skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. If the user doesn’t understand the technicalities, then, I argue that Apple should take control.

The user might think that access is more important until the case where you have sensitive data (like intimate photos) at the wrong hands.

Apple picks to destory the data of all users. It annoys the majority but protect the minority which has sensitive information.

Also users underestimate the sensititivty of their data until the hammer hits.
Microsoft and Google Find New Meltdown-Spectre Security Chip Vulnerability
TL/DR:
"I started wearing a sweatshirt and hand warmers at work, and I avoided caffeine on the days I went to the office. The pain went away, and so far hasn’t come back."

I understand that keeping back this information is a rethorical tool to force the reader to read the article to the very end, but I believe it is a dishonest strategy of keeping people reading.
Solution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWvbHVBw3tw
Even healthy people should turn on sticky keys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_keys

Pressing, Ctrl, Shift, etc. combos strains your hand. With sticky keys you can press key combinations by hitting the keys one after the other, instead of simultaneously.
Hmm, this article makes me think some people's RSI problems may be caused by Raynaud's Disease.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/raynauds-dise...

It's more a description of symptoms than a description of cause, but being able to put a name on it makes it easier to ask about and Google. Basically, anything that can help treat this might be able to help with related RSI.
Really cool bit of history! I keep coming back to the idea that studying Photoshop is a great way for learning about how to engineer desktop applications and GUIs. Discovering Sean Parent's _Better Code_ lecture series has been a dream come true!
Didn't read the article, but this makes me wonder if compound interest is ethical, as opposed to simple interest.
I see. I guess it just feels longer :)
Big monolithic web applications, which catalyst is optimised for have fallen out of favour. Catalyst helped solve many perl tooling problems, and it’s still a totally viable dev target. However as the author of the good catalyst book, I’d probably reach for mojo first in 2018.

The thing I like about catalyst is the same as the thing I like about git. It works well for the smallest use case and it scales well to the largest reasonable case.
> Browsing annotations and reading commit messages is not "detective work", it's absolutely straightforward and means you're actually using your VCS as something more than a glorified tarballs directory.

That works until the VCS history is lost. For an on-topic example, this usually happens when a formerly closed-source code is released to the public: only the final state of the source code is released, with none of the VCS history. This can also happen when changing to another VCS; often the history is kept only on the former VCS. Some projects have gone through several of these events; I challenge you to find early StarOffice history when trying to understand why some piece of LibreOffice code is written that way.

And there's also the tendency in some places to reference bug tracker issues in commit messages. Said bug trackers tend to have an even shorter life than the VCS. "Fixes issue #1234" is useless when issue 1234 was on the old bug tracker, and both it and the new bug tracker were lost when the company was acquired and migrated to a third bug tracker.
And how many tech people also avoid console applications.
Just to add to this, what you might see as being "amazingly good" might simply be the ability to cobble together pieces of (bad) code from various libraries, without really understanding how things work under the hood.

Incidentally, the best programmer I've ever met (he co-authored a very popular programming language) happens to be one of the slowist typists I've seen. I once asked him why, and he said "because I have to think."

Take your time and have fun.
I think the ludicrousness that people really MEAN to point out is not that they have viewership yet claim to be silenced - it’s that the views of these people are often exactly that of the mainstream, yet they claim to be silenced. For example, Peterson explicitly represents ‘common sense’ and a return to the supposedly natural values we’re all familiar with. And the (obviously somewhat generalised, here) views that monogamy is good, LGBT is bad, women should be homemakers and men are good at tech, political correctness has gone mad, and (in the case of Sam Harris) bombing the Middle East might be a good idea, aren’t exactly radical viewpoints, so claiming they’re being silenced is laughable.

Their opinions are not really taboo, and are popular (especially with the more powerful groups in society) precisely because of it. The comparisons in this article to, say, transgender, workers rights, or peace activists therefore don’t really jibe with me.
Yes, there is similar regulation in the US that mandates every appliance have a standardized sticker indicating energy efficiency and where each particular model falls within defined classes.
Do you even remember what LED bulbs were like when the traditional bulbs went the way of the dodo? The reason CFLs were popular wasn't that the EU mandated them, it was that LED bulbs at the time were utter rubbish. If anything the ban increased a demand for proper LED lighting. If everyone was still happily using tungsten I doubt we'd have anywhere near the range of quality LED lighting we have today.
I don't know why you are downvoted for this. Both of those things have had a significant impact on demographics, and are also culturally very important. It feels like the animation white-washes history a bit.
"At some point during this period I read one of Dr. Sarno’s books. His theory is that long periods of pain are not due to actual injury, but rather an emotional problem causing e.g. muscles to tense up or reduced blood flow. There are quite a few people who have had their pain go away by reading one of his books and doing some mental exercises. [... it works, then it stops working, author makes tenuous connection to the cold in their office...] I started wearing a sweatshirt and hand warmers at work, and I avoided caffeine on the days I went to the office. The pain went away, and so far hasn’t come back."

