skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Since the early 20th century, raw scores on IQ tests have increased in most parts of the world. When a new version of an IQ test is normed, the standard scoring is set so performance at the population median results in a score of IQ 100. The phenomenon of rising raw score performance means if test-takers are scored by a constant standard scoring rule, IQ test scores have been rising at an average rate of around three IQ points per decade."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

You assume too much about half of the human population.
The article mentions Stevia, but are fake sugars proven to be bad? What about as bad as Sugar?

I'm curious because that's my wife's lifeblood for a life without sugar. Without fake sugars.. I don't know what she'd do.
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There are probably a couple ways to interpret the metaphor depending on your context. There's more competition, yes, but there are also more opportunities to grow.

A similar analogy is it's better to be the worst player in the best band than the best player in an awful band. You're going to learn less and learn it more slowly in the latter situation. I think this is more what the author was going for.
My first Summer in Finland, I was renting an apartment with crappy curtains. I was dead tired through May, until I broke down and duct-taped large trash bags to the windows. The difference in sleep quality was nothing short of amazing.

I have blackout curtains nowadays, and I've also gotten used to the light somewhat, but I still miss proper rolling curtains that completely shut the light out.
>This is why emergency exit doors must open outwards. People have died in fires in theaters trying to push on doors that said “Pull”. The crash bar on an emergency exit door is what’s known in design as an affordance.

Is this true? I always assumed it was because it's pretty much impossible to pull open a door when you are being crushed by people pressing against one another trying to escape.
Woebot raises $8M for its AI therapist
It’s surprising how much social media bullshits on this issue. RSS had the standard and solution a decade ago.

Being able to filter even by simple regex would be so much better than Facebook/Google’s “algorithm.” But it would allow us to filter out ads.

It would also allow for community-driven white/black lists.

But again, wouldn’t allow Coke and HBO to make you look at stuff.
Indeed. When supply is abundant like it is today, coping mechanisms are essential.
The author conflates sugar/honey etc (pure carbs - glucose, fructose) and artificial sweeteners like stevia and erythritol which don't have any effect on your blood glucose and really are completely different. I fully agree with the premise of minimizing sugar consumption but I don't think encouraging people to avoid certain artificial sweeteners like stevia etc is helpful - and in fact it's hurting because certain products with these non blood glucose contributing substitutes help people avoid sugar.

Note that although artificial sweeteners like stevia and erythritol don't raise the blood glucose at all and have GI index of zero or near zero - some artificial sweeteners actually do raise blood glucose, like maltitol etc, and these sweeteners are unfortunately often found in sugar-free candy. You can try a web search for "GI index artificial sweeteners" to see a list of sweeteners that have low GI score.

Something else to keep in mind is that over consumption of very carb heavy products like bread or pasta will have the exact same effect on your blood glucose as just eating sugar.
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I really don't think the general population abandons entire operating system ecosystems, because of buggy software.
Picking the low hanging passwords
What fashion magazine does this?
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There's an old saying: in any headline that asks a question, if any of the words are in quotation marks then the answer to the question is "No".
Taking the YC Seed Deck as advice means you are building a startup which is "a company designed to grow fast."

AKA that is likely to be highly unprofitable, insanely stressful, and only more capital intensive for potentially years to come.

I think that PG does an outstanding job outlining this model for growth in his
"Startup = Growth" essay:

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Thought exercise: Would Amazon be / have been better off maintaining their own not-quite-compatible version of Android? Or would they have been better off cloning and commoditizing Apple’s development ecosystem?

Higher up-front cost than a cheap fork of Android, for sure... But how much? Especially if they could manage to make a native development ecosystem that was plausibly competitive to Apple’s, but allowing for easily targeting Apple’s devices as well, I could see this strategy being a better way to stave off competition from third and fourth players.

There’s prior art on cloning Apple / NeXT APIs and whatnot. Surely a company with the heaft of Amazon could do at least as well as the small open source efforts.
Actually, it's designed to open outwards because when there's a crush of people, there's no room for the door to open inwards.

Also, affordances aren't to support habit or unconscious behavior. Affordances are to imply meaning or how to use something by their design (whether digital or physical).
Given certificate pinning, could a client just encrypt the SNI message using the pinned cert (i.e. the server's X.509 public key)? Anything that can decrypt that message is the thing we wanted to talk to. If it can't, well, a pinned-cert failure is uncommon enough to warrant an extra round-trip, even if the client wants to allow it.
More than 200,000 children married in US over the last 15 years
>despite infecting at least 100 computers worldwide.

Really? Then why is it so surprising lol
Filters can work after the fact, but they don't prevent a lot of it to start.

