skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kind of the point though. Google seems to think of itself more as a research institution than a business.

When I think of companies that are good at execution, Google isn't on the list.
Honey is a strange alternative to sugar. For the past 2 decades, I have used honey as the sole sweetener, though the rest of the family continues to patronize sugar :( The trouble with honey is that it's seriously pricey, and the community is a something of a cult - you have to know a lot of the terminology, otherwise you'll walk out with sugar-water.
I take an empty 1 gallon jar to the honey store in Sac, and pay $100 to fill her up. I have experimented a lot with the cocktail over the years. Generally, avoid anything"American" ie. sweet light colored honey. Go for the raw unfiltered darkest thickest broth you can find. They have gigantic jars of various colors, so I sample from the darkest ones. Then add a few grams of propolis and a few scoops of nectar and a few combs. Top it off with manuka and part with $100. Lasts 3 months.
It tastes weird and too thick and gooey, but it's an amazing product. All the debris floating around on it is supposedly packed with enzymes etc.
Chrome's history search seems broken for the past 20+ versions.
WebAssembly will hopefully end JavaScript's stranglehold on the web.

The justification for using JavaScript for server/desktop/mobile applications seems to essentially be that a certain large group of programmers only know JavaScript.
More likely they see a lot of programmers who only know JavaScript and they want to offer them something.
It's a different spin, but 'price gouging" is by definition extracting consumer surplus from those willing to pay more if necessary. The other way of spinning those figures is that if consumers spend $1 for every $2.60 they're willing to spend on Uber then Uber rides is doing an unusually efficient job of revenue maximization compared with most other businesses, particularly considering a large part of their brand value is being perceived as relatively cheap.

That's particularly the case when you consider that consumer surplus is also Uber's competitive moat against potential new entrants to the market that couldn't compete with Uber on price; as the paper's author's point out it's a short run consumer surplus and the long run demand elasticity is likely to be much lower.
> Same problem, read-only, it only gets bigger

I think that's write-only
It's common to bring in the old discussion for perspective. Nothing to do with it being a repost. (Both of those links are alternative treatments anyway.)
Yes, for this reason and many others, filtering on "has a Github" is potentially problematic. I know tons of great developers who don't use Github, let alone have a carefully crafted "profile".
Unfortunately, it's a saying that is rooted in truth; as you grow older, your neural plasticity and fluid intelligence steadily declines, and so learning new tricks is, perhaps not impossible, but certainly more difficult - so it's important to recognize this and make the extra effort to remain open to new ideas and new experiences, the way one does almost unconsciously in youth.
> NK elites are perfectly willing to let their people starve to death.

If that were true they wouldn't be asking for help in the first place.
Thanks for sharing this! Looks super useful.
On the other hand, I think the low carb/keto people have taken the pendulum too far in the other direction. A lot of research seems to suggest that a plant based diet heavy on whole fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts is healthier than one consisting of animal fats and protein. It makes sense when you look at the diets of the healthiest people on Earth. Just because excess processed sugar is bad for you doe not mean all carbs are unhealthy.
So you see the comfort of using IDE (eclipse or intellij) with languages such as Java. Do you feel a similar comfort in vim? with which languages?
This seems very useful, but isn't Google Maps doing similar stuff already? And if not, what are their concerns?
My favourite resource on Kalman is Tucker McClure's work: http://www.anuncommonlab.com/articles/how-kalman-filters-wor...
> The idea that we "drop our middle-school kids off to see violent movies without even thinking twice" is a complete and total fiction. Doesn't happen.

Yes, it does, and the fact that you think that we don't let them see R-rated movies (which contain more sex but not more violence than PG-13 [0]) means that we don't let them see violence illustrates, rather than contradicts, that point.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/pg-13...
>we as a society don't allow children to be admitted to violent movies by themselves.

Please stop focusing on admittance to theaters. It's not the point. The point is that young children are disproportionately exposed to violence relative to nudity.

