skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is going to break into your house while you're at work because they can't afford smokes.

You might be surprised at what conclusions were reached when researchers conducted a side-by-side analysis of the relative addictiveness of tobacco and heroin:

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/magazine/nicotine-harder-t...

The fact that the total criminalization of the heroin market leads to wildly inflated prices might have something to do with the rate of criminality among heroin addicts. Which BTW isn't that high.

Smokers and coffee drinkers can hold down jobs and they don't OD at age 22, leaving behind kids the community has to take care of.

The vast majority of heroin users hold down regular jobs; and the risk of OD'ing is generally understood to be wildly inflated as a direct result of the unregulated street market. Heroin users aren't stupid, or even intrinsically self-destructive; when they know what they're getting (and how much), overdoses are quite rare in fact.

Anyway, rather go back and forth over anecdotal side points like this, I'd (kindly and sincerely) suggest you do some general reading on the topic, taking care to look at the social costs holistically (rather than pivoting on this or that side aspect). In particular, there's a lot to be learned from how other countries (particularly in Europe) have approached the issue of heroin (and other) addictions over the years, and the lessons they have learned.
Ideally we could set get this on a % of company employees
WoSign issues certificates when user only has control of subdomain
Why should anyone be cut any slack? We can all clearly see the trend of moral progress and we should all be able to extrapolate from it. Progressivism wins and reactionism loses. But even with a myopic view of history, you have to be truly willfully blind to ignore the liberatory struggles that have existed as long as oppression. Slaves have always revolted.

There is nothing "post-modern" about this either. My ideologies are as modernist as they come, and it's clear to me that the ancient Greeks were in no way in favor of some platonic ideal of open, free discourse. They didn't let allow women or slaves in their open, free discourse, and even if they did, but shouted them down (as antagonists of safer spaces are doing in this thread, the University of Chicago, and virtually every other space, because oppression is the default, liberation is something you have to actively build), that would not make the discourse any more free or open. You're not being "anti-postmodern," you're just being willfully blind of savage inequities in the institutions you're holding up as examples. If you didn't want that contradiction examined you shouldn't have spoken up. (And don't even think about complaining about being called out for this -- what do you want, some ``safe space'' where you can just pat yourself on the back with other slavery apologists?)
Everett was chair of the dept of languages, literatures and cultures at Illinois State and former chair of the linguistics department at university of pittsburg...
That a security measure is not impossible to defeat does not mean it's useless.
Well one of the confusions I think early on (or at least professed confusion on Lambda the Ultimate IIRC) is that Scala is mixed paradigm and that adds additional load for learning.

Some feel it should go full FP (what I mean by that is really discourage OOP, side effects, etc...). There is some valid arguments as Rust and Haskell might end up being an easier language to master as you can completely avoid the OOP conversation (polymorphic inheritance seems incredibly simple yet there are whole books written on how to use it.. ie patterns).

I'm curious do you prefer a more OOP imperative approach with some FP or do you prefer the opposite (FP with some slight OOP)?
The essential question at the end, for parents caught in the bind: "Even if I do send them out, will there be anyone to play with?"

Free-range children are just rare these days.
It may make regular trading more profitable, but most asset managers are paid for getting more assets under management, not their fund's profits.

So siphoning money away to index funds does put a direct crimp on active managed fund managers' compensation.
Apache Solr 6.2.0 released
This is like the Power Rangers of viruses - red, green, blue, pink, yellow UNITE!!!
How We Make Software: A New Theory of Teams
In their exchange, Sam Harris is tendentious and offensively impolite, and seems to lack basic reading comprehension skill. Chomsky shows him far more patience and courtesy than he deserves.
I second the self-hosting. I have a pretty beefy Dell PowerEdge that I use for work (self-employed) that is a vSphere host.

