skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most immediate answer is that it makes a European-style system of social insurance for older people difficult when the ratio of working people to retirees decreases.

The broader answer is that it upends economic expectations. Say I'm thinking of building an office tower. If I know there will be fewer workers in 10 years, instead of more, I'm less likely to build it. If I'm pricing stock in a company, and I know there will be fewer customers in 10 years, instead of more, then I'm going to value that stock lower. What happens to the value of Facebook stock if we realize that there will be fewer and fewer teenagers as time goes on? The economy of the present is hugely dependent on expectations about the future.

Finally, though I don't think any European country is in danger of facing this yet, you need a certain critical mass of people to build a truly world-class city with world class arts, culture, etc. Cities smaller than about a million people don't have the consumer base or the tax base to really offer world class amenities. Now, this is admittedly a matter of aesthetics, but if you look at a place like Detroit, which went from 1.8 million to less than half that, you can see that the city is not just a smaller version of itself, but something lesser entirely.

And it's not just because of Detroit's poverty. Nobody wants to invest in a city that's shrinking. Contrast Detroit to Philadelphia. Philadelphia is one of the poorest major cities in the country, but it's population very slowly inched up during the 2000's. And while it's not the site of a high-end construction boom like say Toronto, it's a flourishing city. People are opening up new restaurants, new shops, etc, and reshaping downtown to be a much more livable place than it was just ten years ago.
The location aware stuff really is cool. I found that after a few days I stopped looking at it though since my daily routine wasn't really changing.

Then the other night I was walking by a local theater on the way to dinner, and thought I'd check the weather for an upcoming out-of-town trip. It knew I was near a theater and suggested upcoming showtimes, and then had no problem getting my weather request filled from a voice search.

So yeah, it's really cool, but I haven't yet found a way to remember to seek it out.
But it confuses/scares the average user, which is a bad thing. Just have your site be SSL all the time and users won't get this warning.
They aren't stupid people, but they may be stupid as an entity. Perhaps whoever makes these decisions is under pressure from management to look busy, so they pursue these largely useless measures because they're easy work.
slashdot seems like it is exactly what OP is looking for.
Most likely: Nothing is ever going to be exactly what you want. Even if you build it.

And I see a fundamental conflict in your criteria: You want a less "social" site. You also want less fighting but with good discussion. Generally speaking, people who have the social savvy to encourage polite discourse are going to have some interest in social stuff. It is the nature of the beast.
Actually, their pinto beans and black beans are cooked with 'some' bacon, according to Chipotle.
How does that mean choosing food on ethical fronds is crap? Anyone can adjust their food buying preferences based on knowledge about what went into bringing that food to your table (anything from the factory farming, mistreatment of labor, or fossil fuels used in transportation cost being oft-cited factors). It's impractical to be 100% involved in every kernel of corn in your corn flakes, but just because you can't be perfect doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
>>a) every online credit card payment needs multi factor authentication.

I am not sure you stated this as a seller, customer or as a payment-gateway guy; but I, myself, as a customer find this feature to be one of the best things to have happened to Indian banking scene and I feel (and am) many times more secure having this feature around.

>>culturally Indians feel guilty for exuberance, so they would go for value for money propositions and take safer options.

Do you mean the lack of a population that braves the fire, ice, rain and storm to line-up for next iDevice release, not because it's the best (at the best price), but because it's costliest and does exactly the same things many other half-the-price mobile devices do too? And because everyone else with more than enough money is buying it because GrubIegler wrote volumes in reviews mostly comprising - "it's just the right size" and "just the right balance"?

>>you have people who go to stores and buy mostly in cash

I have lazily switched to ordering groceries from on-line grocery sites in Bangalore. There's a friend of mine who earns almost 1.5+ of my earnings and visits a nearby store to buy one 1L milk tetra pack (among many other things) which costs him around INR 35-40 there and INR 50-55 elsewhere (55 online). No, it's not a duplicate/fake product. And I appreciate this so much. This is called intelligence. Smart decision. Simple.

>>now you have the context,now you can read the article again, it would make lot more sense

I will sure read it again and share my feedback here, iff it made more sense or very much different from what it actually does.
Blogspam.

OP at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-warn-of...
I don't know about physics, but a few years ago here in Argentina there was a epidemy of "engineers that solved the Goldbach conjecture". A few (¿maybe 5?) of my math Ph.d. students friends had each one his/her own engineer with a different unrelated proof.

