skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the first article I found while Googling, https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/well... :

"The best evidence suggests that there is neither harm nor benefit to treating a fever with fever-reducing medications like acetaminophen or ibuprofen."

"In 1997, these data led to a large, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of ibuprofen in 455 patients with sepsis, a life-threatening infectious condition. In this study, ibuprofen failed to prevent the worsening of sepsis and failed to decrease the risk of death."

The science doesn't seem to support the notion that reducing fever will reduce the risk of fatality in the general case. I had assumed the same thing also applied to children, as before this thread I'd never heard of children getting seizures from fever (at least not from any of the children/parents I knew growing up in rural Australia).
Show HN: Spotify Wrapped for GitHub- Relive your 2018 in code
They are enabled by default and you can't simply just disable, some of them will still start. You have to mask them in order to block them entirely. Also it doesn't matter if you have ntpd running, systemd-timesyncd still started for us...
Hi HN,

We thought that the idea behind Spotify Wrapped was extremely fun- it’s amazing to look back on your year of music and see how your tastes have changed (that is, if they changed at all)

But we thought it would be great to have the same thing for Github. Wouldn’t it be amazing to see how your coding has developed over the year? How many repos you’ve made, what your best repos were, what your favorite repos were?

That’s why we made YearInCode!
You can now look back on your year of programming and see how you’ve grown.

This project was made over the last 2 days, and everything is open source, so, as two aspiring 16 y/o devs, we’d really appreciate any feedback and more importantly, any contributions!
Why PHP & Symphony ? This joke which is getting way too far. I'm getting tired of seeing it, and I'm tired of arguing why sticking with a language like that is a mistake.

Bug Bounties are great, but I'd like to see people put their brain on for a moment and stop relying on what they learnt when they were 14 neither propose it as a valid solution today or encourage other people to use them.

I'm getting very tired of this sh*t.
>when I found out there's other people who like talking about the Linux kernel

I went to an engineering school with a sizable CS/ECE program but I never found people like this.

My advice to OP is - go to a university that does have people like this.
A kind of service where you choose your areas of interests; we curate, summarize news article based on your interests, and send you a page link to read those summaries with links to original articles.
I think many people here do that.

Let computers be the tool you use. You don't profit from imaginary "elegance" in parts of the computer that you don't need for your daily work. Be a regular user. Develop only what you're good at.

Think about return on (time) investment. If you take weeks to configure your editor and learn how it works, it's most likely not worth it.

It's okay for software to be intuitive and easy. It's a tool, after all. If there is no proper onboarding and the software doesn't explain itself, the developers didn't get the UX right. You shouldn't rely on them for your work.
I thought one of the main benefits to accepting cash is to underreport revenue for tax purposes.
1. Forget about what's "normal". Instead, ask yourself: "Is this going to contribute to my broader goals in life?" Having close friends in high school may offer valuable experiences in social dynamics and managing relationships, but chances are you won't remain friends with most of those people after high school, and that's ok.

2. Definitely research colleges thoroughly and apply to them, but realize that you don't have to go to college. And certainly not right out of high school. In some disciplines, such as web software engineering, those 4 years spent working with real clients could be more valuable for your career than spending lots of money on a Computer Science degree.

3. Leverage all the extra-curricular activities you can in order to gauge your interest in certain subjects. Obviously you can't register for everything, but pick, say 3 activities to focus on each semester and apply yourself to them. As life goes on, you'll have less and less carefree time to explore this stuff.
Usually the advice on this is max the employer match portion first. E.g. the fairly common 100% on the first 6%. At median income that would be $1800 for a 100% return on investment (after the vesting period). There are a bunch of things higher priority than maxing out the 401k for financial health. See https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics#w... for a good way of evaluating how to order these.
WHEN COMES WORLD EBOLA DAY?
It is to get rid of mindless browsing and news.
is there some chart comparing life expectancy at certain age like let's say 30 and live expectancy dying of natural cause (no car accidents, natural disasters, crime etc.)? because these take hit on average but most of the people will not be affected by it
I've never regretted saying yes to an offer to socialise in a small group. It's easy to get lost at a party or a big event, but if you're one of four or five people sitting in a MacDonalds after class it's easier to talk and make friends. College will give you lots of opportunities to do things like that, and they'll be more useful than the massive social events if you're a little bit introverted.
"Nitrite free" and "naturally cured" sausages generally contain even more nitrite than traditional curing, sourced naturally from celery sap:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/aantfo/stop_addi...

