skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These taxes are cruel, but necessary. It's a pigouvian tax that literally saves lives.

And with modern technology it can only get better. For example, why not create an algorithm that scores how healthy your choices at the grocery store are and introduce the appropriate tax in the end?

We are also on the verge of being able to monitor everyone's every movement. Why not tax those who don't exercise enough?

Imagine how much the average lifespan will increase when people finally give up on outdated notions of personal freedom and irrational choices.
Remote kill-switch integrated into Qualcomm chips
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SJW
I'd hope that AWS' container product runs at least each customer's containers in a separate VM per customer, if not one VM per app. It is too easy for a malicious customer to break out of a Docker container (far easier than breaking out of Xen, and they take those security vulnerabilities seriously).

The advantage here would be that Amazon could change their container product to allow only one layer of isolation (user code in a unikernel, inside Amazon-run Xen) instead of two (user code in Docker, inside Amazon-run Linux per customer, inside Amazon-run Xen).
Nice work here and also nice post about the Brave thing and internet business model on your site btw. I agree 100%.
What the CEO and upper management of these corporations say about this? Surely, they were asked about this by shareholders?
>So what's going on? The researchers suggested that shaving might cause micro-abrasions in the skin "which may support bacterial colonisation and proliferation".

The obvious next step would be to take samples from people who don't need to shave. (Women for example.)
Appears to be Windows Only.
you may be waiting awhile
> What do you do?

Seek psychiatric help and you'll be OK, hopefully.
Rights are taken all of the time.

This is not a Libertarian issue which loves to take major policy issues and apply niche cases to decide them.

Your right to steal property has been removed; it does not automatically threaten your right to vote.

Debate the main issue on the main points otherwise you are simply bikeshedding.

You said organ harvesting would be a net benefit to society; my argument is that it would not since we are killing a member of society purposefully.

confiscating an assault rifle would not instill the same fear as the Government killing your neighbor for his liver.
It's worth noting that private insurance is already trying this type of thing, tracking driving habits. If the government doesn't do this, health insurers will.
Many of the apps I've purchased for my Android phones over the years had a lite or ad-supported version for free and then a full version for purchase. I like being able to try something out first and when I have the option, I'm actually much more likely to pay for the full version. Ad-supported stuff is only good for testing out an app because they're annoying and obtrusive but I can understand having them in free/demo versions. If the only thing that sucks about a useful app is the ads, I'll gladly pay to get rid of them.

Then there's the demo stuff where you pay to unlock extended features. Sometimes I don't necessarily need those (like on the Hue Pro app or Nova Launcher) but when I use something daily and it's $1.99 to get the full version, I tend to buy "pro" more often than not. It's more a matter of maybe wanting the extra functionality or wanting to support the dev than about necessity in most cases but it definitely beats having to buy something only to find out it's crap.

If anything, the only reason I skip an app entirely is because I can't find enough trusted info to convince me it's something I want and there's no free version to test out first. Only for trusted devs and well-known and thoroughly reviewed apps do I tend to buy without a trial/demo first.
This site exists to worship the imaginary money shufflers. It was established by the same.
Exactly. This market demands that to find the right fit for a product and best value in performance/IO/watts/dollars. More options is always good for us. Anyone wanting to learn less can stick to one product family.
The amazing thing is how many senders fool themselves into thinking they're fooling users. The first commenter's description ("designed to appear handcrafted") seems to fall into that category.

I hear senders cite an email open rate or click rate, but there's no way to measure groans or "Do they think I've never signed up for a Web app?" reactions. (Heck, maybe it does help for consumer-oriented services, where many users actually haven't ever signed up for a Web app before.)
I was talking about npm. And I find the JS community welcoming, friendly and passionate and for the more serious npm modules out there highly technically literate, but hey it's a subjective thing I suppose :/
How is Gmail not supporting 'box-shadow' or ignoring 'display: none;' but allowing 'display: none !important;' a security feature? Not supporting classes? Why does AOL messes with inline URLs (so that they stop working)?

