skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the annual UNICEF report Israel has a lower infant mortality rate than most of Europe not to mention the US and it’s pretty much a country where everyone gets circumcised.

Also in the US according to the CDC the demographic which has the highest SIDS rates is Indian Americans (not native Americans) and they have the lowest rate of circumcision amongst the US population.
I didn't have a turbo button on my first PC (mid 1990s), but the BIOS menu had a "deturbo" option. I had one game (some version of The Incredible Machine, or possibly a knock-off) that could only really be played in deturbo mode. I envied my friends who could easily switch between turbo and deturbo; I'd usually have to wait several extra minutes for the system to start up any time I wanted to play the game.
It is useful, you don't need to worry about insects and infectious diseases. Most pesticides are damaging to the surrounding ecology. Moreover, with the way industrial farming is currently done, most plants are genetically similar to each other. This means that if a bacterial outbreak were to occur, it could potentially wipe out many crops. In an enclosed environment, you eliminate these things. Although, you could still do it in a green house.
The deeper tech you know the more underground and probably experienced you are. The more languages you know, you are probably better in all of them because knowing multiple languages is better to see core parts like standards, systems and patterns. If you know a functional programming language that also probably means you have more experience in the deeper end, doesn't mean you are better but you have been around and devs that have been around probably are better.

It is the same with any subject, music and movies also has this, the more underground music/movies and more original/classic movies you have seen the more you appear to know. It is snobby but it is a signal that you probabilistically are more experienced.

Even the OP posted how he came into programming with javascript and webdev, then tried Clojure and went into SICP. The latter two aren't gateway languages/areas. The gateway languages are javascript, java, C, C++, .NET, Ruby maybe Python now are usually the first languages people know, learning Clojure meant it was at least your second language, rarely do people start with Clojure, so it signals you have gone deeper in knowledge and have somewhat leveled-up even though day to day you seem the same self.
How does block chain solve this problem any more than a plain old text file with your medical history?

IIUC the only thing keeping bitcoin's blockchain trustworthy is millions of people mining new coins and therefore distributively verifying the blockchain. Who would be doing that for your medical records and what would their incentive be to do it?
Slightly different use case, the "slow mode" switch on your motherboard is for use when overclocking with liquid nitrogen cooling.
There was an interesting thread on reddit where people were sharing their experiences with DNA tests and their parentage/ancestry. I was surprised with sheer number of them being listed/shared there. I never considered DNA tests will have such a weird side effects. It's a fascinating to see how much science or scientific tests in future can lead to weird results (not that I'm condoning cheating or anything) -

Thread for the interested - https://np.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/7mu9zn/there...

EDIT: And every now and then you see these threads - https://np.reddit.com/r/23andme/comments/8iq8hu/my_parents_a...

More meta questions - will DNA testing result in fidelity of relationships or some sort of regulation where you are not allowed to tell these uncomfortable truths?

Regardless, I'm fascinated by DNA and how much it can reveal about ourselves. Not to mention emerging trends like CRISPR.
I remember when noobs in my middle school computer class got their first sight of an IBM PC and were mystified as to the function of the 3.5" floppy eject button.
We're currently interviewing for positions which I haven't done in a while. There are many more developers and even more completion for them. The number of resumes read and interviews conducted for a Sr. position has gone up. I have found selecting candidates with more diverse exposure/interests greatly increases the s/n ratio and gladly do this knowing I'm missing some. It's just more effective in terms of time taken out of team capacity to do interviews.
That is precisely why I chose PageRank as a comparison. I think it is one of the most beautiful equations invented in computer science on par with some physics equations. Yes, if you can turn your problem into a graph then you can use PageRank to determine which nodes are more important relative to the others. You can answer questions like which academic paper or website is the best? Who are the influencers in a social network? What is the summary of this article (sentences are nodes)? But the domains and use cases where it is useful is still limited and so far no one has been able to use it to generate billions other than Google.

