skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a 'double standard' to treat different situations differently. If you personally want to consider sexual assault and IP theft as the same situation, then you can, but IMO (and I believe in the average worldview) sexual assault is worse.
> Basically, authoritarianism rears its ugly head in the US once again, across corporate, national, state, and local levels. The same general kind of gaming of the system which resulted in interstates dividing white from non-white neighborhoods is now maintaining the media status quo. On one side, it's the corporatism and Crony Capitalism the left traditionally complains about, now wielded by the Far Left as a non-governmental form of censorship. On the other side, it's legal and regulatory blocking of progress to maintain the status quo for old media and to use as leverage against the tech giants.

Except this is a GOP agenda or predominantly Red/GOP local governments in the South and Midwest would be resisting it. They are the ones perpetuating it and at the State level they are preempting local ISPs in a variety of ways.

You are just accusing anything involving regulations as "Leftist" without acknowledging it is the standard banners of your own party that enable it.
I found it, but contact me when/if you feel you are in the mood. I know how it is, sometimes you want to be alone sometimes you hate how lonely you are.
This is fantastic.

I have a friend that recently had a cervical cancer scare (reasonably small op to remove some worrying cells).
When someone you know gets something like this you tend to gather a lot of info about it. And in this case it is remarkable how closely linked it is to a single cause (hpv)
Even though the debate about the amount of nutrition in organic/non-organic is unsettled, I think it’s still worth buying organic to reduce pesticide exposure.

Here is a good article summarizing studies on soaking fruits and veggies (both organic and conventional) in baking soda to strip away pesticides.

Here’s a key quote from the article:

“Even with bicarbonate, buying organic may still be worth it!

One thing this article should not be abused is as evidence in an argument against buying organic. Yes, you can reduce the pesticide load on the peel of your favorite produce to almost zero and yes, even the latest (highly pro-organic) review of the literature highlights that pesticides are where the major differences are, but you're (a) still left with the pesticides beneath the skin and will (b) not benefit from the other potential benefits Tiziano Gomiero highlights in his latest paper in Applied Soil Ecology (see Figure 4).”

http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2017/10/nahco3-aka-baking-so...
Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?
> Google's TPUs might be one of the first efforts, but several other companies and startups are looking to have offerings too.

NVidia's Volta series includes tensor cores as well [1]. So far, I think they've only released the datacenter version, which is available on EC2 p3 instances [2].

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/volta-gpu-architect...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p3/#Product_Detail...
In Berkeley ~25 years ago we had a severe frost, pipes popped, the eugenia hedge dies and so did the bermuda grass lawns too .. we pulled them and replaced them with traditional sod

So ... yes it can be killed ....
Reorganizing Instagram’s engineering team while quadrupling in size
Headline and source article both misuse “pedophilia” for shock value; the question was not about pedophilia or behavior indicative of pedophilia.
Node.js is also platform independent and has a package manager but I wouldn't use it for a High Performance / Low Latency application like a database.
Yes, thanks. That's the one that I was thinking of. But I'd forgotten the name.
I don't believe this is completely true, while a lot of inherited wealth is tied up in real estate, most of it will either end up being reinvested or spent which is good for the economy as a whole. The real killer in this case is the estate tax, money thrown into the black hole of the government is never wisely invested.
I really don't see how crytocurrency is going to solve this problem at all.

It does not prevent the problem of a few people having way more wealth/power than others; at best, it just chooses a different set of people to be the wealthy ones.
I think this shows that a technical solution trumps social solutions. If Australia had relied on telling children not to have unprotected sex, the HPV rate would not have moved much. Now, a simple vaccine is eradicating cervical HPV.

Malthus made a big deal how people should have fewer children and the population still grew. With the invention of safe, effective, convenient birth control, world population levels are stabilizing, and even starting to shrink in developed countries.

We need more "fire and forget" solutions. If we want to save our environment and slow down global warming, we need solutions that at most require people to do something relatively painless 1 time. Anything that relies of persuading humans to change their long term behavior is doomed to failure.
A good deal of all fiction is wish fulfillment (literary porn).
Instagram doesn't operate any user-facing Cassandra servers, though. They run user-facing web servers that talk to Cassandra internally.

I don't like the AGPL because it's unclear on this exact sort of thing, but it does seem to me like the obvious reading of "all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network" does not encompass the connection between Instagram end users and their internal Cassandra.

And, in any case, they released sources for the thing they came up with - which is all that the AGPL requires. If they're okay with doing that, they can definitely use the AGPL for production commercial software.
This post has more details on what OPy is: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/04/09.html
A cheaper MacBook Air makes perfect business sense for Apple
> A philosopher is not necessarily made by a fork dispenser, but it is initialized by a fork dispenser.

