skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ability to use Excel as a "front-end" for other data sources is underrated. For all its warts, Excel is a great data manipulation and exploration tool.
Are you currently engaged in an activity that may not be in the interest of the Monarchy?
This is the first time I hear about heart cancer.
Faraday cage.
Infinite Rock Collection – Generated Sketchy Shapes
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Oh man did I struggle with Cypher to start. Conceptually I felt like I understood it but 2/3rds of my queries would go out to lunch and never come back.

Lessons learned for me:

- start with very small datasets (mine was 10k nodes/40k edges/5 types and that still sent it to the moon in many cases)

- get to know the query planner right away

Cypher seems to reward a more deliberate and iterative approach to learning it rather than the ol' grip it and rip it. Once I settled down a bit it came together quite nicely.
Equifax has chosen Experian for credit monitoring, and will share your info
Why do you think the alternative is a conjunction of randomness at every level? Why not

* the people are HR

* trained in sexual harassment prevention and response

* following a transparent policy approved by the board and a union vote (or something like it, for instance an employee rep on the board like they are asking for)

Maybe this isn't the best alternative. I'm just saying, it's not like the choice is between (a) the government works it out and (b) everything is random.
Would this be beneficial if the aim is to monetize by: securing a guilty verdict in an infringement claim with the intent being to prevent the infringing party from using the patented technology in the future, as opposed to collecting damages for prior infringement?
Why do you still work there? Lots of companies are hiring. You don't owe them anything.
No, a microwave oven penetrates meat half an inch max.
Check this out for some meta stuff on the possible link between mobile phones and acoustic neuroma
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposu...
Anecdotally - doctors believe it may be a cause, scientists don't
> The fact that it can requires better models of how EM waves and biological matter interact.

Can I assume you are making this claim from the study? That they showed "some effect" ? If so, it is important to differentiate by intensity. EM waves are just light, you know red, green, blue etc. And if they are strong enough can give you a burn (sunburn being something everyone has experienced). But we don't get stories of people getting moon burn from the light reflected off the moon. In part because the amount of energy per square meter in moonlight is about 2.3 million times less powerful than sunlight. We are evolved to live in an environment that is flooded with EM energy in a variety of bands.

The study showed that if your cellphone put out 100x the amount of energy it does, there might be a small measurable effect on cancer rates. We know melanoma rates go up if you get a lot of sunburn (which is EM exposure). The energy per square meter in sunlight is 8 orders of magnitude higher than the energy per square meter from a cell phone.

Bottom line, there is still no mechanism, study, or theory, that supports a hypothesis that 1 watt cellphones cause cancer.
Most of the microwave power does not deeply penetrate something like a whole ham. The microwaves are mostly absorbed by the outer layers and then the heat conducts through the inner portions.

The journal article below contains lots of detail. It claims that microwaves penetrate about 3.8 mm in cooked ham and 9.9 mm in cooked beef.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4657497/
I worry if I'm missing out on the opportunity to get into a Tier-1 company while I'm busy going on my own. The chance of a $5-10M exit is slimmer than the chance of getting into a Tier-1 company.
Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum can’t succeed unless he takes a step back
Eliminating the shit laws is a much better solution than ignoring them or working around them with lies.
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Then don't work there...

I feel like this is just kind of sad... They are willing to complain, but not switch jobs. If it's really that bad, you'd be switching jobs.

I've refused to work or even apply to companies I feel are immoral (Facebook for instance). It's not really hard, as engineers we are in high demand.

Also as an aside, Google has on going lawsuits with males feeling discriminated against and another one where females feel discriminated against. Personally, I think that company culture has something deeply wrong with it.
Show HN: Steganographer – Script allowing hiding data in image files
Yeah. "Real" native apps feel a lot better, and of course ship you a lot less code.

It is hard to justify the development effort for that, though, so this is the compromise. An app these days ideally supports Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iPhone, and the web... and that requires a lot of software engineers. Being able to write the bulk of the code once is appealing. But to the end user... they can tell that shortcuts were taken.
But not a single image of said knives.
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The potential energy of a battery carrying out the intended chemical reaction to generate electricity and the potential energy of lighting it on fire and burning that same battery in air are very different things.

Modern batteries are impressive compared to their predecessors but adding up the watt-hours in a battery and then calculating how much that would heat a bucket of water is a serious disappointment.
I like Tribblix.
The Cucumber Straightener
Just turn on the airplane mode. And turn off the wifi.
So I went poking around on the Intarwebs for "microwave penetration" and found this rather intriguing page with penetration depths of various items: http://www.pueschner.com/en/microwave-technology/penetration...

