skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As Dr. Lustig (the "sugar is poison" guy) says, when nature delivers a poison it often provides the antidote. For fruits, the antidote is fiber. Juice removes much of that fiber.

My grandmother had a seizure and was rushed to the hospital. I happened to be in the area and went to see her. When I got there, she was conscious but catatonic. I said hello to her, but she stared straight ahead, unresponsive. Her blood sugar had dropped really low, so the nurse brought in a cup of orange juice. She drank about half of it - maybe 4 oz. The nurse put the cup down, and a few seconds later my grandmother turned, looked at me, and said, "Hi Nick, what are you doing here?" I'm not trying to exaggerate, but it was like someone flipped a switch. I was amazed at how fast the sugar absorbed into her bloodstream. So I guess the point of my story is that you shouldn't underestimate the power of the sugar in an 8 oz. glass of orange juice.
Here's the corresponding tweet from Matt Cutts, Head of Webspam at Google: https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/337586357822169088

This looks so open to abuse and manipulation. An anonymous form where anyone can drop any link?

Is this Google
- Showing face, trying to make people feel involved in their algorithm
- Pattern matching submissions against their own computed ideas of what is and isn't spam
- Genuinely looking for data, and this is the best thing they could come up with?

Google rolled out 'Penguin 2.0' today (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/penguin-2-0-rolled-out-today/), an algo update to target websites with manipulative link profiles.
Stephen King[1] relates a similar idea:

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right -- as right as you can, anyway -- it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. If you're very lucky, more will want to do the former than the latter."

[1] Stephen King, "On Writing" (chapter 20)
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Using HTML to create an entire user interface seems entirely reasonable to me, and a hell of a lot more pleasant to work with as a developer than the traditional way of doing things.
yes! this is exactly what I'm doing with Angular. I'm working with django on the server and have been able to thin out my server dramatically. It is now providing a RESTful api and doing some minimal business logic but I have been able to shrink my server side template rendering down to nearly nothing (just the bootstrap template served to the landing page). Angular is handling ALOT of display logic and user interaction logic that previously was handled server side.
“Bitcoin is basically based on mistrust rather than trust”

In some ways, but when we're talking about the reversability of transactions we're really just putting trust in different places. I trust the bank waaaaaaay more than I trust any online vendor. Particularly one with whom I don't have an existing relationship, but even then. For the folks that love BTC at the moment that seems to be reversed.

--edit-- I'm also not sure how doing two trades on an international currency transfer is supposed to be cheaper than one....
Why doesn't being curious about a Drano bomb count as a valid intellectual or scientific curiosity?

I personally think its a rather easy topic to be scientifically curious about.
Emscripten can't compile LLVM yet, so you can't put the compiler in a web page. And considering that a PDF reader is couple of megabytes of JavaScript, LLVM would be probably be tens of megabytes.
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Not everything is snow country and it might make perfect sense in warmer or more densely populated places.

There’s no reason why one car would have to be fit for every climate on every continent.
They aren't really revolutionary, of course, but a gasoline powered hybrid still has a slight efficiency edge over a diesel. If you factor in the higher complexity, weight, cost and emissions of Diesel vs. Otto it's easy to see why gas hybrids are popular today.

I think what VW and Bosch are doing for diesels will pave the way for broad adoption of diesel-hybrids at some point, though.
I'm glad the charges were dropped. No one was hurt and that fact needs to be considered before ruining a kid's life.

But in all likelihood she built a Drano bomb, probably after watching one of the millions of YouTube videos on the subject, and blew it up on school property. She's not a martyr for science, nor a role model for girls in STEM, and frankly it is a little offensive that's the line people are sticking with.
>Because of the race rules and regs though, the electric is only allowed to kick in past 120km/h.

Why make that rule?
I don't think the board of apple really has a choice here: Shareholders will replace them if they do not do the maximum under US tax law to minimize tax liability.

That said, we should fix the laws to change this.
With lots more comfort, safety equipment, etc. Seems like a valid tradeoff to me :)
It does have more in the way of safety and comfort features though.
> I'd love to read more about integrating Angular with RESTful backends.

If your backend exposes a textbook REST interface, integrating it with AngularJS is almost no work at all. $resource is all you need. In case you have one or two non-RESTful endpoints here and there – and honestly, who doesn't? – $http is your friend.

In an app I'm working on, I have a front-end built with Angular talking to a Tastypie back-end. Since Tastypie implements all the boring REST CRUD for you automagically, integrating the two took about fifteen minutes total.

If there are there any specific questions/issues on your mind, ask away.
Aesthetics have a lot to do with building a successful car. A simple example? The VW New Beetle shares the same platform as the Jetta, but ask 100 men if they would own one.
YouTube or any other Internet Only service does not solve the problem of playing my videos very well.

