skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? With all the sources you can have, you picked metro.co.uk.
Past Perfect
How to Achieve Your Goals in 2016 (And 5 Goals to Commit To)
No, wealthy people invest their money in all aspects of the economy to both benefit themselves and others, from their own businesses (whose objects vary, but are generally positive in terms of human welfare), to startups (which advance new technologies), to municipal loans (which finance infrastructure), and even many donations which pay for university research.
Jim Sensenbrenner is the last person who should be lecturing on dragnet surveillance. He was one of the writers of the PATRIOT Act, then failed to attend any classified briefings where the NSA explained what they were doing with the phone records program. He later went on to admit that he didn't attend them because didn't want to have to deal with the burden of handling classified information[2]. He had at least six opportunities to hear exactly what was going on, voice his dissent and put forth legislation to curtail it. Instead he put the laws into place then shirked his duty to provide any oversight, somehow proud of the fact that he was legislating from a position of willful ignorance. That kind of behavior is exactly what the EU should be warned about.

[1] http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/patriot-act-architect-cries-foul-...

[2] https://www.lawfareblog.com/shameless-revisionism-james-sens...
What does this piece of bullshit really mean?

Were they unable to sell the ads effectively? Was nobody clicking on them? Was the income not significant enough? Did they decide that it wasn't a good idea to have ads in Firefox? Did they find a better way to monetize the browser?

Anyway, the ridiculous content-free way this post is written does unfortunately not inspire confidence in Mozilla.
My bet: Amazon has an incentive to get the trailers but not the trucks yet because they will get into trucks once they can invest in autonomous trucks.

Having their own trailers allows them to explore the roboticization of loading and unloading them now. i.e. Kiva Robotics meets truck trailer loading and unloading.

Moving their inventory into trucks but still tracked and managed by their Kiva Robotics systems also lets them reduce land costs and possibly even eliminate nexus in certain states for tax reasons since they could have these mini warehouses drive from a low tax state to a high tax state for deployment.
Cool.. didn't notice that was there.

But isn't this menu a bit deceptive? This is a setting menu with 2 options: disable suggested tiles, and show blank page.

Show blank page can be set from the regular options page.. while the 'disable suggested tiles' option is not in the regular options. So the only unique feature of this menu is disabling suggested tiles.

It's as if, this menu was created entirely to hide disabling suggested tiles.
The Great Plate Count Anomaly – the difficulty of cultivating bacteria in vitro
I've heard that if acetaminophen were in front of the FDA today it probably wouldn't be approved at all, and certainly not over the counter -- because of the narrow therapeutic range and the risk of liver damage.
Of course you can. Dignity is a concept that makes sense only in context of a group of people (a society), and social norms are what gives dignity. If the norms change, the dignity can be taken away.
More info/pointers pls. thx
I, personally, would like to think, given a nonthreatening human being being discovered in my home, that I would help said person.

I was arrested once, way too fucked up, in someones car. They eventually lended me sandals because I had no shoes or socks.

I am, of course, far more understanding of those in ridiculous situations, having been in many myself. I've calmed down a lot, but unless someone is threatening to kill me, I'll treat a person as someone who has had decades of experiences I have not had.

One day, I hope we can all do that for eachother. We're all human beings. We're all animals. We all deserve to be able to eat, sleep, and have social contact.
"It could simply be that they were just unlucky."

Right... article started off interesting, and just became rather lame. Fine journalism.
He mentions VML almost right out of the gate, here didn't he? "I have followed the standards for XML-based vector graphics closely. PGML (mainly from Adobe) and VML (mainly from Microsoft),"
Good look, homey. Thanks.
Environmentalism is not climate change; climate change is not environmentalism
Which point on there specifically bothers you? All of those seem obvious to me - if you use Translate, it goes to Google. Also, a lot of that is disabled when you go to incognito mode; e.g. the search engine prediction in the omnibar. Plus, you can encrypt the data Chrome uses to sync -- see: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en
Trying to figure out some websocket stuff, I somehow managed to get nodejs, autobahn, and whatnot running locally (client and server) using Jetbrains' WebStorm on a Mac.

