skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the criteria for being a high performer needs to be: being a decent human being and treating other people with the respect they deserve
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It's funny that skipping break-fast is considered not fasting.

I think this thing that we do (we have to eat every four hours or we will die) has nothing to do with the normal state of affairs for most of human history;

And I'm not talking only about the palaeolithic here, but my grandparents time also.
To date the public only knows with certainty that the Podesta and DNC documents that leaked are authentic. We know the contents of those documents are deeply disturbing. We know that instead of talking about that disturbing content, the media only wishes to report on how this authentic content came to light. The deflection and bias is staggering.
Maybe I misunderstood you but the players can change the map during gameplay so I don't think that will work.
Not a very convincing article to me. Why do they think it was a cosmic ray vs a simple bug? Seems to me the simpler answer is the case here.

It is also troubling they found the error accidentally. Seems they didn't do even minimal validation of the results, such as applying Benford's Law. https://iaonline.theiia.org/putting-benfords-law-to-work
Link cams are a marvel of engineering.

Thy operate on a simple concept of trisecting a cam lobe so that, as the device is retracted, the cam unfolds and permits an amazing range for a unit of its size.

http://www.omegapac.com/itemdetail.php?id=1&secid=9
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Hi (author here). This story is purely fictional. :). As a freelancer I was in many cases forced to fix some Hibernatish chaos or work within fixed technological stack where Hibernate just cross the limits of stubbornness. I don't want to say it's bad technology, just compiled some thoughts and experience of many people (including myself) into the story. Thanks for reading :)
What specifically bothers you about Australis? I hate what it did to tab layout, but that's the only part that's chrome-like and can be fixed with a bit of CSS, no extensions at all. It set up a new weird one-button menu, but firefox already had a weird one-button menu, and they never removed the ability to use the normal menu bar and ignore the button. And that menu is less chrome-like than the one it replaced.
Google filters out negative auto-completes. Try the same thing with Trump or any controversial figure, like Martin Shkreli.

For example, when typing in "Martin Shkreli is a" on Google, the only auto-complete is "Martin Shkreli is actually good". Try the same on Bing and DDG, you will see all of the negative auto-completes you'd expect.
Taxation.
More importantly, you're on a site full of liberals, and people here downvote because they disagree with somebody, not because the content itself is low quality.

I, for one, think that regardless of your political views (I didn't even know who George Soros was), this comment was very high quality.
It's not on every frame but depends on how often the enemy moves (every 150 ms or so). That's a good suggestion anyway!
When I went to uni (physics) an exam had four/five questions that would take about 40 minutes each, and the "final answer" was worth about 5/10% of the question. So it really was about the process.
A good editor can automatically fix <hN> values if needed. But if you're writing an html page, you should already know what you're writing (outline, editing, review, etc). How often are you re-scoping everything?

Any discussion like this needs a Tufte reference:

It is also notable that the Feynman lectures (3 volumes) write about all of physics in 1800 pages, using only 2 levels of hierarchical headings: chapters and A-level heads in the text. It also uses the methodology of sentences which then cumulate sequentially into paragraphs, rather than the grunts of bullet points. Undergraduate Caltech physics is very complicated material, but it didn't require an elaborate hierarchy to organize. A useful decision rule in thinking and showing is "What would Feynman do?"

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
It was fun to read. However, while interviewer was not perfect, the interviewee was too much crazy.

I always find it suspect when self proclaimed awesome genius programmers take offense over simple common questions (like linked list). Had it been something esoteric, ok. But these come up so often and take so little time to learn.
Honeybees in North America could in principle be a canary in the coal mine for pesticide problems or other issues, but they are a bad one precisely because they are a monoculture; they are vulnerable to pathogens and toxins that natural species easily resist.

Habitat loss and pesticides may be hurting native bees, but this is unrelated to honeybees. The issue is logically independent.
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More likely it's a site used for seo spam. You see similar auto-generated sites for Windows error messages advertising "registry cleaner" programs.
> His followers spend a lot of time on the internet saying that he is the greatest buddha of all time

While I have found some of the teachings interesting and occasionally useful, I don't follow Buddhism myself, so perhaps my perspective is insufficient, but this all seems to me a bit bonkers and sort of creepy. "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him", isn't it supposed to be? - as opposed, say, to venerating him as though he were in his own person something special, rather than merely someone with an unusual sort of insight.
What if Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck are really writing from the future?
There is some truth to this. However, instead of talking about the disturbing content in the leaked DNC and Podesta documents, the media only wishes to report on how this authentic content came to light. The deflection and bias is staggering. The lesson may be you can get away with anything if you have the media in your pocket.
Was just thinking about how great Hoodies are for fall and winter wear. Comfortable and highly functional. Large pockets and if you live in a cold climate and always having head cover available to you makes life simpler and easier.
Thanks, I was looking for this.

