skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's zero chance of a birth defect from one small glass of wine a week.

Where's the evidence to back this up?

Here are the facts:

1. Alcohol is harmful.

2. We don't know exactly how harmful.

3. We can't test to see exactly how harmful.

The output of that is, the recommendation is zero. The recommendation is zero because any other recommendation would be arbitrary at best, harmful on average, and debilitating at worst when people realize "one drink a week" isn't backed up by any science. And the social pressure will never let up, because who knows if that is the woman's first drink of the week or her fourth drink of the day?

Yes of course people need pressure to not drink while pregnant! And even with that pressure, people still smoke and drink and do drugs while pregnant. Just like they need pressure not to speed, not to shoot up heroin, not to kill other people! That's the entire point of societal pressure, is to make people conform to activities that aren't actively harmful to society.

If you tell women "don't drink", that's a very clear statement. Easy to follow. If you say "only drink one drink per week, maybe, we don't really know", there's a non-zero chance that more women will drink more than they should than we have today. But how much is too much? No one knows. So in effect, how much is too much? Any amount.
Sounds like a good topic for a Ph.D. thesis to me.
Is it really that important nowadays to build webapps in pure js or abstractions of it? We read articles about how many smartphones get superslow when executing loads of JS code, how broken the development process is and how framework x tries to solve that broken flow. We make use of super heavy and complicated toolchains that are outdated half a year from now. I often hear and read things like: "You still use bower instead of npm?", "You still use coffee script?! Go with TypeScript.", "BackboneJS? Why not go with Angular?".
Some requirements make it mandatory to do lots of stuff in the frontend. For example: SoundCloud is supposed to continue playing songs when users navigate around. Okay they need a pure JS page refresh experience. But the standard CRUD admin panel you write 90% of the time? There it's not wrong if a browser does what it is supposed to do. Load a page when a user clicks on a link.
Is this such a bad thing to keep things simple?
> What does any of this have to do with Go?

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. We're discussing ways of initializing Go structs.

> All languages with structs have these "problems"!

This is completely false, and exactly why I'm dismissing you: we wouldn't be having this conversation if you knew anything about other languages. There are plenty of languages which will warn you when you fail to initialize a struct field when initializing fields by name.
why is everyone pretending that LibreSSL doesn't exist? Why fork something known to be broken, rather than strip down LibreSSL further? Does this idea make sense to anyone?
VW does not own most of the software running in their cars. Most software is IP of their many suppliers. Those suppliers sell the same software to many car manufacturers so to say they would oppose giving their source code to VW so it could release it to the public is an understatement.
Soon America will be unseated and the world will be free.
Like anything, it depends. I several orthogonal axes in the question: writing/blogging, domain ownership, and learning new technologies. The best approach depends on what priority you assign to each as well as the specific objectives within each.

Amazon Web Services has a free tier and tutorials on hosting a static site on S3. That's great if the technical interests include cloud services and the content is static and the domain ownership isn't about running a bunch of web ads. On the other hand, Godaddy will sell, host, and install a Worldpress blog and keep it updated...this might fit a different set of interests. Wordpress.com will host a Wordpress blog and let you focuos on running Wordpress and writing. Heroku offers a different balance.

Which brings the obvious question, what are your goals?
JPMorgan is breaking up with its giant private equity unit
Dropbox Paper is written almost entirely in TypeScript.
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Half of the companies i searched for were either incorrect logos or ones that clearly looked like a random google image search.
Don't submit an article with different titles/domains as a hedge bet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10421410
Hm, no not really. The cvs daemon had the whole machine for itself.
"Alcoholic beverages" are not the only things a doctor tells a pregnant woman to abstain from. There is a huge list of things that are much harder to avoid, like soft cheeses or a cat's litter box.
Some people think living in a police state is where it is absurdly easy for the police to do their job.

Like say being able to casually do an X-Ray scan of any car or vehicle they see.
This is a fantastic tool, I use it a ton to test REST apis and the like.
I don't consent to any form of non-necessary irradiation, regardless of the quantity.

Not sure why the NYPD gets to irradiate me without consequences (which constitutes a search of my person, without a warrant or consent, not to mention having a potential medical impact on people not suspected of any crime) when we can hardly point cameras at them despite it being explicitly legal.
See http://www.wsj.com/articles/j-p-morgan-near-deal-to-sell-maj... instead
It's not clear this should be called an "exploit". It sounds like Microsoft in its capacity as a cryptographic endpoint turning over either plaintext or session keys (or in the severely worst case, long-term private keys). It doesn't make much sense to me to refer to that as an "exploit".
Since they didn't provide any numbers, here's an analysis I did on this topic using estimates for LA: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-cheap-can-uber-self-drivi...

