skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interstate commerce being a federal power under the Constitution prohibits states acting to regulate interstate commerce where the federal government has acted, without the permission of Congress, and prohibits the States from discriminating against out-of-state commerce generally. That doesn't mean that all State regulation of interstate commerce is prohibited, but the State's power is sharply circumscribed by the mere designation of the federal power as well as by federal action exercising that power.
My biggest issue with this is that most people shop around and compare prices, especially when shopping for hotels or gifts. A lot of there demos may apply in last minute buying situations, but I don't see people using it when they want to find the best price on something. Especially since only select service providers are available. It is extremely impressive though.
Harvard doesn't offer 'science' degrees outside of its School of Engineering and Applied Sciences – so the arts degree is a meaningless distinction.
Sounds like what Rust needs is compile macros [1]. That way, printf can still be a function, but it would be optimized at compile time if the formatting string is constant.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node101.html
I share your skepticism but that's actually an official Uber position: https://newsroom.uber.com/us-illinois/dui-rates-decline-in-u...
Was just going to post this - you can also access them from the CLI with mdfind command, mdfind tag:jazz
What Will GitHub be in 5 years?
You have to kind of feel bad for Chumsky, he wishes so bad for America's demise that he has to fluff up China and Russia, while completely ignoring the fact that the West is far better off with the US in charge. Utter chaos and death would be the reward for listening to his hate.
So everybody's right?
> First of all, diabetes pills are not really 'health products.' They are more like 'you fucked up your health, now try not to die' products

You can make the same argument about low cost sugary foods that originated from the same conglomerates - trade lower prices & time to avoid starving... if you can't afford to eat healthy you eat what's fast, affordable and tastes good.

You can have your cake and eat it too, you just won't live very long...

I agree there isn't a 'sickle' marketing department where in the company creates the problem and caters at every stopping point until your ultimate demise - unless of course Nestle owns a collection of funeral homes...

Hanlons razor:
never assume bad intentions when assuming stupidity is enough
I think it's not only about genomes.

Actually, cells have a lot of state. See [1] for a basic, slightly old, CS-biased explanation.

That's how a single genome yields an incredibly varied repertoire of cell types. We need to work a lot on understanding those epigenomes to then get a chance to pinpoint genetic causes of disease.

[1] http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/
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The 6% is not the main problem, but it does have an effect. Not in the way you suggest though.

The main problem is that the 6% reduces supply liquidity, which means there are less houses for sale than there would be otherwise. Owners know they cannot get back in easily at breakeven, due to the immediate 6% hit. That means when the market is hot, there is a tendency to hold on until it's not. This means the full extent of "affordability" is a more probable event.

It doesn't work on the flip side when times are bad, because buyers have no such penalty. Whereas sellers are going to sell either because they believe prices will get worse, or are forced to due to finances.
You know, if folks didn't feel like they had to appeal to increasingly extreme positions in order to maintain audience size (because of other censorship), maybe those positions wouldn't get so much air time.

Additionally, having them out in the open like that lets sane people like you and I go over and point out their silliness. The current approach just allows it to fester.
A great idea! I think tags are definitely a better way to organize most personal data than trees.

Also I like that they describe what data they actually change on your computer right on the homepage: "TMSU does not alter your files in any way: they remain unchanged on disk, or on the network, wherever you put them. TMSU maintains its own database and you simply gain an additional view, which you can mount, based upon the tags you set up."

Unfortunately building on a foundation of sand (meaning not TMSU's code, but Unix filesystems) has downsides:

https://github.com/oniony/TMSU/wiki/FAQ#why-does-tmsu-not-de...

" Why does TMSU not detect file moves and renames?

To detect file moves/renames would require a daemon process watching the file system for changes and support from the file system for these events. As some file systems cannot provide these events (e.g. remote file systems) a universal solution cannot be offered. Such a function may be added later for those file systems that do provide file move/modification events but adding support for this to TMSU is not a priority at this time.

The current solution is to periodically use the repair command which will detect moved/renamed files and also update fingerprints for modified files. (The limitation of this is that files that are both moved/renamed and modified cannot be detected.) "

Ouch.
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Tags are a subset of hierarchies + symlinks. If you have a one level hierarchy, you have the equivalent of tags.
It would seems to me a better idea to order the VFS around queries - a command-line command returns a query id, which represents a directory in the VFS (such that the command is a bit like a mkdir for the VFS), the dir might then be '/foo/tmsumountpoint/<queryid>/', and contains symlinks for all files found in the query.

I'm sure FUSE can do this.
Swift is great language and an enormous leap forward in the apple-sphere. I'd like to see a bigger investment in JavaScript everywhere. I'd like to see apple make a push to allow writing 100% javascript apps for iOS and mac. I think it could be a huge differentiator for iOS and Mac development and it would bring to Apple the largest developer base out there.
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There can only be one explanation: most consumers are dumb.

