skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...both parties are different. But combined, their views represent only a narrow slice of the political spectrum.

That is (by way of the Median Voter Theorem) a consequence of the two-party system, which is (by way of Duverger's law) a consequence of winner-takes-all or first-past-the-post (and not proportional) voting, I'd say.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-party_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting
> This is really hard to explain to people.

It's not that it's hard to explain, it's that it causes people to want to switch from the US system even more, because as soon as you understand it you realize that US patients and taxpayers are being unfairly forced to subsidize more than their share of drug R&D for Canada and Europe.
Adobe's experimental app copies one photo's style to another
Interesting idea. Don't think that would work for multi-socket boards though, which I think are most servers.
one step at a time. this is triage. first you get the fever down so the patient doesn't die. then you identify the pathogen and get your hygiene and medicine in a place where they can prevent future infections.
+ if you will marry, I have every right to fuck your new wife on your wedding night, just before you. with church blessing. good luck figuring our if your first kid is yours or not. or having happy marriage.

Prima Noctis was a myth and no evidence of it every being practiced can be found.
Yes, half a dozen people in this thread have praised niche subreddits in the abstract, but none have actually given particular examples. Yes, r/askHistorians isn't bad, but this isn't particularly niche. It's constantly on the reddit front page. I'd like to learn about something new.

EDIT: Happily, in the last hour some people have made at least 3 specific recommendations. (Anime doesn't personally interest me, and I think /r/TrueReddit is highly overrated, but /r/syriancivilwar looks very interesting.)
The Holy Grail of media asset management (2015)
It is my opinion that a small-scale renewable energy project on an island community of <100 people would be unlikely to get 1.66M GBP from the UK government. Perhaps the Scottish government would want to, but have considerably less means to do so as they still have a relatively modest budget.
Oh, and "replicated"? It can't be in the US because household use has been banned since 2000. Are you suggesting that we must intentionally expose pregnant women?
deanonymization is no big deal; At 33c3 they bought data, deannonymized to find a EU politician and confronted her with it.

https://youtu.be/­VhVpMPkFUI8?t=103
Very much YES!
Being able to read the code is a required skill for working on enterprise applications. Fixing bugs and adding features will have to play nicely with the old code. If you don't understand the old code, your new code will make matters worse. You may accomplish your short term goal, but without the ability to read and understand the old code you will create a very brittle solution.
What "job" is that? There is no reason for these companies to exist. Incentivizing drug companies to raise prices in lockstep... to keep the middlemen happy? That is a very perverse incentive
Ask HN: How to get start with publishing research papers?
I work as an engineer in machine learning/big data field. Its not part of my day job but I wanted to get started with publishing research papers. A research portfolio will help me with job, learning, immigration and higher studies.

There is no one I can find to pair with. I am willing to do a lot of engineering work, data work but I have no experience when it comes to writing and publishing papers. A lot of papers from ICML and NIPS are beyond my understanding even though I can easily implement classification, regression, etc.

Is there a platform or community that could be of help?
Rescuing Your App from the Technical Debt Spiral
Know your nil
Similar to what Gelman said about what he called the Feynman method: "Step one: write down the problem statement. Step 2: think real hard. Step 3: write down the problem solution."

His point was, I think, that not every scientist can work that way. Some are real treasures, come along one in a generation.
When the cost of time is greater than the cost of cost
> Not just in the cloud (that's for on-the-go and DR), but I would want a local copy too (using a NAS server).

Syncthing with a node on the NAS, and then use Duply to backup to the cloud. There's clients for everything, and you can keep history too.
Yes, spending is real spending, but no taxes are not revenue. Read the link I posted. This isn't that hard to understand. The entire concept of federal budget is a balance between "revenue" and spending in order to keep the monetary supply stable. But seriously, just read the link, you don't seem to understand the basic facts I'm expressing.
It's bizarre. Did every "futurologist" miss that, you know, an autonomous car is still the same size and shape as a normal car? That they still carry most likely 1 person?

