skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Made this for personal use to handle interview calls but should be good for a small businesses or other hackers that can make use of it too. It's in the early stages but open source so you can expand it to fit your needs and environment.
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I agree with you about the steam link. It now allows me to play couch co-op games in the living room without having to drag my computer into the living room. The steam controller however does not seem to have as much use. I tried using it on several games in my library and was not satisfied with the amount of control I got. A wireless keyboard and mouse could give me a better experience.
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So Slashdot has survived long enough to be on the vanguard again!
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I found numbers for how many cancer deaths in the US are attributable to alcohol [0] and it puts it at 18 200 to 21 300 deaths. For worldwide figures see Table 1 of this study [1] that breaks down alcohol-attributable deaths by category. It lists alcohol-attributable cancer deaths at 487 000 in the year 2004. So it looks like the number isn't misleading, only unclear. Misleading would have been listing the total 2 225 000 alcohol-attributable deaths.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673233/

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673609...
"After thoroughly reviewing the accumulated scientific literature, a Working Group of 22 experts from 10
countries convened by the IARC Monographs Programme classified the consumption of red meat as
probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A), based on limited evidence that the consumption of red meat
causes cancer in humans and strong mechanistic evidence supporting a carcinogenic effect."
So i guess the next question is: did the mice have different sperm characteristics because they were stressed? Or was it a long term change?

By which I mean, if the stressed mice were allowed to recover and have happy lives for a few months after the stress period, before mating, would these results still occur?

Because if not, then it opens the possibility that just being incredibly stressed out altered the production of sperm in some temporal manner.
Was changing things as big of a deal 23 years ago? I'm really just curious as I don't know MS's history that well.
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Yes, mRNA <always> refers to messenger RNA. miRNA nearly always refers to microRNA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RNAs
Tell HN: Found an odd phenomena in Mac's word-relevancy mappings
If you own a Mac computer, launch any official Mac app that has a textfield (TextEdit, Notes, Stickies, etc)

1) hit `escape` to get a list of Mac's word suggestions. 2) select the first word suggested. 3) and then just repeat these steps again to your heart's content, you'll get this oddly emotional and inane sentence:

"I love you so much fun and I was just a little bit of a new one is the best thing ever is when you have to be a good day to be a good day to be a good day to be a good day [...]"

At least that's what I got. I wonder if everyone on Mac OSX 10.10 gets this.
Windows 10 is quite nice -- actually the UX is better than OS X in my opinion -- but I really do sympathize. On my desktop machine at home, intended primarily for gaming, I sometimes run a Vagrant VM, and I have babun setup for when I want a Unix-like terminal but not a full VM (a preconfigured Cygwin distribution).
In Latex usually get nice results with the result settings, but if you don't you can spend hours getting it to look the way you want.
Most of our nuclear waste, and almost all the long-term waste, is unused fuel. Fast reactors and some molten salt reactors (eg. Transatomic) can use it as fuel, leaving a small amount of waste that goes back to the radioactivity of the original ore in 300 years.

So most of our waste only has to be contained until we get around to building advanced reactors. Russia already has a couple fast reactors in commercial operation, one since 1980.
Right.

It would be about $34k here in Philadelphia, which would be very low at my company.
What gonna happen to all those engines/framework with Shadow DOM Views technologies? In short is the end of React?
Polymer has a few baked-in elements to help with various data binding needs: https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/devguide/templates....

Another classic approach I've seen is to create an "<x-app>" element which contains the entire site, which also handles the various application state and binding tasks. The Polymer Starter Kit[1] follows this approach, and it also includes tools for building/minification using Vulcanize[2] and gulp[3].

[1] https://github.com/polymerelements/polymer-starter-kit

[2] https://github.com/Polymer/vulcanize

[3] http://gulpjs.com/
Thanks for this response too! I don't have much to add other than to say that you sound like you would be a pleasure to work with.
MySQL, MongoDB, and Hadoop/OpenTSDB as requirements. Good start. And how much
does it do to justify these costs? I somehow doubt it can do more than or
better than Zabbix or Icinga/Nagios, and those are terrible.

And homepage with a self-signed certificate, like we didn't have CAcert.org
for dozen years, not to mention about several commercial CAs giving free
certificates for OSS projects.
he'll probably spend a lot of time having the devs write software based on DoD standards. It's surprising how much of security is "make sure you've configured everything correctly".
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I'm not angry.

> Really it should be replaced by TODO WRITE ERROR HANDLING in 90% of its cases.

That's what the Rust community reads it as, mostly.

