skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a founder, I know all too well how easy it can be to ignore these potential issues. The funny thing is when you actually confront them and analyze your situation, you gain control. It's more relieving knowing than ignoring (because you never really ignore something like this without knowing you're doing it).
Right, I felt like the report just basically said that standing all day was not going to improve your health dramatically. Which I agree with. Standing is a sedentary activity.

But the article made it seem like "your standing desk is a waste of money!" Which I disagree with, mostly based on personal experience. [1]

[1] I started standing about a year or so ago after getting into more athletic endeavors like olympic weightlifting. My flexibility today is far, far better now that I stand... and lift regularly. Sitting = tight hips.
I'll write one up if I can get some collaborators / donations.
Forbes understands the investment values 23andMe at $1.1 billion.

There's that number again...
> establishment of religion

If you're going to quote the First Amendment, it's worth knowing what it says. An "establishment of religion" is a state church, like the Church of England -- the example the framers had in mind, the cause of lots of settlement in the colonies, and an institution that the British monarch is still head of today. Half of the House of Lords are "Lords Spiritual." The coronation ceremony involves an Anglican mass. And it's more than just ritual: as late as 1936, Edward VIII abdicated the crown because he wanted to marry a divorcee, and it was inappropriate for the leader of the Church of England to go against its teachings.

Or take Finland, where the two state churches (the Evangelical Lutheran one and the Orthodox one) facilitate government records of population, in the equivalent of the census, and members of either church (you have to resign membership by a legal process) and also corporations pay a church tax. Or Denmark, whose constitution states, "The Evangelical Lutheran Church shall be the Established Church of Denmark, and as such shall be supported by the State." Or any number of other European countries with church taxes or established churches -- not to mention other parts of the world, such as the Islamic republics.

The state authorizing religious ministers of scores of denominations to officiate marriages in addition to justices of the peace is not, in any sense, an "establishment of religion."
Okay, I understand "investigative journalism", but a) that's not the definition and b) the driver should face an attempted murder charge.

Knowingly running someone over with a vehicle is nothing less.
Basically you're using the specs the browser sends about the computer - OS, screen size, add-ons installed.. this gets pretty unique. I've been able to identify friends on a local site just by knowing them and their computers.

Check yourself here:

https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Agreed. Speed, particularly on sub 1 hour drives, is mostly about competitiveness. If you're no longer competing with other divers, because you have a robot that is, what will that extra 10mph do for you?

Particularly when you can work in your car. Or watch a movie in your car. Or have sex.
"Students will ask, “Can I have sex when we are both drunk?” she said. “I get this one a lot: If I hook up with a girl and the next day she decides she didn’t want to do it, then what do I do?”"

Interestingly she doesn't give the answer.

This article conveniently avoids mentioning that this new law almost explicitly targets men. To answer your question young student, if a drunk man has sex with a drunk woman he is a rapist, because everybody knows drunk men are still fully in control, while drunk women are unable to make adult decisions.
> Even for someone reasonably experienced in functional programming, there are tons of new concepts you need to master to be minimally productive in the language.

Mostly agree, but it does depend on how you define minimally productive. I also believe this is more of a pedagogy problem. For instance, someone can tell me what their definition of being minimally productive is in Haskell and if it is within my skills I can get them there pretty quickly.

> Beyond that, it introduces a whole new problem class of space leaks that you need to reason about.

I feel like "whole new problem class" is unfair since other languages have memory leaks.

Also, there are techniques developing for dealing with space leaks just like other languages have techniques for memory leaks:

http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2015/09/detecting-space-lea...

> It's not a bad language, but it is a much more radical leap from anything else you're likely to have tried than Swift is.

Perhaps I've drunk the koolaid, but it doesn't seem that radical after having learned it.

> OCaml is fairly verbose

Agreed, it's the main thing that has put me off of learning what is probably an awesome language. To be honest I just can't get over all the let's :/

I find this a little hypocritical since I found it easy to get over lisps/schemes parenthesis.

> still doesn't have a great parallelism story AFAIK

Right, but they are apparently fixing that fairly quickly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9582980

To be fair that was posted 146 days ago though and I don't know what current progress is.

> and has a quirky type system (1.5 + 1.5 is a type error)

Interesting, that's because you need to use .+ right?

> and a not-very-well-loved standard library.

I'm always torn on whether or not this is a huge problem. Part of me loves being able to build everything as libraries since anyone can essentially build onto the language. With a good enough package manager this seems ideal. The part of me that wants things to be fast and minimal though craves a great standard library so I can have fewer dependencies and a more "standard" experience. A good standard library also has the advantage of giving you good or good enough options without having to do tons of research on the best libraries for a given task.

