skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harmful medical advice? It might be less proven, but the science of "fat is bad" is far from overwhelming. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18615352
This is a book for a wide audience. Not the right place for maths. But Piketty is a very respected researcher (at home and internationally), with an excellent grasp of the state of the art in econometric and economic modelling ('math'). Read his papers if you mistrust text and graphs.
And there are also rumors of no links whatsoever: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18615352
Important news, thank you. I don't expect to see things that directly impact my servers here, but it's a welcome surprise.
To which management tools are you referring?
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The US funnelled hundreds of millions of $ through Pakistan to help fund the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. The CIA also provided direct support, in training and weapons, etc.

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

Here's an Afghan with a Stinger missile (and there are lots of similar photos), not sold on the open market then, could realistically only have been acquired in bulk with US government assistance:

http://tkfiles.storage.msn.com/y1pUt0liKawcr-ryBplDmzAGeFbxG...
Maybe. Many people (particularly parents) in suburban areas store a substantial amount of equipment in their cars, and can't effectively use a taxi-service. If I had to pack everything my kids need in a day in and out of shared car at every stop, it would add 10 minutes to each leg of my trip. Plus, do I haul the stuff I bought at the store on my way to work into the office so that my self-driving car can go somewhere else? What about my kid's stroller? That lives in the car.

In urban areas, people travel light, but that's not the case in sub-urban and rural areas.
Cyclists are using roads that are subsidized and paid for by gasoline taxes and automobile registration fees. If you really want dedicated lanes and preeminence then pay your fair share. I don't think bicycling would be as attractive if cyclists paid for all the externalities of their hobby.
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Find the dark side for your next trip -Sunny Boy localizes the seat in the shade
Honestly, I don't get why super talented people work for free.

I haven't worked on any open source projects, so maybe that's why I don't get it, but it just seems that developers often devalue themselves too much.

You see it all the time. Business "idea" types come in and supply the "idea", while developers do all the work and don't get paid enough.

I just wish as an industry, developers would stand up for themselves more. I see good, smart and talented people getting walked over too much.
Long story short:

JWZ created XScreensaver back in the day, using raw Xlib.

He did this because he did not trust the security of larger toolkits/programs--a screen locker must be so simple that it can't go wrong, and none of the larger libraries is auditable/verifiable in that respect. If it crashes, somebody gets access to your desktop.

Every five years or so, some group in the *nix community decides that they know better than Grandpa Zawinski, and they reinvent XScreensaver--however, they usually do so poorly, and insecurely.
Setting up pam_url+totpcgi is bit involved, and it doesn't come prepackaged for Debian. But it certainly shouldn't be insurmountable. Here is link to their installation guide:

https://github.com/mricon/totp-cgi/blob/master/INSTALL.rst
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well I am sure I speak for a few others, I enjoy washing the car. Its relaxing and it also lets me find all those little oopsies. That being said, I wonder if this surface would apply well to clear bras? I can wax both the paint and the film that is the clear bra without any noticeable differences just spending a second to insure no build up where the bra ends.

Reflectivity of paint is another concern, like how rain x does to windows in that while it looks clean there are discernible patterns of dirt there. Is this totally clean or can you see the residue of fine particles?
Neat. I'd love something like this that supported all the major cloud providers (perhaps via libcloud https://libcloud.apache.org/)
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On the other hand, there is little doubt that overwhelming ingestion of anything will kill you. I'm not sure if it is too much or how long he kept it up, but 60g of butter sounds a lot to me.
But if you do that, you're testing your client rather than your API. That's bound to matter: either your client is abstracting behavior and using only a specific subset of how your API could be used, or your client is not really useful.

For example, if your client implements fallback handling and caching behavior "the right way" for your API, and you only test using your client, then you're not testing your API when it is used "the wrong way" by developers who bypass your client. Those are important test cases too, unless you treat the wire protocol as an internal implementation detail and use your client's API as "the API". But if you do that, don't call it RESTful. (Technically it might still be RESTful, but that's a loaded term now and it will confuse developers who expect raw HTTP.)
There's Skype Numbers, as it's now called, you buy a phone number for $5/month (in the US) and where ever you are, if someone calls that number you can receive the call using Skype.

My mother and myself are not serious cell phone users, and we use < $40/year subscriptions to make all our US long distance calls, and many local calls (she's 77 and has lost a fair amount of her hearing, so the high quality of Skype calls and flexibility of using a good headset is particularly appreciated. I also like those features).

