skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have another request. (You didn't limit us to one)

The article very carefully avoids discussing actual hazard level or a comparison, merely a measured number exceeded a beancounter's number.

Its irresponsible to make policy decisions without knowing the actual risk level... so inform us?

I realize its difficult to compare ochem toxicity between compounds, famously there are obscure reactions where nothing interesting happens to anyone except pregnant women or unborn children, obscure herbicides that slaughter fish but are otherwise mostly harmless, obscure herbicides that selectively kill broadleaf plants, etc.

None the less ... would it be possible to put the risk in a form people (perhaps incorrectly) think they can understand and manage? Something like fill in the blank: "The risk of drinking unfiltered tapwater at the EPA limit on a normal daily basis is roughly as dangerous to your health as consuming X ounces of 100 proof ethanol per day"

I'm curious if EPA defined contaminated tapwater is as risky as drinking four bottles of wine per day WRT cancer risk or if its more like sniffing an open bottle of N.A. beer.
Have you tried taking melatonin an hour or so before your target sleep time? That's worked wonders for my family.
Additionally: I don't really have an "unused" amount of hours at the end of the day. I definitely have an "unused" amount of bit-copying capacity.
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Got any in specific you'd like to name? I'll have two weeks to see the english countryside coming up soon and was going to make a point to visit Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. I'd love to add some actual castles to that trip to wales.
Trial Balloon for a Coup? – Medium
Not always.

I can watch baseball for free on television or I can go to the ballpark and pay to see it in person.
Always felt kind of scummy that the same guys maintaining this library - complete with frequent breaking changes - are selling training around React for 1.8k a pop.

In other industries, we call this a "conflict of interest". "Same guys writing the building code for 2017 (featuring many changes from the 2015 code) are selling in-person workshops on the 2017 building code!" Take it out of the context of software and it immediately feels dirty.
Or the equivalent of removing life support and having them die slowly and painfully, rather than simply administering an overdose of morphine. I do like that the issues blend at this point, though - removing the placenta is something I haven't considered. It would be legal because you can legally take someone off life support.
> If it's something virtual, they'll put the same value on it that you put on completed movies as a consumer, a few bucks that bears no relation whatsoever to the effort you had to invest.

I would think there's a clear difference between consumer and B2B solutions here. As a business, it's a clear trade-off, pay X for the base models I can presumably get for some percentage of X, or just pay someone X dollars to do it, and presumably that percentage is well under 100% because the company has already done (and hopefully used) the work once, so it's just a way to monetize and existing resource. For a consumer, I don't really have the option of making a movie myself rather than paying for it. B2B products routinely cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Now, if you're saying specifically that industry will value it that way because of the way they are, well, that might be true. Sounds like you would know better than me. At the same time, may a service like that isn't marketed towards the studios, but towards the special FX houses, and they just factor it into their costs, bids, etc.
Michael Breus has a theory that different individuals tend to sleep/wake at different points in the day naturally.

So perhaps your natural rhythm is very late night bedtime and late morning wake time? Does make life in the standard 8-5 world difficult unfortunately.

EDIT: non-affiliate link to his book The Power of When
https://www.amazon.com/Power-When-Discover-Chronotype-Lunch/...
Webpack: The One Build Step to Rule Them All
I have found that zswap behaves much better than zram when the size of the used ram approaches 150% of RAM. In theory zram compresses better as zswap has very simple mapping for the location of its cache of compressed pages leading to space underutilization. But, as it has real backing store, it can evict unused pages allowing bigger chunk of uncompressed memory for running applications.
Looking at you, anti-vaxxers
There’s also a well-known affect on blood-pressure (lowering) that comes from the breath control that’s at the core of most meditation practice.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/stress-raising-your-blood...

I don’t think that the cause of this is completely understood, but CO2 is a potent vasodilator. I’ve seen hatha yoga (physical yoga) practioners ditch hatha for prana-yoga (breath yoga) because they said it's a more powerful way to get to wherever yoga takes you.
Well, he slowed down the processing of new Iraqi refugees.

