skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Unlike cell phones, noise-cancelling headphones do not emit low level radiation and do not pose any of the potential hazards that could stem from frequent use of a cell phone held next to the ear.

>Actually, noise-cancelling headphones can be beneficial, since both loud noises and constant low-level noise can lead to health problems. Acute loud noises can damage hearing, interfere with sleep, raise blood pressure and stress levels and cause headaches. As for low-level noise, a study published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America in March, 2001, found that Austrian children who live in neighborhoods with constant low-level noise (mostly from automobile and train traffic) had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol than youngsters who lived in quieter neighborhoods. And a study published in the February, 2006, issue of the European Heart Journal found that heart attack risk was higher among people exposed to chronic noise. I actually recommend noise-canceling headphones to help avert the health problems noise exposure can present.

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400774/Are-Noise-Cancelling-H...

And tons of others -- besides the basic lack of any mechanism by which noise cancelling cans could be harmful for the ears compared to regular ones. The burden on proof is on the "damage" side.
There's a big gap between "shielding [consumers] from technical details" and legally mandating that all packaging contain those details. Why is it imperative for consumers to know the types of poisons to which a plant was given resistance? And why do they need to know how the plant came by the nutrition it contains? Nutrition information already required on packaging.

For that matter, why isn't the method of genetic modification something you consider important. All modern (and even not so modern) crops are genetically modified in some fashion, whether by selective breeding or exposure to high-energy radiation.
>> although around here I mostly hear "because they forced g+ login on youtube" or "because they killed reader"

You forgot {{insert all possible privacy concerns}}, and on that wave, total disrespect for user choices. As a very tech savvy human I still can't dodge all their malicious attempts to collect my data, imagine the non savvy human fellow.
To what end? Philae requires Rosetta as a 'repeater'. Even if it did knock Philae into a better position, we would never know.
Formally there has been some study that you could look through [1] and there are some simple examples that you can play around with [2], but personally a lot of it just feels anecdotal. There are certainly some general societal and socialization factors in play (women have to carefully balance just the right level of assertiveness or else be perceived as either incompetent or a bitch- in some environments there's no middle ground at all). As a women who's been in software development for a decade I can definitely tell when I code switch between talking to technical people and not, but from a first person perspective it's probably too hard to separate out meaningful and widely applicable things from my own quirks and personal experiences.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=text+analysis+gender&hl...

[2] https://www.uclassify.com/browse/uclassify/genderanalyzer_v5
[2] http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php
I don't object to GMO foods but I do want accurate food labeling. I find the big push by the corporate food producers to make this accurate food labeling illegal to be very disturbing.

Consumers have the right to know what the are buying.

BTW, for people arguing that GMO foods are a hard requirement for feeding the world, I have another suggestion: beef uses a 100 times the water and resources per gram of protein as lentils do. The beef industry requires HUGE subsidies from the government in the form of free or cheap water. Eating a single hamburger uses the water most people use for 3 months of taking showers, just to put things in perspective. As a tax payer, I am sick and tired of supporting people eating beef - make them pay they actual cost of production.
>Nope. I bought that takeout food and brought it home. I'm not using my iPhone in an Apple store.

The "restaurant" is the iOS, not the Apple store. I only used the physical location (a restaurant) as an analogy.

You're using the App in an environment Apple created.
>But this raises the fact that someone without any means to speak of is basically screwed.

Absolutely. My takeaway from listening to Undisclosed (a follow-up to Serial podcast by Adnan's supporters) is how much of a difference having a team of lawyers and investigators makes to casting doubt on presented evidence. That's why money makes such a huge difference. It's not corruption. It's manpower. There is no way a public defender could devote so much time and research like the Undisclosed team did to, say, present a case against the state's cell tower evidence - and that was only one piece of evidence presented to the judge.
Kotlin 1.0.3 Is Here
Facebook's new tool will help you raise funds for charity orgs
- "engineered to be vulnerable to confidential substance" - EV

Probably the biggest threat of GMOs is that if you can make them more resilient to a herbicide, fungicide or what have you, that you can also make them more vulnerable to some substance that could then be later used to trigger famines.

Except you don't advertise that.
I feel bad for the judge. He's bending over backward to rationalize the end justifying the means... and he's dead wrong.

His argument is essentially that if your house is connected to a road, then there is no expectation of privacy.

I expect the ruling, or at least that absurd part of it, will be overturned or superseded. But the counter argument (for future cases) would be that running through a physical firewall is not a direct connection to the internet (silly as it is to make the argument).
> So, many weeks later, when the final word was "gosh maybe we'll never know!"

