skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a do not disturb a developer day, why not just let them work from home? They save a commute, and it's suddenly a lot easier for everyone else to remember that they shouldn't bug a developer except for emergencies.
This piece is remarkably light on facts and almost entirely speculation.

The whole argument seems to be - we haven't found much evidence of his work, ergo he must be a spy.
So you're suggesting industrialisation to save the environment?
Yes, it's anywhere outside of strong US ties.
In New Zealand you'll get chased down the street by the honest waiter telling you that you've forgotten your change.
tldr; a virus, Ad-36, may or may not cause obesity in humans.

> Though Dhurandhar and Atkinson have conducted several strong studies showing the contribution of Ad-36 to fatness, skepticism remains. Atkinson says, “I remember giving a talk at a conference where I presented 15 different studies in which Ad-36 either caused or was correlated to fatness.
The tweaker: the real genius of Steve Jobs (2011)
Quoting command line arguments the wrong way (2011)
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thats is also wrong.

repeat visits is what you do for good to exceptional service/product at a good price.

tipping culture is just the lazy way for restaurants owners to deal with high attrition rates and lack of training and decent wages.
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To name yourself after a poet that inspired you must be the ultimate compliment that one poet can pay to another.
I was referring to how the system works here in Europe. I suppose there is no much of a difference in the US.

On each step in the chain (credit card, POS, bank entity, etc.) you have lots of verification and error control each one adding more and more overheadeing.

And let's not forget times regarding the user - pin request, payment type which the user has to select if it is necessary.
Well you could always get a tapeworm parasite, though I doubt that would be sound medical advice ;)
I'm starting a project in Phoenix in the next week or so and am excited. I have done little web work and what I have done was using ASP.NET MVC so it is different than what I'm used to.
Mostly off-topic tangent:

I try to avoid off-topic posts like this, but I just wanted to say your crypto knowledge is always a joy to read on HN. The fact you inspired some conversation on this topic + made it a fun exercise to boot is awesome and serves to solidify the fact you're an awesome contributor to HN.

I also really like the idea of using SHA-256 hashes for trivia. A perfect way to let people guess the problem and being able to say "I knew that one already." and being able to prove it! A very elegant solution and one I will certainly use in the future for any forum-based trivia games.

That's all, hope your holidays were enjoyable. :)
Poetry: The art of making writing extremely convoluted and obfuscated. Hell, sometimes writers themselves don't even know how to "interpret" those beasts.

Simplicity is underrated.
thank you, i've been thinking the same.
>It's going to be a spectacular, automated race to the bottom.

Excellent! More efficient shipping benefits a lot of people. The problem isn't the increase in efficiency — are faster CPUs a race to the bottom because worse chip makers go out of business? — it's poor policy that fails to adequately compensate those who lose from this. We should focus on electing officials and supporting policy to turn these Kaldor-Hicks improvements into Pareto ones.

(I know you're not taking a stance against automation, I just think it's important to stress that the correct response is to make everyone better off by using some of the gains to compensate the losers)
Note: the word "neoliberal" has nothing to do with social justice or even modern left wing movements and activism. It describes an economic policy that discourages regulation and government oversight.
The new 32-bit stuff was. The problem was all the 16-bit programs and driving weren't, and large parts of Windows itself were still 16-bit.
Try going to a foreign country, almost any, and have this conversation. They'll look at you like you've gone insane, really. Every conversation I've had with a foreigner about this and they think American's are batshit when it comes to the tipping strategy and how much noodle time and effort we spend on it.

Basically it's a type of freeloading. The business manager is dumping off their decision making, verbal and monetary feedback to their employee, onto the customer as if we're the employer (in part). Which is just stupid. It doesn't really give the proper feedback in any reliable sense compared to even a mediocre manager.
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Alexa only waits for the wake word "Alexa." It would cost more money than God in hardware to store every thing Alexa ever heard. She saves you're requests. And shows you those request in the Alexa App. And you can also delete it if you wish.

There is no data for the police to have, because beyond requests, there is no data.

Unless someone knows more about this than Amazon is telling us?
I'm curious if the police will push this, as it could reveal how much voice information is actually stored. Amazon has declined to answer how much voice information is stored online[1] and how much if that is tied to your identity. We do know that Alexa stores a list of queries you've spoken, and you can "delete" these records, but it is unknown if this impacts the actual voice data behind them.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... and https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/11/11...
Technically, the virus directly causes overeating, not obesity, the title makes it sound like this virus could make you gain more weight for a different reason.

