skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any research on which is worse? In other words, how does it compare to drink under 14 per week but without any rest days, versus drinking more than 14 per week but only during three days of the week.

I feel like there's a lack of knowledge about alcohol, considering how ubiquitous it is.
This article is designed purely to stroke the egos of people that feel the need to constantly chase the latest hype.
"Let this go, or I'll fire you"?
I don't equate "i hope you can let this go" to "shut down the investigation." I get the concern. It's valid. But I feel it's more of an issue if there's an _action_ to suppress the investigation.
The obligatory podcast about this: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/01/11/509378842/episo...

Very worth the listen.
For starters, the title should be "Americans from the two major parties...".
It's going to be entirely different I feel. Instead of manipulating graphics on a flat screen, focus will probably be on manipulating physical objects on a table / in a room.

Watch his 2 talks that highlight the thinking and inspiration behind the RealTalk project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTjiXjqHrQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg
To examine the ethics of web scraping, I think it's useful to strip away all the technical trappings and just look at it as an interaction between two people. We'll call them Chloe the Creator and Sam the Scraper.

Chloe has expended effort/energy/resources to gather and collate information which provides value in some way to Sam.

Sam has invested nothing, risked nothing, and expended no effort with regard to that information.

Chloe decides, in her own interest, to give the public access to the information.

Does Chloe have a moral right to try and impose conditions on that access?

Does Sam have a moral duty to make a good-faith effort to abide by those conditions?

My answer to both of these questions is yes.
Guy in middle with sunglasses had the right idea.

I'd really like to know how dark they were though, he didn't even flinch at that flash.
Just flag it then, you twat.
His requests for loyalty have a pretty innocuous explanation, that is hinted by Comey himself - this was in the midst of an anonymous revolt from intelligence agencies against the President, with constant leaks hitting the press every day. Alongside the leaks the President also had to contend with insubordination, e.g. Ms. Yates refusing to follow his executive orders. Regardless of the merit you see in his orders, it is logically consistent that a President who faces obstruction when trying to enact his vision would be specifically looking for loyalty among his subordinates.
The problem with this sort of poll is that rhetoric, for a huge number of voters, has a much greater impact than facts about issues. Even and especially if they aren't aware this is the case.

This poll reminds me of those ACA polls which concluded overwhelming support by focusing on particular aspects of the Act instead of just coming right out an asking "Obamacare: repeal or keep?" with no preface.

If you truly want to gauge public opinion as it will matter in election years -- which is pretty much the only way it matters -- you shouldn't define net neutrality and you definitely shouldn't ask a sequence of potentially priming questions. Instead, you should just ask: "Do you support Net Neutrality?" and nothing else!

Of course, the results of this survey are still important. But they might not be predictive of how the average person really feels when asked, over a beer, whether we should "keep internet Obamacare" or "let Comcast censor our speech"
May very well be the case. All things flash are permanently disabled on my browser. If a site requires flash, I would much rather ignore the content altogether no matter how juicy it is.
Exactly. Over time, companies will try (or at least, SHOULD try) to optimize the currency they use to deliver their total reward offering. Whether it is cash, equity, PTO, health/retirement benefits, learning, etc., companies should optimize the use a particular currency if the perceived value of such currency exceeds its economic value.
HN is one giant non-comformance conformance party. You're more unaware than you thought.
I don't understand why anyone would support Net Neutrality.

What's the difference between forcing a TV cable provider to provide all channels, forcing Netflix to provide all movies, forcing Spotify to provide all albums, forcing Amazon to sell all products, forcing Fedex to ship anywhere, forcing libraries to carry all books, forcing AT&T to let me call anyone (at no additional cost), and forcing Comcast to provide all websites?

What if some ISP build their own protocol, are they subject to Net Neutrality's regulations? Why?

Why prevent content providers from working with ISPs to better distribute their content? How is it different than allowing stores to associate with arbitrary shipping companies?
Big congrats to all the contributors, this is a huge release!
On the topic of server-side rendering, Ember's Fastboot is worth checking out.

https://ember-fastboot.com/
> I really wish California would engage Trump rather than just slam the door shut.

I really wish Trump would engage California rather than just slam the door shut.

> There's room for a deal

Apparently not. Trump's White House, despite Trump personally previously calling for forceful climate action by the US government, now refuses to even say if Trump believes climate change is real, much less whether the President has any interest in doing anything about it, much less what the parameters he would for any climate action are.

> there's common ground to be found if people actually try.

