skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can one know if the water is reasonable in the US? We certainly cannot trust the local governments tasked with this job. Recent events in Flint and hundreds of other places in the US show that, if you can afford it, bottled water is at least safe compared to the local tap water (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/19/erin-brocko...). I guess it's either that or get out the science kits every day and test your own water. Which I'm sure takes a lot more time and money than buying bottled. Basically, drinking tap water in the US is a huge gamble and it's not worth it. You don't have to leave the country to get third world water. It's everywhere here. Then again, much of the US is third world if you judge by such criteria as clean water and healthcare access.
Only somewhat. The Euro solves the currency issues, except that Switzerland doesn't use it. The EU has some unifying regulation, but (so far as I know - I'm not in the EU) it covers less than Federal regulations do in the US, which leaves more to the discretion of the individual countries.

The US constitution has a clause that says, in effect, "if it covers interstate commerce, the Federal government gets to regulate it, not the states". If you're doing business across state lines in the US, well, that's interstate commerce by definition. States do get around that with health regulations and taxing requirements and such, but as I said, I think the situation in Europe is considerably worse.
Short term no, long term yes. It's uncomfortable now because you're not used to it. As you develop the back muscles necessary for good posture, you'll feel better in the long run as it'll take pressure off your spine.
Spaniard here. Generalising a bit, _all_ offices here have air conditioning, and _nobody_ does the siesta thing.
Is JavaScript var dead? What should I use?
Another commenter informed me that the PDF viewer is now open-source. It wasn't last time I tried Chromium, but it must have been 2-3 years since then.
This is terrifying. Perhaps we should be devoting more resources to fighting this than ISIS since it's literally in our back yard.

It seems like this is a problem nanotech could possibly solve. Microbes won't have much time to build up resistance if we can go after them directly.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nanotech-drug-resi...
The CA did the equivalent of purposefully putting their hand into a garbage disposal unit. You're telling me we should not reconsider them as a root CA because the unit didn't say "don't put your hand into this".

Honestly, I'm not sure how you plan to argue your way around a situation where I ended up with a rogue "mail.google.com" certificate accepted by my browser. That wasn't in the rules?! The CA wasn't clear on the policy for that?
The catch-22 is that Apple shoehorned substantial complexity into the charger, to make it and associated cables/connectors very lightweight, while still supporting batteries with very high power density. Compare the article's photos of the PCB, etc, of the Apple product and the cheap knock-off, both of which have to squeeze into the same plastic housing. That complexity costs money. Trimming out complexity generally means trimming out safety features (which already are possibly insufficient, considering some of the other responses on this thread).
What are people doing to their Apple chargers to make them fray? I've had the same Apple charger for several years, packing and unpacking it daily in my backpack, and it shows no sign of fraying.
Salvaged Photos Capture Rugged Life of Pennsylvania's 19th-Century Lumber Camps
It is more comfortable, after you establish the discipline. Getting there takes some practice, which is probably why people slouch.
Pokémon Go Is Coming to Apple Watch
My read is that expertise carries with it specificity. If you happen to be very good at some X[3], but a test is only effectively measuring ability in X[5], where 3 & 5 are some arbitrary specialisations of a capability X, then your test score may not be particularly high.

This depends on just how specific a skill is, whether or not the particular subject is a polymath or specialist, and much more.

To take an example from athletics, Lance Armstrong was a world-leading cyclist (with, it turns out, the advantage of doping). When he entered into marathon events -- for which his light body frame is generally still an advantage -- he placed respectably, but not as one of the very top finishers. A skills or abilities test for Armstrong had to be specific to his ~60 km cycling distance specialisation.

There is some crossover of many skills, but the deep specialisation, ingrained structures, algorithmic knowledge, solution sapces, bags-of-tricks, etc., that are associated with being best in class (not merely "very good") can be quite complex.
> It doesn't matter. There are many ways to get information from you in "public" ways

Politically, this framework is at the root of the problem. Currently, privacy violation is only policed based on method of access, rather than a larger general concept. We put "hackers" in prison for years for "breaking into an email account" because they shared a few people's private information, yet commercial surveillance bureaus are free to do whatever they want because the data is already "out there". Focusing solely on access kills any independent concept of privacy.

Specifying what exactly should be considered wrong is obviously a challenge. I think a business entity having someone's identifying information in a database without an ongoing business relationship could be a decent first pass. This difficulty is a large part of what has stunted progress. (Just FWIW my usual assumption is that information dissemination can't be stopped, but I don't think that assumption is necessarily true when talking about policing commercial entities that inherently have government charters.)

