skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chiropractors don't fall just into "straights" and "mixers", there are entire schools which focus on evidence-based biomechanic adjustments and others that get way more woo-woo about it with energy healing and whatnot.

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/science-based-chiroprac...

That guy spent years being a chiropractor and while he acknowledges that the postulates of vertebral subluxation theory is implausible, he was also able to spend years helping people with spinal manipulations working as a chiropractor. It was only until recently that physical therapists began doing adjustments which began competing with chiropractics

Like with anything, there are good and bad actors and even a bad actor may help people even if their justification for why something is helping is fundamentally flawed.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
> a special database of almost all adult women in Turkey.

Now I'm wondering who put this together and why.
Shame because AMD seems to pop out cards with higher max tflops but seems to fail hard in the software department
In my personal opinion, those bits of research aren't much, and they would have found it when they looked around for the cause of the write-amplification. A truly good amount of research would also have popped up heap-only-tuples, as mentioned here[0], or other ways to mitigate too many secondary-index updates.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12167161
Mapr: Real-Time Message-Driven Service Oriented Architecture: Bringing the Boom
So ... you'd rather have a database with mixed encodings, on a table-by-table basis?

Ugh.
Perhaps their engineers can design a web page that allows the scroll wheel to work.
"The car was obeying the rules of the road too well. It was suspicious."
Only if the insurer in question is solely involved in auto insurance.

From the insurance company's perspective, they need enough of a capital reserve to mitigate the risk of a sudden shock in payouts. Spreading across larger geographic areas mitigates that risk somewhat, as does spreading through multiple businesses. Auto insurance is probably a particularly nice gig since it's relatively unaffected by things like natural disasters and would have a relatively smooth cashflow.

So, less capital from auto insurance means more capital has to come from somewhere else - more borrowing, if nothing else. That probably translates into either reduced profitability, or higher premiums on other kinds of insurance.

I'm not an actuary by any means, but that's my guess.
Technically speaking, Woz was employee #1 and Jobs was employee #2, although Jobs assigned himself #0 and always had 0 printed on his badge.
Flynn is designed to be self-healing, if a server goes offline it will recover immediately and automatically and no confirmed writes will be dropped.

We use a combination of Raft for service discovery and leader election, along with multiple instances of all core services so host failures within the quorum tolerance should not impact availability. The design of the data appliances is carefully considered, you can read an overview here: https://flynn.io/docs/databases

If something catastrophic does go wrong, like the power going off in the datacenter, there is code that can resurrect the cluster when enough hosts come back online.

We did have some issues with recovery that have been fixed over the past few months, I'm almost certain the issue that you ran into has been fixed. Data is never destroyed by Flynn, so it's possible to recover the database from disk even if Flynn isn't running.

The system is also designed to tolerate partial failures gracefully, so if for example service discovery fails, the router will fall back to a cache and HTTP clients should not notice that anything is wrong.
All that stuff sounds awful, please stick to using Windows.
We will be supporting it in future versions.
I'd love to help stroke your ego, but I see you're busy doing it yourself.
There is a lot of confusion surrounding this, which I can hopefully clarify. Wikileaks released a dump of email obtained from a hack of the Turkish ruling party (AKP), which can be found on their main page.

It turned out that the source of these documents was Phineas Fisher (@GammaGroupPR on twitter), the hacker who previously released documents on FinFisher, Hacking Team, and a few others. Due to some miscommunication with WikiLeaks, he was actually still in the AKP network when the WL release happened:

> I hacked AKP (the ruling party in Turkey) because I support the society people

> are trying to build in Rojava and Bakur [1], and they're being attacked by

> Turkey [2][3][4]. I don't see leaking as an end in itself, so I was talking with

> people in Rojava and Bakur to see how best to use the access I'd gotten. There

> was a miscommunication between some of them and someone gave a copy of the first

> file I'd downloaded (which had about half of @akparti.org.tr's email up to that

> point) to wikileaks. They quickly corrected the miscommunication and asked

> wikileaks to hold off on publishing it, but wikileaks decided to publish now

> anyway with the international attention from the recent coup attempt. To be fair

> to wikileaks, they didn't know I was still in AKP's network downloading files at

> the time they announced they were publishing [5], but they did know that the

> source who had given them the file was asking them to wait...

I am not certain whether the voter database Zeynep Tufekci described is contained in the WikiLeaks dump (e.g. as an attachment). It is definitely contained in the larger AKP dump released by Phineas Fisher.

