skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shame on that source for splitting up those two graphs and giving them different axes. Furthermore it doesn't give us the actual incidence rate of cavities between the two groups numerically, or account for differences in dental care.

But yes, unsurprisingly, dental care has improved since 1975. I would be horrified if that were not the case.

Let's follow that link at the bottom of the story, the one that lists "Letters in response".

> On behalf of the American Dental Association and its 159,000 member dentists, I am writing to express sincere concern over the article entitled, “Is fluoridated water safe,” by Nicole Davis that appears in Harvard Public Health, Spring 2016. The article overlooks critical facts about community water fluoridation that must be shared with your esteemed readers and the public at large.

https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/201...

> I am writing to express concern that Harvard Public Health would publish an article titled “Is Fluoridated Drinking Water Safe?” in the Spring 2016 issue and to share the reasons why the American Academy of Pediatrics stands behind the safety and effectiveness of community water fluoridation

https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/201...

I'm going to stop there, despite there being MANY more letters. Flouride in water is safe. That doesn't mean we can't still research it, ask specific questions and continue being informed, but if you are petitioning to remove flouride from water currently, you are acting irrationally and with no scientific basis whatsoever.
>Wasabi and B2 are pretty much the only commercial services which could even attempt to compete on price with something like Sia today (Filecoin and others in the future potentially)

It would be nice to see Sia/Filecoin provide some basic DB metrics like availability, durability, latency, bandwidth... things that any prospective client would absolutely need to know.
Probably not much downside left at the current price though. Might have to wait.
You've got the cause and effect backwards. CPUs ship with disabled cores because that's the only way to recover from manufacturing errors that would otherwise make that segment of the wafer completely useless. Instead of scratches and misplaced dopants costing Intel the full price of a $500 i7, they disable the damaged silicon and sell it as a cheaper i3 or i5. It's literally the only way to make modern CPUs economical and the price discrimination is more of a consequence of physical phenomena. Likewise with RAM clockspeeds: each chip is "burned in" during fab and the most stable ones (with the fewest imperfections) are sold as overclocked RAM while the worst are sold as underclocked low power mobile chips.

If you don't care at all about cost (aka yield), like with RAD hardened CPUs or high throughput serial processors like those from IBM, there is no real room for discrimination and you just pay for the NRE/fabrication plus a profit for the vendor.
There's not really any value. This was many years ago, and the company has changed a lot. It also isn't a company many people have heard of.
Fourier Theoretic Probabilistic Inference Over Permutations [pdf]
CockroachDB is not (yet) ready for use on OLAP-style workloads. Our performance work has focused on OLTP workloads so far. That said, we do great on OLTP joins (which is a stressed in the TPC-C workload).
If you didn't generate the keys you don't own the crypto. It is that simple.
It's amazing that there is a widespread tendency in Googlers to think Google is "the best place" and moving is a downgrade (i.e. fear of missing out, where do I go after this), while at the same time many Facebook employees feel exactly the same towards their employer and think moving is likely a downgrade (my friend who left FB to Snap told me that he had that feeling but now that he has moved he sees Snap as clearly better). These feelings cannot simultaneously be true, which shows the Kool-Aid is powerful indeed, and I think systematic and intentional in nature. At least for Facebook, they have an explicit propaganda ministry, ehem..., Analog Research Lab, actively working toward instating this feeling with posters and stuff.
No - that would be like charging people different amounts based on their individual travel habits.

Route preferences are one thing. Charging different people different $ is another thing.
I don't understand why you can't just get a new job before quitting the old one. That's what everyone does.
Not really. This includes the Battery Performance tool which was made after BatteryGate blew up late last year.
Germany is closing down clean nuclear power plants and replacing them with dirty coal plants. This isn't a commitment to anything but FUD.
Was waiting for the battery health from a long time. My iPhone 6 plus is completely laggy from iOS 11 update.
I regret doing that.
> PK (my other co-founder) had recently sold his friend a preloaded ledger of cryptocurrencies and walked over to us and told us we should “sell people wallets preloaded with random cryptos”.

> We thought that there was no way people would pay us for this kind of service, but we spiked out a site over the weekend and launched that following Monday.
Or you have family/friends that aren't very technical and don't know any better. I saw people's faces change as soon as someone mentioned where I worked to others in my circle while I was at Google. I had never seen that before. It was weird at first and then I just accepted it. Then having to explain why I wanted to/did leave there was just a major PITA.

