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> the whole artificial sugars are probably doing as much damage

Wikipedia says:

> Aspartame has been found to be safe for human consumption by more than ninety countries worldwide, with FDA officials describing aspartame as "one of the most thoroughly tested and studied food additives the agency has ever approved" and its safety as "clear cut", but has been the subject of several controversies, hoaxes and health scares.

Do you have a reference for that assertion?
Correction — "Know the Area You Have Explored Around the World, Around A Continent, Or Even Around A Country, Where Your Phone Had A Full Battery, GPS Was Available, And There Was Reliable Electricity For Recharging!"

This is dumb. Any given user is going to have massive holes in their map, which, at least according to my experience, will be the best parts of their trips — the parts where they didn't have their phone turned on and didn't care, because it didn't matter.

The problem with all of these dumb travel apps for smartphones is they only seem to be geared toward people who travel with defined itineraries, pay money for accommodation and travel, and only travel in more developed, predictable places. In other words, the most boring kind of travel.

Vayable is the only company I've seen trying to make money from adventurous travel, but even then, it's for purchasing adventurous travel for people who can't find it on their own.

And I still can't find a reasonably good offline maps app for Android, for when access to the Internet isn't so easy.
> Some people are completely useless. Remember, there are people out there who can't write Fizz Buzz yet still apply for jobs. They can easily fake a GitHub.

So you're saying they can use git-filter-branch, but not write Fizz Buzz? Sounds fishy to me.
I agree that cushman seems to be being thick, but there are two magnetic poles on all magnets including the Earth, dangit, not "the magnetic pole of the planet". In fact, the part that points north is the magnetic south pole of the compass.

(Now I suspect the bit about the level of discourse does apply; I was well-aware of magnetic polarity in 1st grade, and polarity itself defines there being two ends...)
I did read it ... :)

"tl;dr" is to save other people the effort.
When you say obesity can lead to depression, what do you mean? (I'm not asking for a citation or evidence ... rather, just clarification on your meaning).

Do you mean that obese people suffer reduced self-esteem which leads to depression, or do you refer to some kind of bio-chemical linkage? (Or something else entirely?)
Might I recommend spellcheck
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No, Firefox is at v15. v16 will be released on Oct 9th. Personally, I just run the Nightly (http://nightly.mozilla.org/) and get an update every day. It's simply "today's build."

The version number is meaningless. What is meaningful, however, is getting millions of people to help test beta browsers. If Chrome is your browser of choice then help test the Canary builds (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/chromesxs)
From experience, it is tough for the crowd to beat skyscanner.
Sorry. Misunderstood your issue. Need to check this out with Safari 5.
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Every single person I know that does drugs performs at or less than their potential. I've never done anything except for caffeine and alcohol, but this perspective you write about is overrated when it comes at the cost of performance, work ethic, and the possible risk of life altering addiction. It should, of course, be legal to do so.
Your entire post is invalidated by the following facts:

1. Wikipedia doesn't own squat. It is the WikiMedia Foundation that's involved here, not the English Wikipedia.

2. The WMF haven't purchased or taken over WikiTravel. WikiVoyage have voluntarily merged into a new travel project started by the WMF.
"The origin of the NIMBY ("not in my back yard") is honorable. People would buy a home, planning to live and raise children in reasonable safety, when some agency of government decides to locate a halfway house or nuclear power plant nearby. When that happens, the homeowners' property value is reduced, so much so that they cannot even get their investment out and relocate to a safer place. Local residents needed to band together to fight the intrusion that would take from their assets and distribute the benefit among large numbers of other people."

How in the world is that honorable? "No halfway house in my backyard" means "halfway house in someone else's backyard, please" (or "no halfway house at all, please").
Use honey or brown sugar. Quit drinking sodas and other crap you don't know how much sugar was poured into. Problem solved.

Quitting carbohydrates altogether is a stupid idea. Don't do it.
I am German and we didn't get all Siri features before iOS 6 (wolfram Alpha is still missing). But I tried it more in the last days and am really impressed! Even when I thought "oh, I mumbled the word, Siri won't get it" it was correctly recognized. I most use it as text to speech for SMS. And checking Fußball Bundesliga works good. (But only first league, no info available for second league.)

Since iOS 6 (or at east I never noticed before?) there is also an info button on the Siri screen which shows example querys/commands. This hels a lot!
I like that idea, and I believe it rings true with most responsible people. However, it's difficult to measure.

