skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Until I first tried real Turkish Delight in my 20s, I had always imagined it as a cross between crisp toffee and halvah–flaky and melting in the mouth. Here's what it really is: a starch and sugar gel often containing fruit or nuts and flavored with rosewater, citrus, resin, or mint. The texture is gummy and sticky, some of the flavors are unfamiliar to American palates, and the whole thing is very, very sweet. (In addition to the sugar in the mixture, it's often dusted with icing sugar to keep the pieces from sticking together.) While some Turkish Delight newbies may find they enjoy it, it's not likely to be the first thing we imagine when we picture an irresistible candy treat.

In an era when (white and co) americans devour all kinds of ethnic cuisines, including raw sushi, all kinds of indian, thai, etc. I find this article bordering on the absurd.

Unless you're health conscious and don't like sugar, there's not much for an American to dislike about turkish delights -- sugary, gelatinous etc. Kind of the missing link between gummy bears, jelly and marshmallows.

They've eaten far more bizzaro foods.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155981.Psycho_Cybernetics...

It has completely changed my thought process and helped me with self-realization.

Not CS relevant, however an interesting read.
Signing anything in Estonia (at least in tech, where i work), is always done digitally.
If you like fantasy, there are three series you need to read:

The Blade Itself (3 books)

The Kingkiller Chronicle (waiting on third and final book)

The Stormlight Archive (waiting on third and final book)
That domain was registered by a prankster.
Think GP means someone other than Jeb Bush's campaign controls this domain and redirects it to Trump's campaign website.
Europe Moving Toward Single Digital Market
> "When you say "haven't done much to hurt US interests" does arming Iraqi insurgents with Iranian made weapons that killed many coalition soldiers, and further destabilized Iraq causing who knows how many innocent deaths, not count?"

Why did the US continue to support ISIS even after it was clear they were becoming a serious threat in the region?

http://youtu.be/ccdeANvo2bg

Why did Turkey continue to buy oil from ISIS even after ISIS started executing innocent people?

http://uk.businessinsider.com/links-between-turkey-and-isis-...

The point is, the whole thing is a mess, and not one of the main countries involved is free from blame. The most messed up thing from a political point of view is that Turkey are a member of NATO, in other words we're fighting a group that's funded by allies of US and Europe. Throw Russia in the mix with its support of Assad and we really could be looking at the start of World War 3. Of course I hope it doesn't come to that, but it does seem plausible.

> "The USSR sent soldiers and pilots to fight for Saddam."

Are you referring to the Gulf War (1990) or the Iraq War (2003)?
I've been using carousel and have switched a lot of family members to it. I was using Snapjoy before (which Dropbox acquired and killed), and had done the same thing.

I find the announcement about Carousel extremely disappointing. I'm definitely going to think twice about using Dropbox for anything other than simple file storage in the future.

Pictures are peoples' lives, their families, and their memories. This is a big part of file storage and I thought Carousel was a superb product on desktop and mobile.

Sorry to vent but I haven't been this disappointed about a product being killed (for no apparent reason) in a long time.
It's not mysticism

It's the opposite of mysticism. It's a great neuroscientist-based look at meditation. I'd highly recommend it if you're interested in meditation but put off by all the mumbo jumbo you get from many other sources of meditation info.
Suppose it writes to Dropbox using internal APIs? How many developer hours should they spend abstracting/obscuring that usage? What are they going to gain by doing that? What are they risking if that process misses something?
Ideas for the integration of Thunderbird with LibreOffice
Trello, Asana, Basecamp, etc.

Having spent a lot of time assessing my team's needs and trying to figure out a solution that works, I'd add that picking a tool is the easy part.

Since most of these tools are very flexible in how you use them, without enforcing incredibly strict workflows/process of their own, the really tough part is defining your own workflow/process. The even tougher part is getting people to actually follow that.

A task management tool is only as effective as it is religiously used by all involved. The moment a project conversation gets side-barred into an email thread, communication gets scattered and is no longer consolidated. Someone consistenly forgets to update their project status every time something changes? Suddenly others are out of the loop, and others stop updating project status because it that seems to be acceptable.

While you don't want to be a control freak about this stuff, it is critical to make sure any user is committed to using it religiously. It is also important to make sure the process is clearly defined in a simple, SHORT, and easy to find list somewhere. Expect lots of questions on edge cases for "how do we handle X," and think of good ways to give friendly reminders to those who forget to do something, and less-friendly reminders to those who are frequent offenders.
I'll just leave this here:

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong"
Well I'm sure Lyft it shocked, absolutely shocked to discover that there's spamming going on here.

