skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I don't think it does. If I want to kill someone and consign them to obscurity as well, I'd do it in a way that didn't maximize the potential for gossip involving a famous person. For example, staging the suicide somewhere else and just scattering blackmail-type evidence around, like some particularly skeevy kind of porn which would reflect badly on the victim.

I mean, if you're going to go down that route why not stage the suicide in the lobby or even the inner sanctum of the putative megalomaniac's office, which would be even more dramatic and damning? The obvious answer is 'because that would be suspicious,' which invites the rejoinder 'and doing it 25 feet down the corridor isn't?' If you have a wicked plan to destroy someone's reputation, you might as well pick the least ambiguous way of doing it.
I am located in Colorado, USA. I'll help. Use joe@applied-math.org
This is very cool, and a direction that I hope more toolchains will go.

One problem, though, is that reading trees in text format is not very easy on the eyes. In fact, this might be one of the biggest reasons that LISP is (to people like me) not very readable. Trees in graphical form are orders of magnitude easier to parse visually.

I'd love to see software that makes visualizing tree structures easier. At one point I had a grand plan of porting graphviz to JavaScript, with SVG as an output format so it could be easily styled with CSS.

I think that approaches like this will be a lot more usable (and deliver a lot more "wow" factor) if you can view the trees graphically.
More pseudo-science from Tim. Sigh.
I do get your point, and it's a good one. My opinion about allowing the user the luxury of having selected their preferred reading environment isn't so inflexible to say that you shouldn't afford users some concessions in a scenario such as this.

On my PC, I of course do see a scrollbar. In fact, I probably would not at first even realize that I need to instruct viewers on other platforms to interact with the content in any unusual manner. But once aware of it, given the capability to design my content differently to avoid the situation described, I would go with that. Failing that option, I would probably just put instructions in as you've done here.

I would fairly steadfastly refuse to implement my own scrollbar functionality because I'd likely fail to implement that in a manner all users on all devices would understand intuitively.

For the majority of scenarios, the browsers' default behavior will match the users' expectations and they will be able to consume the content I've created in the fashion with which they are accustomed.

As an aside, this conversation reminds me that legacy versions of IE (and maybe current versions; I've not checked) allowed one to affect the appearance of the browser's scrollbar through CSS.
> "approximately 120,000 transaction records from 2011 that contained hashed and salted credit card numbers have been accessed"

Why oh why would you store the number. Utterly unnecessary for recurring billing.
Unlikely. Most immigration firms (outside of the Bay Area and New York) charge less than $5000 to handle all immigration visa matters, and I am including major specialty firms like Fragommen. While the idea is sound, the pricing is going to need a lot of work if it wants to take off outside of the Bay.
Did you read Tim's comments at the bottom? He's hardly endorsing Soylent.

From the post:

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Among the Soylent claims Shane outlined, there are the below. I’ve added my comments:

Soylent provides all the energy and nutrients the body needs. [TIM: I'm not convinced Soylent can prove this.]
The body can absorb all the nutrients Soylent provides. [TIM: I'm not convinced Soylent can prove this.]
Soylent makes one more alert. [TIM: If measured, this could potentially be demonstrated.]
Soylent can help people cut fat and maintain good body weight. [TIM: Be wary of any structure or function claims. Reword.]
Soylent saves time and money. [TIM: Provable compared to another defined group (e.g. eating at Chipotle), but not across the board.]
And at the end of the day: Soylent isn’t dangerous. [TIM: I'm not convinced Soylent can prove this. Where are the data? Safe for how long?]
I attempting to be polite.
Perhaps many apps would benefit from this, but there are some cases where content has to be larger than the screen. This includes high-resolution images whose details you want to inspect (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Singer_Sargent_-_Mrs....), and books on websites such as http://www.talesofmu.com/story/ and https://www.fanfiction.net/.

In the case of an image, the ways of seeing different parts of the image I can think of are zooming in and out, scrolling with scroll bars, or paginating the image. I think allowing both zooming and scrolling is the best interface in that case. So scrolling is sometimes necessary, and should not be abolished.
Heh, funnily enough, it scrolls with one finger on the beta iOS. Although, I think they may have changed that in a previous safari update.
If you're dealing with credit cards, you have much more to do than that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Secu...
That's actually how the Discover Card Secure Online number work, although apparently some merchants can't use them. From their FAQ, https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/help-center/faqs/soan.... :

Secure online account numbers is a free online service offering you added security by protecting your account number while shopping online. When you make a purchase with a merchant using a secure online account number, the number is assigned only to that particular merchant. Once a secure online account number is assigned, the merchant can use it for your future purchases with them unless you specify otherwise. Some merchants, such as Facebook, Amazon, and PayPal, will not be able to use the same secure online account number multiple times. When shopping with those merchants, you will need to use a new secure online account number each time.
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The scrolling interface is always visible. It's just on the input device instead of the screen.

