skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the flexible environment iirc. Which is basically the reasonable env to expect, now. Standard env has some aging issues that keep getting worse. most notably jvm 7, if that’s your poison, but just all round crippled env lacking standard libs and with lock in substitutions.

As far as I remember, that is..
What's a good resource for understanding broadband markets as a whole?

At least in SF in the past 5 years, Comcast seems to have upgraded 100Mbps connections to 1Gbps connections. Not sure whether that translates to a bigger shared pipe for the city as a whole, but it certainly looks like a good amount of improvement in $:bits, at least in comparison with $:sqFt.
Quite normal in the UK to use calpol (paracetomol) and nurofen (ibuprufen) in a 5ml syringe (doses at 2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10 as the child gets older).

What do you do in the US?
Not a doctor / scientist. Can anyone tell me if this is a pilot study or reproduced results from other studies? Or in other words, should I take this as a fact yet?
In that case, the only proper response is to report that the word neurotic is not scientific.

I think that's a discussion worth having. That would've been a lot better than just firing the guy!
Economics is overdue for a quantum revolution
France investigates Apple over claims of planned obsolescence
The thing with local politics is that engagement is low and extremely self-selected. I'm never surprised when local voters and politicians are disproportionately on the busybody end of the spectrum rather than "live and let live".
Against Conservative Lunatic Fringe might be a better title.
Brb, I'm about to run an Ironman at 29.
>Sorry if I misinterpreted your response, but do you think doing away with timezones in "normal" life would be a net gain? I think it would add way more confusion than it would eliminate.

It's the exact same information needed both today and after doing away with timezones.

If you're in the same place as the other person, there's no confusion at all. If everybody uses GMT, you know e.g. that diner around your parts (e.g. London) is around 19:00 (7pm). If you live in California you know that diner around your parts is around 03:00 (3am).

If you're in different countries, e.g. one is in London and the other is in California, "Let's have a Skype at around 11:00" is unambiguous -- it will be 11:00 at both your clocks.

Lastly, if you're in different countries and you want to call someone in California, and wonder whether now (11:00 GMT) is a good time, you just have to know the offset number (the sun rises there 8 hours later) which is the same as knowing the timezone.

Without timezones, it's only knowing the "part of the day" (whether it's late or dusk or sunrise time etc) in another place that requires knowing an offset (similar to knowing the timezone offset today).

All other calculations and coordination is vastly simplified.

>(e.g. "Let's have dinner Wednesday night" would be very confusing in some parts of the world. "Is that the Wednesday night just after Tuesday night? Or the one just before Thursday night?")

How is that confusing? Assuming we're talking about dinner, it would have to be dinner time in the place those people live. So, e.g. a little before or after sunset time on Wednesday. Whether that corresponds to 7pm or 2am or 12pm, people will know when it's that time where they live.
The bits of core memory are so big you can count them --- there's 448 in total, arranged as an array of 28 x 16.
Why would it matter if this was discovered?
I'm in the same boat but in reverse having moved from the US to the UK. The worst part is most banks restrict their app downloads to the country they are located in. So I have to decide whether I want my US banking apps on my phone or my UK banking apps.
Very well said.

To directly answer GP's question:

I took a differential equations class last semester, where the easy part of quite a few problems was to solve a quadratic equation. And it was easy, because my algebra classes had correctly required me to practice that skill (and memorize the quadratic formula).

So, you say, I'm never going to take differential equations. And you very well might not. I have two responses to that:

1) That's true, you might not, but the guy sitting next to you will, and he doesn't even know it yet. If you were allowed to opt out of that subject, you both would, and he wouldn't even have a chance to make up for it later.

2) There are plenty of other subjects where the easy part is an algebra concept, and it's only easy because you practiced it years before.
I'm speaking to those people who have preconceptions. "Oh, that's not how it works (in existing markets)", but are also wanting the brave new world.

As in - how many people are making gains declarations when they liquidate cryptocurrencies? Wanting protections of a system but refusing to participate in some aspects of it is much like having your cake and eating it too.
Apple's new minimalistic iPhone site design
This list made me realize just how much cognitive dissonance I live with being a bit of a paranoid person who likes to use old school methods for some things. I'll respond in order.

I use a paper map all the time. All gps/location features are disabled on my phone, so if I am headed somewhere I usually scout the route on my pc. Most of the time time I just write down the exits, but sometimes I'll print the map and directions out. I always have a paper atlas in my vehicles though (along with forest service topo maps, a habit from my days living in the mountains). If I am in a bind (eg lost), I use openstreetmaps or gmaps if I have to, not to look at where I am but where I am going. (remember no gps/loc features).

