skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised to see the caffeine withdrawal horror stories:

I drink what I think is a lot of caffeine. I just counted what I've had today, a normal day in terms of caffeine: 1 cup of aeropress coffee in the morning, which I make very dark/thick, so it might count as 2 cups, perhaps more, of "normal" coffee... And since the morning, another 9 shots of espresso, and a couple of cans of coke zero.

When I go off of caffeine, I get a mild headache for a few days to a week, and that's it.

.

One mildly interesting story: I used to play a lot of counterstrike, at relatively high levels, but below 'pro'.

Once, I went off of caffeine, and went through the withdrawal. During withdrawal, my counterstrike ability worsened. After withdrawal, I was noticeably better than I had been when on caffeine. But, when I finally went back on caffeine, I was on a whole new level. Opponents that I had trouble with before were almost comically easy to beat. I can definitely see why caffeine is consider a PED for certain Olympic sports.
Not quite. While there are variances, most places I've looked coffee usually exceeds tea in caffeine content.
Starbucks Pike Place 16oz coffee has 330mg caffeine. http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/brewed-coffee/pike-plac...
Starbucks Earl Grey 16oz tea has 65mg caffeine.
http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/tea/earl-grey
Those are just two popular examples.

edit: Black Tea near 100mg per 16oz.
Somewhat, I think. I think a good way to judge a society is by how it treats its worst citizens. Holding someone without a fair trial is bad if you say your core value is that all people deserve a fair trial. Arresting someone without a warrant is bad if you say that the police is not the judge, jury, and executioner.

However, there is a difference here in frequency/intensity. My great grandfather's brother was innocent as far as I can tell. He held a fairly high city-level position as a factory manager, so when he spent enough years in his job someone decided that he got a little too comfortable and might nt fall in line if push came to shove (remember this was Stalin, the paranoid maniac bank robber who killed tens of millions of people for fear of being replaced). This kind of stuff does not happen in the US. You have to piss someone off at the Federal level to get on a kill list. Bad mouthing the government is still fine so long as you do not leak actual facts.
If you give government the control over everyone's pursestrings, then you are giving the opportunity or advantage to someone. Shuffling wealth around does introduce uncertainty - when it is the many-headed public that is doing the shuffling it via individual and group transactions, sometimes for-profit, sometimes charitably. When you are contracting out through a single entity (the government) that is when you create certainty that the already-privileged will find far easier to get an advantageous audience with and therefore, far easier to capture.
Perhaps you should change the background image in the demo video away from a photo of a galaxy. I'm sure there's many images (e.g. http://archive.org/download/313253main_moon_landscape_HI_ful...) that don't so directly evoke the OS X default wallpaper.
How do you ever learn anything from history believing in such tired Marxist bullshit?

2+2=4 even if you are one of those awful people with the misfortune to be born white.
Do you have a flashlight that you like for EDC? I have not been able to find a flashlight that I am happy with. It seems you get to pick two of the following: size, light-output/general quality, and cost. The first two are straight forward but the cost criteria might be unique to me. I don't want to have to treat the light like it is a sacred totem and/or I don't want to have to worry about losing the light.

I do not face the same quandary with a pocket knife. I always have either a Spyderco Tenacious or Persistence on me. (Depending on local laws and wardrobe requirements) Size and quality criteria are easily met with the tenacious/persistence. The kicker is they cost ~$45 so I don't have to worry about losing them and I never feel guilty abusing them if I need to scrape or pry something. The cherry on top is that I can throw a zip tie on the thumbhole and I essentially have an auto opener that is legal where actual auto-opener would not be.
No, but I think a lot of python users consider this a particularly compelling advantage as readers.

At least, I know I sure spend a lot more time reading code than I do writing code; so I appreciate any language that tries to optimize for that use-case and helps me minimize my cognitive overhead.
Pulling off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever
Short answer...no.
How you react to such a situation is what an example you want to be to your fellow employees. In the sense, if you lash out to this person, others might feel the same and do so as well. This would lead to bad culture.

The way I would go about solving this problem is like so:
Have a nice private chat with the person. First, ask him if he has any problems with anyone at the office. Then address those. Follow that by relaying your problems with him(in a nice, professional and calm manner). Work out with him how you would approach solving the problems you have with him. It could mean that maybe he might need to take a week off to brush up on whatever the language skills, or even that he might think it is culturally acceptable to lash out like he is.

Basically, work with him to figure out how to make the workplace a better place for both of you. Remember, if you fight fire with fire you only get burned.
I could be wrong, but if you use a CDN, won't jQuery be already cached for 99% of users? I can definitely imagine that filesize is an issue with less popular frameworks, but I'd wager that it really doesn't matter with jQuery.

