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Boring farts.

I enjoy being able to wind down and have beers the last couple of hours on a friday (in companies that have allowed it). I organise my workload so there is nothing difficult to do then anyway.
if you team up you look for solutions in the same places.
My dad takes clients out to lunch a few times a week. He always tips the server with $2 bills. Every server on his side of town remembers him, and his favorite drinks, meals, etc. (and really impresses the clients!)
Your comment prompted a web search and I ended up here: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-reductionism-a-logical-fallacy
It really depends on where you decide to live. California in general was designed around people getting everywhere by cars. Especially the Bay Area, which is basically suburbs which suddenly became the Tech Center of the world. Like others have mentioned the downtown areas are pretty walkable: I visited a friend in Mountain View and there were so many bars/restaurants downtown, there was always something to do once you parked and started walking (granted, there weren't quality nightclubs, but that might just reflect the demographic of the city). And the train station is nearby too.
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Yes, because the US doesn't have any infrastructure that could support the rapid transport of lab samples.
I love this part:

> "The prevalence of reissues of older games belies any claim that game companies lack incentive to preserve older titles," the ESA writes.

Yeah. It shouldn't matter if Lord of The Rings ever goes out of print because, after all, we have several movie adaptions of it. What more could we ever want?
I actually just got done running an A/B analytics test on a large website (>100k viewers/day). Statistics say you're right, least about the buttons. ;)

The client wanted a "button" without a background color because it looked bad to have two buttons side by side. My company told them that was a bad idea based on data, so we added tracking to their site and A/B tested their home page. Button with a background color had 40% more conversions than the "button" they wanted without the background color.

Several pieces of the advice given on that article are proven to be bad ideas for most websites if you track your users. What "feels" right and what is right are often two different things.

If you're ever making a change because you think it will perform better you better be tracking the statistics. Often times you'll find out you were wrong. Another, similar, example is that a client had a button they wanted to "draw attention to" so wanted to inverse the :hover background color with the normal background color so that it would stand out from other buttons. It looked different - but hurt engagement because it no longer looked like every other button on the site.

E:

This was meant to be a response to cpburns2009, the parent of the comment I responded to. Thanks to metalliqaz for pointing that out.
Nice!
On what is based the rank ?
You get this north of Chicago a lot too... on I-294 merge into the right two lanes, keep left, pass the exit, merge into the right lane, keep right, merge left to finally get onto I-90.

I drive it several times a year and I still need lane guidance to help.
>It removes the particularly heinous problem of government officials spending the public's money on things the public doesn't actually want them to spend it on.

That's actually a good thing in my book. Sometimes the right thing is not the easy or popular one. "Let's cut education spending and increase everybody's salaries instead" would probably be very popular but it might not prove very beneficial in the long term. If you dislike the way the government spends money then you elect a different one. If you don't manage to do that then maybe "the public" doesn't disagree so strongly with the way the money is spent.

More generally if you move this to the private sector then the problem is that you effectively weaken democracy. The rich decides what needs funding while the poor, well, they do poor people stuff I suppose.

If you look at modern western societies the rich already have significantly more power than the average citizen (through lobbying, campaign funding etc...). Do you think that's a positive thing? Do you think we should cut the middle man and let them handle everything directly? Instead of complaining that my government doesn't spend money the way I want to I'll get to complain that Mark Zukerberg and Bill Gates don't spend money the way I want to? How is that a better proposition? Can I vote Bill Gates out? Do I have to become a Dropbox shareholder if I want homeless shelters to be funded?

I'll admit that libertarianism in general baffles me. Many of its proponent seems very clever people, many certainly more clever than I am, yet when I discuss with them I feel like I'm talking with somebody from bizarro-earth. "Finance and banking are out of control, let's deregulate it completely!", "Governments are corrupt, let's give the power directly to the ones doing the corrupting!", "It's getting cold, let's get naked!"
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They are different people...
I should maybe mention that I meant this in jest - I think very highly of Al Gore and the joke was intended to allude to Cerf's high opinion of his role in the early days.

I don't think Al Gore claimed to have literally invented the Internet, and believed that was the gag this whole time.

