skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smart people like to know deep truths and secret histories. HFCS is a perfect fit, because it sets up an interesting systemic cause for obesity.

The problem with the HCFS-caused-population-obesity hypothesis is that it's immediately falsified by the rest of the developed world. Only the USA has HFCS in its food supply in any quantity because only the USA has corn politics.

But in spite of the absence of HFCS in the food supply of Britain and Australia, for example, we are following the same trajectory as the USA.

BMI is a lagging indicator of calories consumer per capita per year. And the exact food mix doesn't seem to matter. This is the kind of thing you would expect when combining basic physics with large sample sizes.

However, finding out that what you learnt in grade 3 (eat too much --> get fat) is still true is boring and lends no social status for being the leader on a new idea.
I'm not aware of many places (nor have I worked anywhere) where non-programmers hire programmers. Occasionally a hiring manager or some type is involved but as a facilitator at best.
Well, it's not, and not for police outside of perhaps riot situations. And in many if not most states civilians are allowed to use the threat of lethal force in self-defense, just like the police.

Shooting is lethal force; if you're not justified in using lethal force, you're not justified in shooting to begin with.

There's also the minor detail that the court system determined she tried to murder her husband, "Alexander was convicted of attempted murder..." (and even if not officially, with an aggravating factor of putting children at risk), but "Fla. mom gets 20 years for being a bad shot" isn't as sexy, and "Fla. mom gets 20 years for attempted murder" is not even nationally newsworthy.
Site was borderline unusable with Chrome on android. Text was overlapping, animations to display new text were being triggered after I scrolled past them and in some cases the text just flew in one side and right off the other side of the screen before I even got a glimpse of it.
I can't help noticing that you've switched a homicide victim with a murder defendant. A more appropriate analogy might be of a Joe Arpaio fan allegedly being murdered by someone who happened to be Latino, who then claimed self-defense.

I get that you're trying to pose the question of whether the homicide victim was also an aggressor, but if so we need to include the context that the person in question was fleeing the defendant when the alleged aggression took place.

If I chase you down the street for no good reason, and you turn around and punch me in the nose, who's at fault?
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This is kind of ironic considering it's Adam Langley's website, but it appears his server is not indicating that it supports secure renegotiation, and apparently in the latest Firefox that's grounds to refuse a connection[1]. See:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=pond.imperial...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security:Renegotiation

https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2010/10/06/d...

If you set security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation to false in about:config you should be able to establish a connection.

[1] Edit: actually it's not; the parent poster had tweaked settings in about:config ;-)
Don't forget small light grey fonts on a white background. I have terrible vision and have firefox set in a way that absolutely destroys websites in proportion to their trendiness (in order to make them readable). I'm still waiting for accessibility to become trendy.

To be fair, even places that should know better, like Mozilla Thunderbird and Valve's Steam client, are impossible to increase fonts in or are destroyed when you force them to.
Other than giant airships: how about just novelty/party balloons that never out-gas & sink? Re-positionable ceiling decorations? Indoor microblimps?

If such things escape into the atmosphere, you've got a floating-garbage problem... as described in Stephenson's Snow Crash.
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Errr, they have harsh sentencing for attempted murder, as well they should.
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I am very happy with the fact that Google personalises my search results, because 99% of the time it does it right! I remember one time where it got in the way, and getting "around" it didn't require too much effort.

Also, if I need to find a replacement I will do it when necessary. I enjoy being Google's slave, because I feel treated nicely & I am happy!

Although, the fact they dropped XMPP support is a bit sad.
The behavior this little cul-de-sac of law incentivises is clear. Say you missed.
The mandatory minimum is for "unlawful use of deadly force."
For a decent intro try Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes
by Sam Hughes http://qntm.org/files/perl/perl.html

(although unless you;re working with an established codebase, skip the section on objects and read http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl/chapter_07.html... instead)
You could criminalize parts of the transaction without criminalizing speech. For example, there's no Constitutional right to buy someone's silence, so you could make it illegal to give someone money on the condition that they not disclose security exploits to other parties. That would preserve the freedom to disclose exploits, the freedom to disclose exploits for pay, and the freedom to be silent, taking away only the freedom to buy someone else's silence about software defects (and implicitly the right to take money in exchange for silence about software defects.)
Physics doesn't work that way. The "6x lighter than air" doesn't include the air inside the material.

I'm not sure that "if law of physics X were repealed, we could..." stuff is anything more than science fiction: see the multiple comparisons to Diamond Age in this thread.
One of my civil engineering friends said something similar the other day when I used "grok" in a conversation, and I was somewhat surprised because programmers have been using it in conversation for years (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/grok.html). Evidently grok still has some pervading to do.
Since she was convicted of attempted murder, that would have only sped up the verdict.
This is a great idea except for this tricky bit (which they even mention in the article)

"One other limitation will be creating aerographites that can support themselves with the air inside the material “pumped" out of it."

