skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Association of Coffee Consumption with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality [pdf]
This comment could almost be about the Hacker News commentariat..
> Financing the Taliban and Bin-laden to fight the soviets in the 80's

Can anyone make guesses how Afghanistan would have turned out if the Soviets had been let to freely occupy Afghanistan? Would the country have turned into another North Korea, or perhaps something like Afghanistan's northern neighbors, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, are today?

Or would the secular socialistic and religious elements have gone into civil war anyway, even without the US supporting the religious side?
Even if you quit your job in the US, you're entitled to COBRA coverage for 18 months if your employer had more than 20 employees.

It allows you to continue the health plan you had at your employer, provided you cover the entirety of the cost. With Obamacare, COBRA is not necessarily cheaper now, but it was in the past.

When I left my previous job, I elected COBRA coverage because HSAs weren't available on healthcare.gov. I pay $280 for an HSA plan with a maximum deductible of $6k, dental, and vision in Texas.

It's not cheap, but it's not completely unaffordable either.
It's true, but it's such a shame. I still remember the day metacritic switched away from their original design [1] where every movie currently in theaters was in that single column on the left hand side. You visited one page, you looked at it for 15 seconds and you were done. Apparently this was not the best way to make money, but it was so useful.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20090117041216/http://metacritic...
per se https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_%28P%29#...
I thought that moonshot just means "unlikely to succeed, but with potential to be big".
Personally, what kills my productivity is when it takes more than 5secs to compile/load/whatever. I don't have ADHD in real life, but when I'm hacking, I can't wait that long, so I'll alt-tab and look at HN or whatever for "5-10secs". Problem is I find an interesting article and then come back 5minutes later.

So, I know it's not the best solution, but I keep compiling/loading time REALLY fast. I.e. hot reloading is a good example of small thing that boost productivity insanely. But even in C++, I'd just work on a separate project and stub everything so that it compiles in a few ms. I know that if I need to recompile the whole codebase everytime I'm making a change I won't get any work done.

It's also because I tend to do the code/test really fast. I know some people who code for a few minutes, then test it.. so it's less of a problem for them.

Anyway, back to my hacking.. see, that sucker took more than 5 seconds to run :-)
I think largely politicians are very intelligent and competent. What they're not though, is open about their own thoughts. That's not their job. Their job is to reflect what their supporters (financially and votingly) want. If their supporters have wild nonsense ideas, they have to promote those ideas to keep their job. That's why they were elected. We don't choose politicians because they're smart and have good ideas. We choose them because they tell us our own foolish ideas back to us.
In my opinion, "other things are just as bad" is as good an argument as "if you turn it off, it's not dangerous".

I still think it's not smart to send push notifications in an active shooter situation for a feature that is made to give people who are not involved peace of mind. If you consider such risks, and not get defensive right away, you will find that solutions can be pretty simple, e.g. a banner inside the app, instead of a notification.
Iran Demonstrates New Humanoid Robot Surena III
Beating the Averages
The cloud wars explained: Why nobody can catch up with Amazon
Or, 0.8% of the NIH's annual funding for curing heart disease.

That's nice, but the tech press is doing is pretty poor job conveying the overall role of public vs private funding in basic science research. Same issue came up around YC Research.

It's true that Google's approach is to hand more money to one team instead of spreading it among many investigators. But the overall tone of the article is there are "swings" in funding and private companies are stepping in with "jackpot" grants to save the day. If you didn't read closely you might even think public funding is drying up and Silicon Valley private investors are the future of core science research.

This fundamentally and completely confuses how core science research happens and in fact how Silicon Valley itself was created and functions today (with respect to core tech research through agencies like DARPA as well as medical science via NIH). Collaboration with the private sector is an important piece of that but this one figure puts it in perspective: The annual NIH budget for heart research alone is $1.2 billion. Bottom line, you can still thank Uncle Sam and taxpayers for most major research.
And yet we see the US continuing to use cluster bombs, or carpet bombing on civilian populations, or targeted extra-judicial murders of unarmed combatants. These war crimes could be prosecuted but the US declines to be part of that process.
I still don't know what "like this" means. I think the isotopic difference in coal layers is exactly like this. I think this quote from http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-40... "Isotopes and Geobiology" (2001):

> It has long been recognized (e.g., Thode et al. (1949), Craig (1953) and Wellman et al. (1968)) that biological processes significantly fractionate the isotopes of C, N, and S, leading to characteristic biosignatures in sedimentary rocks that will be more or less preserved in the geological record. In the following, a brief overview is given of the major isotope fractionation processes in the biosphere and the geosphere.

is also "like this". But there's a 50 year head start with those elements.

I imagine that Ca and other elements are similar.
"not transferring"
Bad things happen to employees. Every employer has to be prepared for that. I see no reason to say about your condition during an interview, if they don't specifically ask.