Here's a writeup on what is contained in the full AKP dump, which confirms the claims made by the Huffington Post article. I have done some light checking against my own copy of the dump and verified that what they say seems to be correct.

https://medium.com/@crymora/when-leaking-turns-into-dumping-...

Note: I am deliberately not linking directly to the source documents, because I agree that their full and unredacted release was dangerous. You can no doubt find them if you search around, but I'd urge you to think about the possible repercussions carefully before propagating it.
Scala Days Recap and Why the Free Monad Isn’t Free
Am I the only one who bothered that seatbelts (1968) weren't included on the death per billion vehicle miles graph?
Awesome... nicely done.
Is it open-source under GPL and immune to patent suits? Lock-in, EOL's, and lawsuits are biggest risk Microsoft poses. If they GPL'd it, then Microsoft being the source probably doesn't matter.
"Your honor, witness testimony is notoriously inaccurate. Will you believe the officer? Or the cryptographically signed and verified vehicle logs?"
Jefferson's talking about memetics -- about the spread of ideas and ways of thinking. I don't see how IP law interferes with meme competition; and I don't see how meme competition justifies pirating entertainment (which requires large investments in visuals, audio, acting or voice-acting, computer programming, and so on, all of which the spread of ideas doesn't need).
I'm convinced that the ability to shop for and purchase auto insurance online is the best thing (for consumers) to happen to the industry in a long time. Better rates, better claims processing, better customer service.
> Black text on a white background can be harsh on the eyes. Opting for a softer shade of black for body text makes the page more comfortable to read.

No, it doesn't. The low contrast text is definitely harder to read in direct comparison with black. This is the point where I suspected that the page might be a parody of modern web design. Unfortunately it seems to be serious.

The syntax highlighting is similarly awful and the grey background makes it even worse.
Flynn lives!
My coworkers just got some Ikea boxes and swap around from time to time between standing and sitting.
Ethically, what's the difference between that and water fluoridation? Atomic number?

In both cases, you're forcing a chemical on people that the evidence says would be to their benefit, but with a Knightian ("unknown unknown") risk of really hurting them.
I'll preface what I'm about to say with "I have never worked for Uber and I don't know terribly much about their internal structure", but from my interviews with Uber and a few of their hires I know, it seems that they tend towards hiring totally independent teams from the existing staff when tackling big projects...including hiring an outsider manager to hire a whole team. I won't speculate as to the reasons for this publicly but I've drawn some interesting conclusions from this.

A multi-pronged approach that might involve multiple stakeholders just doesn't seem like their way of doing things.
> There have always been people

That "argument" is on the level of "my grandfather smoked and died cancer-free at 96" (so don't tell me smoking causes cancer).

In other words, we were not talking about extremely rare individual cases - the rarer the farther back in time you go. The science for and during the industrial revolution wasn't driven by poor farmers and workers. That statement remains true even if you should manage to find some poor fellow who did manage it. Even today we still have the problem of way too low upward mobility from the working class, even though they could do it without nearly as much trouble as in the past!
I don't think yesteryear's industry where only a few people could get published, or even find the time, knowledge and/or motivation to write, was particularly fair. We're in the information age, a lot of people can write, you can distribute things to almost anyone.

It's not good enough to just have the skills anymore you need to have context that an audience can relate to. It used to be that you either wrote quality and let the audience find you, as with books, or you wrote quantity and convinced the audience that you were relevant, like in news papers. Today you need both.
I really appreciated the point about the 'effectiveness' of any data analysis. If it doesn't provide a service, it's not actually effective.

To supplement the article - I'd love to see an in depth comparison of what it takes to 'deploy' python analysis into services vs a similar problem in go.
Agreed, which is why many clients create a pool of connections that gets reused. Connection cost is expensive, and the rdbms already handles concurrency and even a couple thousand connections shouldn't be a significant overhead.
>community of MySQL is much better and the tools available are more mature

Can you backup your statements with some facts. I have seen the postgres community to be much better particularly now with Oracle taking ownership.
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Sure, that part was clear. But the difference between "quite fast" for this application and "dead slow" might be that hundreds of GB/s with GDDRx/HBM is so much faster than anything else. Even the M.2 SSD onboard is probably only ~5GB/s. So if the walk pattern is something that is predictable enough by the GPU (usually pretty linear, but some memory features have 2d/3d locality), then you could crunch those numbers as fast as the SSD could deliver them. Now it becomes a question of how much computation/kernel time can you spend on a chunk of data?
I was at MesosCon and ended up talking to some Uber people. They are currently using Cassandra in prod. I can't speak as to why they use MySQL the way they do though.
The Inside Story of 'Pokémon GO's' Evolution
I think perhaps you do not understand what I am saying.

