skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a chrome user, but doesn't chrome have a "reader view" like firefox or safari?
They like subsidies alright. Just subsidies that fit their doctrine.

> the IMF says America is the world’s second biggest culprit, spending $669 billion this year—but mostly by “post-tax” systems which fail to factor the costs of environmental damage into prices.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/07/ec...
Add a custom stylesheet that removes the warning? ;)
I agree. The computers that I learned on by taking them apart, reassembling and programming them were not school property. Tinkering with those computers, reinstalling the OS when I overreached and trashed the system, and troubleshooting unresponsive hardware taught me more than any textbook ever could. Schools probably can't afford to let students learn like that because they'd need people to restore everything for the fraction of students who wouldn't be able to recover.
Outside of the developed world (and somehow Australia because our net infrastructure is just that bad), being robust to network connectivity issues is super important. It's also why SMS based "apps" work so well in those situations, as intermittent issues is the norm, and SMS doesn't take much, but your 2MB web app does!
I inferred it from previous similar discussions about "late stage capitalism".

"Late stage" implies people think we should get rid of capitalism soon. I don't see that happening. I don't want full-on communism / socialism , as it's been demonstrated to be a failed incentive for countries to both grow innovation and to defend themselves against the far-right-leaning societies in the world.

Maybe once we're all connected and communicating more effectively, we can stop building armies. I don't think we're there yet.
When I was growing up what we had was (direct translation of terms)

- basic school (grade 1-8) --> elementary

- middle school (9-12) --> high school

- high school --> 3yr college

- university -> 4+ years

so I got really confused most of the time :-)
I'm missing the potted merkle tree next to it.
I always thought if MS can make Windows Phone run Android apps in a seamless way, there's hope for it.
This article primarily uses "juice" as a synonym for "commercial fruit juice." In addition, it's suggesting that it's not healthy/necessary to drink such commercial fruit juice daily.

If you're consuming smoothies which use the entire fruit/veggie that you'd normally eat, and you're not adding sweeteners, and you don't have any health issues that might be related to excess calories in your diet, then no need to attack the article, it's not addressing you.

But even then, note that the article still makes the point that people tend to over-consume when drinking their calories as opposed to chewing them.

As an example of one of my smoothies that I make at home that I don't think this article would take issue with: 100g frozen blueberries, 1 medium (126g) banana, 14g raw almonds, 100g spinach, 14g whey protein powder, 6g unsweetened cocoa powder, 10g fish oil, water. This is about 440 calories (18g fat, 56g carbs, 22g protein) according to My Fitness Pal.
Nope, not just you. They do some really good journalism at times, but even their best articles have a sensationalist bent that gets old after a while.
I think this pieces core thesis, that context collapse causes us to focus on irrelevant but entertaining information, is less true in the modern era. Google actually created a world where your results and advertising is MORE contextual to your real life, not less. And for what it's worth, Facebook also made feeds information also more about you. Apple made computing more about doing real things outside. And so on.

So I don't think we are entertaining ourselves to death, we're just doing the thing we've done best forever: procrastinating work we don't want to do. We just have better options for filling that time now.
I do not think anybody wants ISPs to be in charge of internet. However, I also believe, that most do not want USA FCC to be in charge of internet either.

Arguing for a benefit, without clearly identifying the strategic negatives, is intellectually dishonest.

Perhaps, it is with the help of these types of arguments, is how some monopolies and dictatorships are built out.

Here is an example of the discussion analyzing some arguments of the validity of FCC reach:

"This Comment argues that requiring ISPs to filter pirated material is within the FCC's ancillary jurisdiction pursuant to Title I of the Communications Act,'1 but only so long as the targeted activity has a detrimental impact on network activity."

http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
pp. 535-538

I would argue, that it is the power of consumer choice to obfuscate his/her usage of internet (and, protecting companies that help with that) -- should be the goal.

Rather than, giving FCC the authority to regulate ISPs or consumer usage of the internet, via the ISPs.

I do want to mention that I appreciated some (but not all) analogies used by the author.
I liked this one especially.

"Not only did Western Union back Hayes’ campaign financially, it also used its unique position as the information backbone for espionage purposes. "

It reminded me, in just recent history, of how the previous (2008-2016) US president used US (and, probably, UK's) foreign intelligence services to target the opposition of his foreign policies, and the people's choice of the next president.

