skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally nothing except a different form factor. FWIW, I wish there were Chrometablets too. The Pixel C is headed this way in form, but unfortunately toward Android and native apps instead of ChromeOS and the Web.
First not all things are equally bad for you and if something is more dangerous than people realize, labels are one way of informing them.

Second, the reason smoking is increasingly banned everywhere is not because we don't allow adults to make up their own mind about smoking but because of the effects on people who decide not to smoke.
But if you don't have DNS how do you download the revocation list?
I hope I am not seated in a row behind your's on my next flight. Those at the front of long lines have a moral obligation to all those behind them. Delaying hundreds of people for seconds is just as bad as delaying one person for an hour.
> money that would have been yours

Yep, employers aren't realy interested in profits
Basic income is neither a necessary nor a sufficient criteria for eliminating welfare cliffs though.

Welfare cliffs can be eliminated quite effectively by tapering welfare payments, and can remain (and potentially be made worse) after a BI is introduced if there are still some [household] income-linked subsidies or tax breaks available.
All the major e-cig juice vendors have been reformulating their stuff over the past year or two to get rid of any flavors with diacetyl due to the possible risk.

Here's the Reddit discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/electronic_cigarette/comments/3vx84...
The gaps really should be speed dependent. So when you're going 20mph, you will have a smaller gap than if you're going 60.

And that applies to stopping, where you should (IMO) have very little gap. For the exact reasons you mentioned.
The FDA tried to regulate them and got slapped down.

The real question is, which is better for you, smoking tobacco or vaporizing nicotine? Even if there are risks with vaping, I'd say they are likely far, far less than smoking.
I think what you're filtering for here is 'initiative'.

I don't hire programmers, but have been a hiring manager, running fairly technical business teams now for 10+ years, and have found that initiative is often the deciding factor in any given employee's success.

There are other ways to select for it, and clues you start to pick up on over the years, but once you've figured out how to gauge relative levels of initiative across different people, I've found it makes hiring/resourcing questions quite a bit easier.
Oops, misread the original post.
> The Pixel C is headed this way in form, but unfortunately toward Android and native apps instead of ChromeOS and the Web.

The web -- though not Google's non-standard Chrome apps through the browser, as yet -- works quite well on Android.
Read it as an indefinite enumeration: read the first comma as an inclusive and, then ignore the second comma.

> stop me saying things like 'Terminator is a good film and is 2 hours long'

can't you say

>x is y and z,

do you need the second is?

> E-Prime uses the English language prescriptively.

there, now even the prescription is mentioned in a prescription. How recursive, init?
There was evidence that tobacco companies were carefully controlling the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and so the FDA argued cigarettes were a drug delivery system and should be regulated as such.

The FDA openly proposes to regulate e-cigarettes and "certain dissolvables that are not 'smokeless tobacco'" http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/ucm388395.htm

Curiously the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_tobacco_by_the_U... makes no mention of the term "drug delivery system".
As an organic chemist, do you have any opinion on the relative healthiness of vaping marijuana vs smoking it? The common wisdom is that it would clearly be more healthy, but your comment calls my conviction on this point into doubt.
> What regulations should they put on this? A warning like, Breathing in stuff not air is bad for you?

We're not talking here about chemicals in general, we're talking about a specific chemical, diacetyl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacetyl). And we know long-term exposure via inhalation to that chemical can cause life-threatening respiratory conditions, such as the "popcorn lung" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchiolitis_obliterans) that workers who made microwave popcorn toppings that included diacetyl came down with from inhaling it in their workplaces.

Do you seriously think the presence in a product intended to be inhaled repetitively over long periods of such a chemical does not warrant, at minimum, some kind of warning?

> Should they ban adults from making up their own mind?

How many adults, when presented with the word "diacetyl" in tiny print on a product's label, do you think are sufficiently educated to be able to accurately judge the risks of inhaling that product?

Are we really supposed to take a "do your homework, good luck!" approach to products that, when used as the maker intends, will expose the user to significant health risks?
I agree with both. I'm fine with labeling and public restrictions on superficial life additives. I greatly enjoyed Indianapolis' restrictions on smoking in restaurants. I don't like restrictions on what a person chooses to do in their own home.

I don't want to see a ban like pot or other drugs on vaping. I laugh at vapors, but as long as they are free to do so, I can sleep a little better.
1. I said nothing about "what science is supposed to be about" Research costs money. If I chose to fund a study about the positive effects of a coal industry on the lower class it is within my right to do so and in no way excludes someone else from funding a study on the negative effects.

2. Sure, but this is tangential to my comment at best.

3. my belief is not "also dead wrong" Disclosure of conflicts of interest is not the same as disclosure of funding sources in all cases.

