skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just piracy in the name of a technically interesting project. And just because everyone has ripped of nintendo it doesn't make this one a legit use of it.

That could be a perfect additional business for nintendo using their IP... in fact you can buy still some nintendo classics on the modern Nintendo Switch and I am not sure whether they work online or not but that's their choice.

A different debate would be whether the biggest icons in the popular culture should become public domain in shorter time (e.g. 30 years) so that the whole society would benefit of it, including people who believes that these characters are part of an era or a symbol more than just private intelectual property.
Well SCSS took over CSS.
Here's a list of commercial jet airliners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jet_airliners . About 68 have been developed, by less than 30 companies, over 70 years.

In the meantime, a junior programmer on my team just got an assignment (while I was on holiday) to add a feature to an old project she'd never worked on. The feature was described in three sentences, with a budget of "at most two days" as that is what the work was sold to the customer for.

I mean, it's rather hubristic to compare ourselves to those industries, we're closer to the handyman you hire to create a new door in some wall without telling him where exactly, all that matters is that it's done fast.
How about the roads in the ancient middle east? How about the roads in current USA?
I probably would have resorted to another process manager if I were on sysvinit such as supervisord, god, monit etc to avoid making those scripts.
I spent the last 4 years in Taiwan, although I also lived in China for 5 months before that.

Traditional characters are easier to read, in my opinion. There's more radicals to guess the meaning. I can also use my program https://pingtype.github.io to decompose the character if I write it wrong.

Simplifying the number of strokes made it faster to write. This helped literacy because the education system is built on copying characters by rote - a terrible method, in my opinion. I prefer reading in parallel, with the pinyin and literal translations below (also in Pingtype).

What Chinese really needs, and doesn't contradict the history, is spaces between words. Imaginehavingtoreadenglishwithoutanypunctuationandyoullsurelyrecognisethatitsabarriertolearning.
I can't answer your questions from a clinical perspective, however I'll have a stab at them. I'm a type 1 diabetic, diagnosed when I was 9.

> Do you know why the applicability to type two diabetes is not as clear as for type one?

I'm only stabbing at this, and it's anecdotal, but I believe it is likely due to the lack of consistency across type 2 diabetics. Whilst there is variation in Type 1 Diabetes, it is largely limited to lifestyle but the basic principle is the same - you don't produce insulin yourself. Type 2 diabetes is often caused by insulin resistance, and I guess varies wildly based on the individual, their lifestyle, and their genes.

> I live with someone who has a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) where the device came in a box with an insert saying "do not use this device to make medical treatment decisions." To see any of the readings you have to install an app whose start screen says it's experimental and, again, can't be used to make treatment decisions. But the user's manual has a chapter titled "Treatment Decisions" that tells you how to use it to decide when to take insulin and how much to take. It's frustrating that the messages have to be so contradictory.

I haven't been given a CGM for longer than a few weeks (NHS rules are a bit restrictive in my area if your control is good). However the rationale for not using the CGM to make decisions is based around how it gauges your blood sugar. Because it's relying on blood glucose levels in the skin tissue I have been told that there is a delay, and basically the CGM operates about 15 minutes behind your current glucose levels. This is ok when you're using it to track glucose levels over a day, but not particularly safe if you're relying on it to make a decision for obvious reasons.

> A final question: how essential is it to be tech-savvy to use this technology?

This is a question I have asked myself a few times. As mentioned above, it's pretty difficult to get a pump and CGM on the NHS in my area without proving that you can't treat yourself adequately with regular injections. I am unwilling to sacrifice my health to have a pop at getting a pump, so I had a look at private options. Whilst initially I think there's a fairly steep learning curve, there is quite a lot of documentation provided, and the community is pretty active and helpful. I suppose it's also helped by the fact that there is only a few pumps on the market (relatively speaking). The issue is that if something goes wrong in your config, which is not uncommon for a homebrew solution, then you have to go back to manually adjusting your insulin.
> Proof of residence

Does the US actually issue real proof of residence to its citizens? Or do you use the ridiculous "utility bill authentication" system of the UK?
even their incoherent stance on racism as illustrated in the Sarah Jeong debacle? I could live with a left bias but not their blatant hypocrisy.
But a 9 month growing cycle means that this corn won't have enough time to grow.
After reading your comment, I was underwhelmed when I found out that they are using Ruby on Rails.
You're just saying you don't like their editorial. So.. don't subscribe!

There is no trickery here.

Far left.. you really have no idea how silly you look. There is almost no institution in the USA which actively publishes a broadsheet newspaper you could call left, let alone "far" left. Middle of the road looks pretty left from a ranty right view maybe.

