skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL but I assume that if I purchased a tract of land and built a bridge on it, I could create it as I please, given that I would be liable for damages should the bridge break and harm somebody on my property, not unlike a slip-and-fall.

I for one would prefer most vital software to be developed slowly and methodically. We insist on strict standards for our bridges and roads - why don't we do the same for our information infrastructure?

Move fast and break things can break people too.
> why the employer is involved in health insurance in the first place

I am not sure how it was a different question. The government mandates they become involved.
I don't think any consumer has known that AMD exists for over half a decade now
This is sort of true but not really usefully true. Yes, your metabolic rate will go down slightly when you eat less food, but the idea of "starvation mode" comes from a study done in the fifties on extremely underweight people, who were then put on extremely calorically restricted diets. If the person is within reasonable weight, or overweight, "starvation mode" simply does not apply. People who are in this condition cannot lead normal lives due to low energy, and will frequently have massive health issues due to their body having to give up on a ton of base functions it's doing every day. It's a very extreme thing, and does not happen to many people, especially in America.
"As mentioned, take these "prime aged workers" teach them skills, and suddenly we have a spike in actually valuable labour."

It's a noble goal, but history has a wide range of cautionary tales to offer. Anybody who tells you this is a straightforward process (or even highly probable to succeed) is either naive or selling something.
From the UK here too, I've been living in Norway for 30 years now and Norwegian drivers only really started to get the hang of roundabouts and pedestrian crossings (zebra crossings) about five years ago. In the Drammen area at least.

Lost count of the number of times I have been almost run down on pedestrian crossings but it's much better now than it was.

One thing that is very good here is that everyone gets out of the way of emergency vehicles very promptly.
This is interestingly related to Dinitrophenol, which is widely used by bodybuilders:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol
A decent workaround, albeit expensive.
This isn't true of every position at Phaxio as we do have some team members outside the country. This position however, requires someone who resides in the US.

If you're interested at working with Phaxio, drop me note!
Trails v2 – A Modern Web Application Framework for Node.js
Cheat Sheet: Authentication Techniques
Adequate sleep.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21112025
Absolutely! Can I ask if you are taking these nodes the old fashioned way with pen and paper or are you using a program to do this?

I myself have found out that during meetings I prefer to use a pen and paper but it is mostly just notes that I take for myself.
Ask HN: Does anyone have access to Amazon Lex?
If so, how did you get access and what are you thoughts?
It's meaningful in this context, since, chances are, those commenting here have a much higher IQ than 100.
I am working on 20 years old codebase that runs accounting, warehouse management, time tracking, invoicing and whatnot monster that power most of the roofing companies in Austria. It is still Delphi 5 + Paradox, developed on Windows XP (I run it from VM on Mac), but work on modern Windows as well. Networking is a bit of problem, but nothing we can't deal with.

On the other side, I don't think that Delphi/Pascal is dead and I am starting new project this month: control software for laboratory equipment. I can't find any other tool that will let me create multiplatform desktop software that interface directly with hardware. This new software will be written in Lazarus instead of Delphi.
I didn't say it was good or bad. Siphoning of money is what happens with investment, that's why people invest -- so they can get some of the profit/growth back for themselves!

Like witty_username pointed out. With a non-profit there are no investors or shareholders. Not only that they will not want to, but investors are not allowed. It doesn't mean the company can't make profits, it just means no one will be taking profits from investment.

It's not good or bad, but it does mean that most of the profit goes back into the company, which is good for growth. It also means there aren't investors which are the primary source of growth for most startups. Non-profits that make profit have to do so directly though sales or donations. And profit made is mostly reinvested.

There was no good or bad judgement there, it is just a different model and some aspects of that model mean more growth and some mean less.

It also means the founders likely won't become billionaires (because the founders don't own a stake), but the company could still be worth billions -- in terms of how much money they have on hand or take in. That profit is supposed to be locked into the company for the purpose of performing the mission of the company. Which can include paying salaries to further the mission.

These are the reasons most "benefit companies" are non-profit. Trying to do good in the world so all donation (rather than investment) and profit goes toward the goal rather than investors and why I was surprised that this company is not.
Shuup 1.0 is here with a new open source license OSL-3.0 – Shuup
I gave up after 10 minutes for a 4 page paper.
CPU was idle :)

I've attached debuggers to them and they appear to be sitting around in the same loop, probably never to exit ...
If that were the case they wouldn't release a mediocre interim product that fails to significantly build-upon any existing performance and features of the existing product. If you do decide to build that mediocre chip, you don't price it like a top-shelf one.

We're not talking about when Saab had to keep their new models secret to sell the rest of the old ones for survival. This is Intel. They control their market and have no competition. Selling crappier products than you're capable of is a moralistic problem. And it's one that the industry is complacent with. Just ask Apple.

