skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
STD risks are generally overstated. There's basically three practical categories:

1. Herpes. It's usually on the level of "slightly annoying" rather than catastrophic. Pretty much the biggest downside of having herpes is the obligation to tell sexual partners that you have herpes.

2. Things that die to antibiotics. Syphilis, Chlamydia, etc. You get them, you get sick, you get treatment, you get better.

3. HIV/AIDS. Treatment is much better than it used to be for this, but it's definitely still the scariest one.

Basically, getting tested regularly is probably enough precaution. You'd feel more regret over picking up an STD than putting too much effort into avoiding STDs, so it makes sense that people over-invest in this area (see also: hiring decisions).
> Why does Google have such a narrow conception of what a "family" is?

Because "Family" is a way to group some people together to sort-of share an account, not intended to cover every single situation someone might use the term for.

This is a pretty ridiculous article. If you can't join a new "Family" for a year, that doesn't mean Google doesn't recognize your living situation, it just means Google doesn't feel like extending their sharing whatnot to you.
Yup, quite a few of us still use a HP-12c. I have one at my work desk and personal desk; what an absolute beauty of a device.
> we've understood that the feelings aren't mutual.

48% of Brits, 62% of Scots don't feel that way.

And literally no one in the UK voted for what the government is currently doing or how shittily it is treating it's EU partner governments or EU guests living in the UK.

We'll be back, hopefully less arrogant the next time.
I am not going to argue whether your 'only limit' is the one we should have, but there is a fundamental difference between digital goods and physical ones in this area.

You can't send a DVD or a book instantaneously around the world, but you can with a digital copy. This means there is a lower bound to how fast you can share a physical copy, so the practical effect of the ability to share a book has a limit. There is no such limit with digital goods.

Second, do you really want to go down the route required to ensure that 'only one device can consume the content at a time'? You can only ensure that by requiring a constant internet connection, to verify that you are the only one consuming the content at a time (or at least require you to go online to 'check it back in' to allow another device to use it)
It totally is a random process. It's just not drawing from an uniform distribution. In fact, the process strongly influences the distribution it's drawing from.
In all my travels I've never seen quite a union as German unions. They have a seat at the board and are involved with decisions the board makes. This creates a drastically less antagonistic relationship between capital and labor.
For those puzzled, the use case for this is rapid, interactive data exploration via reporting tools.
As someone who writes resumes/CVs for people and has had a long career as a tech recruiter, this was interesting on a number of levels.

Lots of resume writers don't even bother with summary statements, but I always use them, and my reasoning is that it is an opportunity to set the lens through which the rest of the document is consumed. If we use certain words in the summary that stick with the reader, they will apply those words to your experience in an almost subliminal way.

I don't know that tone is something I look for, at least not consciously - unless the tone is clearly and overwhelmingly aggressive or overly passive.

One thing that I think this summary leaves out is quantifying the skills - how senior are you?

When I look at the writer's blog, there are mentions of lots of seemingly interesting home automation projects and "lifehacking" type things that differentiate the writer from many in the industry. A mention of those things (tech hobbyist with project experience in IoT and home automation) would get my attention much more in a summary than tone and confidence.
Well, OK, but the Napoleonic Wars were continent-wide. So was World War I. Those others? Not so much.
Fat is for survival, if you're don't spend the night outdoors you wont burn it.

Sugar is for energy to use immediately, if you don't use it it's turns into fat, 30% of it is wasted in that process though.

Overeating carbs is better than overeating fat.
The program goes into the why: in nature fat and sugar can not be found in combination so there is no natural inhibition.

They tested this with mice, one set would have unlimited fat, another unlimited sugar, and the third set the combination of sugar and fat. Surprisingly, the first two sets of mice would stop eating when they were full. Only the third set of mice would go on eating and eating..
For the graphics question, it really depends on how you define a desktop programmer. Most video game developers need to work with graphics at some point, and a great deal of professional creative software uses GPU acceleration. Whether you deal with the drivers directly or not, you're going through them, and end up bitten by weird bugs and platform inconsistencies in testing. (Why are my drop shadows pink? Oh, this is a known issue with Intel HD 4000 on OSX... that sort of thing.) To be fair, Electron doesn't solve this problem, and neither does any toolkit really, it just shifts the responsibility to the framework, rather than the application developer.

As for electron being better than existing toolkits as far as UI development? I don't think that's a fair assessment in either direction. It's a right tool for the job thing.

Electron's real strength is that it's web-based, so it's familiar to existing web developers. In that respect, it's a bit easier to use if you already know web technologies. But, it's not terribly good at native integration (Electron apps tend to feel like web apps because they are), and resource consumption is abysmal because it's going through the browser layer, and we all know Chromium isn't light on RAM usage. Other toolkits are far better at handling native platform integration and can be much more lightweight.

