skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Er, the context of this subthread is about people who already do experiment on themselves. People in the "nootropics community." There are a lot of them

They are not "experimenting" on themselves, they are simply engaging in a chemically-mediated attempt at wish fulfillment. There are few, if any, actual experimentation protocols being used and whenever I check out the scene to see if it is any better Instill find a random collection of anecdotes and poorly gathered "data points." I see no baseline data, no blinding or controls, the worst sorts of confirmation bias in data gathering and assessment, and people entering these "experiments" with a random selection of pre-exisiting conditions for which they are attempting self-medication. This is just an exercise in generating noise, not data.
This, I think, is the core issue. While unions have their faults, they have also fought for workers' rights and for reasonable conditions, promotions, etc. In our drive to demonize unions and fetishize business we've forgotten that there is a powerful "drive to the bottom", and it doesn't care about who (or how many) people are in its path.
Clever (YC S12) is hiring engineers to help K-12 schools use software
JavaScript: The Good Parts is a great book to learn the language - although I haven't checked if it has been updated for the latest standard.
Another problem I see with your approach is that it tends to favor the rich countries in an extreme way over the poorer ones (assuming it could be pulled off at all), which I think is the final move in the 'externalization' game, let the rest of the world die so that the remnants of Western civilization can go and colonize an otherwise empty world at some point in the far future.
My email accounts' passwords are far more important than that of my bank account, and there's no way I could put up with typing them in every 15 minutes.

On top of that, chances are that a bank login saved in a password database, which has 2FA and other sensible precautions, is probably kept safer for any one individual than the bank's systems themselves, what with the huge legacy cruft they suffer from. No-one would be able to walk into my computer, or call it, with some faked documents and social engineer themselves into my password database.
I would also like to know. Google gave me this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/02/11/scientists-...
How does "disparities of the past" account for modern-day disparities between e.g. Latinos and Indians? Both relatively recent to the US in large numbers; Indians seem much more represented in tech than Latinos. The proposition that all modern day population disparities are explained by historical "evil white people" seems tenuous at best. Kicking deserving top 30% people out of middle class life tracks because you insist reality must adhere to your sense of statistical proportion seems unjust to me.
US manufacturing workers overwhelmingly supported Trump who has made no bones about his intention to deregulate and de-unionize everything he can. I'd say even US workers don't give a shit about US workers' safety.
Ruport Murdoch sold $125M in Theranos stock for just $1
>What's Bloomberg's agenda here?

FUD
Obligatory link to make this more concrete: https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
> However, I did practically nothing to earn that internship ...

As someone who spends a lot of time in Europe, I find this exclusively-individualistic view of "earning advantage" to be too limiting, and characteristic of US ideas about class and privilege (Europe has its own, different problems).

Yes, you personally didn't earn that specific thing. But there's a very high chance that your family unit earned itself into being in a position to collect that "free" (at the point of accrual) benefit.

I think the most fundamental problem we face right now in terms of equalizing the game for historically disadvantaged people (an important goal worthy of some sacrifices) is how to square that with the very natural, and IMO totally fair, desire for parents to be able to pass some forms of fairly-earned advantage on to their children.
I think it's a good possible resolution, yeah, generally referred to as 'The Great Filter Hypothesis'.
Same here, but you can zoom out with the browser and see the whole thing. OP is probably on a higher res monitor.
With KeePass, a Yubikey and Syncthing you have a pretty solid system which you can carry around with you, without having to trust any third party with any data (or service availability). Arguably you could even leave out the Yubikey and still get a great degree of security.
"Is it copying files to an output location together with dependencies and possibly including some transformations (minify etc)?".

That, and also other things, like compiling ES7+ JavaScript code to ES5 to run in most browsers, or compiling a typed JavaScript file to non-typed (e.g. TypeScript to JavaScript). You can also compile files to .css and .html from different languages like pug and scss. There's a large amount of various transformations that can be applied to web files.
They know Americans don't care. What percentage of people use services that are roughly this invasive? Google/Bing/Yahoo search, Gmail/hotmail, android, grocery discount cards, any social network, amazon, etc. etc. Probably nearly 95% of the country.

