skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just took over a website for a paying client, local small business. Found out their previous developer was some rockstar guy, thing was packed with frameworks and nuttiness.

Built a scraper and converted it to something using Markdown in a weekend, I barely used any of previous dev's "code."

Sometimes all you need to dig a hole is a shovel.
Lending Club, Leading Online Lender, Says Its Chief Resigns
Most likely the latter, as well as advertising to children to use them as emotional leverage against the parents.
Every time I read “polyfill” I think it has to do with pixel graphics.
The incidence of asthma has increased dramatically in the last several decades, especially in cities.
I'm a UI/UX designer with a "strong" technical background. I could team up with an excellent developer who needs help with design. ;)
A LOT more servers need to be provisioned is my guess
Krita 2016 Kickstarter – Let's Make Text and Vector Art Awesome.
I'm sure they'd say something like that, but it is false. People were not eating gobs of sugar for breakfast until someone came up with sweetened breakfast cereal and marketed it.
Kinds of Static analysis tools
If my laptop is open your meeting is not my only priority. Sorry.
If every food producer were to follow that dictum, no one would have to take responsibility. So everyone would be incentivized to break the rules.

And if anyone wanted to begin new a behavior harmful to others, they would only have to ensure others also do it.

Decisions have to made on values, not whether someone else is already doing it. If someone's getting away with a crime, it doesn't mean you get to do it, too. It still means neither of you should be doing it.
How about they bugger off and not censor my content.

Power hungry censors from either the government or forums piss me off.

People who own forums have a right to regulate content, true.

But bullshit like this aint cool, I and the users are not babies, bugger off, we'll decide with votes.
I love Feynman. He was an incredible teacher but this video has always annoyed me a little. The interviewer asked a pretty clear question (explain why magnets repel or attract depending on how you align them) but Feynman goes on a bit of a rant about how the guy won't understand if he explains things as he (Feynman) understands it and that he (Feynman) doesn't know how to explain it to him (interview) in ways he would understand.

For someone as excellent at sharing knowledge it seems like Feynman just didn't want to do the interview any longer. He sounds and acts a little pissed off with the question.
> During war-time, I would assume the body's of your enemy would be plentiful.

In fact, when for instance Taliban or Daesh look at things, the enemy bodies are not plentiful at all. I think it is extremely rare for an American, British or NATO partner soldier's body to fall in their hands. The Western losses in those wars are very small by historical standards, almost negligible, and evacuation is extremely efficient.

For instance, take the current Afghanistan war. Wikipedia: "As of October 1, 2015, there have been 2,326 U.S. military deaths in the War in Afghanistan. 1,856 of these deaths have been the result of hostile action."

1,856 casualties from enemy action in about 15 years. That is about the same number of casualties as Omaha Beach took in a single day. It's half of what my father's brigade inflicted in a single day against one single Russian infantry regiment in February 1942. It is one thousandth of what German Feldheer suffered in all of WWII, and one five-thousandth of what the Soviet army suffered in their "great patriotic war" during four years.

Casualty numbers in modern wars where Western troops attend are very small, when compared to historical wars.

The current Syrian civil war is then another matter. Its casualty numbers are not big when compared to WWII, but they are much bigger than Afghan or Iraq wars.
Article starts with discussing how recent improvements in computing led to the start of the expected discoveries in genetics. I don't understand how my comment is unrelated?
How game theory can help you do a better job of parenting
If you read a few books on nutrition, you will learn that refined sugar is unhealthy. This is not hard for anybody with half a brain to figure out.

As for working two part-time jobs etc., many of the people doing this buy status symbols like SUVs, iPhones, big houses etc. If they didn't buy so much unnecessary stuff, they wouldn't need to work so much.
This vitamin stops the aging process in organs, say Swiss researchers
There are several repositories named "warden" on Github. The Rails gem's name is not unique.
How the media turns scientific studies into “morning show gossip”
Electronic devices that melt in your brain
Joint pain and reduced mobility are also issues with obesity.
"we are aware of its value" = corporate language for "to make our necks thiiiiiiiiiis fat".

How much do Nestlé pay these days for damage control btw?
Which media company arranged that I wonder ...
So awesome it deserves a rerun.
>merging the Code Base and Having OneDrive for business operate on the better OneDrive for Business Client

You got that backwards. Mesh is the good client, groove is the bad one. The next gen one is the consumer client getting sharepoint support.

Currently, right now, mesh can sync OneDrive for Business but not OneDrive Groups.
> An error anywhere during the game can be unrecoverable, that's why it's an error. The opening isn't special, in fact I'm sure an error in the ending is more likely to lead to a loss.