Good for them. Sounds like a particular case, but I guess if you feel uncomfortably cold in your office, you should do something about it.
A prioritized list:

0. If you are in pain, stop immediately.

1. Posture: get an ergonomic assessment at work, follow it. A proper posture should not injure you. While typing your wrist should not be at an angle.

2. Stretching: physical therapy will train you to do it correctly. poor stretching will harm you even more.

3. Wrist braces help preventing injury.
Ice and ibuprofen can help managing pain. But pain is useful to understand what is harming you.

4. Get ergonomic hardware. A mechanical keyboard can be softer than a regular one.
SAP Joins Mercedes’ Formula E Team
What material would you suggest is strong enough to handle the orbit of two massive bodies (relative to girth of a poll one could realistically hold onto)? And what do you suppose the consequences of altering the moons orbit would be?

Something with elasticity would be a better option than something that is strong but even that wouldn't resolve some of the other issues presented; such as the moons surface not being geostationary to any point on the Earth.
Reminded me of the Space Elevator: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
In The Netherlands Geert Wilders' PVV became the second party by size, but the rest of the mainstream parties refuse to form a coalition with them so they are pretty much always in the opposition. I don't like that type of party (we had the LPF, then PVV and in the future maybe FvD) but I have to admit that as long as they don't actually govern they have a very useful function in that they often point out painful truths or situations that the other parties won't touch for fear of seeming politically incorrect.
> No they didn't.

Yes, it's all the Iraqis fault. And I'm sure you sincerely believe that despite it being utterly insane.

> Are you suggesting the media, hollywood, and universities aren't left-leaning?

Ironically, you've aptly demonstrated the entire point. If you asked this question to most people outside of America (you know, the other 7.3 billion people on the planet) I think many would probably agree that no, American media, Hollywood and universities are not left-leaning at all, not even in the slightest. But in America perception has been so completely warped that it's become a "common-sense truth" that the media is left-leaning. This whole banal game, as Chomsky describes it quite clearly[1], is to use propaganda to create a wholly isolated and controllable alternative reality.

BTW I also have to point out, though I don't give a shit about HN points, the genuinely humorous irony of downvoting these comments. I mean come on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
Great article, however it doesn't say that really (perhaps you missed this bit)

"Learn at least a half dozen programming languages. Include one language that emphasizes class abstractions (like Java or C++), one that emphasizes functional abstraction (like Lisp or ML or Haskell), one that supports syntactic abstraction (like Lisp), one that supports declarative specifications (like Prolog or C++ templates), and one that emphasizes parallelism (like Clojure or Go)."
Yes, original Motorola design called for 77 which drove the name, which stuck.
> Train speeds are limited in high density areas for safety.

There are plenty of places in Europe where 100mph+ running through urban areas is common. Urban v. rural isn't really a consideration for line speeds here. Heck, most of the mainlines north and west out of London reach their 125mph top speeds while still within Greater London. The question here is more about the presence and type of at-grade crossings, and there's a fair number on lines with 125mph running.
Metacpanhas been around for at least 5 years. It was always intended as a search.cpan.org replacement.
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GCC has also joined in the fun: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/gnu-press/gnu-press-releases-run-g...
It can take just one frustrated peer (who may join the company after you do) for 'situations' to arise.

For me it is a risk too big and prefer to keep a healthy distance from those who engage in more traditional settings.

Admittedly certain countries/cities have a more consultant-centric culture, but mine definitely doesn't!
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> If some bureaucrat thinks children should go to this or that school, we should do it because...?

Depends on the case. Sometimes parents are the best judges — but parents, like all of us, focus on local maximization, in this case, "what's best for my kids," and not what's best for all kids. Sometimes it's globally better for Alice not to be able to have the absolute best thing for her, because of the risk that this would produce worse outcomes for Bob, Carol, Dave, etc.

Dr. Atul Gawande wrote in one of his books that obstetricians decided that their job was not to achieve the absolute local-maximum best outcome for every individual mother — and therefore to use forceps for difficult deliveries, vice C-section surgery — but instead their mission was to seek a global maximum, i.e., the safe delivery of millions of babies per year. (Apparently it's difficult to be sure that trainee physicians have the proper "feel" for handling forceps, which if mishandled can result in catastrophic injuries to baby and mother.)

