skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised no-one (including OP) is talking about the gut microbiome and how the variations in that can affect the absorption of calories. Twins can have very different results with the same "calories in / calories out" due to differences in the microbiome. This seems like a ripe opportunity.
As of 2017, I'm using Winamp v5.66 on my Windows 10 box and am scrobbling songs since 2004 through Last FM's plugin for Winamp. Both do a great job for me!
Qual tem o melhor custo-benefício: o Galaxy J5 ou o Galaxy J7
When the union formed concessions were made... An Ohian's vote weighs, say 1.4, a californian 0.6. So depending on where you vote, your vote weighs more or less. I read Trump lost the popular vote by 3M. But then so did Bush.

I'm not American, my opinion is about as much worth as my passport.
> Making a billion dollars a year revenue is pretty much the definition of "benefiting everyone"

Is this satire?
Hotel rooms are $100 a night, yet appartements their size aren't nearly as expensive on a monthly basis.

I could see capsule rooms going for $100 a month.
This would be great for non-tech too. That is, a marketplace for micro-consultations where I can look up industry-specific consultants. It would have saved me lots of time (months) on several projects I've played with launching over the last few years.
Ubuntu comes with AppArmor enabled by default [1].
Unfortunately its service will terminate at startup due to missing profiles [2]. This shows how much QA goes into security related stuff in a distro of this size.

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[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor

[2] sudo apt install apparmor-profiles-extra
I really really wish the U.S. would implement some sort of transit facilities and regulations for airports. Needing a visa just to pass through without ever needing to leave a secure section of an airport is ridiculous and anachronistic.
I love that you posted an 'in the wild' solution. So many people saying this is not possible. And then someone has found a creative way to offer one alternate. Such a good example of dont listen to the nay-sayers if you want to mentally explore something. There are almost always solutions and I'm sure there are more for this one.
I found that i have no interest in skins. I usually ran Winamp with its default look, and enjoyed Foobar2k with its default Win32 appearance.

But these days i have moved to Linux, where Deadbeef do the job quite well.
Also consider, If you worked until you were so tired you were no longer productive, any outside work (personal projects etc) done after work will suffer low productivity too.

I want to save a little energy for after work, not just spend it recovering.
I think geography is a red herring.

The addresses must have meaning and hosts must self organise into a subnet based on connectivity, which feels like a np-hard problem... That does not imply that there is no reasonably well working approximation that works more or less as good except for edge cases. (Literally, ha...)
Corrected, thank you.
This is a bit broad, but essentially there are issues that we have in society that end up costing tax payers, and individuals a lot of money, or are simply really inefficient. Education is one such thing, but you could also branch out into other issues such as theft, health care, environmental issues.

You can see that there are certain companies that are helping to tackle these issues in various roundabout ways, but I believe that there is big opportunity here, and it's kind of easy to quantify these issues, which makes it easy to sell solutions.

Sorry if this sounds very broad and generic, but I promise if you sit on this idea, and take just a single societal issue, once you start to dig a bit deeper you'll see opportunities jump out.
But when you have some months behind with daily Rust usage, basically the compiler just helps you to write correct code. I usually write code fast and then start iterating with the compiler to get everything right. If I need to fight too long with the borrow checker phase, I know my structure is wrong and I should rewind a bit and try again.
Note taking done right. Android, iOS, Desktop, Markdown & HTML, easy flat file format, Web clipper, offline and do this all without wasting whitespace (no doc editor like Evernote) and good sync and instant search results. <- NO ONE is doing this! Closest is maybe Google Keep (seriously it's good at some points I'm mentioning).
It's not just not the golden rule, it's actively misleading.

"Fats make you fat" is a flat-out lie.

The effects of carbs - especially carbs with plenty of refined sugar - are the developed world's number one health care expense. They don't just cause obesity and diabetes, they also create inflammation which leads to heart conditions, strokes, and other life-changing disorders.

Unfortunately the food labelling industry has been promoting falsehoods for most of its existence. Labelling carbs more clearly, licensing sodas and diet sodas to limit access, and starting health programs to educate the population about carb abuse would do more to improve public health than anything else.
Detecting veil evasion payloads
Can a solution be built for detecting veil evasion payloads. How ?

Veil-Evasion :
https://github.com/Veil-Framework
Learning React-native in the right way
It just changes the multiplier, the rule stays the same.
> As far as I understand the libraries of Rust itself can't have everything written in "safe" code.

You can't express everything in safe code but wrapping an unsafe API into a safe one is relatively easy with Rust's type system. For example, typemap [1] allows you to have a unsafe hash map of types with any key type to any value through a safe wrapper that uses associated types to enforce the data structure invariants at compile time. Given a bunch of types T, for example, you can have a single safe map containing all of the mappings of Event<T> to Vec<T>, Handlers<T> to HashMap<T, FnMut(T)>, and T to &T, etc, even though transmuting random bits of memory is the definition of unsafe.