Haskell for instance can require some knowledge of the library ecosystem to have the best experience. I'm not sure I'd say the standard library (or Prelude as we call it) is horrible, but it's definitely not as performant as it could be since many (all?) things are based on strings being represented as a linked list. The library solution for this is use Text for anything with unicode or use bytestring for ascii only IIRC.
TarSnap and Pinboard are my favourite examples of businesses that don't need VC to succeed.
I agree that this is something honest, intelligent people can disagree about. As such, it's unfair to characterize it as "laughable."
Then try to get a bid approved as a newcomer. With all of the language in the bids, you'll never get a contract unless you've done a lot of these over cost, underperforming jobs and greased enough hands along the way. If you ever want to get a good dose of anger, read some government requests for bids. They're totally geared towards existing large companies.
You are correct, the FDA doesn't allow it.

"1,2,3-methyl dethyl has been proven in clinical research to make your life suck less. (This statement not evaluated by the FDA blah blah blah)"

I'm assuming you saw that on a dietary supplement? That would never fly for an approved drug. Take a look at the FDA website to see what kind of promotion they crack down on. There was a ADD drug company that had an ad with a kid studying and the slogan "He can finally get his homework done". The FDA came down hard on them and said "where is the clinical trial showing that academic performance improves?".

As other posters have stated, 23&Me got busted, submitted a 510(k) (approval of medical device) and then when the FDA came back with questions, they failed to reply. You can find it all in the numerous FDA warning letters.[1]

[1]http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2...
Envy, greed, and or the general dislike of seeing other people succeed is almost always the explanation. That's why the same reaction happens over and over again, regardless of who it is that is getting rich. It's common believed that to get rich, you must take that wealth away from someone else (or otherwise do something dastardly); the limited pie of wealth fallacy.
This is not unusual. Media scrums can be more mosh pit than journalism. There are always a few who act aggressively and have trouble turning that off once things get violent.

But I wouldn't absolve tesla. A cop would have been trained not to stand directly behind such a vehicle. Someone will surely look into the actions of these security guards to see if they perhaps went above their duties, or whether deploying security guards to deal with such a vehicle is ever appropriate. There are situations where non-cops are expected to stand aside.
Can you find me a video of another brand's car doing what you see the Model S doing in this video? I was unable to find any.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yCAZWdqX_Y
Stalkers gonna stalk, makers gonna make, founders gonna found. We nerds always knew that the Facebook, Google, etc. images were tracking beacons, and their business model was, to paraphrase Eric Schmidt, to get as close as possible to the creepy line. Fortunately, it is/was easy to opt out by DNS-blocking a few hosts. If this behavior becomes common, back-end data sharing and syncing will become the norm, and something like ToR will become necessary, then local encryption, then...

But who ever said fighting crime was easy?

EDIT: "And I have no doubt that the vast majority of engineers, designers, and policy makers working in Silicon Valley want to do the right thing."

How can I even pretend to believe that the author believes that? They mostly don't know what the "right thing" is, don't think of their behavior in moral terms, and wouldn't dent their salaries to act morally.
Like most "new" ideas in the Startup world, what's new is old already. This is just people not understanding how their cash flows affect their balance sheet. Does the business turn a profit? Is the profit greater than their payroll? How many founders know their EBIDTA?

And even more, when growing the business, are you growing costs faster than profits? Yes, this employee is necessary. But will they add more profit than they cost, at this stage in the business; or should we hire this person in a few months?

This is because many founders get used to being able to go back and ask for more money if things aren't going well...right up until they get turned down. I'm being unfair, but it's always seemed like investors play a parent, and the founder plays a child, and it's just a child asking their parent for more money. And I honestly believe this level of entitlement is necessary to be a successful founder.
RFC1855: Netiquette Guidelines (1995)
I recommend the Scorpions episode S01E20 "Crossroads", where a similar situation unfolds at the end.
That's very strongly tied into personal responsibility, if you identify a problem and you tie it to your own performance you essentially look the problem in the eye and you say 'I can fix this'. If you ignore the problem or make yourself believe it is someone else's job or problem to fix this then you make it impossible for yourself to do something about it which hands control of your future to outsiders. The more problems you're willing to confront and analyze the bigger your chances of succeeding because all of those will be your problems and therefore very likely fixable.
Possibly a bacterium that initially formed on unsanitized telephone handsets.
Any thoughts on the potential manufacturer liability for software bugs that lead to accidents?

Certainly there are a lot of precedents with anti-lock braking systems, cruise control, etc. But this stuff seems like such a massive expansion of complexity of software control I wonder what will go down in the courts when the inevitable happens.
I don't think it will be as bad as the slowdown caused by template metaprogramming, and according to some compiler vendors that has somewhat been taken care of already.
This is really neat. I wonder if there is the possibility of using a similar magnet set-up as a lock? I worry about my motorcycle being stolen since it is so easy to pick up and most locks can be broken, if I had an electro-magnet like this one it might be much harder to steal.
> it may require you taking over more often than we'd like to.

