skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excerise cannot undo effects of prolonged sitting
FTFY: This woman even admits the guy hurt people and disrespected boundaries.
True: here in Canada, the McDouble costs, I think, $2.19? Our exchange rate to the US has never been that bad.

(If you're wondering why, since Canada would be the easiest market to ship that same cheap US beef to—AFAIK US beef doesn't meet Canadian agricultural regulations.)
Or just maybe fixing the brain after too many years becomes harder (less viable) than just creating a new brain (a baby). Just like old cars are disposed instead of fixed... Or in programming terms: just like building something from the source code is more viable than directly fixing a binary.
Hunt Your Sacred Cows: Uncover Your Limiting Beliefs
I recently threw together a benchmark to measure latency with different requests per second and request concurrency. It bypasses API gateway and just calls the lambda directly. The p50 is very close to the minimum latency I can see to US-WEST-2.

https://github.com/spullara/lambdabenchmark
I did read the rest of it and still didn't get the punchline.
It's a pattern. See e.g. Alison Macrina's post, in which she cites an instance prior to her own assault where Jacob Applebaum used their relationship to recruit her into defending him regarding a situation she didn't personally witness: https://medium.com/@flexlibris/theres-really-no-such-thing-a...
Thanks! It appears that the real problem is in the supremely suboptimal execution of a potentially acceptable vision.
I figured that move was more about wanting to promote their own brand instead of someone else's. (They began selling Songify apps around the same time.)
Systemd introduces dependency on patched kernel
At least the kids can talk to some other human beings instead being locked in solitary confinement
Clinton and Cosby have nothing to do with these allegations. It's pointless to bring them up.
>Coincidentally around the same time Facebook announced their anticlickbait initiative, Facebook open-sourced their fasttext project, which can quickly build models to classify text using some of the above example techniques. Hmmmmmm…

There's an interesting notion, a clickbait filter.
That's a generically cynical statement that you don't seem to have any specific basis for. In such cases, for HN purposes you should practice the Principle of Charity and err on the side of giving others the benefit of the doubt. It won't affect Zuckerberg much, but it will make this community better.
>and would have found it to be a benefit for many jobs, especially low-paying or lower-management jobs.

I think you may be overestimating the benefit. When I worked as a retail supervisor in college, we paid $0.25 more if you spoke one of a few different languages. It never really made much difference when hiring. I also had many Spanish speaking friends in lower paying jobs and apart from 1 who worked as a hospital translator there wasn't much financial benefit.

If you take the amount of time that it takes to become proficient (and keep proficiency), you'd be much better off spending that time on something more lucrative. From a purely financial perspective, after factoring in opportunity costs, I think that learning Spanish probably has a negative ROI.

>This sort of thing really shouldn't go away, even if the language was forgotten.

We don't really know that though. We need more evidence before we base start taking action here. It could be that learning the violin would have more benefit. Learning a new language is romantic, we can't let that romanticism impact policy decisions.

And my guess is that to get most of the benefits of bilingualism, you have to get to the point where you spend time thinking in both languages. I don't think classroom instruction is ever going to get you to that level.
Increases animal suffering and environmental impact. It matters to some people
Microsoft had a path it could have taken. Write an android launcher that looks like Windows Phone Tiles. Get people to "convert their phones to Windows phones"

Release an Android App Store. Release .netCore as part of your app store, so to run these type of apps, they need your app store instead of normal android apps running on Dalvik/AndroidRuntime.

Fork android, like Kindle, and release a copy with Skype for messaging, outlook for mail, the rest of office, the Microsoft Store.

Now they have Windows Phones, that run natively on all android hardware, and have backwards compatibility with android apps.

They completely skipped the embrace extend steps, and tried to jump right to extinguish.
this crypto-drama is giving me nausea
Android malware spreading through Google's AdSense network
The only useful feature of Angular is ng-table. For everything else there's Bootstrap + D3.
For all the flack that Zuck is getting in this thread

It's pretty safe to ignore most of the flack in this thread. Most people vote with their feet (or wallets, or eyeballs, or attention), and they've voted that they love Facebook, regardless of what a minority of people in this thread say or upvote.

Nerds have a cantankerous side and are as prone to virtue signalling as any other group. Those of us who read Slashdot ages ago may remember the Microsoft hate it hosted and the way every year was going to be the year of Linux on the desktop. Well, Microsoft is still here; Linux on the desktop is still a minority pursuit; and most people never cared that much about the OS they used.

The specific target nerd derision has changed some, but the form of the attack and disdain has not. Any company or country or person's haters is proportionate to its size. Look at what people do and how they behave rather than what they say.
*Alexis, not Alex
I went through the Google service manager:

Bookmarks -> Firefox sync plus manual downloads back ups
Photos -> For online albums, Microsoft OneDrive
Reader -> Digg Reader
Drive -> Dropbox and OneDrive
YouTube -> OneDrive and Vimeo

I'm still using Calendar, Gmail, Maps. I could migrate Gmail to Outlook, but I haven't committed to that change. Not sure how I can replace Calendar and Maps.
It's like a Shit Elon Says quote, only Ford doesn't have any sorts of track record here whatsoever.

