skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pinpointing critical facts that lead to an outcome can help the planning in the future

I agree. The critical fact in this instance is that the vast majority of Americans were willing to put up with the war in Vietnam as long as it didn't grow. Speculating about an alternative America where this wasn't the case requires us to make up many, many facts, that would significantly reduce the believability about any conclusions we draw.

That's why historians discourage speculation - because it reduces the legitimacy of the field and the value of its conclusions.

> Under that logic we may as well never study history

I would love to understand why you think my statement implies this.

I think it's particularly interesting given that I have a degree in history, with a specialization in US National Security Policy in the 20th century, so I don't think I generally give people the impression that "we may as well never study history," especially the history of the Vietnam War. In general, the reviews I receive are quite to the contrary.
Have you read the book?

That Wikipedia article doesn't really support your contention that vegetable oils are healthy and animal fats are unhealthy. That is, at the very least, a gross simplification. In my opinion, the research is not yet good enough to draw any such definitive conclusion.

Vegetable oils have been a large part of the human diet for less than 100 years, but have been progressively increasingly consumed by western populations, especially in the U.S. In that time overall cardiovascular health has trended in what direction?

Anyway, this might all be a sideshow to the general reduction in calories being derived from fat in general. The replacement of calories from fat with calories from carbohydrates seems particularly harmful when taken to an extreme, especially for women.

But, again, my main contention is that the evidence is at best preliminary, based on observational studies which cannot show cause and effect, and often poorly controlled and based on small numbers of participants. The largest, best controlled studies often don't support the mainstream view. It's simply not scientifically settled.
This is totally ridiculous. I guess we forgot that society governs itself based on moral norms. Approximately 0% would agree with necrophilia while I am thinking at least >50% would be okay with the idea of donating organs. When you add in the fact that you can opt out... how can anyone object? If you care enough, go ahead and opt out, no one will know or care. You are making a stupid and ridiculous equivalence.
This isn't designed for the single-digit percent of people who use RSS feeds. It's a UI/UX resource; treat and critique it as such. It's a way of presenting data to people who aren't going to spend time to create their own interface.
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Hi! Lemme help you out here.

"Detest" and "despise" are not synonyms. To detest is to speak out against; to despise is to look down upon. Their roots come directly from Latin/French. If you detest something, you are issuing speech which indicates that you dislike it. If you despise something, you have observed it and disliked your observation (or, more usually, something about the detail of the observation!)

When people use these words in idioms like, "I despise and detest their actions," they are saying that they have seen the actions, they do not like what they have seen, and they are now speaking out to denounce those actions.
Runs completely fine on my MacBook which is pretty low-specced compared to your setup it seems. The gradient is unnecessary, but it's still running at 15fps.
What about Mathjax/Latex?
I recently received via email an update for a patch I wrote for qmail over a decade ago. I'd forgotten I'd even written the patch and was shocked anyone was even still using qmail.
It sounds like you do agree that life is unfair, though. At least, you call it a "fact". I think it is a fact, as well, because "fairness" is an ideal that we strive towards, and ideals never exist in reality. I don't disagree with you that we should strive for better conditions.

In the case of chuckdries being financially punished by a swath of users choosing to install AdNauseam or similar plugins, I think we might agree that it isn't fair for his particular case, but it is fair in the aggregate, or more general case, due to the reprehensible behavior of "big ad networks", which created the impetus for the development of these types of plugins in the first place.

I'll admit to being in a negative mood, which is why my mind went immediately to gym class. :( I just don't see a sensible way out of this situation that will both castigate the bad actors in the advertising space, while simultaneously allowing for these small "home-grown" ad networks to escape the castigation.

We've got to find a better way of supporting websites than selling out our visitors, though. Some revenue models that worked for traditional print simply won't work for the web. I think the sooner we find that out and adapt our models, the better off we'll all be.
You can listen to the whole thing — and buy it in lossless format — on Bandcamp: https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-as-broken-d...
There's an important aspect of BGP you're overlooking: mutual acceptance. If one party exports a prefix, the other party can choose to either reject or accept the prefix. If the former party does not advertise the prefix or the latter party does not accept the prefix, no unidirectional forwarding path is established. Yes, Google could have derived their export policy based on their RADB entries, which would have prevented this issue. But Verizon could have also derived their import policy based on their RADB entries, which would have prevented this. While Google is at blame for fucking up their export policy, Verizon is at blame for simply accepting these prefixes.
And a ton of other travel brands you're probably familiar with: http://www.expediainc.com/expedia-brands/
> The entitlement jedberg shows here

This crosses into personal attack and namecalling. Those things are against the HN guidelines. Would you please (re-)read them, and follow them when commenting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Compilation and a REPL are orthogonal concepts.

