skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: Efficient market hypothesis folks would claim that the expected value of all potential Brexit outcomes were already priced into the market value of Siemens, and that you were just on the right side of a dice roll. If you "knew" the outcome, then you should have been buying calls for far greater than a 16% ROI.

I find bubbles to be a better argument against EMH, which EMH advocates claim don't exist.
Although I agree this is likely a setup for more to come, I disagree that this is a "headfake".

A "headfake" implies it achieves nothing if one's opponent ignores it. In this case, if there was no pushback, then he would have successfully banned green card holders from seven nations. Then it would receive even less coverage/reaction when he adds an eighth nation, a ninth, a tenth, and so on... Pretty soon, you'll only have legal immigration from nations Steve Bannon deems worthy.
Activated carbon can remove some, but not all [0].

> part from the commonly studied perfluoroocta
noic acid (PFOA or C8) and perfluorooctane
sulfonate (PFOS), eight additiona
l PFASs were evaluated: perfl
uorobutanoic acid (C4), perfluoro-
pentanoic acid (C5), perfluorohexanoic
acid (C6), perfluoroheptanoic acid (C7),
perfluorononanoic acid (C9), perfluorodecanoic
acid (C10), perfluorobutane sulfonate (PFBS),
and perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHS).

> Regardless of the test
ed (S-)PAC, C4 removal was
negligible, while PFOS removal was essentially complete. PFAS removal increased with
increasing perfluorinated carbon chain length, and
for a given perfluorinated carbon chain length,
sulfonates were more adsorbable than carboxylat
es.

tl;dr: long-chain PFAS are removed, while short-chain PFAS are hardly removed at all

[0] http://www.waterrf.org/ExecutiveSummaryLibrary/4344_ProjectS...
It's fine if big companies or whomever want to use open source software without contributing back to it. There's no such thing as a freeloader in this context, the code is freely given so that people can freely use it with no quid pro quo other than respecting the code's license and copyright. If there was an expectation that someone using open source code give back (whether anyone wants their contributions or not), then that wouldn't be open source any more. I mean, it's great when users do contribute back, but there's no expectation of that, hence no concept of freeloaders. Heck, maybe you have a company that makes billions of dollars off of open source and never contributes back a single thing, ever. That's fine, if it were any other way then it wouldn't be open source- it would be just some weird variant of proprietary software where you're expected to send patches instead of license fees. When someone works on open source software (whether it's GPL, or something more simple and permissive), they shouldn't be doing it with an expectation that anyone else owes them anything. They will be very disappointed very quickly.
STOCKS FELL LESS THAN 1%
>I agree that this reduces wages of high income workers. That's exactly why it reduces income inequality.

The majority of the money saved from those wages would be transferred to the managerial classes (execs, etc.) and shareholders, making income inequality worse:

http://www.forbes.com/2004/08/31/cx_da_0831topnews.html

Income inequality isn't high because people who work for a living are earning too much.
The original still had big budget special effects, only the technology changed. So I think that's being a bit pedantic.
You pay in the first instance by way of constant commercial interruptions. (And if you wait and DVR it to remove the commercials, it's not really comparable to a live game you can visit in person anymore)
I think I like this statement but could you elaborate on what you mean?
one example i know of: http://scaleworks.com/

they bought Filestack (formerly Fileppicker), Chargify and a few more

Lew wrote about basically the same thing as sama earlier this month:
https://medium.com/@lewmoorman/not-venture-scale-get-over-it...
I have been thinking about how lawyers took over Hollywood and the recording industry in the first place. Remember the Betamax case, not to mention the history of DAT tape too.
Show HN: BatchEncoder version 1.0 released (an audio files conversion software)
You missed a pretty critical point. Obama used Executive Orders because in part he had a Congress that, courtesy of Mitch McConnell, stated openly that they had no intention of passing Bills on the President's behalf, even if good. That the way to make him a failure was to "do nothing for him". That left Obama with little option but to enact Executive Orders for many things. And with that being said, he still managed to sign less than Bush II or Clinton.

