skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pediatric MD PhD. These are exciting results.

Sepsis among neonates is a major concern, even in the developed world. Babies new to the world have very weak immune systems, particularly with regard to antibody response which is initially almost entirely composed of waning amounts of transplacental IgA. This paper points out the the developing world has even higher rates of infant mortality from bacterial sepsis. So this is a big problem and impactful solutions have been tough to come by.

This is a large double-blind placebo controlled trial. They gave eligible babies 7 consecutive daily doses of either placebo or the study agent. Table 1 shows that both study groups are very similar, so we should not be too concerned with confounding variables. Table 2 shows the striking data re: sepsis death rates, with this "synbiotic" (probiotic bacteria + bacterial food) reducing death from sepsis by almost half(!). Table 3 looks at all causes of death and importantly, significant differences in other causes of death were not observed between the two groups--it wouldn't be all that helpful if this synbiotic group seemed to get some other serious problem as a side effect. It is a pretty straight-forward study and no major flaws in their methods or conclusions jump out at me.

While exciting overall, the authors point out some important points at the end. I think the most interesting is that they used this particular species of lactobacillus after studying babies in India about 20 years ago and finding differences in the rates of colonization with this and other probiotic species. In other words, they didn't just throw any sort of "good bacteria" at these babies--they had strong evidence to show that it actually colonized them and therefore could , in theory, have an effect on rates of sepsis. If they had used lactobacillus GG (one of the other species that they found had low rates of colonization), it would stand to reason that they wouldn't have gotten such an impressive effect or maybe none at all. Then the media would say, "probiotics don't save babies from sepsis." Basically I'm just applauding their careful selection of this bacterial species.

One final important note is that this result should not be generalized to other populations without future studies showing similar effects. The gut microbiome is influenced by geography and other environmental factors and interacts heavily with out immune systems, large parts of which vary by genetic background. To put it another way, just because this bacterial species works well in rural India does not mean it will work well in Peru or anywhere else.
I love cleveland and my family's all from there and it has the best bar in america (now that's class) but why do I care someone's moving from one podunk city to another? Cleveland is way cooler than denver, sure, but maybe not for this guy.
( to be 100% crystal clear, I do think we'll ship things that use servo down the road )
> Not to mention the paid violence anti Trump protests/riots executed by members of the Democratic left.

Is what I was responding to. As for that other book, you're on your own there.
I find the word probiotic to be inherently problematic. It includes any and all microorganisms that have a single positive health benefit, whether or not they're detrimental in other regards. That if a bacteria were to penerate gut epithelium (very bad), it would still be a probiotic if it reduced constupation.

Even if the research supporting the health benefits of a supplemental bacteria is sound, a single study always has a restricted scope.

It's saddening that 'probiotics' have found their way to products such as baby formula, while there is pretty much no regulation governing their sales and use (at least in Europe).
Tenure is a powerful force. It makes professors band together, because they know if the concept is weakened for political reasons, any one of them could be next, especially in this era of universities looking to replace tenured faculty with non-tenured grad students.
Why not have a single lane in highways?

There's a reason why I regularly measure more than what I have contracted, on independent speedtests. It's not inefficiency, it's allowance.
Certainly adtech is evil, but even surfing with it aggressively disabled has gotten worse. Crank everything you can down to zero, and you'll still find bizarre multiple-source loads that won't draw anything useful until the entire page is loaded.
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He's a researcher at the Hoover Institute at Stanford.
IIRC you can usually transfer your tax advantaged status to the same county if you buy a smaller place. It's a little restrictive but it still enables you to downgrade.
That's not how things work! If the OS is not secure then app updates are rendered useless.
The lenovo thinkpad bluetooth keyboard w/built-in trackpoint has been working very very well for me, originally with the thinkpad tablet 2 it was designed for and these days with my second gen nexus 7.
Obviously people having opinions in an internet forum is much more important.

On a more serious note, Tor was meant to be used by people that want to say something that may run counter to the general, approved, discourse. That was a very ironic statement.
Just in time. I was just researching this today. Quick question ( maybe not related). Is there a good open source solution for Entity Extraction, and more exactly mapping it to Wikipedia, ( Like GOOGLE NATURAL LANGUAGE API ) ?
Assume positive intent
Israeli here - not sure how common it is, but sweet tahini (with honey usually) is a toddler favorite, and young kids also eat hummus a lot. Not sure it's as popular as Bamba, but pretty commonplace.
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> the expectation is that if you're not paying, you're the product.

What are you talking about? In what way are Trello users 'the product'? Are you just repeating a catch phrase that people say about other companies or do you actually know this to be the case?

I don't use Trello myself, but unless something has changed there aren't ads being shown to users (the reasons for the 'you're the product' saying for services like Google or Facebook), I'm not sure what data they could sell that would be worthwhile for a to-do app. What else would make the users 'the product'?

