skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Great because I maintain that Newton and Bernoulli are emphatically not independent perspectives and any explanation that ignores one or the other is incomplete :)

Glad we agree!
It's estimated that 10-20% of the world population caught H1N1 swine flu. 1 in 7 is a rough midpoint of that:

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2011/08/study-put...

The CDC estimated 60M cases in the U.S. alone, about 20% of the population:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemi...

The WHO gave up tracking cases on July 23, 2009, 3 months after the epidemic started, when it hit several hundred thousand confirmed cases. At that point it just became a part of seasonal flu. It's circulating again this year: in recent weeks it's been the most common seasonal flu variant infecting people, and with 19M flu cases so far this year, there have almost certainly been more deaths from H1N1 than from nCoV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic_timeline#Jul...
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I'm not sure a true narcissist would ask this question. You should be encouraged you are maturing and growing in the understanding that the world does not revolve around you.

Keep listening to others and asking them questions and you will be good.
If it's at a car dealer, I'm not sure there's any need to obfuscate it -- revealing that an off-lease car is on a car dealer's lot is not much of a breach.

If it was in a residential neighborhood it'd be a different story.
Fun fact: Nissan Connect, which allows you to track, start, stop, lock, unlock, trigger horn, and toggle headlights is also massively insecure. In order to gain control of a Nissan Connect-enabled car, you need to know the VIN of the car and the name of the person to whom it is registered.

Most of the time those details can be found on the internet, but if you're reasonably motivated you can find the VIN visible on a car's dashboard and probably find the owner's name in their mailbox.

If you own a Nissan, register your car in Connect, or someone else will!
The Russian Internet Research Agency activity on Facebook was miniscule compared to what was spent by the Clinton and Trump campaigns, not even including PACs. It beggars belief that somehow their 'weird tricks' were so effective and novel that US political advertising consultants -by far the largest and most sophisticated in the world- never figured them out. (Remember Willie Horton? https://www.vox.com/2018/12/1/18121221/george-hw-bush-willie...)

'Without counting PACs, the top campaigns spent 1,760X more on election ads than one group of Russian meddlers puts the situation into context.'

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-ad-spend/

'We haven't ever seen a disinformation campaign that was this effective before.'

I think you're right on that one, but not in the way you think; the most effective disinformation campaign in history was waged by the DNC to blame the Russians for everything when they were a.) caught out in throwing the Democratic nomination to Hillary and b.) being so inept at electioneering that they left the door open for Trump to win.
As it turns out, there's an entire YouTube channel dedicated to this topic from an ex-Google, ex-Facebook Tech Lead (as a millionaire)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xKdmAXFh4ACyhpiQ_3qBw/vid...

(more seriously, it's mostly just amusing)
The orbits are known and predictable, could they be fed into a sort of dynamic coronagraph that occludes the glares of the satellites while they move through the field of view of a telescope?
> The other side of this is that a very large percentage of folks in our industry seem to have social anxiety-spectrum issues.

I've tried to search for studies in the past but failed at google (after hearing numerous managers repeat many times that "loads of people in IT are on the spectrum"). If many (non medical) managers have said it, there must be easily accessible studies, surely.
I think it's the case where the water supply (out of the wall) had an open hose that dropped down into a basin and at the bottom, made physical contact with a resting pool of cyanide-containing fluid.

Capillary action could possibly induce the cyanide fluid up into the hose, and/or backwash/turbulence could mix fluids inside the hose, and in just the wrong conditions, could result in some cyanide back-flowing up to the piping, to be distributed elsewhere in the building. As an extreme layman, I'd assess that as unlikely but at least possible.
As long as we're being perfectly honest, it seems if you had bothered to read at least the next sentence it would have better qualified you for answering the post and spared you from making a snarky but wrong reply.

All this besides the obviously wrong equivalence you make between child bearing and breast feeding.
Wait. There isn’t any dispute about Stormy Daniels is there? Everybody involved concedes that Donald Trump did sleep with a porn star while he was married, and he did pay her hush money. I thought the only point in question was whether he was going to get off of the possible campaign finance violations on a technicality?
You interviewed Jean Chrétien?
Snap is still in comeback mode. But investors are getting impatient
Unless you're an actual refugee fleeing imminent murder, rape and torture, migrating still takes a lot of get up and go.
Former Groovy dev here. I read pretty much all the comments here and the thing I am struck by is that we had pretty much everything Kotlin has in like 2011 with Groovy, it's just that for some reason a lot of assholes either didn't like the name or "muh strong typing" was a big deal, iirc.

