skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC tags databases are big files that need to be parsed and operated on via Elisp, so a faster interpreter would be beneficial there. I don't think a faster interpreter would hinder integration of external tools, given often they do not only provide speed, but also quality software with proven longevity.
One thing I noticed in the UK is that there are items which are "Prime Eligible" and items that are "Delivered at no extra cost for Prime members". The latter will also give a "guaranteed" next-day date, but seem far more prone to slipping and getting a "Now expected" date.
They talk a big game about using D3 to make tables, but they aren't responsive on different screen sizes.
Show HN: Clean Code concepts adapted for Ruby
Weird that religion isn't mentioned -- possibly too contentious -- but I thought the correlation within societies of high religiosity and reduced education opportunities for (or just general resistantance to the empowerment of) women was fairly well understood.

Tracking changes in religious beliefs in different demographics can give us some good predictive insight.
I recommend matrix[1] which has a fairly nice set of clients in Riot[2]. It's better than OTR in that it supports e2e group chat and multiple devices.

[1] https://matrix.org
[2] https://riot.im
Why do programming languages bike shed syntax
why does each language feel the need to swap around the type and variable order, sometime int x other times x int. Switch statement isn’t called switch when and case are other alternatives. Method return type at the front at the end with a : or arrow. Why why these are so minor details when designing a language. <Rant aborted>
Actually, yes, it does induce "drastic and rapid physical changes in your brain". This is well documented. The Shallows despite some of its faults, is excellent in this regard, with a bibliography that stretches pages. There was a CBS piece months ago detailing precisely this.
And while we're at it, somebody needs to do the cryonics re-make of the not-so-classic 1960's movie "The Loved One":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-edybFkBiO4 -- Rod Steiger as Mr. Joyboy, the masterful mortician at work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoZ5dTQa_2E -- Liberace as a funeral home salesperson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaGtDJo5R5o -- Aimee Thanatogenos visits Mr. Joyboy and his mother
Show HN: Cryptohire.io – hire blockchain developers, pay them in crypto
Hi HN! We've been trying so hard to source those guys, so I just can't not post this here :)

We spoke to a number of startups in the space and nearly everyone mentioned lack of talent to be one of the key blockers. So this is another way for blockchain companies to find great blockchain engineers. The thing is that you can’t find them on UpWork, Blockgeeks or other portals, because they’re employed at vetted IT consultancies around the world - but at the same time they are available for full-time hire as contractors.

The process is simple: just search for a technology, browse a list of engineers, pick the ones you want to talk to and request an interview or write them a message. When you are ready to hire we'll figure out the paperwork for you and will provide you with an "escrow" service so that your consultant is only paid for after you accept the work.

Check out Cryptohire.io and let us know your thoughts! The link is: https://cryptohire.io
I wonder if the extraction of the ovarian tissue is less invasive than the process of harvesting mature eggs.

Both my kids came from IVF, and we harvested eggs twice. Besides all the shots, which are painful enough, my wife had to have a very invasive procedure to collect the eggs that left her bruised for days.

If the collection is easier, I can see doctors opting for this as a way of keeping the mother less stressed before implanting an embryo, increasing the chance for success!
Been using this on production for ~1 year now, no complaints so far!
"Fail Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes" by Harry Browne

"The richest man in Babylon" was also a good read for me early on. It's told in a story format.

"Your money or your life" is also good for the principles although it's a little outdated.
Uber gave up 245 million dollars. That's not based on nothing.

Really, if it was an open and shut case Uber could have gotten it dismissed. The fact they figured giving up 1/4 a billion dollars was better than continuing to fight says a lot more about their situation than any internet commentators can. The only reason for them to spend that money is because they was a significant chance aka well over 25% they would have lost significantly more by fighting.
Then why not write a meaningful reply? Why not say "I think cryonics will not work because... <argument 1>, <argument 2>, <argument 3>", instead of throwing generic insults at people?
I would argue it is.

I cannot use git's built in functions for secure applications. If git was meant to be used only as Linus describes, then this should not be possible as it is not secure:
https://git-scm.com/book/id/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work

Instead, I have to build something external from git, including "commit hash", in order to have a secure identifier for a commit. I would have a one off solution that isn't adopted widely.

The new hash stuff can't come soon enough:
https://github.com/git/git/commit/721cc4314cb593e799213ad5f9...
Hopefully NPM make this package to be deprecated
There is progress being made on the _scientific_ effort to cryopreserve organic materials (ex: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001122401...). The argument is not that you will live forever, it's that what we consider "dead" today may not be the same as what's considered dead a hundred years from now. A hundred years ago if you had a heart attack and went unconscious, you were considered dead. We know now that there's a lot of things that can be done to revive someone who has just collapsed from a heart attack, but the awareness wasn't there yet.

