skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's too far to prescribe "red v. blue" to this issue but it is indeed divisive. High school football has been controversial for many years because of safety concerns [1]. There is some anecdotal evidence that soccer is more popular in blue states [2]. For years, the NFL and its supporters claimed that concussion concerns were greatly overstated [3].

Also anecdotally, I had a Lyft driver who was also a high school football coach who was well versed in how many concussions occur in soccer. He wanted to tell me that football is as safe/dangerous as any other sport. That type of denialism--believing that mounting evidence can be safely ignored--is found in other "red" issues such as climate change, coal jobs, and Russia-gate.

[1] High schools are closing football programs. https://www.si.com/mmqb/2015/11/23/high-schools-dropping-and...

[2] Soccer is possibly a blue state thing. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jul/10/...

[3] NFL doctors downplayed the dangers. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/18/nfl-doctor-s...
He's probably referring to this handy chart of Bitcoin Core developer support of current hard and soft forks: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support

However, I think it's incorrect to say most developers disagree with increasing the block size or a hard fork. Segwit increases the block size, as do hard forks proposed by some Bitcoin Core developers like Spoonnet [1]. There is just a general dislike towards the existing technical proposals.

[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017...
In the context, it's obvious he's talking about NFL players. Offensive line annual salaries:

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/average/offensive-line/
The fact that they announced it as 'second half' as opposed to 'third quarter' should tell you enough.

Anyway, Raven Ridge will be released in laptops first. Desktop Raven Ridge will not be released in desktop formats until 2018.
I wonder how they define intelligence. I suspect the cognitive traits that will serve an economy best in 30-40 years, when these babies reach the top of their economic productivity, are not what one might expect today.
Drives me nuts when people don't pronounce H
Successful Solo Founders
I would be surprised if MS wasn't intending to merge this in if it pans out the way they hope it will. Why else invest the resources to try and make it?

I know as someone who slings c# for the day job I'm super excited to try it out.
I've been falling in love with Lua recently, and it'd be my choice. The few big standouts for me are:

* LuaJIT. Amazing performance, ranging from near-C to better-than-C.

* 1-indexing actually prevents a lot of off-by-one errors.

* Anything can return. Even files. (Great for library making, and generating namespaces.)

* Luarocks is a decent package manager, for a very basic language.

* Moonscript. No-boilerpate to-Lua language, but Lua can import it, and vice-versa.
Dr. McKee, the study's author, acknowledged that and addressed it:

> But 110 positives remain significant scientific evidence of an N.F.L. player’s risk of developing C.T.E., which can be diagnosed only after death. About 1,300 former players have died since the B.U. group began examining brains. So even if every one of the other 1,200 players had tested negative — which even the heartiest skeptics would agree could not possibly be the case — the minimum C.T.E. prevalence would be close to 9 percent, vastly higher than in the general population.
It's a start but USSoccer limits heading up to age 13:http://www.ussoccer.com/about/recognize-to-recover/concussio...

"Eliminating heading for children 10 and under

Limiting the amount of heading in practice for children between the ages of 11 and 13"
I think the point is he isn't "set for life" like some may expect NFL players to be.
Politics is the new religion, at least in America right now.
It's not sufficient, but arguably necessary.

There are roughly three things that make you successful:
1. Being smart
2. Working hard
3. Opportunity

Everybody can do #2, but most won't. #1 is at least partially genetic. #3 is mostly luck, but is influenced by the other two. In fact all of the factors influence one another to a degree. Being born in an area with good schools and working hard can overcome somewhat deficient genetics for #1 for example. On the flipside, being born a genius in sub-Saharan Africa with no opportunities or even anything to work hard for makes success almost impossible.
I find the underclass argument important and generally ignored. The whole drive for UBI is due in part to the fact that all but the most specialized human professions are being automated. Of course, specialization is not necessarily an indicator of intelligence, but I would guess that they are pretty correlated. Since intelligence is at least in part genetic (and the environmental portion seems to respond very poorly to poverty, which a UBI would likely put people in or close to), it is very likely that a society with UBI would have a very large generational underclass of those unable to sufficiently specialize enough for gainful employment.

