skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems everything that makes food more profitable also makes it less healthy.

There are two sides to this: it's cheaper to supply unhealthy food, but only when people buy it. Other brands (Whole Foods, Amy's frozen foods, arguably the entire "cooking show" industry) are built around fetishization of the healthy eating. This is why the recent ruling on displaying "added sugars" is so important, even if many more similar steps are necessary for people to make educated, healthy decisions when hungry. If we can convince corporations it is in their profit margins' interest to provide healthier food—ideally because consumers assign value to the nutritional content instead of just calories—we'll see widespread health benefits.

That said, you're completely correct, which is why there are systemic problems with the diets of the lower class. Why buy real food when you can feed yourself (or your kids, or your relatives) with cheaper food that is easy to eat? There's simply no reason for those brands to invest in cheaper, healthier food when it would be harder to sell and couldn't piggyback off shared food processing (e.g. processed sugars, grains, meats, proteins).
> Berlekamp also created an algorithmic trading system that he sold to Jim Simons and that became a starting point for Renaissance Technologies, now the world’s largest hedge fund.

Renaissance isn't the world's largest hedge fund.
Presumably those who have invested millions are going to be even more aware of the downsides to voting (losing the ability to split) than most.
An accountant recently confessed to me that many wealthy Californians do the same using Nevada. Just declare an NV home as your primary residence and make sure to document your time in NV (photos, flights, ATM receipts). CA income tax is 13.3% for the wealthy. NV is 0%.
While the OP shouldn't have used "venemous", calling it FUD, and then calling the target of the insult the "best" in some respect with nothing to back it up is only slightly better from the perspective use useful conversation. How about explaining your rationale behind why LGPL is the best solution and addressing the more rational concerns brought up, so we can move this conversation past the "No, mine is better!" stage?
Minecraft is in a death spiral, but it's normal, since it's already an old and overplayed game for its target.
This sort of thing is totally predictable. Automation encroaches on a profession, people in that profession write this kind of defense of humans. You could substitute "outsourcing" for "automation" in the above, too.

But this time, it's different. The profession is "lawyer". Lawyering is superspecial. The attorney/client privilege is the most protected privilege in the USA, at least. Judges routinely make judgements that favor the legal profession itself (http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/barton.pdf).

We can invoke the "lawyer-judge hypothesis here:

Is there a plausible legal result in this case that will significantly affect the interests of the legal profession (positively or negatively)? If so, the case will be decided in the way that offers the best result for the legal profession.

If this hypothesis holds, we can expect to see no legal AI for a very long time.
Sticker over camera lens takes care of that - in this age of malware it is good to use it anyhow. Good luck tracking my eyes then!

Other than thwt, I see huge potential for this in UX studies.
Carrier sales reps didn't like selling Windows Phones, and you can't blame them. From their perspective, they want to sell you a phone in the shortest amount of time that has the lowest probability of return.

Windows Phones had a different UI that meant the sales rep had to spend time showing how it worked, and even if he/she did make the sale, he faced the high risk of a Lumia getting returned because the customer found out some key app wasn't available on Windows Phone but was easily available on iOS and Android (their bank, or airline, Snapchat, and let's not forget Instagram wasn't there for a while)

(source: I'm a former Nokia employee)
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I'm not sure this is an obsolete idea. The lighting in my house is simply an astounding use of electricity. In fact, I think people underestimate how much power it consumes.

My house's baseline load is about 200w; networking/computer equipment mostly. The fridge that cycles on and off, and an instant-hot tap that cycles on and off to keep up to temperature.

Each bedroom had 60w floodlights in 4 cans. Sure, we don't have them on all the time, but 4x3x60 = 720watts. That's half a hairdryer! Our living room+hallway was even worse. There were a bunch of MR16s at 50w. With 16 of them in the house, that's another 800w. When we're home in the evenings, the living room lights are on all the time, because it's in the main part of the house. To be fair, the payback on the $500+ in LED bulbs I put in is way out there, but a big driver in my spending was to keep temps down during the summer. It seems so silly to artificially heat the house with wasted electricity.

In the winter, we don't use much heat, and the gas forced air heat is a hell of a lot better than using lightbulbs.
1. is a fundamental problem with all deflationary currencies
Please stop posting uncivil, unsubstantive comments here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11767172 and marked it off-topic.
It's just dipped below 1% market share. It doesn't matter if Microsoft kill it or not - either way it's not coming back.
Why would people would consider electric for airplanes?

Assuming one could build the infrastructure, beamed power for airplanes could be a huge win, given the hurdle of initial cost could be overcome so economies of scale could come into play. Much of the mass taken up by fuel could then be devoted to payload. The initial hurdles may well be too large to overcome, however, particularly for passenger service.
Do you also not lock your front door because someone could possibly take a picture of your key and 3d-print one, then follow you to see where you live and rob you?

