strong.

I wonder if you tuned the e-m coil for a particular frequency if you could make the device passive and weight it using an external frequency change?

Or use computer vision, a passive dice with a metal insert and a magnetic table; switch on the magnet when the dice hits the table right (this version would be highly obvious but perhaps could be made less so).
Exactly. I recognise all those achievements, yet we still have to learn so much more.
This! Hearing loss could mean those nerves started dying out before other (cognitive) brain regions. Usually the sense of smell dulls first (peanut-butter test).
I guess the payment wouldn't go so smooth if the bitcoins are sitting in 8-year-old files. You'd have to add to your description the steps necessary to install that wallet app and import the private keys. Whatever happens when you "point your phone at your computer" (OCR?, QR code?) might also not be fully reliable, so add the hassle of troubleshooting that. I can see how someone might not bother with it, if they have no real need to.

Personally, I'm relatively sure I will never use bitcoin, because I pay my groceries with cash and my rent per wire transfer, and other than that I buy stuff off the internet maybe twice a year, so entering my credit card details isn't quite that annoying. I realize my spending habits are somewhat unusual, though.
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I think this is what happened and it makes sense if you think about it. If they steal enough to get rich but not enough to force a rollback, then they can keep their ill gotten gains.

30 million is enough for a small group of hackers to live comfortably for the rest of their lives.
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Exactly. Judging their performance won't help. Offering to help them will.

Also, it sounds like you're worried about conflict of interest since this person doesn't report to you. Would it make sense to approach their manager with something like: "I've noticed EmployeeX doing X at work. Have you noticed that too?" That helps see if you're in alignment with the employee's manager. Maybe the other manager has reasons for encouraging or tolerating that behavior. That's important for you to know before you offer to change it.

If you are in alignment then something like "It reminds me of a situation I was in earlier in my career. Do you mind if I ask EmployeeX if they'd be open to some coaching around the issue?" That way you get everyone on board.

Transparency and honesty will usually help diminish people's fear of "interference". And if the manager or employee aren't willing to accept your help or see things as you do, then it's better to accept that and focus on your role and responsibilities.
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I guess "civil war" sounds a lot more interesting than a hard fork, an unlikely split and people trying to capitalize on the drama.
This is cool but will other people try it or will it be another forgotten technique?
I should clarify. By weaning I mean taking weeks or a few months of lowering your carb intake and adjusting to the lifestyle.

I don't recommend going from full carbs to keto. Start out lazy low carb (that looks like carbs I should t eat it) and work your way into fully tracking macros etc.

Easy is relative but I think done correctly it's easier then folks think. It's a pretty lovable lifestyle once you figure it out.
Here is some related info about reversing dementia.

Short overview:

http://www.today.com/health/new-brain-program-may-fight-alzh...

Article/Study:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221920

The interventions (from the article/study):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221920/table/T1...

Video presentation by the doctor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqQ_X3mD16U
You think that preventing a STD, or a tick bite wouldn't count as a lifestyle change?, really?.
It may have more to teach: it was clearly a Post-scarcity society with some form of UBI,etc.

Simultaneously it postulated that the humans of the future would not be cyborgs, which appears unlikely. Furthermore, few tasks were automated in a manner we might see in our lifetime, let alone the time of the show.
Sure. But if you live even a little bit active lifestyle, you are going to have issues with this, as converting fat to energy is a much harder process.

You can try to counter the point by pointing out that there are ultra-marathoners who are keto. But my two counters against this are:

1) They generally still use some form of carbs during the race, i.e. sugar packets.

2) There is no world class sprinter / 5k / 10k / sprint biker / football player / soccer play that is keto.

So fine, you can make the argument that no carb is a better diet for an office potato with no exercise. But I would argue that bumping your carb intake up 25-40% and doing some exercise is going to lead to a much more healthy body and mind (many studies around on the benefits of exercise).

TLDR: The problem with office potatoes is being an office potato. You are better fixing it via exercise, vs trying to eat a weird diet that lets you stay skinny while an office potato.
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So the developers of Zerynth say Zerynth is great. Nice try...
I say, Wrong Tool for the Job. Use C.
Why not just talk here where there are a lot of people share the same interests than redirect them to your website?
Open 'till 9pm? Where? Every time I'm in Spain (mostly in Galiza) it seems like the stores still close at 7-8pm, despite only opening at around 4:30pm.
Lots of replies to this story Encourage moderate eating. I have always had a tortured relationship with food and an utter inability to be moderate with it.

I've eaten a very low carb diet for ~3 years, lost over 100 pounds and have kept it off. I don't have cravings, and sticking with my odd diet is preferable to the alternatives (getting fatter by the day and then bulimia) for me.

