skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is about fast food that increases waist lines? Is it just the fact that its cheap so people consume more? At the end of the day its just calories right? So do people tend to over eat when it comes to fast food?
Honestly, the cleanliness and the "elegant" appearance of fast food restaurants are factors that add a lot to the allure. I noticed this in China where even places like Starbucks can really stand out in comparison to the other venues surrounding it.

Taste aside, people really do value the safety of the food and the amenities that the restaurant provides. These are reasons why I think Western fast food restaurants are able to take root so quickly and in so many places. There's the atmosphere that extends beyond just the food that's sold.
Too bad the x270 is waaaaaay out of my budget
It's not the size per se, but rather the political system. If the USA had a federal executive branch as powerful as the equivalent in Singapore then getting people to agree wouldn't be an issue. (I'm not necessarily recommending this since it causes other problems.)
I did but I guess I didn't fully create an actual survey - was mostly test questions.

What did you find was frustrating about it? I felt the UI gave it a fresh approach to completing surveys plus the clicking areas are all fairly close.
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The peace prize has always been somewhat aspirational - the point is usually to shame the recipient into living up to the prize, not to recognize those who've actually most contributed to peace. The latter is pretty hard to do, because peace is the absence of war, and so "the people who most contributed to peace" are really the majority of citizens who mind their own business and don't seek to dominate others.
Yep, that's exactly the one I was thinking of. Thank you!
I would've given it to Stanislav Petrov for avoiding nuclear war in 1983.
So uh... sugar, fat, and salt are extremely addictive. Fast food also doesn't make you feel full like proper food does, so not only do you crave it, but you never quite get enough.

Yes, at the end of the day it's just calories, but they're addictive, empty calories. Quality and type of food matters. 1,000 calories of Big Mac is not 1,000 calories of fruits and vegetables.
Have you looked at a tool like:
https://github.com/mixu/gr
> Equifax IT does not appear to be operating at a level to prevent a single failure from causing terrible damage all on its own.

they're operating at a level where over a hundred and thirty million people could have their ability to get a mortgage, open a bank account, or start a business harmed. If you think that such responsibility does not mandate the highest requirements for data safety, you should not work in this industry.
> Using dead language for your jargon feels like it specifically keeps laypeople of the loop.

This is not really a fair assessment. Law and contracts aren’t all rewritten every few years — old and settled law must be read and understood in the style it was written in, as must precedents and contracts. At one time, the largest settled body of law was the Roman law and so a lot of Latin got dragged forward into the English legal system (and from there into the American, Hong Kong, Canadian, &c.).

The situation is like that in medicine, biology and many other sciences, where the long history of Latin as a language of scholarship is still felt in the choice of technical terms.
> Indirectly, they are. Governments don't let you blow all your profits on assets that are as-good-as-cash, and then claim you didn't make any taxable profits.

Similar experience here:

In an earlier career my company reinvested all profits back into growth, only to learn that the taxman didn't care about such silly things. The IRS demanded the tax from the profits that had been reinvested and were no longer available.

Plus they wanted the tax from the profits of the growth that had only happened from reinvesting the earlier profits that they wanted tax from. Their demands were in excess of the actual realized profit that had been made by the company.
Slightly OT : With Stripe elements, we noticed an error in about 5% of the requests, something like "Stripe is not defined". Some of these errors were traced to older browsers with JS issues that couldn't execute "https://js.stripe.com/v3/". But some remain unexplained. Unfortunately, it's hard to debug a client side error unless a client reports it.

Just thinking out load about possible issues that could cause this failure:

1) Extension blocking Stripe (as @Artemis2 mentioned below)

2) An older browser that's unable to execute Stripe JS (but uses a fake user agent that confuses us into thinking that a modern browser might be failing).

3) Unreliable internet client connection that is unable to load Stripe script intermittently.

Stripe elements is beautiful & flexible and the team is super helpful. We'd love to use it, but with the above problem, it's a bit scary to lose customers silently. For now, we are sticking with the Checkout flow.

We'd appreciate any tips on how to catch/fix an error like this ?
Some honesty here would help: "I/We don't know." "This is what works." "Enough people just decided on it."

I think it would make a big difference to the child's worldview, that we as a species are still pretty much new to figuring everything out, and that adults aren't infallible know-it-alls, not to be questioned.

