skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tobacco could be banned. It wouldn't be a popular decision, but it could be done.

It seems that governments in many countries are playing the long game when it comes to an eventual tobacco ban. The first step is to require stern warnings on packaging of tobacco products. The next step is to include graphic pictures along with the warnings. Where I live, these warnings and graphic pictures take up most of the package surface on cigarette packs.

I suppose the next step would be to ban branding from tobacco packages so the only thing on the package is the warnings and images.

The end goal of this, I think, is to slowly erode public support for tobacco products. Then, when the eventual ban comes, the public response will be more of a whimper than an outcry.

I don't necessarily like legislation that bans people from choosing to do something, but I think there's a decent case for it in countries with publicly funded health care, where tobacco uses costs everyone, and not just the individual who chooses to use it. I enjoy freedom of choice, but I'm no libertarian. It seems to me that in any reasonably sized society, you end up needing to find a balance of tradeoffs between individual liberty and the well-being of society. The tricky part is finding that balance. The line between what's allowed and what isn't can feel capricious and arbitrary to anyone stuck on the wrong side of it.

I wonder if governments might try a similar tactic on route to eventually banning human-driven vehicles. Start with warnings, escalate to graphic images and video. Eventually, you might get to the point where the majority of people see anyone who doesn't use a self-driving vehicle as a selfish barbarian.
You seem to fail to grasp even basic common sense: most products and service increase in value over time, and though it's difficult sometimes to measure that value, it's not 'arbitrary'.

For example - as Farmers improve their technology - Tomatoes become bigger, juicier and redder. Clearly - there is 'economic value' in those 'improved tomatoes' and that has has to be taken into consideration when comparing tomatoes grown before, to tomatoes grown now.

Stop misinforming people, take your conspiracy theories to ZeroHedge.
Spotify is running for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week here and I have no complaints. I love the UI and responsivess, even on my 3Mbit ADSL line. It's everything I ever wished for in a music app.
> looking at them in the eye

That's still an open research field right now.
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Anyone think this was a media response from Uber to combat the video Tesla put out last week?
I'm not sure that 'commentary' really fits in with the core feature set. It's among a set of features that seem to be creeping into the central idea of a liquid market place. Let Twitter be Twitter and emergency announcements be provided by emergency services of the telcom. Keep it low level and focused on direct utility to the users in their everyday lives.

Good luck.
This is only for publicly-trusted CAs. I'm not aware of any plans for local CAs, and I don't think it would make sense to require CT for them.
Welcome to the world of "$lang-lang" queries. Go, Rust, please make room.
Dad got to fly it once. He had tickets on another Air France flight but because of a strike (it is France) it was cancelled. A German coworker started yelling at the ticket agent, who after a few minutes of this abuse, shrugged and upgraded dad, then walked off.
> barely profitable

Patrick wrote "year in review" posts going back to 2006, and they include full numbers, so you can see for yourself. Profit margins in 2014 (the most recent review) were at a whopping 60% across all his businesses. (See here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/12/22/kalzumeus-software-year-...)

> closing down

He sold his SaaS businesses, and they are operated by other people. Here's a podcast episode about it: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/08/26/kalzumeus-podcast-episod...

They are still in operation, and presumably still profitable:

https://www.appointmentreminder.org/

https://www.bingocardcreator.com/

> Growth or death

Not really. Moving past patio11 as an example, just look at local businesses in your community. The ones that have been there the longest (> 50 years) have undoubtedly gone through periods of both growth and decline (I don't mean decline toward death, I mean decline for a bit and then start growing again). Many of the ones that have been there for about 20 years will have reached a sort of "asymptote" of growth--they would have grown for the first 10 or 15 years and then stabilized around a size that feels "comfortable". There are many more businesses in the world than just start-ups and public companies.
as far as I'm concerned, it's an open question in modern design.

It's not complicated. The rate of assimilation has to be kept higher than the rate of immigration. That doesn't mean small, but does mean a bit insular and/or "LURK MOAR."

no-one has quite squared the market opportunity around those communities yet.

I think they have. Forums, slack, blogs, their own websites, email lists, subreddits, twitter, facebook, g+, etc...

The problem with the types of community you describe, is not that they're small, but that they're actually communities. Not userbases branded as a community. They can flit on and off services as they come and go because the community has multiple ways to talk among itself.

You can sell them a tool or host a place to talk to a group of friends. But they're in too strong of a negotiating position with you for you to start a social network and scale it to the moon. They're already on the social networks anyway.

If you're targeting a community, your competition isn't facebook. Your competition is a guy with a dreamhost account and a copy of phpbb.