AFAIK they make all their money from their premium services, and since being bought by Atlassian I doubt revenue is at the top of their priority list anyway. Atlassian is full of premium services and Trello seems like a way to introduce all of those users to Atlassian's suite.
Coincidentally Cloudflare often blocks them as well: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-D...
"Stagefright" is an Android vulnerability that allows attackers to exploit a device by sending a specially crafted MMS message. No user intervention is required, no dodgy apps need to be installed.

You're on Android 4, so your phone is vulnerable. If you use your phone for anything important, I'd suggest getting that new phone ASAP.
I've seen this many times. I think it usually comes down to whoever designed the initial architecture. If you have a bad foundation there's no saving you. Many times the architect had political influence and overrode general censuses.

I worked a project with a public company that had a 1:1 dev / scrum master ratio. Then they brought on consultants for a straight week for full time training to fix the lack of progress. You can't make these things up..
Ugh - if that's the case this place is less open to discussion than I thought. I was honestly curious if it could be a possible application for a technology that people constantly complain has no use.

Oh well, keep em coming. The downvotes only make me stronger ;)
That doesn't fully explain what I've observed, and your condescension is not appreciated.
edit: Nevermind!
Countless AWS instances with less than 1% utilization costing millions of dollars a year. It's easier to raise more money than try to fix it, so it just keeps getting worse.

Focusing on pumping vanity 'growth' metrics when our product has negative gross margins. We have no idea if anyone likes using our product or if they're just using us to buy dollar bills for $0.97. However management is ego-driven (we're going to "change the world") and it's easier to raise another round than to make a profit.
Hypothetical_Bob: "I like applied and pure maths. Mathss are my favourite subjects. I don't know which one to pick for my A levels".
So basically the 80/20 rule, that applies to most everything. The internet is still the Blue E. Is something happening to that E? Then nothing to worry about.
Sorry about that. Photon is a Design and User Experience refresh for Firefox 57, currently available in nightly builds.
It will be interesting to see if remote work rejuvenates other parts of the country. You could buy a Victorian mansion in many parts of the country for less than a condo costs in the expensive cities.
Sure as hell benefits Reddit. Ads are their business and main priority, users come second.
For CA, those housing units are negatives on the budget because of prop 13. It doesn't really matter where they are built.
OpenShift.io is a different product than hosted OpenShift on its own. If you were to sign up for the Pro tier at openshift.com your account would be immediately provisioned. We are working on provisioning enqueued users for our Starter tier as well but again, these are separate from OpenShift.io
I'm always a bit surprised at how many sites blocking doesn't break. Sure, it occasionally murders some S3 load I actually needed, but for the most part it doesn't perceptibly change my experience.

It's a bit alarming that you can kill 80% of a page load without your experience degrading in any way. At that point I'm prepared to call what's happening hostile design - the user's well-being has clearly taken a serious backseat.
> Just because one is so much respected by the audience that they will tolerate everything, one should not act like the audience will tolerate everything.

He gives these talks because there's a demand for them (from previous audiences). He's not on stage talking because he wants to force people to consume the information.

I suspect it's a trade-off between a talk of this format or no talk at all. Preparing slides etc. takes a time investment, and if it takes too much time, maybe he just wouldn't be able to do the talks.
Ugh

>You deserve a phone that can resist the trials of everyday use. That’s why we made Essential Phone out of titanium and ceramic. These materials are harder, stronger, and more resistant to dents and scratches than the materials that make up most smartphones. And while costs for such finely crafted materials are usually reserved for high-priced, out-of-reach goods, we've tried to make our phone as affordable as possible.

I almost feel how hard he is forcing his engineer self to sound "markety"
The proliferation of HTML5 video support in browsers has made the player massively less of a concern than it used to be. I recently led a move of my employer's video hosting (many TBs worth of video) from a third-party platform to an in-house solution and it was quite a lot simpler than one might expect.

Video is super expensive in terms of bandwidth, but the technical pipeline for ingesting, transcoding, delivering, and presenting it is extremely simple now.
The question of embryo selection is particularly germane in light of the ever-increasing size & sophistication of GWASes, such as today in intelligence GWASes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15039329
Yes that's another thing in the negative column. Confluence and JIRA are even worse in their own magnificent ways.
That sounds absolutely crazy, so I believe it. Can you elaborate though?
Somewhat related. A fair amount of the cloud initiatives I've seen within Fortune 500's aren't really about the cloud at all. It's solely to get to a data center where the provider does what you ask in a reasonable amount of time without overzealous and slow approval flows. "Shadow Data Center" I guess.
Nah, the tweet is about Twilio, not Trello
If you want to be practical, why do you think they have such a huge swell of their ranks?

