skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP is saying it’s a systemic issue spanning multiple industries, hence the article focusing on Google alone does somewhat feel like a hit piece.
AOL. ICQ. Google Talk. Skype.

People do migrate when the platform is FUBAR.
And a migration to git is being evaluated: https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1132084341213933569

DragonFly BSD, a FreeBSD 4.x fork, has also used git successfully since early 2009, I believe.
We do know, all the evidence points in the direction that the western diet, high in animal products and processed foods is the number explanation for the rampant increase of cancer, diabetes and heart disease in the west.

This argument is old: we don't know because the perfect experiment has not been conducted and never will and because the studies that we have don't say what we want to hear.

If the news is bad, question the source and keep doing the same thing. This was what was done for decades with tobacco, for decades the validity of the argument that it causes cancer was questioned.

Here we are in 2019 and still 15% of adults smoke in the US. And still, the perfect experiment was never done and never will.

Take any population that is healthy, they move to the west and develop these illnesses. The places in the world that have the best health are the ones that eat fewer animal products.

The Inuit that eat only meat and fish have rampant arteriosclerosis.

People on the paleo diet have been found to have much higher levels of a biomarker linked to heart disease than people on a normal diet, for which cancer rates are increasing - https://www.sbs.com.au/news/study-links-paleo-diet-to-heart-...

When a whole country stopped eating animal products for a year (during WW one) their health as a population massively increased.

The list goes on and on, we have epidemiological studies, we have population studies, we know some of the mechanisms through which cancer is developed, we know that a plant-based diet reverses heart disease.

But we still prefer to keep saying that we just don't know, because we don't like the news.
Also, your goberment ask people about stuff like if it OK to deploy 5G in the country ;-)

(I must confess I find that awesome).
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You can often read it on HN actually. Quite often you'll see people offering word-of-mouth solution to a problem, and the comments following will dismiss it for being pseudo-science, request "link to studies", etc.

Too much of good thing can be a bad thing.
I imagine there are python users doing multi-process, aren't there? (since the GIL is limiting for some use cases).
That is true. I'm the biggest Hootsuite hater.
Follow OpenBSD.amsterdam and get a VM for free for a year
The fact that you eat eggs/dairy doesn't invalidate the entire exercise. Cutting meat out of your diet reduces animal cruelty significantly.
While going all the way is better from an animal cruelty perspective there are other factors to consider (going all vegan is hard).
> The latter option seems to have more potential though.

How well does it handle page numbers and an associated table of contents?
The post specifically mentions CORS and shows an example Express app that has CORS enabled.
This is what was so frustrating to me about working in medical research.

>- They claimed they used 800 studies but they actually only used 18...

I hate this, it happens all the time. Basically, say, 20 studies, which each reference other studies. Group all the references, remove the duplicates, add 20, and BAM! 800 studies!

What's worse, if you take the time to read through the studies, related papers, and data, you'll find ridiculousness. Circles of "peer reviewers", who clearly either never read the papers they reviewed, or are not as good at advanced math as I am. (I choose to believe they never even read the papers, because I'm not the smartest guy in the world.)

Data that doesn't match conclusions.

Oftentimes you won't find a single replication of a given study.

And on and on and on.

It was hard out there for a pimp.

>- He thinks a number of the people made up their minds before they even arrived ..

I can guarantee you this happened. Having said that though, it's important to remember in situations like the ones the podcast describes, that people have their minds made up "for" and "against". Believe it or not, it's a lot like liberals and conservatives in that, they don't really care what the data says, they're going to do whatever ridiculous thing they want to do in any case. Which frustrated me to no end. I mean, in politics, OK, that's the way things work. Fine.

But in science? I was just like, man, what are you people doing?
The Dominion of Melchizedek
How to choose the right development partner
Every example seems to follow this pattern

client = pymemcache.client.Client(('127.0.0.1', 11211)) #2 create a client

# save to memcache client, expire in 60 seconds.
@ring.memcache(client, expire=60) #3 lru -> memcache
def get_url(url):
return requests.get(url).content

How are you supposed to configure the client at 'runtime' instead of 'compile time' (when the code is executed and not when it's imported)?

Careful placement of imports in order to correctly configure something just introduces delicate pain points. It'll work now, but an absent minded import somewhere else later can easily lead to hours of debugging.
ive not heard of the journal "animal frontiers" before, but they seem to be partially funded by something called "american meat science" which, according to wikipedia, "represents the scientific advancement of meat production, including animal welfare, slaughterhouse operations, meat biochemistry and microbiology, and food safety." i'm not sure if that equates to a conflict of interest (is this just a lobby group with "science" in the name?) maybe somebody more knowledgeable can chime in.
We have finally reached peak stupidity.