Good luck.
Does that vary by state? Yesterday's Bay Area news reports about the suspect beaten after a chase had a private surveillance video recording with audio, made public.
Thank you for the correction, mental note added and comment edited.
Good article, I enjoy the style…but let's be honest, the odds are that this next movie will be awful (I'm going to see it anyway, of course), and pieces like this will look hopelessly naïve.
Both MIPS64, MIPS, and SPARC64 are in the works (some MIPS bits already merged in).
Well-known caveat for people who are familiar with encryption, but it's worth calling out explicitly here:

If you use the same one time pad to encode two or more different messages, then all the sorts of attack proposed here become plausible again.

The security provided by a one time pad relies entirely on the fact that it is only ever used once.
Tech's Help with Disaster in Paris Attack
What is the problem with solaris/amd64?
> when we did nothing

"We" didn't do "nothing". Countries like France, Israel, US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia spent years destabilising Assad and funding those "opposition groups" that eventually started the civil war. Syria originally was a USSR satellite with ambitions of regional hegemony (they basically ruled Lebanon and deeply influenced Jordan), so they had to be beaten into submission. However, there was never a real plan to get involved on the ground, that was just a huge bluff; Assad and Putin saw right through it. "We" (and French elites above all) did way too much already, and it's high time we stopped.

> The fingers of Islamist and totalitarian interference are already all over this conflict

That's really rich. "Our" best ally in the region is an absolutist monarchy running an Islamist totalitarian regime, the US just sold them a new crapload of weapons... nobody gives a shit about that stuff. What "we" care about is that the "right" totalitarian mofo is in charge, like in Egypt. Everything else is theatre and propaganda.

The real solution is less weapons and more diplomacy. Get the interested parties in a room and throw away the key until they come up with a shared plan. The US/Russia agreement is a first step in that direction, next it's for Saudi, Turkey and Iran to work out an agreeable compromise and pull their weight in the right direction. Otherwise, until countries like Turkey and Saudi keep buying IS oil and selling them weapons, you can invade a thousand times and achieve nothing except increasing shareholder value in the defence sector.
We're discussing international politics on HN. Gotta take it easy. Beside that, in the face of the morbid reality and impending doom in Middle-east one has the need to laugh some times.
A fair criticism. However, would a one-line about condemning the attacks change anything about how you view the content of this speech, the man himself, or the form of government he oversees? For me, no. He has many good points in this speech, and I agree with everything he says. But he's still the leader of a totalitarian theocracy with a deplorable human rights record; condemning the Hebdo attacks directly (as opposed to indirectly, as we know Iran does) wouldn't affect that.
I don't really care if anyone's feelings get hurt by me pointing out that something is very obviously false. Only religion gets that kind of treatment.

Moreover, I think that the fact that grownups can talk about supernatural religious claims as if they are reasonable and true things about the world is one of the root causes of what happened in Paris.

As for Buddhism, yes, I agree it has less supernatural nonsense than some of the other major belief systems. And the supernatural aspects are sort of optional.

But you've admitted (and I know full well) that there is a great deal of supernatural nonsense tied up with it, for most real-world practitioners. So, I dismiss it out of hand. Just like Mormonism, Scientology, Santa Claus, and the virgin birth.

If there are useful aspects to it, let's tag them with secular labels and move on with our modern lives. Shrouding it in important-sounding, mystical East Asian language and symbols is just silly. Like people who have "katanas" hanging over their mantles.
Trello + Pomello is a quite powerful combo. Not only I use it for focusing, but also tracking time that I spend on freelancing (down to specific Trello tickets).

Pomello: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pomello/ahjnfakocp...
I'm not saying it's a cure ex post facto -- but heart disease is largely preventable.

Similarly, the easiest approach to preventing lung cancer is to not smoke.
"ISIS and the terrorist networks can't beat us militarily, but they are really trying to use the Internet and all of the social media to try to intimidate and beat us psychologically,"

No they are winning psychologically by inciting these kinds of reactions from our government officials. Some are moved by stupidity, but most are enticed by aligned interests. "Terror" gives value to the currency of safety. Government's ability to provide more safety relies on control. Control is power, and unfortunately most of our elected officials seem addicted to it.

Terrorists aren't beating us militarily, they don't have to. All they need to do is keep handing us things to be afraid of, because our government is an enormously efficient factory for turning fear into the erosion of personal freedom.
I see. Indeed, Julia's ecosystem is still quite young. (possibly of interest: a project building a Julia-integrated CAS called Nemo, at http://nemocas.org/)
Thanks for that link. OTR as an option (probably the default option, even) makes a lot of sense for a lot of use cases.

It does not look like there's a highly-usable OTR chrome extension for Facebook messenger.
How do you use it? I am not even sure what it is...
This is why my opinion of Material design is that it's pile of garbage.

