skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat OT: I want to create an auth system (username, password, login, logout) using a serverless architecture with Cosmos DB as data storage. Each user will have it's own document and logging in will set a flag in that user document, or maybe in a session document. Login with Facebook would also be nice. Anybody know of such a pattern or best practices?
If I'm paying the same for both seats, I might as well get a larger one, and then taller people can't even choose to pay more, they're just screwed.

Alternatively, the airline could reserve them for tall people, but that risks leaving with them empty, which increases the costs for everyone.
That's what he's saying.
How do you think your blood test can tell the difference between slow-growing and fast-growing prostate cancers? Most men die with small prostate tumors.

I'm sure there would be types of cancer that would benefit, but it would involve a lot of study of outcomes.
It's basically insurance in case there's some big breakthrough in the future and you need the younger blood.
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I am clearly in the minority in my opinion here, but I'm happy for this. CloudFlare is a private business and as such have a right to refuse service to anyone.

"It's important that what we did today not set a precedent," Prince added. "The right answer is for us to be consistently content neutral."
There is no way I'm going to be continually looking for new incoming CVE that affect my old phone and making sure I have solid workarounds. The risk is too high that I'd miss one, mess up a fix, and then be vulnerable. And even if the risk wasn't that high, we're talking about a lot of time sunk into looking through security postings and verifying my own fixes/workarounds. It doesn't have to take too many minutes per year before it's worth me buying a new $130 moto E or whatever. As in like, 1 hour per three years or something.

This is the same reason why I don't run a computer OS at home that isn't patched to the latest security updates. I am not going to run windows XP at home and just disable / find workarounds for every single one of the probably-thousands of risks. That's insane.
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They initially planned to include 8000 babies, but stopped early. With only a week of treatment they already found a significant decrease in sepsis rates. They stopped because they thought it'd be highly unethical to deprive the other babies of a life-saving treatment. This is a heartwarming example of when humanity and science conflict, but I'm glad humanity won
That's the Haskell language. There are a lot of "big" concepts in the language itself, compared to just about any other language from the last 50 years that people get paid to write, but the notation isn't hard to straighten out after a few tries. There's a really good intro here: http://learnyouahaskell.com/
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Law firms. Every single cost center is passed on to the client.
It still would have been nice if they'd done a control group, an allergen-only group, and an allergen-and-probiotic group – all from the exact same initial randomization and using the exact same administration/follow-through practices. That would have best quantified what, if any, added benefit the probiotic creates.
I read the article. He robbed 4 people, with a handgun. The robbery for which he got caught he tapped a person with a gun and waved it around, demanding more and more.

"Then Michael asked for his wallet. When he found that it was empty, he tossed it back into the car. Then, as the police report recounted, Michael “tapped Smith’s left knee with the gun and said he was going to take the car.” "

It's misleading to classify this--as the relatives do--as an "attempted car jacking". It's not like he said "give me your car", got a no answer, and walked away. This was an armed robbery.

His family seems angry at the "white" neighbors who called the police and when he robbed them as a youth. But it's early interventions like this that _should_ have served as a warning sign to his family. It didn't. They're just angry that someone would dare call the police for an $11 robbery.
If you don't complain and make noise then you won't be nearly as effective in arousing the conscience of the community.

You can accept punishment (as in not martyr yourself or attempt to harm an authoritative figure) while still complaining that your punishment is unjust.

I really don't understand your angle here.
Just reread Cook's speech with an eye towards what statements there is not a 99+% consensus on. Those are the political statements. I'm an Apple developer, shareholder, and end-user, and I don't want Cook making political statements.
Weird, that's the EXACT one I rode. Plus, the stairway up to the train stand that overlooked those contemporary condo's always smelled like piss 5+ years ago .... NOT CLEAN! Glad they have been cleaned up since.
NSA is DoD systems, DHS is other governmental systems and some critical private sector systems, FBI is counterintelligence investigations. They all overlap and help each other.
No startup idea here (well, other than becoming the outsourcer for the 1,000,001st), but seems like good ground for an xkcd or two.
From the feedback here in HN it seems clear that you need a "suggest product" button. Maybe it could even be a Disqus on the bottom on the home page, which would automatically give you up/down votes functionality (;
Android w/out bloatware is not an "essential" OS. Let me own my OS and I'll think about spending $700 on hardware specs that I can get for $200 elsewhere.
Good point. It's arguably way more than half.
Interesting. Doesn't seem that way from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Sociopathy
I recall being excited the first time i learnt C. But after i learnt other programming languages, the defects of C started to appear clearly before my eyes. C++ is even worse (in terms of things that look like hastily designed)

