skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all cost is of monetary nature. Wearing a helmet costs you comfort, agility, and time. That's why we only do it when the risks outweigh the costs. Which is exactly the point: sometimes the risks outweigh the costs of prevention, sometimes they do not. Thus, this was an excellent example.
Decarbonizing Cities: Helsinki (2017) [pdf]
Dating apps are they better than traditional dating?
What do you think community?
That reminds me of when my mother-in-law asked me if you could compute IBAN check digits in Excel. The suggestion by IT had been to cut-and-paste customer data into a random "compute IBAN check digit" website, one customer at a time, because they couldn't be arsed to update the database automatically.
Similarly from the linked Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report: «Prevention can reduce the incidence of disease, but savings may be partially offset by health care costs associated with increased longevity.»

Perhaps a useful way of looking at things would be to imagine we had access to a graph of the function from (preventative health care, emergency health care) → life expectancy, and see what it looks like for constant life expectancy.

If you could increase the preventative part by less than you decrease the emergency part, then I think in one sense it's fair to say that preventative care saves money.
Facebook will still have a lot of data on you, even if you don't use their services.

Their Like-Buttons that are spread on a lot of the web, allow them to track your IP-address and what webpage you're on (thanks to the HTTP referrer). They also have an analytics library that some webpages use, giving them the same data and more.

And your friends probably have you in their contacts on their phones, which is uploaded to WhatsApp's server (unless none of them uses WhatsApp).
Hydrogen does have a lot of problems which other commenters here point out.

But if HyTech is to be believed, some of these problems are solved. Probably their most significant claim, is hydride storage at ordinary temperature / pressure with safe, practical, cost effectiveness in recovering that stored energy.
All RISC-V CPUs seem to be in-order right now, but I assume their ISA supports speculative execution for out-of-order CPUs. So are they going to redesign that part of the ISA in a future update, before companies start coming out with out-of-order RISC-V CPUs with speculative execution? I assume some of them were already mid-design of their out-of-order chips, so this could delay their launches quite a bit. But it would be for the best long-term.
Luckily for those of us who cannot speak Chinese, even papers from Tsinghua University are generally published in English.

There are so many Chinese natives compared to the rest of the world. It will be interesting to see in the next decade how the open source community evolves as China grows from 50->100% Internet penetration and some of those users become involved in open source. Anecdotally, you can already see this happening on some fairly popular repos on github that are entirely in Chinese.

Will we see two open source communities develop in parallel, one in English and one in Chinese? Will we see more effort at translation of documentation for major software packages?
But wait, a "tall, rangy, blond, inveterate maker and builder whose eyes light up when he talks engineering" claims he's solved all efficiency and and storage problems with super-secret technology. Incidentally, he's also the CEO of the company and probably paying for the piece:

>To date, most hydride fluids have been less energy dense than compressed hydrogen, and far short of fossil fuels. They weigh too much for the energy they provide. Johnson thinks he’s cracked both problems. He won’t reveal the details of the hydrides involved, but he’s got the power-to-weight ratio high enough to beat lithium-ion batteries (which are very heavy) and the hydride bond weak enough that it can be broken using only the redirected waste heat from the engine (no added heat or pressure required).
The study you quote was funded by Virta Health Corp. a health startup that advertises "The Virta treatment [that] reverses type 2 diabetes". They use this study as their main advertising item, quoting it extensively on their site, calling it "groundbreaking" etc etc.

Besides the fishy smell emanating from this, and to address your comment directly, the quoted study compared the proposed treatment against "usual care", i.e. ordinary diabetes treatment.

More specifically, the study did not directly compare the proposed treatment to other dietary or lifestyle interventions and particularly not to calorie restriction diets. It does, however, quote the results of such studies:

The CCI [Continuous Care Intervention] reduced HbA1c by 14 mmol mol−1 (1.3%) at 1 year. HbA1c reductions up to 7 mmol mol−1 (0.6%) via intensive lifestyle intervention [25] and 11 mmol mol−1 (1.0%) via an energy-restricted low-carbohydrate diet with partial food provision delivered via an outpatient setting [26] were previously reported.

