skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - there is lots and lots of research that suggests that inflammation is the cause of a whole host of "western" diseases.

Sugar and fructose cause heart disease (not fat) by irritating the lining of the heart over and over and over again. Wheat causes inflammation because most people are allergic to it in some way. Constant insulin response that we have with all the sugar hidden (and not so hidden) in everything we eat causes swelling and fat storage. Even the fruits we have now have been bred to be much much sweeter than 60 years ago.

Lets not even start on how fibre seems to protect against some of the terrible effects of fructose on the body (rapid conversion to fat - the body can't tolerate fructose in the blood) and how removing the fibre in the form of fruit juice or high fructose corn syrup is a disaster for your body.

Probably taking aspirin is unnecessary if you were to avoid the main things which irritate and cause an immune response in your body. I can bet you that turmeric tea from the root is going to be as good as aspirin at protecting you from these diseases but the best plan is to avoid sugar, wheat and high GI carbohydrates.
Notice how hardly anyone is smiling at that thing named a camera obscura.
Has anyone ever seriously believed this? I guess it's just easier to coordinate resource sharing when resource sharing isn't allowed.

My favorite is "Functional programming is becoming more relevant because...multi-core" so your 100x slower functional code would get a 4x speed up and only be 25x slower?
The latest flightbag systems look a bit more sophisticated than a fancy PDF reader on a tablet.

Here's a glimpse of the flightbag that Lufthansa is using on the B747. It actively maps plane position in the terminal among other things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhXXjNybx6A&t=2m4s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhXXjNybx6A&t=13m43s

(FYI, PilotsEye.TV on YouTube is incredible if you enjoy geeking out on airplane stuff. They somehow convinced a few European carriers to mount cameras all over the cockpits and talk to the pilots in-flight. There are DVDs as well but I think they're all in German. Check out the A340 that loses an engine in the air. I don't think that's ever been publicly filmed before).
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Out of curiosity are they using ember-cli? (which has even stronger conventions)
No, it doesn't work that way. When you make a claim, and someone politely asks for a source, you don't get to go "LOL ur dumb" and think that constitutes a reply. "Try it yourself" doesn't work either, since I'm sure you didn't do that. Only crackpots get angry when asked reasonably to show their work.
99% of users? Maybe. But government employees with employer-provided devices often find those devices a bit locked-down by their employer.
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That's a common misconception, childbirth deaths brought down the average.
> 2- It's government regulation that makes the tests so expensive.

Yes and no. You'll see numbers saying that each approved drug costs several billion, with most of that money going to clinical testing. The reason for that is that something like 90-95% of candidate drugs never make it through clinical testing. So if you add up the clinical testing costs for each of these failed drugs, and amortize them over the approved drugs, you get these astronomical costs.

But I'm not sure if the takeaway is the same as what you're saying. Would drug development be cheaper if these 90-95% of drugs that currently fail clinical testing made it onto the market? If you replaced the regulatory regime with the usual recourse of letting people sue for drugs that ended up being ineffective or harmful, then it probably wouldn't be any cheaper for the drug companies. And if you blocked the legal remedy, then you've just externalized the cost of ineffective or harmful drugs onto the public.

It's like a balloon: you can push all the air out of one side, and crow about how you've shrunk it down, but the air just goes to the other side. The fundamental issue is that drug development is intrinsically expensive: there's an expense to proving drugs safe and effective through clinical trials, there's an expense to allowing consumers to sue to recover for unsafe and ineffective drugs, and there's an expense in allowing unsafe and ineffective drugs to enter the market.

The problem is that in a first-world country, taking years off of someone's life is incredibly expensive, whether it happens because you sell a harmful drug, or because you sell an ineffective drug that precludes someone from taking an effective one. Let's say the social value of a human life is $1 million per decade. One source puts the cost of regulatory approval for 12 leading pharma companies from 1997-2011 at $57 billion per year on average (http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/04/24/how-the-fda-stif...). What is that measured in person-decades? Only 57,000. Out of not just the 300 million people in the U.S., but the hundreds of millions if not billions of people around the world who piggy-back off of U.S. drug safety protocols.
It's not dissimilar to every country really. Critical or large businesses e.g. energy, telecommunications always have an unusually close and unfettered relationship with government. In China it would likely be closer similar to say Russia.

Australia recently banned the use of Chinese equipment from our national broadband rollout for national security reasons so this isn't an unprecedented move.
If I were ever in charge, I would declare that mornings are for meetings. Thus leaving the afternoon for uninterrupted work.
For the record, I'm not downvoting you for your opinion. I'm downvoting you for being a smug nationalist.
"Shipping early 2015. We will charge your credit card immediately upon pre-order."

