skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22109896

Autoimmune diseases are characterized by tissue damage and loss of function due to an immune response that is directed against specific organs. This review is focused on the role of impaired intestinal barrier function on autoimmune pathogenesis. Together with the gut-associated lymphoid tissue and the neuroendocrine network, the intestinal epithelial barrier, with its intercellular tight junctions, controls the equilibrium between tolerance and immunity to non-self antigens. Zonulin is the only physiologic modulator of intercellular tight junctions described so far that is involved in trafficking of macromolecules and, therefore, in tolerance/immune response balance. When the zonulin pathway is deregulated in genetically susceptible individuals, autoimmune disorders can occur. This new paradigm subverts traditional theories underlying the development of these diseases and suggests that these processes can be arrested if the interplay between genes and environmental triggers is prevented by re-establishing the zonulin-dependent intestinal barrier function. Both animal models and recent clinical evidence support this new paradigm and provide the rationale for innovative approaches to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases.
I'm having a bit of trouble interpreting these numbers.

If I look at deliberate practice in musical proficiency amongst the general populace, it'll look like deliberate practice is responsible for almost all of the proficiency. However, if I look at the top 100 musicians in the world, they would have all practiced thousands of hours and I expect practice to have diminishing returns, so it should be responsible for very little of the variation in their ability.

I would expect also that in more multifactorial activities which are often the basis of professions that it is both A) difficult to ascertain what expertise is (often reducing to an empty social credential) B) difficult to evaluate what good deliberate practice is.

The meta-analysis talks about such factors as the predictability of the environment correlating with the effect size of deliberate practice. I think that's just the tip of the iceberg.
[Edit: author made it clear he wasn't replying to me specifically, so the following post is irrelevant]

> Study your history.

Such condescending tone. Much patronizing. Very naive.

I do study my history. I'm not saying that antifas are harmless. I'm saying that antifas in the US are a harmless joke.

> Any movement acting to normalize that kind of environment is just bad news waiting to happen.

What makes you think I'm normalizing that kind of environment? It seems you failed to read my post:

> It is good to see countries striving for a more neutral treatment of violent actions, from any ends of the political spectrum.
I have 25 days in Sweden and my UK colleagues 28 days, but they still envy me because of how my 5w are mine to choose and aren't used up on bank holidays etc. When summer comes I usually have 4-5w off and they have 2 or 3.

Having to use pto for sick days also doesn't happen anywhere in the EU.
I'm curious, what makes you think that people are goofing off? I suffer from selection bias, but most of the tenured faculty (in the sciences) that I know are extremely driven people who work nights and weekends...Have you seen any studies that would suggest otherwise? As for lucrative, I'm still biased, but I would say that academic jobs can be comfortable financially, especially given the stability of tenure, but outside of superstars, I wouldn't say that they are outside the range of say a software engineer...
No, it is not harder. But in hardware, everything mostly runs in parallel. So if you have learned how to write multithreaded programs, then you basically know the level of difficulty of designing ICs.
It is working on subdomains, but you are right that the primary domain is prioritised.

Most users like to know the full tech stack of a website. If there is a blog at blog.company.com and if it is using Intercom, it can be a useful data. I hope this makes sense.

Anyway, we will definitely address this concern and think about adding an option for subdomain separation.
> If you're providing IaaS, isn't the risk of falling prey to rowhammer attacks a serious concern?

Just don't share devices. They probably don't have worthwhile virtualization anyways.

A bigger problem is that the hardware is shit. Both from a reliability perspective, and from a performance perspective. I just don't think there's a market for this.
What's to stop another truck with bad and cheaper water from coming and filling up the truck that's being tracked? I imagine if the prices are higher, there's a lot of incentive to commit fraud, especially on something as short-lived as a water supply.
Thanks for your advice. what did you mean by MMM?
Awesome. Thank you so much for your kind words!
A compile-time error?

It doesn't do that for me on VS2012 or in .NET Fiddle:
https://dotnetfiddle.net/f4NSvf
Except that "smith" had already been adopted metaphorically for the knowledge class. Writers are "wordsmiths" rather than "sentence artisans."

It also emphasizes the fact that coding is an iterative process. Sometimes you have to strip the whole thing down, make your codebase malleable again, and pound away to refashion it a different way.
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If you're still facing the issue, please drop us a line with the URL in question so that we can take a look: hello [at] whatruns.com. Thanks!
While Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor, only a minority of Hitler's cabinet were actually members of the NSDAP, others were without party affiliation (like the previous chancellor Franz von Papen) or members of the DNVP (German National People's Party) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Cabinet

The usual explanation is that they wanted to "tame" Hitler, but in effect they only served to help him consolidate his power.