That is between 2 - 5 days which is a wide span.

I could probably sustain it for 2 days (a weekend, don't have to be "all there" for work etc) but 5 would be a miracle so I wish they were clearer on which one it needs to be.
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How do you know a statistician is a Bayesian?

- Don't worry, they'll tell you.
Seems to be people are finally realizing Uber isn't much different from some of America's other large businesses that seem to have little regard for ethics.
Thanks! I've just implemented on this fairly new website https://www.brainzilla.com/

I had a few ideas for widgets that sit there and are only loaded when the user interacts with it and your implementation will be perfect for me to understand how it's done. Thanks again!
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+1 I have one older model with the big buttons on the sides of the device while my wife has a newer one with a touch screen. Sometimes I wish the contrast on my screen was better, but I will never trade those big physical buttons for a lousy touch screen.
Civil servants are hired to do a job. That's it. They are not elected. It's not their place to restrict the power of elected officials unless their activities are illegal.
You should not be able to send automated takedown requests either in the first place
This is pretty brutal, because in the end these "chilling effects" versions of censorship can be much harsher than any actual government censorship (which would be constrained by the First Amendment and judicially reviewable).
And a few other sources, and do the final ranking themselves.
Sounds like a good impetus to learn how to reverse software!
I'd suggest the HP-16c programmer's calculator. It was small, programmable, and did calculations and conversions in hex, octal, decimal, and binary. At the time I bought one, the early 80's, I was doing embedded programming in assembler the thing was a life saver. And what's cool is that I still have it and it still works.
Ask HN: What happened to 'Deleting Uber is the least you can do'
This post[0] was on the frontpage at #2, but suddenly dropped several pages in the span of a few minutes[1]. What happened?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13687493

1: http://hnrankings.info/13687493/
Yes, that's correct. But I just thought it would be interesting to get a HN overall opinion as many here have been in this similar type of situation.
Oh hell yes. The 0.38 Signo is my favorite pen ever, and the retractable version makes it even better.
Yes it is legal for the head of the executive branch to set rules on how his underlings are allowed to communicate (except as otherwise prescribed by federal law).
I feel irritable when I am hungry. I heard that irritability is from the swinging blood sugar level and Ketogenic diet helps in reducing the swing.

This is interesting to me, but I have not tried any of this.

Maybe anyone with more Ketogenic diet experience/knowledge willing to share his/her experience?
A total fast is very difficult - intermittent fasting (two fasting days a week, < 700 calories on a fasting day) works well and is easier. Read these articles by Dr. Mirkin, a sports physiologist and cyclist who uses intermittent fasting:

http://www.drmirkin.com/nutrition/weight-loss-with-intermitt...

http://www.drmirkin.com/nutrition/why-we-use-intermittent-fa...

There's a book about it (but read the review below before buying):
The FastDiet - Revised & Updated: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting
by Michael Mosley

https://www.amazon.com/FastDiet-Revised-Updated-Healthy-Inte...

Before buying the book, read this review, which gives tips and suggests that the book is unnecessary:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R30YI8D3RGZOFK/re...
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Presumably flagged by users, that has strong negative ranking weight.
Regarding the semicolons, due to the insertion mechanism JavaScript uses, lines starting with '[', '(', or '`' will get merged with the previous statement. So the example in the repo will get parsed in JavaScript as:

x = 10;
y = 20[x, y] = [y, x];

Your assumption is correct. NodeScript defaults to let-declarations. This leaves you with a block-scoped language and prevents leakage of global variables. If you want to make a global variable, you will have to explicitly write it as a property of the global object.

Thanks for the kind words. I really appreciate it.
I love the Weber as well but you need to take care of them. Look at one wrong and it starts to rust.
That was a huge bird colony nesting on the face of a place called Rubini Rock. We were fortunate to have ideal conditions and as a result the ship's captain was able to position the ship within a meter or so of the cliff face, allowing us a very up close view of the colony.
Same reason the ESRB came to be. Government basically said "Figure this crap out, or we will" and publishers and devs came together to hammer out the rating system.
Sick leave is associated with shared/open-space offices
This kind of 3D is a lot more accessible (via Tilt Brush) than mesh-based 3D.
How we built a back end system for Uber-like maps with animated cars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13687493
Ooooookay. So, very long story short...

They're two different academic traditions for what constitutes Good Statistics. They're originally rooted in the philosophical dispute over whether to treat probabilities as frequencies of random outcomes ("frequentist") or as degrees of plausibility ("Bayesian").