Agreed, but a tactical error in the opening is replicated and multiplied throughout the game. if I'm going to criticize it as an abstract strategy game, it's too sensitive in that regard. Yes, an error is an error, that's why they're called as such. In chess, opening errors have much more drastic consequences, depending on the error, than say Go, where you have more opportunity to recover from the error. An opening tactical error can spell doom for your middle game and end game (as analyzed by chess commentators, instructors, books, videos, etc.).

Outside of amateur casual play, you must play a stronger opening game than your opponent, if you want any hopes of winning. Even if your mid and end games are stronger, if you make a tactical opening error, you may never get the opportunity to play that genius finale, because you'll never get the opportunity to recover. Openings have to be damn-near perfect when playing seriously. That's what bothers me.
Surviving the Framework Hype Cycle
@newjersey In the UK we only fouridate a few areas, mostly it's only good old chlorine that we add.

Maps:

http://bfsweb.org/onemillion/09%20One%20in%20a%20Million%20-...
I wouldn't be so quick to call others idiots.

Fluoridation has absolutely nothing to do with taste.

The reason NYC's water tastes better than NJ's is simply that it comes from a different source.
Console for Mobile Browsers
Analyzing ImageTragick Exploits in the Wild
When your (our) job gets automated out of existence, what leverage do you (we) have to keep you (us) around?
Yea the world is still run by pre-internet people and institutions. The first generation to 'grow up' with the internet in first-world countries is still largely waiting to take over. Farther down the tail, it'll be another decade before may in the 'third' world get their first smartphone. Defacto global/internet citizenship is still a full generation to generation and a half away, and who knows how long it'll take to actually reshape and reform the big institutions after that.
My guess is that the software will be better at the well know tasks. And similarly to automatic cars, they will struggle with the unusual scenarios. (Saying that I don't know a great deal about surgery).
Race Relations in America
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Elnode more like :)
Design Follies – ‘Why can’t I do that?’
The amount of discipline a parent (limited by the time and willpower a parent can input into the process) can impose is finite. Once we accept this hypothesis, we can see how usual norms are imposed by parental discipline plus non-parental discipline. A parent going against a norm will have to use an extraordinary amount of time and willpower to impose his unconventional norm, as he will lack the enforcement of the non-parent actors. Eating sugary cereal is a societal norm in today's developed countries. Therefore, a parent wishing to diverge from this norm would have to expend an extraordinary effort.

He's also going against the professionals who already succeeded in imposing the norm and simply have to maintain it today.
The exe for syncing sharepoint libraries is groove.exe and it is called the OneDrive for Business Client.

For everything else now, you use OneDrive instead.
Are you certain? I've spent most of my dives in Florida springs, which can have flow rates above 100 cubic feet per second. You can basically get blown out of Devil's Eye at Ginnie Springs if you're not careful with your trim when ascending.

The downside of still systems is that any silt you stir up can kill the visibility for hours / days, which would cause problems for light-based beacons.
So they're not encouraging people to consume sugary stuff, they're encouraging people to consume a category of food where people prefer sugary stuff?

This is about as sensible as saying that Krispy Kreme isn't pushing sugary foods, people just happen to prefer donuts with lots of sugar in them.
(You wanted the word “indigestion”. Ingestion means something quite different. Though I suppose if someone was prone to eating when depressed, it could work.)
With no retransmission you limit the number of dead ants though. If you continue to send ants you're going to get lots of dead ants in certain situations, so you'd need a more complex algorithm than simple retransmission.
We need a decent @media equivalent in HTML.

We need a bandwidth @media selector (that is kept up to date with recent conditions by the browser).

We need optional (viewport conditioned) lazy loading built into the spec.

It's time for these features to become part of the web stack, but maybe we need a codified mediaQuery.js first.
LendingClub CEO Resigns Following Loan Sales Review
If anything they seem to have gotten more rabid:

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2000/10/the-left...
Not sure I agree with Thiel. Amgen, Genentech, Intel all had scientist-CEO-founders. There is a subset of scientists who tend to be excellent CEOs.
> Why can the publisher get away [...] while a hospital is fully legally responsible

The word "legally" gives it away: because there are laws.

But we don't like dem laws here on teh intertubes, so far-west it is.
This is utter non-sense.

Companies charge as much as they can, they don't follow some altruistic "we love Europe" plan.

