skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in what other contexts do we tell people: the studies don't show harmful effects at low levels, but you shouldn't do it anyway because the studies haven't proven there aren't harmful effects at low levels?

In contexts where the effects aren't suffered by the person making the choice, but by someone else that's at their mercy--in this case, the child. Making decisions about one's own risk is very different from making decisions about someone else's; the latter involves a much greater responsibility to avoid possible harm.
What I find really interesting is that he says he prefers oils because they are more "forgiving" than watercolors. Yet his style of painting doesn't really need "forgiving." His handling is pretty loose and abstract. Almost perfectly suited for watercolors.

And his paintings are very formulaic. Lots of abstract passages with bits of crisp realism showing up here and there. Almost like a solid painter that has been painting for many years and is popping these babies out for a show on the boardwalk where they'll go for $500 apiece. I wouldn't be surprised if someone was "coaching" him.
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Are these patents really holding up the industry so much? Who holds them, and what kind of royalties do they demand?
I lived that. Back when I first started hacking, my parents forced me to play Little League Baseball. I feel it did nothing besides hold me back. I dreaded going to practice. I dreaded going to games. It made me hate life for a while.
> We do know that alcohol poses some risk to a developing fetus. That's all I was assuming.

No, we don't. We know that a lot of alcohol poses some risk to some foetuses. We don't know that X drinks a week poses any risk to all foetuses. Maybe it's just harmful to foetuses who are compromised in some way? Maybe it's just harmful to foetuses with a genetic disposition to harm? Maybe it's not harmful at all? We don't know.

> I don't understand the problem with communicating the risk; there are plenty of links in this thread to sources that give information about it, so the information that alcohol poses some risk to a developing fetus is out there.

Some research is just poor quality. Let's ignore that for the moment, and assume that all research is good quality. Lots of popular media is hopeless at reporting science. See the links I posted earlier - that website has many examples of research that's reported with hyperbole, or reports that make mistakes with the statistics, or reports that ignore the research abstract and come up with their own pseudo-abstract which doesn't match the research at all.

And then people have different opinions. See, for example, the discussion around "controlled crying". Controlled crying practices exist on a spectrum ("Just let the baby cry it out" on one end, to over-protective helicopter parenting on the other) and we have a pretty good idea that over-protection is bad, and we have a pretty good idea that the extreme end of crying are both harmful. Yet there's a flood of information from both of these extreme ends. Parents will find it hard to find this information.

Let's not forget that parents tend to be sleep deprived and thus cognitively impaired too.
In our society, where drinking is an important social rite, not drinking makes you "the other"

IMO, the appropriate response to that is to fix our society's attitudes about drinking as a social rite, not to use it as an excuse for women to risk harm to their children.

That said, if the woman's job is what's going to support the child, that does add an element to the risk-benefit calculation.
mdlint: lint markdown files to find JavaScript syntax errors in code blocks
Thanks Defen - will check it out. I liked Crowley, with a few criticisms:
- the back-and-forth, lack of a completely chronological narrative threw me a couple of times.
- Also, because he was hyper focused on Venice, it was sometimes amazing what he left out (ie, much of what happened under the Latin Empire)
- Lastly, I wish he had covered the final decline and death of the Venetian republic - he stopped for all practical purposes 200 years early.
Just a random dev working remotely, looking for other random (or not so random) devs!
I don't think "everything is a file" was ever supposed to mean "everything works just like a disk file", or even "everything has a name in the filesystem". It really meant "every kernel-managed resource is accessed through a file descriptor". Of course, even this formulation isn't always true (network interfaces and processes are the classic exceptions), but it's a true in a lot more cases. In this sense, "file descriptors" are really just the UNIX name for what Windows calls a "handle".

This is still quite a good paradigm to follow - the semantics for waiting on, duplicating, closing and sending file descriptors to other processes are generally well-defined and well understood. For example, Linux exposes resources like timers, signals and namespaces through file descriptors.
What first-world country has?
All of my anecdotal evidence is that those who played sports as a kid can do all sorts of varied stuff, too, but they're also (unsurprisingly) better at athletics. I'm struggling to find the downside in that. In fact, my friends who didn't play sports as a kid generally regret it, especially when they end up in a random holiday volleyball game (for example). But, you know, anecdotal. Feel free to ignore.
I think the key to nailing this her way is to become a time management nazi and to be profoundly efficient and productive in every category. And that is where most of us fail unfortunately.
That alpha engineer is only going to make a successful system if they know how to work with others and produce maintainable code. For every one of the types of alpha engineers this article deifies there is at least one other alpha engineer that is difficult to work work, doesn't document their code and has a NIH attitude that refuses to incorporate the work of others even when suitable for the task at hand.