We keep waiting for Microsoft to screw it up, but they amazingly haven't so far.
That's actually a very common view. It's been around at least since Aesop. See the Fable of the crow and the pitcher:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_and_the_Pitcher

"Necessity is the mother of invention" is the version most used in English.
I'm not a python user myself but from what I understand some people are rather partial to particular versions of python. I think 2.7 is very popular. I think there also may have been some backward compatibility issues in python 3 that some people were unhappy with. Perhaps someone with more knowledge on the matter can chime in.
Do these people actually use Monodevelop daily? Because my and a lot of other people's experience beyond a Hello World program is dismal.

And until you actually have cross platform development tools that don't suck, .NET is not a viable option.
The horribly-named HATEOAS is one possible solution: http://timelessrepo.com/haters-gonna-hateoas
Show HN: Hacker News with categories
Your statement is factually incorrect according to official statistics,[1] which I found through a very easy Google search after reading your comment. (Note that the statistic shown is for all accidental falls, not just falls on stairways, and even in the aggregate all falls cause fewer deaths than car crashes.)

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/acc-inj.htm
The author embraces the fallacy that there are clear and objective "best" people to hire for a job or to invite to speak at a conference. Very rarely that may be the case, but in general that is a false idea, and a poisonous one. It's an excuse for being lazy, and it continues the cycle of discrimination that keeps gender ratios so wildly skewed.

There's value in the perspective from the outside, there's value in being challenged by new ideas, there's value in developing the next generation of top speakers and workers, there's value in taking a risk on someone new, there's value in working on new problems with people who've lived a different life than you have.

In terms of conference speakers in particular, you send a message to your audience with your choice of speakers and panelists. You are saying "this is who we are". And if no one on the stage looks like me, I might start to think I'm not welcome as an audience member either.
Yes, this is not intended to be a visualization; it is merely something pretty. D3 supports Lab and HCL color spaces [1] which are perceptually uniform; I could use those to improve the accuracy of the distance encoding, but I’d have to sacrifice the current garish aesthetic.

[1] http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3014589
Apprenticeships Help Close the Skills Gap. So Why Are They in Decline?
I'm a decent R user, have done many self-experiments myself, and read & commented on Roberts's blog for years; I have no idea about APL, but I think you overestimate how much hacking on R code Roberts was able to do - he had a lot of trouble programming the reaction-time code for his Buttermind experiments and I don't recall him ever reporting more complex analyses than a linear model.
Collapsed while hiking. That is a cardiovascular death until proven otherwise. In a guy who ate a half a stick of butter every day ... quelle surprise.

Listen to a cardiologist trying to talk Seth out of his course, at around 11 minutes in this 2008 video:

http://vimeo.com/14281896
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Draft House Language Seeks to Halt Air Force Atlas 5 Launches This Year
Ask HN: How to get my first users?
I built the site digitalcareersearch.com almost 5 years ago and have never been able to generate any significant interest.

It's a jobs board built solely - as the name would suggest - for digital careers (SEO/PPC/Web Design etc.) The site has always been free to use both as a recruiter and an job-seeker.

I have a limited budget for marketing when it comes to side projects like these - other than a small amount of PPC and e-marketing I haven't really pushed the site out in any way.

Maybe I'm missing an obvious trick - the idea of the site (whilst not as original as when I created it) seems decent and I like to think it's easy to use.

Any help would be appreciated - start up directories / news outlets / marketing tactics - any suggestions will be great.

www.digitalcareersearch.com
Yes, please. Although SharePoint has been my largest pain point. I'm not very optimistic that will get better any time soon
> "While it's probably still true that being male makes it easier to earn more money (especially now, when all the geeky, previously unpopular, mostly male programmers cashed in), but it also makes it easier to be homeless and to die sooner"

Oh sure. My whole point is "It's complicated".

w.r.t. to suicide I think part of that is societal gender roles. We tell 5 year old boys to stop crying because "big boys don't cry", then we wonder why 20 year old men kill themselves rather than seek mental health.

"Institutional power imbalances" is one bad sexist thing. "Gender roles" (boys don't cry, women shouldn't do maths) are another bad sexist thing. It's all complicated and connected.
What has Elon Musk so mad about an Air Force award
AdSense can and does cut you off for no sane reason and good luck finding a human to fix things for you.
Is part of your point here that these engineers, having made a stack of money, will be more inclined to take a risk (to found/fund/build the next big thing)? i.e. that the reason the exit is important is less that it's a signal about what's possible, and more that it creates freedom for those who might otherwise take a 'safe' job?
> By creating anti-diverse groups like [Women Who Code, PyLadies, Girls Who Code, Black Girls Code], people are literally saying “This group of people are different than the majority, so we need to do special things for them. Treat them differently. They’re special.”

