skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like you're suggesting that people are buying the small cans of Coke based on endorsements like this one, and then chugging three cans in one go to make up for the super-sized drink they'd otherwise have gotten.

What exactly is that assumption based on?

It's been abundantly demonstrated that smaller servings do help people follow through on efforts to reduce their food intake. I don't see any reason Coke should be different.
More interesting than major is quality. Is an Art History degree from a rural commuter school interesting? Probably not. Is a Philosophy degree from Harvard interesting? I'd say so.
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The “blue” part of blue + phosphor is unfortunately a huge spike, and for any bulbs bluer than about 2500K CCT, ends up being awful at night. Unfortunately there are now many such (sometimes even up to 5000K) being used as street lamps and other outdoor lighting at night, and the result is extremely unpleasant.

The bluish “white” LEDs might be okay for daytime task lighting though, or for help waking up in the morning.

The one in your link that goes down to 2300K sounds more reasonable, but not too many people are using those as far as I can tell.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/rasterizehtml renders HTML into the browser's canvas.
This was really interesting. Thanks. His talk was fascinating and really opened my eyes to a lot of stuff. I was a bit foggy on some of the details of course, but imagine a culture where you only took what you needed. I thought that bit was really interesting. Rarely am I early, but if I get in on a service well before others I think about this and only register a single acct.
Tired of capitalism? There could be a better way
Can Y Combinator find its next $1B company in a hardware startup?
Good idea? Worthwhile for entrepreneurs?
Related: The Print Edit add-on for Firefox, which has been doing something similar for over 5 years, and which I think also acts on DOM elements:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-edit/

It allows you to edit the elements in a page before printing or saving (as PDF, JPG, etc.). You can remove them, alter them, reformat them, inspect them, print a single element (like FF 41 will do) and do much more. It's an amazingly sophisticated add-on that I'm underselling; I encourage you to read the link or simply try it. It's a wonder to use and the most impressive add-on I've seen.
This title is poorly worded. The singular 'it' leads the reader to think that the tumor came back, when it was the memories that came back. 'They' or 'it all' (as was in the article's title) would have been more appropriate.
Ask HN: Recruiters wont stop emailing me, what can I do?
I have been trying to get myself unsubscribed from all recruiter emails. I've had success with most of them with a simple "please don't email me again" response.
A few of them ignore these requests and keep sending me emails, sometimes calling. Others say that have removed me, only to email me again a few months later.

I don't delete any of my emails, so I can search back to 2005 and find dozens of emails and requests to be removed.

Can I do anything about this other than blocking the domain from emailing me? I don't think can-spam covers this, but maybe there is some other law that is on my side that I can at least threaten with?
This is true of all energy storage. Your laptop lithium-ion batteries are pretty decent fire starters when shorted correctly (incorrectly?). This is why there is so much safety circuitry in batteries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCGtRgBUHX8

Another way to think about it is to compare Energy Density to larger scale things we have closer experiences with, such as Gasoline

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

The difference between a fire and explosion is really how quickly you can release the energy potential, so capacitors should be rather interesting in that case.
And the parts of Chicago that has Detroit level crime are bombed out urban wasteland too.

Chicago even has the same "collapsing and gentrifying" thing going on. The "good parts" are growing in population and economically as Millenials flood the city and eschew surburbs. But the South and West sides have vast areas with little property and falling population as families with two cents together move to the suburbs fleeing atrocious schools and violence.
Is there a way to tell exactly what you are watching at any given time?
From now on, I shall think of coca-cola forever as a BBQ precursor substance.
I see little room for shades of gray in a scenario where someone gives you $150 of hardware for free and all they ask in exchange is that you wait two months before talking about it.
The prevailing wisdom has been that engineering teams have to be in the Bay Area.
"Boredom: the desire for desires" - Leo Tolstoy
Check out this special on 'desktop presentation graphics' from 1989 (on sister site My 80's TV): http://www.my80stv.com/#ysJZn3wqsAw

There's a demo of MacroMind (now Macromedia/Adobe) Director in there that's pretty 80s.
> They could spend $100 for a new apple id...

That's $100/year, every year, right? Apple hasn't yet made their iDeveloper (or whatever) fees non-recurring, right?
I think employees are preferable to outsourcing.
The title's down towards the bottom of the interface
Learning in many fields is social. When you have a sufficiently nerdy student body, the best debates, mind-expanding and perspective-enhancing experiences, friendships, etc. are not in classrooms but in dorm common rooms at 3am. They're spontaneous conversations between people who bumped into each other at a coffee shop outside a reading room, both procrastinating a paper. They're at dinner with your dorm-mates at your table together in the dining hall. Common spaces, and a curated set of people (for intellectual ability, general passion, etc) spending a lot of time in those common spaces, are an incredibly important component of a modern elite education.