If I need something external, then Digital Ocean.
They were microcode machines with certain optimizations for handling Lisp data structures. The memory had also extra tag bits per every word for the benefit of runtime type dispatch and garbage collection.
Those are visas classified as "Certified". I'm not sure what that means, but the categories are "Certified", "Certified-Withdrawn", "Withdrawn", or "Denied".

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Certified-2016ST.htm

But, if you look at the fine print on the site, you'll find this:

Infosys Limited has applied for 113,445 LC and LCA from fiscal year 2013 to 2015. But this does not mean they really hired 113,445 foreign workers during this period. The visa applications might have been denied. When an employee renews or transfers his H1B visa or change work location under some circumstances, he will also file a new LCA application.

Department of Labor(DOL) typically certifies more than 3 times the number of foreign work requests than the number of H1B visas issued by USCIS. So there is no one to one relationship between the number of workers certified by the DOL and the number of H1B work visas issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
> We’d expect that the a priori odds are good, by the principle of indifference: After all, you can divvy up the possibilities as: 1) A causes B 2) B causes A 3) both A and B are caused by a C

> If it’s either #1 or #2, we’re good and we’ve found a causal relationship; it’s only outcome #3 which leaves us baffled & frustrated. If we were guessing at random, you’d expect us to still be right at least 33% of the time. And we can draw on all sorts of knowledge to do better

Generally, I'm not a fan of argumentation or logic that references the principle of indifference. Sure, if you insist on making an assumption without any prior information, there is an argument for choosing P = 1 / N. But I don't think the article needs to make sure an assumption about the prior -- it does not seem to be essential to the article's point.

In statistics (and perhaps in life), it is often better to be honest about your ignorance.
Not really. The "who stands to lose" is money managers/financial advisers, assuming they don't want to become a trader or fund manager.
I work with a restaurant franchisee, and if you ever want to generate a long and creative stream of expletives, ask him about corporate mandates to remodel. I expect this type of remodelling will be the end of a bunch of marginally profitable TGIF locations.
> As long as this small number of talented firms isn't allowed to collude with each other, or self-deal unethically by controlling management

... and I've got a bridge to sell you.

More seriously though, the smaller the number of players, the more likely (and easy) collusion becomes. Successful cartels always have relatively few players.
Other commenters have noted that there are enough replacements that these animals won't miss them. I'm curious, though, if the subsequent decrease in those species' populations (from making up a larger percentage of prey than when mosquitoes were available) would have negative effects.
26 page transcript...how long did this take?
However, running a consumer-facing actively managed fund and taking a percentage fee becomes less profitable if demand shifts from that product to index funds, because there is less money to take a percentage fee out of.
> because he asked a neighbor to borrow a ladder

By that I take it to mean that they were neighbors. So if your neighbor stops by to borrow a ladder, would you call the cops on him/her?
>collateral damage and rippling effects into their respective communities all the time.

Study history, and we find that declaring war on those things increases the collateral damage and massively strengthens criminal syndicates.
…? I don't think the article says anything like that.
Nothing special. She just couldn't come up with a proper recursive interpretation for ALIX. Now she is called MIRIAM (= MIRIAM Isn't RIchard's AnyMore).
> And just this past July, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim said companies would do well to adopt his company's policy of working fewer than 30 hours a week, with retirement at age 75.

75? There's no typo?

My folks are between 70 and 75. Despite not having had any serious physical/health problem in their life, I can guarantee they are not at all able to work any more. The decay in physical and mental abilities is too strong. Note that they don't lack energy however. But this big amount of energy cannot be turned in practical work any more.
Dynamic Graph Connectivity
> This is basically anti-intellectualism, the same kind of attitude that made Trump popular and that encouraged Brexit. The same kind of attitude that made the Option type in Java violate the Functor laws

Didn't really expect that, but bravo, I suppose!
Sparsepp: improving on Google's already great sparsehash
Have you tried Hypergiant for CHICKEN scheme? I've heard it's good for 3d work. For 2d, there's doodle. Both are in Chicken's egg repository.