If anyone has statistics on this, I'd love to see them!
They have already described the significant part:

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20130530023856/http://lavabit...

As far as I can tell it is a service that suffers from many of the same things as other services, especially concerning email that is sent to a recipient in clear text:

1) The email can be intercepted in clear text
2) If the service is compromised; a plain text copy can be made
3) If the service is compromised; a copy of the session key can be stored
4) If the service is compromised; a predictable/insecure session key can be used
5) They store a copy of the secret key; if the service is compromised - all session keys can be recovered when the user logs in (provides the password).

I've thought about engineering a similar system; but one based around GPG -- have users upload/associate a public key with their account, and if they receive unencrypted email encrypt it to them using their public key. 1,2,3 and 4) remain though -- and 4) may be the worst as it is almost impossible to detect/defend against AFAIK.

An alternative would be to set up a service that detects whether or not incoming mail is encrypted, and rejects it if it is not (along with information of where/how to install and set up GPG).

As others have mentioned this would not help with the who talks to who meta-data problem.
> [if] you are using something like a Kindle you are licensing content. If Amazon goes away, I wouldn't be surprised if your content does too.

I break DRM on all the Kindle content I buy. If I couldn't break the DRM, I wouldn't buy it.

I also try to support non-DRM books by buying them preferentially. Baen books, for instance. There are other non-DRM publishers. And no, I do /not/ share.

I have a Kindle DX for reading papers (e.g., from the ACM). I haven't tried reading conference papers on a tablet (e.g., iPad) mainly because I don't have one, and while I wonder if the experience is better, I like the fact that the Kindles don't have to be recharged every day. The fact that I can go a week or more without recharging makes them a lot more book-like to me.
What you want to make (modern) screen readers not try and parse the table semantics is to set the role to presentation:

<table role="presentation">
Taleb's Moocs | Antifragile & Black Swan
There was a time when that was true, but these days you can easily do those sorts of things using Firebase security rules: https://www.firebase.com/docs/security/security-rules.html
We need to realize that the wrong people are not in charge. Rather, the system is broken. If you put new people in charge the system will return to this state and continue its decay. It persists solely because people do not have a credible alternative to the system. People may hate the system, but they hate every other form of government they know more. Are we suppose to institute a monarchy? Americans would never go for it.

We need to offer a competing vision to present-day America, which is an increasingly totalitarian bureaucratic state with some vestigial democratic pageantry.
Does that make it like Objective-C because I love how accessing a null object doesn't blow up the application. So many trivial bugs in my iOS app that would have caused the entire application to crash are totally avoided. Unless you're creating software for the space shuttle, avoiding null exceptions entirely is a god send for my users.
Actually, the original W3C proposal for tables specifically mentioned using them for layout. I can't find a working link, but there's also a RFC:

The HTML table model has evolved from studies of existing SGML tables models, the treatment of tables in common word processing packages, and looking at a wide range of tabular layout in magazines, books and other paper-based documents.[1]

It was only later when table layouts began to be discouraged.

[1] http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/rfc/rfc1942.html
Rails 4 startup template
I'm a bit younger than you, but the biggest hurdle for me was just starting. Don't teach yourself Objective-C. Make an app.

I'd love it if you'd shoot me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com. I'm always interested to talk to other passionate people.
Great question.

The simple answer is: we don't know yet. We actually had a conference call with some folks from Canonical a few weeks ago discussing this very issue. At present, it seems like there are three options (I'm taking these points mostly from the minutes from that call):

1. Port everything to Qt and use Mir (because GTK+ might not work under pure Mir -- they've been backing Wayland so far). This would require an IMMENSE amount of work and would be tantamount to rewriting almost every line in our codebase.

2. Help port GTK+ (or make an extension/fork of it) to Mir. This might honestly be less work than #1, but elementary would be at a specific disadvantage because most of our developers (speaking for myself as well) don't really have the skills needed for something like this.

3. Do nothing and use XMir until we absolutely must switch.

We don't have an official or internal consensus on this point yet, to my knowledge. However, I would personally tend to think we'll be leaning toward #3, depending on how XMir shapes up.

This is definitely an area of interest and importance for us, and it's something that will undoubtedly continue to be discussed as we begin the L+1 cycle and beyond.
This is amazing looking. I love your sense of design!
No, that's entirely the wrong meaning to take. Favours are just fine, I've given and received many myself. Nothing wrong with doing someone a favour. The problem is not knowing when you should be doing favours, and when you should be doing business.

If you help a friend with a coding problem he's having with his startup, that's a favour. If you give up other paid employment to help him found a startup, that's business, and you need contracts and payment and all the things that go with business.
100% agree. I personally only noticed this tonight shortly before the launch (at which point it was too late to change), but I definitely dislike the fact that we (in fact, the video was created by a fan) used a video which showed off a wallpaper Apple used in OS X.

