skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very interested in the answer key for this homework...

In all seriousness, I'd love a breakdown, and references for further study (on how to read medical papers, or scientific papers in general)
> Cooking from groceries is actually significantly cheaper than takeout.

So, for similar meals, is Blue Apron. At least where I live.
for a modern take on this, check out this NSA tool that uses RF to illuminate a VGA monitor cable bug:

https://leaksource.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/nsa-ant-ragem...
That is not the most recent or biggest news, the largest (by a very wide margin) successor to the Silk Road, AlphaBay, was busted just a month ago [1]

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/07/20/alpha...
Well, North Korea did claim at the start of 2016 that they had tested an H-bomb:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/12...

However, with a yield of 6kt I don't think what they tested sounded like anyone else's definition of an "H-bomb" (i.e. multi-staged).
I adopted a pitbull whose shelter name was "Beans". Immediately upon adopting, I dropped the name "Beans" and gave him the moniker Tatanka. My wife occasionally calls him Tonka Beans for short...

He's my best friend.
Look at the HN guidelines. Most of the Google talk recently has been "off topic".
That was talking about not secure warnings in chrome, I'm talking about google rankings.
The death of the internal combustion engine
Yup. Its not perfect tho, I'm sure I have enough cracks in my setup that people can find out if they really try but its enough people should understand its not related to my job and leave it alone I'd hope.
In the example given, the ingredients were immediately combined into one bowl, at the same time, in the next step. No French philosophical doctrine justifies that.
Not quite. I'm a lobbyist in the health care industry, and policy related to alcohol and tobacco are designed to meet a very different policy goal from over the counter medications. The latter is a can of worms beyond the scope of this but let's narrow to alcohol and tobacco.

First, alcohol is not as highly regulated as you might think. The contents of the bottle are not strongly regulated, and producers are actually forbidden under the law from listing the ingredients on the bottle.[3] How do you know you're drinking true vodka, and not a mixture of grain alcohol or something worse? Without testing there is no way to find out, and the government doesn't do that unless there is a strong reason to do so. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau regulates the label, they regulate those labels a LOT, but along with advertising that's about it.[4] The rest of alcohol regulation is devoted to keeping it away from those under 21, with some PSA's on pregnancy, alcoholism, etc.

Tobacco is almost as highly regulated. Science has proven, more than we can count, and completely indisputable, that tobacco use leads to serious, life threatening health concerns.[5] The best policy position to take on tobacco is to ban it, but they don't.[6] The next best thing would be to set standards that limit the chemicals in tobacco.[0][8] They don't. (Incidentally tobacco products weren’t even regulated by the FDA until 2009)[8] This leaves regulation on packaging, advertising [7], where you can smoke, but has become largely focused on keeping it away from children, and reducing smoking. So in a way the government might seem to be protecting us from tobacco, but in reality, they don't.

Marijuana on the other hand is so highly regulated[1] that it's been extremely difficult to even study it[2] to determine what health affects it might have. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but morality has driven policy on marijuana for so long that the policy research on marijuana legalization, is only now beginning to gain substance. Until marijuana is studied as much as tobacco and alcohol, all policy decisions will be unfairly biased by morality and personal opinion.

[0]. http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/whats-in-a-ci...
[1]. https://www.fda.gov/downloads/aboutfda/centersoffices/office...
[2]. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/us/politics/medical-marij...
[3]. http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/11/nutrition-labeling-of-wi...
[4]. https://www.ttb.gov/consumer/labeling_advertising.shtml
[5]. https://betobaccofree.hhs.gov/health-effects/smoking-health/...
[6]. http://www.denverpost.com/2008/08/13/why-congress-wont-ban-t...
[7]. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fdas-graphic-cigarette-labels-ru...
[8]. http://gizmodo.com/the-fda-is-cracking-down-on-american-spir...
I agree. Not just that, I would add that Google's incentive is often to encourage usage of these services despite being a detriment to the user. To this day, Android still does not have Night Mode built in probably because so people would simply use the device more instead of going to sleep.
A lot of these articles get flagged right now, the specific one actually had a big discussion yesterday already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14968626
> scallops and stingray

Ray and skate is nothing like scallops.

> calamari and pork

Again, nothing alike.

> chocolate and flavored vegetable oil

Chocolate contains more elements than just cocoa butter, so you can't just replace it with vegetable oil. I'm sure there's some chocolate out there that cuts vegetable oil into the cocoa butter, but I've personally not come across it.
We could try with a much more doable planet like Mars. We could find out if long term survival is impossible, very difficult, possible but difficult, or doable with the right technologies. It's shocking how little appetite there is for redirecting 50% of the budget which is currently allocated to the military to space exploration.