This article is full of examples that are obviously bugs. And worst - it's all neither documented nor standardised.
Right, similarly you should object any time someone uses a motor vehicle in your presence. God forbid someone drives a truck and you're within 10 feet. You didn't consent to breathe in those fumes, they shouldn't have the right to spread them around anywhere, even in designated driving areas like roads -- they are near sidewalks, after all.
As I understand it, smoking cessation programs have pretty bad success rates. An old article from JAMA [0] that seems to be one of the canonical papers in the field points out that only 23.6% of people in smoking cessation groups quit successfully. There may have been major advances since then, but I couldn't find new data quickly.

[0] http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=381957
I agree, I think SpaceX will have re-usable rockets with the Falcon 9 long before this is working. But I believe you could extend the jet-powered-rockets to larger launch vehicles than you could the tech in the Falcon 9. Plus, the tech might be able to be extended to have cheaper super-sonic flights. But that's long ways down the road.
How To Stop Overpaying for Your Video Games
If other companies in the space are an indication (e.g. AdBlock Plus), "intrusive ads" are defined as ads that don't pay them, but somebody else.
We wanted sustainable innovation, instead we got 144 unicorns.
Good design: Then we are taken to a page with a banner so big that you have to realize that you need to scroll way past the bottom of the screen to actually reach the content.
"Obviousness comes from conforming to people’s existing mental models. Don’t waste time reinventing common UI patterns or paradigms unless they are at least 2x better, or you have some critical brand reason to do so."

This is a beautiful insight. I wish everyone understood this. There's ZERO reason to reinvent the wheel with design.
A sales tax on groceries or a sin tax on cigarettes may be regressive because poor people spend a larger portion of their income on groceries and cigarettes, true.

The lottery, however, is worse. It is actively advertising to these people, encouraging them to have hopes and dreams about a way out of their situation, but instead it just kicks them while they're down. And it's not just some soulless corporate entity doing this, no: it's the same government which purports to care about their plight, not just exploiting them but encouraging them to passively hope for unearned success, instead of pursuing goals as an independent actor or something which might actually improve their lot.

"Hey, you never know!" is a dystopian lie, a few increments worse than "A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!"
> Remarkably, the United States government was able to tax all that productive corporate behavior so much that it came close to paying off all its debts for the first time in 160 years.

The current US debt is over 18.900.000.000.000 $ (http://www.usdebtclock.org/#). Am I getting the author right that the US managed to put on 18 B $ in 20 years?!
TLB and Pagewalk Coherence in X86 Processors
The worst kept secret in Silicon Valley....

I would argue this is the best kept secret, because this flush out needs to occur to wash away all the so called disrupters who, as you put, are really just shuffling piles of money around instead of actually doing any innovation.

I hate to invoke schadenfreude here, but the past few years have been incredibly insulting to those of us who have been running highly profitable bootstrapped businesses, and so I eagerly await this flush. Picture Mr. Burns from the Simpsons tapping his fingers together.
Well, not answering directly but following illustrates the point:

Apple's iOS7, Well, It Was Time For Skeuomorphism To Die

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/09/19/apples-io...

One of the bad example of Skeumorphism of Apple
http://dun4nx4d6jyre.cloudfront.net/assets/findmyfriends.jpg. Note the 'hand stitched' detailing.

OneNote could have continued to do things well without using clumsy, awkward, out of place design language.
Doesn't seem so unjust to me, as long as the government is efficient.

It seems to me that taxes are beneficial to poor people, as government spending benefits the poor the most. At least that's the theory.