I was surprised by the table. Temperature matters way more than I'd expect for water, and it seems ice may in fact be effectively transparent to microwaves? Now I want to fiddle when I get home... it looks an awful lot like you can put a cup of water and a chunk of ice in a microwave and boil the water while the ice is still frozen... (though I'm going to assume that number for ice is pure ice; air bubbles in ice may wreck this up) Experimentation time!
It's not about ensuring safety, it's about ensuring jurisdiction.
That's nice, but the opinion of the court only matters to the extent that the various organs of government care what the law says. To a greater and greater degree, they don't. If they care enough about unlocking the phone, they will just declare that where they got the evidence is secret, or they will ship the defendant to Guantanamo Bay and torture the suspect, or they will simply declare that the law was put into place by weak kneed liberals and who cares about them, anyway? That's the direction things are going.
I would like something with simple functionality, where I can just specify the table name, the category column, and the data column and get a new table transposed ibto columns. I would be happy to do the aggregation outside the pivot process. PROC TRANSPOSE in SAS would be a good model.
You're absolutely right! People genuinely interested solely ideas will be satisfied to be understood and accept any reasonable critique that comes in response.

One of the human failure modes that I witness on a regular basis is that people fail to separate "I hear/understand you" and "I agree with you" within their own heads. People have a tendency to assume that what they find convincing will be similarly convincing to another. As a result, if it's not convincing to another, this other person must not understand it properly and must just need to be educated on the subject. Or, more cynically, they aren't paying attention because they don't understand the importance of the work.

My current operating hypothesis is that vanishingly few people are genuinely interested solely in ideas. Almost everyone has some ego at stake. Being told that your baby is ugly, no matter how kindly, compassionately, or empathetically it is done, is rarely a positive experience. This is where people like Dale Carnegie come in.

Beyond the emotional aspects of it, there are other issues. It can be incredibly labor-intensive to delve deeply into a paper and determine how right or wrong it is. If it's wrong, it's even more work to understand precisely where and how it is wrong, and then give the kind of feedback a hypothetical egoless author genuinely interested solely in ideas would like. This can be a great deal to ask, unpaid, of people who have other things they would like to be doing. This is doubly true when most papers are patently wrong in some obvious way and the painstakingly handcrafted feedback unlikely to be taken up in the manner an idealist could hope for. I'm sure you have a way to handle this with the art of listening, and I'm just not seeing it. Can you help me understand?

Again, you're completely right. It can definitely help to separate the ideas of understanding and agreement, and reasonable people interested in ideas will handle this gracefully! There just might be some room for nuance and perhaps a careful consideration of costs and burdens might be in order.
Sure, when you use hundreds of watts over several minutes.

The decay over distance should be roughly exponential: every x millimeters, you're left with only half of the radiation. Given the radiation caused by a cellphone in your pocket, how many microns of water do you need to attenuate the intensity to a non-mutagenic level?
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I read the rejections in the article as saying "I don't understand you" or more specifically "you haven't made your case" rather than "you're wrong." I don't think they got to the point of deciding whether it was wrong or not.

This might be more common in fields like physics, where it comes down to the math. If you can explain the math, and it seems flawless, then it is understandable and may be publishable. But it could still be wrong, in ways that could be verified by experiment.
A free market can produce some positive outcomes wherever you have multiple entities competing with each other. For all other tasks, it is the best to have the government handle the situation. The moment you find yourself saying "The free market can only fix this problem if the government first grants a monopoly to one of the participants" then you are really saying "This situation would be better handled by the government." This especially covers most research, where it is best to have the government do it.
I'd argue that communication via email can work just as well as FB. It's a little harder to "opt in" to updates, but with spam filters and other email features, it seems like it can be a lot less noise to have to filter through. But this is coming from someone who doesn't use FB.
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Would be nice to just see this as an opt-in add-on for Electron where it uses Puppeteer in the same way.
> You could use Mac or Linux. Except you wouldn't be able to interoperate with everyone else. This is precisely the situation with Facebook/Twitter.

Still, to this day, Microsoft owns over 80% of the desktop market. Microsoft's dominance weaned not because they lost the desktop market but because the desktop stopped being the place where all the content was. This why Microsoft cares more about services and Azure instead of just pimping Windows.

> Their monopoly isn't on the user side, but on the provider side. If you want your web content to be discoverable, you have to play by Google's rules.

And if Google does something egregious, or uses their monopoly in a manner that prevents anyone from challenging it, then let's break up Google. But Google hasn't done anything like that, so your hypothetical is meaningless.

US antitrust doesn't exist to prevent monopolies or "promote competition" like the EU - it exists to prevent inefficient monopolies from using their monopoly to prevent a more efficient alternative from existing.

