skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been suffering with AMP. try to share a link to an article and you current url is an AMP url. if the site didn't make a hard link in the post title, you are gonna have a bad time.
That hasn't been unequivocably established. For example, a 2016 review article "Cardiovascular Toxicity of Nicotine: Implications for Electronic Cigarette Use" published in Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine (http://sci-hub.cc/10.1016/j.tcm.2016.03.001) concluded:

> Studies of the pharmacology and toxicology of nicotine in animals and
some epidemiologic studies in people support the biological
plausibility that nicotine contributes to acute cardiovascular events
in smokers with underlying CVD, and exerts pharmacologic effects that
could contribute to accelerated atherogenesis. Short-term nicotine
use, such as nicotine medication to aid smoking cessation, appears to
pose little cardiovascular risk, even to patients with known
CVD. Longer term nicotine use, such as in ST users, appears not
accelerate atherogenesis, but may contribute to acute cardiovascular
events in the presence of CVD.

"may contribute to acute cardiovascular events in the presence of CVD" is a far cry from being the sole (or even principle) cause of smoking-related cardiovascular disease.
>One of the TPP sections that concerned me the most was where corporations could sue nations for passing legislation that detrimentally affected their business (think countries passing environmental restrictions on companies).

This is not what the TPP said. Corporations can already sue nations. The TPP defined an arbitration system, one that nations have a long, long history of winning in.
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> The math is kinda light, you either seek to understand it or trust that it works and focus on the ML principles.

This is accurate and also why I dropped out pretty quickly.
Personally I try to work as little with VMs as makes sense, they usually just make everything a bit harder and convoluted ("even" with Vagrant which, so far, has been a constant maintenance burden in all projects were I witnessed it's application, especially so if it's not only for Linux).

My experiences with docker range from disastrous to annoying; I try to just not use it. It's not installed on any of my systems. If I have to use it, I do that in a VM.

(I developed for some eight years on Windows, mostly C/C++, but last two years a lot of Python. At the time I wasn't aware of PyCharm, so Sublime Text "is also an editor" it was, but obviously just an editor; for development PyCharm is infinitely superior.)
>Both graduated 4 years later, just as clueless but with degrees.

How?! I don't have a degree. But how? How can you get a degree and still be clueless?

>Somehow they land interviews, and both of them gets jobs at this fancy startup (making way more than me).

Either you are doing something very wrong, like not negotiating right, and should be paid more, or my understanding of the universe has just been flipped on its head.
Also, "never use virtual functions" is very different than "don't use virtual functions everywhere" Common wisdom is that virtual function usage in hot loops can become problematic.
Having visited both places, I can hardly blame them! And Eugene is even worse - I left half a leg there, and last I saw there was a running gunfight over who'd get the calf meat.
Impeachment can't happen quickly enough.
Fix: You need to learn to speak to people face-to-face so you could understand there are sometimes advantages over IRC.
It's not an article by me, but an interesting read how the founders of ZoomThru nearly lost everything due to hiring a fraudster under a fake name.
As a dev at a major publisher I can confirm that we are making money off these pages, and readers are actually clicking on more recirculation links. The monetization isn't stripped out at all, it's just all sandboxed in iframes.
Usually they methodically build very nice nightmare, but of course 30+ years is long enough to see a couple of exceptions. I've been there for 15+, and half of that in 'consulting' — it's when you write business code right here, right now after 10m discussion. These are really two different styles, but I feel what you mean. 'Good code' is a hard thing to define, but for me it is the code that fully covers all aspects of the initial set of intents (I intentionally let the purpose and profitability off, because it may be not of value in some cases). If intents are unclear, we can't really evaluate anything in between. If it was a very dirty hack for a hard task, and we intentionally made it, it is still good code. Thus you can't tell good code from bad without knowing its history and the rationale behing it. Code doesn't fail, projects do.
Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. :)
It's likely that providers would flee any smaller state that attempted to do single payer.

Not universally of course, but enough to have a big impact on availability of services.

California might be able to try it.
I've had an account at Meta prior to this announcement. The statement "Meta is a tool that helps researchers understand what is happening globally in science and shows them where science is headed" is not wrong, even though the landing page could use some work.

What that amounts to for a researcher is a paper discovery service. You can search for papers/labs, and click on topics like "CRISPR/Cas9" and get the top 20 most impactful papers in the last decade using that technique. You can subscribe to new papers on that topic across a large set of journals. You can also observe trends in science, like certain research concepts that are increasing in popularity.

In practice, as a researcher, I don't find it more useful than journal RSS feeds and a Google Scholar alert or two, but it's a step in the right direction.
Ars Technica sure has come a long way since the Hannibal days of deep diving CPU internals...
Even car color is discriminated against. Red cars are tied to extroversion and risk taking.

