skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still makes no sense to me. There are numerous spices. But given that this is a Chinese study, maybe "spicy" means five-spice powder, or maybe just Sichuan pepper. And of course, health claims have also been asserted for several Indian spices. Personally, I'd go for a Goan/Sichuan hybrid :)

Edit: OK, I see "mainly chili peppers". So are chili peppers more commonly used in China than Sichuan pepper?
A lot of time according to new relic is spent in Middleware/Rack/ActionDispatch::Routing::RouteSet#call on one of our Rails apps on Heroku. Any ideas on what might be the cause? (I'm within memory limits standard-2x)
It's hard to find professionals who have better knowledge than the MAX() of the people reading this thread.

Imo it's even hard (and costly) to find professionals who have enough exp in general.
Steve Jobs was right: the company is a feature. I feel they've rested on their laurels for far too long while players like Box have beat them in the enterprise and Apple are shipping a free version of their consumer product on every Mac and iOS device. They are a cornered company and have have little to differentiate at the top or bottom of the market.
Ha, and HN is on board, apparently!
Yes, and it came with Mail.app also (which is from NeXT, and the ancestor of Apple's current Mail app on Mac OS X, and maybe a few other desktop programs.

I remember using it as my email client for a while, on Windows NT.
I was waiting for the paragraph that read "I'm not talking about pure functional languages because X, nor am I talking about Rust, because Y."

So, yeah, uncontrolled side-effect are a PITA. Solutions exist.
Services like EquityZen can help find buyers for your common shares to offset the tax liability.
I have had a quick skim (10 - 15 minute reads at a random points, until I have time to read it properly) of Real World Ocaml.

So far it looks great, and is very pragmatic and also covers useful tools for working in Ocaml (imho that should be in every modern specific programming language book, but it probably will date faster the rest of the book).
August 3rd. That's why I was so confused.

Was it really not posted to HN? I must've gotten it from twitter then...
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Q: What are the downsides to Coinbase's approach?
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"Spicy" things tend to have anti-microbial properties. That could certainly trigger a beneficial intestinal flora change--especially in places without a good refrigerated handling chain.

Spicy food also has a tendency to clear sinuses. I believe a couple of studies have shown that clearing sinuses occasionally (but not too often) is beneficial.
An entertaining theory, but I believe it's wishful thinking.

The idea that non-promiscuous people having more sex can reduce STDs is more that the risk to a person having sex is lower, the more non-promiscuous people are options for them. Which is true - if only promiscuous people are looking to have sex with you, then every sex act is more risky.

But the risk for those non-promiscuous people goes up the more sex they have.

STDs exist that are like vampires in modern entertainment - once you become one, you are one forever, and you have a chance of turning others into one as well. Vampirism therefore spreads without limit, and so do STDs, if enough people have sex, for STDs that are incurable are not entirely preventable by condoms.

If people are having a lot more sex due to Tinder, as the anecdotes suggest in this article, there is no doubt that we will see a surge in STDs.
Thanks for all your answers here! Could you elaborate on the above? Why does it imply short to long orderings are better? Also, I don't follow your comment about map/filter/reduce being bad except unless you have ruby-esque do blocks. Are you referring to something like map(<big function>, array)?
At first glance:

- golang-builder does not provide a convenient script, instead requiring manual
docker invocations [more flexible but more cumbersome]
- golang-builder uses volumes, which makes it very hard to use within a container
[may not matter to everyone but it certainly does to us]
- golang-builder uses a significantly larger base image
- gockerize has a really nice logo ;)
There is more than grammar in URL: there is politics like gov.uk is a TLD.

And that is why IETF RFC are so verbose. Because there is politics in them. That is why you can't provide regexps.

url because of politics are not context free. https://www.cs.rochester.edu/~nelson/courses/csc_173/grammar...

So a URL because of politics is a context full grammar.

And regexp cannot parse anything else than context free stuff.