I understand your point though: Of course it's easier to bask in American exceptionalism than facing the truth that corporations rule the US and the only human value they are interested in is the amount of dollars extractable through any means imaginable.
There also is the effect that the grouping matters - other things being equal, your kid will succeed more when put in a class where other students have higher parental investment, rather than when put in class with a lot of poor students having issues with absenteeism and higher incidence crime and/or substance abuse.

In essence, people are willing to pay a premium in real estate prices just so their kids would not grow in a community of kids who cannot afford this premium.
Raising children is hard enough without segments of society actively fighting against you.
As a parent I would agree that there is little education. Health professionals (in the UK) don't seem to care. Products you think are safe are then found out to be harmful in other ways.

I don't think education is the silver bullet, but habit forming is. For example, what is the habit you resort to when deprived of sleep, late for work and kids are throwing a tantrum? Sometimes that habit lies in preparation, something most of are are not very good at.
"let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories" Mickey Mouse
I need that stuff to get laid though.
The Devil in the Details: Switching to BSD from Linux [video]
AFAIK, reddit moderators aren't able to arbitrarily boost posts without the use of bots, which are obviously against reddit TOS.
Sick Theranos burn.
...just soft and pink.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/58/64/15/586415bb9...
You can't touch the sides in cave diving. It generates silt which destroys visibility.
> programs that use lots of signals and/or asynchronous completion of IO or timers ("completions")

This is actually what the most basic event loop handles for you. OS signals, timers and asynchronous events are not delivered into the middle of your program, but into the point, where all of the event handlers are not running. That's the beauty of it. You can then react to the event and cancel whatever you are waiting to be running, or schedule something new.

With coroutines you can only safely handle those things each in a separate coroutine. But you don't need them isolated, you need your code to actually do something on those signals and timer events. So, you end up with a lot of flags spread all over other coroutines, protected by mutexes/channels. But then it's still not responsive, because you cannot unblock a currently blocking call, so many concurrency patterns do not apply and even bad things happen, like leaks and deadlocks. You rethink it again and move blocking calls each into a separate coroutine, so you would be able to construct a loop that waits for messages from other coroutines and reacts right away, abandoning blocking coroutines, if required. Hopefully you eventually realize, that you are emulating an event loop, but a very clumsy one, and go back to working with event handlers and higher-order functions.
You should try out LICEcap [1]; It's a great, open source, tool for creating gifs.

From their site:

> LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF [...]

> LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance.

[1] http://cockos.com/licecap/
> Scale. Reddit is bigger with hundreds, if not thousands, of subcultures and norms.

But the link is about /r/technology only, not reddit as a whole.
We don't accept that sort of rationale for anything else. I'll go shoplift some stuff (maybe steal some Nestlé products); other people are still going to steal whether I do or not, so I might as well not lose out on the profits.
Every Spring, Montana's Abandoned Mine Shafts Open Giant Holes in the Ground
That was the wishful thinking of the left, but it seems it has backfired. The more people confront each other's differences (they massively do nowadays), the more they feel a need to show they are different (for example, the coming back in vogue of religious dress accessories). It seems group/kin segregation is part of our nature, and we can't really fight nature.

That's why I don't believe that thought policing, "forced tolerance" or 'safe spaces' will amount to anything. We should think pragmatically and find a way to live non-violently, in a not-necessarily-tolerant world.
This is not a case of "good for you", it's just that I find it sad that locals of a developed country have to choose to drink bottled water over tap water because the latter could harm their health.

That being said, for travelers it sure might take a while to adjust to local conditions. I never had such problems when traveling to Spain, Austria, France, Hungary and Slovenia, but I do understand that each body copes differently with things it's not used to.
What it’s like to work at ShuttleCloud as an Engineer?
Drowning the Crystal Goblet
Online website builder
Complaining about coffeescript...There is absolutely no reason anybody needs to use coffeescript in a Rails project. Rails works perfectly well without it. Now, some people prefer the syntax and find the extra layer of transpiling to be worth it. But if you don't, just use vanilla Javascript! Rails certainly has some things to complain about, but coffeescript ain't one of them.
Thank you. I was sure I heard this story before and it was bugging the crap out of me trying to figure out where.
Domain Group acquires 35 percent stake in Oneflare for $15M
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart
Typo-L: The Crystal Goblet (1955)
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"when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"
Yes. Web developer here looking for someone with a B2B idea they are confident they can sell to a niche market. Prefer no social media related or physical products. Can PM me on reddit if you want to get in touch: https://reddit.com/u/beeboopp
Indians are allowed to poach endangered animals?
Ask HN: How often do you compile and execute in C++?
What does your workflow look like using C++ ?
If you have experience using other languages, how does it compare ?