I'm not interested in cryopreservation personally, but it's quite a stretch to lump the efforts in that space along with astrology or psychic healing.
Apple's Emoji Crackdown
You're in the awkward position of explaining someone's experience to them. If someone who has been through something is telling you that something about the experience could be improved, there's a good chance they're right, or that they have some insight to offer over someone who has not.

We live in the bay area, we have managed to make appointments with several specialized doctors, including the department chair of obstetrics and gynecology at one of the large academic hospitals here (after much consternation with the nurses on the phone). They have told us that they do not know. She also told us that she's never really seen too many cases of sudden cardiac arrest in mid-pregnancy fetuses. She did not send us to anyone else -- believe me, my wife and I would hop on the opportunity to find another doctor with relevant experience.
Inside the Space Tesla Is a Data Crystal That Archives Human Civilization
The title should state SSRIs and not antidepressants as there are numerous drug types that can be considered antidepressant (e.g. SNRI, NASSA, tricyclic)
With current needs around Javascript packages, publishing what is on the root is contra-productive sometimes and it is simple to enhance the workflow.

I hope you find it useful. I tried to use as much as NPM internals for do the movement so it should behave the same.

Anyway,

share your thoughts.
Don't let the electrical and hardware engineers hear you say that, that'll just open the old debate about whether software engineering is really engineering at all. (Kidding.)
I believe the moral of the story is that with education and encouragement, kids should not get dehydrated enough to ever require an IV.
Title is dangerously misleading.
Two personal friends of mine have had their photo libraries screwed up on the High Sierra upgrade. I'm staying away.
Ask HN: How did Facebook track me across device, ip, and browser?
The other day, I opened up incognito on my iphone connected to LTE, searched for a company on google, clicked on the first link. I then go to my laptop connected to a wifi network, refresh my FB newsfeed and see an ad for that company on my newsfeed.
Just to be 100% sure, I did it again with another company, refresh newsfeed, and see an ad for that company almost immediately.

How is Facebook tracking me? My thought process goes like this:

- can't tracking by IP because the devices were on different networks

- can't be cookies (or super cookies) because different devices (also incognito)

- unlikely based on location because not precise enough with LTE

which leaves:

1) browser fingerprinting on my mobile phone linking me to an identity and that data is fed into Facebook in real-time?

2) My cellular provider is funneling data to Facebook?

Am I missing something?
>Many of us want to build cool things and make money and contribute to the world, and capitalism makes sure we’re rewarded for it.

No it doesn’t. I have been unemployed for a year and a half since suddenly losing my apartment on 30 days notice about 2 weeks after the company I worked for went under. My job was illegally skirted as contract work. The job (creative) necessitated that my work which was done for a major corporation not be included in my portfolio which made it very hard to find new employment overnight. I had to move in with my parents in a rural area so that finding a job and re-relocating to an urban area is a sick game, apparently begging for me to be dishonest, which I haven’t done yet.

I have many very valuable skills (technical and creative, including programming) and very little opportunity to put them to use. Eventually I will crawl my way out but it’s pretty ridiculous so far. I am young, healthy, easy to get along with. My friends who generally all come from wealthier families are, like you may be, dumbfounded by my predicament until they realize I have no choice.
I like how it ends with medical advice and then immediately follows with a disclaimer that they don’t give medical advice.
If you look at actual people with 190+ IQ's their contributions are generally minor. We estimate that historic people that did great things had very high IQ's but that's our biases talking.

EX: Garry Kasparov is often said to have a sky high IQ but he tested at 135. He did however have an unusually good memory.
Excellent. Soon abortion will be totally illegal.
> Sometimes gunmen on motorbikes surround a truck, slowing it down before pouncing ...

Not too far off it seems
Subsidize? Kind of what we do with educational costs? That didn't really work out.
And the average NHL career is only a few years like the NFL.
Even for items that explicitly _aren't_ fragile, I wouldn't exactly be thrilled by that handling (it's just asking for, e.g., the box to partially come open and something go missing).

On the subject of delivery notifications, I had a parcel "delivered to a receptionist" last week, despite it being a residential house (because my sister opened the door).
The Economist house-price indices
An unmarked van isn't too welcome in some parts around me. Some people are downright defensive about visitors on their road. On the other hand, a recognizable UPS or FedEx is likely to get a friendly wave.

Amazon would do well to paint their logo on the van, but maybe it isn't their van.

