skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me save you the time: it's an article pandering to fat people without any substance and really dishonest arguments.

The complaint is that doctors tell fat people to lose weight when they come in with symptoms that match the symptoms of being very overweight. If you go to the doctor with knee pain and you are drastically overweight, the most likely answer is that the knee pain is from being overweight. The doctor is going to tell you to lose weight. This doesn't mean they're dismissing that it might be something else, which is evident by the example in the article where the root cause was also found.

I had to stop reading at the point where the quoted a doctor as saying

>doctors and hospitals have become risk-averse because they fear their ratings will fall if too many patients have complications

followed by

>A recent survey of more than 700 hip and knee surgeons confirmed Dr. Yates’s impressions. Sixty-two percent said they used body mass index scores as cutoffs for requiring weight loss before offering surgery.

This survey doesn't confirm that surgeries are refused for the fear of lower ratings. It confirms that doctors have a BMI cuttoff for surgery. Saying that there shouldn't be a limit somewhere is beyond stupid, meaning this survey is pointless. And it's frankly tremendously disrespectful towards doctors - they have BMI cutoffs for the sake of the patient's life. The risk of complications is extremely real and doctors don't want a high risk of literally killing someone to resolve a knee pain that, while crappy, is better than dying. And they're not even asking patients to live the rest of their life with that knee pain - only long enough they can lose weight and not have such drastically dangerous odds from the surgery.

This article is garbage.
When the autism diagnostic criteria were broadened in the DSM, the people making that change predicted that we would see this rise in diagnostic rates. That was the intent, to help a broader range of people. It's played out slowly as clinicians and schools were retrained. There's also been an increasing incentive to diagnose as autism in addition to intellectual disability when possible, because insurance companies and schools will do a lot more if it's labeled autism.

So we've seen that shift. The diagnostic criteria changed a lot, not just a little, over time.

By coincidence, Wakefield launched his fraudulent crap about vaccines a few years after the criteria were broadened, and that became the popular explanation rather than the fact that the criteria changed. Belief in his BS is perhaps fading but it's still around.

The "epidemic" was predicted and an intentional outcome of the DSM criteria change, though.

If you hang out with a bunch of families with autistic kids, it's very obviously inherited in a large fraction of cases, because the kids are so much like their parents.

Another large fraction is likely genetic in the sense of "de novo" mutation, rather than inherited genes. There's likely also a group of environmental cases, mostly prenatal environmental factors.

Because social function depends on many coordinated aspects of human cognition, any condition that has a fairly global effect on the brain can create traits meeting the autism diagnostic criteria. The criteria are very broad, with many different ways to meet them.

It's important to realize that autism is a broad category, not a single condition, and no proposed single gene or environmental factor ever seems to relate to more than a few percent of cases.
https://intellectualizing.net/2013/12/17/book-rethinking-aut...

Some of those causes could well be new to the modern world, but the changing diagnostic criteria do explain most of the expansion in diagnoses already, so there isn't a lot of evidence that we need to be looking for something novel to explain the increased diagnoses.
My mom doesn't need dev tools preinstalled in her browser. Though I doubt removing them would make the browser faster/leaner.
Related: a very interesting visualization that shows all the "money" in the world: http://money.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-an...
That is a much better source thanks!
I know someone who did this. It was both so he could collect dual salaries for a while and because he wanted to try out his new job before quitting his old one.

It turned out playing out much like what Patel describes with Ziegler. Manager at old job became suspicious when he became largely unresponsive and figured out what was going on, then fired him. I think he thought he could do both at once better than he was able to.
You have that reversed, shipping is vastly more energy efficient than air travel. ~30% of most airlines budget is for fuel.
Firefox Developer Edition, Chrome, and occasionally Edge.

Web development in Firefox, because I like the basic dev tools better. Performance testing in Chrome because I like its dev tools' network tab and profiler better.