Lots of Common Lisp systems have very good REPLs and compile to machine code. A popular example is SBCL.
What do you mean by at the browser level? Should Chrome/IE/Safari 'know' the site uses cookies and show something in the browser as per the https padlock?

As an aside I do find it funny how 'bosses' insist on the cookie notice to make their website official looking.
Of course there isn't perfect feature parity, but considering how much more complex a custom solution is, you should definitely think twice about what that complexity actually gets you
I was disappointed by the 'data science' in this article. From selecting distribution as a criterion for the qualitry of a metric, for using Pearson correlation with non normal data, for using non correlation with Fandango as tie-breaking criterion, for failing to use external criteria (e.g. ticket sales) to validate or compare metrics, and to be picky, for failing to discuss (for example) generalized lin models with link functions to deal with non normal error distributions.
That is not a good analogy. There is an independent board of directors who can keep checks and balances over Musk to make sure he keeps the companies independent.

Is there an independent board who can keep a check on the queen?
That's fascinating, thanks for the info; the Texas coast has some houses with a similar design [1]. While some use wood stilts, some are going into full fortified designs [2]. Even further afield, using principles established with invisibility cloaking research might offer even more protection in the future [3]. If plasma gasification-produced slag-based pozzolanic concrete can be proven safe and efficacious, then the pillars could literally be partially built out of garbage, co-generating energy and rock wool at the same time.

[1] http://pictures.escapia.com/PTARES/1866960517.jpg

[2] http://www.texasgulfcoastonline.com/News/tabid/86/ctl/Articl...

[3] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14829-invisibility-cl...
> To detest is to speak out against

Interesting. I've never heard this use. The definitions I've seen of detest are some form of dislike intensely.

Reviewing Merriam-Webster[0], I see there is an obsolete sense of detest that means to curse.

> 1 : to feel intense and often violent antipathy toward : loathe · detests politics · They seem to truly detest each other.

> 2 obsolete : curse, denounce

I can't recall ever having across across the word used in this way in American English. I've only seen the first sense used, and would have interpret someone saying "despise and detest" to be effectively doubling (redundantly) for emphasis, not to distinguish between the two.

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/detest
My accountant does
this is one of my favorite videos on the internet. always brings a smile to my face.
This is the type of law that only starts getting regularly enforced when there's a big headline worthy egregious privacy event that happens, that prompts the authorities to have to posture to save face and pretend they're acting to protect the well-being of the people. Until then, it isn't going to be meaningfully enforced, it's too comically absurd to be worthy of the effort for now. Enforcing it now would be herding cats. To do it properly they'd need a sizable target or three to hammer down upon, to scare everyone else into compliance; those target/s will be connected to the source of said egregious privacy violation, that will be the chain of events.
It's both heavy and fragile. I don't trust plastic to drink out of habitually, but there's virtually no risk to expected from short term use of food-grade plastic and it's much more practical in difficult situations.

Plastic also has the advantage that you can use it to sterilize water. Glass blocks too much UV, but a couple of days in the sun will disinfect water in a clear plastic container. You can have safe water indefinitely just by rotating containers (at least here in the Pacific Northwet, where availability of some kind of fresh water is more or less assured).
For a dev shop, anything that brings in more than (more or less) $20k /year.

Otherwise also fundraising (as someone else said).

Though for both of these, if the business is cash-strapped, the results would have to be pretty much assured.
Pretty sure even my grandma knows where the transportation sector is headed: electric, autonomous, sharing, services based, etc ;)

I'm sure big names such as Uber and Tesla are hoping for that outcome. Personally, I'll believe it when I see it. For now, both autonomous and electric vehicles are still looking like technologies with great PR videos but also quite a few fundamental problems with no credible solutions yet.

I wouldn't be surprised if Uber was aiming for a big IPO before too much of that reality invades those PR videos, particularly if the financial foundations of their current business model are as shaky as some reports have suggested.
I'm all against useless styling, but a web without clickable hyperlinks is not a web at all.
> Why not link to the original article's download link

I would rather not run binaries from the internet for a 5 minute gaming session. The link from the archive includes a DosBox emulator.
I think most people would agree that non-consensual profiling / tracking of users is immoral. AdNauseum directly breaks most business models that rely on that. I don't see the problem.

Want to support your site using ads? Why not use display ads? Sell space next to high quality content to advertisers with relevant products. Problem solved, and it puts bottom feeder ad exchanges and content spam websites out of business. (And it probably puts a big wrench in the fake news industry as a bonus)
Back to the basics - I like it! Kind of ironic (?) that this feels so fresh and different from most of the web these days. It does inspire me to offer content in raw form like plain text, or at least bare HTML.