It's not like they could develop basic accountability tools or read the thousands of complaints consumers have sent to them directly or do a google search. All of those things are impossible to do with present technology, which is why Lyft is the real victim here.
Reflows just fine in opera here.
In the same way that blueberries taste like chicken and flan tastes like gasoline.
> contemporary professions are failing economically, technologically, psychologically, morally, and qualitatively, and by virtue of their inscrutability (p. 33). Or, as they put it colloquially, “We cannot afford them, they are often antiquated, the expertise of the best is enjoyed only by a few, and their workings are not transparent. For these and other reasons, we believe today’s professions should and will be replaced by feasible alternatives”

Anyone retain an attorney for a will lately versus downloading Legal Zoom?
I've worked on gigster. Throwaway account to avoid this being linked to my account.

A few thoughts:

1) The talk of an AI to price things marketing fluff. There is no magic AI that can price, for example, the fact that a client changes his mind, or that legacy code has unexpected bugs.

2) The reusable component stuff is not fully deployed yet. I think where it has potential is as app templates. A lot of apps have similar starting points, and it makes sense to encapsulate those starting points in project templates. I am doubtful that this will evolve into a magic solution that makes software engineering easy.

3) The big innovation, from my perspective, is that they are harnessing the spare work capacity of software engineers. It is very easy for a full time employed engineer to hop onto the platform and make some extra cash. I think this separates them from traditional outsourcing shops, or oDesk.

4) Another innovation is that they capture the reputation gains from their work. Traditionally a freelancer would build relationships with their clients, the freelancers reputation improves as he does good work. With gigster, you as a freelancer do not have an external reputation. Gigster gets the benefit of your good (or bad) work.

Largely because of (4) I would be cautious as a freelancer on gigster. The pay is project based, not hourly, which means there is high variance/randomness to the hourly pay.
I really like Thunderbird and Mozilla is trying to stop support for it. I'd like to see some other organization take over Thunderbird.

I use it for my email client because it is cross platform and works in Linux as well as Windows.
> Yup. Acquired for $101M then subsequently shut down in 1-2 years (just kidding of course).

> hopefully we can become the next billion dollar company. If not, then it's the other two options: get acquired or die.

No offense, but it doesn't really sound like you were kidding. I have no skin in this game because I never used Mailbox and am content to continue using GMail, but if I was upset about this shutdown and in the market for a new email client that would be around long-term, your answer wouldn't exactly inspire confidence. You've basically said you're going to shut down (or get acquired and then, inevitably shut down) unless you hit the lottery ticket of a billion dollar company.

Speaking more generally, I think this sort of attitude is going to catch up with VC-backed startups sooner or later. Why would I make my workflow depend on a startup that is, in all likelihood, going to either shut down or get acquired and shut down? For anything with a high switching cost, using a product from a VC-backed startup that has this outlook is just going to cause me problems later if I get dependent on it.

I think a lot of companies would do better by their customers (and themselves) if they instead looked for a more sustainable business model. But there isn't as much of a lottery ticket in those businesses, so I can see why some founders avoid it.
Are we going to have to endure the ranting and raving of an utter lunatic for another year?
I tried it as a child and it tasted like how I imagine pot pourri would taste. Really not my thing.

If you want a sweet Middle Eastern food, I'd definitely suggest baklava. The worst that'll happen there is a bit of coconut. (Or... a swift and painful death, if you're allergic to nuts.)
A Muslim coworker once told me many believe the Christian apologist CS Lewis was showing an anti-Muslim bias in using Turkish Delight as the temptation ... supposedly it is a warning against the enticements of a non-Christian world view. Does anyone have more info on this angle?
When speaking with people who do not agree with me on the correctness or urgency of global warming, this is the argument I traditionally make: let's examine the worst-case scenarios. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the science, taking it seriously is a logical choice.

The plausible worst-case scenario of charging ahead with measures to combat climate change isn't actually that bad, not to mention the ancillary benefits outlined by Schwarzenegger. Aggressively stimulating the renewables economy would be a death knell for the fossil-fuel industry, which could harm the overall economy (though renewables would also contribute positively). It would be disruptive to sections of the country that are dependent upon the fossil-fuel industry (coal country in Kentucky, for instance), which would be very hard on the people living there. This is certainly bad and should not be done lightly, but it's hardly apocalyptic.

The plausible worst-case scenario of failing to address climate change is _really_ bad, ranging from property destruction all the way to civilizational collapse or even potentially human extinction[1]. In a world with nuclear weapons, large-scale destabilization resulting from famine, drought and loss of land to flooding is a very dangerous thing. The Earth is the only home we have, why even flirt with the possibility of disrupting our currently livable climate?

...and that argument doesn't even take the scientific consensus on the existence of human-cased global warming into account.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event#Atmospheric_effec...
Isn't a devastating, long-term drought a recent and popular theory as well, decimating many Central and South American tribes such as the Mayans and the Aztec?

