skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, what I say is even more evident in the globalized world than in a local market. Consider few things that break your vision of free market:

- Economies of scale. In areas where fixed costs of production are huge, a one-size-barely-fits-all beats specialized solutions. Consider the mobile market. After Blackberry lost in the smartphone wars, there is no phone available that would be a decent tool. All of them are made for the lowest common denominator, and are useful for anything other than consumption as little as it is possible to still get people looking for practical aspects to buy them. Smartphone manufacturing has huge fixed costs, so when anyone ever tries to service a niche market, those phones are terribly expensive.

- Related: customers don't demand new things, they chose from what is available. Most people do their tasks by choosing from what is available. Rarely one does dream up a new solution (those who do end up sometimes creating them). New solutions only appear when there's a market incentive to make them - when someone believes they can make money on it. Which is determined by what can be sold profitably, not by what people actually need.

Compare: the famous (and probably misattributed) Ford quote: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." Also compare: Tesla having to force the market to accept electric vehicles by pouring shit tons of money until they actually became profitable. Rarely one has both enough will to fix the world and enough money to force the market to follow.

- Related: market optimizes for profitability, not for value. "How much people are willing to pay for it" is only a proxy for "how this thing is useful". It's worth to look at the areas where this proxy fails.

- Pour enough money into sales & marketing, and you can sell anything regardless of whether it is actually useful or not. People can be manipulated into believing they need your product, or the need may be manufactured out of thin air - and nowadays it's usually cheaper than making something actually useful.

- Related: information asymmetry. The wonders of free market depend in a big part on perfect and instant information exchange. This is not the case in real world, and the companies have all the incentive to deceive and misinform customers about their products (and their competition).
It's almost as if government interupting supply and demand causes high prices and shortages.
> it fails the "if man made it, don't eat it" test spectacularly. Basically everything you see there has been shaped by man. A (stunning) example: one species of plant, brassica oleracea, has been selectively (i.e., artificially) bred to produce a wide range of different cultivars including, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, broccoli, kohlrabi, brussel sprouts, and more. NONE of these produce items are "natural."

You're overthinking this. "Is this food packaged and processed with preservatives, a list of 40 ingredients, and has a shelf life of 6 months to 5 years? Then I'm not buying it. Is it meat or product? It's ok." This is referring pretty specifically to Franken-foods, not GMOs (which I too think are a great idea, and essentially optimizing our agricultural practices over the last 20,000-whatever years).
Yes, he has announced on Twitter that his project is running out of funding (it is a research grant).

He has set up a Patreaon page [0] for those interested in contributing his live coding, development of Sonic Pi and Overtone.

[0] https://www.patreon.com/samaaron
> but you need to pay for the Enterprise SKU for that privilege

This reminds me very much of the old, arrogant MS. I fully appreciate "forcibly kept up to date (arguably a good thing, since they don't have an IT department to update their computers for them)" but imo to earn the good citizen award, MS should support a registry edit to give sophisticated users at least a few weeks of a nag screen before a forced update.
What if I put base64 encoded content into the hyperlink? Will it be legal still? :)
I would start by targeting under served merchants that currently don't offer the credit card option like vending, laundromats, etc. I could also see this working to give websites another way to monetize ad blocked sites with micropayments(i.e wired throws the hey stop using adblock banner or click this qrcode and give us $.25) Another benefit to the customer would be privacy since the merchant would never see their personal info this could fuel adoption,
A key excerpt from the article:

‘This combination is referred to as GNU/kWindows (GNU with the Windows kernel added).

Microsoft and Canonical have apparently been working together to write a subsystem that translates Linux system calls into something Windows will understand—a compatibility layer. So, software compiled to run on a system with the kernel Linux will work on Windows through system call translation. Many articles are calling this system “Ubuntu on Windows”, or “Linux on Windows”. This is a fallacy: the kernel Linux is not at all involved! What we are witnessing is the GNU operating system running with a Windows kernel instead of Linux.’
Thanks! Yea, I'm not married yet either.. but I kept seeing the same issues being struggled with by my friends. As I started to model out how much time and money I would need in the future (for my eventual wedding), I was hoping to find a service like the one we're building with WedWell.