If you want to have roving fleets of autonomous cars and ban personal traffic, well guess what, ban cars and get a bunch of light rail, you can have that today.
This. I would love for Signal to have multiple mobile device support.
What advantages does this have over security-focused Linux distributions, eg. Kali, Tails, etc?
My implementation of M-I-U, more than 30 years ago, as a kid, in Turbo Pascal.

https://github.com/ehud/MIU
> Billing is a solved problem too, no?

No. Billing is a huge pain in the ass. Negotiating price with each site is a huge pain in the ass. Building a reliable JS snippet that works everywhere and that these sites will trust is also a huge pain in the ass. Everything about dealing with 5k sites manually is a pain in the ass, which is why ad networks exist in the first place.
The author should be proud of his research for this writing. Plausible enough for HN readers mistaking it for a real story.
At the same time, how many of the 3 are (were) doing scientific work?
The end of retirement
My brother argues that a helmet makes you more likely to survive an accident, but it also makes you more likely to have an accident, since it cuts down on your awareness of your surroundings (peripheral vision and hearing).
>interleaving got enabled on my ADSL

What is interleaving in this context?
Seems to be a completely dead project. It was forked from FreeBSD 3-ish years ago and the repository has seen no activity in the last 10 months.

Qubes looks to be a more advanced project, and has a fair number of testimonials vouching for it (disclaimer: I've literally never used it).
When he said X, did he mean it as a generic variable, or the X Window System? Because the latter would be a lot funnier.
Rust for Systems Programmers
> > And no, the sales and marketing in that article is not advertising alone. It's mostly sales people who go and visit medical professionals to talk about their products.

> That's advertising.

It's also keeping physicians up to date on the current science, applicability, and best practices of their products. I think it's a good thing for sales reps and MSLs to inform or remind physicians that there are alternatives to writing a script for Epipens, for example.

> You mentioned 20% of their revenue is R&D - do you have a source, ideally listing what the other 80% goes to? That's a lot of unaccounted revenue, especially given how many drugs were shown to be dirt cheap to manufacture.

Many drugs are cheap to make, but that neglects the astronomical development and regulatory costs.
Rail is particularly effective for navigation of a linear space where large numbers of people cover arbitrary segments of the distance. On a larger scale, think Italy, Japan, or the US East Coast. On a smaller scale, think avenues in NYC. Once navigation is extended to a two-dimensional area, Rail requires serious compromises. To the extent that you are going for arbitrary point-to-point travel in two-dimensional space, whether the vehicles are traveling on rails or tarmac is irrelevant -- the problems are largely the same, and it is easier to lay tarmac.
That subreddit seems like the mods are employees. They literally have SpaceX job listings on the sidebar!

Perhaps it's got good discussion but I'd be willing to bet it's probably heavily censored too.
The Academy's Assault on Intellectual Diversity
The two best organised subs that I use are '/r/AskHistorians/' and '/r/syriancivilwar/'.

Historians is very well moderated (strict) and has users have expert tags.

The civilwar sub always has the newest information tagged with the needed facts about the sources. Lots of different people and sometimes pretty high level discussions. They are literally producing their own magazin now.

There are some of the best.
Watching TED Talks is like this. Sometimes they are interesting, but sometimes, sickeningly self congratulatory.
You're telling me that the benefit of the EU was that it was an effective way to bypass the people's democratic representatives when they won't do what you personally want?

> would not get 1.66M GBP from the UK government

They did get 1.66M from the UK government. It just went involuntarily via the middleman of the EU.
Two things going on with the rebates.

1. I think the article is a little one sided in their explanation of the rebate system, though it certainly more opaque than it should be. (some of which is just healthtech is stuck in the dark ages)

2. The rebates really only apply to the branded meds, which are approximately 20% of the market.
I live in RI and there are tons of jobs to fill with Navy engineering contractors. I just so happen to be a software engineer with an Ocean Engineering degree so it fits my mold better than most.
I'm confused by the thinking behind things like these. Seems like they should be static data dumps rather then network APIs. (Or why not both?)
Are you actually aware of the points in the link I posted?

