jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You are missing my point. I specifically said food and drinks. Lets define natural if you find it vague. I call it natural when it is within the normal diet of humans throughout their evolution. I am not talking about natural mercury being good to your health, for example. That was pretty clear.

You can simply answer this, is it in human's natural diet to have lots of aspartame intake each day?

Furthermore, you are overestimating the power of science. If you think humans have the power of understanding human body so well in a mere 200 - 300 years of scientific past, in comparison to the millions of years of evolution complexity, and the complexity of living organism, you are disillusioned by a great magnitude - that would be a godly power if it was true. I am all with science, and great scientists know to value their experiments humbly.

All I am saying is avoid irregular diets for full safety since humans can't know for sure with narrow angled experiments.
Read DTrejo's link?
Something silly like 90+% of the money is STILL being spent on Apple Appstore purchases.

Google isn't doing their store well enough. They're only letting 13 countries buy and 9 countries sell. This is a huge problem.

The next 10 years are likely about who leaves fewer hideous mistakes in their implementation, and BOTH types of phones have them currently in their ecosystems

I'd say Apple is the much better bet for 3 years still.
All astronomy can’t be done from space. Space has many issues such as maintainability, heat, reflector sizes and the list goes on. I have friends and former colleagues who do astronomy.

I’ll trust the experts who’s profession are actually impacted.
You need time to switch machines and people to different production. The best-suited plants are all in Asia. Supply chain is thoroughly shot and in state of chaos at this point. That said, a lot of efforts are underway simultaneously, so I expect massive-scale production will start very soon.
Hmmm. If only there was a way to incentivize food producers to produce more food while disincentivizing consumers from buying too much food. Something like what economists refer to as a "price", that can be raised during shortages in order to bring the markets to equilibrium.

But enough about economic theory. Let's continue to wag our fingers at the hoarders and profiteers while continuing to prosecute price gougers.
A) you get moved off the sidewalk

B) you make much less than minimum wage?
They are not testing people in the UK unless they require a ventilator, so I have to guess like everyone else! I think I have it.
I can’t do fiction sadly ):

I think there is something that clicks with people, and people should indulge in whatever they end up indulging in. But I am definitely jealous
Might this be the moment when the US gets a universal health insurance and a complete reform of the medical sector?

Just my 2ct.
Ask HN: what's a good JS (browser focused) text adventure engine?
I see me making a text adventure (adding one mini chapter) each day as a good lockdown project.

Note: I might call it "Everything is better in quarantine." The goal would be to (not) go mad.
I used to scarf down lunch as fast as possible and get back to work. Then I met my wife (who's South Korean). Koreans, despite being workaholics (in a grossly simplified general sense) have a cultural predisposition to drop everything and savor their meals. It drove me absolutely up-the-wall when we first met. Meals were something to get through as quickly as possible and then back to work.

But over time, as my work responsibilities have increased (and my work stress), I've learned to value meal time as a moment of peace in a stressful day -- an island of solitude. I take meals now with purpose, savoring every bite, spending the time to enjoy the food and simply enjoy the act of eating. I seek out places with nice atmospheres and good quality food.

As a result my health is better, my stress is better managed, and I find the pacing aspect of it keeps my head in the game when I return to work.

It's been an important lesson I've continued to enjoy.

I know other people who don't like this, maybe it's an introvert/extrovert thing. But the 30min-1hr lunch where I really just enjoy my own thoughts really gives me a second wind...especially late in the week.
They're saying that they doesn't even have the signal strength part.
An interesting post and one that has me questioning quite a lot.

I actually used to have that sort of viewpoint to a huge extent. I remember vividly thinking when starting University - there are so many other people begging to have this chance, I was the lucky chosen one, I should revel in it (I had a relatively poor upbringing).

Fast forward a few years and it's all coloured by what I can only describe as... 'seeing too much'. It's like an odd, less severe, less violent form of PTSD. Everything is tainted by the knowledge that my privileged alma mater is, predominantly, a way of signaling membership in the upper/middle classes.

The knowledge that if I manage to secure a job based on my education, mainly I've just circumvented the barrier to entry, met the arbitrary requirements, etc.

The way that the employment market is basically a race, but with real consequences. Coming second in the 100m sprint might be emotionally scarring, but coming second in the job interview might mean starving, having to sell your possessions, having to spend weeks 'wasted', unable to learn due to struggling to meet basic needs, etcetera.
You know, this is a really creepy thing to write.
So you're a programmer who knows a lot about finance who thinks programmers don't know anything about finance.

Not a banker. Got it. Hey, did you end up investing that 100 million in that factory?