Might as well let AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and Time-Warner get in on the google and facebook anti-privacy smorgasbord.
The clathrate gun won't care, if it goes off.
"The native apps cover all the features and functionality of the Chrome app and Chrome extension together, and more. The native apps run on Electron overcoming a lot of the restrictions of the Chrome platform."

My understanding was that Electron is just an embedded instance of Chromium, so I'm reading this sentence more like "The native apps run on [embedded Chromium] overcoming a lot of the restrictions of the [standalone Chromium] platform."
You can zoom with the browser to see bigger models.
> I'm not sure how much factory work is still like that, but imagine if that was your job today ... or for 8 hours per day, for the rest of your life.

Sweat shops in Asia time their employees to 100ths of seconds for their tasks. I wished I was kidding, the timesheets for garment manufacture look like top sports results.
That hasn't worked in the past. Why are we still trying it?
You don't need many callbacks in the backend. Use await / async or promises for most problems instead of callbacks. Of course, callbacks are a fine tool when suitable.

I don't know what "work-arounds" you're talking about.
Congress can do pretty much anything it likes - within the Constitutional powers, of course. But FCC can't make regulation that Congress just shut down again, at least not until the Congress changes its mind. Otherwise it'd be useless for the Congress to intervene at all - Congress shuts down one set of rules, and then FCC enacts another one which is pretty much the the same? Of course, if Congress changes their mind they can pass legislation that enables FCC to make such rules again.
CO2 concentrations went from 280,000 to ~404,000ppb
CH4 concentrations went from 700 to 1,850.

So if you use 34x that 1,000ppb is only 39,000 vs 124,000 meaning it's significantly less important overall contribution. It would need to reach ~4,347ppb to cause as much impact as CO2 has which is in nobody's projections that I have seen.

PS: "Methane has a large effect (24 times as strong as carbon dioxide per unit mole) for a brief period (having an estimated lifetime of 8.9±0.6 years in the atmosphere)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane So, if it's lifetime is ~8.3-9.5 years it's half life is around 1/2 that. However, I have also seen a lot of other numbers tossed around and most people want to make it seem much more important even if it's been rising very slowly.
I mentioned Ohio/Michigan in my reply to another comment; here, I'd also like to point out that the stats aren't discussed impartially. For example:

> Alabama has been trying on the nickname “New Detroit.” Its burgeoning auto parts industry employs 26,000 workers, who last year earned $1.3 billion in wages

An average of $50,000 per year. Assuming that suspiciously round number is accurate, those are good wages in Alabama. Yet the author writes in the next paragraph: "Pay is low".

Is that simply because the author lives in New York and can't imagine a place where $50,000/year buys a good life?
I attacked the modern Javascript approach through first focusing on functional programming.

1. Python + functional programming in Python

Python is hardly a pure functional language, but it's lovely and simple and has all the core concepts including list comprehensions. This leads you on to...

2. Haskell

If you want to find a pure functional solution to a Python problem, first search for the Haskell one and translate it. Then read Learn You a Haskell [0] which was the funniest programming book I ever read and almost, almost taught me about monads (I had it for a second, then tried to explain it in Python and all was lost)

Now you can relax cause the hard bit is done.

3. Read Javascript the Good Parts and only pay attention to the functional programming bits. Suddenly mentions of currying aren't so scary.

4. Work your way through the funfunfunction [1] videos, especially the functional playlist [2] and for added bonus he has videos where he works through the first few chapters of Learn You a Haskell.

Then you've got map, reduce, filter all completely under control. Now immutability makes more sense, arrow functions don't look so strange, promises are just friendly monads really and we all love those.

Now you've got Immutable.js [3], lodash, underscore all reasonable to understand.

React's moaning about state and pure functions makes reasonable sense.