The import/export issue is real in the sense that Chinese folks holding U.S. dollars could buy up lobbyists and land and such in the U.S. if we let them. It's not real in the sense that we could, if we wanted, just give every U.S. citizen an extra $50,000 to dilute the buying power of foreign holders of dollars. That would be aggressive for sure, but we have the power to do that. It's a complex set of arrangements here.

Yes, the U.S. benefits the most from the current arrangement, so we aren't interested in screwing that up. But we could and would take action if the foreign-held dollars started getting used in ways that were bad enough for us to do something about it.
Hah! No, I put in "X" because I forgot the details, and X changes over the years, anyway. But I like your comment.
Yes, that's possible, but I was indicating that if Dropbox would move into a full backup business it would be a big move and might worth consider.
That logo looks familiar... https://security.stackexchange.com
I guess. But if we're taking stabs at conclusions, you could also say something like:

"Only 76% of high performance employees feel they are compensated adequately [enough to no longer be motivated by money]."

Suddenly we're writing an article about how a quarter of high performers feeling like they're getting a raw deal, instead of writing about transcendental work.
>Yep, as far as I'm concerned this article is a non-event without data showing this isn't what happened.

What other things should the article show "hasn't happened"? That will be quite a big list.

As the OP says, it's odd that people lean towards "everything is A-OK!". I guess there are many, many jobs that rely on the ad-tech bubble sustaining itself.
Rise of the Evil Algorithm
I find it curious that the moderators grayed out the references provided in comments by "randomgthoughts". I would be curious to know the rationale. It seems to me that citations into the literature are a plus and not a minus.

The elided references are:

https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0653-....

"D. Drew et al., Chlorpyrifos: Revised Human Health Risk Assessment for Registration Review, December 29, 2014, D424485; 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Literature Review on Neurodevelopment Effects & FQPA Safety Factor Determination for the Organophosphate Pesticides, September 15, 2015, D331251; 

R. Bohaty and J. Hetrick. Chlorpyrifos Registration Review Drinking Water Assessment, April 14, 2016, D432921 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chlorpyrifos Issue Paper: Evaluation of Biomonitoring Data from Epidemiology Studies, March 11, 2016 and supporting analyses presented to the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel’s (SAP) meeting on April 1921, 2016, (EPA-HQ-OPP-2016-0062). "

https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide- products/revised-human-health-risk-assessment-chlorpyrifos
> These are made at great effort and expense by Lexis/Nexis, a private company.

According to the article:

> the annotations, which were copyrighted and owned by the state

If the state published an official version of its code and Lexis/Nexis took that and privately published its own edition with value-add annotations, then I think that argument that the annotated version can be under restrictive copyright would make more sense. However, if the state contracted with Lexis/Nexis and retains copyright on the annotations, Lexis should be getting paid by the state for the work, and the work should be free.
What? It's not a protection racket. Google is a private enterprise who is free to show whatever content they like on their page. Not showing your site is not illegal, nor is it unethical. A protection racket involves some illegal compulsion to pay for the protection. That's what makes it illegal.
That did it for me, thanks. Seriously, who overrides default scrolling behavior?
This page hijacked my back history in some weird way. Avoid.
You are right. I only checked out the gh repo after posting this.
The "traditional" Kafka infrastructure (i.e. LinkedIn) uses Kafka as the source of truth. Everything gets written directly into Kafka and makes its way from there. This is a powerful concept, but involves giving up a lot of advantages of a RDBMS.