If lectures are all that matter, just do it on the internet. They aren't.
My contribution: http://betamaxmas.com
Quizscript: simple markup language for quizz
Oreo has a line of cookies called Thins which is thin cookies with cream filling in a 10 oz. package rather than a 16.6oz package for the same price. I often ask myself knowing that I can get more for the same price how much is the price to my health. So once in a while I will buy the mint Oreo Thins. Nothing beats an Oreo, that is fact.

I often wish restaurants had the same deal. A person should be able order a normal portion or just order a smaller portion paying the same price. I want the side of garlic roasted mash potatoes but I only need four bites so give me 1/2 the serving and charge me $4, I don't care. Restaurants have fallen into a trap of having to put a huge amount of food on a plate. A customer should be given the option to state how hungry they are, they are paying for the ambiance, experience, and food that can't easily be made at home not just the quantity of food.

I was a private yacht (120ft) chef for 6 years. I cooked everyday lunch and dinner for an older couple cruising anchorages and marinas on the Eastern Seaboard, Bahamas, and Caribbean months at a time. I'd make plain simple food everyday and serve leftovers knowing there are very few chefs on salary making more than I did. I served small portions and figure if they were hungry they would ask for more. It takes a lot of courage for a chef to make plain food and serve small portions of it. They know if they have guests on board, I'm in the mood to do something fancy like a Beef Wellington, or it is a special occasion, I can turn on the intensity, but nobody wants that all the time.
isn't the real issue volume? (energy density).
Ah, good ol' percussive maintenance.
> a Lightscribe, a DVD burner basically,

Lightscribe IS a DVD burner; in addition to burning DVDs, it lets you write patterns on the other (non-data) side. This uses that ability to etch the solution poured on the top.
The post about it:

https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/quiz-script/
Just seems like a lot of work (and $) to deliver a $6 burrito.
It used to be very true, back in the days before "everyone" had a degree. Even as recently as when you were in kindergarten.
So, software that only provides reports on firearm-related-homicides in a neighborhood is a "murder news" app and should be banned?
It's an entirely fair way of looking at it. Just because other developers live in cheaper areas of the country doesn't change how much value a good developer is bringing to your business.
Problem with high housing cost is that it drives up prices for all things in the area - from fastfood to haircut and day care. Of course iPhone, cars cost the same, but all the local services would cost more.
I am sad it saves raster PNG files rather than something scalable like SVG or PDF. SVG seems like an easy win.
> I've had showdead=yes for a while and haven't seen anything that made me suspect live banning was employed for pleasure by Hacker News moderators."

I don't think they get off on it, no, but the purpose of a hellban is to trick a user into thinking they're visible when they're not, so they get frustrated by the lack of response and give up. That's a mean and dishonest thing to do to someone, even if it may arguably be the best way to deal with certain kinds of trolls.

> One difference between regular banning and live banning is that the banned person is kicked out of the community with a regular ban, but not with a live ban.*

Hellbanned users are not part of the community. The entire point is to remove them from the community without them realizing it.

(BTW, what's a "live ban"? That doesn't even make sense. Did we really need a euphemism for shadowban/hellban?)
Another Homebrew user here, El Capitan installed without major issues and is running very smoothly IMHO. A difference might be that I haven't touched Homebrew in a while.
Very clean. This looks great. What are you plans with it?
Seemed like a net win for the surviving banks with all the reduced competition, cheap real estate in default, and near 0% Fed rate.

https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
A few thoughts:

1) Do these graduates know what it's like to try to get by with a high school diploma? Think of the level of education you had when you graduated from high school. Regarding just jobs, the data is clear that people with college degrees earn more.

2) College educates you not just for your first job, but for a lifetime of jobs. And not just for careers, but for life - citzenship, family, community, and your own personal growth, understanding of the world, of ideas, and your well-being. To measure its value on the basis of early jobs is a mistake. They should have paid more attention in class.

3) The idea that you can have just as much knowledge without spending 4 years taught by experts, surrounded by peers, and utilizing the enormous capital facilities colleges provide, is hard to believe.

4) Perhaps college isn't something that should be priced by the market. It is of exceptional value - even if you just consider effects on lifetime income - much more than anyone pays.
No, it wasn't developed to work in all browsers - jpgs don't work well in text-mode browsers like w3m or lynx. Likewise, jpgs of text are worthless to things like screenreaders, and there's no useful info in the alt text. jpgs of text also don't work with people who have tools to style pages so they can read them better. Ironically if they had've just used simple text, it would have worked in all browsers.