Trump on the other hand has Congress and Republicans firmly in his control, who've shown themselves to be fully "pliant" (or "spineless", depending on your perspective of the world) of all Trump's desires, so Trump has no _need_ of the Executive Order other than to make a statement, "Look at me, I'm the boss. Why would I act like I need approval from Congress?"

There's a distinct difference.
This EPA page seems to imply that activated carbon would help remove it:

https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/drinking...

----------------
Can PFOA and/or PFOS be boiled out of my water?

No; PFOA and PFOS cannot be removed by heating or boiling water. However, there are steps you and your drinking water system can take to limit your exposure.In some cases, drinking water systems may be able to reduce concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances, including PFOA and PFOS, by closing contaminated wells or changing rates of blending of water sources. Alternatively, public water systems can treat source water with activated carbon or high pressure membrane systems (e.g., reverse osmosis) to remove PFOA and PFOS from drinking water. These treatment systems are used by some public water systems today, but should be carefully designed and maintained to ensure that they are effective for treating PFOA and PFOS. In some communities, entities have provided bottled water to consumers while steps to reduce or remove PFOS or PFOA from drinking water or to establish a new water supply are completed.

Home drinking water treatment units are typically certified by independent third party organizations against ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standards to verify their contaminant removal claims. Some home filters remove impurities using activated carbon and reverse osmosis, which are the same technologies utilized by public water supply systems to remove PFOA and PFOS. However, there currently are no ANSI protocols for testing home treatment systems to verify that these devices effectively remove PFOA and PFOS or how frequently the filters should be changed in order to maintain removal efficiency. NSF International is currently developing such protocols.
Well, that's quite unfortunate for the millions(?) of users whose apps will break today for reasons they won't understand.
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> And what should I answer that wouldn't be weird? "Volunteering for Troll patrol at Internet forums"?, "Writing Java"?, "Sleeping"?

Honestly the weirder the better. Its a great icebreaker.
I enjoyed babylon 5 a couple of years ago which has poor special effects by today's standards. The bad CGI did not detract from it at all.
That's not how representative democracy works, in general. Direct democracy may work like that, but I don't see a way to run direct democracy on US federal scale, and even if there were a way, US is not one. In US system, there's debate, there's vote, representatives are elected and then they have power to act (within the bounds of law, of course, and within limitations like due process, procedures, judicial review, etc.) without further debating anyone. Of course, if they act poorly, they will soon find themselves out when the next election comes. But executive action is always "unilateral" and if it is consistent with the law and mandates given to the executive, not dictatorial.
Who Has More PhDs? Trump's Cabinet vs. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen
I'm not sure it's wise for Mother Jones, or any other news outlet, to publicize this sort of work. Outside the context of an academic journal it only serves to unintentionally promote guilt by association.

Basically, I think this is unethical. And shame on Mother Jones for publishing it. The article is exceptionally careful not to make any claims about Sessions personally. Nowhere does it discuss how many white nationalists Sessions follows. Which only begs the question why the article was written and published in Mother Jones in the first place.

It's one to thing to say that white Nationalists prefer Jeff Sessions and then to let people read between the lines. That's just typical political rhetoric, and that's never going away. It's not even wrong, it's just exceptionally weak.

But it harms the fields of science and academia by intermingling the rhetoric with academic work that purports to say nothing about Session's character. And it tarnishes Mother Jones credibility, which is quite good given their explicit agenda. Unlike most conservative outlets, I expect much better from them.

We all have a duty to uphold the integrity of science, and that means not abusing scientific works.
> The primary lament of CableCard is that it's so poorly implemented that the vast majority of people aren't even aware that it exists.

You're inferring that they're related, but I see them as orthogonal.

I'll take your word that it's poorly implemented. From my POV it just works—my two experiences are with a TiVo and an HDHomeRun (first with Media Center, now with Plex's beta DVR feature), and in both cases use has been uneventful.

