skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Polio has had flare-ups where vaccination levels have dropped (many of these because it's hard to deliver vaccines in a warzone)

To clarify that, the current problem is not that it's hard to deliver vaccines in a warzone (we've been doing that in various countries for 2+ decades, which is how we've gotten to current infection levels).

The problem is that the CIA decided to use polio vaccination as a front for gathering intelligence for bin Laden's assasination, and now people in Afghanistan and Pakistan don't trust actual vaccination efforts[0].

And unfortunately, this is not just limited to Afghanistan and Pakistan:

> The blowback from the raid may well have extended beyond Pakistan. Health specialists say the suspicion, anger, and violence that some Pakistanis and Taliban militants directed at health care workers after news leaked about the CIA-orchestrated vaccination campaign may have contributed to the spread of polio in Pakistan and war-torn parts of Syria and Iraq

[0] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150227-polio-paki...
Sounds a lot like the PHP mindset.
Woman's harrowing experience with ex-convict Uber driver
You must have never heard an actual epidemiologist speak about the anti-vaccine fad because what you're describing is the opposite of my experience. The anti-vaxxers get way more emotional, often falling to the "think of the children" default while ignoring decades of progress that have all but eliminated once fatal and life debilitating diseases from the developed world.

Vaccines, like any other medicine, have side effects and no doctor dispassionate on the issue will tell you otherwise. They will tell you that the side effects from smallpox, polio, measles, tuberculosis, tetanus, yellow fever, mumps, hepatitis B, meningitis, and many other diseases are so much worse and damaging. Even if you were to take all of the side effects anti-vaxxers claim vaccines cause and combine them for all vaccines, any one of these diseases have caused far more and worse suffering just in the 20th century.

Furthermore, there is good reason to be emotional. Anyone who doesn't vaccinate is a public health risk because they can become carriers that allow the pathogen to mutate and break herd immunity, risking the lives of everyone. With measles this has already happened in the last two decades and the CDC has conclusively traced all but one of them to an unvaccinated child. In each case, people previously vaccinated were infected by contact with someone who was not.

Please, vaccinate your child. The worst possible side effects from all of the vaccines put together pale in comparison to the damage these very preventable diseases can do and have already done to our society.
Why? There's nothing wrong with either of those things....
Interesting. I'll have to try it and see how it compares to my current gaming AMI where I just use Steam or Remotr to stream things like Dirt and ARK.
Client side, we've already done it (we have a Raspberry Pi client that actually works well, but still needs a bit of polish.).

Server side I'm not sure. I know the Windows API for grabbing frames is really good, and I assume there's a similar API for Linux. Shouldn't be too bad. But you will likely see a macOS server first...
How did you not get the polio vaccine?

It should have been something you got as a kid, as an oral vaccine, back in the 1970s.

Polio vaccination for an adult living in a developed country is neither necessary nor recommended.

"Routine vaccination against smallpox ended in the United States in the early 1970s as its incidence lessened." http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/history-sm... . You are too young to have warranted receiving a smallpox vaccine.
The Nintendo Wii U renders on the console, encodes to H264 and streams it to the GamePad. The lag doesn't seem to be a problem there.
Companies generally follow the law on currencies. So a London bank won't take yuan because the Chinese government says it can't. Your black market traders will take it, but they might...screw you over since you can hardly call the police on them.
Indeed, regulatory and security are the two parts of the company that are supposed to be antagonistic in order to keep the company out of trouble. How that plays out in practice has a lot to do with the personalities involved.
Yet who would pay for email; not sure there even an option.
A lot of things that work in the small don't scale.
If only Google would let you pay for support. Someone unintentionally locked out of their account would probably happily pay $50 to get back in.

I had to deal with this a while back because TFA was enabled on my account and I got a new phone and number at the same time so my login options were all broken, and the recovery flow didn't work for the same reasons. Thankfully this was a Google for Work account so there was a way for me to prove domain ownership and they restored my access. If this had been my personal Gmail account (not attached to the domain), I would have had no way to recover it, partly because I couldn't prove ownership so easily, but mostly because they have basically no support for personal accounts.
I'm not sure why it makes more sense for a company like ZTE or OnePlus to sell a handful of cheap flagships as opposed to one of these smaller firms producing the hybrid niche device I describe.
I don't see any problem with this evaluation. Both human translators and the machine were subject to the same conditions and evaluators, making it possible to do an objective comparison. 500 samples is more than enough to get an accurate score.

If phrase based was really so good, it should have gotten approximately equal scores on this simple task. Instead in every case it did way worse than the neural translations.
Why would it not be the case? That people are forced into careers they don't actually want because of cultural pressure?

