skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be part of MIL-SPEC evaluation. They'd be concerned with how many times you could hit the evaluated product with a golf club before its effectiveness degraded. Also how many times before it stopped working. These numbers would provide actionable intelligence to acquisitions officers in the military on how to order just enough replacements for given scenarios while minimizing the amount of unnecessary orders.

Long story short, applying the golf standard in your QA process can both increase longevity of the product and reduce replacement costs. Many government organizations and enterprises running mission-critical applications might find DragonflyBSD servers attractive if they passed the golf standard. They could combine it with their Five 9's middleware.
Some areas of science are mostly quackery. Nutrition for one. Some areas are resistant to quackery like physics and chemistry. And most are a mix like medicine.

In school we're taught that every field is as self correcting as physics. Reality seems to be different.
The problem isn't "collusion" over wages for the union members. The problem is that the union is a gatekeeper for training for or holding that type of job, period. In this particular case, the law requires (for licensing) that prospective crane operators be apprenticed to a licensed operator before they're eligible for their own license. When all the licensed operators are union members, only union members can get licenses. That allows the union to get around the "closed shop" bits of Taft-Hartley, and allows them to restrict the supply of crane operators to their gain.
Because immortality is quite plausible, but the idea that your portfolio is not guaranteed to continue to return an inflation-adjusted 4% over the long term is inconceivable.
Why not use the button in control center? (drag up from bottom)
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>Considering the effects, one seems much safer than the other. Are you saying that schizophrenia rates from smoking pot are higher than cancers and lung issues from cigarettes?

There is actually zero evidence linking pot and schizophrenia. What studies have been done showed that there was a very tenuous link between marijuana use and the initial onset of symptoms in those predisposed already, but that the overall rates were unnafected.
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There's a strong connection between Hume and Eastern philosophy, especially Buddhism, btw. He was likely well-versed in Buddhist thought.
http://www.alisongopnik.com/papers_alison/gopnik_humestudies...
If parties generally cannot afford to defend claims such as this, surely this reflects poorly on access to justice. Justice only available to the rich?

How can one claim a state based on the rule of law, if it is not accessible to all in a timely manner?
> you are in essence hoping that a lot of people who are already marijuana smokers will get lung cancer.

And what's wrong with that? Isn't it natural selection at play? Oh wait, everyone deserves basic income for existing.

I'm all for legalizing pot. It's likely detrimental to your health but I don't care what others do with their lives as long as they don't harm me.
I assume it is for the same reason as with steel[1] - the refinement process involves atmospheric air, and after we started detonating nuclear bombs, we raised the background radiation level of the atmosphere, and thus of the metals we produce.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
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I found the article quite sympathetic to Costco.
Well it's not just transhumanists, or small groups. It's basically every legendary computer scientist ever that assumed this would be an outcome - Minsky, Turing, Shannon, Knuth, Von-Neumann etc... so my point is that on a technologist site like HN, most people here would have been exposed to these people and what pretty much all the greats assume is an eventuality.

They didn't necessarily advocate or want it, but they saw it as an eventuality.
It used to be much more affordable, and in some corners of the country (Texas, some parts of the Northeast), it remains reasonable. The Bay Area is one of, if not the most unaffordable place to play golf in the United States.

Fred Couples (Hall of Famer) grew up in Seattle, biked to Jefferson Park Golf Course during the summer every day with $5 in hand from his mother, played a round of golf for $3.50 and got a burger and a coke with the remaining $1.50.

Some courses (including aforementioned Jefferson) will have free or heavily discounted rounds for junior golfers after some cutoff time in the afternoon.
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Aren't most ball/racquet sports pretty contrived?
> It is a legitimate tactic; even those who succumb to it don’t really begrudge the approach.

Maybe I just haven't given up yet, but what the f*ck? This is not a legitimate tactic, this is LITERALLY everything wrong with our present system.
Looks like the whole of Spiegel.de is down currently (503), even the front page isn't working for me, and on desktop the AMP version is redirecting straight back to spiegel.de.
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Two reasons Facebook's data points to algo determined newsfeed is better; addictiveness based on time spent and interaction, more display ads.

They can control the FB experience and show "relevant" ads because they create the relevancy by choosing what content to display around the ads. The real time newsfeed can't be controlled, humans uploads can't be predicted. More$$$ from advertisers by owning and crafting the story for every user every time.
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Epigenetics [video]
I think the answer is yes. Their engagement has dropped and continues to drop - maybe something to do with why you find FB boring.

I stopped using facebook because i got gaslighted by the algo again and again. If I "share" my friends see it, but anything else and magically nobody sees it. So FB isn't even a way to stay in touch with my friends because... it won't let me.