Though this was a small part of the post, I believe this is one of the most flawed concepts he has. Having founded a group for black programmers in NYC, I can tell you, we're not asking for special things, nor have any of the women I've encountered from the other groups.

My group, the Black Techies, was founded so that we could have a place free of crap like cultural biases, or people asking "why are the black people sitting together at lunch", or sexist and racist posts that devalue our worth.

The author's version of "true diversity" is one where anyone who is not a white male assimilates into a white male culture of software development.

His vision is one where white males don't have to change; where acceptable groups are blessed; where we can't do anything about the adults in the field, we need to focus on the children and in 20 years, __maybe__ we will look up and see that it worked.

This vision is one that perpetuates the status quo.

For myself, and I would posit the other founders of similar groups, the status quo is unacceptable. And we actively fight, on our own terms, for our own interests about the best way forward. Who knows best about how to hire more "diverse" programmers than those same "diverse" programmers?

Is a "1:1" speaker ratio the right thing? Is it going to produce results? Is it sustainable?

Who knows.

But, it is an active and bold idea. It's taking a stand. It's does a hell of a lot more for the conversation than silently removing a "no girls allowed" sign from the boys club.
Skype's Linux clients are always wonky. G+ has more ItJustWorks, and the contacts list is already built for me from years of using Google stuff.
If you discount evidence ...

That's reductive. Not everyone has the bandwidth to sort through every iota of evidence. And the fact is that there's no shortage of people who have little in arguing in good faith. So people resort to heuristics such as reputation, credibility, what other "reputable" people say, etc.
PHP Callback Functions: Another Way to Hide Backdoors
Who knew making such a simple game could be so annoying? Needs more lensflare.
Google Now and Cortana are the future, not Siri
Rubber-hose-proof crypto: detectable, but undescribable, passwords
Is it possible to detect a visitor's ISP, could websites educate Comcast users?
As I understand it, there are limitations, it will not be 100% accurate ie: a user could be using a proxy, or VPN, etc.

Still, if Comcast is going to throttle specific websites, or charge specific websites for faster connections, can't we use the knowledge that a website visitor is a Comcast subscriber to our advantage?

More than that, could Reddit use a protest day to demonstrate what may happen to Comcast customers?

For example, instead of a blackout day, Reddit loads slow for Comcast subscribers and only Comcast subscribers.

For programmers, here's a possible solution using PHP: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/855967/how-do-i-retrieve-the-visitors-isp-through-php
I understand your frustration, but (a) there are no easy answers, and (b) as I'm sure you can imagine, bicyclists don't like riding near your car either.

I've pissed people off by following traffic laws on a bicycle as much as breaking them; I'm slow to get going from stop signs and I won't pull to the side of the road so you can squeeze me into a 2ft space of sand and crap next to the curb as you pass me.

A lot of the times that I break traffic laws, the result is me getting out of your way (running the light/not stopping at the stop sign/riding on sidewalk).

Of course yours and my experience could be very different. Traffic isn't too much of a problem here, one way or the other. The biggest problem I have to deal with is if a train comes through town and I have to wait 5 minutes for it to pas.
Also like RescueTime, but for programmers:

https://wakatime.com
You're free to try and see if the code also works in Python3.

Python3 used to come without a lot of the "batteries" that make Python a useful language for science-y stuff (numpy, matplotlib, Cython),and the 'improvements' that Python3 brings are not big enough that people would switch over.

Contrast this to C++11, which brings real improvements to pain points that existed before (i.e., areas of the STL that ought to have been standardized but were not).

Contrast this to Java 6 (Generics) and Java 8 (Lambdas) which solve actual perceived pain points that many people who program in Java are feeling.

The biggest pain point in Python2-the-language isn't any missing language feature -- most people are happy with those since at least 2.6. Instead, it's speed, and people are indeed transitioning part of their programs from Python2 to Cython. Python3 doesn't do anything for speed.
Can you try http://i.imgur.com/WwQ8P5R.jpg instead of the archive.org link? I rehosted the image on imgur, but it looks like imgur re-compresses the jpg, resulting in differences in the image. If so, then that demonstrates just how brittle this solution is.
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.NET is definitely not our best bet, because once its out of Windows land, the quality falls sharply. Mono is seriously lacking [1] so does Monodevelop etc.

[1] http://mono-project.com/WPF
Not that I think that ad hominem attacks are a good way to settle this particular debate, but most of what you are complaining about can be directly applied to DHH as well. That's the nature of ad hominems. They don't really get to the heart of the problem.
Yes it's alright. Because it's not sexist. (cf a common definition of sexism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7660512 )
I suspect the parent is referring to Windows Group Policies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Policy
I remember a similar German technology from way back here on HN, and found it: http://en.dienanoexperten.de/produkte.htm

But in the end it looks like they didn't expand at all. I would be curious to know what is the problem.
There's good reason to have shown this on a white car because of this fact. 1. white give nice contrast for dirt but importantly 2. white nicely hides the frosty appearance of Ultra Ever Dry.

