skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A NYT Editor's Pick Comment:

"""
I'm glad the smoking gun has been found.

High fructose corn syrup is in virtually everything people buy to eat. It needs to go. Enough people's lives have been ruined. The design and engineering of prepared foods people commonly buy is toxic and addictive.

Now we need to re-educate people and make sure long-held views are erased. People have long blamed gluttony for obesity and obesity for diabetes. We now know it isn't true and that the super-sugars we are being force-fed are the culprit. We must all, together, demand that processed sugars such as high-fructose corn syrup be banned or, at the very least, severely restricted. I don't use the words force-fed lightly. Those among us who are on food stamps or a limited income have no choice but to buy the cheapest foods. Those are the ones that most commonly have the highest amount of sugars added. Anyone with a busy lifestyle eats out a lot. Fast foods, including the ones that claim to be "better," are laced with sugars, sodium, and fat.

We must demand policies that protect us from harm and the greed-driven irresponsible practices of Big Food.

Thank you, Mr. Bittman, for keeping us informed.
"""

So is "Big Food" the new scapegoat? I guess the next article we'll see a comment proclaiming how "Big Grocery" prices unhealthy foods too low, so now it's their fault.

This is a great study, and it's results are extremely interesting, but this article, and the inferences people are getting from it border on witch trials. The article does a great job of doing everything but coming out and saying what the commenter does "They're force feeding us toxins!". There is such a clear departure from responsibility in today's culture it's almost astonishing. The blame lies 100% with nobody, but the individual has just as much a part to play as those producing the food.

Edit: Does anyone notice the language used in the comment? "Force-fed", "re-educate", "We must all, together", "Enough people's lives have been ruined". It sounds almost like something from 1984.

Also, look how easily the commenter provides inclusion to victimhood... anyone "with a busy lifestyle", or those who "are on food stamps or a limited income". Limited income is pretty broad. It's interesting also, how they "have no choice but to buy the cheapest foods".
Thanks. I am certainly a little too far on the offensive side... but I take offense to the level of attention this receives.
Is it possible to "sign" windows 8 and other windows drivers with your own root key so you can have your own key in UEFI and have windows still work?

I'm guessing that microsoft has no options for this at all, but I don't know for sure.
>I have never understood why people are willing to purchase dogs.

Because we wanted a shiba. Because we wanted a dog where we knew it had parents without serious genetic defects, health or temperament problems. Because we wanted a puppy so we could be sure it hadn't had a chance to have behavioural problems created through bad training, abuse, etc.

>Between the conditions of large-scale breeders

What does that have to do with anything? You can purchase a dog without getting it from a puppy mill.

>the amount of animals waiting in shelters

There were 3 dogs at our local shelter, 2 at the one 45 minutes away, and 2 at the one a half hour away. I asked a woman at the local shelter when they last had to euthanize a dog for space reasons, and she responded "I don't know, I've only been here for two years". The amount of animals at shelters does not appear to be an issue here.
>> I have never understood why people are willing to purchase dogs.

Sadly, certain breeds of dogs are considered a status symbol, are trendy, or buyers think they can sell the offspring of said dog to recoup the costs (and then some).

Remember the glut of Dalmations at shelters after the '101 Dalmations' movie came out? Every kid wanted one, parents bought them, and after realizing they can be very difficult dogs to live with, they were sent to the shelters.
I thought this article was going to be about the $52 billion a year Americans spend on pets.
I never said that eating less was easy. I am not sure how you read that from what I wrote.

> What point are you trying to make? That the news should be trying to make people hate themselves more than they already do?

No, my point is that the news should not be trying to make people hate themselves less. Editorializing with peoples feelings in mind may be good business sense, but nevertheless I find it contemptible.

> This research isn't about justifying behavior

I like the research. The research is great. My issue is with the editorializing.

