skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is also an article by the Capital Weather Gang: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
In fingerprinting, the browser plugins and user agent are the most identifying parameters as far as I'm concerned. Does anybody know workarounds to hide or standardize those parameters?
And looking at a couch arguably an order of magnitude nicer than anything at Ikea and saying "oh I'm losing $140/mo in potential revenue at retirement!" completely misses several points.
What is the pricing like on Harry's?

Do they have any razors that you tend to hold more perpendicular to your face like the older 2-blade Gillette razors, rather than the 3+ blade razors that you tend to hold parallel to your face?
So, so many companies have been caught promoting drugs "off-label", for uses that the FDA hasn't approved. So many. Johnson & Johnson paid $1.4 BILLION to settle a suit alleging that they heavily promoted the use of antipsychotics on dementia patients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_off-label_promotion_ph...
Ask HN: What's your favorite “read later” web tool?
I assume by "old fashioned" you mean a safety razor, not a straight razor.

Safety razors are indeniably cheaper long term (although expect to pay $100 ish to get a good handle, brush, bowl, blades, and soap). You'll likely break even after ten years (assuming $1.50 cartridges Vs. 10c blades). You'll also likely receive a closer shave with a safety razor.

That being said... I did the whole safety razor thing. It was fun. But then I switched back to cartridges. Why? In order to get a good close shave with a safety razor while also minimizing the chance of nicks, cuts, and razor burn you need a good quality thick lather.

Unfortunately creating a good thick lather can easily take ten minutes. You cannot really use off the shelf shaving foam or gel because it doesn't provide enough protection for a safety razor.

So ultimately I decided I wanted shaving to be a 10 minute activity in the mornings, and not a 20 minute activity. Also creating lather isn't the most fun thing to do first thing after you wake up, in particular if you're working it hard (as you should).

Cartridges are quick and easy. They're the ultimate lazy man's solution. And you can use off the shelf non-foaming gels (e.g. "King of Shaves Alphagel", "Gillette Fusion ProGlide Clear Shave Gel") in the shower (and, yes, wet-shaves are a must either way, buy an inexpensive non-electrical anti-condensation travel mirror (i.e. you tip hot water into a compartment behind the mirror)).
High protein or high in red meat? There's a huge difference there. If I eat a high protein diet with my protein coming from e.g. soy, am I still under the same risk?
Your explanation was perfect. Before this, I had a wrong understanding about what was a put option. It totally makes sense. Thank you!
I'd like to offer Robert Scherrer, the author of this article, some cheese with his whine.

> But I could have created a better chemistry set from the liquids in my own refrigerator.

I was a student in a mostly remote, freshman college science class. Other than our one week on campus, all of our chemistry "experiments" were done with things we had in our house or that could be bought at any corner store.

There are plenty of people who do this for a variety of reasons - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=at+home+chemistry&t=ffhp

(And since he seems to think that getting in trouble is important, I feel the need to point out that you can still get in trouble with chemicals found around the house - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach#Chlorine-based_bleaches . Tangent, many years ago I had a friend who did not know this – until he landed in the ER after mixing way too many and varied household cleaners.)

> Assuming you can even figure out how to pry it open, the inside is as mysterious and inscrutable as the outside.

Not if you have a minimally knowledgeable mentor (i.e. knowledgeable enough to know how to lookup what you find online). If you have a kid and aren't able to be their knowledgeable mentor, you and your kid/s really should check out your closest makerspace/s.

>Yet how can we expect junior scientists to daydream, when they can be playing computer games instead?

Give them games with scientific content, e.g.

- http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/online_science/games.aspx

- http://www.onlinecolleges.net/50-great-sites-for-serious-edu...

In fact, there's an emerging field of education focused on Game-Based Learning:

- http://newmedia.org/game-based-learning--what-it-is-why-it-w...