If all remaining Intel competition were to disappear tomorrow Intel wouldn't stop selling chips. They would just stop making them any better. Cost reduction is just business. If a business doesn't have to spend on research to stay afloat it shouldn't and it won't.
He delegates to his other paper with "A long discussion of the issues can be found in my submission to MASPEGHI 2013 [1]". That paper can be found here:

http://www.cs.jyu.fi/maspeghi2013/papers.html

specifically:

http://www.cs.jyu.fi/maspeghi2013/p17-black.pdf
Even OSVR?
> The relevance of class distinctions which place Uber drivers (whose income is derived from applying labour to their own capital) in a higher economic class than doctors or SV programmers (who haven't exercised their options) is pretty minimal

The classical economic classes are misleading when viewed as an inherent heirarchy (in pure capitalism, they might be -- at least, capitalists are definitively at the top -- but that is a feature for which pure capitalism has been criticized.)

The classes, instead, represent commonality of interest from common manner of relating to the economy (income level is also a source of potential common interest, but it is distinct from, though correlated with, class.)

And I think there is plenty of room to debate whether Uber drivers are genuinely primarily applying labor to their own capital, or whether the key, predominant, a d essential capital is that provided by Uber.
If you are looking to understand CSS layout and want to trade focused time for a solid mental model, check out http://book.mixu.net/css/
Plus, starvation mode takes over a day to kick in. Something like 48-72 hours, maybe?
C & assembly, bit of bash scripting.
Simply (ok it's not so simple, actually) reducing intake of inflammatory food such sugar in any form, preservatives, coloring, glyphosate, animals treated with antibiotics, etc. would go a really long way.
Around ~2008-2010 AMD server CPUs were quite competitive, iirc.
I totally agree. Metabolism it's complex and not everything is well understood how is connected. It's difficult to measure and more those little contributions where in aggregate can have an effect.
I quit desktop Linux right as systemd was taking hold. I used Debian but was thinking of switching to Arch for systemd alone. systemd is one of the best things to happen to Linux setups since X started configuring itself and since kernels got everything compiled in so you don't have to configure them. I do not understand the systemd hate. I think it's telling that the distributors--who actually have to do the work of maintaining init systems--have mostly switched to systemd while random vocal haters who do not have to keep the init system patched and working sit around and complain about systemd.
F# on .net core and linux.

Nim as mentioned by @beagle3.
Arm circumference may be useful predictor of CVD survival
> 1. Why doesn't Intel actually name the chips to make them clearer?

It's on purpose to trick "normal" consumers into buying lower-end chips thinking they get higher-end performance. It actually tricks a lot of tech-savvy people, too.

Examples:

1) switching up the Core architecture in Celerons and Pentiums for the Atom architecture (but keeping retail/OEM prices the same)

2) making "dual-core" Core i7 chips for laptops (what's the point of all the different variants of Core i5 then ?!)

3) replacing H series in most laptops with lower-performance U series, and soon we're going to witness the switch to the even lower-end (more throttling ~1.5GHz base speed) Y-series

4) they've just started calling the Y-series-based Core M5 and Core M7, Core i5 and Core i7, also to trick consumers into thinking they're getting "Core i5/i7 performance"

I'm hoping AMD's Ryzen + Qualcomm's (fully) Windows 10 capable Qualcomm 835 chip will put some sense into Intel to stop ripping off customers like this, but I think they'll only do it kicking and screaming. In other words don't expect much better "value" from Intel chips at least until 2019-2020. They'll probably just wait for their 2020 streamlined/lower cost architecture before they drop prices too much, unless the competition is rapidly eating away at Intel's market share by then.
There is some evidence to think that a fecal transplant could help treat obesity, but not a ton. There is no evidence of the existence of people who can eat whatever they want and stay skinny. The thing is, with all the tweaks etc. that we've discovered, like gut flora effecting how many calories you absorb, none of them are hugely impactful. None of them explain obesity by themselves. So far nothing outside of massively over eating explains obesity in any kind of useful way that could be turned into a medical intervention.
> This is the most unfortunate part. You think that I've picked some side in this; that I'm defending the concept of being American or the things these people are saying.

You have, though, have you not? You have picked the side of "don't generalize people ever", clearly, no?

I'm on the side of "generalizations and stereotypes are not inherently bad, it's the actions of the person that are bad"

Do you disagree with that?

You call my actions toxic, but what exactly did i do that was toxic? I'm advocating that we judge people by their actions, not their beliefs. What is so wrong with that?

