skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hideous face of fascism surfaces in Berlin
How is this even remotely related to Hacker News? I guess if I really wanted to discuss this, I will rather go to /r/worldnews.
Corn is in 75% of supermarket products...it's just as hard finding whole classes of other products without corn syrup.
Obama's gone totally rogue.
Not as much as the fact that the journalist in question simply didn't charge it.
Rakudo on the JVM does use a JIT compiler. Surprise!
I don't see the problem. If I'm selling drugs out of my car and the police have the right to search it, then they have the right to search the paper notebook on the seat next to me. If there's a phone number in there then they can do what they want with it under the law: which could include working out where I live from it.

To search my home they need a warrant. Which means they need probably cause.

How is a cell phone any different? The law shouldn't be about storage capacity! If it is, then you're saying that they can search the 48 page notebook on the passenger seat, but the 128 page is off limits. That's ludicrous.

Now under the 5th, he should have the right not to unlock it for the police. But they certainly have the right to seize it.

The headline seems to be sensationalist and trying to surf the Snowden saga for readers. It's not related.

Edit: I'm ignoring the sanity of prohibition laws, but just comparing this story to common sense.
Amazed any Australian company is still using imagery of Capper and Fenech - Jesus wept!

This is a good video on HFCS from Robert Lustig and why you should avoid it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
I just ordered Moo cards for my consulting business. Cheap prices, amazing experience and the packaging+presentation when I got them literally made me smile.

I'm sure their Moo for Business is just as good. Their online editor is great, and they have a ton of templates that can be modified in the browser. I'd be shocked if they didn't let businesses have a default template.
Agreed. Historically interesting but not really realevant.
It was announced earlier this year: http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-to-repa...

> The automaker said that potential customers awaiting its upcoming Model X--billed as the best of an SUV with the benefits of a minivan, in an electric car--were going to have to wait a bit longer.

> Production on the Model X had been expected to begin late this year, with deliveries beginning in 2014. Production has now been pushed back to late 2014.
Honestly I do think 2-3 cokes and Maccas twice a week probably does more damage than you'd hope. Eating those instead of water/a home cooked meal probably runs you an extra 4-5,000kJ a week in fat and sugar which, if consistent will see weight gain.

But obviously it depends on how active you are, plus I don't think it's up to the supermarket to ensure that people eat healthily.
NJtransit and path trains are terrible. That's the problem. LIRR is so much nicer...
Corn subsidies are tiny compared to the amount of corn produced. I don't think it would be that much cheaper if the subsidies were removed, and slight increase in price wouldn't solve obesity. Prices have risen before for other reasons and yet we still have the same problem.
You remind me one of those users @ youtube
"Google, thank you very much for excellent music and movies! You give it to us for free! Thank you, Google, you are very kind!"
I don't think that this is necessarily a debate that should be confined to market terms... but even debating it within those confines, I would actually argue that this is a perfect example of a market failure.

For one thing, food distribution in the US acts essentially like an oligopoly. There are a surprisingly few number of food distributors with a huge influence on which products are emphasized in the store. Companies like Frito-Lay and Coca-Cola can use their size to push out smaller companies and local farmers that produce healthier foods before the consumer even has a chance to find those products on shelves. As a result, in economic terms, most consumers are operating without anything close to perfect information and, consequently, aren't really "maximizing their personal utility functions."

Second, a big reason people are buying a lot of these calorie-dense, unhealthy, processed "foods" is that they are cheap compared to, say, fresh fruits and vegetables. However, there are massive health care cost externalities that aren't factored into the costs of those products. It's a classic market failure, and if those costs were properly factored in, consumers would probably consume a lot less of them.
Come on, like you're any better.

You start off with a dismissal of the author's point based on a completely subjective value judgment, then point out some trivial rhetorical techniques to try to discredit their argument, and then you make another completely unsubstantiated value judgment by saying that we should be insulted by any argument that's not laid out in bland logical terms.

What part of what you have said is based in reason or logic? Should I be insulted by your comment as well?
But I still think it is societal development. Liberalism is a natural evolution as the quality of life and the society advances, and so the way woman are treated in India I believe is an effect of its development, not an effect of its culture.

Like you said, the US had the same stage. We used to be heavily racist and also oppressed women during an earlier stage of socio-economic development.
HFCS is often only 45% fructose (it's only high fructose in comparison to regular corn syrup), so it's slightly less sweet than "regular" sugar.
Sugar costs 40% more than corn syrup...so regardless of its 'sweetness density', it's a much more prevalent sweetener:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/katetaylor/2012/07/30/how-the-dr...

