skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clickbait. The actual finding appears to be this: if you are diagnosed with HSV (herpes simplex virus), your risk of dementia is 2.5 times higher. If however, you get an aggressive antiviral treatment, then the risk is reduced by a factor of 10. I take this to mean that overall, the risk do develop dementia is 2.5/10 = 0.25 times the base risk, so overall, the Alzheimer's risk is only 4 times lower with herpes medication, when compared with the general population.

The relevant quotes from the article:

"The two groups were followed for almost a decade, between 2001 and 2010. In the herpes group, the risk of dementia was over 2.5 times higher than in the control group.

Significantly, the study also revealed that aggressive antiviral treatment reduced the relative risk of dementia by 10 times."
I use gtd with org mode and I can move my finished tasks to a done file when they're complete (if I care to.) Helps with standup etc.
There really should be a comparison between both traditional sports, and eSports.

My first esports (Dota TI internationals in seattle) outing really felt like I was actually playing. I could appreciate all the moves that were being made even if I couldn't actually do it in front of a computer.

Because esports is mostly done also sitting on a computer, there's also less of a "barrier" than say in watching soccer. You aren't actively moving while watching soccer
> Maybe you could provide some example/tutorial on "stitching your own GraphQL apis with hasura"

We have an example of schema stitching in this repo https://github.com/hasura/graphql-schema-stitching-demo

It stitches a weather API schema and a person schema. Hope it gives an idea.
So much entitlement in this post

Never the less, I’ll bite because this is a topic of interest to me. What kind of wait times are you talking about?

Emergency room? Public non-emergent and elective surgery? Private practice specialists? Bulk billing or private billing general practice?
AEI is basically on the same level with Brookings Institution, both have their ideological leanings but neither do necessarily bad work as a degree of policy is always about interpretation and argument on priorities.

An example of more ideologically bent DC think thanks would be Heritage Foundation and Competitive Enterprise Institute on the right, and Center for American Progress, and Center for Budget and Policy Priorities on the left.
Just to be clear, Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo for $45 billion in 2008, long before Marissa Mayer was CEO.

As the parent comment notes, your previous comment seems to suggest some kind of causation between Mayer’s tenure as CEO and the eventual breakup and sale of Yahoo. This is the fallacy known in poker as “resulting”.

Nicholas Carlson’s “Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo” is a fair account of her first few years at Yahoo. Keep in mind that when she joined, there was something like a total dozen mobile engineers at Yahoo. The company had burned through 3 CEOs in a decade, etc.

Mayer was not a perfect CEO in terms of strategic vision or her choice of acquisition targets, but I don’t think her time as CEO was particularly bad either.
Programming Is Like Sex (2008)
Dismissing it as a fluke is a bit short-sighted. The EU's problem with its energy policy is that it has often accidentally been regressive in terms of CO₂ emissions. Germany's decision to abandon its nuclear plants provided a sharp rise in emissions, for example, at a time when fracking in the US was causing coal plants to switch to natural gas in droves.

The US's emissions are still bad, in absolute, per capita, and per GDP terms. However, the trends are still on a downwards trend, and even the current administration's policies are unlikely to be able to change that. The country to be most concerned about is China, whose emissions are the largest in an absolute sense, and even on a per capita basis are about ½ the US's, and these numbers are on upwards trends.
The elders of the internet use a hotmail address??
Yeah that is true - it can be useful in those situations where they can just drop you off (often - at least in the UK - where parking is bad, public transport is usually fairly functional though so that is an option too - that said it also helps to fill in gaps in the public transport - e.g. instead of going from A->B then B->C on a train, you can just go direct A->C etc)

Of course, a car-sharing application also suffers from the parking issue though.

Personally for me I use my cars most where parking is not a problem (e.g. driving to friends & family, to the shops, vacations etc). I fail to see how ride-hailing is going to make this sort of use of a car obsolete.
So it was not captured in the (overestimated) 95% :-) But I agree, the most likely thing, even if the probability was perfectly known, is not always what happens.
The Internet used to be something you had to reach out to, with a dial-up connection, in order to connect to it. Now the Internet is in our pockets, follows us everywhere and nags us with nonstopping alerts.

Alerts is what creates addiction. They are rewarding/interesting only sometimes, like a slot machine.

Just disable most or all alerts. Every time you get an alert, consider if you want a similar alert in the future. If the answer is no, disable it.
A ColorPicker for Android
This answer is very useful and contains proper strategy advice :)

If someone were to bet during the round of 16, if someone were to bet $1 on the bottom 8 and $2 on the top 8, the strategy would most likely yield a small profit or a small loss, rather than a total loss.
> In retrospect, we should have known; USENET was a pretty clear warning.

100% true.

