skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a really good question.

"During recent decades more than 100,000 new chemicals have been used in common consumer products"*

Also there's the idea that hybrid wheat has caused gluten intolerance

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4214967/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573730/
perhaps they have a dedicated loop length predictor? Iirc, loop exits account for a majority of branch mispredicts nowadays, so it makes sense.
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What a stupid and annoying gimmick. Author couldn't even be assed to check if it isn't horribly broken in a major browser.
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Of course The Economist thinks markets are perfect and government regulation is to blame for everything. Spreading that idea is why the magazine exists. If the article was promoting a different theory then it would never have been published in The Economist.
It was more nuanced than that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12425061

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422420
At Plotist[1] we're taking a slighty different approach to the writing process, where the writing module (which is coming soon) will stand alongside the world building parts of the application.

We've found this to be a great way to keep yourself organized and to make use of all the notes about characters, locations, events, etc. that build up over time.

This doesn't mean that the actual writing view has to be cluttered, but it's available when you need it. And we agree with the people here who like working with their chapters as a tree :-)

[1] https://www.plotist.com
Heres a plan for you,

1. open a brokerage account with your bank,
2. buy vanguard index funds for the next 20 years,
3. retire.
This violates the Git trademark, which the team announced they would begin enforcing this year due to a proliferation of products and services naming themselves after Git. If you're going to move forward with this, you need to apply for permission to use the Git mark.
That site loaded so fast!
If members of your community are feeling discouraged to the point that they're asking for a CoC, it seems like something worth taking notice of.
Disclaimer - I know nothing about this game.

Is Werdna a boss? Cause Werdna is just Andrew spelled backwards.
A few months ago, someone gave me a simple piece of financial planning advice that completely changed the way I think about retirement.

Most financial planning advice focuses on regularly putting money away for some returns. Returns are important, but they are only part of the story. Much more important is that putting a portion of your income away every month creates habits that stick by making you get used to having less money available, while at the same time ensuring that in the future, you will have more available. It cuts both ways!

Think of it like this: say you have an income of 5.000 per month. You don't put away anything away and when you retire, you receive a state pension of 1.000, so your income drops by a staggering 3.000 per month.

Or you could pretend that your income is only 4.000 per month and put away the rest. You live a bit more frugally, but now when you retire, your pension is 3.000 per month, so the difference is much smaller.

Of course there are also other ways besides saving for pension that address the amount of money you need in the future, rather than increasing the money that you have available from a pension. Buying a house and paying it off is a good example. The principle is the same: reduce the gap between your income/expenses now and your future income/expenses.

Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor, so please do not base major life decisions on this.
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Wouldn't a low unemployment level be good as that the workers are currently developing/using their skills? Wouldn't that be a positive net effect on society as that there are less individuals who need social services and causing crime due to boredom?
Nominal dollars are a meaningless yardstick. Inflation is only slightly better, GDP on the other hand tends to compare better across time periods.

There are 100 million more people in the US now vs 1980. Yet, we have fewer people doing fundamental research. Just because some numbers look better does not mean we are somehow actually doing more research.

PS: GDP growth is also inflated when the same physical house is suddenly worth more, that's not progress.
> "I'd be open to re-merging if and when the problems plaguing Node.js are resolved. Problematic people removed; ..."

:D I guess it can be merged then.
People... removed... people... removed... people... removed...

Something about those words...
Breaking up or tumbling while going through the atmosphere will move it by miles, not by continents.
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You are correct. Apologies for misremembering. Looking it up shows (d+1)^n points are needed for multivariate.
Please someone invent better batteries that can be mass produced. My drone, my airplane, my car and my phone desire you!
I was looking for "Hijinks". I found an editor doing his job.
Thesoulgasstation is new formed band from Austria, every member is a music lover and participiates in live gigs free and also sometimes payed for ages. Thesoulgasstation now tries to gather some money to create some flawless sounds, maybe you are interested and like the music or even want to get in touch with em, have a try! Cheers
Yes and many times the recipients of that message do not seem to either internalize it or act upon it.

There seems to be a need to for continual escalation of feedback until it is processed. Often times this processing doesn't occur until they are uncomfortable, or as in the case of family, tired of listening to you!
That's amazing news! Hopefully we will enter a new age (pun intended) but this time of rational drug use.
> bullshit

Yep, 100%. Could you imagine doing this bs internally in the course of work? These people would be fired - their inability to deal with conflict or share the same space as people who disagree with them does little more than stifle the project's success. /eyeroll
We also invest heavily in preventing such a nuclear exchange.