I never in my life had watched a neo-nazi talk before last week. Since last week I've watched about an hour of their talk, first on Vice and then searching for one of the guys on Youtube. Streisand effect. How many vulnerable minds will be turned by this exposure? If they had their little march
and the left ignored them, or even better, laughed at them for how silly they look with their nazi flags, they wouldn't be on all TV's and we wouldn't be discussing them.
Choice. If you have only one line to your CPE, you have none. If there are multiple lines (ISPs) to chose from - you can select the best one available. As the ISPs have to actually compete for customers (assuming they don't collude to screw everyone - which is a legal problem) and any bad behavior will be punished by losing some market share, their customers will benefit from this.

Also, resilency/failover. If one connection goes down, you have a backup. It may be uncommon, but for some people who rely on Internet connectivity, this is useful.

Single provider just can't know best.

Talking about efficiency... For efficiency's sake it may make some sense to move demarcation point a little further, to some mini-PoP in the neighborhood, but to have choice the end-users need to own their lines there, and I'm not sure it's convenient and without the drawbacks.
Thanks, we've merged these.
I still prefer clicking on an embedded imgur link rather than their own reddit image hosting version.
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A friend of mine was a radio tech and he was ordered to put in a 1.2mil PO for a new transmitter because a wire was frayed. They could have just replaced the wire for 20$, but then they would have lost that 1.2mil off the next year's budget.
Funny cause in the past wekan did get into trouble over the use of a similar logo and stylesheets taken from Trello (iirc).

They've come a long way since and I think with time they can really shape up to become a strong competitor to Trello.

Side note:
When I was working in a corporate environment I was able to setup an instance myself to help organize my tasks. Had I used Trello it would've been against our policy if I potentially left sensitive data on there and hard(read: impossible for me alone) to get permission to use Trello officially.
Took my wallet. Didn't take my phone or backpack. Just after the cash.
Maybe YouTrack from JetBrains, these folks got some things right.
Certainly not. I'm not questioning the wisdom of avoiding unnecessary killing. And certainly any children and white abolitionists killed did not deserve their fate. I'm not even really questioning the facts—I haven't read a proper history of Haiti yet.

I'm questioning the implied moral judgment I read from mobilefriendly's comment: that this revolt by people in chains, people with no choice to be illiterate and uneducated, can't be called an audacious freedom fight because the killing spread beyond those who directly enslaved them to other free white people. Rather, it must be called genocide, a term generally used to describe free people exterminating those deemed a pest to their society.

(The fact that Haiti's elite is made up largely of mixed-race people also calls into question the "genocide" categorization on factual, not just moral, grounds.)
Putting product in charge of engineering, or engineering in charge of product.

Or engineering or product in charge of business.
I don't think I'd go so far as to say the whole city is "extremely dirty" but it did have some of the dirtiest mass transit I've ever seen.

Cleveland seems to have all of the drawbacks of living in Columbus or Cincinnati without any of the benefits those cities provide, such as the much lower crime rate in both Cinci/Columbus and the more walkable neighborhoods/downtown area in Columbus.
SF Bay Area; near a BART station.
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> The use of a bespoke, BBC-owned typeface also aims to save the organisation money, because it will no longer need to pay the licence fee to use external typefaces, according to the BBC.

It's fascinating to me that 100-year-old fonts can still be so expensive that it's cost-effective for an organization to commission their own (not to mention the costs of replacing everything) from scratch like this.
Good point, regarding security. If you use company's vpn, using throwaway cloud server is questionable, to say the least.
Counterpoint: Tokyo.
Titanium is also a relatively poor conductor of heat. Aluminum conducts heat over 10 times better than Titanium. Use of aluminium would be much better at conducting heat away from the body of the notebook.
Indeed.

But the practice has somewhat backfired. Some members of the general public now erroneously believe that any image lacking a watermark is a public works.

For one specific anecdote, a local popular bar lifted an image of their establishment found on Flickr and used it in their marketing materials (posters mostly). When contacted about this by the photographer, the establishment claimed due to the lack of watermark and being their establishment they were well within their rights to use the photograph. They eventually agreed to stop using it as a "gesture of goodwill" (but never paid for it, and weren't sued as the cost of even small claims was likely higher than the damages).

You read stories like this often if you hang out on photography forums. The general public seem to conflate a watermark with copyright and a lack of watermark with a public works. Basic copyright needs to be taught in schools.
Now, someone just has to find a house rep to introduce the legislation.
I wonder if a deal that removes Prop 13 but reduces state income taxes can be put on the ballot. That way you keep overall revenues same, but just change how it is collected.
What is the issue with dropping copyrighted images into internal presentations ?
Setting the "GBB" flags is the fix for this on at least some platforms. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrome_OS_devices#Boot_...
People still use tabs? I thought tabs became obsolete the moment IDEs and text editors supported space-for-tabs with automatic column alignment.
> nothing will ever top YouTube's

A video player that doesn't make me wait a long time before going to full resolution,or that lets me select full resolution when I'll not on desktop, would be a huge plus for me.