Maybe, but Trump's not trying, and there's people who are. You work with the willing partners you have, not the ones you wish you had.

> This needless childish behavior is screwing us all over.

On this much, if not on which behavior is needless and childish, we agree.
thank you for the reminder that it is current year, all too easy to forget!
If you both watched it, we could simply count the number of interruptions and see if she was interrupted statistically significantly more.

There's an objective answer and opinions don't really count here.
oh... I thought they were able to circumvent logging in and could scrape directly... hat makes much more sense now, thank you...
I'm a reporter for the New York Times. You are dead wrong. This account is accurate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/world/asia/uber-driver-in...

I imagine you're a lower-to-mid-level employee and don't have knowledge of this incident firsthand.
You can use date to set the time, but you must use some other way to get the correct time to be set. So you essentially had to re-implement NTP. Your solution was the more engineered one, not his, he used the standard tool for syncing dates.

I'm not seeing your option wasn't correct (if NTP didn't work, you can't use it), but I don't think it's a good example of the errors described in the article.
I don't know much about statistics, but is the sample size of 1000 people surveyed here significant enough to be drawing conclusions from? It feels small to me, would anyone with a stronger background in this area care to comment?
This will be a great empirical reference point for future economic policy discussions... More context is here [1].

[1] http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/gop-must-answer...
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Yes, this is a good point. Branching goes against "continuous integration" principle. It reminds me when back in the day every developer had his/her on copy and everything was put together at the end.

Branching is very useful, but you need to continuously merge, so you find conflicts as soon as they arise.
If you know your co-worker's child is named "Sam" you don't want to say "son" if she's actually a girl.
If you use Redux and React server side rendering, you can quite easily wrap forms/interactions on your page with a <form /> tag and a hidden input with the Redux action name, and then handle the actions/reducers on the server. I've played around with it in the past and managed to convert a SPA which was using redux-form heavily to work fully without Javascript enabled, and it was only like ~200sloc.
I'm not convinced that it'd be any harder or more expensive to print a series of unique QR codes onto objects than to use NFC chips.

The heavy use of (granted, not strictly QR) 2D barcodes in physical mail/shipping suggests it's both useful and cost effective.
It is a property of nature. Death, not life is the norm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
I took the specialization in Systems Biology. At that time I got very frustated but afterward I went to my local university for 4 months on a related topic, and assure you that I prefer the Coursera experience, even with the lack of support.
At least what I learned at Coursera was at the state of art, and all that was taught was useful.
> Fuck other people running code unnecessarily, without my permission, on my computer.

You gave them permission. Actually, you asked them to do it when you sent that GET request to their servers that returned a bunch of HTML that included script tags.
Yeah, this Alexander guy was in place a couple of days ago, and once this story broke, he's no longer with Uber.

Definitely completely above-board, transparent and ethical.
"No actual incidents"

Have you been living under a rock? There are more than enough examples.

Here's just a few examples documenting the sexism in science:

http://www.nature.com/news/gender-imbalance-in-science-journ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
Those are completely different business models. Cable companies pay channels to host them. Spotify pays artists / record labels to play their music. Comcast does not pay websites to transmit their data, and the websites are fine with that; they just want to be seen.
Isn't that really slow though ? I thought this is essentially like a VPN. Also, it'll create problems with Netflix etc.
>But I feel it's more of an issue if there's an _action_ to suppress the investigation

Such as firing the FBI official who refused to comply...
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flash was obsoleted because 1) iphone didn't support it, 2) iphone didn't support it, 3) iphone didn't support it, and 4) JS replaced the non-DRM use cases (and now even replaced that).
Drinking everyday is going to be worse for your liver.

Drinking more than 14 units but leaving some days drink free is going to be better for your liver, but increase the risks of other alcohol related illness (including all the alcohol related cancers).

It's hard to say which is worse partly because genetic factors are important, and other stuff you do is important too.

We know a reasonable amount about alcohol, but there's a multi-billion dollar multi-national industry keen to keep people unaware.
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Here you go :D

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
https://github.com/t3chnoboy/awesome-awesome-awesome
How is it that you get to decide what this is about by interpreting the article with a certain slant, and then use that slant to say he's not discussing actually 'your' point?
Buggy "please disable your ad blocker" full screen prompt. It's not a problem until it hangs out after the ad blocker is gone!
The people are probably downvoting because you have missed the point of the article. Nowhere does it say that one shouldn't change things, or adopt new solutions.
Usually these snoopy apps refuse to run unless you enable it first. So you still have to remember to turn it back off when you're done.
Because:

1) Regardless of whether she experienced the sexism or not, there is only one response she can publicly express, namely the one she did.

