skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, plenty are smart, or at least not dumb. But the difference doesn't even have to be so simple as smart/dumb. If your hiring pool consists of two distinct sources, one with an average IQ of 98 (i.e. not dumb), and the other an average IQ of 105, the second source will probably have more hires. Increase the difference (say, to a full standard deviation) and it's only worse for the lower group.
Speed isn't for numbing yourself; it's for amping yourself up. You're probably thinking of opiates.
Their managed SQL service doesn't support Postgresql and POSTGIS, its the only thing stopping me from move over to GCN.
Google compute has taken some awesome strides in the last year. I now prefer GCE over AWS, because of pricing (per minute) and simplicity. AWS quickly can get overwhelming and overly complex.
I know. Compared to Amazon's offering of MySQL, MariaDb, Aurora, SQL Server and Oracle, Google MySQL offering looks not so good. It's hard to persuade everyone to migrate to MySQL. Everyone has their own reason to use different databases.
I already don't use Facebook, but if your comment is to suggest we ask ourselves to do unpleasant things (that still aren't social interaction) in the name of handling the complexities of social interaction -- why would be specifically obligated to use Facebook, fakest of the fake, in that unpleasant way? If I don't use Facebook in general am I obligated to subscribe to upsetting-gossip.rss? N.b. I still heard about an ex getting engaged without technology while being on a different continent. The supposition that Facebook is the sine qua non of life events is bizarre.
But unless your friend was an asshole, he/she wouldn't announce it like a big event you should be excited about.
Are there concrete characteristics to a SAD lamp? Could I achieve similar results if I fill a room with led bulbs?
tl;dr: the algorithm powering V8's Math.random() is very poor quality. For many use cases you can't safely pretend its output is actually random. Don't use it for anything non-trivial that you care about. It should probably be fixed. In the meantime, use crypto.randomBytes() or crypto.getRandomValues() instead.
Math.random() in v8 is not very random
Your friend would tell you the same way Facebook would tell you: in passing (either in your feed or your facebook notifications).
Really mining is seen as this hardcore active lifestyle when in reality it is rather sedentary. Typically there are jobs for jr. level positions which are very physically demanding. Afer about 2 years experience most people get "promoted" to driving some sort of heavy machinery. Often these positions are union jobs where the workers can easily dictate the pace at which they work. Typically I could spend 8 hours or more in some sort of seat forklift/haul truck/loader or whatever. This may not be the case in Coal Mines in Kentucky, but as you can tell from the pictures many of the workers in mining are not in peak physical condition.

Even in the positions that were physically demanding your body "adjusts" to the workload and it becomes rather similar to sitting in front of a computer basically you go into periods of "auto-pilot" and then other times it was somewhat mentally demanding.

Most mining operations are heavily automated requiring at least some knowledge of I.ndustrial C.ontrol S.systems ICS/SCADA is somewhat of a programming work flow. If this valve is open turn on this other valve once this sensor is tripped turn off this motor and close this valve. From a very simplistic manner this is similar to binary logic.

At least from what I have experienced infosec is very mentally challenging, but it is not a constant demand there are definitely periods where I am in auto-pilot. The best solution for me having gone to a sedentary work life is to walk to work, drink lots of water at work (make you get up to pee alot) and to take walks at lunch.
This does not fit into the "right not to be offended" issues going on today. Being exposed to pictures/videos/comments of exes getting married is not an issue that many people had to deal with 20 years ago. If the same technology that has done such a good job of connecting us with other people could be smart enough to know when not to connect us, we should absolutely take advantage of it.

In other situations, I'd agree with you. Not this one.
The Evolution of the Biohacking Ecosystem
This is a simplification of the issue. If some think surveillance is per se bad, who is it who thinks surveillance is per se good?
Pricing is fine. Tech support is a joke. I wish I could pay more for Google to actually offer good support. We tried GCE for a while but it just didn't cut it in terms of mean response time to questions. AWS really leads on support.
"Edit individual posts one by one"

i.e. Look at all these happy posts and pictures one by one (bonus points if it's chronological) and click "remove me" for each one.

