skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you account for the cost of the transaction itself? Those aren't cheap.
Welp, Bitcoin Might Still Fork on August 1
I agree with your early points, but I don't think we need to take the typical Hacker News stance of "everything is killing everybody and people need to start behaving more like me and less like themselves."

> Next, let's consider the lifestyle the NFL envisions for its fans. Spending at least a full day each week sitting and eating unhealthy food while consuming alcohol. Spend the rest of the week gambling on the outcomes of the games (or individual players). Much of the time, this fandom is done as a family leading to impacts on children in the home. There's a societal health impact here.

Won't somebody please think of the children! They might grow up to watch FOOTBALL!!
I remember one vacation which was the first after many years: I was lying at the beach enjoying the view. I was so happy that I could afford some vacation after years of suffering and watching millions of vaction pictures from my friends on Facebook.

Avid for revenge, I took a picture of the stunning beach view and wrote in big letters 'MY LIFE IS BETTER THAN YOURS'. At that moment I realized what Facebook is about (without posting anything).
On whose authority? As of this week there is a new debugger interface.
No benefit and no net benefit are two different things. Even still, it's relative.
check out pfsense (https://www.pfsense.org/) along with the following books:

Practice of Network Security Monitoring - https://www.nostarch.com/nsm

&
Tao of Network Security -
http://www.informit.com/store/tao-of-network-security-monito...
What pure drivel. What does it mean to be a "free country"? Many things in the US are illegal. Does that mean we aren't "free"?
No one stopped Adobe from open sourcing those tools, and making them produce JavaScript / WebAssembly instead of Flash.
Thanks for your feedback.

> Hardware is unreliable and inconsistent

That's not true from my experience. I'm running a digital signage service based on the Pi. So far all devices are very reliable. Of course that depends on other factors such as SD card or power supply. If you don't try to save money on those, Pis run for many years without a single problem.

> CPU changes on every release

Some chipset revision changed (I would have to look up details), but they are all more or less compatible if you don't go too low level. I have no problem running the same build of my software on all Pi revisions. Of course you can benefit from NEON or multiple threads on later versions, but that's all optional.
Something like that. The link above has some more info but the key is that it only works because there are still tons of people not pursuing FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) and you reap the rewards of their work while you have retired early.
I'd prefer to remain pseudonymous, more or less, so I'll just say that we're in the same town as a big public university with a substantial ag program. I've lived in other towns like this, and I suspect my comment applies to any of them.
There are also plenty of examples that did not change as dramatically, for example Nigeria from 6.5 to 5.8 children per women. In fact, Nigeria is projected to have 400 million inhabitants by 2050, overtaking the US as well as Western Europe. Birth rates in Africa have declined a little, but not as fast as most models predicted.
Next up, they will hit up on the idea of dedicated roads for truck convoys; also, a single engine to pull them all; and finally, the creation of roads with steel rails to put the trucks on.
Good to know. I did not see that news.
You're also being extremely confusing. I really can't tell what you are actually advocating. Are you being intentionally ambiguous and vague? If all you have to say is that one can make an argument for anything, this is not very helpful information.
...vaping is the new smoking?
Because it's bad for consumers, innovation, and the overall economy.
We don't ban selling cigarettes to adults, and tobacco use has plummeted since 1965. Building codes affect the general public. There is a clear and direct link between owner negligence and public harm. Building codes also help to reduce fraud and sheer incompetence among builders. It is easy to describe situations where fraud and criminal negligence leads to death and property damage to other people (not just yourself).

Meanwhile there are plenty of dangerous occupations, truck drivers, for example, that are not deemed unacceptable and banned by authoritarian morality police.

> If everyone was a perfectly informed perfectly rational expectation maximizer we wouldn't have any of these problems

This standard is hardly necessary. All that is necessary is to have sufficient information to take responsibility for decisions you make and their consequences. That is known as agency. Of course it's different if your decisions affect others. I could certainly see holding certain people or organizations (like the NFL) responsible if there has been some kind of cover-up about the long-term effects of concussions. But that's far different from a crude authoritarian ban.

> I submit that american football, in its current form, is likely one of them. Too much glamour, too much money, too much tradition, too good at messing with people's heads, both in the way it sucks everyone into it (high school football!) and with the brain damage thing.

In other words, you don't like football and you don't like the tradition, so you see no problem banning it. For you there's no downside, only upside.

No, banning is not necessary, at least not some kind of national ban issued from on high. It starts with education. Parents stop letting their children play Pop Warner. High schoolers in most of the country decide not to take the risks of playing football. HS football programs decline. College recruiting pools dry up, leading to a decline in the quality and popularity of College football. From there, it's anyone's guess how the NFL will survive.

