skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is creating a new group really necessary? Doesn't ubuntu have the 'sudo' group for exactly that purpose? And others have 'wheel'.
Do you put your seat belt on when you drive?
What "renewable energy" is that? Solar and wind are barely scratching single-digit percentages of energy needs, and this is only because of massive government push to do it, otherwise on pure economic efficiency they'd be below even single digits (so basically now they're just burning money). Hydro can provide tons of energy, but at huge ecological cost which dwarfs nuclear. What else is there?

And many of them are quite expensive and need expensive resources like rare earths which also require significant energy to extract and produce.
surely not if you fear for your life?
Did a hyper-black hole spawn the universe?
PSY GENTLEMAN (젠틀맨) PARODY [ParodyProductions]
This may be a case where Betteridge's law of headlines doesn't apply. :-)
Yes he should do this for a month, and he should try it as a woman. You can't buy tampons with food stamps.

I tried to survive with food stamps for a while when I lived on the streets as a teen. It was impractical for actually supplementing my survival. When you have nowhere to live, you have nowhere to cook.
I think he is quoting the experts in the field...
Somebody on Quora once wrote beautifully about how it's impossible for the rich to ever understand what it's like to be truly, horribly poor- because there is no escape. There is no safety. The writer described how, even when he was in dire straits, at the back of his mind he knew that he could count on maybe extended family or something or someone to pull him out of trouble. The poor have no such privilege. True despair means being truly, completely cut off.

So there's really very little a rich person can do to walk in the shoes of a poor person- because even if say, Bill Gates gave away ALL his fortune and got himself into crippling debt or something- at least some people will recognize that he's Bill Gates, and treat him differently for it.

No simple solutions to offer here, just saying dis shit is complex.
weird design with icons instead of text which is a turnoff for me.
Do you understand math or logic enough to see that the article author ignores the whole mathematical sentences which state different things in the two reports and just compares the numbers in them, and how invalid that approach is? Why should you give any trust to such an article? Because it gives you the false hope that "everything will be OK no matter our inaction?"
If I were going to judge Panera's politics, I'd probably go to more directly relevant actions (from wikipedia):
"Panera Bread created Operation Dough-Nation in 1992 to formalize its commitments to community involvement. The program now has four activities: Community Breadbox cash collection boxes, the Day-End Dough-Nation program, Panera/SCRIP Card fundraising and participation in community events.
The Day-End Dough-Nation program provides unsold bread and baked goods to local area hunger relief agencies and charities. In 2010, Panera Bread bakery-cafes donated a retail value of approximately $100 million worth of unsold bread and baked good to local organizations in need."

This swamps any political donations by any of the employees of the company.
It serves a specific, seemingly opposed purpose: to prove that there exist food choices that allow people to subsist on SNAP. This anecdote will be cited in the future for showing that there are 'many choices' for food
I don't think the challenge is "what's it like to live as the average person who depends on food stamps" but rather "what's it like (even provided all of the other luxuries in my life) to feed myself for $30 a week". The guy is obviously smart enough to know that he can't properly simulate the former challenge, but if anything at least the latter challenge should shed some light on the difficulty of properly feeding yourself under such a budget.
Not with that method. Compare bus speeds of 802.11 and wireline.
and now we can solve water shortage crisis with water credits.
I would guess (but don't know) that it's forecastle.
You feel.

You know what. It can be shown that climate skepticism is mostly Anglo Saxon phenomenon. It seems to be related to political and lobbying efforts.

Most of the world, South America, Europe(outside UK), Russia, India, China, ..., acknowledge the climate change and not because of politics.

Maybe you guys should change your Anglo Saxon "I'm not an expert but I have feelings and an opinion" attitude.
Yeah, I thought the same thing...