[1] https://github.com/reem/rust-typemap
Nice work, is the source available? I'd love to do something similar for Sydney, Australia.
Quite a lot of modern politics seems to be making sensible but mildly complex solutions seems stupid, wasteful or malicious. Once you recognize the pattern you see it everywhere.

Another big chunk is taking a number that applies at a national scale and referring to it out of context so that it seems unfeasibly large.
CloudABI https://nuxi.nl/cloudabi/ lets you run capability based apps side by side with traditional full POSIX apps on your OS. Out of the box on FreeBSD, patches exist for Linux and NetBSD, userspace support for macOS. So you get one binary that runs on multiple operating systems as a bonus :) The ABI itself is basically "FreeBSD, plus Capsicum always enabled from the start, minus any stuff that doesn't work under Capsicum".
There is probably more than one route between two points, in a tightly connected mesh. But I agree, it gets insanely complicated rather quickly.
Alternative physics.
I came across this article that said they are often slower, the larger cargo ships at least.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/25/slow-shi...
I think the post makes more sense if you replace 'Millennial' with 'Exaggerated caricature of a Hipster'.
I'm doing exactly this, spreading the opportunity to legally own a firearm in Poland (https://braterstwo.eu). It's a Wordpress plugin, php scripts and a bit of legal stuff (creating a NGO, bank account with automatic payment identifications, etc).

It allows lots of people (thousands now) to obtain a permit. Poland has the lowest quantity of firearms in the whole Europe (and one of the lowest in the world). Taking the current mood around us now (terror attacks, war in Ukraine and possibly -- god I hope not -- other eastern countries) and the obvious coolness of legally owning a firearm i think it's a good initiative. Legal owners tend to be more law abiding and more self sufficient. We need role models like that, IMO.

I encourage more programmers to automate stuff that the state messes up. It's a lot of things!

PS. My NGO only helps lawful, sane adults. No felon, no person with mental illness and no kids can obtain a gun permit in Poland.
NoScript. Doesn't allow memory-draining, unnecessary JS and allows me to browse new sites without worrying if I'll be into JS hell.

Plus, I also mentally make notes of what sites have the fewest scripts and stick to them instead of competitors that don't.
"While we succeeded creatively, the advertisement showed a disappointing return on investment ($0), and we are now going out of business."

So cards against humanity is going bankrupt because of a failed Super Bowl ad? This whole article reads like a joke, I can't believe they were this inept...
My actual experience of post release vulnerability patching is that Desktop Linux will provide the required update in a timely manner and it will be installed transparently through system update. The user often doesn't even notice there was a vulnerability in the first place. On par with windows update though a bit less intrusive and annoying.

Linux Desktop is not secure by default for the same reason Secure Linux does not offer the best desktop experience: more secure means less convenient. Desktop Linux aims at being convenient.

Also keep in mind, we are comparing a single Microsoft OS to a variety of Linux distros each with its own default. it would make more sense to compare all of those individually to see how they fit to a couple standard threat models. Then put them through a week of everyday use by a not knowing better user and see how much damage the different OS sustain.
Quite a few of the companies on the list are among the highest payers in the USA.
How does that change the fact that if you consume less there be less to absorb from?
>as long as it was compliant with the building codes

Huts aren't compliant with building codes - and regardless, there's specific criteria you have to fulfill to get various statistics (square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen). Plus there are zoning restrictions on minimum building sizes, on top of regulations on minimum room sizes.

>do house buyers want to pay 1.2x or whatever for those extra details?

Even if they do, they often can't. If the bank appraises it as a $200k house, that's often going to mean that the buyer can only ever get a mortgage for $180k with $20k down. If the buyer wants to pay 1.2x, that means that they have to come up with $40k in cash.

>I would conjecture that home developers are not stupid, and that they have tried adding those (presumably expensive) details, and found that they were unable to recoup those costs in an increased price.

They aren't stupid, and they have tried adding details. What you wind up with are granite countertops, because that sort of thing impresses average home-buyers (and is an easy thing to point to for getting your appraisal adjusted).

The big issue is that American homebuyers, as a class, have lost the ability to distinguish good home design from bad. "Why" is a long essay, but the "just trust me on this" is that the vast majority of home-buyers have little to no experience in the sort of work that goes into building a home.
Better, have it actually learn from mistakes and see what logic it comes up with.
I wish he had used the open source FPGA tools [1] instead of Xilinx ISE...

