skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my experience the only people who use Apple Maps are those who are too lazy to change from the default nav system built into the iPhone or just don't care enough to use a better nav system.

And people who use CarPlay, unfortunately.
Also, shoes and/or soles/inserts.

- 10 years experience in service industry.
I disagree. Uber does not having a positive impact on its own employees, although they're proactively trying to change. Lyft seems to have a much stronger reputation of treating people the right way.
That is pretty interesting! I have a couple questions:

1. How much does your words per minute drop while on the treadmill?
2. What effect does walking while working have on your mind? I.e., a lot of people (myself included) need to pace to clear our minds. Can you clear your mind on that treadmill? Does walking while working distract you very much?
As somebody who gets immense value out of Uber I disagree. They can at least double the price in my location and still be in business. It's easier for me to do business through an App.
My belief is that the primary cause is environmental chemicals, specifically Phthalates and BPA (and related chemicals). The science on this is fairly conclusive. We can show that these chemicals bind to estrogen receptors, that they're present in everyone's body, and that if you're acutely exposed to a higher dose, your testosterone goes down. In my opinion, these chemicals are having social and cultural effects beyond sperm counts. As individuals, there are some things you can do, but some studies have shown that about the best you can do with personal actions is a 50% reduction. The most effective things are to try not to handle store receipts on thermal paper, and wash your hands after you do, and avoid anything that has been microwaved in plastic. Generally reducing heavily processed and fast food is next, because you can't know about things like ingredients flowing through PVC tubing that leaches Phthalates.

Ultimately we are in dire need of regulation of these substances, especially where there is food contact. I'm not very optimistic under trump. Someone clever though might be able to come up with a campaign about chemicals stealing your manhood that might resonate with conservative voters.
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There are labor market overhead costs that are often easily overlooked/under-appreciated too: tying one's health care, as one obvious example, to one's current employer necessarily undermines liquidity in the labor market.

But more importantly: the overall inability in current culture to have "not working" as a legitimate and survivable labor position (for the majority of the labor force, at least) also threatens the liquidity of the labor market. Employers may fire at will, certainly, but as a laborer you can much more rarely quit at will without threatening your establishment in the labor market (Americans often question holes in resumes and may see them as moral failings), and your possible (even short-term) survival (health care, shelter, food).
For me, I'd ride a road bike for cold without snow, and a mountain bike for when it snows. Hard pack and fresh snow are pretty easy on a mountain bike. The days I hated were the ones where we had 6inches to a foot of snow and people had half a day to walk on it so it'd be half packed down.
Yes, that's the purpose of a good headline. Getting people to click on it
At my office, I used a fixed-height standing desk without the bar-stool height chairs that are commonly seen paired with fixed standing desks. In other words, I am standing for the full work day. Meanwhile, my desk at home is a traditional sitting-height fixture. So I do a fair amount of sitting in the evenings as well.

For what it's worth, I don't perceive any difference in my ability to concentrate or be effective while standing, with some caveats:

* With the unfortunate advent of glossy-screened displays, there can be additional glare at a standing height. You may want to evaluate whether your concentration problem is related to the amount of glare or outright reflections of nearby activity you are perceiving on your display. For me, it was important to get semi-matte displays (truly matte is ever harder to find these days) and orient the displays to minimize glare. Side rant: hardware manufacturers, please make matte displays mainstream again.

* My desk was quickly hand-built out of plywood and is non-adjustable. It was intended to be experimental but I've used it for about two years now. My intent is to replace it with a hardwood fixture soon. If you aren't interested in splurging for an adjustable desk, don't make a stupid mistake I made: I forgot to factor in the height of the keyboard itself (approximately 1.5 inches for my mechanical keyboard) when planning the height of the desk. I measured the distance away from the floor that I wanted my hands to be at, but forgot that in practice they would be 1.5 inches higher. This is a continuous annoyance making me look forward to replacing this "temporary" desk.

* As others have said, a gel pad may be helpful. I think this may be a matter of taste. I personally use one, but I sometimes move it away since it can cause a weird "floating" sensation at times.

* I do a lot of periodic movement while I am working or thinking. I squat, leg-lift, walk, sway, stand on one foot, etc. I feel this helps keep me from feeling "locked up" in a standing position.

* If you can situate your desk so that you are back up against a wall, you can also do a lean-back arrangement which is pretty comfortable.
Here's a demo: https://coisas.alhur.es/#!/geraldoquagliato/geraldoquagliato...