When it did become legal (or even advisable) to charge a credit card more than 30 days in advance of shipment?

Given all the kickstarter hardware startup fiascos, there is NO way I'm paying for a piece of technology this complex 4+ months in advance of estimated delivery times. I'm fully expecting to see "Where is my Navdy!!!?!?!" threads around about this time next year.
Copenhagen has curbed lanes dedicated to bikes and the people take full advantage. I saw several Christiana Bikes on the road while there (In fact one lady used one to drag back a loveseat sofa!)

http://christianiabikes.com/en/
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In what world is that a reasonable response to GP asking you for a reference for further reading?
FWIW, we provide this at Fanout.io. Our service is able to act as a passthrough proxy for WebSockets, not as a DDoS protection service like CloudFlare, but to handle large one->many deliveries as you describe. You can publish a message once, and it can be injected downstream into any number of open connections.
If it's that well known that he just copied other's work, please provide some references. You're clearly the expert here, so why not use that superior brain of yours to share some information with us mere mortals?
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Concurrent access of immutable data is super easy since....no real concurrency is going on. But what about when I need concurrency? One can manage the time with which updates are seen (so it is deterministic), but there are many ways to accomplish this beyond one mutable reference to an immutable world style that clojure seems to promote.
I can't speak for most, but there's 3 in my infrastructure.

And many private businesses have large clusters with job scheduling very similar to HPC. HFT Finance firms come to mind.
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Well, you are correct that fat has been incorrectly vilified.

Most of the rest of what you say is logical leaps based on inconclusive data, which is just as bad as what the fat haters did years ago.

Don't get me wrong, a lot of what you say is even a good best guess based on what we know right now, but so was fat hating at one time, and stating best guesses like proven fact is what gets us to the point of having entrenched, demonstrably incorrect policy.

Let's just say "currently best available evidence..."
Ask HN: What are the best browser extensions for beginners learning to code?
I'm working on a blog post for our Thinkful students that'll include valuable tools and browser plugins for a beginner.

Examples:

Extensions

What Font
Page Rule
Perfect Pixel
Eyedropper

Sites/Apps

Hipster ipsum
Place Kitten
Hovt
Fake image

Intermediate/Advanced

Stylebot
Cookie Inspector
JSONView

What other tools/extensions have you found valuable? As you can see, I'm not looking for text editors or frameworks but fun little hacks/tools :) The final post will include a line or two explaining the usecases each app.

p.s. do the categories make sense? I was originally thinking of sorting by use case (image editing, copy related, etc).
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It would be highly unusual to place "it's" before a noun.
I'm reminded of a line by another American (a statistician): "But when I invented it, it stayed invented."
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I write a new book every 8 months or so. I use my iPad a lot for writing and editing. I use leanpub so my manuscripts live in Dropbox shared folders, and editing on an iPad is very convenient. Writing is more about thinking than entering text.
This isn't surprising at all considering our government seeked to block Huawei routers from being used in telecom infrastructure back in 2012 [1], over some of the same national security concerns.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/08/us-usa-china-huawe...
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Most people are allergic to wheat? Can you please share some references on that?

This is a good read about the reversal of the gluten sensitivity study, "Researchers Who Provided Key Evidence For Gluten Sensitivity Have Now Thoroughly Shown That It Doesn't Exist"
http://www.businessinsider.com/gluten-sensitivity-and-study-...
You know, all of these meta-analyses for years have been turning in estimates of lowering all-cause mortality. It's not new.
I use ember full time now but I have done projects in angular. IMHO the directives were by far the cruftiest part of the experience, they had their own structure which didn't really fit with the rest of the framework. This in part because of the lack of a strong object model to leverage. I saw the same problem with knockout.js (although the bindings help matters a little). To date ember is the only framework I've used where it didn't feel like there was something fundamental missing.
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Don't they sell distilled water in the supermarket? How do they figure supermarkets can get away with selling something that dangerous?
Not unusable at all! I think my comment sounded more negative than I am about Qt, I enjoy using it but there's a lot of little things, just glitches mostly, that are annoying and detract from it being amazing.
It would be better to stop reinventing this wheel.
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It's interesting that the deletion nomination tag is still on the image, but the deletion discussion is marked as closed.
> I work at a government agency, no scrum, no agile, no nothing. It's so bad I'd kill for waterfall.