If we can make more people capable of becoming specialized, everyone will benefit. Perhaps fields like medicine are limited in the number of people it would make sense to employ, but software engineering and scientific research pretty generally benefit the more people get involved (wrt software I am thinking more in terms of FOSS and startups, not huge teams for simple tasks). The barrier to participation in the future economy might end up essentially becoming IQ. It's important that we give people the tools to help their children be successful as the economy changes.
rehashes a bit of this: https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/26/co-founders-optional/
In addition to concussions, football players are also believed to receive repeated microtrauma from running into each other repeatedly.
Excited to see what they do! There needs to be some disruption here for the benefit of small businesses! The premiums are disproportionally high and we get much worse service than larger companies. Customer care is non-existent. These guys seem to be providing not only protection but also all the other risk-related stuff.
And yet Walmart is still much larger than Amazon. In 2015, Walmart had sales of about $508 billion, while Amazon only had $83 billion. AMZ barely cracked the top ten:

https://nrf.com/2015/top100-table

The difference, of course, is that Bezos controls a much larger portion of AMZ than the Waltons control of WMT.

None of them are anywhere near John D. Rockefeller, who had an inflation-adjusted net worth of $392 billion, equivalent to 1.5-2% of the entire U.S. economy at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
It's strange to me that we screen for weapons at all, other than explosives. The cabin is sealed. There is a marshal on the plane to limit gun/box-cutter level damage. At that point the plane itself is no more dangerous (actually considerably less dangerous) than an ordinary subway car.

With explosives, I've always thought an internal smuggle would work the best. I mean, you're going to suicide anyway, so why not stick C4 up your ass? Or if you're really serious, have some surgically installed into you.

One threat would be a small shaped charge to open the cabin, but that seems very unlikely. Last but not least, the WMD threat of biological weapon, 12 Monkeys style, which is a) not specific to planes and b) impossible to guard against, once the weapon is lost.
While that may be true for most people, I think that knowing everything about horse rules & conventions would give a car designer an upper hand _if_ that car designer was also the type of person to easily let go of his own presuppositions about things. What I'm trying to say is that there are people who are not held back by knowing what the rules of the game are, because they are not afraid to throw them away, even if learning those rules took a great mental investment.
Reducing Bezos' intellect to a banality like "drive and intelligence" tosses out a lot of fascinating particulars.
Almost half of IT security incidents are caused by company employees
> I expect Slack has a plan for these funds,

Even at its previous level of funding, Slack had so much extra money they were giving it away as a private VC fund. I'm baffled as to why they need to raise more instead of just reining that one.
Serial Experiments Lain is an outstanding show. It is what finally made me appreciate anime.
3 dimensions for momentum in other words? Surely it cannot be that simple. That's astounding.
Running a hub could end up being expensive as you need a massive amount of "collateral" to lock in your channels. A hub is rather worthless if it only provides $1 channels to all its "subordinates".

If you have a huge "bank of america" hub connecting to hundred of thousands of entities through large channels on one side and a small "mylightninghub.io" with a dozen of people through $10 channels you better hope that they're extremely competitive on fees to make up for it.

It's almost exactly like the credit card business currently. If I come to you and tell you "Here's the SimiasCard, it has extremely low fees and great advantages! But you're limited to $5 a day and it's basically accepted nowhere." Would you take it?
Can Facebook Connect the Next Billion?
I did the rough math. If average net worth in the US is 80k, and bezos is worth $90 billion, then compared to an average 6 foot tall person, Bezos would be ~1300 miles tall; in space altitude from earth, that would be geospatial orbit
The study found that, on average, there are 4 direct fatalities and 8.2 indirect fatalities among high school and college players per year, making indirect fatalities more than twice as common as direct fatalities.