This is the first time I've heard of the approach WePay uses and I really like it. Now MySQL is the source of truth and Debezium pipes it into Kafka, allowing you to leverage Kafka while still using MySQL as your primary data store. (Or Postgres, which Debezium includes support for.)
Google releases AB testing Optimize for free
The text of your post (like all posts) is shown in medium-gray text, presented against a light-gray background. This is pretty low contrast and would not be good for low-vision HNers.
So true:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/cc/56/21/cc562172e...
Exactly what I thought, if it's free can you just give me a dump of your tables? (maybe they are available somewhere else already?)
Disabled, or just desperate? Rural Americans turn to disability as jobs dry up
Is disability a form of "basic income"?
Microsoft Touts Microsoft-Customized Edition of Samsung Galaxy S8
I'm making the realpolitik assumption that many if not most judges, especially elected ones at the county level, are not purely impartial and will tend to side with the prosecution all other things being equal.

It's not that I think all judges and prosecutors are evil authoritarians, it's just that there are a bunch of externalities at play:

- If they are elected, they'll want to be seen as pro law and order

- They probably know and work more closely with a smaller set of prosecutors than defense lawyers, and could develop interpersonal biases favoring them

- Related to above, far more judges are former prosecutors or corporate lawyers than defense or public interest lawyers

- And there's the general pessimism/dislike towards (accused and actual) lawbreakers that many on the inside of the judicial system are prone to develop after decades of dealing mostly with that segment of the population

Not to discount your experience as a clerk, but those were your complaints, not the judges you worked for, no? Do any of my points above accord with your experience, or am I totally off base?
This branch is 2 commits ahead, 17518 commits behind freebsd:master.
Please go read through the Walmart annual financial statement.

> Minimum wage goes up - so folks have more money to spend, so they buy more from retailers, so profit margins rise, so the economy booms and hiring increases. Everybody wins!

Fantasy.

You are missing a very important part there that should be obvious to anyone today: Competition is global, not national.

Let's take your theory up to an extreme. Let's raise minimum wage to, say, $50 an hour. Why not? Per your thinking it's simple. Everyone raises prices and all is good.

And so, you manufacture product A in the US and now have to sell it for $155 each.

I manufacture the same product. I fire everyone except for a small sales staff and take the product to China to manufacture it there. I am able to sell the same product with equal or better quality for $25.

When people have to choose between your product for $155 or mine, of equal or better quality, for $25, they will choose mine every single time over yours. Your sales plummet, you have to fire everyone and close down the company. Or you fire everyone and go to China just like I was forced to do.

At one point even importing bricks from China becomes a better financial decisions.

In other words, the scenario you painted is a fantasy.

The vast majority of products sold in the US today are NOT made in the US. We can raise our wages and prices all we want. It will only serve to create vast unemployment and further destroy us from within.

Just wait and see what will happen when $15 per hour laws ripple through the entire nation during the next few years. There are companies already leaving California because of just this.

Same recommendation as I seem to make all too often on HN: You don't understand how business works. Please do some reading and fire-up a spreadsheet and play with numbers. It isn't very complicated at a basic level.

> So anyway, its immoral to freeze just the wage labor is paid

Exactly. That's minimum wage. The free market should determine what that is. Our local and national economies will determine where the wage floor might be. In San Francisco this could be $15 per hour minimum wage due to cost of living. In other parts of the country it could be $7, $10 or $12. Government intrusion accomplishes only one thing: Job loss.
Any browser should. Any 4xx HTTP status code is an error.
If Snapchat is worth $30B, surely Telegram is way more than that.
> Motto: Security starts here. Stealing the best ideas from the entire open source community (a.k.a. Proudly Found Elsewhere).

Whelp. I guess they're taking that to an extreme.
Yeah, but that's not contrary to what I'm saying. The real point is that the question of how much "revenue" in taxation vs spending is more of a matter of policy and purchasing power etc. to further economic and social goals and not something that has any inherent need to balance out.
With a big emphasis in "small"... for a raytracer you don't need much more than a 3D vector with addition, multiplication, and dot product. For reference, the "linear algebra library" in my tiny raytracer [1] is 6 lines of code (and two are method closing braces): http://gabrielgambetta.com/tiny_raytracer_full.js (functions dot and A_minus_Bk)

[1] http://gabrielgambetta.com/tiny_raytracer.html
>I mean what do people do after learning they are fat and feel depressed? They buy crap to feel better. Maybe your website is exactly what advertisers need.

