skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good, now can they confirm/publish that pesticides cause harm to HUMANS?
Could you please stop with the personal attacks? These don't belong at all on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I have many pleasant memories of living in France many years ago: great food, strong respect for ideas, great ambiance. And, no, I did not speak French and never encountered any bias from the Parisians, despite my California way of speaking.

Berlin and Stockholm sound good too, have never been. But I would respond first to the nation that is proactively reaching out.

I don't view it as "cashing in on the Trump situation" as much as throwing a lifeline to those of us who are drowning in a sea of hate and anti-science.
Most uses are in rather obscure bioinformatics packages, where the exact matching of sequences is useful, including BWT compression of the arrays. Easy to Google, but I don't know if any pure-Python versions not written in C exist, and having seen colleagues argue about the best/most correct implementation, I prefer not to link any (Google is your friend...). But so any interesting performance comparison would probably be against a pure C implementation.
Please don't post such tedious, off-topic, flamebait here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Umm, I think it is not aimed at only people from the US who want to migrate but also to potential talent who were considering the US as an option for investment or as the next step in their careers.

Yeah there is a big PR spin to the whole thing but can you really fault the French for using the same approach the US did? Isn't that what the US did all those years when it sold the idea of the American Dream, which in reality isn't all that it was cracked out to be?
That's exactly how public-sector jobs work in the US.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
Have you tried out openbsd?

Not trying to start a flame war but once I managed to install it how I liked the entire system felt so cohesive and well designed. (Ifconfig handling wpa for instance) and it turned out to be so much lighter that my laptops battery life went up 20%.

It was an older thinkpad though. So I guess YMMV.
I have also had that idea. Instead of giant machines only capable of harvesting monocultures, couldn't we downscale to small, autonomous vehicles that can farm efficiently on a vegetable garden at scale. Many cheap drones to farm the way our ancestors did using manual labour
Eating a diet largely based on plants but with meat every now and then has all the benefits of a purely plant based diet but without the problems
If you have some trees around the hives the swarm will usually hang there for a few hours so it is entirely possible to catch it. These swarms are the best since they are ready to build new home and they build really really fast if you catch them and put them into new hive. What is left in the old hive are half of the bees and new queen.

Now about hive health. There is this thing called Varroa and if you let the hive swarm half of it goes with the swarm and the other half stays. Varroa I mean. What is really good with swarming is that the hive now has a virgin queen and she doesn't lay eggs right away and a lot of Varroa dies off because they can't reproduce. They need eggs and bee larvae to do so. The swarm with old queen has an interruption as well because they need to build comb and cells where the queen lays eggs.

In my beekeeping years ago I kept hives healthy ( fight against Varroa ) entirely with letting them swarm.

Just to write it once again since by your writing I think you are confused...Old queen leaves with the swarm.
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There are two major kinds of stroke, ischemic and hemorrhagic.
Yes but it's a myth: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/mobileart.asp?article...
Excess iron in men also elevates cancer incidence, so I don't think one should take an iron supplement if there's no need. A blood test is necessary. If you look closely at the men and women's multivitamins that are sold in stores, you'll see that there is no iron on the men's multivits.

Excess iron can be reduced by donating blood.

Also important: cast iron cookware introduces a non-insignificant amount of iron into cooked food, which can be detrimental (or beneficial) depending on the subject.
In fairness, Animate Dead is fine without the Earth Magic skill.
I use linode. Been a loyal customer from years. Basic service is $40 a month with $10 for automated backups. Fits within the bandwidth contraints. I've also spent a lot of time optimizing the hell out of the server.
Will they pay as good as the Us? That is going to be the biggest motivator in my opinion.
It isn't about trust in mathematics; its trust that in the future someone will still be willing to buy your bitcoin (with whatever, be that dollars or loaves of bread).
What resources did you use links will be helpful and how long did it take from Bootcamp to Google
It's not that uncommon to work 12 hours per day 7 days a week in touristic places.
In my case, two of the offers were from my network/friends. One was as the only developer for an exciting pre-incubator startup (I would still have been taking a decent salary), and another was for a company who gave me a decent offer and the head of engineering reached out to me personally whilst I was deliberating to offer some very kind words. The end result was that in all 4 cases I ended up caring about the people i'd be disappointing if I turned down the offer.

So you're right that maybe the mass approach is better for avoiding this feeling, although it's hard to imagine taking it unless I was already out of work and could invest the time in such a high number of potential interviews.
Really cool. It's always interesting to see how this stuff works on the back end.