I also liked the analogy of TV and facebook, I fully agree -- Facebook is working hard on creating a 'walled garden' of information dissemination, and digital identity of every individual. And they would love to cut out the 'amateur hobbyists'.
I was surprised that there was no link to the Society for Barefoot Living http://www.barefooters.org/

I think the piece is actually an instance of a press hit as described by http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html since it ends up linking to http://www.feetfreex.com/single-post/2016/10/07/Feet-Friendl... who have a product to sell.
How do you deal with the email invites? I'm thinking of making a filter to auto-delete them.
Love the site! Great work. I wish pages like http://npmaps.com/colorado/ had big thumbnails/previews — would make picking a map easier than solely with text descriptions (which are well-written btw).
I am for paying a neutral gateway to Internet. However, I don't get why we should forbid Facebook to give access for free but only to their services if they want to.
Kong: API Gateway and Microservice APIs Management Layer
>>Why would UK and France want to support a project like that?

They wouldn't, hence the Brexit :)

Also, in the beginning it wasn't sole German domination, rather, it was German-French duopoly [1][2]. But now French economy got weaker, so that they are not equal partner to Germany anymore, and guess what? There are some politicians in France talking about Frexit [3], or at least giving up Euro as currency (which would result in EU collapse anyway).

EDIT: as usual, HN is obsessed with references, even for things that are a) common knowledge b) mostly based on hundreds of facts, that are not so important in isolation, but are meaningful when seen as a trend.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/opinion/can-merkozy-save-t...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11207721...

[3] http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/790846/marine-le-pen-pro...
Because eating is a social activity. We eat with each other and cook for each other. Sharing experiences is important.

Because food reflects culture, and is an interesting and often pleasurable way to connect with it. Exploring other cultures is important.

Because some tastes are acquired, and take effort. Diversity in experience is important.

Taken to its extreme, your attitude would have us all drinking flavored Soylent.
That's exactly the meaning I am conveying.
I wonder if this list comes out any differently today, 12 years later.
It was the same as all Microsoft products, it was aimed at businesses primarily where they could leverage all the features that come with a Microsoft domain e.g. Exchange integration. I worked at a Housing Association (UK) and we issued all our tradesmen with Windows Mobile smartphones. They received & completed all their jobs via a custom app we wrote for it, all pre iPhone.

Microsoft has never been a company that targets consumers directly in my opinion, they're a company that targets business first and foremost and due to network effects they effectively got most of the consumer desktop market as well.
This. For a period of time in the 1990-1999 range, Tcl/Tk was often the only way to have a cross platform program with a GUI that did not require the language equivalent of #ifdef WINDOWS/#ifdef UNIX everywhere. Which while providing "one code base, two platforms" really meant writing the platform specific code twice.

For most Tcl/Tk usage at the time the same, unchanged, no "ifdef"'s present Tcl/Tk script would run identically on the various environments that it supported.
In US English at least, alternate can be used as a direct synonym for alternative. Idk if it's the same in British English. Might be different like the phrase "just in case", etc.
"It looks like your browser is unable to display ads". I guess not.
Of course, the big companies can still provide hardware or infrastructure in general. But any algorithm handling our personal data should be strictly out of the hands of those companies.
Pretty solid example. Thanks!
it's absolutely delicious that a person of your username made such a comment
> Which is foolish; they have the resources to devote to both, but they don't know how to do more than 1 thing at a time.

Lack of focus has a real cost, even to large companies. It's the difference between polished slick software, and a design-by-committee mess.
There's just no real replacement for a keyboard and mouse.

And if I'm using those, why wouldn't I want a laptop?
I think the ability to be entertained constantly is a problem in and of itself, though. There's a serious case for the usefulness of boredom.
The ultimate goal of the EU is to promote peace and collaboration in Europe.
Whole fruits are messy and time consuming.
I have 2 iPads that I inherited. They are used 99% for watching videos. Expensive portable streaming TVs. My daughter practices typing and coding on her Chromebook. Paid $180 >2 years ago and it works perfectly.
> we'd still be ultrafucked by the mechanisms we have unleashed from the past 200 years of industrialization.

Yes, which is why I am so keen to find a path to a decentralized infrastructure while retaining the key benefits of a centralized state (rights guarantees, pooling resources and scare resource management).
Everything I have read and heard about successful blogs is that people write regularly for a year or two or more and eventually people care enough to pay attention. There are probably several reasons:

1. Writing and publishing everyday or so over a sustained period of time improves a person's skill at writing in general and writing for an audience in particular.

2. One of the ways popular blogs capture first time readers is with a back catalog of other interesting posts that suggest the site is worth book-marking/revisiting.

In terms of news sites, pick a topic to start because I can go just about anywhere for a random mix of subjects. Making one is probably harder than a blog because a news site is competing with Tom's Hardware, Hacker News Reddit, Google News, Facebook, and so on. Without staff, that will be really hard.

Good luck.
It's also possible the Chromebook paradigm conflicts with European law, given that it basically forces you to use cloud services from a single provider with mandatory privacy waiving.
Chromebooks plus google classroom are all I see in my kids elementary school. Reminds me of the early days of Apple. Kind of funny that you can get a $200 chromebook and it has a touch screen. My $2,500 macbook pro only has a touchbar.
Couldn't you verify from a test account?
https://www.whatfontis.com/ as well, though it presents an irritating survey you have to decline to see the results.
Oh wow, some exec at Microsoft will be salivating at being able to overlay ads on everything.

