skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While we're recommending food books, check this one out:

Why Calories Count by Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Calories-Count-Politics-Californi...
Yes there is because you can't implement your own browser engine on iOS. Browsers are just shells for the safari engine on iPhones.
Well, it's a democracy, they let the people vote, and the people voted in favor of leaving the EU.

It's the same for me as a non-American looking at the whole Trump situation. The people chose him as their president, yet I get the impression (again, I'm an outsider) that very few people like him as a president.
Obviously stability has to be achieved through fly by wire tech. Doing it through natural aerodynamic stability is a waste of resources of insane proportions as such airframes induce more drag and burn more fuel. If this sounds too scary for people in a forum of software developers it only puts a shame on our profession, from ourselves.
First paragraph, agreed (excepting highly addictive drugs).

I suppose you could argue someone were searching for agency by doing a self destructive thing. I don't think willpower comes into it. Although I would agree willpower and agency are related insofar as if you don't feel you have agency, its probably hard to show much willpower.
You point out what alarmed me. An unknown entity had admin access. That's 5 alarm stuff....but they waited 3 days to look into it. Pasted here again because formatting:

"As part of our investigation into the alert, we learned that the individual whose credentials were used had not actually made the query,"
No deal Brexit has already been priced in. It's already taken the hit. If anything, a "with deal" Brexit or a withdrawal from the exit process (no exit) will probably make the pound go back up.
a fun game to play is to guess how many of the commenters here on HN who think this is defensible have a uterus and/or are women.

I guess this mostly seems fine to those who are not even potentially affected, as usual.
You're right to be scared of course - a software bug in a safety-critical system is a bug in a safety-critical system, no matter if it happens in a plane or in some piece of critical infrastructure. And yes, they have now patched this flaw, but most likely it's still a pile of old F0RTRAN code or something like that, that they're now stuck dealing with in some way. The notion that these sorts of systems are somehow less prone to having serious bugs in them is being revealed as a dangerous delusion.
The death of XMPP was what made me give up on chat applications entirely.
This typifies my most common use of VirtualBox.

https://www.virtualbox.org
I Wish Mozilla could come up with a some kind of promotion system where all indie developers who have apps, websites, blogs etc. could request our users to use Firefox instead of chrome. For example a "Best Viewed In FF" image or Some kind widget in app.
I believe its very similar to Trump's success. Over the last 20 years with globalization some people have done very well, city dwelling professionals, property owners, those working in technology etc. Many hard working, middle and working class people in rural and industrial areas have suffered - and this got worse after 2008 crisis.

Brexit and Trump are just these people saying they want a big change in direction. I dont think they're sure Brexit and Trump will improve things but at least the city dwelling elite doesn't like it so there must be something good about it.
That's exactly what I said:

>Words like "warp" and "profit" are a symbol of a fundamentally different way of thinking about what a "reasonable" relationship with an animal should be.

It's not a "false" implication as there is no true and objective measure of "reasonable". I substituted "fundamentally different" because I think it's more accurate than "false" or "wrong".

Cows aren't "for" meat or dairy any more than Africans were "for" enslavement. It is a purpose bestowed upon them by an outside influence, for sure, but it is not an intrinsic property of the being him or herself.
Exploitation of labor, farm and otherwise, is of equal concern to me. There are several ways I go about minimizing my participation in agricultural labor exploitation, but most prominent are :

1) Buying only produce grown in the USA;
2) Buying from local farms whose labor practices are personally known to me, when practical

The reality of farm labor in the USA today is far removed from "Grapes of Wrath" type situations and even much different than it was 30 years ago, when most harvesting was conducted by itinerant laborers who were often not paid, housed, etc, very well. These days, farmers fiercely compete for labor by offering nice dwellings, pay that is often above local minimum wage, and sponsoring H2A visas [which are in limited supply and also not cheap]. Many orchardists, for example, also pay or offset travel costs for their workers.

All these factors are, as a matter of fact, the main drivers of the current trend toward automation in farming and in harvesting + grading specifically -- folks are finding it cheaper in the long run to invest in a $250k automated harvester than to continue to compete for human labor [and comply with the attendant regulations, enforcement of which is also much amplified in the past few decades]

For reference, check out any recent issue of "Good Fruit Grower" or "Fruit Growers News" e.g.
https://www.goodfruit.com/searchresults/?q=labor
Forgive me, but I dislike all this pandering. Obviously Chrome is good at what it does, but it still not the privacy-oriented browser of choice. A browser fueled by huge amounts of corporate money is generally going to look and act better, but at the end of the day, you're still corporately controlled, open source or not. If you want yourself (and the rest of society) not to be like that, then you have to step out a bit.
Most people would not vote for this kind of politician.
SMS Assist targets commercial and large residential (eg 5000+ single family homes). Their customers include Dollar Tree and the US Postal Service.