Not sure this one will make the final cut, except as a version of holding a wake for your relationship.
Not just Compute, Google Network, Cloud Storage, Container Engine (Kubernetese is OpenSource, so you can run it internally too), Cloud Shell, Pub/Sub, their new Cloud Console, are awesome.
Back in the 90's I ran a 24 line BBS that used Zmodem and a Telix script I wrote to mirror itself to 20 systems worldwide. Zmodem was the only way I could reliably transfer files to those systems via dialup. Chuck was always my hero for writing such a solid protocol.
Author decided to violate the law every day he stayed in the USA, especially after age 18. The Dominican Republic isn't a prison and author has family there and is a free, full adult citizen there.

It's the author's mother he should be unhappy with.
It's pretty obvious to tech-aware medical practitioners that the official rules governing health information don't cover the full gamut of circumstances clinicians deal with.

The article discusses certain genetic tests not directly ordered as medical procedures, that is, "OTC" testing done for example by 23andMe, etc, that lack HIPAA protections. In principle, this could result in health data being misused, e.g., to profile ads geared toward the individual.

As well, genetic testing services marketed to providers (e.g., to identify liver enzymes that clear medications from circulation) may fall into a gray zone. I'm not sure about a range of non-standard nutritional or food allergy tests on the market re: HIPAA compliance.

A big concern is the adequacy of EHR system security even if HIPAA rules are followed. The numerous intrusions into health insurers and hospital systems show the vulnerabilities that HIPAA doesn't really prevent. Threat of data "leakage" makes clinicians wary about what info is recorded, and in private conversations tell me they often don't include "personally sensitive" info in the record.

The opinion of these practitioners is the convenience of EHR "interoperability" will likely reduce privacy protections HIPAA is supposed to provide. Perhaps this expresses more about the state of system security in general vs. HIPAA deficiencies, nonetheless HIPAA needs to be strengthened to really keep health data private and out of the hands of corporate or governmental exploitation.
That moment when you don't have a selfie Stick this is what you're suppose to do
A business (or first) class seat beats any of those. ;-)
Submit your finished script to Amazon Studios
Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors (2013)
I replied to this comment elsewhere:

Family doctors are not likely to be treating a semi-rare condition.

To put it in programming terms, a front-end web developer would seek advice from a networking expert if her or his application was experiencing a lot of networking difficulties.

Further, even if your family physician is monitoring the progress of your disease, you'll likely also be seeing a specialist who will also be monitoring the progress of your disease.
Why should people have to deal with something unpleasant when a tool could be created to avoid it?

Do you refuse to use any form of powered transportation because it makes people terrible at handling the complexities of walking?
It looks similar to Hazelcast / Oracle Coherence?
Surveying the Ghost Cities of China
"A return to mid-Victorian eating habits is not feasible, given their high calorie intake and our low-energy lifestyles. This would exacerbate our already alarming rates of overweight and obesity, problems which were uncommon and mostly confined to the urban upper middle classes in the mid-Victorian period but which have become major public health concerns today. Instead, we recommend that the modern diet be re-engineered, integrating the micro- and phytonutritional elements of the mid-Victorian 3500–4000 calorie/day diet into the modern 2200 calorie/day diet. [...] The realities of a need to promote an intake of nutrients at a level not naturally available in today's 2200 calorie/day diet does require the vexed issue of food fortification and supplements to be included in strategic public health policy formation. Inevitably, this also means that it will have to be reflected in the regulatory sphere."[1]

Possible translation: If you're going to follow a Victorian diet, you need to get lower- and middle-class Victorian amounts of exercise: enough to support a 3500-4000 calorie/day diet.