That people don't know it exists doesn't surprise me, since the cable industry has always fought this FCC-required concession to consumer choice. If anything, it strikes me that cable was highly motivated to ensure CableCard's failure.

I don't have any love for CableCard, but I'll be sad when it goes because it'll mean that kind of interop is gone forever.
Just once I would like to see an objective article from The Post. Something such as the number of campaign promises kept by each of the last three presidents. Bezos pulled out all of the stops and ran hit piece after hit piece on Trump all through his campaign. In my view The Post has lost all credibility when it comes to political reporting.
Comparing Scala's extractors to F#'s active patterns
iCloud supports Windows, at least:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283
OneDrive used to have "placeholder files" (online-only, downloaded on demand), but it was removed due to poor UX.

https://blogs.office.com/2015/01/07/taking-the-next-step-in-...

Sounds like the feature could be coming back to Win10 relatively soon:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3124429/data-center-cloud/one...
You're correct. I should have been more clear. My main point was that racial prejudice alone (#3 in the above link), minus the power component, wouldn't be enough to satisfy the requirements of racism under some definitions.
I have a hard time finding a hire date for Poettering at Red Hat BTW. It looks like Jeff Johnson (rpm) was hired at Red Hat in 1998.
Well one misconception is that the code needs to be downloaded into the execution context every time. Which is different than a PHP file being loaded off disk (or opcache as the case is more common in PHP). It's more like if you zipped up your PHP program and every time someone hit a page the zip file was downloaded and extracted onto the server.

However, Lambda takes that one step further. The entire app stays running in memory. No loading or recompiling code. The function is sent instructions via interprocess communication.

So you can take advantage of things that are difficult (though not impossible) to take advantage of in PHP such as connection pooling and shared memory.
The guidelines ask us not to use all caps for emphasis. You can put asterisks around it and it will be italicized instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
thanks for pointing that out. made amends.
Yes I know, in browser the shortcuts work fine. However I'm not talking about the browser apps; I'm talking about the Win10 native app. As far as I've been able to tell, bitrate is quite limited in the Chrome player in Windows.

It should be the simplest bloody thing for someone with their resources to offer keyboard shortcuts yet they've fouled the UX up in a major way. The main thing I've got against Netflix is that you have to full size the screen to hide the start menu every single time you start playback; the app simply doesn't let you stay full screen in the movie selection screen. And... please don't get me started on the experience of using Netflix on my 21:9 monitor on my primary PC. (The mind boggles.)

Fwiw my HTPC setup is an old yet capable Win10 PC on a new 4k 65", 2500k CPU, 8gb memory (will upgrade this soon), Nvidia 960 4GB GPU, Asus XONAR HDAV 1.3 Deluxe with a 20 year old Rotel / Infinity 5.1 hifi-ish system, using a Logitech TK820 from my couch. It is a very nice setup. I will sometimes run Visual Studio on it for some code war puzzles etc.
Blockbuster did not have to operate a huge IT infrastructure to bring you a movie.

No; they just had to operate a huge logistics network to contract, (re)purchase, ship, store, catalog, track, and dispose of physical media. That's on top of the labor costs for 60,000+ employees over 8,000+ physical locations.

Shifting bits around, even at Netflix scale, requires far fewer people and far less investment.
Actually, I was thinking of Quip when I wrote that. Quip locks the entire paragraph that is being changed, so others cannot work on the same paragraph. This is less than ideal. I actually do think Dropbox Paper is pretty good for collab, so that wasn't initially fair. My favorite feature is seeing who contributed to which line of the document.

I do find both Quip and Paper more suited to notes than documents, however. Writing a formal doc feels odd when your defaults aren't 12 pt Times New Roman, but maybe that won't be a consideration in five years. After all, there's some dissonance in saying "this is too pretty to use."
From the writeup, for those that wonder like me what's happening:

The technique, which I think of as rule generation, is something a little like direct manipulation, but with an additional generalisation step. You click the pixel you want, but instead of just setting the pixel directly, the system figures out a rule that would set that pixel and applies that rule globally. In other words, you determine the rule from the action, then use the rule to apply more actions.

https://samgentle.com/posts/2017-01-14-automata-by-example
Stability is a keystone of successful trade.

