skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what it looks like to me:

X axis - time of day

Y axis - NTP server's delta from actual time

What you're seeing with the yellow lines is "leap smearing" by Google's public NTP time servers. They slowly diverge from the real time for the 10 hours before and after the leap second, so that they can have 60 instead of 61 seconds at midnight. See: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/making-every-le....
WhatsApp block about to stop older iPhones and Android handsets
Thank you for reading! You're right, some of the payment gateways I used had a flat rate processing fee in addition to their standard fee. But for this experiment I picked a gateway without any additional costs.
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There's already a health incentive to stay healthy, by definition. If people won't obey a health incentive, why will they obey a financial incentive?

And there's already a financial incentive as well: Discrimination provides a financial advantage to people who appear more healthy (younger, thinner, taller).
>> A rule of thumb is that 100 per cent confidence means you’re right 70 to 85 per cent of the time.

That's actually pretty good, isn't it? Considering that nobody is going to be right 100% of the time, what are the over-confident really risking? A wrong-rate 10% worse than the best?

That's good enough to quip that you should always be 100% confident, because that will maximise your chances to be right most of the time even if you have no idea what you're talking about.
Bottom line: fructose (50% of ordinary sugar) is not metabolized in the same way as glucose (the other 50%). The latter is used by just about every cell in the body whereas the liver is mainly responsible for handling fructose. This organ also metabolizes other things like alcohol and paracetamol. Overloading the liver is not a good idea. Anyone can read up on what 'overloading' means for any of those or other nutrients and go figure. None of this is controversial though the definition and effects of 'excess' fructose obviously are, for any individual.
Studies have been done on this, for some reason, whole fruit sugar is immune to the negative effects of sugar. The mechanism isn't entirely known though and doesn't apply to dry fruits.
You're right, but there are some longitudinal randomized studies.
Does it? Your real wage is your wage adjusted for purchasing power. A labor shortage drives up the cost of production and of services, which increases prices for everything, and also makes it uneconomical for people to hire others for services (like taking care of elderly parents), then the math teachers and so on in that fashion until everyone is eaten.
1) Where do we have nukes in Europe?
2) Russia invaded Georgia and stole Crimea, that's more hostile activity than anything we've done in response.
3) Russia has started making advanced missiles to bypass missile defense systems and will have them soon, so who really cares of the missile defense shield?
4) Russia is an autocratic nightmare state where Putin, a man rumored to have engineered the terrorist attacks that led to his quick rise to power, kills or exiles any opponents or critics.
5) Russia hacked the fucking DNC to make Trump win, which is an act of war.
6) NATO has never threatened Russia. If Russia is terrified of NATO, it is due to paranoia.
7) Russia isn't encircled by US troops.
8) It makes sense for the EU and US to avoid using Russia's pipelines when Russia is a morally reprehensible country the way it is being run right now.
I do not agree with your views. Apologies if I did not make myself clear here -- English is not my first language (or second.. or even third...)

Let me try to reword then:

1. Free market is NOT an appropriate solution for healthcare. There are plenty of reasons for this (assymetry of information, natural monopolies etc)

2. We can argue whether the US healthcare system is based on free market principles or not. It's exploding cost is however NOT driven by the lack of short-term personal incentives, but by the failure to link the amount billed to the true cost of the service rendered.

3. Every bill from a doctor you see is a very clear short-term incentive for keeping yourself healthy -- clearly more so than a $50 discount on your monthly insurance payment.
This is not the answer you're looking for but this worked for me: I bought a subscription to the NY Times.

(To answer your question: use the web link next to the article: it takes you to Google; then click on the matching result.)
Do what most of the Software companies do. In order to filter the top %1, look if:

- the applicant worked for one of the big four (Google, Apple, FB, Microsoft). If these companies gave the applicant a GO at some point, maybe you should too.

- the applicant is self-driven and develop non-work related software. Side projects, etc.

