skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Xylitol is probably the best sugar alternative you can use. Dr. Ellie Phillips promotes it in her book Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye because the reseach has demonstrated that harmful bacteria are unable to utilize it for energy. I would assume since this is why it is beneficial to use in oral products, it would also provide the same benefits for stomach bacteria. It seems that erythritol is also unable to be used for energy. This is not true for all sugar alcohols; after exposure to sorbitol over a short period, bacteria can adapt to use it as an energy source. It also can contribute to reflux.
I think the popularity of mid-century modern owes some to the bauhaus movement. Utilitarian, streamlined, functional with an aesthetic eye in mind.

Dieter Rams and company. It borrows from architecture, aerospace and futurism. Some of the aesthetic is captured in Winogrand's great photographic opus, "1964".

The Palm Springs of the world when people were moving from the city core to new cites which excited with future vision. JFK airport, the Streamliners and the Airstreams.

But eventually there was a backlash as interpreted by "The New Topographics" --all too clean and alienating, the exuberance of the midcentury was hiding a secret of failure to deliver on the dreams to the masses.

But now it's back with a vengeance and the height of good taste as pronounced by the tastemakers like the MoMA.
I wholeheartedly agree with you.
I continue to be incredibly sad that any OS considers it ok to lock-up the entire UX for a program running amok. Most people would consider such an OS defective, and consider what else is out there, rather than ssh into it. I can't really fault them, I do wonder what is wrong with people making such systems that think this is an acceptable situation.
Really nicely done. I did something similar as a blog post a good while ago and it was quite popular. The results haven't changed much it seems.

One comment I got was that I had just mapped where HN users are in the world.
Pompeii, by Robert Harris.

It's historical fiction, and one of the best reads I've had in a while. I particularly liked the descriptions of the aquarius debugging the waterworks.
> here is nothing virtuous about the death of around a million people, especially when it is dubious that the war's aim was to end slavery. Many other countries ended slavery without mass killing its populace.

That's because the slaveholders in those countries didn't raise armies in rebellion when threatened with emancipation. In the US, they did. They could have been reasonable -- would probably have done much better in the long run if they had! -- but they chose not to, and paid the price.
The discovery of hypervelocity stars (HVS) leaving our galaxy with speeds of
nearly $10^{3}$ km s$^{-1}$ has provided strong evidence towards the existence
of a massive compact object at the galaxy's center. HVS ejected via the
disruption of stellar binaries can occasionally yield a star with $v_{\infty}
\lesssim 10^4$ km s$^{-1}$, here we show that this mechanism can be extended to
massive black hole (MBH) mergers, where the secondary star is replaced by a MBH
with mass $M_2 \gtrsim 10^5 M_{\odot}$. We find that stars that are originally
bound to the secondary MBH are frequently ejected with $v_{\infty} > 10^4$ km
s$^{-1}$, and occasionally with velocities $\sim 10^5$ km s$^{-1}$ (one third the
speed of light), for this reason we refer to stars ejected from these systems
as "semi-relativistic" hypervelocity stars (SHS).

http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5022

There could also be hypervelocity planets, right?

Catching up to them would be hard, though.
I briefly scrolled through some parts and have a mixed feeling. Like it's interesting, but I'm not sure I believe it. Consider the tug-of-war riddle. On the first thought the suggested answers seem correct and somewhat insightful. But now forget it and try to visualize the contest how it really is. Imagine one of the participants being clearly stronger than another, imagine different weight classes, imagine one wearing slippery shoes and the other nice rigid boots. What I discover thinking of it is that however good friction with the ground is clearly huge advantage, it isn't what actually let's participant to win: the whole contest isn't that much about moving the atomic object, the whole person, it's actually about moving its center of mass past the point of his feet touching the ground. Then, indeed, the winning person will exert greater force than the other against the ground, and the losing one will be basically flying.

Reflecting over it I feel that however what author suggests formally is the right answer and the right strategy to think about the problem, the whole problem as it's described in the second, "more open-minded" fashion is simplification beyond being justifiable. When I'm supposed to give an answer like that I'd strongly prefer problem being defined in strict scientific terminology, without all these silly "Arnies" and "Wimpies" and "thug of war", which, admittedly, makes the "supposed answer" pretty much obvious. Because the real thug of war just isn't happening between two atomic objects and I would feel very uncomfortable accepting this all-too-abstract model. Abstract models are good and useful only inside the boundaries where the predicted results actually match the reality, when it's untrue — the more complex, more realistic and less abstract model has to be applied.

And that's basically the problem with all that approach, when author ignores the fact he's stretching the model he wants to be applied a bit too damn far and hopes that students would neglect it and follow his lead basically guessing what he was thinking when designing the problem. I don't think this is how science should be done. Because science, originally, isn't about solving riddles: it is about describing and interpreting perceived reality. And, well, having intuition about the physical reality is pretty damn important.