It's a prediction market for hackers to guess which companies built by other hackers are going to make it big. I'd say we're perfectly qualified.
That's perfect, thank you for the tip. I had been looking at the momentums purely on an aesthic level they certainly win, Bluetooth would be an awesome addition - wonder how quickly they burn through battery?
I think the car2go account upgrade to Moovel allows international rentals through the service.

I visited Vancouver recently and was surprised by the number of designated parking spots the city had for car2go. I wish more cities would do that.
https://beyondpricing.com/about

> Kam Bain

> Head of Growth

Shame on you.
No, they’re not.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/11/03/how-to-ride-your-b...

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/07/what-do-you-mean-y...
As much as many on HN hate the Apple ecosystem for being so closed, its security is a major selling point and it would be interesting to see if Teslas are more secure in that regard.
That's true, but usually when we are deciding which actions to take, we're not comparing "I take actionA" versus "I take actionB," rather than comparing "I take actionA" versus "some random other person takes actionA."
Excited to see where this goes. It seems like Sublime Text is already pretty extensible, so I assume they have some big ideas if they make that claim.

Aesthetic sidebar: I love the Invader-Zim-style illustrations on the page. If any GitHub designers read this, the Atom wordmark doesn't feel like part of the same family. I would love to see it be funky-alien-ified. Also, it would be sweet to make the sand grounds all have a slightly diagonal bottom edges to match.
I'm very sad it's come to this, but bankruptcy is what I was thinking.

That said, lets start the discussion:

a) They're only obligated to provide some treatment (Here's a band-aid for your tumor) to get to stability. That counts, right?

...and that seriously is the case. My aunt who had no insurance had to get a thyroid tumor removed. She got it done, but she had a less-than hospitable stay. Normally you get a day or two monitoring. She got...well... "Here's your homecare". I have to wonder

b) I've noticed they've gotten very good about seeing if you can pay or not. I don't know how legal it is, but like my elective birth control procedure was cash-n-carry (in a reputable clinic, even). My wife going to the ER got a scan of the discover card on admission.
Perhaps the very existence of a currency that cannot be regulated is worrying?
Are you supposed to be disagreeing with me?

I believe your disagreement is with the fellow whom I responded to. :)
Main reason I never want to live in America is health care. Just knowing that no matter what I'll be admitted to the hospital and treated is something I never want to live without.
*2nd reason would be gun violence.
Not to get on vim tangent but it's very easy to learn vim slowly. If you use a gui like MacVim you can still use cmd+s to save, etc. and use it like a normal editor. The only thing you are really required to know is the difference between normal and insert modes.
Yes,this is very good idea to make new "relaxing" category in app store!
I believe that Winer is talking about cases in which the hard drive will be replaced. If you know your disk has issues, but it still operates, shouldn't you be able to keep your old drive?

It seems shady to me to give over an old drive full of personal information without giving the user the option to keep it.
The UK is a composite of countries that have been around for a very long time (mostly). They were a super power when the US was formed, for example.
Marco's really hit the trifecta as far as I -- and I'd assume a lot of other HNers -- am concerned:

1) dayjob with a small, impressive startup

2) smart, original side-project that has passionate users and an income stream

3) thoughtful, well-written essays on his personal blog
Soviet Russia was a change in government from Tzarist Russia, which was already a Big Deal in the world, not a 0 to Super Power transition.

And I wasn't suggesting it was a reason to read the constitution, I was suggesting that the United States is, in fact, special. I believe the OP was referencing the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. Maybe it's my jaded, indoctrinated US education, but is the US Declaration of Independence not a unique document, and special on it's own? At least in our (admittedly biased) educational curriculum, it ranks up there with the Magna Carta as an important political document.
That's a common criticism, but it is mostly false and dependent on the person who is using the science to be more successful in getting what they want.

What mystery is talking about is simple attraction psychology, and it is all based on evolutionary psychology. Incidentally, so are all "serious adult relationships". Mystery says that women are attracted to men who display three things: 1) they're leaders of men 2) they are desirable by other women 3) they take care of their people. As anyone who has been in a "serious adult relationship" can tell you, these things are just as important for maintaining attraction in a long term relationship as they are in a one night stand.

The things mystery and more serious evolutionary psychologists have elaborated on are valid in all cases where men desire to maintain the attraction of a woman. It isn't entirely selfish or manipulative either. Women want to be attracted to you.
I would argue that 4chan is ground zero of a new generation of hackers – those who are bent on hacking the attention economy.

The very term "attention economy" is a key bit of awareness. There has always been an Attention Economy or Attention Ecosystem. It's central to culture and politics. It's central to media. It's especially important to the web. It's fundamental to human dominance mechanisms and decision making.

