skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely jsDelivr https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr

Billions of requests every month. Building the service is pure joy. I have lots of new features coming like a new website, stats per project and more.
I searched "cabin office" on Google, but the results were largely about offices in cabins. I have a feeling you mean something else. Would you mind defining them for me?

To clarify, I'm not familiar with your usage of the word "cabin" in this context.
This is a very odd article. It discusses longevity of use but gives no details about frequency or method of ingestion, which may be very telling.

Example: Is there a difference between someone who smokes a joint every day for 10 years and someone who eats an edible once every two months for 10 years?

I imagine the answer to this is yes, but it's one of those things you need data to back up. The 'findings' have been so oversimplified in this news article that the portrayed results are likely only unreliable. This makes for great politicized sound-bytes but doesn't really help anyone make a real conclusion or decision.

This seems to be the source for the article, I doubt they even interviewed:

https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases...

The study:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2047487317723212

Looking at methodology:

We linked participants aged 20 years and above, who responded to questions on marijuana use during the 2005 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to data from the 2011 public-use linked mortality file of the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only participants eligible for mortality follow-up were included. We conducted Cox proportional hazards regression analyses to estimate hazard ratios for hypertension, heart disease, and cerebrovascular mortality due to marijuana use. We controlled for cigarette smoking and other relevant variables.

And results:

Of the 1213 eligible participants 72.5% were presumed to be alive. The total follow-up time was 19,569 person-years. Adjusted hazard ratios for death from hypertension among marijuana users compared to non-marijuana users was 3.42 (95% confidence interval: 1.20–9.79) and for each year of marijuana use was 1.04 (95% confidence interval: 1.00–1.07).

My own naive interpretation here is that they drew their conclusions from a sample of ~334 deaths (1213 - 72.5%) by people who filled out a survey in 2005, using only the original survey at the beginning of the 6 year period and their public-use mortality file..
Not expanding public transit already happens. Google/Cisco/Apple/Facebook was running its own shadow public transit system for free to the cities, but the anti-techie lobbies demanded that SF regulate it to a shadow of its former self and tax the tech companies every time a bus stops to pick up passengers.

In Seattle, Google just gives its employees a bus pass, because their public transit system isn't full and dysfunctional.
The flex-spline is a spring that is constantly under compression, so there is no "rattle" between teeth.

There is one downside to this inherent springiness of harmonic drives, which is some play at the end effector. I worked on a robot arm once that had 6DOF of harmonic drives and it was quite tricky to tune the controller for precise placement of tools.
Something that does concern me about WhatsApp is that backups of messages (by default, it seems, put on Google Drive on Android) are not encrypted. I'm not really sure why. There's not a compelling reason that I can think of.
Wait a second...does this imply that if I put downloads that should only be of interest to our Windows customers on a server named something like downloads_.ourdomain.com, it might keep out all those annoying bots that ignore robots.txt and make a lot of noise in my logs? I'm guessing that most of the bots are not running on Windows.
The reality is that 2,000 of them are indistinguishably good and diversity programs are intended to make sure that google hires equally able women out of that group instead of choosing all the men.
I'm all for increased public transportation, electric cars, and renewable energy. But I'm also hoping to give people ideas for what would be ideal.

I think you could argue that my idea is less fantastical than Musk's. People have built and migrated to new cities since the dawn of civilization. It's a more recent phenomenon that we stopped building large cities. My idea doesn't require any new technology. It doesn't require the government to do that much. It doesn't require people to behave any differently that what is natural.
With a range extension of 115 miles, that's not quite the distance I'd like to see.

It's fine as a proof of concept, and maybe even for a daily driver with a bit of emergency range, but not for my aforementioned trips.
Ah silly me, how could I forget about that? <floats slowly away>
This was my guess too. There is a strong overlap between weed smokers and daily fast food eaters.
This applies to any recipe, though? It's not hard to just read the next step, especially when every ingredient name is in bold. Hell, it never even actually says to put things in individual bowls.
Awesome work! Thanks for sharing this!

Reminds me of nova.astrometry.net and PixInsight (and others), which are able to determine which stars are in an image, regardless of transforms.

Relevant paper (outlines an approach using triangle space):
https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00548539/document

Relevant section:
"Provided the reduced object lists, our next step is to construct all possible
triangles. From the list of n objects we can construct n(n − 1)(n − 2)/6
triangles. Those will be represented in so called "triangle space".
We need to choose a triangle representation that will let us find similar triangles,
that is to find corresponding object triplets being insensitive to translation,
rotation, scaling and flipping. A triangle in the triangle space
could be represented as a two-dimensional point (x, y) where
x = a/b, y = b/c.

a, b and c are the lengths of triangle sides in decreasing order. Similar triangles
will be located close to each other in the triangle space."
I guess you're right. I know there aren't any observed transits, but I also don't know what the current constraints from monitoring the star's brightness for transit is (the star is actually so bright that it becomes hard to monitor for planet transits).

