skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My grandmother delivered her first child several months early after inhaling the fumes of a fresh coat of leaded paint. My uncle died not long after being born. He was resuscitated, but not before the lack of oxygen to the brain caused permanent damage, including blindness and developmental disorders. He has lived in some very, very bad places that were supposed to be helpful to people like him but turned out to be so nightmareish that I wouldn’t wish them on my worst enemies. He is in a better home now. He’s over 60. I don’t think he has ever recognized my mother, but he seems to enjoy the ice cream she brings him when she visits.

Is the new CDC limit too low? Does it matter? All I can offer is an anecdotal story of terrible sadness for many people. For that reason, I always take lead exposure seriously. There is no safe limit.
One can argue that false proofs made it into the literature because people trusted the reviewers - compare with: appeal to authority.
> If you're borrowing at a fixed interest rate (or buying outright), you're also locking in price for housing against future rent increases.. and, currently in CA, against uncontrolled property tax increases too.

Again, that's irrelevant from a financial perspective. The rates are priced to account for the risk of increase, and in this case the markets are liquid and competitive enough to allow correct market pricing.

> It doesn't really prevent you from moving to another job, one could always rent out the owned property and rent in your new location. (Though if the area you own in has crashed in prices that's a more difficult proposition...)

There is a large overhead cost to renting out, which is significantly higher than the overhead cost of renting a home. Renting out is essentially a part-time job.
I am insufferable. Were I not insufferable to people like yourself, for one reason or another, I would not need to wear masks.

I have social skills, and a tongue of only the finest sterling silver, so I need no excuse for a lack of such things. I just wanted to speak frankly about how much I loathe socialising with people, because I find them essentially hollow and/or self-interested.

Any given person may see me as both hollow and self-interested from their perspective, but this is irrelevant to the point I'm making. I see no reason to want to talk to people who are not really listening, so I try to avoid it.

There are times when it cannot be avoided, but that's the price one pays to earn money, which is in turn required to pay live for a home with electricity and an internet connection. I suppose I could just become a bum, drifting between coffee shops with WiFi, but then where would I sleep? Pretty sure I'd have to socialise more if I were to go down that route anyway.

Also, if I 'collapsed into a ball of self-righteous contempt', I'm pretty sure I would be saying 'I cannot socialise' not 'I hate socialising'. Just a minor detail about your slightly rude reply, it doesn't matter that much.
Hmmmmm... looks like something went wrong with object detection in the dark.
Ask HN: Is it OK for CEO to swear publicly?
Today, I had to sit through the "all hands" meeting, where the CEO publicly dropped the F-Bomb every other word.

Before posting the question here, I did a quick google search:

https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&q=is+it+OK+for+CEO+to+swear+publicly%3F&oq=is+it+OK+for+CEO+to+swear+publicly

And I'm kind of shocked -- most of the links, even from the reputable sources, suggest that swearing in public by CEOs (as well as by employees) is becoming a norm.

I don't get it? Do people really need to use profanity to be heard better? For me personally it works completely opposite -- when I hear someone swear, that person looses respect completely, and I'm ready to abandon the conversation right there on the spot. Having to listen to the offensive language just because the speaker is a CEO is very disturbing.

With all the #metoo movements and such, I personally see the necessity to reinforce the public messages with scenes of sexual nature, very unfortunate, offensive, and far from profeccional.

I realize, that based on the Google results, the answers to my post may not be what I wanted to hear.
I don't even care how this post affects my HN karma. I do believe that the issue is serious enough and still, want to take the risk and find out, if there are at least some people that share the same attitude with me?
Yea, the Microsoft anti-trust years would love to have a sit down with you.
TL;DR - This guy explained precisely how to expose Silicon Valley's activity in "cyber phrenology", which is basically what Cambridge Analytica is being crucified for on HN.

Oddly enough, despite CA being all over HN this week, the last post to this was flagged for unknown reasons.
Conform and distillery have been the saving grace of deploying reproducible builds.

The disjointedness of how configuration worked between dev and prod though bugged me to the point that I try to only use libraries that don’t solely rely on config.exs for config and take configuration as an argument. I generally write functions around their functions to pull from ENV variables.

It’s a bit of ceremony but it feels better.

There are still a lot of libraries that pull configuration “magically” from Application in the middle of a function and don’t expose a way other than config.exs to change them though. This makes me sad.

Edit: I forgot to say thanks for all the awesome work bitwalker!
It was so pathetic response like he is talking to naive idiots. I can't imagine who from professionals will believe it.
> I did not like reading this and won’t defend it on a general basis. It suffers from the same problem that undermines all identity related political efforts: a failure to acknowledge the integral role of capital disparities in every area of our lives.

