skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I new someone with serious repetitive (daily) diarrhea. Not treatment helped and it lasted for years. Doctors had no solution. Don't know if it was Clostridium Difficile. It started after taking a medication.

One day, a solution was found on Internet. It was to eat cheese made with raw milk. After three months eating various cheese with raw milk every day, the person had no more diarrhea. This has to be done in country with strict health control on cheese production.
>any ideological bias is only due to it's impact on shareholder value

This would be the primary source of ideological demonetization. I'm not quite sure how this would be any less objectionable than developers at GOOG demonetizing content based on their own independent ideologies?

In any case, it would seem the latter is negligable compared to the former.
Charles Manson and the Apocalypse to Come
In a strong language patterns don't exist? Everybody always solves every problem in a completely unique way?
This Stripped-Down Blogging Tool Exemplifies Antisocial Media
That what we did for on CourseBuffet. Try to mirror the general requirements bachelor's degree and minors.
(http://www.coursebuffet.com)

We have not updated in a while but I have been fixing a couple things in the last few days. FB login is down, but you can signup with email.
Categorizing courses is time consuming, hence why we are not always up to date.
I don't think it's been used much as the project is fairly new. Wild Duck powers https://ethereal.email/ but this is mostly for fuzzy testing purposes, I hope to get strange emails that would fail the system.

I've been building Wild Duck to replace the Courier based mail cluster we have deployed for 150k+ mailboxes in my day job. The current system really shows its age and something better was needed.
A realtime chat without auth but with private messages or multiple rooms. Basically the user will pick a nickname, click next and then be able to chat on a general or create/join a room.
This is really interesting - and to put my own biased spin on it I think its not only farming.

I left my bigco desk job last summer (left == was booted out with separation package when our org got whacked). I started a small business with a former employee who is now my partner.

Its still a desk-job in a sense - I work at a desk on my computer. But that desk is nothing like a "desk job" at a big co.

In our small business, we're primarily a software company, HOWEVER, our philosophy is "this is our business; we can follow our interests and do whatever we want".

Interestingly, one of the things we're looking at is agriculture - and without putting to fine a point on it, sustainable agriculture is built in to that. So .. we're building some portfolio items that include control systems for plant care etc.

We're totally boot strapped, working off our savings and some IoT and cloud consulting gigs. Our goal, with some careful planning of our time, is to have those gigs pay for our porfolio item development which with some marketing and customer development could lead to better understanding of requirements for product development.

Re this article - I can totally imagine that some of our customers will be these small scale farmers - who need the right mix of tools (and prices) to help them operate. The tools/products for large farms are, IMHO, incompatible with their needs.

Also, for the past several years I've really been interested in small-scale malting for beers and whiskies. ..I need some small number of acres to get started ..our bent for software could be applied to malting. "our company can do whatever it wants" :)
I was going to say something very similar. People have a (faulty) fake radar and if you are trying to just remarket crops without raising them yourself, you better have a good sales line if the next stall over is a family selling the produce that they have grown themselves. People like to meet and support the person who is responsible for the entire process.
The same thing applies at the consumer level. A standard immediate annuity is a relatively simple product — a consumer pays a lump sum up front and gets back a stream of payments for the rest of his life. Ditto for standard term life insurance — consumer pays a premium and he dies his estate gets a payout. Both of these markets are competitive, products from different sellers can be directly compared, and margins are relatively tight.

But as you add more and more riders, variants, bells, and whistles the products become less comoditized and more profitable for companies that issue them. Their profit is your cost.
> The local product is typically more expensive because it's production is less efficient

I agree with the gist of what you're saying, but I think you're leaving out some details.

We know that other non-local products can be made cheaper because they are in localities that are lax on labor laws and environmental protection.

So the notion that it's simply about efficiency is in my opinion a bit reductionistic. As an example, to make my point... I would use a different word than "efficiency" to describe someone who uses slave-labor to push costs down.

So when buying local, at least you know which standards the producers are held to. It's the same with Bio/Organic/Free-trade products.
It's 6.1, you can look at the build version. The same thing as 2000 and XP
I made a simple browser-based tool like this for Perler beads and crosstitch thread colors: http://www.imjasonh.com/projects/crafty
My XPS 13 9360 was $900. Arch runs like a dream on it.
You're thinking from the founder's perspective.

I was talking from the company valuation point of view.

More importantly, the whole point of my comment has nothing to do with who made how much. It's that everyone lost.
Now do it without a nervous system that can experience suffering
What's interesting is that these courses are _here already_, and anyone who wants to take advantage of them can do so for free.