Cultivating "doubt without helplessness" may actually turn out to be beneficial to overall society.
Sure, I bet it has nothing to do with the fact that it's quick, cheap, and addictive. Poor people must really love the elegant atmosphere of their local KFC.
But some states already have implemented health care much better than the other states next door. We have a natural experiment occurring right now. And yet people don't seem to be flocking to those states.
When you move your legal residence from one state to another you are considered a resident of that state almost immediately.
I so development on a Linux. Windows is just slow agony when it comes to setting up a development environment. I don't 'envy' the shiny MBP s, I'm just curious. I'm just perplexed by their sense of value proposition. I've always said that buying a Mac is like buying a Mercedes (rare in India) - super sturdy and fast (fast enough at least) and shiny - but not exactly value for money.
I think you're underestimating how much linguistic drift and regional dialects and accents there were before widespread literacy and then radio, film and television helped to further standardize things. They spoke the same way as the people in their area -- but that's no guarantee they wouldn't stick out if they moved far enough away that nobody would recognize them.
Most of the time person giving the orders is wholly inadequate to understand what they are doing.

At one of my previous jobs, the system I was working on was hacked years ago. You would think, this will give people some semblance of what not to do. No one seemed to have heard of the concept known as PII. Salaries of the entire company was sent out daily attached as a text file in an email to a very large group of people. The claim to do nothing was? It contains employee ids so it's kind of masked. And "many" people don't understand the data anyways.

Trying to explain the "powers that be" why this was against industry standard fell on deaf years. I am sure if things do go wrong they will blame that "one guy" who was unable to "convince" them of the right thing to do.
On the Internet.

Can you be a little more vague?
Agreed. Nobel laureates in peace are basically bullshit. Look at Obama---good president, but how many drone strikes did he order, and Aung San Suu Kyi--currently accused of genocide. The Nobel laureates in science indisputably pushed forth the frontiers of human understanding.

Frankly, I think the Nobel prizes in the sciences are carrying the name.
I already work on a full size keyboard. So I guess keys being spaced out won't be an issue. Also, a refurbished t450 would be too expensive for me anyways. Sticking with t420 or t430
On the positive side, their chief security officer can compose one heck of a musical composition.
I'll answer myself here for anyone else trying to figure out what we can do with queries now:

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We can now apply a filter and sort in the same command

We can chain filters, though they can only apply to one field if they specify a range

We can make a query that will only return documents, not the subfield data (i.e. what a lot of us were doing with the deprecated REST interface shallow=1)

Queries in large data sets will be faster I guess?

Things it'd still be nice to see -

References that allow you to pull down related documents with a single query

OR queries

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It's been a bit of rollercoaster seeing this announcement..

"Oh wow we can do proper queries now! Oh wait no, the queries don't seem to allow more than what we had before.. oh wait there are some improvements, it's a bit better now.. oh the shallow querying will be super handy! and they do geopoints.. but don't appear to have any way of searching for radius.. but they say they will soon"

Anyway, good work all the same :)
No. User information here means information denoting a user not information from a user.
I just hope your Firestore Status Dashboard is going to look very differerent than your Realtime DB one. I mean - much less yellow and red dots.
Weird, I've done that for a long time too and hardly any received spam to those at all. Good to know though, thanks.
:) It was a bit of a bluff. I'm loving 35 as much as I loved 18. Life's good when your biggest worry is elevated blood pressure.
For those wondering ‘why PayPal?’ I run a SaaS product using Stripe, and a lot of people have asked if they can pay by PayPal. Although in the West it’s a no-brainer to enter credit card details and be done, in a lot of other countries people don’t feel so comfortable doing so. In some cases it’s actually very foreign, for example Amazon et al in India allow you to pay cash on delivery.

PayPal is a good option in these cases as it means you don’t need to give you card details directly to the merchant. Although in reality this doesn’t happen due to PCI if something like Stripe is done properly, you are still typing in your details on a website you don’t 100% trust, so there is a mental barrier. I wonder if Stripe have considered having a ‘Stripe Account’ for consumers where you can link your cards/payment methods so they can have a checkout process like PayPal...
>Is there actually any agreement among scientists that there is a causal relationship between fast food consumption and obesity?

Yes and no...part of the problem, much like cigarettes there are many industry paid physicians and scientists happy to create confusion and dispel truth. And just like the cigarette industry who took their carcinogenic products to countries with less regulation, fast food and sugar industries are doing the same.

