skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your input! I'm glad memory serves me mostly correctly every once in a great while. Will the TCAS or a related system take corrective action if the pilot does not?
For "heavy" stuff that requires indexing (and where indexing using directories doesn't fit), Monsti might use a technology like Xapian. It might even use a database for this. But always on top of the "real" data that stays on the filesystem. But it's not impemented yet and plans might chance.
I wish that I could not tell the difference between cheap and expensive wine. What I would say is that there is plenty of bad wine that is expensive, but very little good wine that is cheap.

My wife who has a good palate, but who takes no notice of what wine is what (effectively she tastes everything blind), can instantly pick if I try and sneak in a cheap wine. I get responses along the line of "this wine is not very good - can you open a bottle of that wine we had last week instead?". So far I have not been able to fool her once out of more than a dozen tries :(

One reason to avoid the absolutely bottom end wines even if you can't tell the difference is that these wines will be much more likely to give you a massive hangover. I have had some really cheap wines that one glass is enough to make you feel like you had consumed two bottles on your own.
Because left/right and up/down a rack are so complicated terms we need to use a compass... ;-)
I was diagnosed with cancer at 25, and underwent multiple rounds of chemotherapy and was out of work for some months. I was working at a small software company ~25 people. Outside of the advice that has already been given, I was very glad everyone around me so understanding and willing to help. When I say willing to help, I mean people can really rally together. I took paid my vacation and short term disability, and my employer continued to cover my insurance and hold a position open for me without ever asking when I was coming back. They never gave up on me, and I wouldn't expect any less of your employer. Once you have a diagnosis, the doctors and nurses can really help point you in some good directions if you need any financial or insurance assistance. Also, don't be afraid to ask questions. Write down questions and answers, write down prescriptions, doctors orders, ect. Don't be afraid to lean on those that care about you and ask if you need help (not financially, but with tasks, errands, or just to hang out).
I said "But fan boyism runs deep in this industry, particularly on forums. It incredible to see my collogues get so caught up in one mega corp and then spend so much of their time trashing 'their' mega corps competition." Where am I generally calling people with different opinions than mine fan boys. I agree and disagree with many fan boys. I am a fan of the products I use, but I am quick to move to new products if I have the means and my experience with the other products is superior.
Allow me to translate:

> Twitter is using your app graph to help build a more tailored experience for you on Twitter.

The more we can prove to advertisers we deliver targetted content, the more they will pay us.

> Improved “who to follow” suggestions that share similar interests

We will continue to suggest you to follow people who paid us but they are more likely to actually be remotely interesting to you (no promise, though).

> Adding Tweets, accounts, or other content to your timeline that we think you'll find especially interesting

See first item.

> Showing you more relevant promoted content.

See first item.
If you were my sibling, I would probably entertain a discussion similar to the following:

0) I am sorry

1) if you think about cancer like most people, then you are looking death in the face ...
Do so. Let it focus you on what is truly important.
http://paulgraham.com/todo.html

2) define the problem to the greatest degree of specificity possible - this likely means biopsy and pathological analysis and discussion of further workup at an academic medical center or somewhere that genomic sequencing would be possible, if indicated

3) as stated elsewhere - start indicated treatment as soon as you have an answer for #2

4) if cancer is the answer, then two things (depending on the type) the outcomes may be better than you think, however, find a second oncologist - the running joke is that oncologists keep giving chemo after their patients are dead - find another experienced voice (not neccessarily an expert in YOUR cancer type) who seems comfortable with hospice as a possibility -- not all are -- a life well lived and fighting tooth and nail to the bitter end are not neccessarily the same thing.

5) get all of the insurance you can asap - don't worthy about the premiums
Flashbacks are common myths.
You should talk to a logic expert. Luckily I am one :^) Just because there is some element of faddishness, doesn't mean that something is entirely arbitrary. E.g. sushi used to be mostly white fish, and salmon was considered too greasy. It doesn't follow from that there is no good or bad sushi.
So far as I can see, he was never formally charged with murder, making the claim that those charges were "dropped" a little odd.
I think it might be better understood if I said 'legal' instead of 'legitimate'. The law, by its nature, cannot excuse breaking the law.