- the applicant brings new skills on top of your requirements (e.g. design, other industries, mobile, etc.)

- last but not least, you should value the experience a lot. Someone who worked 5-10 years on a bunch of different projects will save you a lot of time and money. You could have a genius/fresh out of college, if something goes wrong or requires certain skills they don't teach you at school, the lack of experience will drag you down. Don't hesitate to pay a premium up front and save money in a long run.

Good luck!
Inferno – An extremely fast React-like JavaScript library for building modern UIs
SCTP really really deserved to be widely deployed.
Honestly, I think it's just calories in vs calories out. There's all kinds of things to consider like glycemic load and digestion speeds and all that, but at the end of the day, you lose fat when you eat less than you burn (see: the Twinkie diet). I think way too many people focus on things like glycemic load and the "kinds" of calories they're eating as some kind of magical weight loss/gain formula, and lose track of the overall quantity. I've lost more weight just counting calories and ignoring micronutrients, glycemic load, etc than I ever did trying to micromanage glycemic load and micronutrients.

Fats are a lot more satiating than carbohydrates (ie, sugars) - I could easily put away 4000 calories of goldfish crackers in an evening, but I would be insanely full, uncomfortable, and possibly even sick if I tried to eat 4000 calories of proteins or fats. My go-to craving-killer snack is peanuts - they're high calorie on the label, but a handful of them takes the edge off my craving in a way that chips and crackers and candy don't.
Giving up sugar, junk food, and refined carbohydrates is not particularly difficult. It requires some effort and minimal self control.

You will definitely feel a lot better if you avoid sugar and carbs, and probably lose weight too.
>What would make an "Other OS" feature enable piracy?

It was an attack vector and it allowed the initial hypervisor dump[1], which led to the PS3 getting hacked.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz#PlayStation_3_secu...
I didn't follow the Sanders campaign closely enough to be able to identify the more relevant items, but looking at the Wikileaks data gave me the impression that he was a token candidate who they controlled with various bits of leverage (e.g. when they cut him out of the DNC voter systems). There was also that time when they staged violence at the Trump rallies and blamed it on Bernie supporters. Refer to the controversy regarding Zulema Rodriguez & co.; she was also later tied to the 'Trump Ducks' thing via a photo credit, which was said to come straight from Hillary.

Here's a list of some of the findings from the leaks, though not all are relevant to this -

http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/
Staying healthy is a really long term goal. You need to do it every day but there's no immediate penalty for not being healthy on a day to day basis. Penalizing someone financially is much more real and tangible than "that pizza you ate today is contributing very slightly to your degrading health"
Isn't DCCP just an congestion control add-on that is generic, and you can for example use it over UDP? In that case it wouldn't matter, as long as routers support UDP, which they do.
My situation is extraordinary regarding the mortgage since I can't deduct it: so tax rate is pretty accurate. The sports car is nicer than the average (approaching supercar) and the SUV is categorized as luxury. Not out of the ordinary in this area.
Not everyone uses JavaScript, and as a user is prefer basic HTML websites over JavaScript bloat every day. Also note from the article, that the conclusion seem to be that Google does in fact index JavaScript content, but only for trusted websites. I very much like this decision, because JavaScript (and Ajax in particular) is so easy to abuse, and it's never a win for anybody when you're redirected to a bloated website that downloads 100s of MB over 100s of requests and from multiple domains. Also, they're a billion dollar company, I'm sure they've already A/B tested enough to decide that indexing JavaScript is not good :)
Getting someone on a mailing list at least provides the benefit of requiring them to think about you more and see your name more often. I know I have personally bought things from vendors more because their newsletter (which I almost never actually read) would come and keep them in the forefront of my mind.

On a few occasions, these newsletters actually have informed me of useful discounts, sales, or new products and caused me to buy right away, but mostly they just increase brand presence/mindshare. Even though it's not directly measurable, that's not a benefit to be discarded, IMO.
I loved this, especially because it grew out of your time spent with your step daughter first.

