skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes... The evidence suggests that humans self regulate sodium levels.

https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/multiproduct/lp8XRTS.ht...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/we-ea...

>People tend to consume about the same amount of sodium no matter where they live, and this amount hasn’t changed much in decades. Those facts hint at the biological basis of our sodium appetite.... “Over the last five decades, salt content of commercial food in our food [in the United States] has gone up. But if you look at people’s 24-hour urinary sodium excretion, you see that the amounts of salt people consume have been constant,” he says. Irrespective of age, sex or race, between 1957 and 2003 Americans have been eating on average 3.5 grams of salt a day. “This suggests that we are somehow regulating the amount of salt we are eating,” Breslin says.... In one of Leshem’s studies, babies who had low concentrations of sodium in their blood in the first weeks of their lives grew up to be teenagers with a penchant for salt, even salt that is seemingly hidden in processed foods. “Even if you can’t taste the salt, apparently your body does. It’s working on an unconscious level to condition a preference for sodium,” Leshem explains.
It appears they were actually just hosting a web app and users were sending their decryption password to Hushmail. I don't see a reference to backdooring the Java client, though obviously since they delivered it, they could do that too. https://www.wired.com/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/
It isn't clear from the paper but their appearance model shown in the video segmentation demo is likely the same thing. It shows poor performance at times (see the train at 0:32).

http://vision.cs.utexas.edu/projects/fusionseg/
Yes, it's a nonsense to compare that.
Sure, I just meant that going from that level of knowledge to shipping a working program which integrates with a non-trivial third party library is a decent showing for a new grad hire.
Yeah, I think the recent death of domain fronting and the collateral damage from Russia blocking Telegram are pretty indicative.

Regimes are completely willing to block large chunks of the internet if they can't do targeted blocks. And cloud providers aren't particularly interested in using their customers as collateral.

I expect surveillance prone regimes to just block anything with encrypted SNI.
It’s a movie reference
The sad part is that the people saying this have no idea of the massive irony of it. It's thinly veiled it's-ok-when-my-side-does-it behavior. Public discourse is so far removed from the founding father's idea of freedom of speech that I think it's irreconcilable. The left/right are firmly entrenched in their bubbles and don't give a shit about the higher principles America was founded on.

So much for Jefferson's tree of liberty; it might as well be burning right now.
Cheaper medical school tuition isn't going to lead to more doctors. The limiting factor is the number of available seats and residency positions, not the cost.
That doesn't mean Capitalism can't do better. I'm extremely tired of this "Capitalism did good things once! Why are you criticizing Capitalism?" trope when talking about the very obvious flaws of it.
We are not in a Democracy. We live in a Republic. For a guy who's name comes from Cicero, you don't seem hot on the legal or organizational distinction.

[edit] You say the point is that the same underlying principle applies in both cases; I don't agree. Geography doesn't have anything to do with personal characteristics. If you own land, you are tied to it. It's not easy to move, and we don't usually want people to move because if you stay in a place, you tend to improve it. I'm not sure why you brought up that most people arguing about something tend to pick the side that benefits them. I live in New York City. This does not benefit me.

When I referred to rural vs urban population distribution, balanced meant an even distribution. What else would it have meant?

Your sympathy or lack thereof isn't the point. The point is that we have a system that works pretty well - part of the reason is that it was created without depending entirely on people's better nature. Ideological consistency doesn't really play into that.
It's not exactly plaintext. Last time I saw it was using broken crypto (may have changed since then, but I doubt it), and it encrypts the data hop by hop, so that if you insert yourself as a hop, you'll just have decrypt (with your keys), read and encrypt it.
How about he wins, and then we slowly wean off a more secure SMS system for everybody?
No, C got that from B that got it from BCPL, which has that notation to compile faster:
http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/
You can't hear in a vaccum; it doesn't sound like anything at all.
It is entirely within the bounds of supporting free speech to prevent the speech of those who are profess to be against free speech but do not engage in rational debate over it.

> We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/25998-the-so-called-paradox...
Yes, it depends on what you feel is the fundamental component of American society: the person, or the parcel of land.
Your proposal would make a city-dweller's vote worth less than the vote of a rural resident. This is brazenly unequal and undemocratic.
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Commercial linux applications are hands down the worst in this regard. I don't think I've used one yet that look and behaved well in terms of focus/menus/clipboard/events/look-and-feel. Even ones made in QT are statically linked and a different version from the distribution one so it ignores all your preferences (I think that's the reason).

The push to make everything electron just means that everyone else is having this problem now.
More than "saturation", my key takeaway is the crash was triggered by "quality".