So, the OB community redefined the standard of care for difficult births as the C-section, which is much easier to teach and monitor. This means that some individual mothers will have surgery that they could have avoided through the use of forceps. But that's considered less important than avoiding the risk of the damage that improper use of forceps can cause.

> Would you prevent Alice and Bob from experiencing schools that are perfect matches for their abilities? Shouldn’t this be their or their parents’ call?

Again this focuses too narrowly on the local maximum. Sometimes parents are in the best position to make the call. But sometimes we as a society insist that parental judgments stay within certain guard rails; that's why, for example, we have compulsory-education laws. (And it goes without saying that we don't assume the kids are the best judges.)
Your title implies a causal relationship, which cohort studies are notoriously bad at probing.
Related content from a former colleague: http://www.amlie.name/how-i-beat-rsi/
Spain, or actually any other European nation for the sake of this argument, has been through rougher times by any measure. Successfully if I may say, time and time again.

If only most people out of Europe, and most certainly Spain, would take a glimpse of the standards of living people take for granted in Western Europe, in particular Americans, they’d be demanding their governments at least the same.
Younger programmers usually believe that the best thing is the one that allows you to effortlessly do anything you want. Only later they start to see that some limitations and hurdles might actually be beneficial.
> Unlimited feeds in beta.

That isn't a great selling point to me. That means I might become locked into a service with bad terms.
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That retired general was Smedley Butler, who among other things is the only person to receive two different Medals of Honor (the other 18 double recipients got two from different military branches for the same action). He later became a major critic of the military-industrial complex. Remarkable guy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
One idiot in the bunch asked Zuckerberg about having founded Facebook as a hot or not site. They had no idea what they were talking about.

Another politician just used the Q&A platform as an excuse to threaten Facebook with being broken up, while adding very little substance to the discussion.

Another was seemingly out of control emotionally, waving his hands angrily and belting hysterics, while pretending Facebook was going to bring on the end of Democracy and that Zuckerberg might be an evil villain.

Another tried to pretend that somehow Facebook needed regulation to stop bullying: as though bullying doesn't occur every day in every school in the world. It's like saying: we must regulate human behavior to end all crime! Good luck with that. They all seemed to not understand that Facebook = everything that you see everywhere else in life, from the public square to school to home. You can't actually regulate an end to bullying, no matter how sad that is.

After how much I've seen others talk up the wise politicians of Europe, I expected a lot more. They were no better than the US Congress. Which makes sense, given the condition of most of the EU and its politics.
Thank you for Empire, Walter! One of the best turn-based strategy computer games ever created. Many hours of fun.
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First, sorry for the "pout" in my previous response. It was supposed to be "point" but the spelling corrector disagreed.

I get the "relative well-being" argument, but honestly it doesn't change my mind. It seems to be an argument that puts jealousy in front of objective improvements. Extrapolating again, this is the dispute between those who think inequality is a problem in itself and those who think that as long as poverty is reduced, inequality doesn't matter.

I would be fine with a system that doesn't allow exchange as long as the situation described in the article wasn't allowed to happen (i.e. if there's a spot for me in my first preference, I won't be allocated to my second one).

I'll try to find time to read your references, thanks!
Mendel already showed the discreteness of genes, without knowing the structure of DNA, in the 1860s. And I believe Darwin, though not aware of Mendel's work, realised that continuous genes would be a problem for his theory.
> virtually any real project (it's everywhere)

That's a bit of an overestimation to say the least. E.g., I work at a trading firm and we use all kinds of languages for all kinds of purposes on all kinds of weird platforms, but JS is not one of them (I don't think we use Java much either, because why would you, this day and age).

'Any real web project' would be more correct. Not everyone cares about web projects though (same as not everyone cares about non-web projects, as you've pointed out).
In fact most of the Iridium block 1 sats are being de-boosted so as to not create space junk. Iridium actually has a Twitter campaign to mark the occasion.

https://mobile.twitter.com/IridiumBoss/status/99610389859420...
A lot of the debate is exactly informed by this: what we suspect some silent majority are really thinking.

So if I have a lot of sympathy with left-leaning ideas, it's probably because in a certain part of my life I see a lot of quietly right-wing ideas.
Even though I've got no love for Oracle business, there are a few facts:
The Oracle software with the bundled Ask.com toolbar was the Java client installation.
And the decision to bundle the toolbar was made by Sun microsystems (before they were bought). They probably signed a contract for a few years which is why Oracle couldn't get rid of it earlier.
My advice is get a soft silicone wrist rest and a silicone mouse rest. I used to get RSI until I got some of these rests and since then I haven't had any issues.
Building a Creative and Fun API Client in Ruby: A Builder Pattern Variation
Professor sacked for having the 'wrong opinions' on climate
If everything were backed up to iCloud (it is by default), you can literally throw your device in the trash, get a new one, log in and the new device will look and act like the old device with all of your data in check.