... and with Win10's telemetry / user tracking, they'd likely become freakishly good at targeting too.
I agree that experience helps, but experience alone is insufficient. Experience should be properly reflected upon, or you can stick to suboptimal practices justifying them by saying "that's how I always do it, worked for me in the past".

Experience can even be detrimental - the well-known second system syndrome comes to mind!
Thanks for that extra info.

How do you think Objective C would perform if every operator was a dynamic method call as it is in Ruby? Surely then you'd start to get frustrated with the overhead? That's why languages like Ruby need the speculative optimisations.
1. Do marketing or billable work. If an activity does not create revenue, have someone else do it.

2. Your money is cheaper than your time. Spend money.

3. Conclusion: spend money on commercial software. Xero or Quickbooks. I prefer Xero. (Think of Xero as MacOS and Quickbooks as Windows in the commodity bookkeeping market).

4. Take a simple bookkeeping class or read a book so you understand the concepts. Then you can hire someone to do the grunt work.

Disclaimer: I eat this dog food.
People critique this piece as inaccurate but should instead should realize the way to attract attention is to get you first to read it. It then gets people talking. If you really get his point, he meant drinking juice that filters out the pulp isn't as good as filtered, and maybe harmful given that example he noted.
This sounds like a repeat of the Dashcon fiasco. Complete with overpromised celebrities who never show up, captive audience, and underdelivered entertainment venues.
>a relatively non-partisan issue.

Were it were so. I think you'll find some rather strenuous objections to your moderate proposal, though that's not so much partisanship as a very loud minority of a minority of the population stridently pursuing their ideology.
Ask HN: Is it safe to publish sensitive data in public if encrypted?
Suppose you encrypt very sensitive and valuable data with the strongest available crypto. Would it be safe to store the encrypted data in public, for example in a blog post or a public github repo?
No, the articles says The truth is that fruit juice, even if it is freshly pressed, 100 percent juice, is little more than sugar water.
I can buy Chromebooks for 20+ EUR from several brands and several stores here in Sweden. From what I gather it's newer models. (http://prisjakt.nu being a good site to get a good idea about the current state)
Where are you getting the info that they "bought" the domain name from the original owner? I was told that one of the founders was a professor or somesuch and he originally registered the name in the 90's but hadn't been using it, so he used it when he started the company.

If so, I imagine that involved a "transfer" from his personal ownership to that of the company and that may fall under that 2006 rule, but it it still isn't the same situation as someone "squatting" on a edu name and then auctioning it off to startups looking for a cool name, which is what I think EDUCASE is concerned with.
Republicans have no problem subsidizing industries that they like.

What they dislike is competition. Weirdly, the Democrats morphed into a weirdly lightweight party on regulation of markets and the Republicans continue to grow towards something that incrementally becomes a planned economy.

And let's just reiterate: less than a decade of subsidizing renewables kicked it over an economic hump and we've accelerated it to the point where it's actually radically changing first world economies. So anyone saying that subsidies "don't solve problems" is clearly using a different definition of "solve", "problem", and maybe even "doesn't."
a life in fear of thinking/writing what I want is not a life I want to live
Yes. Also: legacy subsidies for non-edible farming. Ethanol is a waste of time at scale.
I don't think that's the case, I'm sure it wasn't meant like that, but your original reply did seem a little... provocative?

Added to that, it's generally bad form to discuss the meta without adding to the conversation, which i suspect your post above picked up downvotes. I would expect to get downvoted for this reply too tbh.

It's not a smugness thing, it's too avoid conversations getting bogged down in this sort of tedious exposition.

For what it's worth, I didn't downvote your post, if it makes you feel any better.
By your categorization, there are a VERY LARGE number of insane businesses.
GPS receivers without maps are still perfectly useful if you have appropriate paper maps. And even if you have a dedicated GPS receiver with maps you need to pre-download maps as well.
Need a fix? Steal patient data
are we running out of clickbaity headlines?
But academia.edu does not replace the broken system of those journals, it just adds an additional broken layer at an extra cost.

Oh well. I logged in, verified that it shows the same broken behavior, then deleted my account. I wasn't really using it anyway. There are both better search engines and better ways of self-hosting my publications.
I agree, the suggested test for determining if something is absolutely moral would lead to that kind of off result.

Let me ask you this: we can test theories about how light works by making predictions about how light will behave in some circumstance and then by running an experiment and checking if the prediction was correct.

