skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if that's really true.

I understand that nobody wants to do the experiment with their own lives, but if you can realize that there are competent people who aren't getting hired because they lack college degrees, surely employers will realize that too.

Would they leave money on the table like that?
The problem is that many people are continously predicting a crash. If you grant that they're right now, you also have to grant that they've been wrong for years. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I'm one of the founders of Wondr and I'd love to get your feedback. Right now, we get 1000+ downloads daily with only viral.

Basically Wondr lets you start a Q/A chat session for your Twitter followers. They will be anonymous while chatting with you. It allows Twitter influencers to interact with their followers in a more genuine way. It has unique features like queuing conversations in case a lot of people come to the session.

Please try and tell us what you think.

Thank you!
Education is a big component. Time is another. None of the people I routinely see at the grocery store or the multiple people I've known personally to use EBT were doing the really bad items like Twinkies and megagulps either way. Though the ones with more time and education tended to eat better than the other EBT users with less time (e.g., full-time job and single parent vs no children and part-time or no work)
The most famous case of someone trying to use bunk science to heal their cancer was that of Steve Jobs. He wasn't that young, but like those mentioned in the article, he attempted to use diet and healing crystals to treat cancer that was entirely treatable when first discovered [1]. By the time he realized he was essentially killing himself by refusing treatment, the cancer had spread.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-jo...
> The issue is that Microsoft states its intent to do so (relevant section underlined):

The quoted section is from the privacy header which also applies to Onedrive, which is essentially Microsoft's version of Dropbox.

They're not stating their intent to collect files in private folders on your computer aside from bits that have always been collected, like whatever parts of a crash dump Error Reporting sends on.
Yes, it does. A fictitious list presented as fact does not contribute to the discussion. We know that Win 10 transmits lots of data to various hosts, and their recent privacy policy outlines a plausible, yet vague description of what is being sent. It is quite possibly deliberately incomplete/vague, and legitimate account of what is being sent would contribute greatly.

As for being safe and maintaining privacy, it is well established that the solution is to move to an open system.
Socialism is the social ownership (state ownership) of the means of production.

Social ownership != state ownership. That's only one manifestation of it. Socialism has historically been about common ownership, which implies decentralized, democratically structured worker cooperatives. One existing example today is Mondragon.
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I've used Ubuntu for a considerable amount of time and done numerous system updates. Please tell us what diffs you needed to perform, otherwise I call FUD.
Counter argument: Germany. Free and good public health care with additional private health care that is affordable.

Esoteric thinking and homeopathic medicine are extremely common in educated and high income circles outside of STEM fields - basically the middle class loves this.

Reasons that are often cited and that I've encountered are mostly due to more personal contact with the practitioner and some fear about big pharma.

It's getting so out of hand that a lot of children are not vaccinated - e.g. Berlin Prenzelberg - a place where high income, high educated folks are a majority is a major problem spot.

This is something different - at least in Western Europe.
I don't disagree with anything you've said.

The fact of the matter is that the majority of business analysts and 100%[0] of the consumers of their analysis are only comfortable with a spreadsheet. I'd say less than 50% of the business analysts we see can do more than write a join in SQL, 90% dump data straight to Excel for processing and presentation. The remaining 10% will use whatever BI tool their company has decided on.

[0] Close enough not to matter.

Note: the percentages above are based on my experience consulting with primarily non-tech-related clients and are based on my casual observations and those of my coworkers. Microsoft Excel has a stranglehold on the niche we're discussing, because it hits the sweet spot of functionality and usability for the people who are doing this work in most companies.
Yes, yes, missing the point. I'm a victim of sunburn, even though its voluntary, because not everyone has this issue. Likewise, its normally reasonable to eat in moderation and exercise moderately, unless its not for you. So we are a victim of our genes in that way.

The thread is about a genetic switch and treatment that could bring more people a higher quality of life. This is a great idea; and unless I misinterpret the article, yes indeed it is a 'magic bullet' at least for those with unfortunate genetics.
It's not binary. Both of those things can be issues with it.
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> are you really trying to justify not moving forward with this research because some people might use it as an excuse to be lazy? Really?

No of course not! Hence my mention of 'thought exercise' -- I'm trying to spur discussion, get some other peoples' input, and explore an idea.

My initial instinct was "awesome! health and low body fat for everyone!" I'm a perpetual optimist, but one of the most valuable skills I've learned as I've gotten older is the recognition that there's always _some_ con to the pro, and I think one of the valuable things about a community (and a discussion) is the exercise of looking at all sides of topic.

