skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@ryanmickle:

Same. I'll PM you the main person I've worked with in the past. I've worked with her for basically 15 years. She's probably pretty familiar with Barry; however, I don't generally want to share her with "the general public" (because of her position she's not compensated based on placements and I'd rather not overwhelm her).
Reminds me of this: http://www.siao2.com/2011/03/22/10144474.aspx (see comment thread)
For whatever reason that has just never worked all that well for me. I can be significantly dehydrated, and not really feel very thirsty.

I have the same problem with food though, I can be 3,000 calories under my daily BMR and not really feel all that hungry.
Heck, mistype a website name and accidentally get a porn site (ala the old whitehouse.com) and get in trouble.
My comment comes from a simple observation that globally significant breaking news (that one isn't personally involved in) tends to happen on Twitter rather than people's inboxes. But thanks for the snide remark.
Ok, url changed from http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.1886.pdf. We should probably write code to do that conversion automatically, since this has come up from time to time.
Which is where that fair use argument will come in to play. That is something that can only play out in court. Twitter has no responsibility to bend to fair use until a court makes them.
FRP notwithstanding, the comment about UIs is important in that OOP was originally developed around the needs of user interface components with their inherent "mutable state" and single-threadedness (ever find yourself needing to use two mice at once?)
That's generally unenforceable unless you took affirmative action to agree to the terms. There's no proof the user even saw the terms if they're just scraping the site. Until you get a c&d letter, at which point it becomes harder to claim ignorance.
> Having flash die for games would be a bad thing. There are hundreds of thousands of games on the web that are written in Flash that are a lot of fun for millions of folks to play.

There are just as many (if not more) games for DOS, yet rarely does one lament the death of DOS on home computers, particularly because such games can be run in an emulated environment. That will likely be the case for Flash games someday if they really are all that great (hint: of those hundreds of thousands, a solid 95% are - put as nicely and generously as possible - absolute rubbish).

This isn't to mention that it would be only a matter of time before someone goes about reimplementing with HTML5, original author or otherwise, if the game really is worth that sort of effort.
"The many superpowers of Apple’s Preview (here and here) does justice to the app’s power and flexibility. Read it and join me in my appreciation for this labor of love from a solo, unnamed programmer who, I’m told, has been at it since the NeXT days."

Preview is one app that is a source of constant admiration and consistency that makes using OS x that much easier. Maybe a single excellent developer can make better call in terms of consistency because applying similar pattern across board is natural where doing so for more than one person requires a whole lot more effort? (communication, keeping up with a style etc.) While on the same subject can there be some way to make reusable components for visual intefaces ala unix commanline and pipes. If so then developers can do well developing bits of code, each doing one thing well and let users construct their own "solutions"
I know. My low-powered laptop can barely handle it either. But this particular page, is worth trying on a slightly more powerful computer :-)
No, I think it still is paranoid. It's just now provably true as well.

I'm not entirely sure how much I believe the "MS sniffs your keyboard every half hour". However, with that kid-sniffer (search this page for imgur); that's built in. That terrifies me.

And I'm thinking of LGBT, other religions, TOR, abortions and women's health, medical searches, domestic abuse searches, and more. And the allegations that the torrent sites are levying are also insane too.

I'm glad I've been working on Ubuntu and FreeBSD for the last 12 years. Unfortunately, I'm getting a nice writeup to the 2 directors I've passed an Intel Compute Stick to with Win10, alerting them of the situation.
Very well stated.
I have a 2 year old and I'm not sure, but she's definitely not ready :) I think we're talking 4-5 year old at least to start introducing the concepts, then I'm guessing 7-9 to start doing some programming.
One interesting side-effect of using 1-based closed indexing (i.e. numbering the positions, not between the positions) is that a zero-width range (which is something that actually comes up in genomics) starts at position N and ends at N-1.
If physicians want people to stop buying into the conspiracy theories, they should start by ending their acceptance of free samples from the pharmaceutical industry. And while we're at it, they could stop displaying brochures from those companies in their offices, wearing the free lab coats, and so on. Or better yet, stop accepting sales calls from them altogether. And if they wanted this to be effective, they could push to make these ethical conditions part of the requirements for professional society membership and even state licensing.

I am sympathetic with the frustrated physician whose patients refuse to accept that there are any benefits to drug treatments. I am also sympathetic with the patient who has spent his entire life hearing nothing but rosy assessments of drugs pumped out by the manufacturers even though many are completely ineffective and many others have been removed from the market because they proved unsafe. There are ways to improve this, but all three parties (as well as the FDA, in the US) are going to have to give. Drugmakers need to stop advertizing their products to patients and physicians. Physicians need to leverage their professional associations to ensure that they are properly informed about new drugs, from impartial sources. Patients need to insist that their physicians follow these guidelines and then trust them, or find a different physician that they can and will trust. And the FDA needs to be at once much more demanding: many drugs are approved despite little evidence, or unreliable evidence, of effectiveness; and much less so: the interminable process of approval needs to be cut way down, especially for drugs that have a narrow base of potential patients.