The mobile YouTube app being a prime example.
I normally wouldn't respond to such an unconstructive comment, but I'll bite.

In any team, there is often a sense of some people being better at their jobs, or performing at a higher-level than others. If they do it consistently enough and progressively tackle higher-level problems, that is a good indicator someone might be on track for a promotion.

If someone is good at their job, but doesn't really push themselves to improve, that might be ok for the time being depending on the role, it just means that person is less likely to advance, or advance as quickly as the former person.

And then you have people who are very clear underperforming. Whether it be lack of attention to detail, poor communication, letting things slip through the cracks, or just not doing their work. If you can work with them to improve in the areas needed, awesome. If not, you often need to get them off the team one way or another.

There is nothing dehumanizing about this. It is recognizing people's strengths and weaknesses, and trying to optimize accordingly for the best outcome. Further, to pretend that this dichotomy does not exist is sticking your head in the sand.

At the end of the day, regardless of the category these individuals fall into, they are people, and I never said otherwise, so I don't appreciate you trying to paint me as such. Not all humans are equal at their jobs, and if you can't identify that and adjust your management style and approach accordingly, you can't be a successful manager.
Pinterest crowd, the sort of people who read Cosmopolitan, watch reality shows

That crowd is way bigger than the crowd that hangs out at places like HN. So it would make sense for G+ to go after them, no? This is a numbers game.
Some tech workers over 50 are literally working themselves to death
For those who watched the London Olympics, this was the figure portrayed by Kenneth Branaugh in the beginning when the Olympic rings were "forged."
Major diff in output size. Also, the build times in unity webgl export are looong.
I like the analogy between G+ circles and friendship. A person can become your friend if he is in more than one your circle. Let's say you have a circle called "work" and you invite somebody from it to play football together. If he accepts, the transition happens.

A person that you work with is a coworker, a person that you play football regularly with is just a teammate, but combined they become a friend.
what kills my productivity is when it takes more than 5secs to compile/load/whatever.

Sigh. These kids today have no idea what it was like to dial in to work at midnight so you could fire off another build that could finish by morning, if you were lucky. Or, to be limited to off-hours for running builds at all.
Honestly? Afghanistan's a really difficult region to unify politically; it's only happened a handful of times in history. On top of that, the global trend in the last ~100 years has been towards nationalism and away from consolidated, sprawling empires. Due to the geography and ethnic composition of Afghanistan, it's highly unlikely that the Soviets would have been able to do exercise much control over it in the long-run with any semblance of stability[0]. So I'd be very skeptical of the idea that it would have turned into anything resembling North Korea.

In all honesty, it would probably look relatively similar to what it does today. In that alternate universe, it wouldn't necessarily be the Taliban itself that came to power, but the group that occupied that role would be similar in ideology and effect to the Taliban that exists in this universe.

[0] ignoring the pending collapse of the USSR, of course, but since this is all speculation anyway, we can take some liberties.
In terms of emotions - isn't it the same whether you do not prolong a contract job vs fire the permanent hire? The difference seems to be just a paperwork...
That is because "Preventing terrorist attacks" is used only to SELL the program to the populace.
Its real goal is to make it so that the status-quo is not disturbed.

These programs will be used and are being used to monitor and arrest domestic radicals, support foreign espionage for American economic interests, etc much more than any terrorist prevention:

In order of priority:

1) Target "Occupy wallstreet", G20 protests, Greenpeace etc

2) Target foreign govts & corporations for economic gain

3) Target Radicals in foreign countries that oppose US interests (some of these could very well be terrorists also)

4) Actual terrorists

So if we keep using the wrong metric to measure success then obviously "Mass surveillance" has failed.

The Director of the CIA wasted no time blaming Snowden for the Paris attacks [1] - dismissing all concerns as "hand-wringing". I am now waiting for the "Our current spying is not enough, we need even more spying powers" congress actions to surface.
Cynically exploiting the fear and concern after an attack is the real game here - the "efficacy" of the measures proposed is irrelevant, as no one will be able to hold them accountable.

[1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/us/after-paris-attacks-cia...
Recommendations: The area where Netflix is sorely lacking
Yep, in Goo Create, publishing is pretty darn quick.
"A picture is worth a thousand words"
Is there a actually any information in that press release (or the near verbatim Wired article) on what research this will fund? I could not see any.
Bovril
Yep, same boat here. Even in Web dev if the page takes too long to load, or an API call is slow...off to HN
Not just the ability to comment, but modify videos to the playlist. Otherwise it's just read only if you remove the G+ account.
Global Stock Exchanges to Form Group to Investigate Blockchain Technology
Arbitrary borders + tribal politics describes pretty much all of it. I mean, we talk about Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq like they are countries, but they're really more like negative space.