(Which, btw, you've provided, even if unintentional ;)
Try out http://geneticgenie.org/methylation-analysis/

It might show you some genetic disorders. As it did for me which I then had confirmed by a doctor. Now I supplement a special form of Folic acid and my homocysteine blood levels are normal (they have been elevated for the last 30 years I guess, wich is not too good).
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I am getting lost between Flink, Samza, and Spark Streaming. The only one I have used in production is Spark streaming (using Kafka) and it worked well for our use case, and these are the types of processes I just don't refine that often (essentially new-school ETL's).

Any reason why I should switch over to Flink/Samza that appear to be more streaming-first oriented? Especially if my goal is that it might need long-term support?
> men cheat a little more than women, according to studies

Women admit to cheating less than men, and this is reflected in a bias of studies whose methodology includes self-reporting. In general, women self-report about one third less sex partners than men. That presents a curious mathematical problem: who are all those extra men partnering with?

Let's say the average reported number of sex partners for males is 11.7 [1]. Now that means that the set of men has a number of connections into the set of women times 11.7. Say, the number of men in the set is 31M [2], then the number of connections is 362.7M. For the set of women, the numbers are 7.7, 32.2M, and 247.94M, respectively.

The connections can terminate in either of the sets, so we can have M-M, M-F, or F-F connections.

At one unlikely extreme, we could have no heterosexual (M-F) pairings at all, so that means 11.7 gay partners for men, and 7.7 lesbian partners for women. Clearly, this isn't the reality, not even in the UK. But even if we map all the connections from the female set to males, we'll end up with 247.94M hetero connections, no lesbian connections, and 114.76 connections from the male set onto itself, or 8.0 hetero + 3.7 gay connections per male, and 7.7 hetero + 0 lesbian connections per female.

There may be a large number of spinsters, and a small number of gay people may be skewing the mean away from the mode for the males, but the important take-away is that, mathematically, hetero-sexual partnerships always draw from both sets equally, and therefore the mean number of heterosex partners is always the same across the whole population.

[1] http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/11November/Pages/Results-of-UK-S...
[2] http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/population-...
Ask HN: Which recruiters do you like?
Who are the most genuinely helpful recruiters (individuals), who you've interacted with and why? Hoping this might be a good supplement to Who's Hiring.
One quick note - You probably shouldn't be performing your server hardening manually on each server. It's easy to miss things.

I'd suggest using an ansible/chef/puppet/whatever script, that you customize to meet the needs of your particular application.

Some simple ones you could start with are available at http://tinyurl.com/AnsibleFirst5 and/or http://hardening.io/

Expand to add additional configuration and hardening for your particular infrastructure.
So, I would have agreed with this before I worked there. It's stock, it's done well, great for you as an employee!

Amazon has what they call a 'total compensation philosophy'. Basically, if the stock has done really well in the past year, your salary increase and stock bonus in your next annual review will be adjusted accordingly. If you've done really well and they'd strongly regret you leaving, you can negotiate on this, but only if you've got leverage. After my first full year there they offered me a 2.3% salary increase, zero additional stock[0], and when I pushed back said 'look how well the stock has done! you're going to make way more this year than you had expected'.

I politely informed them that they seemed to be trying to feed me a pile of bullshit, that bullshit wasn't part of my approved diet, and that if they continued trying to do so, this would be my last week with Amazon. My next meeting (a few days later) included a considerably better compensation adjustment.

[0]: This was in part due to confusion on who qualified for equity. I'd started January 3rd of the preceding year. They believed only people employed prior to Jan 1st qualified. I had brought my offer letter to the meeting, after having been warned to be prepared for these sorts of shenanigans, which clearly said that because I'd started prior to Jan 15th, I was absolutely eligible. That would be the end of the story, except they then tried the line "Well, not everyone receives an equity refresh every year". I had exceeded expectations and hit the top leadership bucket. If that didn't qualify for equity, I wasn't really interested in continuing with Amazon.

The irony: the equity grant I eventually received didn't start vesting until ~18 months after that meeting. I quit ~13 months later.
I'll counter with some amateur advice - things still seem historically overpriced.
https://www.mockaroo.com/

http://www.databasetestdata.com/

Are two sources for building "fake" data. There are a few others out there.
Not fair. A well-regulated system would NEVER crash. That this one does, and folks predicted it, has nothing to do with timing, and everything to do with cogent analysis of a flawed system.
Dropping a newbie into Eclipse or MonoDevelop makes them feel like
they are walking around in a byzantine museum, afraid to touch
things, while DrRacket feels closer to old-school personal computers
where you felt like you were in command of the machine.

I think this is a very important observation. As with most things, it's extremely important to get in during the humble beginning stage and then tracing your way up to grok more complicated systems. Similar to the "first principle" approach.
It works... to make money.
Oh, yes, I hope my comment didn't come across as "you can replace jungle with a ton of JSON"; I was trying to speak to the comment by @rem7 about trying to remember all the crazy syntax of the command line.