In other words, an algorithm, no matter how amazing, is not a platform.
Bad at whiteboard puzzles? You can still get a programming job
Logitech already did, but I’m not sure it’s available anymore.
That's how mine is too. When its original owner added an AMD 5x86, they changed it to show "133" in turbo mode.
Putting trust in TCS just because it is Tata is very worrisome. Tata products are 'reputed' only in local Indian market bubble, propped up by government protectionist measures.

https://techcrunch.com/2010/02/07/indian-it-giant-tata-consu...
I used to type about 120 wpm. I switched to Dvorak, and never fully regained that speed. I can type perhaps 90-100 if I really push it.

However, I saw references to difficulty regaining your full speed after switching if you already typed fast, so I knew that beforehand. I switched for ergonomics, not for speed.

I also type fast enough for my purposes, so I never deliberately trained to regain all of my speed.

Just a minor note, if you already type quickly, the transition can take some speed off unless you actually want to deliberately train to make sure you regain all of your speed.
They failed and the guy behind it joined DARPA. You may have seen their new electronics initiative posted here a few weeks ago - that's run by him.
> There are many ways you can use these methods that will return a result that is meaningless (if you’re lucky) or causes the JVM to stop abruptly (if you’re not).

In my world I prefer a hard crash than me wingless results, which I then have a hard time reading down ...
Well, this person "missed computer science" and picked up SICP to scratch that itch. Then he did the examples in clojure instead of scheme! It would seem to me that his colleague's signaling was correct. Would your average frontend engineer engage in either of those two activities?
And it gets around some adblock blocks :)
Disregarding the validity of your argument in itself, trust issues cannot be solved by black boxes. Humans laws have to be enacted by humans, because the real world is messy and rules and laws need "messy wiggle room".
My first PC, bought back in the summer of 1986, was an Opus (now defunct UK clone builder) with a 12MHz 286 processor, 1MB of RAM and a 37.5MB (RLL not MFM) 3.5" hard disk. It cost me an eye watering GBP 1200 (I was still a student at the time). However it did pay for itself quite quickly doing homers in knocking out dBase II and dBase III "apps" (and eventually Clipper stuff).

This thing had a turbo button on the front which would switch the CPU between 4.77MHz and 12MHz. I never had a need to run in 4.77 mode except for nostalgia purposes (I bumped into IBM PC's and compatibles quite early on).
An append only logfile is easier, more reliable and more interoperable

Just require that each change is digitally signed with the doctor's key
Arrays are stored on the gc while unsafe is off the gc
Or Bob just curls the file again and reads it?
If you want some good Sunday reading from people who actually know what they are talking about, I would recommend reading essays and papers from people like John Pfeffer, Bharath Ramsundar, and Vijay Boyapati. 'Bitcoin is worse is better'is also a fun read.
How am I going to navigate a text/plain web? Plain URLs inserted into documents?

What about text/markdown instead? Sure, having images means having banner ads, but I think it's naive to assume that a restriction to text would help combat ads.
A lot of good points.

> People still get screwed when transacting in Bitcoin, they just get screwed by scammers & hackers rather than the government & big corporations

I‘d remove the „rather than“ out of the sentence: hackers can get bought by governments. Which leaves us with scammers, hackers, governments and businesses as possible screwers, no?
400k - wow that puts things to scale. This sort of comparison really should have been in my schooling textbooks.
Sure, but the odds for a lot of lottery games are much less opaque.
I haven't. Not really sure why that matters though? I was highlighting styled-components as a much better way of handling styling in React compared to inline JSX styles or CSS files.
> The app vendor’s systems were unaffected.

The vendor doesn't test their software in its entirety?
Can we live with real things again and not clickbait each other into conflating issues and harming third parties with oversimplified, inaccurate models of reality?
It's for people who are destitute. They insist you spend all your own money first, and then you are covered fully for everything, with a small monthly allowance from social security.