You know how that makes you sound? Like a 9/11-was-an-inside-job, "we never went to the moon" conspiracy theorist. "There can be only explanation: the majority people aren't as enlightened as I; wake up sheeple!"

But let's go with that: people are dumb. Assuming that to be true, are you arguing for or against regulating what goes into a can of refried beans? As you've already proven, people are not capable of making sense of nutritional labels, therefore it is not fair to put the onus on those who are incapable, I see no other option than to regulate the industry with heavy oversight for the good of those who are not as enlightened as you.

Just thinking out loud here, but what options open up to us if we don't assume we're smarter than everyone else?
Agreed. Swift is quite high-level compared to C or C++, for examples. As with any languages, there are tradeoffs with performance.
John Oliver on Scientific Studies [video]
> More realistically, they are a simple list of materials (in this case a listing of proteins).

> Its the equivalent of someone saying: 14,234 tons of steel..

I feel like that's taking things a bit too far in the other direction. With our current understanding, it's like saying:

14,234 tons of steel that's capable of self-assembling (e.g., collagen), 23,000 tons of concrete that automatically folds into a specific structure (~everything other than disordered proteins).

That's not to say that we fully understand how proteins fold/function... but it's a bit more than a static block of steel.
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Benghazi was the result of a YouTube video!

We're not spying on your emails!

I never sent classified information on that server!

Drone strikes only hit terrorists!

There are no secret "kill lists"!

With this insurance program you'll get to keep your doctors!

We aren't going to make you pay for insurance you don't need!

The SuperDelegates are just a way to amplify Vox Populi!

"If Facebook is keeping "news" like this, then I'm going to start spending more time on Facebook."
Microsoft Hits $1 Trillion in Total Cumulative Revenues
This reminds me of BeOS's BFS, which let you do all this as part of the FS itself :)
There are no derivatives here. Jefferies was going to sell bonds backed by the loans. The payments on the loans would effectively flow directly to the bondholders.

A derivative (e.g. a CDS) would be more like a side bet between two (possibly unrelated) parties based on the performance of those bonds.
> you'd think a math teacher of all people would know not to use "average" when they really mean "median".

I think a math teacher would be well aware that "average" can be used for "median", "mode", "arithmetic mean", or any of the other means (geometric, harmonic, etc.), as well as other computed values that are somewhere in the space bounded by the extremes of a data set, and would likewise be aware that, while in a formal context "average" should -- for that reason -- be avoided in favor of identifying the specific measure more precisely, it was acceptable and unambiguous to use "average" for any of those, including the median, where context made it clear which was intended.
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Some of my projects have double digits dependencies in their requirements.txt file so upgrading one at a time, even with pip list --outdated, would take too long.

I prefer to upgrade everything and fix things that break. I've always been able to easily figure out which dependency was causing the exception after upgrading all packages, so no point in upgrading them individually for me.

Also, I don't manually update my packages. My build scripts do that for me from my requirements.txt file, so it makes sense to update requirements.txt first.
> Do you feel that a consumer is responsible for what they put in their body?

Of course, but nobody has the time to become a domain expert on every subject (consider this a low pass filtering problem). It's reasonable for there to be food safety standards (who has time to investigate the meat packing plant, the mill, etc etc), building codes etc as baseline rules.
I'm 23, I used GNU/Linux since I was 11, and about at the beginning of this year (2016) I switched to FreeBSD. It was the first time I had an easily and consistently configurable, recreatable, understandable, enjoyable PC system that went out of the way once configured. It is so pleasurable that I don't even care I can't suspend and hibernate yet, even though I'd hardly turn of my computer and my workflow used to rely on having my laptop on for ten-twenty days and reboots were seldom and because of me forgetting to plug the thing in, or I updated the system. Also, I updated from 10.2 to .3, and it was the most pleasurable, most silent and non-destructive update I ever did. I just merged from /etc and /usr/local/etc to my config repo, and good to go (I have two scripts to copy back and forth the config files into my repo). I expect a mass migration to BSDs to happen soon. They are decent desktops, and soon they'll do better on laptops.
https://mises.org/blog/how-government-regulations-made-healt...

>Today, the U.S. and Canada have less than 25 doctors and 30 hospital beds (per 10,000 population), compared to over 35 and 50, respectively, in most countries in continental Western Europe. Mark Pearson, head of Division on Health Policy at The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), discussed possible reasons the U.S. spends more than two-and-a-half times per person more than most developed nations in the world, including relatively rich European countries: “The U.S. has fewer physicians and fewer physician consultations relative to its population. The U.S. also has fewer hospital beds for its population size and shorter average stays in hospital relative to other countries. Indeed, the lower numbers of physicians could help explain why they cost more; there is less competition for patients.”