"Twenty launches a year, is not a crazy number at all. We expect that to occur without any miracles."
Netflix will work on Firefox 49 for Linux
>In practice it's fairly common for doctors to try treatments without being sure what the cause of the symptom is.

You mean nonchalantly prescribing anti depressants? I was put on zoloft about 1.5 years over 7 years ago and I still suffer from side effects despite being only on 'pediatric dosage'.

Never again!!
Reminds me of the 4ds: Disrupt, Degrade, Deny, Destroy
Or in Swift, you either initialize a variable with a value or have to define it as an optional, in which case you are eventually forced to deal with its possible null state.
But I digress
Quick and easy steps to get a free SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt
According to the research he must be pretty happy.
I've simply started using $GOPATH for everything. Even my non-Go projects live under $GOPATH/src/<url-to-repo> . I know many people are very particular about the way they work but I did not have any trouble adapting to this, and in the end I found it much easier to manage my projects.

My only problem now is that I have so many projects checked out that it's hard to remember which ones I am contributing to vs which ones were checked out as a dependency. I think I can address that by setting GOPATH to ~/thirdparty:$GOPATH or something, but it hasn't bothered me enough yet.
wow, hn should bill the submitter for each clickthrough on this one
React HTML5 Batch File Drop Component
I think we've all come to accept that Level 3 (return control to driver) is just not feasible.

Without the sensory stimulus that comes from driving the average harried American will be asleep in under 5 minutes.
>Honestly, the impedance mismatch between the inner 12-hour dial and the outer 24-hour dial confused me at first.

Likewise. It took me a second to realize that while the hour hand on the clock appears to be pointing at the "Astronomical twilight" shaded portion of the ring for my location, those two elements are completely unrelated.
Info was a brilliant idea for its time, and it synergizes brilliantly with Emacs for those of us who use that editor.

For those who don't, it's a UX nightmare, because the standalone info viewer uses a specific, relatively ill-surfaced subset of Emacs conventions for its navigation commands. No one who doesn't use Emacs can be expected to know any of these. Even those of us who do use Emacs often don't know any of these. It took me more than half a decade of daily Emacs use to discover them.

And even leaving that aside, Texinfo is fundamentally broken in a really disappointing way: the source includes almost no semantic information whatsoever - imagine HTML with no whitespace squashing and no tags except <br> and <a>. Worse, there is no consistency whatsoever among different authors on what structural conventions to use. It's therefore somewhere between very difficult and nigh impossible to implement anything like this rather nice colorization of manual pages. There are a couple of Emacs packages which try to do that, but while they do the best they can, that best isn't very good - and, of course, they're only useful if you use Emacs.

Honestly, it's a really frustrating situation. Texinfo manuals, especially those from the GNU project, tend to be much more detailed and complete on average than manual pages, which makes them an excellent reference for cases where the aide-memoire style of a man page doesn't convey the context you need. But the info system is practically impossible to use unless you're very familiar with Emacs, and even when you are, it's still almost impossible to make info any more useful than plain text would be.

Given the age of Texinfo - older than three-fifths of the developers who answered Stack Overflow's 2016 survey! - it's not terribly surprising that it was born with flaws like these. But after thirty years, it is somewhat surprising that those flaws still exist.
Don't know if it's just me, but it seems like there is a bit of a trend lately to embellish or distort problems that can otherwise stand on their own as they are for reasons that seem anywhere from unclear to shortsighted to unnecessary.
I do still miss that keyboard. I still don't type nearly as fast on a phone, and considering that these devices had no autocorrect, not nearly with a quarter of the accuracy.

Apart from the resistive touch-hostile technology and stylus-centric interface, HID has taken a substantial step backwards in the years following the decline of CE devices.
Maybe in the US. In Germany (and I assume many other places), organic apples are not waxed, and typically don't have any residual pesticides on them.
I should point out that for many organizations that have "big data" sitting somewhere, it usually is structured to begin with because it was collected by a repeatable process; or at the very least each piece of the whole (if it is a collection of stuff from different corners) has its' own internal consistency.

A challenge there is determining whether it makes sense to massage the data into a common schema for further analysis or to use an unstructured initial approach from the beginning. Sometimes you get to the former from the latter.
I'd be very interested to hear opinions of people who've actually used this and if so for what?
What the article describes as "competence" sounds like total incompetence to me.

If you learn a pattern from a book or a class or a blog post, and then you apply it in a project just because "the book said so" you are not a competent programmer.