In addition to this, the OP suggests ways in which it doesn't work well. Just because something 'works', doesn't mean it can't be significantly improved.
I regret going to college, and I'm fairly certain I wouldn't encourage my kids to do it unless they really wanted to... and had good scholarships to diminish the costs.

If you compare the long-term earnings, lets say over 50 years, of taking all the money that would have been spent on college, and especially if you add private school tuition to that (which many parents would in order to get into a good college in the first place), depending on the exact numbers college can be an outright losing proposition.

Some quick examples for investing your school tuition:

$300,000 at 5% interest invested at 22 == $3,440,219.94 at age 62.

$10,000 average private school tuition invested each year from 6 to 18 + $100,000 college tuition invested at 18, 5% interest rate == $6,472,837.02 at 62

vs

$10,000 avg invested annually starting at 22, 5% interest == $2,312,827.95 at 62

$20,000 avg invested annually starting at 22, 5% interest == $4,625,655.91 at 62

Of course there's lots of ways to play with the numbers, and other considerations to take into account. Do you really, really want a specific career that requires a college degree, or do you just want a middle-class lifestyle? Is that career goal realistic, or will you just end up another depressed burnout? Plus most graduates won't be able to invest $20,000 per year starting at 22, that's highly optimistic, and most people who don't go to college won't have absolutely zero lifetime earnings either.

The opportunity cost of time spent attending schools you don't enjoy versus doing other things with the "best years of your life" is another factor, too.
If variables don't mutate, all it means is that the memory location that stores the value of that variable is guaranteed to never change. Thus, if you reassign that same-named variable, it actually points to a new memory location with the new value. That is what "rebinding" is vs. "mutating." The advantage of this is concurrency, etc. etc. The disadvantage is you have to have good GC since you'll be doing a lot more garbage collection. It may LOOK like it's changing a variable, but it's not- the variable merely points to a new memory location.

Other languages, like Ruby, do not work this way. If you reassign an instance variable, the memory that is storing that value actually does change.

Here, compare the same sequence of operations in Ruby and Elixir, first Ruby:

bash>> irb
>> a = {a: 5}
=> {:a=>5}
>> b = a
=> {:a=>5}
>> a[:a] = 10
=> 10
>> b
=> {:a=>10}

and now Elixir:

bash>> iex
Erlang/OTP 18 [erts-7.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] [dtrace]

Interactive Elixir (1.1.0) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)> a = %{a: 5}
%{a: 5}
iex(2)> b = a
%{a: 5}
iex(3)> a = %{a | a: 10} # updates a mapping
%{a: 10}
iex(4)> b
%{a: 5}

Notice how b's value changed in Ruby, but not in Elixir. In both cases, the hash was updated.
Yep. Something like ~20mbit symmetric fiber service was supposed to be rolled out by the incumbent telcos nationwide back in the 1990's. Super glad to see that they kept to their promises.
Bank of America wants to pay me 15 basis points APR on my savings deposits. It's so low the bank managers can hardly explain it with a straight face. Ally Bank offers me 100 basis points. Who do you think is earning my brand loyalty? Mobile check deposit eliminated the last need I felt to be near a physical branch and for the first time I can foresee a future where I move all my banking needs to Ally or one of their competitors.
The last sentence practically says it all:

> The big banks have surely drawn a lesson from the crash and its aftermath: that in the end there is very little they will not get away with.

and it tells the story of our societies failure and the total failure of our political systems.

Maybe in the history books of the future, it will be written as the beginning of the downfall of our societies.

But one thing is sure, the next crash will not leave us behind with a blue eye only, because the western countries have nothing left, to back-up the gambling losses of the banks.

The wealth of our nations already have been wasted to those, which did not earn it and either a total crash will follow, or revolution or they (those that we let gamble with our money) will be the new aristocrats (or "oligarchs") of a new era of slavery.
These converters can be had for ~$1 apiece on eBay.

Yeah, that's exactly the type of hardware I want hanging on my wall. Because eBay is the world's preeminent source of UL certified electrical devices.
/sarcasm
It's because working from home is terrible, or it was for me. Social contact brings the small frictions that help build big sparks
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That's a broad and rather incomplete generalization.

I spent two years in a California high school and two years in a Texas high school. I have seen first hand how terrible schools can be in CA and, conversely, how fantastic they can be in Texas.

For reference, I'm comparing Benicia HS in the North Bay with Seven Lakes HS in suburban Houston.

In California, teachers were restricted to six pieces of copier paper per student per year. One security guard for 1500 students. Ancient textbooks and the most antagonistic administration you can imagine. AP classes? Gone. School buses? Discontinued. Arts and music? Better hope your parents can pay for it.

Between my sophomore and junior years I moved to Texas. Seven Lakes was the most expensive school ever built. We didn't just have a computer science class, we had a computer science department. Our AP US History teacher had more students score 4 or 5 on the AP exam than any other US history teacher in the country.