As for "toxic", the article is referring to things like /r/CoonTown, or brigades like the one that went after Leslie Jones on Twitter a number of years ago. The people behind those already have a platform to speak: The Internet. They're not entitled to space on another platform like Reddit or Twitter, and they're not entitled to force their speech in front of someone else's face.
Gitleaks: Audit Git repos for secrets and keys
Two flags crossing a torch is the insignia of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. The stripes here stand in for the areas of the flags that are red in the insignia.
I like how simple that deck is. Why do people go overboard making it look fancy?

Are there any investors that will take a look at the plain deck and think it is highly unprofessional, turning them down?

I like that YC don't care about the fluff. But I do wonder how "other" investors feel about it.
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Frederick Douglass: Libertarian or Progressive?
For, uh, purely scientific purposes I've noticed the posting volume on pr0n subreddits like /r/gonewild and uh, a few dozen similar subreddits, is perhaps 100 to 1000 times the sheer posting volume of a controversial subreddit like /r/the_donald. The sheer volume of relatively R rated pr0n is perhaps 1000 times the volume of everything else.

There seems to be tap dancing around the issue that reddit is a 1960s Playboy magazine fifty years in the future. There's just enough excellent articles to keep the advertisers amused, but the fact has to be faced that 99% of the traffic is young men looking at scantily dressed young women. You need a little submarine PR to stay controversial about subreddits nobody on a statistical basis reads to keep things legit appearing, whereas all the traffic and money is over there at /r/randomsexiness

Just like the old saying about Playboy, I only read it for r/ama not the nekkid ladies.

I'm not complaining; I'm just pointing out that reddit is THE most successful pr0n site out there with the most brilliant strategy I've ever seen. Please don't confuse it, and its achievements within the pr0n industry, with legacy news media or anything like that.
Here's what I know or believe I know about feudalism. It's almost entirely from the book https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Industrial-Societies-Anatomy-Pre-... , which while excellent does not deal with feudalism in any depth.

- European feudalism was an unusual system in that the government had no taxing power. The lord who owned land held the taxing power ("feudal dues") over that land, and the king funded himself by collecting feudal dues from land he owned personally, rather than e.g. by taxing the dukes. This might contrast with a more advanced state of civilization in which the caliph / emperor / whatever collected taxes directly from everywhere by virtue of being the supreme ruler, and paid a salary to his lower administrative functionaries. Or it might contrast with a system where the use of land wasn't much of a source of taxes. Or both of those latter things might be true simultaneously.

The US system of property taxes has a lot in common with the system I've described above, and some obvious differences. Similarities:

- The federal government ("king") can't assess property taxes. Only the states ("local lords") can do that.

- People other than the government cannot own land outright, but must pay the property tax ("feudal dues") for its use every year.

Of course, rather than the federal government receiving tax income based on federally owned land, it instead double-taxes the citizens of the states. (But on mercantile revenue rather than on land.) This is arguably worse than the feudal system.
I think it's cost more than shelf stability. Canola oil actually has the best n-6:n-3 ratio (2:1) of the common vegetable oils [1], and you can buy (or make!) canola oil mayonnaise easily. Beef fat has much better ratios when grass fed than grain fed as well [2]!

[1]: http://www.susanallport.com/images/Dietfatchart_8_.jpg
[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846864/table/T...
I’ve witnessed this in well-meaning subredddits. Lots of arcane rules for posting. No warn band and removals mean I don’t try again.

On the subreddits I manage, I allow broad participation with no barriers. But they aren’t popular enough to have enough trolling to break me down and add hoops.
So what does detoxify mean exactly?
Is this the Tonnetz, or is it different?
Hollywood.

The US is the world's largest exporter of TV, movies, music, and culture.
I think it's true to some degree, I've seen people push on doors that say "pull" even when there is no fire.

But I think your assumption is probably more correct, past a certain point they have no option to pull anymore.
Nope, I'll try that out tomorrow, thanks for the advice!

VS Code's handling of TypeScript really spoiled me but on the other hand it seems like tooling becomes more and more important in programming languages (e.g. Roslyn).
As with many things, it depends. If you were planning on enabling email-based password reset anyway - as most sites do - then there is no degradation in security.

Magic link tokens are one-time-use anyway, so assuming you follow the authorization code spec, if any attempt is made to use the code a second time, you should revoke any existing auth tokens which resulted from that code. So the risk here is pretty low. You can also further mitigate this by implementing PKCE, which prevents any other client/app/whatever from using the code.