Me, I'm personally wondering if the true bottom-line here is that you could skip the whole diet thing and get the health benefits purely from a high-exercise lifestyle? (A very high-exercise lifestyle.)

[1] "An unsuitable and degraded diet? Part three: Victorian consumption patterns and their health benefits". [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2587384/].
Google's Nest Labs plans 'top secret' project at new Seattle engineering center
I'd hate you mostly because of the lost brain power. Obvious sarcasm is OK, it's the guesswork that gets under my skin.
This study doesn't account for the "good cop bad cop" tactic many projects run.

Politeness is maintained on the mailing list, but undesirable posters are tracked down and bullied behind the scenes where proof who's doing it is difficult. This happened to me 10 yrs ago when I started posting casually on a mailing list for a new programming language. I've found overall (not by statistical analysis, but by personal impression) that this tends to happen more when the project leader has a management rather than technical background. Many open source contributors learn their skills in paid employment first so the political skills of online project managers are often more developed than what you find on the job. And because open source contribution is far more global and with a more permanent record than a local job somewhere, the effects are often long-lasting for those involved.

In such good cop bad cop behavior, maybe the real situation tends to show itself over time, just as shown in the study. That project I was trying to politely join has evolved into a blatant "smoke and mirrors" environment that few people trust.
Did Diane's bebop even launch? I can't find their website. It is kind of frustrating that everybody involved (employees, investors) in bebop are getting a payday, without really putting in much work, or verifying their ideas. Just leaves a sour taste in my mouth (old boys network) as a two-time failed entrepreneur.
Pros/Cons of languages suitable for learning functional programming
I'd rather have wifi part way than be stuck offline all the way. I can always get online on my phone if my laptop dies.
> It started very backwards but finally passed the US economy for the first time in opportunities for many people in 2007.

That's an extraordinarily precise date for meeting a very vague threshold ("passed the US economy...in opportunities for many people"). What does this mean in concrete terms, and where is the evidence supporting that it was achieved in 2007.
Few years ago I see this video of a YouTube creator that usually uses copyrighted material on fair use. He explain some problems with the current (now updated) system.

YouTube's Content ID System SUCKS (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuTHhtCyzLg
So? You've identified a difference between cars and drugs, but it's not one that prevents your argument from applying to cars.
On the contrary: http://www.ibtimes.com/us-spends-less-food-any-other-country...
Question: can you make your own lamp with a, say, 100W LED array? I'm just thinking of a DIY option...
Open Source Code of Conduct for Ruby
Orwell wasn't describing a mid-Victorian diet at all. He wrote that nearly a century after the mid-Victorian period, when sugar and processed foods had already become much cheaper than they were.

In mid-Victorian times, eating margarine, bread, sugared tea, and corned beef regularly simply wasn't an option for the poor, regardless of any lack of self-discipline -- those things were all far too expensive to be anything other than a rare treat.
Datomic's immutable storage and time-travel query capabilities are awesome, and I often miss them in other DBs. But Datomic currently isn't designed for write-intensive workloads. And while you can shard Datomic's transactor and then combine multiple DBs in a query (http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/19310504456/thoughts-about-d...), that's only going to get you so far.

However, Apache Geode lets you add custom indexes so it might not be too hard to add Clojure's persistent data structures as a custom index scheme and hook in Apache Geode as a backend to Clojure Datalog:

Clojure Datalog: https://github.com/fogus/bacwn

Datscript: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript

Clojure's Persistent Data Structures for Java: https://github.com/grignaak/clj-ds
Naturalness as a criterion for evaluating languages is not that compelling to me. I think a honest word for what people usually mean when they say "natural" in this context is the word "familiar". I know plenty of programmers who think that OOP is just more "natural" than FP.

What I really would like to see is a counter example. Some GUI that just can not be done in Elm.
Share buybacks are one way of returning money to the shareholders (and that shareholders usually prefer to the alternative, dividends, because they only pay capital gains taxes on the increase in stock price, as opposed to on the entire capital distribution). Ostensibly, they are returning this money to the shareholders because the shareholders can better determine where next to deploy the capital investments.