Guile's Sly is also quite good for 2d work.

Finally, I think both have bindings to raw OpenGL/SDL, if you want them.
This would be a more credible argument if we hadn't cured so many diseases.
Nightmare on Main Street
But what, exactly, does Spotify bring to the table that justifies more than a couple of percent operating fee? They don't own the content; they're just middlemen. The labels / rights holders can continually raise their prices to just below (or perhaps above, if VCs want to subsidize forever) Spotify's income.

Spotify's app works at best ok (I'm on android). But even a good app plus recommendations probably gets you amazon-sized margins.
Wouldn't it -very- slowly lose energy due to gravitational radiation?
The concept here is far from ridiculous; you see dramatically different responses to alcohol in Italians (thousands of years of cultural history with it) and native Americans (hundreds of years).
> Hybrid batteries mostly save energy by capturing wasted energy when braking and when going downhill

Only for some workloads. A remarkable portion of the efficiency gain in hybrid vehicles is due to letting the ICE run at only the most efficient portion of the torque and power curves. In my experience (10 years in a Prius) regenerative braking is a distant second.
Show HN: TL:Darling – Web article summarizer
Forbes asked readers to turn off ad blockers then immediately served malware
So, the T-1000 was not an apparatus made of grey goo?
Configuring the Ultimate Development Environment for Kubernetes
I was about to move from Google to Fastmail (been looking to move away from Google for a while) and then I read your comment. Now rethinking the decision.
Define undefined
Yeah, someone said that Scheme was like the Java of the Lisp world. It's not that verbose. But it can be fairly verbose at times.
I'm oddly glad that it's not just my neighborhood. Honestly, I liked living here a lot more before nextdoor. It's amazing how easy it is for people to say things to lower your opinion of them so dramatically.

Nextdoor should monetize their dataset. I could see some value in having a database of the irrational and racist people. It could be as simple as NextDoor selling access to a neighborhood you're considering buying in for a limited time. I suspect it might be really difficult to find a "good" neighborhood but some are certainly worse than others.
Bailout? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-gm-treasury-idUSBREA...

> The U.S. government lost $11.2 billion on its bailout of General Motors Co (GM.N), more than the $10.3 billion the Treasury Department estimated when it sold its remaining GM shares in December, according to a government report released on Wednesday.
> Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day increases one's risk of pancreatic cancer.

I'm sorry, but I respectfully disagree with this statement. Take a look at this meta-analysis: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3063915/ which suggests, if anything, an inverse relationship between drinking coffee and pancreatic cancer.

See also http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2011509/ which establishes no relationship between drinking coffee and the risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

Can you provide any sources that suggest the opposite and have not been rebutted by future publications?
It's too broad. When you buy everything, you buy the downsides of everything.
“The Silent Road to Serfdom: Why Passive Investing Is Worse than Marxism”

good Lord
Too late to edit my post, but I asked @brrian on Twitter and he said "no," iOS Safari 10 will/does not support Webdriver. https://twitter.com/brrian/status/769269326897557504
A high frequency, market-making cryptocurrency trading platform in Node.js
Office Space came out in 1999. Fridays started removing the junk from their walls in 2005 followed by Ruby Tuesday in 2007 because they were supposedly embarrassed with the depiction of restaurants like theirs in a 6- or 8-year old movie? Not a real strong temporal correlation there.
It's probably worth clarifying that you have a business account with multiple users, and FastMail have recently implemented a new setup that changes how their business accounts work.

I've used FastMail for my personal mail for about 10 years, and the changes have made no difference to me at all.
Youtube's interface (both broadcasting and viewing) is terrible compared to Twitch for the kind of programming people watch on it, and the "community" on Youtube is infinitely worse in every way possible to boot.
Your first example is very old school thinking. When a company 'craters' it's not like everyone gets off scott free. All of the people holding the debt, usually big, savvy banks, with the senior tranches of debt have gotten wise to this sort of behavior. And when I say they've gotten wise to it, I mean they got wise to it 20 years ago. In short, if you want to load it up with debt that the company will never pay back and give yourself a big dividend you first have to find someone to lend you that money. If it's obvious to you that that's a bad idea it's obvious to the banks as well.