Also bear in mind most apps are able to store access/refresh tokens securely, so don't tend to have any kind of auth timeout. For most apps which allow magic-link login, your "session" will never expire, so it isn't particularly problematic to have to log in via an email link.

For a website, there's no major reason you shouldn't have a reasonably long-lasting cookie to prevent any need for regular login.

If you're concerned about long-lasting sessions, it might be appropriate to use a second authentication factor for sensitive actions - e.g. purchases, transferring money, etc.

Other than pairing with MFA/2FA, there isn't really anything meaningfully more secure than (properly implemented) email magic link auth. Assuming you want decent usability and your audience isn't overly technical, magic links are definitely the way to go as a primary authentication mechanism.
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The Wrong Ways to Protect an API
Define "freedom."

(the article does not do this, by the way)
Did anyone read this book? Any thoughts about it? I looked at it really quickly and it seems good, but I haven't read it and then used the knowledge. So how useful is the actual knowledge itself in a practical context?

Also, I would be curious to know if there is a 2017/18 version of it.
Alright, there is a screen shot of some of our results on the site for now. Thanks again!
There's plenty of examples of private spaces that have to remain open to the public. Usually it's done to get a zoning variance. An example: Trump Tower's lobby :)
> A real ID may be required for you to post comments in all websites. [I]t would drastically reduce comment trolling, if your real identify was viewable and searchable by all you know. But at what cost?

The cost is that it would prevent people from anonymously reporting abuses, which means that fear of retaliation will have a chilling effect. We've already seen this where people get death threats, houses burned down, etc, when they do things like report sexual assault.
How about US

1.) having the biggest economy in the world, and growing 3% per year

2.) having the biggest worldly influential movie business

3.) having the biggest worldly influential video game business

4.) having 40% of assets in the world

5.) having most of the innovations in technology

6.) having most of the biggest corporations

7.) having the most brands

8.)......etcetcetc
That sounds like it could be a lot of fun :)
Do you want to sell the next 12 months of your life for 1Mil? If yes stay, if not, just go...
Has Intel experienced some kind of strategic brain drain in the past 5 years? I remember a professor telling me in the late 90's about how RISC wasn't going to dominate the future, because Intel had a roadmap going well into the 2000's specifying how they were going to stay ahead. Now, it looks like AMD has the strategic upper hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMQermB9wQ
Also would like to know if the author had any younger kids at home. Being a parent I find it difficult and almost impossible to deny my kids of sweet treats few times a week. We end up buying things that kids like but then temptation is very strong and I end up eating some of those treats as well!

Also I am addicted to fake sugar (Truvia/Stevia etc). I use them almost everyday. Are they bad than natural sugar or worst or same?
Beijing has a separate lottery for EVs also, so if you want a car now, you can wait for a few years for a typical ICE one, or you can get one tomorrow if you don't mind EV. Tesla S's are selling like hotcakes accordingly.
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> Also sometimes I just let the compiler tell me by forcing the let variable to something that it is obviously not:

Ha! Very clever! Thanks.
I suspected that I shouldn't have put that into my post or should have qualified it with a statement regarding how completely useless of a metric it is. My general point was that probably around half of the planet is humping a tree as we type at our computer and pontificate about the human potential and dignity, regardless of a useless score that slightly correlates with things.
Well, a certain type of person would find it fun to put an unsolvable puzzle on their own tombstone.
Boxed rejects Kroger's $400M acquisition offer
> clear rules and swift enforcement.

But then somehow a few "bad guys" get to become moderators and everything goes back to s*it. As someone has said above, it's all about the incentives. No-one has enough reasons or available resources to want to take over an obscure sub-reddit with almost no real-world influence, but when there are State actors involved you can be sure that things will turn sour. My most recent such experience is with /r/syriancivilwar, which used to be decent enough two or three years ago (even if some of the posters had actual ISIS flares), but since the troups-on-the-ground involvement of both Russia and Turkey the sub-reddit has become an echo chamber for those interests.
Agreed. Minor quibble:

>This is a poor argument; the same could be said for almost all control flow statements: if/else

It's technically possible to implement if/else (and loop conditions) with unconditional jumps and offsets, but for reasonable instruction sets (that support conditional jumps) they won't be "goto under the covers."
Reminds me of https://tldrlegal.com, but i guess this has an AI component
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I tend to buy them and dump them in my library. I find it a really good way to see if it useful without investing £25-£50 on a print edition

edit: For hoarders remember they have free books each day on Packt. They put an annoying captcha to stop you automating the download though...

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning
I see, but this is still a political issue.
Maybe a lot of minorities people just voted "no" in that survey question.