The histories where all different, but generally it was a long (100 pages) proof that was involved and not very clear. So the math Ph.d. student and the engineer meet weekly for one year to try to understand the proof. It was very painful because they have to understand which part was only unclear or has only small gaps, and which parts had errors that were impossible to fix. And then they had to explain that to the engineer, that were happy to had solved the conjecture.

All of this is in a scientific field that there isn't too much money, press coverage or social prestige involved (not like a "cure for cancer"). So I think that in more applicable fields the problem is worse.
I didn't study the topic in depth, so take it with a grain of salt, but I recall reading something like this:

* the % of people capable of highly intellectual work is quite low
* as time goes on, more fields of activity require those people
* you need a growing population to provide that supply

They cited Russia as an example (population has been declining since the collapse of the USSR) - basically, to have e.g. a competitive aerospace industry in the 21st century, Russian population would have to increase by about 25%.

This is just one example.
I would love to buy such a converter, but first I would need a Space Cadet keyboard.
It means the current fans that have seen cover photos scheduled by PageCovery
That sounds profoundly boring. But if you really want that, and have the time, you can get close with Reddit + RES: http://redditenhancementsuite.com/

Add the right subreddits and filter out sites, posters, and keywords to refine it into exactly the thing you want.
The next step is to find a vulnerable seam like this in the real universe.
Am I wrong in saying that European countries seems to have finally realized that they are too dependent of US companies for very imperative technology?
see also: Nethack RNG trickery: http://taeb-nethack.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/predicting-and-co...
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Eww.

I have a different hack: Eat kosher or organic meat.

I do that because my body does not work right. Eating better quality food has substantially reduced the amount of food I require on a daily basis. It seems especially helpful with meat, probably because toxins concentrate in the fats as you go up the food chain, so the negative impact of bad practices multiplies.
Another vote for evil-mode. I'm a long time Emacs user that started using Emacs after being quite proficient in Vim. One reason I switched was for Emacs' Common Lisp environment, the other is I never really liked vi's modal editing paradigm.

However after many years of searching for the perfect keybindings I rediscovered Vim's charm for navigating and editing text, although I will never leave Emacs for it. The latter is too powerful. With Vim bindings finding their way in more and more applications they start to become pretty universal. (That said, it still prefer Emacs bindings in my shell.)

Evil really does give me the best of both worlds even wrt to keybindings and because of the muscle memory also makes firing up Vim on the shell or another server really convenient.

If you're a pure Vim user you will have to get used to some Emacs behavior, it is no drop-in replacement but it is pretty darn close. Some modes (Magit - a Git mode) are not supported.
I don't entirely agree that "absolute numbers are pointless here". If you look at the amount of human suffering, your world is 2x worse.
As kayoone said, I already acknowledged that in the post you're responding to.

While I think it is at least somewhat nice that Google did grandfather in existing users, a big part of the appeal for free Google Apps for me is that whenever I had a domain that needed mail but not too much and not worth paying for (because the domain was not a profit maker) I could spin up a free Google Apps easily and know was I was getting because I was used to it. Also I could recommend doing the same to friends in the same situation.

Without that ability in the future, I feel it is in my best interest to start migrating off the platform even on my existing domains, especially when this alternate option (which I was previously unaware of) is available.

I don't pretend to know what Google's cost and benefits were with regard to free Google Apps, or whether this move makes sense in the large, but I can tell you that in my specific case they've begun pushing me away from their email infrastructure altogether with it.
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Apparently someone already built such a converter for a different type of symbolics keyboard. http://netzhansa.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-convert-your-sy...
I think he means social in the buzzword sense.
A self deprecating text editing experiment:

I have long thought that it's often the most intelligent nerds that have the worst behavior problems. Although, it's sometimes the fault of a nerd who thinks they can reason with non-nerds using pure logic when they really need to learn more about how normal people think and behave. It's sometimes the fault of a normal who thinks they can reason with nerds using social-logic when they really need to learn more about how nerds think and behave.

Being an intelligent nerd is like signing up for acting classes. People will watch your every move and play you like a chump if you do the wrong thing. Some think it requires you to act like the alpha nerd in order to maintain the behaviors you want (which is a very awkward feeling to most people.) This means understanding how nerds see reward, punishment, encouragement, etc… or at least learning what to do when you see behavior that you don't like and understanding how your own behavior affects the nerd.

I wouldn't say that less intelligent individuals don't have issues, but a super-smart nerd can easily get bored and turn that creative energy into a destructive streak.
Feynman had a neurological condition called synesthesia [1], which is when senses get mixed together in the same neurological pathway and you can "taste" a sound or "hear" a color. Which is very interesting since Feynman was said to have a "frightening" ease with equations, like an intuitive understanding of what they meant.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_synesthesia...
I like the name, the typography's decent, and I'm fond of that shade of green. The layout is very, very messy. It feels like a poorly-styled tumblelog, what with the huge emphasis on snippets and the constant centered-ness of everything.

