skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine this to be a problem as well. One of the things I've been starting to hypothesize a lot about is gut biome effects on diet and nutrition. If you just up and change your overnight, your gut flora doesn't have time to evolve to the new conditions. I'm also starting to suspect, based on the popularity of month long elimination diets, that a month is the amount of time it takes for gut flora to significantly change, and that at the least you'd want at least that much ramp up time.
Warning: some of these sketches play music quite loudly.

It's pretty cool, I wish more of them worked on my computer. The reflective/translucent ones all appeared as black or the models didn't load at all.
Sure they want it, if I were content owner I would probably want it too.

From my POV, DRM enabled Chrome matters. It matters, because

- it makes browsers that do not include DRM uncompetetive (especially those who have another business model or do not have bizdev capabilities of Google, Microsoft or Apple).

- it taints the standards and,

- sets the expectations or baseline for having the DRM available.

If the alternative would be to install a secondary app, things would be more obvious:

- that there is a price in developing, maintaining and supporting DRM,

- that price would have to be paid for those who wish the DRM,

- having DRM available would not be seen as automatic,

- you could not use bizdev capabilities in DRM to be able to push your browser - i.e., only Edge supports Netflix in FullHD (Chrome only in 720p). Yes, the official excuse is that Edge supports DRM X and Chrome only DRM Y, but in the end, it is only a business deal that DRM X is deemed acceptable for FHD and DRM Y is not.
ToaruOS 1.0.4: The VMware Update
I have to chime in here because, half a year ago, I would've given the same answer.

My first vacuum cleaner was the DC-5, a superb machine that served me well for 14 years. When it broke, the Cinetic Big Ball had just been released, so I got one.

Now don't get me wrong; it's a marvelous piece of engineering. Extremely high sucking power and a completely filterless design that suits my allergic needs. But the UX s much much worse than the old DC-5 model.

It's death by a thousand cuts: For example, the power button is on the back of the machine, even though I'm in front of it when operating it. And it's a tiny button, whereas the DC-5 had a large pedal. The tube has a curved, rigid section near the grip that always gets in the way when I try to clean furniture. And so on.
US already had this debate a long time ago. When Andrew Jackson got elected, he proceeded to stuff the civil service with his supporters, freeing positions by kicking people out, and handing out the now vacant positions essentially as a reward for loyalty during the campaign. It was, quite appropriately, called the "spoils system" - as in, "to the victor go the spoils" (a phrase uttered by one of the people involved in that process).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system

This then became the norm for several decades, gradually declining until it was formally sunset by a federal law prohibiting the associated practices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Civil_Service_Reform...

And that system is the one that we had in place basically until Trump. But it should be made clear that it wasn't the civil service that made it partisan again - it was the incoming administration, by doing things like these:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/09/505041927/...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/22/506629695/...

And then, of course, there was the process of building the cabinet based largely on loyalty. The Trump administration (coincidentally, Trump is a great admirer of Jackson: http://www.salon.com/2017/02/19/trump-embraces-legacy-of-and...) had effectively revived the spoils system. The civil service responded accordingly.

Whether it's good or bad is a difficult question to answer. Like you say, there's a bungling fool in charge. If the crew is in mutiny, the obvious disadvantage is that the ship cannot be easily steered away from dangers... but the advantage is that it cannot be steered towards them, either. Sometimes, dysfunction is really better than energetic action towards the wrong goals.

But, yes, it does set a bad precedent.
Also available: the grip and rip.
> This is exactly why 'slippery slope' arguments are not as fallacious as people make them out to be.

"Slippery slopes" are only fallacious when you don't actually describe a mechanism from reaching the top of the slope to the bottom.

"If we let women vote, next thing you know there will be gays in the military." That's fallacious because there's no connection at all between women's sufferage and gays in the military. Many slippery slope arguments take that form.

"If we allow DRM plugins, we will eventually have DRM in the browser always on," could be considered fallacious because it's not made explicit how one gets from DRM plugins to DRM always on, even if it may be implicitly obvious.

"If we allow DRM plugins, we will eventually have DRM in the browser always on because that is the endgame Netflix et al wants and they are spreading out the implementation of their evil master plan to gain compliance" isn't fallacious as a slippery slope because the mechanism is made explicit.
These are incredible pictures. What kind of camera did you use to click these?
Relying on flash would be fine.

The DRM-ed content would gain an image of being something obsolete, with association with Flash. It would be something to get rid of eventually.