An interesting thing on the tech side, is that almost all of the lighting and effects in that building are probably controlled via a relatively-ancient protocol called either: DMX or Artnet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art-Net

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512

Come from a software/networking background, this was really interesting to me because the address-space is so small! 512 channels per "universe", and most control boards supper only a few "universes".

Part of my life (when I'm not writing computer software) involves shooting fire effects at music festivals, so I have [luckily] gotten really interesting exposure to a small part of the tech that makes stage/theater productions happen.
i3 has modes which sort of allow the chained key command idea.
United Kingdom leads Europe in TV and on-demand media
Meeting Snowden
15 devices (including 6 laptops) earn FSF's 'Respects Your Freedom' certificates
You can't make this stuff up.

I recall... circa 20 years ago, making the argument to my management that emailing their entire client/prospectus list, with corresponding metrics, to our latest flavor of consulting firm, with no encryption or security whatsoever, was an unnecessary and easily remedied risk. (Encrypt it, duh...)

My argument fell on deaf ears. Not just unconcerned, but also uncomprehending...

(And how many other clients did these consultants have, who were asked to do the same thing?)

When people fail and refuse to understand the basics -- to learn the basics in a changing world, from many people who would be willing, in good will, to teach them... They should be divested of their authority. They've demonstrated the need for this, themselves.
He was great in Boardwalk Empire!
Can you give some more insight of the project? What problem was trying to solve and why was Watson chosen?

I am curious, because I got approached by a company to work on a project and when I went to do my evaluation I met the Watson team on site. They looked a bit arrogant and didn't want to answer to any of my questions.
> traditional conflation of characters and bytes

But that's precisely what "string" vs "bytes" untangles... (talking Python 3 here; Python 2 suffers precisely from the mess you mention)
I can't think of any of his performances that have been weak (performance-wise).
We need to hear all sides of this debate before coming to any conclusions.

It's probably time to inject as much political vitriol into this as possible, and pretend to debate this controversial 'study' and so-called 'science' for another several decades at a minimum to really verify the science. If the bees aren't politicized and ranted against by talking heads, politicians, and cable TV pundits, how will we ever know what to think of them?

Bees are for wimps, pollinating is part of the study thumping pro-science evidence based agenda!
A moron as the chief leader of the country is not something that France shares with the US.

In addition, I don't see a huge number of elected representatives of France colluding with one of their chief enemies.

France has it's issues; however, their leadership is significantly better than the US, at the moment.
I imagine the skeuomorphism being invoked is that secretaries are stereotypically women.
No, around 40k€ / year, before taxes.
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Thanks for sharing this, I'm currently using this https://teachyourselfcs.com/ as a study tool.
I think one important thing to point out here is this is a _insecticide_ study, not an _herbicide_ study, because they're very very different things.

That being said, I'd like to see the results replicated independently. As there article points out, there are a bunch of asterisks in the claims... and a lot of conflicting conclusions.

EDIT:
Use the correct term pointed out to me
It's a cute story, but Bayer has disputed the results of this study, still disagrees that their pesticides impact bee populations, and shows no signs of phasing out sales as far as I know.
It's pretty interesting the iPhone holds up so well given that it has basically 1/3 the RAM and the animations seem to be slower (as the narrator keeps mentioning).
Likely a design choice that stems from how humans react to the voices of each gender. Female voices are generally better for voice communications which convey details, information, and other non-commands. Male voices are generally used to communicate from a sense of authority.

Take for instance the NYC subway system. The female voice announces the stop the train has just arrived at, while the male voice instructs customers to 'stand clear of the closing doors' and to 'be aware of pickpockets, take care to ensure the safety of your personal property.'

This is quite intentional. We simply react better when certain types of voices are used to convey certain things.

Source: former audiobook, VO, and podcast casting director.
Or alternatively you can just go outside for a bit.
They are less intimidating and on the whole easier to listen to.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/21/tech/innovation/female-compute...
Out of those 70 companies, how many have job offers in english?
Well, there's actually multiple features that these devices can be measured by (and it's also the job of managers to balance the competing development resources to build and prioritize these).

Unsurprisingly, Google's device has the lead in general knowledge questions.

However, there are other aspects that people might care about, see this article for example:

http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/amazon-echo-vs-google-home/

Also, is it really necessary that because Google did something well, that the people building the Alexa should be shamed?
At this point it seems that many Europe nations are more "free" than the US. Now with same-sex marriage getting legal in germany the probably last big issue is resolved. You will not get extreme high salaries like in the US, but there is stuff like free higher education and getting serious medical care won't be expensive at all.