Sure, it won't happen overnight. But I can assure you that the consequences of trying to issue an overnight ban of the most popular sport in the US would not be pretty.
It does take longer to synthesize robust adversarial examples - how much longer depends on the distribution of transformations. The rotation example in this blog post was pretty quick to create, maybe a minute or two on a Titan X. The printed-out version in the OpenAI blog post took something like 20 minutes on a Titan X.
Smoking causes self-harm through use. But do cigarette companies build a giant FBI file on you in order to sell it for profit to others? others who believe
Information is power and want to manipulate you for political and economic success?

As you can tell, I'm on the cynical side of things. It hurts my social life no doubt. Perhaps this is similar to being a non-smoker in the 40s. Hell, I bet that I'm a victim of second hand social media.
Yes, and with presto you can join tables from different sources. So you can join ethereum data with whatever you want, be it a mysql table of accounts in observations, etc.
Go doesn't quite have the right level of abstraction for building CRUD apps. In particular, working with relational databases is very manual. Even using things like sqlx.
I don't think the author denies that this is a form of worship. Immediately before the above excerpt, Wallace says:

"Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship -- be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles -- is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive."
Perhaps the problem is a lot of people don't decide and then don't do well at either. As the proverb goes, a fox who chases two hares catches neither.
Temporal trends in sperm count: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis [pdf]
Uniquely out of date as of today, actually: https://home-assistant.io/blog/2017/07/25/introducing-hassio...

tldr; Home-Assistant, the system mentioned in the parent article, now maintains their own OS variant for the RPi that they recommend you install directly.

You don't have to, of course. You can still install Home-Assistant yourself on whatever distribution you choose.
The cross platform apps arguments can easily being applied to all the {"React native", "Xamarin", etc} bullshit. IMHO.
It's strange how many people in this thread are discussing concepts such as 'choice', 'do', 'freedom'.

Perhaps I've been too deep down the philosophical/metaphysical rabbit hole, but AFAIK there's only three options:

1) Deep down (past the turtles-all-the-way-deep) there's only chaos
2) <strike> Free will and alternative options exist</strike>
3) It's only predetermined order past the turtles.

And 2 is somehow impossibly situated on the razors' edge where 1 and 3 intersect, science is as yet undecided if 1 or 3, but our macro scale world appears to be 3.

'I' really 'want' to be convinced of 2, but it's something 'I' lost a long time ago, anyone care to convince me? These days 'I' find some comfort in 1. If it 'turns' out to be 3 'I'll' 'be' very sad indeed :(

Long story short: There's nothing to chose, either it's all been decided already, and your 'thoughts' are nothing but atoms and other things rattling around, generating the illusion of your conciousness, or there's only chaos and we're (also) never 'making' any choices, they are all just rolls of the dice.
> Adobe abandonment of Flex has to be one of the most perplexing acts of corporate self harm I have witnessed ( and been affected by).

Flex is now an Apache open source project. It still has an active developer community, some of whom are Adobe employees, and appear to work on Flex full-time.

Unfortunately, it seems the developer community is focusing most of their efforts on FlexJS, an HTML/JavaScript version of Flex. I could be wrong, but I don't see them making a very big splash in the crowded JS app framework space.
Good point. The case of over-eating does have the physically-visible effects, but sex addiction has not, so it's a very close situation.
I would say don't be too hard on yourself. It's difficult to find something you're passionate about and have it practically used by many people.

The best thing you could do is actually work on side projects related to your paid work. Come up with an idea, prototype it, demo it and convince your boss/peers that it's something beneficial for you or the company. Many obvious examples where a lot of successful applications first came up as someone's side project at work.
I don't think this is an arms race you can win.

Even if you personally make good decisions if the market for good products is not big enough the addictive products will be all that's available.
I hardly bookmark anything anymore -- everything is temporary. If I need to find a site again, I typically just google for it and find it. Lots of tabs help mitigate that.
Have you ever been skiing? It's your feet that are running into the earth, and hardly even that - they're skating smoothly over it unless you really mess up. On good mogul run,your head hardly moves off a straight line while your legs and hips adjust to keep your skis moving smoothly. In a similar comparison, walking does not produce head trauma.
It's not loaded into a SQL database. You can think of Presto as simply as a SQL query engine. It sources data from Ethereum and run queries on it.
I'm so, so glad I grew up in a world without social media (with the exception of maybe Myspace blowing up when I was in HS).