Meanwhile, with EME, it gets an image of modern, something to keep for the future.
Show HN: The Daily Trump
Not entirely sure why but my mate and I have created a site that features the best (most crazy) Donald Trump quotes read out by a posh British man named Richard set against funny cartoons. It contains some useful stuff as well re what Trump has done that day/past day.

Also have a game within the site called Fake Vs Real which pits ridiculous fake Trump news against even more ridiculous real news!

The site is called www.dailytrump.io - would love to know what you think! Thanks!
Top 25 Android Libraries you can try in 2017 – Part 1
Salinger: Ecosystem-free task runner that goes well with npm scripts
Clickable link - http://www.dailytrump.io
Bench made pocket knife with their "axis" locking mechanism.

Never thought I would be a knife guy, but I was given one gen years ago and I'm still smitten with this thing. There is nothing quite like the snapping sound when it opens perfectly.
If all those things were true, an HR department might not be able to help you in any case. An HR department doesn't make you physically stronger. They do not have control over the culture in general, and do not prosecute rape cases. They do not control the minds of people that may think you were asking for it.
Does the new OrangePi PC2+ have this like the OrangePi+ 2e you mention? I was thinking about it since it also reportedly supports h265 10bit.
Stutters, but working on Android Chrome 56.
This blog post has further confirmed something I've thought for a long time.

Avoid working at companies with HR departments. In order to have an HR department a company has to be big enough to support a population of what I like to call "floaters".

No, I'm not referring to those visual artifacts...
No, I'm not referring to people who aren't attached to teams...

I am referring to turds, of course.

Furthermore, the larger the HR department the more likely there is to be a turd infestation of horrific proportions.
Well other than the fact that we have both the phishing email used to compromise podesta, the link shortener account it was sent from, samples of malware and ioc's - other than the evidence we have, sure, we don't have any evidence.
Looking at the FOSDEM'15 talk linked above, it appears to support this.
I have no problem having DRM associated with security risks... More people would think about it, whether they really need it and would question providers using it.
You know, baseball is quite the pastime in the US. Professional players make a lot of money and have their salaries paid for by wealthy folks. (Where they get their money is important, but let's ignore it for now)

But there are a ton of folks playing baseball for a small salary -- the minor leagues. There's also scads of folks playing baseball recreationally.

I don't see any reason professional news journalism couldn't be done in a similar way: more secure, rewarding jobs for those at the top of their fields paid for by a permanent endowment. A "middle league" that may only get internet like points or small payments for worth contributions. And tons of folks yukking it up on the sidelines doing the best they can and hoping one day to make it to the major leagues.
Thanks for reminding me of Kopimi! I ignored the logo as I recognized it as just a personal watermark.
> - Everything that's "designed to..." is "specifically designed to..."

I think there is a distinction between primary design criteria and secondary e.g. the difference between must and should.

Primary : must be capable of transporting fluid.

Secondary: should be red
Holy christ. Horrifying. I can't understand how microwaves are all so bad. Where are the good ones? Isn't it less work to make a simpler (better) interface than the baroque ones we end up with?
There is ample evidence of Russian hacking directed at the DNC to produce material to leak. True, there was no hacking of the vote counting process itself, but the leaks did significantly affect the results.

And then the whole story with Flynn talking to the Russian ambassador about sanctions. Which, it can be reasonably assumed, is why Russia did the whole hacking thing in the first place.
Blatently false accusations cause you to be made a pariah. And rightfully so. Ellen Pao's false accusations make it harder for women such as this to receive justice.
Leadership from a Dancing Guy (3min)
Chrome has the best dev tools. Until that is sorted we will be tied.

I use Safari most other times. Never Firefox though
> The side-stand of a motorcycle that swings backward to retract

A kickstand?[0]

0: https://youtu.be/e8qcqXuZTcg
>What kind of camera did you use to click these?

This is an incredible comment. What keyboard did you use to write it?

(Camera choice doesn't matter beyond certain ergonomics and certain capabilities (low noise, more room for cropping, shallow DOF, etc, a lot of which depend on the lens as well). Any $300+ DSLR can give you the exact same results, as can a lot of mirrorless with a speedy lens. And for most of the pictures shown, any modern compact or even smartphone will do just as well).
The arsenic based life was proven to be shoddy research: http://www.nature.com/news/arsenic-life-bacterium-prefers-ph...
[C++] Modernize: Sink Functions
Lawyers don't decline to give legal advice for free just because they want paying, although they do, and fair enough. Law is a highly complex and recondite field, and a solid answer on any but the most trivial question requires nontrivial research to identify with confidence.

