skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Except that someone still has to pay for it, and unless the cost of college is trivial

Compared to the price, the cost is trivial. If the price wasn't hyperinflated, it wouldn't be an issue.

We see similar things in healthcare. "But someone has to pay for this $40 inhaler!" (Which only costs $1 in any other industrialized country.)

What society needs to make choices about is whether the ROI of price-gouging everyone for things that we all agree that everyone needs is actually worth it. Resources spent giving rich people more money that they won't actually need is money that could have been spent on other things like healthcare, disease research, or enriching their lives in other ways. Like, for example, education.
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"Hacking" has at least three different sides. One variety is engineering by "hacking" up potentially kludgy solutions. Another is the process of learning about systems through hands on exploration. Yet another is exploitation of systems, typically involving the knowledge learned from the exploratory kind of hacking.

There's nothing shameful about the 2nd form of hacking, it's just a form of science.
Man, does this look a lot like Pig. Why not just use Pig?
> Does anybody know if there are plans to offer access to the screenshot library via a JS API somewhere soon in the future?

It's almost certainly not going to happen, due to security concerns. There previously had been attempts to toss a DOM screenshot into a WebGL texture but that was also found to be vulnerable to timing attacks that could reveal private data.
Assembly Survival Guide (1998)
They have a PDF that looks pretty helpful at first glance (163 pages). Alas it's still at version 4.x whereas the OS is at 6.x
In the UK, a cappucino has cocoa sprinkled on top. Except for "artisan" coffee shops, that's the biggest difference to a cafe latte. Basically if you want a small, strong, milky coffee from any of the big chains (e.g. Costa, Starbucks, Nero) you need to order a flat white; and probably pay more for it.
Well, it could ask for permission - like the Fullscreen API, or the HTML5 Notifications, or...
More details: data is being sent to the host intenta.io over HTTP.

So I can see that it's an open source project and hopefully the developer isn't aware of how invasive are the tracking mechanisms he's using.

I have reached the developer to ask him to fix it.

https://github.com/barbushin/javascript-errors-notifier
https://github.com/barbushin/javascript-errors-notifier/issu...
I think this has to do with some DPI issues- I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1209773 about general lack of smarts about DPI for this feature, hope that fixes it.
IIRC, it was Bob Lucky who said that the best qualification to win a prize is that you have won some other prize.
Very good post. So great to get this kind of detailed insights into the whole process: requirements, trade offs, architecture and implementation decisions, impact across the whole business and the end result and added value.
> The amount of calories in our food tends to go up over 20 years.

RTFA, please. Paragraph five, specifically.
It's definitely hard to eat too much when you aren't taking in starchy carbs or sugars.

Made a vichyssoise the first time a few days ago (subbed most of the potato with cauliflower and parsnips) and have to say it was about the most filling soup I've ever eaten... had trouble eating the 2-cups I usually do for a "serving" of soup.

If going a more Paleo inspired route, fruit is probably the most easy to over do. I try to stay under a GL of 100/day, being diabetic it's risky for me to stay in keto too much, ketoacidosis is not fun at all.
From the article: "The problem with today’s banks is that those who accept the risks are no longer those who get stuck with the bill."

Much of the trouble comes from financial deregulation. There used to be laws in the US which forced considerable isolation between different parts of the financial system. There was the Glass-Stegall Act (1933-1999), which kept banks and brokerages separate. There used to be a separation between savings and loan companies and commercial banks. Savings and loan companies used to have to lend locally, and actually send people to building sites to see how construction was coming along before advancing more money. There was the Utility Holding Company Act, which limited public utilities to a tree depth of 3 in stock ownership, just so they could be regulated more easily.

With all that separation, parts of the economy could get into trouble without cascading. A stock market crash didn't affect banks much. The savings and loan mess of the 1980s didn't clobber the stock market.