EDIT: Regarding the lineage of current German parties: neither Zentrum (ancestor of the CDU) nor SPD had any part in the deal that brought Hitler to power; the other major parties were only founded later.
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tl;dr: Politics 101.

Prediction, the side that forked loses.
I’ve been using Logic for around eight years, and in that time, its built-in ES2 synthesizer has not changed. I have also not come closer to understanding what any of its controls do, or why they are laid out like this.

It's kinda hard to take design suggestions from someone who refuses to learn the basic tools and techniques of a specific domain. Yes, there is some insight to be leveraged from articulating the confusion and perplexity of the user encountering am unfriendly interface, but the skill inheres in being able to manipulate and combine the basic characteristics of acoustic waveforms in predictable ways.

Other interfaces exist, but the reason that most plugins have so many knobs is that musicians want a high degree of parametric access so as to produce distinctive sounds. Sure, you can make very simple plugins that sound great and apply a complex process with the adjustment of just one or two parameters...but those tools are easy to recognize to the point of being either basic or faddish.
We truly understand your frustration with detection accuracy, but when there are tens of thousands of technologies to detect, the only solution is to break things and move fast.

We were featured on Chrome Webstore a few weeks back and got a great response (12k+ active users) which helped us enormously in improving the accuracy and efficiency, and I'm sure HN and PH launch will be even more helpful in improving the product.
Ocean acidification, for one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
But if I'm on vacation, I don't want to read your email right now. I'm just letting you know that your email might not get a reply, especially not any time soon.
The new US EPA laws do have higher standards but they only went into effect for the 2016 model year when the EPA adopted the California standards. So cars not registered in California and before the 2016 model year aren't held to the California standard unless these states adopted the California standard before the 2016 model year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
My impression is that it's rather difficulty in a number of European countries as well. Chatting with friends, it seems that there are a number of term positions in countries like Germany, but permanent positions are hard to come by.
WhatRuns is currently not working on localhost. It is on our roadmap and we will definitely give it more weight! :)
I was expecting an article focussing on how making software is not engineering said to myself, "not this again."

But the article isn't arguing that, the article seems to be arguing we are something more than engineers.

There is a subtle implication that engineers are hyper pragmatic and the only thing that is important is that it works. My wife who is a biomedical engineer and makes robots might disagree. In fact, I don't know many good engineers of any kind that stop at "just working."

I think this artisan argument could also be applied to other types of engineering as well.

However, the title is slightly off, it should probably be "You Are an Artisan, Not JUST an Engineer" --- the two aren't mutually exclusive and the author even acknowledges that in the first paragraph.
>What I have heard from Germans is that it's pretty easy to be a neo-Nazi and convey neo-Nazi ideas in Germany, you just have to not use Nazi symbols. Don't call yourself a Nazi, just mumble something about patriotism and history, and don't use the swastika, and the government won't do anything.

In other words, Germany's laws are dumb, because they don't actually slow down neo-Nazis and simply criminalize people for using pictures.
There was a recent HN discussion on it, I believe - I think he got to around 6,000 hours, and was doing really well at golf actually, but then injuries started happening.
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Copying the comment I previously posted:

We truly understand your frustration with detection accuracy, but when there are tens of thousands of technologies to detect, the only solution is to break things and move fast.

We were featured on Chrome Webstore a few weeks back and got a great response (12k+ active users) helped us enormously in improving the accuracy and efficiency, and I'm sure HN and PH launch will be even more helpful in improving the product.
Just posted above on K. Anders Ericcson and the book Peak is great.

Main point is the 10,000 hour rule comes from Ericcson's study that the best violinists in the world practice about 7,000 hours by the time they are 18. They average between 3-4 hours a day. This last point is really interesting because the ceiling for what qualified as good practice consistently was no more than 4 hours. So if you do 4 hours of top notch practice / studying, it would seem like no matter your field you are done for the day.

Continuing on, the 10,000 hour rule was stupidly expanded by 3,000 hours just to make it easier to remember, and additionally that number is COMPLETELY ARBITRARY anyway.

The only reason violinists practice that much is because everyone else is competing that hard. Old, well defined fields like Violin or say Chess have pretty clearly defined ways on how you get better, meaning the "secrets" are somewhat known. Therefore the only way to get better is via practice, which of course everyone does, which drives up these insane numbers.

In other fields which are much newer and far less defined, expertise is up for grabs and there are no well-defined broadly agreed on ways to get better. If you do 800 hours of the "right" practice you can be far ahead of anyone else, since no one really knows what's right.

