skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Imagine it's 1993 – what would you put in an MVP web browser?
In the 21st century building products is all about the MVP.

So imagine its 1993 and you are building a web browser.

What do you see as the absolute minimal viable features to put into the first web browser?
There is nothing particular about heroin that puts one's soul at hazard compared to other opiates. I started my descent into opiate addiction with nice prescription drugs like oxycodone, but all to soon I found myself using heroin because it was cheaper, stronger, and more available.
So kids these days are exchanging enough words but not touching enough bodies?
By "practical consequence" I mean "something that has actually happened to you or someone you are aware of," not the worst case scenario of a dystopian vision.
Nice work. I clearly remember writing a full screen editor in a few hundred lines of Turbo Pascal back in '86 because I hated using EDLIN to edit .BAT files in DOS... :D
Longmont is nowhere near as nice as most of Boulder. It looks like you can get more for your money in Cherry Creek as well. Boulder is very nice if you can afford to live here and are prepared to pay Bay Area housing prices. I'm in an area heavily populated by students and I need to be careful that I don't trip over a transient when I walk to work. You can buy sixty year old homes for half a million dollars here, but I think you'd be looking at a million plus to get something nice and modern. Unfortunately I'm here without a vehicle and the public transport system is poor, I rode the bus once and almost died. I'm using ride sharing services to get everywhere. I've been very impressed with the Pearl Street area of Boulder and I don't think Denver can beat it. I would describe the Pearl Street mall as a cross between Disney Word, Las Vegas sans the gambling, and Duval Street in Key West.
Good question. This survey was meant to be very high level. We wanted it to take less than a minute to get through. So the questions are deliberately vague.

As for the trade-offs, Brightwork is a platform that cuts the back end application development time in half by providing a robust and reliable API to enable developers to build fast and scale. You can also switch APIs on the fly without having to recode or redeploy their application.

So we host your application's backend (eventually we want to open source this). Perhaps that could be perceived as the trade-off.
Like that FiveThirtyEight piece I linked to points out, releasing everyone that's in prison for primarily drug crimes will only reduce the prison population by 14%. The headline figures of 50% that you hear includes anyone that has any drug charge as part of their conviction, even if it's not the most serious charge.
I think people who focus on "culture" need to carefully look at their lives and consider what it is costing them. Are you one of those people who really do go out two or three times a week to some sort of unique event that doesn't exist anywhere else? OK, sure, rock on. No sarcasm; I know you're out there.

But are you praising the "culture" of an area while your yearly "culture" itinerary is that you went to an art museum and a mid-list concert?

Are you really using the "culture" of your area, or is it just a rationalization to stay where you are?

I would consider it a successful outcome of this message if those of you who live in a "cultural" area resolve to take better advantage of it in the future. I'm not trying to say the "culture" stuff is useless. I'm just saying that people's words and actions seem divergent here, and the worst case outcome in terms of bang-for-the-buck is to pay to live in a high-culture area, and then not use it.
The study is talking about wealthy (e.g. developed) nations this doesn't apply.
LWN's coverage is pretty good https://lwn.net/Articles/262464/
Not related to habit formation, but may I say what worked for me when learning Japanese in Japan?

Take the Nihongo Nouryoku Shiken. Bookstores sell material to study for it. It's great having a study milestone.

Start reading, if you haven't already. Books, magazines, anything. A kanji you see "out in the field' for three times becomes yours.

To improve listening skills, I recommend watching lots of jdrama. If you don't understand a dialog, listen again.

And most importantly, interact as much as you can with Japanese people. This is harder than it sounds, because... Japan.
Did you not read the article?

"Many of the more expensive cities are prevented from growing outward by natural barriers, such as oceans or mountains. Those cities are unlikely to grow significantly upward or outward in the next couple of decades, he said, and thus the price divide is likely to continue to widen."
Equities are, instead, the sliver of hope between assets and liabilities -
Russel Napier
I can't remember if it bounds-checks the pointers or just arrays. However, SPARK lets you prove conformance of code to specs and absence of specific error conditions. Here's a linked list example:

http://www.spark-2014.org/entries/detail/spark-2014-rational...