Anyhow, my current team wants to move to Kotlin for Spring Boot 2 microservice work. I'm not against it per se, and I spent a lot of time learning the language and all its cool features. The issue I have isn't the language but rather that:

1) I would have to split my time between Kotlin and Java and I would like it to be one or the other. I already did that with Groovy and my Java suffered for it, and so did I. It's like losing your magic Jedi abilities to go back to Java.

2) I have developers who can't successfully write good Java, and looking at Kotlin, it is far more sophisticated and easy to blow one's foot off with. No thanks. I have enough code reviews. Several people I work with can't do Java streams correctly.

3) Recruitment for Kotlin devs is impossible. You have to train people and companies won't do that, so there's no pool of talent ready to go.

4) Future job changes--see #1. I spent a ton of time doing Groovy (okay, and Clojure) only to have those rugs completely pulled out from under me later on. I'm flexible so whatever, but like I said, it was like losing my Jedi powers.
> Oh but there is, you can just try logging in with it (either for real or by running the login protocol on a dump/leak).

Sure, but that leak must have been from the same source.

Imagine you are a password-reuser, and you have registered with the same password in www.nottrustworthypage.com and www.yetanothernottrustworthypage.com

If they are using a would-be browser's built-in password protocol (which doesn't exist today, but this is what I'm suggesting and I sketched it in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22257502), and you know that if they are not colliding by using the same salt, and as long as your password is strong so it's not easily crackable, then you can have a pretty high confidence that whichever gets leaked, is very unlikely to damage your others site security.

Colliding salts require lots of efforts by the servers, and most of the damages produced by leaks, are because of lazyness
I think, in the long term, their lives would get better. Their country would end up with more resources at their disposal, which (if we look at the countries around the world) seems fairly well correlated with quality of life of the inhabitants.
Most of these are still current SEO practice, however:

> Use PR and social media to generate good backlinks for your site. - Use social media like reddit, pinterest and others as well as facebook and twitter. -

FB, Twitter and Reddit may not mark external links as "nofollow" explictly (which would kill their backlink value), but searc engines are smart enough to reduce the power of these links as these are "user-generated content" links and are less valuable as they're not authored by the "site owner" in the way a blog post or web page would be.

The impact of these links on social isn't zero, but it's not great either. You're better off trying to get qualified, organic traffic to your site (say from a backlink on a related site or from an email newsletter) as those clicks will likely have a lower bounce rate, which is good for SEO.
People seem to either love or hate it. Has anyone ever worked in both an open layout they liked, and an open layout they disliked? If so, what was the difference?
Office in NYC was remodeled to open office, and the limits were determined by fire code, bathrooms, etc. In the end, a whole bunch of valuable floor space is sitting empty as relaxation rooms, a puzzle table, and funky couch areas that nobody wants to sit at because it’s next to a big boss’s office.

Practically speaking, most people are treating the shift as an implicit agreement that employees can work from home 90+% of the time.
Also WFH. I occasionally work from a coworking space when I need a change of scenery, but I plan those days knowing that my productivity will be much different (certain tasks lend themselves to open spaces better than others). Visits to the home office (a two-hour drive) are for connecting with colleagues rather than heads-down work time.
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> when it's open and people can chat spontaneously

That so different from my experience at two companies using the open office scheme -- at both of those, spontaneous chatting was very, very rare because it so easily disturbs everyone not involved in the chatting.

When I've worked in both cube farms and companies that had real offices, spontaneous chatting was common.
I feel like Swift is becoming more like Ruby over time. 2 of the features here (Key Path Expressions and Subscript default arguments) were recently introduced to Ruby. This isn't a bad thing, just an interesting progression.
Take the NHS in the United Kingdom.

For my high wage, my NHS fee would be just under £7k for the year, my taxes just about at 30%.

Granted here in the US, my taxes are ONLY 25%, but my healthcare costs are close to $30k/year.

That $20k difference is ridiculous ($11k more than in the UK when comparing tax+health), and I HAVEN'T gone to the hospital for a heart attack or premature baby or hemophilia, but if my wife did have a baby, it would cost us out of pocket around $8k (according to the likely VERY skewed numbers in my insurance packet).

A colleague I know is 54, he is single, has only catastrophic coverage and pays $1200/mo. Nothing is covered except 40% of any emergency hospitalizations. The bronze plan was $2000 and had a $15k deductible, and also was basically only co-insurance with $30 generics.

