skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but lauric acid raises HDL much more than LDL, resulting in a ratio that's actually thought to lead to better cardiovascular health. Clinical evidence for this is a bit lacking, but I've never heard it seriously suggested that coconut oil is bad for the heart.

Palm oil on the other hand is mostly made of palmitic and oleic acids, which are associated with less favorable HDL/LDL ratios, but here again the clinical evidence is thin.

Generally, the association between vegetable fats and heart disease is tenuous and confounded by other more significant dietary variables.
Unix started with just 323 lines of code
Eye witness testimony, especially for cross-racial identification, is very dubious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect#Cross-race_i...
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I don't think it does.

The Population Reference Bureau estimates that a total of 107 billion Homo Sapiens have lived (since 50,000 BC) [1].

[1] http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleH...
I somewhat agree about computer music, though it appears to be an extension of the process driven composition that has been part of western (art) music for a while now (e.g. modulation).

Sometimes I wonder if linguistics has more to offer composition than algebra (speculation, as I know next to nothing about (non-CS) linguistics).

> It's not that this is an impossible problem. It's more that the set of people who can code machine learning algorithms and understand music theory and are creative enough to invent new algorithmic techniques and to create more-than-listenable music is incredibly small - double figures, if that.

Are you pursuing something like this? Or know anyone who is? This is one of my main interests (alongside better interfaces for composition and well, making music). I'm actually back at University for my second degree to study this sort of thing.

If you have a blog or anything I'd be interested to find out...
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It looks like a product not particularly solving any solution. The Chromecast solves a problem. This does not.
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They would. Our hiring bar isn't that high. If you look at it like a vector, the magnitude isn't that big, it's just that direction that's peculiar.
Doesn't work like that:
http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleH...
I uninstalled Flash a few months ago and don't miss it.
I mostly use Firefox, but I do keep Chrome around, so I could use Chrome's Flash if I wanted to, but I don't think I have so far.

The only site I commonly visit that doesn't work is BBC News, funnily enough. It's a little annoying because it will work if I change the user agent to iPad, but instead I just don't watch BBC News videos.
With the Five Eyes agreement there's pretty much a statement that France is outside the proper list of US allies. Any foreign security agency worth its salt would view that as a statement of intent that those outside the group are likely to be spied on by those inside.

France has always had a divergent geopolitical strategy that sets it apart from the USA/UK alliance.
That's all good, but the differentiating factor of Slack over Hipchat & the like is how well it integrates with everything your team is likely to use. It works seamlessly with Github, Trello and IRC.

I don't mean to devalue this product at all, but This is not a viable Slack alternative, it's a generic (and good looking) communication tool. This said, I commend the open source approach, it could probably help the product evolve towards something much better and integrated.
We use dependency injection to match State names to parameters of Behavior functions—the State numberOfStates gets injected into any Behavior function that lists is as a parameter, like function(numberOfStates).

We need to have a talk. First, this isn't dependency injection - you're passing in data. These "Behavior" functions may depend on the data, but that doesn't make this a dependency.

Oh, I can understand how you're confused. You see Angular doing it and reverse-engineered the term. But notice how in Angular it is used to pass services into controllers, services that the controller has a dependency on.

Also, notice how this "feature" is broken in production. Any website worth its salt will minify the assets, which changes function parameter names. You did notice that, right, that your clever little hack works great in your development environment but totally breaks when you minify your code? You are testing things minified, right?

Why would you spend any time at all working on a feature that is fundamentally broken in production? Kill your darlings.
When this tipping is reached then society may reorganize itself around concepts like basic income and so forth. It seems like a safe bet that a single, cohesive society could survive this transition without a huge amount of chaos. But what happens when you have hundreds of countries with opposing interests who all hit this wall at about the same time?
It is more oriented towards real time and spontaneous conversations, but my Firestr project is a p2p chat/app platform. I am working on the idea of more persistent conversations. Check it out, it is still alpha but works well. I am always open for help to make it more awesome too.

http://firestr.com https://github.com/mempko/firestr
Yes, China's one-child policy didn't seem to make too much of a difference, but that's because Chinese fertility rates fell even in areas that didn't enforce the one-child policy.

The consumption footprint is easily achievable---the limiting factor is energy burned per day. Nuclear (or cheap solar) can change that.
Both. You can find existing references for each one of those techniques, and even for the architectural concepts behind an engine. But you have to figure out which techniques are the right choice (you may need to invent some), and how they fit together, for the needs of your particular game / style / style.
This is great news for Elixir as well!
That's something I don't get. Why should intelligence agencies be expected/allowed to spy on allies and friendly nations?