Branding matters.
For the same reason I’m not gonna spend my time writing a lengthy rebuff of psychic surgery. It’s total nonsense and we as a society have known that for decades, and even a cursory examination makes it obvious.
Sure it’s not flaming guitars, but for once the movie reference seems more exaggeration than fiction.
How good is ecosystem/crate support for more complex regex features? Speed is good, especially when you need it, but man, positive/negative lookahead/lookbehind and other advanced features are pretty damn wonderful once you know how to use them. The ability to choose what you want when you want it would be nice.
‘A pseudoscience’: Outrage after Ontario gov funds college program in homeopathy
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In previous studies of this I thought they had shown that when correcting for women’s education levels & wealth religion largely didn’t play much part.
If you're in the millions, there's probably a demand for whatever it is that you do.

Maybe you can't pivot your product, but maybe you can change the way you sell it, market it or target it?

Given your scale (and the fact that you're already breaking even), it might be worth looking at the above issues. Improved future prospects may cause you to feel better about your company and coworkers too.

I focus on issues like this. If you'd like some input, my contact info is in my profile.
Hey all! I made an web app where you can search for variable names and function names used in the top 10 most starred Javascript repos. Any advice and suggestion is appreciated! Source Code:https://github.com/billcccheng/js-popular-variable-frontend
I suppose the same laws that are in place for human intelligence would either apply or be adapted to apply to these situations. For example there are people who can currently use computers to do the things you describe, and there are consequences if they get caught. If someone programs AI that subsequently commits these crimes, it is reasonable that the programmer could be held accountable. The gray area comes when someone programs an AI for one purpose and it is later used (or chooses by itself) for another illicit purpose.
this wasn't always the case. The different communities used to have different characters as well as different words. there had to be unification. by military force.
Yes, U+265F is currently a normal character.

http://graphemica.com/%E2%99%9F

That codepoint is slated to also have an emoji representation in Unicode 11. As far as I can tell, it will default to the normal character.
>First off, if you’re absolutely sure you want to take an SSRI, take Lexapro. It’s pretty clearly safer and stronger than any other SSRI.

>GlacierMD does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

It's an interesting article otherwise, though the comparison to placebo as a measure of efficacy was new to me. I've always suspected acetaminophen was a gamble, but I had no idea it was so statistically ineffective.
>shows the bifurcation of outcomes, you can't just ignore that for half the people incomes haven't been rising

Yes, that's how averages work. You similarly cannot ignore that for more than half, wages rose, which is why the numbers have increased. And usually bifurcation means bimodal, which in this case is not likely.

>Now who's picking advantageous dates?

I listed multiple times now what happens when you use all data. The example that there has been recent growth counters your claim of picking two dates from 50 and making claims about the whole.

In fact, I suspect that since the last few years have seen median overall wages rising (2015 or so was the highest growth ever recorded for median wage), that once the numbers for the past two years are tallied, new records will be set.

>Are we looking at the same graph?

No. I quoted exactly what graph the Census data was in with my first post. You keep picking other ones.

>I believe mean is obviously going to be a better measure than upper limit of the range

Not likely since we're already taking the lower quintile of the range of all income. Mean loses a info due to skew, which is why most discussions about wages should focus on the median. Since we don't have the median (well, you can possibly find the decile cutoffs to get it), looking at cutoffs tells you that more income has flowed into the bottom than before, since the cutoff is higher.

The lowest income bracket contains a lot of retirees, who have no income, but have wealth. It also includes students, that have little income, but likely will have wealth in the future. These zeros and low values will pull the mean down, likely much lower than the median. So they count in this case as poor, but they are not. Since the boomers are retiring, this pulls the mean down, but is not representative of what those at the 20% mark of income earn, which is a better measure, since you're not seeing averaged effects. You see the exact measure at a fixed position in the queue.

Similarly, at the high end, taking the mean is nor representative because a few high income earners can skew the mean higher than the median. This is why the ends of the distribution are better served by median (which we don't have), or cutoffs (which is basically a median, but at 20% instead of 50%).

To demonstrate this quite conclusively, here's [1] BLS data on expenditures by quintile for 2016. The bottom quintile has a mean of $11k as in your numbers, but has mean annual expenditures of $25k, well over twice the mean income. Note the other 4 quntiles have mean expenditures more in line with the income.

This is why mean, especially at then ends, is pretty screwy. These people have low incomes, but are not poor.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cex/2016/combined/quintile.pdf
Is it a good idea to tell a census taker you’re not religious in a country where women don’t have access to education?
Reversible vitrification of organs is a field starting to show some promise. It will revolutionize the transplant industry, and will bring more attention to cryonics.

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/216900...