I understand that the military is partly a large welfare program which doesn't compete with private enterprise due to different technologies and classified material, but I wish there was a movement to invest more of that time, money, and energy on basic research, climate change, energy technologies and space exploration. It's a hard sell though because I suspect that these technologies would compete heavily with established businesses.
Ask HN: Unique Thank You gift to engineer for work?
What is a good gift to get a software engineer (co-worker) who has constantly gone above and beyond to help me out? This person isn't my mentor, and I don't know them too well. I just want a way to express my appreciation for what they have done to help me with my projects.
Humans manage to live in the Sahara, the Himalayas, tolerate being a hundred pounds overweight fairly well, Alaskans deal with weird day/night cycles, etc. I don't think we're quite as sensitive as you make us out to be.
I am dying to know as well. I have a Ryzen 1700 and my primary workload is compiling Go code, which should, in theory, be fabulously parallel. But in reality it hits all 16 threads maybe for the first 2-3 seconds and then falls back to utilizing only 3-5 cores. Perhaps our project isn't big enough to load up all cores for long...
This may be an ad for some SMS platform.
> So I'm late to the digital currency game

Many of us haven't even started !
At this point, we might have to see that it is necessary to genetically modify humans so that they can survive in these alien environments. Maybe we cannot be comfortable with 10% higher gravity, but we can _make_ ourselves be comfortable.
> Like how the policy makers protect the public from Alcohol, tobacco, and over-the-counter meds?

Well... yeah. Exactly like that. State and local laws cover when and where you can drink and smoke. The federal FDA extensively regulates OTC medications. HHS and ATF have extensive jurisdiction here too. And of course there is a very large private sector component made up of groups like AA, AlAnon and MADD that seek to address some of the social problems substance abuse causes.

I mean, you seem to be invoking sarcasm here, but in fact these substances are very heavily regulated right now. You need to expect weed to fall into the same category as it becomes legal and better-studied.
Mostly missed in the comments is that marijuana is safer than marriage.
In this business, there is no rock bottom. I have seen people who would not know how to work with Java classes without main method. They were working on $100M projects.
Google Episode Sends a Message: Diversity Is a Tough Sell in Silicon Valley
Who else read "... gives programers coffees"? :-D

PS: Seriously, free coffee is more important to me than an office. I like open working environments.
Would love to have your feedback on these stories!
The main reason is that corporations run like command economies internally, and have to compete(ish) in a market externally. So resource allocation in a corporation is a bureaucratic, political task. This is why big companies notoriously suck at everything after a while, since internal management just starts pillaging business divisions for resources and pet projects
Simple Abstraction to Use Chrome as a Headless Browser with Node JS
To clarify, I was referring to the language choices here. Comparing Lazarus as opposed to Python in the particular case, as well as referring to even worse performance on Electron/NodeJS.

I certainly was not intending to imply that Qt is not performant as it certainly is. Qt is the default UI for Lazarus applications as well, but it does support other UI toolkits (such as Tk) out of the box.
More "redundant" than "off-topic."
Really? Couldn't come up with a name that wasn't effectively already in use?
Karnataka bank mini statement details and missed call number
Context from history, the 2004 "too old to matter" lawsuit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scienti...
Another use case is fungibility, privacy and anonymity. These are features which are for the most part missing in our current financial system.

Monero (https://getmonero.org/) is a good example of a cryptocurrency which focuses on getting these things right.
Does anyone have a theory for why Ryzens are beaten so badly by Intel in the Chromium compile benchmark?
Your friend had something like an AliveCor Kardia and you could hear it?
Intel EOLs Atom Chip Used for Microsoft HoloLens
I doubt the respondant would claim objective impartiality, and if they did, their article would quickly make clear that they have a background and situation that colours their view of the issue and that they feel very strongly about it and are emotionally engaged with it.

None of this means that they are wrong on the substantive points they make though, even though you're right that the alt-right claim isn't helpful. In fact I got the impression of someone who feels very strongly about the issues, but who is still trying to engage logically and reasonably and in good faith, even if they slip occasionally. Much the same can probably be said for the original memo author.
IBM has a toxic culture. They are the vendor lock-in Gods. Every company I've ever worked for has cringed at the mention of IBM, never suggested them as a new solution, and always regretted whatever if anything they locked themselves into.

They are the only company that charges you to sample their API's. They are the absolute worst, an infection that needs to be cured.
> When a business accepts bitcoins for payment, there generally is the need to convert them to the currencies used for paying suppliers, employees and shareholders. Some merchants set prices based on the current market rate at the time the price quote is presented to the customer
Bitcoin Prices lists the exchange rate for many currencies on multiple exchanges.
When prices are determined using an automated process, the current market rate can be based on either a current price or on a weighted average basis.
When bitcoin funds for purchases are received, some merchants instantly exchange those proceeds into the preferred currency used. Hedging for each transaction can nearly entirely eliminate exchange rate risk that the business is exposed to when accepting bitcoins for payment. [1]

So it sounds like merchants accept Bitcoin and immediately convert to preferred currency based on the going BTC rate at the time of transaction.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_accept_Bitcoin,_for_small_...
>As a woman in tech, this kind of comparison almost always makes me want to disengage.

