skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a programming neuroscientist who studies Alzheimer's, and I would like to say that, while it is not entirely clear whether or not N-acetylcysteine will prove fruitful as a therapeutic for Alzheimer's, PA/tylenol is not the same thing as N-acetylcysteine, so the NSAID link is irrelevant in that regards. The link between these two is that N-acetylcysteine is used as a treatment for overdose of PA - because of a metabolite which is produced following high consumption of PA (NAPQI). Importantly, this link does not indicate that they have inversely correlated mechanisms of action under normal circumstances. PA may not be worth exploring further, but the understanding of N-acetylcysteine is still worth exploring. Note I do not study this myself, just putting in my two cents.
Ask HN: Will non-programmers use Git in the future?
Git is non-trivial for the average person to use, yet it offers a world of benefit for non-programmers. When I look at how some of my non-programming friends save, collaborate and modify files, I can see their lives would be enhanced by Git. So, do you think that much like non-programmers are now familiar with cut, copy and paste that in the future they'll be familiar with merge, pull and rebase? If so (or not) then why?
the service took off faster than expected
Seems a lot slower...
Pictures from the First World Indigenous Games
That's not at all how or why quenching works. Quenching is used to accelerate the rate at which a metal alloy solidifies/crystalizes such that the internal arrangement of the components is affected. Quenching has nothing to do with density, and since pure carbon is neither metallic or an alloy, quenching pure carbon makes no sense at all.
"The Image Slide Show they Don't Want You to See, the Insiders secret to why Ghost Ships End up in Japan!"
> its suggestion that Alzheimer's is a disease that was unheard of before the development of NSAIDs related to Tylenol.

Minor point: Tylenol isn't an NSAID, nor is the prior drug to which the article links Alzheimer's.
How to (Try To) Make It Rain (2014)
Mozilla had already committed to decoupling Pocket following a developer summit this Summer, due in part (presumably) to the vocal minority of users that hated the very idea of it.
>Timed exams test for speed, which is not something that matters in real mathematics (if you can prove a theorem in one week vs. two it doesn't really matter),

Moreover, some conjectures don't get proved as theorems for decades or centuries, and even after such long periods of time, the conjecture might still sometimes be refuted or proved independent of the axiom framework.
At what I consider a "nice" coffee place, I'm paying for a better cup of coffee (preferably roasted in-house or nearby, and a few days ago rather than months ago). What you said is true, but there is some coffee that's priced with a lower relative markup for the drink you actually get.

Starbucks bulk-roasts their coffee, and they use darker roasts than most independent roasters (ensuring consistency across locations), which allows their beans to have a much lower per-unit cost.
Jobs was brilliant at selling concrete benefits, not technologies.

I'm not seeing so much of that here.

What's the concrete benefit of something that's smaller but not quite as useful as the next product in the range?

What does "challenges what a computer can do" really mean? (In what sense is it true of any recent iMac?)

It's not that the concrete benefits aren't there. The iPad Pro has obvious practical appeal for certain kinds of users. So does the iPhone. Etc.

But this seems worryingly like a muddle where everything is seen from the viewpoint of a rather contrived Grand Strategy, and not from clear specific user benefits for each item in the line.
What!? Also what is your test target because this will do absolutely nothing to most wifi networks.
Maybe that's how they've implemented 1hr shipping?
HFT firm IEX and the 350us controversy
I got the impression that the article was about K-12 education, where the kids aren't yet completely separated into STEM and non-STEM tracks. (Some kids get onto an accelerated math track). If the schools that my kids attend are typical, they do extensive amounts of writing in all of their subjects. The kind of writing that you describe was pretty common, through 5th grade.

In 6th grade and beyond, the school went to a more traditional math curriculum, I suspect due to milestones such as getting through algebra in 8th grade, etc. For the kids to do more writing in math class requires a choice of what they will spend less time on. Do they learn fewer math topics, get fewer assignments in Social Studies, or get less sleep?