So the difference between this and one selected calorie restriction diet (which was also a low-carbohydrate diet) was small (3%). These are just two studies, so it's hard to draw a conclusion.

Anyway, I'm not a doctor or a biologist so I don't know just by looking at the studies to say what is significant and what isn't. For instance, sulfonylurea treatment was reduced in the "CCI" group, like you note, but that group already had ~24% lower use of sulfonylureas than the baseline to begin with. What does that mean? And what does it mean that people took less medicine at the end of a study? Did they absolutely need all the medicine they were taking at the start? Do you know how to answer those questions? Because I certainly don't.

A single study, quoted by someone who isn't a doctor to people who also aren't doctors over the internet, doesn't really mean anything.
Ask HN: What Algorithms are you using to make money?
I’m thinking about algorithms that generate money. First one comes to my is the Bellman Ford algorithm. It can be used to find the shortest path in arbitrage cycles.
hubble is being controlled - by its gyros. Curiosity is still under its own power.

there might be special rules for things that aren't specifically craft - like observation equipment.
It’s actually a bit more complicated. The Islam traditionally practiced in Indonesia has been well known for being comparatively tolerant and for promoting pluralism. So the issue is not the fact of being predominantly a Muslim country in itself, but growing influence coming from conservative forces in the Middle East (which, indeed, is not all that surprising).

The largest Islamic organization in the country and traditionally the biggest proponent of a moderate Islam, Nahdlatul Ulama, is clearly naming the problem: Wahhabism.
"It is false and counterproductive to claim that the actions of al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram and other such groups have nothing to do with Islam, or merely represent a perversion of Islamic teachings. They are, in fact, outgrowths of Wahhabism and other fundamentalist streams of Sunni Islam," Yaqut said."
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/05/25/humanitarian-i...

Interesting read about the same topic here http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/14/indonesias-moderate-isla...

It's definitely sad to see the moderate forces lose against the foreign-funded supporters of extremist views in what otherwise is a beautiful country.
Agreed - I won't want to sign up to daily. It would be a great weekly event I could look forward to but daily sounds like an overwhelming chore - a distraction to avoid.

The driving values for something like this should be quality above quantity, depths not shallows, long-term not short-term etc.
There's no externality to speak off here, so Coase doesn't apply. The costs, even if unexpected, are borne by the people who buy the chips, not random bystanders.
I am pretty sure the "western" auto industry has been doing themselves more harm for a long time, compared to what the Chinese could do.

And as far as State created exploits, there are plenty of these being introduced by "western" governments. I don't really prefer to have either having access to this.
This trend should not be surprising. China has a population of 1.4 billion people, almost 5x the population of the US. If you'll excuse the Saturday morning math, the Chinese population only needs to produce quality software engineers at 1/5 the rate of the US in order to outpace US engineers in terms of pure numbers.

Programming is not some elite field that only enlightened Western minds are capable of. After a certain point it really is a numbers game -- how many smart people can you throw at big problems? In this sense, the US is at a distinct long-term disadvantage compared to larger countries like China and India, simply due to the sheer size of the population differences.
Your logo in your nav bar is way too small, it's practically unreadable. I have no idea what I'd want/need an invite code and yet I'm being asked for one if I want to sign up. There is nothing on the home page that lets me see anything about how this product looks or behaves.

Pages seem kind of slow to load, it takes about 5 seconds to render each page in the "explore timelines section". Each page is also really heavy at like 4.5MB, several times larger than an image gallery site I frequent. Probably contributes to the slow load times.