Trump immediately stopped the entry of all foreign nationals, including green card holders returning from vacations and people who already had vaild visas.

That's very different. You could argue that the Administration didn't intend for the order to apply to GC holders, but the fact that the implementation of an executive order was different from its intention proves that it was poorly thought out.
I've always interpreted this sort of valuation as more about "potential best-case acquisition price" than about real market cap. Instagram was "worth" a billion dollars, because Facebook said so; that doesn't mean it had a $1bn market cap. But when VCs talk about you having a "$100MM company", that's what they mostly mean: that there might be a Facebook or two around who would pay that.

I'm actually curious, since we've seen a few (not many, but a few) tech IPOs of these SV darlings in the last five years: how well does their publicly-traded market cap today align with the projected valuations VCs invested at?
There has been multiple suggestions of sunsetting regulation after a period of time (10 years is a common suggestion) unless renewed. I would first like to see one website in the .gov that had every federal regulation on it just as a starting place.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522044
potentially NSFW, highlight from todays stream :-) http://i.imgur.com/YTlTJU6.jpg
this makes me realize I need to get back up in the demo scene as well dust off my ol' TI-99 with speech and crush some Parsec!
Show HN: Thredded Forums Engine
We wrote the Thredded forums engine focusing on these things:

1. Client-side performance. Little JavaScript and lean CSS. Even the KaTeX math plugin renders math server-side.

2. Clean but discoverable UI. The focus is content. Not a single dropdown nor a hamburger menu.

3. Extensible, but critical features are built-in to provide a foundation for plugins. Features such as notifications, moderation, permissions system, and full text search.

4. Pleasant on mobile for both browsing and content creation. This means a textarea instead of a rich text editor (by default).

5. Everything degrades gracefully when JavaScript is off. For example, preview-as-you-type becomes a "Preview" button if JavaScript is disabled.

6. The relational database for everything, including full text search. Data integrity is easy, no out-of-sync elasticsearch databases here. Runs on Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.

Boring technology => easy to deploy and run in production.

The codebase is written in Ruby, has slowly developed over the years, and has extensive test coverage.

I am very curious to hear what you think, and whether you've ever felt a need for a forum like that.
It would be even better to decrease the consumption of sugar I think.
Funny enough in Firefox Widevine was default set to Always Activate on my machine. Not sure how long it's been that way. There was no "ask to activate" option. I was however able to set to "never activate". Let's see how long before this becomes annoying.
Being EPA is like running IT in a company. You can only lose. If things don't go well you get the blame. If things go well you are asked "what are all these people doing?"
I believe Amazon added scheduled execution because of high demand from customers who never understood why Lambdas are there. I saw also many people complaining about lacking SQS support of Lambda. It is totally normal that Lambda's are not supporting SQS because SQS is a pull model, while Lambda is designed differently. Very very probably, AWS will also add SQS support but it will mean that they preferred non-sense user complaints over their design.

Lambda functions are there to process a single message and produce output. It is a code piece that should be invoked responding to events (A new file on S3 bucket, a new record on DynamoDB, a HTTP request coming from API Gateway etc.) If you are designing a system where you execute Lambda function on its own without any meaninful event and get it pull data from an external source upon execution, you are designing your system wrong. Let us assume that this "cronjob" works every day at 10 pm and that day there was more than 5000 users whose trials end. Lambda has an execution limit of 5 minutes. In 5 minutes you are likely to fail to process 5000 users and Lambda execution will be interrupted. And what then? You are not designing a scalable system.

The correct approach would be to book a future Lambda execution (per user) when you register the user. A single Lambda function per user would then execute exactly when the trial ends for the user. Also this Lambda function would receive all the data it needs for its operation, so it would not need to connect to MongoDB to fetch user information. This can be probably done by SWF.
>"If suicide is cowardly then suicide isn't much of a choice at all and then there really isn't any freedom at all."