Your point about theaters is taken, but again, it's an auxiliary point. I've seen plenty of violent movies in school for instnace, but never any nudity. Never. We had parents complain over a sex scene in Romeo and Juliet (not the Di Caprio one, one from the 60s) that amounted to people moving under some sheets. The fact that theaters are required by law to enforce age restrictions has nothing to do with the general pattern of preferring that our children see stabbing over tits. And as others have pointed out, the difference between PG-13 and R ratings is one of sex and nudity, not violence!

This was in Delaware, but it's a pretty standard attitude across most of the US. Compare this to most of Western Europe and the difference is stark.
Of course, the rocket equation[1] means you still need to be somewhat efficient, regardless of how much fuel you want to carry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
Nothing wrong with supporting the troops. Marion Le Pen was questioned on his regarding French military action a long time ago. Her correct response was to point out that the French soldiers did their job, did what they were supposed to. If apologies and shame are appropriate, it needs to be aimed at the leadership.

The attitude towards Vietnam vets was disgusting, right? Drafted people forced into a pointless war. Support the people not the leaders...
The greatest works of humanity were written without a VCS (novels, operas). Using a VCS is only mandatory for multi-person projects.

Code is different. There are many times that I have been developing and I do something to my code that causes mystery behavior, and I don't catch it until perhaps days later. Being able to walk backward in time and see when the problem first occurred is invaluable.

I used to really like using Visual Source Safe. It was so easy to set up and integrated directly with Visual Studio, there was no excuse not to have a VCS. Too bad it had a reputation for garbling itself (something I never had happen as a single dev).
>you open yourself up to be regulated by the governments of those people you invite into your service.

By this logic facebook should also ban gay pride symbols because Russians use facebook...
Of Literary Standards and Logistic Regression: A Reproduction
Yeah! In Cuba there's a whole network of USB thumb drives with new content each week. It's pretty awesome.

Of course, you still need a computer. Is this sort of thing going on in NK as well?
“be fairly sceptical of 'advice' coming out of large governing bodies and instead just be sensible”

That's terrible advice. "Common sense" is what happens when popularly accepted ideas escape proper scientific scrutiny, and that's exactly how we wound up here.
> Not besides the point because we as a society don't allow children to be admitted to violent movies by themselves.

You are confusing "violent movies" with "R-rated movies". The we don't admit children to R-rated movies, but we do admit them to PG-13 movies (which have as much violence, but less sex) illustrates, rather than rebuts, the greater tolerance for violence than sex.
Strange that you feel that's what I was saying given that my original post said that I've worked in a variety of different languages and environments.
> In what sense? Legally they are, they act like one so I am not sure in practice what makes that distinct.

Facebook, Inc. is a publicly traded company. An example of a private company would be Dell Technologies.
You might try reading more science fiction -- not only did it explore "Bezos' idea" long before he ever said it, it also has plenty of fun outcomes for how the universe can't sustain our rapaciousness.
Cellular, wifi, and bluetooth radiation poses zero risk. You can stand inside the path of a microwave communication dish and receive many orders of magnitude more radiation, and what it'll do is make you warm. That's it. Soviet soldiers used to do that in Siberia to keep themselves warm, and the only risk is the dish outputting too much power and cooking you instead.
nvi provides a minimalist implementation of vi. If you feel comfortable with the vi keybindings in other editors, nvi will likely suffice. However, many vim users expect scriptability, programming language support, and numerous other features.

The analogous comparison would be between bash and posh/dash, or between gcc/clang and the Tiny C Compiler.
Your comment sounds like the FDA declared triclosan in Colgate Total to be harmful. That is not true: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm205999.ht...

"For some consumer products, there is evidence that triclosan provides a benefit. In 1997, FDA reviewed extensive effectiveness data on triclosan in Colgate Total toothpaste. The evidence showed that triclosan in that product was effective in preventing gingivitis."
Good section called:IT’S JUST ME (1 EMPLOYEE)

https://mevans314.com/2013/09/01/blog-series-from-1-to-700-e...
What? Where do you think soybean, corn, Canola/rapeseed, peanut, cottonseed, sunflower, safflower, olive, coconut, and palm oils come from?

