skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This study by Loren Cordain, the antropoligist founder of the paleo-diet, is flawed in several ways. Isolated tribes lead completely different lives from Westernerns. They also often share very little genetic material with us. E.g two neighbouring African tribes can be genetically more separated than all white people in the whole world.

Regarding acne and diet, here are two quotes from two meta studies:

"We did not realize how daunting it would be to write an article dedicated to making sense of the relationship of acne to foods. It turns out that there are no meta-analyses, randomized controlled clinical studies, or well-designed scientific trials that follow evidence-based guidelines for providing solid proof in dealing with this issue."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836431/

"Despite the inundation of epidemiologic studies, mostly of unsatisfactory quality, and the abundance of beliefs and perceptions among acne patients about the role of diet in the pathogenesis of acne, there is a paucity of reliable information. In the few studies that have been undertaken, no specific foods (including fatty foods and chocolate) have been identified as causative factors. Yet, the question of whether common perceptions and beliefs prove to be fact or misconception is more than an academic issue. It is of importance due to the practical implications of these beliefs for acne management.

Alas, after reviewing the relevant published data, we can conclude that insufficient serious effort has been invested in investigating these questions, which are prevalent and consistent across different cultures. At present, we are bereft of reliable answers based on scientific evidence. We hope that the day when we will be able to knowledgeably advise our acne patients on the role of nutrition in relation to acne etiology is not too far away."
http://centrespringmd.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Rol...

Both mention Cordain's study and explains why it is no good. If you believe diet is causing acne, you might as well believe in homeopathy and healing too. All the anecdata in the world cannot change that.

If you think X (eating "bad" food) causes Y (acne), then observing (not X)and(not Y) doesn't prove anything because there is no PREDICTION involved. However, there is an obvious way to try and test the causality; DO X and observe Y. Eat as much pizza and chocolate and drink as much milk and soda you want. If you after t days have a face full of acne then CONGRATULATIONS! You have done something thousands of dermatologists have been unable to - namely demonstrated a causative link between diet and acne. It would truly be a huge breakthrough and you would have revolutionized the science of dermatology.

I find it very odd that, despite all the anecdotes, not a single person has conducted any such experiment.
Future fossils of the 21st Century
Pagerank is (rightly) excluded, but surely tf-idf and graph theory should make the list? It was essentially the marriage of these two concepts with map-reduce that allowed high volume search engines to actually work and become the most important piece of infrastructure on the internet.
My big hope for this game is that it does not go the Spelunky way in terms of game design. In Spelunky you have all these toys that are fun to use, but the punishment for using them "wrong" just takes all the fun out of the game.

I hope they can find a balance that allows you to take risks with the physics interactions without loosing your entire run.
I’m confused about the topic. How would one connect a 60s PBX to the internet? The suggestion was ‘we need to go back’ to this style of architecture, I think, not that we should use vintage 60s phone hardware.
Look who they're posing with - of course he does.
You're reinforcing his statement.
I've seen the portfolio's of dozens of family offices (I worked at a portfolio analytics company so I had free reign to snoop around), and none of the offices seemed competent. The returns were terrible and the portfolio construction laughable.

Instead of striving for out performance, the funds just catered to the whims and idiosyncrasies of the family. Also, many of these funds were too small to make sense, AUMs from like 150MM-500MM. They would have be much better off just investing in a hedge fund, but the family's ego didn't allow them. I think the point was to show off more than anything else.

One of the exceptions was Sergey Brin's family office, which managed a shit-ton of money and had some good people who actually knew something about portfolio construction.
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> they download Chrome because it's familiar, and ironically doesn't nag the person to enable half a dozen Microsoft's services one by one

More accurately, they install it because google.com, Gmail, YouTube, etc. will constantly nag you to install Chrome and will sometimes display errors telling you that a feature requires Chrome even though the browser you’re currently using also supports it.
Ask HN: A good and not-so-shady alternative to Google Analytics
I am looking to replace the visitor tracker and analytics on some of my sites.

I am currently using Google Analytics. Is there any other alternative? I can use less complexity and features!
Oddness and lavish mid-Victorian colour printing did seem to go together, yes: https://books.google.ie/books?id=SugpRWf_FB4C&pg=PA35&lpg=PA... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestiarium_Scoticum . Like the frilly initial letters it's clearly an archaising choice meant to hark back to early printed Euclids (see the one in https://www.c82.net/euclid/about/ ): part of the nineteenth-century craze for style revivals.
- Main advantage is simplicity, but architecture is in fact very similar to nginx. So, server should be faster than nginx but scale similarly. But it's all still highly DIY