Then... yes. Discrimination can be very harmful. Lack of health insurance for example can have fatal consequences, which can be more severe than scamming someone.
The truth will set you free. Unfortunately it's a different truth for everyone, and so it's hard to find, sometimes impossible.
I agree about Chicago and Boston, and I've never been to New Orleans. However, you can't walk anywhere in Austin.
I don't think such preferences are abnormal, not at all. It is a natural desire for an administration to want softball questions.

However I don't think most administrations would attempt to achieve them by disrupting the press corps. That claim probably can't be tested or evaluated fairly, partially because it's a fairly novel action, and partially because it's a complex hypothetical. I must admit it is just my political leanings driving me to this conclusion.

I guess another (unfair) way to look at is: I would rather have someone appear not to attempt to manipulate public opinion, regardless of if they actually are, because when you are at that level of power, I at least want you to ave your act together enough to keep halfway-decent PR. Thus the fact that it appears to me that they are making such weak attempts to manipulate says something, independent of the ethics of the action itself.
I learned recently that this is similar to what happened in Canada - it started with one province (I can't remember which) and spread from there.
It seems like that would be a ticket to a QA automation job, not a dev job. People say QA -> dev is a good way to get in, but I've seen very few people actually accomplish it.
I'm not very social at all. But I do like traveling, so my ideal job is one where I work remotely (from home) 3 weeks a month, and then about 1 week a month I have to travel to a customer site and work there on-site. It gets me out of the house, lets me see a new place and meet some new people so I get my fill of socialization, but it's temporary and I don't have to hang around these same people 5x a week for the next several years.
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Have a doctor prescribe you a battery of kidney tests as this is one of the first organs damaged by high blood pressure.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13452983
That and the violent crime rate is less than half of what it was then.

*edit spelling
I might ask SO for the details again, but yeah - that's how I understand why they wanted a particular employee to be the recipient of the transfer.
You only need 51 votes. If Democrats really cared they could have just sit in the senate until the republican speakers collapsed. And it would have gotten to a vote.

It may have taken a couple of days but whatever.

Edit: Can anyone explain the downvotes please? A filibuster can be overcome by just siting and listening to the other side until they can no longer speak from exhaustion.
Obama said that too, once. I think most Democrats in office have said that at one point, even if they don't want to say it in public anymore. The ACA was not passed because it was better than single payer, it was just the closest thing that could possibly get through Congress.
There is no way this is sustainable.
A lot of other companies have this policy (Google didn’t invent it) and aren’t in that kind of mess.
This happened quicker than I expected, though, although I'm completely ignorant of deadlines of things so maybe this expedience was required.
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I am inclined to say Java as I have not seen mythical teams who work on Java without whole caboodle of 'Enterprise Apps' culture.
Extensive discussion within the last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12165634
No problem, glad to hear you got it running.
From the CDC

>However, some healthcare providers do offer anal Pap tests to men who may be at increased risk for anal cancer, including men with HIV or men who receive anal sex.

>I don't know if you can pay for it out of pocket if you're too old.

Yes you absolutely can. You can also get the shingles vaccine even if you're too young.
It happened here in Australia to a beloved electronics store brand.

https://foragerfunds.com/bristlemouth/dick-smith-is-the-grea...
www.firefox.com has a score of C, with a recent F score in their grade history.

It looks like this is a really strong set of security requirements. According to their stats, 87% of sites tested have an F score, and only 1.47% have an A- or higher.
And I understood your comment exactly that way. I actually tried to think of how to make that obvious, but couldn't in the time I gave myself. Have a good day, citizen. :)
>>> Insurance companies and Pharmaceutical companies can more or less dictate the prices they'll charge because if you're chronically ill, you can't just choose not to be treated (unless you're ok with dying.)

How is this consistent with the pre-ACA availability of high deductible, low premium PPO plans in low-regulation states?

As an example, in 2008, a middle aged man could buy such a plan in Arizona for $70/month with a $10K deductible and $2 million lifetime coverage. This included free annual wellness visits, women's wellness checkups, etc. Keep $10K in the bank for emergencies, and you're good to go.

Millions of self-employed people and people working jobs that provided no group insurance benefits were able to take advantage of these products. I was able to insure my family of three for $330 a month at that time, and the coverage was quite good.

I don't fully understand the single payer concept, except that it essentially is a form of national health insurance similar to the British NHS. For a country as big and diverse as the U.S., it sounds expensive and unworkable.