I'm actually more hopeful for technical solutions to the problem, even though they suffer from problems of scope, implementation, financing, and adoption. But coming up with a better external concept of privacy can guide such things too, especially encouraging incremental change in business models as opposed to the moon shot of repaving it all with Free software.
>I know it's not, we reap the benefits in lower food prices, but does beef really need to be cheap enough we can eat it 7 days a week?

No it is. The total cost to society has to include healthcare costs as well. Saying, 'This lowers our cost at the dinner table' is only looking at part of the equation.

Never mind that people don't eat dinner together which is a by product of having super cheap convenient packaged calories available. Eating as a family increases child development significantly, it's like the cheapest thing you can do to give kids a good start.

Never mind that we don't really need nearly as much corn as we produce. When the farm bill came out and started picking agricultural winners, we turned garbage farm land into prime producers of a crop that we don't need. Then we added tariffs to sugar imports, then we put corn into everything, providing a cheap source of calories and diabetes, heart disease, perhaps cancer (most of the links here are still from correlation and haven't been proven as causation). Corn moved from a side dish to being in everything you eat unless you are cooking all (most) of your own food.

We have the (possible) super bug issue from our meat sources.

It takes like 50 gallons of water to grow an avocado but we do that anyways because irrigation water is subsidized in many states even as we start to drain our reservoirs.

It takes 2 calories of fossil fuel to make one calorie of food. We do this because it's still cost effective because of subsidies.

The whole picture makes it look not quite as cheap, we've just pushed the cost into other categories to hide it.
I don't think he mean that, but this instead: "Give me these stuff. And also make it fast".
When you're thirsty the bottle of water is a pretty good solution. Bringing the municipal water up to standard feels like it would be a multi-year project from investigation, lobbying, running for office to make the changes if no other candidate will, giving up all the time that takes as well.

I'll buy a bottle of water and vote.

Where I live it happens to taste fine but my relatives live off well water and I always pack a case of water when visiting.
I hope to release my first project in 4-5 months.
It's so disappointing to see studies like these relied on when reported by news outlets. To start, we don't have the data or statistical code used to generate the results. Consider this a basic unit test. Of course we'd want to further scrutinize the code and methodology, but we're not even there. :-(

I'd suggest a marker for quantitative research posted to HN along the lines of: runnable?
"Even the quote you cite suggests that the total amount of variance accounted for was about 19%, which isn't too shabby by any means, but is also very crude when you think about implications for real-world consequences."

This is 19% after range restriction. They're making the same point that the graph of quartiles does: even after you set an extremely high bar, differences in the test score are still predicting quite a bit of variance despite all the other possible diluting factors like geography/family/test-error/personality/interest/wealth/opportunity... If anything, it shows that institutions aren't being 'crude' enough - if they were using the test scores optimally and extracting all of the signal, the variance would be 0%.
> The Entanglement is a term from the computer scientist Danny Hillis, referring to a new era of technology that we find ourselves in, where no single individual can possibly understand what we ourselves have constructed. In other words, when even the experts are unable to fully grasp a system that they might have been themselves involved in the construction of, we are in a new era of incomprehensibility.

This is not a phenomenon of just cities or other large societal systems. In my experience, this is already true for many a single company.
Intelligence is a physical trait; how could it be anything else?
People also bring their phones into the bathroom every single time they use the toilet. It's a common joke on Reddit.

The future: where a remotely accessible camera/microphone now follows you into bathrooms.
I am free to chose not to drink sugary drinks, but I can't change my current tap water, except for paying for bottled water
What alternatives would you propose? Why?
Wouldn't it be illegal to discriminate against Italian speakers in the Confederazione svizzera?
John Gage's [1] title at Sun was "Science Officer". But he sure did a lot of cool useful Official Science Stuff. He was also on Richard Nixon's Enemy List, which is the kind of community service experience that I am always impressed to see on a resume.

At Sun, if they didn't actually want an executive to continue working for the company, they'd promote them to Vice President of Looking for a New Job.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gage
The new company services 98% of all fortune 500 companies. That's a pretty incredible reach. And 140,000 employee's. If I were a betting main, I'd expect that number to drop in the very near term.

Selfishly I'm very interested in following a private Dell,as tech tends to lead to huge companies in monopoly/winner take all verticals. Dell being private is a decent case study to see how well a private company does against its public counterparts, specifically wrt short vs long term investment.

If you were wondering how the new company is doing post merger...

Moody's just upgraded Dell's credit rating from Ba2 to Ba1 following the merger. They claim that even though the new entity has significant amounts of debt and leverage, its overall credit profile has been upgraded.