Primary social media and store/etc accounts in Firefox. Alternate "junk mail" social media accounts in Chrome. General browsing in Chrome because it's faster than Firefox (less lag on JS-heavy pages), and to minimize tracking. For instance, if I do product comparison on Amazon logged into my account and decide not to buy it, I'll keep seeing it recommended.

Also recently started doing some general browsing on Edge, now that there's extension support and can sideload uBlock, to evaluate its performance, memory, and battery claims. So far it seems to be a bit more memory-efficient than Chrome, but also has a bit laggier UI and some annoying idiosyncrasies. Haven't used it on the go enough to get a feel for battery savings.
> * You are isolating them in a relatively small space with one another.

Earth.

> * You have uncontrolled population growth.

3rd world.

> * You are using a species that naturally trends towards "clan wars" for territory.

History.

> * They are rats, and thus have nothing productive to do with their time in the absence of survival.

Snapchat doesn't count as productivity.
Life is hard when you have worked yourself into a health hole. Getting out will require treating a cluster of issues. Obesity is trivial to diagnose. So the rest get little attention until that one is dealt with. Occams razor says don't spend a moment more figuring out probable cause than is necessary.
I use LibreSSL and just want to thank OpenBSD/LibreSSL devs for their great work. It makes running TLS a lot less stressful for me, so thank you.

Also: thanks to Google for finding the bug, via honggfuzz.
High turnover would be my guess. The rude driver you see is on his way out, only to be quickly replaced by another one.
>A alternative approach could be taxing garbage.

Ok, how do you keep people from dumping their garbage in someone else's garbage bin, or in some public place in the middle of the night?

This also doesn't really deal with the fact that different garbage has very different effects on the environment and society, and very different mass. "E-waste" frequently doesn't weigh that much, but has a lot of both valuable metals and also hazardous materials which can cause problems when dumped in a landfill. Mercury-bearing batteries are especially bad, but those don't weigh much at all. Some broken dishes, however, can easily weigh far more than old electronic gadgets or leaky batteries, but they're just pottery so they're completely inert and have zero negative environmental effects. And yard waste and kitchen waste isn't environmentally problematic at all, yet it can weigh a lot because much of it is water. It'd be better to compost it, but urban dwellers have no place to put a compost pile.
To be a bit blunt, the doctors are probably thinking "if you won't take care of your body, why should I?"

If someone is so massively overweight that they need to use equipment intended for large animals or industrial scrap, they are putting themselves in an extremely precarious health situation.
Thanks; I agonized over what word to use. 'Condition' sounds right.
6000 ships produce what, 25% of all the air pollution in the world? How can that possibly be true?
Basic income would be the end of democracy.
WoSign and StartCom
I don't even work in software, but it just makes sense considering most of what they do is looking up factoids in a textbook. They frequently misdiagnose or let things slip by because there's just no way for humans to memorize that many books.
so, i bookmarked, and more parts are showing up.

2 - https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/big-players-little-stock...

3 - https://theintercept.com/2016/09/24/naked-shorts-cant-stay-n...

4 - https://theintercept.com/2016/09/25/calling-the-sec/
Reference counting has upsides and downsides. If you look at the lengths that some Java based projects like Spark have to go to in order tame the GC, then you have to question whether tracing GC is the right choice in the age of hundereds of GBs of memory.

On the other hand reference counting is extremely slow. So slow that it puts a lot of restrictions on API design and that is definitely a mental burden. Swift's own collection interface changed massively between 2.x and 3 and I believe the main reason for the redesign was that the old design required too much reference counting. (I'm not completely sure this is an accurate reflection of their thinking though)
Or, he was instructed to infiltrate Apple by Verge, and was found out. The Verge burned him, he dropped out of Apple, hence why he's supposedly not on the payroll at Apple.

I don't believe this of course, but hey, tinfoil.
Yeah, looking at the commit history tree visually convinced me.

