skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem drinking is split into different types.

There is harmful drinking, and you possibly fall into that range, depending how strong the drinks are and how large the serving size is.

If you drink 5 glasses of wine, and the glasses are 150 ml, and the wine is 12.5% you're drinking a bit over 9 units per week so that's ok. But if the glasses are 175 ml and you drink 7 of them a week you're drinking 15 unit a week, and that's a little bit over the recommended level.

There's a dose dependant response, so the more you drink the more harm is caused. There are also genetic factors for some of the harms. And increasing a low risk might not be something you're worried about.

But then there's also dependant drinking. That has a few markers: are you preoccupied with alcohol? Do you seek alcohol if you don't have any? Have you built up a tolerance to alcohol? Do you continue to drink alcohol even though you know it's causing you harm?

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg115/chapter/Introduction

> Harmful drinking is defined as a pattern of alcohol consumption causing health problems directly related to alcohol. This could include psychological problems such as depression, alcohol-related accidents or physical illness such as acute pancreatitis. In the longer term, harmful drinkers may go on to develop high blood pressure, cirrhosis, heart disease and some types of cancer, such as mouth, liver, bowel or breast cancer.

> Alcohol dependence is characterised by craving, tolerance, a preoccupation with alcohol and continued drinking in spite of harmful consequences (for example, liver disease or depression caused by drinking). Alcohol dependence is also associated with increased criminal activity and domestic violence, and an increased rate of significant mental and physical disorders. Although alcohol dependence is defined in ICD-10 and DSM-IV in categorical terms for diagnostic and statistical purposes as being either present or absent, in reality dependence exists on a continuum of severity. However, it is helpful from a clinical perspective to subdivide dependence into categories of mild, moderate and severe.
What natural side? Where do you ultimately get the right to ownership from if not purely from your ability to fight for your claim to ownership?

It just doesn't exist "out there"
Except that most webapps are entirely javascript based and thus AJAX nowadays. But I guess we're just conveniently ignoring this?

And I'm not talking about changing anything. On most of my websites if you do a POST without having a session id (which gets assigned on first pageload, a GET), then you are a bot and your POST will be blocked. Byebye. There are many such schemes out there.
Same here. Ember is also such a project where you go on vacation for two weeks and come back to a project where it is now 3 versions behind.
No, it is not. This is not a distinct separate case when it comes to _command-line parameter parsing_, which is the topic of the article.

The cases when it comes to parameter parsing on Linux and Unix operating systems are things like:

* A POSIX-conformant shell parsing a command line, in a shell script or entered interactively, into an argument vector.

* systemd parsing a string in ExecStart= in one of systemd's service definitions into an argument vector.

* Things that parse .desktop files, as given in the article.

* execlineb or nosh parsing a file into an argument vector.

- http://skarnet.org/software/execline/grammar.html

- http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/nosh.html

* init parsing single fields of records in /etc/ttys or /etc/inittab into argument vectors.

* cron programs parsing fields in crontab records into argument vectors.

and so forth. These are all subtly or blatantly different, and the headlined article has glossed over this to a degree.
If you are coders, hackers or entrepreneurs I would love to hear what you think about this approach
Hypothesis: they attract folklore because of their beauty, fleeting appearances, etc. and so get named according to local tales?
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As a poor person, I'd like one cum cum pls orders
Ah, of course. That is indeed a significant issue...
Get a new job before your entrepreneur spirit is crushed. Just quit. Seriously! There are way better gigs. Put that passion into something that can change the world.
If you don't interact with sites (POSTing, like the parent comment is talking about) you obviously won't notice the breakage. Since you whitelist the sites you interact with (shopping sites and similar) you are already sidestepping the problem.
Discord raised ~$50m at $725m valuation
If we consider the topical chronology/lineage stemming from Euclid's Elements, and how much of our world relies on Mathematics, one could argue that it is the most influential book ever written.
Impressive how our great countries can be so shitty when nation takes precedence over citizen.
Why can't we find 80 square feet apartments for ~$300 in the USA/Canada?
Life after death is like life before birth. What were you doing five hundred years ago? It will be just like that.
government pension funds are not a smaller scam. Enough to say they constantly raise the age at which you can start collecting your pensions and return you small % before you die. So privately owned funds, even if they have massive commissions, still return back more than the government.

The government introduced this type of investing in Poland in the reform in 1999 and in 2014 just didn't buy back obligations which were bought using peoples money.
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I'll bet it would be difficult, because it's a maze of twisty passages, all different. Money flows from one private business entity to another, and I think the complexity would make it hard to get even a broad overview of who is actually pocketing the money.

