skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, this is mapping each base64 character of the encrypted blob to one full word? This will obviously multiply the message size a great deal.
It kills me that restaurants add all the value to the area but lose almost all of it to rent.

I wish I could design a town or something. Big tax break to landlords who house good restaurante long-term or or otherwise allow the restaurant to be profitable. Or maybe the town owns the town center or something.
Cool idea.
If each PGP character is mapped to one (or more each) noun, verb, adjective, and adverb one could construct a message that looked like boring text but was actually encrypted.
What exactly is so dangerous? The free transmission of information?
It's probably easier and secure to embed this kind of data into signature images. Those are quite common and a normal user can't see that data is injected, as opposed to a system where data is transformed to look like a normal conversation using words.
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I saw this post a few years ago. Having read her other two posts on seasoning cast iron, I came to the conclusion that she was just making the science up as she went along.

In "Perfect Popovers" [1] she advises Avocado Oil for its high smoke point, out of fear that letting the oil smoke will release carcinogenic free radicals into your food.

Then in this "Science-Based How-To" (three weeks later) she switches to flaxseed oil and suddenly isn't concerned about the free radicals anymore.

There is no hypothesis testing, and there are no measurements of free radicals or polymerization. It's all conjecture.

Her third post [2] calls out "black rust"/magnetite as a key component of seasoning cast iron, because "someone sent me some links". The links are not provided.

I have no problem with her blogging about her experiences seasoning cast iron, but what she's doing is not science, and it is misleading to call it "science based". If the author were a chemist, biologist, or nutritionist, I could defer to her education and wouldn't be writing this comment. But her bio [3] doesn't indicate any such training.

[1] http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/perfect-popovers-a...

[2] http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/02/black-rust-and-cas...

[3] http://sherylcanter.com/background.php
These are all rather small trials which would require a fairly large effect to be noticeable.
1191 total from 16 studies of children and
2336 from 39 studies for adults.

Note: A single stuidy of 200 people is generally better than 10 studies of 50 people because you can't combine raw data from different studies. And treatments for mental issues are generally only useful for sub populations.
Or the restaurant owns the building.

Yeah, maybe not practical in SF, but elsewhere it works well.
Mapping each base64 char to one word seems rather inefficient. If you have a longer list of N swears (say 256 because it's the size of a byte, making encoding easier), you could produce a more efficient base-N encoding, e.g.:

var bytes = atob(base64msg),
swearsMsg = '';
for (var i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
newMsg += swears[bytes[i].charAt(0)] + ' ';
}

Of course, it's still less efficient than base64, but it's an improvement. :)
Yes, the speed of innovation is growing with accessibility to knowledge. In the middle ages, access to knowledge and science was very limited. Thus also innovation was also limited to a few people.

This should make people understand, that hiding knowledge away in obnoxious expensive science publications is one of the biggest hindrances to innovation today.

Science knowledge (when it is the truth) never grows old. Or would you think one moment, that the wheel is an invention so old, that we don't need it any more?
https://www.google.com/maps/search/supermarket/@41.6476485,-...

It doesn't look that bad. Did you somehow miss Kroger and Meijer are supermarkets?
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"My guess is this is putting pressure on Whole Foods' growth strategy."

Agree.

And it will be interesting to see the exact product mix of that store is vs. the one that is located where I am.

My guess (in addition to what the article says) it will be quite different.

At a local WF "clone" that I also frequent (just opened) last night I bought some raw pistachios. I didn't even look at the price. When I got to the register they were $13.50 for 8 ozs. (I'm sure WF has a similar product.) My point is that's easily an 1 hour's after tax wage or more in that area. (Maybe 2 hours..) Hard to believe the product mix is going to include items like that.

Anyway growth wise WF could come up with a new brand (which is typically what would happen) but here they decide to use the same premium brand name because, and this is important and in addition to any PR benefit, the people who would shop at an upscale whole foods won't know what goes on at this Whole Foods (if it in fact would even matter to them). It could look like a warehouse and they'd never know that.
Not the same as with a consumer product that makes it into the channel and could destroy your brand name.
I have really bad insomnia, due to genetic anxiety and depression (apparently "of a bipolar nature", but only a drug can make me manic), and without a low dose of Seroquel before bed I'd only be getting ~4 hours of sleep a night (and my anxiety would be much worse). It's been pretty much a life saver.

Seroquel is ... interesting in that it hits a histamine receptor harder than anything else; for someone like me, who also suffers from bad allergies, this duel side effect is particularly advantageous.