[1]http://science.time.com/2012/11/09/mayans/
exactly! pssh science, what good is it? /s
I find it very unsettling that I keep seeing people who say they'd rather have trump as president than Hillary Clinton. I have many issues with her myself, but she seems to at least have some degree of regard for the consequences for her actions.
How a radical group of Republicans pushed Congress to the right
The critique is of how Brooks handles reporting facts in general. The joke I quoted is based on a specific example Brooks gave, which is traced to its original source (Brooks mentioned one of the authors, Nisbett - see http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=478).

I linked to the other page because it contains links to about a dozen other posts looking into Brooks' writing.

There might be other evidence supporting his general point, but then he should be citing that evidence, not twisting the facts or making things up.
TL;DR buy all your vanity domains early. Just a prank. Move along.
>I find them pretty tasteless, it is the powdered sugar that gives them taste.

Actually there are tons of flavorings, like rose-water, mastic, dates, cinnamon, anise and co. Often combined.

And you can get them without powered sugar -- they're still as sweet.

(Unless one buys bad mass market imitations, where it would be some chemicals to make it stable + sugar + some cheap artificial flavor).
I am wishing that articles about history are more precise in their usage, since it can be difficult to tell which sense they mean of the word (historical, at the time of the material they are writing about, current meaning applied to back then).
The genetic code now has a workable text editor
"I am not convinced about CO2 causing global warming"

Honestly, how convinced you are about it is only relevant because economic interests have planted a seed of doubt about it.

Your position to question the science on climate change is about as good as it is on a myriad other issues which no one seems keen on questioning. If there weren't a lobby doing it, your uncertainty would be as much as what qualified experts have.
> The Space Shuttle was given to us by typical bureaucracy, and lies.

You forgot the military. They're e.g. the reason it has such big wings, because they wanted a huge single-orbit crossrange capability. Presumably for spying, maybe as a backup in case the Russians shot down a Keyhole or something.
> I'm sure a large majority of nutrition scientists supported a low fat diet 20 years ago. (Food for thought)

Sure, and a large majority of physicists supported General Relativity 20 years ago.

If your point is that vague analogies aren't helpful and specifics are needed, I think that was precisely what toomuchtodo was getting at.
Addiction to Distraction
I'm not saying you're wrong, but every announcement from NASA about the ISS seems to have the tone of "It may be in LEO, but it's an invaluable research platform teaching us lessons that are directly transferable to colonizing the Moon/Mars". Is that an unfair summary of what's happening on the ISS?
As a non-biologist, I'll just go ahead and suggest that species are defined by a single genetic exemplar that is an actual common ancestor to all extant members of the species.

This individual then recruits additional members by hybridizing with its own ancestor species or sibling species in the same genus. Any given organism's species is determined by the relative genetic distance between it and the species exemplars.

Under this regime, if we postulate a new species Homo superior with, for instance, the mutant ability to read and write text messages while also being fully aware of its surroundings, the earliest known bearer of the mutant gene would likely be chosen as the exemplar. If this person died and was not preserved in any way, we might be able to reconstruct a model of their genome via gene sequencing analyses, which would clearly show the mutant gene.

It would hybridize with Homo sapiens, the parent species. Children lacking the mutant gene would be indistinguishable from H. sapiens. Children with it would clearly be able to trace lineage to the exemplar.

Without barriers to breeding, the new species might just invisibly replace the parent species as a non-branching successor. In this case, we might just let it keep the same species name, and retcon the original mutation into the appearance of a subspecies.

The fossil record makes selection of exemplars easier, because in many cases, only one instance even exists. Only one tooth found in Denisov cave. Only one Taung skull found.

If there is no gene in Canis rufus that is unique to a single species exemplar, there is no unique species left. Even if it ever was its own species, having a purely theoretical exemplar with only a few known genes, right now it is just a lupus-latrans hybrid.

So for me, a species would be defined by the presence of one or more specific genes. Those genes could be determined by sequencing DNA from actual remains, or inferred by analysis of living members of the species.

Being able to interbreed fertile offspring seems to me to be more like a genus-level thing, because that seems pretty common in plants.
Facist behavior. Who would have supported Hitler if they had lived in the 1930's and known the future?
DNSCrypt-Loader – A console UI to manage DNSCrypt-proxy
And yet, somehow he's still allowed to continue running for President. And still doing well.
Multiple accounts. I have multiple work accounts (several companies) and a personal one. Having each open in tabs/window would be too much. I use Apple's mail apps on Mac and iOS, with a single unified inbox.
Indeed:

"Probably the Queen knew quite well what he was thinking; for she knew, though Edmund did not, that this was enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it would want more and more of it, and would even, if they were allowed, go on eating it till they killed themselves."

http://www.shmoop.com/lion-witch-wardrobe/supernatural-quote...

