skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair point, but I'm not a big fan of taxing specific things versus a general tax. If I make a bunch of money by selling books, fine, tax me on it. But it doesn't give you rights to my books, or to cut across my lawn...
Anti-Fragile Cloud Architectures
You put it so much more eloquently than I did. Yes, this is exactly what I mean.
This obsession with react/electron/etc for the desktop is ridiculous. The OP acknowledges as much in the title ("secure" - what do you mean, it's a text editor, isn't it? Oh, because they decided to go "all web" for this!).

Use MacDown on OS X http://macdown.uranusjr.com and MarkdownPad on Windows http://markdownpad.com

I don't have any recommendations for Linux, unfortunately.

Then again, the whole point of Markdown is that it's basic plain-text syntax that can be prettified as HTML. Its entire raison d'être is that you _don't_ have to learn (or test) another markup language, but whatever.
I know some people who deactivate their account every night, and apparently it's not that rare either: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/11/08/risk-re...
One of our awesome contributors wrote a little tool that makes it easy to script such videos, the video is updated on the website (readme will come soon) and script available and patchable on https://github.com/hypothesist/termtype/blob/master/coala_in...
I seem to remember this: https://github.com/diafygi/gnu-pricing
Fedora Workstation Phase 1
Happy to help with organising one
It's pretty well understood that government tests are not reflective of real world driving habits or conditions. The test is however consistent and can be used as a basis for comparison of different vehicles.

It's very much like synthetic benchmarks for CPUs. They won't give you a 100% accurate picture but they're a good basis for comparison.
Tracking of Airborne Orangutans? Awesome!
Oh wait: Airborne Tracking of Orangutans. Also awesome!
>I usually think the same for vast majority of stuff on HN, i.e. most articles could be cut down to one or two paragraphs with little value lost,

Maybe life too.

Instead of going through this whole redundant process of living through it, we could just be given some 10 word summary, like e.g.:

"There was some fun, some sadness, a few regrets, a couple profound experiences, a lot of boredom, quite some pain, mostly ok, and then you died".
Very interesting, that German carmakers don't take e- mobility seriously. They have outdated concepts, lack of visions and deal with exhaust-emissions-tuning and irrelevant micro-improvements rather than out of the box thinking into the future. A paradigm shift is imminent. Goodbye Germaneering. Hello concepts that help making the world a better place. Thank God for guys like Elon Musk!
"Furthermore this bad luck is not statistically independent of various other characteristics"

Right, so that's not bad luck. That's systemic bias.
"Virtually every phone maker using Google Android in the European Union has bowed to Google's demands, suppressing competition by other app makers and preventing free choice for consumers,"

- is this really true?
The problem is that everything is done without a safety net of an emergency fund, retirement funds, etc. as a fallback. For some reason (keeping up with the Jones'?), many Americans have the idea they must spend so much on lifestyle (transport, bigger house, services, weddings, kids) that they never have much to save in retirement, emergency savings, or other investments.
The Berlin-Paris overnight train had showers in the first class car. Alas it was cancelled last year.

Public swimming pools have showers, why couldn't lounges at a bus station. Included in the slightly premium lie-flat service.
I think the problem is the needs for the Fun To Drive market and the Driving Appliance market have separated so much that you can't fit both markets into a single model anymore. Through the E46 era (early 2000s) you could have a single car which you would drive to work and which you could take to a track. The E90 (late 2000s), and rapidly increasing into the F30s (2010s), people want so many comfort, automation, and entertainment features in their Driving Appliances that would cause any Fun To Drive buyer to immediately reject the car out of hand. The Driving Appliance market is vastly larger than the Fun To Drive market, so it's clear where you're going to focus the bulk of your effort.

I think we're shortly going to reach a point where driving enthusiasts have to have two vehicles. One to drive on the roads and one to drive for fun. I've already reached that point, myself. I won't own any vehicle newer than the early 2010s unless it is fully self-driving.
I try to take your view day-to-day, but ultimately, it seems like we've veered well into overreaction territory rather than simply conscientious reactions to dangers.
If you use checkinstall(1) it'll see what `sudo make install` would do, and create a local package that would do that (e.g. a deb on ubuntu). This package can then be installed in the usual manner, which gives you uninstallability, transactionality, and ensures you don't overwrite any other files installed via a package. This is much better than curl|bash.
EU charges Google over Android
To be fair, this doesn't have to have originated via animal-to-animal infection, but could be an example of sporadic CWD.

As far as I know, sporadic CWD is relatively uncommon, but given CWD is caused by the PrP protein, and there are a number of known mutations in PrP which can increase its likelihood of undergoing prion-conversion, I'd hope they're going to sequence this animal's PrP gene to see it it shed's some light on the etiology.

Irrespective, this could still mean that CWD is now endemic in Europe.