Again here, "better" is a really tough thing to define, as every team and project is going to have different priorities.
> regulating your way to your goal is not a solution

Why not? Author didnt say much at all about this. What else is regulation for if not to keep certain things in check better than the free market/people/whatever can do?
I'll give it a whirl, thanks for the tip!
Yes, but being a EU member requires treating ECHR [1] rulings​ as binding. Afer leaving UK will be free to disregard them (and it has already manifested intention to do so)

[1] which is distinct from ECJ, and not an EU organisation.
+1 for dnSpy. It is the only .NET debugger/decompiler I use these days.
> If anything, Brexit was fuelled by impotent rage

Ignorant rage, perhaps.

https://www.google.com/search?q=daily+mail+eu&source=lnms&tb...
...and apparently it still took a good amount of time to train.

If you dig enough thru the various papers and such written about ALVIIN, you'll find links to older projects, and a couple of "follow on" ones as well.

One of the earlier projects that (I believe) led to ALVINN was the CMU Terragator - this was a custom 6-wheel chassis about the size of a large quad-cycle that was designed to navigate around the CMU campus. It was basically a testing platform for autonomous vehicle technologies. IIRC, this was around 1984 or so.

After the Terragator, but prior to ALVINN (and ultimately led to the funding for ALVIIN) there was a project to develop a radio-controlled vehicle that could navigate through an unstructured environment (a cluttered alleyway, IIRC) called "DAVE".

These projects and more are all referenced in the NVidia End-to-End CNN paper.
I would understand that viewpoint if scientists made serious money, but they don't. If they are intelligent and unscrupulous there are MUCH better scams to pursue.
of course, Berkeley will need to abandon its "nuclear free zone" policy. but i see that as a solvable problem, once they recognize the potential for revenue enhancement.
Because (a) they have a motivation to limit sharing, and (b) unlike with books or DVDs, an ability to limit sharing.

There's some amount of allowed sharing that (they believe) is optimal for their revenue, and apparently that's greater than zero, so that's why they have introduced this "Family Library" concept. They could have chosen not to do it at all, that's a valid setting too.

I'm sure that they have considered "only one device can consume the content at a time" but decided that it's not the best option, especially for the sales of "long tail" older content - your own mention that "Groups which share newspapers, DVDs, books, etc between them, often counting hundreds of members" exist is a very good answer about why allowing groups without limits could be a bad decision.

Fully meeting arbitrary definitions of "family" isn't the goal of such policy; the goal is to balance ease of use (i.e. match the general expectations of target audience) with limiting exploits to something that doesn't have a big impact on revenue. The bottom line doesn't care if Bob is your roommate or bedmate or what family relationship you (don't) have; but it does care about how convenient it is for random Bobs or distant family members to join your group instead of paying for another copy.

It's worth to look at the alternatives you have - a roommate that's not a family member is anyway likely to watch your copy, so allowing them to join a group isn't a lost sale; but an overseas adult child is likely to buy stuff on their own, therefore excluding them is a feature, not a bug.
So they voted to leave by a bigger margin than the UK as a whole did then.
By the time I'm using a different credit card and living halfway across the world in a different region, I would feel disqualified for the kind of "family sharing" perks that this situation describes, even if I did have the blood relationship. I think that a more technically appropriate way to describe these things would be "household" plans, though I don't think there's anything wrong with the word 'family' unless you're looking hard for a semantic argument.
I'm not sure why you rush to dimiss me like that. The question was "what would make you believe that AGW is real", and I mentioned that the climate models should be falsifiable. We know climate models cannot predict the weather beyond 2 weeks or so, but climate scientists claim that this is not their point. Fine, it's not their point. Then how do I know that this black box is correct, besides peer review? A model should state: X should happen (where X was not used in the calibration). Until yesterday I knew of only 2 such predictions: a periodic climatic phenomena similar to El Nino [1] (where the result is mixed) and the global temperature changes following the Pinatubo eruption [2] (where the result looks promising).

I didn't read your link where you say the models are performing very well, but I'll do it. Thanks.

Elsewhere in this thread, you resort to a bit of lower argumentation tactics ("supposed MIT PhD"). May I suggest you read Paul Graham's essey on desagreements [3] ? In return, here's a bit of mea culpa for my facile attack that the quoted very long life of the CO2 is only the result of a change of definition: while technically I was right, the definition change is one in good faith, and my critique was not.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch8s8-4...
[2] https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_02/
[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
> Regulations destroy competition.

It's worth pointing out that this is nonsense. In virtually every other developed country in the world regulation has actually increased competition between ISPs. The result has been internet service that is dramatically better, faster and cheaper than what is available to most Americans. It's worth taking a very close look at France[1] and South Korea[2] in particular.