These guys are usually known as the BBM and are can appear to be awesome but by the time you realize their shortcomings ultimately make them impotent and their work irrelevant, it's too late.

I don't care how brilliant you are. If you don't produce maintainable code with well thought interfaces, your brilliant code is going to rot by itself after you are gone. Brilliant and productive programmers also exhibit empathy for other developers who will maintain and extend the code or build other systems to interface with the code written by the alpha coder.
Like georgemcbay, I'm basically a socialist.

I have no fundamental objection to regulation in general. Some regulations are deeply flawed, but this doesn't justify pitching them all overboard any more than some humans committing crimes justifies locking all humans in prison.

Though I do consider the American educational system broken, you'd find I don't agree with many of the libertarian views of how it's broken, and strongly disagree about the correct solutions, which I do not believe lie in the private sector.

I'm content with making a good salary not screwing people over. I'm often the first to raise any legal or ethical concerns if a plan looks like it might get close to (or cross) the line.

I also view sane, well-run startups as a kind of end in themselves. I like the working environment and feeling like I can make a meaningful contribution based on my personal strengths, rather than being another fungible cog in an inflexible bigco machine. The chance of a big payoff is a nice bonus, not the primary goal.

I do view professed desires to be "normal" with suspicion, primarily because in America, "normal" has been used with shocking candor to justify oppression of novel ideas or forms of expression, homosexuality, and in enforcement of gender norms. It's even been used to justify physical abuse of children who dare do something so harmless and mundane as writing with their left hand. It is the embodiment of othering and fear of the unknown.

So you see, HN is not entirely homogenous, and even attitudes that may look similar can emerge from people with diametrically opposed political views.
There have been studies of eating behavior where children given long term access to a wide range of high quality food choices end up with a fairly heathy diet. Aka they
Day 1 they may just go for desert but day 40 there eating veggies, meat, and everything else.
Oh, my bad. Americans hold the rights of the individual paramount but tend to be conformist socially. You have the right to be different but nobody is going to make it easy for you.
Apple Says Its Developer Site Was Hacked
A semi-flat stick with a thread sized-length loop thru a hole at one end, too short to pass over the stick's opposite end, say, loop can be stretched 95% to stick length. By passing the loop through a button-hole and scrunching material, it's possible to loop it around the button-hole. Can be maddening to first time victims. Easy to make. I've witnessed "This is impossible!" more than once.

I wish we had a wise-old hacker Bill curmudgeon in the neighborhood.
For what it's worth, Wednesday morning at 4am I had an email account associated with my developer account compromised(they both stupidly used the same password). This account was used for almost nothing but accessing my developer accounts at Apple. At the time, I thought my Apple accounts might be in trouble and I immediately changed all my Apple related passwords as well as regained control of my email account. I'm now wondering if the breach might have gone the other direction...
So what you're saying is that it's your fault that I can't update my provisioning profile? No just kidding--Honestly, while you may feel responsible, the project has been up and running for a while. The current maintainers are responsible for the bugs that show up regardless of who designed the original code base. Definitely appreciate you shedding light on the situation since Apple hasn't really given us to much information.
See http://www.mom.gov.sg/foreign-manpower/passes-visas/employme...
> size and diversity work against us

I really think that people don't appreciate this fully for a lot of problems that the US has which have been 'solved' in other countries -- usually smaller European ones. Mail delivery, rail transportation, healthcare, etc. The US has a very unique blend of very urban and very rural areas that makes it hard to scale lots of services easily to everybody.
The funny thing about IT managers is that when you have a decent one, you may be tempted to ask "what exactly do they do all day?" But when you have a bad one, the whole place just goes to shit.
There are shapes that can't easily be generated with traditional manufacturing processes. For instance, with 3d printing you can make a fully assembled crescent wrench. Traditional methods require you to make 3 parts and put them together.

I can't say what it will be useful for, but it opens up a lot of new design shapes. It'd be pretty shocking if that didn't result in anything useful.
I'm sorry, but everyone can have an opinion about art, that's what makes it so easy to value it at so high a price, and in my opinion I'd probably never pay even a thousand dollars for one of those paintings. Now that's me, somebody may like them more, but I still just from a scroll through them have trouble understanding what the commotion is all about, except perhaps that he's so young.
That wouldn't be so bad if the stupid downloader actually worked.
Ah, I see. Thanks for that.
You can keep a C++11 lambda alive after the stack frame disappears using copy semantics (the = modifier), which is what blocks are doing anyway; C++11, however, gives you more control, as whether a copy or a reference is taken is a property of the lambda, not the variable (as it is when using the __block modifiers). Also, not having a nameable type is a non-issue, due to templates, auto, and std::function (which is, in a way, the standard type you would actually use to deal with a lambda). If anything, lambdas have more type, as the type of a Block argument is erased in the type signature, even though it is required for the calling convention.
Both are responsible, and responsibility can add up to more than 100%.
I think it's interesting how this event coincides with the majority of consumer computer systems now running *nix based operating systems.
VW TDI engines either combust the nitrogen oxide or mix it with urea to reduce emissions: http://thinkblue.vw.com/tdi-academy-clean-diesel-vs-gasoline...
I met a guy who bought a 3D Systems Cube - justifying it to himself (and his wife) saying he was going to use it to make toys for his kids for Xmas. It worked out great for that - then he realized that the broken part on the $250k+ printing press that was keeping it out of commission at work, and was unavailable because the manufacturer was in receivership, could also be easily enough modeled and printed out on his "toy". So he did, and it worked fine.
Ah thanks guys, didn't see that link =)
Uninstall java? and soon flash, hopefully...
That's no winking matter.
>Somebody who hasn't worked in a year should be sent to a labour camp until they decide to find better employment.

