skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Callister
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Do you carry a smartphone? Just wondering.
I play Heroes of the Storm, so I sometimes open their esports tournament stream and keep it playing on the side. If a match looks interesting I'll pay attention or note the teams that are playing so I can revisit the VOD later.

For big StarCraft tournaments I sometimes tune in to major events as well. You can always watch the VODs later, but it's fun to chat with people during the games, or posting your thoughts while things are ongoing on the appropriate subreddit.

So it's similar to keeping ESPN running on your TV, or tuning in to the Superbowl or World Cup finals.

People sometimes even go out and meet up at venues to watch these tournaments. For example, in the bay area there are a few gaming lounges / bars that show major game tournaments. That can be a good chance to socialize with people who share a common interest with you.
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> and each Twitch stream attracts over two thousand viewers. It's not a good way to make a living.

To contrast with that, I know twitch streamers whose channel averages out at around 300 viewers a time, and who make a very comfortable living. Having a properly run channel that encourages donations, cash and bits, is a huge part of it.

I've seen streamers who pull an easy $200 a day in donations. Add in 500 or so subs, and it isn't too hard to break 6k a month. Not enough to live in the Bay Area, but a really nice salary in most of the country.
Depending on jurisdiction, raising the regular price to create the appearance of a sale price isn't legal.

e.g. from Canada's Competition Act:

> They prohibit the making, or the permitting of the making, of any materially false or misleading representation, to the public, as to the ordinary selling price of a product, in any form whatever.

http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/00...
Sam Brannon who started the first paper in SF and hyped the Gold Rush was a mormon and did quite well for himself (considered the first gold rush millionaire).

Mormons also were amongst the early workers at Sutter's Mill.
I have to disagree. Products were just more interesting in the 90s and even early 2000s. Tech is the line going through the big-suck right now but cars did the same thing from the 1970's to the 2000's: where once you had different models and styles sporting different looks, different and novel features, etc. you see things slowly boil down to a few good exceptions and the rest of it might as well be all the same thing (and with the example of cars, often is, what with manufacturers selling to each other and re-badging for different markets.)

Not long ago, shopping for a laptop was interesting. Did you want the one with the swiveling screen, or the one that was liquid cooled? The one with the super HD screen or the one with the built-in fold-out legs to angle the keyboard better? Thick keys or thin keys? Optical or no? A novel visual design or just as-thin-as-can-be? What were the pros and cons to all this? On and on.

Now all laptops practically look identical, even something with a somewhat novel design becomes 2-3 times the price for no additional power, and all of them are designed to overheat and die within a couple of years, with the exception possibly of Macbooks, which cost a King's ransom. There's no novelty or interesting ideas, just the same old things.
That may be the most depressingly truthful description of software development I've ever run across.
Every baseband (cellular chip) is mandated closed sourced, and likely backdoored.

Open source basebands NOW.
Reading? That spoils half the fun of commenting! Like slashdot in the old days!
I get bored to death whether I've been forced to watch football or play football. Not sure what's worse.

Fortunately haven't been forced to do sport since I was 14.
This applies to every form of attention driven media that I'm aware of. From your start-up to your new Instagram, if you want attention -- you need to hustle.
Yeah tournaments I get. Like sports, it's a big event. I was referring mostly to the nightly gamers that were featured in the article.
It used to be a problem that you couldn't cut and paste text from TeX-generated PDFs, and I assume this would be a problem for screen readers. I think the dvi->pdf conversion produced a PDF consisting mostly of coordinates and characters (in a non-standard encoding), which PDF readers couldn't put back together into words. This seems mostly fixed on recent pdfs, but I don't know if it's TeX (pdflatex?) or the readers that have gotten smarter.

Funnily, Donald Knuth's AoCP fascicles ship as postscript files, which Preview.app converts to PDFs that can't be copied from.
Bugger! Sorry for the inconvenience. We're updating the docs now to make this easier to navigate too.

EDIT: Docs updated, we'll keep improving it too :)
I can only assume you’re referring to the Russian propaganda campaign. https://www.kqed.org/news/11217187/from-his-home-in-russia-c...
Writing is one of the best ways to learn. A knowledge base provides me with the material that I can use to produce my own thoughts. Unless you write fiction or you have already acquired some kind of deep knowledge about a subject, the process of research and collecting is essential for good writing.
> accessible

Let's take perhaps the simplest most important accessibility feature:
How do I increase the font size without making the content absurdly wide, while viewing a PDF?
Nguyen Van Thieu, huyó de su país, intentó sacar toneladas de oro
The Kindle store is already garbage for any kind of discovery, and Unlimited makes it worse being just more marketing BS to hide the real price and displace good content. Their suggestion algorithms are terrible, and only really work if you want something from the same author.