Another good data point is John Gabriel's Great Internet Fuckwad Theory: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

That was written 14 years ago, effectively before modern social media. This problem has been a long time coming. The problem isn't that we couldn't know. It's that people kept thinking it would magically be different this time.
That's how old they are. :)
There's not really much you can respond with, so I'm just gonna type some words so I'm not just leaving a one word post on HN:

"Okay"
You haven’t established that the government is less trustworthy than the private providers?
You are comparing C++, a bare metal language, to JS, a high level dynamic language running in the richest plateform ever created.

So what you are saying is that it's logical that the JS restaurant is hard to eat in, because for cooking you need to sharpen knife and chose the best fruits from the market.

To me, it's madness or dishonest.

My experience is that in JS it's usually both.
The year-over-year change in consumption-based emission inventories probably does not deviate enough from the trend in emissions from energy to make a huge change.
That was probably my favorite part.
The US would still be the right direction and China and Russia would still be in the wrong direction of the trend.
> If security is your only priority, there is no point where you would stop.

in a secure system, adding defensive layers is constrained by the amount of code required to implement them. at a certain point, these layers can become an attack surface, and therefore a liability.
HHV-3 is also one of the 8 herpesviruses which seems to be common among children, teens, and young adults causing chickenpox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_zoster_virus
To restore your faith in mechanical ingenuity you need to watch Martin from Wintergatan build his Marble Machine X. It's a neat intersection of tech wizardry with CAD and CAM and old fashioned handicraft https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLLYkE3G1HED6rW-bkliH...
Regardless of the source, its well known that natural gas and fracking is causing a huge emissions drop. This often flies in the face of peoples cognitive bias on the matter, and it should. Reconcile your "faith" with fact.
Many can't except the reality that economic incentives vastly outway any government policy. CO2 emissions wont be solved by more regulations, they will be solved by transitioning our economy to cleaner sources, electric cars, lab grown meats, vertical farms, self driving electric planes, ships, trucks (think about the carbon loss of supporting a human operators. Truck stops go away, restaurants and hotels close, etc). The government would be better suited subsidizing or giving tax breaks to the technology we want to see roll out, or simply get out of the way all together, rather than silly ideas like carbon taxes and onerous regulations that just end up targeting the poorest blue collar workers.
It was really easy to be an egalitarian before social media caught on in a big way... Now more and more elections are going the way of populism and truth has taken a back seat.

I currently try to employ mitigation methods 2.3 and 2.4. If you slip on 2.3 you can generally compensate by leaning more heavily on 2.4.
> It's that people kept thinking it would magically be different this time.

I don't think that's the problem, rather it's that the overwhelming majority of people currently on the internet are completely unaware there was a 'last time'.
Thanks. I tested it with my own screen but obviously there's some lower resolution displays out there. I'll make some CSS rules for 800px high.

Also I'll make sure the bottom text resets
History is full of massive data breaches which were only noticed when the dump turned up being sold. Few places have decent exfiltration detection on their IDS.

Or there's the classic "health records left on train" incident: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7449927.stm
But there are small businesses that do this: bands and venues/bars. Bands especially often either don't know how/don't have time to update show times, but will keep Facebook updated and could benefit from a presence outside FB. Perhaps drop the price and drill down the marketing to focus on these types of customers.
Because parent is right, there are a lot of small businesses that, if they have a website, don't really have any need to ever update it. Why would a salon or mechanic need to update their site more often, that is time better spent elsewhere. So focus on customers that can benefit from this service, since it does appear to be a good product.
Yep, works like this in Canada. The problem is that each clinic implements a different record system, so someone needs to undergo effort to translate them when you switch systems.

Also, I worked with OSCAR, one of Canada's biggest EMRs. It is written by a bunch of academics at a local university and is individually deployed on under-the-desk computers at clinics. It is full of security holes, the whole process of managing this system is.

I get why you want rights over the medical records. You can still have those on a centralized system. Google and facebook are centralized and you have rights over them (in some jurisdictions anyways).
It was the first big webmail provider. Assuming they registered it early on, that email address is old enough to drink now. And very much needs to, I'm sure.
It is not an ad hominem attack to point out that the source of the information has previously shown to be biased and use monetary incentives to garner outcomes that fit their viewpoints.
>the overwhelming majority of people currently on the internet are completely unaware

Generally just this.
Site looks great and I think it’s a useful idea. Here is my feedback:

1. Drop price from $15 -> $5 per mo. It’s not like you don’t have the margin for it. As a small business owner, I would not consider using this at $15 but at $5 it feels like a no brainer.

