skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely not a waste of time. I've experimented with all kinds of probiotics over the last decade.

In general, you want to buy high-quality probiotics, and finding the good ones isn't easy mainly because of the huge amount of astroturfing from manufacturers.

So here goes (note that these work for me, IANA doctor, YMMV yada yada):

VSL#3 and Therelac are the best broad-spectrum probiotics. Both have very high concentrations of bacteria, and require refrigeration. These are expensive, and typically used if you're trying to fix some condition. I make sure I always have a bottle of either stocked, and take it only if I feel I need to.

For day-to-day use, the following work great: Culturelle and Jarrow Formulas S. Boulardii. They're reasonably priced, don't require refrigeration, and the effects are noticeable in a day. I typically take a capsule of each twice a day (morning/night.)

Finally, make sure you get digestive enzyme supplements and take them religiously with meals that are hard on the digestive system (e.g., meat.) Twinlab Super Enzymes are what I typically get.

In general, the key effects I've noticed are: much improved digestion, lower anxiety, corrects GI issues, improvements in skin and oral health, and simply a better overall sense of well-being.

What's particularly cool is if you take them with foods that you love but typically upset you (burgers, pizza, other greasy stuff), extra doses of these probiotics right after the meals (along with the digestive enzymes) completely eliminate negative aftereffects.

Good probiotics are incredible, and I wish more doctors better understood them. Meanwhile, I highly recommend trying the above, experimenting (with good judgement), and finding what works for you.
So much legacy still runs on it. I've seen many projects at the top of very very large companies (think telcos) that still use Oracle DB. The cost to upgrade these systems with full end to end testing is not worth the investment. Every system I've seen that has this setup is extremely archaic in every way. We're talking java applets in the browser to show a form where you choose options that compose a query in the background and every option you would want is in the interface, however there is no direct query access. Imagine creating a UI that represents everything you can possibly do in a sql query, building it in a java applet, and powering it with a database that costs a buttload of money.

Also oracle has a very large reach with salesforce so I've seen many former employees pitch oracle products heavily. Seems like once you work there you're part of the forever cult of ellison.
I recall being my most productive on an old IBM 3151 terminal (probably because of the keyboard, but also fewer distractions). It was only 80x24 characters. And 80x24 is easily represented in a 640x480 screen. Now add in head tracking, and you can have the screen move up and down and scroll the text in the opposite direction, making it appear as if you are moving a virtual picture frame over a bigger sheet of paper.

Even today, most of my (C / Bash) programming is done in an 80x24 xterm, although I'll typically have documentation open in another window. However web and GUI app development requires enough room to see the resulting product.
Canadian VC's have a terrible habit of stringing along founders for months to try and gather more info/data on the companies and never giving a firm answer. It is one of the most destructive forces possible, it causes Founders to waste months chasing money when they should be building their product/teams, I've seen it kill many good companies with great founders who should have been given a chance to build a team/product, not chase money for months. Hopefully this fund will force Canadian VC's move faster, as long as there aren't any landmines in the terms... But with the government money invested I worry about the terms.
That, and enterprise-grade product support is often a requirement.
> What does being white or a gamer have to do with this?

Absolutely nothing, in reality. In terms of Randi Harper though, she is a misandrist using a convenient boogeyman to push her own agenda.
Another interesting one about water that is unknown, or at least not proven (many credible theories). Why does hot water freeze faster than cold water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
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A number of reasons that form an important lesson in sales at the enterprise level:

1. Oracle does provide value. They have clustering and high-availability offerings that Postgres just can't touch, and those come with service and support personnel as part of the contract. A one-stop solution is a powerful sales pitch.

2. They have a massive existing install base within the Fortune 500, which spend amounts of money that the average hacker just can't grasp. Somebody that I know very recently worked on an enterprise project to create more-or-less a web page that had a $1,000,000 budget. Oracle is not asking for unreasonable amounts of money, by enterprise standards.

3. Companies value safety over risk, and Oracle has a long track record at the executive level of providing safety. The mindset goes something like: Postgres might be good enough for Imgur or Joe Bob's Bait Shack And Social Network, but neither of those is a bank, healthcare provider, or an entity capable of ordering an air strike. Oracle is telling the story their customers want to hear.

4. Because Oracle has such a large install base and so many success stories at the enterprise level, they are one of a very few number of default choices that an enterprise will make. They have spent decades building up sales momentum.

Business decisions usually have very little do to with the underlaying technology.
Indeed. Labor costs.
>I posted this because I thought it sounded like a [weak] study

Let me see if I understand: you posted (the abstract of) a study you consider not worth taking seriously so that you could read criticisms of the study by people who know more than you; is that correct?

