skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's pretty hard to drink it fast enough to get tipsy

Exactly.

> was one gallon per man per day.

It'd be interesting to see how it was consumed. I'd imagine most sailors rarely took their entire ration and it'd be after shift as a binge.

I like this quote -

"You mustn't imagine that naval ships were sailed by crews of drunken sailors," says Dr van der Merwe, general editor at the National Maritime Museum.
"Everybody drowns if sailors are drunk all the time."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8859000/8859506....

This is like the myth of split sleep, I don't know why people think these things are possible.

We know how we live, we know how really poor people live and these things just don't fit, they are illogical but people still believe them.
Brian Cowan's The Social Life of Coffee [1] is the best book on the history of coffee that I know of. Fascinating story, in part because coffee's history with humans is far more brief than that of alcohol or opium. There's basically an order of magnitude difference between the former and the latter (1k years of consumption vs 10k).

I also agree with the Braudel recommendation.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Social-Life-Coffee-Emergence-Coffeeho...
I was a bit taken aback by this statement: "[Dr.] James [Sumner], a historian of science and technology... argues that ‘alcohol by volume’ was rarely used as a measure of strength for beers and wines until the work of nineteenth-century French chemists such as Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, and that it’s therefore ahistorical to apply it to earlier cultures and beverages." To me, this is like saying that because trilobites did not make measurements of ocean pH, it would be wrong for us to estimate the acidity of Cambrian oceans. Is there more to this than just an absurdly dogmatic backlash against Whig historiography?
There are very, very few situations in life where there's not enough time to take a time-out, sitrep, or checklist.

I work in EMS when not in IT, and even bringing a trauma or cardiac arrest patient into the Emergency Room, there is still time to review and consider.

If there's time in Emergency Medicine, there's time in IT.
I'm guessing they all worked at some point in time, but they failed to set up any sort of monitoring to verify the state of their infrastructure over time.
Heh. I like you. One of my many language projects is an array-oriented Forth-like language. I've iterated on the idea several times, I think it's really great. Unfortunately, I have yet to capture the beautiful simplicity and elegance of Forth or APL in any of my projects.

Prolog is another one of my favorites, you should check that out.
No thanks. You are not the intended market.
I saw that Space Shuttle landing video that was kicking around recently. In that they also had explicit "I agree" responses to any observation like "You're a bit below flight path". Quick, positive acknowledgment of anomalous events or deviations. Seemed really ... sane.
Financial calendars are not necessarily aligned with actual calendars.
Wow, very intriguing to read. I appreciate honest event descriptions like this.

This has reminded me how important it is to perform regular rehearsals of data recovery scenarios. I'd much rather find these failures in a practice run. Thanks to GitLab for continuing to openly share their experience.
OpenScope: Instrumentation for Everyone
I think Mr. Sweeney's concern is wise and it's good that he is voicing his opinion on the matter. It does appear that Microsoft is moving in the direction of only allowing UWP apps from the Windows Store by default, but not yet Win32 programs.[1] It could eventually become the case that UWP apps are more common than Win32 programs, and/or Microsoft may choose to distribute Win32 programs through the store and disallow third party downloads by default.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/WQXpTUM.png
First they censored that list of vulnerable ecommerce sites, now they're getting pwnd... Are there any git hosts that are not PC obsessed and complete garbage?
Why Was Bill Gates Always Richer Than Steve Jobs?
Interesting. Could make for a good article.
No, no, you weren't paying attention. The (D)s aren't our enemies; they're the smug hypocrites who are or will soon be completely inconsequential in American politics, and who (to our immense amusement) haven't accepted this yet. I didn't say we derive pleasure from your loss, only your tears. The tears of the right would have been just as sweet if they were the sort to throw tantrums, which, thankfully, they're not.

Edit: Also, back to, er, polite discourse, I don't believe the state of civil liberties has significantly changed in the past, what, 11 days. I know you won't accept that thanks to fake-news-ordered outrage, but it's true. So you mistake my non reaction to a non event for apathy, which it's not.
Absolutely. Same goes for any ops response. You need two people: one to triage the issue and another one to communicate with external stakeholders and to help the one doing the triage.

The military does a very similar thing. An Army company commander usually has a RTO (radiotelephone operator) to handle taking on the radio. This frees the commander to make real-time decisions and response quickly to the situation on the ground, and frees him/her from having to spend time explaining things. A really good RTO will function as the voice of the commander, anticipating what he/she needs to get from the person on the other end of the radio. This is a great characteristic of a good operations engineer, too. While the person doing triage is addressing the problem, the communicator is roping in other resources that might be needed and communicating the current situation out to the rest of the team/company
5 interviews isn't -that- insane, it's on the high end though.