Animal fats are rather expensive in comparison, but I can also buy pork lard, beef suet, and butter rather easily.

The problem there might just be fragmentation. Growers of cane and beets (and sorghum, too, I guess) have basically just one major homogenized end product: refined sucrose. There are a few related products, like molasses, brown sugar, and confectioners' sugar, and the stuff like bagasse, that tends not to be seen by consumers, but refined sucrose is the moneymaker. Corn growers can also side with the sugar lobby thanks to corn syrup and high-fructose corn syrup.

There's definitely an industry ($800M/year?), but it isn't one that has a great common marketing association around, to collect dues and pitch catchy slogans that play well on television and radio.

The soy and Canola/rapeseed growers might come together to promote B20 biodiesel, though, while simultaneously bashing palm oil plantations. I can't currently imagine anyone trying to convince me to eat more fats and oils in my diet, at the expense of sugars. Low-carb is still largely seen as an irresponsible, unhealthy, fad diet in the mainstream.
> When a doctor approaches their practice as a for-profit transactional business I believe they should be treated as any other similar business.

What is a "for-profit" business in this domain? In the classic fee-for-service model, a patient asks for a service from a physician and pays for it. The physician needs the money to keep the practice running and to buy food and shelter. You could call it a "for-profit" business like a plumber and other craftsmen, that's fair enough, but for doctors money isn't the primary motive, they are only earning a living.

One difference though, physicians practice under far stricter codes of ethics, and duty-bound to hold the relationship confidential. Furthermore, the physicians are sworn to place the interests of patients above financial gain when crucial to patients' life and limb. Most physicians strive to adhere to ethical standards.

Of course not every physician lives up to the commitments made, some are greedy, and do look at practicing medicine as a means to accumulate wealth. Fraudulent billing is one path, exaggerated claims, huge marketing efforts and so on are also ways to get there. But these actions aren't common.

And there is incompetence, which differs from the normal ambiguities of diagnosis or dead-ends of treatments that don't work. No disagreement, there can be reasons to complain, but not all complaints reflect physician error or misconduct, or actual adversity to the patient.

However, health care is a team effort. There are poor patients as well as poor doctors. Asymmetrically, patients can openly write anything about a doctor justified or not. But unlike services like AirBnB or EBay, doctors can't respond in an open forum to set the record straight.

Remember, patients can also grossly misbehave. What constraints are in place to prevent it, or from shifting blame for poor outcomes to the practitioner who was consulted?

Having been involved in "quality assurance" of patient care including financial misbehavior, I can positively assert complaints are taken seriously. If patients submit complaints to medical societies, hospitals, licensing boards, there's a very high probability the complaint will be investigated. Believe me, such investigations are despised by physicians much more that Yelp reviews.

BTW in the state in which I practice, proceeds of the medical board are public documents. You can find out about actions taken against physicians and physician assistants quite easily. Much more interesting and informative than Yelp reviews.
certainly. I imagine the Coca Cola company put a ton of research into formulating Coke Zero and getting it accepted as well.

I'm not saying it's a simple substitution. But it's certainly possible, since there are home recipe versions. Nobody asked for parity - it doesn't have to taste the same.

But I'm already talking about a food - Protein Special K - that I expect to already taste like crap compared with some pure sweetness like Honey Nut Cheerios or Cinnamon Toast Crunch. We're talkking about why even a food that does not have to meet as high a standard, that is literally a diet food for fitness-conscious people, still includes 20% sugar by weight?

So while I get what you're saying, it's still a perplexing state of affairs. It's not as though SOME of the cereals came in stevia versions, and some didn't. None of them do. Doesn't exist.

It's possible, it's easy - you can make it at home. It's not available.