That made me laugh. When a fork dispenser dispenses philosophers, your data modeling took a wrong turn somewhere.
Zagat likely had much more data than what was publicly available. I have no visibility, but can imagine non-public data useful for training like individual reviewer biases, reviews through their edit lifecycle, stuff like that.
Thanks for the git push and the reply! A few minutes ago it was still pointing to the older commit.

And upstream Cassandra is already 11 minor releases away. Won't that become a problem with something as fundamental/low-level as pluggable storage engines?
Thanks.

Since coming to Google I don't get the opportunity to compare/evaluate/deploy tools like this anymore. Smarter people than me make choices like that :-)
I would have a hard time even getting McDonald's delivered to me for $9 a meal.

I love Blue Apron. $10/meal for the quality of their food is fantastic. I also really enjoying cooking it with my girlfriend. But, I don't order it every week, just probably once or twice a month.
I think that's a benefit to the finance industry, certainly, but believe the OP may have been thinking about using microwaves for normal non-tech-saavy consumer, in which case inclement weather might be aggravating for them.
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I treat writing like I do programming. My goal is to get the interpreter (i.e. the reader) to properly parse and understand the idea I'm trying to convey. As such, I try and keep everything simple and on point, freely go back and refactor sentences which don't make sense, and read the content back in my head to see if the words I wrote even make sense to me.

The only other rule I really use is to write for as low level of an audience as I can. This helps to reduce confusion for the readers, not all of whom may have the same vocabulary or "state" as you. You don't want to write about concepts from CS 401 when your readers are in CS 101, especially if the CS 401 concepts are not required for understanding.

Oh, and avoid un-delimited sarcasm. It travels really poorly through the internet; someone will always take it at face value.
Tweets from Guardian digital editor with a response from FB VP of Product: https://twitter.com/JonathanHaynes/status/970235172355477505
Because it's my favourite. You're 100% free to have a different favourite. Also, indeed, watch isn't available on all systems (e.g. macOS).
Every person who takes amphetamines will get many positive effects. Increased cognitive ability, increased physical ability, decreased appetite, etc. They are stimulants. So it doesn't mean much when you say they help you - they help everyone. That's why universities are rife with the stuff; amphetamines are performance enhancing drugs.

The whole thing bubbles down to the drawbacks of any hard drug -- addiction, physical dependence, side effects, and rebound effect from physical dependence. Psychological dependence, poor discipline due to not having to exercise it as much.

I guess HN is with the "carry a bag with a bunch of drugs. drugs have desirable effects." Need to fall asleep but you can't because you are _bad_ at it? Pop some benzos. Need to wake up, but you feel sluggish and hungover? Pop some coke or amphetamines. Toe hurts because you stubbed it? Pop some opiates. Lacking creativity? Pop some ketamine, lsd, or smoke some weed. Etc etc.

No one is saying amphetamines aren't effective. They are a hard drug. Drugs as a crutch, are bad, mmkay?
SMS 2FA does more than provide extra security for your account. Perhaps more importantly to companies like Facebook and Google it also makes it much harder for spammers and bots to register accounts. At the very least it adds the expense of buying a SIM so you can use the number just once.
Ask HN: I get headaches. What sensors can I get to collect data about them?
Hi, I work in quant finance and spend a lot of time with data. I also get headaches 3-4 times a week. I would like to collect data on myself with various sensors. I know there are simple things like a fitbit to collect data but how can I discover what other data I can collect?
Do you have a specific market of consumers you want to target?

A while ago there was large thread on Reddit asking anyone who had eaten at the Olive Garden in Times Square, why[1] they had chosen to eat there. There were people who thought it was one of the funniest questions that they'd ever read on /r/askreddit, and people who didn't understand why it was an interesting or funny question.

Byant Park Grill is a nearby restaurant that is not a tiny hole in the wall, and the dishes are not that exotic. For context, here are two dishes that are on today's menu at the different restaurants:

- Bryant Park Grill[2]

$28.50 - Grilled Soy Honey Glazed Atlantic Salmon

"stir fried broccoli, snow peas, carrots, roasted potatoes, soy ginger butter sauce"

- Olive Garden Times Square

$27.79 - Salmon Piccata[3]

"Grilled salmon topped with a lemon garlic butter sauce, sun-dried tomatoes and capers. Served with parmesan-crusted zucchini"

The prices are not extremely different, the wait times are similar if you show up at the door, and it would be naïve to think that Olive Garden hasn't put a lot of thought and research into exactly how they make their food. I wouldn't be surprised if the diners at Bryant Park Grill are even disappointed in their meals more often than the diners at Olive Garden, but I suppose they also think something is above average more often at Bryant Park Grill and occasionally excellent.