That spells 'not ready for production and release on public roads'.
Dual-Core, Cortex-A15 Sitara Arrives with Linux and Android
While I agree with what you are saying I have a minor nit: "For websites instead, pinch to zoom exists for a design deficency, mostly for web pages not optimized for small sized screen."

I understand what you mean, but in the context of sites specifically disabling zoom it seems to me that pinch to zoom is a design feature and not a deficiency of traditional web pages. Responsive helps, but there are definitely times when I wish the developers would provide only a desktop view so I can use my browser features to optimize my own user experience. (I am not representative of the general public, I know).
I feel like this is generally in line with estoppel. If you have been acting like the marriage is valid, you don't want the law to give an opportunity for one of the people to say "jk lol that minister was fake" and get out of their responsibilities, especially if it would let them bypass the division of property from an actual divorce. While this seems to be codified explicitly for marriage, my (layman) understanding is that this sort of thing is true in general: if people have been acting like a certain thing is true, and it would be unjust to follow the letter of the law retroactively, you don't get to use the law to facilitate injustice, if it doesn't bring about any justice to you.

New York has a law that you can change your name at any time to anything simply by using a new name without intent to defraud. There are procedures for changing your name, including, oddly enough, restricted procedures on how you can change your last name at marriage (you can't pick a brand new last name; it has to be one or the other, or a hyphenated or smashed-together version). But if you just start using a new name, there is the self-referential authorization to use a new name simply because you're using it non-fraudulently.
Or will they go through the perp walk that the media loves to deploy on others?
Those are both essentially one person businesses as I understand.

There are lots of bigger ones, like imgur, Github, Atlassian (I think), 37signals, Fog Creek, etc.
You seem to have accidentally (I assume) submitted a link to http://www.vexflow.com/tests/.
"You have a different idea of 1WP than I do. I think most humans have some interest in sex, and certainly most young men in both developed and developing nations would like to have a fair amount of it."

But only men in the first world seem to believe they're entitled to it. As outdated and somewhat horrible your other examples were when daughters were essentially sold, at least the men doing the purchasing had attained enough personal wealth to buy the woman in question, meaning they could earn a living and provide for them after the fact. I'm also totally fine with prostitution too, no issues there.

That all being said, the male who feels entitled to sex is a distinct Western phenomenon. They point to tons of personal flaws they don't have, as in they aren't jerks and they don't treat women like shit, and talk about it as if that should be winning them the peace prize. The pretty girls have guys being nice to them a hundred times a day, who gives a shit if you do too?
The falacy here is the classic "perfect is the enemy of good."

Banning assault rifles and handguns could go a long way to reducing availability. And if that decreases the number of these events by as much as people think it could, it's probably worthwhile.

Just because somebody who's super dedicated to the cause and works day in and day out to get the equipment to carry out a shooting could probably make it happen doesn't mean limiting access won't greatly reduce the number.
As an inexperienced pilot who has quite recently had the "what the heck is it doing" experience with my (40 yr old, analog computer) autopilot system, I can assure you that it is.
Who stays logged into Facebook?

That isn't relevant. There are login cookies and there are tracking cookies. Unless one arranges for the tracking cookies to be deleted regularly, one will be tracked even if not logged in.
MRI machines don't: https://dangerousthings.com/implant-faq/#mri
Saw the headline assumed that it was an overstatement and that reading the article would show that someone just give someone else a little shove or something. After all this is on Teslas website, so you'd expect them to portray the situation the way they want it to be seen.

Turns out the title isn't sensational, it probably should be something like "newspaper employees attempt to run over Tesla security guards". They actually UNDERPLAYED it.

Did this make any kind of national news? Seems like a pretty good store that you'd expect the media to be repeating.

Wow.
Just got back from a trip last month, amazing city and I had an absolute blast. Took subway and Uber while I was there (no medallion cabs this time, but plenty in past trips). No doubt that the world-class subway system imposes substantial competitive pressure on cars in general.

I'd arguing that Uber has the potential to pose a disruptive threat to taxis, not subways. And to lots of transportation systems in plenty of other cities around the world.
I'm sorry, the cofounder's testimonial cracked me up:

“Floobits works pretty well most of the time.”

In all seriousness, this looks like a pretty cool Atom plugin. I've been using Atom as my editor of choice for a while now. It has always been quite good for languages like Python, that don't require a lot of IDE. Specifically, if all you want is syntax highlighting, linting, and execution, then Atom is already a great editor.

