skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure is this article mentioned it, but from another one

"As for why allergies are seemingly on the rise, this work does nothing to dispel or support the so-called hygiene hypothesis, which links allergies to modern hyperclean environments. With the advent of clean water and childhoods devoid of consuming much dirt (and the millions of bacteria and viruses that come with them) the immune system does not receive the early training it needs to function correctly, the hypothesis says. A healthy exposure to those invaders leads the body to invest more in type 1 responses, including strong microbe defense, rather than type 2 reactions such as allergies."
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Every video on demand service I've used (Netflix, Amazon, etc.) streams the video. This is all well and good, but it requires an uninterrupted connection for about 2 hours if I'm watching a film. Or it requires the service to buffer for at least as much time as any outage may last - something which appears not to happen. Are there any competitors that can guarantee me a nice, interruption-free experience like a good old dvd provides?
Ziggeo’s Founders Explain Keyword Extraction Feature
Standard Chartered is a massive multi-national bank with a £17 billion market cap and a multi-million line Haskell code base. Is that still a research project?
Here is a fairly recent and interesting documentary on allergies:

http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/the-allergy-fix

Parasitic worms, and their modulation of the immune system (and the possible faulty human over-compensation for this) are one of a few different theories that are put forward. I thought I would link it here because it's fairly informative.
A few years ago Radiohead released the high-level stems for Reckoner (man, I guess that is going on 9 or so years now!). They let people download them and create their own remixes of the song. It was a lot of fun, and I remember listening to some pretty cool remixes.
Well... time for anecdotal sample-of-1 "science":

About two decades ago I got a huge case of almost-asthma pollen allergy out of nowhere, almost overnight. I got the usual treatment (desensitization + meds) and it got somewhat better over the years. Simultaneously I developed other allergies though, for example, suddenly I was very allergic to cats (I had had cats earlier, so that was new).

A few years ago I was diagnosed with a case of chronic heavy-metal poisoning.

Now, many treatments with DMPS (the main chelator for mercury) and DMSA later, I have completely lost all allergies (and a long list of other "strange" problems, including a real medical miracle that left the endocrinologist repeating "I'm amazed" over and over after checking his ultrasound results twice, after asking me to lie down again because he did not trust his results).

End of anecdote.

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EDIT: As someone who has taken hundreds of hours of anatomy, physiology, org. chem, statistics (focus on public health and use in medicine), neuroscience, I am aware that there is not "one path that explains all". There are soooooo many pathways, and different things can affect different parts leading to similar results. So I am NOT saying "this is the one and only way to get an allergy". In fact it is highly unlikely that there is only one possible cause. So if you have found an anecdote that seems to show that something else helped and/or caused it than "heavy metals" that's just fine and normal - and has nothing to do with my anecdote. You can get a flesh wound not just by cutting yourself with a kitchen knife, there are endless possibilities.
Unicorn: a simple and flexible abstraction of BigTable-like databases
I do not have any allergies, i was born in summer and was on fresh air a lot. I have friends that were born in summer also but they were in house mostly and those that were born in winter and they both have allergies. Lately i have read scientific paper about statistically bigger amount of people with allergies that didn't born in summer. So make your kid touch the mud and ground, make it breath the air as much as he can while he is little. It's all about environment and contact with it.. IF the kid is under "parents bubble" when he is young it's not healthy for it.

Link: https://theconversation.com/your-season-of-birth-is-stamped-...
I assume he/she means that CSS is cached as an http resource and can be reused in different pages, whereas style attributes are only cached as part of the page; ie using them adds page weight.
Mineral extraction of non-renewable resources is a funny thing - when demand moves up, eventually supplies will drop, and prices rise. Then people either find a way to extract energy from a different mineral, or build better technology to remove it from rock, and prices go back down. The drop in oil and gas prices over the last few years being a perfect example of this, as it is due to new drilling techniques.

When the current lull in oil prices ends, electricity will take its place. And we will start the same cycle for batteries that we have lived through over the past 100 years with oil -- either technology will bring out more lithium, or research will move us to use a different fuel source.
Not the same there are pics of scammers on a crowded tube trains (london) with a hand held contactless device harvesting.
UWP apps (excluding the start menu) all just have a splash screen when you launch them, it doesn't have anything to do with 'speed'.
Ask HN: How do the January 2015 EU VAT directives affect your startup?
The EU VAT directives that became active in January 2015 state that any businesses selling digital goods or services to EU consumers have to charge VAT at the consumers local rate and pay it to the consumers local tax authority. There are also some hefty requirements about collection of non-contradictory evidence of the consumers location in case of audit.
I believe there are other countries who have similar legislation, and Australia are coming up with their own being dubbed the Netflix Tax.