I'd be lying if there wasn't some reservation or me doubting myself a bit at first when I realized I just wasn't happy there and needed to get out and I'd also be lying if I said some of it wasn't because of the above reaction of family/friends.
At my company, I heard them discussing deleting the data the user requested within 1 month.
I traveled to Gaza to mentor with Gaza Sky Geeks in December. While I was there Trump decided to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the leader of Hamas decided to respond by declaring a 'Day of Rage'. My writeup of that experience here: https://medium.com/@gillianim/what-its-like-in-gaza-on-a-day...
The TL;DR is that the majority of Palestinians are trying to live normal lives and don't care much about international political chess. As a foreigner I felt completely safe. Many Jewish people have mentored at Gaza Sky Geeks and had no issue. I traveled through the Erez checkpoint and didn't have my passport stamped, though I'm pretty sure some malware got installed on my computer when they took it away for 'screening'. Logistically, I had to apply for permits about two months in advance, and you never know whether you'll get in or not; but all in all my experience at all checkpoints and entrance/exit to Israel was straightforward. It was an incredible experience all around and I was so impressed with the Palestinian people in Gaza that I met. Happy to answer any questions for people thinking of going!
I think it's more of a not-so-clever way to run straight into the mouth of the law than a clever way to dodge anything.
You may enjoy this. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/in-page-pop-u...
Uber has always been a pirate taxi company.
The problem is management and organizational priorities rather than the developers themselves. Microsoft was clearly able to give users what they want in the past (Windows 7) but that's clearly not the direction they're going.
> The reason behind hidden city fares is, the price of SFO-NYC-BTV is for the SFO-BTV market, to compete with other airlines' SFO-ATL-BTV, SFO-ORD-BTV, SFO-Whatever-BTV or SFO-BTV direct flight. It has nothing to do with SFO-NYC market, just for this particular airline it happens to route through NYC. It discounted more than SFO-NYC market because competitions on that market.

In price disparity situations as an outsider, its impossible to determine whether the lower price is because based on competitive pressure (as you claim) or whether the higher price is based on customer's willingness to pay (as I claim), because both imply that the other is the "normal" price absent those features. Its likely a little bit of both.

What is the same is the economics: costs in both industries are primarily based on miles that they took you. Prices are based on what they think they can get away with charging you. The more they know about you (or infer based on the data they have and what you are trying to do) the more chances they have to charge you higher prices because they think you can afford it.
There's one case missing: Build a command-line tool with concise and maintainable code; Performance is not important.

Scala Native would win over Rust and Go, which are too low-level. Scala Native would win over python/ruby because of the ease of deployment (e.g. compile to target CPU) and static typing.

However, Crystal probably wins over Scala Native...
Exactly. I think NBA League Pass cuts out the advertising from the local tv networks during timeouts and half time to show the in arena feed (kiss cam, etc). But those are often times ads now as well.
I wonder if Tesla will experience an assembly line version of the Mythical Man Month.

I assume the Model 3 line is a bit different from the others, because if it was the same, they wouldn't have so much trouble meeting targets. So the workers who switch to it from other assembly lines will presumably need some time to ramp up.
We have observed visible objects (stars) that are close enough to be orbiting a supermassive black hole and they follow the expected orbits.

If supermassive black holes do something new and strange with gravity--something big enough to affect an entire surrounding galaxy--it seems likely it should somewhat affect the trajectories of the nearest objects too.

That's not to rule out something strange about black hole gravitation, but the observations do constrain some versions of how strange things can be.
>which in principle could subsidize rides for poorer drivers.

I don't think you can specify this. In principle this could subsidize rides for some people or it could increase profit and even if the money were put towards subsidizing rides there is no guarantee it's going to subsidize rides for the poor, there is no law that says the poor are going to receive these subsidies - frequently they don't because they don't because they're a lower priority for the company due to their decreased spending power, have less information about the marketplace and are less able to substitute between alternatives.
I don't see the value-add there. We already have the common viewer (the browser) and oauth single-sign-on is already widespread -- we don't need a Comcast or any other conglomerate to do that.
its called PPV, a showing of an ad-free event. :)
"I will be resigning effective two weeks from now. Let me know what I can do in the meantime totrain my replacement or otherwise smooth the transition."

Done.
Sounds reasonable to me.

You should have an emergency fund that covers six months of expenses, ideally you never touch this. If you quit without another offer it's safe to prepare for a job hunt lasting up to a year. Six more months for safety is just smart.
I wonder if there is a non mechanical way of cleaning it and instead a chemical reaction like oven cleaner. Ideally it would be something that wasn’t seemingly related to a chemical weapon but maybe that’s what it takes.
I don't watch much TV or streaming services but I do appreciate a funny advertisement[1] when I see it. Granted it never makes me want to purchase the product.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaldfjkrHy4

Yes, I have childish humor.
Pentax has sensor shift in its current sub $1000 APS-C bodies (K70 and KP) and the full frame K-1. The shifting moves the sensor one pixel to allow four samples under the Bayer filter (red, blue, two greens). The cameras also ship without an anti-aliasing filter. Instead moire is removed by shifting the sensor one pixel to simulate the effect of a low pass filter. Of course, these cameras are rounding error on the price of the Hasselblad (before even thinking about lenses).
Selling something the customer can't buy doesn't make sense either. Waiting a month for your new car to be delivered is insane waiting three years is a broken system.