I really can't complain too much though as I too was pretty taken with the idea after reading Diamond Age (which has a variant of this). At some point we might be able to assemble dodecahedrons out of small diamond pentagon sheets while in a vacuum and thus create small, lighter than air, "bubbles". But that time is still quite a ways off. After researching a bit the forces on the materials relative to the amount of air they would have to displace in order to achieve a net density lower than air, at volume. It doesn't look particularly doable yet (perhaps ever but I'm not willing to completely rule it out.)

The idea though is very alluring.
United States law is an "All or nothing" game, and Zimmerman won.
I'm on the fence on this one.
Zimmerman Not Guilty In Trayvon Martin's Death
Ah, I see. Of course, by definition attempted murder is "unlawful use of deadly force", but the state wants to, quite properly, sanction the latter.
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This looks awesome. Next step is to make it "real-time."

I worked for an analytics company and got to build some pretty awesome visualizations using D3 and one of the problems I always ran into was that while the visualizations are cool, you rarely get any actionable information from the charts. I feel like this would be a lot better if at the end, there was some call to action.
I plan on checking this out once I migrate to 10.8. I use Moom to do (some of) this. (http://manytricks.com/moom/)
You know more about your business than anyone else. Nobody is in a good position to do things better than you, given the things you have learned. Otherwise, you wouldn't have gotten as far as you have.

Perhaps you need some mentors, or just folks you are comfortable talking to -- perhaps other founders?

As an angel investor I have found that the one of the things I am called on the most to do is just let people talk stuff out. I don't feel like it is very useful but people really like it.
I assume he means "cooperating with NSA in nefarious ways if the NSA wanted".
> There's only one way to make a tiny page that loads super fast - and that's to make every single decision with an eye towards efficiency.

That sounds dangerously like premature optimization. For example, why spend the time creating optimized image sprites if it turns out they don't contribute significantly to load time? It's better to spend development time doing something else.

> And that's why the internet is full of massive, bloated, slow web pages. Single decisions don't cause bloat. Bloat comes from a slack attitude towards efficiency.

By using the word "bloat" it sounds like you're talking about bytes. Again, byte counts often aren't always the main culprit in slow loading of web pages. Synchronous scripts and/or 302 redirects can be much worse, for example. Don't start with the premise that the bytes are the problem and do a lot of work to reduce them, only to find out it isn't the problem. Profile the page load and see what is really the problem. Then fix that.
There should be a law governing all verdicts requiring them to abide by a rule of common sense law.
how are you going to come back down to earth if you cannot release some of the
hydrogen/helium?

You compress it.
I second the previous comment.
Thank you for your contributions.
How about flying cars?

I've always thought a great idea for a flying car was a van-like vehicle that is either filled with helium or a vacuum, maybe a combination.

A blimp-like vehicle that won't deflate or leak would be even better since it won't need lift to stay up and wouldn't require much power to propel.
IMO, it might have been self defense if she'd been in a genuine self defense situation, as reflected by "shooting to stop her attacker", even if she missed. Warning shots is a sign her life wasn't in danger, so she fired, which put him at risk, which is attempted murder. Which is weird, but sort of consistent.

IANAL. (I also don't fire warning shots except to center of mass, and generally don't miss less than 10m with a pistol, and don't shoot unless it's a clearly justified situation.)
The outcome of this trial teaches us that in American society, if you plan to stand up for yourself on the streets against someone who is harassing you, it is essential that you arm yourself to do so.

It teaches black American parents that they must tell their children either to carry legal guns, or that they must always back off from harassment. Otherwise those kids just might not come home from the shops.

That is an interesting development in US society that is certainly worthy of HN. Compare it to e.g. the pages and pages written about a Korean pilot getting a landing wrong. Also much more significant than a couple of immigrant kids placing backpack bombs at a public event.
For how long did you collect data? During previous crawls, I've found that one of my spider bots can scrape through about 11.5k submissions and 51k comments per day (while observing Reddit's API access rules).
Is this something he has indicated that he wants to work on? Or are you just hoping he will decide to work on these three concepts that you find interesting?
It seems to be that.
I had initializaed a new profile in firefox and played with some options in about:config and somehow the option security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation was set to true.

All this week this was the first website to fail because of that.

It works with it set to false.
Zimmerman Acquitted in Trayvon Martin Case
Imagine having a landfill of this stuff, blanketing the Earth at 10,000 feet.

