skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People just don't get it. In most cases the current approach to treating the diseases of aging is akin to offering someone with cancer a codeine pill, in other words we are ameliorating the symptoms whilst doing little to attack the underlying root cause of the problem which is aging itself. If we chose to tackle aging by repairing the accumulated damage which arises at a cellular and molecular level instead of treating the end result then the diseases of aging such as Alzheimer's, cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and osteoarthritis would be reduced by around 95% because these diseases are primarily a direct consequence of old age and rarely afflict young people.

Throughout our history if there has been a route by which we can lead healthier, happier and more productive lives. We have tended to take it and that is the reason why anti-aging medicine will progress down exactly the same route and why the arguments against controlling aging do not have any validity at all.
It makes me sad to think that first a group of engineers spend time writings this complex system of checksums, partially encrypted firmware images, proprietary challenge-response handshake and communications with the battery so that another hacker must spend days to allow himself to make a fix as simple as replacing the battery in his own laptop. Is this because of fear? Money? Greed? All three? How much money does Lenovo make out of Lenovo batteries to make this all this extra complexity worth its salt in the first place? Consider that maintaining all that complexity is a recurring cost: it's not just writing the authentication scheme but making sure it works for each future firmware release.

I haven't let go of the 80's and I still think if you buy a car, phone, laptop, compact disc or a video disc, then it's yours because you paid for it in your own money. From that standpoint it's simply inexcusable for manufacturers to try to re-own parts of a device they've already sold to someone.
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The risk of lung/mouth cancer and general other physical effects far outweight the nervous system side effects (which are arguable, i never thought of smoking as a possible factor in depression).
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Why do you think the people stating that ecigs are still harmful are being misleading?
Is there a tarball of the data somewhere that one could download, redistribute and host somewhere (on the darknet, assumedly)?
I think this depends on the size of the startup. If you've only got ~10 employees, decent office space, furtniture, catering, etc. in SF or SV could be a meaningful fraction of your overall expenditure. The more employees you have, though, the smaller that fraction is likely to be. Even so, I think you're right - downgrading your office space would get you maybe a couple months of extra runway, vs. reducing salaries or staff, which would get you a lot more.
Yeah, fair point.
The ability to create derivative works is one of the primary benefits of works entering the public domain, so no.
Slashdot – headlines, anyway.
The NASDAQ plunged from over 5000 in March 2000 to about 1100 in two years. That was a bubble. People getting laid off is not a bubble, if so, then we will keep having these 'bubbles' every year making the whole term meaningless.

The very fact that 20 people jump in and warn us at the slightest hint (like this) that this is a bubble tells me that we are not in a bubble. Even if people get laid off they will find work else where. Funny thing is that this article talks about laid off tech workers finding work in Finance, which as we speak is getting decimated.
Author of Kneden here. If generators are avaiable, you should probably indeed be using this.

If they are not though, Kneden will generate code that's probably more readable and smaller (no polyfill except for a Promise implementation).
Thanks, that's a relatively new development, I wasn't aware of it.
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Partly depends on whether people organize to support it, I guess.
People who have firewall needs and no skills hire people who know what Cisco products are, get someone to implement an ASA for them, and then it sits for years without any software updates. Maybe a rule update every now and then, but definitely no software updates.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11086158
Firstly, copying isn't the same as taking.

More importantly most of the scientists want their research to be read and studied as widely as possible but have their careers to worry about. The journal system is being widely criticised but academics are not in the best position to take action against it.

The dissemination of knowledge, with it's potential for reducing inequality and increasing social mobility, is much more important than the profitability of journal publishers and outweighs the risk of hurt feelings due to a sense of ownership of knowledge (which seems like a fallacy in itself) that anyone involved could possibly have.
If they want to seriously engage regulated industries like finance, medical, energy, etc., they need to. As it stands now, an association with them is suspect.
Not really. Annotations are included with the code, unlike XML. They are much easier to reason about due to the immediate proximity. How do you feel about Python decorators? It's the same thing.
That's not caring about security, it's just not wanting to get blocked by firewalls. I don't think you can seriously argue that pirate sites care about security when the biggest thing on a page is an adware-installing, fake "DOWNLOAD" button.
I don't really agree with that. Some students would often vape behind their laptop in class (to be cool/rebelious, they could easily wait to be outside) and it definitely makes an offensive odor. Non-vapers should have the right to breathe air that isn't polluted with second-hand mystery fumes, especially in doors where ventilation isn't perfect.
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When tool have simple fields like "affected versions", "OS", "steps to reproduce", users use them and greatly decrease amount of needed time to classify issue. It's not smart AI, just fields.
>If it were exclusively about cash resources, the most cash-rich candidates would win every time.

Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't the past 3 presidential elections been won by the candidate with the biggest cash flow?

And yes, of course it is not the only factor as you noted, media coverage is crucial and information via the internet is rapidly becoming a more important factor. But the problem is: the same people who own and operate these massive media corporations also own the internet infrastructure and are also the ones who are pouring massive amounts of bribes/funding into the elections.
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I just assume the simplest explanation: there were at least a few good candidates and they had to pick one so obviously the rest got rejected by the very decision to hire one. Companies hiring employees don't explicitly spend time thinking about the reasons why they might reject someone: they spend all their time trying to think which candidate stands out the best and could be that best choice for hiring.
So why not email the corresponding author? I have yet to not get (or give) a manuscript that way. From my own perspective, each time I respond I'm possibly getting another citation. It's also a great form of networking.
From what I have noticed, some of the most interesting topics are speed performance, security, available design options and integrations with ERPs, accounting systems, shipping and so on.

At the end of the article, there is a comparison table that sums up all the important differences.
Yeah. From a hacker's perspective, a business model is just some way to keep a thing up and running. If it doesn't create a bunch of jobs at some office somewhere or lead to an IPO, well, that's just worldly affairs, right?

The distributed/federated stuff is still alive, maybe more than ever. Git is a fantastic example. I push and pull repositories between computers all the time. Often over ad-hoc WiFi, even.

Usenet and all that stuff is beautiful to reminisce about, but we should keep in mind also that it was largely sponsored by universities, corporations, militaries, and internet service providers...

IRC is a great inspiration too. Nowadays people look at it and think "ew, no Unicode" or "duh, it's not even JSON," but considering its resilience, its simplicity, its adoption, it's an enormous, staggering success.

These beautiful projects that started as tiny little seeds by clever obscure Scandinavian hackers...

It's just all about starting a little thing, getting your friends in on it, and keepin' it hella real.
No. Lenovo used the same certificate for every computer, and pre installed the software without user consent.

Generating a new certificate on the computer it's used on is different.
> IPO

> preserve our culture, mission and goals.

Pick one. Or is there a historic precedent I'm unaware of?

On a serious note, the shift in the latter parameters can be smaller than in an acquisition, but to "preserve" would imply actively managing employee (and founder) expectations in the build-up to IPO.
Did they know that they were lead pipes before they decided to start using them?
Not sure where you got that number, I've never paid 40% tax on my income in Germany (despite earning more than €48k per year).
This is very specific for people who work on systems, such as programmers.

I have a devshop and have sent his over and over again. The actual cost per employee isn't really paying them salaries to do stuff, but rather the salaries you pay them to learn stuff and get acquainted with the system. We call it ROL (Return on Learning). We've learned that on average it takes 3-8 months for an intelligent person to become fully productive within any system.

Since we started hiring for the capacity to learn and culture fit, rather than existing technical skill, it's changed our business for the better.

That said, turns out even if you're in the Bay area with all that great talent pool, chances to find local people who just happen to want to work with you are practically nill. Once you truly internalize this concept of ROL, there is no other way but to work globally with remote people and teams. Without that, you can't access a sufficiently large talent pool.

I think the ROL is actually the leverage factor people have in mind when they say "10x" engineer.
Scams.
And what are people outside of the U.S. supposed to do?
Is Babel's generator transpiling support good enough to allow this to be transpiled down to ES5?
Apparently they have some sort of exemption (as an extension of the LoC?) but that's never been legally tested.
This is the argument of somebody who is profiting or care deeply about somebody who is profiting from this.

1% is less than the inflation (even more so is the real estate is shooting up), this means that city spending will increase by more than 1% and that other younger citizens will have to pick up the slack.
Except that torrent sites are not necessarily completely used for pirating.
One guidance for the ethical side are the guidelines agreed upon by professional associations. I can't think of any that condone copyright infringement.
Springer doesn't watermark based on logins? They could easily and then she the academics.
An Engineer Guy video on YouTube where discusses the invention of the industrial cigarette rolling machine indirectly answer that question. https://youtu.be/_4zbNJmtbGo?t=51

The short version is cigarette smoke is inhaled pipe and cigar more or less just in the mouth. The nicotine in the smoke in the lungs is rapidly absorbed into the blood which goes to the brain in seconds.
I've had a second read and I think I see the contradiction. The article says it would be fine to tax GDP (and ultimately taxing all production should be equivalent to taxing all consumption). If I have x dollars of income, I can buy x dollars of beer, or I can buy a factory that will produce x NPV dollars of beer in the future. But the GDP in those cases would be different, wouldn't it? So in a tax-all-GDP regime I should be taxed on the x dollars of income now and, in the investment case, also on my investment income (or equivalently on my owned asset).
Water companies should be measuring the quality of the water going into the pipes, but they also need to sample the water that comes out of the pipes - they need to collect samples coming out of people's faucets.
> One of the earliest lessons I was taught, and I taught my kids, is that if somebody else has something we want and doesn't want to share it, it's not OK to just take it.