Also remember that the EU has a higher population than the US with very diverse countries to explore just a few hours apart, all rich of culture and stuff that is over thousand years old.

Oh, and of course we don't have Trump. :D
I think it's partially as a result of early science fiction movies having male-voiced robot antagonists. Mostly HAL.
To clarify the parent comment, Varroa is a parasite that lives on honey bees and can spread diseases harmful to the bees. It's one of the suggested causes of colony collapse disorder.
Also Indian food is often cooked with Ghee which is clarified butter.

Ghee has plenty of fatty acids and vitamins and the vegetarian food you usually get in India is soaked in it.

Indian food is also very heavy in spices many of which contain iron, zinc and many other minierals.
It's not that hard with proper planning (I did it, I lost 70lbs).

Takes 20 minutes for oven to eat up and 12 for pizza to cook.

In 32 minutes you can cook a healthy cheap meal with variety.

I ate porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese and salad for lunch and and chicken/veg, fish/veg for evening meal.
This article overstates Toni's role. Though she does own a good portion of the Alexa ecosystem, there were/are several other directors/VPs that ran/run different portions of the system.

I am not saying that Toni's contributions are negligible, rather that her and her team are part of a bigger organization that built and improves Alexa.

Source: work there
"Bitching Betty" / 'Nagging Nora" show that command voices in safety critical situations can often be female voices.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitching_Betty
While that may be the most common cause, there are many causes of strokes including, in some cases, birth defects that have nothing to do with lifestyle or genetics (as far as we know). See: AVM.
changing Afghan society in a direction most Afghans aren't down with

Is that really so? Before the Russia invasion, Afghanistan was a relaxed country that attracted hippies. I have also yet to meet an Afghan in the West who would be against women working in robotics.

You might find this of interest if you weren't aware of it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/weekinreview/18bumiller.ht...
You cannot directly compare a San Francisco salary to a French/Western European salary. Healthcare, benefits, rent, etc. are completely different.
No mention of self-employed/freelancers/consultants.
Siri, at least, gives the option for a male voice. And BWM diid apparently recall their GPS voice system in the 90s because drivers did not want to take direction from a woman:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27244/did-bmw-r....
Yes, it's a problem, but I think marketing across language and cultural barriers are a much larger problem, and the new VAT rules are merely a bump in the road in comparison.
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This seems sort of like the kind of visa system the USA would advertise to attract a particular talented group, does it not? The founder visa looks quite friendly and easy, but it's four years. What happens after that? And what if the startup fails, does the founder have to leave France?

I also wonder how appealing these international visa programs will be in light of the changing US immigration and visa system. Will the USA lose out on talent? Will the USA lose on half of the next generation of billion dollar+ startups? Assuming the past trend mentioned in WSJ persists, anyway

https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/03/17/study-immigrants-fou...
As a counterpoint: I once had to work on a codebase solely of EE majors. There were no comments except commented out code (~1/5 of the codebase), no uniform formatting, horrible variable names and nothing really worked. I wouldn't expect anything like that from someone at the end of the first semester of CS.

Still, I don't generalize this to all EE majors.
It will be interesting to see how French engineers and computer scientists see this type of visa. The perhaps equivalent H1B visa in the US is or was obviously a big plus in certain areas but was lately perceived as an abuse channel to get cheap labour to replace the locals. Hopefully this scheme won't be abused...
Sorry about that. Please go ahead and remove the comment, I can't.
Quite happy with Hews [1]. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have a widget and hasn't been updated in a year (but it is open source).

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leavjenn.h...
I'm sorry, but if I hear a male AI voice, I'm thinkin HAL, and that's just how it is.
To be fair, Hong Kong isn't very happy about no longer being British now. (Different example than current, as there are a huge number of native civilians living there)
"I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase. It's all in the game though, right?"
Am I misunderstanding or does this example from the post:

auto g1 = std::bind(g, _1);
auto f2 = std::bind(f, _1, g1, 4);
f2(10); // calls f(10, g(10), 4);

Imply that function values in a bind's argument list are silently converted into function invocations? Doesn't this mean you can't pass functions around? Why would you break fundamental assumptions about the type system like this?

The way placeholder values seem to silently propagate across nested binds is also super gross. This stuff doesn't seem composable at all and it seems like it shouldn't have made it into any standard.
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Herbicides are a subset of pesticides.