2. Start writing relevant blog posts in your niche. “How to integrate Facebook with your website”, “Top 5 small business website services” (name yours as second/third), “Small Business Spolight: Girl who takes pics” (especially good because you can partner with small biz and cross-pollinate your marketing efforts. No biz will turn down a free blog post on them, and you get free content). The trick to building your social community is give others something worthwhile to talk about online, and let your audience fill up your feed.

3. Facebook ads if you aren’t already running them. Even a $100 monthly budget will make a big difference, and I believe even more so because of your direct relation to FB.
A case against top-down global optimization
Oh, there is. You can have saturation in the field, and employers having trouble finding people, at the same time.

Real world analogy: When I was trying to renovate my place, I had to look for contractors/carpenters. All the good ones are overbooked for 4-6 months out, many only take referrals and won't even talk to you otherwise. At -the same time-, a bunch of contractors I called said they retired or changed field because there was no job and business sucked.

Software engineering is heading a similar way. The barrier for entry for "I know how to build an app" is very, very low. But the "skill ceiling" is very, very high. There's a ton of positions, but when anyone can self teach or do a quick bootcamp and get in, well, there's a lot of competition for these jobs. At the higher end though? There's also a lot of jobs...but competition is non-existent.
Open Source Words–Visualization of Words in Top 2000 GitHub READMEs
Just a random guess, but I would hazard that it's not the heat. Going in a properly hot sauna and 'soaking' for 15min or more gets you really sweating, and increases your heart rate. Basically it 'gets your blood pumping', and _probably_ produces an activity profile not too different from mild exercise; and regular exercise has also been shown to consistently lower risk.
Basketball has a lot of points scored so one or two freak plays or lucky bounces aren't likely to affect an outcome. And there are a lot of games so even a star player having an off night or two isn't likely to affect the outcome of a season.
Do you believe it should be legal for companies to have terms that prevent you from working at a competing company in a similar industry. It is illegal to share much of the information you learn there as well. The big difference is that you aren't meticulously saving every piece of information for easy access at your new company and that you know you're breaking the law if you did share that information. Simply make it illegal to use the data after a certain amount of time and the problem will fix itself.
> For example you can't really compress a JPEG

You can compress (or rather, optimize) an existing JPEG if the Huffman tables were suboptimal (which they often are). It usually gives a few percentage points of decreased file size.

You can also drop metadata (e.g. EXIF) in many circumstances, which saves a bit more.
Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF
This is one of my favorite books and I could not recommend it enough, not only for the story but the style it was written.

I'm ashamed to admit I haven't yet found the time to read Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up from the same author.
svgo has a gui online called SVGOMG.
I've encountered the "scientific consensus" that OP describes while being taught biology at University in Canada.

It certainly seems that part of the issue is that "scientific consensus" is frequently wrongly claimed even though there may be a consensus among many mainstream academics in a network.
Ask HN: Moving from OS X to a remote virtual dev environment
I'm currently running a 2013 Macbook Air for mostly ruby web development work. I've been wanting to upgrade for a while but I'm just not that fussed on Apple's latest laptop offerings. As I work from home I don't really need a grunty laptop anymore.

So far I've been managing my Air's 8gb memory limit by running work's dev vm on a headless PC so I'm considering upgrading that PC so it can handle more VMs to try get a fully remote development setup working.

Does anyone have any good advice on a fully remote virtual dev environment?

My big question is how others best to handle working with code remotely on a VM. I know some people who ssh in and vim away but I'd rather work in Sublime if I could.
From what I heard those genetic tests are about as accurate as saying "You kinda look European and Europeans have a higher risk of Alzheimer's". Not wrong, but also not a guarantee.
How about that’s it’s for 2017 alone, showing no signs it’s a sustainable trend?

If it was “largest decline, beating the previous largest declines in 2015, 2016...” maybe they’d be showing something interesting

US emissions are lowest since 1992.

Oh wow, so one year where it was lower than our previous lowest which was 26 years ago

This is too specific to 2017 to be a sign of anything useful
I know this is a joke (although only partly), but blocklists are honestly part of the problem.

People got to this ridiculous level of childlike annoyance at the mere existence of dissent through group effects alone, but compounding it by literally removing any form of conflict seems like the worst solution possible.

The solution to people acting terribly on the public square shouldn't be to remove it.
From TFA:

> The cost of cars accounts for as much as 85 percent of personal transportation spending, according to Hietanen, even though the average car is used only 4 percent of the time.

Sounds like a great opportunity indeed. Former car owners save money and the car rental companies can still make a profit. Everyone (including the environment) wins.
There already is a request in congress which was never visited, from the 1800s. From my understanding those never die—but also very unlikely to be brought to the floor.

