skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...

I mean, it looks like an artificial phenomenon.
Thanks for the link, that paper was a great read: clever idea, and very well written.
Volatility and the Alchemy of Risk (2017) [pdf]
> Wealthy people live on capital.

Wouldn't that include all retired people living off their investments from when they were working?
There is no such thing and I submit to you that there can be no such thing without adopting of a more feudal model of society.
Always a pleasure to hear about people making good use of them!
While that is right, the standard test doesn't always tell the truth - NCGS is a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-celiac_gluten_sensitivity
I, too, am Russian. Unless a mom or a grandma pushed the last of something onto someone’s plate, it would just sit there.
nice < niais < nescius := not-skilled.
Plates a few suburbs away don't exert massive gravitational pulls on their surrounding.
As well as his own book at the end of the piece; be the change you wish to see and all that.
Many many many millennia of human history is not enough of a source for you?

The gluten free fad is barely 5 years old.
"they wishes"? Dolt.
> Americans are bad about being oblivious to the existence of anything outside the US.

That seems like a pretty hefty generalization.

> I am not sure if we even have subways elsewhere (which just may be my own ignorance showing).

Maybe you should visit nearby Boston, DC, or Philadelphia.
> Would we then think of china and japan as mostly racist

Actually yes. I don't think that's far-fetched by our standards. And on the whole I'm quite proud of the distance we in the West have travelled on this issue.

However - the reason we're where we are is because slavery, colonialism and immigration have rather forced us to confront the issue in a way that other nations have not needed to.
AWS Chalice is similar to Zappa as well.
Why not call this Project Glutenberg?

Seriously though this looks good. Every week I end up searching for either, "Is X gluten free" or "gluten free Y", followed by looking at nutrition labels on google images, hoping a company website actually lists something, or looking at 4 year old forum posts.

Few suggestions:
- Can you do away with the load more button? just autoload on scroll.
- Also maybe alphabetize the list, I clicked on cereal and it's just random.
- The search seems strange, I put in Chex but it seems to match anything with 'Che*'
- Also maybe have separate pages. Like, I want to click on cereal and then drill into the cereal products with search. It seems like there is just a master list and search works over that.
Melbourne - I am bemused at hearing a tourism spiel about our "historic" lanes overflowing with coffee shops, as if it were somehow unique. We do have per km^2 more tattooed millennials honing their barista skills than most, I guess.
What does conservatism mean to you? When you say 'conservative', what beliefs are you describing?
hahaha I can't wait for some Valley employee to write a paper on how biological differences between democrats and republicans...sorry, "average biological differences" causes different distributions.
Not surprising:

Nearly everyone from Silicon Valley that's progressive/liberal thinks there's no problem or that the problem is something else.

Nearly everyone not fitting the description above thinks there's a problem and that it alienates them.
> Why not call this Project Glutenberg?

That would be way too cheesy.
Agreed.

The parent comment is asking why the idea of equal opportunity is seen as far left. I am trying to explain that everyone pretty much agrees we should have equal opportunities, and explain that the debate has now become about whether we enforce/regulate the distribution of wealth and jobs such that society ends up statistically "equal". And that this is a very controversial and political topic and has nothing to do with racism despite the rhetoric employed at both extremes of the horseshoe.
Well I'm western too and from my personal experience I don't think they are racist.
Exactly. There's a kind of entropic arrow from higher-level to lower. Moreover the different high-level languages occupy different places in that same space. It isn't just that you can't easily translate between them. It's that they lead to different classes of system being created in the first place.
> As a vegetarian I have had to my own perspective on mankind's obsession with protein for a long time, really it is over-rated as the body makes the proteins it needs from amino acids, not from protein eaten from i.e. a sausage made of pig gristle and shoved in an oven. Or from these whey powder things.

This is not fully true. There are essential amino acids which can not be synthesized by the body and need to come from consumption of external protein sources.
I meant "spare" in English. English "spare" and german "sparen" have same roots and related meaning. To spare versus to save. Just wanted to point out the translation attempt of data-spare-some-ness is not unreasonable.
You posted this two hours after I replied with a list of google results showing you’re two decades out of date. Now it’s -clear- you’re being disingenuous, but for the life of me I cannot fathom why.
I agree with you to some extent, but note that we have all sorts of traffic laws and not just a generic "drive safely."
> rather aesthetic influence of hieroglyphs

rather, the hieroglyphic influence on the aesthetics of the (written) language.
This is an area where genetic modification can really help. If plants improve their nitrogen efficiency then both the total amount of fertilizer and the runoff can be significantly reduced.

http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/pocketk/46/defau...
It's not them just 'having their say'. It's also getting de-prioritized for promotions, left out of work outings, getting fired, etc.
It could be a reason, but it's a different issue - for women and ethnic minorities it's clear how many of them there are.