Have people been walking around thinking he actually believed that this whole time?
This happened at my alma mater. I stopped donating.
Except in other languages it's not part of the core, it's an external library. So on the end it's easy to write "parallel" code.
Full disclosure, I _like_ ConstraintKinds and constraint oriented programming in many cases, and you can find evidence of that in my comment history.
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nice life story, but the fact that you wrote this long story and explanation shows that perhaps you would want somebody to confide in but can't find that in real life. Otherwise, you wouldn't spill your life story to a bunch of strangers where your comment is a tangent from the mainpoint of OP.
> The headline's premise

The author mentions in a comment that he didn’t write the headline (as is so often the case). His original headline (“Aging: where physics meets biology”) is much less controversial.
If you are a small business with no significant assets or revenue - say you are plugging away making $4k/mo scraping by - you will likely not be getting a merchant account without a personal financial guarantee.

The corporate veil is mostly a fiction for small bootstrapped startups without initial seed capital.
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This is the kind of content I like to see on HN: An approachable blog post explaining research in a field I'm not intimately familiar with.
Eagerly waiting for the first combat engagement of F-35 with current gen Russian/Chinese SAMS or fighters. It could cement lockheeds future for the next 50 years, or put them in hot water.

I might get my wish soon, as the Israelis just lost an F-16I in the Syrian theater and they might start sending F-35s in for better survivability.
The parent said nothing about purity of vitamins. That this is the first sentence of your response only seems to confirm his fears about marketing hype. I'm disappointed to see a legitimate PhD used for pseudo scientific snake oil sales.

It's also totally unclear what harm is caused by "fillers" such that their presence is a concern. Or what research backs up the improvement of personalizing vitamin dosages over taking a multi-vitamin - would love to see that study.

The first google search about the condition related to folate methylation took me to some pseudo-scientific naturopathic website that amongst other claims, made this one "it turns out that many of us (estimated at 45%) have at least one [mutation in this gene]". That this source / website is the first thing I find when searching for what you mention does not look good. Let's further break down this claim: it's unclear that having a mutation means that there is any actual loss in function. The statement implies it. But I can't find any evidence, anywhere, that this is true. I also can't find any evidence on the NIH website (https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/MTHFR#conditions) about the condition you mention or what it's prevalence might actually be - everything listed there is a pretty serious disease and you would know it if you had one of those conditions.

I'm honestly somewhat disgusted that YC chose to accept such a morally and scientifically terrible product to peddle. Even if selling bogus supplements to uninformed consumers is a good business.
That's true.

But what's also true is women tend to want to settle down in their early-mid 30s (at least in large American cities, among professional types) and now they become simultaneously more selective. In a sense, women are always the 'choosers' with rare exceptions. Men tend to have wider nets, on average.
Yeah, I've drastically scaled back my Amazon shopping and scaled up my shopping at physical retailers like Best Buy and Barnes and Noble or specialized competitors like Newegg. My reasoning is:

1. Amazon Logistics delivery sucks and I hate them so much.

2. When you actually look, Amazon is no longer price competitive with big box retailers on a lot of products in a lot of areas.

3. I can get my stuff today rather than in ??? + 2 days.

4. I can actually see the stuff in person, and assess quality and size.

5. Much smaller counterfeit problem.

6. I'm afraid of Amazon getting too dominant in the retail space, so I feel good about sending business to its competitors.

I try to only go to Amazon when I'm buying something weird that I don't know how to buy elsewhere.
This is totally tangent to the coworking discussion - but honestly mouth moods is a work of art and Neil is a genius. If anyone hasn't heard it, play T.I.M.E.[0] its really unexpectedly good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsoCe7C4Kmk
More like dumb luck, but that certainly seems to be part of the scientific method sometimes
In medicine, this concept is referred to as "healthspan".
Where does this idea come from that if a worker is granted a novel piece of technology which makes him/her more productive, he/she is entitled to a raise, without necessarily demonstrating any personal improvement or additional contribution to the company?

This attitude reeks of entitlement, to me.

Edit: to clarify, I believe that articles like these, which do not differentiate between what I would call intrinsic and extrinsic productivity. If a worker picks up a new language and automates away a portion of his job, his intrinsic productivity has increased, making him more valuable on the market.

If I retool a station on an automotive assembly line and extrinsically increase the productivity of a worker, it doesn't make sense to presume that he is deserving in a share of that increased profit, because his value has not changed.

I think there is a certain hesitation in polite [non business] society regarding this kind of measurement of human value, and so we find ourselves with what is only a puzzle in appearance. The bottom line is that a worker's compensation on average is determined by how useful he is with a certain set of tools, not how useful his tools are.
We've updated the link from https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/02/new_spectreme..., which points to this.
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My only thought is that there is more to advancing the science than just who starts the first trial.
You are absolutely correct. The monitor is not necessary. Only the text characters are necessary. They might never appear on any screen. They might be converted to audio by a screen reader, or rendered on a Braille display. They might be fed into a webcrawler robot to be indexed. Any additional features also implemented in script are not relevant to the delivery of the text.