Yes, there are quite a few such tools which allow laypeople and coders to come to an agreement. My point was about coming to and maintaining that agreement. Not how exactly you would go about doing that.

I could think of about half-a-dozen good ways to formalize a domain. But even if your process is nothing more than "come to this room and let's talk"? It's difficult to get many people with many other duties in such a situation as much as it would be required.

Don't forget -- and I'm sure you haven't -- that it's not just formalizing a language and grammar. It's the fact that these change over time as participants become more absorbed in the domain and see the same concepts from various viewpoints.
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I find the Babel REPL useful when trying to figure out es6 code samples: https://babeljs.io/repl/
They should... and they do, in the form of Siri! I hope someday it outgrows its current limitation to relatively simple tasks.
The abandonment of skeuomorphism was part rebellion and part caving to the ebbs and flows of popular design. When you move away from tactility and recognizability (familiarity), there is a greater burden on the user to interpret the intent of the designer. This is one of the reasons there has been a big surge in the use of animations in UI; because flat designs aren't as effective at communication as recognizable, tactile ones. Younger users of unique UIs and gestures have proven that you can adapt to new visual conventions and forms of interaction. The problem is that this is not Apple's ONLY audience. The Mac has always been attractive to people who want a more approachable, simple, user-friendly, less virus prone computer. This audience is typically less tech savvy and probably not a millennial. I further argue that the visual style of Steve Jobs was more in alignment with the innate desires of this archetype.
While I agree with many things in this article, I don't agree with a wireless mouse. The only (modest) advantage I can cite for a wireless mouse is reduced friction thanks to removing that slight tug you will get the cable.

The upsides for a wired mouse are:

* Zero lag. Wireless mice add a few milliseconds of lag.

* Zero charging. It's never out of charge because you forgot to dock it at the end of the day.

* Zero stuttering. Even the best wireless mice sometimes stutter.

To my mind, the most important things for a mouse are:

* Get a mouse with extra smooth gliding surfaces. Most good gaming mice qualify.

* Get a properly weighted mouse. Again, most gaming mice qualify.

* Get a proper mouse pad. A gaming mouse pad will usually provide the best surface.

* Make sure the cable has proper slack.

* Set your acceleration properly so that you don't need to reposition the mouse often. Again, a high-quality high-resolution mouse really helps here. A gaming mouse can help if it has a "sniper" mode allowing you to engage a high-precision mode to click small targets in your UI.

Ultimately, yes, what I am recommending is get a lot of gaming hardware to do work, but it's actually great.
The Vanishing of Milliseconds Optimizing the UE4 Renderer for Ethan Carter VR
Bitmovin (YC S15) is hiring account executives in San Francisco
Yes, school is also closed during the summer, but kids have special summer arrangements, either "camps" or daycare, or staying home with a relative.

Kids in the US typically go to school 180 days a year, and so they're off about 80 week days every year.
This. So much this. But even a cookie-cutter program can lead you down the wrong road because they assume that the person beginning the program is healthy. Most of the readers here spend our lives in globally flexed positions with abducted, elevated, and internally rotated shoulders and flexed, externally rotated hips. When we go to the gym, we need to train for the opposite. Training for global extension, especially emphasizing thoracic extension, is essential; it all starts and ends at the spine. External rotation at the shoulders is also important, as is scapular retraction and depression. Many keyboard users suffer from lengthened scapular adductors which (speaking from experience) may lead to anterior capsule impingement as the shoulder blades gradually 'wing' out farther and farther from the spine and force the glenohumeral joint forward. People like this (me) need to take extra care about how they train pressing.

The human body is a very complicated machine, but you have to start with the idea of a mechanical system. If the system isn't aligned properly (eg your posture sucks, you have a dysfunctional deep core, you're missing significant range of motion, etc) you have no business putting stress on the system. Weight training has a lot of benefits but most people end up just reinforcing their poor mechanics. When you grab a 5x5 off the Internet, you're basically betting that your body will automagically realign itself to normal (whatever that means) before you damage it beyond the point of recovery.

My advice- don't focus on moving weight, focus on moving correctly and use the weight as a tool to learn how. If you don't have a solid foundation in exercise fundamentals (your freshman football strength coach probably doesn't qualify), use a non-challenging weight while you learn. Also, start watching Dr. Kelly Starrett's videos.
Use a defined set of tests along with real world metrics. [1]

Ensure your tests match reality as close as possible.

Ensure you test for the most important events found in the real world. In the case of crash tests, make sure you test for crashes that often cause death or serious injury.

