skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My initial reaction to this suggestion is horror, in part because I feel strongly that it disincentivizes finding other solutions to serious health issues. I have a condition that accounts for something like a third of all lung transplants and half of all pediatric lung transplants. I find the emphasis on heroic medical interventions instead of improved diet, prevention, etc. to be really horrifying. Pursuing improved diet, prevention, etc. has gotten me extremely good results. I never know how to convince people of that. It happens to be a fact, but it is not acceptable to really say that anywhere at all and the whole thing makes me feel postal at times.

But, please, let's stop parting people out as the easy answer and try a little harder to solve serious medical conditions some other way.

This is so very UGH.
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The chromecast I bought is the dongle. That's exactly the issue. A more apt analogy would be to buy a scooter, a sports car and a VW all with powerful onboard computers and audio systems and not being able to play music from your phone because there is no Bluetooth!

Actually cars are pretty far ahead in that sense, in any modern car BT "just works".
> Around 100 LOC

Say what? To ring the bell after sleeping based on a parameter?
Full integration tests (I.e. click a button in the UI, check that something was updated in the database) with Fluentlenium in Java and unit tests for directives/controllers/services (Angular) using Jasmine.
Try GWT ;-)
Had the same issue. City was nearby - but definitely wrong.
Well, he's right in the sense that it's not illegal to lie - it's the companies paying the people who don't disclose who bear the liability.
There was certainly some kind of hype for 2.0 for those who were looking to upgrade their 1.x installations.
It's interesting that you jump directly to that interpretation. I would have interpreted it to mean that GP believes that the state should not restrict the right of an adult of sound-mind to self-terminate. Given the nature of the state, there would probably be forms and evaluations.

Even if I were to agree with GP, I'd probably still stop my friend high on ketamine from walking in front of a bus (if he actually exists, that is).
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Right, it's interesting react had a goal of eliminating xss vulnerabilities so common with the innerhtml approach.
slashdot was/is a message board on hacker-like things a proto-HN sans the startup stuff.
You can use a RNN to generate code, but not for any particular purpose. It would be syntactically correct nonsense.
Keep in mind that this is more of a monopolistic move than a quality move; Amazon was already scrubbing for a while.
1. Amazon Vine reviews are still live and will still go live -- there's no more editorial quality to them than some of the other services.
2. This policy doesn't impact book reviews, where fake reviews, incentivized reviews, and review trading is most rampant.
3. The easiest way around the policy will be for vendors to get shadier and not offer upfront discounting. Instead, you'll see non-disclosed reviews where the reviewer is compensated for the product costs afterwards. If done properly, that'd be hard to catch.

As disclosure, I'm CEO of Intellifluence, which is essentially a marketplace for reviews (one supported platform of which is Amazon). We emphasize honest reviews and have been trying to fight some of the shadier players, but this policy move isn't going to fix things...it just is a move to push Amazon's own program.
This video[1] posted Sept. 19th 2016 got more then 500k views, I wonder if it has anything to do with Amazon's decision...

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdLI62JKpCk
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> Using IQ is mostly illegal[2] in the US

No, its not.

Like any input that statistically creates a disadvantage for any group defined by a protected criteria, it will, if challenged as discriminatory, require the user to demonstrate that there is sufficient evidence establishing that it is a reasonable predictor of job performance.

There is a pervasive myth that IQ tests specifically are "mostly illegal" in the US stemming from an early employment discrimination case in which the particular use was determined to be illegal, but its worth noting that in that case the IQ test was applied widely, it was part of a set of policies that were direct replacements for a policy of explicit racial discrimination (adopted once the company was subjected to nondiscrimination rules), and there was no evidence that could be offered linking it to performance in the jobs for which it was used. [0]

(It's perhaps worth noting that the case also addressed educational requirements -- the specific one at issue was a high-school diploma requirement -- which was found illegal in the particular use for the same reason as the particular use of the IQ test was, but for some reason no one has gone from that to adopting the idea that specific educational attainment requirements are generally illegal.)

[0] Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971)
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I'm sorry, but why would you risk death to make a few thousand dollars if you're not poor? This practice significantly targets the poor and desperate. The same issues that come with legalization of prostitution and sex trafficking impact the organ trade.

So do the same failed arguments -- how has legalization and regulation of the market gone for Germany? Or rather how has it gone for German prostitutes, because from a tax revenue perspective Germany is doing wonderfully, with the perverse incentive to keep exploiting poor and trafficked women.
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That's strange. Both React and Ember projects compile ES6 -> ES5 in very little time on my machine.
I'm Chinese and my relatives and friends use it, so I have.

I personally strongly dislike it because you have to set a phone as your primary device. And if you break your phone, all your message history is gone.

In theory it has a desktop client, but the desktop client sucks. It requires you to use your phone to scan a QR code (which is currently failing for me with an "Unable to find (3,-1)" error).