First fast food is high calorie and low in nutrients. Its also high in carbs which tends to trigger insulin production, insulin enlarges cell size in the body including fat cells priming a body for obesity (just add excess calories here). Additionally, fast food is notoriously inflammatory (sugar, grain fed meat, gluten, additives, saturated fat, BPA type toxins, preservatives, fried, etc...) and inflammation is linked to obesity, of course coming full circle you will find scientists paid by the sugar/fast food industries happy to claim its the other way around and that obesity is linked to metabolic inflammation.

I will highlight the comment below regarding the teacher on the McD's diet for 6 months who lost ~60lbs is the type of misinformation the food industry thrives off. Just to highlight, the individual lost 56lbs but was still classified as obese, the individual limited himself to 2,000 calories per day (which can easily be exceeded in a single meal) and the individual walked 45 minuted everyday, but there is no information pre-McD diet.
Where in COPPA does it say the DOB needs to be collected? I don't think that statement is true as you word it.
> The separation is necessary is there to protect people from being fired for having unpopular opinions because it's not an argument we want to follow to it's logical conclusion.

We can follow it to it's logical conclusion because it happens all the time. People get fired for unpopular opinions frequently. This case is interesting because the unpopular opinion is "political" to some. I would contend that breathing is political.

I can't answer any of the hypotheticals you present because they are exactly that: hypotheticals. It would require additional context for me to give a personal opinion on any of them. Even with that, your or my opinion on the situation would be irrelevant to the employees who are actually part of the organizations in question. They would be taking action to fix something within their organization that they found to be uncouth. Why shouldn't they be able to?

I am getting the impression that you see a clear line between what belongs at work and what belongs at home. How do you define it?
If the cost of disclosure was a dollar a user there's pretty much no way we'd see them voluntarily tell us they were hacked. We'd have to wait until the information got out some other way.
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It brings me a lot of joy to see companies like Stripe and Apple put so much effort into polishing their products.

Most companies can't even build their fucking landing pages without inconsistencies in design and content.

I believe a healthy obsession with detail reflects a company's overall attitude and pervades much deeper than visuals.

Thank you Stripe! <3
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Right and that was another terrible decision. The V/STOL F-35B variant was only practical with a single engine because twin engines would have caused dangerous thrust imbalances during landing. But that constraint forced the F-35A and F-35C models to also have single engines for commonality, resulting in lower speed, higher drag, and reduced survivability. The whole program is full of misguided compromises like that.
I used to worry about this. Now I realise that my worry came from a scarcity mindset.

There is no reason at all to believe that electricity production will always be difficult or expensive. These problems will be solved.
> According to the article, they've dropped the 4 patent infringement claims.

Judge Alsup explicitly requested that Waymo narrow the scope of the case[1], so Waymo had to pare down to what they felt were the strongest claims:

> Over the course of the last several months, the judge has urged both parties to simplify the scope of the case so that each could be adequately prepared to argue the merits of the strongest claims post-discovery

1. https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/07/waymo-drops-patent-claims/
It's been there for around 4 years. It automatically generates a one-time card for the payment, too, so you never hand the merchant your card.

https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/forms/requestautocom...

I think this API ended up being deprecated from lack of use (not surprising as no one used it and is amazed it existed), but it may have paved the way for https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Req....

Genuinely surprised that this didn't catch on, it was amazing.
Plus Couchbase does the same thing, is open source, and has been in production for quite awhile.

It seems a lot of developers use the HN stack: eg things thatvwent thru YC or that they hear other devs talking about a lot on HN.
Yes, I do my own maintenance. That's ok since I kinda love doing things like that. Yes, I have to get my own pycharm license. Almost all startups give a computer and licensed software, I know. Still sticking with these guys since the engineering culture is good and the product is interesting and the people even more so. See http://squadrun.co
California job creation number is misleading (followup)
decentralized ad network? People can buy slots, get credits for showing it to users?

Not sure how that works for getting credits for display but something in that space would be interesting
Also, the tux idea is brilliant. Thanks :)
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I'm the United States, the Republican party does make efforts to do this when it is in power. In my home state of Wisconsin they won control of the government for the first time in 40 years, redrew districts, and haven't lost power since.
This is in response to this Mercury-News article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15154200
For the curious: There's an English translation of the Federal Act on Data Protection.

https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920153/...
> Ultimately though the main draw is not the pay, it's the chance to use your tech skills to make a truly meaningful real-world impact on a large scale.

