skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go careful when recommending that pregnant women should drink, especially if you're quoting general media.

(http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/06june/Pages/daily-drinking-preg...)

> “Pregnant women can binge drink safely,” according to a report in today’s Metro. Expectant mothers should be able to “down up to 12 alcoholic beverages a week knowing it will have no ill effect on their offspring before the age of five”, the paper continued. Reports in several other papers were in agreement, with the Daily Mail claiming that a drink a day would not harm the baby’s development and the Daily Express reporting that 12 drinks a week is safe in pregnancy. So should pregnant women heave a sigh of relief and down a large glass of Chardonnay? Unfortunately, no.

(http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/06June/Pages/Misguided-claims-al...)

> “A glass of wine every day in pregnancy could be good for your baby,” is the entirely incorrect headline in The Daily Telegraph today. Other newspapers reported that drinking while pregnant does ‘no harm’, these claims are also misleading.

(http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/11November/Pages/Just-one-glass-...)

> has not been made clear in many of the reports, the researchers were also looking at foetal and maternal variations in genes thought to affect the metabolism of alcohol (how long it takes for the body to break down alcohol). Researchers then looked at whether these variations had an impact on the children’s IQ at age eight.

This is UK media, so "one drink" is "one unit", and that means 125 ml of drink of 8% Alcohol by volume. One bottle of wine (750 ml) at 8% has 6 units. Chardonnay is usually about 12.5% ABV, so a bottle has about 9.5 units. One unit of a 12.5ABV chardonnay is going to be 80 ml of wine. This is important because no one ever pours themselves 80 ml of wine.
The "update now" link was to some completely other site, so without having checked out the headers yet I'd say it's a safe bet.
Why don't you get an ad blocker - e.g. Ad Muncher is a great one.
It's got a custom overall stylesheet for the tab widgets as I don't like the OS X tab style or colour, so they're completely different.

Qt "emulates" native control appearances by drawing them itself. This means it doesn't get it 100% correct (in OS X's case). You can apply stylesheets to configure all aspects of spacing and appearance, so in theory it's possible to write a stylesheet to completely emulate OS X's controls (or at least the majority of them), but that'd be a lot of work which you probably wouldn't want to do.

I could make it any colour I wanted with stylesheets in Qt - this was a personal app, and I'm not too concerned with what it looks like.
Paper Map with zoom
A typical Android update will change the drivers and other low level stuff. My understanding is that a Firefox OS update will typically change only the upper layers: Gecko and Gaia. That should hopefully reduce the amount of testing necessary to push a release.

In any case, it seems unlikely that Mozilla would simply announce this without any consultation with their hardware partners. They're in a much better position to know what's possible than you or I!
The presentation for this was incredible.
Looks like it. https://www.blackhat.com/us-13/briefings.html#Nohl
Russell Energy Corporation is in the process of procuring funding and establishing strategic partnerships. Building a series of prototypes that will demonstrate that the Eng/Gen is fully optimized and ready for manufacturing is our first priority.

Please post a followup to HN in 12 months.
Ads don't bother me that much, really. Between AdBlock and general desensitization to them, they're pretty easy to ignore.

But how much can I pay to never see another update about one of my friends playing any kind of game or app or quiz; to automatically reject and hide any invites to any game or app or quiz; to never get an Event invite ever again, and to never see Upcoming Events in my sidebar; to never see another friend suggestion or Pages You Might Like or Games You Might Like or Music Pages You Might Like; to make my newsfeed show me everything from everyone I choose to view there, in chronological order always, not just what the Computer In The Sky thinks I want to see when I want to see it; to make it stop asking me to dig through my contacts for more friend suggestions?

And if all of those things are possible now, how much can I pay for a simple one-page settings page so I can actually make it happen?

Maybe not $120/yr, but if there were definite improvements to my user experience above and beyond just taking out ads, I'd think about it.
Right click icon or title for folder path
Choosing a folder in the path opens that folder in finder
TL;DR "White folks attack wrong devil, again. Lots of black folks dead or suffering, again."

It isn't science that's racist. What's racist is the thousands of brilliant minds that took THIS LONG to look in the right direction. Each one of them minutely racist on its own -- it was just one tiny blind spot. One tiny speck on the lens. On every lens.

That's all it takes to destroy a community. That and some SWAT boots.
> but 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?

Erm...in health and safety related contexts. At least in countries that care about those things. When it comes to someone's life isn't that hard to assume that if something is considered it could even be dangerous or not enough is known to advise staying away from it, rather than way and find out until experiments have shown otherwise.

Seems like a no brainier to me. To put it another way, if you are a parent, do you want your child or wife to participate in a study where she told to go ahead and drink 15 glasses of wine while pregnant so 20 year from then they can publish a paper on it.