Frankly, I expect we'll try to get that amended soon.
Did anyone else read that as "Kickstarter for killing patients"? :) I need to read slower.
When you say "alien tech", do you mean "highly advanced" or "very different/hard to understand"?
Yes, you can use percentage units.
You could, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Learning a new language, say C++ -> Java is WAY more than just learning the syntax.
There are best practices for solving certain kinds of problems in each language that differ between language.

Sure, there is a high level similarity between the solutions (hey, its just the observer pattern, right?), but there are also likely (IME) to be many critical differences in the details.
https://www.google.cl/search?q=35bn+loss+to+cloud+companies&...
Underloop - New York City to Washington in under 20 min, at zero energy cost
An IV drip can mean the difference between life and death by dehydration. Seriously, it's why doctors tell you to go to the ER if you can't keep any liquids down when you have food poisoning or the flu. Couple that with the fluid loss you're already experiencing from being sick, and it can turn deadly fast. Not to be rude, but you have to be completely ignorant to say, "an IV drip usually doesn't help that much." Unless you're talking about someone who isn't dehydrated in the first place, in which case I'd agree, but most ERs don't hook someone up to an IV for shits; if you're getting a bag, you're probably dehydrated. (They don't want to waste their bags, IVs, nurses' time, and risk infection on someone who doesn't need it.)

Even if you have a healthy immune system, if you're delirious from a fever, you should call your doctor ASAP.

Note: I'm not a doctor, this is not medical advice, yadda yadda. I've just been living with Crohn's disease long enough to learn some of this from my own visits to the ER.
I want a car.. but I don't necessarily need to own it. In fact, I find owning things to be a burden. It keeps me unnecessarily tied to a location, working for things I don't need really need, and things I don't really miss when they're gone. Having had the opportunity to do some traveling and live abroad (South America, I'm from the US), it's really changed my opinion on owning lots of things, cars included.

For the past 3 months I've been renting a car because I've needed it for a few particular reasons. However, I'm very glad that I can simply return it at whatever time I choose and be done with the responsibility of it.
1. Most of the current e-book contents & formats (Kindle, epub, etc.) have not yet fully exploited the capabilities of the digital medium. I'd say we are not more than 30-40% (or less) there, even just considering the current level of technology.

2. Habits are hard to change. What you are most accustomed to when growing up, you tend to continue unless the advantages of change is overwhelming. Current e-book formats do not yet offer huge advantages over paper books, thus many adults keep buying paper ones. (Some advantages, like physical storage space & weight, are big, but confined to specific situations, say during travel, as mentioned in the article.)

3. New generations of kids are more and more distracted by digital interactivity and communications. I suspect the average amount of long-form reading per person in the developed world has declined over time. (Does anyone have an estimate?) Long-form narratives like paper books and current e-books cannot now hold attention of most casual readers, especially the young. Even though I did not grow up with a computer and read many books as a child, I now read quite a bit less books and many more short items on the Web (articles, blogs, forum posts, etc.).

4. Over time, when the new generation of digital natives grows up and technology progresses, e-books would gradually but surely dominate the reading market for all types of books. More importantly, popular non-fictions will be developed as a new kind of e-books, which cannot even be fully presented in the traditional narrative form. Al Gore's Our Choice [1] is just an example of the first generation's interactive e-books.

[1] http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/
While I agree we've seen worse regimes in history, I'm not sure we've seen much worse "democracies" in recent memory.

Circumstantial evidence is apparently now enough to both be disappeared and assassinated (never mind the collateral damage). No judge, no jury. This isn't the rule of law any more.

Add to all this the fact that we can now assume the NSA possess comprehensive evidence that could be used to indite major financial institutions in the wake of 2008 -- and yet that is seemingly impossible. The fact that "it's not quite as bad as Iraq was under Saddam Hussein, only with less government health care" -- isn't a very strong argument.

"So the poor and the ignorant go to jail
while the rich go to San Clemente"
-- We Beg your Pardon America
Gil Scott-Heron, 1975
They use the genie animation to minimize apps, and the full screen button is identical to the one in OSX. If they're not mimicking OSX then why are things like that in there?
I recently bought 7 books. The price difference for a PDF file was sometimes more than a real physical copy. For whatever reason I was not willing to pay even the same amount. So, into my online shopping cart went 7 print copies ... go figure.
it records only the characters echoed to the terminal-emulator by the pty device (hence passwords are not recorded)
Bitmessage: Choice Of A Rightly Paranoid Generation
Actually do something.

I talked about writing code more than I wrote code and that was a dumb mistake.

Also, if I could do it all over again, I'd make it a point to really work with C/C++. I feel like moving to any other imperative language is pretty easy if you have a firm grasp of that language.