OTOH it would be easier in a completely government managed system, because there would be fewer entities and they could all have full reporting imposed on them by design.
Be great if they could bounce back from using a third of my CPU on basic indexing.
My browsers are set to purge all cookies upon exit. And I typically exit at least daily.
The people involved probably believed they were doing what the government was incentivising them to do. Heck, they probably were. I've invested in a tax-advantaged pension, is that "theft"? I've signed on a patent application that my then-employer probably wouldn't've made if there hadn't been an R&D tax credit for it, is that "theft"?
Indeed! The best of our conscious creations don't even come close to the marvel of a tiny ant, or even a bacterium; both materially and computationally. Our collective hubris at nature is very very sad.
This is happening not only in the US but around the globe.
I struggle with it myself.

I find there are 4 main problems associated with erosion where I work (Portugal):

1) Herbicides overkill leads to the death of useful grasses that help hold soil structure. Some fungicides may kill mycorrhizae which are fundamental in soil maintenance (http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/Effects-of-Fungici...)

2) Tillage avoidance is recommended, and in some cases prohibited. But people do it nevertheless... The consequences are obvious.

3) Dams built with irrigation in mind often accumulate mineral salts at a rate larger than what Nature would drain towards the sea. Since water is used in places with lower rain levels, drainage in those places is low as well, which leads to salination (Sometimes it also leads to lower levels of mineral salts in river mouths, thus a decline in phytoplankton and as as consequence fish populations).

4) Global warming means tougher draughts and heavier rains, which means more erosion.

We're headed to some serious problems if we don't take these issues seriously.
The number of employees they have working on what looks like a simple app is staggering.
mirror: https://sashatrubetskoy.github.io/romanmap/ (mods: can you update the link?)
It doesn't seem to mention the works of the Indian mathematicians from Kerala, India on calculus. I think their work predated that of Newton and Leibniz.
Six questions, two about politics.
Can confirm. I've had someone contact me on snapchat and show me screenshots of Apple's internal tools and offer to run queries for $$$. He was willing turn off 2FA, change the email, and reset the password (thus, giving me access) for $$$$.

He told me that he texts a friend who calls and pretends to be the customer in question, and texts him all the verification questions he has to ask as part of SOP.

Many AppleCare employees work from home, so I can see it is difficult to track and stop this sort of thing.
Remind me to overcharge you if ever I serve you in a shop. When you complain that with that extra $n you have done some thing, I'll point you back to that comment.
I have the same feeling. Started a project with node4 not too long ago (1,5 years when I think) and haven't touched it for a while. Amazing to see that it's now already 4 major versions behind, and when I get to work on it again probably even more.

The positive thing is that they probably didn't remove or deprecate a lot of APIs, so I guess upgrading my own stuff is most likely not a huge effort. The bigger fear is how all the third party dependencies might cope with a node update.
Alternatively, you can calculate how much you'd pay and save/invest in particular scenarios after taking into account ROI, rent, maintenance, mortgage interest, property taxes, closing costs incl. risk of wanting to move earlier than expected, and personal discipline to save when not compelled by a mortgage.

Phrases such as "put it into your own pocket or someone else's" are a vast oversimplification that has more to do with faith and indoctrination than actual fiscal outcomes. It's true some of the time, but you should never make a decision based on a blanket statement like this one. It's not that hard to make an individual analysis for your very own situation, so make yourself some data points rather than listen to biased generalizations.
I'm an unlimited storage customer and I just found out about this change here on HN, not happy about that..

I will say that even at $60/yr for 1TB and unlimited photos, its still a nice deal.
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I thought the 'ka-ching' effect and animations really effective. My sample is small, but people in the office (who are not techies) all found it engaging and actually read the damn thing, and they don't normally read links I forward. Maybe the action keeps them interested? None are German.
It made me enjoy it more, and spend more time on the page.
What part of Europe? This is pretty sub-standard in the civilized Eastern-Europe...
While I do think the rules should be fixed, I don't think it's fair to call it theft. They do have lawyers to make sure it's legal.

There are desks at banks whose entire reason for existence it tax arbitrage. It's not really a great use of people's education and time, but it's real and it's legal. I don't know the specifics of how it's done, but I do know these desks exist.

There was another case in Denmark where the tax department basically neglected to check that the claimants actually owned the shares and just sent them a huge amount of withheld dividend tax.