To put it yet another way, each person has only one life and if they are told it is ok to consume a substance because there is not evidence it is harmful but then oops it turns out it is, they don't get a do over. It is not like buying a car someone saying, wash it with this new acid substance and it rusts and has to be replaced. You can replace a car, you can't replace your body.

Moreover. It is considered unlikely that alcohol will help in the pregnancy case. It seems at best it won't have any effect and at worst it will have a detrimental effect. Again, seems like a pretty good reason for the advice to stay away from it for 9 months.

> We do it because we as a society love to control women, their behavior and their bodies, and pregnancy offers a great opportunity to exert that control.

See now I don't know if you are serious or sarcastic. That is a pretty ridiculous argument. Sure go ahead and tell your wife, friends and family to drink so they can liberate themselves from the shackles of the Western Anglo-Saxon While Male Dominated Society
Agree! I had to peak at their JS source to see how it was done! Pretty impressive.
Opening Process - PMBOK and ITIL
Most of my career has been spent working in FLOSS environments. I dropped out of college to pursue a couple dreams that didn't pan out, but never gave up the FLOSS fight. Many like me piled up the certs from Sun to Red Hat, LPI to Oracle to make up for the stunted education. I've resisted up to now, and recently finished an ITIL cert and a Project Management cert at UCLA in preparation for taking the PMP exam, which I will take in November. Odd certs for a FLOSS advocate? Perhaps, but as I work in ITIL and PMBOK environments more, I wonder if there shouldn't be some way to take this knowledge base and open it up. I find it a bit upsetting that the PMI and ITIL standards are so expensive and locked down, accessible primarily in Windows or non-free application environments. Shouldn't process like this be open, especially if the intent is to improve IT and Project Management across the industry? What would it take to produce similar studies, recommendations and standards of practice like ITIL and PMBOK that totally provided via the FLOSS model? I find great value in PMI and ITIL, but while I have the certs and the knowledge, I feel a little guilty adding those to my resume when the rest of it reflects a love for GNU/FSF and Open Source software ideals and methodologies...
Could you elaborate? My limited experience with WebDAV is what Subversion uses it for, and I've always had the impression that the PROPFIND-type of verbs could just as well be expressed as GET operations on a "property" resource type. I've dismissed WebDAV as "not getting the point" since, but your comment gives me the feeling that that might've been too quick a conclusion.

What's the good parts of WebDAV and how do they help me make decent RESTful APIs?
Unrecoverable? I'd bet NSA has a complete backup ;-)
The other thing, here? Just like there is no incentive for a company to ever give a negative reference, there is no incentive for a company to ever tell you why you were rejected.

That's the thing, If I don't hire you, well, I can tell you the real reason, sure, and I feel a lot better because I'm being honest and transparent. Real reasons, for me, include the following

1. I planned poorly or business conditions changed, and it turns out there isn't actually enough money to hire someone.

2. I don't believe you are smart enough/ capable of learning what I will have to teach you to do the job.

3. I don't believe you are trustworthy enough. Most of the jobs I have, well, involve the ability to destroy me completely. (which is a problem, yes... but it's not an uncommon problem, for sysadmin jobs.)

Upon hearing either of those reasons, it's perfectly natural for the applicant to be angry and/or defensive. 1. is quite clearly my own fault; I'm wasting the applicants time through my incompetence, so obviously, that's going to be irritating. 2. is where my feedback could actually help the applicant, maybe? but even there, it's hard. It's hard to be told you aren't good enough, and many people react badly on that level... and sometimes their defensiveness is justified; evaluating people is hard and even really good hiring managers are quite often wrong. Hell, different hiring managers look for different things; One guy says to act more confident and take control of the situation; the other says the opposite. These decisions are often made on 'gut' (which is another issue... but it is what it is) and sometimes, well, the hiring manager does not understand him/herself what is going on.

This is before any of the legal bullshit.
tobacco use and alcohol use are very different. We don't know if there's a safe level of alcohol, and we do know that it varies between different women.

We do know that any level of tobacco use is harmful to the mother and harmful to the child.

Please don't conflate the two.

> Prior to 1980 or so, whenever the media campaign began, massive numbers of people smoked, including pregnant women who didn't know any better.

You're ignoring all the people who were harmed by those smoking parents.
You actually bring up the one exception that I failed to mention. The XBox was a pretty idea by Microsoft and it's implementation was fantastic (it's revenues a drop in the bucket compared to other departments but still). Kinect, while a blatant response to the Nintendo Wii's accelerometers has opened up some very interesting possibilities that were previously only limited to academic level research...

In that regard I think that the XBox team is probably the only well-ran unit in the firm.
Apart from the fact that IQ as a measure of anything is completely bullshit, sure. We can make such a correlation.
Yes, you're right, I noticed that when I went back to it.