I don't know about younger kids, but high school players die every year.

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

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0363546513478572
echo $original_comment | sed 's/driver/firmware/g'
Probably because a device on the system itself has tremendous privileges; aside from interacting with non-hardened kernel code (drivers generally trust the device but to be malicious), they generally have DMA access, in PCI can impersonate the CPU when speaking to other devices, and can generally cause all kinds of havoc.
> if it turns out that the sample was as biased as possible

The researcher never claimed it was a sample that one would expect with a scientific study (e.g. control group, test group, variance by age, race, etc.) From the original NYT article:

> The set of players posthumously tested by Dr. McKee is far from a random sample of N.F.L. retirees. “There’s a tremendous selection bias,” she has cautioned, noting that many families have donated brains specifically because the former player showed symptoms of C.T.E.
Static/dynamic analysis of code, theorem proving, automated reasoning.

Bash is mostly for gluing things together; it's (almost?) all in the form of Nix derivations, and mostly just pipes things around (lots of calls to `jq`).
Unrelated but that site was unreadable for me on mobile, repeatedly redirected me to ad pages that tried to look like Facebook. What's up with that?
I'm a big fan of Zepplin devs and the open source work they have been putting out there since the early days. Their medium posts are a goldmine for any beginner developer looking to develop DAPPs.
> At many airports, they're not trying very hard - every time I ask for an opt out, they roll their eyes and drag their feet getting me checked out.

Yes, that's because they think -- perhaps wrongly, but not entirely without justification -- that you are opting out in order to make some political statement or because you're frustrated with the process and are trying to take it out on them.

I don't think you have a full appreciate for how mind-numbing and soul-crushing a job being a front-line TSA agent can be.
The ladies who empty the trash here contribute more to society than I do. I just write throwaway apps for throwaway companies, they actually DO something.
>The 1% hardly even registers on this scale (a few seconds).

I really wish this point was better understood. The rhetoric around the "1%" has completely missed the point, as the vast majority of the 1% is comprised of our doctors, lawyers, small business owners, and other normal successful people. Pitting the poor and working classes against them makes no sense. The real problem is the 0.00000001% of people who control now half the world's wealth [0].

http://fortune.com/2017/01/16/world-richest-men-income-equal... [0]
Genetics has come a long way since the Soviet era. We are arguably at the cusp of a golden era of genetic engineering, assuming governments don't move quickly to ban the practice wholesale.
400 GB a year is notably faster than the average expansion of storage space. The growth of the block chain should ideally be limited to the average yearly increase in storage space on an average PC.

I currently run a full node since I have a gigabit connection but I will definitely stop if I need to increase storage space by that much. The current growth rate is maybe a tenth of that.

You also need to keep in mind that most residential usage limits are around 400 gigabytes per month. After this change, within a year the vast majority of people will not be able to run nodes outside a datacenter.

Within a few years when the blockchain is multiple terabytes it will be nearly impossible to download on a residential connection due to size and especially usage limits.
It's a better plan than almost every other NFL player has.

Most players have lived very football-focused lives from a very young age, and have been the star on the team all of their life. Their future has always been more football, and they haven't given any thought to what comes after that.
Hi, propTypes are supported as an (optional) first class citizen. Thus whatever is the output of a reducer or a selector, provided it is passed to a react component, is type checked.

That said, I haven't used flow or TS myself and can't confirm nor deny compatibility
In order to beat the market, you have to know something it doesn't already know. But eventually, it's (they're) going to learn that, too, so you'll have to learn something new. The only way to keep beating the market is to gather information faster than the "average" and keep up with the information that it has, relative to what you invest in, although usually you can accomplish most of the work in the latter half (beta, IIRC) by watching the market itself. In brief, as Martin Shkreli put it: invest in yourself...
Ask your lawyer before committing too many international crimes.
>>In August 2015, he suffered a concussion when he went helmet-to-helmet with another player and was knocked unconscious.