That being said, Ericcson's research still shows lots of correlation before time and skill, so alas no easy shortcuts.

EDIT: between time and skill
Neat, it looks similar in spirit to the original dynamic programming diff algorithm I used, but it doesn't have the A* acceleration so I imagine it doesn't scale to large files. Probably nice for most cases though.
Sunlight is not the bottleneck for plant growth, CO2 and temperature are.
Start with a tutorial for cryptography. If you are dilettante in cryptography
in general, whatever you do with blockchain will be broken by design.
> Most research is not patentable.

In my experience, the lawyers just chuck 'A System for' in front of the paper's title and open the firehose at the patent office. Lots of ridiculous stuff gets through...
Noticed besides US, Australia and Sweden and Norway have high rate of file sharing? Wonder why is that? Taxes / tariffs on media?

Conclusions are interesting as well:

"File-sharing reduces total revenue of the motion picture industry from box-office by $ 90 million in total, 1.4% of the current box-office", and that's a lower estimate from what the industry claims.
> It would be so incredibly easy

I don't think it's as easy as you think it is to cut emissions by that much, and it certainly wouldn't be humane.

Biological sequestration is closer to a real solution, since it is analogous to how the hydrocarbons we're burning were created in the first place. It might be easier to irrigate the Sahara and flood it with Salicornia and salt mangrove than to stop China from burning coal.
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Fewer antibiotic prescriptions are being filled, a new analysis finds
Interesting, it makes sense solving the first problem is metering than. Good luck!
The cheapest, easiest and safest way to fight climate change is to stop emitting CO2

Which is absolutely true, but no one (basically) is doing it. And the U.S. is moving in the right direction in some metrics (solar, wind) but the wrong in many others (urban planning (https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/8/22/1617782...), nuclear (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603647/meltdown-of-toshib...), and politics (Trump, Cruz, etc.)).

So while I agree with the proposed solution, no one else does, and even then we have to deal with China and India joining the developed world and what that means for CO2 emissions.
Before the USA, North America was called America and all of its inhabitants (or at least the British-descended ones -- any history buffs?) were "American".

It is a little tongue-in-cheek, but I find it amusing that the history of the word itself is an example of what it describes.
I'd think reality is more like tradesman or software builder rather than engineer. Most devs aren't doing anything new or different. There are probably guys in the building next door probably doing something similar.
Someday we're going to get a WE/Lifetime thriller/suspense movie where families in some dead end murder case find their suspect through the "people you may know" feature, and are completely ignored by police "for reasons".
Why not send the email "From" postmaster/webmaster etc in the first place, or at least set the Reply-To header to that?
I agree wholeheartedly. This practice is up there with "No Caller ID" calls.
I won't say never. I think your distinction (GitHub merge vs bill overdue) might strike the right balance, but I'm having trouble sorting out what the principle is that distinguishes those two.

As I've never even paid attention to the sending address of GitHub merge notifications, perhaps the principle is: "If someone notices that your email came from noreply@ then you shouldn't use noreply@"

(And, no, you don't seem critical -- more like thoughtful)
I agree with the sentiment but your last paragraph needs some (serious) backing
"incredibly easy to stop 80% of anthropogenic emissions", really?
In that case, neither is fusion, which is essentially free energy forever.

It opens up the avenue for many more warming and CO2 mitigation techniques that are a reality today (e.g. desalination on a global scale and massive reforestation of Africa and the Amazon)

As well as the ability to stop burning fossil fuels much quicker than transitioning to solar/wind.
How does FB know where you visit? Assuming you mean physically visit, not just browse to their FB page.
"Don’t make me hunt for a way to ask it."

And this post makes me hunt google to find what "kthxbye" means...
By wildly mischaracterizing Antifa a "harmless joke" you're tacitly condoning their violence.
Perhaps counterintuitively, debate and dissent can make projects stronger. I definitely would say that was the case with the iojs fork and subsequent merge. This time I am much more unfamiliar with the goings-on, so I can't say if it will happen again.
It would have been impossible to power steam engines with wood instead of coal? I get that it is less efficient, but wood burners certainly existed back in that era. Every train would have needed a balloon funnel and there would have been far more significant logging operations and probably deforestation problems, but it doesn't seem completely impossible.
Plant life in the oceans is mainly limited by minerals, especially iron. That's why the oceans aren't green and slimy. Dumping iron powder in will usually cause an algae bloom, which eventually die and take the carbon they fixed to the bottom, so seeding the oceans with iron is a potential way of reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. Of course, like any large-scale meddling, there will be collateral damage.
Engineers of any kind usually aren't doing something radically different.

