skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3.1. But that also means that all the bad minorities can form stronger groups and be potentially more impactful. If you can not play underwater hockey you might pick some other form of hockey instead. Maybe it makes you a bit less happy but what is the effect of a less fragmented society? I am not dismissing the idea that there might be a positive effect but I am not obviously convinced.

3.2. I would argue that the increase in wealth is mostly due to increased productivity and not due to population growth and therefore could continue even without further population growth. Population growth is certainly not totally irrelevant due to scale effects but I don't see that simply doubling the population would lead to significantly increased wealth.

3.3. That is not what I am saying. Having a pyramid shaped age structure is an easy way to have a lot of workforce available to support the elderly but that structure is not the result of a large population but of an growing population. And in order to be a significant effect you can not have just a tiny bit of growth but a substantial amount of growth is definitely unsustainable.

The limit definitely exists but I also think we will not hit it, we will not need any (large scale) birth control policies because the birth rate will drop enough with increasing wealth. Looking at developed nations it looks actually more like we will have to incentivize having more children in order not to go extinct.
Untangling the Overlapping Conflicts in the Syrian War
"Dietary restriction just isn't in us." like ... unsure how to respond to this... Like its just so blatantly wrong. source: me, a person whos maintained substantially fasted states for long periods of time
People like me? What people like me? Ones with more than half a brain?

And btw, I _love_ that trick you do, where you write "dosh" and it looks like "technology". I need to learn to do that.
Or if that depicted in Asimov's "The Sultan of the Clouds". Venus' atmosphere at a specific altitude is actually very similar in composition to that of Earth's at sea level (21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen).
I would really like to know how a single adult is supposed to live in SF on $14.37/hour. My calculator says $14.37 * 40 * 4 = $2299.20 So, before taxes[1] this person can't even afford to pay rent in the median studio or 1br, and can barely afford to share the median 2br or 3br (keep in mind this is before taxes). While I'm sure our hypothetical "living wage" earner probably isn't living in a median quality apartment, I doubt that even a 20th percentile apartment is affordable on this wage.

[1] http://priceonomics.com/the-san-francisco-rent-explosion-par...
WinZip encryption is an extension to the Zip format that they defined:

http://www.winzip.com/win/en/aes_info.htm
My primary concern with pre-paying is the lock-in for the year. With Prime Pantry/Subscriptions (at least in NYC/TriState), amazon bumped their prices up pretty significantly over the last year. Anecdotal case in point is perrier water 24pk which was $15 then $18 then $22 and went as high as $28. Costco has it for $16 regular and $13 on sale. Instacart works in costco btw, so delivery convenience is negligible.

Further, i am wondering what the source of these products is - at least when you're overpaying in whole foods, you generally know its a local/high quality produce - if this is anything like fresh direct, the quality of items are often worse than local corner bodega.
So you're saying the next big thing is indie aircraft?
Except that Boeing is also heavily (and increasingly) involved with commercial space as well, e.g. satellite building, launch vehicles and human spaceflight vehicles.
One could argue that the text or simple image ads are not a moral sinkhole like the article suggests. A lot of the text ads, I've found, are just the people who would normally rely on word of keyboard, except they're trying to get their first hundred users or whatever. Sometimes I would be part of their initial user base because what they're selling would genuinely make my life easier/better. That's not wrong.

The big, flashy ads (you know, the ones that are animated, or play sound or video, or do something dumb if you mouse over them for 1/4 second) are generally purchased by makers of lesser products in order to manipulate users into choosing them, because they can't rely on the quality of their products to advertise for them. I don't feel bad about blocking them.

So, I don't think unobtrusive ads are so bad. The trick is figuring out how to let them through. I turn off AdBlock on certain smaller sites with less obnoxious advertising and find that sometimes the bar is set too high for what's considered unobtrusive; the ads would theoretically be acceptable under the AdBlock description of what's unobtrusive, but get blocked anyway somehow.

As the market improves, advertising may gradually go away. That first clause is kind of difficult though.