(I'm a Guardian subscriber btw)
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Right:

CL-USER 26 > (defun ?![]{} (123456789?![]{})
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CL-USER 27 > (?![]{} #x1d)
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You hand the election directly to whichever foreign intelligence service can buy the most votes?
Could you share information of how one could do this? I looked it up on Github but could not find anything related to what you mentioned.
Is machine learning a pseudoscience?
Non-AMP URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/06/how-year-...
Never mind, my comment is a bit misplaced.
The problem with "beginner-focused" sites IMO is they preach wrong advice. Just because experienced people tell you hard truths doesn't mean you should run away and hide in a beginner-friendly corner. I mean you can do that, but don't complain when you realize that the experienced guy was right and your mistakes cost you your entire business.
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I have a digital subscription to WaPo and I've found it interesting reading even as a European. But it's still clearly a local newspaper to a certain extent: some of the political reporting is ultra-specific to the point where it's barely understandable if you're not immersed in the Washington scene.

NYT is more generic, but also has a higher volume of articles about everything under the sun. For learning about the American situation, I've found WaPo a good compromise.

I'd also recommend WSJ for a generally balanced business-centric outlook on America (their editorial and op-ed pages are basically "more tax cuts!" regardless of what is going on, but the reporting is good).
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> It's not just that, but biology has evolved nitrogenase only once (it's not trivial)

I don't know, on the one hand it may have evolved only once[0], on the other hand it seems to have been hit fairly early on (1.5~2.2Ga, quickly following significant expansion of oxygen production so the needs for additional bioavailable nitrogen could have been a direct consequence of that and just not necessary before) and spread around by lateral genetic transfer, significantly lowering the chances that it'd evolve again.

[0] it may also have evolved multiple times in a short time-span, and have had no need to re-evolve since
Yeah, but now that they refused to fire the openly racist Sarah Jeong, their credibility went to zero for me. I hope they lose subscribers over this.
I don't know how old you are, but from a 40-yo perspective, the NYT being seen as "leftist" is a terrifying signal of how right-wing the mainstream political window has gone in the US. The traditional megaphone of the East-Coast moneyed, the newspaper that sold the Iraq War to the public with lie after lie, is now seen as a bastion of liberalism.

The US is in a very dark place right now. Last time it happened, it took Katrina to briefly break the spell. I wonder what it will take this time.
Good points.

There also quite a few drivers that consider speed limit + 10 to be the minimum speed guaranteed by the constitution,
and not the maxiumum speed when conditions are perfect.
Hmm, I don't want to dive too deep into AMP, but I do get a header on that page in Chrome Android.

edit: wait, no I don't. I get a header when I visit the page via google search, not when I follow the link directly. I haven't noticed this before because google is the only way I usually end up at AMP pages.

Google link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2018/08/08/samsu...
I'm not going to say I can absolutely refute this paper but I can say that in my day job, which is an international not for profit in the Asia Pacific, with a strong Japanese sub presence I see collectivism and individualism, but I see a lot more collectivism. I'm told in the domestic equivalent circuit they fight like cats and dogs, but outside? It's a party line.

I also think there is a strong Confucianism element to things. Collectivism is a sister to respect for collective and hierarchical authority sometimes.
Have you really ripped them off if you already bought the game in the 80s? Should you have to buy it on a new platform to play it again, if your computer is perfectly capable? Should you have to buy ROM dumping equipment? What's the difference?

I'd bet most people just want to play their long-lost favorites, which they already bought once, long ago.
The UK pretty much exhausted its stock of good, easy, large sites with Dinorwig.
Neither. You don't find 'quality journalism' here. Just plain propaganda.
To be honest I think you are just proving my point by getting upset and calling me 'ranty right'. Tribalism sells because it triggers emotions like these. It works for the Guardian just as well as it works for the NYT, Fox news or anyone else.
The more I read these things the more I believe that contract systems like clojure.spec and strong type systems/contracts like ADA were too much advanced for its time... golang is just above the stone age of programming languages... better than assembly barely above C,...

Some days I even believe that by promoting developer's mental laziness to not learn new paradigms/more advanced languages/technical systems we are just delaying the progress of humanity.

EDIT: advanced for its age -> advanced for its time
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I have troubles accessing the full article.
Seems that you need credentials to access the full article.