Maybe I'm a freak, but as a student I greatly enjoyed the "pure" nature of math. In other subjects, I found that I could get good grades by basically filling pages with drivel. On the other hand I didn't just write down solutions. I was expected to show a derivation, and in many cases, a proof. I have a copy of my high school pre-calc textbook, and a large fraction of the chapter problems are proofs, which I loved. That's what motivated me to become a math major in college. Today, the proofs have disappeared.
I will sell the output from my razor for $125. Comes from a smoke-free home.
We need a cryptocurrency that doesn't cause so much coal to be burned.
There's a strong bias in all disciplines towards "positive" results, i.e. those that demonstrate an effect. They're more exciting, and in the short term they're usually more profitable. There isn't a lot of tolerance for thorough examination. I feel like science didn't use to be this way, or at least the romantic stories I was told about science didn't go like this.
I do Haskell as my job. In general I would much rather have a function in the vein of `DeltaState -> [SoundEffects]` than another layer of effects. If the sounds aren't dependent on by what means the state changed, but only on what the change in state is, then you may as well factor out the sound logic. Conversely, since I want to keep the program well factored I endeavor to separate concerns into pure computations as much as possible and minimize effects.
Clearly the author didn't find the results from the paper you pointed to particularly compelling. It's listed as reference 136 and mentioned several times. The last of which, "In the absence of more precise knowledge of the extents of analgesic consumption and the durations of exposure, the reliability of these reports [45, 136, 137] is open to question." Is there a reason you find the Stewart paper to be more definitive than this author suggests?
In many countries it's marketed as "Bufferin".
Canada to become first G7 nation to legalize marijuana
Does anyone have a good resource for learning to design PCBs? I have a breadboard with some sensors that I want to make a PCB out of, just so the wires are tidy, but I watched an Eagle tutorial and it looked like there are tens of easy to make mistakes that will ruin your board. I'm not sure if that's true, but if it is, does anyone know of a resource that will at least teach me how to make this simple PCB avoiding the most common errors?
One of the things I like about hybrid apps (Cordova, Ionic, etc) is that this is a solved problem since you basically develop on top of Chromium (Android) and WKWebView (iOS). I already do heavy use of SVGs on mobile apps for everything, including animations, and I'm quite happy with the results and the workflow. No more asset-hell, everything's a vector.

Design once in Illustrator (export SVGs) -> Code once -> Run everywhere
Fifth, they include the shootings of criminals in the midst of clearly felonious activity and/or shot in defense of others.

For example, the intercept and gunbattle with the San Bernardino shooters are counted as a "mass shooting" under the multiple-"victim"-per-incident model.
That's not how wifi works you better off buying a cheap sdr and just transmit actual noise.
Basically, you can install Swift directly on your Linux machine, but for Mac users who not using El Capitan or Windows users, they will need Docker
Sounds good, do I need to change my apache config? Currently I have a bunch of port 80 virtual hosts that permanently redirect to their https/443 counterparts which are also virtual hosts and those all offer the same wildcard *.mydomain.com certificate. Or will apache just do SNI if I use a bunch of different certs?
If you find the article interesting, I encourage you to check out Chris Rock's "Good Hair" film. As a white guy from the midwest I learned a lot:

Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-4qxz08So
Hawaiian court revokes permit for planned mega-telescope
reverse runtime deps (RDEPEND) of libdnet: https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/dev-lib...

edit: also, pip isn't a library, it's a package manager.
Google renders their homepage with SVG now, don't they?

Right click on google.com and do a view source.
I was looking into similar projects recently. The one you linked certainly seems to be the best option right now, however it's worth noting that there is also the DASH IF (Industry Forum) reference player[1], and JW Player[2] also offers support for a HTML5 DASH player.

I believe support for HTML5 media extensions was added to Firefox 42, and has been around in other browsers for a while.