As far as I know, all atypical anti-psychotics have been black boxed (major league warning) for treating the elderly with dementia, the side effects in them are worse than the benefit.
And they never will. ULA is the roll up of the USA's 2 major launch systems, Atlas and Delta. The USA has put Titans out to pasture, probably with good reason. Everybody in charge knows nothing but one-shot launch vehicles. The culture is going to be totally against any kind of re-usable vehicle. Which may not even be cost-effective, but ULA is not the place that would try it.
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What rules would you suggest?
The question is, will the FCC take it upon themselves to add their own rules to the definition of "legal content."

For instance afaik the FCC - not Congress - defines "profanity."
https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en the ford foundation sponsors tor
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Artificial General Intelligence, I believe: 'Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a (hypothetical) machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can. It is a primary goal of artificial intelligence research and an important topic for science fiction writers and futurists. Artificial general intelligence is also referred to as "strong AI", "full AI" or as the ability to perform "general intelligent action".'[1] In comparison to just AI, which is currently available in modern tech as algorithms and such (see Watson). But, AGI represents what a sci-fi writer would envision an Artificial Intelligence to be capable of.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
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I used to work in a pharmacological research lab, and while I'm frequently discomfited by the misalignment between commercial incentives and social good in the pharmacology industry, this statement isn't quite fair:

> Everyone has heard of "mission creep." In the pharmaceutical world, approval creep means getting the FDA to approve a drug for one thing and pushing a lot of other drug approvals through on the coattails of the first one.

This is more accurately referred to as "drug repurposing," and it's hardly the unalloyed evil that it's characterized as here. It's true that drug companies love to repurpose existing FDA-approved drugs, both because it saves them money and because it typically permits them to patent the compound again in a new context, but there are nonetheless real benefits to the public at large when a drug whose side effects are comparatively well-characterized over the long term is put into service to treat a different malady.
red>> .1 + .2 + .3 = .6
== true
red>> .1 + .2 + .3 - .6
== 1.110223024625157e-16

This doesn't feel right to me. I usually would expect equality to be a strictly exact thing. This is bound to cause some problems in code that assumes IEEE-754 has been implemented exactly.
You've got a very good point.

I guess the reason I'm not as worried about it as you is because I feel like it will be easier to get the FCC to bow to public pressure (eventually?) if they do something stupid, more than I trust any of the ISPs which IMO have been behaving stupidly for quite a while now.

Edit: typo
I think along the similar lines to Tegmark. It's interesting in a way that there is not much discussion of his stuff. Maybe it is kind of stating the obvious?
I intentionally omitted that information. I wasn't commenting on the article to promote my business, so I left out the specifics of what I do in favor of focusing on the article and the industry. But I don't see much harm in adding that I make Bavarian soft pretzels and a couple of other soft-pretzel products. I had the good fortune to train under a German chef whose pretzel recipe is what I use.

From that, I'll note that my strict focus on soft pretzels is another thing I learned from following tech industries. That is, do something really, really well. Don't try to do too much or be all things to all people. People I meet often seem surprised when they learn I only do pretzel products. I tell them I'm not out to become a bakery—randomly making cupcakes for someone's child's birthday, decorating cookies for some other random order, etc.

People then often say that what I do is very simple (in the basic sense, not in the easy-to-do sense). I tell them it's focused.

For me, less is more. Much more.
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From the article;

"It’s not surprising that these companies don’t want to talk openly about net neutrality. They have little to gain by alienating business partners such as Verizon, AT&T (T), and Comcast. Groups like the Telecommunications Users Committee exist to shield them from those conflicts, even as the companies quietly pursue policy goals in talks with the FCC."
The much more interesting question: what do all those biozides do to the non-targetted wildlife, e.g. cats, dogs, bees, frogs, fish in the downstream of rivers where the rain accumulates...

At least in bees there are already concerns that massive amounts of biozides contribute to hive deaths.
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I've lived in Englewood. I can confirm a lack of quality produce - I'd have to travel to Hyde Park, Chinatown or the South Loop for that. However, I doubt Whole Foods will draw too many neighborhood customers away from the Food-4-Less or Aldi. Price matters.

The Englewood location is probably more about cheap land near the I-90/94, which links downtown Chicago to the South Side, and south suburbs. This location is also close to the Hyde Park (University of Chicago) and Woodlawn neighborhoods, which are more affluent.
This is a really huge deal. Englewood is a hurting neighborhood and community. These food deserts are real. Children in these areas sometimes grow up eating out of vending machines because there aren't any alternatives. I'm not a romantic, but having had some firsthand experience, these situations are really tragic.

