skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like a lot of American logging has pushed to the Pacific Northwest, where it's very wet, doesn't get very hot/cold and new growth is very fast. I was talking to someone in Portland out in the middle of nowhere who said, "Almost everything you see is new growth; less than 60 years old. It grows that fast." The Singapore City gallery had a display where they talked about growing plants sustainability for paper.
Yes, it's a real average that proves that a female teacher makes less than a male mechanical engineer. How does that help anyone, other than pushing a false narrative?
You forgot to press ESC before typing that, so...
Ruby Object Mapper 4.0.0 released
"Intel and its main competitor, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), command 80.4% and 11.5% of the microprocessor market, respectively. In other words, over 90% of the world’s computers have brains that only understand the x86 instruction set for translating software instructions into computer functioning."

That cannot be true. There are more mobile phones than PC's and the majority of mobile phones are using ARM cores that definitely do not understand x86. So saying that 90% of computers are x86 is plain wrong. I assume they meant 90% of PC's.
I’ve had my worldview destroyed and changed so many times that personally I don’t put too much weight on my current worldview. I believe I’m in the minority though.

I believe my worldview is a tool to help me get what I want while avoiding the things I don’t want. That’s probably the case for most people.

As my “wants” and “do not wants” change so does my worldview. Once I get the thing I want or I can’t seem to get the thing I want then I have to re-evaluate my worldview and/or wants.

I believe most people’s worldview is fairly static. They find something that is good enough (they don’t suffer too much and they kind of get what they want) and they stick with that. Problems happen when these two groups of worldviews clash.
And real tumors are quite heterogeneous, so maybe experiments done with contaminated cell lines are more realistic than those done with pure cell lines.
The goal of keeping the open web “competitive” seems a little dubious, however, considering who’s favor shall ultimately be competed for, no?

No.

I like my ebook reader app to automatically adjust to the light. I'd like to be able to build similar apps on the web platform.

I agree getting the security balance right is important though.
I made a Vim plugin to use 'normal' sublime/atom-like keybindings: https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode

I have an almost identical setup as that described in this post. Being in the terminal and integrating with tmux is a wonderful environment - lightweight and immersive. And all these Vim plugins are of such good quality - are Vim plugin authors perhaps of a different, geekier, ilk? So it's a shame that vanilla Vim is restricted to its special modal editing paradigm, there's so much more to it than that.

BTW I post this on HN everytime I see a gushing Vim thread, apologies if you've seen it before.

PS I'm also working on refactoring my tmux keybindings that do a similar thing - SHIFT+ARROW to select, CTRL+C to copy, CTRL+D to select the current word, etc, etc.
What's your take on the use of plastic pyrolysis as a means of handling plastic waste?

I get the core of your message, I think. We should consider the inputs to the processes and minimize those. Focus on the outputs (recycling) does not greatly improve the situation and in fact a fixation on it is counterproductive as it steals focus away from efforts to 'reduce' and 're-use', which are more beneficial in the long run.

I ask about pyrolysis because, although it still focuses on the third R, it does seem to offer a (potentially) clean means to return plastics to their original crude state. This offers some promise that the environmental impacts of waste plastics could be removed by reprocessing, rather than the current option of reprocessing into other plastic products.
> I hate computer analogies ... neural network.

Isn't this a biological analogy?
Interesting you mention Berkeley. I was visiting my sister there just this last weekend and have since considered applying. It seemed like a great place with lots of happy young people!
I'm fairly new to management myself and I've been reading a lot of articles recently to improve my abilities. Here are some of the blogs and websites I've read (hopefully you'll find them useful as well):

- https://www.gitprime.com/blog/newsletter/

- http://randsinrepose.com/archives/category/management/

- http://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/things-ive-learned-transit...

- http://firstround.com/review/making-engineering-team-communi...

- http://blog.lunarlogic.io/2017/effective-collaboration-super...

- http://www.effectiveengineer.com/blog/how-to-make-your-team-...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14726130
And hopefully those students acquire skills that let them earn more (create more value to society) and hence pay more taxes than if they had only had a bachelors.
Maybe several Unis should attempt studies with diagnosed dyslexics and controls where they attempt to read text with an eye patch?
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I think those use-cases are something a user should have to opt into through a permission prompt (just like cameras are ... the light sensor is sort of like a camera so it makes sense).
Women will remain prey to sexual harassment as long as their careers are stunted
I guess baby steps are better than no steps!
Do tell...

I've looked through the source of several common RSA keygen implementations and noticed that there usually aren't many sanity checks afterwards.