Providers are happy to help you spend all your own money, and then be fully covered.
It's a great pity that today's generation can't appreciate Brooks' greatest works. Too politically incorrect.

Of course the irony is that Brooks' work was groundbreaking for it's time. He skewered everyone equally, except for bigots who got a double dose. But in today's society, much of it would be considered too raw. It really is a shame, because it teaches us all to laugh at ourselves.
I occasionally use Melatonin to help me sleep on planes or adjust to new timezone, but I don't think it's a good idea to take it regularly.
I think what Daniel means is not about separation of data domains, it's about separation of mental domains. So the distinction between two separate devices would serve as a mental aid to separate concerns. In the same way that I like to work in the office rather than from home: It helps me to focus on one thing at a time (either work matters or personal matters).
I mean if you need all four for a PT Cruiser, and you have three, it's more likely you'll win the prize than if you have none of them yet. But since that fourth one is so rare, you will vastly overestimate how "close" you are to winning.
You may well be right, but they certainly share a screenplay credit.
It feels like there has been a trend toward just not changing your last name at all. It's quite a pain due to update everything and deal with the occasional confusion of names not matching.

The messy case that this article doesn't mention is what to do about your last name on divorce. There's less tradition there, and sometimes children get upset at the idea of their parents' names no longer matching theirs.
Yeah, I think we need better collaborative filtering and/or ML for ad-blocking. And the browser should always make the website believe that the ads are shown (no altering of the DOM, but instead alter a copy of the DOM).
You get it man. Autonomous agents that want to exchange value for services or with each other would be better off using a blockchain than traditional fiat.
Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg sued after stock crash
Paredit is really not the closest or best comparison. If you want simplicity, lispy is often simpler than or at least as simple as parinfer. At the same time, it's more powerful than paredit. Even if you never used its special keybindings, I'd argue that lispy is more intuitive and has more useful default keybindings. The indentation-based inference doesn't add anything major as far as I can tell; it seems to just cause unnecessary problems. I think parinfer is more popular in editors besides Emacs because of the lack of alternatives more than anything else.
I've worked as a sysadmin in the past. When I moved from a linux shop to the first windows environment I administered I found that a lot of the windows admins were "next next install" types. I'm sure that's not the case everywhere, but as long as those people are called sysadmins they're going to dilute the value of actual professionals.
I think you mean sleep efficiency here not sleep quality? Sleep quality isn't possible to measure precisely without EEG and usually both deep sleep and REM sleep are tracked (and both together are usually less than half of sleep).

I recently came accross Babson et al. 2017 Cannabis, Cannabinoids, and Sleep: a Review of the Literature:

http://www.med.upenn.edu/cbti/assets/user-content/documents/...

There hasn't been that much research (and most is on synthetic cb1 and cb2 agonists, not cannabis, and is short term). cb1 and cb2 receptors have different effects, and the dose (especially CBD) and length of use may both make a large difference. IIRC (and maybe not from this particular review) there is evidence that the same receptors may have opposite effects in different parts of the brain. cb1 receptors have a major role in circadian rhythm.

Some studies have shown increased slow wave sleep at least at first, but long term use and withdrawal may have the same issues as GABA-A agonists. Your current issues may be withdrawal effects or due to it helping or both.

Interestingly, the common anesthetic propofol inhibits an enzyme (FAAH) that breaks down the endocannabinoid anandamide. It might work well to combine endocannabinoid enhancers with other sleep aids (maybe melatonin), however research on those seems aimed at pain relief and hasn't worked out so there don't seem to be any good ones generally available. Pfizer did a Stage 1 sleep trial of the FAAH1 inhibitor PF-04457845 (by itself), but only to make sure it was passing the blood brain barrier. They didn't publish the results but it sounds like they found at least slightly reduced REM sleep (I'm not sure if there was increased deep sleep).