The same people at Bryant Park Grill might go to Olive Garden, but it is to bring a group of their summer interns for a celebration or maybe when dining out with elderly family members. When they travel with their own families, they avoid chain restaurants and look for either a generic diner, or a restaurant that has been recommended verbally by a local or someone working at the desk at a hotel.

How do people who consider something like the Bryant Park Grill a large restaurant with a safe, but not exceptional menu quickly find the equivalent somewhere like Palo Alto? I feel like asking a dozen people between 30 and 60 would find them all suggesting the same two or three restaurants, but review sites never seem to be able to do this. Instead, sites like Yelp seem to have a lot of reviewers who are talking about themselves as tastemakers, who pride themselves on discovering secret gems, and being offended by something weird at places that have favorable word-of-mouth reputations.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6nod61/redditors...
[2] http://bryantparkgrillnyc.com/
[3] https://www.olivegarden.com/menu/salmon-piccata/prod4040028
Serious question: why doesn't Medium make Medium readable? What is causing them to add various dickbars and other UX kludges?
Interesting: nominally more of the bottom quintile both stay in that quintile, and make it to the top quintile, than stay in the top, and drop to the bottom.

bottom -> bottom: 41%
top -> top: 40%

bottom -> top: 9%
top -> bottom: 8%

I guess that's kind of evidence for mobility? From the shapes of the other bands, coming from money still massively biases for ending up with it, and not coming from it against.
Agreed 100%. As an example, Xfce defaults to (if one doesn't choose an empty panel) a two panel strips model: one in the upper side, one in the lower part of the screen. Now, who is the most likely user of Xfce, which is considered a lightweight desktop manager? I'd say mostly not-so-much-powerful-laptop/netbook or small pc users with no screen estate to waste. Most small laptops have 768 vertical points, and wasting part of them with redundant graphics is a bad choice.
On all installation I move all icons from the lower panel to the upper one, delete the lower panel, often set the workspace number to 1 and delete the workspace chooser, add a few launchers (audio, bluetooth where needed etc.), move the upper panel to the bottom, delete the standard menu in favor of the whisker menu, reduce the panel vertical size to 26 pixels and set a dark theme. On some machines I also create some launchers for Rox-Filer windows (shell aside it's absolutely the fastest thing for navigating directories, copying/moving files etc.) pointing to most used directories (Home, Documents, Audio, NAS storage if any, etc). The result is a much more useable desktop although still user friendly and uncluttered.
He added those 6 years ago.
It seems like the target market for meal kits would be people who want to learn to cook? (Without working too hard at it.) Delivery will get you tasty food but you don't learn anything.
What I've always loved about Make and related tools is how directly they expose their fundamental concept in building artefacts: the DAG. I don't do that much JS, but I've not found this kind of clarity in any of the JS frontend build tools I've used.

Honest question for the webpack power-users here.

What are some important webpack features that you lose by using a Makefile like this? Because it seems like pretty much every part of a regular webpack buildchain has a command-line equivalent that you could potentially use in a Makefile.
Or positive cash flow which is unduly discounted. I don’t see if they would still have a business if the new customer growth stopped.
Imagine once Amazon-Whole Foods makes a play.
Of course it could happen. Pluggable engine has a lot of positives - not only does it enable features like this, it also helps modularize the codebase making it more testable, and there are other people who will develop storage engines for their own use case over time (look at the evolution of - for example - MySQL storage backends for examples of this).
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That article really beats around the bush. Let's just call a spade a spade: it's racism. It's no less racist to believe an ethnoreligious group of people intrinsically non-violent than to believe them intrinsically violent. Both cases are failures to recognize and appreciate the universal human condition. In both cases human beings are reduced to caricatures.

I doubt the author would discuss Kantian ethics when criticizing the Alt Right. That he does here without ever admitting the obvious is disheartening.

To be clear: we're all guilty of this. A tendency toward racist thinking (more generally, imbuing intrinsic traits to an ethnic group based on cultural stereotypes) seems to be part of the human condition. The worse sin is in denying it.
Is this just dark humor or are cyclists just gregarious?
Drive through the flyover states and you can see it all for yourself. If you're not on the interstate, you can drive at 80mph without seeing another car for some time.

It's actually really beautiful how untouched some parts of the US are. Hopefully they can stay that way for some time.
A lot of phones have a barometer in them. New iPhones do and most Androids do. Log the data on a 1-minute interval, understand that the data is noisy and the noise comes from moving elevation. Watch the graphs over 1-hour, 6-hours, 12-hour, 2-day timeframes. You'll see rises and peaks and you might note headache timing with a peak or a trough. Migraines happen to a lot of people and can be triggered by sudden changes in pressure. Not sure about your headaches but it's a start.
That assumes that the marginal utility of more bandwidth doesn't decrease; personally I'd rather have 10Mb all the time, than an average of 10Mb that is sometimes 1Gb and sometimes 0.1Mb.