But... that's the point. The finally episode spells this out very explicitly - although they can't say either way whether he did it or not, they found they don't have sufficient proof they he did commit the crime he was convicted for, and therefore does not deserve to be in jail.
Variant, destructuring, template auto.
Crinkles: A short Sci-Fi story
This applies to many "model minorities" that aren't form Western countries. I've heard the same thing about people from India and Russia/Eastern Europe.
There's also Fair Tax, which is not income, but rather sales, which are typically simpler.
Zenefits screwed up a bunch of our state registrations and payroll taxes. The worst thing was the hideous customer service in trying to resolve this.
Ha, I have a VM with Fedora 23 and one on Debian 8, I got both of these errors before coming to the comments to check
Okay, it can be replaced by three 80 line functions. Where are the unit tests? What's the difference in object size after the code's been compiled? As it's been broken up into three separate function calls, how much more of the stack is it taking up? Does your code rely on excessively complex tricks which would make it more difficult for someone 20 years down the road to understand? What benefit does your change make to the overall process?

With Source Code Management, what you're doing is making sure someone owns the process of ensuring well-documented , well-verified code is what becomes part of a system that will be used for the next 40+ years. Those big enterprise systems you deride have been proven they can handle decades of use, can you say the same of your modern VC system?
I don't know the answer to that, but just wanted to mention you would want the market price to include the cost of storing the captured CO2.

EDIT: never mind. if anyone was buying this at market value, it doesn't make sense for the buyer to store it indefinitely.
Can we get some european power metal style generators in place? :P
Given the ambitious plans of making ia64 THE architecture for high-end servers, that was an EPIC failure (painful pun fully intentional...).

About the only (major) vendor that uses Itanics is HP, and when Intel decides they no longer want to build them, HP is in trouble, unless they manage to get The Machine ready first, which I am not overly optimistic about (but happy to be proven wrong).
This is an impressive volume of work, especially for one person. How do you stay motivated?
Their point stands. The Chinese government is a bad actor with a history of tapping university students for industrial espionage. Their population also dwarfs ours which could justify some concern about American students being "crowded out."
>If a court asked yahoo for some sort of log record from 1999 would they even have it? I suspect they would.

I don't think they would today.

But you raise a good point. The investigation was sloppy. For example, the alibi of the then current boyfriend of Hae, turned out to be forged, but none of the investigators bothered to follow-up on it. The library had video cameras, with copies held for a few weeks, again the investigators never bothered following up on those either.
Women at Facebook were ordered not to wear 'distracting' clothing, says book
Does it support operator overloading? I tried it quickly (`define +(...){...}`) but it didn't work. Maybe there is a notation for it but I couldn't find it in the tutorial.
> print($"My name is ^(@name).")
>
> I don't understand why anyone would still require special notation for interpolated strings, when we have the awesome and unambiguous string interpolation syntax introduced by Swift (granted, this project was started in 2011, before Swift).

Why should the swift syntax be considered the default now? "My name is $blah." has been the de-facto standard for ages.

Personally I like interpolation sigils since in most cases you don't actually use it, and languages like Scala allow you to define custom sigils with custom behaviour. For example, Slick defines a sql"SELECT * FROM table WHERE username=$username" syntax that does not cause SQL injection issues.
Post.find([1,2])

Works in Rails 4
I find this more useful and informative, to be honest (While C specific, it can be adapted for other langauges as well): http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
There's a warning that makes it clear that you need to maintain your full attention on the road, when you enable Autopilot and every single time you take your hands off the wheel. If anything, giving users specific scenarios where Autopilot may fail would take away from that fact, and make it seem like there are other cases where it's ok to take your eyes off the road.
>Do you have a source for GMO improving nutrition?

Golden Rice comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
>Golden rice is a variety of rice (Oryza sativa) produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, in the edible parts of rice.

But see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12015708
The 2 years is also a maximum time period. On that date, the EU treaties no longer apply to the UK, whether negotiations have been concluded or not. The only way to extend that is if the EU unanimously agrees to continue negotiations.

http://www.lisbon-treaty.org/wcm/the-lisbon-treaty/treaty-on...
Interior Department spending $50K per month on unused mobile devices
Unlimited random-generated Children Of Bodom-like solos :O
I would sell my body for this.
Damn. That explains why Dinosaur Train and Daniel Tiger are no longer on Netflix today. That's frustrating.
No traits yet. A few other things need to be done first. Generics need to be name-able, System F, and core api is a more pressing need right now.