I use the yellow pages for kindling and coupons still quite frequently.

My family used to have a huge collection of encyclopedias, and when I have more bookshelf space I really want to get an updated one if any exist. Right now I have a passed down partial collection of the 1971 Funk & Wagnalls, and a complete 1986 Funk & Wagnalls. Pre-internet much of family time was spent arguing and using encyclopedias to support the argument.

As for bootleg recordings, for me private ftp and warez was the end of physically buying bootlegs in the 90's.

I have spent plenty of time on the phone with a company because their user manual was out of date, does that count?

Ok you got me on the rolodex.

All the time because I have a hard time remembering movie names and actor names for some reason. If you remember the movie it's easy to check imdb, but if you don't you have to spend time trying to remember one actors name and then sift through their filmography.

Also all the time, because I am a stickler for having plans in place in public. For example when I take the family to an amusement park, everyone is briefed by me on objective rally point(s), exits, comms, and time sync, among other things before being "let loose". Some military habits die hard.
Agreed. The "search along route" feature during navigation was a long time coming, but when they finally implemented it they did it perfectly.
The link to aspirin is dubious at best, which is why it’s always phrased as “linked to,” rather than any language endorsing causality.

We’ve simply gone with a policy of “better safe than sorry,” because of the risks/benefits involved here.
China is a bad example of a place getting policy right to favour labour mobility.

It is an extreme example of a place where labour mobility is so valuable it happens in spite of restraints. In fact it is so extreme that it is hard to draw lessons for modern western countries (although it has obvious resemblances to urbanisation in Europe a few centuries ago).
Nothing. Define 'prominent'. Important to you or important to me?

There's no difference between this and the 'pay to play' payments to the Clinton Foundation.
Policies to force diversity based on outward appearance and other unchangeable and meaningless physical traits do not help.

As said before: remove any selection bias, then hire those who can do the work, want to do the work, and have shown to do the work well before. Then measure performance and promote using the same objective processes. That's it.

Perhaps we can boil down the issue as the difference between making hiring as fair as possible, or making hiring ensure a certain outcome. The first option is good since it produces fair results, but the latter is actually what's happening in most places.
Isn't that basically how short-selling works?
The hardest part of that would definitely be finding the counterparty.
Usenet is still very much alive. In fact, many of the spammers have left and now target other more popular resources. The text only groups are accessible for free from multiple servers. It's only the binary groups that you have to pay to get access.
> If they take this to court, the court will award the original USD price. They bought an asset worth $x. They are owed $x.

That's not true at all, outside of very specific asset-classes.

A better analogy: let's say we make a trade where I pay you in land, and you don't give me what I'm owed in that trade. I would expect my land back, not its dollar-value.

We do things this way, in the case of land, precisely because my land might turn out to e.g. have gold under it that might make it worth 100x more. If you conned me out of the land, and then found the gold, guess what? That's rightfully my gold.

Refunds aren't legally equivalent to suing for damages. If someone doesn't give you a refund for breaking a contract where you transferred an asset to them, your legal fallback isn't suing for damages; it's suing to get a court-order to execute a seizure in order to reclaim your property, or the things it has in turn been traded for by the contract-breaker. (You know, like repo companies do when you buy stuff on a credit card and then let it go to collections!)
That sort of logic has never made sense to me. It's as if the regulators think people would never take more than one at a time.
It only goes to the House if the CRA resolution passes the Senate. CRA resolutions function just like other resolutions or bills, being introduced and voted on in one house and approved via vote in the other.
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Show HN: Repominder – release reminders for OSS
An android app for swapping items with people around you
Is this what AWS is doing?
I'd bet that at least part of that is in response to competition on the ground. Monkeybrains and Sonic (disclosure: long time sonic customer) both are bringing high-speed broadband to SF. In particular, I have symmetric gigabit for like $50 a month.
Is this founded by Elon's long lost brother, Roy?
And here we see nerfhammer@ point being made. Your question is good. And that shows that the laws discourage people from seeking work far from where they currently live.
I'm essentially right. Studies with less than 200 people are essentially useless. It is more complicated than I originally let on, but not so much more complicated to muck up the takeaway. Most of our junk science has to do with these low population studies or with studies simultaneously studying high numbers of attributes.
The person loaning out their shares gets paid for the risk. In this case the investors were effectively conned into being the counterparty on a call option on ETH for no vig.
Anything that is permissively licensed (like ripgrep) is generally GPL compatible.[1] Note also that ripgrep is dual licensed under the Unlicense or the MIT license, both of which are explicitly GPL compatible according to [1].