I wonder, it's probably not realistic to expect non-technical people to install browser extensions that render Markdown automatically. Without it, there are no links possible though..
He's sounds pretty entitled to me mate
I appreciate that you've moved toward civility in your comments on HN, but we need you to go further, because comments like this add no information and are just rude. Could you please just be scrupulously civil and respectful and only post comments that have good signal/noise ratio?

Other users have reformed themselves this way (I'm one of them), so I'm sure you can, once you internalize the value of what we're shooting for here (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). It isn't primarily an ethical issue, if that helps; it's about trying to avoid degradation into boredom. Flame-style comments provoke worse, both quality- and quantity-wise.
This is completely subjective.
What a fun question! You go first, though :D
Describe what you do--warehouse automation engineer
Tell him to move somewhere that it's legal.
I wasn't replying about Uber but to your entire comment history, which falls short of what we're hoping to see here. Also, the issue isn't primarily about being negative, it's about lowering the signal/noise ratio of the forum. We all have to be careful not to do that, because if we lower it a little bit enough times in a row, the whole thing will one day fall off a cliff. The basic idea of HN is stave that day off for as long as possible. In my experience, most people who get that idea are willing to help. We'd appreciate it if you'd help too.
Sweden has terrible soil. Rock with a thin layer of sandy earth on top. Only Skåne, the southernmost part, sustains really productive farming, which is probably the main reason the Swedes fought a series of succesful wars in the seventeenth century to grab it from neighbouring Denmark.
Also why Swedish farmers decamped for North America in record numbers in the second part of the eighteen hundreds. About a quarter of the population emigrated.
To this day, Sweden cannot feed itself - about halt its consumed foodstuff must be imported. Contrast the much smaller Denmark - sans Skåne - which is self-sustainable in that particular regard. No rocks, plenty of soil.
We have had advertisers/advertising networks refuse to work with us until we added it. I don't know if that counts, but it sure makes it difficult to opt out if you depend on ad revenue.
Whoaaa... i never thought about comparing a human being and an animal on the sole scale of carbon footprint. I guess it's fair in a way.. but what a difference on how much they bring to the world.
>Reddit users wouldn't care if Reddit went out of business? I find that hard to believe.

Sure they would. But if Reddit went out of business, a new Reddit would immediately take it's place. The value to be extracted from such a large user-base is too great for this niche to go unfilled. How that value would be extracted in an ad-free system is yet to be seen. But I have faith in human ingenuity.

>Got any ideas? Nobody has come up with anything that works so far.

That is precisely my point. No one has come up with any ideas so far because there is not sufficient incentive. The model that now exists makes money, so why would anyone try too hard to rock the boat? Sure there a few small bit players trying to change things. But these limited ideological efforts are completely different from the full brunt of a capitalist market seeking profits under constraints that completely disallow advertising.
Wingsuit pilot & programmer here. The reason Wingsuit BASE Jumpers keep dying is that you shouldn't jump your wingsuit off a @#$%ing mountain. Please stick to the planes and the helicopters that you're used to.
I googled horchata and apparently it is any milk made from nuts of cereal. Including almonds.
One thing that I think is frequently overlooked is that a person with a year's worth of food stored up also has enough to feed the whole neighborhood for a week if necessary, which might make a really big difference for a lot of people. Having the goods gives you a lot of flexibility and might take some of the pressure off of emergency relief services. I try to keep far more of the basic things on hand (first aid, food, and water purification stuff) than I think I'll need just because I know most people don't, and I live in a place with a moderate risk of catastrophic earthquakes and tornadoes.
Well, it's clear that he died of cyanide poisoning. It's been thought that he committed suicide. It's arguable that UK authorities are responsible for that, given his prosecution for homosexuality, and court-ordered estrogen therapy to reduce his sex drive.

Some have further suggested that British Security Services assassinated him.[0,1] Rudy Rucker features that theory in Turing & Burroughs, but has Turing survive. Roger Bristow argued that the FBI assassinated him.[2] I don't believe that any clear evidence has been revealed.

0) http://mentalfloss.com/article/64049/did-alan-turing-inspire...

1) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530751/Security-ser...

2) https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/was-alan-turin...
Distilling liquor is significantly more dangerous than growing a plant.
> Get SkiFree here (39409-byte ZIP containing one 118784-byte Windows 32-bit EXE).

Remember when every download link on the web told you exactly how big it was?
For what it's worth, as someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s when the mainstream nutrition advice, supported by many of the organizations you've listed, was "eat lots of bread and pasta!" and "Fat is bad for you!" and "Stay away from eggs!", I'm more interested in what the actual underlying studies say, and how they were conducted, than any summarized "advice" coming from these organizations.
As someone with a natural attraction to stuff like this, it would be very interesting to see a parts diagram or even a service manual for one of these.
> no chance there ever will be a shortage.