Some people have tried oleamide for sleep and it is a cb1 receptor agonist (among many other things including some kind of GABA effect). It sounds like it naturally accumulates during sleep deprevation. Looking online I have mostly found people reporting no effect, although I did see one person with primary insomnia who found it very helpful when cannabis wasn't. One person reported feeling tired and dizy all the time after a few weeks of use (resolving when they stopped) and the person who found it helpful said it felt like it wasn't a good thing to take every day. It is worth noting that it may have a fairly significant and direct dopamine system effect (vs indirect effect of cannabis) and that is one of the most fragile parts of the brain.
> In almost all cases the display wasn't a measure of the speed, but the two "fast" and "slow" display options were set by jumpers on the motherboard

Ah yes, I remember changing those jumpers to get that display show the correct speed, after overclocking my "CyrixInstead" 486.
From what we understand about the difference in white-collared intelligence in males vs females, there's a higher variance in intelligence among males than in females. So either women really are in general better at coding than men, or the mid-to-low skilled women aren't making it professionally as much as they should, and only the highest-skilled women are being selected. If your anecdote generalizes, that is. (FWIW, that's been my experience as well.)
Back in the day before React was a thing, I got invited for an Uber interview. Their standard challenge is to make a sudoku app on GitHub before they even see your face.

I got ambitious and tried to do with Vue.js and learn the framework in the process. Magic state updates were nice when it worked but with deeply nested models it always failed and I had to hack around to force it to update. I spent a ton of time fighting vue magic. I was ambitious. I wanted to make a generic NxN sudoku game where N was a url param.

Overall vue was like angular, done slightly well but it still had angular like problems where the magic failed and you had to dig very deep in code. It was also very slow to update the Dom. I had to revert to DOM element mangling just to speed up initial shuffle algorithm. I believe vue2 got on the vdom bandwagon so that’s nice.

I finally got it done, with two loooong nights.https://github.com/nojvek/uber-sudoku/blob/master/README.md

Uber did meet with me face to face but I didn’t want to move SF at the time and they didn’t have a Seattle office.

Overall vue has great ideas, probably good for a small project, but if you want to do a big SPA, I would not recommend unless you are really prepared to learn the internal magic.

Nowadays I really prefer preact. It’s the React api, it’s small, fast (has a better license - before Facebook got its shit together). One can read the entire source code in an hour or two.

It does one thing, it does it really well. This is what I like to see in libraries.
In theory yes - but I suspect if you draw a Venn Diagram of people who spend the most on lottery tickets and the most on McDonalds you would find a large overlap.

A lot of people think the lottery is the best way for them to achieve financial freedom.
Ask HN: Transition to full-time while on H1B?
I'm a solo-founder who's been working on an idea (optimize career-building for students & professionals, wherever they are) for quite some time, while in a demanding full-time job to maintain my H1B status (mainly to stay close to my target market).

However, It's been challenging keeping up the pace with the limited time & mental stamina, while being short-handed (this is having already sacrificed 95% of social life). What are the best avenues for someone in my situation? Even if you get in a top accelerator, I'm wondering how that "support by connecting with immigration lawyers & similar founders" has manifested?
I predict it'll be an app that reads QR codes, and shows you an AR version of what the piece 'really' is, instead.

Tickets can start as simply generic serial numbers, but a post-distribution cryptographically-audited process then upgrades some to winners.
There is Panorama View for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view... and Spaces for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spaces/cenkmofngpo...
I forget the name of the company but there is an Irish company broker that seems to be the main player in broking deals of this sort.

If you ask at the Indiehackers forums someone will know which company I mean.
My anecdotal experience has been the opposite. Electrical service is on par, but the customer service at xcel far eclipses the coop I'm currently stuck with. Its not even a close comparison in terms of responsiveness, clear communication, and transparency of services and pricing offered. Xcel also heavily invests in alternative energy sources.
As far as I know, most US-based companies don't like doing chance-based giveaways with the potential to have a winner in Canada. Even though it's not that hard, it's still extra work.
53. I'm learning to play the banjo and solve Rubik's cube. (I can solve it, but still need a cheat-sheet.)