In actual fact, a well-trained frequentist knows exactly how and when to use Bayes' rule for gambling, and a well-trained Bayesian knows exactly how and when to publish a paper with a p-value.

The really important difference is over how a whole field expresses its consensus or tradition about what constitutes strong evidence or a plausible theory. A Bayesian would like researchers to elicit priors before experiments (which express something like what reviewers' expectations will be about the experiment), and then calculate posterior distributions after experiments. We could thus then trade off "weak" and "strong" experiments against prior beliefs, while also reducing publication bias' pernicious effect on statistical strength -- or so Bayesians claim. Bayesian methods are also usually more computationally intensive and can make use of small sample sizes.

Frequentists had a lot of disagreements with that sort of thing, and so Neyman-Pierce and Fisher and the like developed a whole lot of statistical methods that don't rely on ever treating a probability as a belief. They preferred to differentiate clearly between a frequency of experimental outcomes, and what researchers think. They figured that Bayesian "priors" were subjective, biased, and untrustworthy. Also, quite importantly, their methods involved a lot less rote computation and instead made use of impressively large experimental samples.

Depending on which tradition you were raised in, and which philosophers of science you side with, you can argue until the end of the world about which one's better. My advice? Use whatever your field demands you use to publish, but be Bayesian on the inside.
Out of curiosity: why do you drink hot water? Is it because of something health related or just because?
You asked.

Good discussion from bad article.

I found surprising link between quantum objects and socks. Socks can be left, or right. They cannot be partially left, or partially right, but they can be left and right at same time! Trust me, I checked that.

Moreover, when nobody is watching, socks are spreading in the room in wave-like pattern. It demonstrates wave-particle duality of socks. However, if somebody watching, socks are demonstrating particle only behavior. Moreover, they are demonstrating particle only behavior even if somebody will watch them in future!

Socks can be entangled, so if one sock is the right sock, then other one is instantaneously collapses to the left sock via spooky action at distance. This feature of socks can be used for FTL communication.

I have theory, it's called «string theory». In this theory, our Universe is made of little strings, which are creating space-time fabric, in which socks are living. In the process of entanglement, socks are somewhat connected by a string, which allows them to communicate via large distances.

Can anybody suggest me how to create a powerful theory from that, e.g. x in power of 10 at least?
The whole Julie Ann Horvath incident was way more than hula-hooping. Although, I think your underselling how things like that can create a deeply uncomfortable work environment for women.

I don't consider the dongle situation to be a story of institutional sexism at all, but one of a positive feedback loop of poor judgment and/or overreaction, by many of the people involved.

I would caution you from believing that anything less than a serious of incidents this meticulously documented shouldn't be taken seriously (e.g. Horvath's report). Most people are firstly concerned with being good at their jobs, not identifying the thread of sexist or harassing behavior underlying a bunch of incidents separated in time. Often, only in retrospect can the trend be seen. And by that time, it's difficult to find all the hard evidence.

Institutional sexism is rarely someone deciding to treat another person poorly, because they are a woman. More often, it's someone making a judgment call in a complex situation that turns out (due to their biases or lack of empathy) to exclude or demean women. The pattern of such things is what creates an unwelcoming and taxing environment. How many mental cycles must it take to cope with all of that bullshit? Most people's performance would suffer, leading to the conclusion that women just can't hack it. It's pretty incredible that the author thrived professionally, in the meantime.

Note that an environment of baseline hostility toward women may or may not be garnished with openly sexist behavior, as it was in this case.
It's your mindset perhaps? Do you resent something in particular? Personally I make it an 'event'. After 4 of 5 days fasting, on the last day I go shopping and prepare myself something /special/ and in quantity!

Because, as you know, food never tastes as good as after a fast, the effect on the gustatory papillae is nothing short of amazing, it's like being high.

Seriously, HALF of the kick I get out of fasting is /that/ high I get when I stop :-)

Perhaps try to get into a 'Buddhist monk' personae if you feel any stress, and relax! I often tell (jokingly) people who wonder at me fasting that it's to improve my kung-fu! :-)
I have De Buyer and a very large Matfer. I can't speak for the Lodge carbon steel but I do not think that carbon steel is as versatile.

I usually use carbon steel pans for searing meat or quick sauteing. I also use them basically as a griddle.

Carbon steel pans usually can't be easily placed in the oven. I mean you can do it but the handles are generally really long and get in the way. They also don't have the same characteristics that cast iron has for baking or stewing... e.g. I'm not going to make corn bread in a carbon steel pan.