I actually want to do something similar, but with focus on programming. I realized in 2016 that coding every day is the only way to get better, so I'm starting with coding every day and documenting/"vlogging" the progress on snapchat, if someone's interested my username on snapchat to follow along :)
Thanks a lot .I know that'll help me a lot.
This could be the least dismissive and anti-intellectual tl;dr I've seen here.
If you don't want the deal with the ambiguity of whether your AJAX will run or not, I'll shamelessly suggest https://www.prerender.cloud/ which is helping a few sites who couldn't get Google to execute their AJAX.
I tweaked the code to find the 5 integers whose cubes sum to 2017 to insure that they are distinct, and to pull out of all those loops once a soltuion has been found:
https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/d07701cd-2d97-4a09-96ef-...
You should not send anything ever if you dont have a properly engineered marketing plan and funnel in place. Why? Waste of time.

Newsletters, like all forms of media, work when the message works. Meaning that if the message is shit, then the vehicle is shit too. You have to establish a direct 1:1 communication with your target market, learn about what problems they would pay money or give attention to, and then produce quality content around them. The problem stems when people publish content for the sake of hitting the publish button. It feels like you are doing marketing well, but not really. One piece of content a year can have a bigger impact than one thousand pieces. Doesnt even need to be long form. A well crafted and curated message may take one paragraph or ten to drive a point. Maybe even a sentence.

What you should do is define your goals as to what you want to achieve. Then talk to the people in the market. Friend them on social media. Figure out what makes them tick. Finally, having learned about them and their wants, craft a message that they cant ignore. Repeat until you hate yourself and then ten years after. Will this work? I dont know if it will work for you. It has worked for me and I have made it work for others. But that doesnt guarantee it works for you because you might not be able to execute. Oh yeah, you might just suck at marketing. :)
I have rarely heard this insight and perspective put so well. I have often "felt drawn to the bad" for the experience dividends and by the same reasoning. In some ways, I have always tried to train myself to be drawn to things I do not prefer. Lowering happiness expectations is a better way to express this and gets you there quicker! I would take it further, and recommend dropping all expectations, but I suppose at that point we arrive at zen or taoism.

(Were we friends years ago on MBS?)
yeah I also read it regularly, and highly recommend it if you're into free/libre software
Around the age of 13, the lazy side of me figured out that in life you can actually gain something by not doing something else. This was the day when I decided I wouldn't touch the alcohol or cigarettes (not to mention soft and hard drugs). Ever. I've tried alcohol since then maybe two times actually and I've never been drunk, never tried to smoke, I don't even drink coffee (just don't like the taste of it).

Anyway, it took me 27 years to realise I've been addicted to sugar the whole time. I dropped refined sugar from my diet last February, I'd say I'm quite strict here as I've ate sugar only two times in these 11 months (one traditional Christmas Eve dish and one for Easter). Maybe a few times more when I wasn't sure what I was eating (eating out).

My sugar problems became really obvious when I was super strict about my oral hygiene yet I was spending thousands of dollars yearly on dentists. I was getting a few cavities filled yearly for the last 10 years or so. It seemed normal to me but the red flag was a cavity between my incisors, it was tiny, I couldn't even see it but every time I ate something with refined sugar I felt this particular type of pain you got when you have a cavity in your teeth. I could barely feel it with any other food, but sugars - hell yea, it was just simply painful. And then I got scared and thinking "damn, I'm 27 and I've already had root canal treatment once - and now this?". I've been reading a lot about people who have super healthy teeth because they don't eat that much sugar (or no refined sugars at all) and somehow without sugar tooth decay is processing very slowly if at all.

During the last 11 months I've seen my dentist twice and looks like if I will keep sugar out of my diet I'd just have to replace my fillings every few years or so. No new cavities, no signs of teeth decay, I feel like a new man.