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[1] http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
Depends how you measure "calories out". Are you measuring excreta or exercise or both?
Not at the moment, https://github.com/lvanhala?tab=repositories doesn't list it.
You might really enjoy The Timeless Way of Building.
I agree, the transit visa situation is really odd. I wonder how much money the U.S. loses by requiring visa from those travelling from Central+South America to Europe and the rest of the world. I know people personally that can't pick the quickest/cheapest route because it transits through the U.S.
Arch wiki is a goldmine: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Security
From reading diet boards, a lot of people find that their weight loss efforts are more successful with a compositional approach than just Eating Less. "Eat less" might be a simple rule, but implementing it is not so simple. Compsitional diets remove that problem, and appear to work for a lot of people.

I know there are a lot of HN readers who have used the Keto diet with considerable success, for example. And there are a good number of other diets that work for many people too whilst allowing an ad libitum approach to eating.
Nice, thanks for the link, will definitely check this out.
To me personally Rust was the first compiled language in which my reaction to each new part of the syntax was "Of course you do it like that, why would you do it any other way?".

My only gripe is that being a JS dev I'm spoiled with Node.js's gratuitous amount of community-written modules and finding out that a lot of the modules I picked for my projects in Rust are not actively maintained was a little bit disheartening.
Exactly, and they ARE.
I was fascinated to see how much bacon 4000 calories really is. A quick Google suggests about ten rashers, which, I guess, spread over a day wouldn't seem all that bad (in comparison with, say, Michael Phelps' reputed diet - he really put the "eating" into "competing"...).

Still, that's a pretty epic diet, and could be very popular in developer circles. You should maybe consider patenting it.
Cornerstone Recruiting
Aside from zooming, most ereaders offer the option to use a bigger font. That will result in a different text flow, which usually works. But it can break up text flow within a paragraph, within a sentence and even within a word. I've seen words break up into single letters, each letter one line.
The problem is tasty is a conditioning effect. The reason healthy food is not as tasty as junk food is that it has a lot less of the substances that used to be much rarer, like fats, salt, sugar. It makes sense that those are so tasty because they used to be rare.

To be able to eat healthier requires weaning yourself off high salt/sugar foods to get reacclimitized to food that has those substances in proportions that we've evolved to handle.
The 3rd party software is huge problem, actually. When you do apt-get or install using Ubuntu App Store it gives a false sense of security to novice user that things are safe. This is even more problematic because there are so many things one needs to download on default desktop to be on par with default Windows. The File Manager UI, for example, lacks too many features and user must investigate alternatives and either assume that everything is all right or deeply examine security vulnerabilities for each available option. Same goes for basic things like text editor or calculator and so on.
I don't know where you get your information, but at the kind of top-tier tech companies that are being discussed here, H1B employees are not getting inferior benefits.

And as someone that does a lot of hiring I can guarantee you that the interviewing costs, relocation costs, and language barrier trade-offs do not make up for any salary differences that may or may not occur.

We're not talking about some low-tech banks and telcos trying to save a few bux by outsourcing work to india.

These are companies that have a high enough bar for entry that they truly cannot hire by looking only locally and must consider the entire world.

Furthermore, your whole implication that the companies care about this from primarily a financial point of view is deeply cynical. Immigrants are heavily represented amongst the tech sector, and we have a deep faith in the success of western nations being directly tied to absorbing people hungry for a new life in a new world. It's not about screwing over people who are already here, it's about making the whole country better as a result.

CAVEAT: Am Canadian citizen, am first-generation immigrant. As mentioned, work for a multi-national tech company that is on this list, and hire from around the world. But I work with counterparts on the US side dealing with H1B and know they agree with me.
In languages like C it is quite common. In languages like Rust where there is a greater power of abstraction, it is less common as there exist versions of structures that wouldn't implementable in a re-usable way in C. Think of some examples you've had to implement in the past - you'll likely find implementations either in the stdlib or in cargo.

Yes, you will on occasion need to implement your own datastructure to meet a particular need. If you do that you're going to have to sit down and think about it, work out the guarantees, ensure that it doesn't leak etc.. All the things you'd have to do in C, but you have to do it rarely.

There are some intermediate libraries (things like 'Cell') that allow for writing structures that wouldn't otherwise be possible.
That's how Flatpak works with its portals, so assume you'll now read what I wrote instead of simple responses?
What I did was try to stall to see if he would run out of steam and come to his senses, this was on Wednesday. That day I also made the call to a team I've interviewed with before to ask if they would still be happy to see me. They were.

Next Monday what I said was roughly this: "We've got more important tasks than the backlog now, let's discuss how we can fit them in later today". What I heard next were profanities saying that I literally fucked up and I have to do them after work.

(Mind you, this was not 1-on-1 but a team meeting, so the entire team was present, 3 more people) Next I asked whether I would be paid for that work and the answer, of course, surprised nobody. I asked him whether HR would share his point of view (This is a company who cares about the image of a model employer), to which he said that I come to work later than the hours that are in my employment contract. (This was a guy who supposedly cared about the output, not asses in chairs and he was OK with people showing up later) I grew tired of this attitude and politely told him that I already made arrangements for my next job and I quit.