Even if you are building a robot, which is undoubtedly engineering, you probably have a team down the road building something similar.

In fact, most software engineers I know are very interested in the cutting edge and research pieces. You can make a living as a mechanical engineer without using an equation newer than a few hundred years.
Such condescending tone. Much patronizing. Very naive.

Lots of jumping to conclusions here. You jumped to the conclusion that I was preaching directly at you. I'm generally writing primarily to 3rd party using the discussion as a framework. And no, considering what violent extremists have done in the 20th century, I don't think it's naive at all.

What makes you think I'm normalizing that kind of environment?

Nothing makes me think you are. However, by performing such actions and getting a free pass in the US press, Antifa are doing that kind of normalization. Abrogating people's human rights because of their politics -- this is something that belongs in 3rd world dictatorships, not on US soil.

> It is good to see countries striving for a more neutral treatment of violent actions, from any ends of the political spectrum.

Sorry if you felt I was attacking you. I entirely agree. I criticize the extremes.
This project requires millions of square kilometers of high tech satellites. If we could make millions of square kilometers of high tech satellites then we could probably make millions of square kilometers of solar panels here on earth, and not put CO2 into the atmosphere in the first place.
> With the above prior and likelihood, the posterior for β is a product of independent Gaussians with unit variance and mean given by the least squares estimator of β. The problem is that standard concentration of measure inequalities show that this posterior is not uniformly distributed in a unit ball around the ordinary least squares estimator but rather is exponentially close in the number of coefficients to a sphere of radius 1 centered at the estimate.

Of course the posterior is not uniformly distributed in a unit ball (the density is higher at the center of the ball, and extends beyond the limits of the ball). But the fact that it is exponentially close to a sphere doesn’t have anything to do with that! If the posterior was uniformly distributed in a unit ball it would also be exponentially close to a sphere.
All solutions are geo-engineering...

Exactly what kind of solution are all the things that are recommended to do to lower global CO2?

The only difference is the current recommendations are inefficient and take a long time.
Now, see, there's your problem right there.

Americans don't worry about whether a theory is correct. We worry about how much money can be made by believing in it.
Looks like Colorado grew by about 5% from 2013 to 2016. That would reduce the size of the effect, but it's still huge.

Also important is that 2013 was a national low in fatal traffic accidents, rates have been higher on average since.

Still, the Colorado increase is outsized.
Just because Rust has safe guards for lock usage during unwinds doesn't mean it prevents all high level data structure inconsistencies or even just plain old bugs.

Doesn't matter how you choose to handle invalid semantic forms, either via undefined behavior, error code, exception, or assert, as long as you silently ignore it, your code is unsafe. Rust doesn't have undefined behavior but that doesn't mean it doesn't suffer from silent errors. E.g. Returning NaN from sqrt(-1) or signed integer overflow wrapping.

That's my entire point.

As a programmer your intent is to use APIs in the manner they expect. An invalid use is an invalid program. Garbage in, garbage out. No amount of subsequent error handling is going to help you. Better to abort().
I recommend looking directly at the (apparently open access) paper, which is in my opinion much more interesting than the various press-release style news articles: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086017...

Also see the authors’ (ongoing) series of Youtube video lectures about their work and its context: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIljB45xT85Aqe2b4FBWU...

Here’s what page 2 of the paper says about the paper’s contents:

> We present an improved approach to the generation and reconstruction of the table which concurs with Britton, Proust and Shnider (2011) on the likely missing columns. [...] We show that in principle the information on P322 is sufficient to perform the same function as a modern trigonometric table using only OB techniques, and we apply it to contemporary OB questions regarding the measurements of a rectangle.

> We then exhibit the impressive mathematical power of P322 by showing that it holds its own as a computational device even against Madhava’s sine table from 3000 years later. This is a strong argument that the essential purpose of P322 was indeed trigonometric: suggesting that an OB scribe unwittingly created an effective trigonometric table 3000 years ahead of its time is an untenable position.

> [...] Further research is required to investigate the historical and mathematical possibilities we are suggesting. On the historical side the question arises of how the Babylonians might have used such a table, and we do not attempt to answer this question here. On the mathematical side it is becoming increasingly clear that the OB tradition of step-by-step procedures based on their concrete and powerful arithmetical system is much richer than we formerly imagined. Perhaps the understanding of this ancient culture can help inspire new directions in modern mathematics and education.
I prefer the term 'code monkey'
If you don't understand how progressive taxation works, maybe. High taxes on the marginal dollar after your middle-class life expenses are met isn't so bad.
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