skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Second, in order to weigh risks, you need to not have billion dollar companies spending millions of dollars to hide the effects of concussions.

I just don't buy this. Forget whether they hid results of studies. Forget if the studies ever even existed. No one honestly thinks you can make a career out of lining up across from this [1] and still live a consequence free life.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Rh6KuuH6w
I just want to say the title on yc is so much better than the original. Making something cheaper and simple is innovation. Reverse innovation is ambiguous and confusing.
No the substantial difference is the huge difference in the rules of the games. American football stops 100 times a game and sets everyone up to match up with someone and hit them. Concussions dont just happen in tackles. They happen in blocking too (no blocking in rugby or aussie leages afaik). There are an order of magnitude more blocks than tackles in any play or game. Some of the football concussion studies have shown that many sub concussive hits is horrible for the brain too. [1] A football player expierences tens of thousands of these over their career.

Take the armor away and you'll just have people dying instead of getting concussions. Knees to the head arent uncommon and are certainly not intentional by the kneeer or kneed.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/18/5783558...
No. The US wants tech and equipment from the US-based companies to be the standard across the world because it would allow more influence over those countries. They would also be able to intercept the equipment as it leaves the US. [0]

[0] Infamous "NSA intercepts Cisco equipment slide" https://archive.fo/7Zosk
Problem solvers are often (IMHO) also novelty seekers. Or looked at another way, who brags on their resume "I was hired by Google to be maintain the status quo!" Not many people want to be the Maytag Repairman. For those too young to understand the reference, Maytag's commercials suggested their appliances were so reliable that their repairman never had anything to do.
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thanks - I was expecting the code itself to do the credentials dance.
I think it is more the Google reward system forces the smart people to work on something new. They pay out for crazy new things that become wildly successful and everything else becomes roadkill. Its like the employees are part of little startups and the executives are VCs.
Unfortunately, former NCAA players have no such recourse, even though they'll probably have similar results. I mostly blame the NCAA's illusion of "student athlete" which allows them to pretend that athletes are not professional despite massive profits from their labor. It also allows their exclusion from worker's compensation requirements.
That does feel like the obvious solution but no doubt they couldn't mention that in an article published on a website where they make most of their money through ads
Only one way to be sure, you get the spaceship, I’ll get the plutonium pit. Now, people won’t get why were doing this, but we brave and happy few won’t mind.
Show HN: My iPhone app for mapping pins
I wrote a free iPhone app to share recommended places, and to let you place pins more easily:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/share-theres/id1438481654?ls...

It's not like Yelp or the built-in map searches because it's centered around the pins more than the themes.
I got the idea on a trip to New York. I just wanted to draw a box on the map within a small 2-block area to see what's there--like recommended pizza places, for example, or to see all the recommended places of any theme, but only within that box.
All the other map/social/share apps keep expanding the boundary, showing you things far beyond the constraints.
This one works exactly the way I always wished the Google map and the Apple map (and Yelp) would work.

You can also keep the "pinsets" stored locally; I find it handy to use for things like where I parked my car, or where I started a walk.
You can send a map pin to someone in the form of a URL, which means you can send it from iPhone to Android or to a desktop computer in a text message.
I know the maps have ways to do this, but I see so many people who struggle with it; they resort to sending a screen capture of the pin's location.
It seemed a clear indicator that the map's UI is overly cluttered and confusing to people.

The backend uses CloudKit storage, so hopefully it will remain free for me to operate. (This is just a hobby project; I'm not trying to turn it into a business or anything.)

Being left-handed, I was proud of my UI feature that lets you swipe the buttons to the left, instead of being stuck with them on the right (always an annoyance of the Gmail app).
I also agree with Don Norman when he says that features shouldn't be hidden away and only discoverable by accident, so I think my "stacked-behind" buttons was a good solution to this; the buttons don't take up space, but you can see that they're there.