- You're right, I mean non-blocking architecture of network IO.
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I have the impression that America has had an obsessive history with drugs, but still think legal weed is a downhill path, but guess you guys would just say I'm bigoted, weed is non-addictive，or the key is self-control etc.
Could Life on Mars Be Lurking Deep Underground?
I had silly idea of gaming using DJI headset while lying down. Not sure how good would it be and how would it compare to monitor hanged above the bed.
That would remove market competition forces from the most important aspect of the whole the industry: content. Distribution is a solved problem. Everyone does it fine. I want companies competing to make content people want to watch.
It's not limited to Google Search/Youtube. A few years back Google had an incentive program that would reward 3rd party websites to put up a "This page is faster in Chrome" banner. Not a regular advertisement, a separate banner.
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> One other interesting item of note about McKenna; his research led him to conclude that human consciousness would undergo a dramatic shift around the year 2012. He predicted this back in the late 1980s. I’m not sure how logically or scientifically valid his theory about “time wave zero” is, but there can be no denying that humanity is about to undergo some major socio-economic and political changes. The bond bubble has yet to blow, and when it does, it will take the entire machinery of the state down with it. The state's present spending trajectory is unsustainable.

This is pretty darned crackpot.

As to "as good an explanation as many others" - it really really isn't. We're getting into Lamarckian, inheritance-of-acquired-characteristics territory here, where this theory is positing a) that mushrooms being an aphrodisiac increases reproductive fitness of people who take them, and b) somehow this means the effects of the drug are passed on??

This is junk science.
My, that brings back memories. I love how that video starts on the RiscOS (3?) desktop.
Funny thing is, it's literally a sandbox.
> It starts by acknowledging that somebody needs to take decisions and that not all opinions matter equally. Find some respected long term committers and organize decision making strictly around those doing the most work.

No, that's not a way out, because that's effectively what we started with at the dawn of Rust 1.0. withoutboats addresses the problems we've had in the post.
Can you tell this story in more detail, with links? It sounds interesting.
Just found these:

[1] Original Fark thread: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/Draw-lines-to-alter-fl...

[2] My attempt to show others how to run this offline: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784666#c17784666

[3] My comment about the rehosted/recompiled 960x640 version: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784943#c17784943

[4] I'm smiling at Finger51's comment: Works great in FF1.5!

[5] My original blog entry a few days later: http://chir.ag/200512302250

[6] It's a bit sad that all the links to Digg, Reddit, and MSNBC are broken now. And I totally forgot about the traffic behemoth that delicious was! Here's a fixed version of the Reddit link, at least the page is up, even if the URL changed: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/21509/
Try setting up L and R speakers on each side of your chair at the level of your ears. I don't think you'll hear footsteps as well, but it's better than your headset around your neck.

Try gaming ear buds, maybe it's the weight/feel of the headset.

It could also be a mental thing. I've started to think that I play better in one of my duplicate pair of eyeglasses.

I like wearing headphones when playing FPS games, because of the immersion and it's easier to hear footsteps. Blocks out other sounds.

GG
That’s like saying it’s “anti-consumer” for Apple to have the iPhone as an exclusive and not be forced to license the design to other companies.
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The article mentions the speed, but a difference that I've observed is that the newer version consumes significantly less CPU and memory.
What was really striking was the difference between manuals for the Apple II and Macs. The II manual was probably one of the finest user-friendly manuals for a computer ever created.

Of course it addressed a different audience ... the users, not the purchasers.

The same thing happened to the technical manuals; the II manual was transparent about the machine; while the Mac manual left out a lot of useful technical info and replaced it with the first incarnation of the software-prison. No PEEKs or POKEs or hardware insights, no friendly appeals to having fun and learning.

Eventually the rainbow logo became a blase grey ... same shape, but drained of color. Revealing a different personality.
Yeah, it's became the new PC, what? you are agaist weed?
That sort of behaviour should be called out and publicised widely.

Given how easy it is to delete an offending div using the dev tools, it would be easily verified by web developers. There'd be a thousand blog posts and news stories saying "Google deliberately sabotages Edge on YouTube" and the public blowback would be pretty damaging I imagine.
TBH, it was simpler in implementation and maintance, while creating just a little bit slower than pthread on initialization time.
Your shadow characters must have taken a huge amount of RAM, too. :-)

I have the 16kbyte expansion, very frivolous. Though gotten in modern times. The only contact I had with the system was my uncle who used his ZX81 to heat his home with the cheaper night tariff than the day rate. (Of electricity.)
Does this game have any objective? I didn't get it.
That URL isn't working for me.

The Nature URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0757-z

The DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0757-z

Sci-Hub is doing a bad gateway fail.