Hmmm. :|
There's also a greater potential health risk posed by carbon nanotubes. I am completely guessing, but I feel as though the risk of dispersed airborne nanotubes (in this model) would be greater than dispersed helium (from a current blimp.)
I think you can run python modules installed in the system through this framework.
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There are only two X86 chip manufacturers of note. Intel and AMD both could tell the NSA to get bent.
Or becomes not one. We have a worse system than both free-market and single-payer, either would be more cost-effective.
Or, you know, fork the repo. It;s in md format.
You're right. I'll change the code.
LA Times: Problems with the Princeton HFCS-weight gain study
U don't consider PRISM such a big deal, to be honest.

Yes, they spy on innocent people, in an attempt to flush out (or whatever the term is) the dangerous or potentially dangerous ones. However, I genuinely doubt my privacy is very compromised, because I refuse to believe someone is getting paid to sit and read through Facebook posts or messages about my obsession with Supernatural (great TV show on CW), or read through "IF YOU DONT SEND THIS TO 7 OTHER PEOPLE A PIANO FROM THE HEAVENS WILL CRUSH YOU INTO THE PAVEMENT" emails my neighbour is forwarding.

Also, I have a friend who talks in acronyms most of the time (over Skype chat) and I have a file called deectionary.txt (her name is Dee) with around 200 lines, I find it very amusing to think some analyst spent hours trying to decode her message because it contained "bomb" in what looks like "mtwbi bombing m/i shc play asg ol" which means (used near-real example) "my twat brother is lagging my Internet so he can play a stupid game online". She has no disability, she's just very "efficient," I guess!

Besides, I don't have anything to hide, so I don't really care. If I had some top secret business I needed to attend and would care to keep secret from the NSA or CIA, I would probably (as would many of you here, too I believe) make my own thing to do the job, because I wouldn't take someone's word that they give a rat's furry bottom about my privacy.
Thanks. Will keep that in mind next time. Apologies for giving the wrong impression.
Good to know. I knew that I needed to do it, but I'll be sure to add support for this prior to Go 1.2.

(The TLS stack doesn't support renegotiation at all, so it's not vulnerable, but a client can't know that unless it echos the extension in question.)
Collection and analysis of mail records after suspicion may be a long-standing practice, but universal collection before suspicion is something else entirely.

Legally, it doesn't matter. Its warrantless. The Police don't need suspicion to analyze mail records! They don't prove anything to a judge, they just get what they want. The Post Office keeps track of your mail records anyway, so the Police can easily "retroactively" swim through that metadata whenever they please (again, without a warrant). No seriously, how do you think they got that Ricin letters guy so quickly?

There's a really, really huge difference between information entrusted to a limited set of third parties to handle to the minimum extent necessary to carry out a service, and information made public.

And thus, my anger why "Professor" Barnett isn't focusing on the relevant section of law. Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the (warrantless) collection of 3rd party "business records or any tangible things".

The law is _very_ clear where the NSA derives THESE powers from. Washington debate has been very clear to anyone who has paid attention. There is no need for "secret interpretations" of law, its clear as freaking day. This controversy should be focusing on the legal aspects of the controversy, you know... the parts that we can FIX instead of sitting around like dumbasses who can't figure out how to read.

I have an expectation for "legal experts" to tell this sort of information to the public. The solution is quite straightforward and simple. If you don't like what the NSA is doing, reform section 215 of the Patriot Act.

My anger is at "Professor" Barnett for not discussing anything relevant to this debate. As stated before, this debate is incomplete without discussing:

* Smith v Maryland (Warrantless collection of metadata is constitutional)

* 215 of the Patriot Act (Establishes legality of 3rd party collection of business records)

* 702 FISA Act (Leaked information was from FISA court, although the above two points are the important bits)

You want to know where the powers come from? Its there. Too bad you can't trust the "legal expert" in the newspapers to tell you this information :-(
Its common in Spain and France too
Had she simply stated "I was in fear for my life so I tried to shoot him. I guess I missed", this would have gone down quite differently.

She probably said something like "I was afraid of getting beaten again so I fired some warning shots to scare him." So jail then.

There's no part of this thats right.
I'm pretty sure aerographite is porous, and the numbers you're quoting don't count the mass of the air permeating the aerographite. You could wrap it in something like mylar, but it'd be less safe than helium. Any break in the skin would be like a hole in a space capsule. This could be ameliorated with smaller cells, but that cuts into your lift. It's also not clear if aerographite is strong enough for the job.

To make something as safe and reliable as you describe, you'd have to build an evacuated closed-cell foam. That material would have to be extremely light while also being able to withstand being crushed by the atmosphere. It's not clear if anything is up to the task.

Sorry to dash your hopes.
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Oooh, interested. However, "Supoort" is a bit awkward(Move In/Out Painlessly).

It's weird that markdown blogging isn't really a thing right now.