[1] - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html
You can't sue on formal grounds, you need a material claim that your rights have been hurt. reckless negligence sounds like a criterion to determine whether the damage is actually a liability of the defendant. And that you had to install a patch, which is available according to other comments, is likely not enough. Unless there are rules I don't know about, or you can construct an argument that backdoors were per se illegal.

Maybe you could claim that someone is offering copyrighted material on the internet, because that's illegal per se, no downloading required, but beware of the backfire.
Hi soneca, do you have any good learning resources or good books you would recommend? Thanks
Breaking Bitcoin With a Quantum Computer

http://fortune.com/2018/01/06/breaking-bitcoin-cybersaturday...

Quantum Resistant Ledger

https://theqrl.org/
IIRC, the FCC commissioner's (stated) argument against net neutrality was that it was Congress's job to legislate things like that, not the FCC's job to just write regulations to make it so. Arguably, it's a defensible point.

Note well: I take no position on whether this was his actual reason, or just a smoke screen.
Because few people would want to pay the taxes needed to have public workers do it, is my guess. Plowing streets can be done fairly quickly with trucks; sidewalks would probably require more workers.
What are the chances that the number of rent controlled homes will go down in the next five to ten years?
My point is that Jules is wrong that capitalists will permit you to set up a communist society. Perhaps you should revisit the cold war. In addition, a commune within a capitalist society would still be reliant on the labor of an external, exploited proletarian class. Communism is internationalist. Ultimately this is the failure of first world social democratic programs that provide decent gains for their working classes but do so at the expense of oppressed peoples in the global south.

Referring to them as talking points without refuting them sounds a whole lot like trying to dismiss the argument without dealing with the contents. Don't get upset and fall back on procedural obfuscation if you're trying to have a conversation with me.
Interesting, thanks.

Kind of bizarre though how Mem and the writer seem to inhabit a world in which Australia doesn't have dreadful offshore detention centres for would-be-immigrants.
Its an improvement but Comcast has been delaying real improvements for years but collect insane profits (afaik). I would love to see the numbers as well. The X1 DVR as far as I am concerned was horrible compared to the ReplayTV or Tivo circa 2001 (except for obviously HD improvement). It only took 15 years and lots of legislation mandating cablecards and whatnot to get them to get there. I don't have hope that they will act in our best interests given past actions but I have to use them because there are no other real options.

Honestly I would like to see the effective monopoly on physical layer internet broken up. Allow municipalities own the cables under the street and and not allow Comcast and others to block companies like Google from expanding by blocking access to the last mile. There is a lot of unused dark fiber in lots of places that could have supported 1Gbps a long time ago but doesn't
> That said, I do find many of his guests abhorant and just skip a fair bit of his podcasts.

So please don't take this in a way that means I'm bashing you or anything of the sort. I loved your post, but I do take issue with this particular comment from an otherwise interesting and thoughtful response.

This mindset, unfortunately, is very reminiscent of an echo chamber. "I don't like this person or what I think they have to say so I'm not even going to hear them". While I of course don't think you should be forced to listen to something uninteresting, it would be great if we all spent more time listening to people we can't stand or ideas that we find abhorrent so that we can gain better perspective and empathy of our fellow people.
This is risky. If lack of net neutrality regulation doesn't result in clearly-out-of-bounds behavior by ISPs in the near term, Democrats will be the ones looking bad for trying to add useless regulation. I hope they've thought this scenario through.
Fiat currencies are issued and backed by banks that lend that currency to nation state governments. There are only two countries left on the planet still in control of their currencies...Iran and North Korea.
It’s “just a tool,” but without the built in restrictions you can be sure there would be even greater numbers of morons doing stupid stuff with drones. DJI is doing what many companies from Facebook to Smith & Wesson have been critiqued for NOT doing: putting in some basic protections against entirely predictable user behaviors, and self-regulating in the hope of avoiding government regulation.
Yes, but there were no trigonometric functions - it was difficult to use!
> Why isn't it the same way for the sidewalk?

Your tax dollars pay to keep the roads clear for the sake of emergency vehicles. It wouldn't be done otherwise.

Trying to plow it from the sidewalk would result in more problems than it solves.

> Why do I have to take care of public property?

Scalability. It's manual work and the city doesn't have an army of shovelers on-hand.
DISCLAIMER: EXTREME SIMPLIFICATION

Given a statement and a sample with a mean and standard deviation, what is the probability that you manage to choose a sample with that mean and SD, assuming the statement is true?

For example, my statement is the average weight of chicken an american eats every month is 20 pounds and my sample gives me a mean of 16 and SD of 4. The p value is the probability of choosing a group of people who eat on average 16 pounds of chicken every month if the REAL mean is actually 20.

