skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say that as if the shot is risk free. The cases adjudicated by The Court of Federal Claims proves this is not the case. (PDF, skip to page 7) http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/FY16-Repor... All reports for recent years: http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/reports-statistics

To win a case in this court, you not only have to be aware the court and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html you can only make a claim if the interaction of the vaccine with your particular combination of DNA results in a limited set of symptoms within specific time frames. (PDF) https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendi...

I wash my hands. A lot. Yes, that doesn’t cover all the transmission vectors but it covers a lot. I limit my exposure. For example, I’ll go home if someone is sick at work and refuses to do so. I supplement 8,000 IU vitamin D as recent studies have found this is what is necessary to achieve nominal serum vitamin D levels for someone at my BMI. Some 40-60% of people are vitamin D deficient in the US, btw.
Then what's stopping those teachers from moving? I moved from a small town where the only jobs for software developers were as military contractors doing mainframe programming, the week after I graduated from college.
`There are 284 lines of such unbearable mingle, which is absolutely impossible to grasp for anybody.`

284 lines of (relatively straightforward if poorly written) jQuery? Oh the horror!

`Want to be as cool as Kirill Shirinkin?

Then enroll to the training! In his articles Kirill shares only a glimpse of his true knowledge.`

I think I've seen enough but thanks for the offer.
In that no directly comparable right even exists under the current DPA?
Broadly speaking, mentioning downvotes is frowned on here and will get you more downvotes. The exception (as far as I have seen) is asking people to explain their downvotes, e.g. "Downvotes, please explain?" Sometimes that will get you good feedback.
In many ways, WSL is the Cygwin concept implemented inside the system layer. Where Cygwin reimplements things in Win32-compatible-ish code and then calls that code, WSL translates the calls directly into compatible Windows code. In theory, sometimes this is faster, and sometimes slower. In practice, whereas Cygwin has to jump through hoops to work around incompatible interfaces at the library layer, WSL can get Windows to implement the things they need to optimize the especially painful parts.

This is also why file system access is so slow in WSL — the two systems are far enough apart that building such a fast path is either hard or really hard, depending on how much compatibility is important to you.
I really enjoyed that talk. Thanks for sharing.
I usually cringe at design patterns, but hearing the intention behind the idea of design patterns resonated with me. Especially his final point about balancing abstraction.
> It's not necessarily a bad idea

True. Even Warren Buffet says it's a great idea. In fact, he tells all of his rich friends to do exactly that - just park your money in index funds.

"Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game."

"The 21st century will witness further gains, almost certain to be substantial. The goal of the non-professional should not be to pick winners — neither he nor his 'helpers' can do that — but should rather be to own a cross-section of businesses that in aggregate are bound to do well. A low-cost S&P 500 index fund will achieve this goal."

http://longbets.org/362/

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2016ltr.pdf

> without you being their customer.

> but it's hardly a panacea with perfect incentives.

Huh? The management of the fund is so stupidly simple - just put money in every stock across the S&P 500. How do their incentives change because of that?
But there are plays with Shakespeare's name on them published during Shakespeare's lifetime for which Stratfordian scholars deny authenticity (Bad Quarto of Hamlet, etc.) Showing that the gentleman from Stratford and the Shakespeare of the theater company were the same person, falsifies some alternative theories, but certainly not all - so "settled" and nailing "any lingering ambiguity" are exaggerations.
Ah, I see. Thanks. Interesting. The minifier must be smart enough to know that you're not doing anything with the return value, since the two aren't equivalent in that respect.

false && console.log('foo'); //false
if(false){ console.log('foo') }; //undefined
Their PE ratios are so high because, like the other person is suggesting, everyone is buying into index funds and robotraders.

They are auto buying into these companies without considering financials or anything else. When someone buys into those funds, money is automatically allocated into those shares.

The next crash is going to be pretty heavy because if a large portion of people those those funds try to pull out their money, it's going to pull the entire market down.
C# Attributes were introduced in .NET 1.0. Released in 2002. Betas were available already during 2001.

Java annotations started to be discussed in 2002, with JSR-175, finally delivered with Java 1.5, released in 2004.

So how come it is a Java innovation?
Why do female entrepreneurs receive less than 3% of all venture capital funding?
Meanwhile, in Shenzhen no one gives a fuck about patents.

I wonder how patent abuse and no patents will compare in the long run.
It is the Stream API.
Containers are not there to solve a problem. They are there to produce buzz, then busy engineers, then bills, all packaged in a way that overloaded (and sometimes quite unskilled) manager can show something to their bosses.