I can't imagine that growing up with an iPhone and access to FB/IG/Snap from elementary school onward is a healthy experience for kids from a mental health/social anxiety POV. I guess only time will tell.

I'd also imagine being a teacher these days would suck because of phones. I don't know how schools manage that these days.
I played way to much farmville around 2009 running a schools front desk! Thanks for that!

Out of curiosity what is your language of choice now days?
Adobe accidentally released its cloud-based photo editor
I don't think Edge is the problem: the problem is IE11 and people clutching to Windows 7 until the bitter end and whether or not to support them.

You can see bits and pieces where Microsoft's teams are also experimenting with Node on ChakraCore and Electron on Edge.
Isn't that pretty much what I said?
A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation [pdf]
> "That the dude off in the corner consuming his Instagram feed will be looked at the same as the guy standing at the street corner sucking on a Marlboro."

I don't think that's ever going to happen. Social networks, contrary to smoking, are built on the very nature of human beings: being social animals. And that's certainly not going away. It would be like wishing that the buddies socializing on the corner would be looked at the same as the guy smoking next to them.

There's no doubt that our natural inclination to socialize is being used and twisted through these slot-machine social networks, but if you're going to wish for something, wish for better social networks, or better education to help people control themselves, just not for humans to stop being social.
Originally, "dharma" just meant "thing/object". More abstract (and derived therefrom) is a bifurcation into "true thing, real thing, truth, etc.." and on the other end of the spectrum "object, mental object, thought". Think of Carolus Linnaeus and not so much religion.
"We don’t think there are any other companies that have taken the same approach"

I distinctly remember a service/app with the same purpose in Europe in 2013.

There's Cargomatic and mentioned by mkoryak, OpenMile. And probably others. Money will definitely help here, though.
The pure drivel is this response. I strongly object to bland appeals to authority to shut down things you don't like. There are strong arguments associated with the banning of most illegal behavior. Usually these arguments are also very specific, lead to very specific restrictions, and are implemented at the most relevant jurisdiction.
Wagner deve ter condições de jogo só no jogo contra o Cruzeiro
Let's be honest though, the law is flexible, and generally favours those able to buy the most expensive representation.
Deep pockets.
On a related note, is there any good date on how sex plays into this instead of (or in combination with) race? I wonder if a white male or a minority female faces greater police harassment. I'm also guessing age and appearance of wealth play significant factors as well.
What are you spending money on that you need to earn $350k to break even?

Assuming you find a modest home in SF for $1mil your 30 year mortgage would be ~$57k a year. Property tax is ~$7k. Insurance will be <$5k. So to have a home you only need <70k. Assuming no deductions filing as a single you will pay ~$140k in taxes on $350k. This leaves you with (350-140-70) $140k a year in disposable income.

So I repeat, what are you spending money on that you need to make $140k in disposable income to break even?
Sperm count drop 'may lead to human extinction'
Thanks for the PR, and it's merged, but the gif is still animated though. I'll update with still images later in the day.
I got reminded for Dharma initiative from Lost. It has quite a fan following off screen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_Initiative
That wasn't my stance. My stance was one of examining the full societal cost of any activity. Football is certainly not alone in the impacts it has on families. It's just the one we are talking about in this forum.

But, if one is seriously trying to determine sociological trends, these are the kinds of questions one must examine. It might be a similar line of thought, with different details, for the increased use of digital devices in our society.

Lastly, you're being facetious but their watching football might well be part of the problem. Without participants or an audience, the NFL ceases to exist thereby removing the negatives AND positives that its existence might create.
It depends in the metric. In terms of {alcohol, marijuana, prostitution, hair braiding, etc}, there are at least parts of the US that are far from "free".

That concept is just marketing or propaganda, depending on who is pushing it.
The median wage from my memory is 60k a year. You make it sound like money is the biggest factor in going into STEM when a lot of kids don't even go to colleges.

The shortage is not because you don't get paid enough, the shortage is because not enough people can afford the expensive college degree.

4 years of undergrad cost me < $1000 and the same thing costs >$50,000 in the US.
The Flex concept of variables being "observable" was about 8 years ahead of Backbone and later Angular, and now React-style UI updates from an event loop.

It was surreal working in the Cairngorm Flex framework briefly in 2000s and then see Backbone and Angular pitched as groundbreaking years later. Only now are we getting to a similar level of elegance with loop-style UI updates.
I have no idea why you are italicizing types of logical fallacies. I can't think of a good reason to do that.