Or you can continue to believe complete fucking nonsense like "regulations destroy competition" and plod ahead with crappy internet while the few monopoly ISPs that exist hoover up virtually all your personal data.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/we-need-real-com...

[2] http://www.idgconnect.com/abstract/8960/why-does-south-korea...
Why would ants store food in the summer?
You are right, but that's not what the article the GP linked is about. It's based on two (IMO very flawed) arguments, one, that men having the option of birth control forces women to trust them (which may be true, but is a problem faced by men today), and two, the – quite creepy – belief that women should be able to unilaterally decide when a couple starts having offspring. (As if men were not legally beholden to care for their offspring.)
Quite few countries, and the common theme isn't really "the west" anymore, but rather the "not too poor to have decent education" :

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_...
It started during World War II when employers were prohibited from offering wage increases to poach employees, and used medical insurance as an incentive to job-switch.
Thank you for your kind reply. As both a geek and a student of history and philosophy, it's nice to hear civility :)

I specialize in helping large organizations of people change and become better, so I've been quite fortunate to have hands-on experience with these kinds of things.

For a good political person who can work contacts, there's always value. I would humbly posit that the system as a whole has overall attributes. I really don't like waving my hands around and saying "we're all going to die", but sometimes the Titanic actually is sinking. I'm sure those guys in the band had a hoot playing those last few songs, though.

So I understand and respect your opinion. Hopefully I'm able to see the tactical as well as strategic situation. Maybe not, but that's what great conversations are for. :)

Thanks again.
From what I have read, China hates the North Korean regime, but is afraid of what would happen if it collapsed, so it keeps supporting it economically.
Its an indirectly elected chief executive and an appointed cabinet drawn largely from, and confirmed by, parliament, in practice. (In theory, they're all appointed by the monarch, but the traditional constraints on that make it a ministerial rather than discretionary act in practice.)
I wasn't aware the law limited the number of children you have, or whether one parent is out of country.
"...When Hitachi acquired the italian manufacturing company AnsaldoBreda..."
> It's funny that you (and many others) say this because we had this from 1996 to roughly 2004.

Oh, I know that. The US also had more "competition" in the ISP space nationally because all of the regional telephone companies and cable tv providers hadn't yet consolidated into the mega-corps we have now.

> Telcos loathed it and pitched many mighty fits and threw every (physical and metaphorical) wrench they could in front of their brand new competitors.

Separating (e.g.) AT&T from their last mile infrastructure (and placing barriers to them re-obtaining it) would go some of the way to preventing this. Someone operating the last mile infrastructure that is not also a direct competitor to their customers[1]. It's a conflict of interest that no law or regulation is going to properly resolve.

[edit: I should clarify this. No law or regulation is going to properly resolve the situation unless we remove the incentives for the last mile operator to find loopholes to screw their customers.]

[1] the ISPs connecting to people over the last mile infrastructure
Allow me to followup in support: I work for a private VPN company (that coincidentally used to be a dial-up ISP), and the owner/leadership is very active in lobbying state and federal legislatures to pass privacy-oriented legislation. In other words: someone who's worked for decades on both sides of the issue acknowledges that legislation is the best solution.

https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/category/policy
This is a clear example why governments like the app store model.
You could have set up a second iis appication on the prod server for testing, no?
They're using the term "family" but it's really loosely aimed at households. The restrictions seem more reasonable if you look at them in that context.
I assume he's talking about Best Buy
Ireland is a member of the EU.
I think I am misunderstanding the 30% claim. Is it over time or is it just that 4.4 is ~30% greater than 3.4? I think the latter makes sense without "the complex statistical way that the study’s results were projected over time" but then again I haven't read the actual study.
The keyboard you mentioned, I'll buy it in a heartbeat if it didn't have red coloring (instead, white-on-black markings), backlight. I mean look at the typeface on the keys. Couldn't they stick to standard keyboard [1] typefaces?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=standard+keyboard
But "only one device can consume the content at a time" is so restrictive! We have multiple devices, so we shouldn't have the classic "siblings arguing over which channel to watch" fight again.

So I think the family number limit makes sense.

I dated a woman with Russian ancestry in NYC, she used her family's Amazon Prime account. Her parents weren't the primary account holder either-- the account had nearly 200 addresses in it when you go to the "where do you want to ship this?" option. The extended family and "friends of the family" were all on it. It worked great--- except everyone can see the order history. So there was some family drama when her younger sister ordered lingerie to her boyfriend's apartment, using that Prime account.
Waterfox developer has plans to salvage Firefox XUL extensions
I was one of 7 people coding one of the 7 different real-time sensors for a large networked product. Another team was programming the central network manager and data processor.