What I'm most excited about in the future is the evolution of the plugin ecosystem. For example, when I first started using Atom I was convinced that I could never write Java in it. I didn't think it had enough oomph for the features that I have come to expect out of Eclipse and its ilk. But now I'm not so sure. The Atom plugin system seems pretty awesome, and projects like Go-Plus, which made Go development in Atom amazing, have convinced me of the potential of the ecosystem. Way to go Floobits for contributing another great way to use Atom! (Although I'm still looking for that great Java plugin :D)
One of Pennsylvania's few vestiges of Quaker law is the self-uniting marriage[0]: a couple can enter into marriage simply by mutual consenting to marry and having two witnesses. I married this way and it was delightfully civilized.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-uniting_marriage
> But I wouldn't absolve tesla. A cop would have been trained not to stand directly behind such a vehicle.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, allows you to knowingly drive over someone with a vehicle. Except if the other guy has a gun drawn and pointed on you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKAME9fAA-4

If the bad guys had only hacked Bond in this scene, it could have been much different!
The problem is that most of the victims are accomplices to the crime, but even more so the makers and founders who make out on ad revenue.

Advertising is our C8: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10047706. That comment net 48 votes so I am cautiously hopeful. I say "net" because everytime I call out the moral failing of the ad "business model", I get downvotes. The salaries of too many people here are underwriten by ads.
I think you're missing an important point. The FDA was executing the laws of the united states. 23&Me refused to even respond when FDA sent them a C&D. Then the FDA shut down their work. 23&Me had every chance to negotiate terms with the FDA, but didn't, until they were forced to.
You've apparently never met anyone from the patent bar. Their entire purpose nowadays is often to justify monopolies based on nothing more than doing it on a computer. [0] The judges of the CAFC -- the patent court -- make a deliberate effort to pose as innocent fools being astonished by the most basic applications of computers. [1] That's the root of the new power of the patent system.

Of course, the current subject proves that even legitimate worthwhile research can produce absurd and abusive patents.

[0] http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-or...

[1]http://patentlyo.com/patent/2015/10/concentrated-patent-juri...
So let's add pinch to zoom to native apps and the whole OS UI by default.
It is kind of terrifying seeing him operate so many machines with his tie dangling around his neck. He obviously knows his way a round a shop better than I do but I always thought neckties were no-nos in the shop.
Something similar was posted to HN a while ago[0]. However, it was made specifically for indexing scientific papers without keeping all the content. Totally open source and runs in the browser. I feel like a more generic implementation could be done well, but hasn't been so far.

[0]: http://juretriglav.si/an-open-distributed-search-engine-for-...
I didn't downvote you, but I also don't agree with your assumptions. First, I don't think that desktop sites are such a big problem on mobile (though some are, admittedly, unusable). At least with a desktop site I can zoom and figure out a way to get to the content I want (in fact iOS does, or used to, to let you double-tap on the content and it would intelligently zoom to fit). Most mobile sites with which I interact, on the other hand, are terrible. Either the text is too small and the page has disabled zooming, or content overflows and doesn't allow me to pan to see it, or some other terribleness. "Responsive" sites are actually some of the worst to interact with on mobile (for me).

I really don't believe that most developers of "desktop sites" care about mobile or do anything to optimize for it, and therefore wouldn't care about a 350ms delay, or even be aware of it. The people who are going to foul this up, it seems to me, are the "mobile web" developers who try to make their sites act like apps instead of just presenting content in a flexible manner.
Typekit.
Women Who Write About Tech Are Still Being Abused Online
The original comment suggests that it quite definitely is a trope.

(Which is fine, of course. But let's not kid ourselves that we're breaking media stereotypes that were gone years ago.)
Uber pretty clearly has two main innovations:

(1) the efficiency of the app/gps combo vs traditional cab dispatch. This seems fairly easy to copy by incumbents and new entrants and in fact being a private company operating your own network has shown some weaknesses (ghost cars injected into map to fool customers, drivers not given accurate pickup info to protect from competitors which delays pickup, etc.)

(2) the quasi-legal setup of "we will pick you up and take you to somewhere else for money but we're not a taxi company" that allows them to disrupt the medallion ecosystem where it exists. This advantage only manifests in areas where supply has been heavily and artificially constrained and disappears once the medallion bubble has been burst.
Liquidity is King
It's not the media that causes the individual to crave the media attention or infamy.

Does our media contribute? Absolutely. But they are the way they are because of the way we are. Or at least the way the consumers of media are.
Something similar happened to me on Facebook.

There was someone I was meeting in real life but we had absolutely no FB connections. No mutual friends. And I didn't even know she was on Facebook.

Suddenly I saw her on my 'Suggested friends' list.

The only reasonable explanation is that she found me on Facebook and viewed my profile.
Facebook saved the incident and suggested her to me as a friend.

Facebook forgets nothing. Nothing.