skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
113 of the 149 experts are from the US and Canada. 3 are from South America. Dunno, but it seems that a large portion of the rest of the world's experts doesn't care or doesn't see it this way.

Also, the Olympics are a billion dollar business. Billions of dollars VS faster spreading of Zika. Billions. They aren't going to postpone it.
More or Less is also an excellent radio program he narrates on economics and statistics, definitely worth a listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd
Airport Trains Suck. Will REM Too?
Anecdotally the people I know who eat/drink sugar free things don't lose weight, which always struck me as odd when it cuts out so many calories. I'm assuming someone has done some science on this before but I can't find it right now.
Even a VC fund would have a hell of a time investing that much cash. The biggest VC funds are "only" in the single digit billions per fund.
Yeah, even assuming you bought the majority share and sued the executive team for mismanaging the company, you'd have to prove they weren't focusing on profits. Which they essentially are.
I've been pretty happy with https://bitbucket.org/liamstask/goose/ to solve this for us. It's an alternate that you can specify different, custom environments and compiles to an executable (not just a library).

Honest question: what's better about Migrate that I should look at? I read the godoc and the repo, and didn't see anything new (compared to Goose).
Note that for Ceres, "visible from the Earth" means roughly "visible from the sun".
Zika can also be transmitted by sex.
> but presumably some of the people who have a "belief" in a higher being have some sort of evidence[2]

As you've noted, their evidence isn't the kind worth considering and is thus not good evidence and thus is not rational to conclude a belief with. I stand by my statement, there is not a rational reason to believe in any gods of any sort. That doesn't mean people don't believe, or don't claim they have evidence, it merely means their beliefs/evidence is not rational and is easily picked apart by actual rational thinking. There aren't any arguments for gods that aren't just bad arguments that presuppose God.
He hacked how to get free advertising.
You should look at this:

https://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg

It's a (normalised for 2012 dollars) chart from a study comissioned by the US government in 1976 to determine how much money would need to be invested per annum in order to achieve viable fusion power by specific dates. You can read the whole thing here (including the unmodified chart):

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1021815909065

The chart I have linked you includes an extra line of data not found in the original report, namely how much has actually been invested.

Ongoing funding of fusion research dropped quickly to a half and then about a sixth of what the US government knew was needed to achieve their goal. It is in no way the fault of the fusion research community that we do not yet have a working reactor, they've been viscously strangled by bean-counters for 40 years.

Frankly, I think it's a testament to the great work of some badly under-appreciated people that we're as far along the road as we are, and if you want to support funding you totally should because we've known for 40 years that increased funding is all that's holding this back.
You don't have to succeed because of physical might, but it is a useful additional attribute.
Light influences the body via the Suprachiasmatic nucleus [0] a tiny center that sits between your eyes.

This center basically regulates the circadian circle and plays a big role in the transformation of serotonine to melatonine, which makes you go from stress to sleepy.

Artificial light interferes with that.

I think it would be a kind of holy grail for psychopharmacology if you could somehow control this center via light impulses (or implanted LEDS :) ). You could calm anxious patients for example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprachiasmatic_nucleus
That is, hiking the peak power of the laser pulses that are applied increases the number of filaments that result without notably influencing the individual intensity or the energy each filament carries.

So these filaments are basically quantized particles?

...and their pulse length of 70 femtoseconds would be about 0.02 mm, or not too far off how wide the filaments are. I guess the proportions would be similar to a pair of saucers with the rims stuck together.
Maybe there should be an Olympic nation. Some country just gives up the land, their claim of sovereignty over it, hand it over the U.N. (certainly not the IOC) and wealth redistribute without all of this stupid waste. Billions of dollars spent with a moving olympics and all the infrastructure ends up not being used for pretty much anything ever again. It's one of the most idiotic things on the planet. I like the olympics, sorta, but how we make them work is immensely wasteful. The very possibility it would be canceled and the infrastructure never used for its intended purpose even once makes that all the more apparent.
It's been done https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_John:_A_Book_About_Men
It could be done just before they are about to arrive. There are many ways to make sure people are not discriminated on Airbnb and the time it would take to implement those changes would most likely cost less than the bad press they are getting.

