skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Singapore's not that bad as long as you're not gay (which is illegal and punishable by a prison term), a political activist for the opposition party, too independent thinking or otherwise labeled as undesirable by the government.
"External adjustment to estimate the impact of three unmeasured confounders, including obesity, smoking and use of therapeutics including anticoagulants, antiplatelet agents and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, shows a net confounding bias of 9.66% (see online supplementary figure 5). The total bias could move a null association between PPI and death from HR 1.00 to HR 1.10 (reflecting the net positive bias of 9.66% rounded up to 10.0%). The association we observed between PPI and death was 1.25>1.10, which cannot be fully due to bias of unmeasured confounding."

"Covariates included age, race, gender, eGFR, number of outpatient serum creatinine measurements, number of hospitalisations, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, peripheral artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, chronic lung disease, cancer, hepatitis C, HIV, dementia and diseases associated with acid suppression therapy use such as gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD), upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract bleeding, ulcer disease, Helicobacter pylori infection, Barrett’s oesophagus, achalasia, stricture and oesophageal adenocarcinoma.25–28 eGFR was calculated using the abbreviated four-variable CKD epidemiology collaboration equation based on age, sex, race and outpatient serum creatinine.29 Race/ethnicity was categorised as white, black or other (Latino, Asian, Native American or other racial/ethnic minority groups). Comorbidities except for hepatitis C and HIV were assigned on the basis of relevant ICD-9-CM (the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification) diagnostic and procedure codes and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes in the VA Medical SAS data sets.2 30–33 Hepatitis C and HIV were assigned based on laboratory results."

http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/6/e015735

That all said, this journal doesn't have a great impact factor (2.37), so this definitely falls under "huh, this warrants further study."
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This is awesome! Definitely going to try this out instead of using ngrok next time I need it.
I don't think you are approaching this right. You are painting an entire group of people under the same brush... Also, feminism is promoting equality.
It's hard to know what's right on this stuff. For every woman like Maria, there's another woman saying that exclusive events helped her get over her fears and join in. There are women who celebrated their geeky side and then were scared off by men who, for whatever reason, couldn't manage to treat her like one of the boys.

Some areas of tech have reached that terrible threshold where women aren't just a minority, they're ultra-rare. This makes the problem worse as they become a black hole for all the attention, both positive and negative (and that terrible combination of both where a million lonely young men chase the one woman who is Like Them). Even if you subscribe to the idea that the apparent disinterest of women in the field is not a real problem, you can't deny that it's bad when they start facing the effects of being a "fringe group".
This is likely because people were terrified of plugging exposed high current high voltage connectors in outdoor setting.
Haven't you heard? Treating everybody decently is racism.
When I was involved in IEEE 802.11, I was greatly surprised to find that in rooms where there was up to 250 people, there was little people who do not either look as a white old hippie from California (including their delicious accent) or someone from China/Korea.

I must confess that I have my share of prejudice, but I do my best to mitigate them. Researching writing material for a self-published little book in French on Africa prehistory, makes me understand how I was innerly racist, even if I would have fiercely deny being racist before I wrote this book.

I look around me and found many things very strange at work (it evolved recently) and last fall when I returned to the local French university (I am 60), most professors seems to me to at the same time:

- Claiming super high moral standards

- Making racist (against African and Asian) and misogynist statements all the time

So it may be quite common -at the same time- to think to be nice and still having some prejudices....
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HRM looks fun. Bought it. TIS100 notsomuch to me. I can see the appeal for some thou.
I;m not sure that I understand. E-2s are in fact relatively easy to obtain because the requirements are pretty clear and it's really just a matter of checking the boxes. In short, regardless of the number of owners, the company needs to be at least 50% owned by citizens of your country and there needs to be a substantial investment into the company by citizens of your country. SAFEs concern future ownership so they are not immediately relevant from an ownership standpoint but they can of course impact future ownership and continued E-2 qualification.
The flaw is that the leap from decision in difficult cases to dangerous driving
or other behavior are wild guesses. He sets up straw men versions of what the impact of the evidence should be, then rebuts them.