Originally, the scroll bar itself was the interface. You scrolled by clicking the little arrows, or by grabbing the scroll thumb and dragging. But when scroll wheels were introduced, the scroll bar became less necessary. And with the advent of trackpad magic/mouse scrolling, which support both horizontal and vertical scrolling, the scroll-bar-as-interface becomes ridiculous.

(Note that the default OS X behavior is not "hide scroll bars," but "hide scroll bars if your mouse or trackpad supports scrolling.")

That said, while there's no longer much need to interact with scroll bars, there's still a need to indicate that scrolling is possible, and possibly your position in the document. But surely we can convey that in fewer than the ten thousand pixels that a scroll bar consumes?
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>That’s not a good reason to not try to innovate.

Innovation only really works if you're solving a problem. I don't really see much of a problem with our food/nutrition system as is. Yes, there are parts of the world where people are starving, so maybe there is an application for this there, but if the aim is to test this product out in the Bay Area, I don't really see it going anywhere. I could be wrong, but that's my 2 cents.
Soylent aside, im amazed at how terrible his traditional normal days meal is? I mean hes eating a processed breakfast subsitute in the morning, take away mexican food with a soft drink for lunch and more take away for dinner.

You don't need to be a nutritionist to know thats going to have a terrible impact on his life later down the track.

Postnote: Now that Ive read the whole article, I wonder if all the benefits he attributes to Soylent could actually be attributed to cutting so much crap out of his diet?
There is a significant branch of study in political science (often overlapping with economics, history, and philosophy) called political theory or philosophy that is not specific to the study of the state. It is this area where academics inquire into political first principles that don't necessarily presume a state.

John Rawls and Robert Nozick's works, or Edmund Burke, and MIchael Oakeshott fall into this area of inquiry, along with some of the works of Peter Drucker, Murray Rothbard, Fredric Bastiat, etc.
As far as I can tell, unless people have done something stupid, your worst worry is not the shock from the batteries. The batteries are a variety of potential difference spread over a large area and will go on fire rather then discharge everything at once, which is an issue, but they will not explode with their total chemical potential, not even close. It is any big fat capacitors that you have to worry about. Now they are not storing anywhere near the capacity of the battery, but they can let it out with very low internal resistance and after heavy braking are likely to be fully charged. So it is a current that can be easily discharged, but you have to know it is there.

edit - I said it earlier somewhere else, but EMT gloves with built in glowy multimeters might be a really good plan.

double edit - if you think this is a good plan, feel free to nick it.
Well to be pedantic it will grow, at worst, to (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000000000), if you are calling increment() every individual nanosecond. Though you are right that it is ignoring realistic memory issues. I was approaching it more as a thought exercise to address the moving window.
JavaScript is the most widespread language that doesn't lock you down into any particular vendor's platform.

The last thing we need is for everyone to be writing iOS and Android apps and calling it a day.

Come up with a better language that runs anywhere, instantly, so I don't have to give Apple a cent or Google an iota of data on me, and we'll talk!
WTF is an iBeacon?
I don't know. Maybe use some sort of journalistic tools.
Some folks are fans of: http://www.sublimetext.com/

Or you can buy a few years of: https://lastpass.com/
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> As I understand it, the field of political science deals almost exclusively with the state. The fact that political scientists can often provide useful insights to other organizations like companies is obvious, but I would call that an inevitable extension of the field rather than a primary concern.

Corporations are exercises of state power, as well as being structurally somewhat similar to "ministates", so I wouldn't exactly see insight from political science (if viewed as being "the study of the state") into corporations as outside of the primary concern.
HackerMeter is an interesting concept. Curious to try it out

edit: Logged in, I'm on the very first basic Fibonacci question and there's no support to submit my answer in JavaScript, seriously? I can understand not being to account for all the different server-side languages out there but this is a website and all browsers support Javascript. There's nothing in their "about us" that says they are targeted to a specific type of developer so hopefully they'll add this in the future.
Unspace’s Office May Have Burned Down, But Unspace is Still Burning Bright
Sometimes I'd like to have control over my full page representation and width across browsers and OSes, and scrollbars styling is missing or non-uniform or unreliable.

EDIT: Scrollbars are inside viewport, meaning they're effectively part of my document, and I'd like to have a say how they look like, the same as form elements.
The British spy agencies have always had a well-earned reputation for surprising incompetence.[1] It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it took them three months to make a decision and it ended up being an idiotic one.

[1] An entertaining read:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER

A more serious retrospective from someone who was there:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3561321/John...
i see you are a mobile developer. i am a mobile developer too. i learned some vim back when i babbled in web development a bit, but i find it very difficult when it comes to camera apps on android/ios. Do you think i should try harder or are text editors like sublime are not made for that purpose..im curious. cheers!