The way we are doing this here in the US is literally killing people. Medical debt is increasing.

My little sister-in-law was on vacation and walking along a path on a jetty with handrails, and benches, and dozens of other people. A rogue wave came and hit her and her friend. She was taken under, knocked unconscious and drowned (and died), until a random stranger who was standing near her finally found her and resuscitated her. She was medivaced to a hospital by helicopter that insurance only covered 10% of because she was out of network, she was then treated by a dozen or so doctors for multiple days as she got pneumonia and broken bones, and head trauma, all out of network. She ended up owing close to $100k with her insurance only covering the first $25k. In any other first-world country, she'd be out of pocket maybe a few hundred bucks. Not in collections for being unable to pay $75k for a freak accident.
That's curiously specific, as in the gender role and immigrant standing are tied together, but apparently that isn't the case. Googling around found the following editorialization of the source material [1] that gave a TL;DR faster than I can type it up:

Study of NYC school data and using custom questionnaires of teens across the world testing into Stuyvesant HS
Cutting to the conclusion: Groups that overcame socioeconomic factors to improve on tests (test improvement is more sensitive to those factors than outright performance) had the following factors:
immigrant father
US-born mother
Speculation to why this mattered? One parent to impart work ethic, one parent to impart language. The gender didn’t matter, it just turned out that the father typically tended to be the immigrant. This combo even outperformed both parents being born in the US.

[1] https://fs.blog/adam-robinson-pt1/
Here's another version, besides the private insurance companies themselves, of the death panels opponents of universal healthcare always blabber on about. Now we have two branches of death panels, each one slightly differently evil. Yet another issue that would be solved by universal healthcare.
Please don't lump those two together. Yes, there are Sanders supporters that are "fringe", but the man himself has been clear and consistent on economics and policy his entire career.

After he lost the primaries to Clinton (a process I personally think was gamed by the DNC), he publicly supported her and encouraged his supporters to do the same.

We're discussing politics on HN and I don't want to incur dang's admonishment again. We are in very uncertain times these days so I think it's important to discuss key issues in a cogent and concise manner.
Perhaps once the EU pays more than 50% of the salary that is paid in the US to software devs/analysts/etc, we'll see this behavior change.
>tuition cost = how much you can borrow + how much you can pay

I need this flushed out a little bit more. I have worked in higher ed for decades, and have never encountered a college that charges in that manner. They have a flat tuition, and the student fills that payment however they are able. But it's not like it changes based on how much capital they have access to.

Can you please explain that statement?
I'm not sure where the confidence comes from when in 2017, Republicans in the House and Senate tried to repeal the ACA without a replacement. It's on their radar and part of their platform is removing any type of protections or public access to healthcare.
I'd refuse. You've basically disqualified yourself. If you mean well by your team you go and train under an experienced tech lead and then move up when you think you are confident you can actually do the job. Mid level developers should not be tech leads.
Yup. Many Canadians I know in the US would love to move back to Canada if they could find a job there that would pay a similar amount.
I've had the opposite experience. I had a job where half the floor plan was cubicals and half was open plan where you had groups of 2-3 people in a sort of cove.

I started in the cubicle section. And I hated my job. Every day felt draining to the soul. I felt invisible and isolated and I hated it. I was making no progress in the organization. I'd constantly find excuses to leave my desk just to see another human face. My desk was a cluttered mess and I just hated my life. We got some new hires, so I got to shuffle over to one of the coves.

It was like getting a totally different job where all of a sudden I loved coming into work. I loved seeing people. We communicated efficiently, I organized my space effectively because it was so visible to everyone. I could catch errors others were making as they were going and pretty soon they'd come line up to get help on stuff. We were so much more efficient than letting people fail for longer, run up the client bill, and then have to redo everything. The lines of communication were opened up with me acting as a hub of sorts and so we came up with a lot of innovations in that time that made our processes more efficient.

And when we had to do overtime, it was a communal activity. The feeling was that of a team.