Africa absolutely suffers the same kind of chaos and terrorism -- we just don't hear about it because it's less densely populated and the people there have darker skin. But Boko Haram is still a huge problem in Nigeria and Islamic fundamentalism in Somalia is a way bigger problem than you would think given the total lack of news coverage (the US launches almost as many drone strikes on eastern Africa as it does in the middle east).

Much of sub-saharan Africa is still under de-facto apartheid. Wealthy (often white) land owners are in bed with corrupt government officials who, while black, are more than happy to continue the status quo as long as they get paid. It's very hard to have a cohesive ideology behind your insurgency when there are for-profit death squads operating in the area. But you're right; there is also no great unifying force for the people in the area like there is in the middle east and north Africa.
Google has trouble understanding that it was a Black Swan. That its initial success may not be replicable.
You can always use browser identification [1] for that

(Yes, that's a joke :p)

[1] http://kluge.in-chemnitz.de/tools/browser.php
>http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

>You dumbass. You thought you needed media queries to be responsive, but no. Responsive means that it responds to whatever motherfucking screensize it's viewed on. This site doesn't care if you're on an iMac or a motherfucking Tamagotchi.

Except that it's really hard to read on a wide screen. I get it - it's a satire - but it goes too far and fails to make a convincing point because it's not really a functional layout.

There are good reasons for things in design like column/page width/ratios, margins, line spacing, font family/size etc. purely from usability standpoint (ignoring subjective/stylistic choices). You don't need to add 10MB of images and JS/CSS but making sure your sentence doesn't span over 20 something inches isn't over designing things.

Third link is much better.
Exactly. To most users, "we aren't facebook" is not an effective sales pitch.

As far as a comparison goes: both UI's leave me disappointed, but everyone i know is on facebook. I can think of 1 person who uses G+ with any regularity. By that measure, G+ loses every time.
Since Ben Carson asked for them, here are transitional fossils
I always tell people who move to a new city to join a meetup, class, or some type of group that will force you to repetitively be around the same group of people. If you have basic social skills you will make friends.
Besides all the great points others have made, the origin and destination of the shared riders don't need to be the same, they just have to share some common segment. Furthermore, although there is time lost waiting for the other rider to be picked up or dropped off, there is also time gained by not having to find parking and then walk from the car to your destination, since the shared car can drop you off right out front.
I think the biggest actual capture is buffering. I suspect the NSA is buffering almost all communication in the USA (or maybe just international cable communications, but I'd bet all). But it's not actively used or analyzed unless something comes up. And after a few days it's deleted. If you end up shooting up a Eagles of Death Metal show in Paris, they can rewind your recent communications.

Whether that is mass surveillance is pretty questionable IMO. It's a sort of a "if a tree falls in the wood and nobody hears, does it make a sound" territory. It's really no different than the Post Office having your mail. They could rip it open, but their mere possession isn't surveillance.

I think where you have a better argument is the meta data mass collection. They physically got that information. It's on their servers forever. And here is where the surveillance part comes in--they actually run analysis on it. They claim they only stay within "two hops" of known suspects, but that's probably BS and you get into a "6 degree of Keven Bacon" situation where two hops probably gets nearly everyone.

So I think that meta data program is the only program I've heard about from the Snowden leaks that is actually a mass surveillance of the American people.

But there is a counter argument. It's mass surveillance of information that isn't actually private, thus, it's not a intrusion of your privacy. They are only looking at data that your telephone company has on you. In fact, baring any sort of data privacy law, that information is Verizon's and they can do what they want with it. Including hand it over to the government.

And in practice, American companies keep that sort of meta data and use it for commercial purposes all the time. Hell, google doesn't even have to triangulate towers, they just use the GPS the customer paid for to track them to within 10 feet.
Never said anything along the lines of "humans are resources."

In fact, I specifically addressed the case of an "A player" having a dip in productivity, and essentially said there is nothing wrong with that. They manage their time and their output accordingly to strike an appropriate work/life balance to take care of what needs to be done outside of work, and also manage against burnout when they've been pushing too hard for too long. And the fact that they manage this effectively on their own and can get back into things is part of what distinguishes an "A player" from a "B/C player."

The A/B/C boxing is just a shorthand for categorizing overall performance of people on a team. But if you think it is an inappropriate way to classify individuals, I'd love to learn how you approach it, and how much management experience you have with that approach.
Watch for what?
Random noise?
Innocent Looking Traffic?
https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en
Well, but it's not for news — it's not supposed to be, and that's OK. I don't use pinterest much, except for creative pursuits. For example, browsing for inspiration for calligraphic scripts is a lot of fun on Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=textura+quadrata
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=cadel+flourish
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=caligrafitti

I treat it as a source of inspiration, not information.
David Nolen – Om Next [video]
Great infographics.