Steam has exactly the same problem, although ar least they‘re trying to solve it in various ways.
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> Right on the heals

Freudian autocorrect error!
You’re right about the advantages of Haskell regarding side-effect strictness and refactoring. That’s a huge win. I think now that I have significant experience with OCaml it’d make going back to Haskell easier for me. That’s probably something I’ll do. But right now I’m finding OCaml has been great for me.

I’ll look into Racket and friends. Thanks
As previously mentioned, the split seems engineered to amplify the Democrat party representation for the current state of CA (basically tripling it). The majority of the large land mass that makes up "Northern CA" in the three way split really wants nothing to do with SF or Sacramento.
Disclosure: I work at MaaS Global.

While you could use the Whim app and a Total Freedom subscription to get 30 days of private care usage, we encourage people to use multiple modes of transport that are best suited for varying needs.

Mobility as a Service is based on the idea of multi-modality and the premise that private car ownership shouldn't be a requirement for freedom and spontaneity. We are learning, in many cities worldwide, that private car ownership is leading towards a congested and wasteful (in terms of space and material resources) urban center.

As the MaaS concept and ecosystem are much bigger than one company, I recommend checking out how other people, journalists, researchers, companies, cities, and regions are exploring the concept :-)
I suspect that this is related to this:

"Research into the link between domestic abuse and the football has shown that reports of domestic abuse increase when the England team win or lose a football match and that the instances increase with every World Cup tournament."

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/world-cup-2018-engl...
Unfortunately, I have seen it suggested that net-zero is no longer sufficient; that the question has, for a while, been “how much damage will there be?” rather than “will there be any damage?”

Past emissions are still in the air.

I’m not too fussed myself, because I’ve noticed that photovoltaic is growing exponentially — literally exponentially — so we will probably soon have so much spare power we will be trivially able to absorb CO2 from the air and turn into petrol or something.
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In a perfect world, maybe. It's hard to tell with Amazon now. Fraud and counterfeiting have become rampant on the platform since they opened up third-party selling to all foreign nations 18 months ago and despite the negative press and angry consumers, they've said and done very little to combat these issues. It's difficult to find other reasons why nothing has done beyond their bottom line numbers growing significantly.

Generally speaking a business should find flaws and fix them before releasing. Iterative development is okay, but when issues like this become commonplace and nothing is done to combat it, that's when there's a problem. I have no solutions to offer.
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The coding/decoding feature was omitted from the manuals in the Barbie versions of the typewriter, effectively 'removing' it because you could now only activate it by accident — some young girl probably got quite a surprise when her text came out garbled like that after an accidental key press combination. Actually removing the feature from the PCB means incurring extra costs, so they just left it in.
In most cases that HSV-1 or HSV-2 is dormant, and the person is considered healthy. In this study, the people diagnosed with HSV were considered sick, and in some cases there was a need for the so-called "aggressive antiviral therapy". Now, the study seems quite well conducted, there was a large enough group of people diagnosed with HSV (about 8k people) and a control group of about 25k people who were aged-matched with the first group, but healthy. The two group were followed for 9 years. The main conclusion of the group, that the people with HSV were 2.5 times more likely to develop dementia appears sound, and the power of the experiment probably many times higher than the one necessary to determine statistical significance. The secondary conclusion, that the people "aggressively treated with antivirals" is not as strong, in my opinion. First of all, it's not clear how many in the primary group were subject to that treatment. In an extreme scenario, maybe we are talking only about 50-100, in which case, we may end up with an intended or unintended case of p-hacking. Second, the researchers may have looked for hundreds of things, like how more prone to Alzheimer people who drank more alcohol were, or people who watched too much TV, or other hypotheses. And we may end up again with p-hacking (like in the acne-causing-green-jelly-beans xkcd [1]).