Even if they don't care about people being discriminated against they could at least think about the loss of potential customers.
I did the same thing last night! I fired up the overwatch trailer for my girlfriend and started crying quite a bit. Then I put on the Soldier 76 clip, and cried even more.

How much did you cry during the last episode of Game of Thrones? I was gasping for air between the sobs!
The internet was pretty terrible in Santa Cruz when I lived there, so some competition can really help.
You wouldn't stop the worldwide spread -- just delay it. This was mentioned in the Harvard Public Health Review [1].

Time is important, here, because scientists are racing the spread of Zika to develop eg vaccines.

[1] http://harvardpublichealthreview.org/off-the-podium-why-rios...
Oh, surprising, I'd never heard of this before. I'm definitely going to dig into the concepts a bit more. Thanks for the link!
The host is wrongly perceived as someone who dislikes Caucasians.
Millions of MySpace pages are now in danger of being turned into garish monstrosities by malicious hackers.
Godwin's law kicked in again. I am impressed how it makes its way into every discussion.
Is 'tax penalties' the official name ?
Of course, everyone should know that Idiocracy is a time-displaced documentary...
Show HN: Apostello – sms software for your church
This is a graph I made some time ago comparing the Billion Price Projects index data (which I downloaded from their site) with the Argentine Monetary Base as reported by the Argentine Central Bank:

http://imgur.com/Xyd8RXa

The black line is Argentine Monetary Base as reported by the Argentine Central Bank. The blue line is the BPP data, the green line is the official Inflation rate as was reported by the government at the time. Note: the left Axis numbers represent Millions of Pesos and represents the value of the black line.

Kind of difficult not to jump into conclusions.

Last but not least I did a website that mines Argentine Central Bank Data daily and produces Graphs and reports based on it: http://estadisticasbcra.com/en . It includes a public API: http://estadisticasbcra.com/api/documentation if someone wants to use the data I'm compiling.
Wasn't expecting such a negative reaction to this. For Issues, the feature isn't particularly useful to me, but for Pull Requests, it's a great way of declaring who needs to sign off for the PR to be merged. When big features come into PR, people where I work were reluctant to use the 'Assignee' feature at all because it implied that the PR was already 'taken' for code review. Now, a front end engineer can assign themselves to do the FE review and a back end engineer can assign themselves to do the BE review, and the reviewers can be directly seen from the PR list. Nice.
Consistently reneging on bookings, though, is a strong signal, coupled with reports of discrimination. It's much easier to brush off before hand.. "oh, our plans actually changed, so we can accommodate you.

(granted, this can still happen, legitimately, even in a post-booking display mode.. but post-booking cancellations could be a signal for flakiness and, overall, a reason to put hosts on notice that they need to shape up)
You know what... I downvoted you, but I think I misunderstood.

