skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a inflammatory condition and cannabis amongst other things has a calming effect (mentally and on the immune system)
Disclaimer: Haven't had a chance to read the original paper yet. IIRC, there was already pretty good evidence that angioplasty (without stenting) does not lower risk of death from heart disease unless there is actually an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) in progress. In other words, if done in people having chest pain due to intermittently insufficient blood flow (angina), but not actually having a heart attack, there was no difference in death / disability, but there was less pain afterwards. Both angioplasty and stenting definitely help (reduced risk of death / disability) in people having acute heart attacks.

There are also complications associated with stents. I certainly don't think it was unethical, but I agree with your question for this reason - many studies that may be ethical, but may lead to reduced sales of very expensive items somehow are deemed 'unethical'. I assume the way they did it was that everyone got a diagnostic angiogram, but only the experimental group got the stent. That way there was still benefit to all the patients (assuming diagnostic angiography is useful...), whether or not they got the stent.
I always wonder why people need to "feel the pain" before they make a decision - when it's usually too late.

My mom and dad read wikipedia and a couple investment books, and so when the 2008 crash happened we didn't lose all of our savings because we were potently diversified - why did most of our friends have to "start over?" Because "a crash will never happen again?" This coming from people who became adults in the dotcom bust?

Then you have people living through Desert Storm convincing their kids it's "safe" to join the military "just for the scholarship." "Just do 4 years, America will never go to war again." Shock and surprise when 9/11 happens and a ton of my highschool buddies are called off to Afghanistan for uh... some reason? Does it matter? Did they think that wouldn't happen for any made-up reason regardless of if 9/11 happened, when their grandparents lived through Vietnam and their parents through Desert Storm?

What's with this short-sightedness and ignoring of history / professional advice? Not that I'm immune, I got my credit card info stolen for being comically arrogant at defcon.
Why would you give notice? Leaving people dangling for weeks while you figure out who will be cut is worse than making the decision, telling them it's effective immediately and giving a fair severance package so they can immediately start looking.
Real security requires strong encryption – even if investigators get blocked
House Republicans keep announcing 2018 departures – Axios
Another example where they 3d printed a turtle to fool classifiers

https://twitter.com/daniel_bilar/status/925541876484231168
A code generator for your code generator.
I'm a little confused by this. Patients can get stents in multiple arteries during one cath lab session. Generally it's a diagnostic cath at first, finding all blockages, and deciding which vessels should be ballooned/stented. I've been in multiple procedures (shadowing, not performing) where they did 2+ vessels.
Well some politicians have spent political capital on this, but have been heavily attacked for it. Let's not pretend that all politicians are equally at fault when they manifestly promote different positions and policies.
Now let's see.. we had Usenet news groups, mailing lists, IRC channels, and eventually web forums on every programming language, operating system, and software package under the sun. You could ask questions and get them answered. What was so cringeworthy about this exactly?

That's not to say that SO doesn't bring value. It has nice tagging and discoverability through search engines, good moderation, and an achievement and reputation system that encourages people to make quality contributions. But the days before it existed weren't so dark.
You described the layering features of Docker images: you can upgrade the upper layers without touching the lower ones. It helps, sometimes.

The reality always seemed a bit more complex to me: once you ship, you'll have to start to maintain your software. You will definitely want to upgrade the lower layers (base OS? JVM? Runtime of the day?). In that case the statically-allocated cache hierarchy of Docker layers will be of little utility.

On the bit-for-bit reproducibility: I have my doubts, too. Are we sure that all the Dockerfiles out there can be executed at arbitrary times from arbitrary machines and always generate the same content hash?

Downloading a pre-built image from a registry does not count as reproducibility, to me.

Obviously Docker is a tool, and as such you can use it with wildly varying degrees of competence. I am just skeptical that using a specific tool will magically free ourselves from having to care about software quality.
Yes, there is.

>>> cleaner, healthier and quieter environment to live in
DASH, aka Darkcoin, should be avoided - in the first two days the developer printed "1.9 million coins" or 10% of the supply.
If the idea of building a computer and understanding what every part does sounds interesting, I'd highly recommend checking this out:

http://nand2tetris.org/
My sister told me she bought some and that she’ll buy more soon. She also told me that the price will rise and rise. I’m not sure what to say, I’m totally stunned. But I guess that is an interesting signal showing that the pool of people who could potentially buy more and thus drive the price is tremendously big.
Mysterious Chamber Underneath Great Pyramid of Giza Revealed Using Cosmic Rays
Probably a tiny fraction. I'd guess that an algorithm recognized that buying 100 Bitcoin spread across 100k accounts is better than from 1 account.
The interview covers proposed metaprogramming features in upcoming versions of C++. In particular, it demonstrates metaclass as a way for users to define new kinds of types, instead of relying solely on class/struct/union/enum.