"Moderation" doesn't work for me because I can't do it. So far in my 42 years, I've never been able to be moderate. This works.

My bloodwork is fine, btw. I have it checked regularly.

It's an immoderate diet for an immoderate guy. For some people, a healthy relationship with food and eating is just a fantasy.
> The blockchain offers characteristics (immutability, consensus, distributed backup) that allows entities to trust each other efficiently.

Nope. All of these can be achieved without using proof-of-work which is terribly inefficient.

The parties would have to trust each other... but well, they have to in Ethereum too :)
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You may have noticed in the last year that the types of articles making it to the front page are very different than in the past. I think it could be helpful to provide a mechanism to pull things off the front page in addition to flagging. Thoughts?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_obesity#/media...

Italian people are among the least overweight people in the OECD countries, and have a heavily carb based diet.
(I think the same applies to Japanese and Korean, but I think there could be a prevalent genetic factor there.)

That's not to say that fat makes you obese, just that carbs, per se, don't. Eating too much does.
> In Star Trek, they can heal wounds by shining a light on them

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

> They can erase and alter people's memory

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14572521, plus lots of pharmacological stuff in spook-land which is well-attested but rarely peer-reviewed.

> They can scan for problems using a handheld device.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/26/health/ai-system-detects-s...

> We are nowhere near any of that.

In the case of your specific examples, we are. It's early days and unevenly distributed, but actually we are getting there.
Reading HN, checking RSS feeds and talking in freenode #startups.
I am sorry but this is totally backwards. As a Valencian Spaniard I want to set the record straight.

First, siesta is not dead. However, it is considered mostly a holiday luxury or reserved for small shops. It is normal in the extremely hot summer, after lunch we stop for 1h or so. While I do not do siesta, I would say about half+ of the people I know do it (holiday times). I would also say it is highly coupled with the summer heat wave though, in winter not so many people do it.

Then, late lunch. First off, Spain is actually in the "wrong" time zone. We are at the same longitude as UK but it's 1 hour later here. What this means in practical terms is that when it's 2pm here, it is in 1pm relative to the light-time/circadian clock.

However that still does not totally explain the really late lunches. The main reason for that is that we have "almuerzo" at around ~11am (note: the word "almuerzo" in some zones in Spain is "lunch", and in some others it's a mid-morning snack, or second breakfast as I like to call it. I mean here the mid-morning snack). It depends on the job, on the person and on many things, but it's not uncommon that it consists of a mid-sized sandwich of Spanish bread. This [random] image is a quite accurate picture of the places where almuerzo is had and on the type of almuerzo we eat: http://cdn.traveler.es/uploads/images/thumbs/es/trav/2/s/201...

So as you can see, we have a different, important course around 10:30-11:30 that makes us not remain hungry until lunch. Some people prefer lighter snacks of course. Also, breakfast is normally light as we don't have to worry about hunger since we have our almuerzo later on. Normally you'd combine breakfast and almuerzo; if you have too much breakfast then you have a light almuerzo or nothing at all, and the same otherwise.
This is to GP's point: you're not perceived as trying to help, you're perceived as being a pompous ass. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished.

This is why I just leave places that have this type of shit going on, you can't help and people will not listen. You can actively harm your career/reputation if you try. Just go somewhere better.
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Would this diet be suitable for a person who does a significant amount of endurance exercise? (E.g. ~1 hour of running per day)
Not on a desktop PC!
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How do you distinguish the effects of "Physical Inactivity" from "Obesity", "High Blood Pressure", "Diabetes"? It seems like it would be difficult to untangle the effects these conditions/lifestyles have on one another.
I used to be like OP. Trying to save as much money as possible hosting with OVH or Linode and provisioning my own servers.

Then my projects would die because I spent far more time doing this than writing application business logic. The classic "solving scaling problems with zero customers".

Heroku is expensive when you have scaling issues, but until then, it's $7 a month with the free Postgres and Redis options...
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are extremely interesting, for sure.

Technologically, they're interesting because they're a clever solution to difficult problems, and there's a lot to learn from how they work.

Sociologically, they're interesting because they seem to attract a lot of "move fast and break things" people to an area where that attitude works poorly, and the result is an ongoing stream of scams, heists, and other failures. There's a lot to learn here in terms of what not to do.

The technological side seems to be fairly well understood at this point, but the sociological side constantly comes up with new ways to be ridiculous, so naturally the discussion now focuses on this.
1. If they're VC funded they can afford to lose money on the product for along time. Not great. However, they're charging the same as you, so you're not competing with free at least.

2. Do you need to have every single user in the market? If not, does it matter that there are competitors? Can't you both co-exist?

3. Features often matter a lot less than marketing. If you haven't done any marketing and are relying on features, then yes, you have a problem.
This is great!! I'm a big fan of Manning books and have learnt a lot from reading it.