In other words, Don't assume i'm somehow "against" a group of people just because i have assumptions towards them. My dad is heavily religious, i assume and generalize that most religious people don't want me swearing heavily around them - so what! Generalizations aren't bad. Actions are bad. I don't get your view point, clearly.
You are looking the wrong places. You are just looking at the aggregate number of jobs. But thats not relevant. What's relevant is how many new jobs are created and those numbers are going down.

https://plot.ly/~BethS/8/job-growth-by-decade-in-the-united-...

Also the way jobs are defined is problematic here is how it's defined.

"People are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey reference week. This includes all part-time and temporary work, as well as regular full-time, year-round employment. Individuals also are counted as employed if they have a job at which they did not work during the survey week, whether they were paid or not, because they were:

On vacation

Ill

Experiencing child care problems

On maternity or paternity leave

Taking care of some other family or personal obligation

Involved in a labor dispute

Prevented from working by bad weather

These people are counted among the employed and tabulated separately as with a job but not at work, because they have a specific job to which they will return."

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

95% of the jobs created since 2008 are temp jobs.

So no it doesn't look steady once you actually start looking into the details.
I agree with the idea that utilizing highly-trained physicians for basic health care is a misallocation of resources. Nurse practitioners and physician associates [0] should and have been receiving more autonomy in providing basic care. They have enough training to do so, and should be capable of recognizing when a referral is required.

[0] Also known as "physician assistant", which is a terrible name when making a case for autonomy...
we actually need two different relations: 1) membership relation, and 2) inheritance (or inclusion in more general case).

No. You don't need OO at all, let alone bolt-on conceptual baggage like this.

The notion of object oriented programming is completely misunderstood. It's not about objects and classes, it's all about messages. - Alan Kay[0]

[0] From my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Version 2 of Trails was released a few days ago: https://github.com/trailsjs/trails/releases/tag/2.0

We continue to build on the success of Trails v1, and continue our bi-annual release cycle to coincide with the Node.js release cycle. v3 will be released in April 2017 with a number of further improvements, including first-class support for GraphQL.

Thanks everyone who has contributed to making Trails a success!
No announcement, but an anonymous "source close to the company" according to e.g. The Guardian [1].

I think that's a bit more solid than a rumour, though Apple is secretive enough that it could also mean that they're planning a replacement product similar to Alexa, for example.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/22/apple-sto...
I run Google Patents (patents.google.com) - we've thought about including a way to search by expired patents (we have the expiration indicators), but in my opinion it gives a false sense of security. There's also http://freeip.mtu.edu/home/index.php, which searches over only expired patents.

The patent in question could have been improved upon, and that improvement can still be in force. Say someone patents a widget A + B, and later files a continuation A + B + C (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_patent_application). The first patent could be expired, but while building your copy of A + B you might come to the same conclusion that the invention also needs to include C (which is still in force) to actually work.

Google Patents focuses on improving patent quality. There's still uncertainty if a granted patent is actually valid. If we can improve the prior art finding process for inventors and examiners, then fewer overly-broad patents will be granted, and it will be easier to tell if an invention actually infringes a patent.

Then we can start to think about making patent information more useful for part of the original purpose - as a transfer of knowledge to the public domain in exchange for a temporary exclusive right.
You might want to look at this lightning talk from 33c3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5uqQL-dKBU&feature=youtu.be...

We really need to standardize VR drivers with a hardware class that needs to support, in a standard fashion, x types of standard i/o.
Intel buys 15% stake in mapping Company HERE
If you know python and want to learn web development, work through http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754
There is. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4124736/#S4titl...

Ive had pretty good success with Keto. Lost weight, have good energy. Check out the keto reddit if you want to try it out. Great resource.
Well I'm pretty sure that the message from the following user says thank God that you can do to get back with a good idea like trying to help make re then laugh at people's pain and illnesses knowing this whole time you were doing it
Your comment sounds like Nest is a division of Apple. That's not the case, it's a subsidiary of Google-parten Alphabet.
Problem is you also need to upgrade your motherboard, memory, and probably your CPU cooler.

And if you do that, you might as well just build a new computer with a current GPU.
Generally true, but there are things to keep in mind (because your body will fight nail and tooth for its fat reserves):

1) You'll be losing muscle before you lose fat

2) You'll be lethargic which can result in no weigth loss because your calorie expenditure will match your (reduced) intake