Thanks for checking it out! It was fun to write.
> you'd be aiming to foul out key players with concussions.

I don't see players willingly getting concussions just to get other players out.

> And what if you legitimately tackle a guy from behind and he hits the ground so hard his sensor goes off? You've still got a concussed player, but now you have to play the rules game.

It would be up to the refs to call if it was intentional. The sensor is only there to help the ref make the call.
Hobby code: I slowly developing a Gin rummy [1] engine. Card sets are represented by 64 bit integers and all operations (findig melds, sets, etc...) are implemented with bitwise operators.

I have used pext/pdep for the iterator implementation (iterate over all subset of a card set, or all combination of n cards).

(e.g. To iterate over all 10 card combination brute-force and filter and print out all the ones which can be knocked (evaluating 15_820_024_220 hands) takes 70 seconds - one threaded - on my 7th gen intel i3.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_rummy
Facebook messenger wasn't actually a messenger in the IM sense, it was a bad site chat, and too locked in. Hence buying Whatsapp = good idea (plus much more data to mine, obviously).

You're right though: things can change. But they usually don't do too quickly once the dust has settled and the giants have emerged. Yeah, yeah, there could be a Google killer tomorrow, but there probably won't. That's very different when markets are still developing and nobody has any clue what's going to happen in 6 months time, but monopolists don't just disappear over night because a new kid rode into town. That's what's different between snapchat, myspace and facebook.

Reddit has nothing even close to that kind of pull. To get to the advertising dollars, it will have to crack down on users and become sfw, and that will turn lots of people away. When there's money to be made, they will also have to deal with copy right, and that will shut down a good part of the meme subreddits, I'm afraid. I'm sure it'll still have a place in a few years, controlling a major discussion platforms is worth money after all, but I don't see it going to the big league by staying what they are now.
Two birds. One stone.

Good luck, and keep up the good work :-)
TRIGA thermal power goes up to the area they are thinking about.
It surely is. There's a reason behind why support for old versions ends at some point.
> Datashader eats a million points for breakfast.

So does opengl on a decade old computer.
Yeah, I was talking about specific leagues, not sports entirely. My original post was misleading.
Wow, they have noise cancelling in a digital stethoscope - and that is being touted as something amazing! :) This article is fun.
Adding some context since I suspect much of the HN crowd may be unfamiliar - this is being published by ESPN, who previously have suspended and fired employees for calling out the NFL and its commissioner [0][1]. Not saying there isn't a story here, but to me this reads like a very hypocritical hit piece.

[0] https://www.si.com/nfl/2014/09/24/espn-bill-simmons-roger-go...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/05/08...
Speaking from experience as an apartment dweller in California. My food delivery pet peeve is when I get a phone call from the delivery person saying that they're inside the apartment complex but are having trouble finding my unit so I should come meet them at the pool.

I'm not trying to fault the driver for not locating my unit, not do I enjoy sounding like an entitled bourgeois snoot, but it definitely makes the delivery experience less-than-complete. I imagine the last 20-meter problem will be a much higher barrier for those who are experiencing mobility-related challenges, and it is indeed a real problem to be solved.
Yeah, this is how to world moves forward - otherwise, we'd all be still watching VHS movies. Plus, there's this lovely tool called 2to3.
I hear good things about magit, does anyone have any good learning resources for someone who is relatively new to emacs?
Hollerith:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith

Connections used to be one of my favorite columns in Scientific American.
Presumably that person coming to the game is not only betting, but is also staying at a hotel, eating a few meals, flying into and out of the airport, and gambling at the hotel. It's how you guys make most of your tax base, so I'd assume an increase in the tax base would be good.