EDIT: Also, in your example, this was eventually fixed by changing the law, not by breaking it. And, to the best of my knowledge, everyone ran the underground railroad for free, not for profit.
I've been in the wine business for 23 years. Currently I'm battling to tame a vineyard in Northern Burgundy, all by hand (as I have no money for such luxuries as Tractors).

I'm sure as hell going to be asking for a fair price for the wine at the end of it.
I don't think the author would disagree with much of your post.

I did not understand the point to be that wine critics are frauds – it's that they're playing a game that someone lacking the "deeper understanding and appreciation" simply doesn't have to participate in by buying expensive wine.

As you rightly say this applies equally to all areas of taste, but wine is a good one to call out because people seem to feel a bit bad about knowing nothing and overspend to be on the safe side.
I work in adtech, specifically on the bidding side on real-time click forecasting and ad-pricing.

I have to say that compared to other ad exchanges. AdX (google's ad exchange) is far and ways ahead of any other ad exchange in minimizing the the amount of fraudulent traffic that we as ad buyers get exposed to. I did them serious props.
I wrote my own algorithm for my video editor Vix, which takes a song and then automatically edits videos to the beats it finds.

Sound energy algorithm is not very good imho.

Low pass is a step in the right direction, but I've found a combo of low pass and band pass to be more accurate.

Here's a vid of Vix in action:

https://vimeo.com/90104152
The only (gaping) hole in your conspiracy is that you get points for proving anyone wrong in academia (even yourself). A conspiracy about mathematic proofs sounds about as ridiculous as an honest segment of The O'Reilly Factor.
The underlying issue is who's data is this?

Is it the manufacturers because the device gathered it or is it the users because it describes the user?

Currently, from what I have seen, it's usually argued to be the former and not the latter. For there to be saner balance, users have to a say about how this data is used and owned. The "reasonable expectation to privacy" doctrine needs to evolve to match modern age.
The taste of wine is not the only quality of wine.

Like 2001, The Great Gadsby, The Dark Side of the Moon, or Guernica, wine can embody life beyond how much (or little) you enjoy it. The details—"hints of cassis, subtle earthiness, and jammy notes"—do not determine its quality either.

It is its history, its vigor, the revealed clues of its past—the flavors and smells that drive you to wildness and longing. A good wine makes your reminisce; a great wine makes you question.

The author assumes that a pleasurable taste trumps all, and that price comes in a close second. And it likely does for most buyers—but that says more about us than it does about wine. People are not art.

Can you get a cheap wine that tastes good? Of course. But expect to get a poster of the Mona Lisa rather than the real thing.
I've been seriously into wine for several years now. I've been very lucky and tried a lot of stuff. From pretty expensive, to super cheap.

First of all, this article is completely flawed.

Don't drink cheap wine, drink -good wine-.

Good wine, doesn't have to be expensive though. Like literature, wine is subjective, so what you may find entertaining or good today, may change tomorrow. That's why when you really like wine, you should try to keep an open mind and keep tasting everything you can.

The wine industry in the states is super stalled, and there's almost nothing interesting and fresh going on here, at least it's been like that since the 2000's. There are a lot of factors in play, but the biggest one is the price of land which makes it harder for smaller and better producers (vignerons) to actually farm their grapes.

The small guys, end up buying grapes and trying to find guys who are farming properly, etc etc. Which is super hard here. In California, dry farming is almost non-existent... pesticides are the rule, and high yields the norm.

There are other regions around the world that are pretty stalled too. Bordeaux is one of those regions, super predictable, super standardized and most of the time boring. At least that's the case if you're looking to drink a statement or the 'work' of a true Vigneron.

'Cheap and Good' wine in California can be found in the 15 range... but I've found that most of the smaller producers find it hard to produce surprising stuff for less than 20-25. Where in France/Italy, a similar quality could be achieved on a 10-15 Euros Bottle.