The reality is that the same psychological state that makes a judge less lenient might also make us better drivers, not worse.
No, not really. You still need a full-fledged engine. You might be able to simplify it a bit because it doesn't need to produce optimal fuel economy across a large operating range, but it still isn't going to be much different than a normal car engine. For a good example, check out the Chevy Volt, which works exactly the way you say.
The very idea of rebasing in git, it just gives me the creeps
I'd love to hear your thoughts. It's done! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703098
VBA is less limited than people like the believe. When I was bored in one college lesson I was playing around with calling Win32 APIs inside a Word 97 macro. I was able to call winsock and write a simple chat application.
Not just don't care, also deliberate theft. It's been a big problem with TSA agents in the United States.
The CCP is the only political party in China and is willing to do whatever it takes to keep it that way. The CCP is also known for abducting journalists for reporting on "rumors" (i.e. reporting on stuff the CCP doesn't like), the Tiananmen Square massacre, hiring an army of paid internet trolls to advance the party line on domestic and foreign websites, and trying to set up an Orwellian "social credit" system where things like support for the party line affect whether you can take out a loan from the bank or use the public transit system. I could go on but I think you get the point.

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted, everything I mentioned has been widely reported on and can be confirmed in ten seconds with a Google search.
in a way lisp OSes too, they didn't serialize data at all, it was single space pointer passing (with all the issues it creates)
Perhaps you can find a more charitable interpretation for my comment? If it's not what he said, then it doesn't apply to him. But if it does, it is my personal opinion that people can free themselves of the mindset that how others see them affects what they can or can not do.
Do L-1A/L-1B visa have minimum stay requirements?

As in, if someone is granted a L-1A/L-1B visa, but their job requires them to be physically present in the US 30% of the time and 70% elsewhere, could their visa be revoked?
No they haven' made it pretty clear that "jihadist groups had made progress." Please provide a citation for that. The official TSA website states:

"Evaluated intelligence indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressively pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks"[1]

It says nothing about them making progress. Also that's a pretty nebulous statement. "Evaluated intelligence indicates"? Why not share the details with the public in the form of a redacted report?

Could you imagine the Surgeon General in the US issuing a statement that some food causes cancer and then not releasing any of the details? Of course not.

Withholding details that allow your citizens to make their own informed decisions regarding their safety and welfare is unacceptable.

Also did anyone ever assume that terrorists had stopped being interested in damaging aircraft? We are reminded of that every time we fly in the US and are berated and abused by TSA personal. So this isn't really a new development is it?

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/03/21/fact-sheet-aviation-secu...
"Only white people" doesn't mean "no racism". As an Englishman, let me assure you my ancestors managed racism against white Irish people extremely well, and - somewhat ironically - plenty of the less educated people around me today are extremely racist to eastern Europeans (who are supposedly "takin' er jerbs").

Your point is "I don't do racist things, therefore there isn't a problem", which is just not true - there are still huge problems for tons of people with racism, sexism and other bigotry, and just because you don't see it or notice it doesn't make it not a problem. You got annoyed? I'm sure some non-racists were annoyed when all anyone could talk about was how bad slavery was. If you don't care about the issue, feel free to ignore it - but saying that people are imposing on you by caring is just unreasonable.
I fly a lot. The only time that has happened to me was when I was on a flight out of Atlanta after taking my crew to a gun range to shoot some auto's. I'm gonna guess the cordite burns on my shirt and residue on my hands probably had something to do with it.
I believe that it's an exploit for honest people's desire to be fair. In reality, it's self-segregation.
Wow. Came here to make this comment. It seems like the whole point of a model layer is to decouple it from the UI and the Controllers.
Only $500 bounty to hacker who got Zomato source code, email, database
It's always been political, both in terms of the relative "scariness" of nuclear technology after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the costs of space programs.

Most of the space flight technologies using nuclear power were devised for manned flights beyond Earth's gravitational influence, and were on the drawing boards as early as the fifties. Once America successfully landed on the moon and the Soviets gave up, there was immense political pressure to scale back the US space program. With the Space Race won, it was harder to justify the costs of manned interplanetary spaceflight, so a lot of more exotic (read: expensive) plans were shelved. This included more than a couple nuclear propulsion ideas for spacecraft, including one for a nuclear thermal rocket that had been successfully prototyped in the lab and was ready for an actual launch.

Lots of stuff we could have done and could be doing in space if there was money for it.
Thanks for the link. I'm not claiming to be an expert so can you explain what the values here mean? How significant an improvement are these numbers and how do they compare to just doing nothing?

> It had moderate effect compared with non-acupuncture care for musculoskeletal pain (standardised mean difference [SMD] 0.55, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.51 to 0.58), osteoarthritis (SMD 0.57, 95% CI 0.50 to 0.64) and headache (SMD 0.42, 95% CI 0.37 to 0.46).