My plan is to tackle traits in a few months, so long as everything goes well. But I want the above stuff done first, so that when I do traits I can start thinking about higher kinded types, trait inference, and the like.
Swift string interpolation syntax is not more awesome or any less ambiguous than other syntaxes used in other languages

In fact, it's the first time that I've seen interpolation with round parentheses, rather than curly braces (which are used in javascript with $ (es2015 template literals), python, bash with $, ruby with #, groovy with $, etc... )

> LoL. Refcounting can lead to just as long pauses as GC

He didn't say more performant, he said consistent
Worth asking: is there any scientific reason why data fitting a particular model would appear to only be available from partisan sources?
Well, if its ok for USA to do Industrial Espionage (see Echelon programm), I don't see how it is wrong for Chinise to do the same to get economic advantage. You Reap What You Sow.
'Not statistically significant' means you can and should say nothing about it — it just as likely happened by chance as any other theory and, as such, you should leave it that: it happened by chance.

In terms of analysis - it might as well not have happened at all and is only worth mentioning if you had expected something significant to happen.
> we want our function to just swallow those errors and return an empty array in such cases

No no no no. That's a silent failure and a bug. That means our code is doing something we don't intend or understand.
It would be quite nice if there was a synonym for expect (say unimplemented_expect) that meant 'I haven't bothered to implement the proper error handling yet' rather than 'error handling shouldn't be required'. That would really enhance auditability of in-progress code.
True enough, I'm not sure why the word 'unconstitutional' was used. This seems to be a pretty clear case of "laws enabled by the commerce clause", so all it would take is a repeal of Sherman to change the situation.
Well you conveniently skipped right over the part of my comment where I said that you shouldn't be using the whole 500kb lodash library... (also, it's disingenuous at best and borderline lying to say that lodash is 500kb. The DEVELOPER version is 500kb, the production version is 67kb before gzipping, and 22kb after gzipping)

If you are only using _.forEach, then you should only include _.forEach, which comes out to about 10kb before gzip compression, 5kb after (i just built it myself to test). And all but about 1.2kb of that is "core" code, so if you add additional lodash functions, most of them will increase the code size by about 2kb at the most.

That means that for an overhead of about 8kb, you can start adding extremely useful functions all throughout your codebase with very little overhead. 1.2kb to easily and quickly iterate over an object using the key and the value in each block;

_.forEach(obj, function(value, key) { // do stuff })

Pure js:

Object.keys(obj).forEach(function(key) { var value = obj[key] // do stuff })

Not that much of a difference space wise, but the performance is terrible if you are iterating over a large object, and by using Object.keys you exclude some UAs.

Now let's look at _.find in an object...

_.find(obj, { 'age': 1}) // returns the first object (in the object) that has a property 'age' that equals 1.

Pure JS:

var objKeys = Object.keys(obj)
var retval
for(var i; i < objKeys.length; i++) {
var value = obj[objKeys[i]]
if ('age' in value && value.age === 1) {
retval = value
break
}
}

And that's untested, will only work for an object of objects, has unknown performance, and sure as shit took me more than 1 extra second to write (about 5 minutes once i looked up what the compatibility of the 'in' operator is).

You could use the native .find() function, but that won't work on chrome for android, android browser, IE (any version), safari 7 and older, and opera. Plus you'd still need something like Object.values() in order to convert the "parent" object into an array to search through.

Plus what if i want to find an object in an array and in another object? (which I actually just had to do, which is why i thought of this use case) Well now you've just doubled your code, doubled the amount of tests you need to write, doubled the chance for random bugs to crop up (what happens if one of the object values is undefined? What happens if obj is null?).

With stuff like the lodash cli where you can make builds that literally only contain what you need, the lodash babel plugin that will allow you to require lodash functions and it will build only what you need, or webpack which will tree-shake away everything you don't need (and actually does a better job than the lodash-cli does!), there's no need to avoid lodash like the plague.

I'm not saying include all of it, i'm not saying use it in everything, i'm saying that you should use your brain and include it if it's going to increase the speed that you can develop, reduce the number of bugs you will face, simplify your codebase, and won't negatively impact your users. (after all, a single image will blow the 5kb of js you'll be saving out of the water)
They do have an option to turn on POST instead of GET.

This is from their page on privacy ( https://duckduckgo.com/privacy ):

> Another way to prevent search leakage is by using something called a POST request, which has the effect of not showing your search in your browser, and, as a consequence, does not send it to other sites. You can turn on POST requests on our settings page, but it has its own issues. POST requests usually break browser back buttons, and they make it impossible for you to easily share your search by copying and pasting it out of your Web browser's address bar.
Do you think the adage "Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it" holds true in the technology industry? I could cherry pick some examples just to start a flame war, for examples Node's "invention" of single-threaded event-based concurrency, but that feels a bit unfair ;)
>I enjoyed Serial but, later read critiques of how the Serial podcast was making entertainment out of someone's actual life and another person's actual murder.

I don't fault Serial for that because Sarah Koening and the team were very respectful - and there is nothing wrong with telling a crime story.