But I've never really thought about what can go wrong there (by random chance or by exploit).

/me puts on tin foil hat ... what could the lizard people plant in there?
> We will arrive at a moment of sufficent self-alienation where we can contemplate our own destruction [as a species] as in a static spectacle.

-- Walter Benjamin
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That’s not the definition of burnout, that’s just being uninspired. Burnout is a combination of cynicism, depression, and lethargy that can come from failing to maintain a healthy life/work balance. (I’ve experienced burnout at a job I loved.)
A God who defines His paramount and most important characteristic as being Holy not His power. The God Jehovah Jesus HolySpirit is the God who is worthy of being called God. Scientific reasoning only proves to me the existence of God as does historical evidence. The levels and layers of interdependent complexities in the universe and living things in the macro and micro are without a doubt proof of such an amazingly intelligent and powerful being.

Some things that confuse me are the stories of a global flood occurring and as a result all humans deriving from noah. Why God seems to be amazing when it comes to math and science and yet He spends a lot of his interaction with us on the foibles of man because we are obviously flawed creatures ( I know that I am ). As though He is surprised by how wretched and evil we are at times.

Evolution just seems to be the self generative and adaptive mechanistic process by which God seems to build complex from the simple. I think that doing it this way is harder than to just produce fully formed complex systems whole cloth. It is actually a more thought out and elegant method of producing robust survivable beings.

Just as an aside, it almost seems to me that when he created this universe, He first started with what a human needs to be in order to have dexterity (fingers etc..), intelligence, communication (vocal cords) and so on. Working backwards creating a physical programming language(dna,rna) that synthesizes molecules tailored exactly so for biochemical systems, to atoms to subatomic particles and the forces/fields that govern/marshal these discrete particles.

Amazingly, these 92 elements had to be created in generations of stars and neutron stars as only the simple element hydrogen existed.

sorry for rambling on.
Not a lawyer, but for major credit lines lenders would generally want to see a few pay stubs and even tax returns, so seems like they’re using the data from the application form as a ballpark figure anyways.
I did an in depth review of the research for a Human Computer Interaction class in college a couple years back before the Taylor and Francis study and the research then generally agreed with the idea that reading a print book was the best for comprehension (I tried quickly searching for the paper to pull sources, but no luck). However that difference appeared to be mostly related to form factor and not necessarily from the screen itself. Studies that used tablets showed smaller gaps in performance than studies that used computers. Studies that used e-ink e-readers showed almost no difference in comprehension. I was not able to find a single study that compared more than 2 or 3 different devices using the same methodology. If I were to design a study I would want to see a full range of tests including print books, e-ink e-readers, tablets with full color screens, traditional computer monitors, and e-ink monitors. Hopefully then you could better isolate the cause of the lower comprehension.

My own hypothesis (I have a comp sci degree, so take this psychology explanation with a grain of salt) is that comprehension is more dependent on the person's approach to the technology rather than the technology itself. Books are single purpose devices. When you have a book in your hand your brain knows it is time to focus on reading. When you sit down at a computer, the brain doesn't know what to expect or to focus on. It is similar to other advice about training your brain to expect certain activities such as reserving your bedroom only for sleeping or to have a dedicated home office if you work remotely.
"Most of the editors out there are based on ContentEditable, including CKEditor 4 and its previous versions. But ContentEditable is bad and ugly, though. It’s implementation among browsers is not standardized and its behavior for end users is often out of control"

Yes, please W3C, Google, Mozilla, MS, Apple do something! Improve ContentEditable or create a new better standard for it!
> The cost of copyrighted textbook can be substantial, but they are usually dwarfed by the cost of the larger educational undertaking. Open access textbooks is a good goal, but I'm not sure I it as critical to improving education.

I absolutely agree. We have to bring down the cost in higher education. I'd go as far as to say that for public institutions, we should considerably bring down the administrative cost which is not possible without removing a lot of the reporting requirement. We require our schools and colleges to do far more than just teach. There is no reason why public schools should compete against private, land grant schools by outspending on athletics and fancy dorms (no, please don't tell me these programs make more money than we put into it because it is NOT TRUE for all colleges as a whole). For public schools, it should be easy to calculate the median annual income of all teaching staff (tenured professors, non-tenured professors, associate professors, adjuncts, lecturers, graduate assistants, yada yada) and enforce that nobody not even the football coach makes more than twice that median. There are a lot of things we need to do to lower the cost, including some things that will make the unions mad at us and some things that will make the administration mad at us (basically we will make enemies all around if we want to do the right thing which is mostly why we can't do the right thing).