Bottom line, drink good wine. Good wine, is not necessarily expensive and it's totally worth the adventure of finding it. Bad wine can be pretty bad for your health, and it's a waste of time.
You talk mainly about consumption, but GDP (the subject of this article) is a measure of production (gross domestic PRODUCT) not of consumption.

Sure, these things are related, but the article is correct to point out things like exports and capital investment.

If the US were producing more, even if all of the additional product were to be exported, GDP would be higher.

Any problem with GDP (or growth in GDP) is related to value-creating economic activity.

Yes, if the government were to spend (invest?) money in public works, GDP would rise, regardless of the output of the works. There would be secondary effects, too, as some of the money earned would be spent on locally-produced goods/services like lattes and haircuts.

Japan tried this:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/world/asia/06japan.html
I'm not bad with haskell and I like it a lot.

I meant like beginner as in a beginner in programming in general. I feel the only reason why I was able to pick it up really quickly and like it was because I wasn't a beginner.
I think the problem with most blind tastings is they are done as part of huge tasting events. Personally if I taste more than 4 or 5 wines at at time my palate gets "tired" and my opinion of the wine becomes very different to what I think of it after tasting it on its own.

This is a problem when you go to a wine event and try a whole bunch of different wines and decide to buy a couple of cases of the 9th or 10th wine you tasted. I will no longer buy wine after more than 5 tastings because I don't trust my judgement anymore. I really have no idea how any judge can taste 80 wines in a day and pick anything good.
Hey I agree, I'm saying a beginner, like a beginner in programming in general.
The hypocrisy of the Internet journalist
Love the clear, concise example repo and informative explanation. Perfect introduction to start exploring this concept. Thank you for sharing, looking forward to more articles like this.
Cancer is basically a problem of the immune system. We have a lot of cancer cells in our bodies and our bodies manage to kill them quite efficiently. Something went wrong in your body and a cell or two survived.
I'm in no way a doctor (I have experience with cancer, but as a, hm, 'user', or better, observer) but IMHO the thrill of working in the startup and doing stuff that you really like can substantially help your immune system to fight the hostile lifeform in your body. "Positive" hormones stimulate the immune system.
On the other side, having not enough sleep, eating shit, having a lot of excess weight (having a little is considered good) would actually harm your immune system.
That said, if I were you, I'd take the startup job, but would take extra care of myself, not working 6x16+1x10 hours, eating right (not necessarily fancy or organic, just basically good food), exercising enough and having enough fresh air and rest.
One doctor once said to me that I can cure any illness by just sleeping 10+ hours a day. He was joking, but every good joke is just partially a joke.

Yeah, and buy COBRA. Just in case. Most likely you will just waste a couple grand on it, but this is your life on the line. Small companies use complete idiots as insurance brokers (large ones do too, but they learned how to hide this) these idiots may screw up you forms/submissions/cards/accounts/whatever even multiple times in a row. You'd better be covered while you sort this out.
A single serving of wine is 4 to 5 ounces. Don't base it off of restaurant pours, they often over-pour to compensate for the high markup.

A bottle is at least 25 ounces. Split between two people, that's 2.5 to 3.125 glasses of wine per person per bottle. 5 times a week, that's 12.5 to over 15 ounces.

I'm in the US, but from an Italian family. Wine was on the table often, especially around my extended family. I enjoy whiskey, and I've been into savory hard ciders since I found out beer is out of the question. Like I said, hardly a teetotaler.

Yet I'm under no illusions that drinking 15 servings of alcohol a week regularly is recommended. If someone were drinking that much, that consistently, their physician would definitely recommend that they cut their consumption considerably.

http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-con...
I do. Your point, pussy?
db poisoning can help, but just having an account (10 is even worse) inflates their numbers and strengthens the perception that people should use gmail.

