skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But unlike FDA approved drugs, registered dietitians and licensed physical therapists your service is not accredited and can't legally give the advice that it claims to give. As an example Ohio state law says that "only licensed dietitians can practice dietetics".

Practising dietetics is defined as including "Nutritional assessment to determine nutritional needs and to recommend appropriate nutritional intake" and
"Nutritional counseling or education as components of preventive, curative, and restorative health care"

Either your service isn't doing those things (and outwardly it seems it is) or the service must be provided by a licensed dietitian to customers in Ohio or it is breaking Ohio state law.

[1] http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4759
Yes I agree the tax has a positive benefit of incentivizing re-investment (payroll, or other spending) to avoid paying taxes, BUT it seems like this has a high risk of causing companies to focus on short term re-investments.

Famously, companies with thin profit margins from constant reinvestment become less resilient to economic downturns and shifting industry trends, like defunct retailers like Circuit City. Having no saved up capital means companies like that are completely unable to properly reinvent themselves if market shifts happen relatively fast and they have no reserve capital.
Debian is an operating system that comes with its own curated library of software. To answer why it upgrades user software when you update the underlying operating system, you need to look at how that software is compiled in a Linux distribution.

Whereas Windows apps tend to standalone, bringing with them any libraries they need, Debian tends to have one copy of each library, runtime, and so on. If you upgrade Debian, you upgrade way more than just the kernel, the gnu tools etc. You also upgrade, for example, the Python, the windowing system, the networking stack. Apps that rely on these must also be upgraded in order to work with the new versions of whatever other packages they rely on.

It’s a domino effect and it keeps on knocking right up to GIMP or, in this case, MySQL.

My answer doesn’t explain why this particular choice was made but I hope it shows how Debian can do that sort of thing whereas Windows wouldn’t.
I use neural networks to try to predict sports betting outcomes.

In financial markets, I badly wished there was a way to bet/lay a public company's metrics. (eg. next month's sales figures)... That would be heaven.
These Electric Scooters in San Francisco have become a total nuisance.

I've seen quite a few riders ride them on the sidewalks and 1 person even ran into a dude on a wheelchair who was trying to get onto the sidewalk after crossing the road on his wheelchair.

The last safe place for Pedestrians and disabled persons -- the Sidewalk -- is under attack.

The startups that have created this nuisance also park these scooters on the sidewalk, and it routinely blocks disabled people on wheelchairs from travelling safely on the sidewalk.
Amazon’s Hostile Takeover
Flashing your wanger at someone passing by isn't really sexual assault though.

I've been flashed by a drunk guy, I gave a surprised chuckle and walked away. My mum was flashed when some weirdo jumped into the back garden and started showing his stuff to her through the kitchen window; she chased him away with a sword.

Neither of us thought for one minute we'd been sexually assaulted, and these instances just became amusing stories. Unfortunately it seems that doing similar in the USA is no laughing matter.
How did someone manage to write a post that long discussing Go and it's concurrency model and not once mention channels?
My uninformed guess would be the seasonality is related to holiday spending. Slides 5 and 6 show revenues by user location and Asia-pacific doesn't consistently spike in Q4, while N. America and Europe seem to follow this pattern.

Either that or accounting practices that go way above my head...
Not every career path allows for doing that. If you're not working a white collar job already, odds are you're not going to have the time to go out to the new area to interview, let alone be able to afford to get yourself out there.
Have people already forgotten what a hopeless shit-hole Gawker was? The courts seem to have agreed.
Something I've always been curious about: if capital gain taxes (for both individuals and corporations) were set to reasonable (high) levels, would there still be a strong argument for taxing corporate profits?
Is open banking a threat or an opportunity?
Alas, I'm some distance from Portland. But I looked at some recipes and those sound really good, and not hard to make:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sour+cherry+vareniki
“I'm not sure what you are arguing anymore.”