This tool stack makes me want to knock my teeth out.

That WebStorm's debugger (with break points!) works at all is a marvel. Props to the JetBrains team.
I can see it now. You spend a month implementing a fancy, modern store-and-forward system that ticks all the boxes and provides an excellent blend of security and functionality. Then you get called into the big shot's office because he wants emails to go through in under ten seconds.
People behind Apple's Swift since Jul 18, 2010
Dick also wrote mesmerizingly about Can-D and Chew-Z in "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch".

And of course there was Stelazine from "Faith of Our Fathers", which was actually an anti-hallucinogen.

The 10 Greatest Mind-Altering Drugs and Drinks in Science Fiction : http://www.therobotsvoice.com/2009/04/the_10_greatest_mind-a...

"While the drug of choice for author Philip K. Dick ran the gamut of uppers, his 1965 Nebula-nominated novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch featured two distinct hallucinogens: Can-D and Chew-Z. Can-D is used by colonists to “translate” themselves into the Barbie-style “Perky Pat” layouts where they either become Perky Pat or her boyfriend, Walt. While in this shared-hallucination, users can leave behind their dismal existence and act out an idealized, “swell” version of life on Earth. P.P. Layouts, the company behind Perky Pat, is also the manufacturer of the “illegal” Can-D. P.P. gets some competition when Palmer Eldritch is rescued from a crash on Pluto and returns with an alien drug known as Chew-Z. Like Can-D, Chew-Z transports the user into an alternate reality but the difference is that Eldritch plays puppet master to these hallucinations. The book spirals in and out of reality and hellish hallucinations until the memorable last trip."
Who knows? I doubt reducing fevers is a good idea in the vast majority of cases though. Clearly they serve a purpose.
People who do not understand WalMart are doomed to reinvent it.
Your insurer wants to know everything about you
Rexxar's law: systematically downvoting people who mention betteridge's law doesn't prevent them to mention it systematically (sadly IMHO).
Would anyone use Kicad/Eagle these days if he/she has access to Altium Designer?
> Exactly, which makes any quibbling to my statement nothing but worthless pedantry.

No, it doesn't. The job is not the need, its just the most common way of satisfying the need.

The need is the income.

Automation of jobs because automation is more efficient means that the economy becomes better at producing output which can be distributed through other existing means of providing income, notably, tax-funded social benefit programs.
Probably because writing intellectually honest defenses of contemporary western medicine isn't something that SBM does. All their posts are exactly the same. If they were to cover this it would just be one or two semi-coherent paragraphs about Bayesian statistics, followed by a long rant about how even if Tylenol is dangerous it doesn't matter because some random alternative medicine practice that has nothing to do with the topic at hand is the tool of the devil.

Every time I read some book that's critical of something from modern medicine I look up what SBM has to say about it. Because after all I'm not a medical researcher, nor am I omniscient. But what I do know is that every time, without fail, SBM has written a 'debunking' of that book that has nothing to do with the actual arguments or evidence from the book.

If you like SBM then I would propose that it's because you're not reading the actual books or primary sources they're talking about. So everything they say 'sounds correct', but only because you have no basis for actually judging.
My writing ability developed in high school and college due to a few specific causes. 1: Being forced to write for my AP European History course in HS (the regular assignments were just lists of questions/prompts to be answered with a few sentences or a paragraph or so, it's amazing how valuable that experience was). 2: Writing proofs in advanced math courses (elementary analysis, abstract algebra, etc.) 3: Participating in usenet newsgroups (by far the biggest contributor).

P.S. I meant to point out the irony that English classes contributed comparatively little. Actually writing about something and putting in the effort to string together something coherent is what really exercises and builds writing abilities. It's nice to have some of the groundwork laid, but practice is by far the most important component.
How do you suggest Mozilla makes money?
Yes, I was bit confused about the comments above stating that Starbucks was the Walmart of coffee and very cheap. It's far more expensive than most other options over here in Europe.
Precisely. Later, they simply leased the space out to corporations like P&G (or their subs ) and offered logistics/freight service.