The article actually points that out too, but glosses over it: "(To be fair, it was enchanted. But still, Edmund. Still.)"

Seems like an important point though. Yes, Edmund liked turkish delight enough to ask for it in the first place, but once he had the Queen's Turkish Delight he was more hopeless than a heroin addict desperate for their next fix.

As an aside, I can't believe we're debating Turkish Delight and "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" on Hacker News.
It is a process control issue, the problem is that controlling the process when you have 100 of sub contractors manufacturing parts which are pre-assembled in 10 different locations and then sent for final assembly isn't that easy. And even if you add tighter tolerances to the spec you can still end up with things not working properly.

Not to mention that increased tolerances means higher costs and there's a point where you can't adhere to them physically and as far as real world manufacturing goes the tighter your tolerances are the tighter the control and QA needs to be which results only in diminishing returns.

When you end up manufacturing things tolerances can be skewed by a 100 different reasons from a slightly different zero and certification process to different CAD/CNC software which rounds up thing slightly differently.
The ISS development actually learned quite a few things with that and they've both adjusted their process segmented the manufacturing by entire modules rather than individual parts then the only thing you need to really worry about are the tolerances for the actual dock which have quite a bit of wiggle room.
If you had to make the frame for the cupola in Italy, the outer housing in France the Windows in Germany, the Shutters in the Netherlands and assemble them in the UK you would ended up with similar problems.

Saying there's nothing wrong with X you just need a better process can be said for pretty much everything but that argument rarely holds water when you deal with real world applications, there's a reason why there are entire engineering disciplines for manufacturing and process control.

So no as an Engineer you need to design tolerances not for the worse case scenario but for the actual manufacturing process you are using and the controls you can enact on that process.
When that process is then spread out across as many parties as possible it's no longer the process you've started with and quite likely isn't neither and ideal process nor one you could ever really optimize.

There's a good reason why some of the worlds most advanced engineering parts are still quite often hand fitted at the end, and that's when you work with a single manufacturing process in a single factory.
When you spread that out you end up with parts that sometimes can't even be hand fitted anymore.
One common flavoring is rose-water, which yes, comes from roses, and smells like them.

Then again, it's delicious, and nothing much stranger than smelling like strawberry etc.

It's just a matter of taste. If Americans can adapt to all the asian/l.american etc food they eat, they can adapt to turkish delights in a week or so of eating.
Nobody has grown cucumbers on Mars either. That doesn't mean it can't be done or that it won't be useful. Anyway, I see this is going nowhere so thank you for the exchange.
Less nazi than your main republican candidate.
What "other side"??

The only people who are questioning the science are the ones who don't have the necessary knowledge to evaluate the claims scientifically and who have an economic stake in continuing fossil fuel usage.

No climate scientists oppose it. I have not seen a single, reliable and useful model which goes against the fundamentals of climate change. There are no alternative hypothesis that explain the climate phenomena we're experiencing now.

No has dismissed anything reflexively. It is only the years and years of ludicruous, ignorant and politically motivated arguments against climate change that have solidified that position for many of us.
My experience has been the worse the packaging, the better the Turkish delight. Ideally it'll look like something someone threw together in their home kitchen.
I am not contradicting it. From their context it was not possible to tell if they meant the deaths of 1 in 10, a number similar to that, about half of all people, 9 in 10, 99 in 100 etc. I gave the proportions as remembered from the book as that gives a far clearer picture.
We keep it simple, accepting only email and phone support.

- For emails we use Zendesk (zendesk.com)
- For phone support we use Toky (toky.co)

(I'm the founder of Toky, and we dogfood our solution :))
Getting e-residency is pretty easy. You would have to pick up your ID card, and residency package, at one of the authorized locations, though, and there is none is Serbia. I think the closest may be the Estonian consulate in Vienna. But, if you are going to travel, it may be more worthwhile to go to Tallinn.

Once you have e-residency (which takes a few weeks to be granted) opening a company can be done in a day. You will need an official address in Estonia, but there are several companies that offer that service. I used LeapIn, whose prices are very reasonable. They can also take care of your accounting.

Opening a bank account requires you to visit the bank in person (another reason why traveling to Tallinn is worthwhile). It is not guaranteed that they will open the account for you. I visited two banks. The first turned me down because I could not prove sufficient ties to Estonia. Swedbank (one the the three largest banks operating in Estonia) did accept me. They have a very good service. LeapIn was very helpful in setting this up too. Please note that Estonia is working on making the bank account opening process easier later this year (I believe it will make it possible for you to open an account from abroad; but it is not there yet, as far as I know).
Bad ones, yes. Unfortunately most of us like to cheat tourists. (Actually, each other too)
Buy from specialized shops who sells their own products. There are so many types and flavors, you would find the one you like.