skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly my point. Arrow functions and destructuring assignments are great, but we've put up with function() { ... } for the last 20 years, so I'm pretty certain we can wait a couple of more years and not get bogged down in these crazy tooling chains to achieve so little.

and if we insist on crazy tooling chains, how about getting some real benefit – like coffeescript (?-operator anyone) or typescript (yes, typing can help, just look at swift)?
What is the fascination with soylent? It's basically a supplement food bar / meal replacement. There are a million of these things on the market, already, right, in some kind of bar or powder form?
As is the majority of food Americans eat anyway.
That information is available (historically) from the third-party voting scraper sites (e.g. http://ohiovoters.info/). If there is a way of preventing it from being collected, I'm not sure how to do it.
I hope someone is writing some code that'll automatically integrate winds aloft forecasts into flight plans!

The fuel savings (and time in the air) ROI across the entire air travel industry would by yuuuuge, and the only cost is development time (I say "only" as you're not having to build any new physical machinery).

EDIT: Boeing already offers this service it appears: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/2011_... and the fuel savings are substantial.
I had noticed that as well. I wonder if it's because the lactose contributes to the process that makes it go bad, or because they treat it to make it last longer assuming it will move slower with a limited consumer base.

...

Ah, a little googling, and it turns out it's a byproduct of the procedure to remove the lactose, Ultra Pasteurization (UP) or Ultra High Temperature (UHT) pasteurization. [1]

1: http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/34884/why-does-...
What is your suggested alternative.. force every plane to land half way and take a coffee break? Also, aren't they the same planes and seats as decades ago? We don't replace planes very often, neither do they just sneak in another seat on every row.
Good point, that is definitely part of the problem. Though granted I am a person who has it for lunch every day, so there is some wiggle room as to what it is for. Still, it is clearly not meant to replace all food consumption or even most of it.
Fun chat app, Joakim. Tried it out for a bit and chatted with a nice person for a few minutes.

As others have said, some minor scrolling things. Two other tiny bits:

* Words wrap around in the middle of the word rather than getting moved to the next line, so it's not very 'pretty'.

* When your chat partner is typing, it fluctuates too easily from 'x is typing...' and 'you are chatting with x' in the middle of their conversation. Maybe set the timeout for that message to be a little higher?
Not quite sure. Is it related to the disability where you prefer a colostomy because you can't imaging wasting time in the bathroom?
Almost no one advertises for an executive that has a handle on software development, contract management, financial oversight and more.
Pedantic: That's actually not true if you consider the time value of money and current prime mortgage rates.
Bash script can be made to believe in god. )
I find it amazing that OSHpark manages to be price-competitive with Chinese PCB services. If you need small 4-layer boards with ENIG finish, OSHpark is hard to beat!
> There is not much room for subjectivity when extreme views are concerned, certainly no more than in any other moral question

I'm not sure what you mean by "moral question". I mean the difficulty in deriving someones intent. for example, som people would see "voting for Trump" as "extreme view" and "racism".

> Either you think an equal power distribution among the races and the sexes is a desirable, high-priority goal or you don't

There so much about that that isn't binary. 'Priority' is one, continuous dimension. Implementation is another.

> Trump's movement is certainly much more supremacist

More supremacist? You don't think that's binary?

> Here we come to the question

No we don't, here we come to the conclusion that your comparison of the SV tech crowd to a 17th century French monarch is a poor one; You spun this out to another issue yourself.

> It has been firmly established

Again with the weasel terms. Who, when, how?!? Even 1 + 1 = 2 needs a basis

http://tinyurl.com/1and1is2
> A quick google search and I can't find many places in Europe that offer 25 days, not including the national holidays.

The legal minimum in Europe is 20 days' vacation plus national holidays. Competitive employers offer more.
In theory, one shouldn't need to get rid of things physically, one could do it "mentally" instead. But that turns out to be extremely hard in practice. Still, the true minimalism is just being less concerned with material things rather than being constantly concerned with their presence around you (or even in your "possession").
Sure but costs are rapidly dropping for EVs while house prices continue to climb.

I think we're going to see some really interesting things over the next 5-7 years as initial prices come down and operating costs stay low. It's going to squeeze the ICE market from both ends which could put them in a really tough position.

I'm reminded of the HDTV market about ~10 years ago when it seems that prices were astronomical. Now you can get a 4k TV for under $300.
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So which is it? Claims of vote rigging are dangerous to democracy or they aren't? If they're dangerous, then I can play you audio of Trump making them.