(I know, I used to think “pesticide” meant it killed creatures, but plants are also pests.)
I would think many more would know Diego Garcia exists (both among British voters and world-wide). Most of them probably would also know it's an island somewhere far away from main land masses. In that sense, they would know the Chagos Archipelago exists, even they don't know its name, or that it is an archipelago.
How can the jurisdiction justify enforcing the law against anyone else if they're not willing to enforce it here?
If Canada wants to jump on situations like this (attendees can't get in), they should simply stop the grilling of U.S. professionals traveling to Canada for conferences and meetings.

Determine and tell Border Patrol that this is not work or a form of work they need to hinder.

Make this clear to the public, including the U.S. public.

Market the amenities and relative affordability of Canadian venues. And the coincident "tourism" appeal for many U.S. attendees.

Profit.

I don't know. I don't participate in these things, for many years. But, it seems attractive to me...
He refactoring overhead costs of the C++ mechanisms over C
As it should be.

We don't have people calling themselves engineers just because can type a few lines of code.
Thanks a lot for bothering to explain the problem. I have never seen this in my field (theoretical computer science), so I wasn't really aware of the problem. (More accurately: reviewers may ask why you do not compare yourself to arXiv preprints, often with indulgence if they are recent, but I have not seen this culture emerge of posting half-baked results to arXiv to claim priority.)

It appears that we agree that the problem is not with arXiv. Part of the problem is unsolvable: if prestigious groups can announce what they are working on and discourage other groups from working on the same problem, this may just be reasonable self-interest from the smaller groups and can hardly be avoided. As for reviewers asking for comparison to these works, I guess the problem lies with the reviewers: if an arXiv preprint has not been refereed and/or is hard to reproduce, it should be OK to say so in another paper and not be blamed for the lack of comparison.

In any case, this is an interesting problem, thanks again for making me aware of it.
Edit - it turns out that the link I put here is actually for a private company. I haven't had any luck finding a more official link for information. If you can help, I'll update this.
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I'm doing the best I can by improving each day, still feel like I have so much to learn every time I see the front page of HN.
“pesticides” covers a broad range of substances.

Which do you mean?
Murder? No, that is too far. But, beat the crap out of him a couple times, and I'm sure he'll realize that gate is a bad idea.
Erlang, for one example.

Read about AXD 301 development.
"Tech" is more than programming and software engineering.

Other engineering fields have less opportunities for self-taught people and innovation in those fields are driven by people with higher degrees.
I don't think it's that neglected, but it's incredibly expensive even with a good insurance policy.
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> The food plate/pyramid which is definitely a good diet?

Just an FYI: no diets have been conclusively shown to definitely be good. The science simply has never been done. The two competing diet regimes (high carb, low fat and low carb, high fat), are recommended by their supporters based on proxies for their theoretical long term benefit, not based on their measured long term benefit.
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> most C code still is correct C++ code
Syntaxicaly yes, but with a more precise semantic and clearer stated "undefined behavior". The canonical example is the work around type punning and such.

> And there is no real performance reason. Many static typed languages compile to code as fast as C - if not faster thanks to tighter semantics.

Speed is only one part of the equation. For stuff like drivers and low level embedded development, we still needs C like unsafe memory manipulation. Rust,D,C# etc all have ways to do that.

> Many static typed languages compile to code as fast as C - if not faster thanks to tighter semantics. (Other than that some C compilers are better quality because of the effort went into them due to language popularity rather than any language feature)

Let's just agree to disagree on that one
No, there are too many observations that are consistent with an expanding universe. For example, primordial nucleosynthesis [1] would either not have occurred in a non-expanding universe, or would not have stopped so soon. In fact, it can be used to show that it is consistent with having only 3 families of light neutrino species.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis

Some relatively small effects of so-called "tired-light" scenario could likely be accommodated, but it would not change the main picture.
I've been using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly... on Android for a long time. It seems to best jive with the ethos of HN -- stripped down design, focused on the content, and just works.
The Hells of being a Founder
HOP is awesome!
The EU temporarily banned the chemical four years ago on the precautionary principle.

I like this approach: the harm done by not being able to use these pesticides for a while, were they to turn out to not be harmful, would surely be outweighed by the risk of further harming the ecosystem.
Okay, you're right, it does speed up very very slightly, but by an amount that is not anywhere near sufficient to keep the perigee from falling, as you originally claimed. The increase in eccentricity of the orbit is the larger effect.
I was under the impression that those correlations are clear but the causalities are still very much up for debate.