Ditto, though we eventually adopted a modified form of scrum for the project that I'm on. Is the decision out of your control?
I suggest you need to learn to code SQL and the procedural extensions for the dialect in use then - and OO is not the be all and end all of development.
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What's most awesome about these pictures, is that looking many of them, you could easily imagine they were taken today. It's astonishing that the picture of modern life we see all around us, we build up this idea in our heads that we've come so far in the past hundred or so years, but in reality, much of the world - even in the West, hasn't come that far at all.
This is flat out absurd. By your logic, any aspect of society which benefits those which live longer, which is nearly every aspect of society, is discriminatory.

Those with leukemia will tend to experience less of life than those without; does that mean that society is discriminating against those with leukemia? No; it means that leukemia is a bitch. Society is not at fault there, leukemia is.
The comet is pretty big. I don’t know if you know London, but this image posted on the BBC earlier put it into perspective: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/625/media/images/76758000/jpg/_...
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> It's another bitcoin like tulip mania

Did you know the tulips in question were a fascinating breakthrough in genetic engineering? Just one of the many things you don't know about the myth called Tulipmania. I suggest reading the WP article, especially the parts about tulip-breaking virus and the latter half: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulipomania
I made this in large part because it can be so difficult to convince a non-technical stakeholder of the importance of some security aspects. With the report, this gets much easier.
> Then go back to your coding :)

How could I possibly?
I wonder what operating system they'll use on their mobile devices. Can't use Android--made in the USA.
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Seems to me that proof-of-work blockchains basically are decentralized defenses against Sybil attacks.

The network part of the stack doesn't really need anything new, and I don't think Bitcoin has had any trouble with it.
The difference being, of course, that US can in no way block the use of Chinese equipment, given that most of the hardware is actually manufactured in China (or neighboring countries).
It's insane how much faked results and allegations thereof are in stem cell research. It must be a really stressful environment to work in.
I think it might be the same as this from 2010:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_c...

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1621517

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4491766
Couple thoughts.... An open stack would be a nightmare for any bureaucratic government to design and control/manage. And essentially they'd be playing catch-up to Apple/Google/whatever designs in the first place.

On top of that, at least in my experience, products made in China by Chinese companies are either knock-offs of western products, made cheaply, or they are just crappy products in general. Sure, the parts can be fabricated, but it's the product design that is sorely lacking. Again, this is anecdotal, so your mileage may vary.
"ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it" is fine an dandy when laws amounted to "don't physically hurt people and don't steal their stuff".

There are so many laws on the books (statutory and administrative) that is is not remotely possible to follow them all. FFS, there are 40,000 words regulating the sale of cheese. Nobody knows how many laws there even are ESTIMATES range up to 300,000 different laws. But nobody knows for sure http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230431980...
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Evidence that what we awkwardly label 'depression' is some constellation of conditions. Interesting that playing video games could be used in some kind of diagnostic context to separate out these sub-types.
Yes I'd agree with everything you have said! Definitely not proven and loads of supposition. However I'd be willing to make a substantial bet that I'm correct.

Wait until you hear my crackpot theory that chemotherapy is only as effective as the starvation and reduction in human growth hormone it causes ;-)

The thing is though who is going to do a trial comparing controlled calorific intake (say < 600 calories per day for several days per week) with chemotherapy treatments - certainly not drug companies.
So the essential argument I'm geting here is this

You should use Microsoft server solutions because
1. Microsoft servers work well managing linux solutions
2. Linux systems can't handle microsoft solutions themselves
3. We are uncertain what Linux is capable of/how secure it is
4. Therefore, you should go Microsoft (QED)

Ignoring how blatantly misleading these points might be given that linux is quite mature and we now live in a work of system virtualization (Wine anyone?), the argument here only serves to convince me that I should be using linux solutions instead of Microsoft solutions in my company. If a given solution works for linux (which, despite calling out Active Directory, they don't seem to have ruled out as a possibility) and can also be managed through Azure, then Why on earth would I create an inflexible system that can only be managed through Microsoft branded tech? Am I supposed to be convinced by their skepticism on linux? I'm perfectly capable of researching linux server solutions myself. Am I supposed to be amazed at the flexibiliy of Microsoft servers while simultaneously scared away from the flexibility of using linux solutions? Outside of server use, this doesn't seem like a good argument to use Microsoft solutions at all.
Ah. I understood your comment differently.