Uber can absolutely make money even if they own their own cars, provided the up-front cost of the cars is low enough. You can think of it like a high-use, low-distance rental car fleet - the same car economics down-sides apply to Hertz and Enterprise and yet they still make money.
This article is about the NYPD, and you go off claiming Americans live in a police state. I think you lost the context somewhere.
Analysis paralysis
The holding in Kyllo is based on the search being of a home, where the Fourth Amendment protections are strongest (“At the very core” of the Fourth Amendment
“stands the right of a man to retreat into his own
home and there be free from unreasonable governmental
intrusion.” Silverman v. United States, 365 U. S. 505, 511
(1961). ) and the holding is narrow: Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not
in general public use, to explore details of the home that
would previously have been unknowable without physical
intrusion, the surveillance is a “search” and is presumptively
unreasonable without a warrant.

I'd expect NYC to say "These vans are strictly for anti-terrorism purposes and if we see a bomb then you're welcome to cite the exclusionary rule from the safety of a non-blown-up courthouse", though that viewpoint will not command a whole lot of support on HN. I think it's probably a loser at the current Supreme Court on a drug case and would get a 9-0 with Scalia writing a florid distinguishing opinion from Kyllo if a terrorism case somehow made it all the way to the Supreme Court. (Amateur analysis here; IANAL.)
It doesn't seem like a grey area to me, if they're doing it without informed consent.
I think it's useful to to have "untuned HAProxy" as a reference benchmark, to have a goal to measure pre-1.0 development progress against. When a project hits that order-of-magnitude of speed, you can assume it isn't screwing anything major up in its design.
Most decades have the same name. The only ones different are "twen" for "two", "thir" for "three", and "fif" for "five", which all sound very similar anyway so there's not really a problem.
BoringSSL started prior to LibreSSL.
Exactly. There will be sales pitches when fully autonomous cars are available to buy: pay $xk up front, but lease the car to a fleet for $y/month to recoup some of your investment. Uber might require owners to maintain and clean the cars in order to qualify, saving themselves the cost.

It's not dissimilar to the way people throw their houses into the pool of accommodation that is Airbnb or VRBO, etc.
From the cons the author listed for typescript, this article is way too generous with this language. Like CoffeeScript it is just an intermediate solution to the problems JS has. We are still far away from inventing a good language for UI logic development. IMO Elm is pointing in the right direction, Scala.JS is getting some interesting traction and momentum.
"In other words, he's saying that half of all users don't do ANY searches at all, whereas all that he can say is that on some days, some users don't do any Google searches on their mobile device."

From the article: "who does what searches isn’t fixed; so someone who did zero searches yesterday might do 10 tomorrow. But equally, the 10-searcher yesterday does none or one or four today. And so on."

So yes. But on any given day, half of people don't do a mobile search. And the numbers from Google suggest that the average across a 30-day period is less than 30. If you think there should be a different model for how many people do how many searches than a Pareto distribution, please offer it.
What hurts this POV is people like this: http://i.imgur.com/YjGHOAN.png & http://i.imgur.com/UucpLoZ.png

They don't care if officers killed in the line of duty, as apparently we have an unlimited numbers of people who would love to risk their lives as a LEO so that other's can remain safe.

Is the system foolproof? No. Do accidents and unjustified firings happen? Yes. Are the measures some people want to take practical or logical? No. People want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. These sorts of events used to happen just as frequently - but didn't have Twitter and social media backlash behind every occurrence. With social media coverage these events seem far more common than they used to be, which leads to more outrage against them. I can understand and to some extent sympathize with where people are coming from - but we need a more practical solution than "try to hit an extremity and pray you don't hit an artery". Arm/thigh shots can be fatal from bleed-out. Life isn't the Hollywood movie that some people think it is.

They are asking officers to have 100% accuracy (take an arm/leg shot on a moving target from a distance? Good fucking luck!) and don't recognize that "target with a knife" is a deadly threat from a surprisingly close distance, whether you have a gun or not [0].

[0] Tueller Drill, as seen on Mythbusters: https://youtu.be/ckz7EmDxhtU?t=263
I am working on something (toy) similar to this in my spare time using luaJIT.

I like the idea of using a simpler DSL to interact with ECC.
Grunt and Sass
It didn't used to but was enabled in iOS 8.3.
IHS Automotive forecasts that the price for the self-driving technology will add between $7,000 and $10,000 to a car's sticker price in 2025

Uber will probably use it's own fleet supplementing people during peak times. if you can get 70% utilization that's about 60k/yr you don't pay a driver.
When browsers support stale-while-revalidate we'll have the opportunity to make web apps update in the background the way native apps do.

