skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave a talk on minimizing blast radius at velocity last year: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=C11LNUEaHuo
This is why I qualified my statement with "usually." The other use for games for practicing real skills. Flight simulators are a great example of this, as the best ones actually count as credit towards a pilot license. The joy of these sorts of games is the same as playing with music synthesizers, or some new complicated software, or building a side-project, or studying math.

Pushing a button to get a drip of dopamine doesn't qualify for this category either.
All Your IOPS Are Belong to Us: Case Study in Performance Optimization (2015) [pdf]
> I seriously don't understand game culture these days. The rhetoric seems to hint at things I don't understand.

It’s not difficult at all to understand. If you pay $59.99 for something, are you entitled to ownership of the entire game? Or are you entitled to ten slot machines that randomly payout enhanced functionality at low probabilities? The majority of publishers seem to think the latter is a fair way of doing business.
Well, I suppose in Germany they also have a week of vacation, sick leave, or disability to take off while feeling this pain and drinking tea. When that's the case in the U.S., let's revisit this. Till then, let's hold off on the moral judgements when the reality is some of us literally have to go back the same day to work as the surgery. I've only taken pain killers once for a bad dental abscess that my dentist was too dumb to see on an x-ray a couple of hours before I could no longer chew. That was on a Friday and if I hadn't had pain killers from previous surgeries, I'd have been in agony. I don't think it's up to any prissy ass doctor to tell me, or anyone else, when I should feel pain or not and whether I will need pain killers or not. As the very least, I think we've established that people have different pain thresholds and a doctor should know this before even entering medical school.
'Battle of enlightenment' - I think you may be suffering from being in an echo chamber yourself (a negative one at that) and not being aware of it :)

There is no 'battle for enlightenment', just people having access to way more stuff than ever before, and that is a big big win.
Well, hmph. I've been meaning to experiment with Prolog-as-a-type-system-for-a-language for a long time.

The wayback machine has a valid link to the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20170216030548/http://code.aleha...
which is really just a drop in the bucket compared to the daily crypto market oscillations.
The 500/5 cocodamols will cause liver damage before any codeine kicks in.

What is interesting is that if you really interesting is that a certain large pharmacy does a 200/12 ibuprofen + codeine combo.

I once had a prolapsed lower disc (from sport) and neck spasm (from stupidity) at the same time. Whilst I couldn't take naproxen (lots of reflux even with omeprazole), that and 500/15 cocodes with diazepam was the only way to get to sleep.
Attractor Theory: A Model of Minds and Motivation
I commute by bike. I understand I'm not a huge market segment but I love my Pebble Time Steel. I'm definitely not looking for fitness tracking or an obvious fitness watch: who really wants to record every single minute of their _commute_ anyway? I just want a smartwatch that does smartwatch things with zero fuss while outside. I can read it in direct sunlight, interact with it in the snow with heavy gloves, and not worry about it when it's pouring rain.

I bought a spare PTS when FitBit bought Pebble. I was concerned there'd be no replacement when the time came to retire the current watch. So far, I'm unfortunately correct.
The Ocean Before Us: Should You Do a PhD?
Tangential, but:

> when Android switched USB handling from mass storage (like a flash drive) to MTP (like a digital camera).

This is how, step by step, computers become even more difficult to use by regular people, and how computing becomes balkanized. All the attempts at fucking with the hierarchical filesystem are ass-backwards and create inconsistent abstractions, which make learning hard.
Ask HN: Philosophy works important for Computer Scientists?
It's obvious that works of great philosophy minds like Russel or Wittgenstein are important for Computer Science. Do you folks have some other suggestions or specific books from the area of philosophy witch heavily influenced CS?
These warning stickers seem to be the passive aggressive way of undermining regulation. Just put them on everything and people soon will stop reading them.
The title and the tone of the article seem to be very contradictory. OP might just need to add a conclusion to this.
I wonder how much this can be applied to day to day life. For example, the Binaural app on the iOS app store acts as a wave generator that lets you listen to specific frequencies. I'd be interested to see if you could force yourself into getting beta wave activity in the brain by just listening to beta frequencies -- almost as if to tune yourself manually.
I wonder if that doctor has ever had major surgery himself and been told not to use painkillers?

Even if that is the case, pain seems to vary greatly in how it affects people. I would be very hesitant to tell someone that they should just let the pain "guide" them, because I have no idea what it is like for them.
Warning: this is from a 2015 talk, but I still found it interesting as it has shown me a very good way to approach the problems described in the early slides.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28288025

Coffee and cancer risk: a summary overview.