Edit: Aaaand, a crash in the editor a few seconds in.
Wow! The quantity of bad advice in these comments is shocking, if not down right disturbing.

If Intel, GE, or Mircosoft hired a consultant to advise them on the right move, the vast majority of people on HN would scream bloody-murder and speak about it as a perfect example of big-business and its stupidity. What hypocrisy!

Ben, the reality is that you clearly have moved past Steve Blank's description of a start-up; you have found a working business model. Now, the challenge is to find out if that business model is something that can last for 5 years or 50. No one on this board has run a successful company for 50 years. Thus, everyone, definitely including myself, is well out of their league.

However, since entering the old school world of finance, I have realized that there are many men and women who are twice our age who would be able to give you great advice. You need adult supervision and that is OK. You don't know how to hire an executive (i.e. adult supervision). Thus, you should first find someone who can help you find adult supervision. A great place to start is in the 'boring' industries: finance and manufacturing. Find a wise advisor who can help you find an executive to lead.

You are no longer a start-up. Running a post-start-up company like a start-up will kill it as quickly as running a start-up like a Fortune 500.
Agreed. It would need another material wrapping it or a better aerogel, those materials probably don't exist yet.
An interesting line of analysis, but I think it fails because "warning shots" that weren't don't have to have the intent to kill, they could e.g. have had the intent to terrify, to coerce, etc.

Although elsewhere in this discussion rdouble said "The mandatory minimum is for 'unlawful use of deadly force'" so it sounds like the outcome would have been the same, depending on the legal meaning of "use of deadly force".
There's a lot missing from this article's account of what happened. The woman left the house, went to her car, got her gun, came back inside and then fired the gun, multiple times. Other articles go into more detail. It certainly doesn't seem like she was in any immediate danger after reading the other accounts.
Like poker there are several versions of chess as sport with say 3m speed chess being a vary different game than a 3h game. My faverate being alternating rounds of chess and boxing. EX: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5TQSKmS3o
Actually given healthcare's state either camp can raise an equally long list of complaints to blame the opposite camp.

Socialists can say for example, if healthcare is left up to the market then monopolies would rise, the quality would become abysmal, the primary goal of hospitals, doctors and insurance companies is now profit as opposed to keeping people healthy. They might claim government is not doing enough. There should be a single payer option or price control options etc etc.

Libertarians and those who like to extol the virtues of free markets and hate government intervention can blame all the brokenness on government bureaucracy and regulation. If only companies could just handle everything themselves it would all be very clear and easy, kind of like with car insurance. There would be competition etc etc.

See, one can defend either position. So it is not 100% clear cut and obvious which is which.
Well when I originally developed the port (which I call AndroiX) there weren't many Android tablets capable of running the software. Now there are, so I would argue that not all Android devices have small screens or lack a usable keyboard.

Unlike most Android software which doesn't allow for most control or modifier keys (this includes Connectbot the last time I tried it), X applications on Android could take full advantage of a Bluetooth keyboard. You could use a full Gnome 2 or XFCE desktop environment running alongside all of your Android applications without dual-booting or flashing the Android device. (You only need root to run a chroot.) You can also run X applications remotely using an SSH application such as Connectbot.

There are many tutorials on the internet suggesting that a user run a Linux environment in a chroot on Android using VNC with an Xvnc server, and still numerous people on Android forums asking for such a solution.
Can you point me to a full word processor, IDE, or other application for Android designed with keyboard use in mind?
Might want to proofread the text. I noticed quite a few mistakes with spelling and grammar.
It's much harder to get data from Hacker News, as HN doesn't have a public API (and HNSearch's API limits make it infeasable)
It teaches none of that, black children are far more likely to die at the hands of another black American than any other race.

A show trial is not worthy of HN, this was an attempt to achieve social justice of legal justice.

The real crime is all those who pushed for this trial are doing so to redirect attention from the fact that blacks are far more likely to die at the hands of another.

The Korean pilot story was more appropriate because as geeks we like tech and tech could eventually negate pilot error if pilots exist in the future.
Well, this assumes she would have gotten away with lying. Since the court found her guilty of attempted murder, as long as there was a lesser charge possible it's clear she was judged to be lying, so it's unlikely she'd get away with a different lie like your hypothetical.
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You can get Korean 27" 1440p for around $300 these days.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-QNIX-QX2710-LED-Evolution-27-256...
“… his collaboration with large seed companies like Monsanto …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Legal_actions_and_cont...
Absolute line numbers are really annoying to use in huge files with thousands of lines (because it takes a noticeable amount of time just to type the number).
Many developers that worked on crypto would cross the border into Canada to meet up and work on crypto to get around the export restrictions (crypto software was classified as a weapon; exporting it could get you the same punishment as exporting a missile).
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