Also, I don't really see any times on the timelines.
There's nothing wrong with stating pseudo-science. It's just that people won't take you seriously.
Oh No, Another Accident
"Malaysia" includes Sarawak, which is on the same island as Borneo and home to about 8,000 orangutans who are also threatened.
I think you'll find that many feminists and activsts are not happy with most juristictions rape laws.
Thank you for this. Regardless of one's take on it, it's nice to see someone propagating well-researched background information instead of blindly repeating rhetoric.
The article does not say what dictionary compression is and how it works or I have missed it? It would be interesting, and also dictionary compression seems to be topic of article.
While they keep github blocked (is it?) I doubt we will see so much original content that gets traction.
How can you get infected by just visiting a fake website, where they on windows, are we doing such a poor job, we like to brag with nice titles, architect etc, but the industry is quite shit, if you can get infected just by visiting a site.
Similar but just for getting normalized metadata: https://microlink.io
I understand the advantages of array-oriented programming, but why the J/APL syntax? There are plenty of column-oriented databases available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_column-oriented_DBMSes

Also related is range-based programming. https://wiki.dlang.org/Component_programming_with_ranges

return
// Start by generating all dates for the given year
datesInYear(year)
// Group them by month
.byMonth()
// Group the months into horizontal rows
.chunks(monthsPerRow)
// Format each row
.map!(r =>
// By formatting each month
r.formatMonths()
// Storing each month's formatting in a row buffer
.array()
// Horizontally pasting each respective month's lines together
.pasteBlocks(colSpacing)
.join("\n"))
// Insert a blank line between each row
.join("\n\n");

Much more readable than something like "(~R∊R∘.×R)/R←1↓ιR".
The user agreement specifies that the service is for “payments between friends and people who trust each other,” and that there is no buyer or seller protection.

That sounds the same as Zelle, with the exception that Venmo might help you if scammed. Sounds like you're very unlikely to get help on the Zelle platform.
I like the analogy. Sorta offtopic, but I was thinking about how morally falsy it is to buy albums of those artists, because well, most likely a big part of the revenue will be spent on drugs and on continuing that lifestyle.
We should have something like that in the Netherlands.
We do have 'university' and 'technical university' but I just looked at the curriculum for CS at a technical university and it is similarly theoretical.
You really need to go to HBO (höhere Berufsbildung, Higher Professional Education) to get that practical approach.

This is sadly considered as plain easier than university. It probably is as well, but that leaves a gap for professional training at a higher level. It sounds like the 'Technische universitat' in Germany nicely fills that gap, or is that still considered as easier than normal university?
I have zero idea why you feel the need to point that out to me.
Not sure if they've done a production run, but BOOM[1] has existed for a while. I'm not sure if it supporst speculative execution yet.

[1] https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-boom
Looks pretty sweet, I've been wanting a React Native like stack but with Vue as I much prefer working in Vue over React personally. I'll definitely have to try this out.
"After installing malware on the engineers’ computers by luring them to a fake version of the LinkedIn website, GCHQ was able to steal their keys to the secure parts of Belgacom’s networks and begin monitoring the data flowing across them. "

FFS.
Considering the route takes you through Iran and Pakistan, and a few 100s Km from Afghanistan, Indian trafic is the least of your worries. I'm considering driving the same trip but it seems a detour through Caucasus is a much safer choice.
An American served a year in prison for copyright conduct that is legal in EU
> But put that aside and just try to engage with the simultaneously naive and arrogant assumption that the people Google hires --- people, we assume, like Damore --- must somehow represent the top of that curve. Because what they do is just so demanding.