I think there's more than just marketing here. I think this is more like a cultural movement, with a network of personal relationships, an ideology, and differing levels of involvement.
Sigh... I hate turning everything into a game. I guess it works for other people though
VCs will tell you how much they've invested and where they are in their fund. They also often have more than one fund going at a time.
All disastrous human failure is system failure. If the system allows human failure to cause a massive disaster, the system is flawed.
Wow, this is the worse idea I've ever seen since a freaking while. Poor him (or them) though.
Surely this must be criminal? This is one area where atleast 99.9999% uptime should be mandatory.
Bacon is happening right now: http://future.rouli.net/?query=bacon

But flying bacon will take a few years: http://future.rouli.net/?query=pigs%20fly
Epic fail for the company which is hosting on their kit. Whoever threw it on there is a total dick. There is nothing wrong with EC2 here. It's just not the right tool for the job.

If they are monitoring cardiac patients, they should, at least for non-critical people, have the instrumentation cache the data and send when available over leased lines.

If it is critical, it should be PROPER HARDWARE attached to the POTS network (like we have in the UK!) with multiple redundant networks over several distinct carriers and multiple monitoring stations.

It sounds like their product is a) crap and b) dangerous if used for critical care.
[H]ot-metal printing is a thing of the past. The costs (passed along to clients, of course) were simply too high, and so digital printing has replaced it

I started working in Big Law in 1980, right when large law firms were at the tail end of using centralized mini-computers with dumb terminals spread throughout the firm. Every few days, we would receive memos (hand-carried by an in-house messenger - there was no form of email or instant messaging then) asking us to fill out a form telling the IT staff which of our computer documents no longer needed to be stored on the central system. The firm had to continually delete old documents to free up storage space. I imagine that it could have added storage capacity but the cost at the time was very high. On the software side, there was no mass market software available and the software we used was a proprietary system of very limited functionality that came with the Wang system.

This piece (which is extremely well-written, by the way) reminded me of how we used to do redlining of legal documents in that era. No software was available to do this automatically or in any kind of expedited fashion. Therefore, to show, e.g., what changes had been made to a contract from the last cycle, attorneys would line up printed versions of the contracts side-by-side, with the old draft on the left and the new on the right. With a ruler in hand, they would go down the left side line-by-line while manually comparing it to the contract on the right. If they came upon a deletion, they would use a pen to cross out the relevant language as a way of showing that deletion in the new draft. For an insertion, they would hand-write the insertion in the margin or at the bottom of the new draft and hand-draw a line/arrow from the point of insertion to the added text (of the text were too long, the new text would be separately typed out, marked as "Insert A" (or whatever was next in sequence), and the contract itself would be marked with an insertion point instructing the reader to "See Insert A." This process would take many hours to do with a lengthy contract and would need to be double- and triple-checked for an important document to avoid the errors that would inevitably mark such a painstakingly detailed process. When the document came back from the other side, this same manual, time-consuming process would be repeated. And so the iterations would continue until the final, execution versions were prepared and signed. Clients were charged for every minute of attorney/paralegal time involved. The results were first-class but hugely expensive to clients. This sort of legal work was done almost exclusively for large, institutional clients. No small business could afford it, as it easily added large legal costs to a negotiation process.

Times have changed indeed. If you just imagine what it would be like to work with no email, no text messaging, no cell phones, no quality software, no internet, no personal computing (other than with "toy" computers) and the like, you will be thankful for the marvelous tools we have today. Among other things, legal services will never be the same.
In the report I read, the division already existed. The Belgium speed up the process and caused the division to radicalize.
I think it is important to note that a 10% drop (if mostly fat) can bring significant quality of life improvements for people who are experiencing issues related to obesity.

Imagine you walk around with a 30 lbs bag of flour on your back all the time. Then, all of a sudden, you are able to put that bag down.

The faster you lose weight (this is all anecdotal) the more it is like putting that bag down all at once.

Now, can they keep the weight of after losing it? Because I can gain those 30 lbs back very, very quickly.
I know this is a totally non HN-worthy response, but -

That is a fucking amazing resource, thank you!

I've already found two places of interest to check out next time I go North to my old stomping grounds in the countryside.

Sometimes the future isn't such a terrible place.
If your weight is that serious of a concern, diabetes will be the next step anyways.
> I'm sure we'll see free speech absolutists in arms about this, but today is a good day for democracy.

This was not free speech, as has been defined by the US Supreme Court for at least a century, because "fighting words" (speech that may lead to the harm or limitation of rights of others) are not considered free speech.

Talking about racism and other bad ideas is protected, but suggesting sedition and bodily harm is not.

This is good to know in the coming days when the fascists come out of the woodwork.
I just hit the same issue, and I started using desktop-save-mode for that (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sa...). It may be a bit heavyweight for instant switching, depending on what you want. I found it among a list of possible solutions at http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1m73gs/how_do_you_man... .
Hacker News is a fairly simple site for this use case. It works. However I would not say that it is perfectly fine.