Our goal would be to eventually be an entire platform for a couple to book, iterate details, and pay for vendors.

There are plenty of vendor sites out there, so not too concerned that someone would search for vendors through our site and bypass our service, but it's definitely something we will keep an eye out for.
> How do you get reliable data?

Use a trusted third party API like Good Guide or Environmental Working Group (EWG), which contains data on about a combined 300,000 products.

> How will you make money?

Allow users to optionally tip (defaulted to 10%) an additional portion of their donation to TrueCost.

> Do people actually care about the environmental impact of their purchases, or is it just social signaling? Could you capitalize on signaling with social media sharing of "I just offset the environmental impact of [my purchase] with TrueCost!".

70% of US consumers are concerned about environmental impact of their purchases sometimes, regularly, or every time they shop. Source: Cone Communications

There is definitely an opportunity to leverage social behavior to drive awareness and referral.
Agreed. I think Technical Debt is used incorrectly here, I only consider items debt once they are merged and are intended to be fixed at a future time.
French Government Declares Bans on Paying for Sex
I would rather it was corruption than stupidity. Our government are also in charge of a nuclear arsenal.
But Elon Musk doesn't have 20 years of experience at Ford. Sometimes, when you are doing something new, it comes from left field.

Brodlist stems from several years of private research with two PhD students (check kayia.org for more details) that was lucky enough to wind up being able to be the Tesla of databases. Most of this is implemented (what's left is mechanical) and I'm happy to do a TDD with HN. I definitely understand your concern and I'm saying I don't know if we qualified to do this job but I can assure you that we qualified by doing this job.
Hi there. You must extend your service beyond practising Linux CLI because Windows 10 got Ubuntu already built-in. There is no value proposition anymore. All hope is not lost though.

I see that you already offer learning other stuff like MySQL via browser. But it needs to have more varieties. Maybe something like practising editing Nginx config file via browser and seeing the result straight away.
Coffee beans are fermented first.
I had the same question, and without actually cloning the repo I wish I had a better answer.

I found, looking through the tags, that src/React.js was added in 0.14-stable, then I examined the history of React.js to find this commit:

https://github.com/facebook/react/commit/b2ca3349c27b57b1e94...

Additionally, I dug this up:

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/4814#discussion-diff-...

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/4814

"I changed it to __SECRET_DOM_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED to make our German friends less grossed out. I'm going to do the examples in a separate PR."
This comes at the right time, because the EU Commission was just preparing to put "copyright infringement by hyperlinking" into law:

https://juliareda.eu/2015/11/ancillary-copyright-2-0-the-eur...

France was also planning to ban "hyperlinking without permission":

https://openmedia.org/en/amendment-ban-hyperlinks
FWIW I'm pretty okay with the Safe Harbor provisions as they are, considering the conglomorate rights management entities of the RIAA et al are, by most accounts, doing bang-up business and getting their fingers into everybody's pockets to get their percentages. True, they aren't getting 40% (or whatever) ROI like in the heydey of premium pricing for CDs in the peak market, but the industry's biggest players are equipped and able to manage their rights as-is. Just look at Prince - he has no trouble auditing his material on the internet, down to a dancing baby case of all things (which didn't really clear things up either).

Recent technological advancements by SoundCloud and Dubset purport to be able to identify music pieces using back-end tech. This is a huge development, and could force the issue with other digital service providers. It's a matter of technology catching up to the desired methods of tracking and revenue collection, and it looks like we're a lot closer. Modern problems, modern tools to address them.