"I think it hurt my ability to think well mathematically," Urschel said. "It took me about three weeks before I was football-ready. It took me a little bit longer before my high-level visualizations ability came back."

Losing a high-level cognitive ability must be terrifying; the flood of relief upon regaining his ability (probably slowly?) after 4+ weeks must have made him deeply question his continuing commitment, and then the CTE study pushed him over the edge.
Using hash functions in an attack is not the same as performing a cryptographic attack against the hash function.

These are two different classes of attacks, both being real-world attacks. The attack being discussed is against a suggested formula to generate passwords.

From the top of the thread, "a scheme that hashes your username, service name, and master password to generate a password." Discovering the password by determining the inputs to the hash function is all that is needed. This is the case even if a different type of function is used instead of a hash.

Apologies, if I gave a different impression.
> Has "whether you let your kids play football" joined the long, long list of boolean values that separate members of the Red Tribe from the Blue Tribe?

To the extent that such a list can be said to exist (some of them are Boolean values, but if it's a long list, it's only long because you are including lots of things that individually loosely correlate with tribal membership rather than separate it), attitudes towards kids playing football have been on it for decades.

(It also correlates with race, welath, and other socio-economic factors in a way which aren't what you'd expect if you thought it was simply a matter of left/right political tribal identity.)
Dude is doing a PhD in linear algebra and ML.

He will have the option to make a very comfortable amount of money.
I am interested in doing something similar. Please PM me and we can discuss about this. Creating an LLC will allow me to market it better and have UI freelancer work for me. I want to bring in a development agency who does the work. Are you thinking something in the same lines?
Completly disagree.

I only use GMail as gateway to aggregate my email accounts and synchronize with my Android devices, native mail client.

On Windows and GNU/Linux systems at home, I happily keep using Thunderbird.
Prescribing someone to a "tribe" based on some kind of arbitrary test is divisive.

Examples:

- People with red hats on are my friends

- People that like chocolate ice cream are idiots

- People who let their children play football are Trump voters
We have postgrest ( https://postgrest.com ) between emacs and postgres. PostgREST turns a postgresql database into a restful api.

The emacs package requires request, json, widget, wid-edit and cl.

I would like to open source it in the near future.
For a case in point, there's a high profile (potentially involving the PM) investigation ongoing about a kickback paid by a German shipbuilder to Israeli Navy/Government buyers in order to secure an order for submarines.

But... I don't agree with your leanings. All countries are corrupt to some degree, but degrees do vary. I think it dangerously lends to extremism, thinking of issues of corruption in either-or terms or some close proxy.
Because the examples are just that, examples. Kea is designed for large complicated apps, and is in production use for at least 4 apps that I'm aware of (from marketplaces to fleet tracking)
Why not ask YC?
Perhaps, but I think you assume a much greater level of enforcement than actually exists.

Most tax evasion enforcement is on relatively small subset of taxpayers and is for fairly easy-to-detect fudges. There has been a lot of work between the IRS and banks to set up heuristics and flag suspicious activity, but that all ends up pretty worthless with an anonymous cryptocurrency.
I really like the suggestion about focusing on PR for PR, that is pull request public relations. PR diplomacy, very sound advice.

+1 for articulating this bit of funny business in the Python Windows ecosystem...
"Moreover on Windows the building process was historically so bad that you usually end up downloading binaries from some random guy on the Internet."
Here's a small sample of feeds that seemed to be updated more regularly or had good content. not all primary sources of course. I left out all the big newspapers, subreddits and my local stuff. The xml export of my rss reader (liferea on gnome) is a bit ugly, I'll probably put it up on a github repo later and post back.

