skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a public health crisis that needs urgent attention. Governments should step in with huge funding to NIH and pharma to accelerate R&D, and offer incentives to invest heavily in antibiotic development (extended patent terms for antibiotics, tax-free repatriation for antibiotic R&D funds, whatever it takes).

The current free market approach is completely failing this. It's not particularly profitable to invest many years in a drug people only need to take once to cure a disease when compared to developing a drug people need to take for 5-10+ years to manage a disease.

Phage therapy should be further developed as well, which has been proven to work against some resistant strains.
It's entirely plausible that Niantic didn't realize they were asking for too much specifically because Google didn't show the permissions being asked. So any time they tested their own app, they would have just seen what everybody else saw, which is that the app asked for access to the Google Account with no mention of what permissions.
> Christians believe that for folks who don't know Jesus, nihilism is essentially true

Some Christians believe this. Some Christians don't. And some Christians believe something which technically agrees with this, but doesn't actually hold that knowing Jesus by name or having any contact with formal Christianity is essential, which makes it functionally more like the reverse ("people for whom nihilism is true don't know Christ").

Christians, even by the narrow creedal definition, believe lots of different things.
You can get eggs at Pokestops that will hatch into Pokemon after putting them in an incubator and walking a specific amount of distance.

Or without the jargon, yes, some parts of the game reward you for distance travelled.
Where are you getting ETFs with no fee and no rate increase? And how would company offering said investment pay the staff?
Useful read and touches on several concepts I'm working through (or around) currently on a prototype. 2nd, maybe 3rd iteration thus far. Frustrating but the good kind of challenge.
Siri on my phone has been activated multiple times by the Siri TV commercials.
No, it works for other repostiories.

Probably Github uses cloc. I downloaded the code (over 500MB, insane!) and cloc throws an error.
Wouldn't that be similar to the tech that removes echoing from voice/video chatting when someone isn't using headphones? I wonder how intense that kind of processing is.
It is maybe worth noting that MacOS X has file system events that allow the Finder to receive notification when files are changed, so that it can update its display immediately and doesn't have to constantly check for updates. Meanwhile in 2016 Windows still can't do this, so half the time when I add a file to a directory by downloading it or writing it programmatically, the window I'm using to look at the file system will be out of date.
One of the co-founders started dating a woman that was being paid by the company and her compensation went from $180k/yr to $480k/yr? That alone seems like a gross misuse of position and authority.
Wait, the research program of the EU is doomed and unattractive?

I thought discussion here was under the assumption that the UK wants to participate in exactly those research projects...

> In the UK it was migration policy.

It was the UK governments migration policy.
Yeah this one's my favorite too.
Correct. If fees are due to Guideline, we use them to pay down the .03 custodial fees. :)
Many feared (and fear) Brexit for it's domino effect against european integration, but recently I'm seeing a silver-lining: EU-ropeans have to stop being complacent and take of euro-cracy for granted because they now know an exit CAN happen, and protest votes (even if only tangentially related to the issues at hand) have irreversible consequences.

So, I for one see the Brexit (the process, not the outcome) as positive to European democracy. The process will (and should) be long and hard to reach a fair outcome to both Britain and EU and voters will learn from this.

The EU is messy by design, despite its obvious democratic-deficits which needs to be tackled by those who believe in european integration. I'd rather have neighbours settle their issues and common goals in a messy, frustrating forum then in the good-old battle-field (military or economic).
From the FTC announcement:

"The FTC also alleges that Warner Bros. did not instruct the influencers to include sponsorship disclosures clearly and conspicuously in the video itself where consumers were likely to see or hear them."
This reminds me of The Dilbert Hole, a profane take on Dilbert's watercooler mirth.

Scott Adams didn't take too kindly to it.
Cost of Turnover for Software Engineers
Capitalism is eating itself. It just happened to survive the first round against comunism, and go unchecked for some 30 years. Now inbalances are becoming obscene, and a breaking point will be reached.
Malicious Pokemon Go APK Files Can Be Used to Steal Bitcoin
I haven't played with this too much, but does Mist need a local copy of the entire blockchain? If so, I'm not sure these decentralized applications will be accessible to the average user. On the other hand, the application in the tutorial directly deals with Ether so the user may already have a fully validating node. Are decentralized apps created on Ethereum intended to always involve Ether? I suppose Ether is used to reward the miners for hosting the application?
>Only a small portion of population would personally benefit from programming skills without doing it as a job.

I disagree entirely on this premise. Not because it is wrong, but because it has become less and less true over the past few decades.