5. Babel really isn't that hard. Just following the Meteor + React tutorial [5] got that all working without me really noticing. Then, holy moly you're all reacted up, with JSX and pure sweet smelling functions.

6. Follow some of Dan Abramov's excellent blog posts such as about getting eslint up and working in Sublime Text [4].

Yeah that's as far as I've got, but adding in Redux to this mix doesn't seem so scary, at least I understand the language now. Angular will just have to wait.

[0]: http://learnyouahaskell.com/
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q/
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0zVEGEvSaeEd9hlmCXrk5yUyqUag-n84
[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7IdS-PbEgI
[4]: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/lint-like-it-s-2015-6987d44c5b48
[5]: https://www.meteor.com/tutorials/react/creating-an-app
We'll offer you a fraction of zero if you agree not to sue us

Brilliant
Unofficial comparison of WebGL-Next API proposals
PHP is the diamond in the rough. Don't let all the bad tutorials fool you, beneath is a great platform where you are truly productive.

You get far by only having PHP and you get twice that by only installing composer.

No insane build steps, no running server process that needs to be hot reloaded, composer is faster relative npm, decent typing system and built in development web server.

To make PHP a superb language(okay, a better language :-) I wish for three things.

* Typed callable signatures
* Function autoloading
* Generics

Looking forward to the possibility of a jit in PHP 8.
It'll get worse with all these regulations being gutted or ignored over the next 4 years.
>Elsea was 20 and not easily deterred. “She thought she was rich when she brought home that first paycheck,” Ogle says. Elsea and her boyfriend got engaged. She worked 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, hoping to move from temporary status at Ajin to full time, which would bring a raise from $8.75 an hour to $10.50. College can wait, she told her mom and stepdad.

And I wasn't contemplating having a family unless I was making at least $150k/year...just goes to show how out of touch one can get in your own network.
"Norton Security Browser" a new free browser with internet security baked in...
Oh, differential equations.

I'm doing ECE at university now and I have an exam in about 7 weeks. I've found that it's quite hard to identify what sort of differential equation a given problem is, and then how to solve it. However I've found that by looking around for other material I can understand it better.

For example web searching "type 4 differential equation" bought up this gem: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~thomases/W11_16C1_lec_1_7_11.p...

I think I'll try out Khan Academy because I've found that the lecturer's problem sheets probably aren't enough on their own.
The article also mentions (briefly) that things are improving:

> [OSHA] cited one year, 2010, when workers in Alabama parts plants had a 50 percent higher rate of illness and injury than the U.S. auto parts industry as a whole. That gap has narrowed, but the incidence of traumatic injuries in Alabama’s auto parts plants remains 9 percent higher than in Michigan’s and 8 percent higher than in Ohio’s.

Down from 50% higher to 9% higher.
When you have the balls to just go and do it, and then to own and fix your inevitable mistakes.

EDIT: Part of being senior is knowing that you don't ask permission for certain things.
The way I understand the kernel trick is as follows:

Basically SVMs are all about inner products. If you have some vector 'k' and a constant 'c' then you can divide your data set into those points x where k·x > c and those where k·x < c. The points defined by k·x = c are usually called the separating line / plane / hyperplane.

Now if you know the inner product between all your samples then you can also calculate the inner product between any sample and any weighted sum of samples. So if you have some vector 'k' which is a weighted sum of your samples then you can find the inner product between k and your samples without calculating any more inner products. Even better it turns out that, even if 'k' isn't a weighted sum of samples, there exists a different vector 'p' such that k·x = p·x for all samples x, and where 'p' is a weighted sum of samples. So the restriction that 'k' is a weighted sum of samples doesn't have any effect on the performance of a SVM.