Are you saying that Zika and hurricanes are not really a big deal but are made to seem so by the press... or that they are a big deal and the press poisons people against properly responding?
Thanks for the suggestion. Looks interesting.
Link for others: https://roots.io/bedrock/
I have quite a bit of software on my computer and it really didn't turn out to be necessary to whitelist very many of them. It really isn't a huge deal. There are added benefits that something like visual studio tries to access the internet for things that aren't really a benefit to someone who doesn't want to give 'smiley face feedback' or log into their locally installed IDE for some reason.
Stare at the sun to cure your vision. Uh huh...
I live in Queen Anne in a 1000 sq ft 2br for $1850 a month.
It's really not that bad. Even in the core of Capitol Hill when I was looking a few months ago I saw places for 1650/mo for 700 sqft non-studio.
I try to keep it related to tech, mostly on anything I find interesting http://darrelld.com/
How Browser Caching Works
I would normally have sympathy for Apple due to the voracity of this patent troll, but Apple once demanded that Samsung pay them a $40+ per phone licensing fee. Karma sure is a bitch.
Yes. And that nation should be Switzerland: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/opinion/01altekruse.html.
Your proposal would never work: the Olympics need to be decentralized for it to feel "fair."
They don't need it?
It seems Greece would be a good candidate.
Arguably, the appeal is how much money it brings in, and the economic benefits of people being paid to build all this and all of the tourists traveling in? Beyond the general prestige, of course.
Well they do have to return the cash if the shareholders demand it since the company doesn't own itself, the shareholders own it.
I managed to register a Yahoo account when I was a child with the password of 'poo'. Login still works although unsurprisingly I do get a notification of suspicious activity on the account.
Bruce Schneier's Skein hashing function is now in FreeBSD
Think of the "company" as fictitious. All the company is, is the combined assets of shareholders. So the shareholders decide if they would rather have the cash in the corporate entity or in their own pockets.
Random fact... Orange juice loses its flavor when pasteurized, always has. If you want "real" orange juice, you need either fresh or cold (high pressure to sterilize) pressed, which you can now buy.
There is a time and place. An article about Dr. Heimlich in which some senior citizen invokes an age old remark isn't it.

Once you can show me the data on the benefit from that single remark, and that it doesn't correlate with the concept of 'diminishing returns' strongly, then I'll concede.
> Maybe crying is seen as an intense emotion for rare occasions so when someone seems to be crying every weekday or over trivial things it demeans the powerfulness and impact of crying.

Yes, I think that's the issue. Crying should not just be for rare events or an indication of extreme emotional distress. People cry for all sorts of reasons.
Square releases API for taking payments in your own Android apps
Or you know, we could just cancel olympics. I'm hoping that it will come to this eventually as countries lose interest in hosting them.
That sure looks tempting.
That's what happens with new technology is what I am saying.
Oh! Haha, I was wanting to order one too!
Not if the olympics aren't held.
CDC: Zika Transmission Risks:

Through mosquito bites,
From mother to child,
Through sexual contact,
Through blood transfusion.

"... Anyone who lives in or travels to an area where Zika virus is found and has not already been infected with Zika virus can get it from mosquito bites. Once a person has been infected, he or she is likely to be protected from future infections. ..."

http://www.cdc.gov/zika/transmission/
Even hunter-gatherers have HUGE impact on the environment. They often set fires to clear underbrush in forests (making hunting easier) or wildfires in grasslands to drive herds of animals (again for hunting). They move around and introduce new plants, they divert streams, they drain swamps, etc, etc. pre-industrial man was responsible for the extinction of dozens (if not more) species. The idea that man's impact on nature is recent is laughable. We have been shaping our environment for tens of thousands of years.

Thing is, other animals do this too. The canonical example is beavers and their dams. But recent detailed study of ecosystems have shown that the impact of wolves is astounding. The same is probably true for most other species.

There is no "balance of nature". Nature is dynamic and ever changing. Man is a part of that dynamic. Our advantage is that we are aware of our impact and can manage it.

Wealth from industrialization allows societies to take steps to clean up previous damage. The rivers and lakes of wealthy nations are cleaner now than at any time in the last 100 years. The US and western europe have more forest cover now than in 1900. The air is MUCH cleaner too. All that requires the wealth that industrialization brings. Poor people are simply too worried about feeding their children to demand that there are pretty forests and parks to go camping in.
>It is pretty rediculous a company that is less than 2 years old can win a settlement for fucking twice it's market cap

No it's not. Regardless of what you think of them if they own IP that was used by another company to sell a product that generated hundreds of billions of dollars then they should be entitled to fair compensation regardless of their market cap.
I don't think Uber shows the rider's photo on the driver's phone (from what I've seen it's only my name) - perhaps for this very reason?
And when race is one such aggregate?
I suspect the article title may have been changed -- it no longer includes "for the first time". The article itself includes the following quip:

> Despite claims that this was the first time he had used the maneuver to save a life, a BBC news report in 2003 [0] suggested it was not.

