skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some nuance here is needed. My understanding of "natural" primarily comes from an understanding of evolutionary history. If humans have been doing something for millions of years, it is likely to be more "natural" and therefore not cause harm compared to recently invented things. But it is not a black and white thing, but rather a spectrum.

Some examples:
Trans fats were invented because they thought saturated fat, which was consumed by humans for a long time, were not healthy, and this new thing was supposed to be better. Then it was found to cause all kinds of problems and are now banned in many places. Here I think it was pretty cut and dry.

An anecdote I've found others corroborate: I used to have foot pain. Some people suggested orthotic insoles, but I also found the barefoot shoe proponents saying that shoes without any padding at all (more "natural") work better. Five years later I never have any foot pain. The Vivobarefoot or Vibram Fivefingers shoes are definitely not something that was around a million years ago, but the principle is the same.

In healthcare, an example in the book is how many people are prescribed statin drugs if their cholesterol is too high, even if there is no other visibly problematic symptoms. Taleb would argue the far better solution is to improve the person's diet, or just wait and see if something happens, than to start taking a drug that isn't.

The author once strained his back lifting weights. The doctor suggested an expensive and invasive surgery. Instead he just rested for a while and the problem went away. On the other hand, my mom recently had neck surgery to replace several vertebrae. She'd been in pain for years and nothing could fix it. So in this case I think Taleb would agree that the risk of a dangerous surgery might be worth it in that case.

An extreme example from the book: in the early 20th century children were given doses of radiation to treat acne. We obviously look at this and scoff, but it is the same idea.

> Why on earth would you conflate the profit motives of healthcare middlemen to imply that the science behind medicine isn't credible?

I'm looking at the profit motives to see where I should be cautious. I feel like this very site is where I've read many articles about how scientific studies had bias because of funding from the companies invested in a certain answer. From what I can see, if you follow the money, you can explain a great deal of the behavior of large institutions.

So I'm not at all advocating ludditeism or against science. Rather I'm against scientism (I think the word he uses in the book) - the belief that science has all the answers and that newer things are inherently better than older things just because they are. They may in fact be better, but not always. Sometimes atheists I meet are just as close-minded as the religious.
I used Next.js to build http://user-agent.io/ over a weekend and I'm really happy with the results so far. Dynamic url routing is a bit awkward, but not onerously so. (It also uses Express to handle WebSockets and dynamic routing for the share/host pages.)

Source is at https://github.com/nfriedly/user-agent.io if anyone is interested.

I'm thinking about switching some of my work projects over to it sometime soon.
Audi and Volvo to build Android powered infotainment system
I guess so. Every flight I've been on has made it uncomfortable for me if the person in front is reclining. The angle makes my laptop have to open less than 90 degrees (15"). The incline also has to begin below the knee (ie. at the base of your seat) because the seat is horizontal and seats are at the same level.

My knees usually touch the seat in front so I have to spread my legs awkwardly when the recline happens.
It is easy to say put everything in the cloud and charge a monthly fee. The reality is there are all sorts of regulatory requirements that prevent this. How are you going to make a SaaS model work with SCADA systems? Many of these systems are networked and running ancient windows versions. SaaS for these systems doesn't work.
Rust's compiler is not fast. At best it can beat C++ compilers - C++ being a language whose build times people love to bemoan - but usually it does far worse. This might change once rustc eventually gets proper incremental compilation (not the codegen-only thing that's currently in beta). Hopefully. Rust doesn't use header files, so in theory it should be possible to leapfrog C++ (at least until C++ gets modules standardized), but for now that's just theory.

Right now, I don't do much serious work in Rust, almost solely because of compilation speed.
Indeed, and I think this is a smart move on their part.
If we think about it, this is not much different than shouting publicly the name of a journalist infiltrated in a drug cartel. Terrible. Journalists should know better the game and what is at stake here.
This, a million times this.
You treat SW as a service and sell licenses instead of "boxed" copies.
https://www.udacity.com/courses/web-development
I agree wholeheartedly.