What's even better I'm reading ALL the product labels before I eat anything now and I'm generally MUCH better because I've dropped refined/palm oils too. I'm living in Poland and our food is dirt cheap and of superb quality, anyway it really opened my eyes in many cases, when I was for example looking for sausages and about 50% had sugar in them, when and why the heck we decided to put sugar in our meat?! :( Same goes for bread and so much processed food you'd be surprised.

(if you're planning of dropping sugar it won't be easy - the first 3 weeks were nightmare for me, but I got by eating sweets sweetened with sorbitol, aspartam etc. - after that it was just like a walk in the park - I don't even miss Nutella sandwiches I used to eat every morning - try oatmeal with nuts and honey or in the worst case - mascarpone sandwiches with some honey on top of it - delicious :D)
The inherent nature of employing logical fallacies is that the employer is pointing to a correlation, in the hope that they can convince you of causation.

Causation is like a perfect happy path through a software application, whereas any single correlation is a singular path through the application. Out of all possible paths through a software application, vast amounts of those paths result in failure, whereas far fewer paths result in success. We can all agree that performing tests on the happy path is important, but inferior to 100% code coverage, if our eventual goal is to harden our software against failure, both malicious and accidental.

The point I'm driving at is not that we should all become perfectly logical at every moment of our life, because the logical, bitter end of that is a world of sociopaths, completely devoid of any humanity, emotion, love, and all of the other things we can all agree are just as important as logic and reason.

My point is that if we are in complete consensus about clickbait titles, with respect to subjects that we don't find interesting, yet are willing and able to defend clickbait titles when they happen to bait us in to clicking them, that is the perfect marriage of our ignorance and arrogance. If we can point out to less informed management that their desire to reduce friction along the happy path of software is _precisely_ what increases attack surfaces, why can't we see that same flaw in ourselves? The answer is not to rush to one extreme to prevent the other. The answer is to strike balance.
I'm not sure about these Sensory Deprivation Tanks, simply because I haven't tried them, but it all seems a bit too much hocus pocus.

Richard Feynman (as one post mentions) tried it, felt good, had some experiences, but once out of it he quickly realized that it was just another perception. We all perceive, if there is no sensory input, the brain will fill in the blanks.

I've been practicing mediation (Vipassna, which is also minfullness meditation) for around 6 months now. I highly recommend it. The mind-body complex is what its mainly about. You have to observe your bodily senses and your thoughts.

As quantum mechanics demonstrates, observing changes the thing being observed. (Like the wave function collapse, I'm no expert). But you can surely change your mind by meditation.

Happy New Year!
I'm not sure what to make of this article , the author states:

>"I have done so in each of the last two years, and it has led to permanent changes in my eating habits. It wasn’t easy, but it was worth it."

But then also states:

>"There were certainly times when I didn’t enjoy the experience. I missed ice cream, chocolate squares, Chinese restaurants and cocktails. But I also knew that I’d get to enjoy them all again."

What happened to the permanent changes in easting habits mentioned in the first passage? Is this a "yo-yo diet" then?

I also found this puzzling:

>"I now know which brands of chicken stock, bacon, smoked salmon, mustard and hot sauce contain added sugar and which do not."

Why can't the same awareness be achieved by simply reading the nutritional summary posted on the back of all food items before putting them in your cart or basket while grocery shopping?
Sorry, the way I read it was "the sugars have different impacts". Even if you didn't mean it that way, it is a common pseudosciency belief that "natural" and "unnatural" sugars are chemically different. So many people ignore that at the end of the day, the body is just making glucose out of the cabrohydrates you feed it.
Less, because the choices you would be offered would be limited compared to the messy free-for-all that is natural evolution.
There's always heavy downvoting in these threads. Look for interesting discussion to upvote to counter.

Thanks for those tweets, yes, he has done a lot of things that make him at least suspicious. I wouldn't take him seriously at all if not for the fact that he predicted some of this.