Maybe we'll switch to irradiation! You don't need nitrites at all if you kill botulinum spores with 20kGy of gamma rays. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2015.10.008
I'm pretty sure that you use a bunch of Qt apps on Windiws without even knowing it. Hell, even the official Microsoft OneDrive client uses Qt :-)
Malware attack disrupts delivery of L.A. Times and Tribune papers across the U.S
I'm not familiar with how to do any sort of spectral analysis with a few discrete LED elements. Any pointers for further reading on that?

A good way to get your hands on a true optical spectrum analyzer is to look for one of the Verity units as shown in Kerry Wong's video ( http://www.kerrywong.com/2015/08/16/yet-another-scanning-mon... ) and the Signal Path blog ( http://thesignalpath.com/blogs/2014/11/21/teardown-upgrade-a... ). I bought one and wrote some software for it after seeing Shahriar's video. Very cool toy. Unfortunately, they have become somewhat harder to find on eBay since those videos were posted, and quite a bit more expensive when you do see them for sale.
Ask HN: How would you invest $100k in 2019?
Cash has transaction costs too, and those are already built into business pricing:

1. Time spent by staff counting and reconciling cash after close of business or at the end of a shift

2. Time spent on bank runs or on an armoured car service that picks up your cash and deposits it at the bank

3. Banks actually charge businesses cash-handling fees for both providing and receiving large quantities of coins

4. Safes and other security mechanisms for keeping cash on your premises

5. Higher insurance premiums when you have lots of cash on hand

Businesses that completely eliminate cash also eliminate these costs.
The entire project, of course, was eventually cancelled

Been there, done that. Once spent months working on a project but when I finally got to talk to the users they told me it didn’t do what they wanted and even if it did they wouldn’t change their working practices (union rules maybe?)

At the end of the year the manager who had assigned me this project dinged me on my appraisal for not having delivered it.
> It's as if they go around looking for places in the grammar they can unambiguously stick "static" and then back-rationalize a meaning for it.

I would think that that's exactly what they do, in order to avoid breaking existing code by introducing any more reserved words.
Is it worth to spend 90kEUR on putty, considering windows nowadays has openssh?
The city of Munich tried to develop a Linux distribution "Limux" that was used for some time, but political considerations ultimately reversed the decision.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
Replying to my own comment as it's too late to edit, I was basing my assumptions on studies showing fever reducing drugs have no positive effect on mortality in adults, like described in https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/well..., but was unaware that children face separate risks from high fever that can make such drugs more vital. So my comment is bad advice.
Here's a nice advice page done by founder of Stripe - https://patrickcollison.com/advice

You'll be missing out on teenager life as you worry about teenager life, so don't worry about it and just do what you want to do.
You know there are a hundred countries where this is a solved problem, right?

> The simplest way to commit fraud is to charge the insurance company (in a privatized system) or the government (in a public system) for large amounts of care for fake patients in fake cases

Insurance fraud is a problem for the insurance company. They deal with that already so it's not relevant here. And a govt hospital can be audited just like any other govt entity.
The list reads like the EU commission surveyed what they had running on dusty forgotten servers in some closet.

The idea per se is good, though. We need to ensure that foundational infrastructure is properly maintained.
> I don't know how to make close friends.

In my experience, it's much easier to do with people you have something in common. I didn't even know the names of most of my classmates in high school.

> Will college be the same or different than high school?

The best thing about college was the fact that other people stopped feeling like a bunch of scripted NPCs.
I'm planning to learn the programming language R and read the book "Pandas Cookbook Recipes for Scientific Computing", improve my skills in Emacs and learn more english, because english it's not my primary language.
Has this happened often? Also, how often do you measure the child's temperature and how do you establish the rapid uptrend?
Probably not the US if that's what you're implying, considering that isis affliated insurgents launch very similar drones regularly in the area and apparently this time they were guided by a random American Poseidon.
This was all said at a military gathering in China aimed at strengthening ties, it's laughably bad sourcing with zero evidence and a rf jamming story that doesn't add up even with 1960's electronic warfare technology.

The other quote from the same general:

> Our experience proves that terrorists have the most modern weapons and communication means, including space-based tools

It's plainly bs aimed at the target audience
Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (2016 Edition)
[apologies, wall of text follows]

A number of other people have suggested sports. I wish I had discovered Judo and Brazilian Jujitsu younger, but I was a competitive fencer and boxed in university. All sports give you a pool of people to have shared experiences with (maybe a bit artificial) whether they are team sports or individual sports.

The other element of these kind of 'instant friend' activities is that you can find a kind of 'placeholder' group of people to hang out with who may be able to introduce you to other people you are more likely to click with. I made some good friends from groups of people that I largely had nothing in common with but was hanging out with because of some girl (for example) - but you might wind up meeting way more interesting people on the periphery of a group you don't really 100% click with.

