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"Finally, looking at that figure you might wonder why the relative risk of smoking has increased so much. Based on my first pass through the literature, it seems like no one knows.…

You should. I have no idea to what you're referring.

Next time you wind up in a situation like this, just lie about your number.

"Instead, they’ll be reminiscing about watching a Twitch streaming millionaire child screaming racial slurs as he rail-guns his opponents on Fortnite." This perspective is reductiv…

"The new shadow terminator offset setting helps you to avoid shading artifacts with smooth normals on low-poly meshes." THANK GOODNESS, man those shadows always looked so ugly. I p…

For context: This seems directly related to the discussion that went on with the Hey iOS app yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552760

I think in this case, the hypothetical lawsuits would be between companies that make iOS apps and Apple. The companies that make iOS apps want to have their own payment system wher…

I couldn't find a date on this article, but I don't think this line is accurate anymore: "Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Flickr, Tumblr all these sites run in PHP and welcome millions…

I don't think its that simple, because it doesn't have to be all or nothing. I think CA has the right idea to lift restrictions at the state level so that less at-risk rural areas …

I think this is a valid point, but one consideration that feels missing from a lot of these kind of disucussions is to what extent the economy will "come back", even if every restr…

A bit tangential, but this reminded me of Dexter Holland [0] the lead singer and songwriter of the band The Offspring. He went on to get a PhD in molecular biology (not an honorary…

Haha, there is always one :) I feel like trying out various languages/frameworks would affect compsci labs a lot less than other fields, since the students probably have some found…

I don't find this response convincing because: (a) While I'm being honest that my observations are based on the fields I have experience, there is no such justification that "It is…

> Python has been the defacto standard in scientific/data/academic programming for decades In my experience (Genomics) this is simply not true. Python has caught on over the last 5…

I don't understand this comment, what are you suggesting Google will do? Surreptitiously insert code into your binary during a patch? If you are running in Google cloud, its their …

I'm reading into this a bit, but I think David Byrne is focusing on American protest songs which could explain why Fela Kuti wasn't included.

This paper from 2010 has some info on why this may be the case [0]: "These results indicate that the protection of bacteria on the leaf surface by biofilm formation and stomatal co…

I wonder how the author feels about leaf vacuums like this, which is what I use: http://a.co/d/dGh7M4R Its electric, so no fumes, and since it sucks instead of blows I don't have t…

Hey I just recently complained about SNI on a recent HN thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18223168 ). This is a lovely coincidence. Thanks Mozilla!