I learned to juggle at 50. My plan is to try to stave off mental decline by learning new stuff.
>This is not an academic question. How many dishonest Apple employes would it take to insert a secret back door into MacOS, iOS, or iCloud?

Back in the day, not many:

http://eeggs.com/tree/1136.html
Ads are not information. They're lies. Or at least, lies by omission. What I want are unbiased reviews. I'd even be willing to pay for them.
> bit rot

Isn't it specific to magnetic media only? (I don't think optical discs susceptible to bit rot. Especially M-discs which are said to last for a thousand years.)
Lightpainting + quadcopters can definitely be a thing. Of course you aren't going to get same level of precision and outdoors you have to deal with ambient light, but the concept is sound. The real magic is in figuring out nice designs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T4mw5Qe4jE
I don't think many people understand but the block chain has become. It is gambling. That is it's allure. It will remain in existence so long as there are people willing to gamble money
I don't think it's a concerns issue. You can simply decide to never create functions in any render(). There's even an eslint rule for it.
I used to think vanilla JavaScript was the way to go, but then I rewrote a vanilla JavaScript SPA with a framework (Vue) and realized how many times I didn't have had to type element.querySelectorAll('x')||[] and element.addEventListener / removeEventListener anymore. Vanilla is good sometimes but it gets tedious on bigger stuff.
Did you read the article? The point is that they have done this in java 9 with http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/193
One case I saw was configured to display "Lo" and "Hi".
Only the cleverest of people figured out they could run their PCs on turbo full-time.
Do you remember seeing jumpers on the motherboard for that? The only ones I recall seeing were on the display in the case itself, like this this: http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/led_speed_display/LED%20disp...
In a purely random natural selection driven system, propagation relies on the success of a single mutated individual

That is flatly incorrect. Whoever convinced you this is true has a fundamental misunderstanding of natural selection.

Any time environmental pressures change such that a particular phenotypical expression leads to more reproductive success, that is natural selection. A mutation is utterly unnecessary.
I'm curious since this is currently apparently the highest-upvoted comment -- does OP (or any upvoters) have any (preferably reference-backed) reasoning for this?

Otherwise it's just an unsubstantiated knee-jerk reaction at the top of the discussion.

I take melatonin once a week or so but haven't noticed any detrimental effects, so I do have a stick in the game and would like to know about potential issues if anything is out there.
Shenandoah GC: What We Know in 2018 [video]
Some say "men are more interested in things and women are more interested in people" https://youtu.be/78ZfKUUsNcc?t=256

Given a woman in tech, you probably have someone who is at the tails, someone really good.
Well, your heirs/estate would be still liable for any debts you incur?
24. Why nuclear weapons produce a double flash. I'd read that was a signature of a nuclear detonation (Clancy novels, sue me) but not why. Turns out it's because the shock wave is hot enough in the early stages of the explosion to become opaque, blocking light from escaping. As it expands, the shock wave cools and becomes transparent again, letting the light from the fireball inside escape.
I have 0 years hiring people, my experience is this. The language(s) you write code in don't mean a thing. It's the ecosystem. I'm a JS programmer, but that is not why you should hire me, it's my experience with the DOM, HTTP, indexeddb, File API, documentFragment, Fetch API, TreeWalker, NPM, WebGL, interactive SVG, the pros and cons of React, when to use Redux, Basic login, NGINX, Docker, etc, etc, etc. My point is this: knowledge of Closure(Script) is a great tool in any programmers tool belt, but it is definitely not the most important one for a solid frontend engineer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
> we're approaching 10 years since the start of the blockchain era

By that standard, the start of the internet era was in the early 80s, almost 20 years before the dot com crash.

Don't forget that Ethereum has only been live for 3 years. This is still very early technology.