My argument is that there is not sufficient evidence to claim that "Google shuts things down nilly-willy" within the context of B2B (conflation with B2C is the real issue here). Rational thinkers should be swayed by evidence, rather than "market perspective", especially within the context of what boulos posted.

For some perspective on "market perspective", see [0]:

https://twitter.com/gigabarb/status/839536072698712064

(work at G)
I always have to raise a questioning eyebrow when "we couldn't lower our expenses" comes about.

And they couldn't sell anything in addition to books? Or change their selection to reduce their overhead? Or buy/sell used books?

I don't know, I'm not them. But "we can't raise those prices, and we couldn't lower our expenses" always sounds like a bit of a copout.
Every company is out there to make money. This is non sequitur.

As far as product comparison, I prefer Office over google docs (And the link you posted is about their commercial offering).

office.com offers the online versions of office (web like google docs) and its as feature rich.

Also, lets be real.. You can get office 365 for up to 5 pcs for 99 a year and each account you link to it gets the extra benefits such as terabyte of onedrive and such, its not a bad deal at all.
The video portion was only added in 2011 and I really, really don't see the appeal of prepaying for shipping. Especially $80/year worth.

I either upgrade to 2 day if I need it earlier and if I don't I'll use the saver shipping and get it in a week.
> But in what world is computer vision perfect?

I'd guess the same world where human vision is perfect...
I imagine many do, you just don't hear about them.

For example I know a few people who are millionaires but you wouldn't know it to talk to them. They don't live overly extravagant lives. They have a nice house, some hobbies (e.g. a very nice car(s), a private plane, an art collection), a job they enjoy and friends they spend time with.

At least for those I know didn't strike it rich with some novel idea, they ran a small business or their own finances well and put away what they could for decades.
I see this cited a lot, my problem is that these studies (from what I've seen, happy to accept more data) are done on a state or nation scale where most every business is then on a somewhat equal playing field. My problem with what SF and Seattle are doing is that it is easy for large companies to compensate in other markets. I'd be really interested to see a study done somewhere comparable to that dynamic.

Also, how many people transitioned from a job at a small business to a larger one? Unemployment could remain unchanged, but competition could drop drastically.

As I've said elsewhere, I'm in support of paying a living wage, but I don't think it can work on a city scale and these experiments only hurt the cause by producing bad data.
Honestly, I'm repeating this question for years. I still didn't come-up with a good answer.

The best that I got is that those criminals rely on living in countries with weak rule of law, and Bitcoin makes for just enough obfuscation that those countries won't investigate them, while countries wiling to investigate don't want to disclaim they have the ability.

Besides, anonymity is not the only feature of Bitcoin useful for criminals. There's also the fact that transactions can not be stopped or undone. Those may be even more important.
I think the point is that with the resources Google have you need to appear perfect as well as be perfect. Commenting on message boards about how unfair people are to poor Google doesn't make me want to support your view. I'm not sure how important this API endpoint was but it's definitely another datapoint in the discussion. I wouldn't choose to rely on Google APIs any more and I think that quite a few people feel the same way. I might choose to use one of the endpoints that few others use and it gets shutdown.

I mean look at Stripe for a counter example, they seem to be super solid and are still on version 1 of their API, it literally never changes.
One of the issues Borderlands talked about when they first started the sponsorship program was that each book they sold had the price printed on the book cover (printed by the publisher), so they were unable to raise prices when wages increased. I suppose you could just put a new pricetag over the old one but it's so easy for someone to open up amazon's app and check prices online that it wouldn't make much difference.
I've been using this for years and it is LIGHTNING fast.

No need to "index" all the files because it reads directly from the MFT. If you create a new file matching the search pattern it's already sitting in the results window by the time you alt-tab.

Also, the "directory size" equivalent of Everything is WizTree [1] ... much faster than WinDirStat, which I see recommended way too often.