I, personally, wouldn't value that opportunity at $100k+. This is really Congress' fault for having such an awful pay system.
As someone who has lost people that I wish I could have done more with, I think you should still talk to him now and then, if only because you and him and your relationship with each other is never going to occur again in the infinity of this Universe..
Tax obligations can be another problem which may require an address, but often have a simpler way to resolve them by simply picking the appropriate country and state off a list or even with just a checkbox for "are you in X jurisdiction which I am required to tax?". I believe Tarsnap handles it that way.

Tarsnap has a "are you Canadian" checkbox. Unfortunately if you are Canadian I have to collect your name and address because I have to provide[0] invoices/receipts which contain this information.

Mind you, there's no requirement that you give me truthful information. If you claim to be John Smith living at 123 Main Street, you'll get an invoice which says that at the top of it. You won't be able to use it to claim a tax rebate; but if you're not running a business it's not useful for that purpose anyway.

[0] IIRC I technically don't have to provide those such invoices to everybody; merely to anyone who asks for one. But collecting the information up front and emailing PDFs to all the Canadians is much easier than handling individual requests later.
Sugar, fat, and salt are not literally addictive. At least not like nicotine, ethanol, and opioids. Hyperbole doesn't help here.
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>Most people who get and die from lung cancer are not smokers

This is not true:

More than 161,000 lung cancer deaths are projected to occur in the U.S. in 2008. Of these, an estimated 10–15% will be caused by factors other than active smoking, corresponding to 16,000–24,000 deaths annually.[1]

That said:

lung cancer in never smokers would rank among the most common causes of cancer mortality in the U.S. if considered to be a separate category

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170525/
Let's hope Amazon doesn't start doing something anticompetitive with the network routing to B2 from EC2, and instead competes on price.
Honestly sounds pretty similar to “customer name validation” that suddenly fails when you’re not dealing with an Anglo-Saxon customer.
The next expected step would replacing the government with purely virtual one. I.e. since algorithm can potentially calculate it much better, shouldn't it produce the strongest brainwashing effect?

Science fiction authors already anticipated that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_"П"
The atmosphere adds a lot extra value. There's obviously cheaper food options available that are as convenient available to them too. As for addictiveness, I'd say this is where fast food shines unfortunately. That's really only because it tastes good, though.
No Photoshop or design. Yeah I might plug it into an external monitor. I think any laptop can handle that. Right?
>>When I was a young child, I used to daydream about winning a Nobel. I didn't daydream about winning an Emmy or a Grammy, but I did dream of winning a Nobel. <<

I suspect that lots of us as kids had the same daydreams, self included, and I'm sure that many kids today with a love for science daydream about the same thing.
Those are for sure factors, but McDonalds just a pretty good place to hang out if you're poor, especially in the developing world. Lots of them have free wi-fi, power outlets. They're air conditioned / heated. You can basically hang out all day for next to free. Really, it has all of the amenities of somewhere like Starbucks, just at a lower price point.

I'm not a fast food apologist, just saying that you're missing the perspective the gp is trying to bring.
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It means it's the best kind of software now: mature and stable.
Interesting to see the comments here. One thread arguing that free services should be incentivized against collecting/profiting off user data, followed by a thread lamenting the WSJ content paywall...
> Especially "knowing full well that I didn't see them" (how?)

Are you not aware that Facebook is attempting to track emails and links for everyone? The mechanisms are numerous and varied, but putting "tracking pixels" in HTML emails is standard practice. If you ever ran a Mailchimp list, you'd know you get reports on who received your email, who opened and looked at them, who clicked any link in them, etc.

Facebook also track visits to any site on the web with Facebook integration, via cookies, which is a large number of popular sites. They know when you've seen their emails, if you're like "most people" and you use hotmail or gmail and not pine. You have to be pretty privacy & security adept to have a Facebook account and avoid getting tracked. 99% of people who use Facebook are not adept enough (or just don't care enough to fight it), and their emails & visits to Facebook and elsewhere are tracked.
I think IBM and their Z division would disagree.
IBM Z Users:
The 10 top insurers,
44 of the top 50 banks,
18 of the top 25 retailers,
90% of the largest airlines
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