skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, when you say stuff like "no chemicals or genetic tampering are allowed" you exclude literally everything man has eaten EVER.

I don't really care if people want to consume so-called "organic" food but the pseudo-scientific conversation surrounding it makes me cringe.
The Bearded Gods Speak (1971)
I think it's neither a conspiracy nor a reasonable precaution.

Food borne illnesses are, in fact, a serious problem but regulations that crush the small farmer aren't the answer. Large scale farming may be incredibly efficient at producing food but they are equally efficient at propagating food borne illnesses.

Promoting small farms when possible is beneficial to society and the planet for a host of reasons, including the reduction of food borne illnesses. Nature abhors monoculture and always fights to restore ecological diversity.
How iron dome works
http://youtu.be/WHH6MRmw_Jo
Do you really need an app to tell you you're not eating healthy? Nutrition and exercise aren't that hard; your body is able to let you know fairly easily when you're messing up, if not immediately at least over time. I have a very hard time believing that tracking your calories is going to significantly change your diet in the long term.

If you're overweight, you don't need to check on your smart-watch to know it. If you're drinking too much, you probably know about it already. And if you refuse to recognize it, I'm not sure numbers will help you. You don't need an AI to see that if you're 5 times a week at the pub for an average of 2 hours, you may have a problem.

There seems to be a strong belief that these things are hard to evaluate on your own, that the body is something mystical that can't seem to have any obvious logic. Yet we refuse to listen to the very basic, and reliable, signals our bodies broadcast.

Now if you're diabetic, or developing an illness, having a silent device continuously testing your blood would help. But we're far from it.
Yes, talking about a PR problem when innocent people are dying is bad. Yes, this article is full of praises for Israel, and that can be understood as propaganda. We can also argue about the term "terrorist": Brits have called (Boston) Tea Party folks "terrorists", for US they are heroes. Yes, it is really, really, really awful when innocent human beings die (children, women, men - it doesn't matter). YET: Hamas isn't going out to the desert and attacking Israel. They deliberately choose densely populated Gaza areas, full of innocent people (yes, many of them may have sympathy for Hamas, but that isn't a crime), taking in account that the counterattack will kill many civilians. While the bombs that have killed all those people have come from Israel, the decision to kill them was made by Hamas.
That thread points out a lot of problems with both the current implementation of protos in Go and the inherent difficulties mapping of a code generator that was designed for C++ onto Go. I have had to deal with those issues and more using protos in Go.

However, it does not make them unsuitable. We have many large scale systems at Google written in Go using this proto library. Some are high QPS, some use large protos, some have complex definitions. Each requires care and thought, but they work.
He probably assumes that processes are usually short-lived or limited in their scope (that's the design principles he used in his software, anyway). That way "source creep" doesn't happen so quickly.

It reminds me of the taint principle (-T) as provided by Perl 5. The differences are that there the set of sources consists just of "secure" and "insecure", and processes themselves are not tainted. In a world of C programs, tainting processes themselves (as they become in contact with a potential "contagion") may actually make sense.
Thanks for posting it. It is such a difference when one sees hand-picked photos, rather than photos uploaded randomly by users. Bookmarked it, to have a closer look afterwards.
> That is, people are selfish rational actors. The problem is that they arent. Libertarian models of humans are incredibly simplistic.

I can't speak to Friedman, but Hayek's views were more subtle than that (and so are mine, for what little it matters). He recognized many limitations on the rationality of economic actors; he advocated what today would probably be referred to as bounded rationality.

http://books.google.com/books?id=CdI9VRcn1SEC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA...

http://books.google.com/books?id=Dc1s6zB8Ee8C&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8...

http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/97811372... (same book)

http://www.georgesoros.com/interviews-speeches/entry/why_i_a...

http://people.duke.edu/~alexrose/Darwintosoros.pdf
It's Alegreya, and I find it quite beautiful.