A cowardly choice is still a choice, it's still a possibility. Freedom is freedom to choose, it imposes no limits on what motivates you.

Aside from this, cowardly doesn't seem to fit suicide, if we're going for negative connotations then self-absorbed seems more appropriate IMO.

>"The lack of freedom in this world is actually much more grim than even existentialists wish to admit."

What do you mean by this? What freedom do you feel you lack?
At my last job one of my biggest projects was a migration off of parse to a postgres backend. Fun times.
Good analogy, but without taking into account the financing side of things it's only a partial picture.

Imagine if that player was borrowing and spending Other People's Money since High School, based on the EXPECTATION that one day he'll be the next LeBron James and pay it all back with sufficient return or forced into bankruptcy.

He had natural talent, but needed money for better shoes, trainers, better nutrition, etc in order to achieve the top level as quickly as possible. So he found some people to loan him the money.

In that scenario, it's not so much a question of whether playing in the NBA is a desirable outcome -- it's certainly better than if he hadn't made it that far -- but one would have to also consider the financial outcome for his investors and him personally.

There are lots of bankrupt NBA players (for different reasons, but still).

This is the article's point: if you're not LeBron, don't choose a trajectory that requires that level of outsized outcome in order to be successful.
It's a hard landing page to understand. Took quite a bit of effort to understand what it is.

Dropbox used to be good at simplifying things. If the landing page is this confused it doesn't bode too well Dropbox Paper.
I loathe Trump, and despise Bannon, and I wouldn't put it past them to have some dirty tricks, but this conspiracy theory doesn't pass muster

The political optics of having to 'roll back' are not beneficial for POTUS, because it would be an admission that he's 'wrong' - and he does not like to be wrong.

Second - if the ACLU can 'win' cases against the administration - this is hugely damaging for them, as it speaks to their lack of credibility to everyone except the hardcore followers - it gives momentum to their opponents - and a 'permanent record' of things to wail about for 4 years.

More importantly - it weakens them vis-a-vis the GOP controlled congress.

Right now - Trump is strong, only because he has a very solid base support. The GOP do not like Trump, but right now they are afraid of his wrath - politically. And Trump will go a long with most of what they want so it's not so bad.

But - if Trump is weakened too much, then the GOP don't have to listen to him, and they'll start fighting him on agenda issues.

The reason Trump is rushing through this stuff is not for issues of power - it's popular politics: he has the power 'now' to do some things - and may not have it later. He's trying to appear as though 'he's done what he's said he's done'.

Also - the refugee ban is not even meaningful, other than in terms of perception. There will be some disruption for 90 days, and then things will be as they were. This is political theatre, not a conniving power grab.

A few more things like this from Trump and he will be weakened, he could feasibly be the biggest 'lame duck' president ever, though surely he will make a lot of noise during that period.

If the GOP abandons him, he can only scrawl together so many executive orders - granted, he'll wield his veto power like a drunk king ...
That explains why most every dog breed that competes on looks and becomes popular gets messed up. Also American breeders have this odd habit of taking large dogs that should be about 80 lbs and breeding them into behemoths, usually to the detriment of the dogs
Great to see I'm not the only one using Jenkins to look after crown jobs!

However, it's to me way more than simply auditing & auth.
The main advantage I found with Jenkins are:

- you get a central place for all the cron jobs. That comes with all the advantages the most important one being nobody has to remember on which server is this freaking script

- making an update can easily be done

- running the task can even be done by non technical people.