It’s the claim I make in 3, and then the secondary claim that making our upper bound on p(null | T, normal, iid) small for significant p-values (i.e. p(T | null, normal, id)) could be used as a criterion for whether our threshold for statistical significance is small enough.

“You seemed to be disagreeing with that”

I’m not sure what I said that gave that impression. I didn’t mention anything about the normal / iid assumptions initially not because I thought we weren’t making these assumptions but because I didn’t think these details were essential to my point.
No. RTFM and stop complaining.

Also, how the fuck does a junior developer not know what a web scraper is, what's your inept definition of a junior developer? A person who hasn't ever used a PC before?
I doubt it will happen. The Ute was also still made by GM ...
Ethereum is objectively better in some cases. What if I want to gamble somewhere, but I don't trust websites to be honest about their odds? With Ethereum I could check the source code of the contract and be confident that it's legitimate.
iPhone unlocking firm Grayshift faces extortion demands after data breach
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/752063/5a5e2ebd8bcf3129/
A 1910s ICE might have been terrible compared to a modern computer-driven engine built on one or the other dozen million man-hours, but back in the day it was still a very useful thing that powered machines and vehicles and even had broad military applications.
Cracking the Crypto War
Most people don't learn a new alphabet just to go on vacation though, so this change will remove a lot of friction.
> you feel bad.

I only feel bad for those poor women living as a slave to their authoritarians husband in theocratic distopias and the women who are forced against their will, in the face of a system stacked against both them and their children, to bear an unwanted child because you value the life of the unborn over the lives of the living.
I was botting for arbitrage with sports betting. they will close your accounts fast
> Make sure you learn from success, not just failure. What are the common factors that lead to a really good day? Good sleep? Good weather?

How are people tracking these factors? There's a whole movement around this, called "Quantified Self". The concept it simple: track a set of variables and try to glean some insight however I'm having trouble implementing this in my life.

Track what? Track how?
Apple doesn't repair anyone's laptop on site, they're all shipped to repair centers.

And if they don't stock your configuration in store, there's no way to just hand you a new one either.

I'm not saying your experience was any less shitty than it was, but there's nothing else they could have done than what they did.
I've only done this about twice in the lifetime of the keyboard. I'm not doing it every day.
http://archive.is/bXZaW

interesting, but that sounds quiet differently from the claims from maxwell and your original post.
Why are pig brains dog food? Because they're below the arbitrary threshold of intelligence we have drawn in the sand to determine sentience?

What if there was extra-terrestrial life of greater intelligence still that encountered our own species, and subjected us to identical treatment according to the exact same basis of morality?
Just that word wouldn't be unambiguous, e.g. (again via Wiktionary):

"Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anticipation#English

Therefore:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Vorfreude
I initially was bah humbugy about these scooters, but after reading an article that points out we have acres of space devoted to private automobiles, and that it really wouldn't be hard to accommodate these electric scooters, I changed my mind.

They look fun, they seem more flexible than the hard-wired go-bike stations, and they don't seem super expensive.

It's pretty obvious that our cities are broken, and SF needs help in particular. I've worked at companies that had to choose between being near bart or near caltrain to provide a shorter commute to different employees. The time it took to walk across soma was non-trivial and annoyed people. Ultimately the caltrain commuters used foot-powered scooters.

As for the self righteousness of "only peds belong on sidewalks", I get tired of that. Being in traffic is exceedingly dangerous, and apparently as long as someone else's life on the line you're good with it. If "sidewalks" were a lot larger, then there would be more ability to mix traffic. See: the embarcadero.

Let's work on our cities and have some fun doing it!
Yes. I "algo" trade equity options. It's strange to me that I don't see much mention of this answer given all the argument about stocks being a 50-50 bet.

Options let you just roll the dice on probabilities off the assumption that the market is effectively random. You can use them to push the 50-50 probability much further in your favor.