Rust is comparably more coherent and elegantly designed.
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Sure, cost is a function of weight, but revenue is a function of number of passengers, so giving you extra space means reducing revenue overall.
Presumably removed due to "hate speech" of the users. Will they be removing Twitter next?
The 1st layer of management is a shock absorber between the senior management and the employees. The senior management doesn't want to solve the employees' problems, they want to see some random shit getting done without having to deal with complains of burned out employees, rules of [whatever business you are in] or even with the laws of physics.
Seatguru etc. I assure you that frequent travelers are very aware of this sort of thing.
Agree with your point, but a question regarding the graph:

I guess care was taken to adjust for shorter (and hence cheaper) flights? If short flight started to become more common, I would expect the average price to fall, even if the ”actual" price stayed constant.

I guess they did, but not completely clear from the graph.
There's one phrase you'd better understand: lake effect snow. On that front Columbus is a much better alternative. That aside, there's a lot to like in this neck of the woods.
Great idea. Admittedly, I didn't get it at first, but I'll be watching your progress now that I see it. Good luck!
Even adults demonstrate jealousy.

I'd say that's a human flaw, rather than a flaw of age.
Given that this is the first time in several decades that white racism and "neo-nazi" beliefs have broken through into a national news story, I'm going to say that you're flat wrong on this.

Being called e.g. a feminazi by right wing nutjobs happens every day. I don't believe CloudFlare has ever canceled the registration of a feminist site because of it.

This situation was different. It was more serious. The crimes were more obvious, and more hateful. And it's simply not about the name-calling that you think you see against whoever your favorite group (gonna guess "not feminists") on the internet is.

And when serious evil shit happens, I want to live in a world where I can trust moral people to agree that it's serious and evil, and not equivocate to make a bunch of glibertarians feel better.
So, I totally read that title as "Cisco's feud with Former Star Trek Executive Turns Personal and Costly", thinking they misspelled Sisko from Deep Space 9. Been a long day...
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OT: I've always wondered why airplane seats are designed that make sleeping in them so uncomfortable, especially if they are not reclined. Is the seat shape due to a safety requirement?

The back of the seat curves forward, with the headrest being forward of the lower back. My neck gets sore just sitting upright sometimes, much less sleeping. Also, there is nothing keeping your head upright; some seats allow you to fold in the sides of the headrest, but the folded part is so far to the side that it really doesn't support my head.

Compare airplane seats to automobile seats, which are much more comfortable for sleeping.
It's not unique to tech, but it's necessary for funds of this size. Let's say Andrew's entire fund is made up of $5m investors. That means he has to close at least 30 investors, which means he probably has to pitch 60-90.
Not only that, but actively maintaining 30 relationships and making sure they are effectively informed of the funds progress is difficult and time consuming as well. Andrew's time is probably best spent working with portfolio companies on their tech, so the less time he has to spend courting and showing love to LP's the better.

That's why they limit investment size. It's not to be purposefully exclusionary, they just have to be mindful of efficient use of time.
I have no idea but not 1000 miles. I wear them to work and back. Apparently I'm hard on shoes?

I didn't think they needed to be resoled, but I don't know shoes. My wife is the "fashionista". :-)
It's sobering to look at all these products and think about how developers poured thousands of hours into something that no longer exists.
IT should be, but i fear it is more and more taken for granted...
How tall are you?

"Modern" regular airline seats are a nightmare for people over 6' tall.
> deliver all the crazy stuff they promised.

I dunno; I'm still trying to figure out whether it's a great idea or the worst idea. I don't want to have to do a code review on my investments; at large enough scale, lawyers are way cheaper than losing money.
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I should take better care of mine. I've never polished them and they look pretty shabby.

Any tips for polishing? I've got the gear, just never used it.

I know, I know - Youtube is that way. :-)
We actually do have a suggest product button on Product Graveyard! If you click into any of the products and click the "Submit Autopsy Report" button in the nav bar, it should take you to a form where you can suggest which product we should feature next. Here is the direct link to it: https://siftery-track.typeform.com/to/n5IT7u
> I drive past the steel yard every day for my commute and you can not have your windows down or let any outside air in all along 77 because the smell is so disgusting.