I haven't tried jungle yet, but I am glad it exists and I thank you for open sourcing it to improve our aws experience, too.
That's a ridiculous assertion. The trivialities may differ, but fundamentals are generally pretty close. Crashes happen when reality catches up to people's perceptions.

The phenomenon where lots of cheap capital causes junk companies to do dumb things fueled by debt isn't a new one.
die of hunger while also being grossly overweight

Another fun diets-aren't-thermodynamics argument: rabbit starvation.
I think this ignores the process required to get something "proven to work". Something that involves years, millions of dollars, and an insane amount of bureaucracy.

Just publishing a scientifically sound paper in ARXIV isn't enough.
> Why is it completely unhelpful? The corollary is that if you adjust your intake to X (where X might have to be determined empirically for the individual), and use planning and your conscious brain to know when and what to eat, you _will_ lose weight.

People talk about how hard it is to lose this way, but although I've tried diet after diet, I only recently understood intuitively the reverse: why some people can't understand how difficult it is for some. When I moved to a new area this year and went to a new GP, he wanted to talk about my weight, of course (I'm 42, but everything else about my health was quite good). I explained that I had managed to lose about 50 pounds since my peak in 2012, through various diets like intermittent fasting, keto, and sometimes just counting calories for a bit. He suggested I try an appetite suppressant. I scoffed a bit, saying that my problem wasn't that I was too hungry, since I rarely ate so infrequently as to experience hunger. Instead, I said, my problem was that I ate when I was bored, or when friends were, or ate to improve other experiences like TV or movies, or just because it had been a while and I felt increasingly that I "ought" to eat. He didn't argue with me, but just mildly pointed out that it might well not work, but why not give it a shot for a few weeks and see? So I agreed. That was three months ago, and on the appetite suppressant I've lost another 50 pounds. But that's not my point, exactly.

My worldview around food has changed. Before, I assumed that people who were thin were either heroically couting every calorie they ate, or had some weird biology that meant that they couldn't gain even when they tried. I think both of those sets do exist (since I know people in each), but now I realize that there is a large group of people out there who simply don't care about food that much. I didn't even understand that I had this constant drive to eat until it vanished; I'd never not experienced it, as far back as I can remember. I didn't know what people were talking about when they talked about appetite, because the only thing that ever changed was hunger, until I started taking the suppressant.
That's very good to know. All of the examples I saw in the documentation were using the Promise "then" and I didn't see any mention that they were in fact returning Observables.

If I may suggest it, perhaps you might add this a bit more explicitly to the documentation including possibly an example or two that makes use of them as Observables?
Interesting. I like your argument a lot. Its logical conclusion is the prostitution industry, which is dominated by men paying for sex with women.

Still, I wanted to draw attention to the fact that most people are looking for some mix of physical intimacy (sex) and emotional intimacy (companionship).

There will always be imbalances where needs are not met, but to posit that most women use sex as a tool to manipulate men that are less than perfect doesn't sit well with me.
Surely they would use a vector graphics program for such a task? Although I'm not a designer I certainly do (Inkscape) and would hate to try to produce a poster with a raster graphics program.
"Leveraging a novel Internet platform (Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) to recruit heterosexual adults" ...

This is another one of those low-end studies where somebody put a psych questionnaire on Mechanical Turk because it was easy. The joke in psych used to be that psychology was the study of grad students, because they were easily available for study and so many studies used them. Now it's people who have free time and few skills trying to make money on Mechanical Turk.
Don't have too much faith; I'm often downvoted for disagreeing with the hive mind. I have enough karma now that hellbanning is less likely, so the chilling effect on free thought/software is reduced enough to post.

I merely had karma to burn, and the fact that I had to consciously weigh defending you against my karma point balance makes me a little nauseous.
Some libraries use annotations in comments. Therefore they cannot be stripped. Off the top of my head I know of some JavaScript testing libraries that do this.
I don't think money is the governing factor with cancer. When you get a diagnosis, you face scary interventions (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy) and no reponsible doctor will promise you they will work. Believing that you can regain control over your body and your fate with something like diet is very psychologically appealing.

On that note, if someone you know gets cancer, please sit on your hands instead of sending them any lifestyle advice, however well-intentioned, and cut off the hands of anyone you know who does that. It's amazing how many people think it's appropriate to forward links about their pet cancer cure.
Some changes happening. Here in Iowa, our high school has a fitness loft, and PE is about everything you say. Cardio, weights, running, inclusive activities and good sportsmanship all play a part. My boys are lean and mean, in no small part because of their high school experiences!
Yep. If you invest broadly enough, then shrug this off and consider that the market is on sale today. Your existing holdings will return to their yesterday prices at some point, and everything you buy in the meantime will have gone up.
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Man I wish I'd had this kind of experiences when I was his age... WELL DONE to both father and son!
Related http://www.wired.com/2015/04/powertofly/
If you left in mid-February 2013, then you did not work 1000 hours in 2013. You need to work at least 1000 hours in three separate calendar years.
To expand on Retra comment. Either;

You are facing divorce cause you cheated on your spouse.