What does it tell you about that "friendship"?
It depends on who you talk to, I've seen renovated university study spaces with fresh chalkboards. When I asked the staff why they chose chalkboards instead of whiteboards, they said that it's cheaper in the long run because cleaning and replacing whiteboards is awful and expensive. Chalkboards are significantly more durable.
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Read the following description of SIGINT : https://www.nsa.gov/sigint/faqs.shtml

> They then use the information to help protect our troops, support our allies, fight terrorism, combat international crime and narcotics, support diplomatic negotiations, and advance many other important national objectives.

Again the focus is on "threat", "crime", "combat" and at the end the very vague "important national objectives".

Don't you feel the strong cognitive dissonance between the missions that are put at the forefront and what it is really done ?
Thanks!

Now only if someone were providing hosting for them ...

Maybe Raspberry Hosting[0] would be interested ;)

[0] https://raspberry-hosting.com/en
The media is part of the market. Getting worked up when you see articles like this is a waste of your time. Sensationalist crap will always pop up when incumbents are threatened. It doesn't mean they are fighting the free market. It just means they are trying a marketing strategy.
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It's articles like this that make me sad that I never took linear algebra (I would have loved it, but I flunked the advanced calculus course prior, so that ended any major ambitions that had a math requirement)
Not very limited with fast breeders and/or Thorium reactors. See http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_166.shtml
My thoughts exactly. I've never been so excited about seeing a new Erlang release :-)
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There's no harm in having loads of options - you just get a Darwinian survival of the fittest for which app works best. Competition is healthy.

The thing that sucks is that as end users we end up having all our chats and identity fragmented over all these different silos - be they selfhosted ones or proprietary SaaS. There's no way I'll rely on MatterMost or any of the above unless I can access my existing communities (be they on IRC, XMPP, Slack, HipChat or whatever); adding yet more fragmentation into the mix helps nobody.

This is why it's vital to have an open standard for decentralising the conversations between all these different islands that kills fragmentation whenever a new one pops up. And it's actually beneficial to new contenders like MatterMost as it could help them onboard users into their UX and app without having to start new conversations and contacts.

[Disclaimer: Matrix.org is such a standard, providing an open HTTP API for decentralised chatrooms, and I work on it.]
Consider that the US was able to attack air-gapped computers in Iran and destroy industrial equipment. Air gaps can be breached, it's just a little harder.
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This is not music. Music is not simply organised sound. Music is a cultural practise.
When I interview candidates, I take half of the resumes we receive and throw them in the trash. I don't want to hire unlucky people. /s

I have a sneaking suspicion that the polygraph is often just cover for implementing an arbitrary hiring process based upon the feelings of the interviewer. For example, let's say you're hiring police officers, let's also say that you're also a bit of a racist, now you can reject women and minorities and still have an "objectively fair" hiring process, since every candidate had to undergo the same process.
Meme generation
Still non mingw or mingw-w64 or (windows) clang friendly.
Was I the only one extremely disappointed that wasn't actually much related to Musk, nor a serious conversation about the future? It was an interview of a fiction novelist, nothing more.
Ever play the game Diplomacy? Friendship means jack shit.
this year, bq + ubuntu will launch a phone that does just that http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/first-ubuntu-phone-with-c...
Or, if you're patient, just wait for them to show up on Netflix and watch there.
I did a presentation last week at my local JavaScript meetup group about why realtime data binding is ideal for single page apps (see http://slides.com/grosjona/realtime#/). It seems I was merely promoting the Observer Synchronization pattern.

It's interesting to see that this pattern existed long before SPAs were a thing.
I haven't had Flash Installed on my primary system for 12+ months, and, I absolutely don't miss it. Ironically, the BBC news is one of the very, very few places that seems to use Flash for Video - so it's probably the only site that I'm ever impacted on.
The six C++ expressions listed are not equivalent. They have different types (try using them in sizeof(), or assigning them to something...)
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Nothing to do with years. Graphics programming is a specialism
Anything noteworthy ? :-)
Because us common folk don't have a voice.
The thing is that we prefer to communicate one to one on IM. Everyone logs into the chat server, but they don't use rooms as much. That's probably because everyone is in separate teams, and each team prefers different ways of communication.
The forthcoming Google Chromebit has a clever design that pivots so you can choose if you want the connector straight at the end or at a 90 degree angle to the rest of the stick.
Why nobody pays for Sublime?
Every single TV in my house as a Windows device plugged into it. We've tried Roku, Chromecast and others - but you can't beat Windows if flexibility is what you want.

Having just a Chromecast sucks because you need a whole other smart device to actually do things. The Roku is a little better, but honestly it's too slow to navigate.

