skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Why can't poverty be causal? An essential part of food composition and marketing is price. As your disposable income decreases, the composition of items on the McDonald's value menu becomes more relevant to you, and the quality of the produce at Whole Foods markedly less so.

- Intergenerational epigenetic influence means that factors that are no longer overtly visible may have a lasting effect. If, for example, leaded gasoline exhaust fumes made grandma fat, that contributory cause could then invisibly propagate to a later generation via epigenetic regulation attached to gametes and occurring in utero.

- In 2011, someone suggested that Ad-26 and Ad-35 be used in an Ebola vaccine, to work around preexisting Ad-5 immunity in targeted populations. The anti-vaxxer nonsense notwithstanding, the hypothesis that an unknown obesity vector has been spread via routine vaccination, without any other adverse symptoms or side effects, has not yet been tested. Better fat than dead, though.

Several hypotheses regarding decrease in dietary quality have been tested, and found to be unsupported by evidence. The corn lobby has quite a vested interest in proving that HFCS is not significantly different from cane sugar sucrose in prepared foods, so you can find a lot of very narrow studies comparing HFCS to sucrose that all conclude they are the same dietarily, without going anywhere near price, or politics, or comparisons with the fats that both sucrose and HFCS have been replacing over the years. I foresee future studies declaring (cheap) palm oil to be dietarily equivalent to other (more expensive) oils, without ever noting the impact of prices on recipes and diets. Broader studies likely have a harder time getting funding.

Microbiota are also influenced by location--even temporary changes in location. Montezuma's Revenge and Delhi Belly and trail trots can all cause rapid change in one's gut constitution.

Observing Japanese who migrate to the US and preserve their previous diet could be elucidative. If they don't change anything about their lives other than their location, would they grow fatter?
I used to work in the back room of a Target and the stereo was always tuned to the same radio station. They just played 12 songs, in a loop, 24/7. I always knew which song would come on next before it did. I think most radio stations are like that- they just have a loop of about an hour of music that they play, and most people aren't in the car long enough to figure out it's just the same songs over and over.
I notice this with some people in general, that seems to always want to pollute the air with words when sometimes, there is beauty in silence. And then I get called "quiet" for not doing the same. Ugh.

I know a few people that for some reason feel the need to narrate what I can see with my own eyes.
A think the right way to test such a tool is to start with a list of known portmanteaus or rhymes, and check if the tool successfully finds them, and with what precision and recall.

Just having people plug in words and find things that they find interesting is going to result in people feeling it's better than it actually is. I tried a few examples, and while some of the outputs seemed "OK", they missed what seemed like obvious puns that I know exist in the lexicon because I was able to massage the inputs until it found them.
BBC America link - http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/the-hunt/season-1/episode-01...

Netflix link - https://www.netflix.com/title/80097726
Downvote me to hell but seriously
#firstworldproblems
Someone who is a beginner will be working on easy material with a textbook that has very mild expectations of "mathematical maturity." Textbooks mostly (with a few intentional exceptions) calibrate the mathematical maturity they require according to how much work a student will have done in order to be ready to tackle the book's subject matter. Some people might think they can be ready to do problem sets in an advanced math textbook while skipping the work that would have given them the maturity it requires, but they are kidding themselves. They can't advance on the spectator track and then make a horizontal move over to actually doing the math. There's nothing wrong with people passively reading the material if they enjoy it, but if they want to tackle the problems, they are going to have to work through the earlier material by solving problems as well, and if they do that, they'll find that their sophistication increases along with the demands on it.
> In general I don’t understand why people think that it’s ok to pollute every bit of space with noise of their choice (aka music). I view it as a big nuisance.

I presume your comment was addressed to businesses, but I've noticed it for people as well; there seems to be a growing trend of believing that it's perfectly OK to listen to music, or watch TV, in public, without headphones, and without even a minimal attempt to lower the volume. I've noticed this increasingly over time in the US on trains and—this one really gets me—in the bathroom. (I suppose I can see watching a video in there, but without headphones?)
IANAL, but software is more than just lines of code. Contained in there are business practices and logic that may be as protected as the code itself.

I wouldn't concern yourself much with having that code in an open portfolio. Pretty much every developer has worked on projects they cannot share. If you can competently express your role on the project, that should be sufficient.
I've noticed that the music a coffee shop plays has a big effect on whether or not I want to come back regularly. It doesn't have to all be stuff I'd have in my own playlists, but it needs to have variety. It's even fine if sometimes it's something I actively dislike.

Working in a place that plays the same corporate-approved playlist forever is hellish, though. Having it be your actual job to be there is even worse.
Not gonna happen that soon, sorry. There's a few easy enough changes to improve PG connection scaling considerably, but to get to that count more invasive changes are needed.
I don't think that you're a hypocrite; I think that you're honest about your intolerance. But you're not the only one, and I think that you are an example of our current Zeitgeist, which is — I believe — one of remarkable intolerance for opposing points of view.