For example, I stand to profit nicely at the next expiration (May) of most of my options as long as the market doesn't move more than a stddev in either direction. It could go up, down, sideways, no matter. I will make money. If it drops significantly, I will lose marginally until my "insurance" (far OTM puts) kick in and I start marking money again.

Edit: A common beginner's option strategy is to write a put for a stock you'd like to own. If the stock stays flat or goes up, you make money off the premium. If it goes down, you now own that stock. You can now turn around and sell calls against that stock, collecting premium until you're forced to sell the stock because it's moved back up again. You only "lose" if the stock makes an extremely large move down (like going bankrupt, or a GE style dividend) and you're stuck with a stock you can't sell premium against. Far from the 50-50 bet most people think of when they think of stocks.
For city planners, there's a natural hierarchy of roads: limited-access freeways, arterials, collectors, and residential streets. Moving high volumes of cars is intended to use arterials and freeways, whereas collectors and residential streets are deliberately designed for lower speeds as they may have a higher likelihood of pedestrians randomly entering the street (the child racing after his ball, to use the proverbial example).

In a nutshell, the problem with Waze is that it encourages drivers to shift from arterials to collector roads, where they very often proceed to drive in flagrant violation of safety standards. Getting drivers to not do that is challenging (and this problem predates Waze). Speed bumps don't meaningfully slow people down. Even prohibiting the through movement in a T intersection by means of an island doesn't work--people will happily drive over the curb to do so. By routing people down roads that are not designed for this traffic, Waze is pretty close to being complicit in these safety violations.

The proximate cause of this furor is that there is a street in LA that is too steep to be safe for through traffic, yet Waze is happily routing people along the street. Waze's response is, effectively, it's legal for through traffic, so Waze doesn't have to do anything, with the underlying reasoning being that it doesn't want to have to deal with everyone demanding special treatment.

Waze's attitude is, quite frankly, irresponsible. What they could do--and should be doing--is to look at potential factors that impact safety and update they app to not route people on roads that are clearly unsafe (Google's maps already have the ability to report grade on roads, for example). In fact, that's what the LA council is basically doing: they're looking to see if Waze could be doing more, and in the likely case they find that Waze is indeed not doing enough, finding some mechanism to compel Waze to do more.

The other element in play here is a complete about congestion. The truth is... you can't fix congestion. In transportation theory, there's an element called induced demand: if travel time improves in a corridor, then that induces people to take extra trips, often returning it fairly quickly to the same level of congestion. What many cities have realized is that trying to provide sufficient road capacity to meet demand is a game lost before they've even begun, and instead focused their efforts on trying to coax better utilization of current corridors (single-occupant vehicles on roads are basically the lowest-throughput transportation measures devised, except for Elon Musk's proposals which somehow manage to be even worse).
at the most basic:

1 kilometer is 1000 meters

1 kiloliter is 1000 liters

etc.

1 mile is 1760 yards

1 foot is 12 inches

1 gallon is 4 quarts

etc.

dunno, seems simpler to me.
Sounds good but prison time for breaching NDA isn't worth it
Fun American Puritanism Trivia:

The European version of I, Robot shows Will Smith taking a shower so the audience can both learn he has a prosthetic limb and also see the extent of his prosthesis. It happens to include a shot of his butt.

Or so I gather. As an American, I have not actually seen this shower scene because the US version cut that scene as too risqué, requiring them to find some other (less effective, less natural, more awkward) means to inform the audience that the character has a prosthetic arm and the prosthesis reaches well down into his rib cage.
One of my favorite initiatives is the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund [1]. They identify ecological hotspots and convene (and fund) a diverse team of local organizations. If you read their description, you'll see that they view sustainable development for humans as an integral part of nature conservation. IMO, this is now the mainstream view among most conservation NGOs. (Twenty years ago, perhaps, it was not; but it is now.)

[1] https://www.cepf.net/our-work
> The default view seems to be that government-funded highways are essentially a god-given right.