Based on the abstract it sounds a good read. Japanese phrase “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down” might need to be changed to “The nail that sticks out gets to see further”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/national/scienc...
I think he meant "HN's average user is a dev in their 20s".
I would want to measure dietary Taurine levels in the body for a start. Experiments consuming 3g/day have shown no side effects, but your main source is limited to energy drinks so you have to contend with caffeine, and Taurine does not last long in the body (can start to be expelled in urine within 10mins), much like many of the water soluble chemicals classed as vitamins or minerals. Cooking actually destroys it from organ meats and some scientific studies have shown a link between vegetarianism and a variety of mental health issues including OCD. You wont find any substantial levels of Taurine in vegetables, but you will in raw liver, kidneys and brains.
From my own experience, 3 or 4 Redbulls a day (1g of Taurine per can) can change many repetitive behaviours. Taurine also has many other positive effects on the body like including VO2 max, improving cholesterol profiles, improving bile acid patterns, reducing depression, improving sleep, improving memory, reducing atherosclerosis, reducing fatty liver disease, reversing some types of cataracts, reducing stones especially in women, to name some of the observed scientific improvements to human health. Its probably why its now added to formula milk for babies since the 80's (but at levels lower than breast milk) and has subsequently improved their cognitive abilities.
Pretty much all cities above a certain size, at least in the "west". Not sure how it's on other parts of the planet.

Populations are migrating to cities en masse, which creates huge demand for city housing. And most cities haven't really been keeping up with the supply side since the 1930s or so.
Sci-hub the title: http://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/ajsp.12334
Maybe in the past the NYT had earned their reputation as a trustworthy source, but they're certainly eroding that reputation at a blistering pace. They might survive as a partisan publisher, plenty do, but I always go into NYT articles expecting bias in reporting.

It's not just the politics, either. I ran across this article from just a couple of days ago and couldn't believe it got past an editor: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/well/why-take-diet-advice...

> Keep in mind that the life expectancy of people before the advent of agriculture 15,000 years ago rarely reached or exceeded 40, so their risk of developing the so-called diseases of civilization is unknown.

To completely ignore how infant mortality affects life expectancy shows a complete lack of knowledge of history or statistics.
Workers in open-plan spaces have a 62% higher incidence of sickness
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Philip Pullman and Ursula leGuin both wrote quite well on the problem. They wished their adoring fans would respect their copyright and not leech.

Real paper print editions of academic books used to have Asia rights versions. A third the price, only for sale in emerging economies.

I respect the law here. I don't leech any more. It would be good if cheaper digital imprint was made available to people in the emerging internet economy.

I do get irritated when books I own on paper are not available as epub. Robert Buderi's work on radar for instance. And I get irritated when dead authors works are offline. Randolph Stow has a back Catalog of books which is only selectively available.
You are mixing pears with rocks. I never bought a NES or these ROMs and I can still play them in this webpage. Also that just because you bought the original product it doesn't give you a livetime access to other future products or a license to rebrand and refurbish them.

I believe this kind conversation is soon full of hypocrites who would be the first defensors of IP concept if the object of debate was their own IP... in case they could produce something profitable/valuable which is a major key point (it is easy to give for free the work from others).
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Then why comment?
This might be kind of a naive question, but wouldn't it be more cost-effective to use an NVME SSD? (Unless you happen to have a graphics card with plenty of RAM sitting in your machine that you not going to utilize otherwise.)
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> But is it worth the cost of forcing all EU users into not even having the option to use said service for data?

Pretty much everything you stated here is completely wrong. GDPR states that personal information can only be collected on an opt-in basis. Your entire statement therefore is completely off.

Because it has to be freely opt-in you cannot just do an opt-out.

> In my opinion, it would be far far better to force companies to offer a "fair price" paid service in exchange for not collecting data

The GDPR doesn't force to use anything for free.
I've only just joined so this isn't exactly a recommendation, but Monzo looks super exciting because of two features: instantly reporting transactions, and an API that lets you access your own transactions. If you've only ever used a shit bank, look how amazing this looks: https://docs.monzo.com/#list-transactions (caveat: I haven't tried it yet!)
Everybody thinks that they're unbiased, and everyone else is biased. Hence, the target audience of any newspaper thinks it's unbiased.
> Usually because 'doing something about it' on a personal level means sacrificing luxuries

Yes and the sooner we accept that this is a part of human nature the better. Fighting what is clearly innate is futile. We have not evolved the ability to ever be satisfied. We a stupid apes who want more, more, more at all costs.

We need to accept this reality instead of shaking our heads at one another in faux reproach (probably over dinner, made from 20 ingredients shipped from all across the globe).

The only way to make actions against climate change a reality is to make it profitable. If we can work out how to make it so that people make gobs of money by reversing climate change then things will be peachy.

If we can't figure out a way to turn a buck from fixing climate change then we are all, collectively, fucked.
That's part of Common Lisp. By default the reader is case-insensitive and upcasing -> the internal representation is case-preserving. If we escape characters in a symbol or even the whole symbol, those preserve their case.

But one can for example configure the READER in Common Lisp to use different modes - for example fully case preserving. The built-in CL symbols will stay in uppercase - because that's how they are defined.