"Cause Obesity" sounds like it is the entire reason behind all of obesity, not just one of the multiple factors.
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thank you for taking your time, that's an inspiring example. time to do some careful analysis.
As others have pointed out, there are over a half dozen independent lines of evidence for something like dark matter. Prople hope more evidence such as the direct mechanical detection of WIMPS- not seen so far.
Automating my TV with Alexa
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Truck companies do need scale.

People don't buy truck trips, they buy goods transportation. That means your company must at a minimum send stuff everywhere. Also, scale permits all kinds of cost-cutting that are the difference between failure and success on a low margin market like trucking.

About universal income, I'm curious how do you think people could solve the winner take all problem at its root.
If you have interesting content to post and discuss in those areas, please post them to HN! Those definitely qualify as “gratifying one's intellectual curiosity”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
thank you for the advice, really appreciate it. i've just started looking into - mautic.org.
The linked article is about improved health outcomes due to secondhand smoke bans in public areas:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD005992...

You're free to continue smoking in the privacy of your own home.
Again the assumption made by the article is that these are British ethnic minorities who would have a British Accent since they would have lived there. They are not talking about non-British nationals.

Here is another article that is anecdotal:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/27/ethnic...
Scared people demand their government does something to address the issue. One of the things the government can do is to give the terrorists what they want. It can work, if other solutions are too costly.[1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_California_medfly_attack
Your database should not run on a server that has a public ip. Forget authentication (it's plaintext on redis), or binding rules, or using a uncommon port.

It's network isolation or you will be owned.
Reinstalling Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQuDk3z25Ko

Sung to the tune of When I'm Cleaning Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmAeijj5cM
TL;DR - good article, just a couple of thoughts/questions.

Interesting. So is this syntax:

new Vue({
el: '#app',
...
});

required for every element or component in the same way that this is?

class App extends React.Component { ... }

Or is more the equivalent of ReactDOM.render? i/e

ReactDOM.render(App, document.getElementById('app'))

Additionally, going through some Vue examples, I see this usage:

var app = new Vue({ ... });

app.$mount('.my-app');

I'm going to guess that creating a new Vue app object is equivalent to something abstracted away by React once ReactDOM.render is called, and that ReactDOM.render is more like the Vue.prototype.$mount function. Is that correct?

The more I look at Vue code, the less of an issue I have with its syntax, something I initially didn't like as it reminded me too much of Backbone, but that was probably just the el: property. Without getting too far down the rabbit hole, I think the biggest concern I'd have with Vue (re: wouldn't enjoy) is going back to using v-* HTML properties like this:

<section class="main" v-show="todos.length" v-cloak>

That's something I never enjoyed with Angular.
Thank You! Yes, that's been on my mind, just somewhat tight on the finances :P
The article specifically mentions the guy lost minimal weight even during medical interventions when his diet was restricted. He wasnt overeating during those periods.
Your cause and effect are backwards. People think that obesity, depression, alcoholism, ADHD are moral failings because they think that they're under your conscious control and therefore not susceptible to biochemical intervention.

(In particular, to break the cycle we'd have to start by teaching people better biology — it's no good arguing with people's morals if you don't start from the same basis of facts as them.)
Here's the thing. I worked in the restaurant business in various capacities all through college. As a cash transaction, it will come as no surprise that a lot of tips go unreported as income. From time to time the IRS will decide the reported income from a restaurant seems low and audit the staff. It was generally understood that if you had reported 10% of your sales as a server/bartender as tip income you'd be ok. If not you were in trouble (and this happened to people I know). So if you tip $20 on a $500 dollar tab because it's the same amount of work as $100 dollar tab. your server will most likely still claim $50 in income and be at about break even once the taxes are paid on it.
Ok, in the article, they mentioned:
> “There was regularly a 500 percent deficit between the back of the house and the front of the house,” said Abram Bissell, the executive chef of the Modern. “Like every kitchen in New York, we were having trouble attracting and retaining talent at that pay grade.”

and

>An experienced line cook who carries $40,000 in debt from years of culinary school earns $12 an hour, while a new server can reap three times that much.

So it was my understanding that the Kitchen staff weren't paid that well. Also, I don't really care what they say about customers as long as the food is great :) They're not customer facing anyway.

But yes I do agree, tipping is just a way for owners to increase profits by passing more costs to the customer. It's exploitative and it creates bad incentives in term of customer interactions. I don't think that the customer service in restaurants is better in the US than in countries without tipping culture but on the other hand, I've seen quite a bit of pushy obnoxious behaviors from waiters that were trying to increase their tips.
I think you'd have to use a pointer and allocate on the heap. Under the hood I think that's essentially what the compiled Haskell code would do.
> It would cost more money than God in hardware to store every thing Alexa ever heard

Depends, first of all storing compressed audio isn't that space-expensive, especially in some long term data storage like s3. Additionally they could only be storing the transcriptions, but not the voice behind them, which would be a lot less data.