I would also not learn Objective-C, but that's more of an opinion than anything.
A few ‘obesogenic’ animal viruses discovered so far:
http://www.virology.ws/2009/01/30/viruses-and-obesity/
Also, modern gut flora could lead to different absorption rates.
every single time I look to get an eBook they are always more expensive than a real copy plus shipping.
Hello. I'm super late to this party, it looks like. I only have one question: will my retina display (on a MacBook Pro) do all the right things, just as it does under MacOS and MacOS programs?
Lavabit's original architecture only store's an encrypted version of the private key needed to decrypt the messages. The private key is encrypted with the users password, and they don't store this password in plain text.

However; if you could intercept this password, and already got a copy of the encrypted private key as well as the encrypted data from lavabit, you could then decrypt the data.

Presumably lavabit didn't want to back door their services, by either storing a copy of the session keys, the password, or the plain text -- and chose to shut down instead.
You've changed the argument from "I don't understand why libertarians might be opposed to ABAG requirements" to "I support ABAG requirements because I don't like sprawl." Whether people "ultimately" voted for it is as irrelevant as saying people ultimately voted for Obama and therefore libertarians should support war in Afghanistan. ABAG takes local control of housing away from city governments. It is less accountable to residents than city government. Of course a libertarian wouldn't want local control of development superseded by regional, or state, or federal mandates.

And if you don't like sprawl, you shouldn't be forcing Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Burlingame, etc. to increase density, you should look for density in downtown San Jose and San Francisco, and try to get people to move from the suburbs back to urban centers.
Tell myself to finish a lot of the ideas I had started. That they were excellent ideas. It's what actually drives me a lot now when I have ideas and at points doubt what I'm doing.
Browser add-ons like NoScript let you selectively enable JavaScript only for sites you use and trust.
I'm with John Carmack that really it is just better having everything in the cloud:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1sjRD7NSec#t=3m57s

So ebooks only growing at 5% with 25% market share surprises me. At that rate it will take ebooks 10 years to draw even with print:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Solve%5B0.25+*+1.05%5En...
I think this is mostly price driven. The initial frenzy over Ebooks was the promise of volume - 2000 books on my Kindle! Which has faded as people realize that it would cost $200,000 to fill the Kindle, and the result is far less useful/general-purpose than a printed book (no loans, sales, requires battery, lasts shorter amount of time)
If I can make a suggestion, then, since I have your attention. The video on the page that the OP linked to basically shows a very OSX-like interface, especially by showing off the dock, a very (for the six seconds it's on-screen) iTunes-seeming music app, the expose-style window manager, and the multi-desktop. Maybe try highlighting some of these other concepts if possible in the video that most people who are coming to your site with no idea what makes elementary different are watching? Might help stem some of the "this is just Linux that looks like OSX" comments.
This was my reaction as well to Silent Circle. If the attacker can own your OS, who cares how secure the app is? Silent Circle may keep things encrypted while going over the fiber and the wires and the airwaves, but what comfort is that when the government can remotely turn on your mic or camera?
Most ERs in china will hook you up to an IV drip by default without even a doctor's consultation first. And ya, it sucks.

But really, why do you think flu is so deadly? If you are very young, very old, or have other medical conditions, fine, it makes sense to hit the ER. If you are a healthy adult and just got hit with a bad one/two day flu, you are able to keep your fluids in (beyond sweating them out), you don't need to hit the ER even if you feel like crap... By delirious, I'm talking about shady gradients anyways, I've never had more than sweating dreams where nothing makes sense. Ya, there is a point where you should go the ER, but our thresholds are fairly diverse.
I don´t think the solution to patents is creating yet another business on top of it. That only benefits the lawyers.
You shouldn't read more into a post than is there. You might find yourself arguing with someone you don't disagree with.
Launch cheap, build value.
VLC, MySQL (and MySQL Workbench), Wireshark, AwesomeWM, NMAP, NGINX, Ogre, CEGUI (and most corporate game engines), OpenWRT, Recent TI calculator (bye bye TI basic)

Many more, but it is what come to my mind right now
> Lynx is a text-mode browser, not a screen reader; it's still visual.

Sure. The point isn't that Lynx is an assistive UA, the point is that it's at least one UA that figured out how to throw away layout-purposed table markup (which, like some assistive UAs, doesn't make any sense in its rendering context) and still render (some) markup that represented tabular data.

Is it really the only one?

> Assistive tech has a whole lot more going on. They have a slew of navigation modes and need cues from content to prevent the user from getting lost, you can't just scroll or look back up to where you where

Right, but is that really tied up with non-semantic table use? I'd think it's the presence or absence of things like access keys, title/alt text, and I guess at this point aria attributes that makes the difference, not table markup.