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Updated for clarity and extra info/context (thanks pbhjpbhj!)

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CWD: Chronic Wasting Disease (deer-based prion disease - main topic of article)

PrP: The specific prion protein involved here. Note that (confusingly!) prions are both a 'class' of proteins but also refers to a specific protein (PrP).

Prions (class) are proteins which can exist in one of two states. In their soluble form they're happy-go-lucky proteins that are monomeric (i.e. exist as a single unit). However, these soluble-form prions can undergo a conformational change (re-arrange their shape) into a different conformation (the infectious form). The infectious form of the prion can do two specific things: 1) Aggregate (so all the previous soluble prion proteins get stuck into a big wad of protein) 2): Catalyze the conversion of soluble-form prion into the infectious form. Herein lies their infectivity - you get an exponential growth in the number of proteins in the infectious state.

Prions (PrP) is a specific protein found in many higher-order multicellular organisms that is the SPECIFIC protein that causes a range of prion diseases (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), BSE [mad cow], CWD, Scrapie etc). There are species barriers to these diseases, even though the proteins are pretty similar (i.e. humans cannot catch CWD from deer, even though the PrP protein misfolds in CWD and the same human version misfolds in CJD). These species barriers are convenient (!!) but very poorly understood, which is somewhat concerning.

Finally - it's worth point out prions aren't always bad. Fungi use them as a mechanism to facilitate non-genetic heritability/diversity [1], and we're increasingly finding examples of prion-like mechanisms that facilitate fast and irreversible signalling in cells (e.g. in the inflammation response [2])

[1] True, H. L. & Lindquist, S. L. A yeast prion provides a mechanism for genetic variation and phenotypic diversity. Nature 407, 477–483 (2000).

[2] Cai, X. et al. Prion-like polymerization underlies signal transduction in antiviral immune defense and inflammasome activation. Cell 156, 1207–1222 (2014).
The irony being? It wasn't exactly a "stick it to the man / down with money" post, even if he has a small paragraph talking about young people rebelling in it.
I'm not a vegetarian, and I gladly pay others to kill animals for me to eat. But I do not pay for the animals to be tortured in the process; I want them killed as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Cats injure, torture, and play with their prey before killing it. Humans should not do that.
> This is what the Debian guys standing in a circle holding their passwords are doing at your Linux event.

Passports, surely? :P
There are certain jobs that cannot be done in 15 hours a week. Especially jobs where availability is of primary importance and/or bad communication is catastrophic.

I'm thinking of certain types of R&D, medicine, and certain kinds of leadership roles.
Rule of law, economic prosperity, physical security, ending open defecation. There are lots of them!

Then again these goals are common with men also.
Suffolk boy myself (though Welsh by birth and parentage). I suspect that's more because Suffolk isn't traditionally a hunting area. However, where my fiancée is from, is, so I get both sides of the argument.

Re. badgers, my problem is that the work that's been done on the trial culls has been so badly managed that it's hard to say one way or the other whether it's working or not. Quarantine and cattle culling in Wales seems to be having a positive effect on TB spread, but at huge economic damage to farmers.

Re. foxes, my issue there is that the hunt ban is an awful piece of legislation, that neither protects foxes, nor helps those who have have dozens of hunt dogs. I'm fine with either legalising it (it's not a great past-time, but there's far worse and it's an effective way of controlling fox populations in localised areas), or with banning it (there's other ways to keep populations in check, although none are humane).

My issue is with town and city folk who didn't grow up in the countryside not understanding that it's land which has to be managed.
By "zombie apocalypse", you mean slow-walking infected, craving brains and infecting anyone they bite?

Or just, you know, a disease that kills you if you eat brains? Because that's kind of the exact opposite of what zombies do.
Using codemirror - I would have thought prosemirror would have been a better fit. Wonder why.
Can you provide an example of the output?
Justifiable? Based on what he actually said? -- there's an accurate transcription down in the link.
I have used FreeCAD for years, and I am looking to use it in an application I want to create. It is based upon 'Portable Generative Design for CAD Applications' [1]. I wish to create the front end for FreeCAD, so I can use the research's abstractions to create generative architecture, structures or art in FreeCAD. I have been a Blender3D user, since before it first went opensource .I contributed to the free Blender campaign in 2002. I can't remember if it was a donation < $50 USD, or I gave as a foundation member $50 USD? I've played with scripts that do the same for Blender and written a few of my own, but the Blender Python API will always be attached to Blender; you cannot run it headless, so I will try to do it with FreeCAD, since the API can be used in Python without the FreeCAD gui. I have also used FreeCAD in the past to design a kayak, when Delftship free wouldn't cut it. Great piece of free software. Congrats to all of them at FreeCAD!

