skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Healthy user bias based on confounding factors I can understand between people who do not drink fizzy drinks and those who do.

However I would not expect it to then give a clear linear link between specific consumption and telomere length as shown in this study, as the confounding factors are unlikely to be directly linked to exactly how much you consume:

"we found that each daily 8-ounce serving of
sugar-sweetened sodas was linearly associated
with shorter telomeres, roughly equivalent
to 1.9 additional years of aging, independent
of sociodemographic characteristics and
health-related variables"
People "often" (for made up values of often) hit kids instead of balls bouncing into the street, as their eyes are drawn to the ball and never notice the kids scampering after it. A machine can be given enough resources to have the scan of a tree full of owls - no single driver can.
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...and now they are working on their own JavaScript-for-mobile-apps language - what could possibly go wrong: http://www.telerik.com/nativescript
FCC suspends review of Comcast/TWC and AT&T/DirecTV mergers
This is a GREAT idea.
The monthly cost per subscriber is capped at $4ish.
> is Google Goggles a thing still?

The tech was folded into the Google Translate app.
This is a great story, and I'm glad it worked out for them, but it's important to keep in mind that it's only one data point. This is exactly the sort of "I'll pay you in equity, and once my great idea makes it big you'll be rich!" approach that HN usually hates, because 99% of the time said payout never comes.
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To me it looks like the directory is ONLY exposed within the VPC. So that would mean you can't auth from servers that live in other clouds or on prem.
This is what I was hoping to see from the start. How they accounted for the differences between "sugary soda drinkers" and others. I still don't see how the general attitude of soda drinkers or their level of exercise was evaluated. Perhaps you left out some of the factors mentioned. Still, it seems completely reasonable to ask for more information about the groups before concluding that drinking soda is the cause of shorter telemores.
It's not a big deal, because you can automate it. As long as the patch applies cleanly (and it almost certainly will if the only vendor changes are security updates), it's going to be a pretty smooth process.

You'd need to test the new kernel before deploying in production, of course, but you'd be doing that before rolling out a vendor provided kernel change, anyway.
Is the app completely broken on Firefox? I choose "Blank page" template and I just get gray area which I cant interact with.
I think many HN readers would be amazed at how often this is still true.
I don't have the exact studies and I'm too lazy to look for them now, but I recall seeing a controlled trial on placebo effect showing that people who are (a) informed about placebo effect as such (IIRC that group was all medical professionals) and (b) informed that the pills they're taking definitely are just a placebo with no active substance, they still showed a placebo response. It was lower than for "normal people" who were told that the sugar pill is a medicine for testing, but still significant.
They're able to be flexible with IT because no Google code lives on the laptops - they are basically SSH clients with a Yubikey in the USB port and an encrypted SSH key. All of the data that needs securing never makes it down to the laptop.
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We actually just released the app yesterday. We don't really have a formal plan, just this sort of stuff, like posting to HN, game and android related subreddits, twitter, etc. Right now we only offer ads (and very few actually) since the goal is to attract users. In terms of revenue, our plan is to get some metrics and user feedback, figure out how users use the app, what they like, don't like, etc, and use that to add some relevant in-app purchasable items.
Customising Mercurial Like a Pro
A while ago (here's an article from 2002: http://lwn.net/Articles/6367/ ), the big new thing was going to be ibm mainframes running linux VMs. Whatever became of that? Is anyone still doing that?
Just say keep the money, altruism restored.
Ok, I thought that was the most likely, but didn't want to discount some sort of option-style benefit.
I see Lumias almost every day in German trains or when going around southern countries.
Still being built but the main functions work.
> Everything you love about computing today ultimately rests on Stallman's hard work.

Absolutely, demonstrably, false. Stallman has contributed greatly, yes, but please don't overstate it. It calls into question the other things you said.
The rumors in Sofia were that the company was going downhill. This seems to confirm it.

I really tried to like their products. Didn't managed. And they flooded the market with half trained "developers" from their academy.
hard to tell what Broadsheet is and why anybody should sign up . Perhaps, a couple sentence summary might help?
Additionally the contractor has to do the extra work at cost, meaning no profit fees. It protects the contractor from going under and protects the prime from bad motives.

Usually there are additional award fees for getting stuff done on time.
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And I've never had one that had one...
Except, in most cases you donate the blood to a blood bank that will sell it to wherever it is needed.
The blood banks are profiting from your blood and hospitals are ill-spending money.
You get the worse of both worlds.
"But most of the value in this company came from two things: Richard Garfield creating Magic: The Gathering, and the employees. Not investors. It’s only appropriate that the distribution from the sale reflects that."

Hear hear. Investors say that founders and employees are what make startups. I wish the cap tables reflected that.
It's both obviously true at the most trivial inspection and mentioned multiple times in the article.