My friends in high school were generally 'shared interest' nerd friends (mostly Dungeons and Dragons as a core nerdy interest).

It's possible to make friends doing pretty much whatever - a lot of friends I had in university were my peers in CS and other subjects. We had to hang around in labs and classes together, though (and having a 4th year "honours" program in CS where we did 100% CS and all had on-campus shared offices was really good for that). So it's just as possible that you could wind up walking in, doing your work, and walking out. Cultivating some projects and working with a group might really help with that. A lot of undergraduates are considered disposable randos who are just interested in getting a qualification as quick as possible while accumulating as little extra knowledge as possible, but if you're interested in type theory, maybe you should be trying to work with a research group in something you like. Ideally go for a healthy research group that's actually at the place you want to go, not something that exactly fits your supposed interested right now (which will likely change). So if they have a big healthy machine learning group that welcomes undergraduate research interns vs one cranky weirdo doing type theory, do the former (that's better both socially and, likely, as research prep if that's the direction you want to go).

Do try to make sure that you're not assuming activities are asocial when they aren't, too. Maybe people are getting coffee after art class?

It's very hard to force the issue - I think people are more and more preoccupied with their phones and previous social connections via social media than they are interested in meeting new people. I suggest cultivating a lot of interests (including a wide variety of things), behaving yourself well, keeping an open mind and seeing what happens.

Of course, maybe you're just solitary by nature. But don't assume stuff. I substantially reinvented myself in university and essentially declared myself an extrovert after having been very introverted in HS. Despite some awkward moments from this forced transition (yes, someone trying to put on an extrovert skin can be about as dreadful as you might imagine) this was a very good idea long-term.
So what I understood from the readme is that all dependencies would also need to be configured around Bake, is that correct? I guess this will be the main chicken and egg problem, as with other build tools, given the variety of tools that exist and are used across different libraries. Although I've found that autotools tends to be a common denominator in most of the ones I've had to work with...

A minor detail: the table under Template Functions is not properly formatted and Github doesn't render it as a table.
Is it possible for a foreign traveler to just download the software to his phone assuming there's an English version? Or must you open a Chinese bank account first? If that's the case there's a pretty huge opportunity for someone!
This problem can be solved by making it mandatory for banks to accept any customer. I live in a country where the law oblige the bank to open an account for anyone. By law, they can't refuse you.

There is also another solution: A government sponsored debit card. Maybe made and managed by a government owned organisation (like the postal service).
Is it worth spending money on Drupal considering we nowadays have anything else?

The answer is yes. The value of these bug bounty programs is directly tied to the amount of use the software gets (and most of these get used a ton, including Putty, regardless of alternatives).
Co-codamol (codeine and paracetamol) is widely prescribed IME in the UK, eg for back pain, muscle pain.

I had Oramorph for abdominal pain (in hospital, no surgery thankfully). The condition may have been caused by medium term use of Ibuprofen (in my non-medical opinion).
That argument seems to rely on the existence of a principal-agent problem that isn't present in the case of consumers buying cars, though.
Show HN: Build is like Makefile for single files
Dulle's declassified report from the late 1940s on how to fix the CIA is also good reading. The report was referenced in Legacy of Ashes... A book that takes a very dim view on the agency: basically a bunch of ivy Leaguers trying to shape world events with disastrous consequences...
Same here, hated highschool, flunked, skipped more classes that I can remember, ended up living abroad for a year in order to fix myself.
the title has "news" in it, so I assumed something like world news or recent events? but from your comments it seems something closer to a curation of links similar to what I would find using stumbleupon which sounds a little bit better.
So fake sports, massively hacked email, and news aggregation from other sources.
It seems this only really matters in function prototype declarations that contain multidimensional arrays. Compare:

int foo(char [][*]);
int bar(char [][]);

The second declaration should give an error.

I'm getting this from just reading the spec now, but it looks like the reason has to do with "incomplete" versus "complete" types.

Something like 'int arr[]' is an "incomplete type", i.e. an array of ints with unspecified size. While 'int arr[*]' is a complete type for an array with variable length. I'm guessing that array elements must have a complete type, which is why the above snippet gives an error.
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> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading
Undefined Behavior: What Happened to My C Code [pdf]
Đột quỵ là gì? Biện pháp phòng ngừa đột quỵ
Munich did that, but they didn't do the second part of parent's suggestion: "and they invested it in an open source office suite..."

Surely most of the problems with the opensource tools they were using could have been resolved by helping the opensource projects fix bugs.
I'm not sure how much the fine print matters if it fails basic fit-for-purpose standards.