WalMart was the first retail network to roll up the whole day every day into a single ( green-bar) report on Mr. Sam's desk.
Probably because the side scrolling on mobile made every too mad to read it.
The reality of bottled water profit is that unless you are a retailer, the only way you can make any money is based on insane volume. That requires cash to cover production, machines, warehousing, transportation (this is huge) and terms for your customers. Big box loves to pay in 60-90 days. Try that on for size when you are making pennies on the dollar.

Similar to many other categories, the bottled water industry is experiencing a transition into automated manufacturing. This is putting a ton of the mom and pop bottling businesses out. Its become too difficult for them to compete against 24/7 automated production lines that the big dogs are running. The margins continue to be driven further and further into bare minimum/cost threshold by the buyers as they leverage it to drive in customers(door busters). There is a ton of pressure here and its not letting up. The smaller guys can't afford to put the cash up to secure the new hardware and are closing up shop left and right.

Costco sells bottled water at near break even as a door buster. This strategy is very similar to what you see in traditional grocery stores where Arrowhead or semi-generic brand is selling for $3.50 a case of 24 bottles.

Don't get me wrong - folks like Nestle, Fiji, Smart Water etc. all do well but there is serious cash invested in those efforts. The small and mid size players basically struggle to carve out an existence.
> The article is not well written, and I personally had to parse it several times to figure out what he was trying to say. I'm still not even sure if this is the correct interpretation.

I thought it was perfectly clear. He was telling a funny story about how systems and technologies evolve, giving two examples of that (latter, the watch, former, the system's airgap springing a leak), and furnishing an object lesson in the need for regular thorough audits to ensure that systems and controls thereof are still in place and still working the way that the owners think it's working.

> A facility like the one he described should have had regular security audits to verify that no hard lines were placed where they should not be.

Exactly. In fact, I believe at the time he wrote this blog post, OP was an active auditor for BDO. In some of his other posts, he analyzes observations he made while auditing a variety of companies/organizations; unsurprisingly standards across the board are very poor. He would be the first to say that this sort of thing is what an audit should prevent and why audits are needed (although I'm not sure I agree with his venom against pentesting; which I see analogous to fuzzing).
No arguments here!
Pashtunwali
Ask HN: Going travelling for a year, how best not to squander it
My partner and I are going travelling for a year. ~6 months in South America, ~6 months in Europe hanging out with family, I may do some contract work while in Europe, not sure yet.

I'm extremely conscious that this is a pretty special time and want to make the most of it, but I'm also conscious of not filling it up completely, and leaving (lots of) time for reading, thinking, being unplugged from the Internet. I also feel like there are a lot of practical skills I'd like to learn as I'm not at all handy in the DIY realm, so hoping to do a few small projects with my parents while in Ireland (dads pretty handy).

Anyway, I was just wondering what HN would suggest. Books to read, volunteering sites (particularly for South America), how best to contribute to (and find) smallish open source projects with tasks that could be easily picked off.

It's a very nebulous question I know, but I'm just a little afraid that it'd be easy for this year to float by without having anything concrete come out the other side. From the replies here, and my own thoughts, I'll try distil some goals and then check them off.

Thanks for any and all suggestions :)
This might help with the deploy downtime (works on Bluemix , PWS, etc):

https://github.com/concourse/autopilot
That works until you have a multi-person dev team that wants to securely exchange and retrieve secrets without storing them in the repo.

For example, S3 credentials, or the API secret to an external service (that may have been rotated since the last time you pulled).
I've resorted to only enabling/disabling shuffle via Siri.
> "Responsible" is a pretty strong word (and not supported by the research).

I think "seems, in fact, to be responsible" its a pretty fair simple characterization of the conclusion of the linked article, that Alzheimers is a human-created condition with PA has its principal risk factor.