If not, then please explain more about your motivation for posting because I'm a little confused on that point.
It's a well-done site. I had to go back and look carefully to even notice that the views in the eyepieces were not rendered in proper perspective.
That awkward moment when you realize DHL is a German company.

There's also a number of alternate services for the post in a number of other countries. FedEx is not a duplicate of the post - it's for sending small but high value things extremely fast. And between FedEx One Rate and FedEx Smart Post, it's pretty clear that they view USPS as a competitor to be respected.
> the general idea is

... to choose an established vendor with a big name and large resources, so that you won't get fired if things don't work out. Even if your project goes down in flames, you can blame the vendor, snatch a "compensation" discount or freebie on some other license renewal, and you'll be fine.

Nobody in the enterprise space will ever get fired for choosing IBM, Oracle, Microsoft or SAP.
Yes. Federated tables was added in Postgres 9.3.
When answering a SO question is not enough
I'm more concerned with the ease in how American corporations can so readily influence foreign governance.
I don't know much about running a public company, but my guess is that he has an obligation (maybe a legal one?) to his shareholders to not hint to news like this before the company is officially announcing it.
Well, maybe I'm totally off on this, but it's more that I'd like to be able to run analytics which include real-time data without having any notable pauses. I'm willing to look at anything in terms of getting the data from the real time capture into the historical database as long as the spark queries "just work".

Sorry, I think maybe "integrating between" was the wrong way to phrase it.

On the other hand, I mean there's clean up and preprocessing I want to do on data that goes into the historical dataset, so hey, why not do that clean up/processing with Spark?

I've seen Lambda Architecture before, but it seems like it's kinda gone dark and unless I just totally overlooked it, I don't think there was a "Hey, this is the way to do it guys!"
The most complete example of a project using Closure library I can find is the end-to-end project[1].

[1] https://github.com/google/end-to-end/tree/master/src/javascr...
Given the wait time for BTC confirmation, could it be feasible to use the OpenBazaar network for "Download Now" type transactions, where the buyer's expectation is for more or less immediate gratification?
Well, there is a Le Lisp.

http://christian.jullien.free.fr/lelisp/
Ellen Pao is the interim CEO of Reddit. Interim CEO is still CEO, you still have the power of the job.
I thought JS was intended to be a Scheme in disguise?
uBlock Origin is a better friend. :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
How do you know? Plenty of people work 16 hour days. Of course, it's not for everyone, but it's tough to say what's sustainable for someone else.
It's like Myspace and Tumblr barfed all over Businessweek. I opened the article in Firefox with the mobile-emulation feature turned on. Because good god almighty this thing is a trainwreck otherwise.
Hi,

maybe I am not the best person to answer this question because I got rejected. I got to the onside interview. I recognised that it was unable to evaluate your performance. I thought my system design was bad, but they were impressed.

I'd say the questions are not that hard, but they try to figure out, if you understand the corner cases. Can you really understand the problem, do you understand your own implementation? It's a difference if you solve the problem or understand your solution.
The commonly used legal spectrum is in the 2.4 ghz. It's probably underground due to them not participating in any sanctioned or officially regulated events.
Didn't SDK 0.6.0 remove some of the ability to do that stuff?

> Removed support for application-based distortion rendering. Removed functions include ovrHmd_CreateDistortionMesh, ovrHmd_GetRenderScaleAndOffset, and so on. If you feel that you require application-based distortion rendering, please contact Oculus Developer Relations.

https://developer.oculus.com/history/
Jar of Fireworks: Web design experiments (A/B testing)
How slow is it, since it's using Haskell?
I agree that the second example, using (var my = this) and then using my inside the anonymous function is not much of a hassle.

However, in my opinion, repeating this many many times throughout a codebase is irritating to write, and adds extra weight and bug surface area to the code.

Therefore adding some syntax sugar to remove the need to do this, i.e. the first example, is a nice feature. I know opinions on syntax and formatting are pointless and endless, but could you please explain why, for you, is it less legible? Once you're used to it, don't you just scan () => as no-arg anon function signature the same way you scan function() as that now?
My reaction to this article: Mwahahaha.

Although surprised it is Cassandra, and not mysql thats taking the market share. Is there some technical reason for this? I'm not intimate with what Cassandra offers.
You don't know what "process" and "executable" means? You've got more important things to do than troll me, then.
I wonder why the m4 instances are less expensive than the m3s: m4.xlarge is $0.252 vs m3.xlarge $0.266. The c4 instances are more expense than the c3 instances.
Blog post author here - you are correct, I was wrong, and the fix is rolling out now!
Good.

Now my concern is to see what database platform all the architect astronauts end of gravitating their ridiculously over-engineered solutions towards.

5 years ago, the default choice for my government clients was Oracle, Oracle, Oracle.

