skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whey is used as an emulsifier in processed meats[1].

Personally the biggest issue I've noticed with these "bad ingredient" trends is that,

1.) Most issues seem to come from overuse (e.g. drinking too much soda), and

2.) They're easy scapegoats for many issues which have arose in the last ~20 or so years.

There's certainly an argument to be made for the recent occurrence of some of these issues being due to increased scrutiny or increased intake of said product.

Anecdotally, I know my father is allergic to wheat and corn. My younger brother is (potentially -- last I heard he's testing it) allergic as well.

I've had no negative side effects, but I do eat much less processed food and grains than they both do/did. But, again, that's very anecdotal and in no way is it a representation of a larger population.

[1] http://www.usdec.org/files/pdfs/6meat.pdf
Why does the graph read 2.4 when they say they're testing 2.6?
Reading this story in Hofstadner's GEB destroyed my ability to accept mathematical proofs as "proven". I just don't find them convincing; but more like using authorised forms o argument within an artificially stylised tradition (like English Literature). And I wonder if alien mathematics will reveal our mathematics as embarassingly parochial - and not the universal common ground usually assumed.

So, instead of proof, I have to fall back on intuition and working code, with their severe limitations.

However... studying mathematical proof has at times informed and grown my intuition, by revealing new ways to see a problem and new (bizarre and unintuitive) ways to decompose it.

I might have been better off never having seen this story.
the Xen vulnerability must be something severe if they are all doing this.
[1] http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/
If the money is owned by the same organisation that gets to spend it, the money is spent wisely. If it costs one fifth to arrange for a daily care at home versus at a nursing home, then that's four fifths saved for something else in the total bill. However, if the one who gets to pay and the one who gets to spend are different parties then both try to optimise from their own perspective and generally end up with contradicting goals.
Once in my second year chemistry lab, we were doing a final lab exam and there was this stuff in a brown flask labelled bromide. Normally you waft the smell of chemicals as part of the evaluation. I ALMOST wafted bromide until I asked if it was okay and the instructor said DO NOT DO IT. I immediately changed majors.
It's a comparison on MongoDB's home turf, showing how well PostgreSQL works when used as a NoSQL document store.
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That's not really relevant, since the point is that Postgres can do what MongoDB does but faster.
prgmr.com also got inducted 2 days ago http://blog.prgmr.com/xenophilia/2014/09/prgmrcom-now-on-xen...

Xen has previously had problems with people leaking embargoed security issues http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/248239
Is not quite either of those.
That was/is such a dilemma.
I can't speak to the rest, but I still have free Google Apps for my personal domain. They're no longer offering it for new customers, but those who signed up when it was free still have it.
Two things like this; my tomcat config got reset to max 128mb JVM stack and ubuntu seems to have switched from -virtual to -generic kernels but the latter isn't booting for me.
Not surprise to read this. The Chinese culture is a very racially discriminatory culture. Not only are suitable candidates for jobs selected based upon physical attributes and racial backgrounds, social interactions are also racially based, I am talking simple things like having sharing a table at a crowded eating place.

Even within the Chinese, they are separated into Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka etc, each with their own cultural character.

Thankfully, the younger generations are starting to change this mindset as the world gets smaller via the internet and fast air travel. However, with hiring practices such as that mentioned in the post, it will may take a couple of generations before we see a significant change.
Hong Kong police move in to arrest pro-democracy demonstrators
Excel-DNA is a nice open source project that lets you write XLLs in .NET http://exceldna.codeplex.com
Programming Languages in a downward spiral
Apparently we disagree. My interaction with a readline interface in a context I understand is neither unplanned nor ill disciplined. You can throw around pejoratives, but clearly you cannot support them.
First of all, Go's parser only parses Go. Yacc parses a lot of things. Other than that :

- you can find yacc files for pretty much anything.

- yacc prides itself on language support. Go shouldn't feel to flattered here, there's brainfuck support too.

- lots of tools are basically yacc + a tiny bit of code, you may want to translate these to go

- Go's parsing sucks (or how you say it : who still writes parsers like this ? Parser combinators are the baseline these days. There's just no way to make a parser easier to change. Who still separates parsing and lexing ?) (this boils down, again, to Go essentially at best being a 1980s programming language)
I have not tried it myself but both Altera and Xilinx can compile opencl for their FPGAs nowadays
I have been programming in all of these for a couple of years now. A bit sad to see them go down the drain. Which languages are going up? Or is coding all in all going down?
Yo money? Mo' problems.

Couldn't resist.
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How does it compare to TokuMX?

I am a huge fan of PostgreSQL, but in order to avoid having to rewrite an application designed for Mongo, I tried TokuMX and was pleasantly surprised by its performance.
it could be a bug in the sh compatibility mode
Calling Lisp from Node.js with Edge and LSharp
> Reading this story in Hofstadner's GEB destroyed my ability to accept mathematical proofs as "proven".