I thought the author did their very best to steer clear of actually going into the affirmative action issue itself, instead focusing purely on Penn’s reaction to the debacle. He even says as much, at one point:

> I will not state here whether I agree or disagree with Amy Wax's controversial opinions about affirmative action, about bourgeois culture, or about what are the appropriate remedies for past racial wrongs.

Seems to me like there is little room in this article to (fail to) acknowledge anything about the merits of affirmative action.

In fact, reading between the lines of that one paragraph, i would wager he does agree with you. But he doesn’t want to give anyone the satisfaction of getting him to say it.

Edit: rest of that paragraph, for context:

> I won't say, because it's completely irrelevant to the points I'm making here; and, because to state that "I certainly don't agree with Wax on A, B, or C, but ..." would be to concede far too much to the thought police. It would be a transparent attempt to gain credibility with them before criticizing their reactions to Wax, and I refuse to acknowledge their authority over me in that way. […]

Hear, hear.
Actually, a drone of the size of Status-6 will need a huge amount of fuel. It's easier to travel through the air than through water. Unless the Russians plan on deploying it from ships right off shore, it'll need very long range.
> Sad to read this. Most LatAm leftist governments tried the same formula over the past 2 decades, with disastrous consequences.

Korea, Taiwan, Japan and china tried it with spectacular results. Also, latin america is a especial situation because they are within the US sphere of influence. Their economic situation is far more complex because of it.

> exactly like the one in Argentina and Brazil.

Brazil and especially argentina's financial problems were a result of international borrowing, not domestic borrowing.
This is an extra service, the same way you can use Onelogin or Okta on top of G-Suite to do federation and syncing.

There's a free tier which is already included in G-Suite or Google Cloud and the premium tier which has more control: https://support.google.com/cloudidentity/answer/7319251
New Super Fast Charging Lithium Battery Unveiled Upping the Stakes for Li-On
The language an employer uses is high on my list when evaluating a potential employer. It tells me if the company has put thought into what they want to accomplish and what technologies would best serve them in accomplishing their goals vs. choosing their technology stack based on popularity, brand loyalty, or some other subjective criteria. I typically haven't found joy in working on projects where I'm using tools that don't easily support the company's goals and vision.
I'm generally allergic to long-form articles, but this was short and very readable. It introduces the situation and then gets straight into the various problems.
I couldn't help but notice that you didn't address anything I wrote. You also ask me to ignore important factors like property tax which, frankly, can make owning land unprofitable for landlords if people move away. Also, an economics stripped of human beings and divorced from the social and the political is not economics, just some Procrustean nonsense cooked up in an armchair. Economies exist to serve their participants, not the other way around. Anyway...

First off, immobility is a problem only when there is a scarcity of jobs. It is a bad sign when lots of people have to move frequently to get jobs. Optimizing for mobility is kind of like treating a symptom instead of the cause and will likely deepen the problem because, hey, we can always count on people moving. People don't generally move around just to move around. Appealing to "better allocation" and "adaptation" as ways to defend mobility is, again, the result of having adopted some kind of dehumanized economics that treats people like units of goods in a distribution chain. Mobility is really not the thing you should be most worried about.

Second, it's not an either/or proposition. We can have renters and owners. Renting can cater to those who are mobile. But when a market is dominated by renters, then your market is fucked (see above).
Seems to be standard in the macOS spellcheck dictionary. Some traditional dictionaries now contain it as well.
I knew the woman was coming up in the video and I didn't see her until it would have been too late.

The driver definitely seemed distracted by a device of some kind.
We've also seen how it has turned out in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Libya. Hundreds of thousands of people dead, for nothing. But as long as it's other people dying, we're totally fine with that.
You're right! The log can be easily viewed or accessed later. This of course occasionally requires an annoying amount of screwing around with reactivating old accounts, resetting passwords, and so on. Irritating, but of course a price well worth paying for employee privacy.

With that said, is it perhaps possible that direct access is preferable for reasons other than sheer laziness? Chain of custody and provenance both come to mind as items that some enterprise users of Slack might find worthy of consideration in some circumstances. This is obviously not nearly as important as employee privacy, but still...
Thanks for the report, I'll look into it. But yeah, the collaboration is still a bit rough around the edges currently.
What about using Google's DNS servers?
Perhaps she didn't have the budget to pursue her questions further. Journalists don't have a blanket obligation to chase every story. They work for a living, just like the rest of us.
Our 8 favorite startups from Y Combinator W’18 Demo Day 2
I'm curious to see what happens next. Economics is quite complex and often the same policy applied in a different country gives quite different results.
Building a HackerNews Clone in VueJS
No relation to the similarly named LightSail solar sail project by The Planetary Society. As a TPS contributor the title had me worried for a moment.
Wyoming Passes Forward-Thinking Computer Science Education Bill
Theranos is an interesting case. Benedict Evans tweeted something interesting the other week [0], how Theranos, unlike virtually every other Silicon Valley startups, was very East Coast in style. Particularly with its board full of old, famous politicians and DC figures like Kissinger and General Mattis.