However, for conservatives it's an open question of whether they really are underrepresented or they seem underrepresented because they're hiding their viewpoint.

Perhaps a more useful parallel would be sexual orientation a couple decades ago, where there used to be all kinds of policies like "don't ask, don't tell" and you might have gotten an impression that your company or industry has very few gay people while in fact they're there just hiding in the closet.
You are right. My apologies if I implied this only happens on "the left". There's a lot of context in this thread so I didn't feel the need to caveat.

However, "social lynching" is not an absurd term. While everyone has a right to express their opinion and face the consequences thereof, social lynching occurs when people mob together and demand, pressure, or otherwise effectively execute physical consequences for a utterance of speech that is otherwise entirely legal and often totally unrelated to the consequences. Losing your job because a group of people found out you donated to a conservative social/political group is an example of social lynching (in this context). No, they didn't kill the person, but there is a real impact on that person's lively hood and it can often mean the death of a career. I agree that speech is not consequence free, let the assholes be shamed, but when we start to cross realms and impact people's jobs, families, lively hoods, for simply holding other opinions, something else is happening. We're beyond the realm of speech and have entered the wold of actions.
To clarify, it's an accurate summary of Thiel's views as expressed in this 2009 essay:

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
I worked at failed SaaS startup where the pointy haired boss insisted we use Java because there was lots of grads who knew it. At some point it took forever to wade through the boilerplate (and questionable grad code) to add a feature. This kills the startup.

I think this says less about the language, and more about the kind of talent you will attract based on your language choice.
To anyone who has a good feel for this space. Where do you think all this is heading in a 3-5 year time period? What is the medium-term vision like? I'm just curious.
China is less homogenous than you might think, and Japan has groups that face discrimination too even if the divisions are less obvious to Western eyes. And people do criticize Japan's relatively xenophobic attitudes.

More to the point, even if you were correct about their racial homogeneity that would not be a model that the United States can or should seek to emulate.
There's sort of a... thing in the gluten-sensitive community where people who have Diagnosed Celiac sometimes shit all over people who aren't diagnosed, and one of the first questions that comes up when you discuss gluten sensitivities with other people who are semi-knowledgeable is "oh are you diagnosed?" (as though it matters).

It doesn't really matter (unless you want to be able to deduct the cost of GF food on your taxes or try to get insurance to pay for them), but I could see why someone might just preemptively get that question out of the way first.
Apparently
But doesn't gravitational pull mainly deflect objects travelling at high velocity? Hence their use to accelerate spacecraft into different trajectories? If we looked at the 'indentations on a rubber mat' model of gravitational influence, the object would still have to be aimed almost directly at the planet in order to hit it rather than bend around it?

But I guess that comes down to the velocity of the object in question, and after repeated trajectory adjustments due to gravitational pull, it could quite conceivably end up aiming directly at a massive body in space that exerted the pull in the first place...
The bulk food store two blocks away sells nutritional yeast for $10 per pound. At 454 g in a pound and nutritional yeast about 50% protein, I calculate 4.4 cents per gram of protein.

Plus it's 25% fiber, no factory farming, fortified with B-12 and I love the taste mixed into stews.
Did you got to a public or private university? In either case, society helped a great deal towards what you obtained.

Here’s a good Obama quote:

> Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

Or this:

> Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
Well if we wanna talk about the difference between bourgeois and proletariat that's one thing but that's not the same thing as lower/middle/upper class.

I would even refute the notion that you must be a capitalist in that sense to be in the modern nobility.
what would be the reception to someone who just doesn't care about politics, doesn't care about who does what, who likes who, who eats what, who drives what? Libertarian but without the politics, I suppose.
Ridiculous. So Kevin Garnett, who earned $334m playing in the NBA is working class, but the guy next door to me who owns a flooring business (run out of his van & home) with one employee is in the capitalist class... A difference without distinction.

One is rich beyond most people's wildest dreams, the other is very much middle class.
This is why I'm glad the D's are cleaning house. Sexual assault shouldn't be partisan. F Bill Clinton. Hilary was absolutely complicit too.
Thanks. I was slightly taken aback by that response. Especially because I'm probably not the straw man that the comment was directed at.
Well, doctors are in charge of nurses. They have superior training. In increasing superiority, you have EMTs, then nurses, then doctors.
Are you having a laugh?