Idiot reporters writing stories about other idiot reporters' stories, blissfully free from the taint of meaningful technical information, consumed by a post-facts society.

The fucktard who wrote that piece doesn't know the difference between investigative reporting and the Twilight saga.
https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/hegelian-cont...

Both TFA and the linked article referenced by TFA seem to me to be the ramblings of somebody trying really, really, hard to pull a rabbit out of a hat. By linking together abstract concepts you can prove that philosophy and mathematics are one and the same!

>So it’s very remarkable that Hegel’s mystical starting point, which is purely conceptual and abstract – and makes no reference to physical reality or empirical knowledge whatsoever – nonetheless implies a structure of ‘becoming’ that is equivalent to the fundamental structure found everywhere in physical science.

Well, you can read Hegel this way... I guess. Figure it makes for some really warm and fuzzy insightful feelings, regardless of whether they are meaningful.
If you live and work along the Luas it’s not so bad. But otherwise yeah it’s shite.
Sure. IMHO one solution might be to have a HTML standard specification that is stable, which can then be built on. Extensions can be proposed so long as they don't break the standard. This would allow new elements and attributes to be introduced before they are themselves fully stable, as they are now. Breaking changes would require bumping the spec to a new major version and should happen only rarely.
>I'd recommend the book "How to not Die".

I'm sorry but Michael Greger, M.D., author of the said book, is a nutrition quack.

https://twitter.com/nutrition_facts/status/10472600785528995...
Evernote's $290m Problem
In my experience, many fintech/Wall Street firms outsource their recruitment efforts to "head hunting" firms.
Another fun one is the case where FitBit data revealed military base locations and patrol routes

https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-f...
Profoundly unimpressed with the the hypocrisy around free speech evidenced by the GPL advocates. I had hoped you would fire back to say it wasn't you and that you disagreed with the flagging. Your "clever retort" however is the reply of someone who is pleased that opposing viewpoints are being shut down and hidden from the world. Perhaps one day you will have the confidence to believe and understand that your ability to articulate for your points is powerful enough that you should not just allow but encourage opposing viewpoints to be heard, so that you could use your facilities to convince others of the right answer. You have that capacity. Blocking the opinion of others from being heard is not worthy of you.
Prague

Per [0] (2001; in Czech), average distance between subway stations is 1038m, tram stops 500m and bus stops 698m.

A related metric is walking distance from home to public transportation stop. Per [1] (2011; in Czech), most of people in the city need to walk less than 5 minutes to reach a stop. (There's a table with a breakdown by walking time and city part in chapter 7.) The same work cites average walking speed as 88.69 m/min, which gives you, for most inhabitants, <450m to reach a public transportation stop.

[0] http://envis.praha-mesto.cz/rocenky/DZ_OO/pril_practexty/BK0...
[1] https://dspace.cuni.cz/bitstream/handle/20.500.11956/51223/B...

(EDIT: Updated units.)
I've found out Stripe wasn't even necessary to begin with. There are plenty of payment gateways (double-digit number of them) in the jurisdiction where the foreign parent entity would be located. Moreover, Stripe is actually offered in a lot of countries besides the U.S.! The post https://hackernoon.com/stripe-atlas-is-not-for-everyone-cave... made some really good points, including this:

> Unless you have a really crappy situation with respect to payment processing, regulations etc., that are real roadblocks for competing internationally, I do not recommend setting up company for the romanticised notion of using a particular gateway.

I made that mistake of romanticizing Stripe. I was too hasty, and didn't bother to do some basic research. Customers just want an easy way to pay, and definitely don't care what gateway you choose to use. As far as setting up an American company/subsidiary goes, it's not worth the trouble. Reading https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/business-taxes alone was eye-watering and migraine-inducing. The plethora of complicated tax rules are absolutely not worth enduring just to use one particular payment processing system.
I find the pleasantness of the standards process depends on how many people have strong opinions about the thing you're working on. Being involved in 'new' standards like fetch or gamepad or webgl is generally pretty relaxed because while it's interesting to many people, there aren't a bunch of people with Past Experience with the new api/standard and they aren't about to dedicate a bunch of time to doing it themselves.

Coming in to try and fix problems or propose improvements for existing stuff like canvas or XHR or whatever is another matter entirely, as you've probably noticed. Thanks for helping make fetch good!
Show HN: A CDK serverless contatc-form
The next difference you might encounter further down the line is how many user space programs act differently from Linux. Like for example route, netstat, tar and many more.

Why not fault Linux for not having the same interfaces as the BSD tools? The BSD ones were there first.

The reality is that the systems are different and OpenBSD is not trying to be Linux. Faulting either one just for not being the same as the other is silly.
And then you end up in that situation when they didn't actually switch, but rather made you a favor and caved in to your self-centric demands and stubborness. Like with a tantrum-prone child. They still use WhatsApp between themselves, because that's what their dentist, car mechanic and a favourite sushi takeout use. They will also more eagerly reply to IMs if they are not sent through your preferred chat system. So in the end you technically made them do your thing, but the victory is hollow.