Now the new traffic on the other hand...
Do You Keep a Failure Résumé?
Eh, nothing will happen. It's also hilarious to see ESPN doing the shit-flinging here because they did the exact same thing to Bill Simmons in 2015. He called out the NFL's gross mishandling of the Ray Rice debacle, and a couple months later, ESPN announced they weren't renewing Simmon's contract. Nothing really happened to ESPN then, nothing will happen to NBC now.
I have a foreign name that is often incorrectly tagged as female because of a popular 90s TV show. I had many schoolteachers over the years make jokes about it which they thought were funny but I found hurtful. Getting a female-targeted mail ad is not very amusing after one or two times.
You mean the US pulled an "Iraq WMD" again?
Pastry, stress, and software engineering
If you're interested in setting good targets and metrics, I highly recommend these books on OKRs:

Measure what matters, Doerr: The newest book on OKRs, by the guy who introducted OKRs to Google

Move, Patty Azzarello: A really really great book on executing strategic change, that has a section about setting 'Control Points', which are roughly equivalent to what Intel/Google etc. refer to as 'Key Results'

Radical Focus: A light read about OKRs. Good as a first book on OKRs, but not as detailed as the two books above.

Introduction to OKRs: A very short book on OKRs. Good as a first book on OKRs if you have a short attention span.
Quick question: I don't see any field in the interview to indicate NYC as the interview city. Do all applicants who make the February 15 deadline automatically get considered for an NYC interview?
This is definitely the more interesting article referred to in terms of social consequences: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....

Edit: Had a bit of whiplash when I realised that this article was from seven years ago. How far we've come.
> The question is, is it a worse problem than in American football?

That's a relevant question, but the post that sparked this exchange talked about the impossibility of 'concussion free football', and said that 'concussion won't go away'. To the extent that rugby or Australian rules are useful comparisons here, they definitely cause enough concussions to support that point (and not just in a pedantic, >0 way -- it's a big problem in both sports).
> This API just makes it slightly easier and more visible.

Yeah that's what APIs do. You can usually work with CURL requests/scraping too, but it always feels clunky and improvised, much like the method you are describing seems to me.

Making something easier means making it more accessible, means the tech based around these tools will advance faster, and that's good for everyone. It's not just a new bauble, well, except it's Google, but it will be very useful until they inevitably abandon it.
You can't. The situation isn't ideal, of course, but stuff happens. Nobody's perfect.
Snapseed is a complete and professional photo editor developed by Google
Google Docs has approximately 1 billion daily active users.

Hacker News has fewer than 1 million monthly active users.

Google is a deeply polarizing HN topic, where many of any article's comments reduce to snark about longevity of Google products, or proclamations that anyone using Google services is a fool who doesn't understand privacy.

Please tell us more about your theory of Google's astroturf marketing campaign on Hacker News.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-drive-now-has-800m-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098
It's a byproduct of regulation. When you start telling people they can't consume this substance, or buy a car with fewer than this number of airbags, or without traction control, or you can't sell an apartment with a size smaller than this, you create consequences. Maybe people buy used cars instead of new cars. Maybe they live in illegal units that skirt the regulations not just on sizing, but on fire safety. And so on. You create black markets.

This is absolutely not to say that regulation is bad! It is just to point out that it creates unintended consequences you have to be aware of, and place the slider of regulation in the appropriate place.

After all, we all intuitively know that a minimum wage of $500/hr and a minimum allowable housing size of 7000sqft won't work! But we also know that telling a surgeon "just use whatever you find lying around" may not be the best approach either.
Demystifying ENTRYPOINT and CMD in Docker
Ironic means that it was contrary to expectations.
Also of interest, Malcolm Galdwell's podcast* "Revisionist History" had an excellent episode on CTE in football. He made an analogy to smoking. Evidence had long suggested that smoking was dangerous, but it was only that -- evidence, not hard proof. Evidence continued to pile up, but so did the counter evidence (primarily from tobacco firms and those they funded). At what point do we say -- OK, maybe the evidence isn't 100%, but isn't there enough evidence to suggest something is wrong?