Soz, I should explain: Allow a speech about something a bit of leeway but if the source is bollocks, then call it out as such.

Science is a thing. The scientific method is a thing. A speech at an event can be a bit wayward and take liberties but the original, quoted, research should be sound.

Is it?
Muscle Milk is one of if not the most popular protein supplement among the casual lifting and exercise crowd, so it makes sense to focus on it in this context. More serious lifters general do not consume their products because most of them are fairly inefficient from a cost and protein / calorie standpoint.

Optimum Nutrition's products are the gold standard for more serious lifters when it comes to protein powder. Quest bars are probably the gold standard for protein bars.
Sure, if somebody is conspiring to commit a crime that isn't protected by the principles of political tolerance (or the law for that matter).

However, the fact that people even think to place tolerance of conservative views on the same level as planning homicide is ridiculous. Advocating that country raise the minimum salary for H1Bs, wearing a Trump hat (when your co-workers are wearing Hilary gear), advocating for stronger border enforcement, etc. are nowhere near the levels of abject illegality as plotting a murder. The notion that these are even comparable is testament to how much of an echo chamber tech in Silicon Valley has become.
Haha, we thought about calling it that!

Your suggestions are great, and I totally agree with them. We just launched 3 weeks ago, so those items haven't been top priority. But they are on my list.
That doesn't make any sense unless I'm missing something, A0 is suited for a completely different problem than protein folding...
They actually mean this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface.

1993 is the new 2018.

edit: And the life of the Apache Web Server (the first AWS) started with that interface.
My experience (with the carrier “Free”) is quite different. If there’s data at all, it’s mostly Edge and will cut out when the train gets to the next station. In some deeper lines I won’t even get a phone signal.
Both of you are speaking of granular points that ultimately lose to immediate, local concerns. One side says some variant of bigots, the other some variant of coastal elites.
It's not all that bad :D

https://glutenberg.ca/en/verify_age
A big question mark is that they talk about it in the video but the study was apparently never published? (See other comments, below.)
> One super important feature I use every day is being able to invert a SINGLE window and not the entire screen

While it's not per window inversion, for years I've been using the tiny (100KB) and wondrous xcalib package for screen inversion*

Should note that in order to get per screen inversion working I need to use Nvidia's Xinerama extension (without this extension inversion happens across all screens).

* bound to alt-o/alt-i hotkeys with xbindkeys. Here's the .xbindkeysrc if anyone's interested.

# invert screen 0
"xcalib -i -a -s 0"
m:0x8 + c:32

# invert screen 1
"xcalib -i -a -s 1"
m:0x8 + c:31
Well, the article sounds like it was written with IPv6 in mind
This is why that's not a good answer: http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2013/02/is-gluten-on-the-incre...
Can you share the name of the company? Jeb mentions something like "dub tag" but that's apparently not it.
Forest for the trees - the study was used to drive home a point about the position in the world these graduates were in. The study wasn't used to incite curiosity about p-values.
A scientist captured an impossible photo of a single atom
> how on Earth our technology is working as well it does, considering there are layers upon layers of abstractions which could have a lot of issues which are either worked around or just not hit in particular application.

Our technology works as well as it does because of these layers upon layers of abstraction. That's the only way you are going to be able to construct something with a few billion components and a fighting chance at avoiding unwanted interference between parts. The amazing thing is how often we get it just right, not that there are super rare edge cases that were not taken into account during the abstraction process that lead to bugs.

Every leaky abstraction is a bug in the waiting, all it takes is for someone to focus on the discrepancy with enough time, effort and resources thrown at it it might lead to a crash or an exploit.

Also note that it is not as if we don't know that caching is a hard problem to get right, it is one of the three explicitly mentioned in the 'there are two things hard about computing' joke.
Tis-interpreter: An interpreter for detecting undefined behavior in standard C
Decades ago, perhaps. LTE is not decades old...
You don't think conservatives treat liberals poorly? Go on r/atheism and see all the complaints about living in a red state.
You can, and yes, it is.
> Anti aircraft missiles are a lot more effective and a lot cheaper with modern computers.

I imagine it differently: lasers will make jets resistant to AA warfare, they potentially can shot down any incoming missile very efficiently.
I saw lots of people with tears here in D.C. after Trump got elected. Many were to the right of me, including my George W. Bush-voting Republican wife.

