skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know awscli is trying to use skelton JSON to save keystrokes, and it certainly helps a lot of adhoc operations to be done quickly without spending precious cognitive load. I use JSON parameter template in my shell script, but feel like it is not for "command line tool". It is just my feeling, but still hard to neglect since I'm really used to UNIX-like command line tool.
Calories in vs calories out is simple thermodynamics, human nutrition is complex biochemistry. The real question is, why should anybody have to count calories? Is there a way of eating that leads to the same level of satiety with fewer calories?
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Why would they edge in on a space that doesn't make money? In other words, not every medicine is profitable (eg: commonly available herb).
Beyond the slow and steady recommendation, I also think this is a reminder that most people really shouldn't be paying attention to the day to day movement of the stock market. Even after all the panic, standard total market ETFs are currently down between 1-2%. It would look like a perfectly normal day on the market if you ignore the intraday prices. It is amazing how much of the market volatility disappears when you lower the number of data points you are recording. Just keep investing that X% of your paycheck and rebalance a few times a year if needed.
I think it's time that we don't ask of users to protect themselves by reading hundreds of pages of EULAs, and then ostracising themselves from mainstream electronics use (both at home, as well as at work) because they refuse to use software that's loaded with insane levels of spyware (record and transfer all voice and every keystroke). That's a large burden. It's perhaps time this becomes a legal matter rather than purely a user-choice matter.

In society we have all kinds of protections for people that make a lot of sense, that take away individual responsibility. For example, even if a person wanted, you're not allowed to become a slave, it's simply not allowed. Even if a person wanted in most of the developed world, you're not allowed to work for less than minimum wage, or in a toxic environment. Similarly even if a person says 'I don't mind if people are misogynistic towards me at work, or discriminatory, I just want this job no matter what because I need the money', that's not allowed, either.

Similarly, I think it's time we start to think of legal protections again this level of spyware. We shouldn't put the burden of acceptance on individuals when you'll have millions of people who'd prefer to live in a world where they don't have to use this software at home or at work, but have no choice (particularly at work), and thus accept spyware because the loss of their job works as a blackmailing force, just like in the above examples.

That doesn't mean I'm saying there is no legal place for software like this under any conditions. But the notion that it can't be turned off is insane. Even 'on by default' is a step too far, but now Windows is saying whether you use windows 7, 8 or 10, we're spying on you, and you can't turn it off, and if you tamper with our software manually you'll fail because we've hardcoded it. That's not acceptable and my point is, it shouldn't fall upon users to boycott such harmful parts of software they paid for (in the case of Windows 7, half a decade ago).

It should fall upon the rule of law to prevent this and allow at least an opt-in, a choice, a choice that isn't 'use any Windows product, or use no Windows product'

If OSs were more free like say, the automotive industry, I wouldn't mind as much. Like if Toyota one day decided to record audio in cars, that's one thing. You can switch to more than a dozen top-quality car manufacturers who don't do this, and it wouldn't affect your jobs or anything like that. But we're talking about a desktop/laptop market where <2% of marketshare is Linux and OS X is ~10%, the remainder is virtually all windows and its got hardcoded spyware features.
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Relevant
https://github.com/vr6/blog/blob/master/Zero-One.md
> There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine. And if you come over, then all the desktop software makers will port their software to Linux and all the collapse of privacy will be a bad dream.

I use Ubuntu almost daily as a desktop for programming. While it's way better than linux desktops 5 or 10 years ago, it's still a far cry from even Windows even with mainstream apps like Spotify and Dropbox. The UI (Unity, Gnome, and even KDE) still feels like a work in progress, sleep doesn't work for laptops and I feel like almost any update I do beyond security updates, will break my laptop resulting in fresh re-install.

Moving over may work for us, but I doubt it'll work for most people (for now). OSX is the only place left for now.

I don't see a normal PC linux distro winning as a desktop in the future. If I were to guess, the closest to linux most people can flock to for a desktop PC would either be some variant of Android or Chrome OS.
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I think that metaphor is useful for driving intuition about how it might not be a problem, if people aren't seeing that. I do worry about relying on it much beyond that. Households, companies, and governments all have balance sheets, but there are tremendous differences.
Which then gets you a lot of tax implications that you don't have if they just give you your match in cash.
Pretty much anything in the "network biology" field will likely interest you, but here are a few sample articles (heavily biased toward people that I currently work with):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18344982

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19337271

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18462017
There's enough money in alternative medicine that they could fund and publish their own studies to prove it's effective. They haven't.
This is the same model used by the Cairo graphics library and the HTML5 Canvas (albeit in two dimensions). All the same benefits apply when you're addressing pixels as elements of an array.
They've indicated (in the usual noncommittal way) that they will be migrating to HTML5.
The game Banished (http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/game/) is another modern example of an amazing piece of software turned out by a single programmer.
The interesting subtext to all this is that Android wasn't originally a Google project at all - Android was originally a project started by some ex-Danger workers. Google bought them out because they didn't want to be locked out of mobile search (and give them credit for prescience because the iPhone hadn't been announced yet).