I am curious to know how startups from around the world are dealing with this, if at all. Is it a priority, and if not why not? Is there a technical barrier to becoming compliant, and if there were a simple solution would you do it and what might it look like?

I presume the main reason for companies outside the EU not complying with this particular legislation is that EU tax authorities have no jurisdiction over US companies, and can’t impose it upon them.

edit: Originally posted yesterday, but Sunday was probably not the best day to post.
The weird and wonderful CIC (2010)
Wittgenstein's Beetle in the Box Analogy
Supposing this is correct, you can add the json with cat: arecord -fdat | cat init.json - | wsta ws://
Owa?
> This part is the more grey area and interesting to see the ISP inactivity rules.

How is it a gray area? The ISP is telling you to stop sending to the address by using hard bounces. If you continue to send to it, you are spamming.
This page is the case where HN comments provide better value then the provided article.
Thanks. I know you didn't write the headline, but it would've been less clickbaity as, "New theory suggests allergies are caused by an essential toxin defense".
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Reminds me of Soviet plans to divert Siberian rivers to the south (deserts in Kazakhstan etc.). It's quite wasteful that these rivers flow north, where nobody lives, when you think about it.
How does this explain why only some people are affected by allergies. If it's a defensive mechanism, shouldn't we all have it?
Project 'Murphy' Hitler filter bypass
You'd still need an Earth-Sun transfer orbit, which is still a lot of deltaV.

http://i.imgur.com/SqdzxzF.png
It's signaling 101.

What are you supposed to say; we hire mediocre developers? Give me a break. "Best" is such a loaded, nothing term that it doesn't really mean anything without a ton of context.

This is a waste of outrage.
> Responder Chain

Protocols, or even a superclass.

> NSUndoManager

Closures. Even Apple has moved away from target/selector for new APIs in favor of blocks.

> Key-Value-Coding/Key-Value-Observing/Cocoa Bindings

An equivalent is easily implementable in pure Swift, see ReactiveCocoa's PropertyType/MutablePropertyType, and I'm sure someone has packaged something similar as a µframework so that you don't need to add all of RAC.

> Core Data

This one is actually hard, as it relies on dynamic generation of implementations, instead of using that to solve a different problem, as is the case with KVO. I'm willing to toss Core Data overboard to gain the safety and productivity of Swift, but YMMV.
One other difficult problem I find with my parents, and with others of a similar age, is trying to persuade them to experiment with using their computer. They often find some convoluted way of doing something and stick with it.

For example, for a long time my Mum would return to google's homepage by quitting and restarting firefox. I had to explain how the home & back buttons worked several times. My parents were afraid to even try pressing unfamiliar icons in a program (or even realise that they were buttons that could be pressed). Again, it's not stupidity, but just uncertainty and their fear of breaking the computer if they do the wrong thing.

Giving a tablet as a present for my parents was a big help here. The biggest ease of use has been that I have persuaded them that there is just about nothing that they can accidentally break on it, and if they ever reach something confusing, then pressing the only button on the front will always take them back to a recognisable place.
The benchmark configuration appears to be designed to evaluate the use of storage technologies for a KVM host. Consequently, saying to use raw block devices when giving tips for improving btrfs performance is contradictory.

Also, there are a large number of people that will not run a newer kernel for several years because they are on RHEL6 or RHEL7, so while newer kernels are interesting, we should not discount the results on the basis that the kernel is old. The latest ZFSOnLinux code is able to run on those kernels, so while btrfs remains stagnant there, ZFS will continue to improve.

As for rerunning the tests, using recordsize=4K and compression=lz4 on ZFS should improve its performance here too. Putting the VM images on zvols (where it would be volblocksize=4K) rather than qcow2 also would help. In ZoL, zvols are block devices.
Decent nearfields cost $4-5k a pair. A proper pair of main monitors from the likes of PMC or Quested cost $50k to $150k.

It's easy to overlook the main monitors, because they tend to be recessed in the walls.

http://vintageking.com/pmc-loudspeakers-qb1-pair
http://vintageking.com/quested-hm415-active
I just wanted to say thank you for making these tools easily accessible and mostly free to try.

I work in academic research and learned long ago to ignore any PR related to AI/ML products. The ability to easily play with and test the abilities of Watson services is definitely helpful and enjoyable for us.
"Losers always whine about trying to hire the best...." - J.P. Mason

"The best" is a relative measure. An absolute measure must be set first and gatekeepers put in place to guard it. Then, do all you can to find candidates exceeding that measure and then pick the best FIT you can from there.

blisterpeanuts is right on...
Sounds like an opening for a new type of vaccine?
http://www.4trademark.com/faqs.html

What if some other company is already using my trademark?

If both companies offer the same or similar goods and services, and the other company has already registered the trademark federally, then you are likely out of luck. It may be best to find another name to trademark. If they have not trademarked, but they used the name first and they use the name nationally and pervasively, then you are probably still out of luck depending on the scope of their use. However, if they only use the trademark on a local basis, then you may be able to register the trademark federally and use it in those areas where they do not and have not used it before.