What sort of libertarians are you hanging out with? I'm not a libertarian myself, but most of the ones I have talked to about roads wouldn't agree with this. Their usual position is that roads should be privatized and tolled, and that this would help fix the externalities (traffic, concrete deserts, suburban sprawl) caused by "free" access to roads, if people had to pay their true cost.
Any language that is the most used is going to be used by mostly below-average programmers. I have yet to see a single domain where quality can be measured by popularity.
Visited Ukraine (Kyiv) last summer. I spoke a little Russian with them; nobody seemed to mind.
If they are funded by taxpayers taxpayers can set rules for their use?
I was confused by everyone focusing on 8.
Perhaps, but I have certainly noticed a significant downturn in the level of end user engagement on Facebook in recent weeks. Almost nobody is posting these days. Plenty of ads and commercial organizations in my feed but very little organic content.
An anecdote from the other side: I have personally met several such people in former Soviet republics, such as Latvia, and believe that it is not at all uncommon.
I have more sympathy for pedestrians. They go around 2-3mph. Auto traffic around 25-50. Bikes and scooters are way closer to cars than pedestrians. So, its a matter of risking the safety of cyclist, or pedestrians. No clear win there I can see.
Ask HN: How good a programmer is Eric S. Raymond?
As far as I can ascertain, Eric S. Raymond is considered by many to be a statesmanlike figure in Unix culture, to be uttered in the same breath as Linus, Richard Stallman, Ken Thompson, and Dennis Ritchie. Yet while all these figures have groundbreaking software (Linux, Emacs, Unix, C) to their name, Raymond has effectively no notable software to his name at all.

I understand the influence of CatB - but is there evidence to suggest that ESR is genuinely an excellent programmer, or is he simply a mediocre developer with a skill for spinning a yarn?
On the topic of media manipulation, this book has changed how I interpret press content more than anything I've read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me,_I%27m_Lying
I heard a very similar story, but it was Sun wanting to license Smalltalk. Rebuffed by very high licensing costs quoted by Adele Goldberg, they went and created Java instead.

Edit: From this video https://vimeo.com/77415896
I'm using a new 2017 MBP w/o the touchbar. So far, no issues with the keyboard. But here's another thing to consider: with earlier MBPs and ThinkPads with better keyboard design, I would occasionally used compressed air to blow out the dust from under the keys. The bad thing about the new design is that I'd hesitate to do this now, because you could actually cause the keys to die by accidentally blowing dust under a key.

Apple: you need to go back to the drawing board and redesign the keyboard. Stop chasing thinner/lighter. The keyboard is the primary interface programmers use. It should be sturdy enough, and have enough key travel, to hold up for the life cycle of the laptop.
Don't totally follow your argument, but if you're saying that we won't have a full understanding of the POS economic guarantees until we have empirical evidence from a "live network" with significant rewards at stake I agree 100%.
what destroys the brand momentum for me is that the cars look dated (even in the updated versions) and the company seems technologically behind (no real electric car).
> As for the self righteousness of "only peds belong on sidewalks", I get tired of that

Nothing self-righteous about that.

Sidewalks are -- as the name itself suggests - meant for WALKING on the SIDE of the road, not for riding scooters and other vehicles which pose a danger to other people walking. Only exception being people on wheelchairs, but they aren't driving at break-neck speeds like an electric scooter rider, or a bicyclist.
Downvote apparently. /s

The single most significant thing an average uninfluential "western" individual can do currently, is not reproduce or at least reproduce less [1] [2]. Possibly then use your abundant available time and resources to inform and educate the public - try become influential, or just take it easy and watch the madness.

Curbing unnecessary air travel doesn't hurt either.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...

[2] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541
https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/

I like it because it's all automatic.
Pyro 0.2.0
> Does help her much right now, does it?

No, but if that's the standard, I'm fairly certain we can find a lot more "no insurance, couldn't get treatment at all" stories in the US than we can "Canadian needs unusual, not-yet-approved medication" ones.