The kernel trick then turns this around by simply declaring the inner products between your samples to have a certain value (e.g. x·y = exp(-(x - y)^2). You can then let your SVM find the weighted sum of samples which best separates your samples.
Yes, and it only took 30 years, too!
I'm glad -- as a advertiser this will greatly help deanonymize a lot of stuff

Personally I'm going to see about buying the history of a few politicians and their families first chance I get
"rendering performs on the main loop" - rendering on the backend is not a good idea, just use static templating (e.g. serve a static index.html file to the browser).
Mostly agreed... for the most part, EV certs are meaningless to most people. Wether it's LE, or otherwise.
It is early days but at the moment the following capabilities are available:

* Captcha cracker - based on tesseract.js
* Responder - LLMNR spoofer - useful for hacking Windows network
* Sock - essentially forwards packets over WebSocket with the ability to deconstruct HTTP session
* Tips - get hacking tips from the command-line with offline and online support

The idea of Pown.js, unlike Metasploit, is to be more programatic and decentralised so that modules can run standalone and development and debugging is easier as modules will not directly depend on the entire framework.

We have already started work on TV hacking modules. We will be improving our responder to support MDNS and NetBIOS-NS. We are also working on our proxy and servers for imitate various protocols useful for putting together sophisticated attacks with zero configuration. That goal at least.

Any contributions, ideas are more than welcome as nothing is set in stone at the moment.
You can try asking at http://math.stackexchange.com/
What sort of enlightenment were you expecting that you did not find?

That is to say, what is your agenda?
> I may be being a bit dense, but if your client device contains a root that goes off-reservation, how does it ever receive a revocation notice? Doesn't everything that chains to that root via a valid chain still get trusted?

Yes, if a client isn't receiving root store updates it will continue to trust certificates chaining to the off-reservation root. This is why taking previously-trusted roots off-reservation is bad for the ecosystem and would ideally be prohibited.

> Side note: Are payment systems required to link to revalidate their roots at any regular intervals?

Many payment systems apparently have no automatic update mechanism, so I assume there is no requirement for such.
I did it... mainly for amazon's own apps.
Yeah, kind of a stretch to call it "native".
Yup. Luckily, there is Paw[0] if you want a native experience on the mac.

[0]: https://paw.cloud
You don't have to use every damn framework and compile to JS language out there ... You will do just fine with vanilla JS!

Most important parts to learn about JavaScript:
1. Scope and closures, like that your function can access variables from a parent scope, and that those variables are frozen in time.
2. Events and "async", like button.onclick = someFunction, where "someFunction" is called when a user click on the button.
If you learn just those two concepts you will know more then 95% of the JavaScript programmers out there and it will be more fun to write JavaScript! And all those frameworks are no longer needed.
As long as last year's darling framework ain't ExtJs...
Their agenda is to unionize workers in Japanese and Korean auto plants in the US. The reason American car brands are not competitive with Japanese and Korean US-made cars is that the US-brands owned plants are unionized while Asians are not.
That's a legitimate concern. The bank in the link is harming itself with mixed validation and further issues with mixed content (and yes the banking industry surprisingly bad at crypto - Barclays in the UK has mixed content issues pretty frequently).

There's no simple, single answer here: you can stop validation downgrades is pinning to EV roots but browser UI is also a huge part: mobile Safari, for example, simply uses the validated legal entity as the address and keeps it on screen during the entire session (even when you scroll). Visit https://stripe.com on mobile Safari and you'll see

> _______________Stripe Inc.______________

...persistently on top of the screen throughout the entire session [1]. Other browsers don't show validated identity as effectively though.

[1] Safari should also add a country indicator to distinguish other validated legal entities called 'Stripe, Inc.' in different jurisdictions.
What agenda do you think a magazine owned by a billionaire targeted at Wall Street professionals has?
The real question is why Chrome will no longer allow Chrome apps?
>My bet: this drug will be for sale on the internet illegally within a year (and probably fake half of the time).

I think you're being generous. Why would anyone bother selling the real thing on the black market?
I don't much about graphic stacks, but in my experience the best, as least from the perspective of someone using multiple HiDPI displays macOS is far and away the best. Many windows applications don't scale properly or if they do they require special settings to do so. If you have monitors with different levels of scaling your going to have a terrible time on windows.
Twitter might build a paid subscription service for power users
I am really getting tired of the constant "need an account" for _everything_ - nvidia being the one that drives me the most crazy.