With Windows, I can do whatever the heck I want. We can play classic game emulators with Xbox controllers, watch ripped exercise DVDs with VLC media player (my wife does this), we run Netflix for Windows or Kodi to watch movies/TV and then of course we can do anything that a Chromecast does by simply opening Chrome (with adblock). It's awesome.
"I can be quite impulsive, and I don't want to get trapped by my own poor decisions."

All the more reason to delay having a vasectomy. Give yourself time to think, there's no rush. Unless you're tired of wearing condoms there's not much to gain here, other than making it some kind of statement of intent.

I hope you will take some time to consider whether the vasectomy is an impulsive decision, but ultimately I know it's none of my business. It's your body, it's up to you.

Best of luck with finding enjoyable ways to spend your free time.
Flash is always at least one emergency fix behind.
Wow, I got reamed out pretty hard for absent-minded use of a trendy term without thinking about it too much.

In my mind Flickr is up there with the Instagrams and the Ubers of the world because it was a fucking amazing experience at the time. I never even considered the valuation, but Flickr was definitely unique in the UX it brought to the table. I think people forget what the landscape looked like then. Or maybe they just can't get past a knee-jerk reaction to hot-button terminology.

Either way, I think it's fascinating that not one but two companies from the founder of Slack were pivots from game companies, and that's exactly what the GP is complaining about in the clone. Anyone care to comment on that?
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Because it's free and not that different?
To clarify, I use and I don't pay; but am seriously considering; probably will pay once beta's over (I'm using the beta for version 3); definitely appreciate the tool; I really enjoying using Sublime tool.
I have to clone this locally, npm install the cli, register with famous, and scaffold a new project in order to see a working demo of Famous in action?? No thanks.
How come you havent noticed?! The number! 18! Come on, Ruby is on 2, Python struggles to get to 3 and Java tries to catch poorely with 8...
> But as far as I understood this is about what in classic db would be called a sequential scan

You misunderstood my comment then. The scheme I described is used to do "full table scans" on the data. Also this is not something I came up with; there is a ton of research on this and it's how a number of fairly well known DB/analytics products work.

> But on a single machine the problem is checking what's in your own memory fast enough using CPU. That's where GPUs come in.

You can already scan these data volumes in millisconds on traditional hardware without doing too much fancy stuff or using GPUs. My original point was that I have a hard time coming up with an "interactive analytics" usecase where you'd want to process TB/s on one node that can keep only a few gigs around -- the improvement of doing this on GPUs instead of the old fashioned way on general purpose hardware seems to be that a query over the same dataset returns a few milliseconds faster. I reckon a user running interactive sql queries doesn't really care if their queries return in 10, 50 or 100ms -- I am not even sure I would be able to notice that difference myself. However, if you actually had a usecase for this you could still use the approach I described and make it as fast as you desire by scaling it out [tweaking the shard size] on conventional/commodity machines.

> you can just throw more boxes at it. But on a single machine

The linked article is discussing a setup with at least 8 distinct processing units, too.

> Even apart from the name of your company, the idea seems very interesting. I suppose I'm not the only one curious, so could just say a few more words? Are you working on some new technology

We are focused on delivering actionable insights as well as solving some very specific data problems for our customers right now. IMHO the hard part of doing that is making sure we understand the customer's domain, gather/track the right data from their systems and then work with them to slice and dice and visualize this data to discover "signal" from the "noise" which we can then feed back and use to optimize their website/app. The technical part of being able to handle the relatively large volumes of (non-preaggregated) source data is really just the means to that end. We do not currently offer an "off-the-shelf" version of our product, but again if you or somebody else would like to talk more, please ping me.

Also I hope I not coming across too negatively here. The linked research (compiling SQL to LLVM IR) sure is exciting stuff. I just couldn't help but feel that the hyperbole PR speak was a bit too strong with this one.
For a lot of the companies I see, it's not that they don't advertise enough... It's that they're selling a solution to a problem that nobody is rushing to solve.

Other factors come in of course, such as: bad advertising, bad product, poor social media representation, bad SEO, bad service, bad management, bad whatever.

From my perspective though, I just see lots of companies selling solutions to problems I never thought of looking for a solution to. It takes some really, really good advertising and a good product to overtake that burden.
"What is not possible however, is for a product that has to sit on shelves for any period of time to have no preservatives and no pasteurisation."

The crowd most likely to buy that product likely will have a negative emotional illogical response to food irradiation but it would technically work.