Real world metrics get really tricky and expensive, but when speaking about life and safety, it's probably important enough to measure.

It's also very important to be smart about measurement and reporting of events, statistics, and trends.

1. http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ws/the_importance_of_goodharts_law/
An artificial heart would be easier.

There is no need for an enhanced ribcage; in heterotopic heart transplantation the old heart is not removed. [1]

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_transplantation#Heteroto...
I read through his comment history, so it's not that I'm not listening to what he's saying here, I'm listening to what he's said in the past.

It is possible for people to listen to what is said and disagree with it, or refuse to believe it.

Do you think he literally can't afford food?
> They could collude to set prices, but that's illegal in the US.

Interestingly, that is not true for insurance companies[0], at least at the federal level. They are exempt from a lot of federal law.

>The McCarran–Ferguson Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1011-1015, also known as Public Law 15,[1] is a United States federal law that exempts the business of insurance from most federal regulation, including federal antitrust laws to a limited extent.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarran%E2%80%93Ferguson_Act
More Thoughts on the DNC Hack
FaRM: Fast Remote Memory
Good work!

This is when you design in the browser with the medium in mind.

Problem is when someone gives you a PSD made by someone who badly ripped off someone else website with no idea about what the box model actually is, asking you to make a 1:1 replica in the browser.

Oh, and of course it should work on mobile too!
No love for Kurt Godel I see.
scientists have still not invented equations that can fully capture the nuances of water moving through a river.

-- America’s Last Top Model (http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/americas-last-top-mode...)
Free Market is the US does not contain a well-informed consumer segment. That is the issue of the second sentence.

>N.b. Personally, I am much happier knowing that (almost) all the people potentially plowing into me on the highway carry insurance.

Do you live in the US? Where 1 in 7 drivers are uninsured?
It seems to me the only reason why we have different countries having different distributors for the same content (therefore why geoblocking is needed) is a relic from the days where terrestrial broadcasting was the only distribution mechanism, and hence limited range (because each broadcaster owned the infrastructure in each place)

In this day and age where digital distribution means automatic global reach, is there any reason why this business model continues to exist?
The introduction is irrelevant to the research, which is a basic descriptive analysis. It's clear they're not qualified to assert significance or causation.

> The main strengths of our study are its novel scope of estimating a century of trends in adult height for all countries in the world and for both sexes.

That's really its only strength.
Traffic laws are notoriously regional in the United States. The fines will adapt. There some potential infractions.

Such as keeping your car in a minimum condition. Or having legacy system support. It needs to get patches to update to newer network types.

Completely unattended driving (enter destination and taking a nap) is still up for debate. Requiring a machine to be watched seems like a pretty easy-to-pass regulation.

Current traffic laws are written for human drivers. If there are robotic drivers on the road other traffic laws will be passed for those.
The takeaway is that the current levels of demand exceed the ability to provide supply.

In this case a supply side only solution isn't able to solve the problem and policy to address the demand side is also required.
I was going to comment the same. The first change to the text color was to #555, which IMO is way too light already. Something like #333 works much better at "softening" the sharpness of black over white while still maintaining the text pretty readable.

But after that step the tutorial redefined the text color to #566b78, which is even lighter. I understand that the blue shade is a nice touch, but decreasing the legibility of the text so much is not.

Besides these nitpicks, the article is great though :)
Koding goes open source
I interpreted this post as being addressed to HN upvoters, not the poster.

wrt "dissing beginners", the post explicitly says: "Not to take anything away from the effort that went into creating this".

The reason posts like this are upvoted is to protect discourse from the neg-police.
Excellent points. I'll add that physical safes and human-level protections have been standard in INFOSEC since Schell et al invented it as a formal field. All the early SCM for high-assurance systems was basically safes, locked rooms, and vetted people. Black programs (SAP's), like NIPSOM manual, also depend on such methods at some point.

Cool thing is that there's less laws of physics trying to break your security model if you take transistors, wires, and wireless comms out of your implementation. Paper without a line of sight has excellent security properties against remote attackers. :)

Note: Your point on the legal angle is wise and rarely made. I probably need to bring it up more often myself with these ridiculous rulings on privacy & data protection.
Insurance is generally only criminal when you are talking about protection rackets[1]. If the thing you are buying insurance against is the person selling the insurance, then it is illegal.

There have been a handful of religious communities, like the Mennonites, that don't believe in commercial insurance, but they instead have a community that will step in and help when something happens to one of its members. So it's still a form of insurance, they just don't use money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
ignoring the merits of insurance for a moment, are you really longing for society to be like it was a century ago? I assure you, we have it way better now.