Trust is gone, and needs to be repaired. You build or rebuild trust by being trustworthy, going far out of your way not only to show that you are worthy but to go well beyond what would otherwise be necessary. If you want patients to trust you, you need to do everything possible to earn it.
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This seems like something that could be settled fairly trivially by a couple of morticians' offices in the west, and in Japan, just by measuring the intestines of the recently deceased for a few months.
This would be almost funny if "the internet" were a single entity going around doing things.
I'll second this one. I've had a few chats with Melissa, she's great.
The doc is at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement . It says:

>It applies to Bing, Cortana, MSN, Office, OneDrive, Outlook.com, Skype, ___Windows___, Xbox and other Microsoft services that display this statement.

It appears that you're making an assumption that they only intend this to apply to OneDrive, but they explicitly state it applies to Windows too. My Linux installation definitely didn't come with such boilerplate.
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> (ever find yourself needing to use two mice at once?)

Yes, two-player competitive Lemmings on my Amiga 1000 was friggin awesome. Shame that PCs still haven't caught up.
This is definitely the most surreal article I've ever read on HN....And I think I liked it.
Lets see your high horse when your spouse is enduring a drawn out death and you have nothing to comfort you.
Dual EC or the NSA's Backdoor: Explanations [video]
Hi! I did some research before writing this blog post (okay, I spent 5 minutes reading the wikipedia article on power cycling).

It turns out rocket controllers get power cycled too.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_cycling
The lack of public disclosure, commentary, and, yes, outrage surrounding Windows 10's privacy policy is a lot more disturbing than Windows 10 itself.
(I'm not a lawyer, IANAL) I don't get this. When did I officially agree to their ToS? I automatically agree on the first HTTP request? I think if I never had an account or never requested an API key then I didn't agree to it. Having said that there could be other legal issues to scraping (like copyright of posted tweets), but maybe ToS is not one of them.
Something like PICO-8 would work great for young programmers I think http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
This is _not_ a post about auto-vectorization in Rust (which would have been a lot more interesting!). The provided Mandelbrot Set example is algorithmically similar to loop unrolling with a 4x unroll factor. The strategy works well in this case because neighboring locations in the Mandelbrot Set tend to require similar numbers of iterations to compute.
There's a bunch of shit that's basically pinned to calendar start date that's sort of absurd.

Consider this: if you started June 3rd and I started January 3rd, your 2nd anniversary with Amazon would come with full vesting of your 401k while mine would wait another six months. We'd both have worked the same number of days, and overall the policy would be simpler to understand if vesting was pinned only to start date or hours reported on your paystub.

On the flip side: I was eligible for more stock in my first annual review[0]; if I'd started two weeks later I would not have been eligible for full additional year. This despite the fact that review conversations typically happen in March/April.

If I'm being uncharitable (and after having had conversations with managers about Amazon's total compensation philosophy in which raises are scaled back if the stock did well but not scaled up proportionally if the stock underperformed, I am perfectly willing to be uncharitable here), I would believe that large chunks of their compensation system are structured around an average employee tenure of roughly 18-30 months. If you assume that, it almost looks like the company has gone out of its way to minimize the amount it will actually have to pay to people while maximizing the amount it looks like they're offering.

It's not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just that it feels sleazy, particularly in retrospect.

[0]: Not that I actually saw any of it, because unlike my current gig where refreshes begin vesting immediately Amazon's refreshes don't start vesting until ~18 months after they're granted.
I love the idea, but I'm not a LinkedIn user. Wouldn't it be more inclusive to transform the "LinkedIn URL" field into a general purpose URL field?

Also, if you post something, it's a bit of a black hole. The entry is held for moderator approval and when you go back to the "show what you made form" it's as if nothing ever happened.
This would be witty if Twitter were "the Internet", but of course they are not: they are a website on the Internet.

Your switch-the-words trope also stops making sense towards the end of the comment.

It's kind of an obnoxious way to make a point, too. Next time you snark like that, can you, like, capitalize the words you're substituting? I had to read this twice just to figure out what you were trying to say. Most of us just skim comments.
You always have to remember what kind of indexing you are using in order to avoid making errors. But using this mental model will help people avoid making off-by-one errors because they don't even understand the indexing in the first place.
Assuming you're young: far better now than later.
If you think of it as anything other than a business relationship you're in for a rude surprise. Recruiters exist to do one thing: sell you to potential employers. In exchange they receive a cut of your potential salary as a commission. Thus it's both in their best interests to market you and to make sure the company they're selling you to won't fire you too quickly. If you don't have good experiences with them it's probably because they don't know how to sell you.
> most people really shouldn't be paying attention

eh, IDK about that. I was cooping at a company that bottomed to $2.50 ~February 2008. I had been reading everything I could get my hands on regarding the Fed, their history, and general fiscal policy. I had about $7k in cash I was planning to dump into the company's ticker.