2008 might have played out very differently if the former head of Goldman Sachs, Henry Paulson, hadn't been Secretary of the Treasury. President Bush was prepared to let banks and brokerages go bust, in keeping with his conservative principles of letting the market decide. Paulson was the one who pushed for a bailout. At the point Lehman went bust, Goldman Sachs was about a month from going bust, too.
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Really nice idea. I think it applies equally the other way too, my wife is quite tricky to buy for and it is nice to have a concise list of ideas like you've presented.

Two email lists I am on for ideas (that you could no doubt use to help have a few more options) are Uncrate and Fancy - daily emails with great ideas. Similar to what you are doing, but you've made it super easy.

PS. rather than Hobby Project shouldn't this be Show HN?
Google and Microsoft end all patent litigation
That is all there is. s3, one amazon instance for luigi which holds the mysql read replica, and amazon redshfit. There wasn't any heavy ETL in Luigi. Luigi mostly just extracted/dumped data. All the heavy lifting was in EMR
There is no exponential progress in medicine. In fact, medicine is in some ways actually regressing, in particular through growing antibiotic resistance.

Whilst medical progress isn't exponential this comment is way too pessimistic. Take the falling rates of mortality due to cancer[1][2].

Falling infant mortality means more people are living long enough to get cancer. But slowly we are winning that battle too as the mortality rate shows.

I am betting that medicine will look twenty years from now largely as it does today. It will be painful, expensive, unautomated, unscientific, and of course, largely ineffective--just as it did twenty years before today. Had I made this prediction in 1970, 1980, 1990, or (extrapolating 5 years into the future) 2000, I would have been absolutely correct, so I see no reason to stop making it.

It's usually a good bet to think that things will look the same in the future as they do now. However, your 2000-to-2020 bet is utterly and completely wrong because of the huge progress against Malaria if nothing else.

Since 2000, anti-malaria efforts have saved over 3 million lives and cut the mortality rate by nearly 50%[3]. That's a huge, planet changing piece of progress.

In the developed world, the HPV Cancer Vaccine is having a similar effect on cervical cancer (one of the most common cancer types for women).

Even if some genuine breakthrough arrived tomorrow, it would still take years to receive FDA approval and would likely cost a small fortune (see Sovaldi).

In most of the world public health systems pay for most truly effective medications.

[1] https://katatrepsis.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/mortality-ov...

[2] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CPzNroCH8h4/TwIN75xB1VI/AAAAAAAAAL...

[3] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/world-mala...
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How Slack Clone Software Perfects Team Management
You've gone all out for some high end luxury soups :)They sound delicious. But you can make nutripus delicious soups without spending that kind of money, for very little money in fact. Cooking can be done coat effectively but you have to remember the objective is not Masterchef finesesse.

I did home economics in school and I agree everyone should do some.
Mathematics Made Difficult – A Handbook for the Perplexed (1971) [pdf]
Is there a tool to backup my email inbox
I am running out of space at my current email provider and I hate being held hostage to upgrade my account.

I need to be able to backup my email regularly. This could be a scheduled job/cron etc. Preferably this should work on Linux. I would like to also run searches for my email on this tool. I am not expecting a cloud based services as I am more than happy with having it on my desktop (or my own servers). Is there any such tool?
Safari 9 has the lowest score on HTML5test and the ES6 compat table. To make matters worse, Safari 9 isn't even out yet.
Ratchet – Build Mobile Apps with HTML‚ CSS‚ and JavaScript Components
There are lab rats (whose hormones/genetics have been fucked with) that can literally die of starvation while remaining nearly spherical with excess fat. When their food is removed, their bodies ignore the stored fat and strictly cannibalize muscle and other tissues until the rat dies.

Being fat is much more complicated than calories in minus calories burned.
Yocty: Fun way to connect with people within 10 sec before they disappear
Startup Engineering at Canva – Front-End
While out of context, and I in no mean comment on the mertis of the piece.

>Response: There is nothing unusual about the word “assist” in the law. Laws against assisting people in skirting rules and regulations are very common, for instance, in copyright and patent law.