And this is precisely why Nintendo limited the third party titles (via lockout hardware) released on their systems. It didn't stop some developers[0] from figuring out how to defeat it though.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengen_(company)#History
How do they have the money to do this, sustainably?
A browser is much more than the rendering engine, besides, blink today is a totally different beast, there is almost nothing left from khtml either.
> Most 2600 games were crap, and consumers knew it and stopped buying terrible games.

Right. The biggest reasons for the crash were the lack of try-before-you-buy and the lack of good-quality reviews.

(Eh... ever note how "good review" means a review that paints the product in a good light, as opposed to a review which is, itself, high-quality? Ditto "bad review", mutatis mutandis? Maybe this influences why nobody reviews reviews.)

The industry practice of paying for good reviews (either buying them outright or stopping payment of "free" games and such if unfavorable reviews get published) is classic quarterly report thinking: It works in the short term, at least arguably, but it damages the industry overall and sets it up for... another crash.
I have 250 million yuan for you, you'll just need to pay a few small import taxes. Please contact my finance agent on his yahoo mail address...
How to be a programmer (PDF, 2002)
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Firebase in-app messaging
That is a horrible idea. How many of them are going support Chinese, Korean, Thai, Japanese, and Arabic? If all you're supporting is English it's easy. As soon as you go international it's extremely hard to handle all the stuff you're unfamiliar with and shutting out people because their names isn't ASCII is not very inclusive.
I'll probably be downvoted on a forum like this, but I worry about the most successful universities using their funds to subsidize those who would be fine without it. I was actually made aware of this by a wealthy Stanford alumni which has a fairly broad program for undergraduate tuition assistance. Graduates of mid/low tier universities seem more and more likely to have to compete with better credentialed people with lower debt.

Don't get me wrong, this is fantastic on an atomic level, and the levels of debt required to get an MD these days is insane (have a lot of family in the field). Also, it's not like this is a unique structural disadvantage, just a new one.
No, it doesn't. We have checks on the power of the majority in a Republic because the majority doesn't always think long term and it's easy to get a populist leader that splits the country apart.
And this is some sort of surprise?
Reminds me of some years back when a single driver was added to Linux that allowed it to support 100+ models of webcams. This because every damn brand and model used the same internals, but had different USB IDs.

And we should not forget that RMS' initially rallying call was about printer drivers. where as with the old printer he had the source, so he could add a bit of code to notify the people with jobs in the queue that the printer was out of paper, the new printer only came with a binary blob driver.
Maybe he means phone -> google account -> android backup -> 2fa keys?
You think that lawyers say an allegation is "baseless" iff it is baseless? That's an interesting epistemic outlook.
Alas! One of the Pregel's tributaries originates in a lake which is itself linked by a canal to the Baltic, forming a loop excluding Konigsberg.
Well, the historic one is, "because you need multiple concurrent data writers."

But, that's what this branch is supposed to be for. So now the reason is: "because you need multiple concurrent data writers from multiple processes." And it might also be "you need multiple concurrent data writers and care about your data enough to not risk loss in the event of a system crash or power failure" since it uses PRAGMA synchronous=OFF.
Ooooh wow, this made me remember Rails (Across America?) game with the questions you had to look through the manual about which train it was they showed on screen. If you guessed it wrong a couple times it would lock you out; we lost the manual pretty quickly, so every time we wanted to play we had to try to guess what the trains were.
Microsoft calls for regulation of facial recognition tech
That's not really a thing in Christianity, Jesus had that whole "let he without sin cast the first stone" thing or whatever it was
No that’s wrong. TOTP based 2FA is totally out of band with the only attack vectors being losing your physical device (or a device backup!) or leaking of the secret from the server side.
There is a distinction though between the broad concept of "freedom of speech" and the legal government protection and US specific first amendment. I think there is an equal amount of disingenuousness coming from the side that tries to say that freedom of speech only exists within the context of a government backed right-to-free-speech, rather than as a broader concept itself.
That's not proof at all. Stereotypes and confirmation bias are well documented phenomena.

It's very easy for people to take a few examples of behaviors by people from a certain group and apply that behavior to the entire group when they aren't members of that group--despite what the actual statistics show.

An example that happens all of the time in food service is assigning racial heuristics to tipping. A waitress has 2 customers who leave small tips, customer A is the same race as the waitress, customer B isn’t. The waitress dismisses customer A as a generic asshole, but she uses the example of customer B to reinforce her belief about customer B’s race’s tipping habits. The waitresses behavior (even multiple waitresses across multiple restaurants) certainly isn’t proof of anything about any group’s tipping behaviors.

