skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a nuke to fight off a tide of refugees is like bringing a grenade to a fist fight.

Yeah, or firebombing a defeated nation. Who would do such a thing? Oh right... humanity.
You said it. "Magically there was a record of the call".

I don't buy it. This story shows signs of factual adjustment to make things look better for the OP. I'm happy to be in the minority on that position.
Some good news. There are dozens of new drug approved by FDA addressing the auto immune illness. The problem is they are expensive, thousands of dollars per shot for every couple weeks. Hopefully the competition will drive the cost down.
Exactly, and then there will be war.
Canada Revenue Agency shuts down website after discovering vulnerability
> Traces of the janitor would be reasonable to expect, right?

Wasn't that also a major plot point?
> The real predictor of success, almost no matter how you define success, is about the effort you put in.

That, and how well you choose your parents. Unless you honestly believe black people just didn't try hard enough to be president for the first 230 or so years of the USA's existence.

Christ these Horatio Alger "just so" stories are ridiculous. And if we repeal GINA, it'll make it that much harder for people to escape their supposed "destiny". Genetics interacting with environment makes us who we are. I'm of the opinion that the latter is more important, and I hold a doctorate in statistical genetics so this is not purely an off-the-cuff opinion. It may or may not be right in a specific case (evidence >> eminence, credentials are at best a proxy for expertise) but it happens to agree with yours, if you think about it.

The amount of grit you develop is going to be a function in large part of your childhood (or other major environmental influences; in the field, "environment" is shorthand for "everything that isn't genetics"). So locking in an ignorance of its importance is just astoundingly stupid. If we want a sclerotic European aristocracy or a caste system in America, this is the way to get it.

And of course the rich and powerful will do anything to perpetuate their position. On average, however, the American dynasty half-life is 3-4 generations. Compare that to Europe and I think we know which better favors social mobility.
Since no country can regulate the seas, perhaps regulate your costal waters and heavily disincentivize these heavy polluters from docking in your ports -enough countries get on board and it becomes the rule, the tyranny of the minority as it were, because it's not as though other less regulating countries would regulate against less polluting ships.
Thank you. I would personally be beyond thrilled if I ended up being, "That cranky bastard who always brought up environmental and social doom." I would feel pretty foolish however, if I bet on that outcome, and just hoped for it to materialize.
That doesn't make sense. The cost of goods doesn't magically scale linearly with GDPPC, even service-heavy goods. Even if it did, that wouldn't be a valid explanation. According to the OECD, average net-adjusted household disposable income is only 3x higher in the US than Mexico, but our medical care is many times more expensive than that.
Science is as much a study of limitations of the human mind as it is of anything else.
Look up Hamming's course on "Learning to learn".
An optimal design is not robust. You add a safety factor and this addition is wasteful in some sense (thus not optimal) and necessary in another. Do you design a building so that the toilets are optimally used? Likewise for planes.

But just because you have enough of a cheap resource (RAM) it is not a given that using it in excess is either optimal or robust.
Not exactly a blog, but worth checking https://www.infoq.com
I have an autoimmune disease and way too many friends with them as well, so I'm very familiar with the seeing countless doctors. Most people ended up getting a proper diagnosis at either a rheumatologist or neurologist.
> Some programs will malloc a huge area and only use a small portion of it, and in this scheme, that memory is "in use." It's also worth noting that most programs don't tolerate malloc failure well at all, and will just crash anyway.

...and it would be absurd for bad programs to eat memory and crash? We must have other programs pay for its sins?
That’s true for the US, but in Europe PayPal is officially a Luxembourgeois bank.

In this case OP seems to be Canadian though so I guess he’s dealing with the US entity.
Thank you. So to clarify, are you backing up this approach with SoWs defined in terms of scope? My current work has less upfront definition more like "figure out how to build a system that does X or features 1, 2, 3" and is billed hourly. I'd like to experiment with other models that lead to simpler invoicing.
I was only an intern. The food was good, but the work was boring.

German law says that union representatives can get an almost equal say in company matters. SAP had a vote, most people were against union representation, but by German law any nine (9!) employees in favour in the whole company is enough. So SAP got some people from IG Metal (ostensibly a metal workers union!) on their board.

Most of my coworkers saw the union representatives as busy-bodies who were interested in political power rather than real work. People had higher opinions of management than of them.

To get a bit more general:

It does help that programmers are broadly in wide demand, and can mostly get a new job at a drop off a hat. So instead of forming a cartel and `fighting' for their rights, they can just vote with their feet.