Using the two of the most hated laws in hacker community as positive example is hardly a shortcut to make said community endorse the legislation.
Grind, pressure, volume. Keep two of those constant and you can tune the third. It's really not as hard as coffee snobs pretend it is.
Mapkin: Navigation Startup Puts a Local Guide in Your Hand
The point of the study, from what I can tell, was to show that calories+macronutrients+exercise, the three main current targets of anti-obesity intervention, fail to account for a large portion of observed population-scale changes. They aren't arguing generally against total energy balance being involved, only that those three quantities don't constitute a sufficient measure of total energy balance. The implication would be that there are likely other sources of variation, e.g. changes in digestion, metabolism, etc. (the study doesn't really go out on a limb and speculate on that part).
Yeah, that's the passage I was thinking of when writing my comment.
Hm, you are right (although in Russia/USSR it kept improving until 1970 and then fell back - see[1] for exact numbers).

[2] claims it can be shown to be caused by alcohol abuse, and that an aggressive anti-alcohol campaign in the mid 1980's reversed the trend just in time for the collapse of the Soviet Union (when the campaign stopped and the gains fell away again). It's probably that bump that confused me, as it seems many others have said the same thing.

[1] http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=phAwcNAVuyj2tPLxKvvnN...

[2] http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2000/HighDeathRateA...
I think we're talking about the same thing.
I can't believe you can say this seriously. Have you not played an instrument or drawn before? Art is in many ways relatively, but objectively, quantitatively more people enjoy listening to Mozart than Cage's 4'33", and more people enjoy Picasso than a 5 year old's finger painting.

Those art things require training just like any other profession.
I've worked/studied in four engineering firms, with academics and engineers who understand trade-offs and know the meaning of the word "satisficing".

Independently, six of us ended up buying the same Breville espresso machine "The Dual Boiler". It's about half the price of the equivalent Italian dual boiler machines, and about twice the price of entry level machines. Yes, it looks like something Breville would make, but despite that, it performs like an ECM, Rancilio, or Vibiemme machine.
It was an NDA about a dev kit. Break the dev rules get kicked out of the dev program.
Currently living in Redwood City, grew up in Cincinnati. It's a fantastic city in all numbers of ways, except the technology scene is so poor. Library book sales will have essentially no books worth reading on CS or technology, and no jobs. (A high school friend does meat-and-potatoes web dev work, and I've heard of nobody else even in the field.)

But the city, outside of this, is in a great period right now-- abandoned buildings in Over-the-Rhine are getting turned into innovative, cool spaces. Public transit is coming to downtown. The river area is getting developed into something really pleasant. And there's so much space for cheap housing in every direction.

My girlfriend (from Sunnvyale) said it's the first city outside the Bay Area she found so liveable. But no reasonable jobs to be had...
Humans aren't the only ones gaining weight, animals are too:

Fluffy article: http://news.discovery.com/animals/fat-pets-obesity-weight.ht...

Nature article: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101124/full/news.2010.628.ht...

Paper focusing on both lab animals (where diet is strictly controlled), pets, and feral rats living among humans: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081766/
Ask HN: Which RESTful API Modeling Language to Use?
Hi HN,

As the title suggests, what RESTFul API modelling language are you using? We thought about using RAML[1].Your thoughts will be really great to us.

Thanks.

[1]: https://github.com/raml-org/raml-spec
Ambient capabilities
This is a great idea - people waste so much time at work that if they only worked 6 hours they might get more done, and have a better quality of life, leading them to be more productive when they are there.
You lucky, lucky person. 74% for me.
Apple Design Awards 2015
Syllables without vowels?
Things mathematicians know: there is more than one kind of infinity
Keurig Kold Trades Coffee Pods for Soda Pop
Oklahoma Halts Execution of Richard Glossip
I believe that water temperature is extremely important as well.
Great convo ya'll, thanks for sharing the article.
More Swift Pattern Matching Examples
Hate to be the one to pick fly shit out of pepper but why "/user" and not "/temp"? I'm sure you'd get used to it over time but just for the sake of consistency if we're going to reconstitute vowels in the unix conventions, shouldn't we do it uniformly?