And of course, there's also "Welcome To Teh Scene".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_%28miniseries%29#Paro...
Here are some figures on which to do that: http://topher.com.au/50-to-1-video-project/
Climate skepticism is mostly Anglo Saxon phenomenon and there are studies that show it. Google it up. These tools get payed to write this stuff.
"It is all here

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp406274e
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp406273p"

(click)

"Your current credentials do not allow retrieval of the full text.

Purchase This Content
Choose from the following options:
$35.00 for 48 hours of access
Members, log in with your ACS ID to see your reduced price."

Every. Single. Time. I have ever tried to read a scientific paper, this is what happens. It's complete crap. The research was done in a national laboratory, under public funding. I should be able to read this.

Fortunately, I am now a university student so I will see if the library can help me with this.
The cherry tomatoes were cheap? You must not go the same farmer's markets that I do.

On a per-calorie basis, almost all fresh fruits and vegetables are insanely expensive - someone on $30/week could perhaps afford an occasional banana.

Recently my local Trader Joe's was selling onions at $1.09 (or was it $1.19?) per onion. Per onion!
Your argument in the other post only makes sense if economic growth per capita continues.

That's not inevitable. We've grown using fossil fuels since the industrial revolution. Those let us use the stored solar energy of millions of years.

Wind, solar, etc allow us to use the solar energy from single year, and at least currently require fossil fuels to build.

It's possible we'll find a way out of our predicament, but the rapid growth we've seen in the past three centuries is not necessarily good evidence for the continuance of such growth.
For me it points to: Life of Pi - "Flying Fish" Clip
There is hidden cost in being poor: You don't have a car, or money for gas - so you don't have access to cheaper stores. Simple as that. Did he account for it?
So try this one: http://topher.com.au/50-to-1-video-project/
Nothing to do with Ridley. Presumably there are lot of stupid people in Australia according to you and judging from your recent election.
It almost sounds like there's something bad about it.
> Everything else, even hydroelectric, is not capable of providing the amount of power needed at the time it's needed.

Not in every case. BC Hydro powers BC and sells excess to US Markets.
Pointing out that the article has been published by a corporation who's agenda is as much ideological as it is commercial, and which doesn't shy away from publishing outright lies whilst pursuing that agenda is a constructive contribution imo.

Especially since most of us, including the author (who btw is also strongly ideologically motivated) aren't climate scientists and the actual report isn't out yet.

This is not a particularly credible source, and definitely not an unbiased one, trying to assign meaning to as yet unverifiable data.
Before buying shows, Netflix checks piracy sites
I would have thought it to be self-evident, but since you ask...

It's an opinion piece written by a notorious climate-change denialist. Its main source is a document that hasn't been released yet. It is full of breathless hyperbolic speculation, e.g.: "Like a returning comet, it will be taken to portend ominous happenings." It puts the emphasis on the "facts" (because there are precious few actual facts) that support Murdoch's political position and downplays the facts that undermine that position, e.g. "Admittedly, the change is small, and because of changing definitions, it is not easy to compare the two reports, but retreat it is." and "...there is a better than 50-50 chance that by 2083, the benefits of climate change will still outweigh the harm." i.e. because things might not be getting quite as bad quite as fast as was predicted, that everything is therefore going to be hunky-dory and we should all stop worrying and just carry on burning fossil fuels with abandon, because, hey, we have a 50-50 shot that it will all turn out to be a net win.

I could go on, but life is too short to spend too much time debunking creationists, truthers, and denialists. If you want more, start with this:

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/08/2265541/breaking...
I think the one thing that I got from this article is that GPG is basically unusable by anyone who doesn't have cryptography as a hobby.
'Shouting' vs Conversing on Social Media
I've read this some time ago, and although I did not remembered all the details - something stuck in me - that being poor is not something easily emulated, or experimented.

Here is the article (don't know much about the guy that wrote it, political orientation or so, but it's an eye opener) -

http://blumenauer.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&tas...