Why would I want to upload gigabytes of video instead of downloading a small program to play them locally? If I care about archiving things - why would I want to archive just my video files?

I don't think anyone expects ChromeOS to have many built-in ways of doing things - but I also don't expect ChromeOS to be very widely used because it's not solving users' problems very well at all. Unless of course...they add native apps ;) Then it could be something.
Even if this is true, it will be the low-level grunts and support staff who feel the burn, not the high-level people who actually run the show. Operating at the pinnacle of those professions requires the ability to form strong personal relationships with the right people - not a skill that can be replicated by machines just yet.
The last time I tried Evernote it already had way too many features. It always felt like they were trying to way too many things at once, to the detriment of all of them. Apparently this feature is the "most requested feature of all time", but I'd guess that half of the other ones aren't.

For example, my impression was that Evernote was about being able to store all of your memories, files, photos, etc. for future reference. But then the biggest use case highlighted by this video is for teams working on task lists together... Seem like very different use cases. I can't be simple to design for that unfocused of a goal, and it shows.
> the homoiconi[ci]ty of JSON and JS

There is a package for making interacting with JSON more seamless and JavaScript-like:

http://pub.dartlang.org/packages/json_object

> Google being the main sponsor just makes me slightly wary of it

In that regard, I clearly prefer Google over Oracle or Microsoft. I was also happy with Sun back in the days.
Totally agree with you on that. But let's compare your trust of your bank vs your trust of your mattress or your safe or your brain password that no one but you can produce.
You can get 8-core Xeons (X7550 to pick a random one) and 16-core Opterons (6378 for example).

More importantly 2013 Xeons do much more per clock cycle than 2006 Xeons (and 2013 Opterons for that matter). Improvements in pipelining, branch prediction, caches, etc are harder to nail down to one number like clock speed or core count but can be huge contributors to real-world performance.
Doing the math: You can get paid to drive an electric car
Well, there still is no interface to the DOM. So it really depends on your definition of "web app". It is quite comparable to applets IMHO. Except applets are less of a hack. I wish Sun had invested more time in their "sandbox".
Is there anything in Notepad to indicate it's a deliberately second-class citizen?

My Roku doesn't have any built-in movies, my DVD player doesn't have any built-in movies...

It's not "needlessly crippled," it's brand new. Windows 3.0 would be seen as needlessly crippled if it were released today.

Look, if you don't like it, that's fine. But you can't convince me that it's not a viable product for many people, in many use cases. It might not be right for you, and I'm not saying you're wrong about that.
I completely agree with this. I am working on a web application at the moment, and the server is very minimal. It just handles supplies a JSON-returning REST API, the index page, and some WebSockets stuff.

Doing things this way is quite nice, and forces separation between the client application and the server application. It makes the web application just a client, on an equal footing with any other client (iOS app, Android app, desktop application etc).
Who wants to sit at a charging station for 20 minutes? I know we as a society have all turned to be more impatient over time. I don't see that working well.

Maybe each charging station should have FREE wifi.
I wasn't comparing a normal car to this, as this is an edge case.

I am talking about the choices we make when purchasing a car. Almost everyone that I spoke to that has a hybrid doesn't consider it worth the money. These manufacturers advertise "38MPG highway" as being something incredible while a ten year old technology can achieve something better.

The problem is that gas prices are stable (controlled?) in the US so that inefficient cars are the norm.
Also, if people today are going to comment on something you write on a blog its more likely they'll comment on your FB link to the post, or they'll link to the post on FB themselves, or mention it on Twitter. Before I killed comments with my redesign I'd have maybe 2 comments on the blog when there was often robust conversation happening on FB. I'm not particularly happy about those conversations being locked up on FB, but there doesn't seem to be much I can do about it.
This whole bed is for sleep is anecdotal nonsense. My back isn't great so switching from standing to sitting to laying is what I do throughout the day.
I needn't point out that "perpetual erosion" in Detroit is a recent phenomenon, and that Baltimore is a lot smaller than San Francisco.

Not too long ago (say, the year 2000), the free market of the tech industry lost bountiful wealth.

Bill Gates, freshly wealthiest man in the world, laments the limited influence of his $5 billion has in US education, a $800+ billion national expense.