But I do know for sure they have turned down extremely technically gifted people for "non-technical" reasons, the kind of people that would ensure this sort of disaster wouldn't happen.

So maybe the process really isn't that great.
Developers are 'ignoring' the Windows Store because for existing Win32 applications (or applications rooted in large Win32 codebases), Win32 is just fine without a rewrite, while greenfield applications usually target other platforms like iOS and Android where users have been used to the app paradigm from very early on, and are more prone to dropping a few dollars on a download or microtransactions.

Furthermore, despite Win32 apps being able to clobber your files and settings, users don't seem to be demanding a change.

This leaves UWP apps in the awkward middle ground, where high-quality software doesn't need to be UWP, and you can still make successful software without ever targeting Windows, and thus the Windows Store is full of both shovelware and a baseline of obligatory applications that MS persuaded to fill out the store, with few true gems inbetween.

Tim Sweeney's crusade is entirely ideological, and is largely misplaced: MS is, perhaps strangely, the good guys who will be ruthlessly obsoleted by more locked-down platforms if they don't have an equivalent play. Windows 10's SaaSification was widely derided and yet many of those same detractors use Android phones where your habits and preferences were mined from the start, or iOS which has no way of sideloading software outside of the vendor's own storefront. 10 years out in an alternate timeline where high-powered ChromeAndroidBooks and iPadMacProAirs make up the computing landscape, his frustrations with Microsoft will seem silly.
I'm sure there are cases like yours --and it's probably not a bad thing for the world economy and prosperity. There is a benefit to other nations becoming economically healthy, rather than suffering "brain drain" and having their brightest minds only go to already successful economies further contributing to declining conditions in those countries. We only need to look at the state Russia and South Africa are in and where they could be, if they retained their talent.
Also, AFAIA, the addictiveness of alcohol varies a lot amongst the population, whereas pretty much everybody who smokes is addicted.

This means that using alcohol like you mention, as an occasional social lubricant, is a very viable strategy for many people. Once somebody starts smoking though, most of them can't just stop at will, they're probably doomed to spending all their breaks standing outside in the carpark, every day...
People with broad smiles seen as warmer but less competent
Introduction to post-quantum cryptography [pdf]
We don't know what percent of those units are 6S and SE. iPhone 7 could have worse adoption than previous whole-numer releases even with overall sales up.
It certainly is a regressive tax, but is it really punishing someone if you make it more expensive to legally purchase something that only damages or kills them, is highly addictive and that only places an overall burden on society? After all, despite its flaws we in Australia have a great, free healthcare system, with an extensive quit smoking program. We tend to find that adequate and free government health services mean that the poorest in our society are looked after far better than in a society that has cheap booze and cigarettes and an incredibly expensive healthcare system.

I guess it depends on the priorities of your wider society. I think ours is pretty right, personally.
Redis 3.2.7 released: Important security fixes
No, I've been reading real news. You should try it.

> They can call me racist, sexist, I don't care anymore, because I've seen the lies they repeat and the bullying tactics.

Trump is the biggest bully around, and the biggest liar by a very considerably distance. He always projects his own faults onto other people, which is a well-known ploy, in psychology. Rather than apologize for blatant lies, he attacks the honest press to try to discredit them. This is deliberately corrupting America, and Trumpery is deliberately corrupting the American population.

It is, frankly, the most despicable thing I've ever seen in recent US politics, and there's no honest way to deny it.

Trump is, as a matter of fact, a 3x-married serial adulterer, a sexual predator, a racist and a pathological liar. It's a huge stain on America's character that he was elected, and there have been an unprecedented number of protests against him both in the US and across the world.
A truly great hacker was lost today.
That's a good question. Reading it charitably, one could interpret that to mean either 1) we can't reliably estimate alcohol by volume prior to the 19th century because there weren't reliable tools to measure it or 2) pre-19th century people didn't think in terms of ABV, and that this may have meant that they experienced drunkenness differently on a subjective level. I'm generally anti-Whig but I'm with you on this one in hoping that there's more to it than that.
Show HN: Get shit done for $2
I'm building a startup every 4 weeks. Startup #1 is a service where you can hire a virtual assistant for $2 per task, http://JFDI.ninja.

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You know this actually makes me want to try out gitlab. They are super transparent and the fact that they ran into this issue now means they will just be better off in the long run. Does it suck? Sure. But this is why you backup your own data anyway.
We need a <blink> tag for our PS1.
> “What’s the percentage chance that Trump is actually a fascist

> dictator?” asks technology investor Justin Kan in the New Yorker

> story. “Maybe it’s low, but the expected value of having an escape

> hatch is pretty high.”

Classic Peter.