If instead I have a moral theory which suggests something is absolutely moral, what prediction can I make based on that theory?
Funny movie, but, telling people they're idiots for considering the FCC's proposed policy changes isn't going to get anyone to listen.
I bake cookies out of the pulp
Billions of dollars. Windows Phone has been failing for years, and the same chorus has been saying "just a little bit more!" while Microsoft dumped billions and a large amount of goodwill into a clearly failed venture. They put more effort into it that the overwhelming bulk of businesses on the planet could ever imagine. There's a point where it's just a lot of good money and effort after a futile cause.

People's discussions about Windows Phone -- the invariable commentators who talk about how great it is -- is the sort of thing I'm incredibly wary about, having been misled by it before in this field. The people professing love for Windows Phone almost invariably spent very little time with it (and haven't dealt with the enormous number of flaws and gaps), or have a profound bias to like it regardless.

As a developer across a number of platforms, and with no affinity or vow of loyalty to any of the makers, I think it was a terrible platform that had tiny nuggets of promise, but never a compelling enough reward profile.
Nokia's management made a horribly bad choice in choosing Windows over Android. It's 100 percent their fault.
I eat a lot of fruit right now. About 4 oranges and 1-2 bananas a day. I'm actually worried that my sugar consumption is too high even from these natural sources. Anyone have some insight?
What did you change about the CSS? Width?
At one point, very early in the web's infancy, before Javascript became "the one" web language, Sun was considering Tcl for the role that Javascript took over in the <script> tag.
Yes, when the code base is small, evolving it is much simpler. One of the challenges is deciding on the exact right moment to introduce big changes - too early and the changes are in the wrong direction or even useless, too late and the amount of work is prohibiting and you are forced to live with suboptimal architecture.
Most juice is not even "juice". Some of it is concentrated juice which is then reconstituted sometimes with added sugar or fructose. Some of it is only partially juice, the rest being just water, sugar, and flavor. Some of it is freeze dried and then reflavored because freeze drying destroys its flavor, i.e. not from concentrate juice. Some of it is pasteurized which destroys the vitamin content. It is not just missing the pulp, it's also missing all the fiber that fruit has which is good for your digestive system and also keeps the glycemic load from spiking as it digests slowly. There is really nothing good about the concept of juice or juicing. Just eat fruits and vegetables like normal primates do.
So basically a longer version of https://twitter.com/thegrugq + hackaday ?
what technical level you would target for your audience ?
> Also, these days sugar is added to everything, including genetically modified plants

Citation needed
Maybe it's the inner Frenchman in me talking (food is very important here), but food doesn't have to just be fuel for your body, it's also a door to the local culture and a social ritual. Tasting different things and eating in an authentic setting can help open your mind, much like learning a foreign language or living abroad in a different culture.

And besides, by educating your palate with tastes that do not exist in your country you can discover things that you would never have thought you would like.
It's not serverless, it's just not your server
a) It is a lot easier to consume much more juice than one would normally consider eating when juiced

b) just because you are consuming both the juice and the fiber still, does not make them equivalent, the post-consumption breakdown of fiber acts as a time release while pre-consumption fiber breakdown acts as a sugar dose.
Encrypted WhatsApp Message Recovered from Westminster Terrorist's Phone-Slashdot
I don't know but lately I keep getting mails from Quora that a new Facebook friend has joined the site and I should be his friend on Quora as well. It could be that they keep getting people to sign although with unknown amount of actual use.
> You don't emit logs?

I emit logs. I mentioned that in my above comment as well.

> So your code assumes that the network/storage/DB are fault-free?

No, it does not assume that the network/storage/DB are fault-free, completely. It assumes they are fault free with the SLA limits provided by your Cloud provider. The software is written in a way that enables the platform to know about errors when then happen and remediate them. Like, when you build a website, you make the app serving layer stateless and choose a backend datastore that is replicated across regions and is highly available (like Cloud Datastore or Spanner). If your platform detects that a disk failed and your app is returning errors, then that instance is killed and an another instance is brought up. Very similar mechanisms exist for the above-mentioned data services as well for auto scaling, sharding, ...

If your Cloud provider can not guarantee the SLA's or shows a green sign even when the service is down, IMO they are not competent enough.
Are fruit even healthy, given sugar and all? (trying to justify my lack of affection to them)
That's what I talked about in the last sentence of my post. It is important to do this, but it is not the whole story. How do you decide in which direction to iterate?
Are fruit actually healthy?

It's one of those assumptions we make that everyone knows is true but do we have any real evidence that fruit consumed in quantities that where it have an real impact on our caloric intake provide "health benefits".
I doubt it, at least from an economist's point of view. They are making the same arguments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UMniZqC7k

This guy's main argument is that the money would be better spent on research to make green energy cheaper.
SWISS AIR abandons the rule of two-people in the cockpit
Oh man, can't wait until this takes off so we can clear out all the data centers and use that space for something else.