To be honest I doubt anything useful is context free.

I doubt, therefore, that anything useful can be parsed with regexp... Except float, integer, and other basic types that are useful to build a context full grammar...
But for this RFC should separate standards in context free stuffs (rules/context free stuff) and config file for the political/commercial stuffs (context that changes meanings of atoms being parsed for illogical reasons).

The problem is politics is fucking hard to normalize, we have no BSML yet.
That's why the comment you've replied to says "particles with the right direction", not "particles with the right charge".
Erlang isn't hard to learn.
Sorry! Does this help? https://github.com/pyrocat101/tufte-css/commit/0a810a7d5f470...
Pebble's next smartwatch is here
A mathematician may have uncovered election fraud in Kansas
More precisely, land wheeled speed record meaning the vehicle still rolls on the ground.

Rocket sleds can go much faster because of their lack of wheels... this one reached Mach 8.5 (~10000km/h):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:8.5_Mach_rocket_sled_0304...
Where did I say I supported either criminalisation or perpetual extension of copyrights? Other than for the equivalent of other serious fraud in the former case, I support neither.
I keep asking this question and Mac people keep looking at me like I'm an alien, so I guess I'll turn to the HN community for this questions.

What do you recommend as security software for OSX currently? How do you help secure your devices from public wifi and the internet in general? Especially for novice users?
see discussion on this topic at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10015354
What is this witchcraft?
I've found it's more "high price bad, low price bad". Bull markets come with Malthusian predictions and really strong ones with pictures of the fuel lines in the 1970s.
This seems to agree quite nicely with Jeff Hawkins theories. Mainly that our brains are primarily doing temporal pattern recognition and language is no exception according to Hawkins. By minimizing the temporal gap between related items, you minimize the size of the patterns needed to convey an idea.
Another question along these lines, since OP's question seems well-answered:

If a startup employee has 90 days to exercise options after leaving a startup, what happens if a liquidity event happens during that 90-day window? Specifically, I'm wondering whether a cashless transaction is possible, particularly if it is a cash deal.
On public wifi, I use https://www.getcloak.com

I also uninstalled Flash.
You don't have to exercise all of them, just pick an amount that you're comfortable with. Think of it as insurance against "I worked for a company that later became a unicorn and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." How much would you pay for that, if anything?
I love spicy food so this is great news. But lately I've been wondering about the potential effect of spicy food on gut bacteria. Anyone who's had a painful bowl movement after eating some high Scoville level hot sauce knows what I'm talking about.
It is a MITM. Unknown key share would be the better definition I believe. Alice connects to Eve, Bob connects to Eve. Eve passes what Alice is telling Eve to Bob, and Bob to Eve. Alice thinks she's talking to Bob.
I agree with that last bit, but there is anecdotal evidence from employees that there is some validity to keeping a ready supply of people you can jettison out of your group in order to maintain altitude.
> It's extemely ironic that women would complain about the disappearance of something that was designed to their direct detriment.

So-called 'alpha males' tend to define and shape the culture they're a part of, a lot more than the 'non-alpha' males you just spent ten sentences shitting on. It's interesting you think low-status males just 'invented' monogamy, and in doing so turned the reproductive tables on 20% of men and 100% of women.

I think it's more like, historically speaking, cultures that allowed for more males to have reproductive success, and that therefore gave more males a stake in the society and culture they're a part of, saw more success and out-competed the ones that did not. Which is to say, a society where near-100% of the population have a direct reproductive stake in the future, will be more productive than societies where about 60% of the population does.