I have just remembered a book: Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life, by Nail Strauss
I have to wonder how it impacted human evolution. I mean, evolutionary psychology (for what little good the field is) usually dwells on "savannah ancestors" and whatnot, but centuries of being perpetually drunk is going to have an impact too.

Not just in terms of tolerance, but in terms of mental conditions. If the ground-state of the human mind is tipsy, then is sobriety functionally an abnormal state we're maladapted for?
The price is one thing, but there is a huge stigma attached now. There has been a long winded information campaign for decades, and it is impossible to ignore the health effects when they are litterally and grotesquely displayed on the pack.

Amongst friends my age, mid to late 20s, most of those who smoke have to do so separated from the group outside as well, as you are not allowed to smoke indoors. So people simply don't. There are enough barriers to make social smoking less prevelant and then if you are by yourself it is harder to justify the health cost and monetary cost.

To smoke a pack a day here you would have to spend $300 a fortnight.
Do people in the tech industry find any more value in physics/math undergrads than CS? CS is not as rigorous. I always thought that physics/math undergrad + ML certificate might be just as competitive as a masters in ML coming from a non-relevant BS
Yeah, but you can't smoke in Sydney pubs any more so that stops it too. As a non-smoker who enjoys the odd drink, I quite enjoy a pub with no cigarette smoke.
From the USCIS website. When you file a petition for a family visa one of the forms is the I-864, financial support. Depending on your status you are required to have 3x-5x the poverty line in income or assets. Now, you don't have to do this alone. If you have 3-4 family members willing to apply they use the combined income.
They could easily stick a "* using Safari" on the battery life claims if it was about advertising.

Apps are free to be inefficient. You can use some horribly slow JavaScript engine and build all your code that way. You can use Python or Ruby. Another comment mentions that Cordova apps are allowed, so it doesn't seem like the WebKit requirement even applies when building "native" apps.
It's a tough issue, but so are all civil rights laws. They all force a business owner to serve or accommodate customers they might not want to. Calling something a religious objection shouldn't be a universal pass IMO.

Among other reasons, what do you do when people start inventing religions to get out of doing things they don't want to? Should the government be in the position of deciding which religions are "real"? Just look at the history of Scientology or modern Satanism for examples.

For me this issue is so frustrating because in the gospels, Jesus repeatedly went out of his way to accept and bless society's cast-offs. He tells his followers to turn the other cheek and be wary of imposing judgment.

Yet today, people who supposedly follow his teachings are eager to do the casting off themselves, based on a few sketchy line readings from elsewhere in the Bible. I just don't understand how someone can read the New Testament and come away with "be mean to gay people" as a priority message.
Exactly. Besides physiological adaptations like resiliant livers, what about mental adaptations? I mean, are drinker-evolved humans more naturally obsessive and careful and self-doubting to compensate for the clumsiness and overconfidence of drink?
I went through all of the insane interviews except the CEO interview for the production engineer position and was rejected. I brought quite a bit of high-level operational experience from a few different places, including some pretty high-traffic video sites, HPC and a lucrative e-commerce site.

The reason for my rejection? I had an ongoing side project and development/consulting gig which had been paying the bills for a few years which they thought I 'misrepresented'. I guess they assumed I was still working there (I was and would continue to do consulting and development on my own time), but the biggest LOL of the whole shitty process was their reasoning: "We are very risk-averse in our hiring." No shit.

I guess they weren't risk-averse enough in their operations though, so I'm glad I didn't get through. It sounds like it would have been an uphill battle all the way to make changes to keep things sane.

And having to crowdsource your move from cloud to your own hardware? Listen to your people, they already had good ideas, all of which were documented in your open issue tracker.
Certainly far less damaging than cigarettes.

Nicotine itself does have problems. It is, after all, a pesticide.
What nonsense. You derive pleasure not from their loss, but from their tears? Whatever helps you sleep at night, I guess, but it sure looks silly when stated in public.
Well...never delete. Rename the directory someplace else so you can get it back if the deletion was a bad plan.

Also helpful to make the window background color different, or some other highly conspicuous visual difference when working on several very similar production machines.
It looks like they've confused "consciousness" with "awakeness".
Links:

* https://github.com/sixarm/union

* https://github.com/sixarm/intersect

* https://github.com/sixarm/except

* https://github.com/sixarm/extra
I've just DM'd you in twitter with some PostgreSQL advice ;)
Agreed, education is probably the most high leverage investment out there for society. That being said, I'm highly skeptical that it will be fixed by a profit-driven, venture-backed business.

Much like healthcare, education's goals dont fit capitalisms mold.
iPad sales keep shrinking – down another 20 percent
BTW,

find ... -delete

avoids any potential shell escaping weirdness and saves you a fork() per file.
I don't know whether either of these set out with the idea of creating the Primer, but they seem similar.