Damn.
no, it doesn't have an objective. It's a sandbox game.
Don't forget GOOG stock (https://www.growthink.com/content/story-jeff-bezos%E2%80%99-...).
"hearing of a notable overdose from someone who was seemingly functional"

And that is the stigma and misinformation surrounding addiction at work. Many, if not most, addicts are not only "functional" but sometimes super-humanly so. Especially when it comes to wealthy circles.

Drugs, even the hardest ones, aren't inherently bad, and can often have MANY benefits, many that are performance enhancing effects. Yes, even Heroin. Infact, particularly heroin. It can boost creativity immensely, boost your dedication and ability to work long hours, among many other benefits that people always like to brush aside "for the greater good/" and "the ends justifying the means" of misinformation or lack of information.

An example of more misconception: A seasoned heroin addict will actually durrive energy, motivation and insomnia out of heroin use. Its not always the sedating, "noding out", sleepy kind of drug most people picture it as. Sure all of that is still a thing, but not always, depending on the addict's tolerance, responsibility of use, and general experience.

Unfortunately, a lot of the "problems" hard drugs like heroin create are due to the fact that they are illegal. Yes there are health problems involved that are inherent regardless of legality, but when you can use a pure product, the correct way, even most of those issues go away, or aren't anywhere close to as bad as people think they are.

Heroin addicts who steal, lie, cheat, etc, only do so because of poverty, the cost of the drug, and the inability to source a consistent and unadulterated product. Wealthy people are immune to the issues revolving around poverty/price, which only leaves the health issues, and impurities... which again: Are largely due to the black market and inconsistency of the product. Without the war on drugs, it is entirely possible for most of heroin's "downsides" to be mitigated.

People don't want or like to believe this but: Its virtually impossible for an experienced heroin addict to overdose (unless they are explicitly trying to), on a product that is pure and consistent. Its not as easy as people think. But all it takes is that one time with a product that isn't what you thought it was. Or one night of irresponsibly mixing drugs (usually alcohol) that shouldn't be mixed

I'm not trying to advocate heroin use, but just pointing out that it isn't at all what most people think it is. Even very progressive and open minded people often still have a warped and misinformed perception of hard drugs. And the cold hard truth is: Responsible use of pure heroin is VERY safe. I would say as safe as alcohol (so not entirely safe, but far safer than the boogeyman drug it is purported to be)... its a fact that you never hear anyone say, but in my opinion and experience its entirely true.

I don't think you would be hard pressed to find professionals with experience in addiction and pharmacologist who would agree with me.
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I'm new to this particular controversy, but as a startup founder considering to open up their stack, I think what Confluent is doing here is very reasonable.

From their own FAQ:

> Is Confluent Community License open source?
Strictly speaking it is “source-available.” ..

So if Bryan's analysis holds up and indeed, you don't own your copy and instead you merely were given the right to use and modify it, as long as you abide by rules X, Y and Z, then.. well, isn't that okay too? Isn't that better than nothing?

Is there some sort of hidden rule somewhere that if you sell (or give away) the right to read and modify your proprietary software, that then you're suddenly evil?

I think I must be missing something, but what's the core argument here? This sort of thing makes the rounds on HN frequently, but I get the feeling that all but the most avid FSF-supporters are okay with 100% closed, proprietary, SaaS, etc software existing, and also okay with 100% OSI-approved open source. But somehow people get super angry about anything that falls in the middle. Why is that? Why is proprietary software nothing to worry about, but proprietary software with a "here's the source, have fun" notice tacked onto it totally evil?

To be honest, I don't always buy the argument about muddying the definition of "open source". Yes, there have been companies that called their thing open source even though it wasn't, by the OSI definition, and that's a shitty move. But my impression is that Confluent is not one of those companies.
> “If he makes a mistake... he'll find out he made a mistake when the devil welcomes him to breakfast,” said Madinger.

That quote is great! Is it a common saying in dangerous fields?
Yeah, I am all up for decriminalization/legalization. My issue lies with people who has not given up on prohibition after it repeatedly has been proven to be a failure. :)
> Amazon is Jeff and Jeff is Amazon

True, and a scary thought for any heavy investors. That's why a company that size needs to have a publicly known succession plan given current valuation. There are people at Amazon who could take over but no one whom the market would trust with taking the reigns, right off the bat.
With the amount of tweets you're sending per day, you're going to inevitably end up saying the same things over and over to the same people every day.

I don't expect this to be very popular.

I mean this has only been running for a couple of days and you're already re-cycling the same tweets.

Also this is like 2-3 lines of code and a text file. It's not really "Show HN" worthy and should be removed IMHO.
Google Is Censoring Content Critical to China on YouTube
It's exactly what we proposed, and the stakeholders loved it. This is just more ghost story.
They also can't be drowned, or killed by lava or acid.
Marios from Lenses.io ( landoop ) here. On a brief look, although IANAL, the new license doesn't affect us directly. Our core product has native Kafka and Kubernetes SQL capabilities which aren't based on Confluent's KSQL. Lenses does integrate with open source schema registries —Confluent's and HortonWork's— and this integration is also not affected by the licensing change.