The underlying issue is that the rules can be gamed, but only by entities who can pay for the professionals who understand them. There's gotta be a smarter way to arrange the tax system.
Labeling the action that is legal under the law as "theft" makes me very suspicious of both the arguments and findings. The laws should be a set of hard, well defined rules (ideally finalcial rules are even formally interpretable). And if one does not break those rules he is not a criminal.

I think much of the problem is due to tax system complexity. Not sure about Germany, but in the US we have a horribly complicated mess. Thus the spirit and the letter of the law are not the same (at least it is not clear if they are the same).

I think the main argument that I kind of buy is that while the companies described do not break the letter of the tax law, the break the spirit of it. I would agree if the rules were simple and well understood. As it is, what if I got audited by the IRS. If they find me missing a receipt (say, a paper copy got destroyed) my arguments that I am fulfilling the spirit of the law by paying my share of taxes would fall on deaf ears (I think). Broke the letter of the law -- this is your fine. And this approach encourages reciprocity. My 2c.
Creator here. This was a weekend project that turned to be a lot longer :) This is my first version. Happy to answer any questions.

P.S. I see a lot of new sign-ups but no comments so far.
I am eagerly awaiting your feedback. Is the site working for you? What are your first impressions?
Since our States betrayed us in many ways, it's slowly becoming almost criminal to still pay the taxes to support them. And this is not an exaggeration. I know what I'm speaking of.
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Babylonians solve quadratic equations.'
Yes they can, and I benefit from that kind of subsidies (Integrated Farming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_farming).

Also, a completely free market doesn't just lead to the tragedy of the commons, but to the rape of Nature.
I thought we agree until this comment :). I don't see tech as hubris at all. I see it as what makes humans interesting.

For me, since the dawn of human age, we've been mostly taking baby steps, and only in the last two or three decades we've entered puberty. There's still a lot for us to learn, and nature is a constant reminder of that.\

For me, the fly is not amazing just because it's a fly - it's amazing because it shows how many things we have not learned... yet. It's a constant reminder that we're nowhere near the peak of what's possible, and a constant encouragement to try and scale that peak.
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As of June 2017, if you could start over from scratch and had to spend a practical amount of money on one or more development environments (work, travel, home), and if you had some extra for other accessories (input devices, monitors, ergonomic stands, chairs, treadmill, elliptical, standing desk), or if you had a substantial amount of funding and wanted to ensure the developers in your startup were well taken care of, what would be the best environment to ensure a developer has (within reason) the best environment to be productive?
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Except the gift was nothing but funding the charter school grift (don't get me wrong, charter schools could work, and in some cases do work, but for the large part, in the US, the charter school movement has pretty much entirely been hijacked by union busters and people who want to profit off the privatization of education).
I think the new wording is more uncertain, since we now don't know at what time Jottacloud will claim unlimited storage has been exceeded. They say that "in some cases where the total storage- and network use significantly exceeds the average use of a Jottacloud user, [we] can deem this use as excessive".

Before I had a hard limit to stay under, now I cannot know anymore. This was the reason I stopped using Jottacloud, going all in on ACD..
I'll write an example today and post it. But basically you just do:

```
$ telepresence -m vpn-tcp --new-deployment example --run-shell
```

And now you have a shell with env variables matching a kube pod, and processes can access kubernetes services by name using standard k8s DNS lookup.
> Which is proof that they don't answer to polls about the policies in it, but its brand.

It's proof that you can confuse people by calling something one thing for a few years and then ask them about something else and telling them good things about it. Virtually any policy can be made more popular this way.
Access to leverage is much more available (and is highly subsidized) when it comes to US homes.

Personally, I think that is a major problem and the US would be much better off if the government stopped amping home ownership so much, but from a rationale actor point of view its fairly easy to turn government subsidized mortgages into outsized returns in housing.
Among all the words listed, the only one which seems to be consistent across various language families is mother. All roots of mother seem to begin with "m" including in Chinese (母亲), English, Bengali. I believe South Indian languages are slightly different (correct me if I'm wrong). So perhaps this is a more modern word.
pretty sure he was being sarcastic
Hmm, let's see what keeps me up all night.

* Unemployed for 2 years
* 35, single due to unemployment
* I feel lucky; no kids to torture with this misery
* Mortgage ~= 209K euros
* Thinking of ways to make a living
* Companies avoid hiring me for some reason and they simply reply back with an "overqualified" email.
* If I was given the opportunity to change profession, what would be the ideal job for me?
* OCD, Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), introvert by nature. Now that's a deadly cocktail!
* Have zero friends to go out, plus living in the mountains with parents (thank you financial recession)
* Bloody vampires (mosquitoes) around the room, they are everywhere!
* Remembering things I did when I was 6 or 7 years old and feel embarrassed now. It happens all the time...
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27471/does-the-...