Quoting Google fonts[0]: 'Alegreya was chosen as one of 53 "Fonts of the Decade" at the ATypI Letter2 competition in September 2011, and one of the top 14 text type systems. It was also selected in the 2nd Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño, competition held in Madrid in 2010."'

Maybe your font rendering is broken somehow?

[0]: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Alegreya
Some issues:

You anchors do not work.

For example, for Ruby you have this at the link destination:

<a name="user-content-ruby"
class="anchor"
href="#ruby"
aria-hidden="true">
<span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>

But it needs to have id='ruby' or name='ruby'

Or change the top link to refer to #user-content-ruby and not #ruby.

Second, your link to Webby (A Ruby tool) fails. That project moved to github a while ago: https://github.com/TwP/webby

But even that is a bit old, because the project is no longer maintained. I believe someone assembled an updated version (to work with recent Ruby changes) but I don't think it's any of the forks of tat project, and I don't recall where I saw it. (I use Webby but hack on my own private copy of the code.)

I think you need to review your links and possible provide some notes to indicate if a project is active.
I guess it depends on your customers, I don't know how many people would be confident putting credit card information into a website like that.
Ironic you bring up the term ignorance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fko9F1EAU2g

Although I don't want to discuss politics on HN (there are plenty of more appropriate places to do that), the interesting issue to me is how (presumably) intelligent people in a certain field can drop all intellectual honesty when it comes to a different field.
Why would one prefer pagination over scrolling? Is it just about the clicks?
What are the advantages of this over TeX/LaTeX? I already know LaTeX quite well as will most people who are looking for a typesetting system.
I was more interested in your answer to the first question than the aside about how we each expect senators to behave.

It'd also like more information about the university professors, I either didn't notice at the time or completely forgot about it.
The awesomeness of the unknown
i wish we could see a balanced analysis of this...

there are many, many advantages to 'modern' food production - this is why we did it to begin with. the economic advantages may cause the problem where the quality of the food drops in some ways but other advantages potentially balance it out.

it also seems to be a bit arbitrary as well... the 'artificial processes' used to improve food quality are often used on 'organic' foods as well. especially when they 'just' make the product better.
P(insider trading | telecom CEO) is what I meant. Iff Nacchio was singled out for illegal but commonplace behavior, then it matters less to me what he did and more why he was the only one prosecuted. But if every insider trade has equal likelihood of getting caught, regardless of refusing NSA taps, then Nacchio is far less interesting.
True. But there are numerous themes and templates (free an otherwise) for things like Bootstrap and other templating tools.
I'd have more privacy without a phone, but we all make tradeoffs. In this case, iOS offers distinct advantages not yet advertised in Android or Windows Phone. Of course, my privacy depends on many factors, including the apps I choose to use. But Apple's clear improvements to location tracking, with popups to further allow background location checking both enhances privacy and battery life. I'll still leak data like crazy, but at least the NSA won't have quite as much context, and non-NSA players like advertisers, lesser still.
There is an "about this site" link at the bottom, where he lists some of the third party services used.

In general he has a few global objects which seem to contain everything for each section; ajax requests, animations (which are webkit only as far as I can tell) etc. Most of it is done via jQuery.
Why aren't you just doing this, for example?

<script id="fragment" type="x-shader">
precision highp float;
uniform vec3 glyphColor;
void main() {
gl_FragColor = vec4(glyphColor, 1.0);
}
</script>
> ... right about one of the country'so PR problem. This doesn't belong on HN

It seems it is up-voted and you seem to have opinions about and want to discuss it. So ... discuss. If it gets too heated the story will quickly flow down or disappear from front age.