But there are also medical opinions forming that indicate corn syrup is more damaging than natural sugars...there was a post here on HN a few weeks back that I can't find right now about this.
A HackerNews user submitted it and other HackerNews users up-voted it. It's that simple.
Not in these parts. They've been creeping in, but incivility is still heavily downvoted here.
"At least that means that I would not need to help them searching my phone. Is that correct?
"

This varies right now.
Essentially, it depends on whether your giving the password would tell them something they can't otherwise prove, and that thing is testimonial in nature: That you maintain ownership of the item, etc.

Basically, if they can authenticate the existence of what information is on the phone, and can authenticate your ownership, you may very well be compelled to give the password.
That said, they are very fact specific inquiries, and, AFAIK, the world is still up in the air here.

See U.S. v. Boucher, United States v. Fricosu, United States v. Kirschner, etc.
So true and so irritating! Health detriments aside, I can't stand this food. It's too sweet!

Once you get used to good food that doesn't contain gobs of salt and HFCS, the stuff that does is disgusting.
> actively toxic (as opposed to simply unhealthy) food

Can you please clarify the difference between the two?

Also, I don't see anywhere in your post that you address the fact that drastically unhealthy choices by other citizens are born by everyone else through increased costs of health care and insurance.

And one last thing, since one of the more common strategies is taxation, calling it threat of death is a bit hyperbolic. At most it's threat of imprisonment, and it's still a bit disingenuous to call it that.
"One need look no further than the $190 billion farm bill President Bush signed last month to wonder whose interests are really being served here. Under the 10-year program, taxpayers will pay farmers $4 billion a year to grow ever more corn, this despite the fact that we struggle to get rid of the surplus the plant already produces. The average bushel of corn (56 pounds) sells for about $2 today; it costs farmers more than $3 to grow it. But rather than design a program that would encourage farmers to plant less corn—which would have the benefit of lifting the price farmers receive for it—Congress has decided instead to subsidize corn by the bushel, thereby insuring that zea mays dominion over its 125,000-square-mile American habitat will go unchallenged."

http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/when-a-crop-become...
>400 metric tons

So around the max takeoff weight of a 747, with approximately as heavy duty a wheel setup I assume. That would be quite a truck.
>It appalls me that HN is so adamantly desirous of the freedom of the press, the freedom of anonymity, the freedom of assembly, etc., but sees no problem with calling for the mass restrictions of freedoms in work, housing, healthcare, and the like. Even, apparently, the freedom to choose what you eat.

I upvoted this article, but not because I see no problem with calling for mass restrictions. It's causing good debate and perhaps provoking thought. I do see your point, that we're not upvoting fox-news-worthy neocon propaganda for the sake of discussion. But perhaps there is a difference in the outcome of following the respective propagandas. Which one would be more "forward-thinking"? Stopping all immigration or banning pepsi from schools?

EDIT:

>Stopping all immigration or banning pepsi from schools.

I look back on this statement as a false dichotomy, as a result of the replies. My perception was challenged as a result of this article being posted in the first place and the banter that followed. I still stand by my original upvote of this article, as it lead to my own personal growth, selfish or no.
You're ignoring that the article is Australian.

We have free healthcare already.
Corn subsidies are not the problem. Ethanol acts a a negative economic subsidy for corn in the food supply. I don't have an answer to the obesity problem, but I know blaming everything on corn completely contradicts the evidence. Mexico has a worse obesity problem than the US, but their soft drinks are made from sugar, not HFCS. The ethanol mandate pulled massive amounts of corn products off US shelfs, yet made no difference on obesity.

Michael Pollan may be on the right track with his advocacy, but let's not dumb the debate down to focusing on something there is little evidence for.
"We're not saying you broke the law, we're just saying it's a bit weird you didn't have to." -- John Oliver
Another Failed Venture By The Self Promoting Mark Suster and Y-Combinator
Labrinth.py - a tiny Python program that modifies and calls itself
> Vote.

This is our first problem. Too many people still fall for "voting", as if it accomplishes anything at all.
I usually let people I mentor/manage know that they are business for themself. They need to keep the resume polished, the salary figures down cold, the skills fresh. If we all understand that we're in all in business together, contracted to do high quality work together, then certain ground rules are understood and we all can get along fine without manipulative koolaid.
Basing your morality on the markets can't possibly turn out well.
It feels odd to lift this to a problem with an "ism" and ignore the people behind it. The problem I have with the original article is that it seems to think that innovation and markets consist of investors, entrepreneurs and nasdaq/snp.

So here I have a "theory 10" -

THE PEOPLE go "meh" when faced with something like Hyperloop, but are excited to tell their 500 friends what they had for lunch at the push of a button. Hence the investors go "who cares?" and hence the "entrepreneurs" go "hmm, I better think about more efficient lunch sharing".