Tesla Motors expects their customers to be fanatical. But what if I just want to buy a car like a normal person?
Supplement mimics caloric-restriction, elevates NAD+ in healthy adults age 55-79
Here's what I've always done with my grills (propane this is easier, with charcoal you need to add extra fuel):

1) After done grilling, while you setup the table etc.. and get ready to eat, turn it on the highest setting and cover the grill. Should be done for at least 5-10 minutes.

2) Next time, turn the grill on to the highest setting to warm it up. Again at least 5-10 minutes.

If there's anything at all left it'll quickly be gone with any kind of brush... very easily. or even your spatula.
Was let down in the middle of the night, angry and impatient, I thought I'd try uber because f. it. Actually I think I installed the app because I thought it would be cheaper than a traditional taxi, but a quick calculation the next day showed that they would have asked for 50$ end to end.
You know, in this day in age you really need to give more then a two weeks notice. Maybe 6 weeks or more. I've had to fire clients before by giving notice and I always try to work out the best possible scenario where the least amount of damage is done. I even had to deal with yelling, screaming, threats of lawsuits. I always keep my cool and do everything I can to de-escalate the situation, stay professional, etc and try to minimize damage. Every single time this has happened I get some kind of contact or letter of appreciation thanking me for keeping things professional no matter how bad things got. It just makes me feel better as a person to know that I did everything I could to minimize potential damages and to seek the best possible scenario.
Not really, if they aren't receiving any benefits from the government they are almost certainly paying some form of taxes with sales tax. Though since there isn't a federal sales tax it would probably make sense they wouldn't be able to vote federally.

There is a chance of that happening, but it should be a self correcting system. If government assistance is pulled from people, they just opened a new voting block.
> "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."

Except it failed completely at that. The blockchain has proven through real world use that it is unusable as a currency. By its very design, it is fundamentally impossible to scale it to even serve even a moderate sized city worth of transactions.
Those cars have a range between 58 miles and 125.
Yes, if you work for Facebook right now, you might cause a few eyes to actually narrow.
Fire, man. Just let the fire clean it. Never saw the point of wire brushes unless you're leaving food on the grill when you're done with it.
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Plenty of data shows people will pay more to avoid ads (https://exstreamist.com/poll-79-of-netflix-subscribers-would...)

Anecdotally, the $4 more a month I pay Hulu for an ad-free version of their streaming service is the easiest money I spend on any entertainment.
Buying a Car for the Financially Savvy Non-Auto-Expert
I wonder what makes it so difficult? Merging partial conversations from multiple devices, maybe? I never imagined it would take them this long to roll it out.
Anecdote doesn't make data, otherwise my personal experience of never having once met a conservative that doesn't care about clean air and water would cancel out your experience.

Straw men and ad hominem don't make up for actual data.
How BigTech Players Reshape the Future of Finance
Scalability but at what COST? [pdf] (2015)
Google Adds 'Kodi' to Autocomplete Piracy Filter
Note that 11.4 is already in the works for the final versions of ClassKit and Shared iPad. Probably the first betas for 11.4 will start appearing soon. Can't wait to try it. Looking forward to not have girly stuff appearing anymore in my Photo stream!

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Downvoting factually correct information? Why?
Sounds great but not a good idea in practice. A company should always be designed in a way that it works smoothly even with people of modest backgrounds. Especially as it grows larger.

Otherwise your "top tier" employees become liabilities, and it becomes unsustainable to rely purely on everyone being a top player. Basically you want a company that can still operate effectively even if everyone was a dumbass.
Competition proves the market. There are other unique use cases. Here are some:

* Hiring based on votes from stakeholders

* Choosing what events are held when through voting or burning (scheduling)

* Continuous community airdrops to encourage repeat visits

* Pairing with other local companies to cross airdrop for promotional purposes.

* Charging artists to hang paintings in the tokenized asset (encouraging patron art).

Tokenization can become a customizable base level component. Kind of like a webite.

I appreciate your skepticism but I do encourage you to rethink your stance.
MyDef, a general preprocessor
Man.... if this doesn't trigger a NLRB vote to unionize then I've given up hope on there ever being a working middle class with 40 hr work week, decent pay, and benefits.
> I've worked at a couple very high-profile companies in the Valley and have never felt this prestige primarily because I don't hang out with complete douchebags.

> If people get all starry-eyed when you announce the company you work for; run in the opposite direction.