However, we have a good prior on the inclination of these planets, because we know the inclination of the dust disk around the star (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tau-ceti-s-dust-b...), and it is likely the planets are at a similar inclination. Because the disk isn't edge on, the planets also likely aren't, and won't transit.
Not quite...as it is still federally a Schedule 1 substance research is hampered.
Recognize that this knee jerk reaction is your brain's attempt at dismissing the study and move on.
150 years by what calculations? Are you also factoring in deceleration time?
Consumer Reports pulls recommendation for Microsoft Surface laptops
Got it. Thanks for the links too, helps to get some context around this.
> 1200 is a large number of people, but not large relative to the number of people who consume regularly.

Ratio of sample to population size is mostly irrelevant for statistics. The strength of conclusions from a sample is calculated based on an infinite population size.
Hate to say it, but it could be true. I am in an area of heavy heavy marijuana use (DABs, oils, etc 250mg> THC daily) and it is not just me, other people have noticed negative health of these users. They look sick. Another diesease is that they can no longer eat and they lose weight. Apparanetly according to the doctors the stomach is unable to make the right acid to digest food. We also noticed mania, strange behavior, etc. Just everything: a little bit is fun/good, a lot is bad. It doesn't help that the proponents of medical marijuana push it as the cure for everything. Type any disease or condition into google and "medical marijuana" and you will find "evidence" that it cures that condition. The internet is full of this bad medical advice. I've actually known people that ruined their lives with just marijuana
Untangling Transformation: IT vs. Digital vs. Business
No, it's the other way around.

GPG is extremely wide-spread for code signing (pretty much any Linux distro uses it), but it's barely used for email encryption.
To join or not to join? An act of #includes
Mostly shocked that Google got caught discriminating on race/gender grounds.
This. When their hands are so strong, they probably got a pretty favorable terms.
Oracle does provide private offices in their Santa Clara location. This has mostly to do with this being the old Sun Microsystems buildings. It might have changed now, though after rapid expansion of their public cloud engineering group.
Typically companies will let you 'do-over'/re-apply in 6-12 months, so there's still hope!
Having to reboot to enable Game Mode really sucks. Usually I game after I finish working or maybe in between while I'm waiting for a download. I don't want to have to re-open all my programs and set up my desktop yet again after I'm done gaming.

I wonder if this will be fixed with software later on or we'll have to wait for the next model of Threadripper.
No, because the point is that cars specifically are Pretty Bad for cities (noise, air quality, inefficient use of space, dangerous) and should be discouraged (and economic incentives work). Mass transit is generally far less bad and should be encouraged by economic means.

NYC sort-of does this by not using zone fares, so long trips from far-away areas (read: poor parts of the city) cost as much as a brief trip through a rich area.
> "The persons who habitually smoke marijuana have been shown to have higher blood pressure levels when compared to the general population"

It's not even this, it reads as if it was a simple "Have you ever smoked marijuana?" and that's what the conclusion was drawn from.

"Yankey said were limitations in the way marijuana use was assessed -- including that researchers could not be sure whether people had used the drug continuously since they first tried it."

That would be like asking "Have you ever intentionally hurt someone's feelings?" and concluding that people were three times likely to be anti-social.
A 1213 participant study, of which 72.5% are assumed still alive. So ~334 people. Maybe the other 879 people will live longer happier lives.

Source: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2047487317723212
I think You chose flexibility over simplicity.
Simplicity on google infrastructure would be to use:

- completely use firebase

- completely use AppEngine

So, you would get easy packaging, ssl, deployment, infrastructure maintenance..
I will concede the post could have been more civil and I apologize.

However, it is extremely substantive, an entire doctoral thesis could be written on secular religions/orthodoxies and their illiberal and authoritarian nature and is directly relevant to the discussion of the reaction to the Google memo.
My 600-person company, a wholly-owned part of a much, much larger national multi-billion dollar company has single or double private offices, with doors, for the entire staff, new hires, IT, admin, everyone, at our headquarters in SV as well as our smaller, satellite offices. AFAIK, there is no plan to change this. If, however, our current lease isn't renewed and the company moves, all bets are off. I've heard rumors that our parent company isn't happy with the "wasted" space. We'll see.
Launch HN: HealthWiz (YC S17) – Navigating health benefits to lower costs
Hi HN — My name is Nate Fox. Along with Nate Maslak (Nate^2), I am one of the cofounders of HealthWiz (https://www.myhealthwiz.com) in the current YC batch.

HealthWiz guides employees to convenient and cost-effective healthcare decisions and lowers healthcare costs by eliminating wasted spend. We help users understand what’s wrong and how to get better quickly and cost-effectively.