Which he was elected to end. The Trump presidency isn't that complicated honestly - he was elected to fuck shit up and he's off to a great start.
Meaning, it doesn't matter if you grow very fast if you can't make the business sustainable.
Google employees are staging a walkout over Trump’s immigration ban
I tried arch a few years ago on a $150 netbook and liked it a lot. Is it fairly easy to map package dependency names to the Ubutnu versions? Also, is it possible to install both i386 and amd64 versions of a library?
That is a poor metric. The EPA funds many pollution prevention and mitigation programs that far exceed the cost of staffing.
One small nit to what you've said. Breath control is core to yogic practices, as you've mentioned, but it is not part of most meditative practice. Meditation typically involves breath awareness, but specifically not control. The idea is to observe the breath as it is, not how we would like it to be.
> After looking at landing page, it's completely unclear what it is.

It is really really hard to promote a basic text editor as something revolutionary.
Ah I get what you're saying. So FitBit doesn't allow other sites to access your data stored. What the heck, I feel like that would damage their utility.
WSJ Articles just started redirecting to HTTPS
> According to law, H1-B Visas are only for those jobs which cannot be filled by Americans, that is no American has the skill to perform them.

This, I believe, is a misunderstanding of the H-1B program. There is no requirement that there "is no American has the skill to perform" a job before it being filled by someone on H-1B. Please see the Wikipedia page here [1]. The employer only has to attest that:

The employment of H-1B non-immigrants does not adversely affect working
conditions of workers similarly employed.

At this point, I think it is advisable for you to get educated about the program you so vehemently oppose here on HN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Protections_for_U.S....
Theaters used to be the only way to watch movies, then they became just the best way, and now they're just an experience separate from home viewing.

Theaters exist because they're the biggest consumers of movies and, because they're the biggest consumers, studios give them limited time exclusivity exists to benefit their continued existence. It's a bit of a catch 22 and change is slow.

I watched Rogue one in a regular non-3D theater and the projection was not great. The black levels were horrible. The actual 24fps (x2) frame rate bothered me. I expect to watch it again at home, streamed from Netflix, and have better viewing experience.
Credits aren't accurate at all. When you "subcontract" out something, it usually includes a fixed number of credits no matter how many people worked on it.
> That didn't happen. Not even close.

Oh please. Sin City: budget $40 million, box office $158.8 million. A good director who knows how to squeeze the most out of a budget can get the job done in a cost-effective way. Just ask Mr. Rodriguez.
> When you purchase a bound copy of my book, a small part of that money pays for the physical object. The publisher also takes a part, and that's what they use to keep the lights on in their office. The last bit goes to me so I can feed my cat and work on my next book. How does the medium or your ability to copy it change the fact that my cat needs to eat, and in lieu of getting paid for my writing so I can feed him, I'll need to do something other than write?

The physical book feels like it's worth something. The digital copy doesn't. People have a moral intuition that they should pay you in the first place, and that they should not in the second, and legality is largely just the formalisation of our moral intuitions.
> Second, pay journalists to watch for the head fake. That’s their job. Become a paying subscriber to news outlets, then actively ask them to more deeply cover moves like the NSC shakeup. We can no longer breathlessly focus media attention on easy stories like the immigration ban. The real story is much more nuanced and boring — until it’s not.

This finally convinced me to get an online subscription to the New York Times, after trying to avoid paying anything for news for years. It makes sense to me to think of a subscription not so much as product-purchase, but more like a patreon-like pledge of support.

I kinda wish I could get one to the WSJ too, but their prices seem too high :/
Heh, you've got some HFT soda machines. I like it.