Using articles like this for propaganda is also a good point. Or how ABC's Diane Sawyer shows images of Palestinians gathering belongings from their destroyed home and puts the "An Israeli family trying to salvage what they can." caption under it. That is also interesting. If she knew they were not Israeli would she have put the picture up anyway? So discussing how propaganda works or doesn't work is fitting and it happens often here.
The Levels of Emacs proficiency
My first thought was "turns my stomach." I went with "gross" instead out of deference to the largely male audience whom I did not expect would understand my strong negative reaction. :-)
I'll get right on that :-)

More seriously, I like lunch meetings. I'd rather get out of work and back to the family an hour earlier than spend it idling with co-workers.

And often times, there's really not a good place to meet. Why drive 10-15 minutes, find parking, etc. at the nearest mall when you can walk down the street to the nearest restaurant in 5 minutes? Plus, I'd never invite a potential client to a mall plaza, esp during the summer...
What you're describing is Windows 95 era help files.
Where not to park in Cambridge
>>Good design is as little design as possible
Is there something called 10% design or 100% design?What's little design ?
Can we try to keep (the deeply discretited) Hayek and the Chicago school, not to mention over-complicated philosophical jargon out of the argument? I would content that you should liberate yourself from the received wisdom of your philosophy course, and think for yourself.

The issue is simple: is protection of local industry justified in the face of globalization. Obliquely (not orthogonally), are local businesses adding social value, or is lowest cost the absolute and only barometer of utility. Only once we have answered these questions can we decide if Amazon is correct or not, and it is not going to help to cite a bunch of dead people, who, in my opinion, are very clearly responsible for the ills of our current society.

Far better, citing The Economist Style Guide, "think what you want to say, then say it as simply as possible".
Lots of double exclamation points in there. I hate that I have a hard time taking it seriously because of such a trivial detail, but I do.
> 微软雅黑体：Microsoft YaHei [as of Win7]

It is wrong to attribute Microsoft YaHei to Windows 7. YaHei was actually introduced with Windows Vista.
> For Friedman, satisfactory is maximizing shareholder value.

That doctrine (which I disagree with, FWIW) applies to companies, not to overall economic outcomes.
I think the site is great!

I also thought the site was going away courtesy IKEA legal, but apparently based on user feedback, IKEA is reconsidering. The original legal action was voted up here on HN last month but the follow up not so much.

See: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2014/06/inter-ikea-systems-bv-cal...
What you said is nonsensical. How would eliminating the enforcement of cleanliness standards reduce illness?

It's like advocating that food trucks shouldn't be subject to health inspections and then saying we would all be healthier eating from this food trucks instead of restaurants.
Maybe he doesn't see him replacing "your" code with better code as a hostile action? I'd try to swallow my pride and see if this guy can teach me something about coding.

At an old work I had a colleague doing it to me, and maybe because I believe myself to be an amazing coder it was more amusing than threatening. It led to me having lots of time browsing hacker news and working on my own projects while he had to work weekends and many late nights because he took on to much responsibility and wanted to control everything.
New Israel Palestine Conflict | Israeli Airstrikes Pound Gaza Overnight 2014
I was replying to the statements I quoted.
His 3 complaints - linelength, navigation, aesthetics.

If only it was 1994 and people could resize their 'viewport' to get the line length they prefer, instead of having snobby designers force it to be what they value.
I don't even think they have anything even resembling an obligation to explain themselves. I personally think the whole thing is made up, it's got too many telltale signs, but I'm sure they don't care whether or not I believe that. If true, they're basically doing a public service to other restaurants by sharing their findings. If false, they wouldn't be able to prove anything anyway. It's really up to them whether they want to be believed or not, and I'm guessing they don't care.
http://scitr.com/a2f
Thanks! It means a lot to hear. It's also quite motivating :)
Landlords shot the High Street (it was not technology)
Our syndicate partners mapped out and the underlying trend
I used to work in the same industry. We used linux and gcc, so we could, and did, produce fully deterministic builds. Actually the output was fully deterministic disk images.