One thing that stuck with me was the "car" situation. I didn't drive a car because of my choice (not money), i live in LA, but when our son was born I had to take driving lessons. It kind went well for us, since we can go now to Costco more often, than Whole Foods across the street. Also cutting down to paying taxis, or waiting too much for the bus has a benefit (if only LA's transit, or Santa Monica's one was a bit better).
An interesting recent discussion about whether it would be easier to terraform Venus or Mars - http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/09/12/outer_space_can_... (full conversation from Quora, but linking to Slate because, well, Quora.)
reading stanley milgrams obedience to authority. Hoping to start a biography on oppenheimer soon. Don't know which biography to choose though
"Nonsensical" and "inane blather" are relative to your personal knowledge and experience. Science and technology, to people outside of those fields, sounds like a string of nonsense jargon and technobabble. (That is one of the reasons why phys.org, university press departments, Congressman[1], and Fox News[2] can get things so very wrong.) My lack of a background in the detailed inner workings of Li-Ion batteries, or chemistry in general, prevents me from directly validating his statements. So, if it wasn't for the username looking similar to the first name on the paper, I would have written it off.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6378495
Darwin would probably say it depends on context.

There is a species of fish that has females running alongside sharks, their natural predators, in attempt to prevent being impregnated by the males. Think about it. A species that tries actively to prevent and postpone copulation.
It costed me US$5 for a small cup in Bali and a bunch of other complimentary coffees and teas for free. Did you had the same experience?
Windows 8.1’s user-hostile backup story
Also, they may be "the best" (because they have a PhD, or something), but have no idea of what makes the best code

Yes, the code may suck, but the business is growing. What about those companies that prioritise code quality instead of growth? You probably never heard of them
Presumably this service serves the site at the root of your own domain, rather than on an untypeable Dropbox URL.
Ask HN: Any good examples of open APIs?
Hi guys,

I've been asked to do a little research around APIs. Specifically I am after companies (could be banks and other leading organisations) and startups that have open APIs and as a result what types of services are then enabled to the customer.

Any help would be appreciate! Thanks!
Seeing how there is a huge number of drug users amongst the richest, I am unsure if grandparent was on to something or not.
He does mention in another post: "To be clear, I don’t mean to trivialize anyone else’s experience or claim mine as an authentic representation of what food insecurity looks like."

I'm pretty sure he's well aware of all the luxuries he has at his disposal that others who rely on food stamps don't. He's not shooting for an authentic representation because he just can't. Even if he were to give away all of his wealth, he'd still have many luxuries (such as friends and family to look after him) that some folks in dire situations don't.

This isn't to say that there isn't insight to be gained from running this experiment, though.
Please define: What do you mean by open API? Open access? Open source project with an API?
Sentimentality Is Not A Justification For War
Welp, your suspicions are wrong friendo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
Every time I see these Venus pictures, I think about all the dull, lifeless, empty places on Earth that a spacecraft could land in, and lead us to conclude that there's nothing of any interest there.

Of course, I trust the scientists, but its sure fun to think we landed in some Venutian-preserved national park, where no Venutian dare go, for fear of incurring a trespassing ticket or two..
Teenager sells game, 25 years later he's tracked down & plays it with son
My knowledge is a little ropey so I apologise in advance if this doesn't make sense. I believe it is the former - open access. For example, if a bank wanted to allow banking to be done via Facebook then they'd need to open up APIs. Or if a hospital wanted to introduce a chat forum for doctors to be able to pose questions to one another then are there examples of companies whose API's would allow them to plug that chat forum in seamlessly without having to build their own chat forum. I wondered if there were any good examples of companies that demonstrated this.

Sorry if the above doesn't make sense!
> It's a communication tool, just like email, phone and letters.

Except that it's a public company that makes money selling your data to advertisers. It's a very important difference compared to letters, phone or (to a certain extent) email.
I updated my post to make it even more clear.