> those fat people over there

It sounds like you are making an assumption about me that is rather false.
OMDog.
That's a very good lecture by the way, basically explaining RBMs in more detail, and showcasing some interesting applications of deep unsupervised learning.
Especially considering the context. It seemed pretty clear that the user was posting the email address publicly for the first time.

That is just awful, and is an awkward example of why you may not want unpaid, mostly un-vetted volunteers as the public face of a company.
Ask HN: Where to buy Twitter followers (as a gag gift)?
I'd like to buy an outrageous number of twitter followers for a friend's account on his birthday. Zero expectation that it'll have any real impact on his profile - it's strictly an absurd joke of a gift. The trouble is sorting out where to buy followers (bots or real, preferably a mix) from a 'reputable' company that won't just run off with the money. Considered emailing someone on the Romney 2012 campaign but short of that I thought someone here might have the answer.
Big Sweetener.
> Linus is really smart, but sometimes he makes a snap decision and then will perform whatever mental gymnastics are necessary to defend it to the death.

Hmm, could it be argued that this is less a snap judgement and more one of strengthening the long-term political and technical health of the OS? Rather than take the easier short-term path, which may eventually put Linux's metaphorical balls into a Microsoft vice, he would rather expose some pain now to defend as much as possible long-term autonomy. I would imagine this to be true given Torvald's historic ability to keep Linux healthy and viable in spite of one of the world's most powerful corporations.

Thus, in the short term, the user must perform some gymnastics to boot new kernels, but if this inconvenience is really that painful, it will create market disequilibrium that will motivate creative solutions. Some naive, off-the-cuff ideas:

- vendors pre-installing trusted root certs for Linux distros or a consortium of them,

- vendors making it easy to disable SecureBoot (physical switch?),

- vendors forcing SecureBoot configuration/opt-in on very first boot,

- UI, tools, or documentation enhancements to make local key management and signing easier, or

- simply a slightly more aware userbase (the same way phone locking/unlocking became a mainstream concept).
I'm not a coffee drinker but most of my friends are. One thing you might want to add is reviews and ratings of K-cups for those that use Keurig brewers and the like. A friend of mine ended up having to buy a lot of different varieties before finding one he liked.
Yes. That's what I meant. Sorry for my broken English.
Important to note that this is the opinion section, not news. I wonder how many people are going to miss that detail?
The packaging is actually likely to be a lot easier, which is one of the big perks to this model. They only get stuck supporting the LTS releases, instead of having to backport fixes to every release in the last X years (was it 4?).

Something to keep in mind is that just because there is an updated package available for something, there is no need to get it updated on day 1. I suspect they've got a good feel for update frequency and priority on various packages. Worse case, they'll probably get it updated and more recent than the six month cycle (or 12 month if you run LTS).
Cause feel good fluff helps the masses avoid their fears and self doubt/loathing/etc. HN stories are selected by the masses (or some increasing LCD subset of same).
Docs page doesn't seem to be loading properly for me... It's as if the CSS file isn't loading. I've tried it in 3 browsers.
In management accounting theory there are 3 main categories of expenses:

1) Direct Materials
2) Direct Labour
And
3) Overhead - basically what doesn't fit in materials and labour that is not tied directly to the company's product or services.

Examples of overhead include:

electricity, property taxes, advertising, accounting, janitors, cleaning supplies, distribution costs, legal fees, interest on money loaned, human resources department
Does it also include fructose, the main sugar in apples, oranges, bananas, berries, tomatoes, and corn?

If I remember the oChem correctly, HFCS is just glucose and fructose mixed.
The homepage for the Flow framework has this in the title:

TYPO3 Flow Enterprise PHP Framework

It's "We want to be java but not be java" all over again. Which means it's Zend framework all over again.
I can't think of a better parable for opportunity than this story.
> Almost everyone I know

I'm sure you know a representative random sample of people your age, of course.
Zurb was built with the responsiveness from the beginning. That doesn't seem to have been the case with Bootstrap. I've found having a responsive site out of the box, without some of the headaches I've had trying to do the same with Bootstrap, is worth the costs of a smaller community. Plus, it doesn't look like every other Bootstrap site and is more easily customized.
> But this really doesn't have anything to do with black swans... this technique isn't about a rare and unpredictable occurrence ...