People from hundreds of different cultures will insist that their cuisine is the spiciest and that no one else from any other culture could possibly handle their food--they can’t all be right. Clearly there are a lot of people overestimating their cuisine’s relative spiciness.
U.S. Pursues One of the Biggest Mortgage-Fraud Probes Since the Financial Crisis
A browser add-on that is manually installed (which I believe would stop any potential insecure/unintended automatic update) could check a digital signature embedded in a formatted comment inside the JS file. That is relatively easy to implement, but you will also want some sort of PKI for key distribution and revocation.
They made it as far as prototyping those devices, before the NES was released. http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/Nintendo_AVS
Reasons: I don't like giving my money to people. I think I could support sales tax if I had to pick one.
Even 2FA that involves you receiving a call is more secure than 2FA that involves you getting a text, but of course that too should not be used, ever. It's just that SMS is that much worse. I wish I could share on HN the technique anyone anywhere can use to take over any mobile number's SMS traffic within a minute so we can discuss it at great detail, but obviously I know better and would never do it. Unfortunately this knowledge is not limited to myself and many people out there know this especially after being in telecom for a while.
People who pretend corporations and other private entities are incapable of abridging freedom of speech or censoring others are doing far more harm to the definition.

No one is saying anything about not suffering consequences for speech. Even though that argument is a holy bucket as well. Prison is a consequence of many things so saying "freedom of speech doesn't mean you shouldn't suffer the consequences of it" technically allows for imprisonment based on speech.

Freedom of speech is the freedom to say whatever you want.

However, everyone also has the freedom of association. And on my personal property, my rights trump yours. I am free to curtail your speech, to censor you, to deplatform you. And my line can be whatever I want it to be.

And in doing so, I could say I'm for freedom of speech up to a certain point. I'm not going to let certain views persist where I can control it.

But those people are free to say what they want in areas they control or in areas where no one has control. And the government in the US has taken the stance that it will not make any law abridging the right of people to say whatever. So if you want to go to the public park and say whatever, that is your right. No one has to listen.
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By creating a giant endowment that can be used to generate cash. In this case, $600 million lump sum.
I have no issues with income / wealth inequality, per se. But I have some issues as to why that inequality happens. Some important rationales are the following:

A) Taxing high income will cause capital / investment flight.

B) Wealth trickles down.

A: could be true, but it does not warrant letting private investors take all profits without incurring in the necessary expenses, which are currently funded by the tax payer (disproportionately low-medium income workers), or simply not covered (health care).

B: This is, after several decades of lying to the electorate, patently false.
On the origin of Zero based indexing
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Douglas Andams had huge prolems with the same issue. He was once locked in a hotel suite a for two weeks by his publisher Sonny Mehta. 'It was simple. I sat at the desk and typed and Sonny sat in an armchair and glowered.'

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by"
– Douglas Adams
Why would it?

Hospitals in America aren't actually a free market. You cannot choose not to buy, and in emergency situations you can't actually compare prices between sellers. Hospitals charge whatever they can get away with and insurance companies get a discount because they have some leverage- but you and I don't.

All this would really do is help lower the medical providers costs. Likely it will give them additional funding to lobby against socialized health care.
It's called Ripple but it's basically tabled for the time being at this point. I've re-prioritized long term goals in my life and I'm more in career-mode than independent-projects mode. If you're interested in it anyway you can check out the blog here: http://ripplega.me/. Little bit of technical and a little bit of design.

If you're in the mood for one you're probably already aware of my favorite which is Rimworld. If not, hurray for you that will be a fun time sink. Other than that, I haven't been following anything other than Stonehearth, which depending on who you ask was a failure but recently did come out as a 1.0.

Of course none of them could possibly approach the complexity of DF but the spirit has definitely spurred on some cool projects.
The paywall hits for me before the source(s) of the subsidies is identified (assuming they are identified). So how much is public and how much is private?
> It could also have been "scare-quoted" with "birth-control"

Yea, and I would have agreed with that usage! Indeed, the author could have said explicitly something like "it's called "birth-control", but the inherent imprecision of the method means it's more aptly described as "birth-partial-hindrance".
Yeah I can't wait for a federated platform it to further reinforce everyone's online bubbles and increase polarization even more either.
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Why bland American beer is here to stay
GCP, like AWS has instances with 4 E7-8880v4 CPUs (up to 160 vCPUs) and 4TB of memory.

That's a pretty significant single point of failure though, and not at all elastic. What type of application/workload prevents you from scaling horizontally?
Data science and ML.
I remember reading a funny quote that the obvious compromise between 1- and 0-based indexing was 0.5, and that it was dismissed without proper consideration. Unfortunately, I do not remember where I read that or who wrote/said it. :(
View it in Chrome with the User-Agent Switcher set to "MeeGo - Nokia N9"
One possibility is paying for it from their endowment.