As an independent, I'd probably care more if I saw large numbers leading to miniscule revenues, but let's be honest, we're talking the music business and musicians have traditionally not made much income from recorded works. If one of my songs gets used on a viral video without permission and it blows up and gets some ad revenue, yeah, that's a case to pursue (and probably win). Other times this DMCA stuff seems a bit more alarmist than consumer friendly.

Oh, and there seems to be a really glaring factual error in the article about Grooveshark:

>"In that case, the court found that Grooveshark had created a 'technological Pez dispenser' that required copyright owners to submit 'successive takedown notices' in order to remove a single sound recording from the service," the 18 record industry groups wrote in the brief. "This type of brazen work-around of the DMCA by Grooveshark and other rogue actors of the DMCA devalues music and suppresses the legitimate market for it."

No, in that case, the Record Labels uncovered evidence that Grooveshark employees had uploaded songs and encouraged each other via internal e-mails to upload popular songs. That was the stake through the heart. That is definitely not DMCA compliant and they got utterly destroyed for it. If anything, it's an example that the RIAA still has tremendous rights-management power. See also: Aurous.

End personal opinion, YMMV.
This is a funny aspect of English. In general, we distinguish the meat of mammals (beef, pork, venison, mutton, ...), but non-mammals are their meat (fish, chicken, ...).

But I don't think this is well explained by a class distinction. I mean, the classes of people who raised sheep weren't so different from the people who raised chickens.
On the flip side, you've got the EVE Online model. Expansions are released every 6-8 months as "super-patches". Like every MMO it's mandatory to be playing on the latest version, but everyone gets it for "free".

It's pretty simple to avoid the problem of having players scattered across multiple content sets and levelcaps: stop bleeding your players dry. What are subscription fees paying for if not ongoing development of additional content?

IMO you should either charge for expansions or charge subscription fees - but not both.
> Pardon, but you seem a little bitter.

They seem extremely bitter with little justification, to be honest.

> I suspect you have no idea how good you have it, compared to say, most graduates with a degree in humanities from an expensive liberal arts college.

Poli Sci degree from an expensive liberal arts college checking in. Ask me how many sub-$40k/yr programming jobs I've taken because they're all I could get with a Poli Sci degree.
Based on a 10% grow year to year is there some information on what will be the cost savings for those companies when adopting this system?
No, I would not be using Photoshop, as I now dislike its user interface and find it hard and frustrating to use for simple tasks.

But you know what! People are different and have different preferences. And I am far from alone preferring GIMP over the Photoshop UI.
Use pickaxe

$ git log -S__SECRET_DOM_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED

commit d17091ddebf317173eb30e3ab4a8e28e124c8f50

Author: Paul O’Shannessy <paul@oshannessy.com>

Date: Thu Mar 24 11:00:38 2016 -0700

Make Browserify-specific modules to remove DOM dependencies from npm package

commit 712199ef9830359c35c1c2442d79676396c06a2d

Author: Jim <jsfb@github>

Date: Mon Oct 5 15:02:34 2015 -0700

React -> ReactDOM for render() and findDOMNode()

commit b2ca3349c27b57b1e9462944cbe4aaaf76783d2b

Author: Paul O’Shannessy <paul@oshannessy.com>

Date: Tue Sep 8 10:13:24 2015 -0700

Actually build react-dom file with the build
Significant rise in alternative work arrangements in US economy in last decade [pdf]
Desmos's MathQuill interface is great. By far the easiest to use math input I've encountered. I haven't tried to input anything really exotic, but it's extremely intuitive for the simple to intermediate level of complexity.

Thanks for your work on Desmos, it's a pleasure to use.
Outsourcing vs. in-house software development – which path should you go?
Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming languages
> I can't count how many hours I've lost to debugging that could've easily been saved by a handful of automated tests.

Undoubtedly, but be careful you're not suffering from confirmation bias, are you properly accounting for all the tests you wrote that never detected an issue, where they didn't save tons of time in a major refactor (because it never happened)?