This might be an artifact of English not being my first language, but I would reverse the definitions.

Proficiency means knowing how to use something.

Competence is knowing how to do something properly, which implies having a deep _understanding_ about what is going on.

That seems to be how people use these terms anyway (regardless of the dictionary definition).

Proficient in jQuery: knows the ins and outs of most jQuery functions and plugins.

Competent in jQuery: non-sensical statement.

Proficient in git: knows most useful commands and arguments.

Competent in git: almost a non-sensical statement.

On the other hand:

Competent front end developer: understands how to develop a web based application UI from scratch without being tied to a specific product domain.

At least that's how I understand these terms.
Pesticide link to long-term wild bee decline in 18 year study
On knights corner, yes. The silicon design was finished by the time this decision was made.

It was a long term advantage, they removed the texture samplers for the next version, knights landing, which allowed them to fit more cores on that chip.
Please don't seek out uncharitable interpretations of what people say, when (as roymurdock has helpfully shown) the context makes it clear how unnecessary that is.

HN users sometimes feel that the rules are off when a rich and famous person is the target, but that misunderstands why we have the rules. It's not to protect the rich and famous, who (as cynics are fond of pointing out) don't need it, except of course insofar as they're human beings like anyone else. Rather, it's to protect the community from becoming a mean place that only mean people would want to be part of, and eventually not even them.
If you like design patterns checkout my articles
https://shirazian.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/design-patterns-i...

It's a compilation of design patterns implemented in Swift, solving a real world problem.
There were this tell tell signs, like urinating every 2-3 hours, it was even worse during the night. I have to go pee, like 4-5 times a night. I did buy a monitor and my fasting glucose level is 6 mmol/L, which is a bit higher than the norm, which is 5.6 mmol/L, but my glucose 2 hours after eating went to 6.7 mmol/L which is fine. So I am not sure, I'll do some more measurements and then see a doctor. I was a bit worried, because I have autoimmune (hashimoto) disease, which can give me good predisposition for autoimmune type diabetes.
I think this is the key takeaway from this article:

<<Expect level 4 cars to take quite a while longer to reach private hands. "The economics simply don't make sense," [Ford CTO] Nair said.>>

Indeed: how much more are you willing to pay for a car where you don't do anything? Not much. How much more is a cab company prepared to pay for a car that doesn't need a driver? A lot.

For private cars I expect we'll see more and more refinements of driver assists in the premium market segment, but not much apart from the odd trickle-down to cheaper cars. Reason being LIDAR, tons of sensors and data processing power will still be very expensive, and in the cheap end of the market, people are still skimping on carpets and electric windows.

One example that immediately springs to mind is the flashing warning light in the mirror when another car is in your dead zone. Relatively simple, useful, "stupid" (as opposed to "smart") tech. I expect it will be standard equipment in five years.
So if you were 90% sure (not enough to convict) a guy was going to murder someone you'd be happy with him hanging out with your friends?

Of course you wouldn't, so stop using criminal law as your standard for identifying when someone's a bad hat.
What are your goals? Stable illuminance (in lux) for your surfaces?
"Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society. It is well known that the rate of clinical depression had been greatly increasing in recent decades. We believe that this is due to disruption of the power process...The entertainment industry serves as an important psychological tool of the system, possibly even when it is dishing out large amounts of sex and violence. Entertainment provides modern man with an essential means of escape. While absorbed in television, videos, etc., he can forget stress, anxiety, frustration, dissatisfaction"

5 points to whoever can guess what this quote is from
My organization is ~10 people. We all pay for the Dropbox Pro account individually because it's cheaper per user this way. At what number of people does the Business account tier make sense?

https://www.dropbox.com/business
TLDR;

To be more optimistic assess good stuff as personal, general, and permanent and negative as impersonal, specific and temporal.

Make notes everyday about your assessments and correct them.

There is research backing this thesis.
What we're doing in tech right now is extremely dangerous. We're mixing political correctness over fact finding (i.e. what she said as first shoot then ask) with technical competency.

Remember when we shot Brendan Eich and replaced him with a marketing dude and then wondered why Firefox is suddenly driven by marketing decisions?

The boundaries are pretty(I say pretty, because even here countries opinions differ) clear on what physical rape is, but the boundaries on what is considered harassment in a global world are EXTREMELY blurry. Don't ever forget that.

And before you start shouting that I'm defending Jake, I'm not, I don't even like the guy.
It's obvious that there is shilling in the comments which makes it pretty much guaranteed that this submission was brigaded.
An historical perspective, which older programmers at their best bring to a project, is important in my view. When you look at the history of software systems you see that the better technology rarely wins in the marketplace. A lot of things contribute to the success of one system over another--technical excellence is not one of them.