NYU's endowment is $4.1 billion. They make 7.5%/year on that according to this report: https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/investmentOffice/documen...

That's $300 million/year in growth, not counting donations.

Their medical school apparently has 679 students. At $50k/year each, that's $34 million a year. Or approximately 10% of the appreciation in their endowment.
I don't think that section in wikipedia, or the paper it comes from, says what you think it says. It certainly doesn't claim that a single use is addictive, only gives the rates of continued use (to the point of dependency) a certain number of years after the first dose. I imagine one could come up with similar numbers for opiates.

Further, you've contradicted your own point in your spiel about nicotine.

I really don't think your ideas are supportable.

(edit: in fact you can find figures for the percentage of people who, having tried heroin once, go on to develop dependency - it's around 23%, far higher than for cocaine.)
> Indexing backwards from the "end". Your language can always add an `end` keyword like Matlab does, and this stops

Having used Matlab a bunch, in practice this sucks, because “end” is treated as this weird special case in the language grammar, and many reasonable and convenient expectations of syntax that should work turn out not to. Folks writing complicated Matlab projects end up needing to work around it, and the workarounds are brittle and confusing.

Using negative integers is a whole lot easier to reason about and work with.

Everyone learns in grade school how to do arithmetic with negative integers (adopted by European mathematicians in the 17th century). Even Matlab experts don’t always understand Matlab ‘end’ arithmetic.
> we can talk about a_3 by calling it the third term

It's still the "third" term. People commonly refer to the "zeroeth" term in a list as the "first" term, the "first" term as the "second", and so on. Admittedly, the usefulness of "zeroeth" depends on how often you think about the mechanics of array traversal, and that's probably not often if you don't program computers.
It's not so much about how much you can make but more about how much you need to make to stay afloat. It's a very different story depending on whether you have $0k in debt or $300k in debt.
The article says they believe they can fund the programme in perpetuity with 600 million dollars to invest. The article says they've raised three quarters of that. They have that money by asking people to give it to them.
Investing in skills as a developer is a great way to benefit both yourself and your company. You have a great gift -- that of "free time at work". I had lots of this in a former life as a sysadmin, and I squandered 90% of it, and I deeply regret all of those micro-decisions to surf the web instead of learning a skill.

Find problems which interest you (for me, that's currently lexers, parsers, lisp, code visualization, tools to make tools to make tools, etc), or parts of the "stack" which you never fully understood (In college we never actually went over how a C function call works, how to read stack frames, etc).

If you don't have any problems at hand to fuel your curiosity, maybe try upping the signal-to-noise ratio of your junk food -- read a programming book instead of reading HN. Small, consistent investments are more important over the long run (30 min / day for months rather than a week-long fugue state).

If books aren't your thing, find a structured series of exercises which you can work through. Project Euler is great. Make-a-lisp is great as well (github.com/kanaka/mal).

Turn what you learn into blog posts, github gists, or flash cards -- distill your knowledge into easily digestible parts so that you can catch yourself up to speed quickly 6 months from now when you need that topic again.

These won't create immediate benefit, but five years from now you will be tremendously more valuable.
I feel like each graphene story shows more and more that this is a potential super material. I would not be surprised to read something like "Graphene infused superconductor found to make time travel possible"
Not sure about the down votes, I didn't mean to ask a rhetorical question. But someone has to pay if not students. Or is that not how it works in this case?
Disclaimer: I couldn't read the whole article because I don't have a login to the website.
Did the crash affect computer gaming, which was on floppies and tapes, or mainly console gaming, which was on cartridge? Because cartridges couldn't be pirated.

(On a skim, the article cites computer gaming as a factor in the crash, stating that computers were booming when consoles were crashing.)
Google Authenticator doesn’t, Authy does. That’s why you’re not supposed to use Authy for crypto.
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Does OpenPGPjs use WebCrypto to create keys which are not extractable? That's the big win here if you can make it impossible for a compromised client to leak keys which were used before/after the compromise.
That's good advice for any situation.
Refactoring in Go: goroutine concurrency
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Generally speaking, when exactly can you compare prices in a non-emergency situation? I have gotten to the point that every time I see my doctor, I ask for the costs because I enjoy the awkward and ultimately unanswerable question and I like bringing the problem to the surface rather than pretending it doesn't exist.
That's a neat demonstration of the use case for internal apps. Unfortunately I didn't sign up for Pycon UK in time this year, so I don't get my T shirt.
Or snap it in half, most phones will do this easily.