And you're OK with this because it helps ensure you have a high salary?
Microsoft certainly, not so sure about Google. Anyone can get access to redmond intranet by spending a day searching for credentials on Github, harder to do with Google.
You also said It's hard to tell exactly when fully autonomous vehicles will be ready, but I definitely think it's safe to safe to say that there is not going to be any such thing as a computer-assisted human driver in any significant numbers.

I just didn't realize that I definitely think it's safe to safe to say that there is not going to be any such thing as a computer-assisted human driver in any significant numbers. was not intended to be a categorical statement...
Stephen Jones is a wheat grower who is also an advocate for long rise times. You can read more about him and his ideas here: http://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/cooking-tips/article/...

There's also more and more rhetoric now about the microbial gut biome and the various stuff that we eat nowadays (antibiotics in meat, artificial sweeteners) changes whatever balance we might have had, once upon a time... you get the idea. The more I read, the more it seems like my "sometimes this makes me sick and sometimes it doesn't" experience with food, wheat in particular, is due to something more complicated. Possibly the sprue stage is a symptom rather than its own disease?
"When I say copy paste in visual basic I'm talking about professional programmers that couldn't even abstract stuff in to functions but would copy paste shit all over the code - not copy-pasting from other sources."

The inability to use abstractions properly has long been a sign of inexperience or incompetence. I'd really like to see some evidence that this was any more prevalent in 1996 than it is in 2016.

There's definitely more of a concern these days in the general programming world about "best practices". But those best practices weren't invented yesterday. They're usually incremental changes of older practices, and the results of bitter, painful experience of doing things the "wrong" way. Exactly the kind of experience that senior engineers have that junior engineers lack. It's senior engineers who create those best practices in the first place.
They'd probably be thrilled with all the new tax revenue and industry.
I'm a little surprised at the mentions of it being a better place to raise kids. Admittedly, I'm not as familiar with Palo Alto, but I think of the suburbs of Boston as an extraordinarily good place to raise children.
Politics is the art of the possible. Sure Prop 13 might get revoked. Anything is possible, but is it probable? People have been railing against Prop 13 for decades. The longer a law is in effect, with clear beneficiaries who vote, the longer a law will persist.
Looking down the list the missing are

8 Internet Infrastructure

11 Science

22 Global Infrastructure

23 Nanotech

vs http://web.archive.org/web/20160105095435/http://www.ycombin...
This post is completely false, you can absolutely build a safe language on unsafe foundations. Swift is compiled to assembly, which is unsafe, yet it provides a 'safe' interface (not as safe as Rust, but still).

Similarly, Flow/Purescript/Elm have every ability to provide a safe interface to javascript.
A certain elder member of my family simply cannot remember passwords. Or that she had a password at all. Or that she had an account to see what she wanted to see. So she uses password reminders everytime she wants to log in. If you log her out from a service to login yourself she asks you why "the computer stopped working". Password reminder works well until she gets logged out from the mail account, at which point creating a new account is a great solution according to her. So now when she gets a password reminder sent you have to check multiple mail accounts and hope that she is logged in to the right one. Otherwise you need to use one mail account to gain access to another until you find the password reset link. At this stage you have to hope for that the reset link is for the right Facebook account, and not any of the duplicate accounts she created when "Facebook wasn't working".

Her comment: "What? Do I need a password for this? I hate passwords! Why do they make me use passwords?" Proceeds to klick password remainder link

True story. Would ve funny if it wasn't so tragic.
Seems like the banking industry has at least a degree of competency here as well. Who would bother with identity theft if you could just hack the banks and steal the money directly?
I do not support the idea one bit.
Sure, great stuff an all, if you do not care having everything behind a bottleneck, in the hands of other people. I do.
That's an example of bad design. You can do that in Java as well, just in different ways. There are trade-offs that you make, and it means that various languages and type systems make different kinds of screw-ups easier.
That's fair, but why would you do Instagram like processing in the UI? I'd rather do native library and call it to do the work...
Harvard psychologist explains why forcing positive thinking won’t make you happy
Your comment is rather unnatural, but quite good. :-)
> "The market screws this up!" isn't a particularly relevant criticism if there isn't something out there that doesn't screw this up.

My usual reply to this is that we use government to nudge market incentives, which is also what I think would be reasonable here: simply create a class of records related to PII, and create HIPPA like laws regarding those records that certain kinds of information brokers keep on people.

You then provide a corrective force to the market by providing penalties to violations, which raises the costs of breaches, and shifts the focus of the corporation towards security.

HIPPA or financial systems aren't perfect, it's true, but they're at a standard above what most of our extremely personal data is stored at, so we know we can do better, if we choose to as a society.
I have a toddler in NYC too and if there is a pediatrician who is strongly against it then it's probably the one who is making a lot of money on people like you.