The other question is how we can support people making content like blog posts and so on... without limiting the people who actually can't pay for stuff like that (kids with no jobs, etc). It's the same question as the one faced by music and software producers. When you can find an answer to that, well...
Most states in America (all of them?) have an At-Will Employment law.

That means you can quit your job at any time, for any reason, effective immediately.

It also means you can be fired at any time, for any reason (Except illegal reasons). effective immediately.

This is a description of the law in Texas: http://www.davidcholmeslaw.com/blog/what-is-the-at-will-empl...
Colossus is one of those games that I can play just to ride around on a horse and explore to veg out for a couple of hours. It's a weird game.
Notably, there's ongoing work (with an already functional result) to run Mirage on top of the low-level drivers provided by Rumprun. The idea in doing that is enabling the "top-level" Mirage stack to run in environments for which they don't have native OCaml drivers yet. (disclaimer: I don't speak for Mirage, though I do speak for Rumprun)
How is there an article about the costs of using containers without automated infrastructure on Hacker News and nobody's made a Docker/Kubernetes joke yet?
On the other hand, I think it would be irresponsible to pursue it based purely on the fact it lengthened your lifespan. For example, I personally would not pursue caloric restriction if it yielded a single year of life on average. Quality of life matters.
I'm not familiar with FDA that much (I live in EU) and I believe it isn't anywhere near perfect, but you want to be conservative when it comes to public health. Look at case of Thalidomide from 50s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

In the United States, pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey M.D.
withstood pressure from the Richardson-Merrell company
and refused Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval
to market thalidomide, saying further studies were needed.
Does anyone know who or what organization is behind A9T9? It seems the author/source is somewhat obscured. It would be important to know before using for more than a hobby project.
I wrote about the further balkanization of SMTP-based Internet electronic mail, lamented by the headline article here, some ten years ago in http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/sm... .

I am surprised and encouraged to see IM2000 mentioned in this discussion.

As to whether such ideas have fallen out of favour, I offer this observation:

You are using a pull-style electronic communications system right now. Your WWW browser is the originator and receipient UA, and Hacker News is the message store. A copy of a message is only made and sent across the network when you request it with your User Agent. A lot of Internet-mediated communications are not SMTP-based any more. The shift to pull-style systems has, in some ways, actually already happened.

As such, many of the things that people ask about IM2000 are questions that they can answer from their own direct experiences, with a little reflection. How do you deal with senders who alter their messages? Well: how do you the receipient deal with the fact that right here and now I can hit an edit button and modify this comment after people have pulled it for reading it, with no edit history and nothing but the honour system for dealing with letting people know? The fleshing out of IM2000 set out the idea of downloading to folders in the recipient MUA the messages that one wanted to take off the senders' mail stores, by the way.
Appeal to fear isn't an argument. Either the precision is right or it isn't. Precision requirements aren't unique to aviation and aviation doesn't even have the strictest requirements. The required precision of surveying equipment is much higher than what aviation needs.

I would have much more faith in an open source project with lots of people independently verifying the precision of calculations for known devices than closed source stuff from aviation companies that hide behind fear rather than real justifications for the price.
You don't need a low calorie diet. You need a lower calorie diet. The amount of food that people need to give up is sometimes quite small. Or they need to change a few items a day to a healthier alternative. This is slow, but maintainable, and it's what most modern evidence-based weight loss plans recommend.
Yes, that's you. Go outside. Look around. Do you think we _as_ _a_ _population_ can maintain diets? The existence of rare outliers (and anorexics) does not disprove the bloody obvious conclusion that at population scale telling people to eat less has no effect on how much they actually eat.
I just went and looked again, but apparently I have to register to see anything. So it's definitely not transparent enough to suit me. Once logged in, are the markups clear and documented? Or is it still mysterious?

Regardless, I hope you can see how the secret markups left a bad taste in my mouth. The companies I give my business to are the ones I can trust.
+1 for peapod - and if you switch your grocery shopping to twice a month instead of weekly, you get discounted/free shipping anyway on orders over 100$.