Then was convinced even more after having to revert a ff merge.
> The South seceded because they were convinced Lincoln would work to end slavery

In what way is "work to end slavery" not completely identical, but just different words, to "work towards abolition".

You may think you are just arguing pedantically, but this exact language is leading people to believe that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery. Just because it hadn't yet happened does not mean it can be an important, or even primary motivator.
Have you considered minimum FS Cluser/Blocksize? Older versions of IE used to write cookies in plaintext files. So now you're wasting 4096 bytes for a few bytes of storage.
What if the markers are recessive and the social fabric today means more people with the recessive genes procreate?
Are you thinking about JSLinux? http://bellard.org/jslinux/

It does sound similar to the underlying PC emulator (http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html) and Bellard does indeed list v86 in section "Similar Projects (Several other PC or Linux emulators are now available)"

The v86 project's initial release was late 2013 (https://github.com/copy/v86/commit/8180d49f24833fc6cc05a9025...) about 2 years after Bellard's (http://bellard.org/jslinux/news.html)
Not all dystopian stories are about non-comformity, and many, many non-dystopian stories involve social pressure or censure.

Social pressure (conform or face consequences) is one of the basic parts of the human experience, so this is unsurprising.

I too like how Trump is pulling a lot of hidden bigotry back out into the open; it gives me a chance to talk with my well-meaning but ignorant lefty friends about how racism really is still prevalent, and a problem.

But it isn't enough just to show it's there, the point is to top up our sense that those attitudes are unacceptable and don't belong in civil society, and that we all still need to keep working on getting those ideas out of the discourse, and so on.

But getting bigoted ideas out of civil society? Well, we're back to social pressure ("conform to my vision of the world where bigotry is no longer a thing").

If, by the way, you think bigoted ideas do belong in civil society, then we probably won't get any further than that.
> the ability to download a ZIP file with HTML, CSS and images in it and "install" that

Isn't the app-cache like that?

From what I heared it simply stores a bunch of files for offline use but can't get updated incrementally, like a zip.
What's the point of posting a 'random guess' and then writing out a conspiracy theory involving Israel and Facebook? Pure BS.
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I think this is a bad idea. Standards are nice, but companies shouldn't be coerced into using them because there can be legitimate reasons to not use a standard. It prevents innovation not envisioned by the standard.

I really think the simplest way to make this sort of thing happen is to increase the minimum warranty period. If 8 year warranties become mandatory, companies will need to be able to stock replacement parts for much longer if they don't want to have to replace the machine outright with a newer model when it breaks. They may then find that standardising parts is in their interests, etc.
You were correct before ASCII and English keyboards and Microsoft C# gave the # an expanded role out of convenience
WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion
You are thinking of a very specific type of pollution such as sulphur oxide. Ships have zero emission standards and burn very low grade fuel. Cars/jets etc have the sulphur removed from their fuel. However, this stuff tends to go away fairly quickly, in terms of long term pollution such as CO2 they are very low.

Don't forget Jet fuel takes a lot of processing and produces a lot of pollution before it's added to the aircraft.
Should CFIUS block TWTR sale to a Chinese firm?
Recent reports suggest Twitter is for sale, and Chinese companies have been investing heavily abroad. Considering Twitter's role in free speech, political communications and journalism... does the US have a national security interest in blocking its sale to companies headquartered in foreign states with controlled speech?
I guess the "for Windows Server 2016" part answers the question :) however you might be asking about Docker for Windows, which seems to be a different thing?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-programming-language/...
I have serious reservations about IBM's involvement in Swift. I spoke with someone very high up in the Sun organization once who said IBM was the worst thing to happen to the JDK. Which is saying something since IBM wrote most of the JDK.