I did find the way people were discussing it online was offputting, for the reasons you stated.
I feel like mobile (Android, really) needs a fast, secure and extensible browser, I hope that Servo can help Firefox achieve those first two goals so that it could be my browser of choice
Learn to host Website in Linux
Whew. The article must have been updated after I read it, because that statement isn't in my cached copy of the article.
Whither the Webpage
The options are pretty clear, but I'm not sure what exactly you are suggesting, is it:

"The UK will be able to negotiate access to the common market without acceding to those four freedoms"
This literally just happened to my Dad. He went from working fulltime to being retired. He has completely lost his sense of purpose in life, mopes around, is becoming depressed. I feel bad but its also kinda pathetic. I mean c'mon dude you have decades of time to do whatever the fuck you want to.

To me this is a symptom of men who do not find any other purpose in their life besides working and providing. We need diversification of interests and activities for our long-term wellbeing.
How Oracle’s business as usual is threatening to kill Java
There's no operator overloading. I'm pretty reluctant to add it too, because I've seen it be abused far, far too many times. It has uses, yes, but I'm not very interested in it at the moment.

I won't say absolutely no to it, but if it were to be added, it wouldn't be right now. There's too much api that needs doing right now.
Interesting, thanks. I didn't realize multiband was so fast on the Skyra - good to know.

The big advantage in principle for neurosurgery is better resolution of crossing fibers and complex branching, for example the lower/lateral projections of the CST to hand area. I'm not sure if any clinical software can take advantage of these scans, yet, though -- so processing would probably need to be done under IRB in researchy software. There's also ongoing work in several groups to better resolve and possibly even characterize tissue microstructure in and around tumors using multi-shell DWI (especially relating to edema).

Here's one small study that compared several high-angle methods to standard DTI:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23254805

Walt Schneider's group at Pitt has also done studies in neurosurgery planning and TBI using HARDI-type methods (no cite handy at the moment).
>Talking about 2050...

I don't think it's useful to not do anything merely because it's possible the future might turn out like you describe. We (as in humanity) should try to solve the food problem while also preventing nuclear war etc.

Or did I misunderstand what you're saying?
Addendum: Whoever owns duck.com forwards it to google.com, so duck.co would be a really bad place to be as a search engine
Our society was sold the idea that diversity would be beneficial for productivity. When and why did we stop valuing the end and instead value the means?
IoT Challenge Samsung ARTIK Cloud
Good start. I think it would improve with some more layout & colour scheme work. Keep at it!
That research has been called into question [0]. In my opinion it's like anything else...there is no absolute answer. Some people will be happier with more money. Some won't.

[0] http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2013/...
Sounds kind of like Yahoo Pipes. Is that still around?
Oh, yes, absolutely recommended!
This is kind of saying that the salaries paid for tech talent in the Valley is an outcome of tech elites conspiracy. While in reality it's a function of history, location, network effect and estate prices.

Big enough market disruption can easily tip the scales. And leaving the EU trade zone is pretty destructive for banking and European HQ beachheads in London.
Two things from my memory. 1. They hit some bad PR when they pushed a badly broken release in a point update. Turned out that their testing was not robust, while Lodash's is excellent, which further hurt them (this is when I first remember hearing about Lodash) 2. Lodash adapted better to the module landscape, especially by splitting all of their functions into separate packages.
I'd actually love to see that!

I've thought about it a bit before, and always ignored it because there'd be no real benefit.

But i could see writing a crazy webpack config that breaks out all my lodash functions into their own bundle, then tries to add a script tag to the CDN version, doing some quick processing to determine if it's in the cache, and if it's not falling back to including my own custom-built script tag (and canceling the request to the CDN version).

I'm sure it wouldn't provide any benefit to anyone, but it would be a fun code-golf exercise!
In this Guardian article, they say the only grounds for suspending an EU member are a breach of EU values, such as freedom & democracy. Maybe they could invoke that on grounds of ignoring the referendum, but it might be a precedent the EU don't want to set:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/25/article-50-b...
You don't need an equal sample size to determine if autonomous cars are safer. But if you're comparing to all the cars on the road today, you need quality data that matches the distribution of cars today. Google isn't going to prove that autonomous cars are safer if they only test in Palo Alto in ideal weather conditions.
What? Early retirement is a different ballgame than severance package. Why should zenefits be on the hook (or compared to) for the former?
I was going to ask this. It's quite difficult to make male/female voices sound like either with just audio filters/modulation, so I immediately wondered how convincing the effect could really be.

I think that the clip you linked to sounds more like a stereotypical 'camp' gay man accent if male at all, which is obviously testing for a different kind of unconscious bias altogether.