For example, Java has an interface, in which methods are declared but not defined. The proposal for metaclass gives a demonstration of what an interface in C++ could look like:

interface Shape {
int area() const;
void scale_by(double factor);
};

Instead of changing the compiler to allow for new interface keyword, we can create a metaclass:

// the dollar sign ($) prefix indicates reflection and metaprogramming
$class interface {
// the constexpr indicates compile-time execution
constexpr {
// raise an error if there are data members
compiler.require($interface.variables().empty(),
"interfaces may not contain data");

// loop over all functions
for (auto f : $interface.functions()) {
// raise an error if move/copy functions are present
compiler.require(!f.is_copy() && !f.is_move(),
"interfaces may not copy or move");

// function must be public
if (!f.has_access())
f.make_public();
compiler.require(f.is_public(),
"interface functions must be public");

// function must be virtual
f.make_pure_virtual();
}
}

// add a destructor
virtual ~interface() noexcept { }
};

Thus I can create a new kind of type directly in my code. This can be part of a library for downstream users without ever changing the compiler.

See the full proposal here:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p070...
The issue with your argument is pretending the stock market is similar to a coin flip. That's a very facile comparison. In reality each company is a very complex black box in which you can only see very limited internals.

The examples I listed were not random chance. They are companies that had absolutely dominated their market positioning and were later massively rewarded for doing so. It's fairly easy to see when a company is eating everyone else's lunch.

Again, it isn't just random chance. It also isn't rocket science..
NPR doesn't have the report, it's not published yet. Considering the OSTP vacancy and the current administration's stance on climate change[1], even the anticipated late 2018 date is doubtful.

Alley notes that "there's a little rumbling" among climate scientists who are concerned that the Trump administration will ignore this effort. "I think the authors really are interested in seeing [the report] used wisely by policy makers to help the economy as well as the environment."

The report has been submitted to the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. Trump has yet to choose anyone to run that office; it remains one of the last unfilled senior positions in the White House staff.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news
Yes, I know you may think that that but that's not based on the numbers I'm afraid.

It can be true for you of course. But if so you're an outlier.

Long story short - we see people actively engage with video content more (ie - they share it, they comment on it, they respond to it more positively, etc etc).

The numbers don't lie, and they're pretty clear.

Article-based/written content isn't going anywhere, but it's not the only delivery stream anymore. It hasn't been for years really but it was contained in YouTube for the most part. But social videos (instagram, twitter, etc) really blew the lid off that and now videos are becoming a whole new and different category of content.

Now obviously sites that just do a 5 minute video full of junk instead of a 3 paragraph article are just that - junk. But that's why I said the video content still needs to be good content. Sites that don't do that deserve to be ignored - and not all sites are good at producing video content.

I work at Bleacher Report and we very specifically craft our videos to be more than what you're describing (they respect the medium and don't replace articles at all). But we're still producing more and more videos because they are extremely popular.
One possible mitigation could be the use of geocoded roadway metadata. I rented a car in France that had this - it would let me know when I was exceeding the speed limit based on my position. Not hyper-accurate, and so probably not a replacement for all road signs, but certainly good enough for many situations.
Gemini is better IMO, but I can't use Coinbase in my state, so I suppose I may be biased.
Just published my first blog post on sales advice today, actually. Aiming to make it a weekly event and eventually build into online sales courses and bootcamps.
> I don't agree at all with the first argument

What if some of the commonly known positive effects of exercise, such as battling depression, are actually psychological effects of that discipline and motivation rather than physical fitness? I find it hard to argue this can't be the case.
MySQL vs. MariaDB: Reality Check
It's hard enough to know how to approach a tragedy of the commons problem like climate change if everyone could agree that it is a problem, but it's difficult for me to understand why some people will argue that it is in fact happening.

I would be interested in understanding the root cause of why people will disagree about this point.

For example, a conservative friend of mine, who I think is one of the most intelligent people I know, will argue that climate change does not exist.

I've asked him what he makes of e.g. the rising level of CO2 in the atmosphere. His response was there are scientists interested in self promotion and are willing to fabricate data, and/or that we can't actually measure CO2 accurately. Those are very unconvincing counterarguments in my view. I'm led to believe there must be a deeper root cause that prevents someone from objectively looking at data and seeing that some change is occurring (without even coming to a conclusion about what that change means or what to do about it).

Yet, I have no idea what that root cause could be. Any ideas?
Wikipedia doesn't have a business model. It's not a business.
That's inevitable. Will it be replaced by nuclear or solar is basically the only question.
Why Probability Theory Should Be Thrown Under the Bus
Nobody has managed to automate janitorial services yet. There are a LOT of boring, unpleasant jobs that need doing. I doubt the economy can be sustained by only happy jobs. There are only so many astronomy, forest ranger, and talk show host jobs.