Anyone who performs any trivial or repetitive task on a computer benefits from being able to set up a small (think 3-5 lines thrown in a for loop) script to automate the task for them and there is an increasing amount of people who perform trivial and/or repetitive tasks on computers. If it is only an hour once a week and they can have a small program turn that into a few seconds - they save 52 hours of doing a mindless, boring task each year. Having 52 hours to do literally anything else is a personal benefit. Minus time spent on automating the task of course. [0]

It's death by a thousand papercuts - except most people are failing to see the papercuts because they don't have an education enough to see what they could be automating with little effort. They go through their daily routine doing the same trivial tasks hundreds of times because the possibility of automating those tasks never crosses their minds.

Are the benefits minor? In most cases, yes. Just like the benefits of being able to properly phrase your Google searches is also minor.

Leave programming a photo-recognition app to the professionals. The average person won't need to know how to program that. Creating a small AHK macro that writes today's date? "Life changing"; actual quote from a coworker. The "life changing" program?

:R*?:mdyy::
FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, MM/dd/yy
SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
return

>It won't make or break your life but it will make it a degree easier.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1205/
It's still being written because Jim Davis's chief motivation in starting Garfield was to do something about the struggling economy in his home town of Muncie, Indiana.

The strip's mediocrity is a secure source of income for two dozen people in a struggling town, and thus also a source of income for everyone who pumps their gas, buses their diner tables et cetera.
At my uni our Software Engineering I (CS301 or maybe it was II[CS302]) class was entirely based on requirements gathering and estimation.

It was a real eye opener for me- I'd been writing code in many languages since I was 10, but this was my first glimpse at "that other stuff" that takes up the majority of one's day.

All in all, I feel like it prepared me for what I would face in the real world. We had to do stakeholder interviews where the professor or a TA played the role of unforthcoming/neurotic stakeholder, were introduced to various general document types like stakeholder analysis, cost/benefit analysis, requirements overviews, etc. and the last 1/3 was pretty much applying all the interviews and data to an estimation process. We also did a greenfield project, an additional functionality project, and a system replacement project to work through the pitfalls of each.

I also think it was the first time I read The Mythical Man Month and Waltzing with Bears.

The two things, by far, that stick out about recent college grads (or really, new developers in general) are the inability to estimate and gather requirements and a complete lack of knowledge around source control.

GitHub and a lot of projects that are based around checking project source out has made a lot of Junior devs more familiar with at least the idea of source control, but very little prepares them for the flailing and hand wringing that comes with estimation.
> I heard it does strange things to the mind to cut rat heads for an hour straight

I've spent a few years doing that. While I can see how the image might appear to folks who haven't been in that field, it's a bit hyperbolic to to think of it as a soul-bending meat grinder. Conducting an animal study in a reputable institution is regulated by an ethics committee with the purpose of scrutinizing scientific motivation and the care of animals. When you're clear on the purpose, methods, and minimum animal requirements, it isn't butchery. Furthermore, keeping the animals comfortable (through medication and other means) doesn't just serve to make the researcher feel good; it also eases stress on the animals, which otherwise can confound medical data. In short, it's a sophisticated professional endeavor, and the science gets more mindshare than the visceral unpleasantness of performing surgery on an animal. It has also been my experience that most people without experience in animal research can be quite surprised by the degree of similarity between animal care and use committees and human subject research review boards. Animal researchers can have a fairly high bar to clear to justify the use of vertebrate animals.
Air to air refueling where the refueling is fast charging lithium batteries and the tanker is formation of drones not KC-135 full of jet fuel.

Probably not the craziest idea ever.

While the "refueling drones" are circling overhead waiting to charge up a transport jet, may as well use them as five mile high wifi access points for internet, and divebomb amazon deliveries. I mean they're up there, may as well make use of them when they aren't charging jets.

Think of the FAA madness WRT flight plans and mandatory minimum "fuel" and alternatives/diverts. The paperwork alone for aerial refueling on plain old passenger service is likely to get weird.

Meanwhile if solar panels get cheap and durable enough, or safe enough in a crash to plow thru, charge the drones off panels laying around the airfield.

In theory you could have 100% solar powered high speed aircraft transportation using this weird system.

Note that you can cross the ocean if you have a dense enough fleet of charger drones. By dense "enough" I have no idea what to say here.

You need enough battery power to get "up there" and to cruise between drone hookups (which might only be a couple seconds if the drone comes along with you, or if you have dual charging ports I guess that means zero...)

Note that every airframe full of people requiring 2 or 3 smaller airframes full of batteries will be an interesting capital cost to work around.
I'd like to see some Swift tutorials out there that are not related to Cocoa and other iOS/OSX frameworks.