And in that regard Containers are successful as hell. That's why we have a religion around them now. You can hate it but you can't really ignore it if you need to pay rent and work in the industry.
Not sure where you live, but over here, horse and carts can indeed travel on the same roads as cars/lorries/buses/bikes/pedestrians/whatever. They're obviously a lot less common than they used to be, but every now and then you'll see a horse and cart go trotting by like it's still the 1800s or what not.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/code-of-practice-...
There are a couple of most plausibly hard steps: the origin of life up to just before bacteria split from archaea, and the origin of eukaryotes, which happened just once after something like 2 billion years. But I had in mind something cheaper more like scaling up the idea of http://www.karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html. Intelligence has evolved in animals as unrelated as octopi and us.
> They too though made a Google-like transition and went from an open protocol (IRC/XMPP) to a closed/custom API. At least here, the server admin can enable those protocols if they want and the API seems to offer enough features that someone could probably integrate Slack into another IRC-like client.

As for the XMPP gateway it's just barely usable. From my personal experience it even tended to drop messages from time to time. It seems Slack added it just to claim XMPP compatibility. Just look at where is Slack placed in this ranking https://conversations.im/compliance/
What are “smart contracts” and how does Ripple use them?
Yep, looking forward to them.
Yes. I reset my first gen iPad last year and redownloaded all of those apps. If the newest version is not compatible with your iOS version, It gives you the option of downloading the last compatible version.

On another note, when Apple first implemented two factor authentication, they didn't make it well known, but you could enter your password+authentication code for older iOS versions. Later, they actually added that to the password prompt.

The only caveat is that you can only download previous versions if you have downloaded any version of the same app previously. If you haven't, you have to download the newest version from another device first or you have to download it via iTunes and then you can download it from the App Store on the older device.
I'd say you're seeing the "hope for change" right here.

These studies and others like them are shining a light on our hypocrisy. Sometimes it's a single researcher or even an amateur. And then there are the leaks, like the Panama papers, the British Virgin Islands leak, LIBOR scandal, etc.
We have server logs going back for years. Moreover, those older server logs have provided valuable information on several occasions for detecting abuse of our systems, attempted fraud, etc, so they are demonstrably useful for legitimate business purposes.

We also have backups going back on a staged basis, more frequent backups from the recent past, less frequent going back further. This has been useful more than once for retrieving older information that someone had accidentally modified or deleted and not noticed immediately, so is also demonstrably useful for legitimate business purposes.

Both of these appear to be at risk of conflict with the right to erasure under GDPR, in that for example old backups of emails will inevitably contain customer correspondence that can't readily be isolated.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://boingboing.net/2018/02/07/this-is-not-ok.html.
>MS wanted to make integrating with windows API's easier

Agreed: integrating with other languages was very important to Microsoft, but not to Sun with its "100% Pure Java" campaign.

See my other comment about that:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16354176
The switched loads I was thinking of are lights and motors. So 48V headlights, 48v blower motors, 48v door solenoids, etc. All these draw a fair amount of power and thus a lot of current at 12V.

It's not a total win especially for mechanical switches and relays which tend to be rated by their ability to interrupt power. And you do need higher voltage transistors.
Step 0: Forget trading on the stock market. You will lose.

Step 1: Pay off your high interest debts. School loans, credit cards.

Step 2a: If your company matches a 401k, take advantage of free money. Max out their contribution.

Step 2b: Go to vanguard.com, open a Roth IRA, choose a Vanguard Retirement that matches your retirement date, dump $5500/year in until you're 50, then $6500 after that.

Step 3: After emergency money is handled, take excess invest in the following index funds at Vanguard. Admiral shares require minimum $10,000 in each. However you can start with the standard share version, and then move them to admiral once your balance reaches $10k.

56% Total Stock Market Index Admiral Shares – VTSAX

24% Total International Stock Index Admiral Shares - VTIAX

20% Total Bond Market Index Admiral Shares – VBTLX

Enjoy your millionaire retirement status.
Why not abolish the patent system altogether? Don't allow private companies to use government force to monopolize ideas in the first place.
'Inline' does not prevent duplication of the generated code (in fact, it forces it).
The author here seems to be a bit naive about how free speech really is in the "free market of ideas" model and how much better it is than the "communitarian" approach. His vision where everyone's opinion and speech has equal weight doesn't come close to the reality of the situation in America today, where those with financial wealth can effectively pay to amplify viewpoints they favor. No one really cares what I think, but lots of people know what Tom Steyer and the Koch brothers' opinions are.
well as somebody already pointed out. docker/containers are useless.
combine them with a useful system like kubernetes, they can be really useful.
A well traveled American ex-colleague of mine moved to Copenhagen but left after 6 months. He said he simply couldn't afford to live there on his (Senior) game developer salary and theorized that the reason Danes are so happy is that they have such low expectations.