The access token will work out of the box (it is hardcoded), and the site is a Jekyll which will automatically be rendered by GitHub and shown at https://geraldoquagliato.github.io/
I don't think the vast majority Christians even worry about microchips anymore. It was a silly fear from the beginning that only caught on because of how novel and marvelous computers in general were and now that transistors have become more mundane, so have the old notions that piggybacked primarily on such novelties.
> 1) tsc --init # creates a tsconfig.json, no need to edit it

hm... i reckon that if one doesn't need to edit a 'default' config file, perhaps the file doesn't really need to exist.
Good. This was their most useless and wonky feature. Not sure how this was supposed to change search.
I don't see why you would have to get the chip removed. Access to company services could just be disabled.
Thanks for breaking that down. Do you think the safeguards (filing a false police report or perjury if in court) are enough? And, if not, do you see any way to implement a law that would not harm sexual abuse victims as a byproduct?
"I don't think sit-stand desk is such a good idea. Sitting and standing for long periods of time is not good for your health."

I have had a standing desk for about seven years. For what it's worth, I only work at a desk about 10-15 hours per week.

I have found that I feel best when cycling between standing, sitting and lying down. In fact, there are certain kinds of work that I find myself completing more efficiently and enjoyably in different physical configurations. I like to stand at my desk for phone calls and support interactions but I like to lie down on my couch for research/reading.

I have indeed found that standing for 4-6 hours doesn't feel all that great, but in different ways that sitting for 4-6 hours doesn't feel great. So I have a standing desk, a chair, and a couch and cycle between them depending on what kind of work I am doing.
Could you point to such an extension?
I hate the interface, but I find that it does a better job of routing me around bad traffic than Google Maps does (even though it supposely takes Waze data into account), and MUCH better than Apple Maps. So I use it every day for my commute. I ignore the other crap and just pay attention to the route it is sending me on.

If I'm actually navigating to a place I don't know how to get to rather than commuting, I'll tend to use Google Maps instead. The display is much easier to read while I'm driving. And Waze's traffic avoidance routing is very aggressive, so it can sometimes suggest really stupid stuff. On my normal commute when I know all of the roads, I can easily tell it's trying to get me to do something stupid and ignore it. But in an area I don't know well, I'm more likely to unkowningly follow an illogical direction.
I have my Pi hooked up to an LED strip in my room. It is running a flask server so I can control the light with a website or with my Alexa. I use it everyday and it was super easy to set up.
Yeah, I think these would be useful, but not as a single chip in your finger. You'd want a more distributed solution; a memory chip holding your key somewhere like your shoulder, a crypto chip to generate the nonce in a knee, some nodes to emit EMI along the transdermal conduits to prevent eavesdropping and to act as decoys, that sort of thing.

That way, the transmitter could be in your finger, but it would be useless on its own. They would need to dismember you to get at the full solution, which would also be fragile to keep intact if anyone tried to remove while maintaining its functionality. Individual parts could also have failsafes to fry the whole system if exposed to atmosphere.

And at that point, unlike chopping off a hand, it'd be so much easier for a criminal to pull a gun on their mark and walk them to an ATM.

Come to think of it, a bodywide transdermal net would be pretty cool, if you included junctions for adding arbitrary modules to a common pin footprint. It would probably be difficult to install, but I dunno... people have put some crazy things in their skin, like a phone-sized single-board computer.
That's a good explanation for invalid memory accesses and divisions by zero but I'm not aware of many architectures where addition overflow traps (it can trap on MIPS but there's an other instruction that simply wraps around). That being said I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of instruction sets.

I could be wrong though, after all compilers back then were a lot less clever than now so maybe they couldn't really make use of this information. I'd be curious to get a first hand testimony as to why certain UB exist in the first place.
Your old but gold EXE still has access to system registry and files. It also commonly requires a lot of DLLs and configuration files next to it.

A container has all the dependencies contained and has a private set of files and registry.

So no installation and no-side effects.
Thank Goodness Apple's iPhone Violated 'Net Neutrality' in 2007
Uber told investors it had a growth rate in the "mid-teens". Assuming a 13-17% growth rate, Uber increased its gross bookings by $1.2 billion or $900 million.

Lyft claims it increased gross bookings from $800 million to >$1 billion, a rate of over 25% or an increase of $200 million.

So Uber grew 4-5x more than Lyft, but Lyft is growing faster than Uber.
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People have been crying foul on the analysis here, but I wonder - is there a sort of expected growth curve here that Lyft is beating?

By that I mean, is it impressive that Lyft grew 20% at $1mil bookings? Is it better than how Uber did when they were at $1mil? Just curious.

Either way, Lyft gets a nice puff piece ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That math is only correct for randomly chosen passphrases, but the rules you criticize are for user-invented passphrases. Even just adding capitalized letters to user-invented passphrases can drastically increase their security.

To be fair, there are good reasons to assume that even long user-invented passphrases are no longer secure enough against offline attacks, especially when the keystretching algorithm is nonstandard or does not even use salt.
From further up in thread

> The core second price at the top is incorrect. The per-second prices for cores and GBs are the same: $0.0000125. We are getting that fixed now.
They can't do that in just about every major city in the world, which is where they'd have to not only compete, but win in order to justify their valuation.