Of course we continue on, we hope or expect that we will still be here. Rather than just lob missiles or give up, we took a stance and many active and expensive steps costing the equivalent of trillions of modern dollars. We definitely took real action on the Threat of Nuclear war.
This article is one of the most rediculous thing I've ever read.

San Francisco needs those bikes for people to get around because the public transportation in SF is downright awful. The "subway" is composed of cars from many lines that travel through a single tube and then go on the street and become subject to the traffic. I walk faster than many bus lines.

If anything, the bikes make life easier for everyone here and that is a good thing.
I remember arguing to keep the word 'suicide' in due to breaking API changes it would cost to fix it. They made the change and it ended up breaking a bunch of modules and also was way more of a headache to implement. All because a word that is not a great choice.
I'm also willing to bet that the people in those areas, even if it isn't true, believed that the extra parking spaces and extra traffic lanes benefitted them more than the bikes. If they didn't, they wouldn't be destroying them.

Hah, classic engineering mistake: assuming people are rational.

People hate change.

People really hate change they didn't choose (irrespective of whether that change is good or bad), because people want to feel in control.

On top of that, given the sheer, mindless hostility that cyclists receive from non-cyclists (some deserved, most not at all), when you mix that with rage over gentrification, these bike share programs should've been seen as a target before they ever got rolled out.

So I agree with you that I'll bet the roll out of this program was botched.

But I very much disagree that the subsequent reaction was rational or thought out based on a cost-benefit analysis.
The charges against McAfee are a lot less funny and a lot more serious than you'd guess from message board discussions about him.
What's the point of railing against "PC culture", though? There's no leadership; it's not centralized. From what I can see, "PC culture" and related/contrary forces are an emergent consequence of the Internet a) giving marginalized groups a loud collective voice, b) granting individuals the power of global publication, c) enabling echo chambers that reinforce and concentrate disparate opinions, etc.

It's neither good nor bad; it just is, and we must collectively learn to navigate these new waters. Parts will suck, parts will leave us better off as a society. I think it's an inevitable consequence of our exponentially increased global connectivity. You can't really stop it.

Personally, I've found that the best way to deal with difficult topics is to just not discuss them online. Those kinds of conversations don't really work when you can't have interruptions or interludes, can't react to your companions' body language, can't experience genuine empathy and pain -- can't even sense that there's a living, breathing creature on the other end of the line. On the internet, everything is a manifesto. In the real world, ideas are ephemeral and flexible.

"If you KNOW someone is wrong, why not debate them?"

To answer your question, you can read Kathy Sierra's article[1] on her interaction with gamergate. Basically, it's because there's no right answer and the questions never ever end. It's railing against a tidal wave of identical ideas, and the only apparent solution is to join an equally powerful wave heading in the opposite direction.

[1]: http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point/
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Haters gonna hate...everything. Anyone who mutilates a bicycle like this has deep seated psychological issues that go way beyond planning and any gentrification issues.
Absolutely. The twitter links that were removed were entirely unoffensive. There was a link to this argument for inclusion of neuro-atypical people.

http://quillette.com/2017/07/18/neurodiversity-case-free-spe...

Then people saying they wouldn't participate in an open source project because the person who tweeted the link is a big contributor.

Then arguments for "community over tech", in a technology project...

IO had legitimate issues that were resolved. IO had important contributors onboard.

"Ayo" is attempting to use stolen valor from that successful struggle. They have no major contributors, and zero chance at gaining any traction in a community that is disinterested in SJW politics.
Thanks: I just spent a couple of minutes googling and do not feel a better person for the experience. And it only magnified my disdain for a particular vocal portion of the JS community.
I use an expensive payware application (Papyrus Autor) for my German novels because its spell-checking and style correction is unbeatable. It just works, which is the most important thing for me in addition to a strong focus on data integrity and rare updates.

If there was something as powerful as Duden Korrektor for Emacs, I'd definitely prefer that, though.
Nuanced like a longer sentence or nuanced like they really said "canine testicles"?

/s
It's not easier to sell, it's easier for the price to move down..since as you said, the market is full of shares for sale.

You don't buy into the sell off unless you have an incredibly high pain threshold with your equity(ie you are an institution or a market maker, and chances are, you aren't if you are reading this)
Werdna is the final boss, and is indeed Andrew spelled backwards, Andrew was one of the developers [1]

[1] http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Werdna
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Plus the whole sphere and its housing is going to take up a lot of volume.
The late Pieter Hintjens had some thoughtful criticisms of CoCs:
http://hintjens.com/blog:108

From my understanding, he's concerned about harmful assumptions sometimes made in them and also how the policing of them can be abusive.
What's a pantser and a plotter?