I put a short survey about duration and frequency of compilation and execution here :
http://goo.gl/forms/0aj0B2yUYX

The results of this survey will be published.
C++ Weekly – Ep10 Variadic Expansion Wrap-Up
Let me see if I'm following you. The one thing you like about Trump is that he isn't even pretending that there's any sense to laws like those forbidding discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or sex? And, the fact that there are such laws shows that democracy is fallacious?

I remember once enjoying your comments. This recent turn you've taken towards subtly or not-so-subtly relitigating discrimination seems like it must be new. Did something happen? It's an unfortunate change.
The article kind of says that though, the very beginning of the article explains how it was assumed that after we sequenced a genome, we'd make fast progress. However what's actually starting to make a difference is the sequencing of greater number of genomes (more data), and the improvement of our filtering (identification and algorithms). Basically, the big difference is a lot of hardwork, and refinement. There's not actually any mention of a single breakthrough discovery.
the root cause of dietary issues is excessive fat in the diet, not sugar.

Anything excessive in the diet will lead to gaining weight and eventually to obesity.

I can not say which will lead to diabetes faster, consuming extra 1000 calories daily in fat or in sugar, but in terms of fat gain results will be similar.

The government recommendations are most unfortunate, as they concentrate on macronutrients. So when *fat is bad" people will start eating sugary snacks, and when eventually it changes to "sugar is bad", fat will be added to everything instead of sugar.

It would be more positive to suggest eating more whole, unprocessed foods, but I'm sure political issues will never allow that.
http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-09-11
The Japanese system is deeply troubled too although in different ways.
All nootropics are basically scams.
No, the TI-8x series used in high schools use TI-BASIC, a version of BASIC that makes most other BASIC dialects look good by comparison. Seriously, it's rubbish.
Increasing the Strength of the Zone Signing Key for the Root Zone
Except you can't pick a rent-controlled unit, because you can't get into one unless you were in before 1971. You can be transferred one as immediate-family but it requires 2 years of financial interdependence between you and the tenant -- not easy.
if you have pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes Or you know someone with this conditions, You need to see this Video http://www.diabeteszone.info/
> visiting a room bigger than a stadium at -500m.

Surely you mean -50m, right? :) Which system was that? It sounds lovely.
> I had just explained to Amber that 122 GB of music files were missing from my laptop

This is very much about a laptop rather than a phone. And yep, I'm also suffering from this. I've got a 2010 MacBook Air with 256GB storage. I'm down to 10GB free space and struggling to decide how to cope with the now 160GB Photos library.
> Nestlé does not seem to believe in water as a human right. Otherwise, why sell water from areas where it is already scarce?

Selling is often the best way to manage scarce resources, particularly in the presence of a government that cannot be trusted to effectively ration them.

Most reasonable people don't object to companies selling food or clothing.
I'd like to see the cost of bioinformatics cloud computing come down by several orders of magnitude as well. The ideal scenario seems to be a global network of in-field mobile clinical units that can collect samples, run diagnostic tests and sequence genome data. Then upload that collected real time data to public data stores on AWS S3 or Google Cloud Genomics. Which a team of researchers can then access from their own labs around the world.
> some altruistic "we love Europe" plan.

Nobody said anything about altruism, or 'loving Europe'. I don't know where you're getting either of those ideas from.

> Of course it's easier to bask in American exceptionalism

This is hardly a claim of American exceptionalism. It's a non-normative observation about the existing structure of the markets. It is not a statement that this is how it always must be, or that this is how it should be. It is merely a description of what currently is.
BASIC. It's still a fun language for toys and prototypes, and Dijkstra is a moron for saying it ruins programmers, but on the other hand, it is kind of rubbish.
Inside ImageTragick: The Real Payloads Being Used to Hack Websites
What incentive do the people who make the decisions have to change it?
Mercury pass in front of the sun
There are laws agains hacking though. If I visit a website and the website willfully (i.e. it wasn't hacked) serves me malware... that sounds like hacking!
>Dead or alive they are still your friends, family, coworkers

I think that's the main idea at issue here: Are they still those people? Or are they just, to oversimplify a little, just some old meat?
Ask HN: How does comment weighting work
Does the algorithm only consider the upvotes on a particular comment, or does it also account for any highly rated child comments?

I.e. if a parent comment is not high-scoring but someone made a valuable reply to it, that valuable reply would nevertheless get buried.