("is responsible" would be stronger than is supported, but that's not what I said.)
Technically that's not physically separate, as photons are physical entities.
Probably I have been watching too much South Park, but this instantly made me think of the final scene of "Something Wall Mart This Way Comes"
Agree. The corporate bullshit jargon is strong with this one. Not surprising when the CEO himself is a purely marketing man.

People have even made games like Bullshit Bingo based on corporate-speak in meeting rooms. http://www.bullshitbingo.net/cards/bullshit/
In Moscow (Russia) there are two major coffee shop chains: Coffee House and Shokoladnitsa, Starbucks being a rare and expensive beast. And you know what, these two are always next to each other, like 20m nearby or on opposite sides of a street. I suppose they understand this 'overflow' phenomenon perfectly.
So, rather than reinvent the wheel, I just ported the Clojure collections over, added generics and made them more Java-ery [1]

In the Clojure world, (and indeed in Haskell and other pure-fp languages) there is a lot more garbage collection. Rich Hickey makes a great case for this trade off here [2].

On the JVM now very little of it is stop-the-world GC, it mostly does incremental. It's been a while since I profiled a Java app in anger, but even back on JDK5 this was the case, and I know they changed it significantly in JDK7 to the G1 collector.. anyone have a clue about that?

[1] https://github.com/robmoffat/pure4j/blob/master/docs/tutoria...
[2] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values
[3] http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/ja...
Perhaps the NSA should offer insurance.

Otherwise, a Facebook+Visa+Google insurance joint venture, where their data is not available to others, could be a formidable company.
I agree. I think the music app has gotten too crowded. I wish they would have separate apps for my music and Apple Music/radio
Lyft – Express Pay for drivers
I actually disagree that wireline services are not profitable, they are profitable, generate a very stable rate of return - but they are not generating the rate of return, and more importantly growth rates the market expects. Because of this, Verizon is trying to starve them to make its balance sheet look better - which in the short term works, but it will also hasten the demise of what is a somewhat lucrative revenue stream.

FTTN Makes the most sense in dense and semi dense urban and suburban areas - FTTH/P makes more sense in very rural places, I'm seeing movement on FTTP by CenturyLink, Frontier seems very interested in expanding its existing FTTH footprint, but is not doing so yet.
Neither you can give someone laughter, but through your actions you can still make them laugh.
Same for dignity, maybe you can't give it directly, but when you treat others with dignity...
Can you comment on the situation with component libraries for kicad? How does it compare to Eagle?

I've recently tried Fritzing but keep finding that some components aren't available. Defining my own is kind of tedious.
On the other hand, personal computers are tremendously more responsive than they used to be. Windows 98 was not fun to use once your computer had been on for a while.
Charge?
Advertising in Firefox could be a great business, but it isn’t the right business
for us at this time because we want to focus on core experiences for our users.

Translation, "we were seeing users flee to alternatives like Pale Moon and need to backtrack. Please accept this marketing-speak damage control as an apology that doesn't actually admit we made a mistake."
Depends if you believe the study or not.

Its conclusion is: Alzheimer disease is primarily a man-made condition with paracetamol as its principal risk factor.
The content is good. It's strange how corporate the about page sounds, but that probably doesn't matter.

Maybe a whoishiring-type weekly submission might be a better format? "Here's some interesting stuff you may not have seen."
CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS FOR MEN- 20 GIFTS TO CONSIDER WHILE SHOPPING
> It seems that this is designed to protect you from untrusted execution environments, which I don't see as feasible. What am I missing?

Shared web hosting where you share a physical machine with other users. Not everyone is into the VM craze these days, thank god
Cornell Note Taking System
Everyone has different experiences, I largely stopped drinking about 6 months ago because I was sick of the hangovers. I don't have issues with the awkwardness of telling people I'm not drinking if we're in a group and people are drinking, but it sure is annoying if you're hanging out with just one other person at night when coffee isn't really an option. Hardest part was the fact that I like me some craft cocktails. I kind of wish there were more tea places open late.