P.S. LastPass looks great..ill probably go for it
Rawls works are largely about the ends of the state rather than the means by which states achieve those ends.
Clojure is intended to be a hosted language. Building on and providing first class access to a rich ecosystem of libraries and tools was an explicit goal.
You may not see a problem, but over 10,000 backers (myself included) do. I'd be happy to go into more detail about why if you would like.
The way cars collapse and fall apart at crashes is absolutely amazing. Just over 30 days ago I was involved in a head on collision with a Nissan Titan full-size pickup truck WITH cargo in the bed, and walked away from an accident the EMT's, fire fighters, and police all told me it was almost impossible I did. The adjuster didn't believe me when I told him the state of the car, but when he did go out to check it out he called me and asked me if I was sure I was alright...

Here are pictures: http://imgur.com/a/nIMOP#0

I was driving 20 Mph, turning left at a traffic light, the pickup truck was driving (according to the driver) 45 - 50 Mph, although the adjuster and off-duty police suggest he may have been driving faster.

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One thing I will note though, my car is significantly cheaper than the Tesla... and fares extremely well in the NHTSA tests.
I'm all for people having the freedom to eat whatever they want and I really like the quantified self aspect of seeing how diet affects how they feel and metrics of health, but I have to say the author grossly does not understand the medical tests he had done and misinterprets the data. I'm not going to comment on the drink, but rather on his misunderstanding of medicine.

First, EGFR is not "Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor", rather is it estimated glomerular filtration rate, which is a metric of kidney function and is derived entirely from age, sex, and Cr.

Second, all his labs are normal, well within the range of normal and stay normal after two weeks. There is normal daily fluctuation (for example, my Cr will probably go from 1 to 1.2 just by not drinking water for a day) which the labs show. All the changes he mention in his metabolic panel does not even register to me as changes and most likely would happen had he ate a regular diet.

Third, the body is a powerfully homeostatic system, even had he not ate for two weeks, most of the labs he got would stay the same. Recently, on HN there was the article of the guy who didn't eat for a year - his BMP would have been similar. The only potentially reasonable medical test to get would have been the lipid panel, which stayed grossly the same.

Finally, a DEXA scan is really silly in this scenario. It's for old ladies and others at risk for osteoporosis. Your bones are a large of reservoir that it wouldn't put a dent on your Ca levels even if you had no Ca for two weeks, and even if it did, it would not show up as a meaningful change on a DEXA scan.
Re-gaining Unconsciousness
First they put away the dealers,
keep our kids safe and off the street.
Then they put away the prostitutes,
keep married men cloistered at home.

Then they shooed away the bums,
then they beat and bashed the queers,
turned away asylum-seekers,
fed us suspicions and fears.
We didn't raise our voice,
we didn't make a fuss.
It's funny there was no one left to notice
when they came for us.

Looks like witches are in season,
you better fly your flag and be aware
of anyone who might fit the description,
diversity is now our biggest fear.

Now with our conversations tapped
and our differences exposed,
how ya supposed to love your neighbor
with our minds and curtains closed?
We used to worry 'bout big brother,
now we got a big father and an even bigger mother.

And you still believe
this aristocracy gives a fuck about you.
They put the mock in democracy
and you swallowed every hook.

The sad truth is
you'd rather follow the school into the net
'cause swimming alone at sea
is not the kind of freedom that you actually want.

So go back to your crib and suck on a tit
go bask in the warmth of your diaper.
You're sitting in shit and piss
while sucking a giant pacifier,
a country of adult infants.
A legion of mental midgets,
a country of adult infants,
a country of adult infants.
all regaining their unconsciousness
Sure, use my email in my profile. :)
As an American, I spent 2 years in India after college working for a large Indian conglomerate. It was 2008-2010, those heady years when the BRICs were ascendant and the future was theirs for the taking. I was incredibly excited for India's future. After the 2009 elections delivered a clear (by India standards) mandate for UPA and a rebuke to the Left parties I thought great things would come.

Perhaps I got too emotionally invested in India but the following years were hugely disappointing for me.

living and working in India was still one of the most challenging and rewarding things I've ever done in my life. It pains me to see India's, government fail its people so comprehensively.
Apple would have refrained from developing Lightning if it didn't give them a competitive advantage. I think that is obvious. Why would Apple just donate Lightning to the rest of the industry? How would we as consumers reward them for such altruism?

That I give Apple the power to develop innovative proprietary solutions is a choice I personally make and I want the freedom to make. Why should everyone be forced to buy Android? So the idealists don't feel bad about their standard but hard-to-use connectors?
You don't just do a test for 2 weeks and expect to find something significant out of it. Go for one year, 2 years and then let's find out what really happens then.
Let's sum this up. Tim Ferriss, an unethical hacker, is trying to drum up an unpopular opinion of a popular product in order to profit in some way.
Produces interesting, but generally good, results. Fails the self-reference test (submitting its own URL as a link).