1. http://dashif.org/reference/players/javascript/

2. http://www.jwplayer.com/innovation/roadmap/mpeg-dash/
> From my experience C libraries are scattered all over the web and discovery is relatively poor. The footprint of these libraries is usually quite large and unfocused. The goal of clibs is to provide stand-alone "micro" C libraries for developers to quickly install without coupling to large frameworks.
Tripdelta Finds Cheaper Flights Through “Secret” Airport Routes
The problem is that "unlucky" does not correlate very well with dozens of ships washing up with dead folks on Japan's shores.

Plus, the examination of corpses should make it possible to find out if they died from starvation or something else.

This is actually a weak way to end the article.
Show HN: flightaware – A Generated Flightaware API Client for Go
Had you been there, you might think different.
I've tested it with a Linksys WRT54G, a Cisco router that I cant read the serial # on, and an Apple Airport Express. What router are you having trouble with?
> The fact that I am in your range does not mean you can shoot me, right?

Wrong. The fact that you are in my range does mean that I could shoot you if I wish. It does not mean that I will do so, but you do not get to decide. What is to stop me, your blind faith in the eventual justice of the cosmic balance?

If you want to make less likely that people shoots you, try to step out of the typical ranges of people you don't trust. It is so sad, because it means you cannot go anymore where all the everymen want to go.
My functions recurse, they do not recur. I have only heard 'recurse' in this context, and it's not an uncommon colloquialism. It's at least common enough to be noted by the OED.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
Like I said in my other comment, I looked up the pack to refresh my memory and Motte was already dominating the BBS scene by 1989. By today's standards, "new" Moby is more widely known than the whole BBS/Demoscene combined. But I still think it's a weird coincidence.
> Haven't even gone on the internet, and already being tracked.

Didn't the implementation actually do it without tracking you, by downloading all the possible tiles and making the choice locally, thus preventing any privacy leak or tracking?
Just ask the question. The preamble and last sentence only detract from the main point: how does your study debunk the OP's? Yours is about NSAIDs (i.e. aspirin) decreasing the risk of Alzheimer's, OP's is about paracetamol (not an NSAID) increasing the likelihood of Alzheimers.

If you're misunderstanding something, don't worry, someone will set you straight.
What could possibly be wrong with your iPhone ?!
I'm well aware. My point is that if the company knew its userbase, it would not have happened.

I don't care about it by the way, I like Pocket and I use the functionality. But it was obvious that there would be drama.

Edit: In reply to the dead comment below, no I do not think Pocket should be preinstalled, and I really hope that's not the message that's getting through in my posts.
Oh – A surprisingly powerful Unix shell
It's not my ethical system. My original point is that the distinction between positive and negative rights is irrelevant. Throughout this whole discussion I've seen examples by different people which seem to bear that out.
I think it's something you brought over from England, which actually has the right climate for lawns.
Actually, a modern Linux install (if lean) is incredibly responsive. That was one of my major motivations to switch.

My 2012 MBA boots in 2 seconds from power on to login. And it's a pretty humble device that is almost 3.5 years old.
The Neurology article is paywalled. From the abstract:

> No association was found between AD risk and use of acetaminophen (RR = 1.35; 95% CI: 0.79-2.30), and there was no trend of decreasing risk with increasing duration of use.

Depending on the methodology (no multiple regression?) and the possible association between NSAID and paracetamol intake, there may be a smoking gun, right there :-)
What am I looking at here?
I found a libdnet dependency list, it doesn't seem to include any of these:
http://braumeister.org/formula/libdnet
For no reason other than to prevent "abuse" by causing the user to destroy their liver with excess dosages.
There's a lot of people who have that issue.

When Firefox came out, they wanted to differentiate themselves from the clunky and awkward cross-platform UI of Seamonkey, so they emphasised following platform conventions.

When Chrome came out, they wanted to differentiate themselves from existing native (and native-feeling) browsers by being minimalist, so they invented their own cross-platform UI. Some people were quite happy to learn a new UI to gain perceived speed and switched to Chrome, some people preferred native-looking apps to Chrome's gratuitous differences and stayed with Firefox.