There is also some interesting work spurred by the Brain Preservation Prize:

http://www.brainpreservation.org/small-mammal-announcement/

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003

"We describe here a new cryobiological and neurobiological technique, aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation (ASC), which demonstrates the relevance and utility of advanced cryopreservation science for the neurobiological research community. ASC is a new brain-banking technique designed to facilitate neuroanatomic research such as connectomics research, and has the unique ability to combine stable long term ice-free sample storage with excellent anatomical resolution."
you can still do this with opentype fonts and ligatures. you don't need to wait for unicode to standardise it.
Have you taken a course in semiconductors? Just as much abstraction there, and EE in general, as CS.
The interesting story is often that placebos work so well. According to the article: A typical participant in a depression study can expect to shave 9 points off their HAMD-D score—just by taking a sugar pill. In contrast, the group taking the actual SSRI might improve by around 10 points, so the effect of the treatments is dwarfed by the placebo effect.
p(benefit) is an awful way of looking at these medications. Yes, if you pull a random medication off the shelf and try it on someone at random, of course you'll have a terrible result! Go ahead, walk into the pharmacy and try a random medication off the wall! I dare you! But if you find the right one it is life-changing. And there are enough of them out there that each one only needs to be a hair better than random for it to be unlikely that none of them work. Same math that powers techniques like random forests. I don't know what the numbers are, but if you look at p(any medication working) instead of p(this medication working), it's damn sure not sugar-pill statistics.
They mention they don't preserve "heads" in specific but rather brains, and go into detail about how they can't separate a brain from a skull so they preserve the entire head. Wouldn't separating the head from the body cause similar problems of destroying information in the brain? Do they keep the entire body?
> Its an n^2 problem

> actually increases resource utilization exponentially

I think you'll have to choose there.
What makes this more fascinating is that if you look at the NYTimes' annual revenue over the past four years, it remains consistent at $1.5 billion or so: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ANYT&fstype=ii&ei=...

So if digital subscription and digital ad revenue are growing, print subscription and / or ad revenue are dropping by the same numbers.
They are still very variable for me (UK). With Royal Mail etc., I can be all but certain that by about 2pm I'll have the package. Most of the time, Amazon can match that, but I definitely get more issues with them than with other carriers (deliveries as late as 10pm, missed deliveries, items arriving damaged, items left in weird places [e.g. wheelie bin shortly before it was due to be emptied] even when people are in the house, items left in "safe" places without leaving any notification, misleading email notifications etc.). They've definitely improved, but are still a lesser service in my experience.
Don’t you still have to do egg harvesting? Or where are these coming from?
Seamless might have helped. Seams can act as slot radiators.

In plasma deposition chambers I've built, getting continuous electrical contact all the way around mechanical access ports was essential to keep microwave power from getting out of the box.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies

Also we don't know how long this needs to work. If it happens at all I expect it'll be in much less than 200 years. (Yes, of course that's a big if.)
While there is a real risk that cryonics organizations will fail, there's no reason to think it's a foregone conclusion. Tons of organizations have been around for over two hundred years. The oldest non-profits in continuous existence are well over a thousand years old. There's no legal barrier to a non-profit corporation or trust continuing to exist indefinitely, as many indeed have. (Heck, the Nobel Prizes are an after-death trust that has only gotten larger and more famous in the 122 years since Nobel's death.)

See also Alcor's reply to "Who will revive patients?": http://alcor.org/FAQs/faq01.html#whowillrevive

There is no active cooling system; cryonics patients are passively cooled with liquid nitrogen. The only regular maintenance needed is adding more liquid nitrogen, and the storage dewars can last for many months before replenishment is needed.
The cap didn’t increase with inflation, which impacted collections.

In effect the payroll tax was spun up in the 80s and used as government revenue via special bonds. But as the surplus as waned due to increased payments, the cap didn’t move and the government’s spending power to bridge the gap was reduced by our post-2001 perpetual war.
Do you find it significantly better than NewRelic?
It does not. sgrove posted this above https://vimeo.com/242081961 which is a talk he gave. Ended up watching it all the way through and came away being happier with ReasonML than I was before (eh, preconceptions because Facebook). It is a good talk, but please ignore the graphs because they aren't scientific in any sense of the word - more emotional appeal statements.
A building is not information, in the sense that you cannot freely copy it.
You don't make your casual viewing decisions based on the difference in box office performance during the second and third weeks of the movie's theatrical run?!
Remember the FBI's request for a "special" version of iOS? It doesn't matter what the current firmware does if it can be replaced as-needed over the network.
iPhone vs. Alexa, HomePod, Google Home: phones are often on battery power. They need a low-power mode for listening otherwise it will kill user batteries. A device plugged into an outlet? No incentive for power saving.
Sorry, I did indeed mean naturalistic fallacy.
It's probably a mix of nostalgia that's girded with this entire fallacy that things from the Earth are somehow all just here to help us live the eternal life we were designed to have, if that evil man-made brain of ours didn't try to confuse us with it's destructive powers of fighting cancer and lupus and starvation.

For me, it tends to germinate with that one fallacy.
> may seem like something out of the Mad Max movie, truckers say they are often more akin to Robin Hood