Overcoming these two issues is what most slimming/fitness regiments are about.
I agree with you in that I don't agree with the author. I felt that the strongest point of the paper was that it was critical of something that is assumed to be a good thing. That value was that it challenged one of my assumptions that I had never questioned.
Erlang (and Elixir) are great systems, but they're not a magic bullet - you still need to know what you're doing when designing a distributed system.
Simple, good looking website w/ quizzes to help me learn and be less ignorant about the world around me (country names, religions, languages, current events, history, etc.)
Please don't get science news from BBC. This is a sample size of 1, in a person who was probably already eating a ton and not absorbing it much due to a massive infection. There's not a ton we can take from this.
GPS blamed for surge in runaway trucks in small Arkansas town
Can I ask what sort of rendering you're doing? Do you mean animation or still images... what software? I find that between different software you can get vastly differing render times. Also, for really serious and large work aren't people using render farms now anyway?
IF you start to think in a set orientation, SQL makes a lot more sense. If you try to think procedurally you will struggle with SQL.
I'm not trying to use Parfit to bash religion -- I just chose this particular example. For the average person, souls are more interesting than Mere Addition or mixing your brain with Greta Garbo's. The fact that many have been goaded into replying (and hopefully many more are silently reading Parfit) seems to confirm this.
For packages with default export, you can use synthetic imports options in tsconfig.

For non-js imports, you can create global module declarations (like the below snippet):

declare module "*.css" {
const value: any;
export { value };
export default value;
}

But you will still need to use some bundler tool like webpack. It will just stop TypeScript from complaining.

Type definitions are the biggest issue even today, but things are much better now. Most popular npm packages already have type definitions, but if you need some exotic package, then you can write your own defnitions (probably only necessary bits).
> It is rather mysterious how we take kids in prime physical shape and mush for brains and lock them into ignorant echo chambers for years while we take wise and skilled old people with worn out bodies and brains full of very expensive experience and lock them into lonely old folks homes next door and then make sure they never mix. Its almost like our culture is so stupidly designed someone is trying to sabotage it.

It's really a failure to think holistically. When you break a problem down and over-specialize, you can turn a solution into two or more problems. I'm reminded of something I read about farming: traditionally livestock production and farming were done on the same farm. The livestock ate healthier and could be of higher quality, and their manure fertilized the soil for the crops. They were separated in the name of specialization and efficiency, and that created problems of agricultural mono-cultures, unhealthy livestock, fertilizer runoff, and the disposal of concentrated livestock waste from factory farms.
Yeah, in the context of usefully effecting the obesity epidemic it's just not even worth discussing because it has no impact.
Reading all of Lamport's papers is a one-stop shop for the theoretical aspect of distributed systems. He has a page [0] that collects a short comments on his own papers, starting from that page to get a sense of the overview.

0. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
Oh, the automation I'm speaking of there was the automation of human behaviour through following a script/checklist. It helped everyone - the juniors felt more confident about escalating, and they learned from it too.

(I'd read The Checklist Manifesto, which I couldn't recommend enough, BTW).

In more trad automation, I got a little obsessed by automating the construction of environments, but in a human-readable way:

http://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/

and Docker (wrote this book):

https://www.amazon.com/Docker-Practice-Ian-Miell/dp/16172927...

See also:

https://medium.com/@zwischenzugs

I should really write up those experiences; the passage of time has given me more perspective on them. I don't work in ops anymore :)
Same as always, C & Lisp.
Historically, I don't think it has worked like this for Intel. It costs way more to have multiple designs so they are all pretty much the same few chips with the packaging changed to disable parts. Sometimes the disabled parts failed QC but the numbers that fail QC but are still usable are not high enough for the high volume parts.

Really it is just a way to do differential pricing. Some people will pay $500, some only $100 while the part only cost $25 to make. The way to maximize profits it sell to both, and find a way to justify the price difference.
It's not the airlines job to incentivize what some guy on the internet considers healthy habits. I want breakfast after sleeping through the night. Just a bit of fruit, some cottage cheese or yogurt, and some black coffee. Maybe throw out the dairy and give me an egg.

I already pay for that as part of the ticket price. I do not want them unbundled in a way that makes my very necessary breakfast more expensive.
Gotta have that sweet sweet Big Data.
Agreed. They give you much more powerful concurrency primitives than most languages, but there are still a host of challenges to overcome.
Fair enough, though reading some histories there's been a variety of languages used at JPL/NASA, and Python/C++ is a latecomer [1], [2].

1: http://wiki.c2.com/?MarsSpiritSoftwareProblem
2: http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

At the end of the day, if Python/C++ is effective for their team and works, then it gets the job done. Personally, I just dislike writing math/simulation code in Python. The syntax is too limiting for that topic and I've run into rather annoying delays when parsing CSV data due to utf8 vs byte vs ascii handling differences when mixing Pyhton 2/3. But mainly, deploying Python code to other users is a pain.
I've used Postgres a lot more and for more complex queries than SQLite, and have never encountered nor heard of a query semantics bug with it (though I'm sure they exist). I know that is total anecdata, but my experience with Postgres is – whether thanks to more collective query hours, better testing methodology, or simply higher quality design – an experience that leads me to trust it more than SQLite.