IBM seems to make a mess of everything they touch. I really wish Apple had taken a "Thanks but no thanks" stance when approached by IBM.
My optometrist prescribed exactly the same thing for the same reason. I sometimes have trouble seeing in the distance because of too much computer/phone use, and your explanation is spot on what he told me.
Microsoft, the inventor and trademark owner, use # on their website.
One of the properties of governments is tending to take things seriously, whether or not this is a good thing is a discussion that someone else can have. Anyway, the US Federal web guidelines are the sort of thing that a serious organization can produce:

https://standards.usa.gov/getting-started/developers/

and so are the UK's:

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/helping-people-to-use-your...

On the flip side, because Google penalizes sites for not looking pretty on mobile but not for inaccessibility, day to day we can tend to get caught up in its priorities rather than thinking about accessibility.

Good luck.
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I see them as a HN for the masses. If HN is a billboard for YC, anyone with a little $ can have their ad on SO. Seems to be working just fine.
Agreed I imagine this will happen sooner than later. Taxis in New York City actually have a "rush hour" surcharge of $4.50 from 4:00PM to 8:00PM on weekdays.You will pay this for taking a taxi to the airport which is not served by any single train line. Just another example of the city sticking it to it's own citizen who already pay decent city tax.
Christianity in the US, particularly in the Revolutionary period, usually meant mainstream Protestant sects. Indeed, in the mid-1700s, Maryland (originally set up as a Catholic colony during England's turbulent religious times) actually outlawed Catholicism and prohibited Catholics from serving public office. Only one Catholic (Charles Carrol) signed the Declaration of Independence. The first (and, to date, only) Catholic elected president was JFK.

Note that Mitt Romney is Mormon, which is sometimes considered non-Christian. Thomas Jefferson is probably the closest the US ever had to an atheist president (he wrote a translation of the New Testament that cut out all of the miracles)--in a time when church was actually held inside the US Capitol. I'm not aware of any viable non-Christian presidential candidates, although there have been Jews for the vice presidential nominee (Lieberman) or as primary candidates (Sanders).

Judging from polls that ask questions like "Would you vote for a president if he were an atheist?", an outright atheist would be unlikely to hold a successful run for the presidency, at least not for another century or so. Muslims would probably have a harder time than Buddhists or Hindus (as far as I know, there really haven't been any studies on the latter groups), but they'd have an easier time than atheists.

For less visible elected roles in the US, there are already Muslims and atheists who have been elected. The first Muslim representative in Congress was sworn in on Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Koran.
Edward Snowden Is the Perfect Candidate for a Presidential Pardon
It's called a dog :)
Then don't use it. I'd been happy to just have an option to support fast forward merges without merge commits, but this really nails my preferred work flow.
How to build a slack app
Google is testing its Andromeda Chrome OS/Android hybrid on the HTC-made Nexus 9
Where can I find an iPhone 7?
transform in C++ is not that great. The standard does not guarantee order is preserved, which makes it virtually useless. People recommend for_each if you want to preserve the order, but it's almost the same as writing a for loop.

As for cost, I had a C++ teacher who once sat on the standards committee. His advice: Always use the algorithms library even if it "feels" like it is costlier. Reasons:

1. Much lower likelihood of having a bug.

2. Virtually every time someone decided writing an explicit solution rather than using the algorithms library, it did not perform better (even in cases where it seems "obvious" it should).
> If you don't have a top of the range, almost new fridge or TV, even phone, repair will almost always come close to replacement cost.

I tend to repair everything, and let me say that's not true for the vast majority of my possessions, including cars, appliances, electronics, etc. It highly depends on the nature of the failure, but generally parts are cheaper than replacement. Here are a list of things I've recently repaired around my house + the parts to repair. I don't recall the parts costs, but all were far lower than replacing the entire thing:

Dishwasher: Control board

Garage door opener: Broken gear and sprocket

Hot tub: Two pumps and a pressure/flow sensor

AV receiver: Three capacitors

Rear projection TV: Convergence ICs

Attic fan: Fan motor

And probably tons more that I'm not recalling at the moment. The key is to stop throwing money away on labor costs. Even getting someone out to your house can cost $50-100 and that's before he even does anything. Total scam. I disagree with a lot of replies here--DIY repair is still a viable option for most things around the home.
The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris is another good and very approachable book on ACT.
> so I don't have to keep going back to my own terminal after my PR is approved.