They only recently added the ability on the desktop client to save message history (before, it would be wiped every time you log in). Even now, I can't see messages received while my computer isn't connected to WeChat (e.g. when my computer is off).

In general, anything that makes me use a phone keyboard instead of a computer keyboard to talk to people is a no-go for me.

So yeah, I dislike it for reasons that have nothing to do with the privacy. It has "better" privacy than most apps since it doesn't do cloud message storage unless you tell it to, but I'd rather it did like Facebook or Hangouts or Skype.
What did you use to learn Ember? I'm also in the "convention over config" camp and I love that the Ember team sticks to it but also introduces new tech like FastBoot whenever they can.
Here's the purported text of the 2002 Belgium law

http://www.ethical-perspectives.be/viewpic.php?LAN=E&TABLE=EP&ID=59

FWIW, that law seems eminently reasonable to me, and I can't see how extending that to children (esp. given that the parents must agree as well, not just the child and physicians) could constitute cause for concern.

We could quibble over the ethics and morality of euthanasia in the absence of terminal illness. I can't say I have strong feelings one way or another. (Mostly because, IME, when you strip away the context from these sorts of questions there's little of substance remaining to discuss. If I wanted to debate questions of little consequence I'd prefer to write an essay on why smart tabs are the only way to code.)

But if the concern is mental health and people being pressured to kill themselves, it seems to me the law is reasonable. Given that I'm a product of the Western enlightenment and that my preference is to see the law err toward the benefit of individual autonomy, people criticizing constraints in a law permitting euthanasia should be required to proffer data showing that the opposite (status quo) situation--outright ban on euthanasia--in fact results in fewer pressured suicides, assuming the effect exists one way or another. I.e.

If we permit euthanasia, people will be pressured into suicide.

becomes

If we disallow euthanasia, people will not be pressured into suicide.

Show and quantify the latter. Otherwise anti-euthanasia arguments are the equivalent of spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD).

And don't use a strawman. I know of no euthanasia law that doesn't constrain how and when a physician (or other person) can legally provide assistance. No reasonable person (lawmaker or otherwise) needs instruction on dilemmas that mental health and social pressure pose. They're immediately self-evident, and so-called ethicists are wasting ink on the matter as they're no better at resolving the nuances than most other people. The real question is who should get to resolve the situation in thorny cases--people intimately involved in the specific situation, or the state by passing a blanket rule?
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You've got some awesome tutorials Matt, they were some of my first exposure to the graphics pipeline
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AWS also has a free tier for many services (EC2 included) for the first 12 months of usage. They're well familiar with the "first hit's free" business model...
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We ($work) have some embedded devices running BusyBox and I typically just use TFTP. It's simple, it works, and we already have an internal TFTP server.
My experiences differ from that, as well as everyone I know. I know this is anecdotal, but I have never met anyone who has said good things about google support, including a google support rep. Maybe I'm just an outlier, but I also wouldn't use someone like the above example as a typical experience, as they are also an outlier.
So very, very true.

I'm actually aware of some large FBA players that intend to create thousands of new 'brands' in the next year in order to push their wares.

Even still, they'll get their reviews, policy or no policy.
That's what I said but in different words. That's slso been where the payoff has beenin about any, automated activity on software. Generally some math notation that's easy to analyze or something close to CPU/memory models.

Langsec is a notable exception where Chomsky's hierarchy paid off big time. The notations and implementations still more consistent with Lamport, though. So, semi-exception.
Actually the guy I just replaced did, but that's because he didn't know what he was doing.
Ember has a pretty large community—the framework has a few conferences every year that are filled up. Most Ember devs don't seem to participate in a lot of JS community things and are very quiet compared to say, the React community.
He might have had a point, but I would not want to respond to an email with cat!

When I worked in Tokyo, all of our SunOS workstations did the BSD Unix thing, and we got corporate email via some sort of X.400 relay over an IBM mainframe (I think). This was before Mutt or Pine and may have been Elm or could have been something else - I don't remember. But, it was weird, because we could just Telnet into our compadre's SunOS boxes in the US directly (dedicated line). I don't know what the rationale behind this "split" was, but whenever we called corporate IT about email being down - they would always say: "What's email?". They must have used a different word for their X.400 batch messaging system.
Some of us are still holding out for True AI serving as the brain behind a chatbot, the MindGrid, the knowledge base (KB).
As kyledrake so eloquently said before: "The bandwidth is the soda."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12270129

AWS and Azure overcharge on bandwidth about 10 to 20 times the prevailing rate. Something to keep in mind for high bandwidth applications.
Just because the masses want the wrong thing doesn't mean that your different thing is better. The way I see the difference is that, after saying that, Ford gave them automobiles. He didn't fail to sell people ferret-poop rockets and then blame them for wanting faster horses.
What kind of was a head scratcher for me was that Ember had such a high rate of "heard of it, not interested" from the responders. Especially when I looked a couple columns over at the Angular 1 data where a lot of people tried it but would never try it again.