I've seen it occur very infrequently in libraries (aside from example/benchmark/test/mocking code, of course). When it does its usually for really out of whack errors like poisoned mutexes, crashed threads, etc (mind you, these are for unwrapping error values, not options, but it's almost the same thing). Or for cases where it's known to be valid due to invariants that can't be expressed in the normal way.

I did a quick grep of hyper, and the unwraps are almost all in "dev" code (tests/benchmarks/etc). The cases where they aren't are where there was an `is_some()` earlier (and due to some reasons it couldn't be restructured as a match, perhaps just because of rightward drift), or the "invariants" thing -- i.e. it often calls `<some url>.serialize_path().unwrap()`, which is OK, because hyper only ever deals with relative schemes (e.g. `http://` and `https://`, not `data:` or `mailto:` -- the latter two don't have paths), which is checked in the constructors, so this should NEVER panic. I didn't go through all the code, but in the main HTTP and HTTP2 code serialize_path was the only offender, which was one that was justified.

I see it more often in applications. In the following cases:

- Example applications in blog posts (because you want to explain something else, not spend too much time on error handling)

- Slightly less out of whack errors which are weird enough that they should close the app

- Normal errors which should close the app (e.g. "insufficient permissions" for a command line util, or a port-opening error on a network app). unwrap() prints out the error message so this is a very rudimentary form of error handling anyway.

- Laziness, or often with a TODO. Not too common.

So, it's mostly used in justifiable ways, and that's why it exists in the stdlib. It doesn't "wipe out" anything that the borrow checker provides (borrowchk and exhaustive match are two different things), and while it's a kludge if used often there are legitimate reasons to use it; enough reasons to have it in the stdlib.

> I really don't know a more eloquent method of handling these operations.

.filter_map(|x| foo(x))

:)

(but yes, in general there are situations in which you know an Option is unwrappable, e.g. the serialize example above)
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Hello, I don't have access nor the time to grok the full paper. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/14/1508347112.full...

Can someone give a quick ELI5 into the exact method and rough biological explanation in the study?

From what I understand roughly from the artstechnica layman explanation, the microRNA expression can be influenced by an individual's environment (in the case of the mouse, 36 hours of constant light, a 15-minute exposure to fox odor etc.) These microRNA levels act somehow as regulators/promoters to chromosome molecular structure (basically whether a particular region is wound up tightly or loosely, making that region either harder or more accessible for the DNA transcription machinery), thereby effectively regulating the accessibility and expression of the genes (in this case, genes responsible for "down regulating stress [pathways] of mice") stored in that region.

Although the innate DNA structure (source code) didn't change from parent to offspring, the environment influences (Larmakian inheritance or metaphorically the user-defined environment path) was passed down to the offspring via the microRNA (that was optimized for/influenced by the father's environment) in the father's sperm cells - such that the genes are regulated epigenetically in the child same as the father's from the get-go (e.g., inheriting the environment paths, importing the older browser's bookmarks).

I have several questions, 1) please correct my layman understanding if any of it is off (don't have access to PNAS unfortunately), 2) if someone in the field can explain how microRNA actually regulate the chromosomes and histones, 3) Even if the microRNA is passed down to the offspring, is microRNA expression level in that offspring going to remain persistent? Meaning suppose the offspring is exposed to a totally different environment in contrast to the parent, will the offspring's microRNA eventually change to match its changing environment, i.e., how does microRNA get expressed and regulated in the first place?

Thanks for posting this very interesting paper on Larmakianism making a comeback!
Take a two month long vacation[1], and then do it somewhere toward the end.

[1]: Yes yes, not everyone has the luxury to be able to do that. But frankly, I've found that with a healthy amount of planning it is possible. E.g. I'm planning to take a 2 month long vacation next summer... I know already my boss probably won't let me, but I don't care! I'll quit if I have to! Already have an eye out for new gigs! This is like what people say about exercising -- you don't have time? Make time for it. The POTUS can find time to exercise, probably you can too.
A story about what it's like working for Handy, "My Day Interviewing For The Service Economy Startup From Hell":

http://thebillfold.com/2014/10/my-day-interviewing-for-the-s...
How detailed should tasks be within a user story?
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When I played CS:S in CAL Open, I saw a lot of people putting the graphics all the way down so their vision wasn't obscured by dust in the air, or fluffy bushes, or sun glare, or particle effects.