This new effort has like a 1% chance. I’d give Jefferson State a 2% chance.
https://workflowy.com/ which I strongly suspect was inspired by Emacs Org-mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMVtkNrquU
> (if you register for a trial, for example, you should be "paying" with your email to let the company start a marketing process. Marketing for a service you have registered is not spam...)

Mail people don’t want to receive is spam. You do not have a right to send anyone anything they don’t want. If your business model depends on that it’s going to fail.
Generally speaking, the things you've been mentioning have been happening for the last 250 year's. Systems have been put in place that have reinforced certain ways of being as being the ideal or easiest way to do things.

Stuff like class hierarchies, zoning policies, corporatism, segregation... All these little quirks and nudges from the past that may or may not be relevant anymore.

This is why some of the founding fathers did not believe in legislation that was considered binding in perpetuity. With a once and done mindset combined with a psychological reluctance to undo what those before us have done, we lay the foundation through which attitudes hundreds of years old still affect us in our day to day for good or ill without OUR generation having consciously discussed and new a positive decision that a law is worth keeping.

A Government that operates without sunset dates on its laws resembles more a Tyranny of the Dead than a Government of the Living if you will as time goes on.

It doesn't HAVE to happen with violence. However, there has to be some very frank, realistic, high integrity people combing through a lot of detritus for a long time. Making conscious decisions others are willing to back up.

It's not an easy thing. The Framers really never set out for easy in their defense.
That doesn't really mean much without knowing what the average is.

So you should definitely hesitate until you fully grok the numbers.
SICP Goodness – What Is Meant by Data?
0 with the proposed map.

The big driver here is that the major coastal cities and everywhere else want nothing to do with each other and are inching closer and closer to throwing up their hands and saying "screw it, it's worth the cost" and actually splitting.

The proposed map portions out the coastal urban areas among the three states in a way that nobody is pleased with. In each case you've got a bunch of delusional commie leftists sharing a state with a bunch of backwards hicks (yes, I'm sure both sides would consider those their preferred pronouns). That's exactly the status quo right now. The proposed split wouldn't make it better.

Splitting up a state will cause a lot of economic upheavel. Think about all the reverberations from changes in government funding on the city/town level for example. Just the friction of figuring everything out would cost a huge amount of money. Pretty much everyone stands to lose a few bucks in any deal that splits the state.

Splitting a state has big economic downsides and the proposed map does not reflect the cultural divides of CA so it's all downsides and no upsides therefore it's not happening, at least not with the proposed map.
As parent you can install whatever SSL CA you'd like and make full MitM of your own devices. For everyone else it's very important to not leak any private information to ISP or any other party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_crisis
To cash in on Kindle Unlimited, a cabal of authors gamed Amazon’s algorithm
"This is because an end-to-end test covers a much greater area of the code base." I disagree. A single unit test will cover less area than an end-to-end test, but unit tests in aggregate will cover a greater area.
As someone else mentioned, it's much easier to just use ImageOptim if you're on Mac. There's also a CLI and accompanying tool for NPM that includes this and ImageAlpha and JpegMINI: https://www.npmjs.com/package/imageoptim-cli

But one thing I'd caution is that webp is not a panacea for image optimization. It's only supported in Chrome. If you want to fully leverage next-gen image formats cross browser, you'll also need JPEG 2000 and JPEG XR...and even if you do all of that, you still won't get support for Firefox.

There's also srcset and lossy compression, which are also viable options: https://userinterfacing.com/the-fastest-way-to-increase-your...
Social Media Fasting – Life Hack and Productivity Cleanse
> Whenever a couple has any kids at all, there is always a youngest child and an oldest child. Sometimes, they are the same child.

Technically, that's an only child and that has articles all its own...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17515492
Yes, it does. Additionally, all of this stuff:

https://github.com/nox/rust-rfcs/blob/master/text/0230-remov...
Play-fighting is different from real fighting, though.
Comparative Advantage: When the Unbanked Self-Organize
Using packages means less code, not more, since you're not rewriting the wheel every time.
New Book Paints Different Picture of Workplace Behavior at Google and Facebook
I keep mine locally. I have the PlainTasks[0] package installed for Sublime Text. It's a plaintext file with a bit of TODO functionality baked in. When I find something, I note the commit, the line (or block), and why I want to fix it. I try to slightly estimate high enough that I could throw some fixes in for the sprint.

[0]: https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks
Those technology choices all carry trade-offs. Optimizing for correctness doesn't always maximize business value.

And in my experience most of the defects which aren't caught by our quality control process wouldn't have been prevented by switching from OOP to FP, or from mutable to immutable state, or anything like that. So I'm not convinced.
Amazon is an ACCOMPLICE in the crime, yet courts have failed to rule as such.
Claims of anonymised data
The Chinese Government Likely Borrowed More than the US in 2017