That's too bad, because the anecdote doesn't challenge the basis for mathematical proofs or logical reasoning, in fact it requires it as a precondition for the anecdote to move forward. Remember that Gödel's incompleteness theorems don't argue that there are no true statements, only that some of them cannot be proven true.

> So, instead of proof, I have to fall back on intuition ...

You might be better off reviewing the structure of logic and mathematical proof. Start here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid's_theorem

My reasoning is that, if there's one proof sufficiently transparent to win acceptance from a skeptic of logic, then there might be two ... ad infinitum.
"Bend different."
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Not exactly. But it does create a no-op default. I've never seen/used this pattern, so I would have to go compile this down into assembly and play with it to give you a more complete answer.
Yeah ... There's merit in having an open plan, but an open plan with no places to hide from the chaos is definitely going to be less efficient.
> > yacc: generating .go files from yacc grammar (.y) files

> First of all, Go's parser only parses Go.

You want to generate go files from something other than Go?

Edit: Now that I've written and read what I've written I realized I was confused. Nevermind! I still prefer Flex and Bison over Lex and Yacc.
Maybe at your house.
I guess there's no way that I can really prove it to you. But the fact that you think those numbers are idiotic and made up only gives me confidence in how good influencer marketing can be when executed well :) Also, the sponsored posts that we used for the app were on blogs, not social media.
The chart doesn't measure programming languages, it measures online discussion of programming languages. To support the title's thesis, one would have to prove a connection between uses of programming languages and discussion of programming languages.
Good commentary. I also see people walking their dogs while reading an article on their smartphone or listening to an audiobook and completely missing the point of taking the dog for a walk in the first place.
My new favorite hobby is looking at tigerdirect.com on the Internet archive
I would think there's a high correlation between working more and being stressed or tired. Wanting less of the latter doesn't negate the former.
The title is misleading. The linked chart doesn't measure use of programming languages, but online discussion of programming languages. Suppose a chart showed a decline in online discussion of sex -- would it be rational to assume on that basis that people were having less sex?

Note the checkbox in the linked chart that identifies what it quantifies: "News Headlines". The map is not the territory, and headlines aren't reality.
Hmm... his wife worked at TI as an engineer IIRC. So it's a tenuous, unlikely, made-for-tv kind of possibility indeed.

It's gotten me interested in circuit bending again, however.
Nothing new here folks
I envy the AWS users who enjoyed the rolling reboots (which were AZ aware!) across a small minority of the EC2 fleet. (~10%, yeah?)

At some point on Sunday, I'm going to be picking the pieces of our entire stack.

Rackspace doesn't even offer anything like availability zones.

The last major maintenance they scheduled was over the July 4th weekend -- wasn't happy with that one either.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I've listened to hours of YC-related videos on YouTube and it is not clear that this is the case. It is good to hear, and I am happy to spread the word as I know many women and entrepreneurs of color feel discouraged because they are not "from central casting" or don't "pattern match." I've watched trends change and believe disrupted patterns, like the glitch in the movie, "Wreck it Ralph," are full of potential.

The strategy of speaking at Historically Black Colleges (HSBUs) is encouraging. I'm happy to reach out with other ideas and have blogged about suggestions:

http://timesnewromanempire.blogspot.com/2014/07/debugging-di...

http://timesnewromanempire.blogspot.com/2014/08/smoke-and-mi...

In the latter, I reference attending events for:

MESA
http://mesa.ucop.edu/

NSBE
http://www.nsbe.org/home.aspx

& Grace Hopper
http://gracehopper.org/

May I suggest that in pioneering in diversity, the term "race" be retired as there is only one human race. Most thought leaders in ethnic & cultural studies concur. The terms "ethnic" and "culture" are more accurate and less divisive.

I happen to be mixed. When situations call for classification of sorts, I prefer "multi-ethnic," "multi-cultural," "Black" "Black-American" or "of African descent" (my daughter - whose father is African, is "African-American"). Terms like "bi-racial" and "mulatto" make me cringe. I know "race" is commonly used, so my suggestion is not to place blame, but to work towards a better framework for discussing diversity and reducing racial rhetoric.

You will, indeed, find me among the pool of applicants. Thank you, again, for addressing the question, and positing solutions. I am also interested to hear more about solo founders. Hard things don't intimidate me at all.
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Interesting .. got a link?
Will be great if PostgreSQL ends up as a storage engine option in MongoDB like InnoDB. Then you have the better engine of PostgreSQL with the superior clustering, sharding and end user experience of MongoDB.