But in February, when it was $2.50, I wasn't quite confident of my analysis.

In May or so I had completed my replica-painting of the full picture, I was sure enough to make a jump. Unfortunately the stock had rebounded to ~$9 by then. I'd missed my chance, Fed had already moved, markets were assured, life was continuing on as normal. They later got bought out (4 years later) for $22/share. Would have wiped out my student debt.

Note, this was not trading on any special insider information I had, it was simply my personal analysis of the stability of the company's business model in a rough economic environment, combined with confidence in Bernanke's unwillingness to permit much of any form of market turmoil (he received his PhD for his analysis of what the Fed did wrong that lead to the great depression-- conclusion: not nearly enough).

off topic: my next BUY recommendation was ARMH in 2010 ~$12.50. I figured nobody could be so much dumber than me and my expertise to not also see the imminent growth of the smartphone market at a time when half of everyone I knew were still on flipphones. So then I checked later and they'd made it all the way to $30-something.

so then I said to myself 'no more' and bought NVDA at $16, but had to sell at $12 for other reasons. Lol.
Yes, it's unfortunate the quacks have muddied the waters for ketogenic therapies, but luckily there's enough tantalizing science coupled with a low barrier for self-experimentation (assuming one has a few months+ of relative health) that anyone can attempt it.
Interesting coincidence: both are games. In the business world when you buy an app you probably want to make sure that someone will be able to maintain it even if something happens to the project lead.
Anatomy of a Market Selloff
Seiji, thanks for the reference.

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation) has details. In summary, rabbit starvation occurs on a high protein, no/very low fat diet.
"some promise" is very far from "anywhere close to phase I human trials", so, this is not quite that tricky :)

I think a lot of good would come out of:

(1) more awareness of Cochrane Collaboration (& donations to)

(2) prosecutors and the likes of FDA aggressively pursuing people that lead others to reject life-saving treatment, esp. if conflict of interest is present (e.g book sales)

(3) stretch -- teach high school kids basic research evaluation skills (do a search on Google Scholar, consider number of papers, sample sizes, journal quality, author credentials, citations and existence of metastudies). Some version of rough smoke-test for this kind of stuff can probably be automated.
There are a few practical issues to solve first.

Rules must apply over time. A "turn everything off" request shouldn't be able to transform into "except these new on-by-default features added in patch 1.01".

Software has bugs, including "off switches"; as such, even if there appears to be a way to shut everything off, I always assume that these may fail. The "over time" problem applies here, too; a year from now, some poor new guy tasked with maintaining these protection switches might screw up an update and break an off-switch that used to work fine.

Information is currently too valuable. As a society we really have to get to the point where the value of bits of data is so low that leaks don't matter. We sure as heck shouldn't have ways for criminals to screw you by knowing a single number that belongs to you!

Information is inherently hard to protect. Photos are very hard to protect; even if you had a new file format, encryption, low-level hardware that was physically incapable of accessing pixels without a key, memory that could not cache plain-data versions of the image, etc. there is still an easy way for someone to take out an iPhone and snap a copy of what they see on their screen and keep it forever. True photo security would practically require what is mandated for photocopiers with respect to counterfeiting; all cameras and all displays would have to be equally mandated to use watermarked images that encode encryption keys (e.g. your camera can only take a picture of another image if the associated key is one that has granted you access). And of course, that level of assurance could also be abused.

Ideally the average citizen would be able to grant and revoke keys for any and all organizations like Facebook or Microsoft, and systems and formats would be such that information is impossible to use once a key expires or has been revoked.
Question - how many of you use google now's voice functionality, vs the inbuilt push notifications/card interfaces? A lot of comments here focus on the latter, but I'm surprised not many mentioned the former.

To me, siri/cortana are aiming to be the method of conversational interaction for your phone in the future whereas Now is trying to be the intelligent/interactive notifications platform.

That seems like the fundamental difference.
I don't think the steps to making a 3-way call are common knowledge. If it's simple enough, you should probably include the instructions in your pitch.
This is for usage on untrusted systems. Both keystrokes and the key can be considered compromised once used there.
I've enjoyed working with Hired.com from the POV of the employer doing the hiring.
I remember back when I was in high school (or maybe junior high), I went to print shop where we actually set type this way, proofed it, and printed it. I chose to set a poem called "The Modern Hiawatha".
At the time, this amused me.
Thanks to Google, here it is:

The Modern Hiawatha
Anonymous

HE killed the noble Mudjokivis.