Something wrong with item (e.g. bananas too ripe or eggs broken?) - 10 min phone call and you get a credit for entire item no questions asked. Last time i tried getting in touch with amazon it was a 2 day ordeal (though to their credit, the result was similar).
Absolutely. I have seen people coming in to work in the morning and their badges didn't work anymore. They had to negotiate with security to be allowed to get their personal stuff from their desk.
Direct link to the map: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2015/living-wage-map/
But you don't need the living wage to exist. You can always push further down the ladder; live out of the back of a van; bunk-beds; perform heroic cycling or driving feats from the North daily, etc.

Perhaps it's just my odd take on things. I feel that security of housing* is a clear benchmark, whereas below that, you're kind of arbitrarily deciding on what level of comfort to accept.

*(A caravan on a small plot of grass that you own would be acceptable to me, if that were a situation you could legally get away with in London!)

Why housing, and not say, food? Because of the nature of how it generally works in Western countries. Housing is less fungible/liquid (lacking a good term here). If I want food, I can work for a bit, go begging, whatever, get a few quid, go and buy some food, eat it. Housing is fundamentally different; we enter into contracts to put a roof over our head and there's a reasonable expectation that it's the same roof each day/week/month.

Housing is also priced differently... there's a discrete cliff-edge beyond which you go from 'roof and 4 walls' to 'tent/car/under a bridge'. Food scales back much more continuously; you can go all the way down to eating bread and dripping and experience a small degradation each step along the way.

I'd much rather have a secure roof over my head, a place to call home, and have to hustle for food/electricity/whatever, than all the food and toys in the world but nowhere to stay. I think most people would agree (nomadic lifestyles excepted here because they're generally incompatible with the premise of working for a wage)
Do you know anyone who's even tried to make Java work on Rumprun? I only tried Python, that worked out of the box. From what I've been following others, e.g. Erlang, Rust and Javascript (node.js) more or less provided the same experience.
I was referring to YC, but I'm glad to see there are others following this model. I'll have to keep an eye on Make School; thanks for the link!
There are a lot of degrees that aren't worth taking out a 33k student loan for, but a masters from MIT probably isn't one of them
How many private company has more space flight knowledge, patents, or design experience than Boeing?

Agreed, do people not realize how involved Boeing is with the commercial space landscape?
In the commercial airplane world 'launching' an airplane just means it can be sold to customers, not that the airplane is done. Boeing adheres to a 'gated' design process, where one of the earlier gates is the 'launch' of the aircraft and the last is entry into service. The airplane is designed far enough to close the business case and then can be 'launched'.
Hackers Can Use Radio Waves to Hijack Androids and iPhones via Siri and Google Now
The cost of these devices are much greater than the cost to implement the feature we are talking about though (alerting on bad precision). You can argue that the cost should be high because of intelligence about runway approaches, but just knowing that the precision is bad is not an excuse.
That's true. These plans, properly followed, work as advertised. That's physics. The trouble is that most people do not follow this plans, and after 40 years of trying to show otherwise, we now know that this situation isn't going to change.

Why is it that so many people are completely oblivious to the limits of human psychology? Telling people to eat less doesn't work. We need to try other public health measures.
Yes, the two are considered as if they were completely separate sites.
They're not exactly in clear text: Chrome and IE encrypt them with the Windows session key (meaning only software running as the same user can decrypt them); Firefox on the other hand encrypts them with 3DES-CBC using a master password, if you set one, which is supposedly secure even against software running as the same user.
Doesn't look like it likes xkcd hand lettering or the font that approximates it. I had better luck with a this...