Now that we've got that out of the way. Hillary isn't making claims of vote rigging, she's making claims that Russians hacked emails and released them to influence the election.

Her claims are backed up by the United State's intelligence agencies.
No, people who don't like cooking let other people cook for them and go out to eat or have food delivered. Soylent is for people who do not like to eat food. Big difference.
You seem convinced that subsisting on Soylent is the best idea. What about minimal preparation of meals + freezer bags + sous vide? That way you really don't have to worry about thawing. And prepping things like cuts of steak is really just salt/pepper/buttering it before freezing.

And for what it's worth, I thaw my meat in the fridge. Just throw it in there and it's taken care of in a safe, hygienic environment. Not really "a process in and of itself."
What kind of wealth is currently untaxed?

Stocks or bonds => income tax + capital gains tax

Real estate => property taxes + capital gains tax

Cash => taxed by inflation

Metals => capital gains tax
glad to see n2cms in there. It's got some quirks, but on the whole its the only CMS I have every actually enjoyed customizing and integrating with (in any language). Even the older versions were pretty decent, and I've heard it's gotten better.
I'm torn between finding these kinds of things completely ridiculous and appreciating keeping old traditions alive. There's just something neat about these kinds of things. Hilariously pointless, but neat.
I doubt this very much. The practices around how we moderate HN have been pretty stable for a long time, including about politics. There are fluctuations for various reasons, but not huge swings or shifts. If it appears so, it's likely because of (a) sample bias plus (b) whatever the bias is that always makes people feel like their side is being treated unfairly.

We're thinking about taking HN a conscious step further away from political stories, actually. But I think it would be a mistake to do that because of behavior during an election season, since that's such skewed data.
I was the former. Lost data because of virii, hardware failure, system failure, corruption. Now I have a TM here and there. I also have my OS9 disks in case I want to relive the horror of elementary school.

When working with the cloud people just assume it will be there forever as long as you pay (or someone pays in a freemium model) money.
They should just change the name to Bob and sell it to Walking Dead fans.
Cheddar, hah I think you mean 'merican cheese
I don't think they are the same seats - they get replaced - but they are pretty much the same size. Legroom, on the other hand, has definitely decreased.
With bombs of this type you can chain things on several times and really amp up the yield. The theoretical limit, if there is one, is absolutely nuts, like 500MT or more.

The problem is that beyond a certain yield most of the explosive force punches up through the atmosphere and is wasted. Apart from shock and awe, not sure what the utility of something that big would ever be.

Additionally since a spherical explosion of double the diameter takes eight times as much energy to create, you quickly run into diminishing returns. Lots of smaller bombs is more effective, hence MIRVs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targeta...

Nuclear weapons are so awesome and so utterly insane at the same time.
Java boilerplate? Just kidding. :)
Ask HN: Wrote a small thing which grew and became very popular, and I'm sick of it
Hi HN,

I work for a (very) large company. A while back, I wrote an internal tool for some fairly specific, niche (albeit quite important) internal need.

What started as something used by 3 people blew up over the past year into something on which dozens (if not hundreds at this point) of people rely on, and that supports some critical needs inside the company. The small tool grew from a few hundred lines of code into a complete environment with tooling for non programmers, etc.

I'm currently managing 3 engineers who develop the whole thing, and I'm running around playing PM - answering emails, spec'ing out work, being pulled into meetings, and so on. (I'm not officially their manager, but my manager assigned them to me)

If this project were a startup, right now we'd definitely be into the "hockey stick growth" part of the curve.

The thing is that I completely and utterly hate it. What drives is learning, research, becoming a better programmer/designer, and working on cool things - not managing a full blown software project with all the QA, release planning, etc. that's involved. I've given many evenings and weekends to this thing over the past few months, and am nearing complete burn out (I started losing hair, actually).

I've been at the company for much longer than the lifespan of this project - I am a R&D engineer whose job is to explore various avenues for prototype hardware. I'd like to detach myself from what I've created without causing my entire management chain (this has gotten executive attention) to hate me.

Have you experienced this in the past? What is your advice for dealing with such a situation? I already have some thoughts of my own, but would love to hear external perspectives.
>> Where in the Geneva conventions does it say that they apply to all warring parties?

[Edit: ptaipale discussed that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738768 too.]

Unlawful combatants don't have access to the rights under war laws, except Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions (see quote below).

Hence, the question is not if you treat them as POWs or as civilians -- but if they have the protection of a POW at all.

That is more than enough to show my argument correct.