We don't know as Amazon hasn't been very forthcoming about the privacy aspects of Alexa. I personally suspect they are keeping some voice information so they can use it to improve their NLP. I hope they are doing so in a way that is detached from accounts / IDs, but you never know.

Additionally, you can indeed delete a record of the query from the app, but who knows if the voice data or even the query itself is still stored after deletion, just not visible to us end users.
Given the number of comments about the inefficiency of finger trees: yes they usually have a high constant factor (for their otherwise reasonable asymptotic complexity) due to cache misses. However, they are immutable and persistent, which means they have efficient sharing, which in turn makes them good candidates for

* use in multiple threads at once
* code that needs to be proven correct (I believe the Haskell Data.Sequence implementation is a translated from Coq)
IMHO, the solution to the "Winner Take All" economy isn't to prevent the winner from taking it all, but to make the "all" smaller so lots of people and companies can be winners of their own nonfungible markets. In effect, Winner Take All (of a niche) instead of Winner Take All (of everything).
including third parties, I think the same amount of data, if not more, would be collected by browsing thepiratebay. Ad blocking would relieve some, if not most, but you can also relieve yourself of some, if not most of the potential data collected by Spotify.
This is a state-by-state thing in the US. In my state, there is no alternative minimum wage for waitstaff - they make the same wages as the kitchen staff.
...and hundreds of millions worldwide who have been saved from malaria or lifted out of extreme poverty would likely disagree with you: what good is super-human synthetic intelligence several decades from now (assuming that's even a tractable generalization of largely task-specific ML models) if you're not sure where your next meal comes from?
To me, the biggest events of the year are probably Trump, Brexit, and AlphaGo.
And here's why this guy is wrong. Next time you're in a restaurant getting mediocre service, ask if the tips are pooled and divided equally.
Isn't that the assumption of any medium article? You're getting an editorial piece, based on the author's views (editorial doesn't necessarily mean all opinion and low fact density).
But who is that targeting? Python programmers that haven't heard of python 3.X in the last 7 years?
> Its like the technologist handed STASI their wet dream while trying to improve the world...

The error here is assuming that for all technologists "[handing] STASI their wet dream" and "trying to improve the world" are mutually exclusive. I am beginning to think they knew[/know] exactly what they were[/are] doing.
Not sure exactly what you're asking.

We can evaluate the Linux kernel developers' priorities by benchmarking[1] and assuming they aren't stupid, because if they are stupid, then their opinion doesn't matter, and if they're not and they're not making things faster, then it's because they have other priorities.

That being said, there are a few[2] notable[3] moves away from linked lists that were ostensibly for performance reasons.

[1]: Even crap benchmarks: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-44-...

[2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/1/164

[3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/1/458
redis used to listen to all interfaces. The current stable release has fixed that. http://download.redis.io/redis-stable/redis.conf
Unless the guy said "Alexa, how do I get rid of a body?" or "Alexa, play 'The Sound of Silence'" just after the time of death, I think you are right.

I could imagine some sort of log data being used to refute an alibi but what is implied by what is missing from the article, that it could be used as an after the fact witness, is not really feasible.
You're overcomplicating. Take a stopwatch. Start it at the point where you exit your normal driving routine to "get gas". Stop it when you resume. Take that time, subtract the time spent actually pumping fuel (which even in your convenient utopia is still going to be less than 1/3 of the total), and add the time spent to equivalently charge the vehicle.

Then divide the two totals to get a relative penalty to an electric car. If you're doing the analysis any other way, you're almost certainly doing it wrong.
> total nonsense

The HN guidelines ask you to edit this sort of thing out of your comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We'd appreciate it if you'd err on the side of civility.
Does anyone know whether as a matter of epidemiology, prevalence of this virus matches any part of an obesity map like this:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/map-o...

My guess is this virus would be equally prevalent in North America and Western Europe and therefore as a matter of public health has no impact whatsoever on obesity.

Instead, in my reading in North America it is very difficult to eat in a healthy way and in my personal experience people are eager to find reasons other than the food supply, tastes, and behaviors.

If, on the other hand, this virus was prevalent in North America but very rare in Western Europe it would give some indication that perhaps it was worthy of attention. I would like to know if anyone has applied this differential.
> No server will work for a fixed 20% increment when they have the potential to get a lot more than that, especially on Saturday nights.

So don't make it a fixed pay increment, make it a floor set by a fixed pay increment, but allow it to go higher with a revenue sharing formula.
I have also had PreCheck for many years, and have not noticed this. In fact, when the regular lines are long, they just bring people out of those lines and into the PreCheck lines. The big kicker is that they have PreCheck at SFO, whose security isn't even run by the TSA. It's just some random private company.