I would propose as an alternative a hybrid of low-regulation plans such as we had prior to ACA, plus support for those who can't even afford one of these low price plans. Free or low fee clinics for the needy, less regulatory load on hospitals and small practices, e.g. remove or delay the electronic medical record requirement, attack the causes of high malpractice insurance, stop incentivizing physicians to "turf" challenging patients off to specialists and overprescription of tests to cover their liability.

There has to be a way that works, short of a national Medicare for all that I fear would lead to great mediocrity.
People know what Skype is. It's almost generic, like referring to tissues as Kleenex.
I'm not pushing too hard, because beside the points I raised, I'm generally happy about my job. A nice and fair company, with good atmosphere and friendly people. I guess today was one of those days when my inner introvert reared his ugly head.

Either way, right now I'm considering moving out of town, so I'm trying to push them into letting me work remotely part of the week ;).
When my bank makes me jump through some extra hoops it makes me sleep a little better at night knowing that its a little harder for people to steal my life savings. Even with these hoops it's scary to me how easy it is to transfer tens, or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Facebook solves one stupidly important problem: it's an easy digital index of everyone I'll ever meet. I treat it more like the yellowpages than a social network and as a result never really have a reason to think about it.
Not sure if everyone here actually saw all of the Sunday press shows. But it's far more than just your every day "war with the media" that other Presidents have gone through. Every White House reporter including Hume and Wallace from Fox News have said that what Spicer/Trump did was unprecedented in all their years of covering administrations.

To have a Press Secretary berate the press corp and demand they fall in line whilst simultaneously flat out lying is pretty extraordinary and very concerning. It's something straight out of 1984 and has Bannon's fingerprints all over it.

Video from Fox News Sunday panel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsV305yfG2o
I just used WU 2 months ago for a $400 international transaction and I wasn't asked anything other than to whom and where I wanted to send it.

My beef is with paypal: the company that wants to look and act like and do everything that a bank does, but without all those pesky bank regulations designed to protect the customer. I quit using them 10 years ago.
"We're the Uber of Uber regulations!"
Nope, you totally missed the pure wisdom in the driver's quote. His point is that academics in ivory towers who make policy decisions are so far removed from his reality, that they are ill-equipped to make appropriate policy decisions on his behalf. He's asking labor advocates to engage with him, rather than hand down a potentially disastrous policy decision.

Government drones could really learn a thing or two from that guy.
a brisk trade in AK-47's would develop

Sure, popular gun, available in large numbers (outside most western countries).

How long would it take for them to become commonplace in western countries/Europe?

Hypothetically imagining a trade in AK-47s between Turkey and the UK (around 3,000 km), how quickly could those guns (and ammo) be moved, in enough numbers to be significant? Would the traders be threatened along the way?

Would that trade be on foot (maybe 20-25 km per day), or would they still have the advantage of car/truck/air transport? Would the trade give enough value to account for the traders' risk?

I think that an immediate, catastrophic societal breakdown would give a year or two of extreme regression, during which archery might be useful.

Given a couple of years for the reappearance of traditional techniques (such as hand-crafted blacksmith work) or the redistribution of AKs, things to change.

All that said, it's all guesswork…for all I know, one week without electricity and we could all be Mad-Maxing.

On the one hand, our guesses are based on little except media dystopia fiction like Mad Max and Waterworld, on the other hand, our exposure to those genres could influence our actions to bring about those very outcomes.

So, er, I'm just going to fill up some waterbottles and go stock up on cans of corned beef and archery kit. Although they're definitely not stored at my home, no sirree.
Bukowski, a truly insightful individual. Sometimes reading his thoughts and ideas can bring a tear to my eye, simply because of their pithy practicality and clarity (and possibly because I'm reminded of my grandfather, who was similarly gifted in the art of brevity and honest observation).
It's probably too simplistic to be the explanation, but I think they must have overlooked some huge effect rather than many smaller ones that mostly work in the same direction, so, at the risk of making a fool of myself: could it be that a large fraction of people with cervical cancer have their cervix removed but still die from cervical cancer because their cancer already has metastized? (That would imply that a significant fraction of those dying from cervical cancer don't have a cervix at the moment they die)
Automatics do sweep though right? Rolex do anyway

Could be a good project if you could make headway
You need to feel you accomplish something every day, and (good) work does that.

That's great for you, but of course Bukowski wasn't thinking of the "have your cake and eat it, too" world of tech workers in 2017 (who are generally overpaid and/or get to do what they love most of the time -- and quite often, subject to both fates).

But rather, you know, regular people.
I think the implication wasn't that they were interchangeable, but that the machine they were expecting to see used CRTs, and instead, they found it using MCM.
Well Steve Bannon already works for the White House, so Breitbart can have a seat already. I'm guessing less credible "fake-ish news" news sources that paint the administration in a positive light (but don't have press credentials) will have those seats.
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> Every White House reporter including Hume and Wallace from Fox News have said that what Spicer/Trump did was unprecedented in all their years of covering administrations.