Transferring my work to the team was smooth and I left in good spirits.
Noam Chomsky on Power and Ideology and the Myth of American Exceptionalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_X5czMVKT8

Transcript: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/9/22/noam_chomsky_on_the_my...
Chrome 87 will add the ability to control your hearth implant from the web. Because it then can order new batteries when you are browsing on amazon, and lets be honest what could possibly go wrong?

Now don't worry, it will be opt out. Your browser will loose the ability to download files altogether if you disable this but such is the price of being a tinfoil-hatter.
I posted a follow-up to this story talking about further explorations based on the feedback I got from your comments.

https://kelvinpompey.me/tempted-to-abandon-react-native-for-...
Why do you say that? It's quite easy to see that the person on the other end isn't making eye contact, even when they think they are, looking straight in your eyes. To me, it seems like they are looking at my tits or something. It matters quite a lot. Also, FPS and resolution.

There's a long, long way to go before video conferencing feels more like an actual face-to-face conversation, and it hasn't really changed much in the past 10 years.

I mean, the main complaint against remote work seems to be that there's still no substitute for an actual face-to-face conversation. That IS a tech problem that CAN be solved with tech. The current tech is woefully inadequate.
It's true, but in an unhelpful way. We've been telling fat people to eat fewer calories for many years, and we're not seeing fewer fat people.

It reduces a complex problem into a simplistic slogan that's then used by many people to hate and judge fat people. "You're fat, just eat less stupid fatty".

It ignores gut microbiome. Here's a story about a bug that makes it harder to gain weight: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22458428 and another bit of research about people who are obese: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7122/abs/nature05...

It ignores "satiety". It ignores all the psycho-social stuff going on around food.

It ignores changed metabolic pathways (one of the reasons people who take antipsychotic medications are overweight is because of the changes to their metabolism: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC487012/)
An interesting (long, rambling) read on the subject by someone from the inside: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/dominic-cummings-brexit...

I believe they open sourced some of their software after the campaign too, although not all the sophisticated ad-targeting. The message seems to be that if you target enough misleading ads at underinformed floating voters, you can shift an election.

> - know how your congressman votes on each of the vote

See theyworkforyou.com for the UK, which I believe they're trying to generalise internationally.

> - news article that only comes from international press

This is an interesting one and potentially useful. You want to see press that's not targeted advertising to you. Actually making any money from it (or any media operation) is still hard though. The best way to make money from media is to sell out as hard as possible, which is bad for reporting.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3d+printed+hous...
I suspect nuclear (be it fission or - someday - fusion) would be much more viable for powering something at that scale in a "post-petroleum" scenario. There already are a couple fission-powered cargo ships out there, IIRC.

The problem is that safe disposal of nuclear fuel is nontrivial.
The first two are Elon Musk's companies and he's stated he wants to continue to try to influence Trump directly on this issue in particular:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/827924171661377536
I actually agree that it is wholly sufficient (Based on my life situation) though not necessarily convincing in general. I've been trying to explore the frame used by people voting along protectionist lines, and I don't believe this form would convince them given that the most common narrative against globalization appears to be losing too much to others.
Yes and no. The market works in the UK. If you don't want a "hand holding" ISP that filters and DPIs your connection you have a range of good alternatives e.g. http://aa.net.uk/

The shittiest providers in the UK are usually the vertically integrated players (Sky, Virgin, BT) that optimise their business around selling bundles to consumers (TV, mobile, net and movie subs).

Fortunately, thanks to local loop unbundling providing a relatively level playing field, there are lots of "net only" providers that focus on delivering a technically strong, unadulterated connection to the internet for consumers that value that.

Bonus: VOIP is also really easy in the UK. When I lived there, I ported my landline number to http://www.voiptalk.org (which I still maintain now), had a 4G unlocked SIM from Virgin with virtually unlimited data and an 18MBit ADSL connection from Andrews & Arnold. All monthly contracts, no tie in. Total cost was ~£50/month iirc. Worked beautifully and felt very "free" (as in freedom) to me.
it's hard to tell if it's satire or not.
You may be aware that since Trump, when you're not a US citizen, you have no rights to privacy. Everything Microsoft collect about the rest of the world is fair game. IIANM this feature was introduced with the patriot act update.
Another way is to estimate the net present value of America's GDP by multiplying it by 20 or so, which implies that it's roughly 1% of American wealth.

Alternatively, percentage of rents at office and industrial zoned land would be a good measure. That'd separate out national vs international activity, at the cost of being significantly more difficult to estimate and calculate. I actually don't know how well rents and imputed rents are tracked at aggregate levels and broken down by company, so this may very well be data that we simply don't have access to.