[1] http://cumincad.architexturez.net/doc/oai-cumincadworks-id-acadia11-196
"Becoming Jack Flack" Shmoocon 2010 talk: https://youtu.be/dr5esiUIaS0
I like his "Ode less travelled" a lot but his other works of fiction not so much. And his blog posts (including this one) seem to be a few straightforward points blown up into an essay. I realise that he enjoys language for it's own sake. I do too in a much lesser way but his style simply doesn't resonate with me.
The specific irony being, a few paragraphs above:

> Who most wants you to stay on the grid? The advertisers.
Does HN count as "social"? It feels more like an Internet forum to me. I guess you're using your real name here, but you don't have to. I don't know anyone socially who I would expect to find on here.
They are definitely lacking a human "scale" and something we can relate to (in my view). But it is also not solved with decoration. Architecture decoration is like putting lipstick on a pig. A dead pig.
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App Virality Hacks: How Trello and Asana Grew to Millions of Users
Why do people feel like FB and messengers are the entire "Grid"? You can go off social networks and still enjoy the marvel that is the internet (it works for me). My guess is that people develop a genuine addiction to FB and need to avoid all temptation for a while. Going offline for a longer than that is not a good idea though.
It's interesting that I was at an itunes free gig in London back in 2010 at the Camden Roundhouse (band was Bombay Bicycle Club and they were very good), and Stephen Fry made a pre gig speech (obviously paid by Apple) to say how marvellous the iphone was and how although some people criticise social media , it is a marvellous thing that helps people feel less lonely, amongst other things (and the iphone helps people stay connected to this social media when on the go). I wonder if he truly believed that then, or was just saying so for Apple's sake. Either way, let's assume he believed it; and so I guess in 2010 it was all still rather new. Now he, like many of us, have grown very tired and cynical of it all. I agree with a lot he is saying in this post. The internet has been hijacked by big money and corporations. I personally am utterly fed up with waiting for web pages to load, unable to read the content because it keeps shifting around the page while another shitty targeted ad gets inserted. And then I realise the content was trash anyway; just more shallow, "read this in 2 minutes" bullshit that gets churned out because the authors know we have lost our ability to stay focused on one thing long enough to read anything substantial and genuinely informative.
Are you on Twitter? I'm @mikemaccana. I've run a bunch of events before, happy to handle web & some of the publicity.
Thermoplastics will melt before they start to chemically decompose. Whatever residue is in the plastic might be liberated by the heat (those residues will also migrate out at room temperature, so we tend to be somewhat careful about what residue ends up in products).

Thermoset plastics will not melt and will release all sorts of magnificent things when heated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoplastic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosetting_polymer
> It's supposed to be a continuation of the implicit phrase "When applied this commit will ..."

No: it's supposed to be written in imperative form. For those of us who are not linguists, it's easiest to explain this as a continuation of that phrase. However, it isn't a continuation. It stands on its own.
Exporting Laravel Data to an Excel Spreadsheet
An extensive thread about Paypal alternatives is less than 2 years old: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9123336

It might be relevant.
You can put something interesting behind the window, then erect a wall, then your regular space goes. Some stores do that.
My 3+ year old Lenovo laptop running an i5 with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB HDD (at 5400 RPM, no less) easily lets me multitask on Word, Photoshop and about 20+ Chrome tabs open

The only time I've felt my computer to be "slow" was when I tried to use Photoshop and After Effects simultaneously.
There are many low cost options for making big Efficent buildings distinctive. The real issue is arcatects are judged more like sculptors than people who create useful spaces.
This is one of the "secret" reasons I left the Bay Area to return to Chicago - downtown Chicago (aka The Loop) is beautiful. Please help keep it a secret so everyone doesn't move here and drive the price of everything up. ;)
I think one problem is that concrete literally ages terribly. The Watergate wasn't supposed to be a dirty, stained, dark gray.
How to create a custom Slack integration using webhooks
Have the same thought as well.
If the tax is 100% of the annualised return on the land (so perhaps around 6-7% of the land value) an increase in property values will lead to a concomitant increase in the level of UBI. Presumably there is an equilibrium point where prices settle down though it would lead to significant inflation initially.
You can apply the label "systematic bias" to bad luck which is correlated with other characteristics. So what?

What makes correlated bad luck somehow something to be eradicated (above and beyond ordinary bad luck)?
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Fry was already a serial social-media "quitter", going on and off Twitter a few times; he even (famously) entirely quit real society, back in the day, after a bunch of bad reviews; and he has self-confessed mental health issues. All considered, it's not that surprising that he might want to disconnect altogether, regardless of specific episodes.
Why would hunting be torture, but slaughtering not?
>Hummingbird would report one.

When?

>However, what it gives you in return is the ability to handle functions that don't even exist at program startup and are instead defined at runtime later in the program's execution through metaprogramming.

Those are already dynamically "type checked", how is this adding anything?
Finland is the land of single households
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We'd have to look at a meta-study to weed out problems in individual studies.