As, incidentally, have former Press Secretaries of both parties.
I think the idea is that if people didn't have access to alcohol, many of them would realize they have no good way to calm their nerves, and therefore realize they have anxiety issues.
So, why then add 4 Skype seats if the course is to be stayed?
> Of all the medical professionals I've ever dealt with, psychiatrists are the laziest and least imaginative.

Also the ones with the most power over patients.

A dangerous combination in my opinion.
So basically, mainstream media is asking us annoying questions so we'll field them from people we like. Bets on how many of these Skype seats go to alt-right platforms and blogs? Bets on how often questions are fielded to these participants vs traditional media?
What does one do if they dont have a lawyer's number on hand?
FYI, on the campaign trail, Trump cited the 30million+ number of illegal immigrants (a number advocated by Ann Coulter). Official US government numbers settled somewhere near 11 million (largely based on census numbers, so likely underreported).

Coulter citation:

https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/771162318994563072
After reading that article, it honestly sounds like the author is arguing against the entire concept of strategy, and would probably love Google's "I realize we already have two of those we put no effort into maintaining, but let's compete with ourselves by launching a third and telling everyone it's the future" anti-strategy strategy. Hell: what I want from Google is to see a strategy, as all I am seeing is complete and total chaos. What this article calls "strategy tax" would be better called "bad strategy", and I don't really see the alternative suggestions as better, as there are assuradely solutions (such as making your web browser a component and sharing a layout engine with the word processor, allowing the browser to edit and save simple documents in the format of the word processor, which is then essentially a paid upgrade to the basic editor) that make more sense than "let's sacrifice our high ground on what sounds like a bet".
That brings the question, what would be the spatial reference point for your time machine? Until we figure out what the universal reference point is, there's no way to know where in space your time travel machine would land. You'd also need to somehow match the angle and speed of the place you're landing, or find yourself instantly flying off the Earth's surface or squashing against it like a bug.
I think it's telling that both posts disputing my characterization have put forward Minnesota and other Lakes areas as the evidence against me. I can say those South and West of you don't typically mean that area when they say Midwest (it's too nice).
>TPP felt to me one of the issues that really defined the Trump campaign and the voters it appealed to.

It also helped define Trump's campaign because like a lot of issues his stance on it had little relation to the actual facts. TPP had plenty of problem that made it overall a bad agreement. Opposing it was generally smart. However, there was no indication that such a deal would have harmed the US economy. There is also wide consensus among economists that free trade benefits the nation at large. It isn't the fault of the economists that this country does a bad job of sharing the benefits of such deals with the entire population.
Which part of your link, or the large surgeon general's report, say that "about 1/3 of smoking related deaths are due more to the nicotine than the smoke"?
Ask them how many insurers they got to choose from when they got their most recent job.

I would bet a truckload of money that it's between zero and one.

What kind of choice is that?
Who's to say what is necessary to anyone?
The reaction to AMP is a perfect example of when the things users/publishers care about differ greatly from developers. Users don't care about being on the publisher's site vs. Google's but do really care that that their low-to-medium end phone from 2014 can load the article in <5 seconds on a slow 3G connection. Publishers care that all of their tracking and ads are working properly.
WebEx is horrible software to begin with. Hopefully this just convincing more companies to drop the monstrosity.
"Younger and stronger" isn't the same as 'a better shot'. Think about that before trying to close with that shotgun.
Saskatchewan. Good ol' Tommy Douglas.

For those curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Canada#The_begin...
Maybe if you live downtown, but i visited and couldnt go anywhere without a car. Theres basically no public transport.
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I have the old google voice app as well as a google voice number, granted MMS didnt work but other features such as spam filtering is the reason I adopted for official use. I routed 2 numbers to each (landline) account and havent looked back
This is a great example of how not to work with remote workers. You chose to organize your team as if everyone is local, so your remote people are left out of the loop. You should have discussed via IM or in a hangout.

You can't have your cake and eat it to. You are either are remote team or a local team, there is no in-between. You have remote people, so you are a remote team and you need ALL team interaction to be online. So absolutely no in-person meetings unless you fly your remote people in.
Bullshit. Nicotine in itself doesn't harm anyone, that's completely made up. On the contrary, a lot of people would be helped by getting more Nicotine into their system, preferably from eating veggies rather than smoking it.
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You know the wealthy could doomsday prep or they could support social/educational programs and support paying higher taxes. The sooner we realize that we are all in this together, the better.