Like the absolute power of a dictator?

Of course this is a hyperbolic example, but the real world is not only black and white and simple rules like that cannot cope with the complexity of it. The question is, where we should draw the line. And many people in here agree, that publicly funded research should be made available to the public at no further costs for the greater good.
This article was ridiculous. At&T has no chance in the cloud business. Yes Google Fiber is a serious competitor, but it will be many years before Google reaches scale. The history of this sort of retraining initiatives is abysmally bad.
I would love all those positives you mentioned. I wonder if anyone could get a new custom started that provided those positives but not the negstives. Dumb idea, carrot breaks (yea I know really really dumb but there's got to be something)
For those interested in exploring stoicism in the Eastern tradition, consider delving into the unswayable ethos of Chinese philosopher Master Zhuang. Pre-dating Senaca by 4 centuries, Zhaungzi was perhaps not as inclined to view the passions so negatively. Arising as Univ. of Toronto Prof. David Machek argues, from differing world views: "rational versus non-rational in the Greco-Roman tradition, and artificial versus natural in the Chinese"

“Emotions that Do Not Move”: Zhuangzi and Stoics on Self-Emerging Feelings

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11712-015-9463-9

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's excellent article on Zhuangzi:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zhuangzi/

And Thomas Merton's poetic interpretations: "The Way of Chaung Tzu"

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Way_of_Chuang_Tzu.h...
Perhaps some context would help. Now that it is almost 2 millenia since Seneca wrote his most famous works, it is easy to forget that Seneca lived a very comfortable life, far from the image often associated with the moderate Stoic, and far from the kind of person his letters persuade us to be, and it bears repeating.

Seneca himself points out that he did not live up to his principles. Starting from the book that I've linked below [1], and for a couple chapters, he points out that the model of a Stoic that one can build from his writings is a model that he is trying to become, and that he was aware of his own shortcomings when measured by that model.

It helps to contrast Seneca's relationship with his philosophy with the Greek Cynics and Stoics. The latter were often more willing to radically embody their philosophy in their actions, even if their actions were not socially accepted. Seneca, on the other hand, was very rich in his society and time, and owned multiple properties.

In fact, throughout the ages, there have always been (not necessarily well informed) commentators criticizing Seneca. This article [2] discusses precisely this matter.

Given the frequency with which Stoicism appears here, a better understanding of their earliest authors' and practicioners' relationship to the words that have survived them should be useful.

[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_a_Happy_Life/Book_XVI

[2]: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3294099
How does HTTPS help circumvent firewalls? I wasn't aware this was a feature. My understanding is that a firewall blocking file-sharing sites would do so whether the site was HTTP or HTTPS.

My point is that by using HTTPS, these sites have demonstrated a higher level of proficiency with security tools than many more popular mainstream sites. I agree the scammy fake download buttons are a problem though, but that's what ad-blockers are for...
Because it currently wouldn't be possible to make a site of this scale with that method.
> Ya I agree that it can be hard to see effects occasionally.

Nono. The point is that they should be codified and forbidden in places they shouldn't be used. I cannot describe how much this matters to anyone who hasn't "absorbed" the Haskell mindset. (That's not your fault, it's mine. "More research/explanation needed" on my part.)

> ... and a much better alternative to using Java.

Yes, but it only if you use it as a "better Java". It fails _hugely_ if you try to do anything "advanced"... as in actual FP like lenses and things.

> I'd love to work on haskell or introduce haskell in places that i work but no way in hell would I ever succeed.

This is also a cultural problem. Migrate towards microservices and... there you go! Nobody actually cares what it's implemented in. (I think this is a somewhat sneaky/underhanded way to introduce it, but it... works.)

EDIT: If you want to see first-hand what I'm talking about try "monocle" or "shapeless", which -- while both being fantastically named and engineered -- fail on actual usage.
If your looking for es5 promises are much easier to polyfill and much more competitive than generators
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I used v1.x back in the days. SQLite was still little known and it was the only UI tool. The project was dead for some years (in v1.x days), good to see some brought new life to it and it's still in development.
People with mental illness are over-represented in people who smoke.

There's some weird to-and-fro stuff happening that they haven't worked out yet.