I'm not sure anyone in the Economist is jealous of anything. At least they get to write for an intelligent audience. I'm pretty sure at the highest echelons of SV engineering, all that you can really claim is writing PHP code to help people share dick pics and earning a lot of money.
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Let's see how that works out. Wikipedia says there are 240 million cars in the US. That means we would need 240,000,000 acres of sunflowers to power all our cars. World Factbook says the US has 9,161,966 sq km of land of which 16.29% is arable or 1,492,484 arable sq km. With about 247 acres per sq km, we have 368,643,612 acres of arable land which means about 65% of the arable land in the US would have to be devoted to sunflower production.

On the other hand, those solar panels can go anywhere.
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This is a useful post in that the logging-out screen is not something I think of usually, and yet, yes, it's one more endpoint that you should think about as a product dev.

That said, I think this piece is not at all relevant to how we use web services today. Case in point: I almost never log out of Netflix. So that is almost never my "last impression" of Netflix.

Instead, what my most recent last impression of Netflix is: after the TV episode finished, I went back to my Netflix homepage, the preview-thumbnail of the next episode looked really amusing...my most recent thought about Netflix is I must get back to my Netflixing tonight.

In other words, if Netflix's homepage designers have done their job right, then the logged-in homepage is the first impression and the last impression of a subscriber...subscribers should almost never see the log out page except in unusual circumstances.

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In the case of Facebook, where we're all likely to log out purposefully for privacy reasons...FB should make the page as non-hostile as possible, but again, most people who log out of FB (which, let's face it fellow HN privacy geeks, is not very many) are purpose-driven in a way that no number of cute animals or fuzzy text will change that. In fact, being too cute will just creep us privacy geeks even more.

One more use case: Google search. Google famously has designed its search offering to get users off of the page and into their destination as soon as possible. If Google has done their job right, then the last impression you have of Google is the blueness of the link that you're clicking. Where in this model would a designed-last-impression fit? A "Come back soon!" modal? Using some of the search result page to remind you how cool Google is? All of these things clutter the results page unnecessarily.

Again, not saying that the OP is wrong to think about this (though I question the interpretation of the sparse scientific passage he quotes), it's just that it's pretty much irrelevant to modern online services' usecases.
sweet read, and great lessons especially #4 about the lack of structure in a startup environment.
Been working remotely for a bit more than a year now and it's definitely largely about pace for me too. I generally start relatively early to try and catch up with my colleagues (I'm on PST and they on GMT) then head to a coffee shop later in the morning. Just having the walk in itself is quite an important motivator.

As far as coffee shops go, I think the criteria for a good place to work from are as follow:

- how is the coffee, and do they have refills

- how good is the wifi: speed, quality of signal, ... also whether they use tickets. I find tickets irritating, I keep forgetting about the limit and having remote shells disconnecting and whatnot.

- how good are the seats: comfortable as well as good for your back

- how good are the tables: I tend to prefer individual tables to large, collective tables, possibly because it feels more like a desk. You also want the height of the table to be good in relation to your seat

- do they have a lot of power outlets throughout the place

- what's the atmosphere like: I've been to places that turn into pubs half-way through the afternoon, even with headphones it's really not conducive to work, particularly when lots of people walk right around you.

- how good is their food: if I find a good coffee shop with bad food, that's not a deal-breaker and I just won't eat there, but good food does help

Surprisingly, I haven't found that many places ticking all the boxes. I actually wonder why there aren't more places dedicating themselves to providing this sort of environment (at least in SF and Vancouver).
For anyone still interested in the returns on the Tumblr deal for both VCs and employees--here is an update (and, um, big revision) of my original "Union Square Ventures GETS 5000% RETURN!!!" story.
Yeah but what about the pollution (not CO2)?
Everyone is telling you ways to get around this, but IMO, if you aren't using Angular templates, then you really aren't using Angular.

ng-repeat, and other powerful directives are what's great about Angular. Instead of writing code to loop through something, you declare that it should be repeated. Templates are much easier to read this way.

Directives change you way you view your markup. Instead of writing a script that generates the markup you want, you are using a new, more powerful markup language that knows about repeated elements (among other things).

And when the data changes, the webpage just updates, with no thought required by you. Recently, I have started using Firebase, which makes this even more powerful (any realtime updating database library would do the same). I just have to say where in Firebase I want to fetch the data from, and where that data goes in the template. From then on, my webpage stays up to date as the data in the database changes (regardless of who changes it).
Yeah, at the very least I would expect ChromeOS to be good at playing videos out of that massive 1TB Google Drive offering that the pixel gets you. I mean, what else are you going to burn up 1TB on, if not video?
My Youtube history for today includes:

Minimal Techno: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll90vpeeA4c

House: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSxLX5y265Y

Indian Tabla beats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ3avjVpmec

Ambient / Experimental electronic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVA-sCmIl0w

No lyrics, words distract me.