> But perhaps you're a better programmer than I am, and I envy that your code works perfectly regardless of whether you write tests or not.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/141657128476/the-sarcasm-tell-w...
Before leaving for MS, Cutler worked on an OS codenamed "Mica" which ran on top of an architecture named PRISM (which was a predecessor to the Alpha). The idea behind Mica was that it was a microkernel which hosted VMS and Unix personalities on top.

It is widely claimed and believed that when he moved with his team to MS that he reimplemented Mica as the NT kernel. http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/dec/prism/mica/
The article mentions safety regulations and having worked around [not in] cranes in a previous life that was also my first thought. So I am curious about how the system handles safety for people other than the operator.
> One legal thing that I'm also wondering about is the "Linux" trademark.

This probably explains why they never talk about Linux (at least I never saw it), but always about Ubuntu. I guess they have an agreement with Canonical.
That is an incredibly poor understanding of science.
Binding memory to layouts
Maybe because the answer is a whole thread that includes comments and other pieces of context that a simple copy&paste of just an explanation wouldn't have?
Can you go into more detail about what a regular western diet is and how your new diet differs?
I always liked the Tinderbox pricing scheme. You pay X amount for a year of updates. It's not super cheap. You get your year of updates, and then you coast on the last version you got, until the next time you decide to shell out for a year of updates. If you like the software you can pay every year on the dot, and always be up to date. If you're ambivalent you can pay for one year every five years, and just accept the fact that you're using out-of-date software for four years. Or mix and match. Seems pretty reasonable.

http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/
The problem with that study is that it is observational and was set up to fail.
Metabolic ward and interventional studies still show that if you eat more saturated fats, your cholesterol increases.
For example, if you add 30g of butter to your diet every day, your cholesterol will go up.
Sorry for breaking it to you.
The companion documentary (Eat, Fast, and Live Longer) is worth watching - https://vimeo.com/50912488

Personal note: I've been following this diet since Jan 1. I also run ~ 70 miles/week. I've run 3 of my best marathons this year and lost 5 stubborn lbs (145 -> 140, I'm 5'8"). There are other styles of intermittent fasting. I'm enjoying this way of eating.

Aside, a related BBC/Horizon documentary I saw years ago flipped the question of obesity on its head and asked: Why Are Thin People Not Fat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1hbPXooB1U
> Since about 1980, only 10 states have been potential swing states. So those 10 get most of the attention (Ohio, Florida). We'd be far better off with direct vote for the prez.

They are swing states because of how the population votes and divides between people in the US. We are based on states and a direct vote would be a nightmare and go against the principles this country was founded on (Federal, State, People).

> I want to make house of rep elections be fore an entire state too, this is one of the few ways to break gerrymandering

At the cost of no actual representation for rural areas of a state, no thanks.
What was the thing that might have grossed out German friends? I'm German and I can't see any funny word here
> Expecting to be able to look at a code sample in isolation and know what it does is unrealistic for any large-scale system.

I don't know why you'd think that. In a typed language, you simply look at the types and you know exactly the intended meaning of a code fragment ie. what inputs are needed, what outputs are produced, etc. That's not remotely the case for JavaScript due to its implicit conversions.
Hence amsmath.
Nest was supposed to lead the next computing revolution. Its looking like a bust
Yes, that made me sad too. As the father of a girl, I'm often discouraged when I see how angry some men get when women (and only women) disagree with them, regardless of tone or substance.
Quite an on point explanation; I'd also contend though that modern DAWs like Ableton Live 9 have quite nuanced sequencing and MIDI controls/notation for professionals (and can go deeper with MAX).
Oh thank god I'll be able to link to Irish news websites again without fear of prosecution!

http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/newspapers-demand-to-be-pai...
I think entrepreneurs often forget that VC's are deploying OPM, which puts an enormous amount of pressure on the firm to deliver outsized returns. I've met a few entrepreneurs over the years that fail to understand this fully - sad!
I edited it in; my apologies. SECRET was SEKRET, which apparently means "secretion" in German.