For some reason, the linear display of one quote after another doesn't work for me at all. It feels loose. A portfolio should feel denser, like it's bursting with interesting things everywhere you look. But perhaps that's just the ugliness of the centered-quotes approach.

But seriously, rethink the quotes-only approach. Writing is about so much more than quick snippets. I know plenty of brilliant writers who would be grossly underserviced by this approach – Gene Weingarten and David Foster Wallace are two authors whose styles are drastically different but which are each difficult to "snippet" meaningfully. Your challenge, if you want to make a site like this, is to make a site that respects writing, as deeply and as thoroughly as is possible without sacrificing snappiness and elegance.

That said, you're working on something that would make the Internet a better place -- oh wait! I just realized you're from Elepath! Is this an official Elepath project then? That's neat, and good luck to you and Jakob and the rest of the team.
If you were "over it," then I doubt you would be making dozens of comments in this thread about it.

Protip: they're not laughing "with you" when you compare your managers to Osama bin Laden.
One of those heated discussions on HN 4 months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306241
I agree with the shallow part. Though cannot state the same about other allegations :-)

However, I think I've come across some blog spot detailing how some event portal do this - opening the sale of tickets with "sold out" page :-\
One can say the same for human beings.
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Sounds like a worthwhile effort to support Internet connectivity in Afghanistan. Wish the author would create an indiegogo fundraiser to raise money to pay the fees, so that I could help support it!
I believe it is simply "agender".
I've also heard the word "neutrois" for a third gender neither male nor female, but that's not quite the same as no gender.
Google Maps web UI for IOS still works fine. You can even make it an icon right under the new Maps.
I found the first NeXT keyboard was very uncomfortable to use, as the keys had very little spring and you would ram home hard against the 'end stops' all the time. I suppose keyboards are pretty subjective.

They did a second ADB based version for the later model NeXTStations, which I found a lot better to use. It had an interesting 'command bar' feature too, with a long bar like a space bar at the bottom for typing command sequences.
In what way are the notations Descartes introduced dependent upon his philosophical views?

"And finally we're left with a weird, cobbled-together Popperian/Kuhnian pragmatism that long ago gave up on "certainty" or "clarity" and settled for "less wrong."

What surprises me is that people are so willing to assume that such certainty is desirable. That quantified symbolic logic is both primary and desirable, and that probabilistic reasoning is at best an occasionally necessary but highly suspect tool.

What a sadly limited universe of discourse that is, being forever circumscribed by Godel. It is fortunate that we don't exist trapped in it. I see no reason to intellectually place myself in the same prison.
I used a book "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig, which employs a special mnemonic technique, to learn to write 2000 Japanese kanji in three months, which was a leisurely pace (twenty-something a day). Many people did the same in a much shorter time, like 100 a day. It works beautifully. If you have problems learning those words, you are most probably either using the wrong technique, or using it incorrectly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji
Is Twitter of any use to you both for that purpose? @MiyagiJournal
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Olympiad programs are pure algorithms, which I agree are more math intensive than most "normal" programming done today (though I wouldn't dismiss math as "riddles"). But that's my whole point: most problem domains have some mathy parts, whether in the algorithms or from the problem domain. As we reduce the cognitive burden of plumbing and architecture that exists in programming today, these meaty parts will take up a larger portion of the programmers workload. The required skillset will shift somewhat, rather than rewarding the same mental juggling process at a larger scale.
I like the idea. Kind of like a dribbble.com for copy writers. I would use the site to look for a copy writer. Good luck!
This is such a stupid argument that I don't know where to begin. Do you seriously think performing male rites of passage will somehow increase sperm count? You come off as an old curmudgeon that resents advances in women's rights and the lgbt movement and sees this as some sort of threat to old practices which were somehow more masculine in your mind.
Serious question: If you switched from Vim to Emacs, and are happy with it, how fast/slow are you in Emacs for pure text manipulation (moving lines, changing text within quotes, joining lines, etc)?
The dogs in the video look supremely pleased to me. There's something about the way dogs stick their heads out the car window that makes me think most of them would love to drive. I'm not the only one. I remember hearing someone's song about the same thing and wishing they could let their dog drive the car. If in 30 years, with advances in genetic engineering and our understanding of intelligence, dogs were driving cabs, I wouldn't think that's wrong at all, but somehow right.
> THis doesn't happen anymore. And if you, instead, grow a boy to a man the woman way, what you get is not a man but an overly feminine male who is at loss with his manhood and who has two balls that are barely working.