I appreciate the fact that Postman allows you to continue without registration[0]

[0]http://i.imgur.com/8XVCu5u.png
This is really really cool. What's the backend stack like if you don't mind me asking? I was thinking of implementing something like this for Daily Fantasy Sports stats...kinda like https://www.statmuse.com
Isn't some destination information encrypted under HTTPS?

The only thing that might leak is the final public IP address.
This is not accurate. To pass, a ballot must receive a 2/3 majority from CAs AND a 1/2 majority from browsers. While there have been some contentious votes along CA-browser lines, you can see from the ballot history that most ballots have passed and thus had support from both browsers and CAs:

https://cabforum.org/ballots/
The problem is caused by a) the no docking station model b) multiple venture capital backed firms competing for marketshare and c) cheap bicycles.

Has Berlin had those 3 factors at play for the last 10 years? If not, that is why there is no problem with piles.

All those things are in play in China, and the companies doing it are looking to expand overseas.

Don't get me wrong, public bike systems are great, but care needs to taken with how they are implemented.
I can see how this story would play to Bloomberg's audience of wealthy professionals and would like to offer a different perspective.

Having worked in that field, coming from a family that's worked in the field, I know it can be dangerous work. At least, the occasional carnage makes for a more graphic story than the health consequences of sitting at a desk for 40 years.

That doesn't mean the jobs aren't appreciated, even enjoyed, or that blue collar workers (not Bloomberg's audience) would rather not have those jobs.

Also, I'm genuinely curious why Bloomberg has taken up this story. Is it simply an attempt to hurt Trump (who has made restoring American manufacturing a big part of his platform)?
Chrome 57 distrusts most StartSSL certificates
My 2 cents. Try and add a notification within your Chrome App that there's a native version of your app as well. 'Cuz since now, although I've been using your app for more than a year now, I didn't know about the native version of the app.
PS: Paying customer :)
I can think of a number of reasons why this isn't done:

* You can't run a randomized control trial in this fashion, which makes it harder to collect meaningful data.

* You can't select the populations of people who are in your test groups. It's possible the drug will only work well in certain populations.

* You can't monitor people as well for things like adherence or control their other behaviors. Perhaps they are taking 5 other compounds simultaneously which are having an effect or interfering with your compound of interest.

* You can't screen for toxicity or determine dosing meaning the drug could kill people en masse before the ideal dose is determined.

I think it's fine for people to take any compound they want as long as it's an educated decision, but I don't think what you're describing is a great source of data or a good substitute for animal trials.
Source? Wikipedia says: "an estimated lifetime of 8.9±0.6 years in the atmosphere." Which suggests a half life of 1/2 that.
Let's be honest, switching your cert is a far cheaper option than the lost business of telling 50% of your users that they need to switch browsers.
Whith ecommerce sites being so hyper focused on abandoned cart stats, this is the easiest change they'll make all year.
It's not "Emacs" itself, it's plugins and Elisp libraries you have loaded. Emacs itself - the GUI, even including (optionally) blinking cursor - is actually quite fast.

To prove this, this command:

time emacs -Q --eval "(kill-emacs)"

reports ~0.2 sec on my system.

My normal Emacs, just as yours, needs ~12 seconds to start up. But I made it this way by explicitly enabling and requiring things. I could, with some effort, get the time down to 5-8 seconds (byte-compilation and gathering autoloads in one place), and even back to around a second if I was desperate enough to try dumping the image of a running Emacs to disk (I did it once and succeeded, although the process wasn't pretty). I don't do this because I don't care that much, but the option is there.
>FUD

Could you elaborate on that a little? You are responding to an article containing hundreds of words and the best you can do is three letters? Why is it in Bloomberg's interest to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt? Where is the article spreading uncertainty and doubt? I'm not seeing anything.