We offer similar services for mom and pop property managers.
I love those systems. In Texas my parents tried to press Betos name, and at the "review results" screen, Cruz was selected. This was a well documented, statewide problem.

Malice? User error? Ux idiocy? Who knows!
The usual suggestion is not to ignore the vote, but to put it back up for a vote. Ask people if, now that they've seen the difficulty of Brexit, they still want to do this. If the people actually want the Brexit that exists in real life, they'll reaffirm. It's still democratic by any reasonable definition of the word.
I think this is a good explanation. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
This is really the point here. But the danger is always that someone who needs strong nation state secure crypto is used to this and doesnt realize the implications of using this when trying to keep state level secrets.
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I am still able to log in to my chase account with Firefox on Debian. I don't have any user agent switching going on.
They can prove the causes were different in each case.
That's what the mass media, which is skewed to the left, wants you to think. The truth is that his approval rating is doing okay, and it's especially good for republican voters.
Wish they would fix integrations with 3rd party hosts - Dreamhost integration has been broken for over 5 years.
I like WebRTC but it's a complicated mess of protocols...

I'm currently trying to implement a WebRTC peer client in pure Erlang. One of the most difficult things I've done because WebRTC relies on several hundred pages of RFCs.
This all happened because Cameron really misread the room
It's hard to read the market's mind, but apparently the market doesn't think this is an apocalyptic event, or indeed, ultimately even likely to be that big a deal economically.

There's no guarantee it is correct. But it is worth considering as a data point, keeping in mind its (anthropomorphized) perspective, as well as the other perspectives and where they are coming from as well.

(This includes the predictions of apocalypse. There are many actors who are well motivated to predict that regardless of their own personal beliefs. This doesn't make their predictions false, either. I'm just an advocate of applying "follow the money/motivation" everywhere, even and at times especially to people who agree with your current perspective.)
> I can only guess how you interpreted my post in such a way.

Hey, man. Insinuation/assumption. This is exactly the sort of remark that quickly toxifies the discussion. Keep it rational.
Nobody voted for what is about to happen. Or May’s deal.

That’s the whole issue (apart from putting Brexit up to a 50% referendum in the first place).
What are your specific issues with the scrolling? (Posted from Firefox mobile; I don't even use Chrome on Android anymore.)
That’s a pretty miserable way of looking at the college experience. Anecdotally, most college students I’ve encountered care a great deal about what they learn and appreciate college for more than a rubber stamp. But, likely depends on where you go and who you’re associating with.

The issue you raise with standardized testing could be addressed by subsidizing the cost for low income students or making the test free. The wealthy girl in the article apparently couldn’t get a good enough score regardless of how many times she could take the test. Personally I think we need some form of standardized testing because it’s the only standardized measurement tool that exists.
Same thing with the Google Home's. The first step in our good morning routine is set the volume low and the last step is increase the volume again at the end.
For me, part of that involves quitting the old circles (FB for example) and getting used to not being in touch with every old acquaintance. Once you’ve accepted that, you’ll try any new service. I recall how switching to Mac and getting over not having windows apps helped me ultimately switch to Linux.
It's not impossible, but probably not. I'd give it maybe a 10% chance. There's a clear majority of MP's who don't want a No Deal scenario. Most likely there will be a postponement of some kind, but probably a short one.

What happens at the end of that period is entirely unclear at this point. Leaving without a deal is still a distinct possibility, but probably not the most likely one. I'd give about even odds to some kind of deal being wrangled, and there being another referendum.

Of course, even another referendum doesn't necessarily resolve things. The vote is likely to be close again.
Our customers tell us who to dispatch through their vendor priority list. We call down their vendor list in the order they specify.
It feels to me like Air France Flight 447 [0] - there was a flight computer behavior that the pilots didn't know about, but nonetheless following normal procedures would have prevented the crash. (For AF 447 that would have been "point the nose down to recover from a stall", for Lion Air 610 it was "check the trim wheel - you know, that thing that moves right by your knee - if pitch control is abnormal") Unfortunately, as we add more and more safety systems to planes people seem to be forgetting how to compensate for when the systems fail...

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
This radar is active for almost two years now http://www.openradar.me/33571214
I think the consensus is they will just extend instead of actually going through a 100% no-deal Brexit. Seems like a fairly safe bet given the UK can do it unilaterally and how bad it would be.
That's not really the problem with the B737 MAX though. It's not inherently unstable like e.g. a fighter. The issue is that they had to fit the engines in front of the wings, and this will create a significant pitch-up if thrust is added abruptly, e.g. in a go-around.