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2825971.stm
Call: Aliases made simple (Kotlin)
So, they're in danger of improvement then?
I am a black man, and I have dealt with this too. Here is few hacks I came up with.

1. In your profile picture wear one or more of the following fedora, suspenders, thick rimmed glasses, and a bow tie.
2. Position a white or (more ideally) an Asian woman center frame, and position yourself behind her left-center.
3. Have some animals in the picture. Cats are easy, ponies work best.

Try to add other things that make you less threatening, eg. babies and ice cream.
I'm trying to figure out where to start with this comment.

1) What is "business interest loophole"? Do you mean carried interest, which really only applies to investment partnerships and not corporations?

2) The purpose of the Accumulated Earnings Tax is right in the IRS description of it - "The purpose of the accumulated earnings tax is to prevent a corporation from accumulating its earnings and profits beyond the reasonable needs of the business for the purpose of avoiding income taxes on its stockholders." It is generally in society's best interest for companies to reinvest their money in the economy and citizens rather than hoarding it, hence the tax. Or do you disagree with that?

3) I have yet to see anyone take the "we should let corporations bring back their money tax-free" argument beyond just saying that it would somehow magically create jobs. Can you provide a rational breakdown of how this is supposed to work? Apple brings back $200B to the US and then... what? Hires people it doesn't need? Builds factories that won't be profitable? If a company thinks it can make more money by investing in on-shore resources, then it will invest. Instead they're hoarding cash because they don't have anything good to spend it on. The only argument I can see is that ROI for on-shore use of funds has to be higher than the repatriation tax rate to justify bringing the money back, but so what? That just means that we're in an economic situation where no one thinks they can get a 35% ROI on hiring more people or spending more on R&D at the scale of multiple billions per year.
You would certainly want capacitors rather than batteries to do the initial energy capture. That doesn't really help much though; the amount of energy in lighting is of a completely different scale from what we can handle with current technology.
If countries freely choose to pay the bill in exchange for the prestige, who cares about the waste?
Nextdoor is a messaging platform too, even more so than AirBnB, but the difference is that they are taking steps to combat racial profiling on their platform. Steps like meeting with concerned parties in-person and having open dialogue with their user-base. They are even working with external parties to test some product ideas that they believe would help the situation (though it is acknowledged that it's impossible to completely eliminate something so deeply ingrained in a society and culture). [1][2][3]

I think there's a marked difference in attitude between the companies towards a problem they both face and just because Facebook or Big Company X ignore stuff like this doesn't mean it's ok for everyone to ignore it. A change in attitude alone is progress on these fronts and we should hold more of these companies accountable so that they at least try to do something. It's not their responsibility to eliminate racism, but I believe it is their responsibility to try to understand how and why something like this manifests on their platform and try to take steps to curb it.

It's not an easy problem by any means, but try is the key word here. More companies taking well-intentioned steps like this leads to learnings that can be shared across our industry.

[1] https://blog.nextdoor.com/2016/01/27/our-commitment-to-end-r...

[2] https://blog.nextdoor.com/2016/04/12/improvements-to-how-our...

[3] https://blog.nextdoor.com/2016/04/26/continued-improvements-...
How to deal with people you can't stand, in the workplace
They say it's too hot in Qatar to hold the World Cup too, but you can't argue with money.
The basic heuristic I use for determining what 'counts' as science relies on 3 questions

1) Are there methods or is there a description of how to observe something?

2) Are old methods being applied to a new phenomenon.

3) Are new methods being applied to an old phenomenon.

It isn't possible to do science if you don't have a viable tool (method) for measuring a phenomenon of interest or if you can't describe the phenomenon you want to study in a way that others can observe it.