Above, I was just talking about books. Once we remove the "intellectual property" part out of the textbooks out of the equation, we can have very cheap books that anyone can print and we can more fairly assess the cost of print vs screen.
University of California fights a proxy battle for pricey cancer drugs in India
Not OP, but survivorship bias, mostly. He's maybe not wrong, but he's also not very rigorous in his arguments.
Well, it's not a technical paper but it raises valid concerns worth discussing.
What's your take on it?
> before settlers arrived

I think you mean "before Native Americans arrived". One of the side effects of the European arrival to North America was reforestation due to a disease-driven decline in the population of Native Americans.
off topic, but why do you say you work "at VS Code", isn't it "at microsoft" / "on VS Code"?
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I actually think that this is a cool feature. Are people so over-sensitive that they think that a pink cupcake targets women? I just assumed that pink worked with the color scheme and was "cute".

I thought that having the (projected) calorie counting feature was a nice addition. There are plenty of apps that will tell you how many calories you burn after the fact. I don't know of any that predict how many you can burn based on locations.
I believe it's more of a challenge than "ultimate futility and failure".
An alternative to PoW would reduce the problem by much.
> Except for the fact that male and female pay for the same job, and experience level are statistically the same and there is no actual pay gap.

Sure, but if women have a harder time getting promoted then they also have a harder time getting the same job and experience. Thus, even if women are being paid the same when they have the same job and experience, the discrimination still exists and they are still as a group prone to being paid less. Perhaps we should name it something more appropriate than wage gap though since the nuance is lost.

http://www.businessinsider.com/women-are-less-likely-to-get-...
You can use rg with fzf. I do.

http://owen.cymru/fzf-ripgrep-navigate-with-bash-faster-than...

https://medium.com/@crashybang/supercharge-vim-with-fzf-and-...

fzf is lifechanger inside and outside Vim. I now use it for almost everything.

Selfpromotion: I have made a Vim plugin for searching and playing iTunes Library based on fzf.

https://github.com/chew-z/itunes.vim
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Singular persons influence people, ..., attitudes change and then governments react.
Isn't it well understood that Monsanto with its gen manipulated crap is very bad for humans and animals (like bees).

"EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/15/eu-repor...
I guess it depends on what your boundary for the 'earth' is (sure, we're all made up of atoms that existed on the earth before they were us) but if you transported all humans to a different planet they would all be identically conscious and the earth, by your definition, would not. I think if you draw a boundary between human and earth it's hard to make the claim that the earth is conscious
Why is that notion immature? Or idealistic?

"Because that's the way it has always been" doesn't satisfy. The same was true for a whole lot of things throughout history that suddenly . . . weren't.
A good chunk of it will be underwater. Make sure to buy something that is higher than 100m above sea level.
It’s disgusting she shared this publicly. Pleasureful is not an easy word to spell, no one should be publicly shamed for misspelling it, even this little twerp.
I disagree with the "totally" part.
MongoDB prices its IPO at $24 per share
> I have to force myself to do passive things like watching TV. Even then, I need shows that are 'active', like Rick and Morty or Game of Thrones, where I can reverse engineer characters, think up conspiracy theories, or do something.

I watch Game of Thrones with the fan-made slippy map open on my phone. And documentaries with Google Earth open. :)
Don your shiny crinkly hats, but after https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG I started believing that NSA involvement is not subtle in their exploits.

They only need to fool laymen, and backdoored primes are an easy way to do so. The number of true cryptography experts beyond their walls is a dozen in the world at best. Case in point https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein . And BTW he's been sued by the US government for ???. Thank God the EFF has decent funding.
So you would say we are at perfect temperature now, or should we pursue strategies to cool the globe toward a cooler temperature?
Ask HN: Who will win the driverless car race?
Dozens of companies are working on this. Who is currently leading? What will the first full autonomous offerings look like once they hit the market? An uber-like ride hailing service, or systems fitted to consumer purchasable vehicles?
That's grist for the SEC enforcement mill.

Understand how the SEC works. They're complaint-driven. After a few "I lost money on Zowiecoin after they didn't do what they said they'd do" complaints, a case gets assigned to a staff investigator. They dig up the obvious stuff quickly, and if it looks like there's enough bad stuff, the slow process of doing something to the people behind Zowiecoin starts moving forward. The SEC announces about two enforcement actions a day.

We'll start seeing SEC actions once ICOs crash and there are angry investors.
I was referring to the carboniferous period where literally nothing could digest wood, wet or not.
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I might be missing something here, but we’re only talking about measurments in Germany, right? It seems like there’s some conclusion-jumping in the comments that this is happening globally (whether or not it actually is).
This is an example of the strange idea that there is "normal aging" that is fine because it is normal and is somehow completely different from whatever parts of aging that we call age-related disease and have decided are not "normal aging". Semantics, all of it.