To counteract this they introduced the MCAS system. They would not have needed this if they hadn't "retrofitted" big engines on an old airplane design, but instead started from scratch. The B737 MAX is not really a modern aircraft, but a heavily modded old design.
It's just insane that that is a valid question.
A different outlook, for anyone willing to watch hundreds of hours of youtube videos on regenerative agriculture, a rising tide of decentralized farmers are going back to chemical-free and healthy, thriving produce, far beyond the organic label that corporations have usurped and rendered valueless. Look for living web farms and advancing eco agriculture on youtube and get ready for a world of information outside of software.

1. Living Web Farms

2. Advancing Eco Agriculture
The gray fallacy/golden mean problem is real. A "sensible moderate person" frequently, in the terms of those bemoaning the lack of them, privileges "moderate" over "sensible", implicitly wishing that someone would look at "let's eat babies" and "let's not eat babies" and conclude "let's eat some babies."
Makes sense. Just as a thought experiment I was trying to figure what would be required. You’ve solved the maintenance issue, here’s what I see is left:

1. Placement. A system that posts to Zillow, Craigslist. It seems like photo or video walkthrough is an all but done deal. With keycode locks a real estate agent could escort a potential tenant through once they’ve been validated via credit score.

2. Payments. Seems easy enough to build this software.

3. Evictions. This seems like an entirely legal process, so having a lawyer on retainer for a metro might work here.

I think the biggest issue with property management companies is simply that their incentives aren’t aligned with the owners. If they have a maintenance person on staff they have to pay that person somehow. I’ve talked with other indie owners/managers and keep hearing the same thing: “imagine you are in that business. Do the math, and property management doesn’t earn much.” It seems ripe for disruption.

Edit: the only thing that is missing is someone to keep an eye on the property in general. Not quite sure how to handle that other than have one person who handles an entire metro.
I’ve nominated myself for work stuff I really didn’t agree with in the past, it was because I thought I could help said stuff not be a total disaster.

Leading a country through brexit is a hell of a sword to fall on though. :/
My SaaS is a 1:1 meeting note-taking web app: https://www.oneononemeeting.com

My first paying customer came from a launch post on Reddit (after ~8 months of building it). Talking to her, I realized that her use case was not what I imagined (manage 1:1 meetings notes with their team) but to document the tasks of a particular employee that she wanted to fire. She complimented my app a lot and requested relevant and interesting features. But, unsurprisingly, canceled her subscription after 3 months, after having fired said employee.

My second paying customer was a colleague from my day-job employer (the SaaS is a side-project). I offered an unlimited free trial for all my colleagues here, expecting to sell an enterprise plan to the company. Other 3 managers in the company use it. But he insisted that he wanted to pay to be able to act as a real customer, demand features, etc.

He loves the product and still uses it a lot, but I redesigned the free plan to be even more generous and start feeling bad that he was paying it. The new free plan allows up to 3 managers per company with unlimited features. So I canceled his subscriptions and refunded the last month (he still uses the product). Now I have a meeting with the company's VP of HR to try to sell the enterprise plan.
I don't know anyone that has one of these assistants in their home. If you have one, do you like it and why? What are the main benefits to having one?
> I get to have upon meeting a new person is a long negotiation about what baroque, proprietary messaging app I will have to use to reach them.

I skip that negotiation entirely by letting them know that if they want to talk to me, the options are SMS and email.
It's happening because the people voted for it in a referendum. Calling it off would be seen as ignoring the wishes of their constituency. Their reasons for voting that way in the first place are varied, many UK citizens (and people in other EU member states) don't like the idea of giving up some of their country's autonomy/sovereignty to a central authority they had no part in electing/appointing, and they may disagree with some of the policies imposed on them by that authority.
I highly doubt there have been 11 million airliners manufactured, though - and that's what the 348 number is.

If we assume that the average MAX 8 has been in service for a year (first delivery was a little less than 2 years ago), and conducts 4 flights a day, we get this [0] - a mean of 1/250000. Still worse than 1/11000000, but only by a factor of 50 instead of 50 thousand.

0: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?x=0&y=0&i=beta+distribut...
200 hours on type is fine.
> Yes, but your body won't be able to use it's stored fat in the presence of insulin. If you keep that up long enough, you can only burn calories coming in. If you eat a lot of meals AND a caloric deficit your body needs to decrease your metabolism, mostly heat, thus cold hands and feet.

Right but what happens when you no longer inputting calories and thus no longer have high insulin? Then you start burning the fat again. You can only keep your insulin levels pathologically elevated if you are eating enough to support that over the long term, regardless of when you eat. Again, your body is very good at supplementing energy needs with fat when it needs to. Again there is no study showing meal time having any impact when calories are balanced, and several confirming the opposite.