But it is changing, and as a company they've taken steps to stay relevant, and are still the big social media company. I don't think they'll go down without a fight, and strategically they may one day pivot away from the FB app towards a suite of ones they've bought up.
As a developer you have a professional obligation to engage with your colleagues and educate them about the process. Sometimes this means building a mock up or throw-away prototype just as a tool to facilitate further discussion. But complaining about it won't get you anywhere.
This is especially true if you want to apply for a job some day. Programming interviews are going to expect plain old javascript, not a framework-oriented approach. More importantly, jQuery is a tool. Know what you're making before you bother with a tool that makes it easier.
Regular expressions = regular languages.

Stack machines = context free languages = primitive recursive functions. (?)

Turingmachines = context sensitive languages = total recursive functions. (?)

Or something like that.
Envy exists, but de-beautifying operations are rare. The pluses, obvious to those who've read Darwin, thoroughly outweigh the minuses.
Not sure about the down votes here. I think columns are acceptable in digital as long as they are responsive (e.g. 1 column mobile, 2 column normal, 3 column wide).

Why columns?
Good-length columns minimize your eye movement and make it less tiring to read.

More than about 10 words per line require you to move your eyes too much horizontally or vertically and you can lose a train of thought etc.
There's literally already a feature length movie called "Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It". Ricky goes to Ottawa to fight legalization.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3244992/
Digital mini-detox
Interesting idea - I've always associated germany with startups for some reason.
I think you mean to say "plaintiff loser pays". If the defendant loses, they shouldn't pay. Only then would finding a lawyer get easy.
Assuming they can. I can't - they don't fix my eyesight. That's actually quite common.

Dalies are great if you can have them but they don't fix all conditions.
Thank you! The first sentence and the first 5 seconds of the video gave me a better overview than anything else.
Well this article is certainly trying to demonstrate itself through a meta-circular hiding of complexity. But it just comes across as overly simplistic.
> It requires learning Haskell.

Which virtually nobody is using in production.
Yup, parser combinators are a lot like regexes and if you can write a basic regex engine then with a few tweaks you get parser combinators.
There's a longer article explaining about Low-Background Steel on Hackaday:

http://hackaday.com/2017/03/27/low-background-steel-so-hot-r...
> This is in no way just a C thing to deal with all that nonsense. I've not seen any language or library that I'd say does it "well" and saves individual programmers from considering the above.

This is true, however even something as simple as storing the (byte) length as part of the string reduces the complexity and the likelihood for bugs.

Other languages also prevent accidental buffer overruns so while they still need to deal with all the same Unicode problems you mentioned, the program likely won't crash if the programmer gets things wrong. The same is not necessarily true of C.
> it's trivially obvious that some people do not deserve to be treated with dignity

I don't agree, and I know many people who also would disagree. Another point of view is that perhaps some people don't deserve dignity, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know which ones and only an omniscient supernatural being would know enough to make that judgment.

For me, this is the most memorable statement that concept; probably not the best, but it's where I first grasped it:[0]

Frodo: It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance.

Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Also, I don't know of anyone who should throw stones. I hope I'm treated with dignity when I make mistakes; certainly nothing is gained when I'm not.

[0] There are at least a couple variations I found in a quick search; don't take this one as authoritative.
There's no source cited for the data. Is it only deals Redpoint participated in? Take it with a grain of salt.
You can play for $20 or less at Muni courses. Hardly a status symbol tbh. If you mean private country clubs, well the most exclusive and high status of these are often social clubs rather than golf clubs (ex: Pacific Union and Bohemian Club in SF), and the activity of golf and the private club status symbol are separate things.

Though... I have heard several times that "cycling is the new golf", and the $10,000 bikes some folks wield certainly speaks to the flaunt your wealth side of things.

Anyways, for any expensive activity, I'm sure there are some people doing it as part of the status climb, some doing it to hang out with some power network, and some doing it purely for the joy of the activity.

Addendum: Skiing is way more expensive than golf due to the travel and lodging that is almost a necessity in the States.
Applying for a new job is a nightmare. I need to hold extreme amounts of context in my head while applying and end up doing a poor job.

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The source of commentary for this article is pretty suspect, I mean, how did Quartz find golf-patents.com? It seems like the sort of domain which would be set up by a golf patent troll to support a story about them holding patents.

The whois data for golf-patents.com lean toward this line of reasoning. The domain appears to be registered to an IP law firm. I'm not going to claim that they are a troll or a firm which enables trolls, but it is suspect in itself that they are referenced directly.