Sure it is -- that's why people didn't notice it until they were encouraged to look at the behavior of the outliers -- those few examples whose children, though poor, weren't malnourished.

> Again, this doesn't map to their findings -- the community was not selecting the preferential strategy, even though it was present in the community.

Umm, that's how "natural selection" is defined -- the rare behavior that confers an advantage. All these people needed was encouragement to look for the advantageous adaptation that was already present in the population.
It is worth noting that you can run Tor in non-exit mode, but still route (secure, encrypted) tunnels around for other Tor users. This is (ideally) how every Tor user should act, if at all possible.
Outdoor cats are a huge threat to wildlife as well. A skilled cat is capable of hunting just about anything in your backyard.
I Safely Lost 6 Pounds in Less Than 1 Week
Use a whole domain name, e.g. signup for dropbox with dropbox@tokenadult.com. You could do this with Google Apps Gmail by setting a catch-all forwarding address for the domain.
I loved Ang Lee's own words: http://whatshihsaid.com/2013/02/26/ang-lee-a-never-ending-dr... (which is a link within this article).
I had a very similar experience. I got a rescue that was an adolescent (not fully grown) and just the sweetest dog ever. We did all the kinds of socializing that you're supposed to do but as he got older he became more and more aggressive towards anyone that didn't live in the house.

It got to the point where we'd have to lock him up in a room when people came over because we were genuinely afraid that he would seriously injure a visiting friend or family member. We tried all kinds of trainers but nothing at all helped and we finally decided to put him down because it felt like he was a bomb that was just waiting to go off.

It was all the more depressing because when there were no strangers around he was a total sweetheart. He loved snuggling up with his humans and playing with our other dog.

The experience was so negative that I don't think I'd ever take in a shelter dog again. I paid a good breeder for a purebred after him (my breed choice of Whippet partially inspired by the positive behaviors of my shelter dog) and I've been very happy.
Renews faith in humanity. This belongs on HN, because it really does point out the humanity that we all want to touch with our development. These are real people, with real issues, with real emotions, and each one of them may be a user of our products, using them to improve their lives, their sons lives, or whatever. Its very important to be able to empathize with people, and be able to know their stories, this is the only way to build great things that people love. You can say that this isn't "technical" or "business" related, it is however very related to human beings and ultimately these "humans" are your business, your source of profitability. If anything, more articles like these should be on HN.
The Moon begs to differ.
That sounds like a fun idea for an app/service. You provide it with your base email address or custom domain and it generates a couple random words and keeps track of what service you used it to sign up for.
Presumably by the word.
The Pwn Pad is an Android Tablet-Based Penetration Tester (Video)
i'm sorry i come off as being an authoritarian douche, but regardless - solve the right problems first. the fuss over this is borderline offensive in the context of the US position on the world stage and the impact it has...

so yeah, i would like to bake the cake and ice it before i go about putting the cherry on top.
At our best, we as the hacking + doing and building community are both inextricably part of and trying to change society.

This story manages to cut across a swath of different social issues: race, gender (I falsely assumed that it was a woman writing when the first instance of 'husband' was mentioned) gay marriage, the extraordinary power given to the family court system and even the urban versus rural divide.

I don't think this article is going to kick off a bunch of startups that are "like Instragram but for abandoned babies in a subway", but I do think we are in a unique position to potentially effect the lives of millions of people with the output of our work and being more mindful of stories in the larger society can only help that.
I think the thing you might be grappling with is that when it comes to software, they seem to have allowed the patenting of the implications of inventions, rather than the inventions themselves. Instead of patents on cars, they've allowed people to patent the idea of driving cars to particular destinations.
Show HN: we built a blog platform in Meteor
I don't see how comparing Flow vs. Rails proves PHP as a language has reached its limit relative to Ruby as a language. Most of the examples seem to be syntactic vs. anything "limit" related.
OK, tough love time:

All I can say is that you're very lucky to have a working system (and probably a company to work for), and I'm very lucky not to work where you do. Seriously, your "test" of a full disaster recovery was an actual disaster! More than one!