- http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/games/index.html

And look, there's even some hyper-relevant research Becoming Chemists through Game-Based Inquiry Learning: The Case of "Legends of Alkhimia" - http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ985421 / http://www.ejel.org/issue/download.html?idArticle=188 that shows...

>Two evaluation criteria were used: (1) effectiveness of separation, and (2) demonstration of conceptual understanding of chemistry. We found that the Alkhimia students significantly outperformed the control students when assessed on the extent to which effective separation was achieved in the students' proposed solution (t75 = 2.56, p = 0.026) and when assessed with respect to conceptual understanding of chemistry in the separation task (t75 = 3.41, p = 0.002).
The initial comment was just a joke, mate (clearly you're the one choosing to be outraged over my tone?) which came out of my assumption that it's impossible to both know that she is transgender and that she does not want to be called Bruce.

If that was indeed an honest error then you could have elaborated on how it was possible for you to hold both of these contradicting views simultaneously, and I would have admitted that I was wrong to assume that you were a prick.

Since instead of doing that you've decided to deflect with "STOP WITH THE OUTRAGE THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!", I did surmise that you are simply not aware of what 'respect' is. Hence while it was wrong of me to take on that role of 'teaching' it to you (what a waste of effort), I stand by my implication that someone should have done that by now.
How do you enforce these laws, how do they define things like misuse, and what constitutes 'personal information'?

For the right to be forgotten, how can I know for certain if the data was removed? Is there a regulatory agency that audits companies?

For the under 16 parental consent, what happens if the child lies about their age? How can a software company enforce this? How can we hold them responsible if everyone on their service lies about their age? Even if the child doesn't lie about their age, how can the software company reliably get consent from the parents?

It would just be easier to make a law that "no personal information can be stored on the internet".
I mean, a "read later" web tool that has the least friction in terms of use? Things like Pocket, etc. Tried a few, not for long, don't know of many; would appreciate hearing experiences of what worked for others.
I learned something the hard way so let me pass it on :)

The Mac App Store is just a distribution channel and should not hold anyone back if they seriously think they have a product of value.

Even if they improve the Mac App store the rationale for even having it wont change much and so some of the same issues will still prevail IMO.

You will still only be featured if you either know someone or use some of their latest features/libraries.

You will still not be able to do a lot of things because of Sandbox.

You will not be able to reach the majority of target market (Google is your friend there)

And there are plenty of other great solutions for distribution out there.

Just my five cents.

P.S. If you are serious about developing for the Mac but don't have a project. Contact me I am expanding my product line and could use a good osx dev.
You can buy directly from Dorco in the US.
Hey, I'm afraid I don't understand your comment. Can you explain?
"For day-to-day use, the best options are to run tools like Privacy Badger or Disconnect that will block some (but unfortunately not all) of the domains that try to perform fingerprinting, and/or to use a tool like NoScript for Firefox, which greatly reduces the amount of data available to fingerprinters."

https://panopticlick.eff.org/about#defend-against
Well, let's see here...this is a man that spent $2M on a music album that he admits he didn't even listen to in entirety, but then has a man stalked and intimidated by thugs for 6 months over a $3M dispute. And lets not forget the callous interviews he gave that were nothing more than a slap in the face of the thousands of people whose lives might be shortened by his actions. I think the guy probably has a decent shot at a diagnosis for Antisocial Personality Disorder.
You have to accept that kids will spend a lot of time doing stupid shit. That's the part of learning experience. But at some point there may come a moment when a kid starts to wonder how to make stupid shit like what they saw, and there is the opportunity for them to learn creative/technical stuff. But they won't get that chance with hard, strict limits - then there's only time to watch.

BTW. I personally wouldn't discount even the educational value of stupid YouTube videos. Kids pull a lot more out of media than adults do. We see just a funny clip, but for a kid it's a way to learn a new language, learn new phrases of the native language, learn some culture, etc.
If only they did a release where that was the only change that broke backwards-compatibility with Python 2.
Once they don't do killings, traditional business should be more efficient and therefore drive them off.