And that's why there are not many women in tech. Stop taking things personally. I don't care if you're a woman. Is that a good thing or bad thing? I'm not sure any more. Is it not OK to use people to make analogies?
I know it doesn't specifically answer your question, but my understanding is that a majority of 'we accept bitcoin' businesses use a service to translate it in to their native currency at the time of sale (or very shortly after), and often will list their prices in the native currency (rather than BTC + constant adjustment).
> It was, then the social justice movement decided that companies should be political and that they should take an active role in promoting their political positions. Some on the other side did as well (what sort of cakes they had to make). This is the obvious and predictable blowback that has come from companies becoming political.

It isn't just the SJWs. Conservatives have called for being fired for offending them ever since talk radio was a thing. We got bought by a company HQ'd in the bible belt and the opposite chilling effect was pretty obvious as people who spoke their mind about a few issues that were politically sensitive got fired.

We are just more polarized now and people are less tolerant of any kind of difference.
Yep, it's a bit surprising at first if you do not cook very often just how little of a spice is required (at least it was for me). Just a tiny bit more than needed generally tastes awful.
I suggest starting with "Primer on Biostatistics" by Glantz
https://www.amazon.com/Primer-Biostatistics-Seventh-Glantz-P... which contains the basics you need to know to do analysis of stats analysis.

I haven't read it, but you'll probably want a book like https://www.amazon.com/Design-Studies-Medical-Research/dp/04... or https://www.amazon.com/Study-Design-Statistical-Analysis-Cli...

realistically you need at least a master's degree in a quantitative field to get the time and knowledge required to evaluate studies like this. I see a lot of armchair "scientists" trying to evaluate studies, it's very common to see basic mistakes in evaluating papers.
It's not public for one - that's kind of a big one.
Performance Comparison of AWS Lambda, Google Functions and Azure Functions
Against Tokens (and token Crowdsales)
I actually had the opposite happening: a project was having some real issues with not installing proper dependencies until we started using npm 5.3+. Things work fine now and are a bit more deterministic it seems.

It's an odd project with a lot of super strange peer dependencies, many of them in beta or as pre-releases, so I'm sure it's nothing that happens all the time (the joys of using React Native and Relay where everything is at an imaginary release state). But still glad npm 5 made it work consistently.
Iran lets one travel there with an Israeli passport for free?
Hopefully to hire support staff
Err, where did I say there's no evidence for gender preferences? Where did I say it's settled? Why are you characterizing my statement as "preaching on a high horse" simply because I recognize that forming conclusions based on disparate sets of data (some of which is continually contradicted) is not a rational thing to do?

>This evidence is certainly up for debate

Well thankfully you had the cognition to see that.

I'm advocating for discussion, but pretending that you can start setting up solutions based on the data we have around how psychological traits affect professional outcomes, attempting to shoe horn those "solutions" into a political framework that treats everyone else that rationally disagrees with it as being in an "echo chamber", especially when you are essentially characterizing an entire population of professionals, is pretty foolish and toxic.

Did you even read the article you linked? How is that even remotely relevant to anything I said or what the memo's goal was?
Hah!

In seriousness, I'm curious of its relationship to anxiety. Anxiety seems to increase with my intake of cannabis. I'm also trying to do 5 projects at once which increases stress.
Thanks for the comment! I'll definitely give DDG another try because of it.

About a year ago I tried switching to DDG, but I ended up using the !g operator so often that I just moved back to Google. I never felt comfortable about being so lazy in relation to my convictions (which drive me away from Google), and this is a good impetus to give DDG another serious try.
Completely agree. Emacs too.

It's a real pain, especially when you want a quick one-off regex. In that case the learning curve changes the economics of what the right tool is for the job. Often I'll just end up writing a program using a tool I already know, even though I'm aware that it's a less efficient choice—at least its inefficiency is predictable. Of course if you do that enough times then you've spent more than the original learning curve would have cost! I have done this in painfully many contexts. Regexes are an obvious case, probably because they're so obviously doing the same thing, just differently enough to waste your time.

Some people actually like searching for and paging through documentation to learn how, e.g., regex format X does character escaping. And they tend to remember such things, too. I don't and don't.
Could you please elaborate where it mentions that it is used a tracking domain? Because I can read, and I don't read anything like this.

It does mention it records metrics to help understanding and authorising access to their site and copyrighted content. Afaik this is called logging; not tracking.
Bash Aliases, Functions and Commands
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I wonder what they consider "the birth of the information age"? The Lyons Electronic Office (first business computer)? The US Social Security Administration (the first mechanized, nationally centralized data processing service at scale)? Early Hollerith systems? Pneumatic tubes?
Didn't read the article or the study, so take my comment with a grain of salt.