Ultimately this doesn't answer the question of why is it named this way.
Why is rice OK, but pasta isn't?

If pasta is cooked al dente (why would you cook it any other way?!), the glycemic index will be lower than that of white or brown rice - this means it impacts your blood glucose levels less.
> I'm with you except for wanting type errors.

Duck typing for methods and such is fine if that's what you're into, but if you're checking for equality, you want type errors, period. Only like equals like. Doesn't matter if your language is statically typed or dynamically typed, equality means something very specific and it's very surprising when those expectations are violated.
Off topic, but this is the second submission I've seen where the title was all in caps except "Not" and having just done a test it seems that HN converts "NOT" to "Not". I'm curious as to why...

Other submission was this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11411368
Perhaps you should read the first paragraph of the article to receive clarification on this :)
Hedge Funds Are the New Venture Firms
Fintech Article by Bank Innovation in NYC: Startups to Watch
An FM transmitter that attaches to a smartphone gives a perfectly clear signal, costs less than $7, and only requires a cigarette lighter, standard in cars since the 1920's, and FM radio, standard since the 50's.
Reddit for iOS and Android
"When I hit the grocery store I skip the middle aisles and head straight for the fish and meat counter"

Those pretty packages of meat are just as much "man made" as the foods you demonize. If you want to eat meat, I suggest hunting and only using your teeth and hands (claws?) to kill your prey and to eat the meat raw; gotta eat all of it too, no picking and choosing what parts you want either.

"If you want to eat that cupcake or enjoy that cold glass of beer be sure to exercise it off."

This is HORRIBLE advice. Treating exercise like a punishment for enjoying food is like a one-way ticket to Eating Disorder Town. Diet and exercise are important, but they should be used to compliment each other and not to negate being bad at the other.
If I've followed all the trails correctly, this is essentially a docker image of a wrapper around Chromium in order to print HTML to PDF.

wkhtmltopdf uses a WebKit browser to print HTML to PDF.
Ketogenic diets increase all-cause mortality

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20820038

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22850317

http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(15)0...

and make you gain weight
http://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-study-finds...
You make it sound as if the "law" is easy. Everyone can have their own interpretation of the law, and often those interpretations are complete opposite. That's why we have two sides in a court of law.

Microsoft's lawyers likely decided that the move is "worth the risk". But they wouldn't be able to be 100% sure that it's either legal or illegal anyway. You can only be 100% sure after someone challenges you in Court, and then judges decide a certain way.
Thanks for your comment,
Employers will do a percentage match towards the repayment. Also pay for the SaaS platform.

Currently a lot of students do not automate it because of not having the minimum balance on the due date. One more problem that it does solve just like 401k is to mandate some financial discipline. Like 401k they can obviously skip few months given that they will be fined by their bank.

Regarding benefits for employers - One is a benefit to attract talent. Some companies like deloitte pay off your one semester fee if were an intern who got and accepted a full time offer. Other employers have plans to pay towards your continuing education. I dont think this will add much extra cost to employer but yes there will def be some friction to onboard first few companies. But if Google is in, Facebook will not miss it

Either zenefits or adp. Right now none.

Yes sharing repayment status might be tricky. Good point. But employer doesn't have to see the repayment status though. The platform can automatically stop or notify the employee once the repayment is done.

I sent an email to few people who manage education loans at banks.
There has been a few occasions in the past where I've taken a sick day because I got less than 4 hours sleep. I'd sent an email to whomever is my manager for the project and go back to bed. Then there have been times where I just powered through anyway, drank coffee and lots of water and took some pseudoephedrine... and felt horrible for days afterwards.

Taking a sick-day is definitely preferred.

(this only works if you have a safety-net where employees are guaranteed more than a week of leave for illness, compassionate or carers. Hard to imagine not having that protection.)