I never played seriously enough to go as far as finding out if it made a difference. I just liked to play a pretty game.
It's similar in some ways, but not exactly the same. This allows an element on a page to contain a whole tree of elements while still appearing as a single element from the outside (i.e. for the purposes of DOM methods, CSS, etc.).
Counter-strike global offensive is actually one of the fastest growing esports. It gets more monthly viewer hours than DOTA (outside of The International, DOTA doesn't get many viewers), although is still some way behind LoL.

However, CSGO majors viewing figures went from ~150k to ~300k to ~1mil to ~1.2m for the last few majors, so it's growing really fast.
If you think about not having security clearance, it makes sense. You'd usually have clearance to see certain data. By not requiring it, you're replicating how anyone else would try breaking into secure systems.
React does not use Shadow Dom. And React is not related to CSS first-hand, though people are trying apply the same modularization principles of DOM encapsulation to the CSSOM.

Not only that - there's a lot of implication that come with Shadow Dom that will make it impossible to just plug and play with React. Namely, the fact that is stops the cascading effect of Cascading Style Sheets. Whereever you are stylizing large swathes of your app with common css code, you'll need to rethink by either treating css as a module and importing at the new shadow root, or by rewriting your css to be more redundant.

These tradeoffs require considerable buy-in, which leads me to suspect React will continue to be agnostic towards shadow dom.
I think it's often an anti-pattern. A good acid test for me would be, will modifying a rule written to a selector in one file affect a selector in another. If the answer is yes, then you haven't modularised by definition; you just think you have. This gets more complicated if you are doing SASS-style inheritance between selectors.
Nahh, it's more like:

"there is a new breed of startups that's in the business of selling dollar bills for 50 cents and the bills are counterfeit. Cash out before we're caught."

It really says it, considering that much of the VC groups not only allow breaking the law, but encourage it in the name of "progress". And you know, who cares about the worker anyways. They're replaceable (until the specific AI comes and takes that job.)
Interesting.. but why would one use this over jsfiddle, codeply, etc..? Is it simply just for HTML?
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QE seems to have had the effect of keeping asset prices high and not much more.
Do you remember any examples I could debug? You can check your search history here: https://history.google.com/history/ if you have it turned on.
No x86 computer ships with locked bootloaders, it's part of the spec that you have to be able to disable SecureBoot in the BIOS.

Having said that, I don't think Linux will be a good fit for this device. People will first have to reverse-engineer the locking mechanism (which is done in software in Windows). That'll probably happen quickly, but then there's the issue of the hybrid graphics, which Linux has never played well with IME. That's assuming Linux drivers will be available for the dGPU at all; it's apparently a custom part from Nvidia and there may not even be a binary blob for them on Linux.
Handy's a terrible service, actually. Creepy automatic recurring subscriptions for house cleaning, no way in the UI to cancel the subscription (!), frequent site downtimes. Had to go to great lengths to cancel an appointment I didn't create in the first place.
> Isn't the ethos of Silicon Valley to 'hack it together' with tape and glue?

Couldn't that be the problem, too?
I shared this in light of the recent article by Matt Ridley, "On the Myth of Basic Science"[1] which I find less honest and filled with anecdotal examples that fit his particular narrative.

[1] www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-basic-science-1445613954
Why do you think it'd be the end of React?
Why would the percentage of production being nuclear have any effect on nuclear capacity factor?
Eventually yes, web components will likely kill off the usefulness of most front end frameworks.
The last line of the article surprises me:

However, we're hoping that by the time Gen IV reactors are ready for construction (sometime in the 2030s), fusion power will have completely taken over electric power generation.

Based on the current trends, it seems like renewable energy will be set to take over energy production before fusion power.
My first thought was that the report is only talking about rectal and colon cancers, so yes diet might affect them as much as (or even more than) smoking.

But that really isn't even close to to being a good comparison when discussing overall effect of risk factors: talking about the effect of smoking while only counting damage to the bottom end of the digestive system is like talking about the effect of drink driving while only counting uni-cyclists.

So the reporting is massively misleading, the inference that the risks caused by smoking and those caused by eating processed meats are even of the same order of magnitude is simply wrong. I shall have to read the actual report to get any real meaning from it.
First, take a deep breath and remember the rule of internet. If something is available for free, people WILL find it, use it and abuse it. Don't beat yourself too much for it.