Apologies - deleted.
The US is home to one third of the world’s data: 898 Exabytes
Even if CoffeeScript doesn't support ES6 features it will still be a useful in the long term. I'm betting ES3 code generated by CoffeeScript will run fine in a ES6 runtime.

With that said, I'm happy to lose backwards compatibility in lieu of ES6 support. We've already seen forks like IcedCoffeeScript before.

It should be a major jump though, with a migration guide at least. It's similar to the 1.8.7 -> 1.9.2 jump. It's painful, ugly, but for the greater good.
Selling rocks vs subscription model for one of the biggest companies in the world. Not sure that's an entirely sensible analogy!
Keep in mind this is Philadelphia, which although it's improving has historically had a pretty high level of gun violence and homicide. It's usually not the worst city in this regard (New Orleans or Detroit has had that distinction lately) but it's generally the worst among the large cities; for comparison in 2010 Philly had several times more homicides per 100,000 people than NYC (19.6 vs 6.4), and beat out Chicago (15.2) by a few points.

Probably more importantly these are not just "inner city kids". Nearly all of them are African American which means they are less likely to enroll in/graduate college overall; and they are all the children of parents who were addicted to crack at some point (and probably continued to struggle with it). That puts them at even more of a disadvantage.
An average user reuses passwords, and I have serious doubts about education ever changing that.

One of the most common attacks is compromising a small website or forum, cracking hashes (hopefully it wasn't plaintext), then leveraging those credentials on other sites.

Fewer points of failures through centralized authentication has a lot of benefits:

* People who know what they are doing are handling the security, instead of making site owners (frequently with proprietary code) navigate a minefield they often understand very little about.

* Most users are already forced to have very few points of failures either because of services like LastPass or because they either can't or won't memorize dozens of passwords.

* A centralized, specialized, service would hopefully at least be cognizant of being hacked. Making that assumption with every website you would like to register on does not work.

* Additional security like GeoIP checks and 2-factor authentication can be implemented in a way that applies to many types of sites that simply can't be bothered to do so currently.
Your phrasing is frustratingly confrontational.

For example:

So you're saying that it's OK to roll the dice with a child, since after all it's only a 20-sided die? That forcing a mother to restrict all alcohol, and thus suffer stress (which we know to be harmful to the child) is more important than an unknown chance of the child suffering damage from alcohol?
Not really. The problem with communism was the state-enforced mediocracy, not the social security. With minimum income you still can earn more if you wish, you simply have to work more. In communism you are paid as much as you need (or as much as government decides that you need), and it's not based on your work or skills. All people are presumed to work as hard as they can, because it's an idealistic society, a pure utopia. That's why there was no real communism to the day (and probably will not ever be), only a bunch of failed socialistic experiments that turned into corrupted dictatorships.
>people don't expect you to get a college degree, so people don't push you to succeed.

Is 'people' a euphemism for 'parents?'
Yes, ISIS uses SIM applets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(mobile_payment_system)

Google Wallet uses the same type of applets but stored in the phone's SE rather than the SIM card.
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> I think this is a really pathetic reason to be depressed.

Who the fuck are you to judge why people get depressed? Someone I know got depressed because she was 70 and her cat died. The only other social contact she had in her life withered away. Is that a good enough reason to judge her?

> But one person can have an impact on the world: sometimes, a very pervasive, meaningful one.

Really? In the long run, how much does it matter? Oskar Schindler saved a bunch of people from the Holocaust. He died poor, broken; his saved people went on to create a state which is known for its war crimes. The cycle goes on.

> I fail to see why some gifted children can't appreciate the world and their existence enough to at least have a good time and explore it a bit. You only get to do it once, and you won't get the chance to do everything the world has to offer, but you should consider yourself lucky to be conscious in the first place.

You have never been depressed ever in your life, have you? This is like me going to a sad walmart employee and telling them they should be happy getting a job when there are people in Africa starving.
Actually, Facebook (the company) does a remarkable amount of internal company communication using it.
Why should we pay for a commodity like basic communication? The only payment they may deserve is hosting my files and posts. I should be able to set up my own server like email or XMPP. Traditional social networking paradigms are bullshit. I hope identi.ca or Tent succeed.
Let us compare:

World's premier closed-source shop: (presumably) gets hacked; goes down; stays down.

Github, Rubygems, Linux Kernel, etc. get hacked; restore from SHA256SUM'ed backups; keep moving.

Turns out what used to be called "hobby" projects matter, because code made without love has a smell, and no one does a "hobby" for anything but. (Remember the 'ama' in 'amateur')
(ok ok so kernel.org was down for a while. But remember all the heavy lifting done by git to keep those commits clean. It was just the server, not the data.)
Vitamin deficiency could be a side effect of medication you take. For e.g B1 deficiency due to metformin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidiabetic_drugs#Comparison
I think what he's saying (and I tend to agree) is that you can't develop the technical side in isolation from the actual design. Design is much more than appearance -- it determines how your site works, how parts interact, and can very often give immense direction to the backend.