> It absolutely does matter, because your body does not burn a static amount of calories but adapts to the situation. Slowing metabolism is real. If you can't burn energy (low caloric input but frequent meals), your body will do what it needs to survive.

Your body adapts to a short term situation (a meal and the small post-prandial period) but in the long term (24 hour period) it makes zero difference.

> Slowing metabolism is real.

Yes but it's also reversible by, shockingly, increasing caloric demand.

To be very clear, the proof required for what you are suggesting is a study with a minimum of 2 groups eating the same exact meals but at different times, and being forced to finish the entire meal and experiencing different outcomes. This has never happened, and based on our current understanding of metabolism never will. Maybe it would change, but this would be a massive massive change in our understanding of how the human body deals with energy.
I see the same dynamic but credit the exact reverse. Hacker Noon accumulated followers by aggregating articles that were already published on Medium. They were publishing 30 articles a day without adding any editorial value. That got the flywheel going where since they were a big publication, authors would submit directly to them.

But all they did was aggregate Medium users and authors without adding any additional value.
"people didnt vote the way I wanted them to vote, so they must either be uneducated or the process is undemocratic!"
Assuming this was a strategic, long-term policy decision from on high, what are the chances that Microsoft's next addition to their "unsupported on Firefox" list turns out to be ... Github?
> their incessant nagging and popups for me to register.

This says more about the somewhat sad state of the web at this point, but I at least prefer that Medium is a known quantity. I get one popup from Medium, asking me to login. On other sites, I might have to click through a couple of ads and a cookie notice.
I followed the Commons debates during both votes. It's just surreal. It's as if the UK was living in some kind of bubble where just about anything happening outside of it had no existence let alone importance whatsoever. If I were a UK voter I'd be extremely angry.

As an EU citizen I sincerely hope the outcome will be the UK ultimately staying in -- if only because of the outright lies during the referendum and the suspicion of Russian influence in the Leave vote.

On a positive note, May mentioned a People's Vote was an option tonight. Insofar as I'm aware that's a first.
1. I have no issue with a Parliament overturning a non-binding referrendum.

2. Why do you expect that the vote will turn out any different? One third of the country wants a hard brexit, one third wants a soft brexit, and one third wants no brexit. There is no way to make even a majority happy. Having another vote will put you right back where you were two years ago.
Many RTC stacks (and specifically openh264) also only support H.264 baseline profile. So you are likely to get higher quality with VP8 (subject to variations in the quality of the implementations on each endpoint, of course).
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You mean there's only 10% chance than the UK will leave the EU?

That's pretty low!
"educated" is not the word I would say, I think people are just given the immediate effect and fear without any understanding what it means for long term effects for the country.
Oh wow, if we vote NO two more times this.. could all be over? Ia this real? Could it truly finally end?
"that very few people like him as a president."

That's not really true if you talk to people. He is also being helped by the fact that the democrats have not much to offer either. I bet almost anybody except Clinton would have won the election.
Actually, I'd argue Mozilla wouldn't want a "best viewed in Firefox" campaign since the standards should apply to everyone, even if some browsers do better with some feature sets than others. There are already existing ways to show your support, such as https://mozilla.github.io/for-firefox/
What is a "neutral platform"?

Are there any examples of such "neutral platforms" outside of web company marketing?

Was this term coined by web companies?

Seems to me like a more concrete term to describe a web company such as Facebook is "MITM". This has a specific meaning and we can all understand how it applies. A MITM could be benevolent, malicious or perhaps "neutral". (The existence of the later might be obviated by peer-to-peer connections.)

If there could be such a thing as a "neutral platform", then maybe "the internet" is the best candidate. Not any particular MITM, whether benevolent, malicious or "neutral".
I don't think the IM era is over. Now, there is Slack, Facebook Messenger, and Google Hangouts. These have some very cool features and you can easily set up a chat with all your friends.
The idea that nobody wants Brexit is an false image painted by (predominantly left-wing) mainstream media to try and prevent it from ever happening. There is massive support for Brexit across England and Northern Ireland. Support for remain is largely in Scotland and the the large academic cities in England. The vote results can be seen here:[1]

One trouble with the media is they never leave their echo chambers in these cities and find out what people across the country think. I don't know of anybody in my town who voted Brexit and has changed their mind since. In fact, many who voted to remain have said they would vote to leave in a second referendum, because the contempt that the political elite in Westminster and Brussels have for the result of a democratic vote has been laid bare for all to see.

There is only a majority in favour of renaming in parliament, but as you note, it would be political suicide for them to cut off Brexit, which is why we have this shitshow where they try to stop it by pretending to try and make it happen. ("Brexit in name only")

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/United_K...
Slack is so hard for me to follow. Some friends of mine use it and every time I open it there’s 50+ new messages and I just don’t know how to participate.