So I rather empathize with those `continually looking for "defects" in problems`, because they still believe the reality is what happens on the street, not in the professor's imagination.
I thought that this was public knowledge. I think this article is the first time I read about it

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20111026/the-harvard-p...
Mainstream stuff isn't necessarily the best, but it's "good enough". The big benefit isn't the product itself, but a market effect: multiple third-party add-ons and service will be available. Bugs and gaps will have been found and gaffa taped. A large skilled employee pool, commodity-priced.
Basically, "if we all make the same mistake, it will be worth someone's while to take care of us" (baby boomer effect).

This is what makes established products unreasonably difficult to dislodge (from a technical perspective).

At the other end of the capability spectrum, Alan Kay said there's an exception to the rule to reuse not reinvent: those who can make their own tools should.
It seems that this post has been (temporarily?) taken down. There was a link to the draft paper on federated Byzantine fault tolerance, which is what they're using for the Stellar Consensus Protocol. It makes for fascinating reading. There was also a link to the stellar-core repo on github, which has several great README files explaining the Stellar architecture.

Most excitingly, he drew comparisons between distributed consensus protocols (i.e. replicated state machines) and distributed version control systems such as git. It turns out he was (one of?) the authors of monotone, an early attempt at building a modern DVCS.

The links:

https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pd...

https://github.com/stellar/stellar-core
Show HN: DigitalOcean Releases IPv6 and Private Networking in SF1
"You are really, really going to want this laptop". Really? Don't tell me what I want. This reads like a breathless child is getting a new present. And they just learnt the word 'impossible'.
A few months back, I performed a two part analysis of this very subject.

http://www.westonbeckett.com/posts/sell-in-may.html

http://www.westonbeckett.com/posts/sell-in-may-redux.html

In short, while returns for the May to October period may on average be less, they are positive and if anything, the returns for this period have been increasing. The one notable exception being the incredible selloff in 2008. Taxes are a more consistently important issue to consider.
Nah, I don't think it's a sign of bad health. I'm in reasonably good health (and if anything underweight), and drinking soda definitely makes eating a lot of greasy food like fries easier/more pleasant than drinking something like water. If I were in the habit of drinking soda regularly, my diet would probably get worse just for that reason.
I completely agree that the AWS descriptions and documentations are written with the style that actual best practices are left as an exercise for the reader. Without much nurturing the community is left to develop solutions like boto-rsync for moving files into S3 and glusterfs to overcome a 1Tb limit on drives. I'm not sure if that is intentional or a side effect of something else but it certainly turns off a lot of newbies for whom it seems overwhelming and a lot of technical folks as it is difficult to get a grasp on exactly what to use and how in AWS.
Well, one could always say that the South fired first by shelling Fort Sumter. They drew first blood.
From newsletter to droplet holders:

"Announcing IPv6 and Private Networking In SFO1

With our San Francisco region fully migrated to version 1.5 of our code base, we are excited to announce that both IPv6 support and private networking are now available for all Droplets in SFO1."

No blog post announced at the writing of this, otherwise I'd have linked that.
Tragically, too many people are disinterested in the actual meaning of words and phrases.
Really hard to see trends from two observations :) I'd be curious to see more serious predictions.
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Plot twist: the sugar loving bacteria in our gut secrete a chemical which cause the sugar cravings.
I upgraded my 2014 15" rMBP and it killed the wifi, so now ping times have gone from about 12ms to several thousand or nothing. https://medium.com/@mariociabarra/wifried-ios-8-wifi-perform... no longer works. Depressing. I miss my chromebook.
You're not following the rules: must start with "for(int i=0;", not "...,".

Hint: You don't need "t".
I think he's referring to the 1982 Siberian pipeline explosion. (Not sure it had anything to do with IBM)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_Dossier]
Réseaux sociaux: les motivations des internautes à s’y abonner
> At the beginning of his presidency he promoted an amendment to the constitution which would have permanently protect slavery and forbid it from being outlawed.

There were several such measures being mooted during the "secession crisis" of 1861, when the Southern states were still in the union but threatening to pull out. (See, for example, the Corwin Amendment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corwin_Amendment) They were all desperate attempts to forestall secession by pre-emptively giving the South what it was thought they wanted. Once secession went from being a threat to an actual fact, there was no point to such measures anymore, and they were all quickly dropped.

Given the scope of the tragedy that the war would bring, it's not hard to have sympathy for leaders who grasped for something, anything, that could stop it from happening. But that's all these proposals were -- frantic attempts to head off a looming disaster. They don't reflect actual policy preferences.

> On another occasion he suggested that blacks should be exiled back to Africa.