A couple of interesting (and non hypothetical!) things to ponder. What is the value that motivates people to buy DVDs that are a bootable install and/or live image of a free OS for $9.99 at Fry's? Similarly, what is the purchase calculus that someone does when they buy a paperback book in an airport bookstore which is a book they already own and have a perfectly readable copy at home?
Updated my Parse app several months ago away from Parse, but up to 600 DAU's were still using the old versions - I'm not sure whether they'll fail gracefully or not. You can't convince some people to update their apps, they think it is a conspiracy!
When left without any external obligations even for a couple of days I seem to wake up and go to sleep later and later each day. My rhythm doesn't settle on any fixed 24-hour period. Is something similar to this discussed in the book?
I tried to find some data on that, but it appears that there is no data available showing definite health hazards of these compounds.

Getting such data can be difficult. Animal models can often be wrong: the toxicity may be specific to humans, or the damage may require exposure over time frames than the animals' life span, or it only manifests under rare circumstances (i. e. interactions with drugs).

The best data you can get may be from people who were exposed to the compounds unusually high degrees, usually because they worked with them. But that group of people may be too small, or not diverse enough (we've long avoided exposing pregnant women to industrial chemicals), or the nature of their work exposed them to different chemicals muddling any results.

You say "Its irresponsible to make policy decisions without knowing the actual risk level", but I'd say that you can't not make a decision: taking the view that a chemical is safe until proven otherwise is as much a decision as the opposite. The EU has started to assume new compounds to be dangerous until proven otherwise – I believe the US may still be doing the opposite.

Ethanol (i. e. alcohol) is also a particularly bad unit of measurement, considering its effects on human health are not just somewhat disputed, but apparently highly unusual. There is quite a lot of evidence for beneficial effects of alcohol, possibly even at rather high dosages (although the effects on cancer, which you mention specifically, are probably closer to a standard linear dose-response relationship,)
Ask Schiller if he know anybody who drives a pickup truck.
Thank you for this excellent reply. I understand the argument and agree with you. I guess we really can't have nice things.
Apparently at this year and age, communicating what a product does, is a real challenge.
But there are plenty of people who are willing to produce high-quality digital goods for next to nothing. They will undercut you.
It slows down my mind. Enough to better grasp ideas and emotions. It helps controls any anger outburst or that rush of the thoughts you get when something upsets you. It teaches you to let go.

The thing is, every one will benefit differently from it. Nobody can really tell you what it feels like, you have to experience it.
I use TiddlyWiki across my Windows, Android and Ubuntu devices. I use it as my universal operating environment. I use it to store my writing, my ideas, my catalogs and inventory, my projects. You name it, it can be customized to fit.
The fact that CBP has very wide powers and very little supervision has been talked about for ages. Unfortunately, nothing is being done about it. Refusing to execute a court order should be grounds for immediate dismissal, and possibly following contempt of court proceedings, but I suspect CBP has a union which would fight that tooth and nail and probably win.

> No longer can we claim to take the high ground against ISIS or other radical Islamic group.

That's pretty grand claim. While Trump's order indeed caused a lot of trouble, I think trouble of being detained for a day or even sent back to the port of origin is not the same as trouble of being murdered, raped, sold to sexual slavery, having head cut off, burned alive, etc. which ISIS routinely does. The position of "is US government does something wrong they are the same of ISIS" is idiotic. Of course US government will do a lot of things wrong, they are as imperfect as huge bureaucracy composed of hundreds of thousands of imperfect people can be. It doesn't mean they are the same as terrorist death cult.
Studies tend to say that any more than 3mg of melatonin, your body will just evacuate it. Also, taking it more than 5 days is most likely pointless.
There's a DEC2 mutation, possibly others, that let some people only sleep 4 hours and function fine. Maybe not all of these people, but I bet some of them have some sort of mutation on DEC2.
We don't know for a fact that Sashido is causing the spam. Could just be a elaborate joke, for example.
1987, Crash, https://r.mprd.se/MAME/snap/crash.png

Stupid people...