This article's authors are either naive and uneducated or grinding a left-wing ideological axe.
I'm not really sure how this pertains to On/Fairchild. On produces a few MCUs but as far as I know it's not a significant part of their business.

My point was that there are massively more applications that require supporting electronics, which is what these two companies specialize in, than there are cell phones built.

I also don't think your size numbers are realistic. You're not building Cortex A57's on the same process as Microchip is building PIC18s. Completely different size scales and completely different fabrication lines.

It's not like Fairchild/On could just 'pick up' a contract to build SoCs on the lines they use to build PWM motor controllers.
Also, Tesla is the SI unit of magnetic flux density, so it's in the lexicon independent of Nikola Tesla himself.
This is a great intro to the subject. In particular, if you've ever run into something you think could be improved in the compiler, Maria shows that you need not be intimidated by the prospect of diving into its code.
> It seems like we're engineering people to be terrible at handling the complexities of interpersonal relationships.

To me, this seems more like "engineering Facebook to be better at handling the complexities of interpersonal relationships." Now we're massively more connected, there's more opportunities for unexpected pain. Features like this can help redress the balance.

In the days before Facebook you knew that unless you were going to your ex's favourite places or hanging out with mutual friends, you weren't likely to run into them or hear about them. But now it's wherever you check Facebook – and even if you're not a heavy Facebook user, millions of people are. As soon as you wake up? Over breakfast? During a slow meeting at work? Waiting for your coffee? There's lots of times when I'd rather not wrestle with those emotions.

It's not about enabling a safe space, or the right not to be offended. It's about giving users more control over the content they see, and giving Facebook more information about whether a breakup was amicable or emotionally devastating (which, in turn, lets Facebook make better decisions about content that should show up in your feed).
Do you support banning alcohol?
Can they access the mainframe?
Seems pretty easy to duplicate with LED bulbs with these characteristics:
CRI: 85 or above
Color Temp: 4000K
About 70-80W of CFL, so that might be around 60W of LED. Using omnidirectional bulbs, perhaps 7-8 mounted near each other all shining to get the same 10,000LUX intensity at your face.
"Patients want ban on doctors taking money from prescription drug companies"
Yep - that's how the commercial technical detail is often dealt with. We're stretching (and slightly rejigging) the same concept to legally substantive text.
Well, if they follow St*bhub's model, they would probably just refund any claim of problem by the buyer and take that out of the seller... even if the seller did nothing wrong and the buyer is trying to defraud.
e.g. claimed denial-at-door (even if because of misuse by the buyer) , claimed somebody else in the seats, etc. They refund without requiring proof of problem partially because they know you can dispute with your credit card issuer anyway, and that's a difficult case for them to prevail on.
LG cancels launch of Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE, citing 'hardware issue“
Looking awesome, keep it up :)
I don't think that once you've crossed the bridges that they'd already crossed the legality or illegality of some substance would bother them much.
yeah totally
I can assure you that if they had any success, they'd be taking out full-page ads in the NYT and WaPo. When the Snowden revelations happened, after searching far and wide, they came up with 1 name: David Headley. It turns out, he was already well known to the US agencies, and it was a lie.
Derek does a great job of providing a critical overview of ClojureScript, where it's been, and how it can be improved. All while being highly entertaining to watch!
Fwiw React-motion solves TransitionGroup in a purely functional manner. https://github.com/chenglou/react-motion
I think the more useful way to look at his comment is that similar tactics as these "influence scams" can be used within projects. I've personally found it difficult sometimes to walk the line between bluntness and rudeness. There are going to be instances where a co-worker will continue down the wrong path or make the same mistakes or just not conform to the proper design philosophies or decisions, but things will keep stalling during any polite discussion as they keep walking around the issues while you try to come to the correct decision that they don't want to do (either through ignorance or perceived excessive effort required). At the end of the day, you can't always rely on your manager to step up and say "you are wrong, do it the other way", and informing a stubborn co-worker that their work/decision is stupid can be difficult to do politely if they engage in delaying or obstructive tactics.
Did you just not see the rest of the post? Or just chose to ignore it?
I'd love to see an airline get rid of seat back TVs entirely and just provide power outlets instead. There are already systems that let you stream movies for free over in-flight wi-fi - given that most of us have a smartphone (if not a bigger screened device) the experience would probably be better.