As an example, in the recent Apple v/s Samsung, if it weren't for Apple, we would still be dealing with shitty Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson phones with crap OSes, no decent applications, and the phones would be anything but smart - because there was no need to improve.
Once Apple made everyone lift their game, their strategy has been to sue all large players aggressively to ensure they can't implement the things that Apple used, no matter how trivial (eg. the green telephone icon). On one hand you can argue that a "slide to unlock" was not done before on a smart-phone and deserves protection. On the other hand, you can argue that it's a very obvious solution for touch screens and someone else would have easily come up with it. You could also argue there's prior art (but that's another story). So ... In this instance, did Apple drive innovation? Yes. Was it necessary for Innovation? Maybe. Would the innovation have happened if Apple hadn't driven it? Not any time soon.

In my view, your definition needs to be tighter to cover scenarios such as these.

In case the Apple fans get their knickers in a knot, Apple aren't the only ones suing others over trivialities. The industry has been locked in a stale-mate for a long time.
While I am on the fence about Anonymous going after darknet paedophiles, I doubt this particular leak will come as any use. It's just a list of arbitrary usernames which I highly doubt will be used in any other service by the same person, making tying accounts to real identities difficult if not impossible.
> I'm not sure any of those is actually true. Maybe the trade deficit, but only on paper. In fact the money just goes into Apple's coffers instead of Samsung's, and in turn to Apple's shareholders instead of Samsung's. But they're mostly the same people. ... The fact that one company is nominally American and one is nominally South Korean doesn't really have any bearing.

I don't think the numbers bear that out. Take employment, for instance.

Samsung employment:

190,464 employees globally; 95,662 working in Korea (50.2% Samsung employees employed in Korea) [1]

Apple employment:

70,000 employees worldwide; 47,000 in the U.S. (67.1% Apple employees employed in U.S.) [2]

> Transferring money from one to the other without creating any underlying economic activity has no productive economic consequences. It doesn't create any new non-litigation jobs or produce any new tax revenue

Right, I don't disagree. From a global standpoint, it results in a wealth transfer from other countries to the United States that's somewhere between mildly negative sum (if you think patents are a net hinderance), mildly positive sum (if you think patents are a net gain), or neutral.

But it's definitely a wealth transfer to the USA. Without digging through all the financials, I'd speculate that in addition to more employees, Samsung also does a greater sum of capital investment into Korea than elsewhere, pays more corporate taxes in Korea than elsewhere, stimulates and patronizes Korean universities more than foreign universities, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

I don't even disagree with you philosophically... I'm sort of undecided when looking at policy to work from a starting point of Enlightment values / ethics / humanism, or to start with realpolitik, Schelling points, and incentives. The former is more aesthetic; the latter seems a much better predictor of what will happen in the future.

[1] http://www.samsung.com/us/aboutsamsung/ir/corporategovernanc...

[2] http://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/
If you're in the US Coke has corn syrup rather than sugar.
But not on iPads or environments where Flash is not supported. They have certainly improved here but definitely not reliable everywhere.

And obviously Android we'll make Flowplayer work on stock Android browser. That's a oversight from our part on the initial release.
If you want more women in Silicon Valley, start by giving your girls Legos
They did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controv...
You might be dead. Then again, I expect to be dead in 50 years regardless...
Python's Unicode support was significantly improved between 2 and 3.
> There is a major misconception that all carbs are bad.

For people in general, they aren't. For me in particular, they might be especially bad. In any case, I'm essentially doing the Atkins Diet as an experiment. (I suspect I'm pre-diabetic.)
> that caffeine is a drug that can have some pretty pronounced effects when used a lot and over a long time.

As an avid coffee-drinker - what are these effects? I've read upon caffeine and I've found no clear evidence for permanent harm or good out of coffee.
What is there in a higher-resolution display that actually needs software support from Mozilla?
Tens of millions of dollars won't get a drug to market. Will it fund research that could find useful leads that could produce a drug? Of course.

So how do you incentive private organizations to fork over the $100 million(1) or so it takes to get a drug to market? You provide a mechanism to regain your capital plus something more. It's a system that works pretty well.

(1) That's if everything works the first time. Since only 1 out of 10 drugs that are tested on humans get to market, it's closer to $1 billion on average.
Uncanny. I can claim in true honesty that I had a remarkably similar vision for a comprehensive life 'experience quotient' app not even 2-3 weeks ago. The travel portion looked very similar: GPS enabled tracing of a global map space with percent coverage. But travel would be but one table in a comprehensive database of life experience: financial, relationships, science, arts, drugs, sex and everything else worth living for. An algorithm would tally a grand 'statistic'. It's the stuff of Borges' wildest fantasies, n'est-ce pas?
* An Android version would also bring added benefits of smarter/less battery intensive background operation which could make this run all the time. Constant GPS-monitoring like Latitude or this seems to run way better on Android for some reason. *

I'm curious, what makes you think this would more power efficient on Android?
The biggest issue here in NZ seems to be that the POI data is horrible. I'm in Auckland, the largest city in NZ, and searched for Britomart, the main transport hub with a large train and bus station, and Apple maps had no results.