Adds a little too, looks like the idea of butterflies stealing butter may come from their voids looking like butter.

I'd also like to imagine a story being made about them stealing butter to encourage children to cover the butter.
It is hard, but always remember that people are responding to the situation, to their own drivers/measures, and their own issues, and _not_ first and foremost to the person you are - but to the message you deliver.

That isn't easy, but if you can forgive their action/reaction and don't focus on the person, you can start to separate those feelings out.

Take time in your responses to others - don't feel you need to respond to that email until you've had time to think it through, sleep on it if needs be. Do what you can to diffuse the situation.

But first and foremost question if this is the right company/culture for you. I've had working experiences that have upset me, but talking with people at the company actually helped to bring about great change - so I didn't need to leave (which was an option), but if it hadn't I certainly would have left, and I'm certain I would have found something new that I loved. In the end I did move on (for other reasons) and have found a position in a very supportive company - the benefits to me personally are huge and I'm sure they also positively impact my family and friends. Don't 'wear' the pain.

Lastly: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1768:_Settling
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Index funds, by simple math, return exactly the average of the market with less fees, so they are strictly better than the average managed money which returns the same with more fees:

https://web.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/active/active.htm

And your ideas of picking 3 stocks + small cap is just that, an active bet that deviates from the market composition. Unless you've gone back on your conclusion that you're not Peter Lynch it's probably not much of a path.

The only risk of rising index fund usage is that the market will cease being efficient. The way I see it is if that starts happening strongly (and it will take a lot more indexing than currently exists) first the market will become more volatile because price discovery will be worse with less people making bets. Then at some point if there are too few active investors indexing will become less viable because it will be easier for active investors to "steal" money from indexers by trading ahead of them and using other advantages over someone that's just buying and holding. This will make the index fund deviate from the index itself and it becomes unusable.

I find these scenarios extremely unlikely because of the "Intelligent Investor" crowd you mention. There is indeed a premium paid to people that bring actual good information to the market. Buffett and others like him still make a lot of money, everyone else gets to ride along the efficient market they create. Buffett by the way recomends index funds.

I'd love a reasonable contrarian view on this though. Most I've seen are just fund managers trying to justify their unjustifiable fees that create no value.
So how would you categorize CrashPlan? They offer unlimited storage for $60/year. I've had around 8TB backed up there for the last 2-3 years. They have existed since 2001 (no idea how long the unlimited feature has existed).

On the other hand, supporting your point #1, I used to have several TB on StreamLoad which 10ish years ago used to also offer unlimited... until they suffered a critical hardware failure and lost tons of customer data. They then changed to MediaMax, then suddenly disappeared.

Perhaps you know of others, or this list is incomplete, but Wikipedia has a list of file services, of which there aren't many who offer an unlimited plan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_hosting_ser...
When I said "100% non-dilutable share", that was unclear. I meant non-dilutable 100% share. As in, total ownership.
I wish the West would learn from them.

In Tokyo these days, you can go to a culture festival and not have to see police stationed every block with assault rifles and flak jackets.

They're watching and learning from us, that's for sure.
> but further "three beers a day" would not even come close to any definition of chronic, heavy drinking.

That's a weird thing to say.

Assume a 330 ml bottle of beer at 5%. That's 1.65 units per bottle; 4.95 units per day. If we only do 6 days, and have one day drink free we get 29 units, which is double the recommended level of 14 units a week.

You're certainly increasing your risk of a wide range of disease, including a number of cancers, by drinking this much.
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I had another deal with a third-party site coming in March and was afraid to completely burn the thing :)
How do you feel about a similar law for real estate agents? That is, the agent must act in the interest of the seller and cannot accept money from a buyer.

Or a law that says lawyers must act in the interest of their clients?
I would say a big advantage. Whenever I have needed to set up a system that uses Node recently (Mozillas Pontoon for example), Node always seems to cause problems.
Crashplan isn't incompatible with NAS. You can either mount a share and run it from your workstation, or run it directly on the NAS itself. The core of the product is Java so it runs on just about any architecture to boot.
It's just this easy. If it's legal, it's not theft. I don't like that either but that's how the law is.

I mean, apparently, it wasn't so bad. It only took them 20 years to make that behavior illegal. They would certainly have been faster if it were bad. /sarcasm

People will always try to game the system. But in this case, the politicians failed to act properly after it was obvious that it didn't work out as intended.