Could be interesting to add HN summaries, or an equivalent to the tldrrr reddit bot. Maybe I'll find some money and subscribe to the mashape API.
In Safari, there's no visual indication that the content is horizontally scrollable. That's a problem.

In Firefox, there's a big scroll bar. This scroll bar consumes more visual space than the content it scrolls. That's an absurdity.

Scrollbars are a legacy UI element, a throwback to an era before scrolling mice and trackpads. You nicely illustrated a problem, but your proposed solution makes no sense on modern computers with dedicated scrolling gestures.
I don't see any license specified. Is there a plan to license this software?
I get 100% why it seem like it should matter I just don't buy that it actually does matter (much). http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/the-science-.... That article is a great example of how completely wrong our intuition can be when it comes to optimizing conversions and I think the same applies to usability.
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I'm still reading this, but this paragraph just made me incredibly frustrated:

"...The white stuff that was mixed into the tan stuff was floating to the top and congealing together... So I just started just scooping them out... I’m pretty sure the white chunks were the rice protein, and perhaps something else important."

You're the first review of Soylent, and you throwing away blobs because ...? It looked icky? This is a meal replacement focused on giving you exactly what your body needs, and it just seems like a terrible move to throw 'what your body needs' away.
It attaches great importance to having a 1:1 mapping from keys to hashes. If that is critical, then presumably the intent must not be to shorten the hash, because once you've shortened the hash, the 1:1 mapping is lost.

Having a hash function that gives a 1:1 mapping for short keys could be considered a positive feature, all else being equal, but in reality, all else would not be equal, because this property doesn't naturally go along with the things that make a good hash function generally. It would certainly come at a cost, and it serves little purpose. It makes no sense to me, and I think the author must have been making it up as he went.
> First, EGFR is not "Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor"

I LOLed at that one. He clearly didn't get the acronym and went for one of the cancer mutation indicator seen in several lung cancers.
Here's a script I whipped up to dump Bugsnag exceptions endlessly for easy grepping:

https://gist.github.com/pshc/6289579
The only credits I need are the ones on Full-Disclosure.
You can always pass around pointers to immutable data structures which only implement read interfaces.
Have you tried livescript(http://livescript.net/) or clojurescript(https://github.com/emezeske/clojurescript)? I know that they don't have all of Haskell's features but they do bring Javascript a little bit closer to languages like Haskell.
I actually think you're caricaturing the problems people are having with your argument.

The issue is not being dead set on a "true meaning", it's that you have rejected the term "politics" in the meaning others here have attributed to it (i.e. the process of resolving power relations among individuals - not necessarily about governments or states), but have not replaced it with a suitable alternative that we can use to move the discussion forward.

In so doing, it comes across (at least earlier in the thread) that you're claiming that such a process is not required in an anarchy.
No, that's just the maximum possible in a single day.
It's a community where people regularly talk about ways to limit the NSA's power and who are actively encouraging people to use encryption to weaken their data mining capabilities. Do you think that doesn't raise any red flags?

To be frank I don't; Hacker News is a very tame community. There are lots and lots of internet communities ranging from fringe politics to neo-nazi groups that rank way higher in the 'potential domestic threat' category.
Is a protien shake for breakfast really that bad? I have not been able to find a breakfast food that's quick, tastes ok, and isn't high in carbs.
The reason matters. It's like if grandma seems to have set your dog on fire. You don't say "Oh, what a malicious old bag she is." You dig into the complete chain of events to find out the root cause.

Occam's Razor also dictates that a trivially predictable outcome is an intended outcome. This media circus is trivially predictable. Ergo someone, somewhere is counting on the Internet mob to demand rough justice and shout down deeper analysis.
Who said it was amazing?
Usually those things have a website you can go to to register a billing address so you can use it on line. Try reading the packaging that came with the card if it isn't printed on the card itself.
Comments like this are why I read HN, and why it's often so valuable to read the comments before the article. Thanks for sharing your insights.
At a small company, you could probably explain the situation.
Interestingly enough, the product appears to be entirely functional once that modal is circumvented. I'm not sure why they would direct the user to a functional product when they are ostensibly not open for public use.
I got hit by a Nissan Titan: http://imgur.com/a/nIMOP#0
I enjoy eating more than I enjoy most other things I do, so saving time by not eating in order to spend more time doing other stuff doesn't really appeal...

Oh well. I guess there must be people out there who spend all their time doing things more fascinating and enjoyable than eating a tasty meal.
If it was a dude who was a CEO and was on the cover of GQ no one would say a word.
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