Check out the ars technica article - the UED video at the top shows work boots frosted over with the stuff.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/the-internet-demanded...
Well, the overwhelming majorities of publications see a link, the fact that some see none IMHO shows the limited usefulness of those epidemiological studies way too many parameters to be close to a controlled experience...

The author of that paper your linked, Uffe Ravnskov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffe_Ravnskov) seems to be part of a small minority holding this belief.
Headline should have been "American Schools Are Failing Kids".
The names may have changed but the people didn't. We funded Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and provided numerous FIM-92 stingers which after the war was over turned into the buyback fiasco, where many of these stingers were never recovered.

Not to mention the third-party plausible denability effect, through which arms may not have passed directly to "Muj" or Taliban, but were supplied by the US.

So to say the "Taliban" were never armed is completely factually incorrect, both in relevance to the Soviet war and the current one.

If you want to learn more about the US involvement as the number one arms dealer in the word, the revised Shadow Factory book is out and worth the long read.
Of course. The very last paragraph on this page explains that these licenses can be used for any kind of data.

https://gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html
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> Residents of these area are specifically excluded from entry: Italy, Quebec, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria

Seriously? Italy?
Where did you find that link? Or indeed, the page it points to? I've never seen either before.
> Often that is a role played by what we call a PRP (primarily responsible person).

So Github doesn't have managers, it just has Primary Responsible People, who sound an awful like they do the same thing? Just don't call them "managers", because you don't have those. Cute.

Every successful startup eventually discovers that the O(n^2) communication overhead of a perfectly flat org doesn't scale, and needs to adapt to deal with that. The question is whether to develop coordination specialists implicitly or explicitly. Developing doublespeak to protect an idealistic worldview from its incompatibility with reality does seem pathological.
> There is a well known separation between the theorist and the experimentalist mindset. He was one of the best of the experimentalists.

He was a terrible experimentalist. He never used randomization or blinding; he never took into account any covariates like travel or smog (he lived in China and flew back and forth! and would still report A/B/A comparisons); he didn't even try to correct for time trends; and all of this was deliberate since he knew why you need good methodology and how abandoning all this stuff leads to systematically false results, and he went and did it all anyway. Roberts as critic was very different (and much superior to) Roberts as experimentalist.
I made this to track how long you were programming:

https://wakatime.com
Jump start?
> Part of the reason is fear. "If I have a very small egg-car and everyone else has a heavy car, I'll be the one that is killed."

That isn't fear, it's entirely rational behavior. This is one of those many cases where a group of people behaving individually in their self-interest results in a situation that's worse for all participants.

It would be better for everyone if we moved in aggregate to smaller, lighter cars, but no one can take that step unless we all do.
He's way off. About 1300 people die from falling down stairs every year.

http://danger.mongabay.com/injury_death.htm

So, if we reduced auto deaths to 1300 by using self-driving cars, that would be acceptable?
http://hackaday.io/prize/details looks like they're intentionally vague.
Living with lag – an oculus rift experiment
Analysis from the FireEye research team outlining how it's done: http://www.fireeye.com/blog/uncategorized/2014/04/new-zero-d...
You owe it to your readers to say that Seth's death is a warning to those who would flaunt conventional medical wisdom, as he clearly did.

Anyone who stakes their life on a single published meta-analysis is unwise. Anyone who puts faith in a single assessor of cardiac risk, coronary CT, is unwise. It is ironic that the most apt assessment of Seth's life and death comes from a margarine commercial popular in the 1970s: "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."
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As well as using it to call international numbers, I also use it for Wifi access at some airports.

No doubt I could do both more cheaply another way, but I do them both so rarely that Skype just already being there "and just working" is great. I pay at most £20 / year.
I still am not clear on why this is a problem Apple should spend money to solve. (Since a stock split is certainly not free of administrative costs.)
It does, according to the replies here by Skype http://blogs.skype.com/2014/04/28/skype-loves-bringing-group...
Quotas like this aren't sexist https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7660512
Programatically understanding Expectation Maximization algorithm
Solar is definitely attractive - with the asteroid belt at triple the distance from the earth you'd expect n^2 reduction in efficiency ~10x, but without atmosphere you might end up about the efficiency of cells at sea level anyway. A solar sail kind of rig could be just the ticket.
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