Acushnet Company does in fact manufacture, market, and sell golf balls, so it is reasonable that they could bring a patent suit as long as it does not turn out to be frivolous. It would be nice to have a system of laws which makes it fair for genuine victims of infringement to file and try suits without bankrupting competitors before the case is settled.
As one related example, DARPA is interested in "explainable artificial intelligence". Essentially machine learning where the decision making process and intermediary steps are less opaque to humans.

http://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intellig...
In the case of the foster children, they initially scored low on IQ test but once placed in a better environment their scores went up significantly. This demonstrates that environment can have a huge effect on IQ scores and casts doubt on tests which claim that a correlation between IQ and family members implies IQ is mostly a result of genetics. Since family members generally live in similar environments their similar IQ scores can be explained by environment. It is even plausible that IQ score is mostly a result of environment.

Now, I can not prove that to be the case but it is far from settled that better genes = better IQ = better socioeconomic status. That reasoning implies that people in third world countries are poor because they are stupid which I just don't believe, partly because I've actually been to some of those countries.
It means the steady downward trend it's been on for the last 7-8 years is about to accelerate. PHP CMSes fill a niche of bespoke software deployments made irrelevant by more standardized collaboration and publishing tools with better usability.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=drupal
I find a lot of shows are trying to check both the "belief in belief" box and the "sciency" box at the same time, and it does a disservice to both. The OA on Netflix and The Oasis on Amazon are just two examples.
> And there is an eye-popping account of the only underground nuclear test ever done in Mississippi.

Wow. Never know that.

http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/293/nuclear-bl...
Out of curiosity, what was the reason for slowdown? Competitor product?
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Not very different than tobacco which stays for much longer than MJ. Looks like the person next to you smoked right before entering.
Why not just make a $1 ball using all of the expired 1990's era patents from the top manufacturers. You'd make a mint. Name it the Patentless.
Couldn't you have simply changed seats? The odour issue isn't any worse than cigarettes (it's arguably much more pleasant smell).

Re:Toronto, there have been literally a million casual users here for years (as there are in any major city). I don't expect a major shift in behaviour. If anything, easier access to edibles and vaporizers will likely reduce the frequency of smelling it.
What about your vision is such that dailies can't correct for it, but other contacts can?

Is it that you can't make use of "soft" contacts in general for this, or just (presumably) that making contacts to correct for this would be sufficiently costly for daily disposibles as to be infeasible?
And if the cost is that the planet is going to heat up like Venus within the next 100 years?
Yeah, that's what my wife said too. That I go to the trouble shows how fed up I am with all this tracking.
If the cases were settled out of court then we have no reliable way to determine whether they had merit. It's just speculation by the writer and interviewees.
If the ages of dogs and cats don't increase accordingly, the smart money would be on domesticating longer lived species of pets. e.g. Tortoises live up to 2 centuries.

I'm only in my forties and I've buried 5 pet cats already! I'm not sure I could live to 130 and go through the trauma of outliving quite a significant number more.
Supposing an incredible anti-aging pill is invented, what do you suppose the chances are the pill-taker begins to feel like one Bilbo Baggins? "I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."
My guess is docs.com will be merged into LinkedIn at some point; that would largely solve the problem since people already have a mental model of LI's purpose and sharing semantics, etc. (or at least the cost of acquiring one is amortized over other services/features that are part of LI)
> When our cells don't die, that's called cancer.

No. No, when cells multiply uncontrollably, that's called cancer.

So, right now, in fact it's unchecked population growth that's much more akin to a cancer, than any hypothetical immortality.

As for unnecessary (or less important) things taking up resources; how many people do you know who have had their appendix and gallbladder taken out?
Whatever. In my part of the world the seed market is excellent. I recently planted out 9 pumpkin seedlings, which are doing well thanks to the recent rain.

I've also got about 30 capsicum seedlings and two lychees, which are coming along nicely. That was a substantial seed round, Series B. Recently I added to my seed empire by planting three avocado pips - they will take some time to grow. I think that makes them Series C.

These are all heirloom and organic (actually, veganic) and will reduce my food bill by a tangible amount, which is great because my investors are demanding and hungry for more. Where I live, organic produce is exorbitant.

Of course should the seed market tank, I've got a hedge in that my day job is primarily focused on designing distributed data pipelines and data-related architecture.
Several studies in this area have already concluded such.

http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/marijuana-and...
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Ahh, the old "I don't have a response so I'll just say the feature you use everyday is 'terrible'". The market would suggest you are completely wrong.
> a few companies urged the justices to retain the current rules, saying there was a value in letting cases be considered by courts that have developed expertise in patent matters.