Granted, we're all intolerant of something; the question is where we draw the line. I think that for quite awhile in the 80s and 90s the line was high, but now it's very very low in comparison.
Canada is a big place, which city are you in?
I'm not really sure. I have family from there but am not there myself. Certainly by the mid 00s I knew people doing the commuter run for their pretty well paid London jobs.
Does it also bother you when people talk about using a "mouse" to move "files" to their "desktop?"
If I were doing this, the first thing I would do is consult a lawyer, giving them whatever contracts or other paperwork you signed with your old company, along with (possibly - if you were allowed to keep them) your old employee handbooks for that company.

That would allow you to have information to take the next step (or warn you not to do anything at all!).

That next step would be - perhaps with the help of the lawyer - to draft a letter to your old company outlining what you intended to do, why, your boundaries, your intentions, etc. What would be dicey with this would be being able to do it in such a way that doesn't cause your former employer to go into "full lockdown" mode and sick their lawyers on you for whatever reason. Depending on their size and the stakes, they could potentially sue you in a SLAPP-like manner - not to win, mind you, but just to exhaust your resources and will to proceed. After all, if you are wrapped up in a lawsuit, you are not likely to be coding any of the projects...

If the company you worked for was small - then maybe the way to approach it might be more informally - ask the owner or whatnot out to a beer or dinner, and lay things out informally (no paperwork or nothing - just a friendly chat) - and that could hash out or give you a feel as to how you can proceed more formerly, if it's required (again - lawyer consultation will help on how to do this).

Once you know things - especially if it were just an informal chat - make sure you get any permission or whatever in writing; don't just go on a friendly handshake.

Provided you have zero old code and zero old assets (graphics, sounds, data, documents, etc) - and you make an effort to not go "full clone mode" - then you should be in the clear. Still, they could come back at you - it's not something cut and dry.

Also - if you are employed elsewhere - make sure what you are doing isn't going to infringe anything you signed at the new employer; again - use your lawyer.

If this all seems way too much work, or too expensive, or whatever - then STOP. Don't even go down that route, and build your portfolio another way, with your own ideas and such. Because if you aren't willing to put in the due diligence needed to protect yourself in this kind of a situation, you have no business even trying - one minor (or major) mistake can really screw up your life, and without the legal advice and framework and understanding, you may not even know when you step into that morass.
Washington lawmakers consider bill that would provide the homeless with free ID
No, no new galaxies and matter, just more empty space, with the space between us and the further out galaxies expanding so fast that they become inaccessible even at the speed of light, then those only half as far will disappear behind this horizon of reachability, then those even closer, until only the closest few galaxies will be left in an otherwise entirely empty universe.

Even later, space will expand so fast that the gravitational interaction that keeps the milky way (or its successor formed by the merger with Andromeda) will be overcome and every star will be alone in an empty universe, than the stars and planets will be torn apart by the ever faster expanding space, and finally maybe even the atoms and particles from the debris.
Does anyone have links to actual numbers on the austerity policy in the UK?

Every time an article like this pops up, I look and stupidly fail to find any numbers specific to what years had what funding reduction in what program and what the total funding of the program was before. So it's "austerity" but I don't know what that means beyond spending cuts and tax increases.
Assuming we need to keep backwards compatibility indefinitely that's true, but that still wouldn't expand the number of trust anchors. DANE isn't a new trust anchor, it's just a more direct way of trusting preexisting trust anchors (DNS registrars). Even if you don't use or support DANE you still need to trust the registrars.
When I worked at Radio Shack and they mandated that we play Christmas music all the time after Halloween, I'd switch it to one of SomaFM's more casual Christmas stations (Xmas in Frisko) when the boss wasn't around.

No one ever noticed except for us employees, and it was so, soooo much better than hours of the same five songs on repeat.
Have you considered that a lot of people who already watch that stuff all die do so compulsively and are incubating a crippling mental illness? Also, I'm not sure that people who are consuming that content with enthusiasm are necessarily going to good job at screening it out for other people, because there's a significant overlap between enjoyment of such material and enjoyment of the reactions of people who find it distasteful.
I'm not a doctor so it would be unethical and irresponsible for me to diagnose anyone online. But I have a stretch therapy business and we relieve and reduce a lot of pain all over the body. Sometimes the person has pain in the lower back but the issue is tight hamstrings. I have also had people that have had issues such as different types of arthritis like rheumatoid arthritis, vascular arthritis, and bursitis is different locations of there body. Your case studies could try going to some specialist doctors or even going to a chiropractor. Just do your research for the chiropractors. Some are better then others and you should probably stay away from the franchise type locations. Not that the franchise locations are bad they just aren't set up to diagnosis any serious or hard cases. How are you involve in the case studies? I really don't have any context for anything you are telling me.
Adventures in Analyzing Stuxnet (Bruce Dang from Microsoft) [video]
Science will prevail eventually, on that I will agree. Unfortunately most nutrition science today is complete garbage. The evidence doesn't back up the results they claim.