And frankly, if your response to the idea of implementing dynamic failure testing is that someone doing that should be "kicked in the face" (seriously, wtf? even the image is just evil), then shame on you. That's just way beyond "mistaken engineering practice" and well on the way to "Kafkaesque caricature of a bad IT department". Yikes.

Admittedly: you have existing constraints that make moving in the right direction expensive and painful. But rather than admit that you have a fragile system that you can't afford to engineer properly you flame on the internet against people who, quite frankly, do know how to do this properly. Stop.
Mac Email Client Showdown – The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Facebook to Acquire Atlas from Microsoft
I use domaincom@mydomain.com, e.g., dropboxcom@mydomain.com.
I'm not a military vet, so no, although I have been places and seen how the world works. Generally have been smart/lucky enough to avoid serious trouble.

So, political prosecution, facing jail-time for something pretty innocent, and you can't find the least bit of pity because nobody's threatening to kill him?

I'd suggest developing some empathy, it will make you more successful in business and more importantly will improve your life.
http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?query=followers

Haven't tried it myself, but it seems promising.
> I find that ...

I'd love know more, where did you find this out?
I'm seeing 15 W reported for Dell's ARM server; that seems pretty high for the performance you get.
PPAs should be for cutting-edge stuff, not stuff that was stable 4 months ago and hasn't been updated in "main" yet.
Connected China - HTML5 application by Fathom
How about the end of individual consciousness? What benefits could outweigh that?
The Court of Public Opinion
No. These things are pretty much store-and-forward. IF the timing is just right, Curiosity could transmit direct line-of-sight to Earth, but we're talking very low data rates.
F-ing up Feedback
What an absolutely beautiful story.
Blog post: http://fathom.info/latest/3688
All this article demonstrates is that PHP is more verbose than than Ruby with a good DSL. This exact same logic could be used to argue against Java.

There's plenty wrong with PHP. Verbosity is the least of its sins.
>Is that really that bad?

Yes, I certainly consider mutilating animals for convenience to be bad. The process is removing the ends of their fingers. Look at your hand. See the last knuckle? Cut there.

>So do human doctors, and yet we trust them or get second opinions when things don't make sense to us.

We can also sue them if they recommend elective surgery that causes harm because they want money. This option is not available with vets. If your doctor solicited you with a "our records indicate your child is 5 years old, please book an appointment now to have his or her sexual organs removed. It is dangerous to have an intact child, and you are a bad parent if you do not have us remove his or her sex organs." notice, I suspect you would strongly consider a new doctor.
You make a valid point, but even in this context there are better things to pay attention to...
Men have a hunting instinct that must be engaged, and if it's not engaged, the courtship software routine just doens't run. Men need to bat their claws at a string.
Is this caused by rounding? What if the spread was less than one cent?
I'm all for busting some balls, especially if we're talking Dropbox. But shit like this happens all the time, and it's not like by busting some balls here we're going to improve the situation broadly speaking.

It's really absurd to expect that your information will actually be safeguarded by some entity that isn't you. As soon as you give any data to anyone, it's gone. You should pretty much assume it's public and get on with your life. Did ya'll catch that blog post up yesterday from the kid who deleted the USERS table at his job, because he was developing against a production database and running queries against it by hand? Experience has led me to believe that's the situation at like all things, everywhere, all the time. Ass clowns emailing around spreadsheets with user data; people getting malware installed on their Windows shit and entire infrastructure's data being compromised. It's a joke. Let's just always remember that while we're busting balls. But if you value your data, don't give it to anybody, ever.
I'd recommend Theano and the accompanying Deep Learning Tutorials at http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/
My First Message From the Future: How Facebook Died
Facebook officially buys Atlas from Microsoft
No, the R^2 is 1.0 between (dhmo-exposure,got-diabetes). You're talking about (dhmo-exposure,!got-diabetes) which turns out to also have a 1.0 correlation, which was kind of the point of my snark in the first place.