Coming up with theoretical nightmare scenarios is fun and all, but you should try to bring some reality to your security decisions.
That is fucking creepy. Whoa.
> Because you started too early during the web's rise, and are now too old for that...

ES6 has some nice features -- all other things being equal I'd chose to write it over ES5. Or even ES3, since it fits with that sloppy ageist accusation you tossed off.

As soon as you say "Babel" (or another transpiler), though, all other things are not equal. I've already chosen to work with ES6 anyway in some circumstances, but honestly, when it comes down to it, the benefits are marginal enough over ES5 that there's a reasonable case that anyone already effective with ES5 doesn't need to transition.

And I might even go so far as to speculate that a programmer who is unable to be effective with ES5 might simply be the kind of programmer who can't really be effective whether they'd be working with Python, Ruby, Go, C#, whatever... but that would probably be tenuous bullshit on par with assuming anybody who doesn't want to add a transpiler to their toolchain in order to do essentially the same things they can do without it is Just Too Old.
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This is quite fun, thanks for sharing. I would be interested in trying it out with different tile sizes too. I keep trying to pick objects that are on the corners of tiles.
The problem, as people see it, is there is a whole space of websites that use features they don't need. Think of all the 1pageapp content sites.

To borrow your comparison, people who are bothered by what I describe above see it like a website saying, "Hey, we won't work on your device unless it's HDMI because of the design choices we made!"
Cree for type A and downlights with 90+ CRI.
I'm using Soraa single-source MR16s elsewhere in my house, with a CRI of 93+.
It's interesting to combine the reaction in the comments here with the usual HN comment consensus on privacy.

So, usually, it goes like this: privacy is good, government has no business snooping around, and Bitcoin-like solutions for financial privacy are the future of resisting "the system". But in this case, consensus is different: privacy is bad, governments of the world need to know financial information of individuals, and whoever tries to protect this information is evil.

Am I the only one who sees the irony here?
The interesting thing is that dd wouldn't even give us an error, but the write speeds were abysmal. Toward the end of the hackathon, we noticed that blocks would be corrupted here and there, while leaving other pieces of data (even entire MP3 files) intact.

I think we ended up pointing to issues with the SD card's bus as the most likely cause for the behavior we saw, but we weren't even certain about this.
Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text
1) guess how long it'll take by intuition

2) double that amount of time
Especially when you consider that Hogan dropped the part of the suit that would have allowed Gawker to use their insurance to pay some of the liability claim.

Odd, when you consider it shrunk dramatically the ability for Gawker to be able to pay the claim ($144M... Gawker only had $35M in revenue) - is the goal to be recompensed for damages, or to destroy Gawker? The latter seems much more likely, and chilling. Especially if you have a billionaire secret backer.
More like broke-ass engineer annoyed at my fellow ilk on the peanut gallery. Though in a way, I don't want to return to the days the Blue-Chips ran the show, if that is what you want to call "skin in the game".
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There's something scary yet fascinating in the idea of a proactive automated matchmaker.
Those are all great reasons. It isn't for everyone. I made the move at 30 when I had few commitments and have been here 4 years.

I've lived overseas in Cambodia and Taiwan. The lower cost of living, warm weather, and challenges of living in a different culture can make life pretty enjoyable.

I chose both places carefully and visited before deciding to move. I still visit the US once a year and my vacations now take me to places I would never go if I lived in the US. A weekend trip to the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, China, or Japan is feasible from Taiwan. From Cambodia, you're right next to Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos, all safe places if you read up on what to watch out for.
Nokia brand, Nokia design. And an outlet for whatever cool tech Foxconn has stumbled upon in Shenzhen?

In an era when smartphones are increasingly commoditized, it could work well enough to carve out a sustainable business.
I would have to disagree. There's no way saving a few keystrokes on an arrow function or being able to use 'class' will ever compare to understanding, let alone debugging, gulp streams. IMO JS tooling has gone way overboard, but in code, as in any artform, everything is subjective.
Sorry, I wasn't implying that anyone cares. I even state a few times in this thread that people specifically don't care in aggregate. And even if people did care, it wouldn't have a major impact on the extent to which barista jobs are automated.

But it is just interesting, from a technical/hacker perspective, that good barista work is a pretty hard robotics problem!
Some bangs listed there are broken, others lead to really crappy websites. Duck Go Bang tests the bangs and chooses only the most useful ones, hence the motto "Best Bangs for the Duck".
I assume it's meant for in-house user testing, not on the live web.
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I'm surprised that this is posted to a (mostly) technical forum, and no one else assumed that it was talking about data access objects.