I'd also like to point out that your comment is an example of what I consider to be the type of poorly thought out middle brow discourse that perfectly characterizes the worst form of discussion on the internet. Unilateral statements like "your wrong" contribute nothing at all.
ZeroCater Is Hiring a Head of Product and Full Stack Engineers
When I open a private browsing window in Firefox, Stormfront is the first result for that search.
Sesame Street was created for two-year-olds

Nope. Watch some first season episodes (they're on Netflix) and even in the very first shows, where they clearly didn't know what they were doing yet and the characters were poorly defined and less funny, and it's clear that they were aiming for slightly older kids and to engage them intelligently. An obvious clue to this is to look at the age range of the children they had on the show, which was more clustered around the 4-5 year mark.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10694676
Hey, if you're being tailgated you're by definition not slower traffic.

Dumb people tailing and trying to go that extra 5mph are as much to blame for the danger as the people that don't get out of the way. And since they will be constantly forcing people to switch lanes, the outcome is the same except some idiot got their way.

So no.
Thunderbird usage surpassed 10 million users per day for the first time ever
Here: http://imgur.com/a/rpQqP
Nice! I didn't know the abstract was available.

I guess the question is what is the level of diacetyl in the vapor inhaled? The CDC has set a limit of 25 ppb for short term exposure.
How is this new? AWS having SAML 2.0 support is old news being demonstrated at no less than two ReInvent conferences.
Except is that really the scoop of the century? Do people really care that much? If the media would just leave the real guy alone we could have the added benefit of preventing false self-marketing too. How about we just ignore all these "the real satoshi!" articles?
Let's play a game of Guess How Many Shits The Addicted Person Gives.

I'll start. I guess 0.
Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto probably Australian academic, report claims
How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era of Outrage
This is generous of them to provide this information when most manufacturers are doing everything they can to prevent people from modifying their devices.
IBM acquires cloud video firm Clearleap
Oh, that's the easy question. It's the most efficient solution because of politics. Anything with complex rules will be (or better: is) gamed and the money will disappear (to varying degrees, depending on the host country).
Yeah, it would be the scoop of the century to Bitcoin fans but few other people. That said, as someone who isn't involved at all, I love a good detective story. I'll read this.
Why don't wrongfully convicted people Sue for damages and use the lawsuit to get there records purged? I sure there is a reason why people don't in general I'm just not clear what exactly this reason is. Anyone in the know care to elucidate me?
You do that everything you stand in front of a BBQ or a camp fire. Exposure alone doesn't guarantee a harmful effect.
It does - https://github.com/mozilla/persona
As the parent says, the API works fine as is, today, on 32-bit devices - you're just not allowed to submit code to the App Store that takes advantage of this. There is no JIT or anything else inherently architecture specific in the WebKit content blocker implementation. Thus the restriction comes either from a semi-arbitrary determination of the speed of Apple's first 64-bit processor, and/or the amount of RAM that came with it, as the boundary below which content blockers might cause unacceptable performance regression (despite their /improving/ performance on many sites)... or from some odd marketing plan to sell newer devices. Hard to say which.
> I despise the later.

I think in general adults should be able to make up their minds about ingesting chemicals that might hurt them. However, it makes sense to make an exception -- if the chemical has addictive properties and empirically is likely to have network effects (i.e. in practice it tends to spread through the community), it seems reasonable for the government to step in and regulate the substance in more substantial ways than enforcing disclosure. I'd argue adults don't make choices with respect to these chemicals out of their own free will, but are coerced into consuming them through biological/social rewards mechanisms, and I think it's the government's responsibility to step in.

For example, regulating psilocybin seems like an obviously bad idea (it doesn't seem to be addicting and doesn't devastate communities), where as regulating crystal meth is an obviously good idea.

I don't know where the line is (e.g. what about cocaine? it's addictive and has propensity to spread, but isn't nearly as bad as meth), but that doesn't mean there aren't obvious extremes. I also don't know what the government can do about it (making distribution illegal doesn't seem to work), but philosophically, I don't think it's unreasonable for the government to step in if it can be effective.
I think they're saying that even if Mozilla may not decide to actively develop Persona anymore, Persona users and fans would be able to contribute to and further develop the project if the repo is "open and available."
How about https://donate.mozilla.org?

Disclosure: I'm a Mozilla Foundation employee, who helped build that
I had to do something similar. I have 25Mbps/Mbps DSL where I live for $70/mo. If I wanted to upload a file for work (10-20GB), I would have to drive to my office about an hour away. I recently found a co-work location that is 15 mins. away so I go there when I need to.

It is sad that I have no other hard line option other than DSL in my area. Satellite and Verizon Wireless for home are other nonfeasable options available.
The North Face founder dies kayaking in Patagonia
> The real question is, which is better for you, smoking tobacco or vaporizing nicotine?