Same as what people do to make sure they get quality groceries: go shop at a different venue. If unemployment ever gets low enough, the general population would be elevated into a similar exalted position for their jobs.

> [...] given that if you don't enjoy red tape, you probably won't work at SAP to begin with?

It's a decent company. If you can put up with Java, they are OK to work for.

(That doesn't mean that I enjoy using their products. In that regard they are the opposite of the video game industry: I'd rather play a computer game, but I'd also rather work for SAP than finish a game in a death march.)
"Has anyone managed autoimmunity with food? I've seen several people who went on a keto diet and psoriasis disappeared."

I would think the first step would be elimination of food entirely, via fasting - perhaps for 16 hours at first, then 24 hours, as a very simple, first order experiment.

In terms of a workable troubleshooting methodology, that would be the most efficient first step. Then you can add things back in bit by bit.

I think there's a deep human tendency to wish to solve health problems with the addition of food. Depending on the decade it's superfoods or antioxidants or purple veggies or beef broth or whatever. This is probably a delusion.

I think you can indeed affect your health with food - but only by subtraction. So save yourself years of "is it gluten or isn't it" and just see what zero calories does for you right now.
...This is not a remote system! To use the fridge, you must physically access the fridge each time you wish to use it.

What... is the benefit of any of this?
How to change your habits
They had my attention for a few paragraphs, until the Russia FUD started. It's clear a lot of people in the military industrial complex miss the "good old days" of the Cold War, when there was a clear enemy to supposedly justify their existence and their jobs. Turns out America is its own worst enemy - who knew? But the fact that Russia's back on its feet (barely) obviously looks like an opportunity to some people, to start projecting the blame outward again. Hard to tell which writers are unquestioningly swallowing and unwittingly repeating the propaganda and which ones are actively part of it and probable intelligence assets, but the fact itself that there's so much of it, seems like a minor victory for the intelligence community.
Old school JavaScript was already OOP, given that prototype inheritance comes from Self, which was OOP.
I think you're completely missing the OP's point, which is a hypothetical scenario in which all scarce resources like land are effectively leased from the government to the highest bidder, in which case you can keep your houses as empty or full as you like (or bay views as pretty as you like), but if someone is willing to pay the government higher annual fees for the use of the land (or oil, or spectrum) then they get the use of it instead of you.

This system comes with its own problems (no incentive to invest in developing a resource if someone can slightly outbid you for its use after you've invested all that cash in improving its potential yields in the long term) but ease of evasion though fake companies and difficulty of establishing how much a resource should yield aren't amongst them.
I had to do the exact thing for my .bash_profile, as I accidentally had deleted it (with tons of customizations) and I didn't have quick access to my backups, but I did had the deleted .bash_profile loaded into memory in some open terminal sessions.

Fortunately, you can just write:

declare

to get all your aliases, functions, etc from the current shell session.
Yes, as I said multiple times, US healthcare is bad.

> What you propose will make it more expensive

Do you have any evidence for this, or are you just going to drop the claim and walk away?

I have some constructive evidence to the contrary, which I've already mentioned; the medical systems of Mexico and India.

> The US medical system is currently risk averse

Which is one of the many reasons that substantially deregulated medicine is a good idea.
Not only that but look at their taxes and tariffs for cars. That is hilarious!
I should have caveated that statement with the fact that immigrants must be good people who sell labor to willing buyers and don't victimize innocents. I thought I made that clear by mentioning comparative advantage.

Unfortunately most poor Americans refuse to work, commit disability fraud and otherwise exploit the taxpayer, and commit disproportionate amounts of crime. (Far more than Indians - I've never felt unsafe in any slum here, unlike in the US). You don't get any comparative advantage from people who refuse to trade and merely take things from you.
Probably avoiding inflammation help to avoid triggering the immune system.
I would assume a big portion of the 150 MB+ executable is the Electron runtime. Unless they switch to a true native app like the others, I don't think it can be any smaller than it is now.
You'll have to remind of of the part in the movie where dude's presence on the mission is a problem for the mission.

Or, wait, is that just your conjecture? Sorry. My bad.
Still better than calling yourself code wrangler/ JS ninja.

Kidding aside, whats stopping software dev from being regulated and certified in 2017? The previous reason I heard of was that tech changes too rapidly to be standardized.
> No other use for it than to run combustion engines.

Ordinary gasoline is a powerful solvent and cleaning agent. This is, interestingly enough, the reason that Bertha Benz refueled her car in the world's first long-distance automobile journey, in a pharmacy - it was sold as "Waschbenzin" at the time, which translates to "washing gasoline".
Why? If I buy hundred lottery tickets, I am at a hundred times greater 'risk' to win the lottery than if I buy only one ticket.