TL;DR - It's really about Bitcoin-ish stuff
I ripped out the godawful CFLs in my kitchen that took 3 minutes to get up to full brightness in the winter.

LEDs are where it's at.
The argument is about whether they mean anything to _people_, though, as part of the user interface.

URLs are hugely meaningful to software, and the ability to share them is critical, but that's independent of whether they are shown at the top of the window.

Semantic URLs are helpful, but they're an awkward tool for changing the interface as you describe it. If a web application is relying _at all_ on people moving URL path elements around to access the content they want, it has already lost.

I think URLs are fundamental to the web, but not fundamental to the user interface, which is an important distinction - I don't mind at all that in my native mobile and desktop application, there is no unique view identifier displayed at the top of the application window for every view available, and I think a mature web can equally hide, but not eliminate, that identifier.
Tesla Tests Self-Driving Functions with Secret Updates to Its Customers’ Cars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11756166
Kalman filters and bottom-up learning
Companies Not Saving Your Data
Give the robots enough salary to buy a phone, and program them to buy it. Problem solved.
Not Kyle, but another of the team involved in the project. When we built the training model, we used OpenStreetmap data to find locations of ~1,000,000 "things". A thousand churches, a thousand water towers, a thousand playgrounds, and so on. For each of those locations, we downloaded a satellite image.

The neural net was then trained to look for the things that make each one of those things distinct; what makes a playground different than a church? It could be patterns, it could be colors, it could be any number of things. (For more precise details, you'll need to talk to Aman or Kyle.) It compares lots of things to lots of things, makes some guesses, and then sees whether those guesses help it correctly determine what we told it was in each tile.

Once the model is trained, it's identified the 1024 "features" that are most significant in correctly distinguishing types of things from each other. We then run every tile of a geographical region through that feature determiner, which converts each tile into a point in our 1024 dimensional space. The search function then identifies a tile, looks up its location, and finds the 100 things closest to it within the 1024 dimensional space.

So, TL;dr: It's not looking for colors, it's looking for computable features, which may or may not be color-specific. (Actually, they're highly non-color-specific: the training model randomly "wiggles" the color to makes sure that it doesn't get too tied to a very precise color.)
> tasty macrobiotic and vegan food yourself is a lot of effort.

IMNSHO, it might seem that way from the outside, but it's really very little effort to prepare and eat vegan meals.

The only actual problems are all social :(

EDIT: for example, people downvoting me for being vegan.
> This is a relatively modern interpretation of the institution. It has, since the dawn of time, been an institution meant to ensure stability and continual propagation of the species.

Historically it's been about property rights, not about breeding.
"The DAO is just a committee of non-professional voters who have relatively little ability to do proper due diligence."

Isn't that true of the stock market too?

As someone who strongly believes that individuals should invest in indexed funds, probably a similar approach should come into play here, where you don't invest a large amount in any one company, but instead, invest a little in lots of companies.

The stock market, of course, has over time had lots of checks and balances applied to it over the years that you're not going to see here, so it's a much more dangerous game.
CRI measures how close (using a terrible metric) oranger lamps get to a black body radiator, or how close bluer lamps get to an approximation for daylight from the 60s, which each have a CRI of 100 by definition. Incandescent bulbs are a black body radiator, so unless you put some kind of filter in front, they’ll have a CRI of 100. It’s not a 0–100 scale though. 100 is an arbitrarily selected number.

There are reasons to be dissatisfied with the light produced by LEDs and fluorescent lamps, but CRI is only very marginally useful.

Better is to look at the spectral power distribution, and try to find lamps with a broad emission spectrum and no sharp spikes. For nighttime lighting, try to avoid sources with much emission at wavelengths below 500 nm, because these knock out night vision and disrupt sleep cycles.
I can confirm that Facebook suggests people that have looked up your name.

I don't use FB on my phone, never have. Hence no location/IP/network data. I have not filled out where I work, but searched the place up once before.

A coworker who wanted to friend me and presumably searched for my name still gets suggested as possible friend a year after I quit the place. We have no possible mutual friends, I have never been on his profile, or searched the names of any of my coworkers.
There seems to be a lot of discussion in this thread hinting at the detriment of economic slowdown. Can we all agree that ever-increasing industrial GDP, inflation notwithstanding, will ultimately be problematic?

It must be driven by either population or productivity per capita increase, period.

Industrial economies cannot continue to grow in this unregulated way forever, due to it increasing both the environmental impacts and wealth disparity. That said, information economies can grow much more aggressively without the negative impacts- but we don't have a system for adequately valuing information GDP, i.e. rewarding people for creating content.

If our society is becoming entertainment-centric (which is great, and inevitable) then we need to figure out how every person can ascertain a quality-of-life standard through providing entertainment.