There's also formal verification work on linked lists. If any have simple VC's, they could be encoded in containers like above as well. Tools exist to do similar stuff for C, too.
The largest extrinsic factor (causally effective), should be the environment's physiological interaction with cells that have accumulative exposure: the alimentary system. Lower incidences of alimentary cancers should be the hallmark result of bans on various carcinogenic additives. The question should be how low the rates can inherently go based on diet alone, and to then proceed to narrow down the scope of any further factors.
GPUs Power Ahead with AI, ADAS, Deep Learning, HPC
for your own benefit (i.e., clear knowledge of your genetic risks)

It's not at all clear to me that knowledge of my genetic risks is beneficial to me, on balance.

Knowledge of risk is only beneficial if it means something can be done to mitigate that risk. For many diseases this is not the case. However such knowledge could certainly work against me in other ways, such as being denied employment or insurance.
The evidence for a connection between removing lead from gas and reduced violent crime is much stronger than just a correlation: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure...
14% is a staggering, massive number. full stop.

Not much of an argument IMO
Is anyone surprised? Google tends to release some products/services in 'beta' mode and some of them tend to get abandoned or go on life support before having the plug pulled. Having said that, a lot of their offerings have an immense amount of polish and I'm grateful to be using them.
Right. That's how it plays out.
People die from lung cancer when they are a bit older, so it's shifted to the right relative to the prevalence of smoking.
Well, I was asking if that claim I read online is true or not and if it should be considered if The Verge is biased or not. That is all I tried to do!
I too noticed that.

Cities with least price increases: Austin, Raleigh, Atlanta, Vegas, Charlotte, Phoenix...all of them in states leaning Republican.

Cities with most price increases: San Jose, Boston, NYC, LA, Seattle, San Diego, DC... all of them in states leaning Democratic.

Could it be because of the parties' philosophies about regulations? Conservatives would let you build without much hassle, thus letting supply meet demand. Liberals, on the other hand, would regulate and constrain the supply.

Apart from political ideologies, what could be other possible reasons for such disparity?
If you're going for a full Linux/GNU/Ubuntu/Unity stack, the only thing this cuts out is Linux, making his a Windows/GNU/Ubuntu/Unity stack. I know they've replicated the system calls, but they won't perform or always operate identically to a Linux kernel.

Which is why I asked about where people thought Unity on Windows would make sense. Because a VM will most likely generally give a better experience.

If you restrict yourself to bash and standard Unix tools, you'll end up with a similar experience to macOS and terminal (or my preference iTerm2)
Mosaic. The fact that it took off indicates that it was a "viable product", and if you remember using Mosaic, it was pretty "minimal" as well.

This would be a more interesting question if asked about a product that didn't take off, eg. "It's 1990. What would you put in an MVP Lisp environment."
Unlikely, we've evolved with ever present background radiation and have a dna repair mechanism to counter act it but that does not mean radiation makes us stronger.
> Fairly high-confidence data about known "big" inherited conditions. This was useful when my wife and I decided to have a child - there were several things we could safely rule out screening for. No surprises, but "no surprises" was what we were looking for. :)

I'm sure you felt the need to get a second scan from a different company to confirm the negative results because this was so incredibly important to you.
All you need is a big enough crisis to get people to support suspension of the normal checks and balances. That can happen very quickly, in the right circumstances.
Unintialized values are fine as long as the compiler can prove that the value is never used until it is initialized. See https://is.gd/gDJCeG as an example. Try deleting the else block.
That's part of the point of doing it to me. They can, hopefully, use the data in a useful way. Sure, they may make it private and paid for the data set they have, but I also have a copy of the data I can upload to other more publicly minded companies.