And we have an example from the Coca Cola company and its diet coke / coke zero, which are great products, of getting the marketing and other parts right. You can get it everywhere, even McDonald's.

I'm not asking why there isn't a "diet big mac" that has 0 calories -- clearly an impossible goal.

I'm asking why entire aisles, such as the cookie aisles, breakfast cereal aisles, cake aisles, have no product choices, despite this being possible, with artificial sweeteners or stevia (at any price or in limited availability).

It just doesn't make sense. There is something/someone/some state of affairs, to blame here, and the fact that it's not a simple substitution isn't it. I don't need every product to come in a stevia version. But none of them do. This is perplexing, weird, and tells me that there is something/someone/etc to blame. Because you can look up recipes and see that it's easy. When I put artificial sweetener on my oats, I'm literally doing it at home. But no oat mix comes with that. I have to mix it myself. And this is true along many product categories.

Why? There is something fishy here. There is something/someone/some economic process/some state of affairs to blame.
Bitcoin isn't money it's a Fiat Commodity Currency. If you want money I hear the US Dollar is fairly popular.
This is so true and so awful. I ran into the same thing. I had used a debugger and couldn't believe people had resistance to it when it was suggested by our TA. They were like, "Nah, I'll just 'printf' everything." And then the debugger they tried to get us to use was the god-awful command line version of gdb. I seriously think that turned several people off from ever using a debugger again because it was so bad.
The Path to Craftsmanship and the Art of Being Wrong
My mother (1973, Edinburgh) bought "Pure, White, and Deadly," and we all read it. I was ten or so. Yudkin attacked white flour, white (processed) fat, and above all white sugar. It made perfect sense to us all, and cutting back on sugar became a slow, yet consistent part of our lifestyle. We never ate that much anyhow. I stopped eating sugar entirely at 15. I still recall the book's cover.

Edit: it took me a lot longer to cut fruit juice from our diet. I was so convinced by that "natural" label. Until I realized my daughter, who'd drank a lot of juice growing up, was addicted to sugar. Then we cut it out. My other kids, not addicted. I was fooled for so long...

The sugar industry has a lot to answer for. It is IMO comparable to the tobacco industry's suppression of cancer studies. Yet worse, because the effects of high-sugar diets are doing more damage, to more people, and last generations.

Think of the hundreds of millions of children who have eaten high sugar diets since they were babies... lifelong damage to their health. A hundred years of damage, these executives and corrupt scientists caused.
TCAS Resolution Advisory will give an attentive pilot a good 5 seconds to react in the worst case. How much time does a Tesla 'pilot' have in case of "oh, crap, there is a truck stopped 20 feet in front of you that I failed to detect at highway speed. Now you drive!"?
I don't think I'm better than any citizen of North Korea, and I have enormous sympathy for the people of South Korea who are prospering while their friends and relatives (such as they still have) may be suffering. That said, the North is a home for one of the deadliest ideological diseases the world has ever known. Democide by totalitarian governments with a "communist" flavor killed more people in the 20th century than every war combined. We should not send aid to the people of North Korea until North Korea changes internally. We should leave the door open to trade, to peace, to free exchange of ideas, and to offer support for democratization. We should make every effort to destabilize the current regime in North Korea (which is still in a state of war with us, lest we forget). Giving aid just helps stabilize the status quo, which is not an acceptable outcome.
Low carb and keto is consistent with a vergatable, plant and especially nut diet.

> Whole fruits

What are whole fruits and why do you feel fruits of any kind are healthy? The levels of sugars in them are unnatural - neither oranges nor apples have historically been as sweet as they are now.
I think it's a good moment to bring up the immortal essay:

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...
So much wealth lost so 3 people can get $50k...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LIFE IN 2030 [pdf]
This is like claiming Amazon is building rockets better than spacex. Ones rockets go up and down , the others actually put things in orbit. Not the same, though they both use rockets.