Or they can directly redistribute the cigarette tax money to the poor.
I mean, cash doesn't need to literally be a pile of money right? It could be in some kind of ultra short term instrument that has some kind of inflation protection. Normal people could buy t-bonds to exactly match inflation. Not sure what options are out there when you have 100 billion dollars - but something like interest rate futures could hedge you against inflation risk.
> "a user friendly mechanism like Docker needs to happen"

Had you looked at OSv and Capstan[1]? It is just like Docker in that respect.

[1] https://github.com/cloudius-systems/capstan/blob/master/READ...
I could not agree with your comments more.

The more we realize that there are cultural divides other than skin color, I think we as a collective species can see that the constructs that have been used to divide us in the past are completely pointless; everyone is very different.

Most people would call me white. But I'm from the north eastern US, I'm catholic, I come from an italian background, and I speak shitty broken Spanish from growing up with a lot of cubans and dominicans. I have nothing in common with a jewish girl from LA that grew up in a family of lawyers that immigrated from Russia other than the color of our skin. And some how she and I have more in common than the black cuban kids I grew up with?

The barriers we as a people tend to see as the most divisive are generally the least divisive in practice. We just like to think that they are the most divisive because it's easy to see.
This article does a good job of explaining:

http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/corporations-cash-hoard-trill...

Some interesting excerpts:

"Four of the top five holders of cash are tech companies ...who together possess...about 23 percent of all cash owned by corporate America today. Overall, the tech sector controls more than half of such cash"

"about 60 percent of [non-financial corporate] cash piles are offshore and subject to as much as 35 percent tax if brought back to the U.S."
How to Improve Usability in Software
I don't believe unikernel is a trademark.
What's missing from this guy's evaluation: whether or not any of these unicorns are close to or at profitability, and what their actual market potential is.

If the businesses are based on bullshit, then he's probably right. If the valuations truly are wildly out of control (and it does seem like it), then sure, they're due for a correction.

It's also worth keeping mind that if there are 144 of these startups, 90% of them is 129. That doesn't add up to that much money in SV terms. This seems like a tempest in a teapot. People love to make headlines, it seems, with "OMG bubble OMG!"
Introducing Talla:  an Internal Workflow Bot for Companies
Yes. One quick and not-exactly-honest answer is that photons are gauge bosons and thus are automatically their own antiparticle, while neutrinos are fermions and the symmetry is not guaranteed. Beyond that, though, I don't know how to explain it without delving into some of the structure of quantum field theory and the Standard Model.

Edit: and yes of course, as aroberge points out, two photons can collide and produce a particle/antiparticle pair. The real question is: can two neutrinos collide and pair produce? Or do you need a neutrino and an antineutrino (assuming the are Dirac in nature)?
>> Not that I agree with your framing, but even if I accept it for the sake of argument, that black culture is lazy and underachieving in a way white culture isn't...

That is absolutely not my thesis; you're either wilfully or ignorantly misrepresenting what I said. Some black people do make it in tech; some make it in other fields. They generally do so the way the rest of us do, by hard work. Perhaps harder work, in fact, because of cultural barriers that still exist.

Actually, the parent posting is an excellent example of the extreme conclusions to which people jump whenever the hot potato topic of race comes up. It's a kneejerk response: White man shoots black man, must be racism. Half of inmates in max security prisons are black -- must be racism.

The fact is that black culture itself is diverse and while most blacks do achieve respectable middle class lifestyles, there is an achievement gap that some experience, that cannot be dressed up with canards like "cultural barrier" or "dialectical discrimination".

>> ...they'll move into a culture of good white traits...

Yes, this is the old 1970s era rationale for quota systems. "Such practices are inherently unfair and even a form of reverse racism, but in the long run it somehow magically produces equality." This notion has been long since discredited and indeed these kinds of affirmative action and quota practices may even have prolonged black underachievement. It's just like the failed forcible integration efforts of the '70s. They didn't work because while you can mix ethnic groups, you can't mix economic classes; those who can move, move.
The only question is if users are willing to pay the price of a bug-less software.