It wouldn't surprise me if this was a package deal with the new Whole Foods opening in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago.
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Actually, unless you are very unusual, one kind of job you should not pick is one where you love what you're doing, because if you love that activity, so do lots of other people (again, unless you are very unusual), which means they will crowd into that occupation and bid down wages and working conditions until life for almost everyone in that occupation is shit.

Mind you, it's also bad to be in a job you hate. Forty hours a week doing something you hate is a big negative impact on quality of life.

If you're going to be working for money, what you should aim for is something that pays decently and you don't hate.
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Publish and perish creates more noise, especially in more mature fields. And those papers have citations, adding to the citation count. That older citations are preferred in such an environment is not very surprising.

There are plenty of dubious reasons to cite newer papers that happen in a competitive publishing environment; e.g. you might try to ingratiate yourself with the PC by citing their most recent papers (and protect yourself from stupid rejections). This further distorts the results, making citations often not a very useful measure of progress and impact (some fields are worse than others in this regard).
Yes, that works too.

I remember when I was living in NYC when all four corners at an intersection went from restaurants to bank branches. Just awful.
You don't need to have a single frontier, and IIRC no one does these days. A stack of slabs per "arena" suffices, and the extra cost is only a read from a cacheline you'll soon need anyway. It looks like jemalloc uses a tree of "runs" for that.

I don't know exactly what you're imagining, but I don't see how you can pass this off to the kernel. You need a slab which has free memory. How do you know where to find it? You could write a nasty new syscall to ask the kernel for a ZFOD page(s), and then cry because your program is slow.

Also, unless your slabs are huge and your allocator is being used to fuel some kind of pre-caching, faulting pages is going to be suboptimal. You incur at least twice as many mode switches: one for the mmap call, one for each faulting page. I've measured this, and it gets pretty expensive. I'm kind of dubious about the performance of schemes which stray from the principle of "allocate what you actually need; free it when you don't."

The bottom line is that a slab allocator should be solving a different, mostly less general problem than the kernel. It needs finer granularity and it's optimizing for common block sizes that are small enough to fit into slabs of known sizes. So it should optimize for allocating page chunks in a small subset of possible sizes (namely, the slab size(s)), while the kernel should be worried about unbounded, oddly-sized page chunks.

I toyed with scalable allocators for a course a few years back. It's a little embarassing, but if you want to see what the costs actually are:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/apodolsk/418/finalreport.html

You can do lockfree slab allocators pretty easily, so the game in scalable malloc is really about avoiding inter-CPU cacheline sharing and fitting your data structures into per-CPU caches. Slabs happen to be really good for that, for non-obvious reasons.
Tell me more about the bicycle trail in Iowa. I've never heard about that.
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This was my first instinct, Whole Foods wants to see if the SNAP money can subsidize a location in a low income area.
To take the atypical anti-psychotics as an example, it turns out they or at least some of them are good mood stabilizers, i.e. can be used to treat bipolar disorder (manic depression). And while they have their fair share of nasty side effects, there pretty much aren't any nasty side effect free mood stabilizers....
In the same vein, see "lcc, A Retargetable Compiler for ANSI C": https://sites.google.com/site/lccretargetablecompiler/
The average monthly SNAP benefit per person in Illinois is $138/month, or $4.60 a day. You're not going to be living large on it.

[http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/18SNAPavg$PP....]
Article is an essay regarding "Inherent Vice".
A quote from a David Sedaris article [1] sums it up nicely through a conversation he had with an entrepreneur who was intending to retire at 55.

> "One burner represents your family, one is your friends, the third is your health, and the fourth is your work." The gist, she said, was that in order to be successful you have to cut off one of your burners. And in order to be really successful you have to cut off two.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/24/laugh-kookaburr...
You can do this today with Flagger (http://flagger.io/). Still waiting for the surprise party van.
seriously!? no, real science is going to take more than a windfall win on the kickstarter roulette wheel. it takes years/decades to build the knowledge needed to make a meaningful contribution - this is only going to happen with a grown-up approach to govt funding.
The article points outs that the FCC is required to disclose what was discussed at those meetings, and even has links to the slides of the presentation that the representatives made to the FCC while they were there. If you click on those links, you can view the PDFs that were presented, and they clearly outline strong support for net neutrality.

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60000979857

edit: added a link to the PDF of slides
Break up regional or national monopolies, especially those created by poor city franchise policies.