If you really want a killer app for communities, I think it was called Trillian. But that was back when the popular communication platforms were less rigorous at keeping everyone in the branded client.
I'm a machine learning researcher and I also have a lot of experience analyzing eye movement data.

There aren't large labeled datasets that are publicly available in this area. Just to classify eye movements into events, you would need images of the eyes or eye velocity to classify eye events into smooth pursuit, fixation, etc. That means someone needs to label all of those in ground truth. To actually determine what someone is looking at, you have to go beyond this to have information about the scene. When looking at a screen, this is usually done with calibration, but things get more complicated when trying to predict what someone is looking at with a mobile eye tracker and a fixed scene camera. Body and head movements complicate things further (e.g., VOR) and many algorithms ignore them.
That's insane. What's it writing?
I agree with the premise that the amp framework (or any such framework) should be separate from being forced to work with only a specific set of tools, etc. However, it seems to me that what the author is proposing is really just more/better adherence to html/web specs...no? Or perhaps, a few performance-related tweaks to existing html/web specs...I mean, if we all (that is web producers, website managers, content authors, etc.) simply produce sites that adhere more to already established web standards (a la html5, xhtml, etc.), AND have browser makers be more strict in their interpretations of the established html/web specs, then we'd be almost all the way there...no? I'm by no means stating that this is easy, just stating that the author might be re-inventing a wheel that simply could use some optimization.
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No there are many good hours of reading for sure. This made me laugh:

Ancient tale.

There's this SR-71 Blackbird stooging around Cuba on a top-secret mission, at FL500+ and Mach 2+.... when they get a call requesting them to change heading "because of traffic at your altitude".
Traffic at THEIR altitude ??

Anyway, they comply, and shortly, yes, there's an Air France Concorde out of Caracas (Air France flew there in the early days) slowly sailing across their flight path.

Just imagine... two guys in bonedomes and full pressure suits, in a cramped cockpit, watching something like a hundred people in shirt sleeves or summer dresses, sipping their champagne and maybe just starting on their smoked salmon hors d'oeuvres, flying at their altitude and nearly their speed....
That's the real trick in a trust-based system. We have multiple CAs to prevent single points of failure or control, but now that there are so many CAs, and well-known powerful actors seeking to exploit CAs, there's a need for more oversight and enforcement, which leads back to a central authority and a single point of failure and control.
Not necessarily. The amount of air displaced is related to the mass of the aircraft. A heavier plane displaces more air, leading to a more energetic boom.
I don't have a worked out idea, but maybe if a site has more than a certain amount of images, start to multiply their contribution to the size of the page? So if you double the image content, then a page that literally takes 10 MB to load, of which 9.5 MB are images has the calculation:

19.5 / 10 = 1.95. (assuming the PNG is 10 MB for simplicity).

You could be fancy and use exponent.

But I doubt there's a good mechanical way to do this. Whether an image is bloat or valuable content requires sophisticated judgment and understanding of what the purpose of the page is.
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If they didn't tell this person not to share the info, then the problem rests with whoever divulged this information in the first place. Once it's out, it's out.
Retraining has been this sort of ludicrous dogma for awhile, especially since the 90's when the Clinton administration seemed to be obsessed with it. I keep thinking this year will be the year this fiction finally dies.

The solution involves real jobs with living wages, not sending former factory workers to sit in de facto community college seminars three nights a week for free.
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>India is atleast a 100-200 years away from something of this kind happening; or more likely never at all.

What do you mean this statement? Do you even know GlusterFS (later became RedHat Storage) developed from India.

First try to understand the context before starting your racist rants.

Disclaimer : I'm Ex-GlusterFS dev.
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>Khatri had been combing through thousands of posts on Seeking Alpha and contacting as many as 50 users a day. Some flagged Khatri’s messages as spam, and the site’s administrators locked him out so many times that Khatri created more than 15 accounts.
Social scientists have been paying attention to a recent spike in suicide among white, middle-aged Americans [1], and economic distress is often often put forward as a cause. This is exactly the group that the automation of these kinds of blue-collar jobs could hurt the most. The introduction of this kind of technology could have very real consequences in terms of public health, human suffering, etc., albeit in a more indirect way.

I wish that the process of getting regulatory approval for this kind of tech could be explicitly tied to addressing some of these second-order consequences: no self driving cars until 1) the technology is assured to be safe on the roads and 2) there is a plan to help the huge number of human beings who are in danger of being made obsolete by it to adapt somehow.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/death-rates-rising-...
Oh, you mean all the farmers and factory workers that made up the Midwest, which are now overwhelmingly trump supporters, largely because of the destruction of all economic opportunity in their region?
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http://patrick.freivald.com/2015/04/26/my-thoughts-on-the-fl...
I set up my first BBS in the late 80's.
Prediction: You will start seeing more and more locally oriented internet sites as the need hasn't disappeared. It was only bulldozed out of the way to make way for the global village.