For awhile irradiated ground beef was available and I bought it all the time, no difference in taste and 0% chance of food poisoning. I was talked out of it by someone making the point that sterilizing the product means the mfgr has no motivation to keep shit and other slaughterhouse waste out of the product, because no matter what it is, blood, maggots, urine, bodily waste, it'll all be made sterile and 0% chance of food poisoning. That was a little gross. Regardless if its irradiated or not, this is going to be an issue for anything preserved. If someone can sneeze into the mayo and nothing happens, that means little motivation will exist not to sneeze into the mayo, which is pretty gross.
Nuclear has ridiculously high eroei, if you ignore one-time capital costs to build the reactor. The capital costs to build the reactor are high at the moment, but they don't have to be. (Mostly political reasons.)

> Maybe everything plays out well and in some decades we are flying our tesla-jets with rechargeable batteries powered by clean australian uranium, but that seems far-fetched.

We can invest (nuclear) energy to make artificial petroleum, if that turns out to be the most energy-dense battery.

> And even then we might have not yet solved the demographics problem, meaning it has just been kicked down the road for another while.

You mean the problem that lots of rich countries are aging rapidly? Population growth has pretty much ceased to be a problem.
Traditional media such as TV or radio talked briefly about it, but it was heavily discussed on online newspapers (eg, http://www.lemonde.fr/loi-sur-le-renseignement/), and websites were set up to protest and educate citizens, such as this one: http://ni-pigeons-ni-espions.fr/fr/.
It's not that mindblowing, although it does require a chunk of maths. It's only really the shadows that are complicated. And yes, it's a stack of established methods which have been built up over decades. SIGGRAPH is a good place to start, and there are open source 3D engines (including the ID software ones) to refer to.

"Mindblowing" are the demoscene people who fit this (or something more complex with procedural generation) into 64k or 4k binaries.
This write-up is very interesting and very well structured.

I can't help but think about the fact that the SupCom engine performs horribly while reading this, though.

It does worse in almost every respect compared to even the engines that came before it and while SupCom is definitely massive scale, that's not the root of why the game's performance is very poor.
I finished an MSc course in Games Engineering and we covered 90% of things in this article. For the final project we had demos with pretty much everything covered there + post process shaders + deferred lighting + DX11 tessalation shaders + ambient occlusion.

So yeah, I think you can find very good uni courses which cover those things, but they are not very common - I know I can certainly recommended mine, I got a job in the games industry straight away after it.
That's not what I meant! It's that I've witnessed Erlang releases for quite a long time (as everyone), but the coming of Elixir (and me starting using it) made me care about them.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ
I wish the MK808 was a plug and play digital sign, but it's actually kind of a pain to set up and use. I've got one sitting in a drawer.

If someone came out with a stick computer that simply connects to wifi and displays a webpage in a relatively modern browser at 1080 (or at least 720) and makes it easy, I would buy several of them at a nice premium over whatever the hardware normally costs.

I actually think an Android hacker or RaspberryPI hobbyist could make some money selling something like that.
Yeah, okay, foreign policy is not a board game.
About 20 years ago they should have created a grading standard for chalk so they could have avoided their commoditization, or at least only compete with others at similar quality (and presumably margins). Similar to organic standards.
This article really highlights something that I'm constantly amazed by - just how SLOW major media organisations are prepared to allow their websites to be.

When I'm designing a landing page for anything significant (product, movie, whatever), I'm looking for sub-second load times - ideally below 500ms. Why? Because there are tons of studies showing that page load speed makes a huge difference to user experience, retention, CTR, the whole nine yards.

How come bigger media companies, whose expense accounts for team lunch are probable larger than my entire Web budget, fail to learn this?

I'm baffled.
The Hendo hoverboard uses similar technology to MagLev. People can not only stand on it hovering over a flat surface, but can ride it over a half pipe: http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/21/we-rode-a-hoverboard/

Edit: I realize now that superconductive magnetic locking might be different than this, but since you mentioned the need for magnets I guess I got confused. Sorry for the downvote.
I was expecting actual constructive criticism, not rants.

Now, rants would be fine if they were true, but they aren't – lots of examples are just false.[0]

If they're not even rants, so then just satire remains, but when reading thru the repo it hits me that the satirical value, if any, is very small.

meh.

[0] e.g. it says that in Lua `nil + 1` is not allowed while `(not nil) + 1` is and yields 2. In reality, `(not nil) + 1` gives an "attempt to perform arithmetic on a boolean value" error.
For the simple reason that the more successful a company is, the more likely you are to have heard of them. These are the companies that never gained traction.
Came here to say this. No thanks, Lenovo, I can get the same performance and form factor directly from Intel with no "added value" spyware, and I can even get it with Linux preinstalled if I want.
OVH offers dedicated servers using Intel Atom N2180 processors, which have a proper NIC (but no SSD).