- easy backup

- when a script become deprecated you can easily remove it and you're not very likely to let it there running for nothing forever

- easy documentation for you tasks

There's probably more but Jenkins is definitely awesome for cron jobs
I feel that we're in a post-revolutionary phase of open source[1] -- and we no longer need the radical instruments of the GPL (and certainly not the AGPL). Yes, there are actors that consume open source, modify it in important ways and never give back (AWS: looking at you!), but in the new world of software services, no open source license (including the AGPL!) is going to coerce contributions from actors who have no intention of contributing -- licenses that attempt this simply will impede adoption of the software they cover. And indeed, I think coercion is the wrong way to think about it; rather, we must focus on encouraging contribution by lowering the barriers to adoption as much as possible. As you point out, I still do prefer the weak file-based copyleft of the MPLv2 as a compromise (which we selected for Triton and Manta[2]) -- but like any good compromise, it tends to be universally derided by the poles of the debate.

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2012/08/01/post-revolutionary-op...

[2] https://www.joyent.com/blog/sdc-and-manta-are-now-open-sourc...
> To disregard a pattern is stupidity, but to enslave yourself to it is laziness.

I may have to quote you on that one ;)
> Nope that's just a misconception on how prices are set.

Your "misconception argument" doesn't seem to contradict what I'm saying. The seller sets the price, sure, but part of that price goes back to cover the cost of manufacturing, otherwise it will stop getting manufactured.
As an "anti-fluoride person", I just want to go on the record to state that it's ridiculous to be more concerned with riling up a particular group than having safe drinking water.

In fact, counter to common opinion, we have a solidly science-based view on this issue--I'm not sure how we got grouped in with anti-vaxxers and others.

There simply isn't good evidence that adding fluoride to drinking water is a justifiable public health method to reduce cavities, which is why 97% of Western Europe doesn't do it[0]. And because there's no opt-out, it may be dangerous for bottle-fed babies [1].

I'm not saying it's the world's biggest problem right now (by a long shot), but dispensing medicine in water is not good policy.

[0] - http://fluoridealert.org/content/water_europe/
[1] - http://fluoridealert.org/issues/infant-exposure/
This is extremely non-scientific, but I am an american living outside of the us - and I often wonder 'what's wrong with us' when I meet Americans. Maybe we just have it too easy, maybe we don't have to open up our minds to other cultures (we are the dominant one). But I've met enough people that just make me think c'mon man! That said, we're the dominant culture for a reason - we have some super talented people. At the end of the day, 'flouride' probably isn't the root-cause of our 'unique'-ness.
Academics against immigration executive order
>On top of this, intellectualism itself is viewed with great suspicion by many Americans, who much prefer to hear celebrity gossip, or watch sports and reality shows. As a result, the "public" intellectual debates of the era are dumbed down and infotainmentized by a media mostly concerned with ratings and pandering to the lowest common denominator.

What a brave new world we live in...
As Sequoia upped investments abroad, other Valley VCs scaled back
If the devil has done his homework he'll sit me down in front of a PC and force me to debate economics on HN for eternity...
I'd assume the main goal of the open-source Parse Server is to provide some support for previous users of Parse? Who would already know what Parse does.

Attracting new users unfamiliar with the technology seems at best secondary ( and possibly, unwelcome) to the Parse Server community now.
I'm-gonna let tiddlywiki finish, but dokuwiki is greatest personal wiki of the tiny subset of internet users that use it.
Tech Quiz of the Week: The iPad Turns Seven
Headlines Matter When Your President Lies All the Time
This Mad Max meets Trump photoshoot hits too close to home
A simple helper for the deaf to be understood
An executive order on immigration, while arbitrary, follows established precedent.

The inclusion of existing visa and permanent residency holders was designed to stoke the fires of the media and of the left. Trump has a whole stack of things he wants to accomplish, and he's tiring out his primary opposition while simultaneously virtue-signaling to his base.

If he were wanting to instigate a coup he'd be quietly placing people beholden to him into positions of power, driving wedges between the internal divisions of his opposition, and solidifying the ground he's already taken.