And just pointing out that you believe they are committing a logical fallacy without any explanation is a very lazy discussion technique.
I just took it as sarcasm
A memetic countervirus.
Yes, similar systems do exist. My team made one of them:

https://cargofone.com/en/

In some ways, it's more challenging than building "an Uber", once you get into different cargo and body types, document management, insurance, etc. We launched in Russia first, and not being able to do electronic signatures added a set of challenges.

In any event, glad these investments are happening. Trucking is badly broken, especially in the US.
Information security
Around 2003 I was a chief technical architect at a startup. We had to secure access to the products and I realised I had no clue. I read Security Engineering by Ross Anderson and was hooked. Went on to do a Masters in Information Security while still coding, and gradually moved into the security field.

I still spend a lot of time with developers, currently doing a lot on integrating security with continuous deployment and agile projects.

I was talking with a developer recently, who said he loves coding, so that's why he does it for a living. I replied that I also love coding, and that's why I don't do it for a living!
Your assumptions about families are conservative and oppressive, you moron!
I agree. I am trying to make the point (badly, it seems) that business will do what business whats to do, if the Government allows them to. We (the people) should be able to direct government as to the things we would or wouldn't like to allow business to get away with.

I know this system is broken - I firmly believe that if voting were able to make a difference, it would immediately be made illegal. That is the fight we must fight - that is the root cause of the problem.
Lots of these places are horrible as well. I remember being hassled by a security guard for cycling through a part of the City of London. No loss, it is a concrete hellhole, I'll find somewhere else to cycle.
They didn't say that. Here's the quote I believe you skimmed and misinterpreted.

"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."

They're being honest about the selection bias, but they're saying the absolute minimum threshold is 9%. That's high number one, and it's almost certainly much higher than nine percent because they only tested a few of the brains. 1300 is every former pro player that died. Not every one they tested.
Thank you for clearly sharing how and why scientists can accurately measure genetic effects in twin studies. You are correct in your assertion that mono vs di - zygotic twin studies are usually good measures of heritability.

I would add a slight technical caveat. Twin studies are excellent at measuring additive genetic effects, i.e. when different genes add together nicely to contribute to a trait (height is a good example). Twin studies typically assume that genes do not interact in funny ways (e.g. epistasis). Thankfully, for many, but not all, traits examined the additive genetic effect catches most of the heritability.

If epistatic interactions drive a trait, however, the statistical models typically used in twin studies would actually under-estimate the influence of genetics.

Further reading:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr04/second.aspx
I have seen it personally in my spouse's godparents. I have heard it secondhand about the Uihlein family (Uline company). For the most part, it is twice-removed hearsay regarding wealthy people and families based around the Chicago-Milwaukee corridor. Some of those people are apparently real shitheels--constantly getting detained for drunk driving, but never being held accountable for it. They're super racist, too. It's likely all an intrinsic part of Chicago's endemic corruption problem. I don't live there any more, but am acquainted with a lot of people who still do, and they occasionally like to tell horror stories about their clients/customers/employers/blind-dates/random-encounters from hell. Some of it could be exaggeration or whole-cloth fabrication, but I can believe it easily.

This is because I have overheard with my own ears a serious suggestion that it would be acceptable to vanish homeless people in the darkness of night and turn them into dog food, to be sold at a premium. Some people are just evil, delude themselves into thinking they are good, and they have far more money than a just world would ever allow them to touch. Maybe you don't hear that kind of thing often in places where the rich folks are mostly hippy-dippy liberals, but hearing it from even one pair of lips, without an iota of shame, is unsettling--like seeing one cockroach in your kitchen. What is being said when I'm not around to overhear it?

I also detect signs of it in written legislation and political discourse, particularly with regard to amending welfare programs to include work requirements or blanket consent to arbitrary searches by state officials. It's as though the default assumption is that recipients are out to cheat the system for a free ride, and spend all their benefits on illegal drugs.

I can't imagine how anyone could become so rotten and yet live, but from the anecdotal evidence, they do exist, and for bizarre and unfathomable reasons, their opinions count more than mine, even when we have the same number of votes to cast.
Yep re: rust belt. Fix cost of living or find a way for all the other markets in the US to come up to where CA is (don't do that).
I've been developing since 2000 in some form or other and have gone from a true believer who thought the internet would save the world, to someone who thinks it's had an immeasurably negative impact on any number of levels.

That said, comparing it to smoking is not broad enough. It's more like social media (and by extension the internet) is more like the 'new water' - a fundamental aspect of living whether we like it or not at this point. For instance, even if you don't partake in social media, the top political figures of the day are, and thus your life is being directly affected one way or the other.