Don't really want to give up coffee though.
"Free" web services, such as Facebook, do not necessarily benefit from high employee/end user ratios.
Hahahaha.

No.
I'd do both. Post it first to your blog. Spread it on twitter/facebook/email list with a link to your blog.

Then after a few days copy it onto other platforms. Like Medium (with a link back to the original) and LinkedIn Pulse (if it makes sense for your audience).
Proof of work steganography
That's crazy, the National government should take care of the pensions.
Unlikely:

http://www.neurology.org/content/48/3/626.short
why would you want to use swift? just curious.

you don't need a reason... but i've not seen much good about the language, just a bunch of apple hype and hand forcing. just like obj-c which the mainstream community realised the flaws of 30 years ago when it was new... and now we have to live with as a necessary evil for the same class of 'reasons'. XD
Agreed. 2.6 is was EOLed over 2 years ago and is consequently already missing significant security patches (e.g. CVE-2014-1912). I think it's unnecessary and maybe even unwise to support it, especially for a security-critical application.
This is good to hear, but I agree that all the positive spin is unnecessary and damages their image. Now they need to backpedal or "evolve" on the Pocket blob issue. However they want to spin it.
yes, not having proper c99 has been a pain for a very long time right up to VS 2015
This points to what I don't understand about the Amazon financial story.

Walmart built up their massive infrastructure business while being simultaneously immensely profitable. However, at Amazon, building out infrastructure comes at the expense of profits.

What am I missing that a lot of smart people are seeing in Amazon?
Considering the more esoteric books I've ordered off Amazon...I dunno how they'd stock them like that.
I'm going to start using this immediately, thanks!
why? i seem to have managed many such projects without such tools before and after 6 years ago... i'm not sure what benefit they would realistically have.
Yep. And civilization is not a natural thing. It must be preserved and maintained. The State of Nature is ever present, threatening and chipping away at society from within.
The crazy thing is that the fake tech is also often actually real, but real in the sense that there's a recent academic paper where in certain specific conditions they were able to do what is being asked ask by using lots of math, domain knowledge, and custom programming, at a total cost of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars when it's all done.

Does that help you in any way in a commercial setting? No, unless you are Google or Apple or the like and it's not a simple request but the basis of a new business division.
Most developed places never practiced the same excesses, though... other than the Communist countries, at least.
"So you can't do this: a += b -= c; Don't ask me in which order it executes,"

thx for the reply @legulere, I can now see the void, why would the language allow syntax that smells so bad? Can you do this in "c"?
Pocket is moving out of the main tree back to being an add-on. You can follow the progress at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694
Is it just me, or is the "ANALGESICS AS RISK FACTORS FOR F-AD: (2) EPIDEMIOLOGY" section really uncompelling and the epidemiological evidence seems to amount to a few inconsistent cross-sectional studies with no particularly large correlations like implied, and a note that both paracetamol and Alzheimer's have increased over the past two centuries or so?
Why would users start paying money for a browser which is surrounded by free competitors (including forks of Firefox?)
American Customer Service Downfall (anecdotal)
"[0] Drive just the truck portion, without a trailer."

I always thought that deadhead meant the trailer was empty on a backhaul (or whatever it's called). I guess no trailer is the equivalent of empty trailer?
> It looks like this is just a correlation based on historical availability of Tylenol and related compounds in developed countries.

That correlation is drawn, as is a correlation between Alzheimer's (and Alzheimer's-like symptoms) and symptoms potentially related to a side effect of a prior drug for which PA is the active metabolite, which was replaced by PA in the market.

> It's not obvious from skimming that the author identifies the cause by which Tylenol allegedly causes Alzheimer's,

Both the CYTOCHROME P450 and PA AND F-AD: EARLY-STAGE CEREBRAL INJURY sections identify particular mechanisms by which PA may cause or contribute to the progression.