This is not about being a well-off parent it's about being an informed parent and I can guarantee you that most parents in NYC are anything but scientifically well informed.
If that's what the hiring person is like, though, I'm fine with not getting that job...
They are saying that the missile originated from Russia, not that it was fired from Russia.

The investigation concludes that the missile was transported from Russia to the rebel-controlled territory, where it was then fired.
I don't think it would be fair to say that the Go community optimizes for productivity over good software development practices. In fact, there's been a good push in the community lately to talk about application design and what it means for code to be good/not good.

* https://github.com/marcusolsson/gouk16-slides/blob/master/bu...

* https://peter.bourgon.org/go-best-practices-2016/

* http://dave.cheney.net/2016/08/20/solid-go-design

However, as a Go developer I'm finding that a lot of examples/tutorials and github projects are taking shortcuts when it comes to program design and how dependencies(loggers, config, db handlers) are being passed around.
https://peter.bourgon.org/go-best-practices-2016/#program-de...
IMO it's a sign of Go still being a relatively new language. Despite the language existing for ~6 years now, we're only discovering some best practices today.
While it's true that quite a few games (especially multiplayer/competitive games) have strict latency requirements, those are far from being all the games out there.

I think this model has many big features that makes it a worthy, even if it's not for everyone. Here's a few obvious ones:

- No download or even load time, jump straight in the game
- Can play on almost any device, even mobile
- Online co-op/multiplayer for local only games
- Easy to spectate friends (don't need good upload speed)

So if you are a gamer who plays a moba/fps every single day, then sure, having your own rig is nice. But if you're someone who likes playing the latest single player story game, or some indie games, but don't want to invest into a gaming PC/console every few years, this model could be very useful.
Microsoft executive: QWERTY keyboards will soon die out
> Sure, in the long term things should be refactored, structured, and optimized.

How often does that really happen though? Once you've amassed enough technical/data debt, resistance to refactoring increases until it never happens at all. Having well defined, coherent data models and schemas from the start will pay off in the long run. Applications begin and end with data, so why half-ass this from the get go?
Most startups do not work 12 hour days anymore. The days of startups offering less pay, some equity and overworking you are over. There are too many startups that need engineers. They would just move on to the next one. Retaining good engineers is harder than hiring them. I've worked 12 hours when I was a founder but it's unrealistic to expect that from your employees regardless their age.
The government is involved either way, generally the decision to deregulate a market in order to "let the free market decide" is made by the government - see financial deregulation, airline and energy deregulation in the US.
Apparently in 2008 the market for computer music software was $425 million (https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-market-size-for-music-softwa... I can't Google anything more recent but I would say that, while not pure consumer before, it's not completely niche.

Also, one of the advantages of developing pro art products is that they can be siphoned into consumer products or fun "freebies". The audio engine in Logic Pro for instance is the same as what is used in Garageband. With everyone taking photos and video on their phones these days there's probably even more opportunity in those areas.
can you elaborate on what real estate bubble you are talking about please?
> It’s not easy getting a job at a Silicon Valley startup of twenty-somethings when you’re a 37 year old programmer like me.

[CTO drives up in an Uber, lowers the window]
CTO: "Old woman!"
You: "Man!"
CTO: "Man, sorry. Who here knows React?"
You: "I'm 37, I'm not old!"
Hi there, I'm the OP. AMA, I'll try to give cogent replies despite my advanced age :)
If they're internal domains you can run your own CA. No need to use wildcard certs or pay anything at all.
> Please, vaccinate your child. The worst possible side effects from all of the vaccines put together pale in comparison to the damage these very preventable diseases can do and have already done to our society.

Between my wife and I, I have been the one more open minded to doing it or not. We may end up vaccinating him. But for now we're exercising a lot of caution because it's not something that can be undone, and there are reasons to be skeptical about the quality of vaccines and the honesty of the industry that pushes them.

Edit: are people getting pleasure out of downvoting me? Am I not contributing to the discussion, whether or not you disagree with me?
Our number is closer to 1,700 now, but yes this means 1,700 distinct applications. Each application has many instances, some have thousands of instances.
Is the reference to "A tale of three spelling checkers" (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.4380200607/ab...) intended?
Your argument is assuming something that I don't believe is true, which is that we're already on the Pareto optimality frontier for security/convenience. It is certainly true that you can not forever increase security without eventually impacting usability, but I don't think many people are actually in that position.

I've improved a lot of real-world security by replacing functions that bash together strings to produce HTML with code that uses functions to correctly generate HTML, and the resulting code is often shorter, easier to understand, easier to maintain, and would actually have been easier to write that way in the first place given how much of the function was busy with tracking whether we've added an attribute to this tag yet and a melange of encoding styles haphazardly applied. What costs you can still come up with ("someone had to create the library, you have to learn to use it") are generally trivial enough to be ignored by comparison, because the costs can be recovered in a single-digit number of uses.
> people who still naively think that Rest/JSON is cool and schemas and databases should be flexible and "NoSQL" is nice and

Yes, and no.