Fair enough, let's have an IQ and competency test for Judge T. John Ward and see if this claim by various corporations that he is truly the century's most brilliant jurist on the topic of IP or not.
Believe it or not, the size of the place you live matters a lot here (re physical attactiveness.) In a big city, everyone tends to create a shiny superficial persona designed to make a good fast impression, 'cause you ain't seeing them again; and we tend to admire those who have that necessary big-city skill, too, even when we know them well. It's that important. Physically attractiveness really helps creating a compelling instant personna.

But all this just doesn't fly in much smaller places such as a small town. Other factors rise to be at least equally important, such as both semantic and emotional honesty.
What does any of this have to do with politics?

Wansink doesn't appear to be troubled by his prodigious contributions of unreliable results to the literature, nor does he appear inclined to correct them. All of science and discovery is a joke to him.

Left or right, the troubled extremes of politics start where respect for evidence and truth ends. Scientists are, nominally, people who search for truths about our universe with some degree of rigor, some respect for evidence, some appetite for truth (and usually an insanely competitive nature, but I digress). Absent that, what's the point?

This isn't about society, in my opinion. It's about having some respect for evidence and truth. Without these, science isn't science. And what wansink is doing isn't science. Cold fusion had more rigor. Yet he will probably be rewarded with grants of taxpayer money, taken from fellow citizens as taxes, under threat of force. Meanwhile pediatric bone marrow transplanters will shut down their labs for "lack of funding". Or, more accurately, lack of standards in science.

Yes, it affects people when dishonesty is accepted.
They are actually rushing to get it introduced by 4/20 (I'm not kidding): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-rushing-...
That's fine if you can guarantee the user won't have to scroll up and down to read the content.

If you can't guarantee that, then the designer is just forcing a print convention where it doesn't belong. The solution is to make a narrower column.
Someone tell Musk. Oh wait, he profits from such misinformation. Nevermind.
I've also set up booths at several union-staffed convention centers. In all cases I got a power strip that I could plug stuff into myself. Yes, the fees for everything sucked. The fees at non-union convention centers suck a little less, but they still suck. I'm not sure what you point is?
Also pleased to see Henry Rollins on HN. I've seen his Spoken Word on stage approximately 7 times - once in Norway, the rest in Australia. The intensity of his performances is always up there. Love that water bottle, it rarely gets touched!
It has health benefits. Using drops / edible products removes the issue with released carcinogens from burning.
My friend's friends apparently all grow weed in BC and they are all faced with this new dilemma of finding something new. A bunch tried to get Medical MJ grower licenses but they recently pulled them all. It's estimated BC's weed crop is worth more than it's Lumber output in terms of GDP.
I had this thought but the downer is: where are you getting your energy? And all of the mass you need to eject to keep your rocket accelerating, you'll have to carry with you. I guess if you could stop and eat some suns along the way -- but we're not talking about current technology anymore.
I'm from the camp the singularity already happened! ;)
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Maybe it's time to gauge interest in "Demand Letters as a Service"
Ehh, you can get perfectly serviceable balls for even cheaper than the costco ball.

I bought 10 dozen Top Flite Gamer balls as my winter ball (you tend to lose more balls in the winter due to plugging into the ground, taller rough, etc.) for $9.99/dozen on Christmas sale. I play $48/dozen balls regularly as well, but I'm perfectly content playing the $1 ball.

MSRP-wise, Pinnacle balls have been a perfectly fine ball for beginner to intermediate golfers for decades. (I used to be an advanced level player but dropped the game for a decade, and when I picked it up again I opted to use a Pinnacle ball for a few years for the roi)

The reason the Costco ball is alarming to the premium ball manufacturers isn't because a cheap good ball exists now (they always have existed), but because a cheap great ball (i.e. tour pro level) threatened to destroy their margins. Basically, it would destroy the "money buys you performance" marketing mystique (even though for 99% of players, they don't get the clubface/ball contact to get that performance out of the ball anyways).

Also you can get really good equipment for quite cheap on ebay. It's not like technology has changed much for most of the set. My favorite irons are from 1991. (that being said, unless you know someone who really knows their equipment, bargain hunting on ebay might be difficult due to information overload)

The decline of the game is due to a variety of factors. Most important of these is Tiger Woods' demise, and secondary factors include pace of play at golf courses (rounds should be less than 4 hours, not 5+) as well as the inflated prices at many of these places that happened during the boom years.
Fortnightly then.
Yeah, I hate the foreshadowing. Sure thing super hero cartoon we know the bad guys will lose at the end, but cartoon makes things more interesting.