Ask me how I know.
Most vegetarians have no trouble swatting a fly or a mosquito, though.

The studies of plant "neurology" (if you can call it that) are all very interesting, but the argument that anything that has a nervous system is holy and untouchable is decidedly fringe.

To compare the awareness of a tree with the awareness of a cow or a pig or even a chicken is clearly asinine.
Is there any way to get the source code of extensions from the Mozilla web site? I think some years ago you could look at the code in your browser from a link in the version history but I don't see any links at all now.
No All White collar jobs are "technical" and when I worked at British Telecom entry level HR jobs where Hourly paid CWU grades.
In Warsaw, Poland, the mean distance between bus stops is 1,041 metres. This may seem a lot, but the distribution is heavily skewed by the fact that Warsaw has 4 express bus lines: not taking these into account, the mean is 699 metres.

Source (Polish): https://warszawa.wikia.org/wiki/Autobusy
Show HN: Bot market – quality control for a decentralized identity system
The Vanished Dialects of Northern Elephant Seals
Exploding stars led to humans walking on two legs, radical study suggests
I'm really not sure what kind of changes you're talking about. They certainly don't do what you describe at the API level. Maybe you're just talking about bugs? I have encountered a few browser regressions over the years but they're always for really exotic use-cases of relatively new APIs, and they always get fixed in the next release. I've been working on a suite of highly complex JS-heavy tools for the past 2.5 years, and the problems that have stemmed specifically from browser bugs in that time are a vanishingly small number. Probably less than five.
Accelerated sensor fusion algorithm for POSE estimation of drones (2017)
TL;DR: If we can't prove that bot is a bot, let's give bot owners what they want - a convenient bot market and bot management tools. This way we will know the number of bots and their cost.
sometimes it seems as if Elon thinks Iron Man is a prophesy about his life...
In benelux it is even more extreme, there must be German/Luxembourgish French and Flemish/Dutch. often there is no longer space for English :)

Anyway globalization need to be respectful of local identities. It is one of the tenets of a multicultural society. By insisting that population leave behind their local languages you are either fragmenting countries or cooking up a dangerous backlash.
1% is _way_ higher than the acceptable breakage thresholds I've seen browsers use. Usually it's more like 0.003% or less.

This can still be a significant number, of course...
Counterpoint: My parents didn’t pay $50,000 a year for me to get Cs.
Because it's literally business as usual. Companies do not have to offer benefits in the US, Google or no.
Totally agree. Also: I'm strongly against calling people "Front-End Developer" or anything like that at all. Where does front-end start? Where does it end? What is full-stack, does it imply you can do embedded? I've seen many listings that count PHP as one of the front-end requirements. This is just a term that should make the HR's job easier, and it does that badly.
Thanks for the heads up. Clicky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_K2
Nasa Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India
Depends on the deviance. If it's 'this was changed in the whatwg spec' the answer will probably be 'the next w3c spec will document this change, for now here's <an explanation and/or an update to mdn>'.
If the deviance breaks production apps sometimes Mozilla will roll it back, it's happened before.
In other cases they'll treat it as a bug and fix it.
Why would anyone pay for your non-free software when there are hundreds of great alternatives?
I am no expert but just on the face of it I would take any book that thinks eggs and fish are bad for you (other than in obscene quantities) with more than a few grains of salt.
I honestly don't think either was the purpose. XHTML existed to make parsing easier.

The only things you couldn't do in XHTML 1.1 Transitional that you could do in HTML were having unclosed tags and using uppercase in tag names. That's it.

Now yeah, the strict version tried to force you into semantically sound documents... but that was completely orthogonal to XHTML vs. HTML. Both XHTML and HTML were available in both transitional and strict forms.

The real problem is that HTML is a massive pain in the ass to parse. You can close tags out of order, some tags can't even be closed (<hr>), some tags can optionally be closed (<p>), nothing is case-sensitive, and because of how flexible SGML is, you need a DTD to properly parse any SGML implementation (fun fact: SGML allows for a bunch of different markup styles, but the HTML DTD explicitly disallows most of them). XHTML sought to eliminate all that by mapping HTML onto XML, which was much easier to parse.
To make matters worse, varying gut biomes and environments tend to yield different nutritional requirements. Amongst other things. I'm not sure we'll ever nail that down.

Again though, traditional medicines were aware of this and it was typically recognized that diet was specific to an individual and their environment. There were (and still are) complex systems outlining how foods may affect different people and what it could mean.