Indeed, he did raise the issue of "colonization" (as it was called at the time) at several points early in his presidency. It's not like he invented the idea; it was a common proposal among Northern conservatives, among whom the only thing less popular than black slavery was black people themselves. But he never pushed it hard, because it was the conservatives' idea, not really his; and besides, nobody was enthusiastic about it, least of all Northern blacks. His Administration never put the muscle behind it they put behind, say, passing the 13th Amendment.

> I could cite many more of his words making it abundantly clear he was not in favor of black equality.

You're conflating black emancipation with black equality, which to white 19th century Americans were two very different things. Emancipation was broadly popular in the North, but that didn't mean Northerners saw blacks as their equals in any real respect. They thought they were inferior creatures, but inferior creatures who shouldn't be enslaved.

Lincoln never got to the point where he embraced equality as strongly as he embraced emancipation, but by the end of the war he'd gotten closer to it than any other American statesman of his age -- or of the next 100 years, for that matter. Certainly he felt more for African-Americans as human beings than did any President for decades after.

> Why, if there was such a coalition, was it necessary for Lincoln to ignore the supreme court's decision against the illegal ending of habeus corpus, arrest and exile a congress man, and imprison countless northern journalists who wrote opposing the war?

Because there was a civil war going on, and as a practical fact he had to keep border states like Maryland and Kentucky from being dragged out of the union if he wanted to win it. There was no way around that fact. To lose the border states would have been to lose the whole game. So, when hardness was necessary, he was willing to be hard.
"Correctly"/traditonally speaking, "factoid" does not mean "small fact".

It actually means something that appears to be a fact, but is not. For example, the statement that "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place."

Interestingly, the phrase "A factoid is a small fact" is a factoid... regardless of whether you use the slang definition or not.
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> In a competitive market for investment performance, managers should charge fees equal to their outperformance.

Then what's the value in a fund manager instead of a simple algorithm that follows the market? Would you hire an employee and pay them the entirety of the value they generate for your business?

What a preposterous argument.
TL;DR:
"So for instance in U.S. equities the funds got annual returns of 8.24 percent for 10 years, versus annual fees for U.S. equities of about 0.08 percent. So the funds got 99 percent of the returns on their investment, and the managers got 1 percent of those returns. Again, paying managers 1 percent of the returns they generate does not seem particularly egregious to me, though I suppose there's an argument the other way."

"None of this seems like a blanket reason to condemn "Wall Street," but, you know, politicians gotta politick. My takeaways are something like:

1. New York pension funds' performance is fine.

2. They pay fees that, over all, are quite low.

3. Their alternative investments seem to somewhat outperform public-market benchmarks, though maybe not as much as they'd like."
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I think you're right, but Paul Krugman is a notable exception to this. He outright said it was inherently bad and that it should go away.
I find it interesting that they moved onto the next question after a candidate gave up on the problem after 10 minutes.

Am I coldhearted for thinkng this is were you end the interview and go back to your desk to get some work done?
Most used APIs in top 500 GitHub java projects
Allied Mastercomputer is the actual project goal, but close guess.
I believe it was SSDVPS. It'll come up if you search for vultr coupon.
The largest server farms on earth are all run by administrators who are extremely well paid for their time. Linux isn't free for the companies who hire them.
Front-end mDNS: announcing and finding network services with JavaScript
Thoughts about my free iPhone App, WhatsApp – Jan Koum (2009)
One problem from the article:

>The suit also alleges Gentile told the customer that the seller could “simply ship empty packages in an effort to fool Amazon into believing the reviewer was a ‘verified purchaser.’ ”
On the other side of the spectrum, I am totes hyped for the day soonish when a 3TB SSD costs $80. Sooner rather than later. In the shorter term, I'm super hyped to see $200 1TB SSDs in the next year or so.
You're definitely not alone. There's definitely a trend moving in this direction. We admittedly track the click data on our protein powder buyer's guide (https://blog.priceplow.com/guides/best-protein-powder) and far more people than you'd think have been choosing the natural sweetener path.

But interestingly, the number of products is still incredibly small in comparison. Hmmm...
> and the majority of my customers either want CentOS 6.x

I'd have expected them to be beating down the CentOS 7 door by now.
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>Then what's the value in a fund manager instead of a simple algorithm that follows the market?

Indeed.
>Note: measurable is not the same as deleterious, but flux doesn't even eliminate all the blue light your computer is putting out, let alone the other sources in your house.
It's a political view. The way I see it a functioning society is a resource and a substrate for companies. A company that does not give the minimum support for family life of their employees is effectively reducing the quality of the society where the particular center of operations is situated. To me, it's a similar logic as to why there are environmental controls for companies and other incentives against negative externalities.
It's difficult to follow a market without losing money. I tried once, which was enough to learn that much.