Incidentally, for those mentioning McAfee, I see no reason to take that guy seriously, nor am I presently aware of him displaying any foreknowledge of any of this.
It's not just the fool's problem if they lose their money. It becomes society's problem. Someone has to take care of them.

And it's not a small problem, there are a lot of "fools" out there. That's why these laws got made in the first place.
>So who's really helping whom?

Offtopic, but Google's propensity to migrate anything popular to their own hosted content is a better example of this. They find ways to present the good stuff without the end user ever visiting your site. At some point, this starves off the sources.
"Did Dennis Ritchie have a hand in creating Go? I must have missed that."

Oops. You got me on my bad memory there. I misremembered Griesemer. The C language was originally just B modified with structs to try to port UNIX from assembly. Also, the limited keywords & "programmer is in control" philosophy came straight out of B. The details are in this nice Vimeo that traces its development going through papers they presented:

https://vimeo.com/132192250

"An expert in windowing systems and concurrency"

Even if we drop "language" expert, my comment had him bringing in concurrency mainly. I didn't know Cardelli started with Newsqueak, though. Makes sense given stuff as good as Modula-3 rarely comes from a vacuum.

"Articles like this one[1] by Pike only serve to reinforce my thoughts that he, though a rather smart guy otherwise, is really rather ignorant about language design and about the role of types in programming in general."

Well, see, it's been given a test. The Concurrent Pascal, Ravenscar, and Eiffel SCOOP approaches to concurrency were all very effective for what they're designed for. I've been sitting on the bench on Go watching it from afar to see what Pike's method does. So far, I see a lot of people griping about concurrency errors that didn't happen in SCOOP. Meanwhile, Rust has improved on things in a new way. Your characterization of him as an experimenter more than an expert may be right.

"None of Wirth's languages had GC until Oberon, as far as I'm aware. "

All of his languages except the first two that he started with. They made a lot of languages. It's kind of a strength and weakness of theirs as doubling down on a great one might have accomplished more. Might given Cardelli did without much direct impact.

"Oberon, on the other hand, was a very spartan language that offered little in terms of features"

So was early C. It's why I bring up Modula-2 or Oberon in comparisons as nobody is writing or deploying Modula-3 or Ada on a PDP-11. I'm not a fan of Oberon except for bootstrapping better languages or for minimalist hardware. Even then I'm more PreScheme.

"Later versions of Delphi grew to C++ levels of size, complexity, and hairiness"

Snowballs rolling into avalanches. Common ill in tech although I think it's human nature or economics more than anything. It takes a cathedral model that prioritizes just right amount of complexity to avoid. I just subseted languages like embedded people do to avoid the shit. Until I had to debug a 3rd party library. (shakes head)
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I apologize but I do not track controversies that much as I don't have the time for all that. Also, I'm a programmer, not a biochemist, so:

If I go to wikipedia, I get

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lustig
And I see nothing about controversies there.

If I google about the term for a bit, I see no scientific rebuttals of his points in that video.

I mean, it's biochemistry, if he's that much wrong (he seems quite educated) then some of his science is also wrong; would you be so kind to provide few links of rebuttals to his research papers or whatever you are reading.

I would greatly appreciate if you stick to actual scientific papers, as I really don't have time to get dragged into the whole USA 'omg hes from <political party> and that's why he states his pro [trump/hilary] views.

TLDR: I honestly don't know about any controversies streaming from that video, but would like to read the scientific rebutals, if any, with respect to that guy's work.
Opa!

What I meant is, none of the people you know has asked you to come work with/for them?

I have some 12 years of experience and after my first gig I never had to take an interview and go through hiring process again.

Now I'm working as an H1B in the US and even this happened because of someone I worked a few years before. No interview or weird process except for the VISA thing.

And I don't think I'm an exception. What I learned is that people usually build a network of people and work with them most of their life.