I don't know how a sample of 9k maps to the developer community at large but I found it puzzling that so many people were dismissive of Ember. What makes Ember unappealing enough to not warrant being tried out in a side project? Personally, I saw it and thought "boy, a framework that wants to be stable for several years - sign me up."
Probably why a lot of professors say that University is often about networking opportunities just as much as it is about learning.

But aside from knowing talented people, it takes visionaries to generate fantastic outcomes. Walt Disney for example stopped drawing cartoons himself early on because he had better artists around him. However, he had the vision that ultimately brought the best out of each artist.
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I was wondering the same thing. I stumbled upon Keystone this weekend and it's the one that looks the most promising. Only cons is mongodb, it's lacking per template custom fields, and is not very designer-friendly.

I have in mind a straightforward CMS in Node/Express and Postgres, that would combine some ideas of Wordpress's Page/Posts and Taxonomies, and the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.

The whole schema would be defined by the theme, and each template could provide its own custom fields, with no admin-side configuration. And the CSS classes would be scoped to the template in order to avoid conflicts.

I'm no strong developer, so would probably need collaborators to help me out.
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I remember building Windows ui apps 10-15 years ago, and that definitely needed a build tool. Http2 might be great for module loading, so things don't have to be bundled, but there's lots of unsupported use cases right? Css encapsulation, autoprefixing, hot reloading for dev, compiling features not yet in browsers into js versions supporters by browsers etc.
No, exFat is patent encumbered and isn't as simple and well documented as vfat (so non-Windows implementations are worse). vfat is still the common denominator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Restrictive_licensing_an...
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10-year-old me would have loved this so much. A lot of the designs look similar to the ones from The World Record Paper Airplane Book[1], which, for a brief time, got me super fixated on the idea of trying to break paper airplane-relate world records, which, alas, did not pan out...

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Fine, I'll let you apply an IQ test to your hiring process first.

Quibble about my word choice all you'd like, but use a direct IQ test at your own peril.
Great analogy re: food! I'm going to steal that.
That's really what this article seems to boil down to. There doesn't seem to be any concrete data that should lead a completely objective donor to worry. The issue is that the author is not completely objective (nobody is).
The state of our body affects our mental state. Everyone has experienced that awkward hungry angry time that makes people a little crazy. I can't imagine the horror of being a burn victim. I agree, perhaps people in horrible pain can't actually make those decisions for themselves. The pain makes them insane.

I feel like you're arguing from the exception though. This one person suffered and made it, but i think many others suffer and do not make it. There are also others who suffer, but want to continue.

I think there's room for the state to have a limited override. It's clear this person is miserable, but the doctors are sure the misery is temporary, ok. Give doctors the power to override the patients wish for some limited time.

My personal experience is the opposite extreme. There was nothing doctors could do. My relative was stuck in a hospital for about 3 weeks before she let go. Doing that to a dog would be considered torture. I think this case is much much more common than the complete recovery you described.

IMHO, people who want to live, regardless of how hopeless the situation is, should be cared for as well as possible. People who do not want to live, who's chances are very slim, should be given the option.
By client-side state, I mean user interactions that affect variables used across the app that don't need to be persisted. Relay doesn't do that yet, as it only deals with persisted data. @josephsavona[1] and @wincent[2] are the guys putting information out about Relay 2. Greg Hurrell (@wincent) did a talk[3] about it in August.

And since I'm linking to related resources, I just want to add a plug for an awesome project a friend is working on (and we're putting it into production on my startup project). @calebmer/postgraphql[4] let's you get a free GraphQL API from a PostgreSQL schema.

[1]: https://github.com/josephsavona

[2]: https://github.com/wincent

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEfUBN9dAI8

[4]: https://github.com/calebmer/postgraphql
I had long assumed that Valve added the "past 30 days" aggregate to show when games had improved rather than gotten worse. (i.e. early access games) Kind of interesting that it helps clarify changes in both ways, and implies very different incentives for the game publishers/sellers.
Create-react-app is a great idea, but I found it really didn't cover enough use cases.
Well, I'm in Chrome. If only mobile browsers had some sort of debugging tool, so we could see why...
ROS is powerful, but it's something of a moving target. Any documentation that's more than six months old is going to be completely wrong, something I discovered by trying to get ROS running on my vacuum cleaner: https://bbot.org/blog/archives/2016/06/09/using_ros_with_the...
Its about TIME. I emailed amazon support about a month about this (many items I was looking for were 80-90% "incentivized" reviews), and they responding by saying they would forward it to a team to look for "fraud", but gave no indication it was a problem.

Their response afterwards was:

> "The vast majority of the millions of reviews on Amazon are authentic, but we will continue to protect the integrity of customer reviews by taking action against those who abuse them."

which left a bit of a bitter taste. I suppose I didn't expect them to say anything about a change in policy but I wish they had admitted that it was even a problem.