PreCheck is basically the government admitting that nobody is interested in blowing up planes and that it's not worth the effort to thoroughly screen people (which they do not do in the regular lines either). Heart disease or a car accident is what's going to kill you. There will always be terrorist attacks. They don't matter in aggregate.
I actually can't remember. I was a teenager then and budding cinephile. I stumbled on an invitation to the group through an online acquaintance in a completely unrelated message board.

It was an adventure to be able to pull down obscure work from people I'd never heard of previously. As it goes, a lot of the stuff was above my head - but occasionally I'd stumble on something amazing and go deep on that creator. Later, my university had a very good cinema library. You had to request films my name, necessitating research and sapping some of the adventure of chance.
Believe it or not, making sure the truck fails safe and keeping it under control are far easier problems for a computer to solve than predicting if a pedestrian will jump in front of a car.

But I'm not sure it makes any difference. You aren't "supposed" to find pedestrians in a road, but you'll certainly find them, and the truck must be able to deal with them.
> I read an argument once that that tipping is probably illegal under US employment law because, in practice, its racist. Research indicates that servers who are ethnic minorities are tipped less than white women, who are tipped most.

Wouldn't that make minority owned businesses racist too by the same logic? If people make choices based on race, it puts them and their employees at a disadvantage.
I live in the US and have noticed the same phenomenon. I assumed it was just social pressure and growing awareness of inequality and poor living conditions of some wait staff. Giving an extra $2 is an easy way to feel good about yourself. Then more people started doing it, and to keep feeling good about yourself you had to tip more and more. I'll give exactly 15% if the service is bad, 20% if it's good.
Nice one, and relevant since I was just reading this HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13263852

There are a lot of nice events/history going on around front-end frameworks like Vue, React, etc. - the Inferno creator being hired by FB, React Fiber coming soon, Angular 2 being so different, Vue growing right alongside React as a competitor/peer.

It's a good time to know javascript.
>Ease of use and actually freaking working seems like a game changer.

I was honestly surprised that Alexa could recognize my voice from across an entire room, me standing in the hallway, over the music I had playing at full volume over the built-in speaker with me speaking at a normal level. That was impressive.

I hate voice technology because it's always been unreliable and shoddy, meaning I could check things faster myself rather than trying to ask a computer to check it for me. "What time is it?" - "What is the time?" "Time now" "What is the time now?" "Give me the damn time!" Ah forget it. pulls out cellphone

The only issues I've had with Alexa is trying to Wikipedia Japanese-related things. Alexa seems convinced I'm speaking Spanish - as any attempt to Wiki something in Japanese gives me a result related to Spain or Mexico.

So we're in complete agreement here. "Actually working" is the game changer. Coupled with an affordable price (the Echo Dot was like $40 on sale? Back-in-the day the same device would hardly work and be worth $200~ and had an Xmas sale of maybe $160~)
Did you read it from start to end? By order of subjects: nature conservation, global health, political and economic progress, climat change response, less violence, sustainable economy and agriculture, endangered animals, charity.

The conservation of our planet is probably the biggest challenge facing humanity, and everything else sort of ties in with it. You cannot really separate economic progress, political stability and public health from the state of the environment.
Must be my mental holiday hangover but I didn't see that summary. I assume you mean the last sentence which I assumed was part of the third point: So the fat cells that exist are getting bigger, and the body is creating more of them. I suppose it does require 2 and 3 but does it require 1?
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It works in Windows 10 using the Linux for Windows feature, and then using a suitable windows X server.

http://i.imgur.com/MxadCpg.png
But I bet not faster than Sci-Hub... har har har. :D
Thanks for the question!

The most immediate difference is that Lead Honestly communicates and works directly with a manager, and by extension their employees, where 15Five works with all parties. As a result Lead Honestly is able to be applied however a manager wishes, and is offered at a much lower price point.
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The famous people dying is the stupidest part. Guess what, famous people are going to die every year.
Please let me know what you do when you have filter overshoots or undershoots in full range. Limited range is there for good reason.
Speech can be encoded with less than 10Kbps [1], which means a maximum of 108MB of data per day. I don't think that's an impossible amount of data.

[1] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_code...
How does that follow?
The first 1MB ("realmode area") has no protection and is essentially shared, for compatibility with DOS and 16-bit Windows.

Win9x is preemptively multitasked, at least for actual Win32 processes, however I would not be surprised if some parts of it weren't.
Only minor differences. Your carryons are still xrayed and yout body scanned. The shoes and belts were obsessive.
Author seemed to be going to great lengths to get things that were very positive, or at least very difficult to argue as a negative.