I didn't really hear much about it until the WSJ blowup, but my perception was that Theranos wasn't in whatever scene that other startups are in when they get coverage from TechCrunch, etc. I know Tim Draper was an early VC backer (his daughter was childhood friends with Elizabeth Holmes), but did other Silicon VC know much about Theranos?

I know Theranos did end up getting TechCrunch-west-coast-style coverage (I mean, before WSJ blew it up). But I'm pretty sure that its very first press splashes were with the Wall Street Journal in Sept. 2013 [1] and then the New Yorker in Dec. 2014 [2].

The WSJ article was very interesting. Not just because it's ironic, given that a WSJ investigative reporter would be taking Theranos down. But because of the setup. It was weekend interview feature assigned to a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial board member. And, unlike the New Yorker piece, was almost entirely a puff piece. Interestingly enough, though, the author describes the experience of having blood drawn via the fingerstick/nanotainer setup (i.e. the tech Theranos was aiming for).

Having your first public splash in the WSJ Weekend Magazine seems like a very East Coast thing. Amusingly, when Theranos was burning down, it was revealed that Rupert Murdoch had a $125 million stake in Theranos [3]. Which probably explains the WSJ puff piece, since Murdoch owns the WSJ.

This is all to say that Theranos's early years as a startup seems to have been much different culturally than the usual Bay Area startup. I wonder how Theranos would've fared or been different if it had operated like a highly-funded SV startup (Color, Clinkle, or any other high-funded startup that didn't die out) with the same hype and attention.

[0] https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/972501945813381122

[1] http://archive.is/8dfJ7

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler

[3] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/03/24/rupert-m...
Intelligent data labeling is the foundation of AI
At this point, I imagine it's a "you first" issue. Trust is pretty darn scarce these days, how can you be sure the other side won't just annihilate you the moment they know you can't retaliate? That or be sure that not even one nuke is active or to take a page from guns, "80%" or nearly-active?

Even if we do manage full denuclearization, it'd be pretty darn hard to keep it that way seeing as how we can't even stop North Korea from joining the club.
That is a heartening example of good journalism. But nevertheless, there is one thing that I did not like with the way Ms Gold handled the story. She had an idea in mind of what kind of story she was going to write, and when reality did not pan out according to her plan, she just decided not to write the story.

If she had written about her experience she would have had a very important story and could have saved investors hundreds of millions of dollars.
> Aren't intangibles exactly that, though perhaps a little broader than specifying particular moral behaviours?

Intangibles can be bought and sold as they aren't attached to anything emotional. Moral behaviours/values, if embedded into the books, have to be through a transaction. How do you transact moral behaviour/values? That is the question I have.

> Goodwill, Brand (which contains value statements), IP, etc, they're given financial value. Perhaps these don't influence shareholder/public actions as much as they could, but the measures are there at least.

Accounting principles state that for anything to be recorded in the Books a prior transaction should exist. Brand and Goodwill, by accounting principles, are only recorded after they are transacted the first time. What that means is: Say you start an enterprise. The enterprise over its lifetime acquires a Brand value. However, you cannot record that Brand value until the enterprise is sold to another entity. Only in that scenario, can the buying entity record it into it's Books as Asset.

EDIT: IP, Copyright or Patents on the other hand can be recorded as Intangibles because you "bought" it from an issuing entity (the Government or any other body which is issuing you the certifications in exchange for a monetary value). Hence a transaction exists prior to the recordation in the Books which has valued the asset.

EDIT: To explain better: The reason you cannot record a Brand value into the Books until it's either sold/acquired is primarily because there is no way to gauge the value of Brand/Goodwill. I may consider my enterprise Brand value to be a million dollars. But you might consider it to have no value. Unless a transaction occurs, a value cannot be arrived at as it inherently has no value. Hence the recordation in the Books happens only and only after a transaction takes place.
That's nice of you to set standards for everybody, but it's still possible to exercise identity separation. FB doesn't know what my Twitter account is any more than HN does.
A global observatory for gene editing
*> 10.seconds.from_now*

I don't understand this kind of weird "urban sprawl OOP" where classes are extended with anything.

Why is 'seconds' a method on numbers? Is there also a 'pixels' method so that I could draw a line like this:

10.pixels.from.top_left_corner.to.southeast.using.red.stroke

If this doesn't seem like a sensible way of programming graphics, why does the 10.seconds thing get a pass?
AI Tackles the Vatican's Secrets
The Obama app accessed the data of roughly 189 million friend profiles that didn't authorize the app (it only had about 1 million installs). About 95 million of those people would have consciously objected to helping the Obama campaign had they known about it. But all of their data was collected and used by the Obama campaign to target political ads and formulate campaign strategy anyway, even though none of those 189 million people expected or specifically authorized their data "to be used in political fashion".