Still, I'm not claiming anything here other than that it's interesting and worth considering. I take advil when my head hurts and I go to the hospital when I'm sick, and I'm not going to start treating cancer with fungus from my back yard. I just suspect there's a lot of useful knowledge in this tradition.
Where would those returns for active investors come from? They're still playing a zero-sum game amongst themselves.
Webster's – The Philosophy Behind the First American Dictionary
/pol/ works magic b/c everyone is so far up their own ass, utterly humorless, and can't look at things in context. Nuance and context have eroded in favor of absurd, rigid tribalism. And /pol/ pulls on that thread constantly. And as a progressive (at a high level - a BLM, OWS, #MeToo supporting) - i find it utterly amazing. The inability for the left and the press to have nuance, take things with a grain of salt, have a chuckle from time to time (even at yourselves), is their greatest weakness right now.
I think that goes back to the "why and how it works". A home remedy has a neutral value to me until I have evidence, and my own anecdotal evidence doesn't have a lot of value to me - when I have a cold eating a gallon tub of ice cream would make me feel better for a time, but it doesn't actually help anything and is generally a bad idea.
Why Investing in a Golang Is a Good Decision for Your Business?
For cloud applications, Go has become the language of choice. Top players of different industries have adopted Go as the key part of development.
The only thing that matters is what Chrome and iOS Safari decide to do. Sadly.
Really cool! My controller was plugged in and surprised that it worked with the game, I've never used it in a browser before!

Likely a bug in the framework but in Firefox 67 the right audio channel is cutting out sometimes, works fine in Chrome though.
The first graph ("External factors explain nearly all global temperature change") shows what appears to be temperature precisions of less than 0.1 degree C, yet reports no error bars.

How is it that a graph like this is even acceptable, given the importance of the conclusions? How does this study account for the inevitably poorer precision and accuracy of measurements made over 100 years ago? How are systematic errors (differences in measuring procedure, differences in time of day precision, etc.) accounted for?

A paper from Cowton/Way is available, but it appears to focus on filling in gaps from lack of data at the poles:

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/qj.22...

Where is the readily-accessible explanation for how the underlying dataset accounts for so many unknown factors?
I like pinning. It's the browser vendors who don't.
Why can't they just carry on charging people like they used to.
Greed + middle management stupidity.

Someone at Facebook is proud of their smartness and will probably get a title like Senior Manager for messaging advertising.

The trouble with switching IM is that everyone needs to switch as well.
Great project. There is only one angle that I feel is missing: multiple requests for the same resource could cause duplicated work, especially if the value generating function is slow.

I wrote a sample solution to that problem, feel free to reach out if you ever consider adding a similar feature, I'd be happy to contribute. (fyi: the current implementation is in Go)

https://github.com/kristoff-it/redis-memolock
While I think it would be a shame to completely disable the ability for remote sites to access localhost (I'm sure it can be useful somehow), it would make far more sense to be opt-in for those cases.

Maybe browsers should assume a CORS deny all unless otherwise specified?
Have they if I recall correctly they were thought to be one of the investors in Rossi's Ecat machine
Idk my experience is that in college, a lot of the TF are legitimately clueless. I think that college needs to be more of a support environment for self education rather than this sort of place where you literally repeat what you are told.

Society would be better off if people were guided to autodidacticism.
Most people who have the means to do so probably would.

However, the killing in itself is very difficult to defend at all, in my opinion.

You very quickly run into some sketchy philosophical dead-ends, such as for example the notion that human life fundamentally has some kind of divine right to make decisions of life and death over lesser lifeforms.
In this case I think the arc is new enough that it likely was inspired directly by Elon.
This looks fabulous, congrats on publishing it.
Yet another dietary article not in favour of veganism/vegetarianism got flagged. Well done Hacker News.
The Atomic Soldiers: U.S. Veterans, Used as Guinea Pigs, Break the Silence
>You can comment on GitHub issues there just fine too.

Yes, but (and you can disagree with me here) the W3C has much better international participation and say in standards. I know you can just file github comments, but none of the world has any real way to oppose any development that the whatwg makers have proposed. There doesn't seem to be any consensus forming or way to really oppose any development apart from filing a github issue. All the editors are pretty much from one company, which feels like handing over control of the web to that one company essentially.
XHTML 2.0 also did screwy stuff with MIME types I believe. It required specific MIME types that a lot of browsers at the time didn't support, and because of that most browsers would straight-up refuse to render XHTML 2.0.
> With eggs you are probably getting plenty of protein.

Eggs are between 6-7g of protein each, which isn't a lot.

Depending on your goals, and where you fall between being sedentary and an athlete, you should be aiming for 1.6 g/kg/day and 2.2 g/kg/day [1].

Add to that the satiating affects of protein in a diet, particularly through ghrelin secretion [2], and you've got a stronger incentive to increase your protein intake.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29497353

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19820013