People need to be told something like "folks we're going to throw $60B of your tax money (an amount that would rid the hungry part of the planet for 2 years) at a transport system that you won't even be proud of, won't be that much faster or safer than air travel" to get a non-meh reaction to hyperloop. Even then, fast travel between SF and LA is, perhaps, a solved problem according to common folks - just fly already. Heck, you don't even have an interesting view during the trip according to the proposed designs.

On the other hand, post after post on HN talks about cool materials, 3D printing, maker culture, break through science, etc. So funded innovation is happening, it would seem. Just not in the main news very much perhaps.

And here is a "theory 11" - the common folk may actually <shock!> be satisfied with the status quo? Innovators often talk about a persistent dissatisfaction with the status quo as motivation for their work. On the "eastern" side of the planet, this dissatisfaction itself would seem to be the one that needs addressing .. i.e. being happy and contented is not the problem, but the lack of them is.
I don't know. Certainly could be useful when you want to search for a type across multiple assemblies. It's nothing that a local disassembler couldn't do. But yeah... seems iff-y
This process is much easier if you're working with a "mentor". If there's someone there who knows the language already and can do code reviews, it's a much more realistic option.

Without a safety net, it's so easy to make horrible mistakes without noticing.
I think you're being awfully kind to the average American by assuming that if bad foods are more expensive they will have a desire to consume less of them. As an aside, not only is corn subsidized, sugar cane has heavy import tariffs levied against it to prevent American farmers from having to wage a price war.

I believe that a person's diet is very often (not always) shaped by cultural influences. If your parents forced you to eat a healthy diet as a child you are infinitely more likely to maintain those habits when you get older. I know this is true for me, and the converse is true for a lot of people I know.

In any case, I can't agree more with this article. If you ever want to see a microcosm of American society up-close and personal, just take a trip to your local 7-Eleven. See what people are buying and moreover, what is being offered for sale. I don't believe 7-Eleven is evil. What you see on the shelves is simply a reflection of what their customer base wants. If their customers wanted salads and tofu, that's all you would see on the shelves instead of one salad in the back of a bin surrounded by donuts, candy bars, beer, rotating hot dogs, and lottery tickets.

The fact is that the Americans who get enough exercise and eat a sensible diet are a depressing rarity. I know people who alternate between McDonald's and Five Guys every day. I don't blame the businesses and I don't blame the companies pushing the products. People have more choice now than ever before which is a good thing but I wish there were a way to protect kids from parents with terrible judgment.
I think the issue here is more complex. To look it properly from a libertarian perspective, you have to see violence and abusing people's addiction for financial gain as somewhat equivalent issues. For the latter, it's just harder to draw where the line is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Mexico

I can't say what the cause of the high-salt is, but we have a good idea what might be contributing (at least) to the high sugar/high fat parts of their diet.
You're making an unfair and illogical equivocation.

I could pick apart every piece of what you said, but I doubt that would be productive, so I'll just focus on one particularly damning thing.

> make another completely unsubstantiated value judgment by saying that we should be insulted by any argument that's not laid out in bland logical terms

Yes, I have made a value judgement that people should appeal to each other using reason and logic.

If you do not agree with that, there is no point in discussing _anything_ with you, because you cannot be reached.

(As a sidenote, that value judgement is not subjective. It's also not unsubstantiated. However, even if you _were_ interested in reasoned and logical arguments, it would not be useful for me to give you a philosophical treatise on this topic in the HN comments. Particularly not for something that all reasonable people (by the very definition of "reasonable"!) agree on already.)
Crash reporting for Xamarin iOS & Android released
Assuming at least 20k shares, you made >$2.5mm off that investment, using $340k of capital?

Not bad.
That's awesome! I like the real world physics touch.
>I feel it's important to remember that in the employee-employer relationship, you're peers.

Only rarely and in quite good economy and job market conditions (can differ depending on profession). And that's for better than average workers. For average and below average (ie. most of the population at any give time) not even then.

Normally you are the one needing work and money to feed your family and he is the one with the money to pay you. "He" could even be a multi-national. You are the weaker one here, make no mistake.
I guess I don't remember the falcon doors because this is a non-starter for me. It starts out talking about "best of an SUV with the benefits of a minivan". Well, in my world that means electric sliding rear doors and the abilily to mount our kayaks, racing shells or bikes on the roof.

What the hell were they thinking? The door has been left wide open for someone to do it right. I'll be in the market for two new SUV's by early 2014. That's when I expect to go past 250,000 miles on my current ones. I've been saying I was going to buy two Teslas. Now I can't see a way to even remotely consider the idea.

Sadly this feels like a lot of other companies with roots in the Slicon Valley community: A bunch of really young guys making decisions completely outside the context of the realities of families in the real world. Keep your falcon doors, they sure are cool but they are a colosal failure to capture my reality and that of millions of other potential customers.