2) There was evidently an entire room/audience that did audibly agree with the "hecklers" sentiment, and many privately expressed so afterwards.

3) Sexism doesn't only exist when the object of it register it.

4) The proof is in the pudding, if you bother to watch through the entire panel. (I did)
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I would not. That's incidentally depending on non-zero numbers to become True, and zero to become False. I would prefer to think of the operation as "is x modded by 2 equal to zero?" rather than "does x modded by 2 become true when negated?"
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>There's no good reason it should do so when backgrounded.

Wrong, and it's especially irksome that just because you cannot think of a good reason, you leap to the unfounded conclusion that there is no good reason.

When you are driving and not using the app and not even thinking about the fact that you have the app, and not planning to use it, it can still be gathering useful traffic information to help route other users according to the current conditions on the route you are traveling. By the way this takes a super negligible amount of power because it can piggyback its use of system services (location, data transmission, etc.) on top of other already running services.
The true-speed launch footage is downright freaky:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QiyldgYKy_U

Most footage shows slow-motion video.
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I am a male and when I am talked over I have to say something like "hold on let me finish" and that fixes it :D It's not a male vs female thing, it's just that everyone gets too excited, it happens to me too sometimes :D

The moderator talks too much along the whole video. Not a sexist thing though.

A link on how to handle interrupts:
http://www.marionspeaks.com/_blog/Marions_Communication_Tips...
This is a real problem in the business and tech communities. I have seen few people "at the top" acknowledge it.

Leaders, make an effort to listen and clear the air for others to speak up. Don't beat them up if they don't articulate brilliantly right away -- it takes practice. You'll be surprised at the rate of improvement.

For individuals, I use this trick when people cut me off AND it's unjustified: saying "hang on, let me finish" and then driving my point aggressively. It has mostly worked though I am male.
Not really. They gave permission for the initial GET request for the HTML. The rest of the requests were inserted into the document by the programmer and executed by the browser. The browser assumed those links should be fetched automatically and executed. :)
I'm skeptical that most people have sufficient information upon which to make a decision. They just like the way it sounds.

Here's the definition they provided:

> “Net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers providing consumer connection to the Internet should treat all data on the internet the same, not giving specific advantages or penalties in access by user, content, website, platform, or application.”

Doesn't this seem like it makes any sort of QOS prioritization impossible? What if an ISP wanted to prioritize all real time traffic (voip, videogames, streaming video)?
I wanted to say that is too general of a statement and depends of your definition of alcoholism, but then I looked up the current definition [1].

In a medical context, alcoholism is said to exist when two or more of the following conditions is present: a person drinks large amounts over a long time period, has difficulty cutting down, acquiring and drinking alcohol takes up a great deal of time, alcohol is strongly desired, usage results in not fulfilling responsibilities, usage results in social problems, usage results in health problems, usage results in risky situations, withdrawal occurs when stopping, and alcohol tolerance has occurred with use

So yes it's not a stretch to consider just drinking to the point of (almost) passing out alcoholism (ignoring whether or not the person drinks outside of these episodes). Doing that like twice in a year doesn't feel like alcoholism though. More like one of the many means to satisfying my constant urge and craving to 'go hard'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism
My source, while I wholly acknowledge this is anecdotal and not evidence, is someone in law enforcement tasked with retrieving message logs for investigations. I was pretty skeptical but I've yet found any proof or documentation from Apple's support docs disproving this.

I also recall from the San Bernadino case that the FBI/Apple had the ability to get historic message history from the iCloud backup but the FBI pushed for decrypting the device because of the most recent and not backed up messages.

As for your scenario -- doesn't that explicitly confirm that the messages are not encrypted safely at rest? You can restore to an entirely new device, using the same backup, and retrieve the messages.
Because attributing everything to sexism has harmful societal effects.
Huh, my first thought also. "The footage" was a fascinating idea, but I didn't much think anyone would try to make a work that powerful and not claim it.
It's not that simple. Optimization is almost always additional complexity.

So an argument in favor of optimizing whenever and wherever possible, is an argument in favor of introducing unnecessary complexity.

Optimization isn't free. It has a cost to implement (slowing development) and another cost whenever the code is read/refactored/extended/etc (also slowing development time). That second part is incurred by every developer working on that piece of code now and in the future.