It definitely does have shortcomings, but I don't think any library is ever perfect, especially in a project as massive as Qt. I found the Qt community is very open to contributions, feature requests and such when things make sense.
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I think Odersky said something along the lines of "mutate with caution". Sometimes it's just the best way to do things, but with caution.
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Here's a bit on the photographer and the specific technique used to capture these photos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#Photogr...

When I was younger, in the early 90s, I had a chance to be on one of the earliest U.S.-Russian student exchanges following the fall of the Soviet Union. I spent a summer there, mostly in the Urals, but a bit East of those mountains as well, sometimes out in open steppe areas.

If somebody asked me what my top 2 memories of that trip were I'd probably narrow down a great number of memorable moments into these two things:

- The incredible warmth and hospitality of the Russian people and our host families.

- The blue enormity of the Russian sky. I've never seen it captured quite right in pictures until the first time I saw Gorsky's photos.

I learned later that Russian recognizes two different kinds of blue as base colors in the language: синий (what most languages call "blue") and голубой or what in English we call "light blue". Being surrounded by that sky all the time, it's no wonder.

http://www.pnas.org/content/104/19/7780.full

http://blog.properrussian.com/2011/05/what-colors-are-there-...
The answer should have been Active Directory.

Everything else in that page is a lie.

- The cloud as we know it is built on Linux.

- Web development has moved to Linux. Rails, Django, Laravel, Nodejs, all run better on Linux.

- Git works better in Linux, both as a server and as a client.

- The security issues are more severe in Windows.

And yes, MS AD is a killer feature.
I am curious what studies have linked sugar and fructose to heart disease over fat + cholesterol.
China can provide goods at many quality levels. But if Wallmart or other company purchases cheap crap, they get cheap crap, no wonders about it.

That does not mean that you cannot purchase quality Chinese goods.

It is in no way limited to China - entire Asia works like this.
I have a list of about 10 articles (with verified sources, etc) that go in either direction. Making a bold claim that one type of office is more productive than another is simply untrue.
I think it's a good step for exactly the reason you suggest. In a world where resource sharing happens uncontrollably it's maximally difficult to design good concurrency. In a world where sharing is totally eliminated, it's trivial to be concurrent but boring.

Working back toward greater sharing from the share-nothing viewpoint is a great place to throw effort.
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Money aside, because it's the symptoms that bother people, not the cause. Most people just want relief.
...and one is a low level irritant that we feel like we can address at the next ballot box if we feel so strongly?

But this is no longer true, for two reasons.

First, Congress has abdicated much of its power to regulatory agencies, which are where the actual regulations' details are determined. These bodies are not elected, so we can't vote them out. While it's true, in principle, that we could use the ballot to get Congress to claw back its power, or at least to influence the details, this would (a) take a really long time, and (b) is far too broad a brush to paint with. Being able to cast one vote every 2 years for my Representative, and one every six years for my Senator, is many orders of magnitude too gross a control to be able to influence specific regulations across the whole realm of governmental interest (suppose I hate the way the FDA is handling one thing, but love the way that the DOT is doing something else, etc.; how am I to influence all those factors with just two rare votes?)

Second, we're no longer able to determine with certainty what our government is doing, in order to exercise control over it as necessary. For example, just yesterday afternoon there was a story [1] on HN covering the government's efforts to actually rewrite the records of a court proceeding, so that we wouldn't know what had actually transpired in the court. And surely I don't need to go into detail about Snowden, FISA courts, National Security Letters, etc.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/unsealed-us-sought-per...
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I haven't investigated Qt's mobile offerings or "Qt Quick", but I am fairly certain that on X11-based systems the basic core desktop SDK is as native as any other UI toolkit (e.g. GTK), and on Windows it uses the same core libraries that MSVC-written programs use, so it's as close to "native" as it gets there, too. Is that incorrect?
Precisely!!!

More over Humanity-the-Species is most likely not at risk anyways. Our ancestors went through multiple, radical and relatively rapid climate shifts during the Ice Ages, so a plausible argument can be made that some remnant of our species will get through the current round no matter what.

If this is the case, deep space travel is at this time a pretty escapist fantasy. During times of economic expansion it is harmless enough, but right now it is a dangerous diversion of limited resources. We should be focusing in two things: Mitigating the worst effects of Climate Weirding in the short term (specially with an eye towards humanitarian crisis), and Arresting the long term climate disruption through bioremediation/geoengineering. I am not even sure which one of those has the most priority.

What is very clear is that building escape probes for the rich and well-connected to escape all consequences of their own actions ranks pretty low on the list.