Despite not cheating, your name is on list. Your spouse is still divorcing you because there were other issues and it was coming name on list or not. Or, they're psyco (can't understand name on list is not cheating) and good riddance.

You have healthy marriage.
Do you have to wait till the end of the 3rd calendar year? Or is it counted as soon as you complete 1000 hours in the 3rd year?
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I know, right? A kid thinks they're safely researching things that are important to them, but that's not at all true.

Statistically, it's almost certain that a kid somewhere has been beaten because of what their parents read in that report. When we're developing new features, we have to take into account ways they'll be twisted and abused. If anyone evaluated this before its development, and they were intellectually honest with themselves, these consequences had to have been dismissed as collateral damage. That makes me sad.
Technically advanced a toilet bowl from Japan
Agreed. "C/C++" as a term tends to be a crutch for cases where the author hasn't thought about the specifics of how their statement might apply differently to each language (much less the various versions and implementations of their specs) and would rather be vague than wrong (but is often both). "Both C and C++" (for exactly those two) or "C-family languages" (for C, C++, obj-C, at least, and as a more general term overall) are more often what people should be reaching for.
Do you remember what the question was?
Amazon's argument, when I was working there from ~2011-2013, was that they had few perks, hard work, but that they paid better than other companies giving employees more freedom to choose what to do with the fruits of their labors.

I don't care for that argument generally (as I personally value my free time well beyond what anyone is willing to compensate me for it -- call it personal utility if you like), but even so, the argument only works if it's actually true. In my experience it is not; Amazon's compensation lags other "Big 5" companies considerably, but some of that lag is hidden in things like their 401k match policy and the delayed stock vesting.
Buffet is an introvert. He reads 80% of his work days according to a recent article.
> Berlin Prenzelberg

I think you mean Prenzlauer Berg (it's a neighborhood)

But yeah, similar to the US
Thanks, yes I have that article on the site.
Thanks for commenting. Yes, the A/C is useless (pre-1984) then almost useless until the 964 and the 993 got it right.

As for a $10K repair bill, it's certainly possible, especially if you recently bought the car and/or get hit with some internal engine/trans problems.

These air-cooled 911's seem to be worth keeping on the road at least. There are many examples of other still high-end cars that just depreciate relentlessly until the last owner gets hit with a repair bill that's more than the car is worth and it goes to the junkyard.
Probably off topic for Hacker News; I don't think too many people here have this kind of experience.
I have indeed considered it, but there are some technical hurdles for me to overcome first. Most notably, our current donation system has a lot of automation included that I would need to reproduce for Patreon (e.g., sending 5% to our Kiva fund, putting funds into various buckets depending on multiple variables, etc).
Didn't know about the reply function in Slack's API.

This would allow you to send a private message to the user in the #general channel, correct? I can see that being super helpful with a few integrations I'm thinking about.
I am not sure that genetics & weight have that a big effect on weight but a lot of people use it to justify their weight.

I say this based on my observation and because today I find out I am at risk of obesity (based on this study), yet I slightly overweight.

In my personal circle, I have a lot of overweight friends and like hanging out with them. Some of them are always talking about losing weight, 10K steps, and other diet fads. And some have given up, I guess.

But sometimes it is difficult to eat/hangout with them. Overweight friends who want to lose weight will want to go to healthy restaurant. Then they will get footlong sub with every possible thing at counter. Oh and of course, diet soda and chips. How does it make any sense? I have to bite my lips to stay quiet.

And then other overweight friends/arrogant normal-weight friends, who will only want to eat buffets. And make fun of you if you don't get second refill. Apparently, you have to eat a lot to proof you are a man.
Since when is /r/investing a buy-and-hold type of place? Those guys live at /r/personalfinance.
Better hope the kid isn't GLBT in a right winger christian family.

That would not go over well.

"Microsoft outed me, and now I'm homeless", says 17 year old.
The joke I've heard is that college freshman are the best-studied demographic in America.
As far as I know, these updates are optional.
The transit alerts for NYC are pretty brain dead. I get alerts at lunch alerting me that my commute home has service disruptions on the subway. I'm not leaving for 6+ hours so the notifications are useless.
> I’m still taking a little heat from my wife for using an obscure language instead of something mainstream that is broadly used in industry

That is hilarious.
API not working for OSF anymore due to political reasons?

There is need .. stealthy and robust .. tweet scraper.
The article under which this entire discussion exists is about genetics.