----

"People tend to draw inferences about personality characteristics, above and beyond what we might assume based on things like gender, ethnicity, or expression. Social attributions from faces alone tend to be constructed from how common facial features are within a culture, cross-cultural norms (e.g., inferences on masculinity/femininity), and idiosyncrasies like resemblance to friends, colleagues, loved ones, and, importantly, ourselves. Olivola's research has shown that these facial attributions people make have serious implications for how people are treated, and their outcomes in life. The especially unfortunate part of these inferences is how heavily they factor into critical decisions, in lieu of actual facts.

"'The fact that social decisions are influenced by facial morphology would be less troubling if it were a strong and reliable indicator of people’s underlying traits,' the researchers write in today's article. 'Unfortunately, careful consideration of the evidence suggests that it is not.'"

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"Olivola has also done studies that show in conservative-leaning states, finding that the more 'traditionally Republican' a person's face is deemed to look, the more votes he/she gets. Even if they're a Democrat. And the correlation between facial competence and vote share is strongest among voters who are lacking in political knowledge."
Way to run Nokia into the ground Microsoft.
Prophetic, or patient. I've seen about 60x return - once AAPL popped into a higher stable orbit, I didn't feel it was risky to hold onto it (a drop would still be an overall profit). I was not desperate for the money, so I stopped thinking about it.
PCB Web, free PCB layout software, now has a Windows version
I think the problem with the lacklustre sales and drop in stature of the Nokia brand is not the Nokia name, it is the fact that the Windows phone operating system pales in comparison to Android and iOS. I do not mean "pales" as in Android or iOS is superior, I mean when it comes to the very thing most of us use our phones for (besides texting, email and making calls): applications and games, they are nonexistent on Windows Phone OS.

If Microsoft were to release a Lumia phone running Android, I would definitely buy one, no question or doubt about it. The latest Lumia phones are incredible pieces of hardware; nice design, nice internal hardware, responsive touchscreen, good battery life and one of the best cameras in a phone currently on the market.

It is so painfully obvious and as usual, Microsoft just do not get it. They have some of the best phones on the market, but they go relatively unnoticed because they're running an operating system most people are not interested in using or dislike. I have a Samsung Galaxy S5, but if I had a choice of a Lumia phone like the Lumia 930 running Android, I would have bought that instead. I have longed for a Lumia phone running Android for a while now.

Microsoft should just ditch Windows Phone OS or at the very least, sell two variants, give the customers a choice, do not make them have one over the other. One running Android and the other Windows. I can already tell you which version would be more popular.

I feel as though the reason the flagship Lumia phones are not running Android is because Microsoft feels like it would be admitting defeat. They have invested a lot of money in the operating system, purchase of Nokia and continued development of new phone models, it has become more of a pride thing now and the fact they have committed to Windows Phone OS so much they could not easily back out from it even if they wanted too.

Free the hardware. Give consumers choice. If you prefer Windows Phone OS, then buy a Lumia running Windows Phone OS or if you are like many consumers out there wanting to stay up-to-date and having access to the latest games and applications, buy a Lumia running Android.
Post-Anonabox, more crowdsourced Tor router projects make their pitch
That's right for familiarity. Unless he personally knows each of them, he shouldn't assume such familiarity. At least where I'm from it's considered uncouth to do so. Of course it's a cultural thing, and perhaps where you're from it doesn't sound the same way to your ear.
Take my $0.99 and give me an ad free version!

Take additional $0.99s and give me boosters, like clock extenders, wild letters, and hints.

Leaderboards. OMG. Leaderboards...

Let me grow your user base by inviting my FB friends in exchange for said boosters.

Relevant leaderboards (because people i know are on them)

Spend half of those $0.99s and hire a designer to create a design that caters to the middle aged women crowd. Spend the other half of the $0.99s on advertising. Web / Fb of course, but late night TV seems to do exceptionally well for that demo.

Recoup those $0.99s by running your own ads for said ad free version and boosters with a larger audience.
I don't mind paying what the service is worth, but being promised X and then paying 5X is not good business.
Well, if it turns out to be such a big problem, then we can just kill everyone at a specific age.

That's sarcasm, of course, but IMHO saying that we shouldn't prolong life because of possible consequence X is morally exactly equal to saying that we should kill old people to avoid that consequence X.