A long time ago, before the PC, market share perceptions lead to the idea that "Nobody got fired for buying IBM". It was a very effective trump card a salesman could use with managers to scare them away from the competition. In the PC era, "Nobody got fired for buying Microsoft" was abused in the same way.

This is really just a consequence of Metcalfe's Law-style network effects, which is why it is usually a bad idea to use anything that is known to be a problem; even if you use it maliciously, just the fact that someone gets to legitimately claims they have a larger clientèle becomes an additional barrier in the path of any competitor.
Do not worry about your job or feel guilty for being ill. Recovering will help your company. Find an Oncologist that has treated this specific type of cancer 100s of times if not 1000s. THIS is key to getting a good outcome. Like engineers doctors are not interchangeable. Their level of experience makes a hughe difference. See https://medium.com/backchannel/should-surgeons-keep-score-8b...
That's it. Though the law (US, EU) has been changed recently to extend copyright protection for an even longer time past the authors lifetime. Some year ago it was afaik 70 years after the author died. The Encyclopedia Britannica from 1911 is now public domain but songs from Elvis Presley were owned by Michael Jackson (his daughter was together with him for some time) and will make another generation or two of his childrens rich (or whoever owns the rights now/then).
Monsti is not WordPress and can't replace it. In fact, I use WordPress for my clients and Monsti for experimental projects only. And I like WordPress being so damn user friendly. But its implementation just sucks. Which matters for clients if I need more time do develop new functionality (Most WordPress plugins suck compared to WordPress core). And its slow and hard to maintain (especially if you use plugins).

Beware that Monsti is still in an early stage of development. The main reason to be interested in it is that it is written in Go. And that it is resource friendly and fast. I wrote it because the last Python-CMS I used consumed some hundreds of megabytes of memory for one simple site, and I could not run more that one site in parallel (in the same interpreter) because of it and some Python libraries using globals and monkey patching.
> Apartheid is about two types of citizens, Gaza is not in Israel, the concept make no sense there at all.

Ah, the Guantanamo defense. I know that maneuver.
It's a disruptive synergistic cloud experience!
Do not worry about your job or feel guilty for being ill. Recovering will help your company. Find an Oncologist that has treated this specific type of cancer 100s of times if not 1000s. THIS is key to getting a good outcome. Like engineers doctors are not interchangeable. Their level of experience makes a hugh difference. See https://medium.com/backchannel/should-surgeons-keep-score-8b... This is true for things other than surgery. Good luck
Ross Ulbricht did more to civilize the drug trade, to prevent the violence and mayhem associated with dealing drugs, than any law.enforcement agency anywhere in the world ever has, and I can't wait for the day we finally abolish prisons and acknowledge this tragedy.
Sure, but that's two glasses of wine 7 days a week with no days off.
How to Be More Productive on Social Media
Build to Last, not to Exit (startups)
WinLister, from the article..

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/winlister.html
Whose health care system has contributed most to research and development of increasingly successful diagnostic tests and treatments for cancer?
Congrats. horticulteur and hacker, I'll drink to that. Keep up with your vision!
> The fact that this thread exists makes me want to move back to Europe.

I'm sorry to break it to you, but TTIP wants to export the "American" healthcare model to Europe. So maybe when you come back things are not to so great.
The point is that production is a derivative of consumption. Consumption doesn't adapt to production. So, if you want production to rise, you have to work on the consumption side of things.
Geee thanks twitter ... you can learn nothing for me from the fact that I have grindr installed /sarcasm
Basing it on representatives who campaigned with abolitionist policy who were elected like Pearson and Trudeau. Constituents also let their MPs know in the 1980s the attempt to reinstate executions wouldn't be tolerated so it failed to pass, of course back when representative democracy sort of worked and parties weren't just hawkish theatre like they are now.
The genetic term is non-zero. It discomfits, I know. But that doesn't make it less true.
I doubt it. Even if Google can't use the data they're getting from searches done via that service to target ads to specific people, they're still getting valuable data on what people search for generally.
For the love of god give us all the TL;DR, the site is awful.
you need to spit it and eat in between (preferably amidon laden stuff) to keep sharp taste buds connected to a clear mind. Especially if you are going to commit to a couple of cases.
This argument can be extended to any luxury good - why buy a Porsche when a VW will get you there? Why buy a silk sweater when you've a perfectly serviceable woollen hand-me-down?