Considering recent trends, now seems like the last time you would want to lock people into wage slavery.

On top of that, in a situation like now where you have tons more hands than jobs to make use of them, this policy seems like it would only exasperate the situation in times of economic repression.

This idea is literally considered the Bad Future(TM) in Marshall Brains Manna[0]. And I can't say I disagree. I don't want to live in a world where those homeless people I see on the street are rounded up and sedated somewhere. Especially if one day I might join them.

Not to mention that this basically outlaws several kinds of professions. (Freelance artist, Consultant)

[0]:http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
At the time I re-secured the two accounts, I also changed my apple developer account to a new email with 2-factor auth. Apple is still sending these announcements to the email I changed >72 hours ago.
How many times do things like this have to happen before we decide to stop using the death penalty in the US?
According to USA Today (sourced from Pew Research Center), Minnesota isn't particularly high for interracial marriage.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/wellness/marriage...

That's not a criticism of the state or anything, but it does refute the idea that Minnesota has a very high percentage of interracial marriages.
> having your healthcare connected to your employment situation seems like insanity

It really is, although I don't think people realize it until you say it out loud. Precisely when you can least afford paying for a medical emergency -- when you're unemployed and thus have no income -- is precisely when it's most expensive. How broken is that? It would be insane in any other industry to charge your customer significantly more for the exact same service, simply because they're using a different payment method. Not to mention the horrible situation that arises if you acquire a medical condition so debilitating -- which usually also means it's expensive -- that it prevents you from working.
201X: The Year of the Personal 3D Printer
No.

Imagine that today you have a government you can trust. But what about 5 years from now? Or ten years from now?

Some Americans think they have a bad government. Perhaps they should spend some time in countries who'll shoot you or imprison you for your opinions. Many people live under worse regimes right now.

Privacy protecting software is vital, and needs to be done as well as changing bad government behaviours.
Since this is the third addition, could you please point us at some reviews for the first two additions?

$3 is a no brainer and you should probably charge more, but the cost of time invested in reading is what is valuable.

One question I have for authors is "What book would you recommend over your own book?" I ask this because I once met an author of many technical books going back 20+ years, but I was supremely disappointed when I discovered that he wasn't familiar with some of the most highly regarded books in computing like The Little Schemer, K&R, etc. It's clear from your books, that you're not clueless like he was, but I'd still love to hear what books you look up to as an author.
>21st century news paper

The website suggests otherwise. It was difficult to read it on my phone (iPhone 5). I couldn't pinch - I had to scroll and the images, when tapped, would appear to take over the screen. Honestly, I was expecting them to say "Download our app!" to top it off.

Edit: I just had a look on my desktop. Very impressive and the image-focusing thing makes sense now.
COBOL might have its uses later in code conversion, I hear there's a skill to reading and writing good COBOL. LISP seems to be a popular language still...
Many people who support the death penalty are OK with a few false positives. Mind you, these people also think that 'it's a deterrent because you can't reoffend if you're dead' is a logical argument.
Airbnb Racism: How Airbnb closed my account for “No Reason"
You are missing the point a bit - I don't think the OP is saying that a bad engineer ("difficult to work with", "don't produce maintainable code", etc) suddenly becomes better when they work by themselves. The point is that one person working alone can sometimes be significantly more productive than if threw more people at the project.

The natural engineering management answer to so many problems is "I need more headcount" - but often that can be the opposite of what the problem needs.
Good to know. For anyone that finds this later, relevant API docs:

https://developers.dwolla.com/dev/pages/gateway/guest
Ibrahimbalic claims to be the Apple Dev Center hacker
Personally, I've got Raspberry Pi cases and Arduino cases made on 3D printers. I've got friends with projects like pan/tilt camera mounts for quadcopters, searchlight mounts for their car roof, telescopic sight mounts for guns, indicators for motorcycles.