That may be an anecdote, but that single data point is enough to make Apple maps utterly useless for Auckland.

Also, I don't agree with the assertion that Apple maps won't return far-fetched results. I searched for "PB Tech", a technology shop chain, and it took me to Mexico.
FWIW, the first thing I did when I first bought an iPhone was move Maps onto the taskbar - replacing Mail - since I used Maps more than any other phone feature.
That's pretty disingenuous. 23 million Americans have used drugs/alcohol to the point of needing treatment: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/08/study-22-million-am...
That's 7% of the population, including children under 12. Take the pre-peer-pressure group out and it starts to look more like Russian Roulette. I'd hardly call that a risk worth taking.
Brown sugar is no better for you than white sugar. http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/health/article/Reality-Ch... Xylitol is my preferred sugar substitute. It's lower in calories, and it has a much lower glycemic index. It also helps prevent cavities.
And how does a resume do any of those things?
More pixels..? Apps that aren't updated are pixel doubled, so images, and in some cases text, are jaggy and blurry until they're updated.
I'm pretty sure I've had the opposite thing happen with Dropbox: files silently not syncing to my Windows machine until I corrected a filename on the Linux file. Definitely not a showstopper but the lack of a visible error message was annoying.
I think you got it :), also PHP is kind of like the "fluent in english" requirement on every job post. While we're at it, what would the Lisp equivalent be?
Might not be so much about functionality as that it was down an awful lot when it was launched. To the point where several people I know gave up relying on it - a feature that works less than 95% of the time quickly becomes 0% useful because the small fraction of failures is so frustrating and annoying that you avoid the whole thing (until recently this problem applied to speech recognition in general, but it's just finally getting over that hump, I think).
Historicaly artificial sweetners of some types have been proven to increase the chances of cancer and I have. I also said probably as nothing is fully proven until many many years later as we all know. In general it is one of those open debates that again only time proves. As for specifics there was no one report I have refered to or any one sweetner, again why I used the term probably. Not everybody has died from smoking a cigerrette or the effects of, everybody is different and all the FDA approval means that it is safe by there standards, based upon there results at that point in time and unless something comes along to prove otherwise to a unaceptable level then that won't change. I drink diet soda, its a acceptable risk in my book. That said natural alternatives have by definition been tested over a longer time with the effects upon humans as a rule and pretty much most people are much happier with that assurance over FDA approval. The thing is you can find assertions arguing both ways as it is still one of those nothing truely proven one way or another situations. I find the thought that any product I purchase in the UK that has it, has a warning label by law. But a fairer way to look at it would be are there are no references on that wiki page you refer to in that it is healther than sugar, so I will stand by my statement that it is probably doing as much damage.
Can anyone with a retina display and the Firefox nightly check this test case for Canvas, please: http://www.phoboslab.org/crap/backingstore/

I hope they didn't screw it up as bad as Apple did with Safari:
http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2012/09/drawing-pixels-is-hard

Edit: judging from some comments in the source, the Canvas element still uses a low resolution, so the test case should work as expected in any case.
Let me guess, do you smoke tobacco? If so, have you tried to quit?

It is very untrue that only a minority of people have the right mix of personality, circumstances and chemistry to become addicts. There are indeed drugs which are not particularly addicting for most of us (eg marijuana, LSD). There are other drugs which most people who try them will not do them enough to get addicted (eg heroin and alcohol - though alcohol is one of the few where withdrawal symptoms can kill addicts). And then there are drugs which really do wind up causing addiction in a large portion of people who use them (eg tobacco, caffeine, crack).

Furthermore even if the odds of getting messed up by drugs is small, the potential consequences are not. For instance if I look at relatives I find one who died from lung cancer caused by smoking, another whose brain is still scrambled many years after quitting meth, another who has a constant battle to avoid becoming a crack-head, and yet another who is permanently messed up from fetal alcohol syndrome. Note, I'm not going to friends here - just looking at siblings, nieces, and nephews, including those by marriage. (Yes, I do come from a large family...)

I personally use mind-altering substances responsibly and in moderation. But given how wrong it can go, I would NEVER push someone to use them who was not comfortable. And I would NEVER pooh pooh the risks.
And maybe force them to like programming. Slap them if they don't use a computer for hours every day.

Sorry, but the idea that we should artificially excite girls about programming is silly to me. If they are interested, fine, if not, so be it. The very first programmer was a woman (Ada Lovelace) and she didn't have Legos or prep talks.