Nope, but at least they have the time to write one star reviews about wasting money on a 99c app, while sipping through their $10 cup of coffee. :)
Possibly only if you are operating in a single market. If you have currency/soverign risk because you are selling in 100 countries, it's way more complex. I bet Apple doesn't consider all the rubles they have from their operations in Russia as less risky than parking it in US treasuries. The problem is getting it there...
I disagree. UX/UI design has to be obvious, people need to know what to do, without having to ask for help or look at a manual. And 'obvious' is easy.

Certain arrangements that already exist are basically universal. People know where to look, people understand certain symbols. Use those, don't try and reinvent them. Use what people know.

Trying to be clever is what dooms design.
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Cigarettes, as a product when used as directed will not only harm the individual 100% of the time but will also tax the remaining non smokers. Cigarettes do not cover existential damages such as harm to nonsmokers, litter, garbage and damage to wildlife albeit through fires, avian or sea life.

See Myth 3: The Economics of Tobacco at 'The World Bank' site.

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTHEALTHNUT...
Maven, GM's Car-Sharing Scheme, Is Really About a Driverless Future
Yet another bill seeks to weaken encryption-by-default on smartphones
QWERTZ is a German layout. Try Dutch stores.
Which "source text"?

For all I know, the electron as such can't be split and remain the electron, especially not produce "two" electrons. And especially whatever is produced by splitting the electron we won't be able to recombine it in an electron.

Some journalists and some news sources simply like to distort the science. "It's OK for their target population or their business model."

This article in Nature (Apr 2015) was the source for that phys.org thing:

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150421/ncomms7854/full/nco...

What I understand they do is they demonstrate some quantum effect not actually splitting the electron.

And where did you find that phys.org link? And what's your "source text" from which you gave the quote? Daily Mail links to the 2014 New Scientist article I've already linked and doesn't have these sentences?
Says the guy with the alphabet soup as a comment.
23.6% doesn't sound so bad. How does it compare to people trying to quit without the program?
Gamergate and SJW wasn't even a thing until a couple of years ago. To be clear, I'm referring to the allegiances and labeling more so than the conflict/discussion. I'm all for having a sensible dissuasion about the under representation of women in tech. I'm not for removing all nuance and resulting to name calling and wagon circling.

The whole GG vs SJW is based on false pretenses to begin with, but I'm already deeper into this than I care to be, so I'll end the discussion here.
Do you know if Adsense tried to make any agreement with ad blockers?
Their ads are not so bad.
Display: contents; element treated as if it had been replaced with its children
* Maybe. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/about-this-wee...
Education and underemployment in the age of machine intelligence
I'm trying to coin the term "portmanco" for these companies. Just like a portmanteau in linguistics simply mashes two words together, a portmanco just mashes two familiar companies together and calls it a new one.
Developers especially should know
If you misplace a comma your code is busted, so developers are very very careful. Except when using its and it's. It's is a contraction meaning "it is," and is not the form of possession. Its is possessive. It's is not.
oh look bitcoin is dead again.

If bitcoin survived the exit of Satoshi Nakamoto it will survive the exit of Mike Hearn. This article picks up one data point, that when he sold his coins the price dropped 10%, a loss it has since regained and the same sort of dip that was seen when Silk Road was taken down.

Bitcoin will be dead when the miners stop mining, until then I will keep watching it.
Ask HS: Are there any front-end web frameworks that use only JavaScript?
For example, if you wanted to have a title centered on the page you might do something like...

var page = new Page();

var label = new Label();
label.x = page.width/2;
label.y = page.height/2;
label.text = "Hello, World!";
label.textColor = new Color(r: 1, g: 0, b: 0);

page.add(label);

etc.
x86 and Unix are insanely complex too and a big part of that complexity has to do with backward compatibility. I've scanned through the specs and I haven't seen any complexity just for the sake of it. Care to point out any specifics? Also note that some of the added complexity is to support new features, such as power provider/consumer switching and power safety.