The market generally has been growing for a long time, with 2008 being a notable exception. If you've been growing money at market pace, then historically you've been doing pretty well.
Republican Senators Just Voted to Sell Off Your National Forests
Producer/Consumer dilemna: Chicken and Egg?
I am starting to market a new web-based subscription service which needs both producers to maintain their data and consumers of that data. It's creating a chicken/egg scenario since the producers don't want to be maintaining their data if there are no consumers, and the consumers don't want to subscribe if there is no producer's data.
How do others market this type of service where both parties are needed simultaneously for the service to work?
"Some midcentury furniture designs, like the iconic Eames Lounge Chair, never went out of production, but many others had fallen out of production by the mid 90s."

A startup founder I worked with in the 90's filled the office with Charles Eames chairs and tables. A bit sparse but functional. The pieces were not that expensive, more expensive than say IKEA, this was a legal startup.
The right hand isn't a sidebar. The interface is a split-in-middle, with left being main content, and right providing ancillary data.
You can adapt to xylitol in your diet. It is best to introduce it slowly into your diet. Chewing gum is a great way to use it daily and increase your intake over time. Dental recommendations are 6-10 grams per day, but most people would experience discomfort starting off at that amount.
When a program aggressively allocates memory, buffers must be flushed back to disk, stuff may need to get moved into swap, etc. I/O bound stuff gets higher priority because... I don't know why... probably the throughput is greater that way, or perhaps it's more urgent. Not sure if there's a solution other than having enough RAM that you are never I/O bound. Perhaps if Linux wasn't so aggressive about caching, it would happen less, but things would be slower overall.
Of course not. You're admitting and prideful that you aren't going to look at things fairly, and your complaints are therefore unhelpful, naive and very likely wrong to boot. People who simply like Apple are not uncredible, though a fanboy would be, for similar but opposite reasons. Credible people are aware of their biases and strive to overcome them. When you embrace your biases like you have, you're just offering some bullshit with a disclaimer that it's bullshit. At least you have honesty going for you.
Funny, I'm watching a talk about issues with software quality on free software right now. Perhaps some members of the community are in denial, but not all of them.

https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libby/m/mako/
As they're both effectively spheres, don't they have the same surface-to-volume ratio?
I have, and I should really look into it more. Although my experience using Docker on Elastic Beanstalk hasn't been so great.

We actually upgraded to PX dynos recently and the performance is great - just expensive!
Show HN: Guided Meteors (inspired by Stripe Connect's Homepage)
You can do dollar cost averaging[0]: buy chucks over time instead of all at once. Of course this increases commissions and other transactions costs.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
The whole article is premised on the idea that Vanguard's fee is low at 0.17%. But is it really? In a free competitive market fees for algorithmic or mechanical money management would probably be a small flat fee. Vanguard's costs are not proportional to the amount of money under management.
So was Computer World magazine, but wishing don't make it so. It's hard stuff! If we had the gear tomorrow, I sincerely doubt anyone would know how to write efficient applications for it.
There is a LRU cache in the standard library starting in 3.2: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.l...

Doesn't have quite the same options, but arguably nicer to use because it's a decorator.
Weird. I guess I built a mental model that felt like it made sense. Turns out computers are crazier than common sense. Thanks for the detailed reply :)
It's reasonable within their own worldview, which is secretive and closed. I will gladly admit, that was one of the largest driving factors for me leaving the company.
What does your gut tell you?
I understand what you are trying to say. It's hard to realize when you are not looking at it but actually, any field with "overflow:scroll" has a scroll bar. And you can control the size of those fields. If you pay attention you will see that a huge amount of websites do have scrollbars in their design, many avoid them because they can't be stylized in firefox, and many use javascript to try to style them.
been in more than one argument on HN about this one, taking this person's side, and am usually downvoted to oblivion. no surprise this is buried on HN.
I used to find Linux desktop second rate a few years ago but adopting it again recently I've found Gnome 3 better than OSX in many ways, at the very least comparable. Plus Arch Linux has been incredibly stable whereas in the past it also used to break often.
You're probably not going to be writing code during the time that you spend on auto and home care, but those are things that you can include others in without involving computers, such as non technical buddies that you've been looking to catch up with, or your significant other.
Thanks, I now have $27 in credit! I should have grabbed your referral ID. I'm currently installing Debian to test a peculiar configuration but I will definitely use this to have a play with some BSDs.
Wow, hledger looks impressive. I think I'll use it as an example for when people ask for a "real world haskell program" as it has a web interface, gui (I think I saw one), is cross platform, and only requires downloading the executable.

Did I get everything correct? Do you think recommending hledger as a "real world Haskell program" is a good strategy?
Here is the very long report that supported the decision to establish this institute: http://orgchart.mit.edu/sites/default/files/reports/20140504...

I found it when trying to discover who their new Statistics strategic hire is. The possibility of a PhD in Stats from MIT is weird.