In our lifetimes.
Top 30 Big Data Tools for Data Analysis
Enterprise pays the most for ERP. If you can create a better SAP, then you will make millions. I am saying as an SAP user, it is good but really expensive.
> What do you mean by at the browser level? Should Chrome/IE/Safari 'know' the site uses cookies

Absolutely! How else does it know to store the cookie on the user's machine.
This is not the story of someone who became a developer after 40, this is the story of someone who started a training small business.

Not to suggest its bad or anything, but it's not what the title might imply.
They are it seems -

Cookie banner frustration to be tackled by EU

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38583001
> there is no such thing as overestimation. You cannot be over protective when it comes to fire safety.

Have you ensured your house is built exclusively of fire resistant materials, and avoided buying modern furniture with inflammable fabric covering and interior padding? Have you installed a Halon system in your home and all physically adjoining structures?

What an absurd statement.
I think this is exactly how Uber will fade into irrelevance. Think about it: We're bringing in a money guy to "stabilize the ship."

When the opposite of "rock the boat" is in power, don't be surprised if you get an irrelevant cruise ship. They run out of money soon, and nothing will change that short of a mass layoff or raising their prices above taxis. Then what?

They needed that autonomous driving tech. And I don't see a money guy pulling that off.

Remember how Marissa Meyer turned out? People ended up saying "Well, nothing could've saved Yahoo." But you could've said the same thing about Apple at its nadir. Same with Uber.

Uber is a real opportunity. Kalanick is unpopular, but he got Uber to where it is. So how certain are you that it was a good idea to kick the founder in exchange for a money guy? Given those options, I'd bet on the unpopular founder every time.
Well, they really didn't "redo the entire bayou system". They considered alternatives and chose the most politically correct one for the parties involved. They knew it wasn't enough for something like Harvey but they didn't think there would be a Harvey( a supposed "500-year event") anytime soon. Black Swan anyone?

AndrewKemendo says: "People's aversion to moving, especially after a major disaster, boggles my mind."

But where do you go to be safe from disasters?

California - earthquakes, mudslides, wildfires, torrential rains, rip currents, and even volcanoes

Gulf Coast - hurricanes

Midwest - tornadoes

etc.

Slate Magazine set out to find where you could live free of potential disasters. See:

"Where To Hide From Mother Nature"

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_gist/200...

Their conclusion:

"Slate's "America's Best Place to Avoid Death Due to Natural Disaster": the area in and around Storrs, Conn., home to the University of Connecticut..."

Read the article to see if you're ready to make the move.
I thought of that video too. Before electronics, mechanically calculating the movement of celestial objects was pretty common, and goes back a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
I doubt it. Whitman was probably the most outspoken Republican against Trump, called him a "demagogue", and stated publicly "I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her."

Plus, given Uber's issues, being a woman had to be a big plus for Whitman.
If food supplies haven't been restored for a year, it means there's probably been some extreme collapse of society and loss of life. Never seeing your friends/family/loved ones again, just surviving day by day for no purpose. I'd rather die quickly in the early stages than survive in such a bleak world.
The way we do it is the primary store is in SQL but I sync that data out to a file on demand
Companies who use the term 'wokeness' will experience the wrath of people who no longer want to do business with them. People don't want to hear what CEOs or other private sector leadership political thoughts are such as we don't care for celebrity or sports figure opinions either.
With fast compiling languages a unit test is not for off from being a REPL. In Java I use JUnit as a REPL.

Actually I prefer unit tests over a REPL the same reason I prefer bash scripts over one liners or SQL scripts instead of typing into the interpreter... I don't like the ephemeral nature of REPLs.

Also with true REPLs unlike the debug unit test approach I mention with Java you really need the language to be dynamic. I'm not entirely sure why but static type languages are not very good at allowing code modification while running (I mean I have ideas but I don't know precisely if there is an actual theoretical limitation).

I guess I prefer static analysis over the complete ability to modify the code base while running.

Only add my 2 cents because the article doesn't mention any negatives to REPLs.
Side note: I'm struggling to read these articles with the very thin font used (on MacOS). Using font-weight: 300 with Helvetica Neue is a strange choice that I'm seeing in more and more blogs. Maybe it looks more readable with other OS fonts and is just an oversight.

Bumping it up to 400 in dev tools makes is far more readable.
Check out "Why Does E=MC^2". (I wish I understood it better. I think some of what raattgift was saying is related to the deeper issues, which the book does raise, and which I paraphrased at a very high level.)

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B002TJLF7W/