skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can assume the doctor monkey is paying for his kid's school, but it's possible that doctor monkey also benefits indirectly from the other monkeys' kids education as well.

All the roads you drive on are toll roads? Here in Oregon none are, and when I was back East only some highways were toll roads. Surface streets are nearly all paid for through taxes AFAIK.

I don't get the severe anti-tax stance some folks have. Yes I want my taxes spent efficiently, but I absolutely recognize that I gain benefits from paying them. Even when some of those taxes go to poor people. Without a peaceful society nobody will care that much about computers and the 'net ;).

I admit I'm a bit biased, because I get Welfare myself. That is, the gov't gives me a fair amount of money to offset the interest I pay to the bank for my mortgage. My effective income tax rate is less than 10% so I probably get quite a lot more welfare than any really poor family does. What a world we live in.
I've been using a $150/mo spending limit on Azure for maybe two years now, and I can go on record stating that it is extremely accurate. They're really good about showing me a breakdown of exactly where every cent I'm spending is going over time, and the second it hits $150, Azure automatically shuts down all related services and stops charging me.

There are a few Azure services to which the spending limit does not apply, but as long as you know what they are then you can choose to use them on your own volition.
My guess is artificial sweetener, which by technicalities gets to say it's safer than it really is because of number-rounding laws. Or something?
Another big point that he didn't make, which helps his argument a bit, is that Uber is no longer novel. It's spread and network effect have stopped, and gone are clean cars and a positive experience, replaced with mostly beat up city cars and drivers with no practical professional driving experience.

It's akin to delivering pizzas now, the only people doing it are not realizing the negative value proposition it offers and are desperate for fast money.

I was a big fan of it at first, but now I've gone back to using cabs because A. I know in this city at least (Chicago) cab drivers have to pass a basic exam showing they know how to drive people around in the city, and roughly that they know where they are going. B. It's the same price. C. It's not hard to find a cab any time but very off peak where I live and work and socialize.

Too many drivers that were stuck staring at the GPS in the car, not knowing where to go, what route to take. Too many filthy cars, smelling like cigarette smoke. Too many insinuations that I needed to tip. Too many times I've been cut off or hit by or gotten stuck behind an illegally parked Uber when I was driving. The list goes on.
You started talking about "anti-business and anti-entrepreneurial", now you moved the goalposts to "big business".

Yes Swedes don't worship people like Trump like Americans do. But people going into business (hairdressers, contract work, running a supermarket, startups) is very different.
Is this just called dark chocolate? Kidding aside, I'm hoping they don't replace it with some sort of chemical sweetener, I'm always suspicious of sugar replacements.
"1. Trump will spend, reduce taxes, increase debt, and therefore US interest rates will have to go up.
(This happens whenever a government promises to spend a lot on infrastructure improvements.)"

Yes - all else being equal ...

However, consider that if Europe goes over the brink and China has a serious property (or other) bust the flight to safety could push US interest rates even lower than they have been.
Good question. This is what they say:

> The new faster dissolving sugar will enable Nestlé to significantly reduce the total sugar in its confectionery products, while maintaining great taste.

I suspect GI not much. Sugar is dissolving fast - in any case - that by the time it hits the gut it is ready to be absorbed (once it has been split into glucose-fructose).

I wonder if the glucose-fructose split is happening already earlier in the mouth possibly the sweets could taste sweeter (fructose tastes sweeter than sugar). That would be equivalent to turning sugar into HFCS with 50% fructose in the mouth - may taste slightly sweeter.

In the end what could matter if this is an indication that Nestle has set course on lowering sugar content in food. Iff
This absolutely friggin sucks. I love my pebble, and I have no faith in fitbit at all. I'm sure they will shut down the product and throw the team on the next useless activity tracker.
Interesting. I wonder how much smaller a KitKat would be with 40% less sugar and nothing else added to make up the difference.
He didn't buy it at current oil prices or for rational reasons. It was an emotional buy in the past likely connected to ego. That it's a hand-me-down from a more successful businessman is where it gets funny for me. He finally topped him by riding in the more exclusive plane they all want.
I'm sure it'll be something along the lines of, "Hey, we're using 40% less sugar... we will be adding in some things like cane-juice crystals, corn syrup solids, and refiner's syrup to compensate." Don't you feel better already?
Didn't get it. Found your ig profile. tried it. seems very un-intuitive. not sure people will understand it or go through all the trouble. [See Image -> goto profile -> click link in profile -> find image again -> click image -> go to website]