Whether this remains true now is an interesting question.
And can they handle 3D video files? Everyone knows 3D is the future!
As a newcomer with little time, I'm making use of the "search" option to stay focused and learn instead of freely surfing the flow.
Which is not a fair comparison because gas stations must meet 100% of the refueling demands of gasoline cars and charging stations only need to meet a tiny percentage because most charging takes place at home or at work.
As far as I know the weissman score is for lossless compression and our compression is lossy. But we could compare it to, e.g., x264 running on a single server and calculate a weissman score, but more or less it is then just a speed comparison ;) and in that case we are way faster/better.
Wish I would have read the comments first. Got quite the look from my wife when I answered the first question!
I do. I read HN almost everyday and I scroll all the way down until I get to the articles I read the previous day.
I agree regarding the example document. It's been troubling, because the fact of the matter is that those headings are legitimate, it's just that there's a mismatch between the goals of the description document and the goals of the kinds of documents that Tufte CSS is best suited for. I agree strongly with your idea of making several sample documents to experiment with. See https://github.com/daveliepmann/tufte-css/issues/26

I'll try to look into your points about leading, text size, and so on, but it would help a lot more if you could open a GH issue for them. As I've noted elsewhere in this thread, a real italic font has been added, and I'm considering what to do about small caps. To me it doesn't look so bad as-is.

I don't want Tufte CSS to look like a nicely typeset book, and it would take a lot to convince me to indent the first line of new paragraphs. I find that repulsive on the web.

Your last paragraph is gold. I wrote something similar about the table style earlier today. For me, I think this project is an exercise in making style choices using a rough template as a guiding star. I too worry that others will focus more on the finger than that star it is pointing at, by slapping this on top of existing content and calling it a day.
Well, not run-on sentences. Those are different from nested sentences.

A nested sentence is a sentence structure, a combination of main sentences, which are sentences that could stand a lone, and a subclauses, which are clauses that are dependent on main sentences, in a specific way that allows for easier understanding, which is done by providing an explanation for a specific part in a subclause.

As you can see, this doesn’t really work well in english, but in German sentences actually become MORE readable if done like this.
That would force companies to either own all of the front-end server farms or store their keys on machines in untrustworthy environments.
No, he is saying extended the iOS API - say to read from a heat sensor. Then it will only work on the windows/ios hybrid, not on the true iOS app.
We had some problems with Firefox but we are already working on it : )
Speed improvements are always nice, but the big improvement for us came from moving from 1x and 2x dynos to Performance dynos. CPU performance on the 1x and 2x dynos was highly inconsistent, and would suddenly become abysmal for periods of 5-10 minutes or more - and due to random routing, the backed up dyno would keep on getting requests until the requests start timing out.
I think you're going to get a bit of sampling bias with this one.
That's great idea! I think we can do that.
Depriving yourself of culture? Give me a break! Just say that you don't want to pay anything for music and movies released by major labels and studios, but you still want to enjoy them. Don't pretend you're taking some ethical stance.
I agree that design is medium-specific, but I think the idea of "looking as good as Tufte's books" is an underspecified one. Can a webpage be a better book than a book? No. Can a webpage be a better webpage by borrowing some ideas from books, then modifying those ideas to fit its own purposes? I think yes.
I don't understand; Sichuan pepper (花椒, huajiao) isn't spicy. Wikipedia confirms:

"Sichuan pepper's unique aroma and flavour is not hot or pungent like black, white, or chili peppers. Instead, it has slight lemony overtones and creates a tingly numbness in the mouth (caused by its 3% of hydroxy alpha sanshool) that sets the stage for hot spices."

Chinese cooking uses many different kinds of spicy peppers, however. For instance, heaven-facing peppers (朝天椒, chaotianjiao) are pretty common in Sichuan cooking. Maybe that's what you mean?
I think the endorphin theory is a pretty common explanation, but I think for me and for many others it's largely about flavour. I enjoy the flavour of chili peppers, and I also enjoy how spiciness brings out other flavours in food and makes it richer and more interesting.
Ask HN: Namecheap DNS down for anyone else?
Claims to be fixed on their blog but clearly not fixed. Guess I will have to switch to Route53 finally...
I'm picturing an interview with Elon Musk next week.

Interviewer: So what's next for you?