curl https://ocr.a9t9.com/api/Parse/Image --data "apikey=helloworld&url=http://www.uky.edu/Providers/ScannedText/page1s.jpeg"
{"ParsedResults":[{"FileParseExitCode":1,"ParsedText":"In 1830 there were but twenty-three \r\nmiles of railroad in operation in the \r\nUnited States, and in that year Ken- \r\ntucky took the initial step in the work \r\nwest of fhe Alleghanies. An Act to \r\nincorporate the Lexington & Ohio \r\nRailway Company was approved by \r\nGov. Metcalf, Jarinary 27, 1830.. It \r\nprovided for the construction and reÔÇó \r\n","ErrorMessage":"","ErrorDetails":""}],"OCRExitCode":1,"IsErroredOnProcessing":false,"ErrorMessage":null,"ErrorDetails":null}
A feature where it creates pull-requests would even remove the need for it to have any access. Not sure if it's a good idea, as it adds more steps (and no post-in-future). Or maybe just add it as a collaborater to the project could work. I don't have a problem with how it works now, though.
Your comment is constructive and contributes to the conversation.
There is no linux client to sync too
Stop & Shop (Peapod), Whole foods, Shoprite, Kings, and until its bankrupcy, A&P - i.e. every major chain in NJ - all offer online ordering + free pickup and/or cheap (usually free with threshold) delivery for at least 3 years now. Its wildly popular, especially with seniors who get help with heavier items.
The same question is being asked about the Airbus A380, and the A350 is also way over budget and behind schedule. I suspect it's a matter of time until a Chinese manufacturer ramps up and stomps all over the current airplane market with cheap yet perfectly serviceable planes.

Anecdote: A few years back, I flew on a Xian MA60, a perfectly serviceable commuter turboprop that's technically a descendant of the venerable Soviet Antonov An-24 but in practice competes agains the ATR-42. A small detail that weirded me out is how the garish livery on the seats inside looks exactly like the one used in Chinese buses... which have also essentially obliterated Western companies' bus sales in large swathes of Asia.

http://www.patokallio.name/photo/travel/Laos/LaoAirlines/Lao...

http://www.patokallio.name/photo/travel/Laos/LaoAirlines/Lao...

The MA60's current customer list is a wacky but wide collection of obscure outfits (Air Burundi, Lao Airlines, Boliviana...):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xian_MA60#Customer_summary

So what's the market going to look like when planes like the 737 clone Comac C919 start ramping up?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919
>It also means you can be fired at any time, for any reason (Except illegal reasons). effective immediately.

In practice this means you can usually be fired for illegal reasons as well, as long as the company can maintain plausible deniability.
A new kind of printed 'artificial skin' turns pressure into nerve pulses
I just said that these modern plans are not about telling people to just eat less, perhaps I wasn't clear.

Modern weight loss plans focus on making sure people feel full, and have tricks to help people feel like nothing is forbidden (you could still eat cheese or chocolate, just controlled small amounts), while helping them make better choices.

There's not much evidence, and the evidence is about as good as all the other dietary stuff (not great) but they do seem to work and be maintainable.
FlexPort's customer is the business paying for the shipping (freight forwarder & customs broker), not the port. Their interest in port automation* is that it makes for interesting content marketing and it may benefit their end-customer someday.

* from what I can tell
Why didn't you do it?
Am I the one who made things personal with "people like you"?
How is data stored exclusively on my machines or on my Dropbox account not mine just because it has "meta" as a prefix? It's still data!

Public metadata isn't mine. Private metadata is. And in fact, around here it's illegal to record my metadata, even if publicly viewable - anti-piracy groups have been fined for producing databases of IP addresses+shared files taken from the Bittorrent network.
BuildZoom (Uber for remodeling) is hiring a visual designer
Which would make sense, but isn't that an argument for appropriate warnings and a checkbox under sync preferences rather than functionally undocumented defaults hacking? This weakness has been public knowledge since at least 2012(!), so I'm forced to consider why they're so blasé about their customer's data.

I would never have started syncing with Dropbox had I known this. They have access to my site list now.
Wasn't this or something almost exactly the same, posted on HN maybe 6-8 or so months ago?
Lycos LIFE
Not a word about the vaccination program?