I did one iteration of the build system, mostly making it such that any host could build it deterministically. This was years ago so it was just chroot that started with a skeleton + GCC and procedurally built the things it needed to build the outputs. Was fairly straight forward, just an extremely short patch here and there, a 1000 line Xorg Makefile for staging Xorg builds. If I was doing it again I'd consider reusing a package manager, but each components Makefile was pretty concise. My trusty sidekick was a script that xxd'd two files into pipes that it opened using vimdiff.

Build took an hour or so, however.
Ask HN: Sidework for data analyst/ programmer?
Does anyone have any sidework ideas for a slightly bored and very experienced data analyst/ programmer/ GIS guy/ visualization journeyman who works for the government?

I prefer an open source environment (R, gnuplot, sqlite/ postgres, python, GDAL, QGIS etc) but have experience in proprietary environments (SAS, ArcGIS, Excel) and basic webdev (CGI-ish, but not fancy Javascript or scaleable...) I can also write comprehensibly and give non-snoozer presentations.

I don't want to quit my day job, but would love to make some extra money doing interesting work. But for whom?

I live in the PNW and have experience remoting in. I could meet a client in person, but would have to do most of my work in evenings from home.

I could also take poorly paying work if it was really interesting or might lead to more stuff.

Does anyone have any ideas about potential clients and how to find them? Rates to charge? Any other wisdom?
I think the world would be a lot better place, with many fewer religious wars, if people remained skeptical and agnostic about a claim until given actual, firm evidence. I don't think that's obviously nonsense.
Agile: Getting The Point of Points
Will it work sanely with Make, handle modular documents better than TeX, etc? The biggest frustration with me and TeX isn't the quality of its output or its extendability, it's simply difficult for me to work it into a reproducible workflow without a lot of effort on my part.

With all of my tools that I use that somehow depend on each other I can always glue together the results of my work with one tool to the input of another tool via Make, minimizing human error in translating results over myself, but LaTeX (combined with tools like BibTeX) somehow always breaks this model, which can be very frustrating since LaTeX is such an important component of mathematics research.
Is that such a bad thing? Keep in mind that if everyone used Windows 95 era help files to display their websites, we'd have designers releasing themes for sites.

Hell, if you wanted to keep the current "status quo" where every site has its own theme, you could just bundle sites with themes, and have an option in the browser to "automatically accept per-site themes". At least then you wouldn't be shutting out users with peripheral preferences.
In my opinion you are missing two very key points.

1) Saying "well, you could just find this information some other way" may be true but useless - everyone has different mechanisms that work well for them. If it takes a device or app or whatever for someone to stick with a change they want to make, then good for them.

2) While there is definitely some general health and fitness advice that would benefit most people, it's terribly naive to believe the story ends there. Population averages are just that, every person will also have specific mechanisms and effects that are important to their own wellbeing and not particularly generalizable.
While SimHei is not of as good quality as YaHei, I still have guts with YaHei, which renders a lot of glyphs with fluctuating baselines. Maybe it was the fault of Windows that renders glyphs of small sizes in a bad way, but I do hate the images using Microsoft Yahei, some of which were created in Photoshop on Windows.

Sometimes I even prefer SimSun, which is a serif font, and a bitmap font not supporting sub-pixel rendering, at least it has aligned baselines.
In about page it states that "Most of the data comes from various apps on my phone". In powered by section it shows that he uses an iPhone.
>What you said is nonsensical. How would eliminating the enforcement of cleanliness standards reduce illness?

I didn't say that eliminating the enforcement of cleanliness standards would reduce illness, rather I said crushing the small farmer isn't the answer and suggested that more small farms would reduce illness.

Example (from Michael Pollan's excellent book "The Omnivore's Dilemna"): FDA regulations that require slaughterhouses to have a private restroom reserved for the FDA inspector.

For a large multinational corporation processing tons of meat per day, that is a drop in the bucket. For a small slaughterhouse processing maybe a handful of cattle/week during peak slaughtering season, that's a much more substantial cost.
>What you said is nonsensical. How would eliminating the enforcement of cleanliness standards reduce illness?