In either case, the most likely outcome in the end is still that I don't win the lottery. But the chances were different.
UK political parties at risk from Russian cyber-attacks, GCHQ warns
That's completely true. I think the most revealing thing about being a first-time parent, is that all children are different. The art of being a parent is to learn from your child, and to adapt accordingly. It is also worth mentioning that each kid learn in its own pace, so don't sweat if he/she isn't, say, walking within one year, or speaking phrases with 2.
>2 years later I grew giant, hard skin patches on my knees. My fingernails started detaching. I could live with it, although as a gym rat I needed to make sure my knees were wrapped since doing anything on my knees ripped the skin open.

Shouldn't you at that point, or at least now, go to the doctor, or several doctors, again?

It's not the "3 months for the appointment" that concern me as much as the 2 years with increased symptoms.
Oh, definitely. The convenience of being able to secure your communication in advance is great.

It's just that key-sharing is basically the most complicated and vulnerable part of modern cryptography.
You don't have to participate in their coverage though, so even if that was the case (which I personally never encountered this - the programs I've seen were centered around gym membership discounts, free cholesterol level testing, some small monetary compensation - like $100 - $300/yr type deal for partaking in some kind of a "weight loss challenge" etc) - the whole thing is not mandatory.
Technologically or economically?
Buscador Investigative Operating System (OSINT)
Your downvotes courtesy of NSA's botnet ;)

Do you use OTP? I've done some little experiments.

I'm surprised at the lack of interest in the only form of encryption that is literally unbreakable, in this age of surveillance paranoia.
Ask HN: What's the best investment strategy for a highly volatile market?
For someone who would like to have a stable passive income stream from their investment portfolio, how should one invest their money? Vanguard index funds sound great, but how does that type of portfolio fare when faced with:

1) Extreme market volatility (nobody seems to think we could face the worst economic depression in centuries, but every "worst event" was, by definition, worse than every preceding event.)

2) Inflated equity prices in light of the US Federal Reserve's quantitative easing policy. Near-0% interest rates pushed a lot of money into equities in order to return anything.

3) Bonds yields at historic lows.

4) Possibility of political unrest/war.

For 1 and 4, I'm not saying that's what will happen, only that there's a non-zero chance of it happening. Just as one sleeps better knowing they have medical or fire insurance, protecting oneself from economic risk should do the same.

So I suppose my question is more along the lines of: how can one protect a portfolio from downside risk while still earning a decent passive income stream?
Thanks for the correction. And yes when I put in the E's I didn't correctly delete the dot on the top row.
This is why I don't consume news anymore except in connection with HN, Reddit, or Twitter.

I'm convinced that one of the reasons journalists do such a crappy job of reporting on science is that they don't even realize that describing methodology and assumptions is more important than the punch line.
If, and that is a big if, quantum computing was here, you won't be reading about qbits.

All the headlines will be: "Heisenberg uncertainty principle violated; science, technology and life as you know it will change'.

This has nothing to do with 'engineering challenges'. You are dealing with hard cold physics limiting our understanding of the standard model, just because the barrier is there.
I had never heard about it, but what I just read sounds great. It seems to work at a 1:100k dilution, so maybe you might get it under the guise of a D5 homeopathic remedy?
Any country can, if they choose, regulate their registered ships.
You don't need industry-specific regulations to prevent insurance fraud; you just need to enforce insurance contracts. If you're worried about becoming a huge medical cost in 20 years, find an insurance company that's willing to go into an n-year preset-rate contract. You might pay a premium corresponding to the increased risk on the part of the insurance company, but if insurance companies were allowed to do this and people wanted it, the correct price would be found sooner rather than later.
Eat an Autoimmune Paleo diet for a month. It works very well for me and a lot of other people.
Would anyone care to link to evidence that carbon dioxide causes an increase in temperatures? I'd be curious to read some of this literature.
Of course programmers are not engineers. Nor are space shuttles controlled by software, nor nuclear missiles, x-ray machines, planes, drones or self driving cars. Nope that's all pure engineering. Zero software.
And of course engineering is only about bridges and public safety and Chernobyl didn't fail because of a flawed reactor design, nor did the Fukushima disaster happen because of regulatory capture.
Cool stuff. Coroutines are powerful.

Also...sigh. How many millions of man hours have been sacrificed to the god of async?

Is there an OS or system that provides cooperative threading as lightweight as futures/promises, rather than inventing tortured structures around it everywhere?
Where's the demand for that?

Companies don't even trust university degrees right now. The most a degree gets you is a foot in the door; you'll still have to pass a grilling technical interview process.