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

The Geneva Conventions do not recognize any lawful status for combatants in conflicts not involving two or more nation states. A state in such a conflict is legally bound only to observe Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and may ignore all the other Articles. But each one of them is completely free to apply all or part of the remaining Articles of the Convention.[6]

Since you have no foot to stand on -- bye.

------

(A note that doesn't matter for my argument: Out of interest you might want to read this and the "See also" for the page, especially the "No longer enemy combatant" link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_combatant#Internation... The US Supreme Court seems to agree that unlawful combatants should get protection by the Geneva Conventions -- but this doesn't matter for my argument anyway.)
I regularly fly this route and also SFO<->NYC every other week, and often in economy as a result of last minute bookings.

You have some big claims without any backing. As from my experience, the only issue is fatigue and discomfort through the flight. Air India actually has some really good seat pitch on the 773s
Thanks!

Ah yes great suggestions. Hastily threw the controls in a couple months ago and they're sure due for an update

( PR's welcome :) )
In the US it's not advised to keep eggs that long, which speaks to a whole other issue.
I'm responsible for that BUILD file. Here's why I did it.

Every team at Google stores its code in a single shared monolithic repository with petabytes of code: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub45424.html The Nomulus BUILD files you see in the GitHub repository are actually identical to the ones we use internally.

In order to make the BUILD the same both internally and externally, we needed to have some BUILD files in the open source repository, which at first glance, appear to be superfluous. The reason why @guava//jar is mapped to //java/com/google/common/collect is because that's what it's called in the internal repository. By creating this alias, we don't have to update the hundreds of other deps=[...] lines that reference it.

In the future, our tooling will improve and we will no longer need those files. But for the time being, they're a good workaround.
This article seems disingenuous. What matters is total cost of ownership. Which is unfortunately, because there are several compelling cases now where owning an EV is cheaper than a comparable ICE.
But starvation and malnutrition are generally not caused by lack of production, right? I think distribution and economic issues are usually at fault. So eating less doesn't help anyone, except maybe yourself.
The wind goes the other way that way.
I'm not adding anything to the end of his statement. It's predator-esque on it's own and you have to add an unlikely subtext to make it not creepy.

It's not like he was cut off mid-sentence. That's how he ended it.
Sometimes the simplest solutions can fix huge problems. Brilliant!
Thank you for your input, appreciate it. The word wrapping is a problem that is now fixed. Maybe a longer timeout is a good idea, but I think a too long timeout would be confusing? Maybe the user only writes something and then deletes it and it will look like as if he/she is typing for 3 seconds?
>>You seem convinced that subsisting on Soylent is the best idea

I never said that.
That's still not suppression of free speech.

I know this is cliché, but freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequence. I can exercise my freedom of speech at my employer and repeatedly say terribly insulting and disparaging things to my coworkers. My employer can then fire me. Would you say my employer is suppressing my freedom of speech?

The answer is obviously no. I still can speak freely, just not while voluntarily associated in a contract with my previous employer. I wouldn't say my coworkers intimidated me into being fired by my employer - I brought it upon myself by saying terrible things.

I see that as the same thing as this Thiel situation, except it's even more public. Instead of just insulting coworkers, Thiel is publicly (implicitly) (to some people) (in a large way) supporting discrimination and sexism. I'm not saying I would necessarily expel him, but I would have serious reservations about working with someone who could possibly do that, even if it's somewhat unrelated to the job.
More impressive to me is the fact that Britain is still paying interest on a debt from 1720 (due to South Sea Bubble krach)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/world/that-debt-from-1720-...
The land, the land,
'twas God who made the land,
The land, the land,
The ground on which we stand,
Why should we be beggars
With the ballot in our hand?
God gave the land to the people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_(song)
Boeing already does this, I think AI just started to subscribe to it.
(1) Yes. I could see maximum times for flights if one could draw a link between long flights and poor health outcomes.

Speaking of which...

"One person in 4,600 experiences a symptomatic VTE in a month following a flight of four hours or longer, and only a minority of those are serious."

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120207/New-guidelines-for...

(2) The airframes aren't new. but the seating arrangements sure are. And modern tech, big-data, means far more flights are booked solid. When I was a kid flying london-vancouver it wasn't unusual to see an entire row empty. That's not a thing anymore.
I agree. I'll never understand how people get so defensive in regards to SOMEONE ELSE's decision to change their diet. Soylent is a great solution for some. It's not for everyone (nothing is, not even food :P) - and I'm glad it works.
Last year a flight from JFK - LHR made a record crossing of 5 hours and 16 minutes by taking advantage of the jetstream:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...