Would suck for those without smartphones, though. Maybe they could lend out crappy Android tablets to that minority of customers.
If your concern is about the prices, you can find very reasonably priced lamps by Verilux on Amazon. Got mine for under $150, but there are ones even cheaper.

If you're simply trying to get an Open Source/DIY project together, power to you!

An aside: I'm very grateful for my light box. I have S.A.D. as well as 2 anxiety disorders. Really helps me out and would recommend a box to anyone that is on the fence or unaware of their existence!
> The benefit of [the SNES bumper] button design vs a standard push button is that it has a much longer life and it also gives a soft, yet very tactile button feel.

Contrary anecdote: the bumpers on my SNES controller lost their resiliency before the face buttons.
If you aren't there already you should come hang out with the Archive Team[0] in #archiveteam and #archiveteam-bs on EFNet. It seems like you'd fit right in.

[0] http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Go away. If you aren't willing to read it yourself, your arguments are just the arguments of "intentional unwillingness" to even consider the original material I try all the time to discuss with you. You ignore the primary holy books of Islam and ignore the history of Islam conquest, some 1400 years. What's left? Your vain "argument" that not every Muslim blew himself up with the bomb belt already should prove that the religion isn't violent? Not everybody has to blow himself up, just a percentage of young men willing to fight (and die) or just oppress is more than enough to make the permanent damage to this civilization (as proven through the history). They do the dirty work, the clerics will just rule. That just a few are enough, ask Malala

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai

ask the victims of Boko Haram:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram

It's not something exclusive for this period in history, the motives, principles and methods can be traced through all the 1400 years of the existence of Muslim faith.
If you'd like to know what the daily life of mid-Victorian poor people was like in excruciating detail, check out "London Labour and the London Poor" by Henry Mayhew:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Labour_and_the_London_P...

A major point of interest is that the oceans had not yet been overfished, so fresh fish was an abundant and extremely cheap source of protein that formed a major constituent of most poor people's diet at the time.
> Rather than, say, citizens who use logic to make responsible decisions not just for their short-term profits but for the long-term good of their community.

You say this as if there's no relevant data available. But again, if you can Google the actual answer, your 'opinion' doesn't matter.
Lol wat? I can't remember the time I flew international and didn't have power at the seat. This is economy as well, not fancy business class. Sometimes it's two power sockets shared between three seats, but it's fine if you juggle every couple of hours.
The irony of wanting to ban Rx drug ads because they are creepy, is that it was regulations that made them creepy to begin with. (You seem aware of this already)

There is an argument to be made for consumer advertising for a drug like Viagra. Without awareness that an effective treatment exists, patients with ED or another embarrassing condition are not likely to bring it up with their doctor on their own, thus resulting in unnecessary suffering.

Another argument is that for various reasons some patients are unlikely to seek a second opinion, even when one is warranted. Consumer advertising is a way to present alternative treatment options to a patient whose doctor will not.
> Really I can't wait for government by machine.

It's the same problem. What if you get a bad machine?
Having a realtime feed of your friends' and acquaintances' lives pushed to you 24/7 is a completely new thing in the history of human social interaction.

We are not, as you say, "engineering people to be terrible at handling the complexities of interpersonal relationships."
Rather, we are completely overloading people with social data. It's not surprising that this should be emotionally taxing in ways humans have never before had to deal with.