Also, the comparisons to acupuncture vs sham acupuncture...is this implying that acupunture has some validity (meridians etc.) or just that the sham wasn't convincing enough? Why would acupuncture perform better when meridians have no scientific plausibility?

I've no doubt an elaborate procedure such as acupuncture produces a strong placebo effect but something that isn't better than a placebo shouldn't be considered as working in my opinion.
It's generally helpful to be currently employed by the sponsoring company but the amount of time with that company has little bearing on the success.
You have sensitive client data to send to your client.

Do you:

a) Put it on pastebin and send them a link

b) email it to them

c) put it on a securely encrypted pen drive, courier that to the client, and provide the password via a second communication channel.

(You did not have to do the course to answer the quiz, the answers would generally reveal themselves through the art of sounding super corporate - whilst simultaneously being the thing you've literally never ever seen anyone do)
Why should I celebrate a member my country's military any more than say a sewage plant employee or a school teacher?
This is true, but should still result in lower TCO. Lower TCO means lower velocity of money.
My experience is exactly the opposite - "professional" workplaces are all about middle/upper-class values of dress/speech/behaviour and only comfortable for those with a middle/upper-class cultural/educational background, while the SV-casual workplace is a lot more welcoming for those of us from working/lower-middle class.
> It is impossible because we have very strong evidence against it.

We do not have evidence against it.

Everything he has written is the _lack_ of things that he thinks should logically happen, rather than things that are happening that would disprove the hunger hypothesis.

Evidence would some other experiential data, such as the number of birdies in golf remaining the same before and after lunch.
If you express your opinion on a private forum instead of a public one, you're much less likely to be crucified for it. I can make nasty off-handed comments to my friends in private chat all day, with very little fear that it'll see the light.

Ultimately sheer quantity of people is the bigger problem than anything else.
PDF a perfectly portable in the digital world (the only world in which it has ever existed.)

It's not perfectly optimized for every display (or print page, the two being equivalent) size, resolution, etc., but then neither is any other format that can handle the same range of content, nor will any format ever be until we have AI layout that does as good as professional layout from a single source file for all media sizes and properties.

I find professionally laid out PDFs that are designed for letter/A4 size pages to superior in practical use to any reflowable format I've yet seen at pretty much every size for most content more complex than plain linear text like you'd find in a novel. (Smartphone and smaller devices aren't great for it, but then they aren't great for reading content more complex than linear text regardless of format.)
As a straight white male, this type of thing has never affected me directly.

But as a programmer who's now in his 50s, I'm starting to get a very tiny taste of the same emotions. There was an article on HN just a few days ago about "why you should hire older programmers" which I felt to be deeply, deeply offensive in a way I found hard to articulate. Why are you putting labels on me? Why are you pretending there's something special about this aspect of me that's completely irrelevant to my tech skills? It really bothered me, and I couldn't figure out how to respond to it.

I couldn't imagine being inundated with this stuff on a daily basis. If there were "older programmer" meetups or if HR were reaching out to me to put me in outreach materials or if I had to read articles like this all the time, I honestly don't know well how I'd deal with it. It's easy to deal with the occasional age discrimination in the industry (which is definitely out there), but it's actual this other aspect of it that I find infuriating.
Tesla offers zero employee discounts on their cars. Even Musk pays full price, on principle.

https://www.quora.com/Do-Tesla-employees-get-a-discount-on-T...
I think you're missing qualifiers there because men-only social clubs, for example, have been frowned upon for quite some time now.
That's only true in the modern era where banks get unlimited dollars for free from the central bank.

More typically in modern history, banks can deliver decent rates of return by capitalizing loans with deposits. Risk gets reduced by FDIC or other insurance.

As recently as 2006, savings accounts with zero risk for >80% of the US population paid 4-5% interest.
Hi Peter, could you please elaborate on the "lesser degree" for Chile & Singapore? I'm Chilean and currently under h1b1 and AFAIR it was a relatively painless process: from our side it took about one-two weeks and it was open window with its own cap. Has this changed recently?
> You might wish it were different but the EU Parliament doesn't have any real power.

The EP can't initiate new law, but they can still vote on law proposed by the Commission, which does give them a certain amount of power. Your second link mentions MEPs doing back-room deals with the Commission and European diplomats, which they certainly couldn't do if they were entirely powerless.