I'd assume it's not worth it from SFO though, as the polar route is so much shorter.
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Ya got me. I was going to say "Kraft Velveeta (tm) cheese food product" but thought I might have been pushing it. ;)
Oddly I've had this tab open for a week or so now: http://madscript.com/boron/
This is an interesting read, but it's worth digging down into the particulars. In particular:

> Is adding obscurity the best use of my resources given the controls I have in place, or would I be better off adding a different (non-obscurity-based) control?

Is a really important question to ask. In this case, I'd argue that port-knocking, SPA, and changing the port are not cost-effective.

Obscurity is not free. There are additional costs and risks to consider:

* Has the port-knocking or SPA software been well tested or audited?
* What if my pentester mistakenly believes that there is no OpenSSH service, and so doesn't check it?
* Is it worth re-configuring all of my SSH clients? What if I have to go through change control?
* Is it worth re-configuring any vuln. scanners I deploy?
* Do my clients support port-knocking or SPA?

I could spend an hour setting up port-knocking, SPA, or rolling out a port change. Could I do something more useful with my time? Perhaps better testing my application? Finishing that pressing code review? Buying and using a vulnerability scanner? Reaching out to a pentest company? Setting up an IDS?

All of the above will probably have a better cost-benefit ratio than port-knocking, SPA, or changing the default port.

It is almost always more cost-effective to just use Mozilla's OpenSSH guide[1], keep up with security patches, and direct your attention to the weaker components of your stack.

References:

[1] : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Guidelines/OpenSSH Security/Guidelines/OpenSSH, Mozilla
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The manufacturers of these devices are selling faulty products. If their products are dangerously insecure, they should face repercussions.
This is a CRUD app safe-space.
>>1
I'm impressed by the 9th dimensional re-reading of "You'd be in jail" if he were president. I know your God Emperor loves that you help him complete his sentences and also tie his shoes.

>>2/3
Sure, Trump is a fact-based kind of guy! So after he cries fire in a crowded theater let's trust he's the the guy trying to stop the mob. /s
>I've never seen half dozen egg cartons or single sticks of butter sold in supermarkets, but my experience is somewhat limited.

Just want to counter so the parent poster knows that yes, it is very common to find single sticks of butter or half-dozen egg cartons in many grocery stores. I can't think of any that don't have these things.
Wait, so the makers of a processed food find nothing inherently wrong with processed food? Color me convinced.

I also enjoy saying "Numerous scientific studies have suggested..." while linking to none.
How many words should one have to use to question snopes' credibility before it comes acceptable discourse? :(
A couple of days old so if it was zombies we'd know about it now... right?

A spokesperson from Bay Area Hospital asked to clarify some points of the narrative.

Barbara Bauder, the hospital's chief development hospital, said the patients were never formally hospitalized or quarantined.

The 5 people who showed symptoms of hallucinations were seen in the emergency room.

Everyone had been sent home by noon that day, Bauder said.

http://kval.com/news/local/people-afflicted-by-mysterious-ha...
The thing sent to their service shouldn't be known by anyone but the user, then it can't be stolen from the website.
I looked at that source. There's no definition of 'social instability' and no references defining it. You really can't cite this as evidence that 'societal instability' is the most pressing concern when managing endowment spending.

If you're attempting to feign competence in this matter, you should stop. I recall that you've claimed in the past that currency fluctuations have no bearing on real estate prices. Your initial comment here demonstrated that you have no appreciation for the concept of financial suitability. While you are probably very capable at whatever you do, reading a personal finance blog does not immediately qualify you to advise institutions on managing billions of dollars.
Translation: "Shame on Y Combinator for not punishing someone for supporting a candidate I don't like".

I don't like Trump, either (in fact, I rather strongly dislike him), but that doesn't mean I inherently dislike his supporters just because they happened to pick one of two evils in this shitfest of an election.
i feel like this comes from the idea that "time spent not working is time wasted" -- as in, if elon musk works 90h weeks, everybody should too. and if you are not, you are wasting your life (startups in particular are full of those people).

i honestly feels like people forgot that there's more to life than working or making money or disrupting an industry. go lay down on a park and watch the sunset for goodness sake, it's good for you!

(in my case, i 1000% love cooking. it's a whole experience, even if it's just for me. cooking for myself is "me time", when i do things for myself, so i can enjoy)
This workflow is described in the documentation for the mercurial evolve extension: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/
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