It is quite sad that anyone would consider this a business opportunity.
That's really cool and impressive that you saved it for so long! Clean code, too :)
This is what matters to my job satisfaction:

1. Fully remote
2. Great pay
3. Developing for a platform I am passionate about (iOS)

I am fortunate enough to have all three of these things right now, but anytime I've considered making a job change, being fully remote is the requirement that continues to surface as the most important thing to me (and my wife :).
It's interesting that the new thing that Dropbox, Box, and a bunch of enterprise companies are focusing on is the idea of automated workflows, smart data integration - turns out NO ONE wants the problem of PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, and integration with Salesforce - probably the same reason why there's so much focus on Cloud at Adobe. To be fair, ten years ago, the promise of the open web was supposed to solve all this... at least someone is moving into this direction. Congrats HelloSign team!
I've been using TS recently on a consulting project, after my client suggested we use it, due to issues sometimes with Skype. Seems good so far, though not used it for many days yet. Needs a server though. The software is free for a basic version. I think it supports multiple people on the call, though we haven't tried that yet. And seems to have many features overall, not tried them out yet, but will try some over time.
Let's say you've got 50 miles of freeway where it is completely full of cars driving 80mph two feet apart. A dog runs into the road. Locally, the traffic jam is inevitable and bad. But they transmit this condition via radio such that cars downstream can start braking early. What happens when one car doesn't get the message on time? The car in front of it brakes, and this car brakes much harder in reaction to visual cues in lieu of the radio cues, forcing the car behind it to react to visual cues and so on, causing another shock wave.

Don't even get me started on the idea that we can rely on wireless communication in order to make reaction times fast enough that we can drive closer than we can adequately stop. Even locally that level of reliability is decades beyond current capabilities...non visible distances are a non-starter.
Absolutely agree. Something long the lines of what pricepain.com had in mind. This "market" is so ripe for disruption like no other. Sadly, its guarded by a lot of lobbying power and artificial regulations. I think they get away with it "because health".
Georgia does have a public records law (http://legal.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/images/186385699...). It would be interesting to see how the concept of annotations hidden behind a LexisNexis paywall meshes with open records laws here and elsewhere. At casual glance, the notions don't seem to jive very well if (as seems to be implied in articles) the annotations are not just private analysis, but are used as the basis of public law itself.

(Note, in Googling, I see this issue has been brought up in at least one legal blog -- https://blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop/2011/07/15/tear-down-thi... -- and apparently is a problem in not just Georgia.)
After learning a language enough to have an intermediate understanding of how it works, both conceptually and syntactically, I'd argue you learn more reading other people's code than you do writing your own.

The way I like to do this is to think through how I would implement something. Then, reference code that does something similar to the problem I was trying to solve. Then, I compare their solution to mine.
I noticed the paper tested an Xeon E5-2670 on EC2, which is old (Sandy Bridge; eg, m2's) and pre-dates Intel Cache Allocation Technology (IntelCAT):

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/introduction-to-ca...

Support for IntelCAT was added to Xen two years ago. Eg:

[root@vmm-psr vmm]# xl psr-hwinfo --cat
Cache Allocation Technology (CAT):
Socket ID : 0
L3 Cache : 12288KB
Maximum COS : 15
CBM length : 12
Default CBM : 0xfff

And to Linux 4.10 a couple of months ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/694800/

While I suspect IntelCAT could disable this side channel, I'd personally hesitate before turning it on for everyone on the cloud. Does it out weigh the performance cost? ... Can customers opt-in to this?
In 2015 the CDC estimated that 1 in 5 American adults was living with a disability.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2015/p0730-us-disability....