You might already know this but you're also driving past a wastewater treatment plant, and through a pretty sparsely populated area. It's not representative of the metropolitan area as a whole.
$700 and no headphone jack? what courage!
Pre-emptive scheduling is indeed the approach used by most operating systems (those of us who are bit older will remember when the most common version of Windows was co-operative scheduling - that was fun, any single application misbehaving could hold all the resources on the machine and that happened quite a lot!).

The genius of Erlang is that instead of a per machine it was designed to be distributed from the start so you have a lot less inter dependencies when you want to scale across machines (or cores since that's where Erlang/Elixir shines at the moment), that was one of the design goals since it was designed for the kinds of software where that was a desirable quality (back when hardware was way slower than now), dropping a single call/circuit wasn't the end of the world if the rest stayed alive.

Lifted from the wikipedia article :-

Everything is a process.
Processes are strongly isolated.
Process creation and destruction is a lightweight operation.
Message passing is the only way for processes to interact.
Processes have unique names.
If you know the name of a process you can send it a message.
Processes share no resources.
Error handling is non-local.
Processes do what they are supposed to do or fail.

I think when you get down to it there isn't really anything you can do in Erlang you couldn't do in another language, at one time Erlang went through C as a build step, it's that it was a fairly radical departure as a solution to a problem at the time (telephony) that also happens to fit a fair few problems we run into on the internet.

I'm not an Erlang/Elixir programmer (so I've no dog in the fight) but I've been fascinated by the language since I read about it in the early 90's in a programming journal, it seemed alien then and it seems alien now (much like APL).

Amongst my programmer friends Elixir seems to be really popular with Ruby programmers (I'm sure there is a reason but I'm not a Ruby programmer either so I couldn't tell you).
> Compared to the zero third-party market value for such a bug

Why would the third-party market value be zero? It seems tremendously valuable to many extremely well-resourced parties.
Well they were pretty much written by the same people, not that i have much love for XCB (as a project) as it has lead to some recompiling on my end...
> Adding "politics" to the list of protected classes is akin to removing all the other ones, since someone's "idea" can be that their race/sex/age/nationality makes them superior to all others.

Not at all. Adding the expression of some idea to the protected list does not, in any way, limit protection for other things on that list. It's the implementation of those ideas that would be a reversal.
How about they charge heavier people more - that's usually not genetics

How so? Taller people are also often heavier, simply due to the fact that they're bigger. And if the past they tended to be slimmer relative to their height, that's no longer true for male Americans: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/2/445.full

So taller people would still pay more than shorter, on average.
I don't think "hustler" is interpreted as a compliment in the medical industry. Too long a history of snake oil salesmen peddling to the afflicted.
Banking cells for the purpose of use later in regenerative medicine is supremely pointless. It is a hedge against technological development in cell reprogramming and repair - technological development that is progressing at a revolutionary pace right now, and that will soon enough enable old cells to be restored to youthful configurations. Merely reprogramming cell samples into induced pluripotent stem cells has already been shown to do some of that.

Let us say for the sake of argument, however, that the hedge turns out to be worthwhile, and the exceedingly unlikely course of biotechnology not progressing much past where it is now over the next 20 years takes place. Woe. But then having those banked cells is basically useless because there is very little of worth you can do with them. All of the potential cell therapy applications that might be rolled out today are marginal for someone at very late age.

So cell banking for future use in cell therapies is basically a business that is only useful to its customers if the biotechnology of cellular control both fails to advance and advances spectacularly.
While suffering on a plane I've often fantasized about taking a common block of nine seats (3x3) and turning them into 3-high bunk beds in the same space instead.

That leaves meal delivery and baggage as two problems to solve. I think the first could be solved with a sliding panel near the head. I think baggage could be put on top of the row or two closest to the aisle.

May be more kinks to iron out (getting in/out) but the thought of laying flat on a long flight sounds so heavenly I'd be willing to suffer other issues. Thoughts?
I have an iPhone, and a mac (two actually,) and an AppleTV, and an Apple Watch. There are a pair of beats headphones sitting next to me on the coffee table.

Somehow, I still manage to write free software that I care about, release it for free, and contribute to other FOSS projects. Caring about free software doesn't mean I have to use ONLY free software.

What you're doing with that argument is called gatekeeping http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gatekeeping
Then use a light wallet that doesn't download the entire block chain.
It depends on the nature of the blog posts.

If they are specifically inciting this kind of violence, then yes, I think it is entirely correct to persecute all of them.

If they're talking about violence in abstract, then no. However, it should be sufficient reason for our security services to track the people expressing such ideas very closely, basically assuming that they're up to something, and ready to crack down on them as soon as those abstract ideas transform into any kind of concrete plan.
I think this company gets a lot of things right. Frankly, some of their marketing really speaks to me, like this bit from the home page[0].