Yes: REST / JSON is nice. I've used them widely as a kind of cross-platform compatibility layer. i.e. instead of exposing SQL or something similar, the API is all REST / JSON. That lets everyone use tools they're familiar with, without learning about implementation details.

The REST / JSON system ends up being a thin shim layer over the underlying database. Which is usually SQL.

No: databases should NOT be flexible, and "NoSQL" has a very limited place.

SQL databases should be conservative in what they accept. Once you've inserted crap into the DB, it's hard to fix it.

"NoSQL" solutions are great for situations where you don't care about the data. Using NoSQL as a fast cache means you (mostly) have disk persistence when you need to reboot the server or application. If the data gets lost, you don't care, it's just a cache.
I had an interview with amazon before that went exactly like that. The question was asking for a search algorithm the answer I gave was O(n log n) if you ran it the first time and O(1) every time after that. But the answer he wanted was O(n) every single time, wouldn't accept my explanation / answer.
Taking out the garbage
"nobody is going to die or be injured because of a bug or failure to deliver something"

You should read through RISKS Digest.[1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risks_digest
Yeah, this whole thread is a pretty good summary of why specifying a diet is so hard. There's no way to get any definitive answers. People try to do good, hard studies on this, but they're almost impossible to control/fund.

Because of that you'll find a bunch of different 'right' answers. You have to kinda sift through everything and figure out what seems reasonable and see what actually works for you. There's a lot of that out there and that means that what is currently true can shift back and forth a bit.

It used to be 'generally known' that too much protein was bad and would kick you out of ketosis. But there was a new study released that seems to indicate that it has more to do with it being too high of a proportion rather than too much absolute quantity.

Unfortunately I don't have access to the journal databases anymore, so I can't find the links.

> Does that mean that keto diets are different for weightlifters than for non-weightlifters?

The definition of 'ketogenic' isn't changing based on what you do outside of diet, 'ketogenic' simply means that you body is producing a ketones and your body is using them for energy, it's more that some people will use other energy sources with specific timing to enhance their athletic performance. There's something called TKD, targeted ketogenic diet, (which think is named a bit backward) which is mostly used by weightlifters and powerlifters to increase short term performance by eating small amounts of carbs just before a workout.

TBH, I don't fully understand the effects of that so I haven't started doing it myself. I assume there must be benefits to staying ketogenic during my workout so I condition my body to always be used to using fat as a fuel source, but I don't have any data to prove that is actually beneficial. It also helps that I'm more focused on weight loss, baseline of strength, and general health rather than powerlifting or and goals for the super lean and large muscle look.
Ah, because they want more customers. Got it.
Do you remember Ferdinand Piech telling Americans they didn't know how to drive when the Audi acceleration thing was happening back in the late eighties?
> Scientifically the calorie intake is more important than the what (for losing weight)

This has been the assumption but there's reason to believe it might be more complicated than that. Gary Taubes addresses the subject here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKuDamgGkZQ
It is more likely that a critical mass of well-behaved self-driving cars will make other drivers better-behaved. They will also make cycling and walking much safer and more pleasant. Critical mass is likely to be lower than most people think. When self-driving vehicles reach 10% the perception will be that they are everywhere.
That was from social media images that are not news. It was reported on at the time. I'm not sure what's new here other than a two years too late rubber stamp of eyewitness reports.
Steam in home streaming works very well for local streaming. You can add non-steam games to the library.
My last two jobs I got hired for, I said while interviewing that it was my explicit career goal to never become a manager.
I could publish it somewhere.. The problem is people just don't care.

I dumped the ASN owners for a bunch of sources, the top 3 are:

15664 BR TELEFNICA BRASIL S.A, BR
15215 VN VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN
15112 CN CHINANET-BACKBONE No.31,Jin-rong Street, CN

You think TELEFNICA BRASIL gives a shit that they have 15k+ compromised customers?

I'd say if you can telnet to your wan IP and get a login prompt, you have a shitty router that exposes telnet to the world and you're probably compromised :-)
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>Yeah, but why use another patch on top of a patch where there are modern type-safe languages like Swift.

Because targetting javascript has a lot of advantages, being cross platform is a major one of them. You basically get the type-safety of swift, with the ability to target multiple platforms.

The fact that it transpiles to JS is irrelevant, you can provide a safe interface to something unsafe. Take Elm for example, it transpiles to JS and yet guarantees that you will never produce a runtime exception.
This is the key point I think. Flexibility is very important when a project is immature. And as it matures it benefits from additional safety. Too bad so few tools support that transition.