[1] https://www.xkcd.com/882/
I add a temporary fix to this overflow issue. it is caused by a flexbox issue on firefox.
On firefox the behavior is a little different from chrome/safari, but at least the axis are not hidden from overflowing anymore :)
thanks for the report!
Would you get the merge conflict if you mark the *.png extension as 'binary' in .gitattributes?
Singapore goverment's website is also very good.
The article is not wrong. But it seems to be pointing out something all sales like this do. Black Friday is full of fake deals that encourage you to act fast. Same with Boxing Day.
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Rlay homepage was where I got some idea of what rlay is, https://rlay.com/
The average person consumes 8 hours of media a day - 5 out of 8 is television but of course, that could start to move towards streams.

http://erikaugust.com/thoughts/eight-hours-a-day/
Big kudos to the work you are doing. Countries I've been living before -Spain, Italy terrific experiences with gov digital services- should take lessons from you on how to run a digital and accessible PA portal online
The thing is, yes you can set up a new company and make a new product from scratch whose requirements are exactly defined by you and after a few years of work they'll have a working product. Then what? You'll still be running the same software in 10 years, are you going to keep paying an entire company's worth of employees during those 10 years so they can hang out and be ready to implement all the changes you'll eventually need, to fix bugs and provide support? The costs of that would be far higher.

Most non-enterprise people don't get it (as seen in this thread where most people are only taking into consideration the cost of development): In a software suite's lifecycle, the initial implementation cost is nothing compared to the total cost until sunset.

Application lifecycle management (or product lifecycle management in a broader context) is a hugely important thing for a corporation that plans on existing for more than a couple years.
Several people found my blog entry on this enlightening: http://blog.reverberate.org/2015/08/monads-demystified.html
Telling your customers to carry a laptop/tablet because you feel linebreaks are just a nice-to-have is quite user-hostile.
The moment you touch anything related to accounting or subject to laws / regulations, stuff gets very hairy.
Indeed. Dijkstra specifies two cars joined with the toilet in the middle:

"When each car with a toilet was coupled, from now until eternity, at its toileted end with a car without a toilet, from then onwards the shunting yard, instead of dealing with N directed cars of two types, could deal with N/2 identical units that, to all intents and purposes, could be regarded as symmetrical."
Airbnb breaches EU consumer rules, must fall into line: EU
I'm not even sure.. at the moment I'm lost. :)
FYI - /s denotes sarcasm.
> If you can make it work, fixing the bug seems like the obviously superior solution compared to letting it fester and working around it locally with incompatibility declarations

Fixing the bug creates a new version. Unless you are going to create the mess of unpublishing packages or replacing packages with new different ones with the same identified version (both of which are problematic in a public package ecosystem), the fact that maintainers should fix bugs that occur in published versions doesn't , at all, address the issue for downstream projects that is addressed by incompatibility declarations in a dependency management system, even before considering that downstream maintainers can't force upstream maintainers to fix bugs in the first place.
You can do this easily in Haskell using lens’s field classes and mtl style constraints.
Are there examples of businesses out there which have done product recommendation correctly?

Amazon is notorious for trying to sell you the same kind of product after you've already purchased it (e.g. I bought a ladder and now all of my recommendations are for more ladders). How hard can it be to uncover which items are more likely to be one-time buys and recommend the products people buy with those items instead (ex. show me painting supplies when I buy a ladder)?
(Too late to edit my own post.)

Furthermore, I wanted to add that there are a lot of studies that indicate lack of sleep as a risk factor for Alzheimer's. Lack of sleep is also one of the biggest causes of HSV reactivation and outbreak.

I'd be interested in knowing if Lysine supplements have similar effect to acyclovir. The amino acid has a well studied suppressive effect [1, 2].

I'm going to email some of these authors to inquire.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/6262023/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/640102/
Very informative and thought provoking post

If I understand correctly, APOE helps viruses enter neurons. How does APOE4 behave differently than other isoforms in this regard? APOE itself isn't implicated in AD risk, just the APOE4 isoform. And I couldn't tell from your post or a brief lit search, what's the current thinking on the relationship btw APOE and amyloid beta?

I think APOE4 is associated with higher levels of beta amyloid but I don't know why. You mention a study showing beta amyloid traps herpes simplex? Is there a mechanism by which APOE4 drives more beta amyloid aggregation to fight viral infections, but as an unintended result leads to AD?

I've briefly followed some of the recent papers on a viral link to AD but haven't spent much time on it, your post has inspired me to do some more research!
"Musk could have chosen to ignore calls for help"

But then he would have missed out on all that publicity.
I love how you go directly to the source code to dig it out! Actually the answer if also hidden in the code tab of the app. It you switch to Code, you can get the code snippets to make the setting work in css!
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> The NYC subway system is not autonomous. Every train has a driver.

The L train is actually fully self-driving and self-operating. The TWU has a contract with the MTA that requires them to hire someone to sit around and press a keepalive button every so often, though that doesn't make the train any less autonomous.