Wild guess: pantser novelists are more descriptive (a lot of ink spilled on clothing) while plotters have much more characters and intrigue?

I keep trying to write something using composites of people I know as characters, but this ensures I don't get details as hair color right.
The font is still pretty tough to read on Windows/Firefox. It would be way more legible with a 400 font-weight.
bitcoin is the new gold. Which is unfortunate, because the more it's treated like a commodity the less likely it will be used as an actual currency.
One of the "violations" was this tweet:

https://twitter.com/rvagg/status/887652116524707841

I am not really against CoCs, but it seems to me that the world got so crazy that SJWs could and will run through my tweets, and then will feel offended by any remotely conservative link I share, and then will use the CoC to demand my head on a silver platter, potentially getting me fired.

This targeted harassment is by itself a damn good reason to oppose any CoC, they create more problems that they solve.
You can try to partner. However all major auto manufactures are looking at self driving cars. Some are doing it in house, some are having and existing trusted partner do it. That minor auto manufactures have partnerships with someone major and have reasonable confidence that their major partner will provide the technology.

Apple and Silicone valley in general is not a trusted partner, in fact they are the opposite: untrusted. Car manufactures have lost millions of dollars on safety lawsuits. The cowboy coding culture silicon valley has a reputation (not always deserved) for doesn't work, they need controlled processes where they can show the courts they made effort to check everything, starting with the design phase.

Car makers expect that they will be sued over a 10 year old car with some parts failing. They need to show the court they did everything possible to anticipate that exact failure case and either ensure it couldn't happen, or if it they handle it. When someone is dead, "we didn't think about that case" doesn't cut it.

In short, I don't think Apple or google will get anywhere in self driving cars. They have early demonstrations, but that doesn't mean anything long term. It doesn't even prove they have an early lead (though I suspect they do) since car companies might or might not say anything about where they are. In fact in this case I expect them to be very careful not to say anything: if they say to much a lawyer might argue the car should have been self driving and thus the car manufacture is fault for an accident. As such they need to set expectations that self driving cars are a future thing that isn't ready yet.
> I do not consider the use of google products even close to free

It is still "free". You don't pay anything to use it.

> they do make a significant amount of money from each customer they can keep in the herd

No, they make a small amount of money from each customer. By far not enough to provide human 24/7 customer support.

> despite the fact that their income could more than support some basic customer service

If that's a fact I'm sure you'll be able to provide enough support to such a claim.

But let's do some basic math. Let's say that Gmail has 1B users, and each user will use customer support once every 2 years, and that each support ticket costs $10 to provide (I've heard similar numbers). Probably far more when you think about all the languages and products.

That's $5B in support per year. Which is 20% of their 2016 profit.

There you go, you can't have a free service and good customer support. Proven.

But hey, you're welcome to vote with your wallet and clicks, and move to another provider that gives free products with free, good, 24/7 human customer support.

Let me guess: you won't. Because there are none. Because it doesn't make any financial sense.
Oh I did. I don't think 40-something me could spend the amount of time 10 year old me did but I played the hell out of that game.
Not being allowed to quit is pretty much the defining aspect of slavery.
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Looking at Python:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonImplementations

There is a reference implementation, no standard, and a bunch of implementations and/or extensions. Is it really better? What guarantees do you have? If you need to provide an extension, you have to discuss about extensions and push patches to CPython, just like you could push patches to SBCL or ABCL.

But at least (which I do not consider "undeniably worse"), CL is its own platform and offers a standard extension mechanism (e.g. compiler-macros), and implementations offer more specific extensions mechanisms (sb-vm, ...), as well as a standard way of building portability layers across implementations. Those features are used to define and implement new standards. How is that "undeniably worse"?
Everyone's faith is different. This guy can't define everyone's faith in one Youtube video. As a scientist I am trained to question anything and everything. As a spiritual person, my God is knowing what the right answer is before knowing the reason why or the purpose of the question. If an answer is already written down, God is the life that came before me. If I guess what the right answer is before, that is the God inside of all of us. How does an Atheist explain intuition?
He tweeted this:
http://quillette.com/2017/07/18/neurodiversity-case-free-spe...

He also retweeting someone saying they would poop on laptop if the Code of Conduct was removed. This was used as an argument that he was happy he upset people, rather than the obvious pointing out the insanity of the people arguing against him.
Money doesn't help the rich when they are dead.