Right now in NYC they're roughly equal with taxis during non-surge hours, and they can only do that by subsidizing about half of the cost.

That is not a recipe for success.
Daniel Amen recommends against soccer for kids for the reason of heading the ball. The brain in its live state is something more like very soft jello than the rubbery thing we see in science class. Do we really want to be shaking a jellylike thing around at all? Probably not.
They replied above, the cost is incorrect on the site, it should be $0.0000125, which is $32/mo (~4¢/hour).
All I get is:
"invalid csrf token
Error code 403"
People offering human-centric explanations like cell phones: Note also that the sperm quality of dogs has decreased 30% since 1988.

https://elpais.com/elpais/2016/08/09/ciencia/1470755907_2432...

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep31281

This suggests its more environmental, chemical, diet-based, etc.
Apple ordered to pay university $506M patent fine
The linkage between consumption of these chemicals, and their exact nature of harm, is not well established- it's not "fairly conclusive" at all. What we have is a bunch of in vitro and in vivo studies, but not actual epidemiological evidence of the quality required to make rational policy decisions.

If you believe otherwise, I'm happy to ready any high quality studies you can find. Pleaes don't just cherry pick a few studies, be careful in doing your review.
The problem has been popularly summarized as "housing cannot be both affordable and a good investment."

Of course that might be an oversimplification. Housing has been an investment class as long as it's existed and yet there hasn't been an affordability crisis like this since at least before WWII. What's different now?
Rebuilding by pulling in all your dependencies from the Internet again? That's not something I want to do when the clock is ticking to get a security update out. What if some random third party dependency is hosted somewhere that is down, or has been pulled?

And how do I know I have to rebuild in the first place?

You'll probably tell me that there are tools to help deal with this. I'm sure there are. My point is that it isn't as simple as "scp".
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Maybe you're not paying enough?
Russian held over Bitcoin laundering linked to BTC-e exchange
Well no kidding. You don't need to be a genius to see that housing costs in big cities have outstripped wage growth by a large margin for many years. Housing costs outside of the big population centers have grown at a much more reasonable rate.
What's really got me excited lately is the combination of Ansible (for dirty work) and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes/Rancher/etc (also, tools that go from one orchestrated host to many like dokku and flynn).

While I appreciate the competition from GCE and Azure, what I really want is a tool that will run in any one of their clouds, but offers the same ease-of-management, and lets me go from one cloud to another or to a private cloud without breaking a sweat. I want the competition to be 70% on price and 20% on added-management-value and 10% on bundled services.

Terraform is basically this tool, but I want an even easier interface, terraform still feels somewhat too specific to me -- I don't want to even have to write config or specify some "aws" adapter that will make my config work on some provider. I want instant, multi-cloud (possibly) heroku, using only the network, hard-drive-space, ram, and lxc "primitives".

Someone (maybe me if I ever find time) just needs to get to work making F/OSS versions of all the bundled tech (ex. blob storage, cloud function runners, dynamically configurable DNS resolvers, simple alerting, etc) that runs in a container, and then the question just becomes "where can I get the cheapest most performant VPS that will host my containers".
It did touch 3k recently so it's a bit bellow all time highs, somewhere around 2.5k. But it is higher than entire last year for example.
Atlassian is an odd example here - they've been profitable for a decade: http://www.businessinsider.com/atlassian-files-for-ipo-2015-...
Can they be better, yes. Uber is an transportation company, I will compare them with other companies in the same industry. If you keep that in mind surely they are better than a Don in NewYork.
I think for this to work, we'd have to have some form of Universal Healthcare in place. Right now, if you don't have employer sponsored health insurance (and I doubt many employers would want to offer that to people who are simply doing a "tour of duty" [yeah, there should be a better name for that]), insurance isn't good. It became better with the ACA, but I don't know how hopeful I'd be that it sticks around.
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When I was a grad student I would ride a mountain bike up the hill to Cornell in Ithaca. I was more sure footed in the snow & ice with the bike than I was on foot, even using a martial arts collected run.

On a really bad day I would take the bus, but I almost always rode my bike. Of course there was that time I rode home in a thunderstorm and was so afraid of the lightning that I didn't see the parked car that I crashed into.
At work I've used an Imprint CumulusPRO mat and it was very comfortable and took a lot of abuse like using my chair on top of it half the time.
>Google Instant launched in 2010 under the leadership of Marissa Mayer. Mayer called this change a “fundamental shift in search”....