Mafia should only be able to thrive in underground activites like predatory loans, drugs and such.
But Dorco sell them in the US[0].

[0] http://www.dorcousa.com/
Yes, I think the goal should be to help people in whatever way you can, not to help Lexmark find workers or to preserve a particular employment relationship.

It's my understanding that immigration often results in large gains for the immigrants, so it may be more effective than other forms of help.
it is valid but it is just being used to run them out of business. The actual patent violator is Dorco but they are a foreign company and it would be pointless to sue them. Dollar shave club is merely importing patent infringing razors into the US. But patent law allows you to sue anyone who imports patent infringing materials which makes sense because it can be hard to identify the factory doing the patent infringing but the importer is easy to identify but in this case it is clear who the manufacturer is but it is more useful to sue their competitor than to go after the factory
Are they being nice to me because I killed it or is it because I did so poorly that they are showing pity?

Are they being mean because they think I wasted their time or because I killed it and they want to push me?
I wouldn't be so critical of GOFAI. Much high-level reasoning either does or can involve symbol manipulation. There are some impressive systems, such as Cyc, which do precisely that. It isn't useful for low-level tasks like vision or walking, so other approaches are needed to complement it.

> but we're past the point of just manipulating empty symbols.

We've now reached the point where we can manipulate large matrices containing floating point numbers. I don't see how this makes systems any more conscious.
For Firefox, you can automatically spoof the UA with a tool like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random-agent-...
Microsoft aims to supply Chinese government with customized Windows 10
> I've repeatedly asked the Respondly team to build Buffer-like scheduling into their product

Respondly brands itself as the "The Fastest Way to Tackle Twitter as a Team" so not sure when it makes sense to schedule replies.

I'm just wondering what use case you have in mind for this. Like, when do you not want to respond instantly to a customer?
According to the video, they have an a runtime library (StreamExecutor) which abstracts over CUDA and OpenCL. That seems like the hard part to me. Switching out the LLVM backend for kernels ought to be relatively easy.
An additional issue: While I am interested in an experimental drug and have no issues with its risk of death, my children / wife / family may choose to hold the drug liable in the case I die. I could make it as clear as possible that I would not hold the drug liable but if I die those words don't matter.
So terrible. I upgraded to the highest price tier they had, and realized that I really wasn't saving much money over Gillette and they were just TERRIBLE blades. Like running sandpaper over your face.
60,000% growth in 7 months using Clojure and AWS
>And since it's just a shitty webview in a box and not a full browser, there's no obvious way to make it reload.

cmd r usually does the trick (or store -> reload page in the menu).
Whether it's legal not to lock them up or not, your friend is a completely irresponsible gun owner and not too bright as well.

It depends heavily on your social circle and what state you're in. Being from upstate NY, I was raised around guns because my father was a hunter, but now living in NYC, almost no one I interact with has ever fired a gun.
I use two blades to shave - start with a "quality" blade (not Gillette) and finish with a cheaper disposable. It extends the life of both and gives me a very clean shave. I estimate that it's cut my blade costs in half since ditching Gillette. Oh, and don't forget the inexpensive Barbasol.
That sounds awesome. Do you have any picture albums online?
(Slightly tangential) does anyone else predict and hope for a looser coupling between client and server?

Even in the age of increased connectivity, an app or static client experience, rather than streaming (except for obvious cases like video and music), in my mind would greatly improve the web for the user. Especially if not every user action can be tracked with an AJAX request.

I've only started looking into building apps offline-first (late to the party) but with tech like CouchDB, service workers etc - it's becoming much easier to build a more decentralized online experience (and interestingly return to an earlier epoch).
Cool. Didn't know about that. In which ones would you invest in now?
Also, if you have some tech creations you'd like me to share, you may post it here as well or to the twitter @notfrmthevalley.
Pics of the car? :)
So I'll take one of the statements to ask a question.