I'm also skeptical on your claim that North Korea is the only other legislature where this secret law-making happens. Other autocracies aside, in any system with political parties, proposed legislation will most likely be circulated within the party for some time; then discussed informally with leaders of other parties that might be necessary for a majority, before it is first presented at a public hearing.
Yes and no. Requiring a computer science degree is a fairly reasonable restriction to place on hiring, since it (at least on its face) correlates strongly with qualification for the job. However, requiring all your employees to go on a bro's ski weekend trip, or serving your free dinner at 8 PM every day when none of the women with families can stay for dinner, may have a disparate impact on employees without any correlation to their work performance.

To turn up the contrast and make a semi-absurd argument, one could say, "We don't discriminate on the basis of religion, but we ask all applicants to recite the Lord's Prayer from memory in their interview. Strangely, we never seem to hire any Hindu or Muslim applicants." OK, that's absurd, but what if you only recruit at universities that have extremely low female:male graduation ratios in their CS programs, when there are other programs with better balance? That's certainly not discriminatory on its face, but it has the same result as if you had discriminated overtly.

Sexism may not be the right word (and I didn't use that word), but I do think it's important to look at the results of your policies and environment in totality to determine if you are treating women equitably. This is certainly the standard that the courts use for evaluating things like voting regulations -- look at the recent rulings on North Carolina's voting laws: actions like curtailing the number of weekend voting days that do not mention race at all are clearly crafted to reduce participation by black voters.
Can you tell me the slack channel and how to get invited? I'm located in the US but would love to hear and see what investors in China are thinking. Thanks.
I remember my first programming job straight out of school, where a full clean build of our project emitted 10K+ warnings, and I thought to myself, "Is this really how professional programming is?" Asked a co-worker why on Earth we don't fix them, as there may be serious bugs hiding in there, and the response was "We're too busy fixing bugs!"
Before we can consider seeding terrestrial stations on Mars, we should consider seeding a communications net around Mars. Once we have a half dozen satellites circling Mars, we can start stable comms from the surface to orbit to Earth. It may take 10-20 minutes (for a signal to be received), but the communication is the essential piece here.

I'd also consider putting satellites in Earth and Mars lagrange L3, L4, and L5. It's the start of a solar system based internet, even if it is rudimentary. Think of this as a store-and-forward network where signals may be too weak for Earth to pick up, but can hit Jupiter L5 to Mars planet, to Earth L3.

And greetings, all, BTW.
I was lucky to qualify for Mensa at a young age through a test given in elementary school but didn't see enough benefit in joining to make it worthwhile. Luckily after you qualify once, I believe you can join anytime in your life without doing the test again. I list that I qualified in the random achievements section on AngelList (https://angel.co/taylor); I hadn't previously listed it on my LinkedIn or resume but I just added it for kicks.
There is an interesting idea that I like there and that is that it's not ok to talk for people or assume they are victims or part of some victimized class unless they also identify as such, or they make it a part of their identity.

I imagine it would be rather annoying trying to tell someone about a cool algorithm you figured out or implemented and instead they come back and say "Oh but how has your status as a woman played into this algorithm, did you write it because you were oppressed..." and in reality they really just want to talk about the cool algorithm.

It would be like someone imposing their assumption about me being an immigrant and assuming that is the primary part of my identity and somehow that struggle or issues I've had because of it are front and center and color everything I do in life. There is a different issue, if I come out and say "yes, this shapes everything I do, I want to talk about it, and so on". It would feel patronizing, and even more so if they'd somehow used it to push some kind of agenda.
The short answer is no. As long as the job is U.S. based, extensive travel outside should have no bearing on the continued validity of his L-1 visa.
But Musk's numbers are much lower than everyone else's and he usually some percentage late, Not decades. Sometimes he is even on time.

He does things that many claim are literally impossible, who cares if they come 10% later and that is 3 months. If Telsa hits the production numbers by June they are still doing something that GM and Ford once said was decades in the future.
Yes! I played HRM, and the optimization challenges were challenging even for someone that teaches low level programming.
The example itself is interesting (and truly very revealing) but I kind of wish you hadn't included that reddit thread with it. It was weird seeing some pretty cringey replies get so heavily upvoted. Perhaps it's just the increased anonymity of reddit that's the cause, or the particular demo browsing that subreddit.
This is the most well thought out, honest, and non-agendized essay I've ever read on this subject matter. Bravo, and I hope readers see the value in a piece such as this!
I've tried intermittent fasting as a weight control strategy. Unfortunately I discovered that fasting increased the frequency of my migraines. Fasting probably isn't for everyone.
Same with "The Wire". I enjoy it however I feel like it grants a false sense that law enforcement follows all the rules for obtaining warrants for surveillance.
I'll need to defer to your HN colleagues.
Wasn't there a flight simulator or a Doom a decade ago?