If you can't stream Netflix when it's raining heavily outside, that's a big problem.
You don't add an “s” to other pronouns to make them possessive; “it” is unusual (unique, I believe) in that it both adds an “s” and does not take an apostrophe; nouns generally do both, pronouns generally do neither.
And the beautiful myths then contribute to the ways that other (perhaps less experienced) entrepreneurs engage in self-sabotage. See “self-sabotage via avoiding a boring success”:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/why-do-entrepreneurs-en...
I've been going to a lot of meetups (from meetup.com) in the past year, and sadly I've come away pretty disappointed, for a number of reasons:

1 - I'm just not in the least bit interested in the overwhelming majority of meetups out there. So there really aren't a lot of interesting meetups for me to choose from.

2 - Way too many of the meetups are actually businesses in disguise. They're looking to sell you a class or get you to pay admission for an event. This might not be a big deal for someone with more disposable income, but it is often a deal breaker for me.

3 - Most meetups meet for just the event itself, and everyone leaves right afterwards, leaving no opportunity to interact with the people there.

4 - For the handful of a handful of meetups which are interesting, not businesses in disguise, and actually leave some time for interaction before/after the meetup: apart from the single shared interest that we all presumably have in the subject of the meetup itself, the people you meet are going to be pretty random and so the odds of making a genuine connection are still going to be pretty low, in my experience, especially if you're shy.

5 - Usually you don't see these people again until the next meetup, which is usually a month later. So you talk to these people maybe for an hour a month. Not much of a chance to make a connection.

Overall, I just really haven't had much luck with meetups, in terms of making friends. I've done better with dating sites, honestly. At least with those, I can be pretty sure before I even go to meet someone that we have a whole bunch of things in common, and can pretty quickly sense if there's some chemistry between us, and if not just move on to the next person. It's harder to do that with random people at meetups. Just my 2 cents.
the latter. I had trouble even reaching them because I'm not an ATT customer. I tried emailing random contacts I could find, to no avail. Finally they sent a guy out, who was an installer but couldn't touch the pole. Said a different team handled that. About 2 weeks later, they took care of it at last. Not hard work - it was literally rebinding a 20 ft section of wire to the taught steel wire that already existed, which they appear to do with heavy wire ties.
Jealousy. Not for the jet engine, YMMV I guess, but for living in a country where you can do that. I've been doing some research for converting my old car to electric. Bureaucracy costs more than double what parts+work do... assuming it's possible at all.
I think a doctor did come in but on school grounds. And there was a meeting with my parents where they told him to fuck himself. This was also 30 years ago
Probably highly dependent on the definition of Rich Families. I would guess that that number is far lower the more money we are talking about. No way that an inherited fortune of $10B is squandered at the same frequency as an inherited fortune of $10M.
https://www.head.com/us-US/sports/tennis/technology/graphene...

Not to say that it's doing much good here...
I'm not saying my own personal testing has proven anything to you. I'm asking you to prove it for yourself. Try it and see. But you already are, so...

Anyway if double-blind is what you need to be convinced, then by all means do the same test double-blind.[1] Shouldn't be terribly difficult to craft such a test for yourself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_experiment#Double-blin...
Yeah that's exactly what we need, browsers arbitrarily deciding what content is allowed to be loaded.
I see it in Cygwin, in the procps-ng package, and available on OSX through Brew. Doesn't seem Linux-only.
So sad I’m not in town that week
The Midwest may have a low density of cars, but the arable land is largely farmed; it isn't pristine, untouched wilderness.
In some situations data can not be sold if the privacy policy only allows internal use. For example, gmail doesn’t allow my mail to be sold or loaned to anyone, but google can access the data to show ads and for quality control. (See https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/#infouse)

Google is unlikely to be purchased. But if the NSA bought google, then it could use my gmail data -per the privacy agreement that I agreed to- “services to provide, maintain, protect and improve them, to develop new ones, and to protect Google and our users. We also use this information to offer you tailored content.”

This is only possible if the organization is purchased.
The FBI’s fight to safeguard Hans Bethe’s atomic secrets
Not quite. VDSL2 will nominally do 300 Mbps. Actual 100 Mbps service isn't uncommon.

The successor, G.fast, will nominally do a gig, but about 500 Mbps over short loops.
Jet engines are actually in most ways a lot simpler than an internal combustion engine.

Just tighter tolerances and potentially...nasty failure modes.
Please avoid empty 'comments' like this.
These will be the slow death of HNews quality.
I think he's really proposing regulations that limit how such data can be used once uploaded.

For instance, it could still be legal for Facebook to slurp your friend's address book (and your profile, indirectly), but the regulation could require them to discard and purge that information if they can't immediately match it to an account.