Obviously these things are not equivalent. The car you buy, the sweater you wear, and the wine you drink are a few of the many little things that make a person who they are - in a sense, they're the distinctions that comprise the very essence of culture. What is a person (when viewed through another's eyes) if not the product of the decisions they make? And what is knowing someone, if not having an understanding of how they reach their decisions?

Not all wine is created equal - that's just true. Like food, code, art, music, and math, it's a thing that becomes more appreciable with knowledge. A lot of people would be just as impressed by a+b=c as they would be by Euler's identity, the Zeta function, or e=mc^2: normal people don't go around talking about the beauty of math, and yet those that know about it are captivated by it. It's the same story with Lispers and "Maxwell's equations of software". Are they deluded? No. Is it completely subjective and worthless? No - there is real, objective awesomeness in these examples.

Wine is not math or Lisp, but it's also not 100% bullshit (probably more like 60%.) This article is just another "please be like me" appeal, and they're getting dull now. There's potentially a lot of joy to be had by liberating your tastebuds from the likes of Gallo. $5/btl wine is not great stuff - it was probably a grape less than a month ago, and when you take into account vineyard margin, distributor margin, retail margin, the bottle, labelling, taxes, and shipping, you find the actual liquid in the bottle was created for pennies. It's treated with additives, flavourings, and sugar to make it both palatable and consistent: the grape is but a substrate. Like pink slime. $5/btl wine is the 1990's McNugget of the booze world. Each and every bottle is a shrine to engineered mediocrity.
Speaking of other languages like esperanto, I teach speaking english like a native at http://preply.com/en/skype/english-native-speakers
> that sort of consumption is pretty average in many parts of the world, Europe for example.

The highest consumption of alcohol is Estonia, at 415.9oz of pure alcohol a year. Taking wine at 12% alcohol content, that's 3,465oz per year. That's 9.49oz per day.

I simply disagree that matching the highest consumption rate in the world is recommended, especially when a country like Italy , among one of the top wine producing countries, is at half that rate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_co...
On Dropping Out
What would you think of "don't use our APIs in such a way that, if your users found out you had used them that way, they'd want that API removed to force you to stop"? That's essentially what's being discussed here.
US needs to redistribute much more wealth using much higher taxes for the rich.

They also need to get companies to pay their share - letting Apple sit on an Uncle Scrooge stash of money is absurd.

Spending more on the government level, outside of the military, is also good as a smoothing factor for the economy.
I don't know. You seem to know, so please provide evidence.
The Deeply Tragic Sentencing of Ross Ulbricht
I wouldn't make the mistake of mixing cheap with value. What you value might just be cheap but more often then not it is a bargain.

The first time I drank with a multi millionaire we were having a jammy value buy called Seven Deadly Zins and Monkey Bay Sauvignon Blanc. Those two data points were his sessionable bargain buys and I loved the taste too.

Personally, I have also enjoyed a bottle of Opus One but later on discovered those same taste characteristics in a Spanish Garnacha blend I believe to be re labeled as Atteca. I should have bought a case of that stuff it was an amazing find and had legs for days.

My findings are that below a tenner is cheap stuff waiting to become a vinaigrette of regret in form of buyers remorse. Around the 14usd mark is where value van be found. Such as Trader Joe's seasonal reserve offering they put out for New Years. When a vintner puts their name on the offering and takes the care to select the best grapes of the season then you can taste the bargain.

Wanting to taste a bottle of Amarone, my next bargain finding adventure has led me here:
Father and Son Amarone Tasting Episode #800
Wine Library TV 2010 17:00 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9wUxIdIosg
TL;DW 2005 Tommasi Amarone