Weight still matters; I just thought this worth mention.
It takes a skilled professional to properly diagnose such things even when the right equipment is used. These vans were designed for scanning vehicles more than people, and for objects much larger than a tumor. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they are completely unable to detect cancerous growths.
I wonder if there is a way to render these scanning devices ineffective or shroud items from them.

I don't see why it would be a problem to scan-proof vehicles, containers, or clothing, considering that they don't have a warrant for the search in the first place. I guess lead-lining everything is pretty inconvenient, but I don't see why the pigs get to see me naked for free.
Back to the Future II: What did it get right and wrong?
A functional language can allow mutations (see Haskell, LISP, etc.).

All a functional language really needs is first class functions. JS has had that since the very beginning.
I've responded to your comment there. Obviously, the data is open to lots of interpretations. I tried to use models that seem reasonable and reflect what we know about internet behaviour - particularly the Pareto distribution of most activities.
They did mention in the article that PureScript was one of the languages they considered rewriting their stack in. PureScript is very heavily influenced by Haskell (they're almost the same languages), but among other things PureScript is strictly evaluated.

It seems from the article like the reason why the dismissed it was that it interoperated poorly with existing vanilla JavaScript libraries.
Kind of feels like they're trying to jump from one popular thing to the next. The JavaScript world is exhausting.
I fail to see how my post is implying that you should be fine with non-necessary irradiation. I'm quoting and linking the manufacturers website.
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3 Tips for Building a Better Ecommerce Blog
Given the amount of debugging you'd save using a library that's untyped I wouldn't call it time wasted.

If a definition doesn't match the version of library you're using, changing the definition or adding to it omly takes a few minutes.
Thanks so much for showing me this. I'm 100% convince. When I was a teen, I never found canabis, canabis found me. So consuming canabis was for me only a question of whether or not I've the right profile. Which brings us to the exact same position as if the drug was for sale at the corner store.

It's obvious actually. The drug dealer is a store. It gonna find its customers anyway.

Just for the fun, so now if I want to sell drug X, I just got to find people who got a lot of friends - who have potentially the profile to consume that drug. I bet it works really fine. You probably don't have to go in the street at all :P

EDIT: oh but how many people are saved by this: the risk/reward ratio is too high? The risk of the drug dealer is in the equation then. But you're right on something, the strong profile for drug X can do nothing and it's kinda unfair.
Adding to your point, nesting callbacks is quite elegant in coffeescript. I never understood "callback hell" until I looked at examples in pure JS.
Fixing the Laws That Let Theranos Hide Data Won’t Be Easy
Yahoo to show Google ads in Search
I don't know if you've used Heap before, but they're (necessarily) doing quite a bit more than loading a page when a user clicks on a link.

Some applications necessitate more sophisticated user interactions.
To explicitly summarize your comment: technology is going to be abused by the powerful regardless of what they claim unless we enact strict systemic controls on their use with intense oversight.

Such enforcement is entirely possible, it just takes the political will to do so.

This latest incident is just another piece of evidence for America being a police/surveillance state. I'm not sure how people can deny it anymore.
I agree - they know exactly what they're getting into.

"I didn't think that becoming a celebrity would screw up my private life," said no one ever.
Is he an Ex-minister because he's dead and no longer a minister?

The agent was still an agent when he performed the crime. It is disgenuous to say he's an ex-U.S. agent when he lost his title because of the incident.

You wouldn't say Ex-president Obama was impeached, that's just weird.

There are academic papers pointing out Reuters propaganda. http://blogs.roosevelt.edu/hsilverman/files/2011/11/Reuters-...
It's counter intuitive but picking one of these niche technologies means:

1) you'll need less people (better more reusable code)
2) the best people will speak you out.

This was very much my experience when I put a Haskell team together, and everyone I've spoken to who has done the same has said the same.

It's an opportunity for a young company, not a problem.
I know you're asking for an app, but I just would like to suggest a good ol fashioned diary. I use this method and really like it, you can sketch up abstract models of your ideas and implementations, not to mention jott down thoughts and algorithms easily enough. I really like the feel of a pen on real paper, I feel I even remember better (I know on what part of the page I wrote something, and can remember the dates, for some reason I dont have this kind of recall when typing - probably due to all the noise and multitasking) when I write things down by hand. I use this method and like it so much Id never consider going digital.
Citation: https://twitter.com/eay4young/status/377209505513504768
I wouldn't compare Redis pub/sub on a persistent Redis socket to straight HTTP requests; it's more like an HTTP Server-Sent-Event stream, which looks pretty similar at the protocol level.
Alternatively:

"We have created an abusive society. We have normalized, regularized, and routinized abuse. We are abused at work, by the very rules, norms, and expectations of our jobs, at which we are merely “human resources”, to be utilized, allocated, depleted. We are abused at play, by industries that seek to prey on our innocence and literally “target” our human weaknessses. And now we are abused at arm’s length, through the lightwaves, by people we will never meet, for things we have barely even said. We live in a society where school shootings are the rule, not the exception, where more people will have taken antidepressants than not…and now one where nearly everyone will have been abused on the web…for a random, off-hand, throwaway comment, an idle thought, something trivial, unremarkable, meaningless."