I'm probably a bit younger than many people on this site, and I learned a massive amount about life and how to live it using CrashCourse videos[1], Khan Academy[2], and a personal finance subreddit[3]. Because of those three sites, even though my household has never made much money, my wife and I are significantly more stable financially and socially than most people in our families.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse/playlists

[2] https://www.khanacademy.org/

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/
And at the very opposite end the big retails create their own brands that sound traditional and farm-ish while the food is purely industrial.

I buy at the farmer market because it's great to know the people who produce the food I eat.
small farmers are the original hackers
In my case, I'll go for volume if satisfaction with the product isn't there.
Yes. The answer to this question[1] on biology.se gives a good rundown of the issues facing this and other definitions of species.

The short version is that this definition only works for sexually reproducing species. The long version is that it doesn't work.

1: https://biology.stackexchange.com/q/39664/4101
Did you do a double blind study?
Tech capitalists won’t fix the world’s problems, their unionised workforce might
>> there’s no doubt

There is very much doubt about that. Stanford (IIRC) did a study and no one could tell the difference.
This is awesome, I hope it gets updated to support editing of existing files.
It's not an analogy, it's a juxtaposition. He agrees with Rubin, and has told anecdotes that support that position. You just don't want to believe his conclusion, and Rubin's. That's your right, but to say that he has no position, that it's all murky and there is no conclusion; therefore you can reject his conclusion, is literally absurd.
For those who are interested in the topic, i just finished reading this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3109.The_Omnivore_s_Dile....
The author follows the ingredients of a meal he makes all the way back to the farms. He seems to romanticize certain notions of naturally grown foods and at other times, is given to polemic against the agriculturally industrial complex (quite justifiably at times). The book itself was a lesson in the history of agriculture, nutrition, politics, policy, cooking, animal husbandry and the organic food industry. There is a part of the book where he talks about the huge industrial setup behind organic food and tries to distinguish it from the vicissitudes of the small scale farmers life. He even turns into a hunter gatherer for a little to experience life as it was before agriculture. It was a totally fascinating read and i recommend it.
Nope, Ethereum fast sync has to trust that peers don't give it an invalid state (it checks that all it's peers have the same state, but that is much weaker protection). https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/1889
As someone who spent his summers getting fresh milk (often still warm) from a nearby farm, and pasteurized milk the rest of the year, I can't say I ever tasted much of a difference.
It didn't stop. It's been on it's way out of the system for a while now.
Do you have a blog or something with more details? I have a dream of doing something similar, although growing vegetables, and would like to know more. My email address is in my profile if you don’t want to make it public.
All major functionality except tab groups restored here, but that should be coming. Think that covers all of the most important extensions.

Had to map my 'music' key to run a script that hides the title bar in gtk3, but works for now.
> You certainly can witness that with municipalities that are close to going bankrupt because they bought instruments that backfired on them.

That seems to be a story about corrupt hiring practices at municipalities. Maybe they should look into hiring the kid with the foreign name and funny accent instead of their high school buddy's kid.

I'm sure they got screwed on all sorts of construction contracts too.
Maybe it's just me but the scrollbar thing doesn't look like a game changer to me. Could you be overestimating the severity of a personal pet peeve?
Yes very much so. And in fact you could already tell that that was not going to be the right answer, because also in high school, you learned that some species don't reproduce sexually.

In fact even within sexual species there are a whole range of reproductive incompatabilities: from anatomical incompatibility, to impossible fertilisation, developmental dead-ends, through to live but infertile offspring, and seemingly viable offspring with dramatically lower environmental fitness. Species are an organising model, very useful in a lot of biological reasoning, but they are not a biological absolute.

In general, whenever you were taught something black-and-white with hard boundaries in high school science, they were probably oversimplifying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Soviet_Encyclopedia#Damn...
>>learn Pennsylvania Dutch and join the Amish.

I know Amish people and have grown up Mennonite. There is a significant way of thinking that is very hard (though not impossible) to overcome coming in. This is true even if you have a supporting Amish community and find language learning easy.

I am very interested in this process and how it feels to those on the outside coming in. Let me know if you attempt this.
It annoys the crap out of non-logged in users!
> Mozilla is up front and transparent about what it's doing

A statement in a blog that only a tiny percentage of users will read is not at all transparent.

Do users who receive browsers with Cliqz get a clear, effective opt-out warning? Really, it should be opt-in but that doesn't appear to be the case:

The users will receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz recommendations enabled out of the box.

https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
There is a huge difference in taste between different types of chicken feed. The same chicken will produce thick, dark orange, bitter yolks with one type and lighter yolks with another, in both cases free to roam and eat bugs and grass.