Abstract
We reviewed available evidence on coffee drinking and the risk of all cancers and selected cancers updated to May 2016. Coffee consumption is not associated with overall cancer risk. A meta-analysis reported a pooled relative risk (RR) for an increment of 1 cup of coffee/day of 1.00 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.99-1.01] for all cancers. Coffee drinking is associated with a reduced risk of liver cancer. A meta-analysis of cohort studies found an RR for an increment of consumption of 1 cup/day of 0.85 (95% CI: 0.81-0.90) for liver cancer and a favorable effect on liver enzymes and cirrhosis. Another meta-analysis showed an inverse relation for endometrial cancer risk, with an RR of 0.92 (95% CI: 0.88-0.96) for an increment of 1 cup/day. A possible decreased risk was found in some studies for oral/pharyngeal cancer and for advanced prostate cancer. Although data are mixed, overall, there seems to be some favorable effect of coffee drinking on colorectal cancer in case-control studies, in the absence of a consistent relation in cohort studies. For bladder cancer, the results are not consistent; however, any possible direct association is not dose and duration related, and might depend on a residual confounding effect of smoking. A few studies suggest an increased risk of childhood leukemia after maternal coffee drinking during pregnancy, but data are limited and inconsistent. Although the results of studies are mixed, the overall evidence suggests no association of coffee intake with cancers of the stomach, pancreas, lung, breast, ovary, and prostate overall. Data are limited, with RR close to unity for other neoplasms, including those of the esophagus, small intestine, gallbladder and biliary tract, skin, kidney, brain, thyroid, as well as for soft tissue sarcoma and lymphohematopoietic cancer.
In the eye of a chicken, a new state of matter comes into view (2014)
When it runs out of space, it resizes to (at least) a multiple of its current space to avoid having to resize too often, making pushing a constant-time operation on average. 1304209 is the smallest size in the sequence starting with an empty array that’s at least 1048576.
Title is misleading; it makes it sound like Tether management is withdrawing some promise that USDTs can be redeemed at par. That would be much bigger news than the actual story, that they are trading for less than par.

Not that I’m recommending you touch tethers with a ten foot pole!
I think you’d like Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione. He designed some furniture with the intention that they should be easy for people to build themselves from simple material and with a few simple tools. And by building their own furniture, people would get a better understanding and appreciation of good design.
That was the impression here too, but I think the truth has been shrouded in nostalgia. I think the truth is that it was just a large growth period (reconstruction, expansion, and population boom after Wii), and there was a lot of demand for workers. When demand for workers is high, and work is prevalent, workers get a really good deal. It was good until the economy changed, but that's why romantacizing it isn't worthwhile. The companies weren't any better, they were just behaving in their own self interest.
>Strava just released it.

Strava didn't release it. It's not strava's job to stop you from uploading sensitive information. Strava does not have a security clearance. Military personell released it to strava. Surely the military already has rules about not uploading GPS tracks of their bases to random websites?
The problem is that it’s not available in the mobile apps and fairly well hidden on the website. For a big public data dump it seems like a reasonable precaution to assume many users aren’t aware of that feature.
Unfortunately, POS is not the same. I’ve worked with NCR (Aloha) POS for 5 years. Can’t speak for ATM machines.

Plain text ... and before two years ago, they also had regional master passwords. As in one password for all systems sold by a particular reseller.
Store it in an offline wallet.
I'd say because they're done anyway with what they were doing, for the moment. They don't need to launch missiles all the time.
These warnings are worse than useless. Since they usually don't actually name the substance, let alone quantify or contextualize the risks, I have no say of using the information.

If I see a warning, it could mean that there are harmful, odorless chemicals being emitted by some manufacturing process. Or it could mean I'm near a parking facility. Or it could mean they're serving alcohol somewhere in the venue. There's a huge difference between those three, but the warning posted is identical.

They're worse than useless because they actively desensitize people to actionable information by overloading them with unactionable information.
Or a letter to a fellow scientist:

In July of 1610 Galileo was still making discoveries faster than he could publish descriptions of them. On the 25th he discovered that Saturn was apparently situated between two smaller companions that always moved together. Wanting to establish his priority of discovery, but not yet ready to reveal what he had found, he sent to Kepler (and others) the following jumble of letters, which he informed them was a coded description of his latest discovery (...)

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath151/kmath151.htm
Considering the reactionary nature of most casual traders, how much of this dip is caused due to panic based on blogposts such as these? There is no reliable source of truth here and just random blog posts which mostly read as opinion pieces.
"The list does not include opioids, which is classified as a different drug under the World Drug Report 2011 list, which is considered "opiates and prescription opioids."

I think you got the wrong list.
There's a baseline ability to control how much information third parties have in the first place - some people keep to themselves, some people tell anybody everything about themselves. People who care about it can, for the most part, at least know what other people know about them.