For every X, either X really is so bad that it's worth killing people for it; or X shouldn't be considered as a valid argument against longevity.
Is this the sort of thing that's in the scope of JREF's challenge? It says "psychic, supernatural, or paranormal ability". If this experiment does show a result from manipulating mental age with a throwback environment, we wouldn't assume that result derived from a paranormal cause. It would be a new psychosomatic effect where the mind can affect the body, but it would be through normal biological and chemical means, not the supernatural evidence JREF is looking for.
Hi protestor, we spent quite a bit of time on the Linux version, but due to the OS fragmentation and issues with packaging, we had to make the call to temporarily delay the Linux version. It's still a high priority though, and when we bring on additional development resources we will release it ASAP.
For every problem, there is an answer that is simple, easy, and wrong.
My wife and I got a good laugh about this exact thing when I made that comment.
I agree with you -- and it's actually already mentioned, in the little section at the end, "One more thing – optional – may add another minute"
You'll always need tests.

That said, when you refactor a program in Haskell, instead of running the tests and some functionality falling, usually the compiler itself will tell you there's a problem at line X of file Y.

That use case of tests is just not there - and that's the main selling point of unit tests. Thus, I'd expect Haskell developers to not write as much of this kind of tests. But again, you'll always need some kind of it.
The scientific case against owning cats
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First, volumes are 100% separated from containers.
If you remove a container, the volumes are not removed unless you explicitly told docker to (docker rm -v <container>). And even then, it won't remove the volume if other containers are using it.

That said, it is hard to re-use a volume right now if you removed the last container referencing that volume.
The linked PR solves this issue.

You can mount these SSD's on the host and then use bind-mounts (docker run -v /host/path:/container/path) to get those into the container. Or you can add the devices to the containers directly ("docker run --device /dev/sdb", for example), but you'd need privilaged access to actually mount the device.

The referenced PR itself doesn't really make using things like specialized disks any easier, except you can register them with the volumes subsystem and it will track them form you, ie `docker volumes create --path /path/to/data --name my_speedy_disks`.

There was some discussion around being able to deal with devices directly with Docker instead of expecting the admin to handle mounting those devices onto the host so they can be used as volumes. Nothing finalized here.
Here is where that discussion happened: https://botbot.me/freenode/docker-dev/2014-10-21/?msg=239115...
This goes hand in hand with his admitting he didn't know how to price them. :-)
I was actually surprised at how many more I saw when visiting Europe this summer than I see in the US.
What you are describing as a background is all part of a "normal" math/CS undergrad education (at least in Germany where I studied).

From a level of the mathematical difficulty, Elements etc. (but also current-level research papers) are all readable by anyone with a solid understanding of undergraduate mathematics (which is essentially a decent Linear Algebra course, multivariate analysis, a probability course, and a numerical computing course).

I think the reason why employers look for candidates with a PhD is that too many people "scrape by" when getting their CS degree -- e.g. they somehow fulfilled the required coursework, and somehow got their degree. The PhD requirement is essentially a bureaucratic substitute for answering the question "has this person understood math in sufficient depth to be able to do independent work with it".
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You could use the Inbox APIs! :)

More info w/ docs: https://www.inboxapp.com/

Open-source version: https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox
Giving in lieu of services isn't illegal. I believe that selling them without some kind of legal preparation is. (Strange)

Another challenge is you are limited to the # of owners you can have in a pre-IPO company.
Sure, but that doesn't mean a tool to help when the course/teacher isn't fantastic isn't a good thing. It's an easy thing to abuse, though, and I think self restraint with regards to just googling answers is becoming an important study skill.
I just hope Carl and Richard at the .NET Rocks podcast can find a new sponsor or figure out some other option to keep their great show going. Seems like Telerik has been their main sponsor forever.
I've had GHC automagically parallelize tree-traversal code before. However, I think in general you have to put a bit of work in to it.

Of course, you could theoretically just write an actor library that did the exact same thing as erlang.
No problem. India is a shit country and if it were possible for me to give up my citizenship I would have done it without second thought. I have no issues with people pointing out problems, but problems of India are not reported in news unless they happen to be about cultural differences. [2] is not an argument, it is just to give you a direction if you want to find out real structural problems in all colonized countries and the sheer depth of it all. Read it at your own leisure. Orientalism by E. Said is phenomenal book that changed sociology studies. It is a very good read and even first 50-60 pages are enough to make you think.

Regarding dowry related death, any death of wife within 7 years of marriage is reported as dowry related death. Why? So police-lawyer-NCW nexus can make money out of it by harassing husband. A lot of times even women's family jumps in to make money. That is the level of discrimination women face. For example, the dowry harassment lawsuit (498a IPC) is non-cognizable, which means once filed, it cannot be taken back. Then it is Husband vs. The State. The moment a death occurs police and lawyers will convince family members to file 498a. Then they can simply use it to extort lakhs. My friend himself paid 10 lakhs. Is NCW interested in that data? No. It actively hides the real data, instead relying on vague statistics like 'how many dowry related deaths have been reported to police' and not 'how many dowry related deaths actually happened'. And why not? NCW is run by politicians and wives of corrupt IPS officers.
I didn't realize how crazy smart he is until I attended a couple of LibrePlanets (FSF annual conference).