EDIT: I secretly wanted Tesla to build a really nice electric boat as well. I envisioned buying the set: An electric SUV pulling an electric boat to the lake. No, instead they build a bullshit SUV that misses the "Sport" and "Utility" part in "SUV". All you are left with is a vehicle and a useless one if you truly use an SUV for an active lifestyle that involves more than skateboarding.
I don't see how that's relevant to my point. In Australia, you have freedom to eat what you want, and if you don't stand up for that, you won't in the future.

> We have free healthcare already.

Free as in beer, but unfree as in freedom. Also, even beer as to be paid for by somebody.
If you want to DL the map and support the development of new ones, search Etsy for 'Justinia' :)
personally, I think the sliding doors on minivans are a more elegant solution to that problem. less stylish, but simpler design for the same utility and without compromising your roof.
Wait, there being another factor in the high cost of health care means his argument goes completely out the window? So you're saying there can't possibly be two reasons for the high cost of health care?!
In many countries Engineer is a protected title, that should not be used unless the person has formal qualifications and experience in a certain field http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_eng....
I think the relationship is the other way. Markets are based on law, which are usually heavily influenced by morals (e.g. alcohol sales in wet vs. dry counties in the US).

Unless legality comes into play, my rules of morality should not affect your economic purchases and vice versa.
> I would agree if I was free to not pay for other's health care.

We shouldn't have to. The universe doesn't owe me anything, and nor do I owe it anything. And socialized healthcare is manifestly bad for me individually and manifestly bad for everyone in the long run.
I don't think it's a useful model to suppose that there's some underlying "true culture" that doesn't change over time and that will be gradually revealed as their economy improves. Culture changes, and economic development is a catalyst for change. Whatever way people behave today, that is the culture today, and if they behave differently tomorrow, that will be the culture tomorrow. Right now, Indian culture subjugates women. In the future, it hopefully won't.

Liberalism might be an "inevitable" consequence of advancement from one stage to the next, but real people have to fight for it to make it inevitable. When they fight for it, they will be changing the culture, not revealing it in a more true form.
>Your comment is written from the perspective of someone who feels like the inferior party in the relationship. You're not. You always have the ability to say 'no' and walk away from a situation.

Yes, except if you need food and shelter, and have been searching for a job for like 4-5 months (or longer) without much luck...

Lots of Americans tend to think like they all are millionaires (or are soon to be) when discussing business and taxation issues, whereas it's a country with higher inequality than most of the western world, tons of royally fucked up people, and most of them will stay that way for all their lives (plus, far more of them will be impoverished and drop out of middle-class than turn from middle class into millionaires).
No, different TBL.
I wanted to write a comment on this topic. But just figured out that every word you wrote is true.
I am happy that i follow no religion, no cast, no nonsense.
You can click on the author's name to read his bio. Well, you could on the normal web version, anyway, instead of the print version that HN links to.
You may well be right -- I know nothing about car safety -- but I thought you might enjoy this fun bit of Elon-Musk-McLaren-safety-related info:

After selling PayPal (long before the Tesla Roadster), Musk bought a McLaren F1, subsequently crashed it, and walked away unscathed. Here's him talking about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOI8GWoMF4M
If the government considers journalism an act of terror, it's time for a new government.
Recent reports on our whitehat program
I generally do 2 in the back on a hitch rack, and 2 on the roof on my Subaru right now.

(but I realize that car shuttles requiring 4 40lb downhill mountain bikes isn't exactly your typical use case for a car! It's just an important part of what I personally need it to do...)

In my experience, bikes on the hitch rack hurt gas mileage less than the roof ones, but I haven't been super rigorous with the comparison...
> Unless legality comes into play, my rules of morality should not affect your economic purchases and vice versa.

Completely agree. Of course in this particular case there's a lot more than just morals involved, since choosing to become obese has economic and other impacts on everyone in the society.

I had understood your original point to be that this was all (morally) okay because it's how the market decided, which was what I was responding to. I may well have misunderstood your point.
> InDesign templates don’t have mail merge

Uh, my 5-minutes Google says otherwise: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter-archive/indesign/articles/...

I'm not an InDesign guru, but such a professional-level tool will certainly have automation hooks -- and even if it doesn't, there are platform-specific automation programs that you can leverage.
Readability formalized into objective principles
You and Dante. His ordering of the circles of Hell:

Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery.
Someone had to do it. When the iPhone was initially released, I speculated whether Apple itself would one day go into cars. While the end product seems far from what they do they don't really sell specific products. They sell objects that people become attached to. they don't become attached because it is an Apple product, but because Apple sell products in the areas of things people become attached to.

Computers, and Smartphones have that level of attachment. The other stand-out items are cars and houses. A lot of people define their identities by their choice of those items.
Source on the head-on crash story?