"I'm reluctant to jump in and accuse them of abusing the free trial"

No, don't be reluctant. Reach out to them with a kind email saying that their trial period has expired and they need to switch to a paid account. Alternatively, offer them an extended trial period using same account if you think they may give you business BUT do not let them abuse the trial system. Here is how I will do it:

"Hi xyz. We noticed that you created a trial account using username abc for your company. We wanted to reach out and ask if someone from your company has created another trial account after the expiry of the first one (This way, you are not directly accusing but smartly letting them know). We are happy to give you an extension of trial period if you need but as per our terms and conditions, you are not allowed to create multiple trial accounts for same company. If you have any questions on this, I will be happy to assist"

Another way to think about this. Perhaps this client needs more time to evaluate the product and hence give them the benefit of the doubt at first. They continue to use the product actively which means they definitely like something about it. This could be good news for you. Take this opportunity to reach out to them and have a conversation. You never know what will happen.
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Also worth noting: The same "known carcinogens" list also includes birth control pills and sunlight.

Not all carcinogens should be avoided.
Huh, this worked -- wow, TIL, thanks! (You would still have to pry Cmder out of my cold dead Windows 7 hands though...)
You'd almost certainly lose that wager though. There are a lot of French lawyers out there! OK, I'm being a bit tongue in cheek, you're talking (I think!) about people actually needing a lawyer, but you know what, those lawyers must be doing something, so I'm thinking that people interact with them a lot. Certainly I know that I personally have three separate friends (ie they don't know each other) that are lawyers, and I definately didn't seek lawyers out amongst my friends!
While nice, it really only works with the reference has a direct link to the PDF while the majority of citations use the DOI in the sciences.

DOI traversal would be required
I would guess relevance(how closely text on the page matches the query) and backlinks(how many popular websites link to the page).

Or if relevance doesn't count as signal maybe it's social sharing.
Can anybody tell how this relates to http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/164131 (discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243122)?

New API, new implementation, or both?
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It's amazing how our species builds upon our body of knowledge.

I don't have the answer for how research should be prioritized or funded, but I think it's important to remember that every great accomplishment in human history was the result of a culmination of millions of small things. So don't forget the basics.
I think the biggest barriers to me would be the awesome package ecosystems in unix land (mysql, postgres and mongo are all a single "brew install" away!).

I also would miss working in bash in iTerm and/or Apple's Terminal. Unless they've done a lot of work on the command prompt, it'll be moving back into a world of pain.
As a small business owner I can definitely see myself using something like this! Thanks for the share!
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The things I'm curious about with Shadow Dom:

- How does it affect performance, if say, a large application is composed of many shadow dom elements, each containing a large amount of redundant CSS?

- Will there be a way to let certain css styles "leak" through while encapsulating others? Or is any type of native inheritance gone?
You too make a good point but again, not all streamers are in eSport, take PewDiePie or any minecraft streamer. Streamers(and sponsors on teams/players) I would say are more of a medium of advertising space more than something that you see and think "I want it because it's going to make my life better". The only case in which the "product placement" makes sense is for peripherals, a good keyboard/mouse and other accessories can make a difference.

Obviously not everything is black an white but I think that the reasons why "the PC industry is being saved" are way more that just eSports.
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I think another aspect that isn't always touched upon is the fact that many people will own some form of PC even as tablets and smartphones deliver more frequent updates and sales numbers.

I've owned consoles in the past (last one I bought was an Xbox360 when it was on sale some years back) but I've always had a PC in the house. For all the talk of how expensive PC gaming is, for me it's always been the least expensive way to play video games. On the surface, a PC (of any stripe) will look more expensive than a game console at $500-1500 for a typical computer versus ~$400 for a game console. But to me, a game console is an additional $400 that I'd be spending for another box just for playing games.

I think for a while, the growing popularity of laptops and fewer desktop sales might have affected this balance since notebooks were generally more expensive for equivalent hardware and often lacked the GPU power needed for even modest gaming. But now I see even more modest laptops with integrated graphics that can handle at least some level of game performance as well as a crop of reasonably priced ($800-1000) notebooks that come with some sort of dedicated GPU.

I'm sure that for a lot of people whose computing usage can be handled solely with mobile-grade hardware (tablets, phones) the game console is a cheap and easy way to keep playing video games on a screen larger than 5 or 10 inches. But for anyone who already needs a laptop or a desktop, the cost difference to add a bit more RAM and a decent video card is less than the cost of a game console and even the base level specs are getting to the point where you can expect at least a decent level of gaming capability.

I guess the tl;dr version is: eSports help and more powerful phones/tablets may be cutting into the desktop/laptop markets but at the same time, desktops and laptops continue to improve and even mainstream PCs can handle games now (even better if you put an extra $150-250 into RAM and GPU).

As has historically been the case, the PC (whether a $600 Asus or a $2000 Macbook) is the gaming platform many people already own so it stands to reason that many will continue to use it as such.