From a selfish point of view, perhaps my DNA will contribute to solving some of the illnesses I'm more prone to to or already have, and help my children if they treatment. From a more altruist view, it may help others too.

Do I trust Big Pharma? I'm not sure I do, but what I do know is medical advances are making many people's lives more bearable and longer, both in developed and developing nations.
"On the one side are cities such as San Francisco, Boston, New York and Miami that have slowed their pace of expansion dramatically since the 1970s, in part as they have added layer upon layer of building regulations." That's pure WSJ editorializing.
It would be less likely with either if addicts didn't have to hide the addiction for fear of authorities
I experience the freedom of travel now. My cost of living is low enough, that I can take pretty much as many major trips a year as my PTO allows. But at the same time, I am youngish, and have pretty minimal responsibility. I figuring moving to a bigger city for a few years might not be a bad career move.
Sure, I understand the question, but without context (how hard is the tool to learn, how mature is it, etc) it's kind of a weird question. Why would you chose to do what you currently do if a tool can save you time (again, without any other context).
14% is a sizable share, and, in any case, a large portion of those with drug and other charges, rather than just did charges, have all the charges stemming from drug-related activities or transactions, or otherwise connected to drug prohibition (similarly many with no drug charges, but only other charges); ending the war on drugs wouldn't just eliminate the imprisonment tied solely to dig charges.
IoT to Scrotum
You’re correct, Putin probably haven’t said that personally.

But he is still sponsoring that “research” and “development”.

So my comment is still relevant.
If you get mysteriously denied a job, insurance, etc, you won't necessarily know. In fact, since you give out so much data about yourself so often, it's likely impossible for you to know who sold you out exactly or that you were sold out at all.
Also had a go at making an API library using Rust for Plaid (disclaimer: work for Plaid) ran into some of the same questions, but ultimately made different choices (used rustc_serialize over serde, hyper over rust-curl,) here are the docs for anyone interested: http://nathankot.com/plaid-rust/master/plaid/index.html
Your known adversary is the NSA.

The NSA aren't the only parties attracted by Googles large Data are Liability stash.
However, non-steroidal antiinflamatories are linked to cancer.
Yes, but this will cause a pretty hefty load (and huge runtime) for the # of ids in the system.

There has to be a lighter weight way of doing this and I'm sure someone on HN has already done this.
My level of optimism depends on whether I think FB can make enough profit to sustain their current valuation based on their current advertising alone, or whether they'll need to broaden their horizons in terms of monetising the data they hold.

It's fairly easy to imagine monetisation strategies that could be pretty negative in the long term.
Walled garden is a general trend whether on the web or on devices such as the iPad and game consoles.

Such control have advantages, but it facilitates abuses. It even requires some of them: if Apple allowed interpreters to run 3rd party code, it could introduce a loophole that may create the equivalent competing store. Massive online sandbox games face a similar problem with the ability to build arbitrary stuff: they generally don't want their player to build or draw… inappropriate depictions.

All this is not really a problem as long as it stays confined to a specific purpose (such as playing games), or a specific community (such as here). Inevitably, curation means control, enforcement, and lock down. We need that.

What scares me is the gradual disappearance of free, uncontrolled space. Both online and on devices. Walled gardens used to be confined to game consoles. Now they start creeping up on general purpose computers. The iPhone and iPad where a significant step up. And now even the desktop isn't safe. The iStuff made it acceptable to lock everything down in the name of the safety and convenience.

We are losing the war on general computation.

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Besides, there is a link between the freedom of the network, and the freedom of the devices. Without free software, you can't have a free internet: people will just used the (proprietary) software that's available to them, and that software will naturally steer them to "safe", controlled online spaces. You quickly get a cyberpunk dystopia where you have to break the law, perhaps even risk your physical safety, to run programs not approved by some corporation on your device (if they're still officially yours by then, and not "leased" forever or until you look at them funny).