Example: Let’s assume they have a trademark in California and have only ever done business in California. You can still register the trademark at the federal level and use it nationally. However, you cannot use it in the State of California.
I've been looking at this recently. I'd really love to hear more about real-world experience using Tachyons. We're suffering from serious bloat (500KB CSS) on an old project, and are trying to figure out how best to manage CSS so it doesn't bloat over time (at least not as much).
Solving a Century-Old Typographical Mystery
Those ad hominems are the problem here...
just because the reigetsered in 2015 doesn't mean they weren't using before. Could get messy.
I grew up in Eastern Europe (born in the early 80s). In my cohort hay fever allergies are extremely rare and food ones are unheard of.

In the recent generations there are definitely more of them. EE was notoriously lax with pollution and industrial waste. So I think that toxins are not to be blamed.

The sterility hypothesis seems like a better explanation.
Corp: "We only hire the very best"

Programmer: "What's the salary?"

Corp: "Market average. Also, we're looking for people who aren't just motivated by money"
I posted this the a day ago:
The only CSS you will ever need / universal.css (github.com)
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One other aspect of "we only hire the best" that wasn't explored by this article is the practice -- especially common among unicorn companies -- of purposely casting a far wider net than needed, so that their hiring yield on applicants is dauntingly low.

The recruiting process is deliberately set up to yield a lot of false negatives -- i.e., applicants who are qualified on both skill and fit who are rejected for some arbitrary bullshit reason.

I suspect it's largely an effort to mindfuck the employees who do make it through the process. I'm so lucky to be here! Only 3% of applicants even make it to a five-minute founder interview, and only half of them get hired!
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I think seriously reinventing styles attribute is much worse.
And from another perspective, each will attract different types of developers.

MV is less about making money than it is about challenging oneself, delivering a creative vision and being outside the mainstream.
When you do it as satire but everyone use your work seriously?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but if Gmail is e2e, how can Google harvest user data from it?
We want people who are motivated by the mission.
this is wonderful! finally, a clear, succinct way of writing CSS. This is what I've been waiting for since I wrote my first <font /> tags when I was eight.
What is the best test and type of specialist to determine if you have metal poisoning?

I'm glad you are feeling better.
Belief has nothing to do with it. I can believe ZFC is inconsistent and the world will not change a bit.
You can't prove me wrong. (It's almost a religious argument)

If I believe the inconsistency of ZFC then I believe the machine must halt. I can't ever observe it since I can't know the number of steps needed. There's almost a paradox but not quite.
I vaguely recall reading something on Usenet or something that would have made it onto Slashdot or Plastic in the late 90s/early 00s, where someone treated their allergies or asthma or something by deliberately infecting themselves with a parasitic worm---I forget which, maybe hookworm. They actually went to so far as to cultivate the worm in some medium that they could apply to their stomach using a custom-made patch, started pooping oocytes, and then completed the usual treatment course for whatever it was they infected themselves with. I can't recall if it cleared up the condition from which they were suffering, and obviously, this wasn't any kind of controlled trial. Lord knows that such a study would give an IRB six fits, and rightly so!
App engine has 3.4 on their beta flavor right?

But yes in 2016 everyone needs day 1 Python 3 support. Python 2 support is optional.
5 Questions for Pre-Engaged Couples
Not sure why publishing online necessitates getting to the point. It's long form and follows a very common story telling format. The world has room for different ways to tell a story.
I wanted to combine several interests and acquire something like the Sony QX or Olympus AIR, which have lens mounts, with a computer based program and display (OLED eventually) for capturing night skies (and general exposure exploration). But I found none of the available systems have much versatility. Is there any affordable system useful for this purpose? I know some SLRs and high end 4/3 cameras have APIs, and hacker oriented devices like the PI's camera have potential.
Wow. How did you get poisioned if you don't mind me asking? And what was the miracle?
C may have some shortcomings, particulary policing memory vioations, but can be very lightweight and very fast.
Remember, Linux and Apache/NGINX are in C . Implementing the site specifics in C isn't that much of a stretch.
The extra speed could even make your site that much more useable.

The canonical genome browser is written in C:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg19 ... for pure speed.
Wait, how the hell did you get heavy metal poisoning?
It's also a signal to potential hires that "we only use the same hiring phrases and buzz words everyone else uses"

At best that can indicate "we copied and pasted the top part of this job description from every other job we've posted", at worst it can mean "we have a very corporate culture, so I hope you're going to bring your 'team player' rock star ninja game"

It's not good or bad, but it can tell you something about the company - just like the company will scrutinize resumes and job histories to find clues for what potential hires are like. Signals all around.
Oculus breaks hack that let Vive users play Rift games
He's just poking fun at some HR jargon. A few years ago, a common thing to say was: "We work hard, and we play hard." I guess some hiring managers still say that, and maybe they even mean it, but to me it's a sign not of innovation but of an overly controlling, paternalistic management style: "Playtime's over, kiddies!"
Physics? I would assume the car driven by the drunk driver is travelling at a faster speed than the car hit.
I find it interesting there is no mention of Backus-Naur Form (BNF) in here. It's the formal language to describe the syntax of programming languages.

