skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting, but 1) it does not test the effects of fish oil as a mood stabilizer and 2) there is something sketchy about the way the data are reported.

1) It is a study of vitamin, mineral and essential oil supplements. There is no basis for ascribing any measured effect to essential oils as such.

2) In a number-rich report, it's odd that they don't report either the number or distribution of incidents in any detail, and I can't make their averages work out.

For example, they have 172 people in the study for an average of 142 days, and they talk about numbers like 11 and 16 incidents per thousand person-days, which would lead one to predict around 170x140x(11 to 16)/1000 ~ 250 - 300 incidents, but they then go on to talk about studying 754 Governor and minor reports, or 338 Governor reports and 416 minor reports (in all cases the reports appear to cover the full study population, which is the majority of the prison population).

One can conclude from this that most of the incidents in the prison are due to the people who weren't in the study, maybe? I don't know, but there's something odd going on.

Furthermore, they don't given any idea of individual variation within the population. The conclusion you'd draw if most of the incidents are associated with a few individuals vs spread out across the population might not be the same. Were all individuals pretty much similar in their response, or was the effect localized to some? The results as reported are consistent with a few problematic individuals becoming peaceful and everyone else getting slightly worse.

When making an argument that an intervention is good for a population, you really have to dig into the support for the claim across the population, not report averages as if they could only arise one way.

So while this is intriguing an interesting, it isn't as strongly convincing as one would like.

What I'd like to see (and would have insisted on as a reviewer) is a table showing the raw numbers of minor and Governor's reports issued on each population over the study period, and at least histograms showing the number of individuals in each populations with N Governor's and M minor reports against them, which would allow one to judge the distribution of incidents in the population.
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I had to post it today since everyone is on the lookout for tricks. Hope you can enjoy the irony.
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Krugman has a less dense explanation of some of these issues here:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/tpp-at-the-nabe/...
Note that California's electricity "market" is anything but that, and a bizarre regulatory mess. You may remember Enron being bad many years ago, but they exploited the regulations. The net result is amongst the most expensive electricity in the country. The electricity companies aren't even allowed to set their own rates. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2014/nov/19/citylights1-c...
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Exactly, Canada(my native country) has already signed, any Canadian citizen that is aware, is opposed. We also have a bill currently tabled in Canadian parliament called Bill C-51 which is an absolutely absurd piece of legislation, it will effectively muzzle all lawful protest in Canada because it will allow the government to deem a project "critical infrastructure" at will and anyone protesting then falls under the blanket definition of terrorist and can be detained for up to a year without access to legal counsel. At the same time they are introducing changes to informant protection laws that will allow them to literally enter evidence from completely anonymous sources i.e. completely fabricated lol. Sadly we no longer practice democracy in my country.
Fellow German here.

Summer in New York is significantly warmer than in Germany. Consider for starters that NYC is on roughly the same latitude as Madrid.

Different point but Germans seem to always be up in arms about the American use of air conditioning, and if it's to warm for them they should move to milder climate. Weirdly enough I've never heard anything like it about Nordic countries and heating.
You can disable them through Settings > Apps if the app itself doesn't have an option.

For me, I only receive email notifications with the LED light (white). For anything with a persistent notification (ie. glovebox, lux auto brightness, etc) I disable the notifications.

The OP makes some good points regarding the 'always on' culture, but it's tough to complain about something you can easily avoid.
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My computer didn't come with any junk on it. Even otherwise, pointing out what some companies do in ONE market means nothing. That is why I used the word usually. I guess it is no longer expected to read what someone says before responding. Good job on that.
Wait, there are places in the world that get more than two weeks of vacation?! :)
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And the density of someplace like Manhattan has inherent characteristics that aren't to everyone's taste. I enjoy visiting there (a lot) but I lived in Manhattan one summer. It was a while ago when aspects of Manhattan were admittedly less pleasant than today. And I was an intern while in school so I didn't have a lot of money to spend. And it was summer. But I remember that by August I was calling up friends in Greenwich and Princeton to inform them that I WAS coming to visit them for the weekend :-) I just have to get out of the city.
I have a lot of fun pondering the effects of a longer term drought. Will populations shift north to Oregon and Washington? Will desalination technologies advance to significantly reduce the cost?
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Hah, it's fun playing around with beep.js so I needed to share it : )
There's a third option: Apple had a need for a massive, distributed K/V store, and at their scale, it's cheaper to buy a company than a license.
There are places with low population density and socialized health care. Like large parts of Canada, for example.