So how is that a false equivalence?
They acquired Bitium. An identity as a service is in the works. Since the Oktas and Onelogins have virtual LDAPs I’m sure that will be coming as well.
Grocery store.
Meanwhile, rural places in Japan are being rapidly de-peopled by both urban migration and an aging population.

I read last year that some towns will actually GIVE foreigners a house if they promise to live there a certain numbers of years.
That’s only because there’s no light on her until the end.

The car hardware should have seen her. If it doesn’t work in the dark it shouldn’t be on the road imho.
New highly unpopular Reddit policy bans popular beer, cigar, and gun communities
I believe we should fund most of it through the academicians wage. And if that resource is deemed too low for them at its current value in a certain country, increasing it is a better solution than trying to add extra rewards for things like books.
Mindfulness Can Improve Problem-Solving Skills
There is an obvious vegan bias from anything by Michal Greger. In nutritionfacts.org, it is blatantly obvious cherry picking and editorial bias. For example, he goes through great lengths to show which studies are funded by the various animal product industries when they contradict his viewpoint, but makes no such effort for studies on plant-based foods. He also has a habit of highly weighting small sample or small effect studies that have never been replicated when they agree with his viewpoint, but requiring much higher rigor when contradicting it.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-illnes...
> yahoo was before Altavista

You're talking about a very small window there, even if you focus on more than launch date. I remember Yahoo being the go to around 1995, and Altavista being the source for power results starting around 1997-99 or so. That's an iPhone 6s to iPhone 8 window of time.
First off, it may not be quite that simple. They may need detector tech that they lack. Secondly, development of these dead-hand weapons systems may be easier for them or more appealing for whatever reasons (perhaps cultural).

But yes, you'd think it'd be better to double decision times than to deploy dead-hands.

Also, the U.S. could easily share early warning satellite technology with Russia. This might be a lot easier if relations weren't already so frosty.

I believe Obama's sanctions against Russia were unwise, and ratcheted up tensions unnecessarily. Moreover, Congress' subsequent affirmation of those sanctions and removal of the President's ability to remove them further ratcheted up tensions. And all of this over a very partisan domestic feud about supposed Russian interference in the 2016 election, in a country that regularly interferes in other countries' elections. Is this really worth it for Democrats? Is it really worth it for all those very many Republicans that voted for that silly bill (probably so they could head off Democrat claims of being in cahoots with Russia)?? Almost certainly not. But such is the degree of bitter, uncivil partisanship in the United States today. President Trump doesn't even have the ability to negotiate a thaw in relations given the current statutory situation -- a treaty could be used, sure, but there's no reason to think that the Senate would welcome it anymore than it was willing to let the President be able to reduce sanctions by himself (as would have been the usual case).

My guess is it will take Republicans having a very good 2018, or failing that, a very good 2020, before tensions can decrease. Alternatively, Democrats would have to sweep in 2020 and somehow allow themselves to un-blame Russia for 2016, which just doesn't seem likely, not given their rhetoric so far.
About:pioneer
Oh yeah the BTC mafia can get any journo fired. That's why we haven't seen anything criticizing BTC.

Wat?
This is due to US Section 230 legislation changing this week, spurred by the actions and legal battles of backpage.com

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/59...

"The Backpage saga has galvanized lawmakers to act on bills amending Section 230 with the goal of stemming online sex trafficking. The legislation allows more state and civil lawsuits against websites related to online sex trafficking, for "knowingly assisting, supporting or facilitating" crimes.

The Senate passed the bill Wednesday, sending it to President Trump for his signature. The White House has supported the legislation."

And the most important quote:

"If the technology companies do not wake up to their responsibilities — and use the power 230 gives them — to better protect the public against sex trafficking and countries that try to hack our political system, you bet that companies can expect (this legislation) will not be the last challenge for them."
I recently borrowed Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami from our local library and it is a beautiful, inspiring book filled with jaw dropping examples.

Congratulations on your first apartment.
A large influx of people into your area is almost guaranteed to lower your quality of life, either by increased crime, or just by increased congestion, increased noise, decreased property values, and possible demographic shifts that marginalize your culture.

To minimize these concerns in the way you do seems non-productive and can only lead to more polarization.

These types of initiatives stem from Agenda 21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21 proponents that, while advocating many admirable things, tend to completely ignore the feelings of the populations they are intent on engineering a radically different future for.

I am saddened that the dream we all shared of allowing small towns to once again flourish, because knowledge workers could be located anywhere on the planet, are being quickly forgotten in favor of ultra-dense citiscapes.