I just finished up a year-long engagement and Oracle wasn't brought up even once.
Yes, but the scientists who write the software are not necessarily accomplished programmers so they tend to favor nicer syntax over efficiency.
I've done both and have used a rubber mount for the camera. it absorbs vibration pretty well. Though fatigue does start to kick in at the 10 minute mark. Were you standing up by any chance? Sitting down makes way more comfortable. First time I did it almost puked.
How does it differ from uBlock (or, how is it better?)
Difficult to know if that 3% loss in new revenue wasn't offset by deferred cloud revenue.
Twitter adds awkward version of blocklist sharing
Hash pipe in the documentation is nod-and-a-wink.
Probably because of the DataStax OLTP/OLAP/All-Singing/All-Dancing platform that uses Cassandra.

MySQL alone doesn't cover the same bases.
That is what I meant, yes. Please forgive me for not including a full description of my self-blinding method in a quick comment.

> until after you gather all your results.

Not all of them; you only need to be blinded for each unit. Once the data is collected for that unit, then you can unblind yourself (and this is the easiest way to go).
The dose can be taken in the morning, given it much of the day to act. Acute effects seem plausible here given the neural connection to the gut, however, a self-experiment examining acute effects only is still useful to help rule that out. And to investigate slower effects, you can block the doses so instead you take a week (or a month) at a time (this is more work because you need more blocks to achieve similar numbers of units as a per-day randomization).

> my experience is that alcohol can affect the gut flora.

So? You don't know if the alcohol effect would be to enhance or reduce the supposed calming effect or not affect that at all.
Unless you know a vegetarian, you may have trouble finding gel capsules sufficient for a decent dose of kimchi... (Also, now you have to refrigerate all your capsules.) Easier to just use some probiotic powder stable at room-temperature unless there's some compelling reason to expect them to be ineffective.
So they get equity in exchange for gov't supplied money? Sounds shady.
Is that core count right for the big instance? The same cpu is used on the data-heavy nodes [1] and it says it maxes out at 36 cores. Or does amazon save some cores for their own uses on those boxes?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/next-generation-of-dense-st...
It appears they changed it to red since you took this image.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepre...

"...the balance of power between investors and entrepreneurs that marks the early, frontier days of a major technology wave (Moore’s Law and the Internet in this case) has fallen apart. Investors have won, and their dealings with the entrepreneur class now look far more like the dealings between management and labor (with overtones of parent/child and teacher/student). Those who are attracted to true entrepreneurship are figuring out new ways to work around the traditional investor class. The investor class in turn is struggling to deal with the unpleasant consequences of an outright victory..."
One "justification" I've heard is that it makes it harder for someone with a keylogger on your computer to search through all the text you've typed to find password-like phrases. Pretty dumb IMHO, but reasonable enough to be believable.
It doesn't hurt that their database is actually really good.
I definitely agree with you that the "cockpit" games (racing, space combat, et al.), and things like Lucky's Tale are well served by the current controller, but I don't think it's going serve VR well outside of those niches. Which isn't what you want from the default, bundled controller.

Even just a few years ago most people were thinking that game genre popularity would just map into VR - i.e. Witchers and CoDs would be king. What's becoming more and more apparent is that VR is such a different medium that we need a whole new set game genres and mechanics.

For instance: locomotion with the left controller stick, head movement with the right (which the current controllers are brilliantly adapted for) is such a core controller "idiom" right now, but when applied to VR it's just horrible - a recipe for nausea and disorientation.

If you look at the kinds of experiences that are being developed around Valve's controllers, they're all huge departures from the games we currently play, and the reason is that Valve, as game designers, realized from an early point just how far back to the drawing board we need to go. VR is just too different, with different objectives (immersion), possible modes of interaction, and human weaknesses to address.
resources are also always limited on a single computer but most companies usually don't care because it is cheaper to use a higher level language
You mean that it should be more like a Bazaar and less like a Cathedral? Wow, great idea!
What do you mean by fake account? People not using their real name on twitter? Or spam bot accounts and stuff?

I fear they might be tempted to attack the later by attacking the former.
The company should correct its image to reflect reality.
And why should mla48 get any equity in exchange for government grants, exactly? That phrasing strikes me as misleading.
"All too often cries of "free speech!" are about not being able to say something that legitimately hurts or offends someone else"

This is exactly what free speech is. The freedom to say things that are wrong, hateful, misinformed, misleading, vicious, cruel and hurtful as long as no actual violent or criminal acts are incited.
> Companies value safety over risk

Yes. In the case of a database, "safety" is safety from downtime, data loss, data theft. So companies want a database that is fault tolerant and secure.

> Postgres might be good enough for Imgur or Joe Bob's Bait Shack And Social Network, but neither of those is a bank, healthcare provider, or an entity capable of ordering an air strike.