Spending in one area does not prevent spending in another. we have many dollars and some problems require more than others. They can even work together, perhaps a tax on CO2 release can fund diplomatic and scientific missions to help mitigate or prevent the other two catastrophes.
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> Bike lanes have often become proxies in urban conflicts over gentrification, seen as a street design geared to young professionals, techies and hipsters and a pathway to trendy coffee shops, high-end retail and luxury apartments.

Strong disagree. Bike lanes are a necessary part of any city's infrastructure, providing a safe way for all cyclists to move from one point, to another. To anchor bike lanes to groups of people like techies and hipsters is absurd.
Mind reaching out to me glennb? Curious how you went about it, and I might be able to help with a new market. Thanks! jp@slndrtech.com
I think the issue is that by the time you are on descent, the flight is nearing an end, so the benefits for range extension aren't great.
Nope, that was legit. They probably didn't count on people doing that for hours on end.
I think the objection comes if the people asking for the CoC are from outside the community.

Of course, the argument can come that there's not going to be much people inside the community asking for a CoC because they're obviously comfortable with how things are running, or they wouldn't keep contributing.

Doesn't seem like an easy call either way.
In my experience (30+ years in all kinds and sizes of companies), the quality of management is the absolute worst in startups.

The secret sauce of startups is that in the very early phase there is no management. But once management becomes a necessity (a conclusion that is usually drawn at least two years too late), the shit show most startups turn into makes corporate life look attractive. Usually a mix between founders trying to manage (most entrepreneurs make bad managers) or early employees falling upward.

One of the main issues is that people who are thrive in the early stages of a startup tend to lack the #1 quality of a good manager: the drive to make other people succeed.

If you want to work for a good manager, startups are the last place to look.
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Facebook will live stream over a dozen college football games this year
It's a volume thing - the LS430 is a relatively rare car, air suspension is a relatively rare option (only available on the top two trip levels), and the replacement parts are only available through lexus. There isn't anyone who rebuilds them or sells them private label.

For the price of 1 air shock replaced at the dealer, you can get an independent mechanic to put the car on conventional suspension and it'll still ride good enough on smaller wheels.
I mean, that's not what has happened here; the CoC has been around for a while. What's happened here is just that there is someone who is "above the law" that the CoC provides for and a bunch of others are just like "we don't support that, if we are going to carefully abide by the CoC then we don't want to work with folks who flagrantly disregard it and get away with it because they have a position on some committee."
What's unfortunate is that bike sharing directly benefits many communities with lower income in many ways, as is noted in the article (and if you live in the area, you'll almost certainly encounter the discussion).

I think it's entirely reasonable to be mad about a lack of community consult, but I think that this is ultimately the City's fault and not the bikeshare programs. It's unlikely that the outcome of the share point placement would have been much different, but the reduction of vandalization would have easily covered the initial cost.

Sadly, San Francisco has a history of not treating certain communities fairly. They're obligated to do more to undo this bad work, in the event of a program that can be genuinely shown to help everyone.
The link at the bottom of the intro is broken: https://github.com/jamesroutley/write-a-hash-table/blob/v0.1... preventing the reader from advancing.

I think the whole thing would be best as a single page, to be honest. Even if it's long, people have scroll wheels. But it's a stylistic choice.
NodeJS is a scary scene. I'm all for being vocal. But this? These are emotionally unhinged people. "Dog balls"? Yes, roughly half of all dogs have balls. Dog balls are curved and do look roughly like parens if you squint the right way. Do I personally think you should invoke imagery of canine reproductive organs in a professional setting? Eh. No. It's unprofessional. Should it be absolutely socially criminal? I don't think so.
For some context if anyone is curious: to my incredible surprise, the claims in this comment are not obviously made in exaggeration. In particular, many news articles quote the "10 times" claim, eg http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134143813/the-oxy-express-flor... -- perhaps originating in a claim made by US Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer: "According to recent estimates, Florida prescribes ten times more oxycodone pills than all other states combined." https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/fls/PressReleases/2011/...

The claim however does not seem to be true, even in 2010 before Florida took a variety of opioid-related actions. For example, California has approximately twice the population of Florida, but probably no(t much) less than half the oxycodone prescription rate. It was hard to find specific numbers, but for example it appears that at its worst (in 2010) some people claim Florida prescribed 650 million pills per year; at the same time, Pennsylvania definitely prescribed over 200 million pills per year. (Pennsylvania has approximately half the population of Florida.)

The closest approximation to the claim that I can find that might have been true is "in 2010, Florida prescribed ten times fewer oxycodone pills than all other states combined". If the factor of ten is exact, then this would still imply that Florida's prescription rate is higher than the other states, as Florida has less than one-tenth of the population of the other states. In any case, it appears that Florida's prescription rate is now around or below the national average.