(God, did I just say global village, what's next, "Information Highway?"
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holy! on Mac or Windows?
Many if not all of the acme clients out there store the key and certificate as a file. Just copy that to the various machines terminating the SSL connection.

In our case, there's a script on the frontend machine running HAProxy that's fetching the certificates and putting them on a shared file system so the backup machine also has access to them.

The traffic between frontend host and application servers is unencrypted in our case as it's all one rack under our control. If it wasn't, we'd be using a self-signed certificate for that connection.
A truly decent audio oscillator was only available after 1939, when Hewlett & Packard issued their first instrument.

In a 1985 letter, Dave [Packard] described Hewlett's audio oscillator as "the foundation on which Hewlett-Packard Company was able to grow into the largest manufacturer of electronic instruments in the world, the keystone that allowed four and one-half decades of major contributions to electronic measurement technology and equipment."
ScentSee ( https://scentSee.com ) is a state-of-the-art recommendation API purpose-built for the world of fragrance. By leveraging deep learning algorithms on over 5.000 notes grouped in 32 scent classes, ScentSee is able to match 25.000 perfumes to previous preferences, olfactory types and user profiles.
Our customers are fragrance retail businesses, online and brick&mortar, who aim to boost sales by making the fragrance shopping experience revealing, informative and efficient.
The ScentSee experience works by merging the art of fragrance with the precision of math. It does this by collecting information on notes and note types from various experts and publications online. Following that, it structures the data, separating the top, heart and base notes. Notes are then classified using a system similar to the Fragrance Wheel, although it is worth noting that our wheel has a bit more “spokes”.

The API docs are available here: http://scentsee.com/jsondoc-ui.html?url=http://scentsee.com/...

Inquiries, feedback and suggestions are welcome on bogdan@scentsee.com
Many pages of poetry that would get a trigger warning today, but a handful of very good poems.
This aligns with my experience as well. Not exactly a BBS user but early CompuServ primitive dial-up was around, then within a few years, cable modem internet arrived in my area / region. Geocities ahoy.
Good find. This is an excellent question. Knowing how much OpenSSL made through this is certainly important.
>, subscripts are just adding to pointers, and since addition is commutative, then so is the subscript operator. [...]
A lot to unpack from such little code, and plenty to learn.

It was over 25 years ago that I first came across the C language FAQ from the Usenet group comp.lang.c and it explained the "commutative property" of array subscripts. (Online version here: http://c-faq.com/aryptr/joke.html).
Another similar stackoverflow Q&A has also been done: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/381542/with-c-arrays-why-...

Over the last 2 decades, I have never needed the knowledge that the C language lets you put a number outside the brackets instead of inside it. Other than deciphering obfuscated C puzzles, I've never run across any real world source code that took advantage of that syntactic quirk. So yes, I did learn that trivia about array subscripts -- but it was useless knowledge.
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It is not 'making a deal with the devil' to take other people's money on the basis that you'll return a certain amount of profit - and then not do so. The 'devil' it would seem are the Twitter founders, who took investors money on false premises.

So Twitter has hit a ceiling, they are making adjustments, which sadly are op cuts. If they want to hire more people than can grow their numbers.
While PCem is a more accurate emulator (it's very close to cycle-accurate even), I keep an installation of Windows 3.1 on DosBox around to play really old games. It works for 16-bit games like the original SimTower.

Maybe one day I'll get adventurous and see if Windows 98 will run on DosBox.
A bit of both.

I actually don't think anthropomorphization is helpful in discussions with the lay public but I'm not that serious about it.
I never had the app crash on me. What bugs are you refering to?
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Fair enough. How about the UK's Open University that was marginally more successful with Beagle 2 for £66 million.

It went riding on another orbiter, Mars Express, but at least reached the surface intact.
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Yeah, I am actually emigrating to there, and healthcare is a major factor. The system there works so much better. And costs aside, simply navigating payments, billings, costs, etc. even with private insurance is so much smoother and less stressful.