And of course, without a free internet, you'll have a hard time organizing and implementing free software —especially if the software is susceptible to free the network free again —it will be shut down as "unlawfully facilitating circumvention" or something.

The simultaneity of the gradual locking down of both devices and network is no coincidence.
What is adaptive cruise control, and how does it work?
www.haskell.org didn't used to take for granted that ghc is 'the' official haskell implementation. If you look at

https://web.archive.org/web/20090129200859/http://haskell.or...

which immediately lists implementations and compare it to

https://web.archive.org/web/20100402011002/http://www.haskel...

a year later you will be reminded of the rather spectacular struggles that preceded the ghc-centrism of haskell.org . The change was closely associated with the appearance of the haskell platform, and the arguments very similar to those concerning stack and stackage. If you want paranoid theories of corrupt commercial motives in that case, I can produce several incompatible ones for you to choose among.
RescueTime is a pretty good approximation of this for me and is automatic.
Why do we assume that non-majority sexualities are genetic? As society relaxes wrt sexuality, we may see that many more people who do not identify as gay per se may openly display flexible sexuality.

E.g. saying you're left-handed is no big deal anymore. One day one's sexuality may be equally irrelevant.
IIRC genes related to DNA replication are highly conserved; thus our DNA repair mechanism was probably evolutionarily "optimized" for conditions a long time ago. Have background radiation levels remained constant on timescales of hundreds of millions of years? I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if it varied significantly considering that cosmic radiation is a significant source and the strength of the Earth's magnetic field fluctuates significantly.
That seems highly unlikely. 23andMe has been in operation since 2006. They hit UK Biobank sample size sometime around 2010. The Biobank researchers have been managing to pump out paper after paper (check out Bioxiv!) over the past half-year even though as far as I can tell, their genetics pipeline only started yielding data back around October 2015. How long are we supposed to wait on 23andMe before concluding that they just aren't making very good use of their data from the perspective of the public interest and have focused on commercialization?
Change is very hard ..

my favorite:

ALAN DEUTSCHMAN :Change or Die (2005)

http://www.fastcompany.com/52717/change-or-die
An IMG tag would be nice:
http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...
I'm not convinced that "study" says much of anything, since they almost certainly edited the video to show the responses they wanted, and besides, they didn't calibrate their scale properly. If you gave a bunch of random people at a food tasting event some pretty crappy food, a bunch of them would probably say that it tasted good just out of courtesy.

A better comparison would be to have a double-blind study with McDonalds and "Artisan" hamburgers, and ask participants which they prefer.
WaMu's $170 billion in customer deposits were "sold" to Chase for $1.9 billion (I thought both numbers were bigger, but so says Wikipedia). If you were a WaMu banking customer before the implosion, you were a Chase banking customer afterwards.
That's lower than population growth so would still be a global per-capita reduction.
Item2Vec: Neural Item Embedding for Collaborative Filtering
I wrote an application that I use for exactly this purpose: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations

It's a little rough around the edges at the moment, and there are no executable builds, but it tracks completion so that you get a big picture view. For example it tells me I have exercised 9 days this month, 100% of the days I've set out for this month, and am on a streak of 100+ days.