There's some (not terribly regularly updated) objects printed at my local hackerspace here: http://hackerspace.pbworks.com/w/page/45077090/Up!%203D%20Pr...
Sorry for getting off-topic, but I love your response to his comment. Polite and curious - nice job.
I have to agree with lots of others here.

Reduced costs of parts and sub-assemblies combined with an abundance of open-sourced knowledge have provided the tipping point to the recent explosion in 3D printing.

Patent worries only stifle innovation in larger established companies with more to lose than to gain.
British archaeologists discover German U-boats sunk during World War I
A loop of string whose stretched length is 95% that of the stick. The string itself would be of length of approximately 2 * (95% of stick).
I've always wondered if the perfect murder involved pouring a large number of hair follicles on the scene.
man ssh

ssh -L/R

What are you doing on this website if you can't do that?
Virtual reality will explode in 1994 thanks to the expiration of key patents.

(I'm glad, 20 years later, VR finally is poised to take the world by storm thanks to Oculus. And 3D printing definitely will change the world in ways we aren't even predicting once a bunch of other factors meet in a similar way.)
I think this is it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLauBh9Zvg0
IDEA-A-LATOR
I'm trying to force myself to do this instead of always jumping straight to hacking a prototype together, but I always hit the same roadblock: domain names. The whole point of doing early validation is to avoid wasting too much time on an idea without legs, and yet the domain feels like such an important part that I feel I need to find a "proper" one. But I hate looking for domains, so I tend to just go back to hacking instead...

Anyone else have this problem? Do you spend a few days just looking for a decent domain? Or just decide it doesn't really matter and go with a throwaway you can change later?
aka, hybrid vigour, or heterosis.
It's worthwhile to note that it's unclear if religion is so decidedly behind a shared sense of purpose among the people. E.g. Pakistan, an Islamic nation with 97% of its populace being Muslim, is littered with social problems, there is very much a lack of shared sense of purpose. I think culture and history are better candidates for what unites people together.

My apologies for getting off-topic, but if I may inquire: how is it, being atheistic and being married to a religious person? Isn't it difficult to work things out, when the other believes that you're destined to hell? To believe that there's nothing after death, and that there's a whole afterlife of heaven (or hell) is quite a gap. How do you reconcile with this, do you often try to convert her, or make her see things differently?

> I do lament not being able to participate in the communal aspect of religion. I haven't encountered any secular alternative.

There are atheist churches our there: http://firstchurchofatheism.com/

The one near me has quite a vibrant community. They do clean-ups, social work, etc. I have made many good friends there.
Easily: customers who have lots of money, who have a predisposition to prefer "traditional" artwork, and who believe the plausible idea that a child who is being recognized (according to the dealer) as a "prodigy" is likely to be only more recognized the older he gets, which would mean higher prices.

In reality, there are no more "prodigies" in the field of art because it has been completely de-skilled. Likewise no one who paints in this genre and with this perspective (see the "blobs on canvas" quote) will ever be included in the way that is necessary for his career to develop and his prices to be justified by the larger art market. He won't be able to show in mainstream museums, he won't be represented by credible dealers, and he will exist to whatever extent he can in an economy built mostly around exploiting people who don't know anything about the field.
This strategy would quickly lose its merit outside of Harvard. Failing to gain tenure at Harvard is the expected outcome, so a) the sense of rejection is less, and b) your remaining job prospects are good because this is generally recognized (and it's Harvard).

Asking somebody at a high-tenure-rate, second-tier school to treat their tenure track position as an extended post-doc is essentially asking them to have a failed career, on the other hand.

(it's worth noting that Harvard has actually changed tack recently, such that they're increasingly promoting junior faculty...the above is still true regardless, at least for the time being)
Thanks for the comments. So you do agree that Brunelleschi lead with his brilliant design and Buffett does dramatically outperform his peers. Jordan never lost a championship and would handily beat 5 mediocre basketball players from the general population -- remember that every player who makes the NBA is an alpha. I edited out the final bullet as it unnecessarily complicates the post.
Who are these middle-class families that have such a need to manufacture their own jewelry and catheters? If you need a catheter, wouldn't you want to talk to a doctor first?
Would (root) access to a microcell work?
On a side note, I hear suicide is legal in japan.
I suggest that you grab a free copy of the previous edition and look at that for a few minutes.

Other Lisp books I like: Peter Norvig's first book for Morgan Kaufman, "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp" and I rather like my first Springer-Verlag Lisp book. Norvig's book is awesome.
Sorry for the above, I meant $0.0002 back per minute of outage, not hour. That would be $.0139 per hour back.
The point is simple. Find the Alpha Engineer and put him or her in a position to succeed, get rid of group think, and prosper.