Comparing apples to oranges.
> The US has sustained the fiction that terrorists are going to attack "real soon now" and people still accept it like some existential threat.

Touche. But at least in the U.S. dissenting from this point of view doesn't get you and your family thrown in a labor camp.

We don't need to get NK to love us. We just need to sow enough doubt in the Dangerous Fiction that launching a nuclear first strike is no longer seen within NK as a desirable (or even tenable) option.
You wouldn't know it given the land size of the country, but NK used to have the third largest standing army in the world, after the USA & PRC. (They are fourth now, after India)
The Google Maps APIs are point in time. Using OSM and Kalman filters, we can continuously snap points to the road in realtime. Plus it's a lot faster doing it on our own database than calling external APIs.
> because you treat everything as a series of patches from day 1.

That's an option, but not the only option.

For big shared mature projects, I treat each commit (to shared branches at least) as a presentation, where I try to describe exactly what changed, how, why, and to preemptively answer any questions I suspect will come up in the code review, clean up unnecessary or unrelated changes, cross linked to any task tracking items and bugs, the code review itself, any docs I might've updated in tandem, .... the description will often be longer than the actual code changes. With a quick summary to start, so you won't typically need to read the rest, of course. After the review and submit, I'll ping QA with some stuff I think might be worth testing once the build goes green. My commit messages, at least, tend to be better than any of my coworkers.

For solo seed projects, on the other hand, I take 5 seconds to try and describe what it was I did in the past X minutes. I try to remember to commit often enough that this doesn't devolve into "Changed stuff" because I forgot to commit for a day and touched 20 different things, but it happens - making those commits worse than any my coworkers generate, but still better than no VCS. They come in handy for tracking down bugs and such.

> The greatest works of humanity were written without a VCS (novels, operas). Using a VCS is only mandatory for multi-person projects.

Most of these had drafts and earlier revisions (or versions.) I agree that VCS is not mandatory mandatory, but the entire reason I switched to git (from SVN) was that "git init" is super low friction for getting new projects under VCS. That it handles branches way better and enables distributed workflows are mere side benefits.
NIST partially funded building standards:
https://www.nist.gov/el/about-el/standards-activities
Shocking photo of adults who overdosed with a small child in the car
Cloudron.io fits the bill for all your requirements.
If you ask people to this day, they'll say Atkins died of his own diet. That was actually a total lie run by Harpers magazine. They corrected the mistake in the following edition, but the damage had been done.

Although there is little evidence to support it, the running conspiracy theory is that PR people in various arms of the food industry paid for that article.

Edit: Adkins died because he slipped on a piece of ice during a snow storm and cracked his skull.
I'd love to see vim add an embedded terminal emulator in a window based on the async support. That feature alone motivated me to try neovim.
To be honest, I don't like the taste of stevia. It tastes a lot like other sugar substitutes (like aspartame) to me. That being said, I've had it used in cooking (without knowing it) and thought it tasted OK. Maybe in commercial foods they make it taste more like existing sugar substitutes because thats what is expected by people who already seek out sugar free foods?
It's not like you can go contribute to those discussions anymore.
Have you ever worked with a JS framework that wasn't angular? Ember, React, Vue, etc?
It's strange because the people upset over this are the same people who are full steam ahead on censoring anything and anyone they don't like, waving that XKCD comic as battle flag.
The starving people are a useful tool for extracting supplies from more developed countries; much if not all of this food will be siphoned off to bribe the elites. Famines are also a useful tool to help the tyrant punish areas which are not 'compliant'.
NK does not need a true story for their propaganda machine
My workplace has a ScanSnap ix500 multi-document scanner.

It's an utterly amazing, high-quality piece of hardware.

However, the software needed to use it is some of the absolutely worst software I've ever seen.

My advice: purchase a copy of VueScan to go with it. As a bonus, VueScan even has a Linux version that works quite well. (Not a shill, and I haven't purchased a copy, I just used the trialware but I was impressed.)