In the last week goon to YouTube's site on mobile to watch videos has often been broken. Turning off my adblocker doesn't fix it. Going to the desktop site sometimes fixes it. Very off-putting.

And you know what I would kill for? A display of how long a video is before I play it. And maybe an indication of if it has sound.

I'll point out I don't use any apps and even on mobile I use the desktop site.

But YouTube seems to be getting slowly worse, which doesn't really surprise me. Imgur had DEFINITELY gotten WAY worse than even a year or so ago.

Good luck to Reddit. This may be a serious improvement.
As a programmer I hated syntax from day one. Lisp focus on everything else was a breeze of fresh air.
It’s a super interesting space: we’ve been working on a similar concept here at Shepherd (Shprd.com) for a couple of years. We use existing SCADA & BMS embedded sensors as well as industrial standard retrofit sensors to send data to our cloud analytics platform.

Uptake is strong, as you say, because facilities management can benefit a lot from condition-based monitoring enhanced with ML.

Good luck - reach out if you want to chat,

Will
Ages ago when I read this article I thought they missed the one major feature that X totally flubbed. IMHO X should have exported some way to do sound along with the graphics. Sound support on Unix was a nightmare for most of the 80s and 90s and even into the 2000s. Everything was different and broken in their own special ways and some were proprietary and very few (only Sun's halfassed network audio as the exception) worked over the network.

Most of the rest of the complaints come off as someone with an axe to grind, especially all of the hand-wringing over flipping the client and server model around. It's not like X was the first system to do that, active mode FTP does exactly the same thing. Back in the days before firewalls and NAT this was a legitimate design decision, they just ended up on the wrong side of history.

Besides, from a network architecture standpoint it makes sense. Your local X display doesn't know that you've started an app on a remote box until something tells it. Having it make the connection out would require some local broker to inform it that it needs to make the connection.

I will agree with one point, ICCCM sucks and has been overdue for a complete rework for at least 20 years now. That said, I'm not a fan of Gnome's Ctrl-Shift-C Ctrl-Shift-V workaround either.
Argh! Not the first time that's tripped me up. Thanks.
I'm seeing this too. We end up spending a lot of developer hours trying to figure out AWS specific quirks instead of just using generic and well proven open source tools. And this doesn't count the insane monthly AWS costs.

"How do I authenticate a Github webhook in the API Gateway?" "How much should I provision for DynamoDB?" "Why is this IAM role not working?"
Also GE Lighting, The Fed, Philips Healthcare, several startups bought by IBM, Glenn NASA, etc...
Android is a funny ecosystem. Every month, dozens of new Android phones hit the market bringing new exciting features like a clippable 360 camera but still after 10 years, there is no policy in place for direct updates from the OS vendor (like with iOS or Windows Phone).

Sorry, I was a huge Android fan for many years but I just can't take an OS serious where 50% of billiona of phones out there won't get any updates because manufacturers don't get this managed. This is just insane.
Same with Fremont. A terrible missed opportunity.
Definitely control of videos so they can sell ads, but also an effort to cultivate a captive ecosystem and reduce reliance on outside sites. These largely circle back to 'sell ads', but it's too drastic to suggest that it doesn't benefit the community. It, however, does continue the process of changing its character.

Captive content ecosystems, despite their widely-recognized drawbacks, aren't devoid of engagement. Vine was a captive content ecosystem whose attributes resulted in many creative works; Snapchat and its Facebook-run clones -- most notably the Stories inside Instagram -- are another, where the content is made and consumed by the official app and never escapes out onto the public web. As an extreme example, Hulu is a captive content ecosystem where all the content happens to be professionally produced.

Captive content ecosystems are excellent places to sell ads, because you track the user's content consumption habits, and control the client such that they can't easily avoid the ads using technical means.
Sure, but before you tell me anything about the phone?
Not really, because in each image parts of the watermark will be in different places. You don't even need to warp the watermark to achieve that, it's enough to randomly reposition it.
For some anecdotal evidence, I "work" in an open office space. Quotes because I can't actually work there. Every day, all day, I float between empty meeting rooms, the cold server room, anywhere I can get some quiet.

We were given noise cancelling headphones, but they don't block the visually distractions that come from having no backboard and seeing 30 other desks in front of you.

It may help for people who don't need to concentrate, but I need to get lost in code for some hours to be productive and hit the deadlines.

Interestingly, the problem seems to come from the inconsistency in verbal/visual in an open workspace. Silence and stillness for 10 minutes, then some interruption.

Constant chaos (busy coffee shop, cafeteria, etc) is much easier for me to ignore.