The tracking stock, DVMT, that EMC owners were given has traded pretty well since it was released, it's slightly up, so atleast people who want out of the new entity have an easy avenue.
>A PhD is a badge of endurance, not intelligence

It's very clearly both.
Almost all of the education system is about signalling your abilty to be told what to do and doing it, and not hardly at all about actually learning things necessary for a successful and productive life.
If governments get this, the whole world will be saved from a lot of stress:

Video:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n81yfn9w92jh12v/Benefits%20Inheren...
there are companies that pay for being on-call and if additional sums if you get called.

source: I work for Ubisoft and they pay me for being on-call and pay me per hour for when I get called.
That also happens with the official chargers if you use the two-prong plug.
I know from experience that Amazon engineers are responsible for the services they build.
Amazon's motto is to push more operational tasks to the owners while providing them with great(?) monitoring and debugging tools to ease the load.

There was also a Netflix talk about it's approach to operations which was very similar to Amazon's.
I feel the way Netflix organizes it's general software processes is a mirror of that at Amazon's .... maybe partly due to the AWS influence.
I think the integration with the existing education system is, and will continue to be, problematic. One thing that really brought that home for me was how kids who were developmentally behind were given extra care and attention and kids who were developmentally ahead were not. At the extreme ends (very behind, very ahead) the contrast is startling both in programs that are available and in how the school "celebrates" the achievements of the students in those categories.
>There may well be phenomena in the universe (or elsewhere) that are not amenable to modeling in any way that is compatible with human cognitive machinery.

Could these phenomena collectively be considered a "higher power"?
That is interesting. I would imagine that this leads to extremely risk averse deploys? You can't know how much downtime a particular failure will incur so one small error could easily result in expending the failure budget for a significant period of time. Also, if ~4 minutes per month is the monthly failure budget, then 1 hour of down time uses up over a year in failure budget! How can a team so heavily "in debt" ever hope to push code again?
What's it about?
More like catches up. No small achievement, but it was about time.
Some people find the professional-life-focused networking compelling.

Me, I find it theoretical, due to its profligate handling of email addressbooks and my history helping maintain mailing lists and selling items on Craigslist before they implemented full bidirectional address anonymization. I've had a large number of invitations, likely autosent, to connect from folks I wouldn't recognize if they sat down in front of me.
That's absolutely not why the EU exists, come on.
> It takes 2 calories of fossil fuel to make one calorie of food. We do this because it's still cost effective because of subsidies.

I think "we do this because we can't eat fossil fuels no matter how many calories they provide, so trading total energy content for ability to serve as food is valuable, independent of subsidy" would be more accurate.
Its interesting to compare artistic drawing to drafting.

My observations from a year of drafting in high school (Future engineers need to be able to make and read blueprints was a fad a couple decades ago) and work with people in the field, there are people who can do three dimensional transforms and manipulations in their head with little effort beyond the mere mechanics of pencil on paper (or fingers on CAD workstation). There are also those who cannot visualize complex shapes in three dimensions. Just like you can't verbally tell people to train harder to grow taller it does not appear possible to learn how to visualize. I've observed those who can't visualize have all kinds of interesting coping mechanisms ranging from simply asking for help to leaving the field entirely to really elaborate memorized heuristics. Either you can, or cannot, visualize a basic transmission for a crane complete with which direction the gears rotate. No amount of staring at a blank sheet of paper will help, and practice does not help those people who can't and merely wastes the time of those who can.

Apparently you can train creativity and style, but the mental act of three dimensional visualization is either functional or absent.
Real world fuel consumption is getting worse [Automotive]
I don't think the students at Johns Hopkins are the usual sort of 20-29yos who would knock up a teen girl. And inasmuch as SMPY has been running for so many decades and has thousands of participants, if 10 or 20% of the participants were becoming teen moms, someone probably would've noticed by now.
> Most of the exams have close to no value in real life and do not force you to think by yourself but to rehash hundred times what you have seen before. The opposite of creative thought.

True, but to some extent rigor and discipline are required to achieve, creative or otherwise. And discipline can be learned. I'm not supporting the hyper competitive nature of some schooling systems, but at least some can benefit from learning how to survive (or thrive) in competitive systems.
Under pricing, for Professional, $9.99/month + $0.7/ every 1000 emails sent.

Is that $0.70 or $0.07 per thousand?
Banning due to cut-off dates is difficult when the CA has been shown to back-date certificates.
I think you should read (or listen to) Sam Harris talk about psychedelics. (I really enjoy him, but my dad thinks that he's boring as shit. Either way, you can be reassured that he's not someone who jumps to conclusions-- he's a methodical person.) https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/drugs-and-the-meaning...