Anyhow, seeing an inconsistency like this from Twitter makes me feel a little better about my own shortcomings.
MegaFace – face recognition challenge
Somehow I can't bring myself to switch to that corpspeak. If people disagree we can do it though.
Obligatory xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/627/
What you're talking about is macronutrients (amount of sugars vs. saturated fats vs. protein, etc.), and if the study is correct, it specifically claims that changes in macronutrients, even when coupled with a measure of total calories consumed and levels of exercise, fail to fully account for the observed increase in obesity rates.
I worked somewhere recently where somebody had set up a daily buildbot to make Amazon images for each of several projects; After two years of this, they were shelling out $5k/mo in AWS hosting fees for data alone.
Safari 9 was released yesterday (September 30) alongside OS X El Capitan.
>>The new enthusiasm for the flat white, a drink made of espresso and milk that seems to have originated in Australia or New Zealand, is particularly nettlesome to Mr. Nye. “You put 10 people in a room who claim to be an authority on the flat white, you’re going to get at least five different opinions on what it should be,” he said. “People are trying to make the whole process intimidating to the consumer.”

What the bloody hell is this drongo talking about? Flat whites are the most average drink in Australia. Flat whites in Australia intimidate no-one. We're intimidated by single origin long blacks and cold drip.
Hey there! Would love to update copy to make sure it's clear for you. Current home-page says "Recurring funding for artists and creators. Creators receive millions of dollars each month in support from their patrons." with a link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-IDF809fQ and a link to help center ( https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new ) in the footer. What would you like to see changed?
The air is fatter in the 21st century.
Sure, but occasionally new programmers will do a bunch of work with a String and and only wrap it as a CustomerName before making a library call.
-> Having 75 days to rent your home is a perfectly reasonable restriction.

Just out of curiosity, and because I can't find the answer, what is the number 75 based on? Is there something in the data about that number, wherein those who rent out up to and including 75 days are the "reasonable" people just renting out their place while they're gone on a long holiday? 75 just seems sort of random and arbitrary, to me at least. Is that the threshold for when people renting out their place become the "long-termers"?

Edit: Third party and not from Airbnb, but this place seems to aggregate some data. Gonna go play now. http://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data.html
OK, I get that you saying "Cheating != optimization". That may be your opinion. It may be true in a moral sense.

However, I have good evident that VW's optimization was considered criminal in this instance. And Indeed, since many manufacturers do this, things are pretty dicey.

"“Developing an engine software to optimize certain aspects of an operation cycle that you know the parameters of is a challenge, but it is very possible,” says Thiruvengadam. “Knowing when to switch to the EPA-favorable cycle is the trick; it could be set up to detect the absence of steering-wheel movement, or, and this is known, we often turn off the traction control for testing purposes.” Either way, the result is the same: it turns the emissions controls on for EPA testing and off for real-world driving. Somewhat ironically, the presumed benefits of turning off the controls for normal driving include improved fuel economy and engine power." [1]

[1] http://blog.caranddriver.com/how-volkswagen-got-busted-for-g...
Ok, we changed the title to an abridged version of the subtitle.
I think waterproof is a bit of an overstatement. I think it would be to reduce the chances of sweat and humidity affecting the phone.
Pippo looks pretty sweet. How does it compare to Spark?
I suppose it depends on your definition of 'artificial meat.'

Beyond Meat, for example, creates meat-like texture from non-meat sources. That might be acceptable to vegans.

IEEE Spectrum has an article on it from 2013 [ http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/a-consumers-guid... ]. Things might have changed since then.
Previous discussion 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9760606
Composition is very comfortable with Kotlin. I think one of the reasons why inheritance is used so much in Java, is that composition always leads to a lot of boilerplate code. Kotlin (and Scala) fixes it.
How will they afford housing? Pay their student loans? Buy food?