So any taste test that doesn't find a difference between eggs isn't testing the right eggs.
I don't mean to rehash old arguments but in his position he was representing Mozilla. And Mozilla is an advocacy organisation with a deep interest in policy. They aren't just a browser maker; Firefox is merely their most widely known campaign.

If the organisation felt he didn't represent them then it doesn't make sense for him to be CEO. It would have been less of an issue if he were in a more purely technical role.
Nuclear fuel is typically 3.5% to 5% U235 [1],[2] Fukushima had six reactors of 1100 MW each. A 1000 MW reactor uses approximately 27 tonnes of fresh fuel per year [1] equating to 945 kg of U235/reactor/year. Fukushima has six reactors and was commissioned in 1971 (forty years prior to the 2011 event). For comparison Little Boy used 64kg of U235.[4]

The scale of radioactive materials are orders of magnitude different.

[1]: http://www.world-nuclear.org/nuclear-basics/how-is-uranium-o...

[2]: Fukushima 3 where the failure occurred used MOX fuel containing Plutonium as well as Uranium.

[3]: http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy
I lived in the UK for several years and lived on sandwiches for lunch at work, primarily from Pret a Manger (BLT and Thai Chicken mainly).

But I also visited particularly several times and as much as I enjoyed my lunch sandwiches the street vendor baguettes were in a whole different league.
my guess is that it depends on what kind of person you are and how good you are about keeping in touch. your mileage will vary. if you live like you essentially died instead of simply moved, then you'll have no friends. but if you invite friends over and actually make it a priority to meet up at least once every X weeks/months, then i'm sure you'll be fine
It's what I originally thought when reading the title, but go into the article and see that's not actually what he said:

The millionaire tech boss, known for his comfortable yet
measured speaking style, warned that being driven by
money “will wear out fast, or you’ll never make enough
and you will never be happy,” reports CNBC.

He doesn't say "don't care about money", he says don't make the accumulation of wealth your only/main driving force in life.
The site's run by a well-respected Clojure developer and educator called Eric Normand. This is not a pyramid scheme, and Eric makes no guarantees of finding Clojure-related work – only that the content will be useful if working in Clojure and FP is of interest to you.

I've found the free drip-fed email course helpful. The free video content is also well presented, as are Eric's talks at Clojure conferences on YouTube. I plan to subscribe, but the video content is also downloadable individually if you want to skip the free tips and offers in the intro emails: https://purelyfunctional.tv/courses/
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You don't have to blind a study when the effect size is big enough (the classic example is the ridiculousness of a double-blind test of the use of parachutes). See my other comment for how easily egg flavor can be altered.
I'm shocked; how is this at all consistent with Mozilla's principles? Situations like this one damage trust; what else is going on that I didn't happen to stumble across? From the announcement:

Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit. Cliqz uses several techniques to attempt to remove sensitive information from this browsing data before it is sent from Firefox. Cliqz does not build browsing profiles for individual users and discards the user’s IP address once the data is collected. Cliqz’s code is available for public review and a description of these techniques can be found here.

And it's opt-out; it's not clear if the users receive an opt-out notification:

Users will receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz recommendations enabled out of the box.

https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
Great point, and a real gap that needs filling. MIT OpenCourseWare has a curriculum guide, but I don't know how accurately or completely the free online courses map to the actual curricula: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mit-curriculum-guide/
Firefox Sync can sync passwords across desktop/mobile.
Because there's certainly skill involved in the successful managing of a stall. It's not that anyone could buy from the grocery store and sell at the stall and make a profit; just the people who successfully make profit on a small farm.

The suggestion is that the customer knowledge/access is what is providing value, not the farming.
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As the saying goes, history doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes.

Which means this won't be exactly the same of course, but something will change.

People liking trash content is nothing new. It used to be TV in the old days, but now replaced with the Internet. If you compare the two, the stupid internet memes may actually be "better" than the passive consumption of TV content, since nowadays you're consuming AND creating content, so it's not 100% passive anymore.

That said, human nature won't change, so we will keep consuming shit content no matter what happens. And this is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about organizations that capitalize on this will die off.

Lastly, if you look around it's not so difficult to find "quality" content nowadays. Just go to Youtube and search for whatever niche topic you're interested in learning more about and you'll find at least a few good quality video.
(n.b. I'm not a cryptocurrency expert; this is probably a bit oversimplified, but should get the idea across)

It works by lumping the coins of all the users together, breaking any direct connection between the endpoints of any given transaction.