The idea is that industrial agriculture is far more likely to produce illness. So industrial agriculture + regulations can have a higher likelihood of producing illness than small agriculture without regulation.

And since regulations stifle small farms, lower regulations on small farms can decrease the incidence of food borne illness by decreasing the percentage of food that comes from industrial agriculture.
No offense, but it sounds like you're just throwing around terms you don't really understand.

Frame slips won't cause an audio misconnect like this, because... well, lots of reasons. The channel layout (23B, 1D) you describe isn't TDM, it's PRI (primary rate interface). Slips occur at a lower layer; the T-carrier.

All T-carrier based telecommunications systems transmit at a fixed frequency. Even when the circuit is idle, a stream of bits are transmitted across the line, so that both ends remain in sync. A loss in synchronization is called a slip. That much you got correct.

These circuits are digital though. When a slip occurs, it's not as if whole frames jump from one to the next. What happens when you perform a binary shift on a chunk of data? The outcome is wildly unpredictable. The protocols at higher layers (like PRI) have mitigation strategies for dealing with slips. A re-sync occurs almost instantaneously. A T-carrier circuit that slips regularly will not be reliable. Based on my experience, persistent frame slips result in either a dropped call (B-channel reset), or garbled audio (due to shifted bits in the media [1]). If you've ever been on a call, and the audio suddenly becomes a garbled mess that sounds like a mix of modem communication and alien speech, that's what bit-shifted media sound slike.

I have never seen a misconnect caused by a slip. I suppose it's possible, but the likelihood would seem extremely remote. Imagine if you Base64 encoded something, performed a single binary shift, and the Base64 decoded result turned out to be the lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner. Unlikely.

To top it all off PRI is virtually non-existent within carriers. PRI is an end-user interface. You only see it in the last mile. Carriers use protocols like SS7, which you'll never see on end-user equipment. Even SS7 is less common these days, because the vast majority of telephone calls aren't TDM over the long haul any more. In the early 2000's, over half of the long distance calls in the US were VoIP. I'm not in the business any more, but I'm certain that percentage is much higher today. Ever since the long haul went fiber, carriers have been moving away from TDM.

Sorry to be such a pedant, but this is a real rabbit hole of a discussion that won't be solved with a basic understanding of DS1/PRI circuits.

[1]: Phone calls are broken down in to two parts. Media is what telecom people call the audio that is transmitted. It is distinct from signaling, which is the information used to set up and tear down calls.
You do realize water is a chemical? And sunlight is probably the largest 'genetic tamperer' around? There is so much grey space between what you think you mean, and what you are actually saying that the terms you use are entirely meaningless at a practical level.
Thor Heyerdahl, author of that piece, is well known for his diffusion hypothesis. His work with Ra and Kon-Tiki shows that migration was possible with even early technology. It doesn't mean it happened, or that the hypothesis has any truth to it. (FWIW, I enjoyed his books about the two journeys, and his book on Easter Island.)

The idea of an Egyptian/Aztec connection is often categorized as "hyperdiffusion", and has the unfortunate tendency to highlight similarities, without estimating if there were independent origins, or investigating differences. See http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2010/11/04/thor-hey... for a more modern commentary on Heyerdahl.

Hyperdiffusion is nearly abandoned by academic research, for lack of evidence.
> lower in organic crops than conventionally-grown ones

Organic is the convention, intensive factory crops are the new kids on the block. This whole frame of reference is the wrong way round.
In addition, I "cite[d] a bunch of dead people" because I was responding to a criticism of libertarianism in general, not of my specific beliefs.

In that light, it is most appropriate to discuss the views of exemplars and intellectual fathers of a particular strain of libertarianism. My personal views are of little consequence to the discussion, considering that I have had no influence on libertarian ideology, and that my opinions depart from most of my fellow libertarian-minded folk in a number of ways.