Get over yourself and out of your bubble. American culture constantly pushes the value of prestige and the way of obtaining that being going to good schools and working at popular companies. If you are a person who didn't go to an ivy league or work at Facebook, it's easy to believe that the person who did is better than you in some way. It is more rare to attain that status, so therefor many people both in and outside of the industry look starry-eyed at them.

I don't work at one of the big tech firms and nor do I want to, but I know for a fact most people in my family would think highly of me if I told them I worked at Google, because it is prestigious whether you like it or not. Does that make them douchebags?
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It's worth noting that one big advantage SpaceX has over other rocket makers is that SpaceX gets to inspect landed first stages. That makes their rocket development closer to airplane development than everyone else's rocket development, and no, it doesn't have to be perfect before it is tested. It just has to be good enough to land.
Windows VP Terry Myerson Out as Major Shakeup Hits Microsoft
I worked full time as a software engineer before I finished my CS degree, but I wasn't really happy with my situation and wanted to do something else. As I was interviewing with companies through the my university's Career Services department, I recall being complimented by several interviewers on how specific I was regarding my goals and desired position. I wanted to work on a specific OS/platform with specific languages.

I guess I was lucky because I'd already had relevant experience, so I knew exactly what I did and did not want to do. Luckily, the offer I went with was up-front and I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

Playing devils advocate, could it be a lack of experience that is the issue with new hires?
It's actually the opposite, it's more akin to a SaaS company. I've worked with Owner-Operators of facilities and the ones who do it right are printing money.

The smart ones optimize towards revenue per square foot and can pull in upwards of $30,000+ of profit per month. And that can be on a single facility. Typically the smart ones own 2-3 facilities. They buy an underperforming facility and optimize its functions and reap the rewards.

How do they do it? One method (of a few) is by constantly pushing the rates up and churning customers that have lower rates. Once their occupancy hits a certain threshold (typically above 85%) they start really trying to push customers out with higher rates. If the occupancy starts to dip below their target, they start to offer deals. That way they can keep the monthly recurring revenue flowing while still optimizing towards revenue per square foot.

Edit: This is why there are specific REITs that focus on self-storage.
Like any job. since the meaningless "top tier tech" in the title. being a top tier tech doesn't make it any different.
The movie isn't either though, as they have motive to play up the drama. Independent writing on the topic is available if you do want it, but I quite enjoy hearing the other side as a kind of meta-drama.
2 years of savings is a crazy suggestion. 3-6 months should be fine especially if you've got top tier company on your resume.
Sadly it seems like the comments are becoming more like reddit comments. I think more and more people are coming from there which isn’t a bad thing but they are bringing that style of comments.

Niche topics will have deeper comments because the people interested typically have a deeper understanding. Then you have Facebook and Snap which everyone has an opinion on even without understanding the situation.
It's been a while, so I don't remember the details. But he does go on about domesticated animals that are useful in agriculture for tilling fields (mainly oxen, horses as well), and that they enable not just being well-fed, but achieving a large surplus.
Out of curiosity, how many years of experience categorize a developer as "junior"?
"What is the difference between TensorFlow.js and deeplearn.js?

TensorFlow.js, an ecosystem of JavaScript tools for machine learning, is the successor to deeplearn.js which is now called TensorFlow.js Core. TensorFlow.js also includes a Layers API, which is a higher level library for building machine learning models that uses Core, as well as tools for automatically porting TensorFlow SavedModels and Keras hdf5 models."
This is Facebook’s self-defense plan for the 2018 midterm elections – The Verge
Beyond the covers and YouTube features, from what I've seen the magazine does have less traditionally gendered sections. E.g. this spread is a generic "learn to code" piece, featuring a female engineer and highlighting various career paths SW engineering skills can unlock:

https://twitter.com/girlswhocode/status/909883045406281728

I've seen other spreads that highlight people like Tim Cook, who, while famous in our orbits, isn't a typical topic of conversation among my nieces.
A flatbed scanner, anyway, spreads its resolution over its whole plate area. So if you want to scan something smaller than that full-size, you're getting a fraction of its resolution.

Want to flatbed scan a 2" tintype or even a 4x6 photo? You'd probably be better off using a camera instead, as you can fill the cameras imaging sensor with the subject. You can also control the lighting conditions better with a camera setup, so you don't get the obligatory flatbed scanner reflections.
How are they fanboys if they criticize the assembly?
Don't write code. Break down a feature into tasks that you would take 30 mins or less to accomplish. Have them build each task one by one. If they take longer than 1 hour, you know that they are stuck on something so you can go help them. While they are working on 1 task, you are figuring out the next 2 tasks. Your job becomes quick prototyping to make sure the tasks are feasible.

Eventually, after many small merge requests, junior developers will be comfortable to take up entire features. After a few features, you teach them how to break down tasks for other junior devs, just like what you were doing before.

We have been actively following this method for the past 2 years and have taught engineers with 0 coding background all the way to become tech leads in our org.