Whatever else the javascript may do, it is not necessary to transmit text. The text is all I care about. Other people might want additional bells and whistles, but I just want the human-readable text. The web is a consumer's medium. You cannot mandate that anyone experience the content you send them in any particular way. Whatever it is that you send may be blocked, filtered, or modified before ever reaching human eyes. It is therefore polite to provide many options for the manner in which users may experience your content, such as by providing graceful degradation all the way down to someone opening up a raw telnet connection to port 80 and typing in their HTTP request by hand. (Have you ever done that? I have.)

Remote transmission of alphabet characters has been a part of human networking since 1793. If I ask a question using an optical semaphore tower, I don't want your response to be sending a minstrel to me in person, with a bunch of hand puppets and marionettes to act out the answer.
Another thing none of the apps take into account (and it'd be hard to) is the quality and condition of the roads.

I live in the Chicago suburbs, and not all counties or towns/cities/villages care for their roads the same. The city I live in is pretty diligent about taking care of their roads, but adjacent cities aren't so much. Last winter, I spent nearly $1200 fixing alignment issues & replacing 2 tires that wore prematurely due to bad alignment. The bad alignment was due to a bent control rod from hitting potholes/frost heaves in the road. I can avoid most of that by staying on the highway for as long as possible and arriving maybe 5 minutes late some days.

A couple of weeks ago, we got hit with a pretty heavy snow storm, but not quite a blizzard. Google was telling me to go local the hole way to save 15 minutes over the highway. Except none of those local streets had seen a plow yet. Safer to stay on the highway as IDOT has the plows out continuously on days like that. Took me 2.5 hours to get home that night, but I least I got home safely and without damage to my car.
I'm in the UK (Scotland)
> reading the papers from known groups only

Known groups. Community gossip provides sometimes-essential context. "You can't trust person X on topic Y, because when he does Z, he sees what he wants to see." Not having access to that context, is another challenge faced by folks less connected.
That's true; nor are donations a sufficient substitute for taxes.
I wrote DropPy to gain access to all the items provided by macOS' drag & drop implementation. Then I pipe the results through some simple, reusable Python classes.

Would love any feedback!
End-to-online-anonymity has been floated as a cure to many things for a long time.

However: we still have anonymity in the form of;
- abusive telemarketers/harassers who spoof caller id. And get away with it.
- criminal organizations who use LLC's and shell corporations to illegally launder money, hide wealth, peddle influence, sell drugs, sell weapons, bribe congressmen.. . etc. (LLC's are the "sock puppet" accounts of the business world - let that sink in).
- Facebook: you have to use your real name (even if you're Trans, right?) but Ivan can pose as "Bob Jimbob" and get you riled up about them libruls coming to take your guns.

It's all bullshit, and giving up our anonymity and privacy amounts to unilateral disarmament while our enemies are holding us hostage at gunpoint.
What's actually upsetting is that outside of a few niche communities, the world hasn't heard of any of these people, and doesn't care.
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Until five years ago the consensus view was that moderate alcohol consumption lowered all-cause mortality compared to non-drinkers.

Latest meta-analyses say that after controlling for reasons behind non-drinkers (‘former alcoholics’) the effect disappears.

Good starting point is https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26997174/
I wrote my masters thesis in coffee shops on a MacBook. I proofread it in the library, but 95% of the writing wsd done in a local cafe.
Well, you can choose not to enter the email and just explore the site. In a non scammy site, you'll find useful information.

The email is an option for those who choose to use it.

Going off your last sentence, you're assuming everyone who sends email is a spammer. Indeed, given your habits, if you have received emails from companies, you've probably mostly received spam.

For instance, you sign to an account or buy something --> company proceeds to send dozens of emails, unsolicited, and ignores the unsubscribe.

This is terrible, but it's not what happens when you enter your email on a non-spammy site. There, they usually send reasonable emails with a working unsubscribe link. Conversions in this case depend upon not annoying the prospect.

If you never enter your email in popup boxes you likely only receive the spammiest of email marketing.

Edit: oops, I thought you were OP, and so assumed you never enter your email. If you do enter your email and get spam - well, I guess we have different experiences. My spam almost exclusively comes from product orders, not from info boxes I chose.
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I live in a rural mountain town in North Central Washington and the local IGA always gives crisp 2 dollar bills as change when you pay cash. Not sure why they do but it's pretty neat.
Surely the latter. Most of Rust's optimization comes from LLVM, so clang and others get the same benefit.
Computers are not autonomous self repairing and duplicating systems with the goal of survival hardcoded.
My best guess would be that they are so because they are eusocial.