Making certificates an official requirement just raises artificial barriers to entry, but won't make people actually better.

(If you have a good idea for how to certify actual competence, I am all ears. I'd like to upgrade our hiring practices, too. The current prevalent interviewing style puts way too much emphasis on confidence---which works for outgoing people like me, but we are missing out on a lot of good people.)
Talent war for AI experts
I'm not nearly so concerned with elegance as I am with being able to manage memory simply. the GC and "needed" detection lend themselves, how shall I say, to complexity.
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That's not just pointless, that's actively harmful. The only thing you achieve in this way is to make it harder for people to see any benefit in learning to use vim, and I question your motivation in doing so.

Vim is useful because it lets you achieve a lot with minimal effort. That it takes some time to learn to use it well is an inevitable side effect of the breadth of control it gives you, and not something to be celebrated in its own right.

There is no One True Way. If you can put that in a shortcut, I strongly urge you to do it, and use it ten times a day until it really sinks in.
Perhaps that happened in Gattaca 2 because the movie ends at the launch and there is no problems
> Friday, February 24, 2017
Rise of the Female Founder: Hardware Edition
You say that like it's a good thing?
He was the navigator. That seems kind of important. If it wasn't, why would they bother to bring him along?
Yes, keto seems to work well for some people with certain issues, and AIP (autoimmune paleo) is the leading the diet for autoimmune conditions. It works extremely well for many, many people.
My stomach protested after being feed copious amounts of coffee during the late 90's. Since then I only drink coffee involuntarily (like if someone already made me a cup before asking so I sip just out of courtesy).
Today I stick to drinking mostly red teas. Which are not actually tea I hear. Anyways, my point is did you try to get off caffeine altogether at some point?
That's all in the background, whereas what I described is the main plot. The movie tries to make a point against testing, but the main plot rather wrecks it.
This is factually incorrect the US government pays for a fixed number of slots, but they don't pay for 100% of the residency slots available. Thus there is no legal limit on slots.
The challenge is that container ships don't have a roof over the containers. You'd have to have shipping container sized solar banks placed on top of each container, then wire them into the ship's power system. Every load and unload would add extra time spent unhooking, unloading, reloading, and reconnecting the solar roofs.
> I'm curious to know what offers a better yield than a savings account with less risk than a stock or a bond.

Why are you looking for a single, magical asset class with superior risk-adjusted returns? If you invest in a diversified portfolio of stocks, government bonds, real assets and cash, you'll find it earns a solid rate of return with less volatility.
A 10% incidence rate is different from a 10% increase in incidence rate.
Depends on the definition of "useless" :)

They used to be better until FDA cracked down and prohibited them from providing a detailed analysis of the DNA results where they would do a very decent breakdown of what kind of decease you might be predisposed to based on the results etc.

From what I understand they still do this in Canada though, also there are online services that can take your results and provide some sort of an extended analysis, never dealt with them though.
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> If you consistently work the odds in your favor, you’ll almost always come out on top in the long run.

Only if 'consistently' means 'forever' and you have infinite funds.
If you have lottery with value 2*10^9 with probability 10^{-9} and -1 with probability 1-10^{-9}, then the odds are in your favor, but you are still very likely to lose a million dollars if you if you play a million times.

Being consistent/persistent can help you, but it shouldn't be thought of as a eliminating all influence of luck.
Ask HN: When am I qualified to call myself and engineer?
Obfuscation doesn't necessarily need to be hard to spot, just hard to understand. Like, could you spot this in a chunk of minified code? Probably. Would you be able to figure out what was going on? Probably not without some difficulty.
GPUs are a boon for text editors with rendering repetitive elements.

But yeah, probably not CUDA.
I'm sorry for your loss, but as I understanding it, employers are not currently forbidden from offering these genetic tests, they are only forbidden from incentivizing them or penalizing you if you refuse. That's to make sure the disclosure is entirely voluntary.

> Furthermore, as an employer myself, I can't for the life of me understand or comprehend how one would discriminate against someone based on what genes they have.

> What are you going to do? Block them from leading a project since they test positive for XYZ Type A?

Not everyone is as nice as you. I can certainly imagine an employer terminating someone who tests "positive for XYZ Type A" because they don't want to pay the costs of treating the disease (though they may have to jump through some hoops to make it look kosher). Healthy employees are cheaper employees.

Also, keep in mind, not every employee is a developer-type that could be "leading a project." Think of all the other kinds of employees: phone reps, janitors, clerks, mechanics, etc. They're already treated as disposable, unlike a high skill developer.