That said these articles are pretty pointless. Performance isn't the reason companies are switching to MongoDB.
I think the GP's implication is that the A8 can deal we'll with apps that primarily work on the main/UI thread - which most apps do.
If you're seeking evidence for a conclusion you've already made, you will surely find it.
I am only responding to this to point out that your post is completely inconsistent with elementary chemistry and biomedical science, lest someone else actually take it seriously.

Fact: Bromine is an essential element in mammalian biology. We need to consume it.

Fact: Bromine does not preferentially crowd out iodine. It does tend to concentrate in the same tissues as iodine for the obvious chemistry reason but it does not materially impede iodine absorption. Which has actually been measured in mammals in biomedical studies.

Fact: Some populations, like the Japanese, consume relatively huge quantities of bromine from natural dietary sources while still having (modestly) lower levels of thyroid disease than cultures that consume much less. This is an expected demographic result given the aforementioned biomedical research that would predict this, given that bromine does not crowd out iodine.

If we biologically require both iodine and bromine, which we do, it is pretty reasonable to assume that evolution makes sure the ions get to where they need to go. Human biology is full of superficially conflicting ion requirements: iodine and bromine, sodium and potassium, calcium and magnesium, etc.

As an added bonus, ions like bromine (and iodine) tend to be promptly excreted if you consume more than your body actually requires, so they don't stay in your system long in any case if they are not serving a purpose. There is nothing intrinsically dangerous about bromine.
All nine reports of the 10,000,000+ who have iPhone 6s. I really think this whole thing has been blown way way out of proportion. If this were any other phone maker we wouldn't be talking about it.
Except it doesn't. It just has a JSON data type. As does many other databases e.g. Oracle, Teradata.

People are switching to MongoDB because the developer and deployment experience is so good.
Isn't that the whole point of the state from a market economy standpoint? To take care of the things that are unprofitable with compulsion/taxation? You can't bankrupt the government. It's got the power to print money. It can keep going as long as it can do so. It also has the power of legislation. It can regulate prices if it so chooses.
All of them, minus that one guy who likes to be contrarian.
Probably you have old ```.julia``` folder.
Remove it and try again
> With the variable speed drives (WD Green)

None of Western Digital's HDDs change their RPM. It is fixed.
You mean getting the dog exercise?
"But it's thinner!" Meanwhile, everyone seems to want a more durable phone / more battery life. The result is cases which can easily double the total thickness of the phone just to protect it. I personally miss the OG Droid / HTC Windows Mobile phones that could take 2 years of beating and still be going strong. I'd gladly take an iPhone 7 twice as thick as the 6 if it was waterproof, droppable from 10ft, and could last 16 hours of heavy use after the battery had been abused for 2 years.
Since NoSQL movement started comparing their database options with SQL based ones.
The requirements are still there, they're just not in writing anymore. Receptionists are rarely unattractive people, are they?
It is a China-bashing lens. The article also complains about:

"the location of a person’s “hukou,” or residency permit"

Employers in every country do this and we don't call it "just wrong" (though it is). They use the more international form of a hukou known as a passport.

Western companies also have hiring discrimination based on social abilities and who your friends are, even when it's of only minor relevance to the job. A person's personality is considered worth discriminating against (even for jobs working alone) but that isn't automatically more acceptable than physical characteristics.
... and far more safely. No one should be using MongoDB in production (or if you do, please never let me store data in your service).
Why would you be better off? I don't see any advantage in having the overly optimistic belief that there's some universal, correct set of axioms.

You can still do all the math you could do before -- and if Carroll or GEB gets you more interested in the fundamentals of math, you can do even more.

Yes, you have to accept some basis of mathematics, and you now understand that some true things will be unprovable in the basis you just accepted. But that doesn't stop you from proving things.

I think you might have just transferred your optimism about math to code instead. How do you know your programming language is doing what you asked it to? That you asked it to do the right thing at all? That the compiled code has the correct behavior? That your hardware works as advertised and is not failing at the moment? In both code and math, you have to accept some abstractions that you're not going to worry about, but the things you do with math are certainly more verifiable.
> There is nothing intrinsically dangerous about bromine.

... other than coming into contact with pure Bromine... :P
I recently compared various ways to automate Excel with python: http://leontius.net/2014/excel-data-analysis-python/

Xlwings is something I did not know before writing the post, but it does look great and I would love to try it as soon as possible. It basically has all the advantages of Datanitro but it is free.
I once did this with some stuff during reverse engineering, I printed about 20 portrait orientation A3 pages in colour of source code at the largest font size I could without inducing any lines to wrap.... With that, some post it notes and a nice pencil I was able to spot the problem in the control flow I hadn't seen when moving around the source file on my computer screen.

I'd be much more likely to buy this kind of thing in colour.
That was also my first though -- they'll recommend that concerned iPhone 6 owners buy stiff-back cases.