https://www.nsf.gov/rss/rss_www_discoveries.xml

https://www.darpa.mil/rss

jamanetwork.com/rss/site_3/67.xml

feeds.nature.com/news/rss/most_recent

news.nationalgeographic.com/rss/index.rss

home.cern/scientists/updates/feed

https://news.bitcoin.com/feed

https://www.nsf.gov/rss/rss_www_funding_pgm_annc_inf.xml

https://techcrunch.com/feed/

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

https://infocon.org/infocon.org-css/infoconorg-cons.rss

https://www.recode.net/rss/index.xml

https://pa.tedcdn.com/feeds/talks.rss

https://www.debian.org/News/news

https://nvd.nist.gov/download/nvd-rss.xml

https://tools.ietf.org/html/new-rfcs.rss

https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/ca.php?x=0

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/?a=rss.feed

https://www.blm.gov/news-listing.xml/california

https://www.fema.gov/feeds/news.rss

https://www.state.gov/rss/channels/alldos.xml

https://www.fbi.gov/feeds/national-press-releases/rss.xml

https://www.defense.gov/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/RSS.ashx?ma...

https://www.dhs.gov/news/rss.xml

www.centcom.mil/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/RSS.ashx?ContentType=1&Site=808&max=20

https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TWs.xml#.html

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/by-year.xml

https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/ContactFDA/StayInformed/RSSFeed...

https://bivol.bg/en/feed

www.nato.int/cps/rss/en/natohq/rssFeed.xsl/rssFeed.xml

https://www.saudi.gov.sa/wps/wcm/connect/MCIT_en/News/?srv=c...
I don't speak for your comment's parent, but anytime I see these types of figures, it brings to mind Iain Banks' comment "Money is a sign of poverty" [1]. You'll see rants [2] against this sentiment, but I have yet to find a rant that doesn't essentially deify money. It's just a tool, and if it doesn't help us sufficiently move the needle towards greater human satisfaction (which I believe is very congruent with moving us towards post-scarcity factors), then it is upon us to find another, better tool.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture#Economy

[2] http://angry-economist.russnelson.com/money-is-not-a-sign-of...
The Gervais Principle IV: (Groucho) Marxist Office Theory
> Mage vs Warrior vs Ninja (or whatever)

Canonically it's Thief/Rogue, analogous to the MMO trinity of "healing, tank, damage" aka "wisdom, strength, agility".

Those can also translate into a holistic way: You gotta have the wisdom to know when to retreat/heal, the strength to endure and the agility to hit/get to where it matters. They don't necessarily exclude each other.
Finding the Right Price for Early Customers
"Those billions came from depriving others."

How is giving people something they want "depriving" them?

I have little use for Microsoft software, but, you know, lots of people like it.
on a side note, does anyone know how to get that text effect on the headline image (that says ghost 1.0)? Is there a common pattern?
Python 3 + Django + Docutils + Bulma

The site is a work in progress, you can preview at https://devel.tech.

This is docutils: https://devel.tech/site/updates

This is sphinx: https://devel.tech/features/django-vs-flask/

Docutils allows deep customization of source text, programmatically. There's a lot of work needed to bring it to the next level, but the potential is huge. There can be beautiful LaTeX PDF documents and improved HTML output.

That's not to mention the power of reStructuredText's custom roles: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/howto/rst-roles.html

My ambition is to be able to give back improvements upstream (https://devel.tech/site/open-source).

Also, the maintainers on the docutils mailing list have been very helpful to me with questions relating to internals. I recommend checking it out at http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/mailing-lists.html.

Bulma is already a great flexbox-based framework: http://bulma.io. I threw out two huge framework (bootstrap 4 and mdbootstrap pro) to use this. The markup is far simpler, the spacing is grand, and the feature:size ratio is perfect. Highly recommended.
Hands-on with the Asus ZenFone AR – arriving just in time to compete with ARKit
Because some websites like forums, email clients, chats, calendars, stores, etc. are definitely applications, even though they're still websites and not native apps.
I worked with both QCA and Broadcom wireless, and can confirm. Generally a version of the driver is compatible with only a specific version of the firmware; the system manufacturer gets the driver source and a firmware binary as a package.
By that definition, Trump owns the world. So do others, a worrying number of the bastards.