I really hope that's not true (I'm pretty sure it isn't) as I find the idea of moving and raising my family there very appealing.
You make a valid point, pity to see it downvoted. Please keep in mind that in many dialects of BASIC you didn't have more datatypes than 'string' and 'float', and that the original program used floats. Even so, it is definitely possible to make reliable software using floating point, you just have to know exactly what you are doing and you will spend a lot of time on tests to ensure that you do not end up with nonsense output in edge cases.

Floating point is used regularly in avionics and other fields involving critical computations, it is not the floating point data type itself that is problematic, what is problematic is poorly understanding the underlying implementation details and what kind of limitations that will cause.

A good example is trying to count integers with more bits than the underlying precision of the implementation will allow. But in this particular case floating point would have been my 'tool of choice' anyway, fixed point would have introduced a lot of complications for very little gain - if any - gain and would not be worth it.

So in many cases I would agree with you that rounding errors could cause huge problems but in this particular case the inputs were in ranges where this could not happen, the software was tested exhaustively across all input ranges to ensure well defined behavior.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines, first by being snarky and second by not doing this:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

If it had just been the second sentence, the comment would be fine. Please edit the snarky bits out of what you post here.
They trigger this place into lower-quality behavior.
Wow, and that's not even a joke!
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/vaccine-selection.htm

The information I gave was relevant and explained the correlation. But if you are not convinced, read above.

Vaccine is one common way for an animal (including humans) to become immune to a targeted virus. That’s the purpose of receiving a vaccine, otherwise you would have to catch a real flu (of all classification) in order to develop immunity. As virus changes its structures, our immune system may not be able to recongize the new virus, thus we get sick, and therefore pharmaceutical companies have to develop a new vaccine. If flu virus doesn’t mutate, we would only have one type and one shot would be suffice for life time. I hope this helps.
I grew up in Europe. This is an exaggeration. Heck, even when I lived in London the location of my house vs my office made it pretty much impossible to commute except by car.
Dying in a Hospital Setting: It's Complicated
Obvious counterexample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swede_Hollow,_Saint_Paul
I can confirm. New Android phones ship with Duo and no Hangouts.
The GDPR allows for reasonable usecases like this. The principles are pretty broad and only stifling once you get into the realm of sharing data between organisations [0]

The GDPR is rather ambiguous about use cases like this. That's part of the problem. Different national regulators are going to have to decide what they consider reasonable and how much they want to enforce. Unless and until they issue authoritative guidance, everyone is basically in the dark on what this really means, and the penalties for misjudgement could be severe if the regulator strongly disagreed with your interpretation.

As for sharing data between organisations, one of the more unwise (IMHO) aspects of the GDPR is that when it comes to the right to erasure, the obligations to notify other parties to which the data has been supplied have guard conditions about reasonable efforts, but there are no such conditions at all on the immediate obligations to delete the data. If you're not covered by one of the acceptable cases (where the scope is, as noted above, not entirely clear yet) then you must be able to delete the data on demand, regardless of the practicality or cost of doing so.
I think Wall Street is only place where laymen are convinced they know more than professionals. You will not see that in medical profession.

But, on the other hand, trading professionals need retail investors to think that they know better then professionals.
That depends on how far out you're projecting. In a hypothetical all-self-driving future, a car with a sick occupant could broadcast its emergency mode to the rest of traffic to let it through.
There are very real costs to not having a cofounder though. Founding is hard, I have no idea how solo founders handle the work and the emotional swings.
No, I'm neither young nor single. I'm in my mid 40s.

I went from $100 a month - as an independent consultant where you own your own business and the $5000 would be pre-tax to a real world example for me - Earned $80 hour as a W2 contractor where the consulting company gets a cut and pays the employer's part of the taxes. The $50 is after tax.

I'm not saying the extra 100 hours was easy. But I had to do what I had to do and I was willing to do it for the extra money. It's actually somewhat easier for a married person with a supportive spouse to put in extra hours. My one child who is in the house is in high school.
Ambulances do a lot more than transport patients. It's already the case that you can usually get someone to the hospital faster than waiting for an ambulance. Typically if you're using an ambulance you're going to need someone to provide medical assistance on location and/or help load you onto a stretcher.
AMZN, hopefully?
The thing is, Windows 10 could be usable OS if Microsoft approached it from different angle. Now there is no way in hell I am using standard version as it is of right now, installed it on my father's PC few weeks ago, and it was installing updates and forcing default bowser by itself. What the hell?! I tried Server in VM next week and it seemed better. For .NET and some graphics stuff, Windows is logical solution. For everything else, leave me on Unix (Always BSDs over Linux If I may :)).
Closed end funds (investment trusts etc) are much better for property for technical reasons a fund or OIEC has to retain cash.
In any case Hinton's use of the word "deep" was an excellent one from a marketing perspective:

" In 2006, a publication by Geoff Hinton, Osindero and Teh[26][27] showed how a many-layered feedforward neural network could be effectively pre-trained one layer at a time, treating each layer in turn as an unsupervised restricted Boltzmann machine, then fine-tuning it using supervised backpropagation.[28] The paper referred to learning for deep belief nets."