The key paragraphs are:

> I have two daughters who will one day take drugs. Of course, I will do everything in my power to see that they choose their drugs wisely, but a life lived entirely without drugs is neither foreseeable nor, I think, desirable. I hope they someday enjoy a morning cup of tea or coffee as much as I do. If they drink alcohol as adults, as they probably will, I will encourage them to do it safely. If they choose to smoke marijuana, I will urge moderation.[2] Tobacco should be shunned, and I will do everything within the bounds of decent parenting to steer them away from it. Needless to say, if I knew that either of my daughters would eventually develop a fondness for methamphetamine or crack cocaine, I might never sleep again. But if they don’t try a psychedelic like psilocybin or LSD at least once in their adult lives, I will wonder whether they had missed one of the most important rites of passage a human being can experience.

> This is not to say that everyone should take psychedelics. As I will make clear below, these drugs pose certain dangers. Undoubtedly, some people cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. It has been many years since I took psychedelics myself, and my abstinence is born of a healthy respect for the risks involved. However, there was a period in my early twenties when I found psilocybin and LSD to be indispensable tools, and some of the most important hours of my life were spent under their influence. Without them, I might never have discovered that there was an inner landscape of mind worth exploring.
American consumers behave as if they have already seen and done everything.

In recent months, chatting with a foreign friend has made it uncomfortably clear to me that Americans are bad about thinking all white people who speak English and are successful are American. America is kind of narcissistic (such as when so many of us assume you must be American when you post to a predominantly American forum). I suspect one thing that helps foreign countries succeed here is "passing" for American, which many foreign countries likely make no effort to do.
I agree; complexity costs money. But I guess I'm wondering if there is still a lot of profit margin built into the cost of the apple charger that could be shaved by a decent third-party such as Monoprice.

Take lightning cables: I can buy the Apple lightning cable for $25, or I can buy a perfectly good Monoprice, MFi-certified lightning cable for $7, or I can buy a no name, non-certified cable (that will likely have issues) for a buck or two on ebay.
Apple’s App Store gets a “Notify” button for soon-to-launch apps
The Manhattan Eruv
Oh please, it's not a "failed recipe app", it's Uber For® cooking!
HashiCorp raises $24M for its DevOps infrastructure software
I do not use Slack, Ryver or any other similar product, so I think I can safely say I don't fall in to the "slack fanboy" demographic that this article claims are upset by their ads.

That said, I think that running negative ads about your competition only shows weakness in a company. Don't use your marketing to tell me negative things about your competition, use it to tell me positive things about you. If you can't do that, then the problem isn't that Slack is bad, it's that Ryver is not strong enough to stand on it's own.
Onedrive. Microsoft gives out storage every time I turn around. I think I have upwards of 300GB available at this point.
Firemen unable to approach Tesla Model S wreck due to electricity hazard
DigiNotar wasn't a large CA according to that link: "Although DigiNotar had been a general-purpose CA for several years, they still targeted the market for notaries and other professionals."
How is this the first female presenter at an Apple Event?

"On stage, Susan Prescott — Apple’s vice president of product management and the first female presenter at Apple’s event"
One is about the ultimate potential of humans as a species.

The other sportses.

IMO, no comparison.
This is a longitudinal study, not a cross-sectional one; attrition can be measured. You should also provide some evidence for the idea that hordes of high-IQ people are going homeless and committing suicide, as opposed to occasional ones with mental illness (especially schizophrenia), given that all the existing evidence tends to imply the opposite, if you don't want to come off as a Taleb-citing crank.
Good for the producers. Fancy bottled water is much more expensive than Soda so they can make more money on a product that's easier to produce.
It's something weird with how outbreaks get reported. Guess it generates eyeballs. Remember the panic over the avian flu? It proved to be much less dangerous than ordinary influenza. But people love a world ending story.
The guys who wrote Peak are probably sub-geniuses then, because they think some savants have figured out a system. In the book they call it mental representation. It's the obsessive ones who develop the skill, some just remain autistic and that's it. They would say it is our bias and desire to believe in magic that predispose us to believe these people are just gifted.
In theory the European Union has a bit better law than the US in this area. I write in theory - because in practice the USA does not need to abide by it - and it is mostly US companies that keep our data.

As to the awareness group - I guess this will be controversial - but there are the Pirate Parties with privacy in the core of their ideology.

Personally I think that we'll have to give up strict privacy - it is inevitable that more and more online devices will know more and more about us - but we need some time to adjust, to find out how to make a world without this strict privacy reasonable.
I agree with you, but I still think there are some special cases for software. If I understand correctly, privacy implications in EU states may be stricter than that of the US. I can only imagine this makes coding harder for user data (if user.country != "special snowflake").
It's pretty striking you could tell he was right :)
Why the scare quotes? Tap water in many places does taste funny. I don't drink it for the same reasons; instead, I get Ozarka (Nestle) water delivery. Also, you present a false dichotomy; I don't have to choose between sugary drinks and funny-tasting water. I can, and do, avoid both.