Basically, at this point each person has to try various things and figure out what works best for themself.
I think some people are naturally frugal. I always go out of my way to save money on business trips even when there's no benefit to doing so, and no drawback to spending the money.

I'll take Uber pools, walk, or take public transit even though I'm technically no restriction on my transportation spending. Likewise, unless I'm taking my team out to dinner, I'll usually grab a $10 gyro or something instead of going to a nice restaurant.
That's interesting, do you have a link to the paper this is from?
You are forgetting relativistic effects.
Everything related to the sporadic groups is crazy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadic_group
Hmm...would this only be relevant on the scale of nano/picoseconds, or seconds or higher granularity, given a frequent synchronization schedule?
Might be better to link the youtube video directly. Linked page doesn't offer much commentary AFAICT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEXUG_vN540
It seems to me (and I’m serious about this) a classic sociopath would in fact be willing to do this kind of thing for money if I understand correctly, with no ill effects. They apparently have conscience and are something like 1% of the population. But I think they tend to be smart, and can probably get higher-paying jobs.
Thanks! It doesn't explain Gallager codes since I don't know much about them (but will look into them now!). It only briefly mentions RS decoding, since the RS erasure code uses Vandermonde matrices, and Cauchy matrices seem more foolproof for an intro article. I was planning on writing a follow-up article on PAR1 (which uses RS erasure codes, but slightly incorrectly) but alas, my free time isn't what it used to be...
Obligatory xkcd "workflow": https://xkcd.com/1172/
Requests made with HTTPoison are passed to the library’s own connection pool whereas requests made with Mint are handled in the same process. While HTTPoison is great for most use cases, Mint is a promising solution for anyone who has specific control flow requirements.

I’m interested in this for some of the uglier API integrations I maintain where an ordered chain of requests must be made with no guarantee of delivery and responses that involve a considerable amount of in-memory processing (large XML bodies to be exact). Having control over my process architecture is preferable to leaving it up to the HTTP library’s connection pool in these cases.
Speaking as someone on the spectrum, please do not fake a condition to try to get better treatment or something you want. Not only is this dishonest but it makes it harder for those of us who are really on the spectrum to get the assistance we really need. It’s already hard enough for us to get support in the workplace or even hold down a job, to contend with the “I wonder if they’re faking it to get special treatment” it just makes things harder.
Yes! it should work for this too, as long as ffmpeg recognizes the audio format :)
Yeah, that's part of my point. JS and Python can't even do what we're talking about here.
Gotchya! Will do.
Is that a real question? I guess you couldlook at the upvotes
You are correct, but thankfully relativity tells us that in this case both events are independent, so neither can be the cause of the other, so it's not that bad of a disagreement.

It's even useful as a consistency model for some distributed systems.
I have replaced the battery and the HDD by an SSD in two old thinkpads, and they work very well. In particular, they have a nice key layout and type a lot better than my 1600 dollar Dell XPS, which is more important to me than a full HD screen.
You seem to have answered your own question! For any set of `n + 1` sample values for degree-at-most-`n` polynomials, there's a map from the coefficient representation to the pointwise representation (obvious), and one going the other way (Lagrange interpolation). The DFT is just one instance of this, but a particularly nice one, because the map is essentially involutive, and subject to considerable computational speed-up.

What dots do you want to connect? (Anyway you can connect them with a high-degree polynomial curve. :-) )
I think some Starbucks have a little more agency. The one near my apartment in NYC is always playing a mid-00s hiphop/R&B throwbacks playlist. Definitely not the mainstream suburban mom stuff, but, ya never know, maybe they have separate "urban environment" playlists.
I think the GP is being sarcastic (i.e. making the same point you're making)
They can pry my 4K UHD Blu-rays from my cold, dead hands.
Substitute value-neutral "substance" for goop, and the meaning is still the same.
I worked at a toy store for a couple years and had to endure The Goof Troop movie on repeat all day as well as a toy crate at the counter that would vibrate and say “Excuse me!? Can you let me out of here!??” Just thinking about this toy now makes me feel a little sick.

But what I find interesting is back then you just put up with it. Awful repetition was just an accepted part of a minimum wage job then. Nowadays, we question everything. I do think our questioning is a good thing though.
I mean this as politely as possible: why would you make fun of someone developing in an unusual idea?
Usually I do stop a few times, but recently decided to just power through it. Last time I didn't even realize how much time had passed until the gas light came on.