Perhaps this usage ("deep belief networks") was too effective, as so many marketing terms prove to be. Hinton is likely well-aware of the importance of terminology that captures the imagination of the public (and the marketplace for research).
Possibly, though part of me suspects (somewhat worryingly), this is becoming a trend worldwide. That pro free speech parties and politicians seem to increasingly be a minority in many places, and that restrictions on freedom of speech that would have been seem as unthinkable years ago are now being offered as serious suggestions.

As for why this is happening... well I think the media attention on extremists and online trolling seem to have led a lot of people to think 'free speech' is somehow a bad thing that helps their opponents, in the same way the war on terror caused privacy and encryption to come under fire because of 'national security concerns'. I worry that freedom of speech has become villified as something 'the bad guys' use.

But that's just my take on it.
Old aphorism: "there's a certain freedom in being completely screwed - it just can't get any worse."

Likewise death: when you've faced the prospect of death, of coming to grips with it, and survived it & now knowing you're on borrowed time, all things become a gift. I am literally hearing my heart beat right now from the sound of a machine, and every beat is directed by a computer; I've been (technically) dead, not for want of my body trying to get & stay there 4 different ways. Every moment is now a gift, something I'd not have experienced if not for modern medical tech (even healthier than most my age). Every dreary day, every hurtful word, every irritation, ... each is better than not having it at all, each being a painful step to the joys of sunsets, cardinals, smiling children, snuggling wife, and every other precious moment I have because "they're stopping his heart now" was followed (hours later) by the unreal experience of waking up.

For those who have not been to the edge and back, one's sense of proportion would do well to contemplate the meaning of going there, giving proper scale to the minutiae so many find impossibly grievous.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or snarky dismissals to HN. All a comment like this is likely to do—and did do—is lead to a tedious back-and-forth that sucks oxygen away from interesting discussion. When feeling annoyed in this way it's much better not to post at all.

It's particularly important to avoid generic commentary about ideological themes like "Communism" and (worse) "Creationism", which is where you went downthread.
I can relate to this. Google's services became less and less useful over time. I even replaced Hangouts with self-hosted XMPP server while previously I thought custom would mean a lot of trouble. After a while test driving it I migrated entire family (Conversations.im on Android works great and we've got encrypted E2E chats).

Now I'm thinking about hosting my own calendars (kind of easy) and email (scary).
As a back-end fullstack developer this guide is great. Allows me to fill some gaps in a very readable and concise way.
White House wants to turn space station into commercially run venture
Fascinating, but the author just opened the subject. Far more interesting to me is why Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Paul Simon appeal to him today. I would like to see which kinds of recordings are especially appealing by different age groups in violation of his puberty rule.
I worked at Google. An observation:

The internal codebase should be structured like the yellow-pages of a phonebook[1] but instead it's structured like a flea market.

Now, consider that in light of Conway's Law[2]...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonebook

[2] http://melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html
> Once your test suite is bulletproof [...] you can deploy code using continuous delivery techniques

I see this line of reasoning a lot in the industry and I think it misses a key piece: monitoring/dev-ops.

Unlike the author, I think there is a clear progression from CI to CD. Where most teams stumble, is they are not prepared for the shift towards deploying new code regularly: measuring outcomes in production, running experiments, and validating assumptions against real traffic.

Developers tend to think their job is done once their PR merges, and therefore teams struggle to reap the benefits of continuous deployment.
So, if you don't have a job where you can put away $6500 a year into an IRA and max out your match with a 401K are you screwed?
Smartphones Dull Your Mental Performance – Even When They're Off
With so many people doing this these days, I wonder if this will continue to hold true.
You're e-mails are probably using TLS (I would check), which is the same as HTTPS. SFTP would be ideal.
I agree HIV is a whole different ball game, but I thought it was a good (common) analogy. But you are right.
A quick note on the bikes:

1) Copenhagen is really, really flat, which makes it easy to bike for everyone.

2) Cars in Denmark have an environmental/luxury tax of over 100%, on top of the 25% VAT, making cars incredibly expensive to buy.
I also use WSL And I think it's a good start. Lots of potential.
Devs are not paid as well in Europe, probably a factor.
As an American there are a few principles that I would be willing to die defending, and free speech is one of them.

"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."