Your phone is your personal property. It’s a public expression of who you are and what you stand for.

Just because we played a part in making it doesn’t mean you should be forced to advertise that fact to everyone in your life. Now you know why we don't have any logos on the phone.

They've thoroughly outclassed Apple in this and a number of other ways. I think they've put a lot of thought into matching the thoughts and aspirations of customers, and if the phone is anywhere near what it's cracked up to be, it's probably worth the price.

[0]: https://www.essential.com/
> Is the "rust belt" identify meme a strong factor to locals? More or less so than being considered "mid western"?
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I imagine the "rust belt" moniker is something people identify with - or reject as being derogatory, which always struck me as funny - more than the "midwestern" label, which people in Cleveland probably regard more as a mere geographical distinction. That's just a guess, though.

I don't think it's odd that the OP was lumping Cleveland in with other midwestern cities, though. I would say that Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh (and why leave out Detroit? or even Buffalo?) all share some DNA in the same way Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore do.
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The issue is not really so much if it makes you an asshole or not. The issue is whether it makes you effective or not. Will you (and other people) be better off if you change your behaviour? Personally, I don't know the answer to that question, but I think it is a very interesting one.
Was this Yahoo!?
Only if your planes are fully booked on all trips. Otherwise you may losing revenues because of clients like me who have their own blacklist of airlines they don't want to fly with because of this sort of things. For instance I will not consider going to a destination which forces me to fly Ryanair.
I've long preferred "math's", which was actually in common use at some point in the 19th century. It's a contraction, like "bo's'n" :-).
Yes, that's right - those were monthly values.

I paid for half of my iPod (the other half was a Christmas present), all of my food expenses outside (but none if eating with my parents). Education was paid by my dad's job (CERN). They didn't pay for me to learn to drive, and I still can't (I bike to work). They now want me to pay rent if I want to live with them, which is why I call it "my parents' house" not "home".

The bleak reality is in most places I lived since, my disposable income (after food & rent) has usually gone down from that time, now I'm working.
I first came across this phrase a decade ago in Forbes as the best piece of advice Pepsi's CEO ever got. It's one thing that has always stuck with me. We often let our own insecurities misrepresent other people's intentions.
Even simpler, Ad Block Plus or UBlock Origin block adverts on YouTube. I'm not sure which it is because I've got both, but I definitely notice the annoying difference when I watch YouTube on another browser!
Of this I was aware, and thanks for bringing it up for general knowledge! For me, oddly, I can walk through poison oak no problem, as long as I don't have an open cut. Near a cut, the area will get all "poison-oaky" and rash and itch still.
Wal-Mart is buying trendy e-commerce sites. The cool kids are not having it
There is a point between a peaceful environmental or justice or equality protest and something as inherently violent as fascism or racism which was the mix in Charlottesville. Historically, fascism has always had an aspect of violence, and the same with racism. You simply cannot make the same case with either antifa or even black block, they are reactionary to fascism and oppression, if not racism respectively.

Black bloc has its roots opposing police violence, and this is consistent through their history, so I should have said "fascist, racist and anti-oppression rally"
Hmm, that's strange. I'm not seeing it on my desktop. Do you mind posting a screenshot of it?
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There's a bunch of companies doing this.
I'm 90% sure this is because Qualcomm won't give out the source to various drivers. Instead you get a binary blob to deal with which makes the interface with other parts of the system untenable over time.
Fun idea, but safety is going to be a big hurdle. :)
Excellent site, love it.

I can't provide a funny story or eulogy, but have a scary one... "Microsoft Lync" [item 10 on the list right now] is not dead, it's aaaalllliiiiivvveeeee...

Those of us who work in the nightmare planes, where Microsoft products are mandated, once hoped that Microsoft's "Skype for Business" would bring us a bit of non-corporate real-world better-because-it-had-to-compete-on-its-own-merits product to save us from the eternal pain of Lync.

But no, it turned out that "Skype for Business" REALLY IS just Lync, with only two changes.
1) rebranding
2) somehow, despite changing almost nothing, they managed to break copy-and-paste, it doesn't work reliably any more

It's a zombie horror story!
This doesn't work for me. I assume so much positive intent that I give people a lot of chances without criticizing them. Even when their story makes no sense, I try to give everyone full benefit of doubt. As a result, they seem to think that I am stupid and try to repeat the same behavior.