To Benicia's credit, their band was actually quite a bit better.

And just to underline the difference in affordability, the average home price in Benicia at the time was $629k. Katy's average was $161k.

Safe to say I have no regrets about having left California.
As far as I'm aware (from personal experience), "online" has been the common form when talking about computers since at least the 1980s, if not before.

But maybe whoever added that particular property to IE4 wasn't familar with common (in computer circles) usage...

Here's what google ngram says:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=online%2Con+li...
I'm not speaking of Apple specifically; I'm referring to examples where someone blatantly knew of the risk they were taking (think violating NDA, using copyrighted content, or basing their business entirely on someone else's content) and then crying conspiracy when the rug was pulled out from underneath them. (the app store situation you described obviously being a different kind of situation)
Taking screenshots of the full page or individual elements was also possible before via Tools -> Web Developer -> Developer Toolbar (Shift + F2)... and then using the `screenshot --selector ...` command.

You also have access to part of this functionality via the non-standard drawWindow method:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende...
Ran across a young Conan O'Brien appearing on young Jon Stewart's MTV talk show.
They have been marinating ribs in coke overnight in places like the Caribbean now for decades. We were doing it in the mid nineties and I always thought it was a traditional recipe. One night in coke, then another night in a Jack Daniels BBQ sauce, makes for some good ribs.
Try hiTask.com for team task management. Unlike asana it does not impose any rules of working.
People with genuine talent in the industry have extremely little to worry about, IMO. I was shopping for a used car shortly after the 2000 crash. Car salesman found out what I do for a living and said, "Yeah, I was a programmer for a couple years; made a lot of money. Then when I got fired and couldn't get another job, I went back to selling used cars."

The no-talent temporary programmers are the ones who flood into and wash out of the market in crashes. If you have genuine talent, your time between employment is measured in hours right now, in days during normal times, and maybe in weeks during crashes.
I dropped out of college with all of my classes finished but lacking high school credits that I became retroactively deficient for... because I switched from Engineering to A&S.

The only F in my life (generally straight-A student) was in Computer Science.

Currently: architecting, setting, developing coding standards for a Fortune 100. Computer programming is one of the few academic careers in which you can succeed sans papers.
Non-standard:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende...
Back when I was in university I had a professor consistently show up 15 minutes late to our 1 hour lectures, read their online slides verbatim with no embellishment to enhance our understanding, and took a numerous amount of lectures off to go skiing. When confronted about it, I was told that people passing the class with high scores are the ones who don't even show up and studied straight out of the book on their own time.
And yet they could have improved readability by simply using png instead of jpg. This isn't a 'hipster' thing, it's a 'be thoughtful of your users' thing.
Also, collective negotiation. The whole of the British National Health Service buys drugs and medical devices through a single process, as do most other nationalised health services. The NHS are particularly good at price negotiation and the prices they pay are publicly available[0], so other health services frequently use them as a basis for negotiation.

The fragmentation of the American healthcare system diminishes negotiating power, and creates perverse incentives between the people who buy drugs, the people who authorise that cost and the people who ultimately fund the system.

[0] http://www.drugtariff.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/#/00241786-FA/FA00241713...
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No, the context is insane rent prices. That doesn't translate to losing money. Several people have stated that the difference in salary is making up for it, to where they have as much after rent, after tax income or more than in other places.
Check out hiTask, it has been around since 2007.
I love stories like this. By studying what happens to the brain when something goes wrong we gain a sliver of insight into how the brain works. In this case he was able to store memories but he could not retrieve them. When the cyst was drained he almost immediately gained access to all those memories again. Fascinating!
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Outside of software engineering, all other kinds of engineering absolutely require an ABET accredited degree
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I wish it weren't hidden away in the inspector menu... I'd love to point non-devs at it! Maybe a(n off by default) screenshot toolbar button that let you point at the page / element you wanted, rather like the Command-Shift-4 window selector in OS X.
If that's the real value of college education, it's definitely not worth $40K a year x 4.
That's an oversimplification: your aim is to understand why they hold the views they have - often they face very real problems themselves which are externalized as hatred and violence. Solving the root causes, whether it's a lack of social mobility as a result of poor education, a lack of agency or control in a fast-changing world, you can begin to understand their plight and look for ways to treat the underlying illness. Usually the correct answer is: good cheap education (but that's also an oversimplification).

Brainwashing or banning forms of expression would be treating the symptoms rather than addressing the underlying cause. Brainwashing/censorship might be quicker and, in the short-term, cheaper than changing the culture and living conditions of a group of people, but you'll forever be addressing symptoms at great cost long-term.