So the danger in unnecessary optimization is both wasted time and slowing of development, delaying product market fit or making it difficult to respond to competitors introduction of new features (for example).

What is the more common story: start up died because competitor was slightly faster; or start up died because they never found product market fit.
I simply stopped reading presuming it meant Futuristic User Interface.
Why is it not sexism? OK, I'll bite... Because he has a wife who he's fucked and kids he's created. Or no, you're right, he hates ALL women! If this were the court of law, then the charge would not hold.
> If you truly want to gauge public opinion as it will matter in election years -- which is pretty much the only way it matters -- you shouldn't define net neutrality and you definitely shouldn't ask a sequence of potentially priming questions. Instead, you should just ask: "Do you support Net Neutrality?" and nothing else!

Well, "would you change your vote" or "would you stay home rather than vote for a candidate who disagrees with you" are even more meaningful questions, if you think they'll answer honestly.
They would support it because your analogy is faulty?

Because our providers of internet are often the ONLY choice, due to enforced monopolies, any choices the carrier makes are forced choices on the consumers.

If you were forced to buy all your products from amazon, all movies from netflix, and all songs from spotify, then your analogy would hold.
"Snapchat, but for dogs!"
Cost / accuracy tradeoffs.

Keep in mind that decoy RVs (inflatable mylar targets) are cheap. Overwhelming your adversary's sensing and response systems is a classic tactic, and not just in military combat.
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Another reason I choose gitlab over github.
Because the internet isn't just entertainment, it is a telecom service that provides common carrier services. The internet is also how many Americans make phone calls, access government services, organize physical travel, and conduct their banking. When I pay for internet access, I expect to be able to access any site on the internet. I don't want Comcast saying, well you can't register with the DMV because their ISP isn't paying us extra--that's why net neutrality is important and is fundamentally different than the inapt comparisons you've provided.

Further, the telecoms embrace their common carrier status when it does things like allow them to use the eminent domain powers of the government to construct infrastructure across private land or on public lands--which is fantastic as long as they reciprocate by providing common access to their infrastructure. Amazon didn't need use eminent domain powers to build their warehouses on a promise of a universal public service.
If I didn't know what the findings were, and if I looked merely at the graph in Fig. 6 of the BMJ article, I'd say that higher lexical scores in younger years correlate with higher declines in that same score.

Does abstinence correlate with lower scores? I don't understand the three different starting points. I was expecting a normalized score (~20) with several different levels of decline.
The term "premature optimization" is a peeve of mind as it's effectively a meaningless, prejudicial term.

If we're really farcically talking about 0 versus 1+ user products, however, in actuality the user will do a quick test of your wrapped web app with the glacial web services and the slow responsiveness and they'll dismiss it out of hand. A competitor will come along with a spritely alternative that has a fraction of the features and will eat your lunch.

This is the demonstrative history of our industry. Over and over again performance (and this is a relative thing -- a CRM with a 1.5s page render time is fine when everything was slow, but suddenly feels archaic and junky when a competitor is effectively instantaneous) has been the difference between winners and losers. But we still have these cheap conversations as if it's a feature that you just bake in later.
Some time ago, during the height of the election political frenzy, dang expressed the wishes of the moderator community for a week of no politics[0]. It is possible that people enjoyed the period and are consciously trying to extend it. It is also possible that the controversial nature of Comey's remarks got this post a number of partisan flags. The most likely explanation is a little mix of everything.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
I taught a ton of a11y stuff in my intro to web classes. Even did screen reader demos. I wasn't the only one. There are lots of folks teaching this stuff. Not a critical mass, but I'm so thankful it's happening. :)
> Honestly this is a horrible philosophy -- the notion that anything can be sexist if someone chooses to be offended.

But it's the exact opposite. Being offended has nothing to do with sexism. Sexism is an objective situation of an unequal distribution of power. Sexism would exist even if everyone in the world thought it was great, and no one was ever offended in the slightest.

> but isn't the ability to recontextualize any bad behavior as sexist just because of the participants involved a huge source of power in of itself?

I don't know what "bad" behavior is. I do know what sexist behavior is: behavior the creates or perpetuates an unequal distribution of power. There is no "recontextualization" involved; sexism would exist or not regardless of how it's contextualized; like gravity. The only ethical question is whether you believe that this imbalance of power needs to be rectified.

But do people who fight sexism have power? Sure, they have some, but clearly, the imbalance of power between men and women is so large, that there is still no question about which side has more power.