> There are several expensive medications that the Canadian health system has elected not to cover.

You'll find the American medical system does the same.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2007/12/21/teen-dies-hours-after...

https://www.today.com/news/man-battles-health-insurer-drug-c...

All medical systems will have rules and timelines for approval of drugs and procedures. Sometimes they'll lead to unfortunate situations.

In the US, though, approval's just the first step. You might then have to scrape together the $6k deductible for your family's bronze plan. You might have to wait until next year to switch insurers to one who covers that particular med.
lmao what a loser
The problem (as I see it anyway) is that function scoping + hoisting is weird and can cause some unexpected bugs.
With factors of 2,3 and 4 its actually easier to deal with English than metric. A third of a meter? Good luck.
> One in five students use extra money from their student loans to buy digital currencies.

Is this for real or just bogus results from an unscientific survey?
I know for a fact that gas was $0.98/gallon in the late 90s, at least in my hometown. We went on a trip to Montana and I remember wondering how people afforded to drive with gas at the $1.28/gallon or whatever it was there.
Are you really telling us Slavs that we are wrong in what we (and our governments, educational systems and language authorities) consider a letter in our native languages and should stop saying our alphabets have however many letters we say they do for decades now because Germans happen to use different logic when counting their letters..?

I mean.. really?

I'm so astonished by that logic I don't even know what to tell you. Different languages can have different rules you know.

Edit: thanks for the downvote. How dare I tell a person who just claimed half of Europe is composing their alphabets wrong because Germans do it differently that they are short sighted.
The Cyrillic alphabet is a major barrier to learning Russian for Americans. I can only imagine it makes Kazakh even more daunting. I don't think Cyrillic letters pervade American culture in quite the same way that Latin letters pervade Russian culture, so it's not quite the same.
Python is awful. Since you haven’t heard any complaints. Maybe 3 is ok, can’t use it don’t know. Have to use 2.7 at work. Can’t make jars for Spark with Python and yes I am salty about it. Meanwhile we are on Ruby 2.5.1 because they didn’t fork the whole ecosystem with a language upgrade.
i have a huge database of historical data pm me
I think there is probably some middle ground between "no abstraction at all" and "literally anything goes."
I'm going to pull out some small bits from your AHN and ask in return: If you think you might have found a niche that might work in your favour, why on earth broadcast it?

"...that would not be interesting enough for larger algorithmic trading firms"

This could have been your potentially unique insight.

"... But are there opportunities ..."

There probably are but you wont find them being researched on AHN.

"no need to disclose _how_ you actually do it"

So, you don't think it is original anyway.

Before you went AHN, you had an idea but instead of doing some original research on it, you dived straight in and published it here. No doubt you will (have already) get lots of ideas and responses but the idea is out there now whether you want it to be or not.
Maybe most people just don't care all that much about privacy

Not only that. Most people welcome the attention. The people who are fighting for privacy of their friends and family are the ones who don't get it. Friends and Family want to be out there, in the public eye, liked and commented on.
BASIC was my first programming language too. And I hated it from the moment the thrill of being able to program a computer at all wore off. It kept creating itches in me that I couldn't scratch, or even name until I dove into Pascal and, later C.

In this respect JS is better. BASIC had the unique talent that although it was constrained like a "scripting" language, it didn't have the easy-to use high-level constructs. JS also was very minimal to start out with, but (a) you got something in return (the ability to run in a browser), and it was powerful in a few interesting ways (closures, and for good or ill, dynamic typing).
> To the best of my understanding, you can opt out of personalized ads with google, but not all ads. At least for the search product.

You can install uBlock Origin in all your devices.
Can you expand on this? In what way is Mazda not around anymore?
If the startup was serious about uptime they’d be part of the partner program and be given a loaner on devices
SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes
DIRECTV Now reaches nearly 1.5M customers