Finally carbon steel pans seem to loose their seasoning quickly. I have never seen flaking of seasoning on cast iron but I routinely see it on my carbon steel pans regardless of how I season them.
That crowdstrike article reads like an advertisement I'd prefer something more authoritative before flirting with war with a nuclear power. I think the real question is, why is a Russian military unit so hapless they can be caught by a firm like this? Doesn't that sort of undermine the claim that they are a major threat and instead make the DNC look like helpless idiots tricked by Russian teenagers?
RE: The Withings WiFi Scale. I bought one in early-2011, which I think is when they first came out. I have been using it almost-daily since then, six years ago. Zero issues whatsoever. I change the batteries about one a year or more it seems, and plug it in to change the wifi settings when I move to a new house or something. Absolutely flawless and now I have six years of weight data easily accessible. Withings even allows easy export of that data to a spreadsheet, so I do that every year or so just so I have a backup.

The newer Withings scales have some newer features, but I have been unable to justify the purchase because the one I have is indestructible.
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Can you explain how that works?

(also, my apologies. I laughed.)
An Uber is a service, and they can and should refuse to provide service for those they wish not to support. It's murkier with Google/Tessa where the car is your property.
At least their remedies work, unlike holistic medicine that charges thousands of dollars to cleanse peoples' chakras.
TLDR: Employees working in share/open-space offices tend to take 60%+ more sick days than employees in private offices.

The research was done with 2,000 Dutch white-collar employees, and the methodology controlled for age, job seniority, income, health, etc. The researchers suggest 5 explanations for the increase in sick leave -

1. Shared offices have more environment noise, and this leads to increased stress and tension. But this factor impacts men, and doesn't hold up as well for women.

2. Shared offices tend to use mechanical ventilation, while private offices tend to open windows for fresh air. But this didn't hold up for shared offices with windows.

3. Shared offices expose inhabitants to more viruses and bacteria from other people. This could explain why people take 50% more sickies whether they share the office with 1 person or 10.

4. Shared offices may cause psychosocial/cultural and privacy issues for people. But there is no strong evidence supporting or contradicting that.

5. Shared offices can reduce employees’ autonomy if their co-workers and leaders interfere too often. Lack of autonomy may be a stressor, as it is related to burnout.
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This addresses shop cameras, not street-level government surveillance that would be accessible for 10+ years and is trivially addressable by the time and location of the transaction.
I'm assuming that changes to any given position X on the map happen much less frequently than pathfinding operations that touch on said position X. Is this the case? If so, then investing the pre-calculation effort (updating the precalc matrix, not re-generating the whole thing) at map update time, limited to only those areas potentially benefiting, might be an effective strategy.
NYC Resistor was (still is) the opposite; Don't know if it's an east coast vs west coast thing. It sounds like noisebridge is converging on the resistor model (itself, afaik, inspired by German hackerspace culture)
> http://getmirrorshades.com/view.html?siteKey=[SECRET_SITE_KE...

someone sniffing the network traffic can see the SECRET_SITE_KEY ..
isn't it a security concern? or am i missing anything?
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The email is incredibly well written and worth reading regardless of your position on the matter :)

Thanks for posting it.
> be Bayesian on the inside

Strongly disagree, tbh. Picking one side or the other in this debate is silly. Don't "be Frequentist" so as to avoid Bayesian model building techniques since you'll end up stuck all the time and don't "be Bayesian" so as to look down upon simple, workable, un-motivated estimation procedures with good performance.
Sounds similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_hierarchies

There was a paper by Microsoft Research where they find shortest path from one point to another in time equivalent to 5 memory reads + they sped up significantly the precomputation times and lowered memory requirements.
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I looked for the word "editorial" or "opinion" and didn't see it anywhere, so I just assumed it was written by a staff writer for the regular news section. It's honestly got about the same ratio of fact/opinion as anything else they put out today. The only discernible difference is that it isn't 100% anti-Trump.
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Why does Thuan Pham get a free pass on what happens under his supervision? He joined Uber as CTO two years before Fowler's hiring.
38, born in a communist country.

Yes, it is a censorship. It is manipulating the output in order to not provide an information, that would be otherwise available, caused by interest of some third party.

To expand on the topic:

1) it is not illegal to tell other people where to find bootleg software or media,

2) in many countries it is legal to download such software or media (and they pay for the privilege in the form of an extra fee on their blank media, memory cards and hard drives, whether they do it or not)

3) what is illegal is to distribute software or media without the consent of the rights owners.

Point 3) is an issue between those sites that do it and the rights owners, nothing between the end users or search engines. Neither of them do 3) themselves.
>"there is no circuitry for a signal to travel in the opposite direction in a nerve."

I believe the term you are looking for is "dendro-axonic" (or try dendro-axonal, etc) transmission/synapse:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00068993799...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37984

I would caution that, in general, you can find "evidence" in the literature for literally anything you could dream up when it comes to neuroscience though. So who knows in this case.