On a personal opinion (I don't represent my employer), the new license affects both behemoths like AWS and smaller providers like Aiven alike. It may be a bargaining chip for the business, a trojan horse or it may backfire; only time will tell. I think many HNers know first-hand how hard it is to balance business and open source. It is a sign of health that the community is concerned and the best way to ensure an open platform going forward imo.
I believe Amazon has built a somewhat more dreadful work environment than traditional factories.

First, it seems like they have optimized every last detail to the point where people are robbed of their individuality. If your wrist watch tells you when to pee, that leaves traces not just in your underwear, but in your psyche.

Second, traditional blue-collar work came with a social support network, build-in. There was a sense of belonging that can be described as anything from “class consciousness” to just the typical camaraderie of working a job, any job, with the same team for years. Amazon actively works against this when, for example, working against the formation of unions. They also inadvertently prevent it through their reliance on temporary work, and rapidly changing assignments, work procedures, etc.
That may be so, but it doesn't generalize to the whole population.

> This is because if the receiver can afford it and thought it was good, he would already have it.

Assuming they a) know about it and its qualities, b) know how to get it, c) can do so without hassle, and d) truly know what they want and need.

Then there are people who hate to choose, but trust certain others to make a good choice for them.
* Weather

We eliminated any area that got below 50 degrees at any time. My wife and I had no interest in being cold!

* School Quality

We have two children so school quality was very important to us. We used sites like:

https://www.niche.com/k12/

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/rankings-...

We originally eliminated private schools and focused on public schools since we had only lived in areas like San Francisco and Miami. We added them back when we realized other areas like Atlanta have reasonably priced private schools.

* Community

We wanted a global and diverse community. We wanted our kids to hear multiple languages and learn about different customs and celebrations.

* Cost of Living

We wanted to have a better life without having to increase our overall take home pay. So things like cost of house and amount of state taxes was an important issue for us. When we moved from San Francisco to Miami we stopped paying 7% to California which went straight to our kids college savings.

So after living in San Francisco, Miami, Atlanta, and Salt Lake City we decided to move to San Juan, Puerto Rico. The cost of living in Puerto Rico is comparable to Utah and Georgia, weather is amazing, and the private schools are top notch. Most people here are bilingual and well traveled. It is an amazing community to be part of and I'm glad we made the move.

We also have fiber internet for the first time in our lives since it was only available in small parts of any of the cities we lived previously, so our work is much better :)
For the BBC, that’s a surprisingly softball article. He defrauded venues out of money, bandmasters out of a good chunk of their time (and considering fucking with their pay at the last second, money too.) it seems there should be a lot more depth to the “how do you feel about screwing all these people?” line of questioning.

It also seemed unduly credulous. For someone who illustrated they were an excellent manipulator online, but also apparently an excellent conman at the direct interpersonal level (see: sustained lying with the band mates), the article let the claim about his self-outing go without any real skepticism. A quote from his brother is fine, but how about actually following up with the reporters that were supposedly emailed? One of them was at the BBC - would it be that hard to confirm whether his disclosure was real?
Yes, less attack surface is good. So is low resource usage.

I used to like tinyhttpd, but Debian dropped it, and I find it painful to build, so I use nginx now.
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Agree. Not everyone is walking around with the "repetitive work is depressing" brain". In fact any change to an almost robotic daily productivity routine turns some folks into temporary ptsd patients.
Try setting a gas cloner on fire.
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I am definitely not saying that adding that good stuff to the existing app incrementally was impossible. They could have done that. But for "strategic" reasons, the stakeholders wanted to replatform, and we did that.
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If I was a billionaire, I would be very very nervous just dumping my billions in a S&P 500 ETF. At that level of wealth, you really ought to have a portfolio manager who can slice and dice your exposure in advantageous ways.

I don't think active management makes sense for the majority of folks, but billionaires are exactly the kind of people that it does make sense for. With a billion or two you can probably get yourself into some pretty good closed-end funds (if you're savvy about it) that will probably deliver better risk adjusted returns than vanilla passive.

Personally, if I had the money, I would go with 2 Sigma or AQR. Both of their past returns streams are stellar and uncorrelated with the markets.
I don't want to sound like I'm defending Fox News (I'm not), but this is a cable news problem in general. Making every story somehow an outrage is how they get ratings. Whether CNN is following Stormy Daniels from strip club to strip club, or MSNBC is yelling about some random comment it's much of the same thing.

There just isn't enough news to fill 24 hours of content every single day across multiple stations.