> This was the highest for November in the 1880–2015 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2013 by 0.27°F (0.15°C)

So the NOAA claims that this November was 0.15C higher than the previous record high.

What does this mean in a larger climate context?

Probability theory tells me that a single number like this is meaningless, but other than that I don't know how to interpret this except that it is information that was published with no specific agenda other than reporting it.
Does anyone have a link to a simplistic explanation of the block chain and why it seems to be so relevant?
> The lesson is clear: do not write Python code as you would do in C. Use numpy array operations rather than iterate on arrays. For me it meant a mental shift.

That's true in C as well. If you're writing performance-critical code, you use things like BLAS and LAPACK (possibly even the optimized, often parallel versions supplied by your compiler vendor).
Is "butthurt" homophobic or not? I didn't think it was but now people claim it is. So I might retire the term.
A fair point. The argument really comes down to this: Is it likely that a malfunction will occur while the auto-car is closely followed by another car?
Google Forms hack: How to create a personalized video from every response
Of course, in the other direction, private spending has it's own problems. Most of the money is spent on recurring conditions where you have to take the drug forever rather than one-time cures. Additionally, things like hair loss and impotence draw far greater funding than actual life-threatening illness, because the only motive is profit.
Trading Bitcoin with Docker [video]
No, thanks. Not using Windows and not using DRM either.
Importation of a patent-infringing product is patent infringement whether you are manufacturing it or not.
This comment is both black and white, negative, and reductive.

How do you measure a growth mindset? Well, we could look at Dweck's research with school children, where kids exposed to the concept that the brain is a muscle score markedly better than the control groups. [1]

Your views on failure suggest you have either forgotten childhood, or have a warped perspective on it: all kids do is fail, over and over, until they get the hang of things. We scrape our knees, our towers of blocks fall down, we can't get the puzzle pieces into the holes and constantly misidentify letters and numbers. To say that you repeat failure a couple of times and 'you're either dead or on your way there' is bleak and also wrong.

What Dweck's research shows is that children who are praised for their efforts fare better than those who are praised on being innately smart. You seem fixated on success being a zero-sum game. Like, whether a startup succeeds or fails. Dweck isn't guaranteeing that with positive thinking, you can achieve anything. It's not so black and white. The idea is that with the proper mindset, people can achieve a whole lot more than society might otherwise make them believe – and for so many people (children especially), that can be a life-changing realization.

1: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct0...
It's a fools errand to try and predict interview performance. I've been interviewing for a short while now and haven't gotten an offer yet despite feeling really great (and for some, really crappy) about my interviews. Feedback from the interviewers is equally inaccurate. On my most recent interview, I was told that my solution to their coding challenge was one of the best they'd ever seen, and that the feedback so far was extremely positive. Two days later I got the "another direction" email. I don't really take rejection to heart anymore but I hate not knowing what I need to do better.
In Firefox? Not much.

In Chrome? Full native binaries that are executed natively.
DANE is a protocol that enables verified TLS connections without CAs
When he shorted biotech he triggered the price fall by launching a complaint with the FDA I believe.

Sort of the opposite of pump and dump.
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Serious question: Does this do anything to lessen the infringement claim against DSC?
I'd like to know more about this, do you have any references to articles about the subject?
I just use a gel with my safety razor and haven't had any issues. I shave my whole head daily too. I've been using a safety razor for more than 5 years now, and shaving my head for about 15 years though, so maybe it's just skill by rote.

That said, I always have some disposable ones handy for quick work, misses, or for shaving in the shower.
$1.88/cartridge, 4 blades on each cartridge

They're somewhat flexible, so you could probably do either approach (I tend to vary and just remove all hair). I like Harry's quite a bit.
The most expensive way to buy blades ever...

Mach3 Turbo: $3.50/blade ($2.09 on Amazon S&S).

Fusion: $4.50/blade ($3.17 on Amazon S&S).