(And on for a few more paragraphs of existential malaise. I do not use that term sarcastically.)

Consider that this is mostly not true. Real society has mostly not changed. Consider that the next level down of causation is that Twitter convinces you this is the truth, and that's the real problem... who wants that?

I've made a hobby of sort of studying how community structures create patterns of interaction. There's a sense in which Twitter just thrusts too many people too closely together... it isn't quite fair to say it's a "zero-dimensional space" since there is structure in who is following who, but it is pretty densely packed. Combined with the characteristics of tweets enforced by that brutal character limit, and Twitter is just a terrible place for building a community, and a terrible way to get news about the world. It may be useful for other things, but not those.

The Internet at large can cause the same problems, but in general it disperses people a bit more.
That and an anti-Stingray firewall/monitor.
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Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Why should I use this instead of just firing up some spot instances with phantomjs?
I'll only read this if someone copies it and pastes it to another site with the title "12 Crazy Reasons Why the Fast Times Of The Paparazzi Came to a Halt."

Nice that Buzzfeed is doing journalism. Shitty that it's funded off of their content theft...
Overflow can happen and we test for it wherever possible (at least that's the hope). By using unsigned lengths, the overflow tests are simple: x + y < x. We also don't have to worry about negative values which, in my experience, are at risk of being forgotten more often than excessively large ones.
Ask HN: Egyptian Startup Woes
I've been a long time lurker of HN, and something happened today that drove me to register and post this.

My partner and I are working on a big project that will hopefully change the way Egyptians and the Middle East in general use the internet. I will not mention what, because the idea is just that good.

I'm the technical mind behind the project, while my partner and best friend handles the financial and marketing aspects of our budding business.

Last night we got a call from our lawyer, who is responsible for handling the paperwork and our general affairs with the Egyptian government. He said we had a problem.

During an interview with the Bureau of Investment, and after showing them the premise of our idea, and explaining out profit model. The head of the bureau told our lawyer that in order for him to approve our paperwork, they needed a way to monitor our online transactions.

Upon hearing this I thought he was requiring access to the transaction logs of payments sent and received online; but I was wrong.

Turns out he wants us to accept his son as a co-founder. With 30% ownership.

What should we do?
MPAA asks government to facilitate private anti-piracy deals
> Seeing as how the battery system is primarily what makes electric cars expensive, I really wish automakers would start delivering plugin hybrids that have, say 75 - 100 mile range on battery (to keep cost down), along with a very low horsepower gas engine. (Most plugin hybrids give you about 20 - 30 miles on battery).

20-30 gives you a decent commute on pure battery, anything longer is a questionable trade off of amount of battery you are lugging around, killing efficiency.

> The way it would work: the battery would drive the front wheels, and you would use the battery for most of your driving -- but when it got down to 20% charge, the gas engine would kick in to power the back wheels.

I don't know that a vehicle that switches from FWD to RWD while driving is a really good idea, or what advantage this mechanism has over more conventional and well-established hybrid systems.
I read through it and was wondering how it's different from libressl, maybe they can join forces to give us another option that is more modern and clean than openssl itself, but then boringssl looks more like a version for google's own needs while libressl is more for the general purposes.
Broad Coalition of Groups Oppose CFAA Amendment to CISA Surveillance Bill
> There is nothing in the Constitution about abortion and it being a right

Not true. Read the Ninth amendment.
I agree, he seems not to have lost his moral compass -- he's no Larry Ellison. But something about the phrase "enormous number of claim checks on society" suggests that he's collecting points, and trying to rack up a high score by the end of the game.
You can build UIs as a left fold over events, just as you can build backend data processing pipelines. In fact it that is the architecture that makes the most sense to me now. I have a little toy framework here that demos these ideas. https://github.com/boothead/oHm
Is there a specific place where I would go to flag things like this? Sounds like an interesting little project to build.
> "Alcoholic beverages" are not the only things a doctor tells a pregnant woman to abstain from.

I am quite acutely aware of that, but what's your point?
Ternary operator is more compact and consistent with many other programming languages.

The bigger issue was the bugs the existential operator led to. Not worth it when checking for existence wasn't a problem in javascript anyways.
Yes, I was talking about phone apps.

Just played with Photon on their website: It's better but still far away from Google's capability. Like it or not, but Google is very, very good with search :-)