Most exits in PE are either going public (in which case you have to convince the equity markets that the company is stable), selling to a strategic buyer (e.g., if Apple were to buy RAX from Apollo), or even selling to another PE firm which happens all of the time.

The point is that neither of these scenarios turn out well if you are levering a company up to an unsustainable capital structure.
I don't know very much about BEAM's internals, but one of the key reasons why Erlang (and therefore Elixir) is able to spin up so many processes is because the processes don't have shared state, or at least they don't have writable shared state; the underlying data structures are all immutable, and this is enforced on a VM level (which is why Elixir's "mutability" is only in terms of which data a given variable holds rather than the data itself).

Given that, my guess would be that Erlang/Elixir/LFE/$INSERT_OTHER_BEAM_BASED_LANGUAGE_HERE would do pretty darn well with a high number of cores. I hope one of these days I'll be able to afford such a machine (whether with this particular ARM processor or something else with a ridiculous number of cores/threads, like a modern POWER or SPARC CPU) or have access to one so that I can experience for myself exactly how darn well :)

It's also worth noting that Erlang has had a lot of design around clusters of independent nodes, which means even more extreme problems when it comes to data copying between nodes. I reckon intercore message copying is significantly more performant than internode message copying.
One of the scariest short stories ever written.
For me, Safari runs for weeks at a time with several hundred tabs open.

Indeed, Safari is the only browser that doesn’t render my machine unusable under such use. (Both Chrome and Firefox seem to consume dramatically more CPU and memory for the same load.)

What kind of situation are you running into where it stops working after an hour?

How much memory do you have on your machine?
Well, there's a quote attributed to Confucius that fits:

“When the wise man points at the Moon, the idiot looks at the finger.”
> your data kept safe by systems compliant with German data protection law.

If everyone you communicate to via email is using either Gmail or Yahoo Mail, then US has your data too right?
Watching people play video games is something I still don't understand.
Yea, a hash table without even bucketing(?) is laughably useless.
There have only been a handful of small-scale field studies conducted so far; whether it will "work" regionally and long-term is another matter. So while the idea looks promising, objectively speaking, it's still a work in progress.
If people are concerned with imported labor undecutting or putting downward pressure on salaries, I'd suggest taxing imported labor so as to make it no cheaper than the locally produced labor pool. Then we'd get companies hiring imported labor when they actually could not find a local candidate.

Tax it at the median recorded for the locale where the sponsoree is hired. Tax so that there is no cost advantage in seeking labor cost arbitrage.

You could simply tax the difference. If the median is 150, and someone is hired for 100, tax is 50. If they are hired at 130, tax is 20, etc.
Make sure your face isn't included in the learning set!
Well the article did not seem critical of the irradiation process at all. Maybe the title is a bit click baity ?

It is all about shipping mangoes by sea rather than by air. I'm a bit worried about that though. My local Pakistani mango dealer (no Indian around here, but IMO Honey Mango is a good alternative) was explaining me some rather unappealing process that they were experimenting to slow down the ripening process, like injecting stuff in the mango to make it stronger with a better shelf life.

Also maybe it is because the EU laws are different, but mangoes from Pakistan are not always irradiated, instead they are sprayed with boiling water, which make their skin ripple a bit but otherwise does not seem to affect the flavour too much. Well at least that's how they are in the beginning or end of the season.

edit: other commenters have more accurate info about EU, and Pakistani mangoes.
That doesn't prove a damn thing.