Lawyers also have a professional guild to which to answer, and if they say something offhand which turns out to be erroneous in a way that brings someone to grief, their guild will not be pleased with them.

In fairness, I probably wouldn't take the time here either; on the one hand, I block ads anyway and so don't have such problems, and on the other, I tend only to do that when it's to my own direct benefit that the issue be fixed, and broken ads on a site I'll visit once ever don't meet that test - when Postmates screws up their UI and I have to stub out some analytics functions to place an order, they get an email; here, I'd just add the site to my JS blacklist, reload, read, and go on about my day.
Theories about a link between the human mind and quantum physics
" it can be quite hard to get a family physician"

In Waterloo Ontario, I was unable to get a doctor.

The Ont. Gov's policy has been push people into clinics, wherein they don't have your records, and they don't take a 'long term approach'.

I had a situation that was difficult to diagnose - nobody could help me.

It's against the law in Canada to pay for services, I was in a very desperate quandary and my health was at stake.

I was eventually able to get into the 'Cleveland Clinic' in Toronto - an American firm - that finds some ways around the system.

The Ontario system is also hurting quite badly from inefficiencies.

Most European systems allow for some degree of private insurance, and that should be the direction Canada moves in - as a matter of civil rights, as a matter of economic opportunity, but also to perhaps help the public system itself 'learn from' the private operations.

Yes - the Ontario system 'covers everyone' but it has problems.

Politically, I don't think this will win in California.

I significantly doubt that most Californians who actually have 'good but overly-expensive' coverage will support universal coverage.

There are tons of opportunities for efficiencies - like requiring that hospitals bill the 'same price for the same service' to everyone. Among other things.

It'd be great if they tried some of the more obvious things before they go 'full on universal'.
More Americans than ever are renouncing their US Citizenship
Tibetans believe it can. Traditional Tibetan medicine emphasizes changes in a diet as an adaptive answer to some symptoms. Obviously, Tibetan medicine is unscientific and based on superstitions rather than biology, and to some extent the method of trial and error with arbitrary interpretation instead of controlled experiments, but the idea that food could be the cause and the answer is general and reasonable.

There is absolutely no doubt that a diet is a major factor. Vitamins are the obvious example - processed, overheated foods with destroyed structure of the molecules, which in the long run could lead to deficiencies. Tibetans would use animal blood and organ meat, which could make sense in this context.

Humans are not evolved to eat processed foods.
The time. This isotope travels fast via wind, but decays fast. They need to check the wind directions at this period and check if the numbers match.
> eneloops

Kind of amazed at eneloops, usually moreso than whatever they're powering
And international travelers are not that big of a customer base. There is no barrier to entry in this market. This is why laws like 'medallions' (and following corruption) were created in the first place to protect the monopoly and interests of the first cab drivers.

This monopoly has led to a mix of expensive prices, poor service and unsafe conditions (with every place having its own local flavor of its mix - in SP is basically just the expensive price; in Rio de Janeiro is mostly the other two).

Uber found an innovative way of breaking this monopoly. But... without creating any other barrier except money to keep its prices artificially low. But cheap money doesn't last forever. And Uber is not the only company with access to money in the world.

As soon as the competitors stop fighting Uber in the court or in the town halls and start fighting back in the market, Uber's business flaws will show up.
Really well written and easy to use content. Thanks very much for the write up.
I would not stand that in my housing unit, sell it on craiglist or similar, buy a used older model.
ISTR it was Æleen Frisch (author of Essential System Administration) who recommended that all nix admins take one day a year to read through the entire manual sections (1) and (8), which I implemented thus:

$ cd /usr/bin ; man

(and repeat for other bindirs)

You will be amazed at what you've forgotten, and what your system can do.
> I've read your comments on HN, and you'd be the last person I'd tell if it had happened to me.

So you prefer preaching to the choir to trying to change someone's mind?
So? Maybe they're valid now.
Of course; it doesn't even make sense for Europe to have a "Typhoon" aircraft due to the geographical location.

I guess Europe has some "Penguin" submarines, too.
Which again, would be a valid point, if the first shot wasn't clearly and obviously fired from the White House which engaged in an unprecedented purge of all executive positions, without even having nominees ready to fill most of them (70+ last I checked?) and which has been obviously filling the ones they can with political lackeys who are demonstrably grossly underqualified.
One could argue that it's not really a democracy when the winning candidate is 2.8 million votes short, you know. Yes, I know, rules are rules - but if rules admit the validity of such an outcome, how much of a democracy is it, really?