This is fallacious reasoning. The claim that the IQ of men has higher variance implies (given a Gaussian distribution) that there is some IQ threshold beyond which there are many more men having an IQ greater than the threshold than there are women. It doesn't imply anything about whether this threshold is above or below the average IQ of Google employees. In fact, if indeed the claim is correct, the threshold may well be not very much higher than the average IQ of the general population.
More very disingenuous arguments. People took him so seriously he got fired!
Meaning restricting water intake? Or general fasting with only water consumed?
Someone on Reddit argued that the new legal situation is worse because the PATENTS clause provided protection against litigation unless you sued Facebook first. Licensing under MIT, s/he argued, theoretically opens you up to litigation at any time IF Facebook decides to enforce any patents. So I was wondering: as far as you know, does Facebook have any patents on React or React Native?
It gets even better: Europol flat out refused to help in the investigation [1]

> However, Europol wanted nothing to do with the investigation and refused to assist, according to two sources familiar with the interaction. Europol asserted that it would not carry out investigations into other European Union member states – in this case, the U.K. The Belgians were frustrated and believed Europol had stonewalled them for political reasons; they noted with suspicion that the organization was led by Rob Wainwright, who is British.

I mean, what are we doing here? How can Europol so blatently refuse a case? Isn't that a clear violation of the trias politica?

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
I had never heard of your site, so I went there. There was a way I could browse stuff and look around, check other's time lines or even a sample timeline with out creating an account, but it was not on the main menu - it was hard top-right on the screen and I did not see it at first. I have become averse to any and all sites that want my email address unless I am going to use the site actively.

So place the browse option at the top of the menu group and get more people.
But manhole covers are always bigger than the hole. Otherwise, they'd fall in at installation and the problem would be immediately obvious.

The point here is more that a circle has the same diameter regardless of orientation. There's no way to rotate it to make it fit through a hole it couldn't before, like you can do with a rectangle.
I did read it and I get the angle of it. it's not always cost effective, like all things in life, one should use common sense.
But in general terms, preventative care does work well and costs the state less, at least in the UK.
Coding without any kind of test and getting it right sounds incredibly difficult to me. How do you achieve that ? What kind of code do you work on ?
> particular cryptocurrency supply is truly limited, unlike gold

It is dimensionally incorrect to compare abundance of (a particular) cryptocurrency with gold.
>> The authors assert that carbohydrate restriction was the main cause of lowered blood glucose, weight, and medicine use (weight loss was not the cause of the improvements; rather, it was one effect among others). Continuous care was required for medicine management and in order to sustain the diet, as clearly stated in the summary (emphasis mine):

Well, to be fair, they didn't make any attempt to control for improvements due to weight loss alone. They compared their results with one "lifestyle change" study and one calorie restriction study (also with carbohydrate reduction, both of which references I didn't follow) and the difference in outcomes was not that groundbreaking, I'd say.

But I'm not a doctor, or a biologist and I can't really say for sure. I'd welcome some input from a specialist on this.
But the large margins are in Xeons for enterprise and HPC computing. We use high-end Xeon machines for research and would think twice before purchasing AMD. Besides a generally good reputation and good performance, Intel has a great ecosystem with Intel MKL, ICC, etc.

Besides that, Spectre also affects AMD and many ARM CPUs.
It's very well documented that writing outside array boundaries in C can cause undefined behavior (leading to arbitrary code execution no less!), yet Adobe isn't exactly sued for every buffer overflow in Flash.
On the flipside, I see a lot of tools pushed that are more complicated, less flexible, and far buggier than the old tools. And then inevitably in a few years they're deprecated in favour of something newer and shinier and the old tools are still perfectly fine (e.g. Make).
What needs to be redesigned? All OOO cores should behave as if they are executing in order when viewed by the programmer.
One of the wealthiest russians Roman Abramovich invested about $300M in Telegram.

https://en.crimerussia.com/oligarchs/roman-abramovich-invest...
After we merge a pull request with rebase + fast forward merge, there is no merge commit created. This leads to a linear commit history.

Does anyone know anyway to look at the linear commit history alone (not GitHub) and tell where a pull request was merged and who merged it?
Not the OP, and I have never done embedded programming, but you got me hooked with the sentence "passing along the marker" and my search engine skills sadly failed me. Do you mean the preferred way is to do the actual work in the main routine and only set a marker that the work should be triggered in the IR?
You're not the arkades from buzz, by any chance?
Well, with web IDEs, the server is remote, isn't it ? The reason here was the same: easy to setup environment because every dev had the same server image, with same config, etc. I guess that's what remote IDEs have going for them. I think Koding.com markets this very very well.
Exactly as the US did to the UK in the late 1800s, and Japan + Korea to the US in the 1970s on.