Google and Facebook, regardless of what people think about their influence, are offer damn good products. You might not like them, "elites" might not like their influence, but they aren't using their monopolies to harm their competitors. They just offer very important services that are high quality. That is everyone's problem with them. It's completely transparent and US regulators are smart to ignore this.
Maybe some kind of change that preserves patent holders exclusive use of something they invented, without allowing them to extract royalties or licensing fees. Seems the former is the stated purpose of patents but the latter is how they get abused.
There are a lot of problems with storing cookies when the front end and back end are hosted on different domains though. That is the main reason why people use JWTs with SPA apps, because otherwise it wouldn't really be possible to serve the front end from a CDN. Most people using JWTs aren't using them because they're stateless, but rather because it's the only way to solve the problem.
tell them to compare glassdoor reviews of their company with the competition.
It's hard. I do feel I owe something.
Also, when my phone is in my pocket I'm exposed to 50% of the radiation in one small spot vs. let's say 10% of the antenna's radiation spread across the whole body of the rat. Hopefully they tuned the power in their experiment to account for that.
If they just switch jobs, they lose the ability to change the culture.
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How is calling a 9mm bezel "edge to edge" not being deceptive? It's not even a small bezel by monitor standards much less mobile ones. This isn't at all about a mythical 0.00mm bezel (which isn't actually mythical - those devices do exist), it's about not being in the same ballpark as what is commonly referred to as "edge to edge" or "all screen", which is in the ~4mm or less range range.

How can you possibly look at what Apple is claiming and then look at the pictures and say the words aren't deceptive?
I don't know about incredibly easy, but certainly possible. If you stab somebody in the chest with a fork, it won't penetrate as deeply as a dagger, and there's a higher probability that the ribcage will stop the blow and spare the internal organs. Forks are less-lethal utensils.
>I also think no one would object to Saudi sheikhs if they were to immigrate.

Plenty of people would complain more loudly about Saudi sheikhs than anyone else. There are a lot of people who want to live their lives without having their lives disrupted by large influxes of people with a completely different culture, and it has nothing to do with wealth. The populist backlash you have seen across the globe recently is largely a result of these people having nowhere else to go politically, because the neoliberal ruling class of the last 30 years refuses to acknowledge their legitimate concerns. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail, and we in the western world will be able to have an open and legitimate debate about immigration and the right of a nation to decide who (and how many) people from starkly different cultures should be imported. Or the self-righteous can just keep calling them racists and bigots for voicing their legitimate concerns and stand by as the next wave of Trumps and Brexits roll across the western world.
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> Whether the effect was large or small, there is a fundamental scientific question: how does non-ionizing radiation cause cancer? The fact that it can requires better models of how EM waves and biological matter interact.

This is wrong. Non-ionizing radiation obviously causes cancer. "Ionizing radiation" for photons is (somewhat arbitrarily) defined as photons with >10 eV. That's far ultraviolet, far beyond anything in sunlight that has passed the atmosphere. But sunlight still gives you cancer.

There are any number of ways that cells and genes can be disrupted by non-ionizing radiation. Just disrupting in-progress reactions can eventually damage cells, and that doesn't require anything nearly as dramatic as ionizing an atom. At the bare minimum, all waves >1 GHz interact with and are absorbed by biological matter.

However the low-microwave frequencies from cell phones and wifi are hugely innocuous in addition to being crazy low power. They practically only interact through heating. I'm about as worried by the visible radiation from a cell phone's screen as I am from the transmitter. Hell, I'm pretty positive the local heating from the CPU getting hot will be more likely to contribute to cancer.
Okay so you love it, got that part, but why, exactly? What does it do that is so awesome?
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Yes, Google, Apple and Facebook know more about these startups than the companies themselves.

Google has an insider look at all of your metrics, your market and your competitors through the combination of search, Gmail, Android, Google play, maps, YouTube, Google analytics, adwords and Google Ventures.

Same goes for Facebook and Apple. On top of that they are the gatekeepers to the main platforms and can kill you if you refuse to play along.
Not trying to be a troll -- Tokyo subways come to mind.
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Ask HN: Advice on moving to Canada for a year
Together with my SO we're planning on moving to Canada for a year (next year, september 2019-2020).

We just started thinking about how to find work over there and how to arrange things in general. (We are both full stack web developers)

One idea was to reaching out to recruiters from Canada, another would be to contact companies we're interested in and are hiring. Would anyone happen to have some advice for us?
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That wears off.
Well, you are adding infrastructure to explicitly reject the tokens. It is stateful infrastructure. And you can not reasonably do that if you use the tokens as session holders.

So, should I think that you agree with the article?
No Agile and no meetings sounds like a plus, to me!
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