Banks and healthcare providers strike me as far more insecure than tech companies, and especially more insecure than the large computing platforms like EC2, Google Cloud, etc. Any cloud can host a postgres database, and many of them offer database-specific services.

Oracle is competing not just with Postgres, but with literally every other database offering, many from leading tech companies.

The cloud extracts value by utility billing a large customer base. Oracle extracts value by overbilling a small customer base. Which model seems more sustainable? Eventually EC2, Google Cloud, etc will overtake Oracle completely. Maybe if Oracle is lucky they can provide the overpriced consultants to manage their client's EC2 boxes.
Anyone familiar with the tabletop game 'Shadowrun' could compare this to BTL chips!
It's hard to think of a situation where a new startup would use Oracle; it's a massive cost compared to alternatives and while it does offer some advantages over other DB choices those advantages are not very compelling for most uses.

For example, we did some rough testing recently and found that Oracle was faster for report generation than MSSQL but we can double the processing power assigned to the MSQQL to get equivalent performance for a fraction of the cost of Oracle licensing.
Stanford President John L. Hennessy to Step Down in 2016
Seriously, what was Sacca thinking when he pressed the publish button on that Twitter piece?

I'm half way through and it's just insane. He spilled the beans for every product that Twitter could build in the coming couple of years for everyone to see.

Couldn't he just have sent those recommendations or feature requests to the top management and spared them the public humiliation or giving the competition free ideas and inteliigence?!!

This is just ridiculous.
If we are just talking about ice formation and not the point at which the whole thing freezes, then I would expect there to be many systems where the hotter vessel would form ice quicker when put in a very cold environment. Heat being essentially kinetic energy averaged, the greater the initial energy compared to the available drop, the faster it is for large variations to develop.
Will Your Job Be Done By A Machine?
What's to prevent malicious sellers from creating fake positive buyer feedback?
Anyone know what happens when you allow bloomberg.com to use your camera when you finish reading the article?
Why Developers Struggle to Get App Ratings and Reviews on the Apple App Store
Why did Bloomberg ask to use my camera while reading the article
This is the only valid answer, here. Why is the guy not talking in terms of technical debt, business impact, KPIs etc.?

If he really knows his shit, he should be expected to break his technical insight down into layman-friendly terms.

Hell, we're expecting just that from our doctors all the time.
Just how custom is the E5-2676 v3 processor?

I see this paticular model is not in the Intel's list of models [1] nor in the Wikipedia [2].

I suspect that, as the model number suggests, it is virtually identical to E5-2670 v3 [3] and 100 MHz higher base clock rate and 100 MHz lower Turbo Boost frequency is all customization there is (but what about the exact turbo profile?), but the fact that Intel does it at all, even for a customer as large as Amazon (how much are they ordering, actually?), is an interesting development.

[1] Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family http://ark.intel.com/products/family/78583/Intel-Xeon-Proces...

[2] Wikipedia: List of Intel Xeon microprocessors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microprocess...

[3] Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2670 v3
(30M Cache, 2.30 GHz) http://ark.intel.com/products/81709/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...
Perhaps I stare at 3d graphics too much, was the first thing I noticed.
Can't be good, if Bloomberg is for it
Never Mind the NSA, Google and Facebook. What about your own employer or recruitment firms? http://www.benhowell.net/future/2015/05/03/people-analytics-...
That didn't stop Leo Apothekar for collecting $30 million in severance after tanking HP.

Nor did it stop Stephen Elop from collecting $25 million after running Nokia's devices business into the ground/arms of Microsoft (although I think technically that was structured as a "bonus")

Reminds me of some quote I heard somewhere: "CEO: where success is rewarded handsomely and failure only slightly less so"
So it could take a photo of you for your certificate of achievement
Irreproducible biology research costs put at $28B per year
Do you consider to be a photo for your certificate of achievement to be good?
I think the m3s were cheaper than the m2s when they we launched.
That page on DOM is the reference Manual.
Do you complain that Gray's Anatomy is just too thick, how do you navigate all that info to find what pill should you take?
Didn't they recently find out that those experiments had accidentally targeted the wrong part of the rodent brain?

That rather than hitting the pleasure center it hit an area related to scavenging?
I agree a nomination system makes more sense. "This is why the janitor at my work deserves a house" kinda thing.
I though the imaginary VP was pretty clearly not working in a software company. What if random companies suddenly needed to design and build their own automobiles in house? There would be a similar lack of comprehension about just what the automotive engineers were actually doing all day.

At least, I know I would be lost and would greatly appreciate a guide like this.
Something can't be "basically" functional programming without first-class functions.

It seems more like a non-functional declarative vm to me.