Pichai didn't work on Android, or even search or AdWords or what have you. He worked on a browser toolbar before working on Chrome. Chrome seems to have constantly won internal battles at Google (look at how long Google resisted making Android tablets in favor of giving ChromeOS tablets time to develop), even as Chrome is probably the less successful of the two. It shouldn't be surprising that he lets search take over a project that started in Android.
Honestly, I expected inflation for the last 6 years, but we haven't seen it. However, prices are creeping up nicely, in all the desirable places. Is that really that different?
Parent's post has so many qualifiers, it says nothing at all.

I do not see a performance penalty at all with WINE. Most games that work play at speeds matching or better than windows. WoW is usually a big example of that, as are emulators.
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Don't be too glad unless you also manage to buy back in before it recovers past the level you sold.
Your addition to the analogy doesn't really change anything, unless I made an absolute guarantee to either 1) immediately destroy the information or 2) destroy said information within a given timeframe and failed to do so.

Both of those are separate issues from leaving the information laying about.

In the original case, I might be stupid, but the interlopers are wrong to assume that they had an invitation to stuff laying about. They are, in fact, burglars.

Even with your addition, they are still burglars. However, I am liable for either 1) failing to destroy said information/stuff and/or 2) failing to do so within the specified timeframe, if the burglary happened after that timeframe.

The blame to the burglars remains the same in either case.

Honestly, I'm sort of enjoying a fat cuppa shadenfreude tempered by the knowledge that it is, for the most part, really none of my damn business what someone else does with their naughty bits.
But presumably the significant gene of interest was the "roundup" gene (for lack of a better term) that provided the glyphosate resistance, no? Wouldn't that be the gene that is covered by the patent and the one that really matters? Is the rr1 gene related somehow?
I would have to say your in a much different place than these guys were. The internet, open source (the amount of it at least), the FOTM chat client...

If you want to talk shop you are more than welcome to contribute to one of the open source projects out there (I'm sure you have a few in the stack). I will say it isn't the same as having a partner in crime at work, but you can get your self exposed to new ideas and thinking if you so choose!
The traffic alerts, weather, game scores, and appointment reminder are pretty nice, even if you don't travel. The events near by could be useful too. It is very convenient if you have an android phone, but I doubt I would miss it much if it wasn't there.
I remember some months ago where they only claimed fixing something minor (like, something that's not even an executable but some text-based or at least data file) in the patch and the list included also a huge amount of files including cryptwhatever.dll (not the actual name). "Backdoor time" thought I. As little as I checked however, it didn't look like a real smoking gun then.

It seems a common practice somehow that since some time their updates aren't "hand picked" but generated by the computer without too much human control or that the programmers don't have time, or simply nobody cares there anymore.

I'd be glad if somebody would sensibly explain all that. Including these recent "everything you type will be transferred" and "the list of all your files will be made" claims.
Nice!
Can it use profiles from credentials file or just the default?
That kind of site appears to be soooo easy to get media coverage for.
I wrote a blog post a couple of years back covering a similar UK-based site and how good they were at getting stories planted in the papers. Those free-loving libertines at the Daily Mail especially seem to lap it up :-)

http://unsourced.org/blog/illicit-sex-and-free-advertising.h...
Note well, however: This is almost always terrible financial advice. Don't do it unless you're prepared to be bankrupt if you're wrong.
It's not necessarily a bad thing. What I meant was that it's much harder to convince someone already relying on prepackaged styling to abandon that for a custom UI.

The full-bootstrap-stack is perfectly fine for things like side projects.
That sounds exactly like what I was looking for. Thanks! I'll have a look.
You're posting FUD.

Those permissions are required in the context of Cortana, so Cortana can work. Keep Cortana off and turn off the services, and nothing gets transmitted.

It's literally no worse than the conditions you agree to when using Siri or Ok Google / Google Now.
Wow, that really isn't as funny without audio.
Commonly available herbs like tobacco? Nope, no way any business could make money through a commonly available herb
The only thing I would consider a PhD level question would be something that one would see on a qualifier exam. Usually they require specific and deep knowledge that goes beyond what one could get out of textbooks in the field.
I prefer that model for floor numbering, personally. It means if you're on floor N that you're N stories above the ground.
Important additional point - many markets (ie Europe) are cost-driven rather that revenue-driven (America). If alternative 'treatments' worked, there would be a larger push from the cost-driven markets.
Have you seen the billions made by cranks and quacks?