* http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/22-burden-of-proof
Presumably this has been solved. It’s a mailbox. Once the software infrastructure for autonomous delivery vehicles is in place, I feel that people will gladly install $100 ‘autonomous-delivery-ready-mailboxes’. We gladly spend more than that on the gas, electricity, internet, and parking infrastructure that’s in place.
RAM prices already vary by more than 12%, and it seems like there is no shortage of people paying premium for brand recognition, different board colors (green is "out"), useless heat sinks etc. I think there would be plenty of people willing to pay extra for ECC (some for peace of mind, some because they need it, some just to feel superior)
I'm surprised there's no involvement from PHP yet (although, who would be involved?)

PHP's renaissance has a lot of thanks to give to Composer - our own package manager that has been fantastic.

Composer should definitely be represented in the maintainer's group.
Ah, I didn't realize the process was quite that bad. I can see how that makes it more worthwhile to do only if you get in.

Thanks for the explanation!
Giving Waferscale Processors Another Shot
Flowgorithm
>From what I understand, the idea here is to limit the drivers, so that the auto-tuning software (adjusting color balance, brightness, etc) only works with the original camera, not with clones.

That's not nice, or is it now?
The real answer is to bill based on milestones instead of billing based on hours. Hourly billing in my experience is just a slippery slope to being way too conscious about time and creates a conflict of interest in that it is in your interest to take longer, but that isn't in the interest of your client. Billing off of milestones aligns interests because it is in both of your interests to complete milestones quickly. The only thing you have to watch out for is scope creep which can be easily addressed with contract clauses that address this.
It doesn't really get any better than the documentation on the homepage:

https://magit.vc/
Grin Governance: A Novel Approach
The only article part of the article I found ironic, is the site that the writer used imploring me to disable ad-blocker so they can generate revenue... on an article that tells me about all the reasons why targeted ads suck.
Right, but when customers are putting up with a crappy product, they are just waiting for a better alternative to come along. That's a huge liability to be sitting on -- just ask MySpace.
Around 10% of them are running cryptominers so it looks like there are already people out there compromising these public Docker instances.
The oligarchy can't disenfranchise you as easily, though.

Look at how screwed up the US is where liberal states import massive amounts of illegal immigrants and then launder them into voters by giving them driver's licenses. And when they're not running the tables with illegal immigration, they're doing it via gerrymandering (census counts legal and illegal alike), disavowing Voter ID laws as "Racist"--when every other thing we do requires an ID that is never accused of being racist, mind you.

And then there's the vote "counting" itself.

I think if Americans knew the full scale of fraud around voting there would be a real revolution.
China wants tech and equipment from the China-based companies to be the standard across the world because it would allow more influence over those countries. They would also be able to intercept the equipment as it leaves the US.
>The problem is not the web tracking, the problem is your obsession about it. Stop worrying about it

The problem is not climate change, the problem is your obsession about it. Stop worrying about it

The problem is not the rampant corruption, the problem is your obsession about it. Stop worrying about it

The problem is not ___ ______, the problem is your obsession about it. Stop worrying about it

Just give up, right?
One class, or volcano, of bugs is sacredly kept only for the poor souls whos ancestors believed writing from right to left was the greatest idea ever (possibly after Monotheism). Try to write in multiple columns format in an RTL lang, then come back speaking of bugs. Then try a mixed RTL/LTR in a bulletin list. One would have thought bidi would be a solved issue in 2019, yet it consistently breaks every text editor ever made on earth.
Thanks for the link. Good to see this is much easier now.
There actually was a second NYC event in 2013 or so.
>Let me just open up Tor so we can read through advice pages on the NHS website. Signing up for classes about the trauma of childbirth? Hold on a second while I setup a new email account on a private server so Google doesn’t scan my inbox for keywords. Excited family members sending you questions on Facebook Messenger? Ask them to immediately delete all those messages and download Signal instead.