Regarding irrationality -- see e.g. this[0] Shamus Young post about the video game industry. IMO, this general sort of irrationality is everywhere. Businesses in general tend to be irrational because they're run by suits, whose primary motivation is not actually accumulating money for the business but rather prestige for themselves, which you get by doing business-y things, regardless of whether those actually make money. For all his reputed greed, that's how I actually expect Larry Ellison to act.

[0] https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=41924
All theories are speculation, but these are based on observation and contact with the industry. Boeing have acted in exactly the way that my theories predict and dictate; they are certainly reactive to the threat of regulation and customer pressure. If Boeing was to become an "unsafe" brand their shareholders would be very damaged.

The twin engine statistics story that you cite is not the story that I remember for the 777.The FAA had rules which were based on the behaviour of old engines and dictated that an twin engine aircraft should be a smaller distance from an emergency strip than was possible for the best routes across the major oceans (I believe it ruled out the Pacific routes completely). Boeing demonstrated (successfully and correctly) that modern engines failed so rarely that the four vs two distinction was obsolete.

What has happened in recent years is that another failure mode has emerged, it's a complex one due to pilot training, HCI and the vulnerability of automated systems to failure in modes where common sense knowledge could protect them. I expect and believe that the systems and institutions of the aerospace industry will be fully strong enough to manage this, but I don't think that this is the case for many other industries that are beginning to experience the same sort of problems - notably self driving cars and computer medicine.. Many people think differently - the test of theories is time, so we shall see.
As popular as PayPal may be, it's a far cry from being a monopoly.

That said, I do think holding money should be cause for more stringent regulations. Stopping service is one thing; holding funds entirely should absolutely happen only under direct court order (anything else would be theft).
Many jobs on offer in Singapore tend to be limited-time contractual. Also, there are no pensions. If you do get fired, it is not a large country with a lot of alternative opportunities.
PHP is used for a massive amount of software out there.

I hate the language as much as anyone (probably more since I had to work with it extensively), but that doesn't change the above fact.

From Wordpress and Drupal to countless custom websites and apps built with Laravel or Symfony, this is a very worthwhile area to invest this money in.

Regardless of how much you don't like PHP.
Wear and tear on the knees generally. And yes, many infantrymen do have permanent problems by their 30's.
Hobo Terminology
Axway api management might be another alternative.
> Surely most of the problems with the opensource tools they were using could have been resolved by helping the opensource projects fix bugs.

Actually LiMux did that. From an external PoV, I saw quite a number of commits coming from LiMux sponsored people in a few FOSS projects I follow.
> high, full doses of 2,400 to 3,200 mg daily

Holy shit that's a lot of ibuprofen. If you are taking that much every day, you definitely have some more pressing concern than liver toxicity...
> Here in the UK, you can open an account in minutes on your mobile phone with any photo ID, even if you're not a UK resident.

Is this a relatively new thing? One of the biggest bureaucratic nightmares I’ve ever had was opening an account in the UK.

Closing it was even worse. I emptied it from an ATM then walked in and asked to close it. They agreeed then handed me a fist full of money that I’d already withdrawn from the ATM. I queried what was going on and a months long misery ensued as they seemed to think I was trying to defraud them.
Professor Hewitt, I am a big fan of your work, but I am struggling a bit with understanding this claim from another article you wrote in CACM[0]:

> Actor message passing machines can perform computations that a no lambda expression, nondeterministic Turing Machine, Simula-67 program, or pure Logic Program can implement.

You go on to quote [Plotkin 1976], but I just can't connect the dots. I don't doubt that the Actor Model is a more powerful abstraction than a Turing Machine, but I do wonder if it isn't possible for a Turing Machine to simulate the Actor Model, and thereby achieve the same power of expression.

I also know I'm in way over my head with the math, but if it's possible for you to come up with a proof that an undergraduate/high-school student could follow, that would surely help out a lot!

[0]https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/231495-what-turing-and-...
A self-taught developer redemption after serving a 12-year prison sentence
people can also stop eating bacon all together. It's bad for them and bad for the animals and bad for the environment.
Hope ML/AI will capture/automate vital/undocumented knowledge that is orally passing thru generations e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_Jews#Jewish_mot...
You're literally replying to a comment which makes this exact point.

> Well, we can introduce a protocol, and study it, and know conclusively in perhaps 10 years. But, between then and now...
Tips for your New Year's resolution to lose weight
2Mt is 2 mega tonnes. If you look at the source only 0.03% of radioactive waste in the UK is "High Level". The expended fuel itself is a tiny portion of the nuclear waste. At lot of things other than nuclear reactors also produce radioactive waste that requires proper disposing, as your source confirms.
Hurricane Taxation: A blueprint for a better society?
Notepad++ seems to be only Windows. Seems would be better to support a cross-platform text editor.