I have a vivid memory of a young hacker's face, full of pain and confusion. Stallman was belittling him for taking too much time fiddling with his smart phone camera--you know, the kind that has only an onscreen shutter button... The kid had traveled across the country to snap a photo with the folk hero of his culture.

I watched the faces of his keepers/coworkers, too. Their lips were tight, they said nothing.

They are no slouches! They aren't socially inept. Yet, yet... they tolerate him, even while keeping him away from starry eyed kids as much as possible. For the greater good.

I heard again and again that he's a genius. That the little trick he pulled with that now famous software license has irrevocably changed the world for the better.

I get the impression that to this day, he protects the FSF from making mistakes that would eventually land it in history's dustbin. He's a strategist. (Or tactician? I'm not clear on the distinction. I'm no genius...) NB: I'm not talking about simple mistakes; I'm saying that what they are trying to achieve is really hard.

Stallman has a second sight for how systems plus inputs will unfold (oh, the parent post used the word prescient--good word!) and he saw something terrible in our future, so he has dedicated his life to changing it.

But he's still a world-class asshole.

Does anybody else have his talent? And maybe a little charisma? Or at least compassion?
Why asking complex low-level algorithms in a Java job interview?
I can't understand why I am asked to resolve some tricky/stupid/unreal algorithm using Java in a job test. I am missing something?? I know that the code has to be as efficient as possible and the pragmatism is cool and so on.

I just think that what Java is looking for is getting away from all of that. And there are a lot of better solutions for this kind of jobs like C, or even R.

I think the nature of the problems to solve in Java are not related with this complex algorithms. I mean, I have been training myself in generics, OOP, SOLID principles, Clean Code, Design Patterns, TDD, BDD and some others for the last three years.

How I am supposed to show my skills in one hour resolving a low level algorithm in a web IDE (this particular case)? All my "low level thinking" is pretty oxidized.

Maybe I am just wrong. A novel speaking.
I had to learn git not too long ago, and found "Git from the bottom up" [1] to be immensely helpful. Until about halfway through reading it I was totally lost, but then everything started to click into place. I had a lot of trouble using git without that decent understanding of the whole system.

This seems like a great guide for people who only need a quick crash course in the specifics of actually using git, but for anyone who still feels lost without that deeper grasp, I definitely recommend "Git from the bottom up".

[1] http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf
University of Ottawa is locked down too, being only a few blocks away. Still pretty calm here though.
True. But it's nice to hear these stories. My brother gave our old man $5K in his startup in appreciation for several months of sleeping on the couch when money got tight. During a downturn my brother lost it all. When the dot com bubble hit, my old man realized he still had the stock, which was now in a parent of a parent, and got out with a 20x return.
Best book on body language and just general cues?
Recently got interested in the subject and did an Amazon search for books in the field, but the top results seemed a bit 'fluffy'... What book(s) would you recommend?
When I left Amazon, I thought Google has no trouble to easily beat Amazon with its strong tech stack. Gradually I learnt that companies are different. If one company does one thing good, that usually means another company cannot easily catch up, even with obvious advantages. Now I seriously doubt how long will it takes for Google to be a meaningful competitor to AWS...
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Ditto, but inviting friends doesn't seem to work - I see a "facebook" window pop up, then it disappears, and I don't see a list of friends to challenge. :/
This is some really useful info!
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> This whole deal, from the moment Elop went to Nokia, was a disaster in slow motion

No, the problem started before. Nokia had their platform, it was called Maemo, but their developers were too busy rewriting everything multiple times "just because" and the Symbian team treated it as a toy.

Elop was just the Titanic hitting the iceberg, but the course was set.
If you have two applications making use of the same database, then build a shared ORM layer and have the applications interact with that. Modern applications do not interact with the database directly there is an ORM.

Separate that out and share it between however many applications you want you should be able to swap out data stores not be confined to them.
I really like the Hacker's Guide to Git:

https://wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git
I like the idea but the title's a bit misleading. For comparison, this article is over twice as long as the Git in 5 Minutes guide that you reference. I'm not trying to be snarky, I was just very surprised when I saw the article's length.

People searching for Git in X minutes might prefer a shorter preamble and a more expository form, like this: http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

/2¢
> As I age, I've found that I have to expend constant effort to repel the "wisdom" of my cohort as they become cynical, loveless, self-limiting, and as they give up on their dreams.

I actually consider it a function of "lack of positive reinforcement for adult learning."

Learning anything as a child gets a continuous stream of "oh, isn't that wonderful" no matter how bad the child sucks.

As an adult, try learning a foreign language or a musical instrument. You have to be damn near native fluency or rock star proficiency before you will get a positive word from other adults.

When learning something new as an adult, you have to have an amazing amount of fortitude to continue plowing through a new task.