You can always find something that's different, of course. Scale shouldn't matter, but the US is less densely populated than all those European countries. Canada doesn't count because 90% of the population is crammed against the southern border.

In one respect, these are very difficult problems, so you're right that it's not just an issue of will. In another respect, they have been solved, so we know it can be done. In that sense, is it not just an issue of will? If you decide to do it, and you put sufficient resources behind it, you know it can be done. If you're not doing it, it's because you ultimately don't want to.
> And I'm here to tell you, the future feels great.

While the future may feel great to you, most New Yorkers would agree that Battery Park City does not feel like New York. That may be good or bad depending on your perspective.

And just in case, you think I'm here to knock you, I'll leave you with this Abraham Lincoln quote:

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
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If they build desalinization plants wouldn't they just pipe the water into existing infrastructure? At worst that would mean piping it over to the other side of the state where they usually get their water from snow pack and what not, no need to completely duplicate their water distribution system just because they have a new source of water.
If you are going to recommend users connect to you via a proxy or Tor, don't recommend tor2web. The whole point of tor2web is that it's a non-anonymous way to access Tor. Your traffic goes through tor2web servers, which are not part of the onion routing.

Anyway, nice business. If I'm understanding correctly, you are basically an SIP hosting provider that assumes your clients will use Linphone to connect. Am I correct in this? If so, it's an interesting model, but I think you need to put more effort into clarifying that you are a host, not a security provider. Also, you might want to apply some of that hosting expertise to your website....
The first thing that pops into my mind about Germany is lederhosen and beer. But it's surprisingly difficult to diagnose large-scale socio-ecological problems from the other side of the planet.
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Oh I agree. Building a prototype and proof of concept alone would go along way to getting more on board.

I think the biggest challenge though is getting municipalities to replace current systems. They have already invested millions and millions to get the current traffic system up.
It would almost have to be the next cycle of traffic lights, when the old ones get replaced (depreciate fully).
And of course, cities would probably want to do their own independent testing/study...

It would be sweet to start seeing them appear on new construction though.
Just basic economics. Subsidies increase supply which reduces prices. Lower prices discourage production. Net result is that production shifts to the place with the subsidies.
This could be a pretty good idea for a recurring post, a la Who's Hiring. Probably less regular I guess.
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It's a MVC (Model-View-Controller) web framework made in Python that works with a number of different kinds of databases.

Check out the models overview to get a feel for how powerful and simple it can be to use: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/db/models/
My normal advice is the advantage of one over the other is dwarfed by the advantage of whichever you're skilled in. In your case that's not so helpful. :-) So I think Rails is (moderately) better for web development and Python is (much) better for stats/machine learning. But your choice will not make or break your project. It almost doesn't matter, so go with whatever language fits your taste. It's much more important to design a valuable product and figure out how you're going to sell it.
> I can't help but notice that americans (seem to) completely lack this sense of responsibility/playing your part/restraining yourself for the greater good/whatever

Of course there are exceptions, but in general Americans are much more oriented to the rights of the individual and much less to collectivism and the 'greater good' than Germans. We tend to view collectivism as an inherently oppressive and dictatorial mode of social organization, a cruel enslavement and subjugation of the individual, who is prohibited from doing anything but following the mandates of the collective handed down by some vast inhuman and opaque bureaucracy.

This attitude is less prevalent in more leftist areas such as California and Massachusettes, but I think it's safe to say that it's fairly representative of the average American overall.