CL-USER 32 > (setf (readtable-case *readtable*) :preserve)
:PRESERVE

CL-USER 33 > (DEFUN This-Is-A-Symbol (VarIable)
(SIN VarIable))
This-Is-A-Symbol

CL-USER 34 > (This-Is-A-Symbol 7.4)
0.89870817

CL-USER 35 > (THIS-IS-A-SYMBOL 7.4)

Error: Undefined operator THIS-IS-A-SYMBOL in form (THIS-IS-A-SYMBOL 7.4).

As you can see, we can then program with case preserved syntax and use the uppercase built-in symbols like DEFUN or SIN.
Oh please. You said far left. You invited the response. The NYT is simply not left, or far left. To clarify can you self identify your position in this spectrum? You think you are middle-of-the-road and the NYT is far left journalism?

Look, I really don't care. Go talk to people with a range of views but saying the NYT is left wing journalism just beggars belief. Have you ever read a left wing paper? Here's a hint: the guardian is not a left wing paper. The morning star, which was the daily worker. That's a left wing paper.
> only turn 24M a quarter,

That's $24 million left unspent after salaries, benefits, travel and accommodation, equipment purchases, AP and Bloomberg fees, client entertainment, interest repayment, rents, board jollies...

I don't see what's unhealthily low about that profit.
I have switched between ntpd, openntpd, timesyncd and a couple of others I might have forgotten, and the only one that's worked reliably is ntpd, but I was trying to stay off it, because historically it had quite a few vulnerabilities.

I manage hundred of stand-along edge devices, mostly hardened PCs who have to bear up to 50 deg celsius environment from time to time; I've observered 5-10 times that RTCs were wrong by 5-10 hours in some direction after a power-loss, and openntpd fails miserably, timesyncd also not-so-good. ntp does ok. It's been much better since I started updating the rtc every 10 minutes from the system clock - most distros update from rtc on startup and to rtc on shutdown, but if the shutdown is after 6 months due to power loss, you're left with an rtc drift, which -- in harsh environment -- can be significant.

I am right now testing chrony, which seems to be a winner, but it's too early to tell.
i used to be plagued by worries who some might relate to all kinds of stress disorders or obsessive / compulsive disorders. Recently in my life i found actually, that these things are stress, and that (i finally managed for a short while to..) if i resolve this stress in my life, this whole background noise of worries and negative thinking just goes away. like it's not even actually my own thoughts or something...

Not trying to tell how the mind or psychology works, but after a few diagnoses of incurable mental problems, i found that actually these were all wrong, and the problem was just plain stress. it;'s very hard and painful to accept and resolve these things, costs a lot of self-reflection and self-acceptance of the dark side to put it simply, but i'd want to encourage anyone who suffers from these things, to the point of being depressed for years and years on end, that there is hope to grow beyong yourself, to places more calm and beautiful than you can even imagine.

Keep up hope and positivity, and look into yourself for positivity and you will find it.

~peace
Yes, politics are necessary.
I think the real difference is somewhere else. Japanese aren't individualists neither. Like other Asian people they tend to make a profound distinction between family and the world outside of the family. In other words, they think "we" and exclude you if you aren't part of the family.
A lot of Western people (especailly a certain brand of Americans) parrot this line of thought like it's the 19th century when in fact what they're perceiving is their own inability to understand another culture. The atom bomb and hollywood has had a stronger influence on contemporary japanese culture than Confucius, but there's always this constant need to regress to a differentiated past.
Can you imagine how much money big pharma could make if they pulled their fingers out and actually created and supported a solution?

If a bunch of parents on the internet can hack it together, it's hardly impossible (I'm not trying to detract from the awesome work these people have done, but my point is that they have nowhere near the same kind of resources as pharmaceutical companies).

As a Type 1 Diabetic it's really frustrating seeing how stagnant treatment technology is.
The multi-program facet of this reminds me of Plan9's [plumber](http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/plumb) concept, which is an OS component allowing communication between programs in the form of "plumbing messages". The plumber processes plumbing messages according to a rules file, passing them on to other applications. This rules file allows the user to easily configure which piece of data gets delivered where in a uniform fashion.

Plan9's plumber was mostly text data oriented, but it could in principle work with any kind of resource (images, audio files, documents). It seems naturally extensible to URIs. It goes a bit deeper than your idea by saying URIs and browsers aren't special and that all kinds of data should be plumbed between all kinds of applications (for instance, a text editor detecting a DOI in a text file and converting it into a clickable link that sends a plumbing message to the browser, which would then open the corresponding doi.org page).
Capital One just added oauth with mint and before that they had read only passwords
And its not restricted to tech, everything can be used for good or bad so invariably everything could have a military application in the right situation. Perhaps a better argument would be, should innovation and creativity be banned to avoid its use in Military applications? Still one thing I learned from a psychology study, is we have longer lasting memories if they were fearful, perhaps its a survival trait of the brain, which probably means we should all smoke pot, get paranoid and then go to school as what we learn will stay fresh in the memory for longer.