Otherwise let engineers, customers, and businesses figure things out for themselves competitively – as has worked just fine so far without involving the FCC's powers of censoring, taxing, delaying, price-fixing, wiretapping, and favoring-incumbents.
Bizarrely, according to a comment on the linked article, it seems like the person responsible for this is one of the founders of Wonga? Not quite sure what to think about that. Beautiful work regardless.

http://www.jontyhurwitz.com/wonga-co-founder
http://www.jontyhurwitz.com/nano/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonga.com

(For those not in the know, Wonga is a UK "payday loan" company and considered by many here to be exploitative due to their loans having a ridiculously high APR and because of their marketing strategy.)
As Seth Finkelstein once said (http://sethf.com/essays/major/greplaw-interview.php):

Statistically, real threats are rare, but ambition and corruption are common. Overwhelmingly, the purpose of censorship is not the protection of national security, but the protection of individual careers. That's not ideology, but mathematics. Because there are very, very, few true national secrets, but a huge amounts of information that someone would like to bury for one reason or another.

Someone profited off United Fruit Company stock after the Eisenhower administration decided to stage coups in Guatemal in 1954 (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...). Why should a modern spymaster be any different?
Sure, nobody denies that's a good thing. Viagra is a famous example of this.

But the article is clearly talking about its abuse.
If you spend 4.60 per day on unprocessed food and a little meat you can get high quality food. But you need to cook it. Or you can basically starve on chips and soda. Now if your unemployed / underemployed and have free time foor cooking it's not unreasonable to shop at whole foods. Assuming you don't need to watch kids / elderly / or the disabled.

Though transportation is often a major issue keeping people shopping at the corner store.
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"...for all the claims it makes in the preface about being practical instead of theoretical..."

It's important to view this book in the context of its time. At that time, there were no books that showed you both the theory and complete running code for even this much. The compiler books (Dragon, 1st ed.; etc.) showed toy snippets but not a full lexer, parser, and code generator. There were only the articles in Dr. Dobb's about Small-C to show the way. So, at the time, Holub's book was a godsend. It married theory and implementation in a way that simply had not been done before. Hanson's and Fraser's 1995 book on a retargetable C compiler was a similar milestone, although it came out several years later.

After those two landmark books, explanations of full compiler implementations were no longer a rarity.
Yep, that would be a little better.

I suppose you can't get much better than that unless you can come up with hundreds or thousands more swears.
There's no one right answer. At the end of the day it is about perspective. Specifically, Scott Adams' father was loan officer at a bank. Banks are fairly conservative when it comes to giving loans. They want to see business plans and analyze hard numbers before they commit money to entrepreneurs. So when amateurs come to them asking for funding for an idea because "it is their passion," of course the bank turns them down, for passion alone is insufficient AND it has the risk of blinding someone to the reality of how commercially viable the idea really is.

On the other hand, all other things being equal, someone being passionate about basket weaving is more likely to make a successful business out of it than someone who is in it just for the money. Passion can be a nearly bottomless source of motivation, which helps people stick it out when things get rough. After all, starting and running a business is like a roller-coaster ride: one needs to endure the lows to enjoy the highs.

I think that could be a successful formula for co-founding teams: you need one person who is deeply passionate about the topic and another whose main strength is figuring out how to monetize it. That's how Apple became successful.
Unfortunate as it is, peer review is quite broken and it is not quite clear how to fix it. Even if the intended goal is otherwise, in practice, peer review in CS turns into an adversarial exercise, with some differences in levels.

Rather than inspecting a submission and thinking if there is anything in the paper that might be of interest to the community, could the paper spur real progress, the review process usually boils down to: can I quickly skim to find something / anything with which I can shoot down this paper and get away with it and get done with this review. This of course is a generalization, not implying that this is what happened here. Unfortunately, the prototypical reviewer has become more like a prosecutor. There are various reasons why this has become the norm, people are aware of it, some are even trying hard to figure out ways to make it better, whereas some believe this is exactly how it should be.

If accuracy of prediction was a concern, Copernican model would never have been accepted. It took years of polish to make the then new model attain the accuracy of the then prevalent model. Some would argue that such models (the Copernican for example) should remain unpublished and under covers till they beat state of the art. I personally do not agree with this view. I would rather have a reasonably well baked but not yet perfect model out in the ether soon so that the model can enlist / recruit other people to work on it. It really boils down to where in the spectrum should the community operate: (i) spammed by advances of questionable merit, with the community spending effort to winnow the good from the bad or (ii) making sure that only the rock solid ones get through, at the risk of delaying or extinguishing useful advance and waiting for a rediscovery.
There are 2,040,053 SNAP recipients in IL, at an average of $138 per month, total benefits equal $281,527,314. Per month. Even if only a quarter live in Chicago, that's still nearly $1 billion a year in SNAP benefits in Chicago alone.
It was 1990. There were not many options. The standard language for technical books then was Pascal. C was a huge improvement over it. In addition, Holub was the C columnist for Dr. Dobb's.