Are the specific things pointed to there as a cause of a US doctor shortage all found in other countries, but without a shortage?

Definitely tort law which increases malpractice costs is far more of a factor in the US market.
Actually...

Babies learn to crawl, then learn to not crawl off cliffs. Then they learn to walk, then they learn to not walk of cliffs. So there is a point after they won't crawl off a high drop, that they will just walk off it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WanGt1G6ScA
I seem to recall reading somewhere that one of the reasons Vista was a "bad" os, was that it originally had much higher more optimistic ambitions to build a sql like file system (i suppose similar to this). It however had issues, and a decision to scrap it delayed the vista project, and reduced the scope of "cool" things it was supposed to deliver.
Do you need a "truly wonderful proof" for "the mainstream OS OpenBSD has not managed to render kernel vulnerabilities unexploitable, or to rid itself of those vulnerabilities entirely"? Because: that's an extraordinary claim for an OpenBSD supporter to make.
Bryanlarson is correct. The adblock plus extension also will block any image file with "advertisement" in the filename for example.
I make my own - start with a tin of decent quality tomatoes and go from there. No sugar needed.
There is a solution:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paywall-pass/

Basically just messes with the referer on an automatic basis for a few websites.
I see a good opportunity here build a 40-50 patient facility in touristy place like Thailand. It would cost about $250-350k then charge patients $4500 for a 3 month stay including medicine, food and board. Because of cheap labour and food your expenses won't be more than $20k per month. You would me making a profit with 40% occupancy with 85-95% you could recover your investment in under a year.
Is armed robbery a fight? If not a fight, what then, and why not?

If I murder someone during an armed robbery, is it a reasonable justification to say "things happen in fights"?

If I give my children the money that I took from the person that I killed during that armed robbery, and it gives them a comfortable life, and the children of the person that I robbed live in poverty - should my children feel guilty?

If they do feel guilty, are they feeling guilty for my sin, or for their own?

> And of what metaphoric blood are you talking that decendants inherit?

I wasn't using a metaphor. People are filled with blood. It spills where they fall.
I'm part of the "Chris McCandless was an idiot" crowd, but I guess he was intentionally not optimizing for survival. Into the Wild is still a very engaging book, but it frustrates me so much that people idolize a guy who made bad decision after bad decision.

The thing that pissed me off the most was when he burned his money instead of donating it to charity.
I'm an American and I agree with this. We have consistently either not voted or voted in people that push the same foreign policy decisions that have gone wrong over and over again.

Sadly, a lot of us thought our current POTUS would change that. Yes, we projected. That's why Sanders is getting so much support, IMO, because he has an actual track record to hang our hopes on.
Try posting a link to a Breitbart story here on HN. It's silently suppressed. Doesn't even appear in 'new'. Whereas links to rt.com are welcome. That's just how things are, comrade! :)

My previous rant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11518592
> The Facebook CEO was overheard responding that "we need to do some work" on curtailing anti-immigrant posts about the refugee crisis. "Are you working on this?" Merkel asked in English, to which Zuckerberg replied in the affirmative before the transmission was disrupted.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/27/angela-merkel-caught-on-hot-m...
To me, the most interesting empirical result of the Swift language evolution so far is the lack of urgency on language-level concurrency.

If they think they can be competitive for years (at the very least vs. Objective-C) with only platform-level concurrency support, it makes me wonder whether concurrency is generally better provided by the platform instead of the language for most needs.

Conventional wisdom would have it that for a systems & application language designed in 2014, a good concurrency story would be close to job #1.
This definitely affects React Native a lot
Someone should make a site for sharing little "guided tours" of open source code bases...
It's not worth responding here really so this'll be the last - you assume calories in and weight out are perfect measures of energy conservation in a closed system. Here's an experiment that refutes your position despite your constant insults - weigh yourself. Drink 1 litre of water. Weigh yourself again.

EOF
There's an awful lot of stupid behavior death in cave diving as well.

A lot of the risks are mitigated by proper gear and training, just like driving.

Don't dive too deep on air to avoid nitrogen narcosis (similar to don't drink and drive).

Dive with a buddy.

Dive with team and individual redundancy.

Do not silt out the cave (the way you kick and your proficiency in the water has a lot to do with this).

Always have a continuous guideline to the surface.

Reserve at least 1/3 of your gas for emergencies.

And in practice there's other rules -- like you should always sight-see or use cameras/videos on the way into the cave. On the exit you should be more efficient (effectively this usually means you use 1/3rd of your gas to enter, and only 1/4 of your gas to exit, which means you have a higher buffer should anything go wrong).