Just multi-vitamins is a billion dollar industry and apart from pregnancy or perhaps vitamin D most of the claims are bogus.
Because they would sell you pineapple extract for ten times the price, and you'd buy it because it'd be covered by insurance.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/15/fish-now-by-prescriptio...
I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Good job :)
Just noticed some bugs on large screens, will fix those. Any feedback is welcome, thanks!
Exactly. Alternative medicine is medicine that is either not proven to work or is "medicine" proven not to work. Should something be sufficiently proven to work, with an appropriate risk/cost/etc vs. benefit ratio, it becomes medicine.
This tutorial is a good intro: http://blog.gopheracademy.com/cron-filesystem/

The Plan 9 web pages are really good (if dense).

If you write in Go, check out github.com/rminnich/go9p.

For a deep dive, "A Cached WORM File System" is a good read [http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/misc/cw/].
Yes - if you have better information than everyone else - or at least can extrapolate where the fair value of products are based on where other things are trading - then you would be able to make a bunch of money. On the other hand - many of these names kept flipping their circuit breakers on and off. So, not much volume may have traded at these "wrong" prices. I was expecting a lot of CEE (Clearly Erroneous Executions) to be raised this morning in all these ETFs - but I haven't seen it yet.
Historically, given Google's flexibility in transferring from project to project, and the lack of promotion benefit in working on a project that has already 'shipped', a "staff exodus" isn't really indicative of anything other than the engineers were moving on to something new to add to their Google Resume.

I think the article was trying to couch this more as a "barbarians at the gate" piece with Microsoft in the role of the Huns, but that analogy falls pretty flat given the amount of innovation going on in both companies.

What I found really interesting is that Apple isn't really mentioned. Yesterday I got a push notification on my iPad about all the new things Siri could do. I'm not entirely sure how to interpret that but I'm guessing the race is on to make the voice inputs more functional. That, for me at least, is a part that makes something like Google now useful or not. I've been developing a habit of adding reminders for things to do when I get into work and that helps keep things from dropping off the plate, prior to location based reminders it really wasn't frictionless enough for me. And the pre-processing of things like flight iteneraries has stuff like the flight confirmation code easily accessed.

The bottom line is I can see the path to a mobile device I talk to, and it talks back, much like an executive secretary, to keep the important bits in order so I can focus on other things. Is Cortana winning that battle? Siri? Google? Hard to say, but the battle is definitely engaged.
Somehow related, very rare but good to know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Constantly searching for genetic markers as excuses doesn't help either. It's not your fault! Your genetics cause you to over eat and hold on to all of the fat! And you know what that changes? Nothing. Literally nothing. You can shift blame to genetics or make excuses on how your parents didn't teach you how to eat healthy but it doesn't matter. At the end of day one and only one person holds the keys of responsibility.
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IANAL , but:

" Unilateral modifications are not supposed to alter the material or important terms of the original contract. "

http://www.faircontracts.org/contract-provisions/unilateral-...
Anybody who has idle refinery capacity. As other commenters have pointed out, though, that's pretty scarce at the moment.
Found a useful script on SuperUser that removes KBs as well as hides them in the future. Just need to change the list slightly

FOR %%X IN (3075249 3080149 3068708 2976978 3021917 3035583 2952664) DO ...

http://superuser.com/questions/922068/how-to-disable-the-get...
That's what happens when a single vendor has more than 95% shares of a market. There is no competition , where the hell people using Windows software are going to run ? I'm really angry at this. What's the difference between this and a spyware / key logger / trojan ? there is none conceptually.

I sincerely hope it backfires because it's just insane. If MS wants to collect on my hard drive or log my key strokes , it should ask for my approval first and not hide it behind a license.

People are outraged with the AM hack scandal, well nothing guarantees that MS will never be hacked. And when a database like this get hacked , every windows user data will be in the wild. That's just crazy. Is the the "new microsoft" , a lot of HNers like to boast about ? Same as the old one.
"Second, those fluctuations will be unwittingly used as a Rorschach test by everyone with a political axe to grind."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10110809
Pharma is in that space.
They don't advertise it but they love "alternative" medicine because profit margins are insane. 20 euros for 10 grams of sugar brilliant, and it doesn't even have to work :) What is not to love for the profit driven pharma.
The son's favorite games don't include any games of his dad. That's quite funny.
The real-nominal confusion again. Zero interest rates wouldn't indicate a stalled economy if deflation was at 4%. They would be a terrible thing if inflation was high. Neither is true right now, though.
> The end result is that practically speaking, a full-time employee will be 100% vested after no more than about 2.5 years, and possibly as soon as 2 years.

edit: This is correct under very specific circumstances, which as I call out in my response below strike me as a bunch of horseshit.