In any case gossip is lossy and low-bandwidth, and people understand those limitations when operating on information from that channel. The same cannot be said for, say, comprehensive real-time browser history.
Its important to note that:
A. This is utterly unproven, much like non ionizing radiation, there's a movement dedicated to scaremongering about tech, Its fine as is but always keep in mind that more often then not the research is not as thorough as one of such magnitude should be, "Veratasium" did a video about cellphones and brain tumors, a very interesting and topical watch
B. Who are Steve jobs, Page, Zuckerberg, And Gates?
They are mostly smart, hard working individuals who quickly adapted themselves and the tech to the public, using their invention for personal profit, "Conglomerateion", charity work and research.
Their success isn't some magical virtue, they were lucky enough to be at the right position to size opportunities the rose, through their dedication they still are somewhat relevant today.
They are NOT great educators, nor do they claim so I believe, advice on how to use tech they've created should not be taken from them, nor should advice on raising children, based upon those children they probably did not raise.
Nearly anyone knows about Kennedy's sister today because the Kennedy's had a name to protect, much like the British royal family, and the families of those corporations heads, we don't hear about their failures, we certainly shouldn't take tips...
Not sure when you last tried to run your Perl 6 program, but things have improved over the years. Today Rakudo Perl 6 celebrated having one of the most tested canary programs break the 100x faster barrier: https://twitter.com/zoffix/status/957322578460315649
Which is not what this article is about - the article focuses on PWA meaning 'home screen web app'. My impression is that Apple use case of Service Workers is for improved caching rather than trying to make "Save to home screen" sites better.
If Bitfinex was publicly held, they'd have to file an "auditor changed" statement with the SEC, and the auditor also has to file a statement about what happened. That's to prevent companies from switching auditors when they don't like the audit findings. But Bitfinex is private, and the SEC is about protecting shareholders, which Tether holders are not.

Tether will probably collapse in the next big downturn. That's when Bitfinex has to spend real money to buy Tether units back to prop up the price. Tether, like a Ponzi scheme, seems to work as long as net inflow of money exceeds net outflow. When it doesn't...
I would love to see someone reply with personal experience. I have tried similiar apps for extremely brief periods and could feel a change.
I'd be curious if you're able to set up large privacy zones for the sensitive area case.

For instance, if I set a privacy zone centered on my house (or my military base) with a radius of 100 miles and all of my running activities are contained within that privacy zone are those runs automatically marked private? If I never run across the boundary then there's no issue of inadvertently exposing the privacy zone center point. Would Strava hide the GPS information but allow my run stats to accumulate? I don't think the feature is quite there yet but it could be close.
Show HN: Cryptocurrency historical price data scrapper written in Python
More importantly, it's a bit harder to find (or operate) a reliable fully secure US owned communication system in Germany. Especially when compared to reliability and scale of the civilian GSM system.
I was a bit put off by the Chrome Apps too, but it hasn't been a problem in my actual use. Also they're writing non-Chrome apps now because of Google end of life-ing Chrome Apps. I'd love to get a Trezor as well but they want me to pay an extra 20 EUR to get one or wait until after February.

Also for the hardware hackers there is the Coldcard being developed by these guys with a pre-order now: http://blog.opendime.com/coldcard-annoucement/
Keep that comment in mind. In 10 years, when the inevitable big breach occurs releasing millions of medical records, i hope you will be strong enough to go back to it and and think hard about your next moves.
They have certainly impacted real customers. The idea is that ideally these outages can be easily stopped, and your engineers know exactly what the chaos monkey did rather than just seeing an uptick in errors.

Basically you are creating a fault at a time of your choosing to prevent the same fault from occurring at the worest possible time.
Well, I don't think he ever argues for set it and forget but the actual work you put in is the "4 hrs/wk" or whatever number you want vs being tied to 40+ working for someone else. There's also the concept of 'geoarbitrage' meaning setting up a business in a good currency to be able to afford you a cheaper life elsewhere (which isn't a new idea but 'digital nomad' stuff really blew up the past few years).

I think a lot of it comes down to working as little as you need to to make as much as you need to fund the lifestyle you want, especially within the concept of funding experiences vs general consumerism.

At least, that's what I took away from that book. I can't really get on board with some of recent ones where he essentially compiles the transcripts from his podcasts. Sometimes he also seems too in awe of someone to question things like a real interviewer. Not to mention everyone and their pet products of the day.
[Podcast] Gitcoin: Sustaining Open Source with Cryptocurrency
This study showed that a Tylenol ibuprofen combo was as effective as opioids (and with zero chance of addiction). If course it's likely to vary in effectiveness by patient and depend on the type of pain. I can't help but feel that pharmaceutical companies probably don't want a lot more studies like this coming out.

https://www.healio.com/family-medicine/pain-management/news/...
Wow. The only reason given to attack is to stop China from developing a better relationship with South Korea. And he points to the past success stories of the Israeli armed forces in Syria and Iraq.
> It was this experience that taught me that you can not cost free fix the exchange rate between currencies unless you are using "magic".