Besides, if they generate the same value - why would you pay them less?
Seems more a curator then actually using any smarts to determine gifts - we've developed this www.giftfind.me would love your thoughts, perhaps collaboartion
I've noticed the same thing geographically. Twice now, I've taken a "sabbatical" and moved to Quito, Ecuador for a year to be near family. Both times, I lost weight when I arrived, stabilized at a leaner equilibrium, then gained the weight back when I returned to North America.

Could be nutritional, could be bacterial, could social. Whatever it is, the effect is dramatic.
El Capitan and Homebrew
It's not up to the USPTO to decide what is patentable. The courts have repeatedly reaffirmed the legal validity of software patents, so the Patent Office would probably get sued itself if it discriminated against software inventions.
Yes. Among the US States, life expectancy generally seems like this:

a) Asian American > Latino > White > African American and

b) Blue States > Red States (2012 presidential)
Jeff, the multi-instrument guy in the Times Square station who briefly shows up in the article's picture section, needs to be thoroughly documented by some kind of historical-record-preserving outfit. Now that James Brown is dead, Jeff is probably the hardest working individual currently working in show business. He's always hustling.
Related and interesting: the IGDA's guidelines on credits: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.igda.org/resource/collection/6C...
Interview with Sam Altman from Stanford CS183C: Blitzscaling Class [video]
Noticed the same exact thing when I go to Europe, vs. America

I think the article mostly applies to America. American food is just fattening
You can't eat the same foods people ate 20 years ago. The cows aren't the same. The chickens aren't same. Cows and chickens today are more obese and eat more antibiotics than they used to be.
Argh, bitten by formatting - too late to edit. Apart from the spelling errors, that should be:

3 (workers/shifts) * 8 hours to 4 (workers/shifts) * 6 hours.
This might be a significant factor indeed (including passive smoking)
I find the Akka HTTP API pretty ugly.
Same in Australia.
How cute. Sometimes you don't appear on credits. I have been working with more than 100 people on 2.9 millions of real-time safety critical code for nearly a decade. It has been unknowingly used by millions of people around the world and there will never be any recognition for any of us. Grow up.
Yes. Most shops outside of chain stores prefer cash. Especially bodegas.
The best resource on the web is http://handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html

To be honest though, books are better than anything on the web. Here are a few good ones:

http://amzn.com/047119459X http://amzn.com/0470024259 http://amzn.com/1118173848

http://amzn.com/1568811616/ http://amzn.com/1119967031

* * *

As for the link under discussion.... meh. RGB (and derivative color models like HSL/HSV) are terrible for color sorting, because they have very little relation to the way humans see color. Trying to sort a three-dimensional quantity into a single linear order in some “best” (or even “reasonable”) way is inherently futile. I guess it can be fun to play with, but IMO isn’t very “practical”.
Hopefully, we'll be adding some smartness soon! I'll check out your site!
I know this was probably some washed up hack of an editor and not the author of the actual story but the title reads:

> Here's What's Making the iPhone 6S Secretly Waterproof
> You only have to tear it open to find out

And the article then concludes.

>OK so there's definitely some waterproofing at work here. Then why didn't Apple mention it? Probably because it isn't complete. The headphone jack and speaker grill are still vulnerable to water damage, so the phone isn't really waterproof. At least not yet. It's understandable that Apple wouldn't want to advertise a feature while it's still half-baked.

What in the actual fuck? Not only is this an attempt to garner readers with a click-baity article title, the SAME ARTICLE explicitly contradicts the click-bait headline. Honestly can't get much shittier than this.
Unfortunately the documentation is pretty poor. You'll definitely run into troubles with any non trivial app due to the lack of proper documentation (and there is not much third-party documentation around).
The interface to end all interfaces
But you can put it on your resume if you change jobs or go work as a freelancer, right? That's the problem -- imagine you have a decade of blank space in your resume.