Hydropower is for the most part great when it's available, but it's not available everywhere and it also doesn't come without significant environmental cost. It would not be a net benefit for the world if every country developed a crash program to become as dependent on hydropower as possible.
Show HN - Restore Firefox tabs when Firefox can't
Occasionally my favorite browser will fail to restore tabs from the last session. After having to go through the odious task of hunting for sessionrestore.bak and parsing its contents one too many times I built this little utility. I hope someone else finds it useful too.
Bug-Screenshots for Basecamp Users
It is absolutely a huge problem.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
He needs to get help starting a hackerspace.

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/

There is no better way to treat Genius than to let it propagate, and no better way to propagate knowledge, socially, than a hacker space. Sure, he could try to go to school - and he should - but getting others involved in his hacker projects is a lot more achievable.
Yes, I'd be interested to learn more from experienced laptop users as well. Especially, how does BSD do in some areas that Linux still struggles sometimes, such as e.g.:

- suspend/resume
- power consumption/battery life
- multiple monitor support
- wifi drivers
- etc.

Does anyone have some experience with these (and other) points and would like to comment?
Oops, I meant Count Zero, not Burning Chrome. The latter isn't part of the Sprawl trilogy, but rather a collection of short stories (some good, some not so good).
It is juvenile. And it is inherently carnal. A business shouldn't need to screw with other businesses to be successful. It's much better to have a business that stands on its own merit rather than one that parasitically targets other businesses. Disruption is a natural process, not a goal. Making it a goal just causes impurity in the realm of what the company actually is vying to do.
I ate better for those 7 weeks than I had all my adult
life to that point.

I'd suggest that today's "food stamps" don't cover as much as they used to. The article does a good job of showing how little nutritious food the handouts can buy.

Instead of heading in to town to collect our stamps...

Which costs money, particularly if you have to live a fair way outside out of town. Because you're poor.

But having to use those colored pieces of paper in line
at the grocery store while everyone else watched was a
huge motivator to get out and get a job.

People are trying. Pull your head out and look at the economy. You may be fine; plenty aren't, and are stuck in a rut where they can't get out.

I know arguing with you is useless, but it's this "I worked hard, I got mine, so fuck you" attitude that's making everything worse for the poor. Have some empathy.
Who needs 'internet' when we have fax? An 'expert's' view from 1996
Don't you love when games get "released on PC"?
Everything from Vernor Vinge is top notch. Start with A Fire Upon the Deep. If you like it read the other two books of the trilogy. It's a space opera by degree of events but it never gets cheesy. The amount of ideas put into these books never cease to amaze me.

Rudy Rucker's Postsingular followed by Hylozoic are great books. It's a rather humorous view on postsingular way of life. It's hard to describe his books and Rucker's writing style is not everyone's cup of tea but William Gibson likes it.

Also if you haven't read anything from Michael Swanwick you should give his books a try. It's not strictly science fiction because he likes to slide into more psychedelic and surreal areas of fiction. But I consider that his charm. Start with The Iron Dragon's Daughter.

I also have to mention Cory Doctorow's Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom. I actually don't really like Doctorow's works. Some of them are boring. But this particular book is an exception and absolutely worth reading. A lot of interesting ideas are in play there including reputation based currency, eternal life (through ability to backup/restore body and memories) and extreme transhumanism.
One of the more sensible theories I've heard is that the fluoridation push happened at about the same time as the need to ramp-up uranium hexafluoride use for enrichment processes ... and that the sudden demand for fluoride could be masked by a civilian "decay prevention" program.

See also: Donora death fog. http://www.fluoridation.com/donora.htm
Apparently, when a a CEO does it, it's news worthy, while for an actual poor person, its just everyday. In the end though, it's a good thing, he has the ability to attract people's attention on the matter which may lead to positive change, a resource that poor people don't have.
Happiness Through Ignorance [pdf]
How I got a root shell in my NAS, 0day inside
I was impressed by his lack of interest in Harry Potter, as I consider it a pox on modern culture, but saddened by his lack of interest in music. To each, their own .. but I hope he discovers something frivolous and trivial, whether its music or trashy fiction, at some point in his life to enjoy. Genius without frivolity is often a fast road to torture and anguish, a fact that wouldn't be true if it weren't for the fact of the existence of both music, and trashy fiction, in perpetuity ..
> Living by $4.50 a day for a week with a seven figure bank account