I know, and have known, quite a lot of people who would be happy to do nothing productive and have someone else provide their needs.

In a way, it's a bit like college. How many people learn something by auditing a course? Not many - it's the pressure of exams and grades that provides the motivation for most students. All you have to do is look at their study habits - procrastinate until the last moment and then cram.
This. Exactly this. I don't get why anyone would listen to a podcast with ads and/or bad information density.

I mean, the whole point (and value) of podcasts is to remove the private radio station crap, not to replicate it.

BTW, the German podcast scene is a quite positive example of the directions podcasts can go.
Bitcoin reaches more than 600 percent from the beginning of 2017
Fascinating account. Thanks for sharing.
I'll be in the minority here, but if you can partner up with an awesome non-technical co-founder on a project you believe in - then absolutely. Otherwise? Nah.
There are cases where a major change to a software project caused a handful of minor regressions but added new functionality, vastly improved performance in the majority of cases, etc.

In these cases, a Zero Regressions policy is a bit silly. You can flip things around and look at the new code as baseline and from that perspective the old code has many more regressions relative to it.

There seems to be a pretty stark divide between these mindsets.
Considering there are companies that are completely based around selling private StackOverflow clones, I agree.
"There may exist at least one person who may have lost muscle mass over time."
Same problem with messaging these days.

People increasingly do voice messages.

1. Because messages are faster spoken than written

2. Your "listeners" can't interrupt you, like on a phone call

3. Your messages aren't searchable as easily as text-messages
You can find the backing field and set it, yes, but the name is at least not predictable because the compiler mangles it (which discourages doing this because getting a grip on the field is harder)
They were one of the pioneers in the space of sustainability around open source, which led to many of the wonderful projects we have today. Thanks to Chad for putting so much work in over the years towards a worthwhile mission.
But that's precisely the point. Just like HTML should be written with accessibility in mind, content ought to be provided with accessibility in mind. Obviously if you are going to a video-focussed site a la youtube you expect to watch videos. But what if I want to skim the news and happen to trust a particular organization? It would be ideal to have this information in a number of formate so I can consume their information in a manner best-suited for me. No one is saying "banish all video!", they are simply saying certain areas of information are better presented in text form for many people and it would be nice to easily consume info in that way.
Why are you trying to scare them? Just explain to them that it is high risk.

But there is a strong potential future for btc, and in spite of all the fear mongering, BTC has so far come back from every crash. You're not just throwing away money if you spend a couple hundred of your otherwise disposable income on some btc. Buying at any point in the past would have yielded a payoff today.
The first argument is flat-out ridiculous. The same argument could be used against farming or housing or even building communities.

The second is very real and of course requires us to tread very carefully but shouldn't be a reason to stop investigating something.
Most of SO's operations are something I would not like to fund. I'd be happy to donate for their core service, but that's really only 10% or less of their headcount. Who funds the other 90% and why would they want to?

SO is too big to go for a Wikipedia style model unless they strip off just the core SO part and relevant engineers and make only that part donation based. And I'd guess the other 90% would end up in layoffs anyway.
I wasn't clear about what to do with the fire axe - go into the hall, and cut through the door to an apartment on another side.

Fire axes are designed specifically for that sort of job.
Waymo Deal Hints That Commercially Available Self-Driving Cars May Be Close
"What I learned from losing someone else's $200M" would be a better title :)
>To be fair, you sound like one of the harder people to track accurately.

But Amazon, in this case, doesn't need to track other surfing habits, just his purchase history. That history is not affected by privacy addons.
> xmysql now supports
+ where clause on list of resource
+ where clause on list of nested resource
"Downloading a pre-built image from a registry does not count as reproducibility, to me."

Completely disagree... On my team, the lead devs build the docker images, push them to a private repo, and everyone else pulls that exact image. Bringing up dev environments is almost instant. If a lead dev adds a dependency that breaks the build, everyone else is fine. They will fix the build and push it up when ready.
> There is a huge market incentive to get in on a coin early, but if there are infinite crytpocurrencies then they all get devalued.

I don't think that's true that an unlimited number of cryptocurrencies existing will devalue others. It might affect public perception (confusion and skepticism for some, thus those people don't participate at all) and affect the value a bit, but not significantly.

Just like I could collect all my toenail clippings, give it a fancy name (like NailCoin), and try passing it off as currency won't even make a blip in any other currency anywhere, all these coins that fail to get any traction are not going to be able to affect the rest of cryptocurrencies.
I share a lot of Parimal says in this piece.