One could also remember that many famous tyrants came to power through a fair democratic process. Erdogan is one such example, Putin is another. And, of course, there was that whole thing in Weimar Germany. Which just goes to show that democracy can sometimes be oppressive, and fighting that oppression amounts to "treason against democracy".
This reminds me of a text editor I've seen linked here a while ago; it was written by one guy, and he'd been selling it and maintaining it for something like 30 years (and he still got new customers!). I don't remember the name of the program or the website.

Also, Bob Staake, a New Yorker illustrator, has been doing all his work in Photoshop 3.0 until 2008, and he's probably still using it. He was running it in the Classic environment on a PPC mac in 2008, I remember reading that he switched to a VM recently but can't find any info on it.

http://www.bobstaake.com/pixfix/index2.shtml
DRM works great, but DRM is not for protecting content from piracy. It's for getting leverage over playback device manufacturers.

https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson/posts/iPmatxBYuj2
> The AMA doesn't advocate for physician interests? How so?

The AMA sometimes does things that align with doctors' interests, but only incidentally. It's allegiance is to itself as an institution, not to doctors, and it will further its own interests over doctors' every time the two collide.

As one example listed upthread, they advocate increasing the supply of physicians to lower physician salaries, which is directly against doctors' interests but in line with their own. Similarly, their stranglehold over CPT codes undeniably harms physicians and places them under even more control of payers' interests, but because it provides the AMA with a monopoly stream of revenue, the AMA clutches to it.

> I think what you're likely getting at is how heterogenous physician interests are considering each specialty.

I wasn't, but incidentally, that's the exact problem that unions do have. The leadership has the incentive to throw minority group interests under the bus in order to appease the majority of its membership. Closed shops (the AMA would not be one) are the most ruthless, because the only alternative their members have is to find employment in another industry altogether.
Twitter is good for this as people will generally tweet their new articles/books/etc.
" Most conditions don't have waiting lists. But a few do."

Almost all conditions have delays that are considerably longer than other systems.

Just getting to see a specialist for something benign can take months.

If you have highly specialized needs (such as a sports injury) - it can be very problematic.

"I think it should be legal to pay for your own medical procedures out of pocket. "

Some degree of privatization would be a good start.
From what I understand, there's a substantial body of research indicating that a slight suppression of the prefrontal cortex can reduce the sorts of inhibitive filters that constrain creative thought. Too much, obviously, and you impair your cognitive ability. Too little, and self-doubt and over-analysis rules.

Anecdotally, I've noticed that I'm significantly more fluent in my third language when I've had a drink or two. I get many, many more compliments. When I'm totally sober, I tend to trip up more and overthink the grammar.

There are lots of ways to reduce a hyperactive prefrontal cortex, including training (practicing art, meditating, etc.), but alcohol is by far the cheapest, quickest, and easiest.
Probably resource exploitation, trying to manage the nuclear waste and a bit of sabre rattling.

http://www.geopoliticsnorth.org/index.php?option=com_content...
CAE is an area where open source has always been terrible. They just can't do the very complex UIs that are needed. They're good at back-end stuff, but people need to point and click. FreeCAD is nice but endlessly more frustrating and unintuitive than SolidWorks/etc. At least from my experience.
It all depends on what said democratically elected head of state is trying to do, and what they're trying to prevent him from doing. Being democratically elected does not give an automatic grant of immunity to legal and, more importantly, moral limits on one's actions.

And you're correct that we don't know the motives of those people. Just as OP doesn't know that they aren't noble, you also don't know that they aren't.
Kubernetes is really cool. The only bad thing I can say about Kubernetes is that it has "uber" in its name.
> comes from people who have experienced trouble applying a clean Frequentist solution in a more complex case and thus switched to Bayesian statistics as a replacement that is easier to handle.

Sounds to me like a good reason and a good outcome. Don't you think?
Those toilet paper holders that are simply just hooks.
> What kind of crappy library doesn't work on a newer version of Java?

Oracle middleware libraries (to be fair, mostly acquired)...

I believe the problem was that in Java 8, something related to StringBuilder or string parsing was breaking hard. With Java7 it was ok, so we went with that.
I'm not sure what here gives you cause for such a cri de coeur.

It would certainly dismay me to see these attitudes taken by an educator. For a working professional with deadlines to meet, they are entirely reasonable, albeit perhaps a bit harsh. But the world can be a bit harsh, too.
Exactly. I do live in Zurich.
I'm in Geneva quite often and even there when having lunch with my romand co-workers they usually tip around 10%.

It still is quite surprising how even those "habits" are different in all the different regions here.