My guess is the HN title should probably be:

"Unmoderated ingestion of unhealthy food after smoking marijuana holds three-fold blood pressure death risk"
I have my own office at Apple here in Cupertino (just a software engineer)...I'm glad that almost all our teams are moving to Infinite Loop as opposed to the new campus :) . Most of our offices hold two people though (still better than open offices!).
Don't feel bad. All the good IBM employees are former IBM employees
I presume this is very low-frequency sonar that could therefore penetrate walls. They wanted to know whether the diplomats were at home, so they could enter and explore, plant bugs, etc at will. Including planting very small bugs in clothes that would be worn to work, probably.
"The internet will never work because Pets.com is stupid" - would be a perfectly valid position to hold after the dot com bust. But those unable to separate HTTP from Pets.com are the real suckers. I guess that's why some people get rich and others sit on their hands and complain.
https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology
Secure HTTPS Headers for JavaScript with LambdaEdge
First, I don't see any actual link to an actual study.

Second, even if this is true, I'm a fucking adult and can make my own decisions. It changes nothing about my support for legalization especially when shit like tobacco and alcohol are legal which we know for sure cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

Third, from the Oregonian link below because the actual link provides little detail: "But it did not take other cardiovascular risk factors into account, including diet and exercise." Oh yes, let's ignore the most obvious causes of heart problems completely. Surely they couldn't possibly be responsible.
There were a few psychologists who have publicly commented on this, saying that that what he quoted was reasonably accurate.
I'm left wondering these same kind of issues every time there's a Mars habitation post. Having a third the gravity, microscopic dust, and a complete lack of nature (or Internet) seems to be trivial to some people.
My GitLab CE instance (also docker) provides the URL syntax, so I did some spelunking through GitLab's source to figure out what might be different with your instance and found build_gitlab_shell_ssh_path_prefix: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/c946ee1282655d3...

The gist of it is that it looks like you probably have "git.my.tld:22222" set somewhere in your config file, which should be removed and replaced with:

gitlab_rails['gitlab_shell_ssh_port'] = 22222

Alternatively, you may have gitlab_shell['ssh_path_prefix'] set which would cause the same symptoms.
The big difference is that two-cycle engines mix oil in with the gasoline. Something small like weed-whackers are usually two-cycle. Lawn mowers can be either.

As I said, the current crop of battery-powered weed whackers are apparently pretty good. When I've looked into robo electric-powered lawn mowers though, they really seemed to be for pretty minimal yards. I don't keep much of my property as lawn and, still, nothing out there seemed like it would be very effective.
When is NVIDIA next gen due ?
Thanks. But actually, no, we write software for many fields and most of our customers are certainly not sophisticated, nor do they care about our philosophy (to most of them, open source means roughly "not as good but cheaper").

It's true that our customer base is not very large, though.
How are VEGA different from the 1080 in this regard ? they're designed with more parallelism in mind ?
Some smart people think that you may be more right than I realized: https://blog.simplejustice.us/2017/08/10/walter-olson-a-circ...

Effectively they're saying that the "Hostile Work Environment" clause is used to pressure corporations to limit speech of their employees. Evidence also suggests enforcement is ideologically biased.
In the US, employers ultimately shoulder much of the burden of health care costs, so a tool that helps employees make cost-saving choices eventually saves money for the employer.

However, that's a very indirect path. Most employers use a separate insurance carrier (Humana, Blue Cross, Cigna, etc) and adjust costs on a ~yearly basis by shopping around. HealthWiz would probably love to go to market by integrating with these insurers, and offering an incentive to employers whose members make use of the HealthWiz product to save money.

That's a tough way to go to market because you have to convince an insurance company to trial your thing with their customers. Insurance companies have deeply risk-averse cultures. Plus you have to actually achieve significant cost savings for individuals who use HealthWiz, and wide enough usage throughout the employer, to make the insurer comfortable with offering a discount for that population.

Two other potential markets are self-insured employers and accountable care organizations. Self-insured employers are companies (or often, government agencies) huge enough that rather than paying an insurance carrier, they just operate their own, and pay for healthcare directly. These folks feel the costs a little more urgently and may be easier to pilot with.

Accountable care orgs (ACOs) are a relatively newer model, where the ACO operator (usually a hospital/health system) receives a fixed per-person amount to address all the health needs of a population. These orgs are probably the most informed about both cost and medical needs, and are making real strides in long-term cost saving measures like improving preventive care. But because they're so different from insurers and employers, they'd probably need a somewhat different product, likely one that maintains the primacy of their brand (and maybe doesn't do things like suggest that cheaper hospital a few miles away).