Musk: Well, I've been reading a lot about the teledildonics industry, and I think there's some real opportunities for synergy with some of the technologies we've been developing for Tesla. Especially in the Japanese hentai markets...
It's a 32-bit IP address in decimal (sorry, base ten) form, IIRC.
Google to Limit the Number of Ways Brands Can Buy YouTube Ads
With the new free plan you have now every month new free GB which you can use, rather than the one-time credits of the old one. We also introduced our plans recently, which do not have a limit on the number of encoding and a cheaper per GB price.
Drop me a line to sl@bitmovin.com and I'll get you the proper setting for your app's needs :-)
Because Google has a "Fuck Microsoft" approach to mobile, so I'm guessing they're just taking a page out of Google's playbook.
I wrote a script a while ago in Go to detect quantum insert attacks. It's not perfect but its well commented. I noticed quite a few detections when I ran it for a few days but they seemed to be benign, probably retransmissions.

https://gist.github.com/hkparker/97548b2c0c79a9149f50
Yep! That's what we think. And you can only see how hard it is to create visual art if you see the process.
MIT cracks Tor anonymity network and recognises hidden servers
"ads (...) stealing my attention and time"

Isn't that the whole point of an ad?
Probably not if the device is jailbroken.
"“Our goal is to show that it is possible for a local passive adversary to deanonymise users with hidden services actives without the need to perform end-to-end traffic analysis,” wrote MIT researchers..."
I've heard that the pain response that the spices trigger somehow activates your immune system or something like that, though as you eat more spicy food you build up a tolerance so I'm not sure how that factors in.
You're right on the mark.

>"The endorphins work to block the heat. The body produces them in response to the heat, which it senses as pain," said Paul Bosland, co-founder and director of New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute. [0]

[0] http://abcnews.go.com/Health/capsaicin-ingredient-hot-pepper...
You're saying something like a content-control software?
To be fair, an old RFC referenced by an RFC that is referenced by the current thing specifies that a segment of a domain name can't start with a number. Obviously, that isn't true in the real world.
As a general rule, I don't use public wifi and council people to use VPN if they must. No flash, disable java in the browser, prefer chrome to safari, AdBlock and NoScript if you don't need JS.
Hi, you've been posting a few good HN stories, but also too much fluff. Please review these links so you know what we're looking for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

Most pop media and political horserace stories are excluded. HN is for articles that are deeply interesting and gratify intellectual curiosity.
> I enjoy the flavour of chili peppers

Do you like them "straight up" though? For example, I hate the taste of jalapeños, but I have no problem eating them as part of a meal.
Fix the spelling on the page.
Isn't this the time when Mac App Store supposed to shine? When they found something that's dodgy and linked to a company that has apps on App Store, can't they just turn on the kill switch? That way the malware won't have anywhere to direct the users to.
Little Snitch (https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html) is excellent.
Isn't this a little over-actuated for the problem at hand? It shouldn't need to go around complex barriers, just connect with the charging port. I don't see why something much simpler/cheaper with 3 or 4 degrees of freedom shouldn't be able to do the job. This is pretty cool though.
Hey, I recognise your name from when I worked downstream on CF Buildpacks team. I wish we'd been able to talk more.
Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon (wish I could find it now) where the discussion was on how a survey showed that heathy people exercise more. Wally commented that's because sick people are too sick to exercise.
Wearable to relieve Chronic Pain
The functionality is great, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoScript#Controversies. As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9999411 points out, browser extensions have an enormous amount of power, and the developer doesn't demonstrate that he deserves the trust that that power requires.
If you sell, they have to provide the value for tax reporting purposes.
Hmm, 10 seconds of audio and hilarious transcription, then the page has to be refreshed to get another 10 seconds.
While I admire the effort that people put into this (and the similar effort of email address validation), what I really want to see is a comparison based on "good enough" validation -vs- performance. I think a reasonably low rate false-positives is a reasonable trade-off for fast validation.
Dear sexists, this is what engineers actually look like
Unsigned integer form! /ducks
I really don't understand the creep factor that everyone's talking about. To me it just looks like a metallic robotic arm. Am I missing anything?
Throw away account here as I'll share some financial details.

tldr: You won't make money day trading. Invest for the long term taking into account tax considerations and your risk appetite. I have and it has served me well.