There is advantage to not being the incumbent. First you copy (badly) and soon enough you match quality and innovate. That you can do so without the years of technical debt or obsolete tooling and infrastructure gives speed advantages.
You're right. Like all things in life, one should use common sense when interacting with the world.
No one (i hope) wants to spend their budget irrationally. So in your example, I would let the doctor decide if that $100 is spend better on curing rather than preventing. And that 1% reduction you came up as an example is not 1% for the entire population, it may be 1% to me and you, but maybe 50% for someone older, or with a specific condition...
Letting people die younger, faster makes sense that it would reduce healthcare spending but what doesn't make sense to me is that you loose all future productivity and value that these people create.

They say that the costs are barely offset by cigarette tax revenue but that doesn't take into account all future tax revenue that would be generated by letting these people live.
I lived there for ten years ;)

But yeah - I think there’s amazing things happening. It’s a bit of a shame that the discussion is regularly framed as ‘who is number one?’ - there’s some straight up great innovation, and there’s a lot of interesting adaptation and innovative use of existing tech to suit market conditions in China.
First, it strikes me as obvious that if the Brits did this then it would have had to have been with the blessing of their peers in Belgium

No senior GCHQ officer is going to sign off in a cyber hack of an ally unless they had a really good reason and had covered their own ass.

But if they’d really been freewheeling then it amazes me just how much impunity state apparatus can act with - what hope has an ordinary individual or private company got of protecting themselves and seeking redress through the courts?
Thw tokens not being used is what gets me. Is telegram incentiveized at all to use the tokens? Sure they own a lot of them, but so what? They already got the cash and they can just use it to do business like normal and make money that way. Why try and get people to use tokens to do business when they can just have them use fiat to buy things? The transaction of the tokens is taxable just like any sort of barter exchange, so it's a lot more complicated to work with than fiat. I just don't get it. It might work for a business that is locked out of the banking system, but otherwise, why bother?

Are there any ICOs that have tokens that are valuable based on anything other than their speculative value? Do any even have a dividend or are useful for anything besides trading on exchanges? Most tokens seem to have a big spike and then slowly grind down in value over time. It just seems to me like a "make your own speculative bubble" industry.
First JDK 10 (18.3) Release Candidate: Build 43
The Future of IVF's Genetic Testing?
USDCHF: Halts Weakness, Threatens Recovery
Utter crap, look at their source code. Lucene, on the other hand, is really good.
Ugly Monster Jungle Sim
Here is one likely root cause of China's rapid rise and US' relative stagnation:

"“Of 200,000 doctorates in science and engineering earned worldwide in 2010, about 33,000 were awarded by universities in the United States, China 31,000, Russia 16,000, Germany 12,000 and the United kingdom 11, 000,” says the report."

"But China leads the world when factoring in doctorates in the biological, physical, Earth, atmospheric, ocean and agricultural sciences and computer sciences."

"Also, in the United States only 57% of doctorates were earned by citizens and permanent residents, while temporary visa holders obtained the remainder." [1]

China's figures are likely higher now in 2018.

Note that there appears to be some quality issues that come with the acceleration of China's PhD production, although initiatives are being taken to reform the system. [2]

In the long run, the advantage of having an abundant number of STEM and CS graduates to recruit from may prove highly impactful, or even decisive, for many tech-based industries. To compete, the US needs to develop more local talent in STEM as well as attracting talent from abroad.

A focus on the very top-end by doing groundbreaking research, which the US has often excelled at, might also be necessary.

[1] http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2014022...

[2] https://www.editage.com/insights/where-does-china-stand-in-t...