I disagree; I don't think this is really even a question. I do not have the research on hand at the moment, so definitely check it out yourself before taking this on faith, but there's already research indicating that smoking is way worse for you than vaping. Hell, even the only chemical discussed in this latest news (diacetyl) is present in far, far greater quantities in regular cigarettes than in vaping.

The question of cigarettes vs vaping is not really even a question; the real question is the risks of vaping per se (and this is where regulation/study has not yet caught up to usage).
Umm.. wouldn't a Pinterest user actually want this? It seems to me that it be a useful tool for the users (who chose to install the Pinterest plugin)
Wow this is way more transparency than I'm used to seeing from Sony. Hopefully it's not just a one-off thing.
> without publishers or other bloodsucking middlemen taking most of the money

aren't they ....the middleman?

Good to see competition though, looks like it'll be competing with etsy, amazon handmade, etc
A Look at Employee Monitoring Through the Lens of the Individual
I think that was the test case that he intended. So set up a domain that is otherwise unknown and then use google's DNS and see if the domain is hit by the search engine.
s/prescribes/is

Prescribe seems out of place there, anyhow.
Mission Rock got approved, a small affordable housing bond was approved, a measure making it easier for the city to sell surplus land to developers, and the Mission moratorium failed.

Small potatoes, but still in the "maybe we should build more housing" direction, so, tasty potatoes.
OK, I agree it's also really important to spend a few hours meeting people, and I would never accept a job where I couldn't do that first. But I am personally thrilled to be able to spend two hours demonstrating that I am a really good programmer in all of the ways that a different kind of test doesn't pick up. That seems to benefit me a lot, and it also speaks well of the future coworkers I will have if I work at the company in question. Google's process (for instance) makes me nervous about this.

(Disclaimer: I strongly prefer to quit my current job before looking for new jobs. If that weren't the case, I'm sure I would be more sensitive to anything that takes time, but I think I would still feel this way.)
The linked article combined with the Gizmodo one make a compelling case that the creators of Bitcoin are an American and an Australian.. Where kidnapping for ransom is extraordinarily uncommon.
the title is kinda clickbaity, but there is good content here.
In theory - why not?
That's not happening, unfortunately. Sometimes you need someone with weight to throw around, or with technical knowledge, or both.
Considering you felt the need to get this anti-vegan dig in when you could have used literally any other example, it seems like you might think so as well.
Perhaps because the people in the video are only floating faces without a skull, neck, or hair?
Yes, exactly. Instead of "Economic Perturbations Caused By Basic Income," the experiment will study "Economic Perturbations Caused By Mass Local Windfalls." In my mind, the psychological, sociological and economic responses are very different, and the main result of the experiment will be that supporters and opponents will use different sets of assumptions to map the results to a genuine Basic Income scenario, yielding much heat and little light.
Talk about a SF startup from 50 years ago. Williams-Sonoma is still one of my favorite food retailers. Everything from sous vide to Hario coffee cone drippers, it has really made life much more delicious for me. With a market cap of $5.6B, it makes you wonder if the other SF startups are valued at the right price, considering the enduring legacy of Williams-Sonoma even if it is retail (albeit curated).
Linking a 91 page presentation without specifying your point isn't very helpful.

As I said, you don't get funding for an idea anymore so being bootstrapped is becoming the norm. The presentation even says that "all in all, Q3 was a quarter for big, big deals. Less so for seed-stage and Angel financing, both of which were down for the fifth consecutive quarter on a global basis". Fundraising is never easy, but having more and more eyes on Stockholm helps.
I fly gliders, and one of the post-flight rituals is washing all the bugs off the wings. The flight computers even have bug compensation built in. Smashed bugs degrade the performance of the wing, so there's typically a "bug percentage" setting you can use to de-rate the flight computer's glide estimates as your flight goes on. Some gliders even have wipers you can run along the wing in flight to clean them.
They were targeting developing countries like Central Eu, South Am, Asia, rather than North Am. The market there is huge.

I live in Poland and I was lucky that I could easily find a cheap FxOS phone, which actually I am using now. This is the only truly private phone available here. It is a pity that Mozilla abandoned it. Bigger pity is that people do not give a sht about their privacy and open standards.
The fact that Google does it badly with their store too doesn't make it any better. Google search was just an example of how a much harder task is done far more quickly. I didn't even think of the Google/Apple rivalry in this space.
sorry, I was trying to put it in perspective...
other articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10695922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10695595
If I write the paper alone, I don’t think there would be any problem stating that ‘The author received no financial compensation for this essay,’ - William Happer

In none of these cases is the sponsor identified. All my work is published as an independent scholar. – Frank Clemente
I think it's fixable, but only at great expense.