ProGlide: $4.90/blade ($2.61 on Amazon S&S).

And since I am comparing it to Amazon's Subscribe & Save, both include delivery and the same level of convenience.
Encode and Decode are slightly subjective... why not something like to_bytes and from_bytes? Maybe not the best names, but definitely clearer on the meaning.
More anecdotal than anything, but this is the warmest December in Boston that I've ever seen. It's 50 outside right now.
> Cartridges are quick and easy. They're the ultimate lazy man's solution.

They're the penultimate solution.

Not shaving is the ultimate in laziness.

Which I adopted, both to saves time, and because it makes me look closer to my age.
It is a great idea, just do your homework first as there are some non-obvious dangers in some devices like old tube style tv's and microwaves.
I did put a thumb on the scale by picking "central London" :) UK houses are sold by "bedrooms" without quoting an area, so it's hard to find a directly comparable one, but e.g. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-559752... which would be great to retire to but otherwise a bit of an employment blackspot. That's ultimately why people live in the expensive areas: proximity to jobs.

(Stoke-on-Trent will sell you a small terraced house for £1 on the condition that you have £30k to fix it. It's not exactly Detroit but it has suffered from the collapse of its traditional china plate industry.)
Have you ever tried using a safety razor? The blades cost pennies. I also find I get substantially less razor burn. Switching to shaving soap instead of aerosol cream keeps my total shaving cost to <$10/year.
It definitely exists, but seems to be a lot less common to me. Now that children of the 80s are grown up and have good jobs you can hardly throw a stone without hitting some media capitalizing on our childhoods. Stuff like Mad Men is considerably less common.
In my case, the simple lack of money was my teacher. (That, and the internet)

I couldn't afford a computer, but I wanted one badly. I learned used Xboxes ($100) could run Linux with some elbow grease.

So I put together every dime I had and bought one. A week later the hard drive died, so I had to learn to replace that (found an e-waste spindle, learned to hack the Xbox to accept unlocked drives). And it turns out the VGA adapter had to be hand-made with parts from DigiKey. Then old corroded traces started failing. Debacle after debacle, I killed that thing and resurrected it, again and again.

Viola, I began to learn tremendous amounts about things that had before been utter black boxes. Probably the single biggest impetuous to me working in technology.
> Perhaps it was under diagnosed but I some blame it on "westernization" .

Scientifically, this does not hold water, because cancer is such a fundamental disease group that is inherent in the machinery of cells. There are two main factors at play in the apparent rise of cases. One is, as you said, cancers were generally not diagnosed before modern medicine arrived on the scene. The second is: people have to die of something, so when life expectancy goes up cancer rates skyrocket. People who would have died of infection ten years ago will now die of cancer in ten years from now.
I'm coding exclusively in python3, and I agree the "least small" changes from python2 made it cleaner BUT

> I'm also a fan of map and filter returning generators rather than being hard-coded to a list implementation

I find myself often having to wrap expressions in list(...) to force the lists. (which is annoying)

Generators make things much more complicated. They are basically a way to make (interacting, by means of side-effects) coroutines, which are difficult to control. In most use cases (scripting) lists are much easier to use (no interleaving of side effects) and there is plenty of memory available to force them.

Generators also go against the "explicit is better than implicit" mantra. It's hard to tell them apart from lists. And often it's just not clear if the code at hand works for lists, or generators, or both.

So IMHO generators by default is a bad choice.

> stream fusion is a good thing

I don't think generators qualify for "stream fusion". I think stream fusion is a notion from compiled languages like Haskell where multiple individual per-item actions can be compiled and optimized to a combined action. Python instead, I guess, just interleaves actions, which might even be less efficient for complicated actions.
Disclaimer: early Kinvey engineer here.

Doesn't sound too far off from Kinvey and Parse except for the fact that MBaaS services have been around a lot longer and have much more robust mobile and web SDKs.