[1] http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-f...
Show HN: A resume generator progressive web app which can work offline
If developers were licensed professionals, they would have added backup to say "no" to managers making shady demands.

"I'm sorry, I can't do that, it's against my professional oath"

"That violates the software guild bylaws."

"I can't do that, I'd lose my license!"

Lawyers, accountants and other real professionals answer to higher principles than their boss.
Dr. Pamela Wible has long been a very loud voice on the issue of doctor suicide. Check out her website http://www.idealmedicalcare.org, which includes a link to her TED talk on the subject.
Seems kind of similar to the plot of the Grisham novel Airframe.
> It would be a waste of perfectly fine CPU cycles and memory

If history teaches us anything, is that we WILL move in that direction.
> But I don't have any more confidence in reviews than I have in the judgment and reputation of traditional book publishers. [...] I'd prefer to do an objective analysis. Pick a set of recipes for the same dish, make all of them, have an accomplice label each with a letter--so you don't know which is which--and do a blind taste test. Rank the lettered portions according to your own preference, and then your accomplice will let you know which recipe you chose as the best.

A pinch of informed trust would save you a pound of time and expense.

> But why do you trust Alton Brown? You trust the Food Network to choose celebrity television personality trademarks, perhaps? But their goal is to entice you to buy trademark-branded things from Food Network and their advertisers. Their hosts are hired to make good television shows, not necessarily good demonstrations or recipes. They hired Guy Fieri, too, you know!

And if all I knew about Alton Brown or Guy Fieri was that they were hired by Food Network, you'd be right! Luckily, the Food Network also put out hundreds of hours of video content with those two guys, so I can get a better sense of where they're coming from, and so how trustworthy their food recommendations might be.

> someone is picking you, as their mark, and forcing you into making an illusory choice that always benefits them, no matter what you pick.

I'm okay with choices that benefit someone else, as long as it benefits me as well. Also known as: all of commerce. Hell, given two choices that benefit me, most of the time I'd prefer the one that benefits someone else as well—which is why I buy things I like, instead of pirating everything.
Can't use laptops, can't eat on the tray because there isn't enough space left, and can't watch the monitor on the back of the seat because it's facing down.

So it's pretty inconvenient.
>By what mechanism, would you say, does this singular institution maintain quality?

Interesting question, quality is such a foundationally important and vital subject for the FDA. Hard to answer, it's like asking what does Microsoft do to maintain software quality? The answer has to be long and in depth... And in this case, the FDA is over 100 years old, born out of atrociously horrendous food and chemical accidents in America, so this is a century-old organization founded out of a desire to improve quality in food and drugs (Upton Sinclair's 1906 book The Jungle is considered important reading when understanding the FDA's mission)

So with the FDA (with CDER, the drug/med device/biologic/etc side of the FDA), the basic question they ask (and require all this work to prove is): Is your drug better than existing treatments and placebo treatments?

So, fundamentally, they have an ethos which only grants approval not for equivalence, but scientifically proven, double blind tested superiority to existing approvals. This is an ethos that less is more. That only quality matters. That a business should go bankrupt before 1 bad drug is approved.

But beyond that, to look into the question of quality, that's a great question that is very important to the core of the FDA's mission.

I would point, in recent decades to the emergence of "phase 4" trials -- post-release trials.

Now it is not enough to get approved, now we continue to test the efficacy and safety of the drug after it goes to market, and can and have pulled drugs (that cost billions in losses for companies) which seem to pass initial 3 phase approval but which, in market, demonstrates a lack of safety or efficacy, has side effects that change the calculus against existing treatments, or similar.

Also, another angle of quality is enforcement. What happens if GLP, GMP, safety, efficacy, is violated? You might be happy to learn that the fines that the FDA levies are some of the largest fines against businesses in history. Outside of BP-Gulf and the 2008 mortgage fines, the FDA sweeps the list of billion-dollar-level fines.