I've tried Swift several times, but as a sysadmin, I'm interested in cli apps, servers, network libraries etc. I either already know how to do these things or can find out quickly in python/ruby/go or even rust. But whenever I try to find out how to do these already familiar things in Swift, it's a pain to find the right documentation/examples.
Lawmaker introduces new H-1B visa reform bill
Information on the incidents in Montana and Pennsylvania
seems minimal at this point, but may I suggest the phrase
"Darwin mode" to describe the decision to engage the beta
version of Autopilot without being continuously ready
to take over driving?
Thanks for the response! I'm excited to see what you all do with the errors:)

The UX of compilers have been improving dramatically lately...
Washington is, comparatively, riddled with violent crime committed with firearms; despite having some of the most restrictive firearms laws in the nation. Ironic doesn't begin to describe the kind of idiocy it takes to then recommend those same measures for the rest of the country, but alas, they do.
Appreciate that feedback. We are really focussed on the product and have not spent enough time on the marketing site. I'll pass on this feedback for sure!
Will it block this article too?
I like this book as a means to present the ways people describe how software is developed. However, as I read I'm itching to annotate it with notes on "what really happens". I've worked in this business for a few decades now, in various locations and various sizes of companies, including a few that are household names. I have NEVER seen software built on the ground in exactly the ways one sees documented (documented anywhere, not just in this book).

A couple of things I don't see mentioned (apologies if they're in there, I haven't read every word):

1. Process does (and should) vary tremendously depending on factors including the organization size, organization maturity, market maturity, experience level of the people involved, budget, etc. The book seems to suggest that there's a one-process-to-rule-them-all.

2. Often there are significant unknowns about a project : unknown technologies, unknown market needs, unknown requirements. Being able to accommodate the unknowns, which can mean not expending effort trying to know something unknowable, is important. The book I think gives an impression of quite confident smooth progress toward project completion that I personally have never observed.

Also: The value of Rubber Chickens is not mentioned...
While what you say is true to some extent for Western Christianity, the fact remains that Christianity has taken deep root in a number of places in the world that were free of western biases, e.g., China, Korea, Africa, and South America. A huge diversity of cultures have had their own struggles with Christianity.
Camus would tell you that by killing yourself, you have utterly failed to embrace the absurd. I would say the same for anyone chasing scientific techno utopias.
If you can find the strips and aren't easily shocked it's quite the interesting read.
Lyft app privacy leak – automatically picks someone else's account
I am using an AT&T mobile taken around 6 months ago. Looks like someone else used it before me and ATT reissued the same number to me.

Now, as soon as I install Lyft iOS app it thinks that I am still that old person and reveals me all their account details and I could book rides with that account!!!

I think in the name of convenience this is a very severe bug and unacceptable failure to protect privacy. I mean it could have been my account in someone else's hands.

Lyft app should have at least asked for the password to login after app reinstall.

I couldn't find a work around so far to detach the account and I don't expect it to happen from my side, which again could lead to potential issue of people detaching contact numbers of others.
"Researchers haven’t identified a new class of antibiotic medication since 1987."

Teixobactin is 2015 and is probably a member of a new class of antibiotics.
What Shakespeare’s Plays Sounded Like with Their Original English Accent
The article says that someone considered Senior in the other two areas, once reaching a mid-level of technical competence, would be considered senior overall.

To bring the idea into a couple of the other fields you mention, consider:

A lawyer, just out of law school but with 10 years of software experience and recent work in patent submission.

A doctor, just out of medical school but with 10 years experience as a registered nurse.

An engineer, just out of college but with 10 years in construction, specifically welding structural beams and overseeing other welders.

The one that I have personal experience with is the military. Soldiers respect as senior their peers with significant outside experience, even if the regulations do not allow them to be promoted officially.

You can also consider, among officers, the brand new 2LT who was enlisted for many years prior. While they are a 2LT just as any butterbar, they are respected beyond their rank.

I don't think that the article is claiming that everyone 2 years out of a code bootcamp can be considered a senior developer, but that there are exceptional individuals who can.
> Remember that Paul Graham essay about how most articles that aren't about politics or war are pitched to the journalist by someone with a stake in the matter?

Most articles about politics and war are spurred by politicians' and/or governments' press releases, leaks, etc., and so are also pitched to journalists, often en masse, by someone with a stake in the matter.
At most of the places I've worked, I've been able to easily get consensus on the assertion that if a person can't explain what they're thinking to you then you won't be able to correct them if they're wrong.

You'd rather have an honest disagreement than have someone bumbling around the code quietly (and possibly quickly) making a mess that nobody notices until the debt is piled so high it blots out the sun.
There's a decent 5 years of strips in the run of 50 years, scattered but mostly front-loaded, though you also have to skip the first couple. But even the decent strips are low-key and subtle, and you may have needed to be able to connect to some of the characters more than you may have been able too. (I wasn't "Charlie Brown" as a kid per se, but I connected more than others might have.)