I feel like something that simply 302'd the user to the most recently posted URL would make more intuitive sense, but with obvious drawbacks.
I'm curious - do you know of any chrome plugins / client-side tools to help solve this problem? Seems like it could be very infuriating for the semi-competent Chinese internet user. Wouldn't be too bad to write a plugin that finds dependencies from "allowed"/"works-in-China" CDNs.
Thank you. I was thinking "audio/visual" and I was very confused.
I think the idea is that they can now remove 40% of the sugar and still achieve the same sweetness with no other sweeteners needed.
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Their market cap is more like $235B

https://www.google.com/finance?q=TYO%3A7762&ei=2kdAWJHcJc_Be...

Edit: oops, that's JPY, not USD.
Pop is still recognisably human. This sounds like logic gates roasting by an open fire.
The same happened to me at 17 and keept it going till I was 19. I really didn't buy that many Amway products, but I did enjoy reading the monthly self help books they sent, many of those books were really helpful.
I am not sure. Has AWS bandwidth followed the general bandwidth drop that everyone else has seen?

If migrating out of AWS is 100 million dollars in bandwidth, not sure you would see a lot of people jump ship to a competitor.. data lockin and all.
Pretty cool, here is an hash cracker in Ruby for the lazy:

a = [2, 15, 11, 22, 16, 3, 6, 21]; c = 72; while (b = a.shuffle.sample(rand(a.size)); b.inject(&:+) != c); end; p b
That's also a great way of teaching people how websites/servers/browsers work. They're not looking at "the actual" webpage on their computer, just an instance of it that their browser downloaded onto their own computer.

They can mess with it all they want, they're not really changing anything.
Never heard of Jupyter Notebook until this story. It reminds me of Eve.
Windows 7 does not default to TLS 1.1 and 1.2 enabled.

While this can enabled via GPO, I really wish MS would release a patch that forces these to be on. There is no reason not to at this point.
So because of a future possibility of exploit, don't do anything which is one cause of the existing argument.

I suggest you uninstall Chrome if that is your view, it too will lead to a full system compromise in the future, I mean it will in the future yet again.

> Most software doesn't run with full system privileges

For most people, yes it does.

> go out of its way to interact with malicious content

Your browser also does.

> difference between AV and any other shitty software is that AV is massively more useful and abundant as attack surface.

The browser pretty much wins here too.

But no, it's AV vendors fault your browser is such a risk.
I guess I'm more cynical and skeptical of businesses which only have financial incentives in mind to do "good" things like this, but no ethical incentives.
I greatly appreciate your accurate and civil response!

I think it is achievable at some scale. The right number of course is somewhere between 5 monkeys on an island, and 7 billion monkeys on a planet.

You could conceivably take your money, buy a boat, load it up with 20 years worth of solar panels, greenhouse materials, medicine, guns, etc... and you can boat out to a cold desolate rock in the ocean like Bouvet Island, and you can live a complete life of anarchy and no taxes, etc etc.

But this is an extreme example, and shouldn't be what you have to do to live a life that is 100% free of being coerced into paying for the systems that are present in modern society.

An equally extreme situation, though, is being forced to pay an ever-increasing portion of your income in taxes, fines, levies, fees, and surcharges to the government... so that it can subsidize the wrong technologies and human behaviors.
News articles are saying that the sugar will be "hollow", so there's as much sugar particles that will reach your tongue but they will dissolve very quickly and be less dense.

Anyone has more information on the science of it?
Geoengineering is such a dangerous (both morally and in terms of its possible consequences) approach that it shouldn't seriously be considered as an option.

Cfr. [1] for its possible consequences in Asia and Africa:

Both tropical and Arctic SO2 injection would disrupt the Asian and African
summer monsoons, reducing precipitation to the food supply for billions of people.
These regional climate anomalies are but one of many
reasons that argue against the implementation of this kind of geoengineering.