Either this is incorrect, has changed, or I got screwed when I left[0].

I worked at Amazon as a full-time software engineer (SDE2 then 3) for a bit over two years, starting January 3rd 2011 and leaving in mid-February 2013. When I left my entire 401k match was revoked.

[0]: I left on good terms as regretted attrition; my manager, sr. manager, director, and VP all asked to be the first person I emailed when I decided to come back (which I doubt I'll ever do, as my new gig is better for me by basically every metric, but it was a nice gesture).
1) Taxes

For example, an average software engineer making $150,000, contributing 10% to her 401k will reduce her taxable income to $135,000. At a 28% marginal tax rate, she will save $4,200 on taxes.

2) Free money

If the employer matches 50% of the contributions, the employee will end up with an additional $7,500 on her 401k account.

3) Very few constraints

It depends on the employer but she could be free to invest the 401k money as she wants. She doesn't have to put it in a specific set of funds.

In a nutshell, she would get $11,700 more than if she hadn't used her 401k and is free to invest as she pleases.
Sure, but everyone burns out sooner or later.
Oh totally, it's a completely different world. I mean look at Stackoverflow. Literally one google search can solve even the more complex problems a programmer might encounter. Like you said, github, meetups, skype...just reading through source code on github helps me immensely.
It was my first Linux distro 8 years ago, and it's still the only operating system I can stand today. Again, it has a big learning curve, but I love it :) Hope it goes well for you.
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What constitutes a hard problem varies wildly between schools. Especially considering the wildly varying math standards in CS at different universities. By my junior year, I and everyone I knew doing my track had been taking senior/grad school level math courses, especially re: numerical methods.
>Why would they edge in on a space that doesn't make money? In other words, not every medicine is profitable (eg: commonly available herb).

So the companies selling common herbs are doing so at a loss?
Interesting. As a point of note for those who haven't had hands-on time with a laser cutter before, there's really quite a lot of range of results that can be done when you can tune the laser power and speed. For example, I've setup a cutter to engrave wells to embed neodymium disc magnets precisely flush to the surface.

For something like this work, it'd probably be useful to setup passes that back off power and/or increase speed as the epoxy is removed. With just a little practice, I'll bet it'd be straightforward to nail down settings for a particular cutter: fast removal, getting close, and just enough power to clean up the last of the epoxy.
Thanks! I thinks you can use profile since all the settings related to credential are based on boto3.

http://boto3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide/quickstart.html...
One of the tricky things here is that there seems to be some promise to metabolic approaches to cancer therapy, at least for some rare cancers --- but because there is no regulatory or financial barrier to entry for people to devise "nutrition therapy" cancer regimes, it's a space that is absolutely overwhelmed by quackery.

There is, for instance, some actual research generating interesting findings on ketogenic diets as an intervention for glioblastoma and astrocytoma. Unfortunately, "ketogenic diets" are also a mainstay of Mercola-ism, so it's hard to get good lay-reader summaries of what's going on.
Parent post is willing to sacrifice his liberty and privacy because not doing so will cut him off from games.

Can we all just be honest with each other and call this behavior an addiction already?
In this context, this report from 23andMe is interesting....perhaps old news: http://blog.23andme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/5-N8XiOLk...
There is no “next Silicon Valley”, and that's a good thing
iPad or Chromebook, it is a loose-loose situation for the next generation.

You are training kids to use expensive device with a walled ecosystem or you are training kids to use subsidised device with in practice walled ecosystem and with a questionable privacy policy.

The future generation will have it even worse than generation who grew up with Microsoft.
Changing my habits is hard, can you please prescribe me some medication instead?
I see the grandparent as pointing out Cause-and-Effect more than one of uncertainty, or simply dismissing volatility as media-fodder "political gamesmanship" as your response seemed to imply. I think there is a significant amount of visible actions and structures in global and US finance which indicate that yes, we have entered into conditions that refuse to abide by 'traditional thinking' on how to solve problems. Thus, I agree with the initial postulation that it is appropriate to be fearful of the conditions at present, built up over many years of other decisions, which may not be solvable by the same actors thus far.
That helpful comment got two downvotes and well over a hundred upvotes. This is an extreme example of why HN has a guideline asking people not to comment about being downvoted. Most of the fluctuation is ephemeral, and most comments about it soon become inaccurate.

We've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10110543 and marked it off topic.
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But his dad is his dungeon master ;)