Of the skin he made him mittens,

Made them with the fur side inside,

Made them with the skin side outside.

He, to get the warm side inside,

Put the inside skin side outside;

He, to get the cold side outside,

Put the warm side fur side inside.

That ’s why he put the fur side inside,

Why he put the skin side outside,

Why he turned them inside outside.
I still don't understand why most users didn't just create a dummy address to sign up.

I mean, you're about to join a website whose sole purpose is to help you cheat on your spouse, can you take literally 1 minute of your time to create `darthvader9432@gmail.com` and make it your "cheating address"?
Just a guess, but it might be that because "for" is a JS restricted word, they picked an attribute name that wouldn't maybe trip up a syntax highlighter or something of that nature.
What smart entrepreneurs donwhen the stock market is collapsing
Very cool. And then technically BeOS was such a machine where two mice could go at it in the same UI.
What is a "phase 1 human trial" for a ketogenic diet? Millions of people already have that diet.
"... in sickness and in health..."
Interactive Brokers is probably the best option for retail investors. They have extremely low commissions and pretty advanced access (including API access).

Keep in kind that their product isn't designed for "novice" retail investors. There is a $10k minimum and the trade stations have a learning curve.
Google Using Novel Content as a Ranking Signal? (2008)
Case docket is here: https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/cand/257395/
The Math-DSL's like Matlab, Julia, and Mathematica would like to chime in and say 1-based indexing translates better with math research/lit.
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Oncologists are probably right up there with surgeons regarding the toll of their work to their mental health.
Yes, buy backs has been a large contributor to indices heading upwards. A lot of these companies issue their own bonds at rates lower than even their dividends.

In the public bond market, how is lending fleecing the "non-investor class"?
Doesn't really seem like they need to. After all, drugs are heavily regulated, and they're not having any trouble selling an unregulated -- and unproven -- substance. Why invite trouble?
Even if that were true (as another commenter pointed out, Snowden's leaks are about far more than just datacenter snooping), that still puts Windows users at a lot of risk; when basically your whole computer is being continuously synchronized with Microsoft's servers, your whole computer is now vulnerable to such datacenter attacks.
"Positive relationship behavior". They only showed an increase in one partner's satisfaction. E.g. perhaps cheating could have caused their satisfaction to increase - would cheating then be a "Positive relationship behavior"?
Great idea. Thank you.
Bitcoin Music Video – AWESOME
Excellent use of Python + OpenCV (one of my favorite 3rd party libraries)
I own an iPhone and there's NO firefox on iOS. The benefits of having synced history across every browser I use is pretty useful(Ex: that restaurant I looked up online on my laptop this morning is going to show up pretty quickly on my phone because it's in my Chrome history)

Also, Chromecast is just amazing. It works with Netflix, Hulu, YouTube etc. Browse for videos on the website, because it's usually easier to click than to do weird controller motions => chromecast. Back to coding. DONE.

I have no hard numbers or evidence for performance, but that was just my feeling.
This would be interesting from a query analytics perspective, but in terms of protection, i would personally not want to rely on something at the DB level. I would place a significant bet that this opinion is not unique to me, and it is why you do not find this built into xxSQL already.

If the 'attacker' has access to execute unsafe queries, that is a problem you should address much further up the ladder rather than by adding additional work / responsibility to your DB.
I had never seen that, thank you!
Tylenol is a bad example, because the amount you need to kill your liver is not vastly higher than the therapeutic dose. It's one drug that should probably not be sold over the counter.

Also, the fact that you expected to find painkillers in a German supermarket just means you're an American. It doesn't say anything important about barriers to access there.
Yeah, a good rule of thumb is to ask yourself, "What am I trying to learn, an IDE or programming?"

Both are valuable to know, but teaching someone how to be a mechanic without ever having them drive a car is a bit of a mess.
I ran Chakra for a while -- although it's been a few years -- and wouldn't recommend them to people looking to switch from Windows. Unfortunately they weren't careful enough with their rolling updates and they would intermittently break installed applications, including at one point smb. So one day I could connect to Windows shares, the next day I couldn't.
The Huge, Pricey Detectors That Capture Tiny Neutrinos
I'm on a developer preview version of Android M, I just installed Bing Search, can't seem to get it to work. Perhaps there is a conflict? I enabled Bing in accesibility but when I long-press the circle button it still opens Google Now.
One assumption would be that they have been personally selected after careful research by the recruiter, instead of "sent a mail-merge email after a keyword search on LinkedIn".
Again, Microsoft was mentioned, so I tried something not made by any company that was mentioned. Is that so hard to figure out?