While lowering costs frequently means taking away benefits, we do the opposite — we bring transparency and information to a messy healthcare system that allows employees to better navigate their benefits, resulting in less wasted spend and a faster return to health.

This is personal for us. When Nate Maslak's mom needed to find a doctor for joint pain, she went to one physician, then another, then another. Six months and thousands of dollars later, she still wasn’t better and gave up on looking. Nate and I found it ludicrous that despite all the information available to us, healthcare remained opaque and intimidating.

Without HealthWiz, we have to scour the web for (often biased) information for what’s wrong and take our best guess at how to find treatment, only to be shocked by the bill. Our goal is to help you triage your symptoms with AI and access the most convenient ways to get better while knowing the cost in advance.

We’d love to get your feedback on the product (i.e. would you want your employer to offer this?) and look forward to discussing the nitty-gritty of just how we do all this, if people are interested!
Keep in mind that it's a common misconception that if you're exposed to noise or loud music, you'll lose hearing at the highest frequencies first. Hearing loss due to noise exposure tends to be centered around 4 KHz ("noise notch") -- you lose the higher frequencies with age (presbycusis).
What is convenient about it?
So when do we get to write articles saying East Asian people are better at science than Australian Aboriginal people? That White people are less impulsively violent than Black people?

Why is this allowed?
Thank you for summarizing it succinctly.
No, I'm using Archlinux with Firefox 54.
The utility is that it's a trust-less transfer of value between two parties. Essentially, it's like being able to send cash, anonymously if you chose, to someone else, without an intermediary, in a way that everyone can see and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of.

It seems to me a lot of it is tied up in speculative investment. But there are some vendors who accept it and some countries (eg: Japan) where it's more popular and widely accepted.
We should seek to find solutions that eliminate rent-seeking altogether...
Depends on the currency. Bitcoin is largely just currency, but things like Ethereum introduce concepts such as smart contracts. Here's an article explaining Ethereum, but obviously there are tons of cryptocurrencies now that all work in their own way.

https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2017/08/10/ultimate-2000...
what it is they have against
repetition

They find it boring.

Would you come to HN every day if the linked articles never
changed?

I'm	quite enamoured	with Schmidthuber's theory of creativity [1, 2]
Schmidhuber develops a theory of
artificial curiosity and creativity for an autonomous agent. The
agent is equipped with an adaptive predictor trying to predict
future events from the history of previous events and actions. A
reward-maximising, reinforcement learning, adaptive controller is
steering the controller and gets curiosity reward for executing
action sequences that improve the predictor. (I term this "Pattern
Recognition as Pleasure".) This discourages the agent from
executing actions leading to boring outcomes that are either
predictable or totally unpredictable. Instead the controller
is motivated to learn actions that help the predictor to learn
new, previously unknown regularities in its environment, thus
improving its model of the world, which in turn can greatly help
to solve externally given tasks. Schmidhuber claims that his
corresponding formal theory of creativity explains essential
aspects of art, science, music, and humor.

If we were to take Schmidhuber's approach seriously, then that that which we enjoy as great art (as
creative) would be that which is on the edge of the observer's
ability to compress/understand. Note that this is highly observer
dependent! What I have been comprehending for a long time and
dismiss as boring, might be extremly interesting for somebody
else, and vice versa.

In my own life this	was born out: I	used to	enjoy pop-music	so
much and didn't worry about repetition -- in fact I didn't notice
it.	I loved	pop-music so much that I learned how to	make it. This
lead to my disenchantment with pop-music: when I was finally able
to produce decent pop-music (I was able to compress it into a few
rules), I lost interest, and sought novelty elsewhere.

never heard of trance

I've certainly read Gilbert Rouget's Music and trance [3]. The upshot of this book is that trance is not really tied to any musical quality, but a social effect where we copy other's behaviours.

[1] J. Schmidhuber, Formal Theory of Creativity, Fun, and Intrinsic Motivation. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/creativity.html

[2] J. Schmidhuber, Simple Algorithmic Principles of Discovery, Subjective Beauty, Selective Attention, Curiosity & Creativity. https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0674

[3] https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Music_and_Trance.html...
The N of the study isn't the issue here. It's the large collection of other methodological details, such as self-reported survey data, and a lack of dose-response, that invalidate it for policy purposes.

When you say it "looks quite convincing", are you qualified to judge it on its merits?
They don't. That was the point. It is really 5% + 3%.
That's their IT+customer relations combo job. Just awful. SWEs are pretty well taken care of though.
Let's put aside for a minute Snapchat v. Instagram.

Is it just me or is there a drastic growth in trend of 'Goodbye this', 'Why I'm moving from X to Y', 'Why I moved to X'.