Why start from the premise that there _should_ be 50%-50% men and women programmers and try to force that, instead of watching what girls and boys actually like, and of course help any girl that _actually_ wants to go into programming?

We don't force young boys to go into ballet dancing, or even think that there is a problem because the genders there are not 50%-50%. And we don't give benzedrine, beers and toy trucks to girls to make them go into truck driving, which is also a profession with a gender imbalance.

Oh, and what about professional basketball and football? Should we force girls to be into it more, and force people to watch them play professionally? Because men's basketball and men's football currently dominate.
Interesting. Maybe it's a cultural difference?

The first time I consulted a law firm properly about setting up contracts for a new company, almost the first thing they said was that they could probably charge me tens of thousands to cover everything they could imagine, but in practice they recommended that I put together a basic contract that covered the essentials and leave the rest until there was enough value in the business and enough danger of losing it to take further steps. I don't think any lawyers I've spoken to since have contradicted that advice, either.

On the other hand, I'm in the UK, and our legal system has rather different foundations in some respects, particularly when it comes to being hostile toward fishing expeditions. If the real US business climate is half as litigious as it's reputed to be on this side of the pond, maybe you need lawyers who will default to covering everything from day one.
I understand that. My complaint isn't that they labeled it "violence". My complaint is that they did not give me an explanation and they refuse to clarify which photos constitute "violent" images. Basically, no response from them.

This, after I had been using them since the inception of Adsense with no problems. They even used me as a case study a few years ago where they sent Adsense employees to my house to watch me use the Adsense interface for usability purposes.

It just leaves a bad taste when they treat their "partners" this way. I just want to speak with someone who can clarify my situation, that's all.
> Maybe you got down-voted for being off-topic ...

I regularly see HN posts get downvoted simply for being negative, regardless of the topic. In this case, I think the criticism is both justified and constructive. And I see you agree. :)

> I didn't even finish the first page, let alone put up with such a design as my daily news reading.

I think it's an age thing. There's a certain age at which adorning oneself in dark colors makes one cool, above it all. And designing one's pages according to accepted norms makes one a sell-out. I would be more certain about this were it not for the fact that I am so old that, not only was there no Internet when I was young, there wasn't even FM radio. :)
GetCSSCanvasContext()
A History of Shareware (1999)
If we're going by the wikipedia page, here's their definition they provide:

"skeuomorphism is when a product imitates design elements /functionally necessary/ in the original product design, but that becomes ornamental in the new product design."

So yes, it is about function.

And also, the three things you mention are directly related to the function of the original objects. While these things are clearly used ornamentally in modern devices, their existence/use was inherent in the design of the modern devices' predecessors.
These terms are fixed now. We never share email addresses with third parties.
"Nah. I don't agree with the premise of this article. This was not one person's decision." Except in any corporation there is always one person who says "Ship it" and it does - regardless of anyone else's point of view. Was that Forstall? Most likely.
When you compare MJ's cost to typical AT&T cost for landlines, I think a compromise is well worth it.
For turn by turn? Sure, for the most part. Probably the only downside is that Apple's location database hasn't yet caugh up with Google's.
I saw the iCloud.com homepage and the metal reflection that rotates as you move the mouse. I thought maybe it was some CSS-transformed image element or canvas. Turns out, it used an obscure webkit CSS feature, -webkit-canvas(name) as a background-image to do it. Strangely, in Firefox, they use the much simpler and more obvious solution of just sticking a canvas behind the text.
I agree - I have a much more difficult time getting relaxed when I have had too much black/green tea or coffee. I do use honey, so I cannot attest to what the effects would be without.

No, on second thought, I will take that back. When I need to drive for another 4 hours or code for another 3, I will sometimes drink straight black coffee, and as long as I do not eat, I will get quite a rush (and probably grind my teeth quite a bit). And if I do either drink past the afternoon, sleep that night will be sketchy/non-refreshing.
You mean theme. Not meme.
raises hand I love Dropbox's media-presentation features. Without them I'd probably use something else.
With PSoC Creator, you're not really programming via the editor GUI. You're actually configuring the internal hardware, which is compiled into routines and tables that are run through the chip at startup. Think of it more like an FPGA where you are hooking gates and blocks up to various pins. The software can also control and redirect these lines from inside running code, but having the GUI set things up for you is a lot easier than spending a week with the Technical Reference Manual...all 1000+ pages of it.
I don't understand why vigilante justice is perceived as necessary against those who exchange child pornography. While it's something that most of society finds disgusting, it seems like something that the proper law-enforcement authorities are already very much interested in.

It feels as if it's the activity of a bunch of keyboard jockeys who want to feel like "heros", but who don't want the more dangerous opponent of say, organized crime or corrupt governments.