Also of note is the way pharmaceuticals are priced in Australia. None of this EpiPen price hike type of nonsense. The government body Therapeutic Goods Administration negotiates all pharmaceuticals offered in Australia, and agrees on what they will pay the manufacturer. The public just pays A$39 for any drug, even if it costs the govt $100,000/yr.
Not to take away from that but I suspect that there are a lot of good reasons to underpromise and overdeliver. I also wonder to what degree budgeting has something to do with it. Budget for a shorter lifetime given that you can usually end up extending missions if the equipment is still operational.
heard that yeah! Kind of ironic in a way?
I agree 90% with this; .txt files get most of the job done! ;-) The other 10% where i don't fully agree comprises of hyperlinks; i need me some clickable hyperlinks. :-)
He was wrong?
We can prioritize both. It's not acceptable to ignore the consequences of new technology because overall we'll probably be better off in the long run.
They have a "foundation" supporting their products. Before the foundation was conceived, it was started as a side project with no strings attached.
Oh indeed, you're right. This didn't occur to me because I've never had a reason to use `git commit [path]`.

And I don't know if I'd call this error evidence of the author not understanding git, as much as I'd call it further evidence of the inconsistency they're highlighting.
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I've thought long and hard about why I believe Twitter as a service isn't very valuable to me and I thing I've come up with the answer. Twitter is great at delivering live information. If I'm following my favorite artist on twitter then I know immediately when his album drops. However, that one important tweet that matters to me is mixed in with a 100 other tweets of people I follow retweeting or posting irrelevant things. For that reason the situation in which Twitter truly shines for me (instant, up to date information) is overshadowed by the fact that many people also use Twitter to post funny things which I don't care about.
There are deep social divisions in India, considering its tortured (and propagandized) history.

http://sankrant.org/2011/03/the-english-class-system-2/

There are systematic faults, which prevent much change, if the current policies are kept up (note: India's literacy rate is ~78 %, since literacy (except in English) brings no great advantage).

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/how-english...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/11/06/the-problem-...

Imagine China, with only the expensive class of engineers, for instance. Or atleast, one with this class, and another class that was educated in English, but barely knows the language, let alone possessed of any usable skill.

There are now villages, driven by this economics, where rural-children are being taught in English. Considering how bad the Japanese/Chinese are with English, it shouldn't be hard to interpolate how disabling this is when everything is being taught in a foreign language.
I would be interested in seeing a list of political figures and personalities that got banned and the reason for their ban.
>Is software easier or harder than hardware?

Neither. Rather, it's the total lack of design accountability procedures in place for software. When a mechanical or electrical engineer messes up, there is a legal framework in place to hold the involved parties responsible for their actions. Depending on how bad the negligence was, this can include jail time. This motivates those designing the hardware aspect of a product to check and recheck their work many times over, and as a result you rarely read about hardware failures with this level of frequency.

In contrast, when a software system fails, everyone seems to just throw their hands up in the air and say how this is par for the course. There is currently no legal PE certification available for software, so we have seen disproportionately many catastrophic software failures.
What have been your impressions with Elm so far? I started playing with it recently since I enjoy Haskell but I'm coming from it with no prior web experience so it's hard for me to gauge it in most aspects.
Same here. Apart from the couple of songs that keep reappearing it's perfect.
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

Which of course now means a clear, deep blue.
I've always been curious to see the fuel usage numbers between a normal jet and a vehicle that goes into space on a ballistic trajectory?

It seems like the latter would need less fuel because it only fights the atmosphere on launch and then glides through a near vacuum most of the way.

But perhaps the additional speed requirements cancel the drag savings?
I've been wondering when the bezel would disappear for good. I don't doubt that it adds the the appeal of the phone, but I also wonder if it has any downsides from a usability standpoint.
And Clojure.
In my view of git, commit is very definitely an object, the action is 'creating a commit object'.

I don't think either of us is wrong, we just use different names, making communication very difficult. Which just underscores my original point. Names matter.
I'm just starting my career as a dev, but my first language in school was C++.

At work I use C# - but I hope to keep learning more languages. The main thing I was worried about initially was being stuck with one language my whole career.

Anyone else ever feel that way?
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No, I'm pretty comfortable painting MRA's with one brush and "feminists" with another. The idea that MRA's and feminists are two ends of a single spectrum is one of those cognitive line-fitting traps we nerds fall into. The world isn't linear like that.

I mean this sincerely: if you feel like there is a war on men, or that as a man in tech you're persecuted, you should find a professional to talk to. I'm not qualified to diagnose you and if I was I wouldn't do it over the Internet, but my suspicion is that a lot of MensRights activists are really experiencing pathological anxiety --- an extremely common ailment --- and that it's just expressing itself as a feeling of persecution.

Not nearly enough people take advantage of mental health care. It's possible that most(!) people should, in some fashion, just like we all see doctors. We live in crazymaking times.