The issue was that she had maxed out her icloud account and kept dismissing messages. The blame for that is shared between her parent not ponying up $10 a month for 2TB of storage that can be shared by the whole family and Apple's stingy free tier that only gives you 5Gb a month per account no matter how many devices you have.
There are ways he can inform Congress after the fact. He did not. This whole “secret law” thing is illegitimate anyways.
Heaptrack Linux memory profiler v1.1.0 released
I'm not sure how much I agree with this post but what personally worked for me was simply using the mouse with my left hand instead of my right. I play a lot of video games and 15 years of intense clicking has taken its toll on my right hand so I just limit the mileage I put on it now.

That's not to say never use your right hand at all - If I was playing some FPS I'd happily switch to using my right hand again but giving it extended periods of rest (by not using the mouse) and hitting tough key combos with my left hand (Cmd + Shift + 4 + Space for a screenshot anyone?) were what made things better for me.
The answer, as always it seems, is that no one really has a clue — probably because nutrition can’t be reduced to these cute little nuggets of wisdom.

Unless the nugget is, “less overall, and especially less refined sugar.”

I think the singular thing we can be certain of is nutritionists won’t wake up 20 years from now and say, “Oh man, we all should have been recommending a higher sugar intake!”
The situation here is not the same as what you describe, though, is it? Schools don't have preferences, they just have a number of available spots. I don't see how this cycle could happen in this case.
To Kill a Centrifuge (2013) [pdf]
He didn’t say he couldn’t answer, he lied about illegal surveillance programs.
I'm German and I have no idea why you think the refugee crisis would pose a "very real problem to the housing market". The housing market hasn't changed much.

There's plenty of vacant housing in Germany. It's just not in the places people want to live anymore (i.e. mostly rural East Germany). Housing is scarce in the urban areas but that didn't really change.

The 1 million number sounds scary in isolation but it's really just a drop in the bucket. The real problem is our attitude to refugees and our immigration laws: a lot of people are stuck in a legal limbo where they are forced to live off welfare because they're not allowed to seek employment or attend craft schools or universities, many who are technically allowed to do those things only have temporary visas that get extended quarter-to-quarter but could be discontinued at any point. This creates a lot of unnecessary uncertainty while also isolating them socially, hindering "integration", which in turn increases frustration and all kinds of social ills.

Additionally, our welfare system is based on the assumption of a growing population but our birth rates are too low, so immigration is actually necessary. There's a lot of untapped potential in the refugee crisis, our attitudes just need to change to see it as an opportunity rather than a problem.
His cognitive dissonance dehumanizing the 'opposition'.
> no minimum wage means that employers are allowed to hire people for no wage

With a backstop of "now you won't starve if you turn it down", that is much less problematic.

Today, if someone's skills only create $6 of value per hour, they are economically unemployable. With UBI and no minimum wage, someone could pay them $5/hr and both would be better off than today.
Mechanical ergonomical (angled) keyboards are currently very expensive / rare. I read that many coders are enjoying the Microsoft Sculpt as an alternative.
I tried, I really did, but then I got distracted by all those shiny features and was unable to resist the temptation to play with them all. :-) I had the same problem with C++.

I will probably give it another try one day, if only for the super-friendly and welcoming community.
Reading Dr Sarno’s book “The Mindbody Prescription” was what cured me. There was no physical cause. I haven’t had issues since 2001, and I don’t do anything specific to address the physical, the solution is purely psychological (though the symptoms were physical).
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> I also find comments do get in the way when they state the obvious, unless they add to the understanding of the code in some way it is best to leave them out IMHO.

I'm basically of the same persuasion. Multi-line comments don't belong in the body of code, single line comments are sometimes necessary but I strive to eliminate them through more self explanatory code (although I will prefer a one line comment over unwieldy long variable names which often outweigh their worth by reducing legibility, especially when talking math).

Beyond that the only good reason I've found for large multi-line comments are when even given the best implementation: when there are subtle details in the concept you are implementing that can appear as being redundant or superfluous in the implementation, it is very important to comment to remind yourself not to break it when next trying to digest it again.
His point is that the 9.9% didn't suffer any of the losses that went to the top, therefore they're insulated, i.e. an "aristocracy".
The largest internet forum Reddit is ridiculously left leaning and the mods actively suppress conservative opinions. (1)

HN is left leaning, but I haven't seen any moderator action against right wing opinions. 2nd amendment rights posts used to eat a dozen downvotes each though.

(1) http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/12/02/social-media-site-red...