As I posted in a comment below somewhere, I think it is the complexity of the nervous system that drives a tradeoff with repairable bodies. A brain does not want to have to retrain itself, but the history it stores makes it entropically very energy intensive to maintain. I think this drives most of what we see here: things without complex nervous systems (pyramidal neurons and such) have no disincentive in persisting indefinitely, because their relatively simple nervous system does not take increasing amounts of energy to maintain, and thus they can budget their energy for growing and other evolutionary benefits.

Most mammals have to budget their energy such that they can maintain the state of their brain, and thus have a disincentive for eternal aging: we either need to start forgetting earlier memories, which could potentially be bad, or we have to start paying the energy price of maintaining a very complex system. Energy usage tends to get optimized by evolution, so then, we end up trading off longevity.

Mole rats, however, being eusocial, have a different evolutionary strategy than most mammals. Since the entire colony effectively behaves as a single metaorganism, losing its experienced members is particularly painful if they have valuable institutional memory. Thus, there is stronger evolutionary pressure to pay the cost of maintaining these systems.

(I realize that isn't really what you were commenting about, but it does give a thermodynamic reason for their longevity, but not one simply based on temperature.)
If you get ripped off in America, the market has spoken! "It's your fault."

We live by the AppleCare and die by the AppleCare.
It can be argued that in one case, skirting the law results in arguably better service for happy customers. In the other case, enforcing the law results directly in human misery and torn apart families. This is why it’s questionable to use “legal” as a substitute for “moral” or “ethical.”
> Eagerly waiting for the first combat engagement of F-35 with current gen Russian/Chinese SAMS or fighters.

> I might get my wish soon, as the Israelis just lost an F-16I in the Syrian theater and they might start sending F-35s in for better survivability.

I am very fond of military technology, as it usually pushes a lot of boundaries, but I'd rather having it as a deterrent instead of put to use.
There is natural infrasound in the Front Range, caused by winds somewhere in the vicinity of Long's Peak:

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0450%28197...
Walker literally says the best time to drink is at breakfast (for the mind at least).
Thanks for this. Hope to get to that place.
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The link was changed from this:

"New Spectre/Meltdown Variants"

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/02/new_spectreme...

While the original link didn't provide much extra, what I found particularly interesting there were the comments from the person who is running a patched system, yet finding that one of the spectre PoC code examples was still working.

Would be interesting to know if anyone else is experiencing anything similar.
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from Atlassian last earnings release in Oct 2017: "Trello continues to grow its user base at an impressive pace with more than 25 million registered users in over 100 countries, up from approximately 19 million at the start of the calendar year"

https://s2.q4cdn.com/141359120/files/doc_financials/Q12018/T...
This. Related, China has a huge problem with volunteer donor organ transplants because they have no easy way to get it from the donor to donee in time (they would have to take on a train or fly it in economy with china’s famous aircraft delays, no helicopters or air courier services). Part of the reason why predictable condemned prisoner donations were so important...

Now that they can’t rely on condemned prisoners anymore (at least they’ve promised the ban is for real this time), bullet train infrastructure is quite useful.
Would recommend this for Linear Algebra. If possible, make a donation. He creates wonderful videos.

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There's a number of tools that do entity linking (that's the phrase you're looking for), including some open source ones.

We've evaluated and used quite a few over the years: there's Dexter [0] by Diego Ceccarelli, Semanticizer by UvA [1] and DBpedia Spotlight [2] and a few others. We've used them for various linking tasks, such as detecting "work skills" in plain text (HR domain) or detecting drug names (medical domain).

The amount to which these tools allow "customization" (ease of plugging in your own ontology, support for input format and disambiguation signals) differs. Either way, even though this research includes open source code, the code is more of the "research prototype" kind. Don't expect a plug&play optimized production tool.

[0] http://dexter.isti.cnr.it/

[1] https://github.com/semanticize/semanticizer

[2] https://github.com/dbpedia-spotlight/dbpedia-spotlight
I'm pretty surprised to see multiple comments on HN calling for police violence on a large tech company/its elites.

I'm more surprised I don't disagree.
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I won't try to stop you from believing that. Be well!
Tai Hao is really coming into their own with the Cubic keycap profile. They're doing for keycaps what Kailh is doing for switches.