In general I've learned that reducing fees [0] and thinking carefully about how to allocate investments across asset classes [1] is a much more successful strategy than picking individual stocks. Also try to hold on to investments for more than a year so you're taxed 15% on the profits rather than 30+% [2].

First thing you'll want to do is consider your asset allocation. I haven't used this tool myself, as I used an advisor, [3] but I consider Vanguard trustworthy as they are owned by their customers and have a good reputation. The purpose of a tool like this is to get a feel for how much you should be investing in equity vs bonds, vs real estate vs other exotic investments (hedge funds /private equity). I took a similar test through a financial advisor years ago and found it useful.

Over the last 9 years, I've invested roughly in this order of priority:

1) 401k for company matching & tax benefits - total profit of ~70k over the years. Starting from 0 balance 9 years ago, but recently have been maxing out contributions at ~17k per year
2) Exchange Traded Funds - SPY, DXJ, HEDJ. Essentially diversified, low fee investments in the US Stock market, Japan stock market and Europe. Total profit of ~30k over the years.
3) Bought a house, which I ended up renting. On paper profit of ~100k, but transaction costs (costs to buy and sell) eat into a large part of it. Long term it's a good plan.
4) Invested in a few individual stocks, lost a few hundred dollars.
5) Invested in options on a few individual stocks, lost ~3k. Learn about time decay before doing this.

Hope this helps!

[0] http://www.cfapubs.org/doi/sum/10.2469/faj.v66.n2.7

[1] http://www.sec.gov/investor/alerts/ib_fees_expenses.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_Unite...

[3] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/FundsInvQuestionnaire
Not with the spelling mistakes, no (artowrk -> artwork)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6543266
Yep, I 1st learn this trick in my teens when a dude was using 3564020356 as an address.

Certainly a witch nest. :]
Would you risk your life by confronting an aggressive person in hand-to-hand combat if you had no knowledge whether he had a knife or gun on him?
This article makes the claim that the tech industry's culture excludes those who don't fit a particular mold.

But he starts off showing his own prejudices, in summarizing what comes to mind when thinking about different professions, he states:

"How about "engineer"? Here's my best guess: Socially awkward, poorly dressed, self-regarding nincompoop."

Funny that the author starts off with insulting stereotypes to complain that the people he is stereotyping are exluding people that don't fit their own prejudices.
Other fun book facts: by looking at the length of the number that is the second to last digit in the ISBN, you can tell how many large an ISBN block the publisher bought, which often relates to the size of the publisher. If it's only two digits, they only bought a block of 100 ISBN's, so they're probably a very small publisher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Nu...
Looks good on my end.
Could you give an example of a dangerous side-effect that is not a mutation?
"rapid adoption of new drugs has substantial benefits in the form of increased life expectancy, higher productivity and lower non-drug health care expenditures" - Do more drugs!
Ask HN: Pick a city, any city
So, hypothetically... let's say you find yourself a divorced father, nearly 40 years old, who has sole-custody of a seven year old son(his mother just moved 1000+ miles away), you are a technical architect, and have a job where you work from home 100%. You are free to move anywhere in the nation (USA), and your hobbies are sailing, hot rods and fixing up houses.

Where would you move that has great schools, large lakes/ocean, scenery, reasonable cost of living (buy a ~2000-ish sq ft home for around $250k)?

You have family on both east and west coast, along with family in Minnesota and Nebraska.

If it matters, you currently live in a north suburb of Dallas, TX.

Where do you move, hypothetically of course?