In Ron's case, you're probably off a couple or three of those bank figgers.
i think it's possible to build something like this
which is better than this, but maybe that's because
i have built something like this which i believe is
better than this, so, you know, maybe i am biased... :+)

-bowerbird
Hopefully I'm understanding correctly. I'm assuming "open access" means available for anyone to use. Below are a few examples.

Facebook (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/apis/)

GitHub (http://developer.github.com/v3/)

Twitter (https://dev.twitter.com/)
Just a quick heads up using Dropbox as web hosting - Google and the rest won't ever index your site as the domain has a deny-all robots.txt

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/robots.txt
Barcodery - Our first web app
to me that we reject things based on presentation (which we all do), is an unfortunate circumstance of our human nature

Not at all. Assuming that the required presentation is well-known (not a secret), and is relatively easy to implement (e.g. doesn't require specialized equipment), what is the reviewer supposed to think of a writer who couldn't follow the instructions?

Among other things, standardized formatting (not commas, but fonts and margins) also makes life easier for the reviewer, for instance letting him/her know at a glance how long a piece will be. And they have to scan many, many pieces, most of them crap.

I'm speaking as a writer who submits stories using standard manuscript format. Writing provides ample opportunity for creativity. I don't need to use my creativity in font or margin or punctuation choice. And it's just not that hard.
Really curious, may i have a look at the test? I was hiring people for almost all of my career (on my first job, my first boos quickly realized i was too good to just let me type code) and i know things are really bad, but not as bad as you put it... Maybe your test is too hard?
Example: Total Trip: 85 minutes. This is 20 mintes each way, plus wait times. Bus comes 30 minutes on some routes, every 60 on others. A median wiat time would be 30-60 minutes for a round trip.
It is indeed. Since it rhymes with "voxel", the "fo'c'sle" spelling is a much better one than "forecastle".
Fukushima used a more than 50 year old reactor design, it has very little bearing on either the risk or feasability of building new nuclear plants.

Moreover, even factoring in the risk of extremely outdated or outrageously unsafe by design reactors and the accidents that have occurred at them such as Fukushima and Chernobyl the overall damage caused by nuclear power plants is still far, far lower than that of coal, oil, or even hydropower. The Tohoku earthquake caused the failure of a dam which killed 4 people, more than have died due to the Fukushima disaster. Overall dam failures have killed hundreds of thousands, which is well above even the upper limits of early deaths due to cancer related to the Chernobyl accident. Meanwhile, the world health organization estimates that coal burning causes as much as a million excess deaths per year worldwide.

If CO2 emissions are truly an existential threat to humanity then we should be building nuclear plants like crazy. People who reject the idea of nuclear power but embrace the idea of man made climate change as a catastrophic threat to mankind are either incapable of sane risk assessment or do not truly believe their own claims.
Agreed! This brings back bad memories of "computer teachers" letting you type over stuff from a printed page in Word, forcing you to double-space.
> Somebody on Quora once wrote beautifully about how it's impossible for the rich to ever understand what it's like to be truly, horribly poor- because there is no escape. There is no safety.

Jarvis Cocker wrote quite a good song in that vein:

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pulp/commonpeople.html
I know. It's as if (ex-CIA-case officer) Phil Agee's claim back in the mid-80s that America was about to be Latinized is true.

Healthcare, education, housing ... what's next?
C-evo is another open source Civilization clone which I very much enjoy, due to the emphasis on strong AI and completely deterministic combat. This year has brought a a new release after a 5 year hiatus: http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/C-evo
only NIH has open access requirements, and they only kick in one year after publication. Could ask Ilya to authorchoice it, which is ACS's open-access option (costs $800 a pop).