I agree with your idea (#3) but only as the reverse -- imagine a website of "ideas" and mockups waiting for people to implement them. I believe great apps start with design, not with a backend. (Of course you can write them in either order -- the point is to have considered and drafted a design before starting on the backend).
Facebook themselves use Facebook pretty heavily for internal communication.
The way he phrases the question of Islamic Fundementalism becoming a threat to National Security really irks me.
You'd be surprised the kind of risky setups multi-million <currency> companies will run with.
> Knowing exactly which of these options CoffeeScript will take
> will give me a better understanding of the long-term viability
> of CoffeeScript.

Mmm, nothing like the whiff of uncertainty on a summer evening ;) For starters, you needn't worry -- CoffeeScript already being a heavily forked open-source project, I'm sure there will be versions (whether Coco, Live, Iced, Gorilla, or perhaps a cutely named CoffeES6cript) that track each of the options you've listed.

But you asked about my proposal. I'm most interested in targeting the useful subset of JavaScript that runs across the popular JS platforms at any given moment -- not what may or may not exist in the future, but lives currently as a spec; and also not features that actually exist, but aren't essential (read, harmful, error-prone, nasty), like getters and setters, or E4X (in my opinion, natch).

So in general, what I'd like to see mainline CoffeeScript do, is adopt useful ES6, ES7, and ES8 features, as soon as they land in enough platforms/browsers to be widely useful (yield may be at this point already, or very soon), and to continue to try and find a pleasing minimalist syntax for writing and reading them. If this means taking the ES* syntax wholesale, that's fine. If it means minting a new (and hopefully, but arguably, nicer) syntax, that's fine too. And if it means breaking backwards compatibility, that's also alright, as the compiled lowest-common-denominator JS output will still be perfectly compatible with the new stuff.
The splash image inspires confidence. I am interested in privacy at its best so a form for requesting an invite would be nice.
Austin’s Shift to Software Could Offer Glimpse of the Future
US$10/year is more realistic, and I bet is still more than what Facebook makes for a single user.
This is exciting. I really hope they keep the components loosely coupled, so that I can easily swap in xmonad and other goodies.
Interesting; somehow reading someone like Camus didn't provide a convincing enough argument to get out of the existential crisis like depression. Do you have suggestions on any specific Murakami work to read?
thanks for turning yet another HN post in a pointless flamewar. We so need more noise around here.
This is the first time I've seen gif-like videos used in a news article.
"As for "perfectionism" being an unnecessary stereotype, if you're looking for a cultural explanation..."

Who is looking for cultural explanations ? I pointed out the difference between Japanese and Korean air-safety records specifically to point out the cultural explanations are devoid of any credibility in this case.

Ahh right. I get it. You must be of white northern European ancestry. There seems to be a cumpulsive cultural need among your people to explain away performance difference between different human beings based on where they come from.
True. But, then, there are other factors...

http://dottech.org/103219/ios-users-vs-android-users-comic/
I'm sure malicious bots do try to mass message repository owners through Github. It's called spam and every platform over a certain size experiences it. I expect Github already has measures in place to block it.
Wow, the new york times is doing some incredible work. They are really moving the web forward.
Ask HN: What do you think about this idea, Queryable Words
I have an idea for a side project for a month now, wanted to get some feedback before I set out to coding. I want to create a tool where you can query English words, so for example, if your query is: fruits that are 5 letters, then you'll get words like apple, mango, etc. I also imagine this tool would be crowd sourced so that database would be updated constantly.

Other queryable features might include part of speech, number of syllables, language of origin, what it rhymes with, what letter it starts with, synonyms. Do you guys think this would be useful? Any suggestions? Thanks folks.
why is <script> outside of </body>
Sure, a good hack, upvoted.

Though, not to state the obvious, but if you find yourself in a need a context for an atexit() callback, then you are doing something wrong. Similarly, if a library function accepts just a function pointer, then it's either a global callback, or it's a mistake in a library design.
On llvm: http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#trampoline-intrinsics
Murakami's solution is to start jogging.

edit: to answer your question, I suggest The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Murakami is overrated. Once you've read that one, you've essentially read them all.
Probably want to throw one of these bad boys on there, too.

http://www.animatedgif.net/underconstruction/caution1_e0.gif
But people do in fact choose to run them on Linux which is unlikely to be a purely arbitrary choice though by nature open source stacks will be more portable, but it seems perverse to use that as a negative argument.
This may look great on the desktop, but its pretty horrible on mobile.
Yeah, nobody makes money off of linux in embedded systems..