Those who don't understand even the basics of correlation are doomed to be led astray by statistics. The authors of the paper in question seem to understand it just fine, it would be nice if we could expect even minimal statistic comprehension from those making follow-on claims using the paper as supporting evidence.
This is really becoming inane. How is it that someone unconnected to the original innovation can file a patent for something which isn't new or original technology?

Patent trolls have become so ubiquitous that articles like these are no longer shocking.
Although, I'm not sure we can even look at the Debian when trying to predict what a rolling release Ubuntu would look like (even considering that they are "relatives").

The current difference in manpower and mind share is pretty big between these two related distros. Regardless of which one each of us may like better, Canonical has the manpower and mindshare to probably have a bit more success with this model. I really like Debian, so this is not a knock on them (I used Debian on servers for a very long time with great results).

Heck, we may even see Debian and Ubuntu working more closely once they take on this shared dev style (I know, I am pipedreaming, but hey...).
This site may be for "technical and business" discussion, but ultimately, it comes down to popular opinion, I for one think the story was great but there seems to be a fairly even split going on here, that is, half of us think it's heart warming, and the other half think that it's heart warming and irrelevant.

There is no simple answer here, it's irrelevant, to the point where all you overzealous stack overflow members would vote to have it removed, but on the other hand, I'm glad it's here, sometimes we can get so wrapped up in our little bubble that we forgot that things happen outside of it.

Consider the Aaron Swartz debacle, that flooded HN for weeks, some days the top posts were filled with it, but they were, for the large part, noise against a background, like how someone met him in a subway one time (real example, but no link, so consider it allegory for my plot, if you will), but still we kept it here, because his case both wrenched our hearts and made us angry and want to change something, these stories are what reminds us of how good (and often stupid) humans can be - I think this falls squarely within that realm, irrelevant noise, but enthralling and well worth featuring none the less.
Yes, I have an original CR-48 and a new ARM Samsung (also running Ubuntu via Crouton).
> next article we'll see a comment proclaiming how "Big Grocery" prices unhealthy foods too low, so now it's their fault.

And here it comes: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01...

This is a backhanded attack on "Big Grocery." Wal-Mart is being "responsible" with an initiative "to offer more healthful foods and push its suppliers to do the same."

Of course, Wal-Mart's competitors can't afford to manhandle their suppliers at the same scale.
I've actually done a similar thing using fiverr.com
Wow, that's pretty impressive. Every cat I've had has had a desire to outside at some point. I had a couple that learned how to open the screen door! So we put an extra door hook on it and they figured out that if they rattled it enough they could pop the hook out and get the door open anyway.
A limited templating language forces you to behave. More importantly, it also forces other people to behave. It stops people from creating ugly hacks in the middle of templates that become impossible to track bugs. It stops Joe Random Designer from being able to break your database when he works on a new header design.
Drinking from the Streaming API
'Intelligent' oil droplet navigates chemical maze
Thanks! I used your instructions last night.
Surveillance Camera Man Points Camera at Strangers Without Permission
You really are at the mercy of the PPA maintainer, too. For some packages, the maintainer's interest may not be there for more than a release or two. That's a pain, when I could just be pulling from multiverse/universe/whatever it was called.

Obviously, this is less of a problem with the more popular PPAs (Postgres, for example).
Expand internationally. I'm willing to put up with PayPal because I can accept sellers from around the world.
Little more detail from 2004: http://www.parents.com/parenting/adoption/stories/adoption-s...