I know this because I read them when I was younger, pre-internet. Peanuts can't compete in a world of abundant webcomics. They range from the top to the bottom of quality, but given their sheer quantity, that means there's an awful lot of the "top" out there. The only syndicated strip I know that can stand up next to the top webcomics is Calvin and Hobbes.

(And even then, while the line art stands up, many webcomics' coloring blow away what Mr. Watterson was capable of doing in newspapers. Please note my phrasing on that; I'm blaming technical limitations, not Watterson's ability. IIRC he had some watercolors or something like that he'd done in the back of some of his books... his skill was beyond what newspapers of the day were physically capable of showing.)
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That's right. It's 30 minutes for VFR, 45 for IFR. Minimum. Nearly all commercial flights are IFR.
Articles like this urge me to stop reading pop science journalism altogether.

What is not mentioned is a new class of antibiotics discovered in 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teixobactin) which is a big deal in that it can be used instead of antibiotics resistance to which has been acquired by bacteria during this "golden age" and as microbes evolve extremely fast, within an observable timeframe they will lose resistance to the old classes allowing those to be used again. So effectively shelving will work.

Another point is that other new methods of searching for new drugs are being researched (http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11686268/new-antibiotic-dr...) and the future is not at all gloomy.
Do people find Sri and Google Now actually useful? I hardly ever find a use case for it, even when I am driving. I just think people should disable Sri and Google Now by default, and only activate after pressing a button.
Tribunal Overwhelmingly Rejects Beijing's South China Sea Claims
I really appreciate that they were able to make a change quickly and provide transparency about the issue and resolution.
I'm the founder of an edtech startup, so that's the area where I have the most experience. There are many teacher/bloggers who have blogs where they talk about edtech tools they like. They give the appearance—both to readers, and to companies—that they're blogging/tweeting/etc. about things because they think they are effective tools for learning.

The blogs have intake forms for requesting a product review OR requesting sponsored content, but the auto-emailed response is just a rate card. Following up to ask about product reviews (and even mentioning having won major relevant awards, which indicate a review-worthy product) leads to more rate card responses. In some cases, it's pretty clear that all of the posts are bought and paid for by companies.

Some bloggers have no disclaimers to this effect (and other teachers who read the site would have no idea that sponsored content exists, since they just read the "reviews" and don't look at the pages that refer to sponsorship). Other bloggers have a generic disclaimer, at the very bottom of a sidebar (which extends so far vertically past the primary content, no one ever sees it) that says that some content is paid for. But rare is the case where the blogger actually says "This post was paid for" and "This post was not paid for"—which is precisely what teachers and parents who read the site would want to know.

I'd rather not provide links to offending sites, since I'm not anon here and don't want teacher bloggers to hate me and my company. I realize they don't make much money and need to supplement where they can (my mother and wife are educators), but there are more transparent/legal ways to do this.
Renowned entrepreneur-educator Larry Bock dies
According to that link, it's been part of "Microsoft-speak" for over a decade.

It's definitely a noun, but the kind of noun that only annoying business people use.
> Yes, that's why the EU is doomed and will be gone within a decade no matter what they do now.

Serious question: would that make you happy? Would you maybe prefer a replacement for the EU?
Mess. Unfortunate for a small group of humans to hemorrhage what is/was a chance at 2.0 transportation. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

If not them, a different group will clean up..
I liked Calvin and Hobbes a lot, but it all depends on one's tastes; I make no claim that any of them are objectively 'good' or 'bad'. I do think C&H seems to have a lot more effort and thought behind it than Garfield or many of the Peanuts strips.
This makes telemetry effectively useless for developers though, unless a big intrusive "Click here to opt in" button is presented during startup. Nobody is going to enable it on their own accord.
The FBI has collected 430,000 iris scans in a so-called 'pilot program'
Isn't existentialism the cure for nihilism? It doesn't matter to the universe, but it matters to ME. I exist. From this we are left with the heavy burden of deciding what we think is good and bad, right and wrong.
[need-advice]what is your web app development workflow?
It's somewhat depressing how much smarter people seem to have been in the past than they seem to be now.
Evolving JavaScript at Gusto: Goodbye Backbone, Hello React
California's population in 2013 was 38.4 million. According to the map, 2 Californians per million were affected by firearm violence that led to death, so that'd be about 77 people killed by firearms.

According to "Homicide in California 2013" (https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/cjsc/publicati...) Table 21, in 2013, there were 1,699 homicide crimes where the type of weapon used was a firearm.

That's just crime data, it doesn't include suicides.

Am I reading this wrong or is the data way off or is it indicating some other kind of firearm violence?