Well worth a read if, you too, are finding ways to escape from and minimise the impact of this web-dystopia.

His suggestions are well worth a careful read. I suggest going further. Many of you are quite capable of making your own web based facilities, know people who you can collaborate with... In short you're in a position to actually make your own web environment. An environment that grows your own cognitive abilities, that enables you to learn well, that enables human growth instead of diminishing brain function.

It's a good idea to take control. Shape your own web, don't let it shape you.
I haven't been convinced that this has happened before, so other than "not diversifying is dumb," anybody that says with any authority "you should not be investing a small amount of money in cryptocurrency" has an equally strong argument as someone that says "you should be investing a small amount of money in cryptocurrency."

I say as long as you follow centuries-old investment advice (diversify, always have a backup plan, have enough cash for a crash), there's no reason not to explore a new investment instrument. AKA, "fuck it, why not?"

Depending on how much you make I don't see why not invest "only $1000," as long as your other tested investment instruments are already qualified (emergency savings, 401k/roth/whatever, stocks, bonds, int'l investments).
Apropos of nothing, health care before age 65 in the US (prior to the ACA, and possibly again) peaked at about $36K/year (age 64). That leaves you with $24K of your $60K to live on. Not saying it isn't doable, but it isn't as much as it once was.

All I'm saying is that retirement planning is a bit weird because if you do it when you're 20 you might miss some expenses that older people have that you are not yet aware of :-)
No, it really isn't.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=77&t=11

If you eliminated 100% CO2 emissions from electric generation, you still have a few gigatons of CO2 to go.

Has anyone spoken to you about air conditioning?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/13/climate/clima...
> Sorry I guess. I dont know who Cody Bellinger or Astros are nor do I know what sport they compete at. So I mean, that particular story is not much interesting.

Yes, that was exactly my point.

Cody Bellinger is a baseball player. Baseball is a sport played mainly but not exclusively in the United States. It is a team sport. The annual championship game for baseball is called the World Series (despite the fact that the competing teams are almost exclusively from the U.S.) The world series is a best-of-seven tournament.

This year the world series was played between a team called the Houston Astros (or just "the Astros" for short) and another team called the Los Angeles Dodgers ("the Dodgers"). The Dodgers have not won a World Series since 1988. The Astros have never won one (until yesterday).

Because it is a best-of-seven series, the length of the tournament varies. It can be as short as four games (if one team wins them all) or as long as seven (if both teams wins three games apiece). Naturally, the tournament is considered most exciting in the latter circumstance, which was the case yesterday.

A game of baseball is divided into nine periods called "innings". (Additional innings can be played if there is a tie at the end of the ninth inning, but that didn't happen yesterday.) Each inning is further divided into two halves called the "top" and the "bottom".

Yesterday, during the top of the first inning (i.e. near the start of the game) in the seventh game of the world series (i.e. the crucial game which would decide the championship) a player on the Dodgers named Cody Bellinger made a mistake. He was attempting to throw the ball to another player on his team, but the throw was off-target and the other player was not able to catch the ball. As a result, the Astros scored two points in quick succession, which they would not have done had the throw been on-target. Baseball tends to be a low-scoring game. Double-digit scores are rare. So a two point lead is significant.

That one mistake seemed to set the tone for the rest of the game, where the Astros, who up to that point had been fairly evenly matched with the Dodgers, took a commanding lead and ultimately won 5-1. So that mistake turned out to be a big deal.

> I like math.

Did you watch the video I pointed to above?

> Stories about hackers in presentations about above are annoying to me.

Not all stories are good stories. The story has to be relevant to the point being made. Telling a good story is not easy. That's one of the reasons that I find PPT to be so annoying, because it lets you cover up the fact that you're telling a bad story.

BTW, your view of story is too narrow. Fiction is a proper subset of stories.
What Does Clarity of Color Have to Do with a Mission-Critical Database?
I think the negatives (ugliness) of having $ in a few places where you define metaclasses is outweighed by the positives (cleanliness) of replacing this:

class foo {
virtual ~foo() = 0;
virtual void do_x() = 0;
};

with this:

interface foo {
void do_x();
};

in thousands of places.
Not OP but as someone familiar with BTC tech / history I still haven't discovered any real use for it. As in, issues 99% of people in first-world countries have with fiat that it solves, rather than exacerbate (let alone the other massive hassles with using BTC).

It seems to only exist for speculation. Its meteoric rise in the face of all this screams bubble to me. (But.. I've also been saying this for a while.)
Do orderbooks display account information? AFAIK 1 person putting 1000 orders and 1000 people each putting in 1 order looks identical (unless you're the exchange operator)
Take the money out of the F35 program, and there you go.
Environmentalists Must Align with the Anti-Surveillance Movement