As for the substandard Chinese grade products, they've always done that and will continue to do it. Bulk of existing USB chargers you find have horrible ripples and have power factors that seem to have been engineered to be embarrassingly low.
This is what I tell potential customers that are evaluating our product that creates single-page web applications where the JS dynamically creates all content: if you want search engines to crawl the content, then you're not using the right product. It's a surprisingly easy decision when viewed in those terms. Most SAAS products that likely would be implemented as SPAs do not care about public search engine access, and are only used by B2B customers where you can dictate a certain minimum standard in terms of browser versions (IE).

Everything else should be a traditional static web site with "decorative" JS, or "progressive enhancement".
"I started smoking when I was a kid, like when I was ... like 14 and I thought, "I'll look really cool if I start smoking." Because I didn't get along with anybody. So, I started smoking, and wouldn't you know it? I did look cool! All of the sudden, all these broads liked me and everything. Not broads, but ladies, girls, whatever."

-- Norm Macdonald
Kapor Capital Will Require Its Startups to Invest in Diversity and Inclusion
> finally give up on outdated notions of personal freedom and irrational choice

Apparently the cigarette industries' attempts to associate smoking with personal freedom in advertisements have been successful in your case.

I think the health benefits by far outweigh any perceived personal freedom costs. Smoking is damaging but addictive. Too many people want to but don't manage to stop.

If higher prices help reduce smoking, I'm for higher prices.
The 3 types of product/market fit
Well, it is a good feature of a theory. Imagine that you would have two competing theories but they give different predictions, then a measurement on those predictions would determine which is which. (If they give the same predictions, an interesting questions would be 'is there a mathematical proof that they are the same?'.)

For example with GR, it explained for example the precession of Mercury's elliptical orbit, and predicted time dilation (used now in GPS for example) and bending of light. It is true that gravity waves remains to be directly detected.

This is how physics have usually progressed in the past: Have an old theory, have some experiments not explained by that theory, invent new theory that can be reduced to the old theory and explains these new experiments and give new predictions. (The subject of string theory is somewhat different however.)
Because of things like liquidity preference, a valuation going down can wipe out the employee stock.
Startup CEOs: Your Board Seat Is Hurting You
Upon reading this list the entire internet feels now like reddit, including user manuals.
Using q-tips to clean my ears after a shower is better than sex. It's the greatest thing. You can take my q-tips from my cold dead hands. I have never had an ear infection or any problems related to my ears. I use q-tips daily. So, meh..
There's a similar tool here which is running inside the web browser:

http://code.woboq.org/llvm/clang/include/clang/AST/ASTContex...

https://code.woboq.org/

https://woboq.com/codebrowser.html
Here is the "The Kapor Capital Founders’ Commitment": http://www.kaporcapital.com/founders-commitment/

Listing a company like Jopwell here is pertinent for the themes this commitment is addressing: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/15/jopwell/#.bbg9kb:4thq
Foxconn offers $5.3B to purchase Sharp
The first two in your list are standard English words with well-defined meanings. You may or may not agree with their applicability in any particular situation but they weren't invented to serve as slurs.

“brogrammer” is indeed not helpful.
The text itself is respectful enough. The problem is more the subtext: "You are the enemy, and are not be trusted. Therefore it is only possible for us to interact under these precise terms."
> However, like any adolescent, since it's good at one thing, it thinks it is the best at everything.

The only thing that's happening here is that a community has formed around an evolving language and is taking advantage of some great tooling and open source projects to do some interesting stuff. That community isn't formed exclusively of wet-behind-the-ears web developers. It's comprised of developers of all skills levels with experience in a multitude of platforms and languages, just like any other. These people chose JS because it works for them and their problem set. To suggest otherwise is condescending to say the least. Stop trying to paint the whole community with a single brush, you sound ridiculous. If JS isn't your bag fine, move on, but less of the JS shaming please.