6-8 hours is about what I can do on a plane without getting up too so it's not too bad for me. Truckers do it all the time too so it's not that rare.

Edit:

If electric can get to 400+ miles (already there almost) I'll be sold. That's enough for me to do the entire trip with only adding an extra stop if I drove nonstop. When I calculated with the 200-300 mile range a year or so ago it would have been too much waiting around for a charge.
No. You would have to observe the planet from your position and that observation changes based on how you move relative to the planet. The whole of SRT and GRT work in such a way that no general clock synchronization can ever exist for observers in different frames of reference.

If you take a reference with you on a journey through the solar system, that reference will stay accurate for an observer travelling with it and drift as seen from an observer that stayed behind. Both views are accurate. Locally, the amount of time that has passed for each observer was different. If you would correct for any observed drift, you would mess with your fundamental unit of time in your local frame of reference and get incorrect measures of time passed in your own frame.
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No, you can't. Atomic clocks measure the oscillation of atoms (I think Cesium is currently used), and though constant at a fixed point, vary when theyre moving at different speeds. GPS wouldn't be possible without taking this into account, for example. A second on earth will never be the same as a second on Mars.
For any speeds we'd be likely to be traveling, in system, it'd likely only be a problem for milliseconds if that. We'd still be able to correct for where things are as we approach them or plan to approach them.
Great tool for experimenting with spatiotemporal art patterns.
> Abstract algebra is not part of the typical undegrad CS/engineering math curriculum.

It should be (says the mathematician)! That it doesn't probably comes from confusing the elegant theoretical perspective on finite fields to the computational perspective, which (at least from my pure-math point of view) can get pretty hairy.
which might be a good argument for gigification of these types of content moderation positions since the machine learning tech simply isn't there yet and might never be in some cases.

Someone with a strong constitution/stomach (i.e. the people who can browse 4chan while eating) might find this work relatively leisurely/tame for decent pay and flexible hours if adapted to a gig-economy model. I mean, there's a whole class of sick fucks who watch the stuff on reddit's /r/watchpeopledie for no compensation.

Might end up with less mental health problems if this type of desensitized personality was leveraged for this nasty-but-necessary job instead of recruiting from naive 19-year-old kids or whoever in between retail jobs and exploiting them in atrocious work conditions until they get PTSD.
It was not built-in because it WAS possible, unlike other languages. So I think the argument in this specific case is mute.
Rather than argue I'd like to suggest two questions for consideration?

Why do you think some folk are drawn to habitually view such content?

What other things do you think satisfy that impulse?
Gates would be just as ruthless, if not more. Don't let his shift in focus to humanitarian issues fool you. Microsoft can't rely on its consumer brand prestige like Apple can (thus selling orders of magnitudes more devices), so it needs to extract as much revenue as it can from consumer machines.
I am letting what works for them already. I didn't enter her apartment and add another monitor and a numpad to her desk.
Let us spare a moment of silence for the poor souls who had to work the floor and register at Japanese we-sell-everything store Donkihote, who had to listen to this piece of art on repeat, day or night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJyYrrDKYZE
Let's just secure the perimeter and live in a world of VPNs and negligently open hosts. I'm not strictly arguing that DNSSEC is a good thing. But I do think it makes sense to authenticate data flowing across general networks, no? You're saying the problem isn't a problem because part of the solution is stupid today. I guess it's job security for security professionals to have insecure things floating around that need additional security? At least some people want to solve the problem. The internet as it exists today being engineered around insecure DNS is not a feature. Name one other scenario where there's a preference for no security.

People used to say the same thing about the boot process. Now we have secure boot. Maybe that's just stupid too but I feel a lot better knowing that my hardware is booting verified images than whatever happens to be sitting at some address in unprotected memory (as long as I remain the owner of the key).
How Medium’s Curation, Distribution and Paywall Systems Work for Writers
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Great for experimenting with spatio temporal art patterns. Browser based.
> can be neither proven nor disproven. The philosophical fact that, due to LEM, it must either be true or not is irrelevant, because you cannot rely on it being true or on it being false

So it's similar to, but not the same thing as, modifying the LEM to permit Unknowable as a third category (beyond the proposition is true and its negation is true). Instead we maintain that it has a truth value one way or the other, but that it happens to be both unknowable and of no consequence.
The way you were arguing makes it sound like you are against beginners having access to solutions, or that you completely misunderstood my initial argument. I am not arguing about anything other than that. If you want to address that in particular sure. I am not saying anything about people skipping material and getting bitten by it later.
This is medical treatment; there are no competitive market forces to reduce prices.