Must have a solid beat, it keeps me focused.
I was coming to post the exact same thing. Fact check crank stories guys, it's the only way to be sure.
It really should be a 100x slowdown! Their "optimized" Linpack numbers (41 GFLOPs) are too low for this system. The CPU they use can deliver 108 GFLOPs at base frequency and 120 GFLOPs at max turbo frequency, and good LU implementations (e.g. MKL) can achieve >90% of these peak numbers.
Do you have the jQuery code he write for comparison? I assume he re-wrote or copy-pasted a lot of code any experienced developer/team has long ago extracted into small, reusable libraries, such as history management or short-hand ajax requests.
Looks great! Unfortunately there is no love for .net. :(
Clinton was working with the major auto manufacturers to do this years ago. Each of the big four had models designed and tooling up the plants for production was to be subsidized.

Bush came in and killed the program in favor of the yet to materialize hydrogen.
You don't need AI to see the number of programmers required on a project to exponentially shrink.

Five years ago to build a simple video chat you needed a team of hardcore programmers with expertise in video, audio, networking, real time protocols and telecom. Today it takes a couple of lines of javascript through WebRTC.
Working remotely was tough for me as I was working with an all non-remote team. One thing that I took away from that was that communication is really key in that situation. It also helps if the local team members know that as well. Everything seems to take longer unless communication is preserved.
I wanted to be a Lyft driver, but they don't allow 2 door vehicles (I drive an Infiniti G37). I have a passenger seat that constantly goes to waste because of it (I drive throughout downtown Chicago, as well as in the suburbs).

I agree though, its a cultural thing. Uber is about a monetary transaction, and Lyft is about creating a shared commons from private ownership.
Do you have example patents to prove your point?

Why can't I just claim all software patents simple? You just have to be presented with the problem and have a smart person sit down long enough to come up with the solution. And often that's measured in hours or days once the problem is presented clearly. None of us are as smart as we think we are, even if the solution appears elegant.

They don't take thousands of different filament tests. Or massive amounts of research trials. No repeated prototype builds. Or anything that actually costs money apart from simply thought.

And worse still, there's often no other way to solve the problem than the patented way and as we see so often the idea is solved repeatedly by different people.

You might reasonably argue that realizing the problem exists is 90% of the work and that is expensive, but then you're really patenting a business processes just like one-click shopping or two factor authentication.
It's hideous; I agree. The prevailing argument here for the covers is fuel economy (i.e. reduced drag). Show me the numbers with and without the covers, but, I'd bet they're not so different that I'd sacrifice the look of the automobile by adding them, especially considering the 250+ MPG claim here.
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I immediately thought of origami as the traditional Japanese art. So Excel formulas and calculations would define the folds, and the results could be rendered using that Excel 3D engine that crops up here occasionally.

Since this isn't that... who here wants to start up some computational origami in Excel?
I'm curious, how do gas hybrids have an edge?

If you consider reliability, a diesel has no "technology", so there are fewer things to go wrong.

The issue of emissions has been addressed with BlueTec. No?
Your ideal coffee shop does not sound like a very profitable enterprise as opposed to catering to people ordering takeout and large groups who drink alcohol.

Have you considered co-working spaces?
You know how there are certain words or phrases that make you feel the sands of time wastefully slipping through your fingers? They're hard to notice, because they're coupled with the habit of scanning to the next article, or moving to the next link.

The description of Bitcoin as "untraceable" makes my close-tab reflex trigger like a doctor bumping my knee. Seems like describing a human as invincible because the bodies will forever persist as some configuration of mass and energy.
Careful with the numbers. With hybrids, they often don't count the electricitiy in the consumption, but still measure with the car running on it. That leads to these rather outrageous numbers of 261MPG - they just assume electricity is free. Using that measurement, of course the Tesla Model S has infinite MPG.
The Wal Mart supercube trucks are an example, http://www.core77.com/blog/transportation/walmarts_new_super...

Also, note that its not just the truck, but how you pack it and how you package what it is carrying http://www.walmartgreenroom.com/tag/trucks/

* I do not work for Wal Mart, merely remember articles about their fleet recently
Existing on its soil. You can always move.
Notepad doesn't need to indicate that it is second-class because standard end users don't give shits about text editing. Standard end users use word processors. Text editing is itself a second class activity; playing your videos and browsing your pictures is not.

> My Roku doesn't have any built-in movies, my DVD player doesn't have any built-in movies...

Yeah, I'm starting to think you are deliberately being weird. My complaint is not that my movies were not pre-installed on the thing.
Not a Silicon Valley guy, but that sounds really sad. :(

Can I ask, why would you be willing to move there just to live out of your car/hostel? Is Silicon Valley really that awesome?