Wow. Just use Firefox and a $5/month email service. Where did this myth that privacy protecting applications were difficult to use come from? Firefox is just as easy as chrome, and Signal's only difficulty is getting other people to use it, not the UI. I understand actually ensuring your data doesn't leak is difficult, but the apps to use are certainly not difficult.
Yes, as does China.

https://qz.com/africa/1192493/china-spied-on-african-union-h...

I suppose what it boils down to is, which “silent partner” would you prefer?
Youtube thinks I'm a conservative after I watched a few videos by Tim Pool.

Just about any service thinks my SO is a man.
Why wouldn't it? There isn't anything special that needs to be done, you can stream in whatever you want and render it to the existing buffer. You can even have it anti aliased practically for free.
I suspect you have tried this, but if not,

- visit https://myaccount.google.com/language

- click on (re-choose) English

- click on New Zealand as the 'sub-language'

should set your locale across the board, rather than doing it on a per-sheet basis. If it doesn't work, as a Canadian, I empathize with your troubles and apologize.
Machine Learning in Complex Networks

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-17290-3

Front Matter - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-319-17290-...
Zig Is Great
Rugby is a game played without helmets and concussions are still a massive problem. Regardless of the usage of the head as a weapon it's still a game that features massive guys hitting each other at high rates of speed. Taking the helmet away has now meant that when the guy gets tackled from behind and lands face first in the dirt he's not worried about getting a concussion due to his broken neck.
AirPods Have Gone Viral
You absolutely can and many do pass security without a confirmed seat.

That's the practice in the article, passing ticket holders along and telling them the seat will be assigned at the gate, well after baggage is checked and security lines have been waited.

Selling standby seats at the same/similar overbook ratio as they currently do wouldn't lead to any more of a dystopia then we currently have.
> The tagline on this website is "Guiding Developers since 1869". Is that a joke?

i'm trying to imagine a situation where it could be serious, but i'm not coming up with much.
I don't believe this, mainly because football will always be an easy and cheap sport for 20+ people to play and be entertained because the only equipment you need is a football and a grassy field.

Meanwhile, safer and more affluent communities will put their children in sports that have a higher bar of wealth to join. Sports such as golf or tennis require a golf club membership, expensive clubs or equipment, and expensive maintenance for playing and earning lessons.
It's worth noting that none of the telecom providers for wireless gear are from the US.

The top 5 equipment manufacturers for 5G gear are — Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE and Samsung.
There's a massive difference between revenue and viewership. Also, these figures are a bit weird since they are just based on the "NFL" company, which is pretty much the ONLY provider of American Football in the world, this says a lot in itself. There is obviously much more money spent on Cricket and Soccer than on American Football totally.

Check out this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-watched_televisio...

NFL doesn't come anywhere near the amount of viewers for soccer or even cricket OR badminton.

BILLIONS of people watch the World Cup and Olympics, the super bowl attracts about 115M. The soccer world cup had 3.5 BILLION.

Do you really think more people spend money on the NFL than the total world spend on soccer?
Rugby players face worse concussion risk than NFL players. https://www.brain-injury-law-center.com/blog/head-injuries-r...

Football helmets evolved precisely because players were facing gruesome head injury risk without them. I can't fathom how removing helmets from NFL play would be a smart move.
You're describing a caricature of a typical American Football fan. You say its popular despite being boring. Have you considered that maybe it's not boring? Sure, you don't appreciate the game (and that's okay), but it's obviously not boring to millions of fans who pay good money to see the games. If you're on reddit, checkout /r/nfl for what fans of the game talk about, and for an idea of the average fan.

We're not a bunch of redneck 'Murica types. At least, not any more so than US fans of baseball or basketball.

> It's really absurd how Football announcers have these gruff, hyper-masculine voices and how the entire sport coalesces nearly every negative aspect of masculinity and bro culture (2).

I need to know which announcers you're talking about. All the ones I'm thinking of are not that at all.