Cases like Mochizuki with the ABC conjecture are harder, but at least the ABC conjecture is a know quantity.

It is reassuring that classifying papers by category of research works fairly well. Both phenomena and methodology are described using specialized vocabulary, and mismatches tend to jump out, like trying to use a hadron collider to study the blood pressure of a frog.

I almost like to believe that a crackpot that could masquerade as a scientist might actually discover something because they would be forced to actually engage with the concepts and tools of science.
Such a blight needs to be eradicated. Why is there still no cure for vision??
Then what do you do for the rare events?
The Quiet Crisis Unfolding in Software Development
If it means it will be a 10s of millions of dollars business this year instead of a billion dollar business because of concern of travel to the olympic site then it might. Although most of the money isn't coming from visitors, but from television. I would definitely stand with athletes concerned with their personal health if they were to boycott. At least a few have expressed concern and intent to avoid this year's olympics.
My friend has been getting spam texts ever since I goat attacked them. Are you selling phone numbers or leaking them?
Yes it is. Amazon supports 3rd party sellers.
I do strength training more as a way to exert a somewhat healthy form of control over my body which helps tremendously with my nigh-crippling self esteem/body issues (therapy might help too but $35 at a gym is much cheaper).
Oddly enough, this has been the single most useful piece for me in understanding what the folks who created the DAO sought to achieve. It also points out some problems that, no doubt, can be rectified in a future instance.
Not sure how much I'm allowed to say, but I've been working with both controllers for a while and honestly really prefer Touch over Vive's controllers. They have way more expressiveness, which means we're often running into things we want to do with Touch that don't easily translate to Vive's trigger/squeeze/thumb combo. A basic example, you can do rock paper scissors with Touch. Not perfectly since you still have a controller in your hand, but it totally works.

It's a huge plus for Vive that it has motion controllers on launch, but if Touch comes out by end of 2016, half a year's difference isn't much time in the grand scheme of VR and I bet most of the Vive exclusives will be cross-platform then too.
Well, if they use Word, then I guess we're fresh out of luck because that problem is yet to be solved.

And no, one does not simply suggest to a business person (or politician) that they should learn "markdown" or LaTeX...because reasons.
It's unknown how long a Zika infection puts one at risk for negative birth outcomes. There are a number of young women competing in the Olympics who would like to have children.

Then there's the partners of male Olympic athletes (who might either visit to cheer on their partner or get it from sexual contact), tourists, etc.
I was 30+ too when I moved from Mechanical Engineering (with MSc Mech Eng) to Software Development (MSc Info Sys). I'm from the Middle East.

By the end of my MSc study in US, It was extremely difficult for me to get an internship. My professor was inclined to try to push me further into looking for opportunities but it was dry (a recession). Internships give you, as others mentioned, a foot in the door - but also launches your career at the 'level' that would potentially mean a certain level of income in X years. And not to mention the mentorship you will get.

What I did was, through my local contacts, get a a semi-paid gig for building an e-commerce/catalogue for a vendor. I took that opportunity to learn, on my own, as much as I can. I networked heavily. I went to all tech events I could. I built it in Java/Struts-1/MySQL (the stack of the day) in 3 months.

I then moved back to my country (maintaining my launch app for 2 years). I had a job opportunity waiting.

I never said no to work, network opportunities or pet projects. Anything that I came across I'd try to learn/build. I was married with 1 kid (with a very supportive wife).

Forward 15 years - I'm a Canadian software consultant. Reasonable pay. Lots of challenges especially with the economy. Success? Perhaps.

Email in my profile if you want to discuss further.
Or, how can we have a moveable infrastructure that probably isn't worth investing in.
When renting out part of your home, does protected status apply? Last I remember if a woman only wants another woman to live in her home that is legal even though gender is a protected class. Only after passing certain limits does protected classes come into play (I think it is if the property being rented isn't one you live in or if you rent to more than 3 people and some other such limits).