Edit to answer question: The p value doesn't "care" about the sample size - it is adjusted and remains accurate. And so if the p value if high for the sample in the study, that means it is a likely occurrence and the result is not very noteworthy.
Neither. pt is part of the benchmark suite I published when I introduced ripgrep[1]. TL;DR - It's fast for simple literal searches, but that's it.

[1] - http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
Wouldn't it be more expected at google? I didn't think they had a lot of traditional databases, so it's not a relevant skill for them. They've also got a fair few low level guys working in c and the like that I wouldn't expect to know much about sql.
Attorney here. Specialize in e-discovery.

Because he said something at all. Though, HN is probably not akw hanging fruit for anything. Unless your founder is here and knows you are. Or if you re-use that username then when they look for your social media they will find it.
I wrote a lengthy post about how ridiculous this was, until I got to the citations section, which I then dutifully hunted down.

I must in all fairness upgrade this from “HuffPost-endorsed vitamin cult quackery” to “plausible, if supported by weak studies.”
$900 in 1967 is equivalent to $6,776 today!! And this was considered "cheap"??
Claim: "Spices were the first foods to be subjected to capitalist and imperialist processes of production and distribution."

Evidence: Garum was subject to capitalist and imperialist processes of production and distribution before spices.

Claim is therefore incorrect.

That's before we get into the bullshit of "capitalist and imperialist processes".
Yes.

Let me rephrase what you phrased:

Imagine you're investigating a drug for hair loss, like 20000 other researchers hellbent on achieving their goals. You gather a group of 31 bald white men. 15 of them take a placebo and 16 take the experimental drug for 24 weeks, but because your random allocation put more extra bald people in your non-control group you fixed it by balancing the two groups. Your counterpart that didn't have the same problem, uh, didn't make any adjustments. If, after 24 weeks, you find 1 of 15 controls with a full head of hair by some function you define, and 14 of 16 test subjects with a full head of hair again by some function that you define oh and we didn't adjust for anything but of course in the case where the drugs didn't do anything we did because the non-control group were all above average in both age and some other random things like testosterone levels. Is 31 too small a sample size?

31 is always too small of a sample size. These scientific studies are almost always bullshit and we all know it and we'd do something about it if we really cared but we don't because nobody is incentivized to fix it.
They don't help what? You haven't really responded to my point. And how to you plan to "remove any selection bias"? These efforts are there to counteract the selection bias that already exists. You say we should make hiring as fair as possible, but that, right there, is a big part of the goal of diversity policies.
"Comments (0) | Add to favourites | Report as malicious"

Definitely malicious!! <grin>
39 here, getting ready for something extreme.
Sure, which disproves the claim even more.
FYI, linked from the post is a support article for

"Get $5 off your Fandango tickets with Google Pay" and others

https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/7625564?p=tc&vis...
Okay, suppose they discover this post. So what? How does that prejudice his case in any way?
But now you're getting into the "free speech for me, not for thee" part. You're basically saying that Damore is entitled to free speech and protection, but that Google and his former co-workers are not. Remember, who you work with is part of the freedom of association which is a component of free speech.
It's popular for baby foods for the same reasons that banana is - babies like it, it's fairly nutrient-dense, and it's soft so doesn't pose a large choking risk.
SF-specific. Comcast has to step up because competition is fierce.

Even just 30 miles south from SF, Comcast is crap because there's less competition there.
All stomach effects are due to decreased prostaglandin levels. All NSAIDs function through inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis.

The exception is Tylenol/acetaminophen, as it doesn’t have an anti-inflammatory effect / doesn’t seem to act primarily on COX1/2. It’s currently popular to bandy about the theory that it targets spinal COX3.
Thanks for the article. It appears that the field is rife with issues, but I imagine it's a difficult topic and a young field. Another bogus model from the article is positive psychology.
This is going to be interesting.
Hemp is not "a form of" cannabis. It IS cannabis.
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It's true that there are many landlords who provide ill-managed, neglected housing even in areas without rent control. However, rent control exacerbates that problem, in my opinion, for two reasons:

1) It incentivizes the landlord to shorten the amount of time a particular tenant will inhabit the property, because it is only when a tenant leaves and a new one comes in that the landlord is free to jack up the rent to market rates.

2) It compels the landlord to lower his expenses in order to ensure that his investment stays profitable. Ordinarily, a landlord is constrained by a desire to keep a property that will attract and retain good tenants, but since that is no longer (as much of) a factor, he will avoid making repairs and enhancements except in emergency situations where the law requires him to.

Source: landlord (albeit one who has never worked in an area with rent control policies)
Every ico is a scam at this point and I have no expectations that will change. ICO has the reputation of ponzi