So you have a core commitment to quality at every level. An ethos continued from founding seeking scientifically provable superior quality at every judgement. GLP and GMP in the labs and factories which are the most rigorous site regulation you'll find in America. The 4 phase system of trials, including post-market data. And the most aggressive corporate enforcement arm in America, with an impressive list of profit-busting fines that no other regulator can stand next to.
Check out the brand new Swift client for the FeathersJS API framework
Why not just make the old API be a wrapper for the new one?
Hiring a remote Ruby on Rails developer – Ohio preferred
One tool for this is the 'comm' utility: given two files containing sorted lines, it can output one or more of (1) lines only in file 1, (2) lines only in file 2, and (3) lines common to both files.
I was just talking to my mom about this; she lives in the suburbs of Atlanta, in a neighborhood with those kinds of rules. She suspects, and I agree, that it is to do with the growth of the area itself, due to the growth of the major city nearby. Dallas/Fort Worth is growing pretty fast, Red Oak is nearby, and has seen a lot of new development. All those folks who've bought houses there don't want their housing prices reduced because of very small or manufactured houses nearby. Since house prices are kinda set based on "comparables" anything that makes a neighborhood look cheaper reduces the price of everything in the area.

It's sort of rent-seeking by the folks who already own homes in the city, from anyone who might move in in the future. I don't think it is specifically racist or classist, that's just a side effect (that is probably also considered good by many of the homeowners). Basically, home pricing is the recurring theme when it comes to all of these kinds of regulations. Current owners who show up to city council meetings want their house prices to go up; poor folks don't show up to city council meetings (they're busy working their second job), so wealthier folks get their way.

It makes me far less interested in living there. I grew up in the homogeneous suburbs, and never want to live there again. I want a corner store in walking distance, I want weird neighbors with a massively overgrown jungle of a yard, I want old houses and new houses...suburban zoning makes all of that illegal.
Just curious: is Typescript supported out of the box?
Except that the US, a major proponent of modern medicine, ranks very poorly compared to other nations in the infant mortality charts -- especially against countries that prefer natural non-western medicine, and life expectancy is clearly linked to financial status -- those that can afford health care. IE: where I used to live in Arkansas, the average life expectancy is 67, whereas in a rich state like Virginia, it's 87. What's the difference? Ability to afford health care.
Honestly. I despise clicking on Forbes.com for this ad spam.
Or (a little faster):

comm -23 <(sort file1) <(sort file2)
I've had good luck with focaccia bread recipes. However I used a bread machine to knead and proof and then baked it in the oven.
Borderlands has always been a great place to go and discover new sci-fi authors and books, their staff is great and it sucks that the books business is so tough these days.

I joined their sponsorship program as soon as they started it, it feels great to walk in and see your name printed on the printout on the wall by the coffeeshop door.
That's not what Alupis's comments sound like to me. It sounds more like they're saying that if Amazon wins it won't be because they had unique, impossible to reproduce logistics and fulfillment programs. It will due to other factors. (And there are lots of other areas where Amazon has an advantage over Walmart, not the least of which is brand.)

I don't think they're suggesting that Walmart will inevitably overtake Amazon in e-commerce any day now.
I initially read this title as an API to predict when Google Cloud APIs would be end of lifed.
Ha Ha! Welcome to the world of Starchitects. For a building like the Walkie Talkie, Vinõly would have been personally involved only at the very beginning. The question of who is actually responsible for removing the mitigation measures from the 'Walkie Talkie' is likely to be very complicated, depending on the procurement route taken by the client. It is quite likely that a 'Design Build' contract was used for the Walkie Talkie, where the concept architect hands over the design to a construction firm who then employs a completely separate team of architects and engineers to do the detailed construction design. The building is documented in the 'employers requirements' by the concept architects and then this package of information is handed over the contractor to fill out the details. I don't know how Vinõly works, but its possible his firm hands over the employers requirements quite early in the process and the problem solved by the fins wasn't clearly communicated to the design build contractor who then removed them to save money once Vinõly was no longer involved. This would explain why he was so blasé about the known problem with the concave design.

http://www.pannone.com/media-centre/articles/construction-ar...
10 years would be a reasonable good start for a deprecation policy for an API-providing infrastructure company.