I have no science behind this, but I've driven in enough places to notice that there are broad cultural differences in how people drive. I don't think the difference is just in the people. It's also in the civil engineering.

For example, some places are very consistent about having nice long on-ramps that give drivers plenty of time to negotiate a merge without too much hassle, and entrances and exits are always placed on the right-hand side. My impression has been that these cities tend to have very sane drivers. Fewer traffic jams, too.

Others have exits and onramps on both sides. The ramps are often short, and you might even have the occasional short ramp with a tight curve that forces drivers to enter the highway 15-20MPH below the speed limit. These cities force a number of perverse behaviors that make driving problematic. It gets slow drivers out of the right lane because that lane is downright frantic. It also actively places drivers who prefer to drive at wildly varying speeds in the left lane, so now you've got people trying to find their place from both sides of the road at the same time. These combine to encourage a lot of passing on the right, which further mixes drivers who like to go at different speeds across all the lanes. And all that jockeying begets further jockeying, since one starts to feel like they have to drive aggressively just to hold their own.

Against that kind of backdrop, which seems to be the way American cities actually prefer to arrange themselves, I do think that no amount of education or public awareness could ever fix it. You can't create an environment that actively punishes people for behaving how you want them to, and expect them to behave that way anyway.
That Twitter is employing 6,000 people is a mystery to me. That's what we get with that many employees: Instead of becoming as sturdy and reliable as an API and a protocol, there's always several subgroups who aren't submerged by day-to-day work and who end up proposing a disruptive change. After much fighting, one of them wins.

The other way is Snapchat: 1-2 employees, probably lots of profits, period.
Plane details:

http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-22669.htm

http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-22382.htm

http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-22363.htm

All were owned at one time by Air Atlanta Icelandic. Air Atlanta Icelandic said they were returned to Boeing: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2015/12/08/air-atlanta...
Thats why you don't use that blob. I'm not saying that I trust the study, only that I don't see anything wrong with the author accepting money in exchange for writing it. Continuing the analogy, I don't see anything wrong with using or producing an obfuscated blob (in certain situations) but it wouldn't necessarily be wise to blindly trust it.
2015 to Be Hottest Year on Record
Yes, make DESTDIR=/poop install or configuring ./configure --prefix=/fart. You are supposed to be able to even combine them, e.g. the above would be installed to /poop/fart.
> Monitors aren't obsoleted nearly as quickly as computer hardware and most consumers have a TV.

And most people don't want to dock their computing device to their TV as a monitor; there are uses for TV-as-output device, and they're well-covered by things like Google Cast and similar technologies.

> You can take peripherals you already own and make a 1-plug docking station without significant cost.

Only if I already own peripherals; i.e., if I already have a desktop or a laptop that I use with external peripherals instead of just the built-in interface. And, I only need a "docking station" if those peripherals are wired, rather than, say, Bluetooth.

Which might be the case for the monitor, sure, but you can already do that. HDMI dongles or cables -- the only one-plug docking station you need in a world with Bluetooth mice and keyboards -- are readily available and not expensive for existing, non-Windows mobile devices.
You're OK with spending two hours doing something before you get anything out of it? 'Cause I'll readily admit that there are probably companies out there that do such a test afterwards, but I've never seen one personally. Instead it's the gate to protect their precious engineers' time. Yours, though? Yours doesn't matter, and that rustles my jimmies real fierce.

Look at the opportunity costs: what if you could spend the time they want you to give them, for free, building something not only personally creditable but maybe even generally useful on Github? If you're good enough to show off, as you suggest, then your time is valuable enough that it should be respected. (A work-sample test that's a useful, valuable problem and can be open-sourced? I'd be down for that. But that would be haaaaard.)
I hope someone asks about cruise ships situated in international waters. I love it when serious people entertain crazy ideas, and I feel like Peter must have thoughts on that
I'm pretty sure about it. Please, remember that B2G for quite a while was a "homemade style" experiment started by Andreas.

It took Mozilla quite a while before executive team started considering it and investing in it.

The post I linked sums up the vibe from the very beginning.
I believe that there was time when the goals have shifted to aim at producing a real product and gaining market share etc., but the original goals are stated in the post and I believe we are very successful in accomplishing them.
If you spend every day in front of a camp fire, things aren't going to go well.
Maybe tried and tested works. Many new ideas are just rehashes of stuff fom years ago.
It almost feels like this is a double bluff designed to confuse and discredit pursuers.
I give equal likelihood to it being malware related, to somebody moving just disabling a settings on some server that can potentially connect to the server hosting the key.

I don't think it's somebody just posting it online, or moving it.
Just curious: what specific factor(s) make you consider the move? I mean, in your view, what are the big draws to SF, things that LA either lacks or has only in low quantity/quality?