Nor of there a mention of Flex/Bison or Lex/Yacc. I know those tools aren't cool... being decades old and all. But they are very battle hardened and make development much faster.

I don't know the background of the author or if they have a computer science degree. And I am most definitely not one to do something one way just because that is the way it has always been done. But articles like this seem to fly in the face of decades of computer science advancement. As a fun project where you learn a lot, great, I just hope someone doesn't try to use this to make anything that isn't a toy language.
they do stand out. People wouldn't be talking about them if they didn't stand out. People wouldn't independently come to similar conclusions that they weren't up to par for Japan if they didn't stand out.

I think it's because a website isn't a "downtown." It's more like a single building rather than an environment built by thousands of different people. But where is the Toyo Ito of Japanese website designers?

It's true those may be reasons why they look like they do, or part of the reason, but I think it's a question that is interesting. Even if Japanese websites get their "language" from those things, it at least seems like they should get their language from other places also, such as modern architecture or industrial design.
Newsletter might be too big of a word, but i do publish various stuff i work on at http://orbides.org/

You can also find the e-mail over there in the bottom-right corner.
Yes, there is, the most famous nowadays being DVD.com, which is the original Netflix: http://dvd.netflix.com/ There are also several companies who rent DVDs on physical locations.

Also, Google Play movies has an offline option, which is not the same experience as DVD, but seems to fit you bill: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2851696?hl=en
Nvidia  GeForce GTX 1080M faster than GTX TITAN X?
This article is a very good example of the genre of science reporting I find very uninteresting and even boring.
The way the writer builds up to the punch line by weaving in his own life and by overemphasiaing the trope of the 'maverick scientist challenging group think' is so contrived that it probably wrote itself.

Maybe I am different that I want to read science articles to learn new things and not to be entertained. The writer proves how hard it is to do both.
Apart from the misunderstanding, I think it would be actually interesting if you could buy the un-mastered version, plus "mastering" files to use depending on your setup (e.g.: crappy headphones, car stereo, home stereo), but that would require multiple mastering sessions and wouldn't probably be very cost effective...

Or you could crowd-source them but then it might go against the creators intentions...
That wasn't outrage... more disdainful mockery.
>Meanwhile SoundCloud streams 128k MP3s like we're stuck in 1992. Imagine if Vimeo or Flickr limited stuff to an equivalent lossy compression quality. People would not stand for it. But with audio it's somehow okay

HD screens are pretty much ubiquitous. Headphones (or speakers) that aren't trash I would guess less so.
Thank you for sharing this.

Can you share how you were exposed to apparently toxic levels of heavy-metals?
Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.
Crossfilter is amazing, and demo they have with d3.js is really cool.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-hire-the-best-just-like-eve... (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11223316)

http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/ (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326940)
interviewer: How far are you intending to take this?
me: Oh, just two layers deep

haha
Illustrio, Infinitely customizable graphics for everyone
Hello everyone!

We are super happy to release illustrio today! We’ve been playing with SVG these past few months and have built a CSS-based language which allows designers to make their artwork customizable in the browser. Some folks have been pretty creative. Hope you’ll like it.
https://www.producthunt.com/tech/illustrio-3
Thanks again for checking us out, Seb
Big Data and Recruiting: The Deadly Duo
I bet it had to do with the 2003 SARS epidemic in Hong Kong, as is also the case in other nearby Asian cities/countries like Taiwan and Singapore.

I'm from HK and to the best of my memory the practice never existed before the epidemic. During the epidemic, anywhere you went in public, there were at least 8/10 people wearing masks, thanks in part to huge public (TV/print) campaigns by the government and places like schools/clinics/hospitals providing free masks. That is just one of many counter measures that live on to this day. Another one is that all elevators and escalators have stickers or signs stating how many times/day and when it was last disinfected, and elevators tend to have a big clear plastic sheet covering all the buttons.
To be fair, the byproducts are not something we're unaware of how to manage, we're just socially and politically unwilling to do it. Likewise, we know how to design and maintain much safer and more efficient reactors than anything we currently have running, but we lack the social and political will to make the change.

Besides, we like to pretend that burning coal isn't killing millions of us around the world, decade in, decade out. Focusing on the real human cost of when nuclear goes wrong, vs. when coal goes right makes it an easy choice.