It is not uncommon to have 5-year-old systems in production, and a factor of two above that sounds like a good minimum.
Hey guys! I've been working on this app for quite some time. This comes out of frustration of me not having a good looking and intuitive Resume generator cause why not? Resume building should not be boring stuff. Also, the app works offline perfectly fine. Thanks to the ServiceWorker.

This is still in its early beta stage. I'm planning to add more features into the same in future.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11306/nvidia-netflix-4k-pc-pre...
On GitHub, it seems like the javascript sources behind your pages is throwing their syntax highlighting off. Seems like when you embed HTML it hiccups. Any idea how one would fix this?
SpaceX will show Rocket tonight
If your language doesn't have a REPL, your language is less productive. Deal with it.

Oh hardly.

As someone who's developed software in Perl, Python, C, Java, C#, Haskell, and a few others besides, a REPL is the one thing I use the least. I've honestly never understood the obsession with it.

Is a rapid compile-run-debug cycle important? Absolutely. If I want to test something in isolation, being able to rapidly turn out a UT to prove my code does what I think it does is incredibly important.

But a REPL is a nice-to-have. Nothing more. Treating its absence as some fundamental black mark on a language is completely absurd.
Hey, the way Amazon treats third-party sellers is a topic I've reported on a bit. [1] I'd love to talk to you about your experiences! My email is smann@inc.com — please get in touch if you're interested. Our discussion can be off-the-record if that's what you're comfortable with.

[1] https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/amazon-counterfeits-no-starch... and https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/amazon-fraud-scam-sellers.htm...
That's a very good business model as well to sell these pre-trained models. Like a market where you choose what you need.
That's not true. The process to send out the decryption key is apparently manual and slow, and some people haven't received keys https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/86418145375993856... but some have. https://twitter.com/mikko/status/864107673146490880
I Paid Women to Play Overwatch with Me, and It Was Fantastic
Craigslist doesn't work well though. It looks fine. It loads quickly. But the overall usage to complete your goal is terrible compared to a modern app in the same space such as Tinder or AirBnB.
That's not a huge engineering challenge. Every single linux distro has been doing it since forever.
TLDR; RSA keys can be generated large enough (1TB was the example in the article) that it would still take an inordinate amount of time to brute force, in spite of the potential speed advantages available to the quantum computer.
So, then your answer is never deprecate?
I chose a coincidentally easy problem (whoops).

Here's another one, less accessible to attack: Find e^7. Or 25000^(1/8).

The trick to using the musical scale is that it's logarithmic in frequency but linear in key (ABCDEFG). The frequency step between adjacent notes is 2^(1/12); the frequency jump over an octave is 2; the frequency jump over 40 notes is 10. There are other handy ratios to remember, like that going up a whole step is a frequency increase of 9/8, and the more you know the more powerful this method is.

To solve 25000^(1/8) = x, you're looking for an interval x on the keyboard such that if you were to go up 8 of those intervals, the frequency would jump by 25000. Well, 25000 is just 10^5 / 2^2, or in terms of keyboard intervals, "Go up 40 notes (repeat four more times), then down two octaves". This means to represent a frequency increase by a factor of 25000, I need to go up 105-212 = 176 half steps on a keyboard.

Divide by 8 to find x = 22 steps, which is two octaves minus a whole step on the keyboard. The frequency change over this 22-step interval is thus (2*2) [up two octaves] / (9/8) [down a whole step] ~ 3.5. So that's the final answer: 3.5

The actual value of 25000^(1/8) is 3.546, so this approximation is good to within a couple of percent.
You're right, I'll go fix it.

Edit: fixed.