Suppose Alice makes a deposit at the bank, but in the margin of the deposit slip she writes "for Bob". The cashier at this particular bank records a credit of $1000 from Alice, then prints and mails $1000 of cashier's checks to Bob, recording that series of debits as well. Later, the authorities raid the bank and seize its ledger. They can see a credit from Alice and a bunch of debits to Bob, but there is no transfer between Alice's account and Bob's account; this only proves that Alice could have paid Bob. If this bank has hundreds of other customers making similar transactions every day, it's basically impossible to use the ledger alone to prove any connection between Alice and Bob.

Now scale that up so that "the bank" is actually a consortium of banks that also perform a bunch of transactions among themselves to further obscure any associations among customers.
Fascinating story and a reminder o how poor a fit Twitter is for long form writing. I would love to read the atlasobscura version of that thread.
Maybe the bankers could stop selling things to people that don't understand them?
That would be illegal, without having her sign a 100 page EULA.
Communism is not a 'utopia' in the sense that everyone is happy all the time. It aims simply to do away with certain problems, just as public health services don't do away with every problem in your life. Your insinuation that I or any other Communist thinks this way is a strange one, though not unheard of.

>you should educate youself better by consuming mass media.

Is this not precisely the opposite of mass media? Marxist social critic Herbert Marcuse wrote about how, beacuse Communism is a subversive movement, and indeed the Left, it cannot gain mass media time, because of its nature as subversive; it can only be snuck in under capitalism, as capitalism is willing to accept any ideology for the sake of profit. I would recommend One-Dimensional Man on the topic of what problems Communists have with late capitalist media and production, and the hiding of information.

>If you are interested, you might want to read Orwell's 1984

I have; although it's a little funny to see Orwell used to rebut the Communist project, seeing as he was a Socialist himself who fought on the side of anarchists in Spain, there's a deeper point here that you are missing. Orwell wrote about very obvious misdirection - "war is peace", "peace is war". However, you are missing the fact that it is not this easy to see.

Nowadays, as I am sure you know, the contradiction and control is hidden not in the sentence but within the noun. In words such as "freedom", "democracy", "control", etc. the actual meaning can be discerned only by the speaker of the word and the historical time period. Please read Marcuse on this topic. I don't know where you're getting the idea that I'm in favour of rewriting the past from.
In general, mechanics that works for subliminal messages is different than one used to hypnotize somebody. Level of 'agreement' between those two techniques differ and in my experience success rate is better with subliminal messages.
Voyager is much smaller, though. Can someone with relevant knowledge tell us if this object would be still detected if it was the same size as Voyager 1?
It's already passed pedigree with the sun. It is traveling slowly enough that if it's a discarded stage the spaceship should already be here.
Homemade UK sandwiches are worse than that. In my experience, when most people say "butter" they mean margarine. Shop bought sandwiches are more likely to contain real butter.
This plus spoilage, durability & logistics costs. (which you might be already including).
"After the election of Donald Trump, thousands of technology workers signed a pledge against building government databases for targeting individuals based on race, religion, or national origin. The effect was immediate, with numerous companies publicly declaring they would not cooperate with such a policy."

A) What policy are they talking about?
B) Why isn't political affiliation on that list?
Sure, maybe, but that'd be only after they are tried and convicted of treason. At the moment they must be assumed innocent (until proven guilty) of treason, and have all the rights of any accused person in the US justice system.
I stumbled upon this very good explanation (and demo) of the Comanche Voxel 2.5D engine reimplemented in JS and thought it might interest some HNers. I did not had the pleasure to play Comanche though I have fond memories of playing Apache in 1996.

I've been investigating the terrain generation / rendering quite a bit for the past ten days and have started to play with https://threejs.org/, webgl and shaders, the current result (https://twitter.com/maxmre/status/933860624773283842) is quite humbling when I see how nicely the Comanche engine works :)
Does this take into account the social stigma of living in the affected zone? It could easily turn to family-registry (koseki tohon) based discrimination. For instance, it's not difficult to imagine someone's parents being opposed to marriage with someone living in that zone, reminiscent of the historic discrimination against the burakumin.

Anyone doing agriculture there will face difficulties selling the produce elsewhere in the country. Anyone depending on tourism is going to struggle.

People are going to mistrust governmental assurances that it's safe to be somewhere, suspecting various political motivations.

How about the simple question of development: investment in the area is going to be very cool.
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I just remember when they used to cover API mashups. Like this: http://mashable.com/2009/10/08/top-mashups/

That's where the name came from. Used to visit them a lot in those days.
In the UK you can only buy unpasteurised milk direct from a farm, not from a shop.