So Mayer does it again, lol. My favorite thing is how this lady was praised as some sort of genius for managing the Google search page - as if that page is some marvel of modern engineering and not just a webpage with and input and no background.
That is very likely a display issue and they round up way way too much in that table. In the Pricing Example they use $0.0000125 per Core, which would make it ~33$ for a month for a single core, and double that if you include 1 GB of memory.
I have metal-studded tires for winter. They make a huge difference on ice, but they make less of a difference on fresh snow. For snow a fat bike is better. If you're doing a lot of winter biking, I'd suggest one or the other. You can get studded fat tires, but they're expensive and I don't usually see anyone with them.
Any previous period data to compare to?
Incremental computation of standard deviation
I ctrl+F searched these comments for the word "hipster", 0 matches. If this was about JavaScript though...
If you're specifically worried about BPA, perhaps a larger exposure is handling cash register receipts. Don't take em if you don't need em, and wash your hands before you eat anything if you do need to handle them.
My preferred method is to work through puzzles in one of those cheap logic magazines[0] while I'm busy with a problem that needs a creative solution. I feel (though this may have no bearing on reality) that the puzzles occupy logic-loving part of my brain while the creative part of my brain can stew on the actual work problem.

[0]: https://www.pennydellpuzzles.com/product.aspx?c=LogicMathVal...
You're right - if you look at the calculations further down the page the 0.0000125 number is quoted.
> In the West we re-heat everything in plastic containers. I didn't think this was as big of a thing in non-western countries.

I live in the West and I do not have a recent memory of anyone reheating anything in a plastic container or treated can. I think I saw somebody heat up one of those Kraft Dinner individual portion cups once. How many plastic containers are even considered microwave safe?. I know there are things like TV dinners.

I would think the more likely vector would be drink cans, and maybe laminated food cans after that. I see receipt paper mentioned a lot, but it's hard to tell if they mention that just for show, or because it's actually an important form of exposure. And as you mentioned, plasticizers are fat soluble; most canned beverages (aside coconut water) are not fatty, and most canned food isn't fatty either (because they don't want the fats to go rancid from the oxygen in the headspace), so I'm not sure how much leeching actually goes on with those vectors.
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Yes, this feature had negative value for me. A common use case is that I'm copying keywords from search result snippets back into the search bar to make a more refined followup search, and Instant Search snatches the result away while I'm trying to copy text from it.
It is a combination of bad design by both parties and initial setup hassle. I'll try to document what it's like to leave my driveway. After the initial setup, bluetooth pairing, making it a trusted device, etc.

- Start car.

- I can't plug the phone in right away, because it will miss some kind of internal step, I have to wait for Ford Sync to finish "booting", then plug in my phone and stow it the box where my USB plug is.

- Android Auto then launches, unless another app on your phone is prompting you, at which point nothing will happen, you have to dig the phone back out to find out what happened.

- AA launches, click mic button on wheel (it's a hw equivalent of ok google): "Play Metallica." Always launch music first because if I launch nav first and then want to play music, it will switch off the map and show you the music controls, which I only want when I'm not navigating. But if you launch them in the right order you'll get nice music notifications on the map.

- Click mic button on wheel: "Navigate to whereever", unless of course I don't know where I am going, but if I was clever enough to put the address in my gcal it will already show up on my auto's screen, this is my favorite feature of AA. If I don't know where I am going I need to look it up on my phone, so dig it out, and then the AA app fullscreens a splash screen on the phone, so I need to drag down the notification bar, unfullscreen it, use my phone, relaunch AA again (or just unplug the phone and plug it back in) then stow the phone.

- If I put the car in reverse before this the rear backup camera turns on so I can't access the UI at all, so I might have to do steps some of the steps again depending on when I put the car in reverse and if the car was listening.

- Car now moves away from house and kicks over from Wifi to LTE and most of the time this works, but occasionally the music will just stop playing so I have to click on the "play" button again the UI.

If I'm unlucky Ford Sync will notice that something stopped playing so it will automatically put on the next music source, FM radio. Now there's no way for me to get back into Android Auto without unplugging the phone and plugging it back in. Sometimes(?) there's an android auto icon that shows up in Sync that lets me back in but I haven't determined why sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doesn't.

It's not a bad system, it's just still 1.0ish; once you're past all this crap and on the road it's really nice to have all my music and maps available, and of course having the google assistant is much nicer than I anticipated, so I can do things like "good morning" via a voice command and it will play my daily summary.
He's not wrong, Monero is the only crypto (currently) enforcing fully private transactions by default. In a reddit thread about the AB bust someone pointed out that they weren't able to determine the amount of Monero he had, vs. listing exact amounts of his Eth, zcash, etc.

edit for clarification: I wasn't saying he wouldn't have been caught, only that Monero offers additional benefits beyond some of the other coins and help conceal transaction history.
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It's fantastic for a passenger to help someone navigate with, but I could see it being distracting for an individual.

When you're a passenger, you can point out (and report) upcoming obstacles, amuse yourself looking at the little catcar bubbles, etc. They should probably make a quick "I am the driver/passenger" button, though.
https://twitter.com/ReutersTech/status/890232366320553984

It's confirmed