I had the reverse experience in Germany: I was amazed at the degree to which many Germans obsess extensively over the minutiae of trivial decisions (such as how far to open the water tap while washing dishes) in terms of what (vanishingly inconsequential in most cases) effect it will speculatively have on the collective good.

Moreover, this seems to be cast in terms of what other people will think of you. Americans care far less about what others will think of them. We tend more towards a philosophy that says if you are not (directly) harming someone else, it's nobody else's business what you do. Germans sort their recycling into 9 seperate bins by color and composition. They could easily put everything in 1 bin and make machines to sort it automatically, or hire someone to do it by hand, but instead it is set up so everyone has to do it themselves -- so your neighbors can see that you are or are not complying with the dictates of society.

Another seperate factor is that natural resources in general are far more abundant in the US than Germany. Relative to the US, Germany is a tiny country with a huge population packed into a very small space.

Meticulously conserving resources is imperative when you have a high population to resource ratio, but less important when you have a huge land area with a very low average population density and so vast amounts of resources available for each person. We are just recently starting to reach the limits of what the natural available resources can support in the US. The local limit in Germany was reached centuries ago, forcing more efficient use of what was available.
the simple solution is to email the maintainer and ask if they're accepting contributions before you start working on things.
What about ClojureScript? From what I gather it's quite fast and it couldn't be more different from javascript.

Or even C via asm.js?
its a pretty popular web framework for python.
>This isn't a particularly easy problem to solve, and if you do it incorrectly you open yourself and your users up to a denial-of-service.

When there is a choice between making dealing with denial of service mitigation more difficult or making it easier for user passwords to be discovered after a breach, you should definitely choose dealing with denial of service mitigation. Not saying you might disagree with that sentiment but I would have very little sympathy about a company trying to make excuses like that to validate increasing the risk of user passwords being exposed.
So I asked this before, and will ask it again.

If I'm a start-up, or any "hot" website, do I have anything to gain by allowing myself to be reached by computers inside China's IP space? Same for Russia, North Korea? All 3 are known to be the source of many disruptive attacks, neither of the 3 are important markets, with the exception of China, where they've decided to re-implement all non-Chinese internet services anyway.

I'm honestly curious. I'm in the process of launching a project of my own and wonder if there's any reason to not attempt to blacklist China/Russia en masse?
Moreover, we don't need cheap almonds and pistachios and flooded rice paddies in the middle of the desert.
So by registrating I get (1) a number, (2) a password, and (3) a country code. What do I enter as username etc. in Linphone?
Fine, I'll see your negative karma and raise you the heading from the site:

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I don't know about that specific instance, but often the kind of shenanigans you're talking about are a separate issue: genuine, national laws are passed by the national government, because they are insisted upon by the international professional bodies as a condition of awarding a major competition to a given host nation.

As it happens, I have never understood why prospective host nations allow themselves to be bullied in this way. It is a transparent betrayal of their own populations in favour of big business. Moreover, pragmatically, a lot of these sporting events make an enjoyable spectacle for a lot of people over the few days they last for, but they rarely bring the supposed long term benefits that justify all the hoop-jumping involved in hosting them, and in plenty of cases their legacy has been serious financial and/or infrastructure problems for the host nation.

So yes, it seems long past time for organisations like the IOC and FIFA to be reminded of their place or told to take a hike and host their next international event in West Nowheria. But this is a separate issue to some of the current terms being considered for international agreements, which would reportedly allow any business that didn't like a national policy to sue the national government and recover lost profits in any signatory state.
Too little too late. Here's things Jerry could have done but didn't.

- Ban the export of bottled water from California. If the drought is as bad as they say we shouldn't be shipping any of it out of state. Sorry Arrowhead.

- Introduce tax breaks for installing water efficient appliances.

- Introduce tax breaks for the removal of sprinkler systems and replacing plants with ones that require less water.

- Introduce a market for water so that everybody from homeowners, farmers, and business all pay the same market rate.

- Provide tax breaks to allow agriculture to transition to crops that require less water. Convert these to fines after 5-10 years so that any holdouts get the hint.