All of this is "normal aging". Dementia is "normal aging." Normal aging is terrible and creates a varying distribution of disease states in people. Those disease states are the end of a random walk of primary aging (i.e. unavoidable molecular damage caused by the normal operation of metabolism) and secondary aging (i.e. being fat, smoking, etc, things that add extra molecular damage or extra consequences that are similar to the consequences of the unavoidable molecular damage), and everyone ends up somewhere different in that state space. All completely normal.

The only way to prevent and cure the parts of normal aging that we have defined to be age-related disease is to fix the causes of aging, because age-related diseases ARE aging. It is all the consequence of exactly the same processes at root. The three current views of what those causes are:

SENS: http://www.sens.org/research/introduction-to-sens-research

Hallmarks of Aging: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.039

Seven Pillars: http://buckinstitute.org/CellCommentary
the absolute value of a go board position is well defined? where?
oh my goodness, a home on my parent's street did this with their entire front yard. We turned the corner and I think it made us both instantly smile. It was precisely the dose of beautiful color we needed that day.

Of course later we drove by as they were all dying, not quite as dazzling a display lol That noted, I am all for this!
>Low pay, long hours, everyone is a 'manager'...

There have been class-action lawsuits filed against dollars stores addressing this very issue of misclassifying employees as managers in order to avoid paying hourly overtime.

Family Dollar lost a $35 million judgment[0]. Dollar General faced a similar lawsuit, but the case lost class-action certification on a technicality[1].

[0] http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-11th-circuit/1459728.html

[1] https://newscenter.dollargeneral.com/news/court-decertifies-...
Lately I've been going the other way, from a complex vim setup to using the terminal and tools like inotify, tmux, and bash, so far I've found this a much better solution. Keeping my vim configuration and plugins synced between environments (windows, cygwin and linux) was getting to be a compatibility nightmare.

I also wanted to try using kakoune (http://kakoune.org/) but found that for day to day stuff I was far to reliant on my vim setup. Since beomming more reliant on the shell this is now more feasible and I've got a lot more flexibility.
Well, OPSEC isn't all or nothing. And there's lots of other good advice.
This study does suggest that we are doing web development all wrong and that browser functionality is exacerbating this, instead of scrolling we could be doing something like this: http://www.creativebloq.com/html5/create-page-flip-effect-ht... or using any number of similar solutions in jquery.
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Researchers discover link between dyslexia and color vision
Try his autobiography.
All this pessismism in this thread, acting like everyone on the planet has a terminal illness.

Lol. Go outside. Read about the success of the endangered species program. Stop living in fear
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I do not think you can apply now as a freshman. That day came and went 3+ years ago. Your route would be through junior college. It's a fine route.

Dunno where you live but go to JC. Consider moving to where there's a good JC. Kill it. Start slow, take a couple of classes and slaughter them. You need a minimum number of credits to transfer and there's a maximum as well.

Berkeley has one application per year, in the Fall. So if you start in January, you could almost be transfer read by application time. You really have to learn about requirements and articulation agreements and deadlines.

Transferring into Berkeley. You apply to the UC, 4 campuses. You apply to a school (Engineering or L+S or ...) and a major. You need to be a competitive applicant in that major. In EECS you need to kill it. Not impossible, not easy.

All of the UCs are awesome. Berkeley is incredibly tough, Marine Corps tough. Not a happy place at all, but worth it. The workload in EECS is harder than the Valley.
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No design at the moment
The same is true for agricultural. Company lobbyists try to sneak in laws and publish studies and reports. Then we wonder why bees die left and right, and humans get sick.

"EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/15/eu-repor...
From your link:

> Financially, the “economic calculation problem” of von Mises (1920) and Hayek (1935) suggests,
among other things, that, even if a free market is not perfectly efficient, it will certainly be more
efficient than a regulatory or government alternative. In other words, even if mispricings
occasionally occur, most of the time they are smaller than any other alternative system

So the paper possibly disproves a particular kind of efficiency (weak form efficiency), but that's not the colloquial meaning to which I was referring.
Eye patches have apparently been tried over a decade ago with some success -- here's a reference from around 2000:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/eye-patch-therapy-a-boo...

The difference is now we have a strong hint as to why they work.

I would expect that the social stigma would severely limit uptake in school though, which is why this isn't standard today -- kids can be rather vicious when they pick up on any hint of difference or weakness.