[1]: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/GeoengineeringJGR9inPr...
His H2O2 link is to this:
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/thi... which talks about some more exciting peroxides.
Case in point: After years of fruitlessly asking AV companies to stop injecting shoddy patches into their kernel, Microsoft eventually gave up and added active countermeasures which deliberately trigger a kernel panic if certain structures are tampered with. That gave AV vendors the "encouragement" required to move to the sanctioned APIs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Patch_Protection
the i5 and i7 heaving the same price makes sense because
the i5 model comes with a ssd vs the i7 which comes with a hdd (hybrid).
Auto-synthesis of music has been a topic of academic interest since the 1950s, when the first mainframe scribbled out code on paper tape to be translated into sheet music and performed. UToronto's work here is the latest expression of this desire.

The huge gap between our cultures' actual music and these synthetic projects can to an extent be described through "receptivity" or the phenomenology of music, in other words, how it's experienced. The following fun, short talk does a great job of introducing the concept of through its analysis of "vaporwave."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdVEez20X_s
They need to fix the taste, all their candy bars taste like nothing but sugar these days.
> and they're acquiring a company in a market where there is a clear leader (Apple)

If you have to spell it out, they might not be the clear leader. The Apple watch is missing a glaring feature - compatibility with Android phones (Android Wear has the reverse issue). That alone makes it the Apple watch a non-starter for a large number of people with smartphones, and "people with smartphones" is the target market. Fitbit and Pebble are the biggest two smartphone OS-independent smartwatch producers that spring to my mind.
You'd still need to get your data out of Amazon's cloud and into the competitor's. That's neither cheap nor easy.
Any advances in energy production or energy storage make me very excited because I consider those are the most important challenges for human race survival, because we are destroying the climate using fossil fuels. Advances in energy storage would allow us to make better use of solar and wind energy production.

I also can't help but dream with how advances in energy technologies could maybe put us close to building self-replicating robots to explore and colonize other planets!
"EDIT: Anyone cares to explain his reasons behind a downvote?"

I downvoted you because you talked about your downvotes.

Don't interrupt the discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system.

Write your post and live with the results.
Lessons learned from table tr td’s dynamic duo
You can’t make a polite argument in 140 characters.

I’ve been myself involved in such twitter fights before, with people with whom I normally talk completely differently, but it’s impossible to be polite on twitter, stay within 140 chars per tweet, and answer within of a few minutes.
>> "A patent is a double-edged sword. Although it protects what you have done it also tells your rivals about it."

Maybe this isn't all the big of a deal for what it does to chocolate but if it is used to reduce sugar in other things that are consumed in large quantities (soda?) it could mean less sugar, fewer calories, less carbs and all those good things.
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There's also a Plex client for Roku and AFAIK not one for Kodi. If you have a Roku device you'll want to be running the Plex server instead of Kodi.
> through their inaction

"Their"... Was there some other vendor worse than Microsoft? It has seemed sane to attempt to avoid infection on every other platform I have used in the last 15 years or so.
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I wouldn't be surprised if people just start eating more of this chocolate because it is perceived as less unhealthy, thus negating the health benefits.
It could be worse. Could be: "Ain't got no..."
Fate of Russian cargo freighter unknown
I 100000% agree! The only issue is that on this Earth, far away = Antarctica, Bouvet Island, a barge in the ocean....

Surely there needs to be some middle ground where I can live in a relatively hospitable place without having to worry about being placed under surveillance and being forced to pay large income and property taxes ;)
You must be fortunate not to have any preexisting conditions or to not need any medical procedures that, without insurance, can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Of course, cocoa would affect the taste, a lot of people don't like dark chocolate. They're talking about another sugar that would dissolve faster in the mouth. Should be interesting at least.
I've always been told to cost average this.

However, I've never had to sell a single Bitcoin.
Length Unit Conversion in JavaScript (2011)
FreeRTOS (while being absolutely fantastic) is 'just' a series of low level primitives allowing task scheduling and so forth.

The Pebble platform is a much richer 'operating system' for pebble apps.
$100B Chinese-Made City Near Singapore 'Scares the Hell Out of Everybody'
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I've noticed this phenomenon while riding Greater Anglia Class 379s on the WAML. It's very annoying!
The profits were promised. The money has been borrowed. You don't just stop.
You should have filed a loss with the IRS for the money so you could get the tax write-off.
MSFT in top 5 (all time) contributes to Docker project
Generally the reasons they think that these diet drinks don't help you lose weight is because they believe the artificial sweeteners used will effect you in some way that sugar doesn't cancelling out any other benefits it has.