Osmo - https://www.playosmo.com/en/ - seems pretty cool. Uses the iPad camera and packets of materials for interactive learning experiences. It could evolve into something like the Primer.

"One Laptop per Child" has/had similar goals while not being nearly as advanced/cohesive as the Primer.
"(b) Upon the resumption of USRAP admissions, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, is further directed to make changes, to the extent permitted by law, to prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country of nationality. Where necessary and appropriate, the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security shall recommend legislation to the President that would assist with such prioritization."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/refugee-musli...
You don't need to replace them, just get different cables, type-c is still USB and also happens to be thunderport so you get DisplayPort as well.

No need for a dongle for your DisplayPort monitor, just get a DP->USB-C cable, done, I'm running a 4k monitor at 60hz this way.

Same for your hard drive, it is probably micro-usb on the other side, just get a micro-USB to USB-C.

etc.. etc..

You don't need new stuff, just new cables, which is annoying but not anywhere near as bad. Protocol is the same, just a different shape.
The comments section says it's to appear as a poster. I don't know how it is for the organization hosting that event, but when I was a physics student, every member of the physical society was allowed at least one publication per year. So anybody who didn't get a paper or a talk, could do a poster, and their abstract was printed in the proceedings. I don't know if it was an official rule, but it's what happened in practice. I think it was not a bad approach, as it meant that nobody could say they were denied publication of their idea.

It was also fun to visit the crackpot posters. Some of the authors went to a huge effort, including having their own books printed, and so forth. Plus, there was usually beer at the afternoon posters.
Yes. From my experience they have though the performance of those 2Ts definitely hurt their reputation a ton. Might be a while before SG becomes known as the standard for quality again.
Smart, can US citizens go too?
Wish we could!
Ask HN: Why are you so Ambivalent about the President's policies?
Since last week there have been numerous threads popping up about politics especially immigration and H1B.

When it comes to security of the nation, almost everyone is opposed to the idea that the President was not right about executive order. Why so much love for countries that pose threat to the nation?
Have you seen what is happening to Europe since largest refugee crisis started? Why so much love for unknown people and potential enemies?

When it comes to H1B though, everyone is up in the arms. Not everyone on H1B is from India. Although, India and China gets largest share of H1B, there are still far far better people to immigrate than a potential threat posers.

Why China does not get called out when it comes to H1B? Is it because there have been so many chinese nationals here (especially SF), that no one can differentiate? Why so much love for China but hate for India?

I feel that most HN folks are left leaning and utter selfish people. They know that have to compete with software dev. talent coming from India.

I understand that there are some companies doing fraud, but not that's probably 15% of total visas. Would a american do $70k job that requires attention to detail and putting 10 hrs. I don't think so. Also, people you call americans are 40% immigrants now. Native americans ( people whose parents immigrated before 1970) are far few and within.

When you have to compete then H1B is bad. When a poor man or woman has to compete for MacD/Starbucks or minimum wage jobs with refugees pouring in, then its not my problem?

A typical NIMBY thinking.

I thought this community was better. I am utterly disappointed with the stands YC and this community is taking.

I came to US through an offshoring company and then climbed my way up to top tech companies. I have worked for Goog/Ama/Appl and now hold a respected position at another top tier company. I earn $300k per year.

Well, I for the one,hope that this H1B bill fails.
Find me a few threads ripping on those Canadians stealing American jobs and driving down American wages. Or perhaps a few threads criticizing the TN visa, because American jobs are for Americans.

Do that and I'll stand corrected.
You only detailed the things you dislike on the new one, so why is the best macbook?
Why Some Things Never Change in Trading
I would have killed 3 macbooks if I didn't have magsafe.
I'm biased because I went through the process and was rejected, but I agree. There was more focus on asinine 'behaviorial' questions than the real reason you're talking to someone: are you (relatively) sane, and more importantly are you capable, can you do the job? Everything else is secondary, in my opinion.
I've been on call for nearly 12 years now. My SO and I feel your pain.
Let's get real, though - innocent people aren't being disappeared because they don't want to be CIs.

On the other hand, "it'd be a shame if your wife saw these messages to your old girlfriend" doesn't seem that much of a stretch.
Now if only they would leverage their piles and piles of cash for humanity.
http://investor.apple.com/faq.cfm

What is Apple's fiscal year?
Apple’s fiscal year 2017 runs from September 25, 2016 through September 30, 2017.
One aspect that the article doesn't mention is the racial/immigrant aspect.

White people are quitting in droves for sure, but Asians still seem to smoke a lot.

I have no numbers here (are they even collected?) but anecdotally it's unusual for white people to smoke in their own homes, but common for Asian families here.

Note that this is different from the "poorer end of society" mentioned in TFA - race is not an indicator of affluence or social standing in Australia.