Trump is nimble. He understands what's going to incite those who speak out against him, and he uses that knowledge to set them up for failure. He did this throughout the campaign and he's doing it now. You're supposed to be upset about the immigration EO. You're supposed to be upset about his SCOTUS nominee that he's promised tomorrow. You're supposed to be upset about the next thing he does.

Trump is ridiculing his opposition, and so many people live in their own personal echo chambers that they aren't even noticing.
What about it? Any collection of rocks put on a grid with certain rules can become "conscious". Neither your little awareness of yourself, nor someones feeling of "endlessly strange" things mean anything when talking about whether universe is holographic or not.
I've done multiple international mentoring sessions via Zoom and it hasn't been an issue. (and my home service is Comcast)
It's Fred Korematsu Day: Celebrating a Foe of U.S. Internment Camps
Thanks, I have not heard of those services.
Interesting marketing. It seems to be an API for statistical functions and data. Though the term Probabilistic Programming sugggests a new programming paradigm, which it is not. If I'm not missing something, the term makes a dry subject sound cool.
Author here. When I started the project C#6 was just arriving. It's awesome to see the ValueTuples coming through for C#7. I have been adding some super-powers to them for lang-ext 2.0 (which is work in progress):

Example of extensions for ValueTuple<A,B,C> (there are extensions up to ValueTuple<A,B,C,D,E,F,G> and Tuple<A,B,C,D,E,F,G>)

https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/blob/type-classes/Lan...

It allows cool stuff like this:

var abc = ('a', 'b').Add('c'); // ('a', 'b', 'c')
var abcd = ('a', 'b').Add('c').Add('d'); // ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd')
var abcd5 = ('a', 'b').Add('c').Add('d').Add(5); // ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 5)

var sumA = (1, 2, 3).Sum<TInt, int>(); // 6
var sumB = (2, 4, 8).Product<TInt, int>(); // 64
var flag = ("one", "two", "three").Contains<TString, string>("one"); // true
var str = ("Hello", " ", "World").Concat<TString, string>(); // "Hello World"
var list = (List(1, 2, 3), List(4, 5, 6)).Concat<TLst<int>, Lst<int>>(); // [1,2,3,4,5,6]
The benefits are subtle but I am more aware of my emotions. Things that used to upset me don't have this deep impact anymore. I feel I am more deliberate in how things affect me.

But I also studied a lot with Buddhists. I am not sure if meditation only without guidance of a teacher will have much of an effect.
You should remove your header of "up-to-date" on your marketing page until you get that fix in place.
When I worked at a movie theater as a teenager, the manager explained it like so: The first 5-6 weeks, the studio make 85%-90% of the box office profits, after that the percentages start changing, to the point that at 10 weeks or so and past, the theater makes a much higher percentage. Long running movies are thus fairly profitable for theaters.

If this holds up (since it's entirely second hand info), I would expect the total split you quoted to likely be for large blockbusters that stay in the theaters for a long time. For a small movie, or one that doesn't make much money and is forced out to make room for more popular movies, I would expect that percentage going to the studio to actually be much higher.

Corrections from someone with actual knowledge is welcome though.
You can't make overcast look like broad daylight or vice versa because the nature of the shadows change dramatically.

That doesn't mean people don't do it all the time, it just looks like garbage.
He's running it like a business, this looks like just about every merger I've ever been stuck in the middle of. Not entirely surprising given his background, surely?
It's still outrageous.

Why the nurse? Were these people out on parole/probation/bail for child abuse? No, they were not. They are adults. They can hold their own baby without supervision, and obviously do as soon as they go home.
It's not too surprising if the effects sound similar to PCB effects. Both are associated with aryl hydrocarbon receptor activation.

Here's a study of thyroid hormone effects in rat cells:

Effects of perfluoroalkyl acids on the function of the thyroid hormone and the aryl hydrocarbon receptor

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manhai_Long/publication...
I feel like you're my Doppelgänger, everything you just wrote mirrors my experience. I got mine at six years old in 1983.