Is it a coincidence that the silicon cases for the 6 /6+ are stiff and fully wrap the back vs the bumper design they used for previous generations?
Personally the story behind why you need to travel with it sounds interesting, are you allowed to share?
How about implementing MongoDB API on top of the PostgreSQL? Then sell it companies which started with MongoDB, but run into some scalability/reliability issues.
But there's another less apparent problem with food waste: the threat to the environment. Landfills full of decomposing food release methane, which is said to be at least 20 times more lethal a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Surely this just releases carbon that was fixed during the development of the plant/animal that is now decomposing? I'm a little unclear on why this is worse than natural decomposition.

I would like to know why the amount of food wasted took off in 1980 and nearly quadrupled over the following 3 decades. i'm guessing changes in USDA standards about acceptable quality of food for sale, but I was hoping the author would have researched this.
I feel like this advertorial for Candid Camera, appearing in the New York Times, is a meta-prank on the reader.

Seems like the show relies on the kindness of strangers and that still exists, even in a smartphone world.
I second that, the parallella board comes with a Zinq 6000 IIRC, it's amazing to me that you can get a nice FPGA at such low price.
Capability is not the same thing as usability. Postgres is demonstratively more capable than Mongo, it's just not perceived as usable.

There's a deep lesson here to be learned. One that can make you rich.
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Same as in Japan where im currently working as an english teacher. I see it quite often from management tdiscarding resumes from non-obvious english background people(by how they look).
Sure, but I think the point is more the "when you have it in the front pocket of your skinny jeans and drunkenly run a bit into the edge of a counter top" case that could very reasonably happen in a 2-year replacement cycle of such a device.

Personally, I'll be getting a rigid case that covers the back and sides.
> MSG (migraine central).

Certain individuals may be more sensitive to glutamates than the majority but there's no evidence to show that they are harmful in the amounts that are regularly consumed - and those in Asia average a far higher daily intake of it than in the West, yet no specific health issues have ever been identified due to this.

(Personally, I find it has a pleasant stimulating effect, like caffeine but milder.)
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Definitely a problem with the phone manufacturers. They should fix this problem ASAP so that you can sit on your phone.
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Say you have a system with components A and B. Functional tests let you have confidence that A works fine with B. The day you need to ensure A works with C, this confidence flies out of the window, because it's perfectly possible that functional tests pass solely because of a bug in B. It's not such a big issue if the surface of A and C is small, but writing comprehensive functional tests for a large, complex system can be daunting.
I've never heard of a company paying an employee's wife directly (except after a death), but it is common for married salarymen in Japan to turn over their finances to their spouse. In return they are given kozukai or "pocket money/allowance" as a percentage as a way of curtailing unnecessary expenditures.
Hate to say so, but many are switching to MongoDB because it's the current new kid on the block.

I found that many companies have incredibly bad, not use-case driven reasons to pick their DB. Not that MongoDB is a bad database, but it has it's fair share of issues. Granted, this is the case for every database, but if you pick any database without being aware of those, you end up in a world of pain.

(Context: I consult for backend systems in general)
As sad as it may be, with the use of schema-enforcing ORMs and the popularity of MongoDB, this will be a viable business in the near future.
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You would think so (and I won't say it isn't), but if you're just one guy handling a few servers for your hosted SaaS, it's easy to fall into the "don't disturb the dust" trap -- especially once you've had a routine maintenance reboot or upgrade completely bone you.

Not too long ago I had a 36-hour straight marathon sysadmin session when a routine update happened to break my particular stack without advance notice on a web server used by a bunch of customers. I think my eye still twitches when I think of it.

Usually the next thing people say is, "you should set up x, y, and z tools for better redundancy / failover / load distribution / backups / sysadmin management / etc." Again, they're not wrong, but none of those things directly makes you more money, and making time for them can be difficult, especially since so few of them can be set up as easily as they claim on the box.
> I think you might have just transferred your optimism about math to code instead.

To add to your point, if someone begins to doubt the utility of mathematical logic and responds by refocusing his attention from logic to code, he's somehow overlooking the fact that code is built on a foundation of mathematical logic.
I found this very surprising. The data that the author is drawing on is here: http://www.demographia.com/db-uzajuris.pdf
Lack of the ability to track menstruation IS a sex-specific feature. Apple has made their app irrelevant for half of their customers but not including it.
Wait wait wait, proofs are still possible! The lesson of Godel's theorem is that you can have correctness or completeness, but not both within the same formal system. So you can have a system that yields only true statements, it just won't be able to encompass all true statements; or you can have a system that does encompass all true statements, but from which it is impossible to exclude some falsehoods.
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Smart move. I know someone who wasn't as forward-thinking as you and ended up with a massively attenuated sense of smell.
Quote: "In case you lack time, it is better to get in touch with a financial expert who can help you plan accordingly."

I knew there had to be a commercial angle to the linked article. Maybe people rationally conclude that hiring a financial expert costs more than it's worth.