Aside from that, meditation and removing distracting things from my environment have been most important (for example blocking timesink websites on my work computer). And the work of James Clear has been very influential on all of this: http://jamesclear.com/
Flatland housing isn't cheap because of the houses. Its cheap because of the land. Since the land is cheap, more factories are built there. The recession hit factories particularly hard, combined with continuous outsourcing efforts, hit Flatland harder than the coasts. The impact of closing a factory isn't limited to the local area. It has a regional impact on support businesses.
I don't know how that is supposed to work. What sort of social pressure could possibly produce near-zero fitness impact when it makes you not want to have sex with women, in an environment where the men who do want to have sex with women are like 95% of the population and will happily put enormous efforts into doing that and taking your place? In addition, as I said, given the apparent fitness impact and frequent childlessness of gay men, we should be able to see homosexuality rates plummeting over the past century, but as far as I know, there's no evidence. (Plus the wild animal thing, yeah.) There's something stranger going on. The 'gay germ' hypothesis, as unpopular as it may be, at least adequately reconciles all of the observations.
Change or Die ( 2005 )
That's exactly it, and it creates a situation in which relatively poor, very densely populated countries fight with each other for resources, rather than attempting to take from an underpopulated country armed to the teeth. I think we've seen a preview in the Middle East and North Africa, and gotten a hint of how Western nations are going to respond to the inevitable influx of refugees.
Ask HN: Is anyone going to DEFCON this year?
Hi HN,

I am going to DEFCON for the first time this year. I was thinking if you can share your thoughts on how to make the most of it if you have been there before.

P.S. I am also looking to share a two bedrooms suite with anyone interested. TY!
It may just be that in any system as complicated as sexual aim and expression, you will have variations like homosexuality.
On top of that, there's lots of free templates and even real TOS's that can pretty much be copied verbatim. Will possibly have been made by better lawyers, too, if it's a big company TOS.
The purpose of WSL is to bring back developers to Windows.
It is more efficient than Wine and is more useful to Microsoft to get almost native Ubuntu containers than some way to run Windows GUI apps on Linux.
> Minimum wage low skill jobs pay more than this in the US.

No, they don't. $7.25 * 40 * 52 = $15,080. Before taxes.

(40 hours, assuming you are lucky enough to get full-time, which is often not the case, esp. at fast food places and such. Also 52 weeks, which is more realistic since you're not likely to get paid vacation. The $7.25 is the current minium wage for the US as a whole [1], may differ per state.)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=minimum+wage+us&oq=minim
And a subsequent submission:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067526
That's part of the reason why "Quassel as a service" would be a very powerful tool.

Currently, though, we have to tell users who want that to use IRCCloud instead - about half of the people come back after the first week of free usage of IRCCloud when it asks you to pay, and start using Quassel from then on.
This is handy. I find the documentation at the official website to often be severely lacking in many cases, so any additional resources are most welcome.
It would be fun to see this project replicated using some other underlying data structures, e.g. the buffer-gap data structure used by emacs.[0] Does the code become shorter/prettier? etc.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_buffer
Well, ideally you'd be doing HEAD requests and HN is serving (almost) everything from cache, so it should really be no more onerous to their system than ~12M lookups in an in-memory index (and a few MB of transfer). As for you... it could definitely be time-consuming if you did it serially. If you did it in parallel, it wouldn't take long but would be "bad citizen" behavior toward HN's servers. There might be a happy medium, but only HN knows what that would be.

I think that if no one speaks up with a database, you should approach HN or Algolia directly. If they wanted you to have this info, it would be trivial for them to dump it (and less strenuous on their resources).

In fact, I'd suggest scraping Algolia (sorted by date[1]) instead of the method I proposed earlier, since it would require far, far less overhead.

1. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dat...
Results of an international drug testing service for cryptomarket users [pdf]
The MC1R Gene and Youthful Looks [pdf]
If I try to imagine the worst things Facebook could do, I don't get scared, because they don't seem that lucrative.

Blackmail me based on private conversations?

Resell my photo uploads to shutterstock?

Charge the intelligence agencies $1k per user for a backdoor to my encrypted FB chat messages?
The relevance is that this is really shoddy journalism. It is slightly sensationalist and just plain wrong in its assertion that Lehman was the catalyst of the 2008 financial crisis. This is notable because Bloomberg is generally a respected news source for finance.

Why on earth was my comment flagged?
Selective Emigration as Possible Cause for Personality Differences on Islands [pdf]
Also my android phone has an email client. It's pretty nice to be able to view offline.
Coastal vs. Noncoastal