(The TWU has a history of striking these sorts of "deals" with the MTA - typically, they take the form of requiring the MTA to pay for the cost of any jobs that are eliminated due to technological advancements. In other words, it becomes more expensive for the MTA to introduce technology - even technology that's already been standard practice for decades elsewhere in the world - than to keep using older and more expensive systems.)

So at this point, we're talking about political barriers to self-driving trains, rather than technological ones, and "repurposing subways for self-driving car tunnels" has all of those same barriers, on top of being a dramatically less efficient way of moving people around.
Not Mapbox, but MapTiler Cloud lowered the price recently - https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/plans/
Because anyone can embed JavaScripts into PDF file and launch stuff. https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/analyzing-malicious-p...
I'm not sure I completely trust research done on HeLa cells. Those things are seriously weird.

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

PS: On the other hand, if something kills those things..
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I talked to them about this, they were like : "well how will you earn money?"

I feel like it has never been about me, but about my achievements. This has fucked up my sense of self.
Yeah. Speaking as someone who ran a rather large fansite about NIN in the 2000s (the entity now basically exists as a Twitter account), you really cannot just "grow organically" on today's internet. I like to tell people I have a marketing allergy. Self-promotion feels gross. The "if you build it, they will come" mantra from Field of Dreams is not applicable to a world where so much more content is being created than can possibly be consumed. But I realize that if I want something that I'm doing to gain any traction at all, I have to get other people talking about it, and that there are pretty well established ways of making that happen.

When the internet was a smaller space occupied primarily by nerdy types, you could make something interesting and by the nature of the medium, a lot of people found it. You thought you really hit it big if you made Slashdot, but getting featured on television took it to a whole different level. (For example: The Dancing Baby) You didn't need to have a face or a personality - your content actually could speak for itself. But even back then, taking those extra steps usually didn't hurt, either.

Now, the internet is full of professionals of all stripes, and that means you're fighting for attention against people or entities who have a budget for marketing and PR. I can take the most beautiful photos in the world and put them on Instagram, but if I'm not actively marketing that account, no one will ever see them. Meanwhile, some dope with a fresh set of credit cards rents a Lamborghini for a photo shoot, buys batches of followers, and that will grow a following, and maybe he'll get a free night at a posh hotel out of it.

Maybe Bloomin' just does it for the love of it. Maybe Markipler has been able to quit their job and make YouTube their profession. I bet both of them wish they had aspects of the other's experiences. As much exposure as I got to being a small-beans niche internet 'celebrity' (like, on the level of local weatherman), I wouldn't wish fame on my worst enemy.
Absolutely.

But, the cost of a car/truck is massive relative to most people's overall budgets. So, there's probably lots of room for optimization through transit-as-a-service.
PSA Rips is a good place to look if you're curious about how H.265 is used in practice. (Note the 10 bit video.) Their stuff tends to be tagged "hevc-psa". Here's an article they wrote about encoding quality: https://psarips.com/why-psas-releases-are-sometimes-late/
...which can be solved by a simple innovation, given the right approach.
I think there are some parallels between "just leave (insert technology provider here)" and "just leave the country you call home".

> most websites have customers, we have users.

Interesting thought: Do Facebook, Google, etc have "users" and not "customers" for their consumer products?

For many people, leaving digitally can have bad effects on their social life. It's arguably not as bad as moving out of the country, but it's still a practically impossible hurdle for a lot of people.
$1,500 trillion? Did you mean to say $15 trillion, or am I misunderstanding?
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Model totally sucked against betting odds and if you used the model probabilities to price bets you would have lost a lot of money vs even an average bookmaker.

Score it yourself against implied probabilities from Betfair for example and marvel at the suckage.
Not necessarily easy either, and I don't really see the point. It's perfectly usable as it is, might as well keep it simple and invest time/money in stuff more useful than satisfying the .5% of users that are techy (made up number) for the few times a year they have to use the website
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allowed domains:

en.wikipedia.org

I'm all for having discussions, but if you think the dichotomy should be "don't use the Internet at ALL" or "Talk to them about it and hope they're mature enough to avoid getting rick-rolled into rotten.com" then I heartily disagree.
This article misunderstands or at least downplays the motivations of most of the smaller streamers on Twitch. On HN a good analogy would be the startup scene, where plenty of startups are made out of passion and a desire to solve a need in the community. Streamers are like these small startups, a lot of them set out to make money but many are content with just the experience, similar to a side project. I often browse small 1-4 viewer streams just to see what's happening and you can sometimes find interesting and unique people who are just there for the fun of it.