Last HW article I recall was the guy moving from 'Firebase to Web' - He made good points. Although. My question is. Are we seeing more and more of these because of 'Clickbaity' titles A/B tested for Techies?
Tobacco, that's more harmful than alcohol.
Yes. Just because he's taking a tough stance doesn't mean it's irrational. What else should he say? Nothing? Maybe "well if they Lee threatening us we will just do nothing"? What exactly is an appropriate response? Does it even matter anymore? You're paranoid and you don't understand the political nature of this discussion. Saying "he got mad and launched missiles because he saw dead kids on TV" just highlights this.
>It looks quite convincing to me, and fairly worrying.

That's how propaganda works.

I know it's anecdotal, but I've been a 3 or more times a day (everyday) smoker for over 11.5 years and I'm an no where near the risk of my overweight family members. Blood pressure has been fine and I'm an no risk of hypertension. Demand more proof if you're convinced by this. Something smells fishy. I would like to know how Snoop, Willie, and Morgan are holding up. They must be ready to keel over with how they smoke.
The writer is a woman.
I think there are ways to deal with those things. You could have underground tunnels that allow limited motorized transit.
QT is really expensive for commercial use though. And it's not as easy as Builder was. Builder basically gave you Delphi capability but in C++. You could focus 100% on the problem you're solving rather than on the UI -- true component based RAD. Drop a few components, wire them together, then add your code to do what they can't do.
There is a reason those guys actively denounce SSL. They use snip.ly and other tools that hijack the clicks from their social media references with an overlay to promote their products. The users see the WSJ or NYT article they clicked on with a free ad for the person who shared it underneath (possibly data too). Those overlays don't work over SSL pages.
Apple placed me in an experimental building where they were changing the interior design constantly, trying to decide how to design their new "space ship" building. The whole time, I fumed at no longer having an office and having to work in an open office design. I could not focus due to audio and visual interruptions while I worked (programmer) in the open office spaces. But no one ever asked me for my opinion about the experimental open office environments!

Now this: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/08/08/apple-pa...
"Apple staffers reportedly rebelling against open office plan at new $5 billion HQ"

Glad I wasn't the only coder there who utterly despised the move to the open office design.
That money would have had better upside if invested in bitcoin directly.
They mention smoking it, isn't smoking ANYTHING be harmful to your cardiovascular health? What is the increased risk vs cigarettes vs cigars etc.? How does this hold up for users who smoke it vs. eat it?
Since they are watching the star wobble, they probably have exact inclinations.
You don't understand.

If women are better coders than men, then there are differences between the sexes. If men are more interested in coding than women, regardless of their relative skill, then there is no difference between sexes and you should shut up right now or we will fire you.
I hate the rationale that's implicitly being put forward in these arguments, and that underlies health care in the US.

The US health system is set up under this model that assumes you're incompetent and should be prevented from making any decisions on your own, and only allowed to use something if it's deemed inconsequential enough.

That is, it is assumed a person has no decision-making competency, and then the burden of proof is on someone to show that you do, or that a decision is within the realm of what someone's limited competency is.

This seems completely backward: you should be assumed to be competent, and then only have that legally determined otherwise through extraordinary means.

All drug regulation should be eliminated, and be replaced by a competency-based evaluation, much like if someone is dementing or cognitively incapable.

That is, if someone is shown to be addicted, they should be ruled incompetent about making drug-related decisions through evaluations by psychologists and the courts, etc. Then that person would be treated as a vulnerable individual, like a child or cognitively impaired adult, and anyone taking advantage of that person would be treated similarly.

The scheduling system and healthcare system is so screwed up and I don't see why this isn't discussed more. There would be so much more competition, and it is completely different from the issue of who pays: you could have the government decide what it wants to pay for, and leave people who want something different to pay for it through different means.
Oh, I'm also on Arch Linux and have no issues.
Having cash sounds great, but does this kind of cash create a crutch? $100M seems like a large number for CB, but I don't know enough about its business to understand how far that money goes. Is CB growing very quickly and in what ways? Is CB making money on their own?

In order to become the de facto home for crypto payment/trading, what does that mean? Does it mean they need to help make the adoption / use of cryptocurrencies easier and more widespread? I am curious as to how this money gets spent.
Who remembers Starbuck's Kozmo.com that offered free delivery? Burned through money faster than WebVan!
Why do robots rely so much on gears? There is no gear in the animal kingdom, and yet their limbs are vastly more energy efficient and agile, aren't they?
Being from Brazil where Citroen has decent market presence, it saddens me that I can't buy them here in the US. They have such nice-looking, modern vehicles, and I would love to be able to buy them in the US. Same goes for other french manufacturers like Peugeot. I used to drive a 207 during grad school. Loved that little car.
Gemidão do Zap
> You could quite easily put together such a device yourself. Just put out a 130dB noise for someone in a frequency they can't hear.

Or Real Soon Now™ you'll just be able to buy a uBeam