There are no two currencies here, only one - USD. So no magic is required if they don't lie about their USD holdings.
I’m guessing that the Chinese govt is a lot more likely to drop intel than the us one.
no. "fake news" does not mean just wrong news or bad analysis. that meaning is a co-option of the term which was meant to refer to whole-cloth fabricated stories or hoaxes often meant to bias.
No, it's very easy to fix the exchange rate between currencies: make them actually be the same currency.

Tether is supposed to be be 100% backed by USD on a 1:1 basis. If that's true, while it may temporarily go higher and lower, and should always return to normal as actual USD moves in and out of the system.

The controversy about Tether is very simple: they haven't taken any steps to convince people that's actually true, and the default assumption you should make with such systems is they're scams that aren't actually backed by the currencies they claim to be backed by.
Well depending on the surgery that might be advisable, it's an anti-inflammatory and heading off inflammation is usually beneficial.
People familiar with the mathematical concept will almost always be talking about something like "nonlinear dynamics" instead, anyway.
well it's the former? right?
> There are millions of neurons in the brain

Why would they use a different order of magnitude. Surely they know that there are billions of them (100 bil in fact).
A good book to read for anyone interested in economics is called "The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy", by Mervyn King, who was head of the Bank of England for about 10 years and during the financial crises of 2007-8. In the book, he discusses "the alchemy of money" which he roughly defines as how money isn't necessarily backed by any tangible assets. A lot of what happens in the banking system is pure alchemy. A fascinating read IMO.
It's a warm gun.
they can't withdraw any such promise because it never existed, right?
It's a belief of some advocacy groups, like AA and such.

In real life, there are lots of drug addicts and alcoholics that managed to recover for the rest of their life just fine, including drinking in moderation for social reasons without relapsing (as opposed the teetotallism stance advocated by said groups).
> and focused on unnecessary hardware addons that nobody wanted (smart straps).

Frankly, for me the "nobody wanted" part was the fitness focus - I initially got my Pebble precisely because they didn't try the sports angle like everyone else, but instead went for a hacker-friendly device and architecture. I'm not even sure if they put much resources into smartstraps - they just added and described a communication protocol. It wouldn't surprise me if this was just repackaging of a debugging functionality they needed.

It's hard for me to say where things went wrong. Maybe they just tried to grow too fast.
2018 reform of EU data protection rules
This is a very important point to make because it starts to devalue the warning and desensitize people to it to the point of meaninglessness.
It's cheating you out of needed rest. Without painkillers you are be forced to rest and prevented from making matters worse. The concept of pain has an important function. Here's a story of a family that doesn't feel it:

https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/mbpejy/the-family-that-...
I don't get your concern; MTP is an hierarchical filesystem, with directories and files. It's just that it works as a kind of network filesystem rather than allow the computer direct access to the storage device.
Thanks. That sort of answers my question. I think that means that I disagree with the headline because this research doesn’t demonstrate evidence of the brain relying on beta rhythms to control thinking.

(From my strictly lay reading).
I think everything we eat and breathe is somewhat carcinogenic. The question is where to draw the line. As far as I’m concerned I’m happy to give 1 month of my life (assuming that’s the time span associated with coffee and cancer on average) for the joy of drinking coffee everyday.

Life should not only be longlasting, but also joyful
I think anything more complex than uploading files into a folder on a server will probably be too complex for many users. The ready-to-launch instance via a cloud provider sounds like it may be a more viable route to pursue. Thanks for the suggestion.

It's a shame there isn't an easy-to-use format/process/standard for installing server-side web apps.

There are a huge number of web apps: how many could find a wider audience (outside of other programmers) if only there was an easy way to install the software? There's definitely an opportunity for a better user experience.

Thanks to everyone in this thread for their comments :-)
Seems like a weird thing to optimize for. The amount of time you'll feel regret before you feel nothing is pretty minimial.
No, they are insurance membership contributions in Germany. The contributions are specifically used to finance the health system, here the specific health insurer.

Taxes generally are not paid for a person, but for things and values, etc.. Taxes are also not bound to a specific purpose, but are going into the general budget of the country/state/town.

Taxes and insurance fees are different finance models. In Germany there are basically three types of financing for services: 'Steuern' = taxes , Gebühren = fee, Beiträge = contributions.

In Germany the health care system is based on 'Beiträge', i.e. membership contributions to a health insurance.
Radiolab had an interesting episode on the gamma frequency, possibly stimulated by light or sound and a possible relation to Alzheimers.

https://www.radiolab.org/story/bringing-gamma-back/

Makes one wonder about the effects of raves.
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