Thanks!
Understood.

But "Biased garbage" I think was part of the original statement.

If this doesn't speak to bias of a publication I'm not sure what will. Besides I'm not sure all of the general public understands the difference.
If this person doesn't report to you, you're best off not doing anything without their manager on-board. Otheriwse, leave it alone.

I'd frame it in one of two ways...

If the manager doesn't know this person is under performing, why? This is a process failure that needs to be rectified, work with everyone who needs to be included on coming up with process changes that will prevent this in the future. Code reviews, retrospectives, 1:1, team reviews, whatever methods seem like a good start.

Addressing the underperformer, what would you suggest for bringing them up to par? What is it, actually that's not up to par? Are they slow? Sloppy? What can help with it? Working more closely with them? Pair programming more frequently? Daily/Weekly/Per Ticket code reviews? Pull requests? Break it down in to actionable bullet points.

If they're too slow because they over engineer, suggesting more time pair programming would be a great idea. If they're struggling with a given technology, maybe an investment in a course could get them to speed? Maybe they get a little analysis paralysis with tasks that are to open ended and undefined. Suggest pairing them with a more senior resource to tighten the mental boundaries and keep them moving along.

I always make it a point when coming to others with a problem to have some suggestions towards rectifying. Now you're not complaining, you're trying to help. Don't expect your plan to be THE plan, it's meant as the conversation starter, and now everyone involved has a stake in a successful outcome.

If their manager isn't responsive, or you can't put a finger on what's off about this person's work, you don't have much you can do.
It doesn't sound like your problem, and maybe the person they report to thinks the employee is doing a good job.

You're not their boss. Don't review their performance.

However, you shouldn't be afraid to provide constructive criticism to any of the people you work with. So if you see them implementing a solution incorrectly, suggest a different approach, and say why.
Option C: cross-region replication, regular backups and multiple service provider failover plan in a secure, decentralized storage network.

Don't have to be choosing either "Businesses To Big To Fail(tm)" or "Average Joe" when you can have "Many businesses"
Zerynth has a dedicated power management library, here the doc https://docs.zerynth.com/latest/official/core.zerynth.stdlib...
Yes, but they don't take 3 hours to have lunch. Also closed to the public doesn't mean not working (back-office!).
You have a root component. Run the interval within that component where you have access to state.
I noticed that you still do have craving for old foods, because you remember how good you felt when ate them. However if you slip and try pizza it does disappoint you - it doesn't taste as good as you remember it.
Is this your company? If not, why would you care about the work of other employees? You should only care if their lack of work hurt your own.
Yes, this is the hardest part of any lifestyle change in my experience. Environment, past-conditioning inertia, and social environment.
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I am developing this website and we are I am currently planning the next steps for this product. So we could use this website and start to attract the first clients, for a example a refugee and someone who want to hire him/her and therefore generate some feedback from them or develop a better website before we start with the clients. What is your opinion?

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The usual way is to kill them with heat when the fish is cooked
> Saltwater can be a bit colder before ice, so wouldn't it be better?

I imagine it could actually be worse, as liquid saltwater below 0 would damage tissues very fast by freezing them. While fresh water is guaranteed to be above zero and therefore cannot damage tissues through freezing.
There was actually a story on NPR recently that mentioned such a brain operation where the patient needed brain surgery to alleviate some type of recurring seizure. And he was also a music lover, and so there was an inherent risk the surgeons said that he might lose those abilities.

So rather than take that risk blindly, they had him play a guitar while they were doing surgery on his brain! And if at any point, while they were operating, if his playing ability was affected they would stop operating in that region of the brain.

The kicker was that the side effect of the surgery ( his second ), was that they inadvertently affected a part of the brain that is responsible for 'self-control, judgement' and he ended up becoming a child porn addict, which got him arrested and convicted.

There's about 5 different unbelievable parts to this story, worth a listen if you can find it.

The Human Brain.. continually amazed at how much we still don't know about this part of our anatomy.
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I briefly worked at a company which started at 6am(which meant getting up around 5am). We had "lunch" at 9:30 for 15 minutes, and would finish work at 2pm. I'd be home by 3pm, have dinner at 4pm and be in bed by ~8pm. Weirdly enough, most employees liked that schedule because it meant they were finishing work roughly the same time their kids were finishing school.
Google Reader was made open source, to be fair, and has plenty of replacements too.
I filtered by "Mobile" for both the "IEEE Spectrum" (which I guess means overall) and the "Trending" and Kotlin was nowhere to be found.

So I have to question the list in it's entirety. I know I"m a Kotlin fanboy and that it's not a "gigantic" language, but still, you'd think it would at least show up as trending for mobile in a 2017 list.