"Encouraging everyone equally is great".

We should probably just end the argument on that point we both agree :). The rest will work itself out. If everybody was encouraged and inspired equally and there were still imbalances your point will remain. Unfortunately, that's not true today, so we won't know.

Iran and India have much higher representation of women in STEM fields, and while they have other issues with misogyny, the inculcation of ambition (across gender lines) is very high (I say that having lived in India). The result seems to contradict any "biological" predilections.

But we'll see.
Also, I would like to point out that any property improvements themselves don't get factored into the land value tax itself. Properly, a land value tax is a response to the value of the land itself (where you're literally just buying a plot sans any external improvements). So, demand for land itself sets the bar for the tax. If a plot is $100 today but doubles to $200 dollars the tax should (on a curve or however it's computed) increase thusly. But if you improve the property on the land like adding better windows to your home or solar panels those improvements don't factor into the tax. Thus, it incentivizes you to keep adding to the property value without the current penalties of the property tax system we have today.
The main mailing list is here, people can judge for themselves:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/julia-users

Here's a recent (and typical) example of a lengthy series of technical and sometimes pointedly-critical questions:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/julia-users/%22ve...
Can anyone elucidate to someone not familiar with CAD software what this is for? Is it parametric CAD? Is it suitable for making things like cases for hardware projects?
That's why we have ML and AI scheduled.
Someone'd better re-open browserchoice.eu, because that went brilliantly, didn't it?

Also, how is Android different to iOS in this regard? Other than nobody can really create alternative browsers in Apple's ecosystem.
How Docker could scale with CERNVM-FS
>but the Blender Python API will always be attached to Blender; you cannot run it headless

You can start the blender executable with a startup script parameter and no gui and you can compile blender as a python library - shared library that you import in to your cpython instance - I've used both to create a resource build pipeline although building on Windows was a huge PITA (for eg. gigs of binary dependencies you need to clone) so I just tried building as a library on linux. I developed with library on linux and just used binary on windows to run the script.
Agreed. I have switched usernames here over the years, and i don't miss any of it. It's hard to imagine someone having "closure" against HN.
Can it have touch support so mobile browsers can interact with it? I can see that being incredibly useful as it allows you to have multiple actions on limited screen real estate.
Not to mention there's this air of invincibility where someone ignores retirement/emergency savings because "If something happens, it happens and I'll just fail/declare bankruptcy/die". It would be very pessimistic except what that thinking really means is "I don't think it will happen to me at all."
Why your brain loves procrastination
I strongly suspect that the overwhelming majority of the world's recycling plants use cheap human labour, especially for tasks such as sorting.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2015/05/unwasted...
> "PRIZE" "CATEGORIES"

> Peter Thiel

I can only imagine.
His specific complaints seem pretty reasonable to me:

We haven’t taken a vacation in 10 years. [...] We have no retirement savings, [...] We eat out maybe once every two or three months. Though I was a film critic for many years, I seldom go to the movies now.

They're not destitute, but shouldn't most people expect to get at least some of those things more often than that?

The lack of retirement savings seems particularly bad, as the author notes they used their parents' savings to pay for their children's educations. Their children won't be able to do the same.

And as another commenter has noted, it's not just a "woe is me" sob story, the idea is that the author is representative of a secret 47%(!) who are ashamed to admit how badly they're doing. The comparison with impotence seems apt.

[Edit: spelling]
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And packaging. Just picking on one of the ones you've suggested: Quassel is an app, so I can't easily try it out. I certainly can't invite everyone in my company to use it by clicking a single link in an e-mail. It doesn't have an iPhone app, I think those are quite popular. And so on.

Seriously, all these things are pretty easy, as evidenced by the fact they've been working since the 80's in the form of IRC.

The value appears to be in packaging them up as a modern web app (and having a lot of success in tech-industry PR which is where Slack has excelled beyond e.g. HipChat. But even that is partly down to the good packaging of the onboarding process).
Logan’s Run, Zardoz, Soylent Green, Fahrenheit 451

Lovely films. Something about the pacing or the cinematography of the films from that era appeals to me.

Ah… Zardoz… Nothing beats Sean Connery running around in weird sci-fi shorts. Also, Beethoven.
Google Charged with Breaking Europe’s Antitrust Rules
For example, statistically and empirically women get pregnant more often then men. Statistically and empirically, the father is less likely to care for the child than the woman. As a result, statistically and empirically, issues relating to abortion, contraceptives or day care affect the lives of women more than men.

For example, statistically and empirically women get sexually assaulted and harassed more than men. Statistically and empirically, then, issues relating to sexual harassment/assault laws matter affect the lives of women more than men.

For example, statistically and empirically, women get paid less than men for doing the same job. Therefore, statistically and empirically women are more interested in pay-equity laws.