This is one of those cases where everybody has got to give up something.
> It's really hard to follow this. I realize they are trying to make it an explanation that normal (but interested) people can read. But it's not working.

The EFF often has this problem, IMHO, and I suspect it limits their ability to build support and awareness. I support the EFF; I'm an interested, knowledgable, well-educated person who is accustomed to reading sophisticated prose -- i.e., I'm their ideal audience -- and I gave up after a paragraph. I think they lose a large part of their potential audience.

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I think this is one of the better posts on this thread but I take issue with two things. First, I think it's hilarious that you think northern californians live in harmony with nature. I would say the nature harmony declines as you go north, terminating in the "state of jefferson" region where all they want is to clear cut every single tree. Secondly, because of the almond rush there are comparatively few 30-year-old almond orchards, and those that do exist are in the wetter orchard regions like Butte or Glenn county, while the recently planted orchards (which constitute the majority of them) are in the San Joaquin valley.
Are we counting off-shore turbines that consume no usable land? And are we taking into account that we still don't dispose of nuclear waste in an acceptable way and won't ever agree to recycle it?
Regarding SQLite using FoundationDB as k/v, I got inspired by that comment to do the same thing with Redis instead: http://grisha.org/blog/2013/05/29/sqlite-db-stored-in-a-redi... (and it was quite slow too)

I'm curious though - databases typically store data in B-Trees which are blocks of equal size which works great for block storage. So isn't "block storage" essentially a key value store, where the key is the block number and the value is the block itself? That I think is the proper way of using a key/value store as the database back-end. (And that's what I did in my SQLite/Redis experiment, BTW)
Yeah. Let me know when GarageBand runs on an Android and I'll buy one in half a second. I require that app to compose on the go and open my projects in Logic Pro afterwards. It's absolutely the most critical part of my workflow.

Composing on the subway, to open files later in Logic and make them into full-blown musical pieces? It's literally what sold me on the platform.

Oh. Wait. GarageBand is, and always will be, iOS/Mac OS only. Guess I can't use Android.

But then, as a musician, what breaks my workflow more than not being able to simply download MP3's onto my device? It makes me want to bang my head against a wall.
Here's one from 2011, "Stetson hat to be new Army standard headgear":

http://www.army.mil/article/54202/Stetson_hat_to_be_new_Army...
You should listen to this podcast about desalinization. Towards the third part of the podcast they talk about the problems with desalinization and why it isn't always the solution. I just listened to it yesterday, very interesting!

http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-desalination-...
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You'd be better off with FPGA which are available in significantly smaller process sizes (and therefor lower running costs) than ASICs you roll yourself. There's also a certain level of reusability that you don't get with SHA256 etched into silicon.
On another board, people are all excited about this but I said they need to take a wait and see and "I'm from Missouri, show me" attitude. Microsoft has not shown they can produce a standards compliant browser on par with the others and, so far, the article points out it isn't even level with IE11. And it is this same hype for every version of IE for the past 10 years that we've all been told the same thing, "This one will be the best!".
Here it is for the foods mentioned in the article:

Watermelon......... 8.2 cal/gal
Almond............. 7.0
Head of broccoli... 5.9
Cantaloupe......... 3.7
Corn cob........... 1.5

Source: USDA
Hm. I'm not sure I get it. (from the Google cache)

> Q: Can I call any number I want?

> A: No. Ghost Call can only call other Ghost Call numbers.

> Q: How can we contact you?

> A: You can email us at info@ghostcall.io, or Ghost Call us: (490)-628-2381

So it's a ZRTP SIP provider that uses regular phone number format as the identifier? It strikes me as rather much like OSTN/OSTel, but using a phone-number-looking identifier rather than a username... and if that's the case, the whole ostn stack is opensource/auditable and federated, so I'm unsure of the improvement here, aside from the branding. Heck, I would prefer if they used the OSTN chef cookbooks and contributed back.

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I thought it was clear by extreme we were talking about hilly? Clearly one can ride or run long distances.
which shortage of foods grown in this desert would cause the revolution exactly? I dont see a lot of blood being spilled over the price of pistachios.