It's not leftism so much as people who are committed to political orthodoxy versus people who don't care about it. Trump eschewed political orthodoxy, and still got elected, and that was very scary for a lot of people. (In contrast, I lean left, but come from a country where bombs go off after one side loses an election, so I found it very hard to get worked up about Trump.)
The original software engineering study about the performance of some programmers being higher (28 times as per the paper) was in 1968 - https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=362858. After that there really haven't been any real studies to show that some programmers are an order of magnitude better than others. The reason why the original study is not longer relevant - it was done at a time when programming meant loading punch cards. I really want to see an evidence based study about the 10x progammer than something anecdotal.
The sudden death of the website?
Advising young graduates to retain humility seems a far stretch from belittling.
I don't think you identified the right reason. Sure, people may be sexist and stuff, but I believe most people here are smart enough to notice their own biases if they are gently pointed at.

However, what probably adds the majority of fuel to the fire is a total lack of discussion around current situation, if the measures that are taken (e.g quotas) are adequate and what are the criteria of their termination (quotas without termination criteria are just discrimination, not an instrument to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of power imbalance). People having to try and have that discussion are actively shut down and while it is effective in short term, in the long term that strategy just breeds more resentment. The message of equal opportunity gets substituted by "50% or it's sexist", and that's what people hear and that's why people upvote the post.
> it's easy to end up doing something that is implementation-dependent if you're not careful.

I wouldn't say that. I've done a fair amount of porting code between CL implementations, and it's usually pretty straightforward. Implementation dependencies tend to be found only in code doing OS-y things like threads, external processes, network sockets, etc. This code is usually not difficult to find, and I would think that the authors would have expected it to be implementation-dependent. Computational code usually ports with zero effort, even when the machine word size changes.
I would guess that there have been many attempts to use ML for protein folding. It's one of the most obvious ways to approach the problem.
yes, it's important to choose the right country to be born in, the right affluent and wealthy parents, the right ethniticity and of course the right gender.
> Ask yourself why you're so quick to dismiss the "minority of women" and "activists'" experiences.

That's a good question. Personally, I take people seriously if they take the problem seriously. I don't take activists seriously because too many of the them come from a subjective "feels before facts" place, and my strong belief that the main reason there is a gender disparity in tech is that women simply aren't interested (which TFA proves).

I emphatically think that tech would greatly benefit from having a more equal gender ratio, but I think that the programs and solutions activists want to implement -- and have implemented, like affirmative action -- and the impossibility of discussing their validity is absurd.

What we should focus on is the reasons behind women's disinterest in engineering fields. What are they?

None of their friends want to pursue the field? Culture? Biology? Lack of role models? That they simply, given the chance, would rather do something else?

Perhaps a mix of the above?

Once we've identified what the reasons are, and which reasons we can actually do something about, we should use this information to eliminate any external obstacles preventing women to choose a tech career.

My sad anecdotal experience from asking many brilliant women why they wouldn't pursue a career in IT even though they clearly possess the potential for it, is that because they are brilliant they can choose any career path they want, and they are more interested in things that are not tech, because tech is not social enough.

In the end, I believe much of it is a PR issue; we need to get rid of the cultural idea that IT is only for the anti-social 80s hacker living in his mom's basement.

Affirmative action, e.g., "positive" discrimination, may indirectly deal with this PR issue, but surely there are many, many methods that are better and more fair to everyone?
"Sprint" is such a wonderful example of how Agile can (and has often) been perverted (and in this case, inverted.)

What is a sprint in RL? It's a race in which you only go a very short distance. As in: "Wanna run a few miles?", "Nah, let's just do a sprint and leave it at that."

But stick-management willfully misinterprets Sprint as a very fast speed implying you should get an immense amount done in a short time by magical means.

Which has led to the Agile guys backing off from the word, officially, I do believe. You won't find it in the Alliance Glossary, just "iteration":
https://www.agilealliance.org/agile101/agile-glossary/

If overtime by software engineers were not exempted by law in many jurisdictions from being paid, I don't think this willful misinterpretation would happen so often.
It's whichever sucks more 100s of MBs of memory for putting a text file on screen.
Also ... Many people who think they're gluten-sensitive may actually be sensitive to FODMAPs. It's worth finding out because there are gluten-free foods that still contain these substances.
Fedora on my laptop and desktop, Centos on my servers, Debian based on my Raspberry Pi 3b and Zero. Been using Redhat based distros since 1998. I've tried others but never for very long. I know how to find help if something breaks which is very seldom.
It's a fun idea, but I really hope we don't have to sit through a multi year cycle of people using the term "Web 3.0"
Because it's Facebook and they have a pretty long history of sleazy behavior.
It's true, SF is terrible and everyone is leaving. That's what it's so cheap to live there.