Why would you have to go back to your terminal after the PR is approved? In either case, the merges are done by the admin..
Like a real dummy I didn't pre-order an iPhone 7 so now I'm constantly playing the game of "refresh apple.com then race to call a store the moment it has inventory". So I made this.

I put it together in a few hours at a hack day at our office (Bebo HQ/Monkey Inferno) this weekend. <— we have these every saturday and all are welcome! here's the next one: https://www.facebook.com/events/1078318942222280/

EDIT: p.s. dawns on me maybe i should have made this a Show HN? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
From wikipedia:

>> As of August 2016, a scaled version of the[12][verification needed] Raptor engine has been shipped to Texas where it will undergo development testing.

I was looking at the pics and thinking this thing is way too small for what it is meant to be. But after reading wikipedia I understand. The pics/tests are of a tabletop version. The real engine hasn't been built yet. So it's good news, but not the news I was looking for.

Title should perhaps reflect the fact that the "new powerful engine" doesn't yet exist for testing.
http://awaremac.com/

Not quite what you're asking but it tracks how long you've been working (or using keyboard/mouse) and simply displays that without interrupting you at any point. If it's an hour or more for me, when I happen to glance at it, I get up and take a walk or stretch.
Personally I like the combined approach where the feature is first rebased (which I think should be done if possible because then it guarantees a clean commit with no conflicts) and then merged e.g.

master: A - B - C
feature: D - E
post-master: A - B - C --------- F
\- D - E -/

So in the view of the master the entire branch is one clean commit, but the branch history is still preserved.
I can give only anecdotal evidence. I do this reasonably regularly. It's mainly to combat meibomian gland dysfunction and works by heating up the oils in and around the glands so that the dry build-up clears, and the glands can function a bit more normally. They should be releasing oil throughout the day to keep the surface of your eye from drying out.

I think you need to be careful not to overdo compresses, and associated massage, as the glands are also delicate and you can damage them, but for me it results in much more comfortable eyes and better vision when I do it semi regularly.
Can you give more details on the "some of them are obviously inherited, because the kids are so much like the parents" part? Kids everywhere are so much like their parents, so the reasoning, as written, is nonsense.
Multi-paradigm languages like C++ (or C#, Swift, etc) are the right tool because they allow you to use different solutions depending on the project you're working on.

As you can probably tell, languages that support one paradigm aren't particularly successful. This is painfully clear in the case of F#.
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> Japan is a major Western country

Um...
Unless there's a breaking point of "good enough" that can serve all segments.

Typically though, this "making the product worse" thing is used as part of the sales cycle of a patented product. There has to be some "proprietary" piece (whether a large up-front investment in infrastructure or a new technology) or else it's a commodity and this type of segmentation doesn't work.
Indeed they are and you're going to get merge commits when you're continuing work on a branch and you're using branches rather than having people use separate repos (which is the superior choice).

I'm amazed at how many companies allow branches rather than allowing repo forks.
An algorithm for taxi sharing
Big Data or Linked Data
> but sometimes can cause an Uber ride to take twice as long as a taxi ride

I never imagined navigation apps could suck like that! I have no love for Uber, but I always imagined any navigation app will on average outperform even a knowledgeable driver.
> And I would say probably 50% of the questions I start typing on SO, I actually figure out on my own by the time I've written it.

The live search for related Q&As has been particularly useful for me for this. Do I sometimes feel bad I did all that typing first? Sure. But that's vastly outweighed by happiness at getting a solution.
I, too used to wonder about this. But in git merge commits basically break bisect and revert. You can't tell git to only consider feature merges for it's bisection (which is normally what you want), nor will revert on a merge commit behave the way people expect. And not everyone enjoys reading long essays about to work around these problems.