The project was late and there was a daily-charge penalty clause in the contract with the customer, a very large company. A long enough delay could wipe out all the profit from the project. So engineering management told the programmers to suppress all signs of runtime bugs, no error messages, no halts, just slog on, bugs and all.

I objected, nobody paid attention. For my sensor, I had it scream bloody murder (on the diagnostic console) for every runtime problem it found. So I could fix it. The rest of the team followed instructions.

My unit was debugged, up and running, a year before everybody else. If the whole project would have been ready, the profit would have been reasonable. In a whole-team meeting,near the end, I asked the testing team if they had found any bugs in my unit. They asked "What's that?". They didn't even know its name. Suddenly, I was a hero.
DUPE of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13980272
Reason for some of these things...

Be 18 or older -> Minors can't enter into contracts to buy things.

Live in the same country -> Copyright is different in different countries. Media X may not be licensed for location Y.
It is "insanely large" because leftovers are built into the meal. You're meant to take some home and have it for lunch.

I don't really know what your post is about. It starts with the word "Yes" (???) and then gives a ton of incoherent excuses for something which isn't specified.
You can be at a healthy weight and still develop diabetes. I think the whole health discussion is about more than just weight.
Or we get a federal budget.
Disable transitions and it won't be a problem. At least it isn't for me, on Nvidia.
I had a job with unlimited vacation once and it's such a strange and uncomfortable concept for me. Upon hiring, my boss told me to take as much vacation as I need/like, "but of course, you cannot go off on for example 4 months of vacation". So, apparently, the vacation is not really unlimited (as 4 months is above the limit) - the limit is merely undisclosed. This policy was one of the reasons I didn't stay in that company for long.
Correct, a narrowly bigger margin.

I think if '52-48' is redefined as a 'big margin' then it becomes very hard to define 'a narrow margin' without running into the impact of statistical noise.
The blog post compares this to Redshift, so this is for OLAP workloads, not OLTP.
The author thinks the uglier design is lamentable, but it might have actually been done on purpose to discourage (accidental) theft, similar to how bowling shoes are hideous for the same reason.

When I was in school, we used the TI-84s in classes. The classroom versions we had were these ugly yellow ones that were very easy to notice and very easy to distinguish from the regular gray/black ones.
I don't understand. The VPN connection is decrypted at some point when it goes to public internet, and that server is in control of the VPN provider (or so I've thought). They could log the requests at that point. Even if you only use HTTPS, the VPN provider can at least log what servers you're making requests to, and DNS requests too I suppose, even if they can't figure out what HTTP route you're requesting.
Ah, good to know the first law of thermodynamics is still in effect, thanks!
> won't be able to communicate with generations after it.

Oh, they will be. But there must be specific structure to communicate this information, otherwise it is assumed "common knowledge" and nobody talks about it until suddenly everybody realizes nobody really knows anything about it because all people that knew it assumed it's obvious and nobody thought to talk about it explicitly and now they're all dead.

> The nuclear symbol is widely recognized across the planet

Now. Will it be in 10K years? Who knows. Try to read works about 15th century life and see how much of that was obvious back then is obvious now.

> if every one of the cultures that understands the importance of it is killed off.

The cultures that exist now won't probably exist in 10K years. Could we pass knowledge through if we took consistent effort - maybe. But the whole point is how to make sure it's a consistent effort over 10K years.
I actually read 3-5. I read the comments on another 3-5 without reading the article. Like WA said above. Sometimes I care more about the comments than the original article. I also find that if I'm not totally sure if an article is worth my time or not there are usually a couple of high-quality comments that will let me know if I should. I really love HN for that. I will also usually bookmark 10-20 articles with the intention of coming back to read them later, but I almost never do.

As to the type of article, I'm all over the place. Sometimes it's work related, sometimes a side project, sometimes just something I've got a passing interest in.
Two possible landing sites for ExoMars mission
Thanks, thats interesting
People keep repeating the baseline fallacy, but that is what it is. http://www.ceem.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/uploads/publ...
> For example, in one book, an object enters the universe seemingly out of nowhere, and is utterly inexplicable by the Minds. But Ian m Banks for some reason spends time telling a human love story in the midst of this - why should I care! Tell me more about what the Minds are doing about a thing they can't explain, a first in the history of the universe for them!

Tangential to the topic of the article, but I share your feelings here. I hate it when sci-fi authors focus too much on people. As I like to say, if I wanted to read about complexities of interpersonal relationships, I'd pick a romance novel.
You don't need to compromise HTTPS. You need to get your cert onto the trusted list on the device. "As part of the setup for Comcast-Super-PlanTM please run this script" is enough to let your ISP terminate the SSL connection and restart it so they can read content. In the worst case, they can pay a company like Lenovo to stick their certs on devices on day 1.
I often start with the last paragraph and work my way up until I get the gist of it. Works remarkably well!