Also, the significance of fad and novelty cannot be underestimated. When I see yet another new language or framework that is only trivially different from the existing ones, yet touted as the next big thing I can only grumpily roll my eyes.
Plus you don't have the cost of running all that infrastructure 24/7 to have the ability to scale or provide proper security.
The hoops of developing for iOS were why the company didn't develop internal apps for iOS; the hoops of developing for iOS are also why I don't develop for iOS.

I am not a slave; I can choose where I work.
Well that's not a very impartial summary.
You gotta love how the first application to be shown in that video is e-mail. I can just imagine how that meeting went.

Dev: "OK, we've created the first platform for fully holographic interfaces. You can create entire worlds where the only limit is your imagination. What should we build first?"

PM: "Outlook!"

Oh Microsoft, never change ;)
Just want to share with you what I've done with your API. Thanks Ed! (http://charleshuang.ca/riomedals.php) (https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1143778124)
Slack, Curse, Discord, Rocket.Chat...all these new chat apps feel like clones of each other. They're all web/electron-based apps with very similar interfaces and design and they only seem to differ by maybe one or two features, if at all
I need to add that my eating habits were not ideal. Although I am fairly active, doing different sports, even was a pro athlete for 14 years, but being active and eating too much sugar is still a bad lifestyle, so i need to find a balance. I am also trying different things to get the levels of my thyroid antibodies down...
I think this is more reasonable than you might think.

It might seem like 32GB is a good baseline, but I am using 3.1 GB on my 4 year old smartphone and 16GB is probably plenty for the vast majority of people. But, if your actually recording video etc then 32GB is not that useful.

32GB flash drives are like 8$. So, Apple saves a few dollars on millions of phones and people who think they might actually needs extra storage get a significant amount.
A consent form for consenting to what?
I wouldn't create a website named after the person accusing them of things the court didn't find them guilty of.

Not hanging out with someone because you don't trust them? Fine.

Publicly assassinating someone's reputation with no evidence, chance for rebuttal or formal hearing? Bogus.
I use their beta product "Dropbox Paper" a lot, it's really good.
That's an old wives' tale. The clams, mussels, etc that are most resistant to opening are the ones that were in the best health, and thus the safest ones to eat.
The Write Stuff: How the Humble Pencil Conquered the World
A comment like this, posted glibly to an internet forum, crosses into personal attack. That's not allowed on HN, so please don't do that.
I started taking college classes part time at 12, dropped out of high school my junior year, and graduated college at 19. Socialization was the main reason my parents kept me in high school. But it meant I had to deal with the high school administration much of the time.

I was not prepared to socialize well with either group of people: I was an odd duck in both groups. The place I found best to socialize with was with the Quick Recall-type kids, or with those who could have gotten into college a little early. The socialization argument cuts both ways.
> Hurting someone and being abusive are not the same.

Disrespecting boundaries and being abusive are the same. What boundaries differentiates between emotional and physical abuse, and in some cases between whether the abuse is merely an ethical issue or actually a legal issue, as well.
Amount of GDP versus medals would be interesting as well.
Based on the thread, it looks like this is not a dependency. But if you have that kernel patch, systemd will use it.
Wait, when did Curse go from an addon manager and a community around sharing mods to a Skype/Discord clone? Was it always that, or is this a relatively recent development?

It's interesting how Twitch doubling down on its 'this where gamers go' audience. I wonder what the corporate owner, Amazon, has to gain from this. It's true that gamers respond well to ads about high-margin computer parts, but do their motives go beyond ad serving to actual community building?
Yea, my family is from Seattle and I don't ever remember my grandfather complaining about a new sales tax up there. I'll have to find the source that describes why he chose Washington.
And yet, people are often asked to estimate their level of specific knowledge "on the scale of 1 to 10".
huh. that's new. but they have 16, 64, and 128.
Its interesting to hover over the blue buzzfeed dots on the left side. Those are those interesting cases where buzzfeed does actual reporting.
Smaller countries can also get disproportionate representation in the olympics. When there's one team or competitor per country, the smallest country has the highest per-capita representation. While they have a smaller pool of athletes to draw from, I'd bet it changes the potential outcome where a straight up per-capita medal count is also somewhat misleading.

I wonder what medals per competitor per capita would look like?
You're right, it's partially linkable, but only partially. If I take out cash from the bank and buy something in a shop, it'll get mixed in with all the cash from everybody else buying things there (which obscures the exact purchase) and for smaller denominations there's a nonzero chance that they might get given out again in change before being banked (which makes it hard to prove any purchase). Until tills start scanning and reporting banknote numbers there's still far more anonymity than you get with digital.

Savings cards I wouldn't touch with a bargepole; I don't imagine anyone who gives two hoots about privacy would.
Figure 1 isn't really the same thing. It's not a diagnostic tool, it doesn't store PHI, and a human reviews every image before it's visible in the app. Figure 1 is closer to Instagram than it is to the Watson stuff which is all HIPAA compliant.