When so many people are playing, there's bound to be some that consistently win, just by chance alone. The book discusses this.
or the episode in The Simpsons where Moe turns his bar into Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag with "a whole bunch of crazy crap on the walls".
How come this is an order of magnitude more expensive than European providers such as OVH and Hetzner? Are there "American equivalents" of OVH and Hetzner? European goods are generally pricier, not the other way around!
<pedantry>Erlang (and its descendants) are also compiled languages. They just happen to compile to VM bytecode instead of native machine code (though I do wonder if it's possible to implement BEAM in hardware...)</pedantry>

Ponylang looks pretty cool, though; I'll have to check it out.
Robo advisors are like meta index funds.

They give you the canned advice that your local Financial advisor gives you, minus the quarterly meeting and phone therapy when the market goes down, and plus some automated intelligent handling of capital gains to reduce your tax exposure.
I feel like the only person in the world that uses Boost Bjam (for a proprietary project). I feel like I should switch but every time I look into it and read comments it's not at all clear that Bjam was a bad decision - even if it feels like I was the only one to choose it :-)
It's simple, seems pretty fast but it is very hard to integrate custom build steps.
Simple concept. You get the benefit of playing through the game without the drawbacks.
Working at startups, both systems and webdev work, have always used Linux managed independently. People who want to use Linux at work usually don't want to be locked in to whichever old distribution/version combination their IT department has decided to support.
NFL rights alone will (my guess) cost around 5 billion USD per year when the next contracts are negotiated, maybe more.

There is no way an online service puts up that kind of money considering something like 1/3 of Americans simply don't have high-speed internet access.
At first glance, this looks like it could be a useful reference. Regardless it's worth a visit for the ASCII art alone. My favorite: the literal interpretation of "hash tables".
But why do it in such a bad-PR way? Just leak information direct to the manufacturers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
I've always wondered, if gravity is a wave (has it been confirmed?), then there must be areas in space where different waves superimpose.

Would the constructive interference between gravity waves be significant enough to account for 'dark matter'? And what would destructive interference look like (dark energy?)
> particularly given how Apple has been losing their quality edge of late

I know this is a subjective opinion and I'm not going to touch upon whether I think it's true or not, but I want to know why you even said this bit? The common claims about Apple's quality slipping don't have anything to do with security. If anything, Apple's security is getting better and better over time.
Do you understand watching people play sports?
Agreed. This style is called "Long-form journalism" for anyone not already familiar with the term.
Sorry, but you're wrong there. Remanent magnetism will allow you to use an AC induction motor as a generator just fine.

Absent any remaining magnetism you can 'flash' the motor core with a short DC pulse and then start rotating it with your chosen driver afterwards.

Just one sample (of many) of people using this trick for all kinds of interesting small RE applications:

http://www.smallhydropower.com/induction.htm
I see this more and more and also find it tiresome. I stop reading and go straight to the HN comments. At least then I'll more quickly learn what the damn article is about.
Hm, I guess I kind of understand now. Maybe they got discontinued because Android was terrible back then? Maybe they don't realize the market changed.
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Sometimes I have to wonder maybe we are the weird ones and dark matter being more common is normal.

Maybe there are trillions of beings looking at us and our weird matter and are amazed we can survive.
Well, yeah. That process already happens when you set up your domain to use DigitalOcean, but the nameserver used during the setup isn't unique.
Ask HN: How can I improve my written and spoken English skills?
I grew up in India in Bombay. Although my entire education was in English, I have got repeated feedback that I skip articles ( a,an,the) or speak in short sentences.

I am looking to move into a managerial position. It is my understanding that both written and spoken english skills should be superior for anyone part of management.

It is little embarassing to ask but better late than never.

1. What steps should I take to improve written and spoken English ?

2. What shall I do to write and speak more like a American (or American Indian ) citizen or native English speaker so to say ? Any suggestions for American accent ?

3. Accent is a bit hard to change at the moment but
any step I can take to change my accent will be helpful.
I don't want to sound phony though.

Cheers.