Presumably, they won't be replacing this reduced sugar with an artificial sweetener.
FTA: "The company, which makes Kitkat and Aero, says its researchers have found a way to structure sugar differently, so that it uses 40% less."

Seems like they re-invented something like Splenda?
We started working on Wordeys this summer (on a cool hackweekend at a farm), after we felt like there was a gap between learning the basics of languages and mastering languages. On top of that, when using existing language learning apps we always feel some sort of annoyance; it’s really helpful at first, but then it gets boring, time consuming and irrelevant.

That’s why we made a tool that lets people save relevant words, grammar and vocabulary into lists, which can be practised (like flashcards, but with soft spell checks). This enables people to only spend time and effort on the stuff they need.

By focusing on a minimal, clear UI and integrating Google Translate we make it possible to build these lists really quick.

We would love to hear everyones thoughts on this!
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Now I can eat 40% more Nestle chocolate! America!
AV has to do what it does to inject itself between the internet and the browser because the browser provides no better way to work with it. If there was a better way and AV continued to do these things, complaining that AV is doing these things would be valid.
Thanks! I'm actually an old-time geek and IETF person, and do some work on security, but would like to get some better grounding. I sometimes find that other security people in the IETF have what appear to me to be naive views on things like usability, and seem to be making the wrong tradeoffs because of that, but they are "better educated" than I am, so figuring out how to become more educated myself is a priority.
Naw that monkey runs the fighter jet manufacturing company, he's all for it and busy paying the lobbying monkeys to make sure the racket continues
In the UK, concentrated grape juice is often added to products marketed for small kids and babies. Presumably a lot of parent read that and think 'oh, fruit, that's good for you!', not realising that this is essentially pure sugar.
UberPOP is what we have in Helsinki. You're able to split the fare with multiple users, whom you know, going the same route as you are. Imho actual ride sharing would be the "taxi" picking up random other people along the way and then the service billing everybody fairly in the end. With UberPOP fare splitting is just a convenience feature of the service, i.e. "instead of you giving me that 5 euro note for your share of this taxi ride, let's do it automatically".

Maybe pop works differently in places which have both it and X though. Those descriptions certainly make it seem like that.
Or just set up a taxi next to it for 2.5x the price?

There's almost certainly a taxi next to it that only charges X, and all taxis are required to clearly post their prices in their windows. The taxi charging 3X is simply banking on the fact the enough people are operating with incomplete information and will just hop into the first taxi they see without fully understanding how the system works.
I was excommunicated from my family at 15 because I refused to join Amway. It's a family destroying dangerous cult. It's not like my family was super awesome before Amway but it did drive us from lower middle class to poor while promising them riches. It made me very wary of any get rich scheme - including tech start ups. Instead I'm getting rich slowly. Which is fine for me but really bad for dating. The whole living frugally and saving is a very hard sell, especially in SF.
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At ChowNow, we build online ordering systems for our over 4000 restaurants. We're launching some new products in the coming months that I'm really excited about. I love working here as an engineer. It's a great balance of challenge, freedom, and impact.

We've been growing quickly and we're looking to hire a DevOps engineer! For some background, we had a manually configured AWS infrastructure that we've just retired in favor of an Ansible / Terraform-based setup. We've automated infrastructure and deploys so it's a great time to come in and shape where we go from here. For example:

* Dockerize everything?

* Build out a Kubernetes cluster for our services?

* Use Spinnaker for a Continuous Delivery pipeline?

To be determined!

We also have positions open for Front-End (Ember.js / Node) and Back-End (Python) engineers on our careers page at https://jobs.lever.co/chownow?lever-via=MO5-ac-qvc. If you're interested or have questions what it's like to work here, please contact me at kevinlondon@chownow.com or our recruiter, Candice, at candice@chownow.com.
Looks like a Weak(low quality), weaker(med quality) and even weaker(high quality) Gaussian blurring on everything in the images to me, can't see any benefits to it