Because.. why excluding people based on their skin color is discriminatory,
but including people based on their skin color is not discriminatory?
This is using the Anthropic principle to argue the point for the many worlds hypothesis because it is being argued that life is so fragile that it could not have formed without certain constants being how they were. So that there must have been a bunch of other realities that failed in creating sentient life.

The constants would apply outside the universe because the constants are invariant other all of our observations (the fine structure constant is an observed number and its value is arbitrary and if it was greater or less than it we wouldn't exist). But they aren't part of our perception they are part of our measurements.
'Redo your pantry' is an important section in the linked article. My wife is really good about finding pointing out sugar in sauces that seem healthy [1], tomato sauce, catsup, etc., and finding sure free alternatives

[1] https://www.prevention.com/food/healthy-eating-tips/10-hidde...
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Ars needs to generate ad revenue.
They are very hit or miss. On balance, I don't bother with them, unless there's something interesting looking on their daily free book page, or it's one of these bundles where they come out to $.75 apiece.

Some of the ones I've gotten don't look like they ever got near an editor, or even a spell-checker.

If I'm going to spend money and time, I'd rather go to Manning and have some confidence that it'll be quality.
Well your comment presupposes you can trade between a little echo chamber for a lot of spam. Sure, but my comment is more about moving beyond pure spam to stuff like trolling - call it low-level bad-faith behavior. I'm okay with some of that in exchange for a community which is a bit more diverse.
No matter what you're getting a value from, if you want it to be able to change without restarting, you have to add a custom routine to do so. Adding a custom routine to get an environment variable is the same as adding a custom routine to call an API method.
There was a post on /r/The_Donald not long ago calling for shooting all refuges in the US on sight. Do you feel that is just "mean speech"?
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2015/04/28/researc...

It's at least not a new thought. Mostly though I'm skeptical that advertising is subverting capitalism.

Is demand created though? How do you know that some people weren't just unaware of the product before, and would have gladly bought it had they known of it.

Because not buying something is the easiest, and default position.
> I think at least part of the death of the Nexus 7 is because Google seemed to have no interest in refreshing it.

Yup. It was the right size (can fit in a pant or suit pocket!), it did everything one could want, and it worked just fine. Of course Google killed it.
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This is total mince.

Here's a tool, right on the McDonald's website, that has a full breakdown of the ingredients in everything they sell: https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/good-to-know/nutrition-ca...

Here's an ingredient list for KFC: https://www.kfc.ca/en/assets/pdf/IngredientListingApril2017....

Argue about the quality of the food if you want, but there's no point in making shit up.
Clarity in explanation always wins.

If there's a (little) design touch it doesn't hurt either.

Color, layout, can all be used for good effect as long as it's not over done or distracting.
As someone that in highschool played both football and did robotics club, I think there was more comraderie in football, despite more of my long term friends doing robotics club. Robotics club, science fairs and programming clubs were fun, but they were just more academics. Football and other sports were a different kind of fun. They are more basic traditionally masculine fun. You do hard things like running and hitting people and you get yelled at, but it builds a shared bond that is much deeper. You also are able to let go on a sports team in a way you can't with an academic club. You don't have any girls you need to worry about, you don't have to keep clean or anything.
People might think the subs that you frequent are vile and disgusting. Which is fine, they don't have to go there, just like you don't have visit the subs that you don't like. Just because you consider them vile and disgusting doesn't mean you get to decide that for other people.
I couldn’t read the article, so I will only go off what I imagine the article might say (like pretty much every other nytimes article).

The problem with making food taste more sugary, with or without artificial sweeteners, is that as a society we are growing too accustomed to hyper-stimulating foods. Why can’t people just live with the fact that every food doesn’t need to be loaded with sugar and instead open their palates to the notes that come from natural flavors?

It’s like people want their hair to be blown back every time the fork goes in their mouth.
Or just use the standard BCn or DXT formats. The compression in these as texture formats is way smarter (for example, additional bits are used to encode green which our eyes are more sensitive to). These are "lossy" formats but when you go from PNG or something to a u8 format, you get artifacts for sure.
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They are often coupled with sugar alcohol, which can cause constipation and perhaps a stomach ache.

I've been off sugar (well, below 20 grams a day) for a few months now. I also have a 14 month old son but I think we can just exclude sugary treats while he's at home, he seems to be OK with fruit (not juice, the real kind).
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we performed recordings with either subdural electrode strips (n = 4) or intraparenchymal electrode arrays (n = 5) in patients with devastating brain injury that resulted in activation of a Do Not Resuscitate–Comfort Care order followed by terminal extubation.

Wow. That must have been some IRB meeting.