Try upvoting with js disabled. The page has to do an entire refresh. That could be a doorstopper for people with limited data plans or with spotty network coverage.
Thanks Cody!
I lit up at your suggestion. I've been looking for a reason to not chuck my APL books. Then it hit me: One with the initials SJ would not appreciate APL on the iPad. The iOS ecosystem abhors "arbitrary code" apps.
Spamhause has legitimate concerns that are distinct from the political pressure around wikileaks. Linking to hosts that may be malicious makes your website a potential malware threat.

If you're of a conspiratorial mind, people in the NSA may be interested to provide "mirrors" and then use those web pages to spread malicious content.

The solution to this would be to digitally sign content on the wikileaks mirror with a master signature, or at least to have public hash digests of the data.
Looks like I will be buying a Kindle or Amazon e-book about the time when hell freezes over....
Ahh, the memories. Thanks for the link, really nice picture.
I totally agree with this. Farmville is such a game-changer. Distributing whistleblower messages that expose corruption doesn't bear any significance in front of Facebook's vision of making everybody friends. <3
I think you're being overliteral on the power stations. It doesn't mean that all power stations are owned by the Government, but that the existence of a power grid relies on the rule of law and the authority to set and enforce laws that is held by the state.

That authority of the state is the central authority he refers to. No matter how your market is actually structured.
Have you considered the possibility of a crash up in asset prices (currency devaluation, negative interest rates). Cash wouldn't be so good in that scenario. I feel similarly about current market valuations and mostly hold cash-equivalents, however I've also bought a significant amount of otm call leaps on agriculture/metals funds to hedge a crash up scenario.
It's a crappy article, so there's that.
Yeah. I agree. That is another possibility on why they decided to so this.

The rewards of preventing unionization outweighs the penalties of engaging in unlawful behavior.
Sounds kinda like most web development: if it runs on Chrome, it's good enough. (Guilty myself)
> What would you give as an example of political propaganda that a lot of people willingly watch regularly?

Action movies that go over the top with "freedom" and "patriotism" and "America".
> If you are stuck with a color TV for your terminal, consider modifying it to accept a signal after the low-pass filter. This is not too hard for someone comfortable with a soldering iron, someone who isn’t scared of drilling a hole in their TV.

Even better, if you want a color terminal, feed the original RGB signal (or its approximation) directly to your TV, don't use RF modulators or a composite input, so there's minimum degradation of video quality. It should be easy on a relatively modern TV. Follow this flowchart.

1. Is it an European TV with a SCART connector? If yes, it already has RGB input. [0]

2. Does the TV include a YPbPr component input? If yes, read Linear Technology Application Note #57 [1], which shows you a circuit to convert RGB to YPbPr using LT6550 chip (or find a similar commercial converter box).

3. Does the TV have an S-video input? If yes, read Analog AD725 datasheet [2] and use this chip to convert RGB to Chroma-Luma component signal for S-Video (or find a similar commercial converter box).

4. Does the TV have onscreen display (i.e. menus overlaid on top of the image)? If yes, there already exists an RGB signal in the TV for feeding the OSD. You can hack your TV and expose the RGB signal input for your own use [3]. Caution: high voltage, discharge the tube, and never work on it with power on.

5. If everything else fails, don't forget the fact a TV's electron gun is ultimately driven by an RGB signal. You can design a simple driving amplifier to feed the RGB signal directly to the electron guns. Unfortunately, I cannot find a reference design for the moment. But it's doable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART

[1] https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/appl...

[2] https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data...

[3] https://hackaday.com/2014/09/21/component-video-input-hack-i...
Thanks, probably some search and replace will do most of the boring stuff. Since it follows the classical pattern already the structure of the code will be mostly the same, but with a lot less dense syntax :-)

Im concerned about adding a compile step, since I like the "just reload" workflow a lot that you get with JS.

text/coffeescript script tags could help out with this. But from the
the CoffeScript site: "it's not recommended for serious use". Why not?
Do you know how many people wear stupid shirts every day? Probably millions. You're talking about a story that's literally 1 in a million that happened what months ago? A year ago?

I believe you're overblowing the frequency of this happening.
For this kind of thing Zotero[1] is a better solution. Moreover, it can be self-hosted and open source[2]. They even have a web browser extension (Chrome and Firefox), and a rich set of various plugins [3].

[1] https://zotero.org/

[2] https://github.com/zotero

[3] https://www.zotero.org/support/plugins
> there are now dozens of articles out there using that title format

And if they were copying and summarizing most of the same content they would also be plagiarizing. If they are riffing on a title theme about a different subject, which they are, it would be fair use.

> My main goal was not creativity or new information.

So that again would be close to plagiarism.