The redundancy figures quoted are also low. I've done around 200 cave dives. I've had one hose blow on me in a cave and therefore lost a regulator. I can't think of any other local divers who have had a similar situation where they've actually needed to exit a cave with a failed regulator. I would say the failure rate is most likely closer to 1 in 1000. But even taking 1 in 200 as the failure rate, the chances of three failures are 1 in 8,000,000 and even then you can buddy breathe off of a single remaining regulator and you should still have gas supply to exit (the remaining third is there for that kind of situation).

And now I'm more careful to not only get my regulator serviced but to be more aware of changing out hoses and to do so before cave trips if there's signs of wear.

Generally with cave fatalities there are blatant issues, such as failure to maintain a continuous guideline leading to navigation errors leading to simply running out of gas because nobody was paying any attention.

There's only one known cave diving fatality where all the rules were followed and diver still died, which was the cave diving fatality that killed Parker Turner.
Calling FPTP "majority voting" and then saying "it doesn't lead to a candidate preferred by the majority" makes this very confusing.

The main problem with FPTP is that it's not "majority voting". Majority means majority of the electorate, and others who are not preferred by the majority of the electorate tend to win with FPTP when the vote is split.

And why not use range voting instead of this? I'm not selecting between "Great" and "Good" and such is a much better solution.
Siri creator shows off first public demo of Viv
Seems similar to the features offered by pip-tools [1] and pip-review [2].

If you want to automate updating your requirements file, take a look at requires.io [3].

[1] https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools

[2] https://github.com/jgonggrijp/pip-review

[3] http://requires.io/
I feel that some people are very good at seeing problems, and some people are very good at finding solutions to problems.

I don't see any reason that the same skills should be present in any given individual, so you always need both types.
> Uber is eliminating drunk driving fatalities now? Those same people couldn't have called a cab before Uber existed?

Speaking for myself, I take Uber/Lyft regularly but would have never even considered attempting to call a cab and dealing with the cost/uncertainty inherent to that. I'd much rather not spend an hour waiting outside for a cab that ultimately decides not to show up. Rather than deal with cabs, I would simply just not have had a drink if I didn't have a designated driver.
Yes, they had GC working with Objective-C but there were so many problems with it that they dropped the GC in favor of ARC years ago. By the time Swift came along, GC with Objective-C was no longer an option.
It's easy to forget sometimes that our leaders are still humans. Bill Clinton was as human as Saddam Hussein - the only difference is that the US has strong institutions to check the powers of its human leaders, so Bill never became a Saddam. People like Donald Trump rise when when those institutions are rattled either internally (the GOP sold itself to hurt Obama) or externally (9/11 rattled the national apparatus and consciousness so much that the Iraq war was greenlighted, despite the tenuous link there).

The key is to focus on the institutions. As long as the institutions remain strong, we may be able to weather the occasional rogue leader.
Not really. HN traffic isn't really enough for most of those sites to notice. I'm certain that the only people at Bloomberg who would notice would be the reporters (who participate here) but they would probably have little sway over the technology and advertising platform, which would lose a lot of money getting rid of their auto-playing videos.
No problem, I know the feeling :) it can be hard to avoid responding emotionally if you see something that is aggravating even if it might be a misinterpretation (as I sincerely think it is here.)

I should not have made the 'smart arsed comments' comment which was rather ironic also, so sorry for that as I distracted from my point and deservedly got karma-hammered...
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Obviously there were 158 children in total.
What editor do you use? (FunFunFunction)
OP here.

I have read Josh Mitteldorf blog[1] in the past, but was completely unaware of his line of reasoning regarding aging. This sentence[2] caught my attention:

Genes are turned on that destroy us with inflammation and cell senescence and auto-immunity and programmed cell death, while the systems that protect us from pathogens and from free radical damage are gradually shut down. Evolution has left nothing to chance.

And then, the reference to the "Gilgamesh project" seems appropriate:

As of now, the GILGA-Mesh project is dominated by numbers geeks (like me) who practice the “Google approach” to bioinformatics. Huge databases of gene expression are screened for epigenetic candidates that seem to be well-correlated with good outcomes. I think what we need is an infusion of biolochemists who understand something about the body’s signaling networks, and can orient us toward “upstream” and “downstream” molecules [2]

So, I am just posting this in the hope that some biolochemist wants to join this project.

[1] http://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/

[2] http://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2016/05/09/epigenetics...
I understand it's a beta, but no pages on pricing?

This would be an API I would build my business around. No way I would touch it without an idea of how much it will cost me once it exits beta.
A mod of /r/sports (~6M users? is that right?) said

>Send me your automoderator rule once it's done, we'll add it our sub as well.

Seems likely to spread pretty quickly.
Oh darn, you beat me to OpenWall. It's one of the earliest attempts at securing the Linux mess that many forget about. Solar Designer deserves some credit for his effort. Modern stuff, esp hardened RHEL or Gentoo, is far better option due to maintenance if nothing else.