Open concept is my jam.
The problem with grinding them at the store is you vastly decrease the lifespan of the beans in terms of quality. Whole bean coffee, properly stored, can keep in the pantry for months. Once the coffee is ground, it starts losing its aromatic qualities within hours (even if you are storing it in an airtight, opaque container). It won't go stale or rancid that quickly, but there will be a noticeable drop in quality. So I really wouldn't recommend pre-grinding unless you go through the bag within a week.
I agree. I found cubicles a bit soul-sucking and private offices too isolated. An open plan in a small area is fine for me, but 200 people on a floor is too many. If you're pair programming, you can get away with a lot more noise around you than if you're trying to concentrate by yourself. Also, people are less likely to interrupt a pair that is obviously hard at work than they are to bug an individual.
The OP was about sub-launched ballistic missiles - I was trying to make the point that when a ballistic missile flies from a sub, you cannot tell the yield, and the potential hair trigger-response will be the same regardless of yield.

This type of weapon is essentially destabilizing, as the article said.

I agree with you on other weapons, the flight profile will be vastly different.
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'Between the lines'
This seems to be the opposite insight from a recently discussed article[1], which put more emphasis on consistency than keyword optimization.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22179383
In a word? No.

There have been a couple studies done that suggest vegetarian diets are modestly cancer protective (~10% lower incidence). There have also been some that link increased meat consumption with increased risk of cancer. It's absolutely not clear that eating meat causes cancer. Dietary habits change your cancer mortality risk and being a vegetarian probably correlates with something like a 1-4% decreased risk.

I would be wildly surprised if there weren't animal protein inclusive diets that are good in other ways that surpass the cancer risk reduction of "being vegetarian".
True, but in most cases, you won't write Harry Potter - you just want to drive leads from people searching for process management solutions, haha.

What you did mention IS an actual strategy though. The idea is, you coin a new term or strategy, and if you PR the content enough, the term will have a ton of searches (and you'll rank #1). More often than not, though, you have to be a big fish to really pull this off
In Austin, I can get a modest 1-2 person private office for around $2k/month. At an annual salary of $120K, that's only 10-20% of developer costs. So the upper bound on the potential real estate savings of an open plan is on the order of 10-20%. Maybe a bit more if most devs are relatively inexperienced and therefore cheaper.

So while the savings is not nothing, when it's that small any potential productivity hit becomes even more of a big deal.
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There's a different form of positive selection bias for that: to survive in a country where you're there illegally, cut off from many high-paying jobs because of that, and may be deported at any time, it takes a particular form of resourcefulness and ambition. You'd expect these people to have fewer book smarts than highly-educated Indian and Chinese immigrants, but perhaps more street smarts. And to the extent that resourcefulness, intelligence, and determination are genetic (most studies suggest a strong positive correlation), these traits would be passed on to their U.S. citizen children.
I should note that power and performance are not opposites. Good power management ensures you don't waste power, which helps you draw all you need when you need it by the component that needs it. Good power management often helps overall performance.

One thing that it often works against is latency, because it takes time to wake up things that are sleeping. But that is really not something you should care about if you're using a laptop. Your laptop is not servicing Google search results.
BMW is also massively insecure. My "secret token" I had to enter on my phone to link it with the car was the VIN number. That number is physically stamped into the engine block and chassis so obviously cannot be changed, even after I sell the car. I also suspect these numbers are sequential. Till this car is scrapped I will be able to locate it, turn on the AC, unlock the doors etc.
I'm not sure how great that channel is for in-depth advice. The best case is that he's got a really dry, sarcastic sense of humor. And I think he's currently just running his cs interview prep business on the side after getting fired from Facebook.
I find it more amusing to enter in the address of a local liquor store, then a bar, then a weed shop, a casino, a strip club, a bail bondsman, the local municipal courthouse and finally a divorce lawyer’s offices.
Good luck opening it when that nut seizes on the thread.

An alternative design would be something using centrifugal force on some spring-loaded weights, reminiscent of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_timing#Mechanical_tim...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=distributor+weights&iax=images&ia=...
(20 mph is really fast for a bike, eh?)

Anyway, 400W to avoid getting creamed by a car seems cheap to me.

Eat a Clif bar; stop at red lights.

Goddamnit.
Can you start a ICE vehicle remotely? I thought it was mostly a EV thing, some people have aftermarket kits.
In fairness, I've only dipped my toes in with a few Jinhaos. They are pretty cheap. They aren't as nice writing as the really nice ones, but serviceable. They come with refillable reservoirs, and take international standard cartridges if you want.
> Except that Waterfall was never really advocated

I've heard countless people advocate for waterfall. I was formally taught waterfall years ago. It was how many people approached development for a long time, and how some people still approach it today.

Here's just one concrete example I could find in seconds - an article from 2006 advocating for its benefits https://www.techrepublic.com/article/understanding-the-pros-....