EG: People with schizophrenia smoke a lot. And the hydrocarbons in cigarette smoke interact with anti-psychotic medication, which means people need to take more.
Usually being on the general university network is sufficient to get journal access. Using the university network credentials for the academic, it probably goes SciHub -> School -> Journal. So the school would have to block SciHub/discipline the academic. Disciplining people with tenure is hard, although maybe it is just graduate students giving the credentials idk.
And? That's not HN's stance. That's the opinion of people who have a login here, in an ongoing and free wheeling discussion! Sheesh.
Could you recommend some seminal books / articles on timeseries analysis of heart rate data and similar physiological variables?

PS. Have you heard of / tried Beddit?
I'm usually the first person fawning over any new SSC post, but by his own admission here he's just regurgitating the points from the original HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074587). Putting too much stock in this post is kind of "training on your validation data", as it were.
This will add some overhead for every single call to such wrapped function. If you use that extensively for many classes, won't that be a huge performance degradation?

It would maybe be nice to have a flag so that these wrappings apply only in test or debug mode.

Also, it works e.g. by using `inspect.currentframe().f_back.f_back`. I'm not sure if that is such a clean and stable solution. (See e.g. here: https://github.com/amitassaraf/lang/blob/master/src/lang/acc...) E.g. when you add other wrappers around your function, I'm quite sure that this would break.
This is an impressive library, but I don't really see the usefulness. That is either because I'm a Python programmer, and Java semantics aren't useful in Python, or because I'm a Python programmer, and I haven't used Java semantics, so I wouldn't know.

I can say, though, that I've never had problems with something accessing private variables that it shouldn't have. The meaning of private variables in Python isn't "don't access anything that starts with an underscore", rather it's "you're accessing these variables at your own risk".

This "we're all adults" model has worked out very well for my use cases. Can anyone share a few cases where hard constraints here would be beneficial?
Paranoid much?

The media calls these large companies "startups" because the companies themselves do it. Because it makes them sound hip and trendy and worth investing in.

No doubt there are companies like SpaceX doing notable stuff. No doubt they are a minority. AirBnb for cats exists. Vessyl exists.
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It is, the resulting code is just a bit harder to read, and the babel-polyfill is required. It's quite good considering they're transpiling generators actually, but it's hard to beat something working on a higher level (async/await straight to promises, like Kneden does.)
When I do research I go through a lot of papers, many of them are discarded after the first couple of sentences. It would slow me down a lot, when I had to contact all of the authors in the first place.

How useful would google really be, if you had to contact every author before reading the actual website?
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I don't think it is unique to the US... I'm in Canada and also have that.
The psychological aspects are habit forming; the social aspects, the ritual etc.

Whilst nicotine is undoubtedly addictive, there are other things in tobacco / cigarettes that seem far more addictive. There's also the additional crap added, like chemicals to ensure the cigarette doesn't go out like hand rolled and cigars do, etc.

The part I missed most whilst quitting, with the aid of vaping (nicotine replacement gums, patches and inhalers were a waste of time and money for me) was something present in tobacco, but not in ecigs. Vaping never quite replaced that, or felt as nice. The occasional cig I had when out drinking with friends made it quite tempting to relapse - though I didn't.

The nicotine withdrawal when I quit vaping was so minor compared to the withdrawal from stopping tobacco that I actually wonder if the various quitting aids are replacing the wrong chemical(s).

I am, of course, just an anecdotal data point of one.
Kindly give a few examples. Tired of seeing $$ to read beyond the abstract.
Instead of paying the publishers, who contribute nothing to the work at all (remember they also charge us researchers hundreds of dollars just to get our work published), I'd rather donate the same $30 to sci-hub.
Another guidance for the ethical side is the concrete behaviour of working scientists: If they would send you the paper if you asked them by email, this is a clear statement that copyright violation is perfectly okay.
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I'm in Australia and we have the same service. But it is bullshit that academic papers are hidden behind paywalls.
Exactly the site I used. Exactly $1121.80 for 2013 (in both cases; same development, same lot size, so must have been same price).
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I think you might want to take a closer look at the developments in cancer over the past five years. Ipilimumab alone reduced the risk of death in metastatic melanoma patients by 32% - scientists used to not even want to touch the disease because it was such a death sentence. For all its faults, medical research does make progress.
I'm fairly sure that raiding ships isn't very good for the security of the crew. Although, it might teach them to invest in better cannons.
It's already at the receiving end of a lawsuit by Elsevier in New York. I doubt that more attention would change anything.
I'm living in the United Arab Emirates. My previous college has subscriptions in most journals. My current institute also has access.
Agreed. I studied in Germany, and none of the academic institutions I know of make papers accessible to alumnis. For students, sure, but for alumnis? Never heard of it.
I feel like this is the most anti-pythonic thing I've ever seen.