It was reported both in the mainstream media at the time, as well as featuring in Hersh's version of events. They (of course) don't quite match up, but the vaccination program definitely played a role in both versions.

It's a bit weird to leave it out. Not like the reporter wouldn't have come across it, and the repercussions are quite real.
Yeah, and they might know its nothing like actually getting a real graduate degree from MIT. MIT has a ~10% acceptance rate from a self selected group of elite candidates.
This is especially true when unions are actively sabotaging the introduction of new technology in order to maintain their high wages or inflated numbers (introduction of containerization to Oakland).
As someone living in a country (USA) where knowledge (or the experience of such) is a commodity, 33k is still a metric ton fuck of money.

Agreed: more options is more better (I failed my paid English requirements, btw).
>Fossell, the anti-aging entrepreneur, says even if Parrish were to somehow succeed in slowing the aging of her body, an outcome he rated as unlikely, the experiment would have no impact because of how it was carried out

That's not really true, is it? If she lives to 120, or she lives a normal life span with dramatically "younger" looks and energy, it will have a huge impact. Even if the treatment can't be replicated exactly they'll know where to start looking.
Any example is pointless without considering opportunity costs. How many people were saved due to faster availability of drugs?
Low-carbohydrate diets are supposed to decrease calorie intake without reducing satiation. They've been around for 50 years. They may work for individual people, but they do not work at scale as a public health measure.

Why is this concept so difficult to get across? There are _constant_ advertisements in every medium for weight loss programs of every sort. We've already explored the entire parameter space of dieting. Tweaking the food mix and saying, "No. This time we have the perfect mix to keep you health and full!" isn't science. It's quackery that belongs on the cover of Cosmo.

You know what works in reality?

* Amphetamines
* Nicotine
* 2,4-Dinitrophenol
* Gastric surgery of various sorts
* Cancer

Of course none of these things is an effective public health measure. (Although there's some evidence that e-cigarettes aren't quite as carcinogenic as regular cigarettes, but might still deliver all of nicotine's benefits.)

You know what might actually work?

* Pigovian taxes on high glycemic index food and drink
* A ban on food advertisement
* Portion size regulation
* Weight-based airfare

But these are all unpopular, because they contravene the pretty little dogma that we all have enough willpower within ourselves to accomplish our goals. Sometimes we need an external kick in the ass.

It's time we stop pretending that yelling at people about diet and exercise is going to make a bit of difference. We might as well yell at the sea and tell it to stop rising.
If you're aiming for this, isn't it easier to just use TeX?
Has there ever been an engineering project where the physicists/scientists give exact specifications? They are approximations at best, just enough insight that engineers can find a way to make them useful.
God, that's sick. First world country my ass.
Tesseract:

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

http://neilshroff.com/tesseract-ocr/doc/tesseracticdar2007.p...

https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2014/11/13/command_line_ocr_on_...
Yup, that's what I remember too. Seeing the uncropped version of the photo a few days later and thinking "huh wow, propaganda much?" :)
Er, I'm aware?

Look, my point is that it's possible to eat fewer calories, but it's not necessarily easy to do it in a way that doesn't harm you. It's not suppressing appetite that is really complicated, it's reducing calories and staying on top in terms of nutrition.
An other reason why it's sad that Agile Bits does support Droppbox but not Webdav or any other selfhosted sync option
I work for a manufacturing business. I agree with what you say about supply chain, especially if "harder" implies "more stressful." Purchasing is one of the most stressful and high-burnout jobs in the plant.

I doubt that a person would be hired fresh out of school for this kind of job, which implies that the 33K USD would be paid for by an employer, perhaps for someone who is showing promise in a related field or at a lower level.
Then there was this, guy, who may have set the the development of germ theory back by drinking cholera-laden water without getting cholera:

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/vonpettenkofer.html
Technology behind the Web based version of WhatsApp
The struggle to recoup the investment in comparatively minor innovations in the 787 is a pretty good indication of why 2 hour commercial flights to Sydney are likely to remain a pipe dream.