Eventually natural resources and industrial production will be completely automated. Obviously the trickle-down economic theory does not hold up in that situation.
Yeah not really. I've probably written more complex JS code in the last 2 years than you'll ever write in your life so save the "too old" stuff for someone else. When your writing a recursive decent compiler from scratch, you don't really feel like debugging whatever errors some transpiler injects into your code. You'd rather it just work the first time and be sure it works everywhere. Check my github before you start mouthing off.....

https://github.com/ShamariFeaster/Templar
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Looking for new laptop. I'd like to buy top hardware and run linux (probably Arch).

What is your recommendation?
At no point has Gawker Media ever been close to a billion dollar corporation.

They only did $40M -revenue- at peak.
Sadly, we don't. I don't think there's an API for determining that within Google Maps, and brute-force checking would be...time consuming.
Good luck! I respect that you're making the effort to do the right thing, even though I don't think the bank deserves it.
Sharing URLs between machines is critical, but they don't have to be at the top of every window to be shareable. I agree that simple URL sharing should be a core feature of a browser - but a small 'share' button that copies the URL into my clipboard would suffice.
> on nix (no C#)

C# runs absolutely fine on nix.
since when is Gawker considered journalism?
Nokia is dead.

Get over it.
Completely avoiding sugars and grains? That's not easier; you trade a less complicated rule for severe diet restrictions. Applying that rule about less processed foods will help with sugars and carbs too.

i.e. an apple and hard candy both have sugar, but the apple is a good idea. A cupcake and a loaf of whole-wheat bread both have carbs, but the bread (especially if it contains only yeast, flour, water, salt) will be way better for you.
In general, "office automation" software (as it was once often called) combined with, over time, email, self-service travel sites, and associated changing expectations has largely eliminated whole classes of jobs. I never had a personal secretary/admin but I've had ones who handled a group of 5-10 people. And even mid-level execs had personal admins when I was starting out.
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> Isn't that true of the stock market too?

No, the stock market is a system in which 95% of people have "relatively little ability to do proper due diligence" and 5% of people who know what they're doing (or have private information) and eat everyone else's lunch.

The reason stock pricing is so accurate and predictive when analyzed scientifically is because that 5% has a disproportionate impact on the marginal price of shares.
Apple Maps' exclusive access to use the lockscreen, along with (IMO) a better UI when following directions, make it my go-to when driving despite the bad reputation it has on the internet.
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Definitely! URLs that have meaningful structure (like your examples) are awesome because in addition to shareability they also offer discoverability without needing extra out-of-band information. As you say users can guess ahead of time what content they'll land on when editing structured URLs.

But that's a feature that unfortunately we can't assume every website will provide (it would be great if we could!). My point was that even opaque/meaningless URLs are incredibly useful to humans.
> that was a job and they had pride in being employed and useful

Thank you for saying this. Not many people on HN mention that.
It's a prisoner's dilemma. Lacking government regulation, investment will always flow to the food companies willing to sacrifice the longterm health of consumers in exchange for higher revenue.

That is, food corporations that practice methods that increase consumption to unhealthy levels - high sodium, high sugar, low satiating and cheap to produce foods (high-carb, high-yield meat products due to growth hacks like bovine growth hormone).

The food companies that choose not to play along are either niche health food companies, or they will go bust by not being able to compete in a commodity market.

Sarah Palin (1) would have you believe we should have the "freedom" to eat what we want. However, for the vast majority of Americans that's a straight up pipedream. We are "free" to eat whatever is available, and baring government intervention what is available is subject to the forces described in my previous paragraph (ie garbage optimized to make us over-consume).

The obesity epidemic WILL NOT be resolved until heavy government regulation comes into play in the food industry. Pretending otherwise is no different than those who pretend abstinence education prevents pre-marital sex.

1. Obviously I'm just using her here as poster child for a certain political ideology.
I guess you'd say I don't switch much: I'm on my 3rd professional job. For the first I was just starting out, so no sense buying a place, and within a week I could tell that the second place had little long-term potential. That's 3 in 16 years, with 11 years for the only one where buying looked sensible.

2008 would've been bad if you had to sell. I still think you ought to have been able to cover the loss in most places. There were places around here that dropped by 70%, which is horrid. You ought to be able to cover a large portion of that, and certainly anything outside 2008. That year was special.

I guess I don't see the complaint about tech hiring. Except for the time sink and the fact that you might really really need a job, it's kind of fun. You get flown out somewhere, see the place, and talk about nerdy stuff. What is not to like?

Being in tech, you're probably 2x the local median income. If you can tolerate a normal house, the situation isn't bad. You could be looking at 2x your income. You can get that paid off in less than 5 years.