Then Chrome started eating Firefox's marketshare. Whether that's because of better marketing, technical superiority, or just technical differences in ways that happened to matter at the time doesn't matter; the point is that these days when most people think of "web browser" they imagine something that looks more like Chrome than, say Firefox 3. And so Mozilla feels that to stay relevant, Firefox has to hide its menu-bar, put tabs above the address bar, cram a whole bunch of disparate things into a single hamburger menu, and so forth.

There's a small but vocal contingent who stayled loyal to Firefox and avoided Chrome so they could avoid those UI idioms, and the fact that Firefox is now adopting them anyway feels like a betrayal of sorts. I'm not saying it is anything melodramatic as betrayal, but people are entitled to their opinions.
I would say it seems there may be some sort of correlation. There is _no_ evidence of causality. Any claim of responsibility, no matter how qualified, is not supported by this research, in my opinion.
OrCAD better than Altium? Ha ha ha ha ha ha....
One of the best things about the MLD was that it is a 'real' 3D (well, 2.5-D) display. The real separation of screens means that there's no need for special eye-wear or projection, and there is no nauseating delay in dealing with head-motion, eye-saccades or any of the other problems that I've heard plague long-term use of the Oculus.
The only part of your answer that actually answered the question was "didn't provide enough value to the user". That is effectively all you said, which is about as unhelpful for others to understand as the original article.

What does "value to the user" mean? What exactly were your goals for "value to the user" before you released the feature? How did you measure it? And how did you fall short of these goals?
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Yes, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a simple code snippet with few dependencies. I don't know much about 802.1 and how it deals with noise, you're probably right about it not working. As I said I haven't tested this specific attack and have no clue if it has any effect.
Kind of off-topic, but since I see it (mis-)used here, I kind of dislike how the term 'router' has become synonymous with 'SOHO Wifi Access Point / Modem / Router thingy'...

In most 'professional' settings, all of these things are actually completely different devices with clear purposes, and this script would actually do nothing against a router. It might freak out some APs, but that's about it.
Did your phones use a double press of the headphones button to skip tracks?

I know on some device I have used there is a delay in interpreting a single press because the device has a longer window to allow for a double press. Although this is never much more than a second or two.
Speaking for myself as an international tax lawyer, I have been banging my head against Github and bleeding heavily.

I can see enormous benefit for myself and my work. If I can start with a static page HTML to publish an existing 150-page book, I'd be thrilled. I have every tax treaty as HTML files and I'd love to get that out of Wordpress and into a static site hosted on Github or elsewhere.

The Github help pages and all the random blog posts are largely gibberish. And I'm pretty nerdy -- starting with ham radio as a high school kid, Kaypro computer in 1982, building sites by hand pre-Wordpress.

I defy anyone wanting to set up a simple Jekyll blog on Github pages to do so without swearing and throwing a shoe across the room.

End of rant. I will be banging my head against the wall again tonight.
"Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe browsing turned off"

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792580
Previous discussion (other URL): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10653220 (56 points, 3 days ago, 23 comments)
One of our large customers is in the final stages of upgrading. From XP to 7.

Microsoft has traditionally been invincible in the enterprise, but none of their cool new toys work with the Windows versions actually used there.
Yes, this will only affect the AP and not the router. The devices that I tested it against were consumer home routers that also serve as APs. My title might be better as 'DoS any home Wifi network with 7 lines of Python and 1 library'.
Asus ac87u, just to be sure did you check it with another client because sending random junk to random targets will do absolutely squat to modern Wifi routers.
That however will definitely could kill your own interface or make the ap boot you for misbehaving.
Yeah, but you will notice none of those are GPL projects - and my point is OSS works as a business/support/development model even outside of "monetize on support model and force a level playing field with copyleft" (eg. RedHat) - for a large number of cases it makes sense/the incentives are right even with liberal licensing.
4Front OSS was the professional low latency audio choice
'I know some people feel that marriage as an institution is dying out, but I disagree and the point was driven home to me rather forcefully not long ago by a letter I received which said: "Darling, I love you and I cannot live without you. Marry me, or I will kill myself." Well, I was a little disturbed at that until I took another look at the envelope and saw that it was addressed to occupant.'
Visual Studio can develop for iOS now (yes, you read that right), and Swift is a more pleasant alternative to Objective C.