This reasoning seems a bit specious.
key line from a rebuttal piece, imho: "An extra 1 percent to 3 percent in tax will hardly outweigh the dramatic upside of starting a company in the state now.

http://www.pehub.com/176148/proposition-30-wont-impact-entre...
who will go to mars, if there will be not enough to fill earth?
You're forgetting localization. Your timezone alone makes you more identifiable. Add in your IP address and you're pretty identifiable. Not to mention that iPads don't really have any private browsing mode.
Isn't a knack for conformity part of the requisite skill set?
Its funny. Having kids has forced me into doing this. When at home, I rarely have more than an hour of uninterrupted coding time. So when I have an idea, or get stuck, I'm forced to get away from it, letting my brain naturally chew away at it. I have less time to code, but my time spent is more efficient.
Sorry Jay, but this sort of thing is always a land rush, and it looks like this particular one is over.
I'm confused as well, apparently my browser (stock firefox on Ubuntu) is completely unique. I would expect it to be reasonably rare but certainly not that rare.

I haven't done the math, but I have a feeling it just keeps dividing by the "one in x browsers have this value". Maybe it doesn't look at the intersections , for example: Using Totem as the default wmv player is rare and using Ubuntu is rare but reporting Totem as .wmv player is going to be a lot less rare amongst Ubuntu users that it is amongst Windows users.
I'm a little late to the discussion here, but thought I'd post a comment anyway. My project (https://github.com/wjbryant/taboverride) has been around for a while and I'm always open to pull requests and feature enhancements / improvements. It looks like you're trying to solve the same problems and implement features which I've already implemented. Why not collaborate?
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Oh, Lord. HN is turning into Reddit more and more by the minute.
Not disagreeing with the bogosity of the numbers - but isn't the time zone part of the fingerprint? So not all iPads are the same?
Chrome is getting bloated. It was so nice and lean when I first touched it years ago.
Please stop with arbitrary recentism, and stop campaigning against commonly-used data formats. Instead, use better tools which trivially read/write/convert whatever-to-whatever. Be a tool user. Make the data into whatever shape you want, and publish whatever you want.

I'm quite annoyed that Google Docs was announced to stop exporting to frequently used formats. I've said it before
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577966
"Recentism trashes bidirectional accessibility. Stable standards are not de facto useless."
"Stop with the petulant feature gutting. Who are you trying to impress?"
>>actual internet ready audience for what an internet startup

It's really hard for me to grasp why people want to pin startup/business/entrepreneurship to Internet/website and iOS apps. It doesn't work everywhere and till it starts working you have the option of sitting out or start giving them Internet connectivity (not to mention device and training) or make something that they need now and will buy at a price they can safely afford, of course via a medium they use or have access too.

>>Well, most of their problems have nothing to do with what an internet startup can offer. Hence a "drought of customers" for internet startups.

Internet startups, many a times, start with a problem that doesn't exist here but they start it anyway because people in the USA had it and when last time someone in Germany had copied sth (or sth similar) from the USA it did actually work (as in got sold). Now, in the end you have narrowed down your opinion to a smaller subset.

There is a large population in India that accesses Internet through means that other part of world hardly shall ever recognise as Internet connectivity. That's an untapped one and many startups are taking small but significant startups towards it.
True, timezone could be a biggie. Although in my case (GMT) is 1/22. Screen res is another possibility (1920x1080) = 1/28.

All the site doesn't mention anything about IP address on the report page and presumably doesn't have access to third party tracking cookies however so private browsing shouldn't make much difference (I cleared my cookies and got the same score).
Not justifying it at all -- I use IG as well and think it is absurdly dumb of them to shutter it. However, it now makes sense as to why they'd close it: they're trying to get people to use Google Now instead.
Nice easter egg in the footer - clicking the sun/moon icons toggles between a dark and light color scheme.

You seem to be missing a subscribe button for the email form in the top-right corner.

Additionally, it would be nice to have a page about how to submit articles and whatnot.
In my opinion, you should left justify the quotes, make the color of the quotes a dark body color, and then make the clients' names in the lovely shade of green.

When substantial text is centered, it does add emphasis, but it also reduces readability. When the entire page is centered, there's less readability but no gain in emphasis. And it is the same case, more or less, with color; a strong color is strong only in contrast to a more subtle color. The key is not to overload on strong elements (like alignment, text decoration, and odd fonts) while emphasizing which elements really need to stand out.

It does sound like a great idea!