This is probably more of a, "I'd rather use Visual Studio with my Swift project" instead of "I'd rather use Swift with my Visual Studio project." It's a very nice IDE, and Xcode is not quite as nice.
That reference talks about "gross abuse". I'm not sure exactly what quantities they were talking about, but if you take too much of anything it will cause health problems.
Just to clarify, what I mean by 'set up a distributed network' is just run a botnet using https://github.com/pirate/python-medusa/, that will let you run this little script on multiple computers all connected to the same Wifi.
Variety Jones, Alleged Silk Road Mentor, Arrested in Thailand
Backseat driver, limo style?
I was remembering Tom Lehrer fondly the other day after seeing BAM's new production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which has a hilarious fight song from "Old Ivy", sending me back to TL's "Fight Fiercely Harvard", the only Harvard 'fight song' I ever learned.

http://www.casualhacker.net/tom.lehrer/revisited.html#harvar...
I reported the ad abuse.
I've been writing C code kind of like this using* Vim's "conceal" feature for years. E.g. http://superjer.com/lies/unicode-code-code-code.png

I would NOT go back.

This, however, seems like a bit much.

*abusing
Apple's products are expensive. They're not impulse buys, you don't just walk into an Apple Store and -- on a whim -- decide to buy a $2000 computer or a $900 phone.

Instead you go there, try out a few options, go home, think about it, make a decision, then order.

So I actually think it was the original approach that was muddled. If customers are coming to your store with research under their belt, you'd better have a product right for them.
As a sometimes-student of such things, I noticed that their home-brewed, four part recipe for a good value proposition is basically Real-Win-Worth It in slightly different form.

I'm not criticizing: it can be a worthwhile endeavor re-invent the wheel a bit to find out what works for your organization and your markets. I see it as further evidence that the framework has utility.

(apologies for the corporate-speak.)
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Has an Insane Severance Package
Okay, you've convinced me that the distinction between positive and negative rights is not airtight. I still think it's a useful categorization, though, even if the boundaries are little fuzzy.
Wow - amazing - is that a Dos Equis guy reference in the last page?

It's also amusing because that business plan (and it's last page) was published before Osborne Computing suffered from the Osborne effect...
Did you respond in the wrong thread? Maybe you intended to reply to 'Show HN: Notify – CLI to notify your phone' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10667183
My point is just that a programmer spends a lot more time thinking about the problem domain; how to approach a particular problem; what patterns he might use; and details about the particular solution they've chosen, than he does typing.

That is, if you're optimizing typing, you're optimizing the wrong thing, and if you want to improve your ability to write software, you should instead be getting better at these other things. The typing part is good enough.

Edit: Or if typing really is the bottleneck, you're a much better programmer than me.
That's not a mesh network its a bunch of clients connected to a single ap.
One song appears to be missing: "Selling Out", which is on the first CD of the 3-CD set "The Remains of Tom Lehrer".
Rare King James Bible First Edition Discovered at Drew University
Can't edit my comment, but the title was updated to explain the Tiles connection. Original title was "Mozilla will stop advertising in Firefox".
This one is good:
https://www.udemy.com/learn-kicad-printed-circuit-board-desi...
PRANK:  Sensual  “Body Language”  in the Computer Class – For Ladies Only
And for the first fifty years of AI research, the process more or less goes:

1) An AI researcher decides that problem X is hard enough that solving it represents intelligence
2) Researcher develops an algorithm to solve X
3) Now that we have that algorithm, it's no longer an AI problem

When you teach a computer to play chess, it's just depth first search with a few heuristics added in. When you write an expert system to evaluate mortgage loans, it's just following a if-then script.

Machine learning techniques though, seem to to have stayed solidly in the AI camp.
I think "irrelevant" goes too far, but I concede that the border is fuzzier than I previously thought.