skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.medicinenet.com/tylenol_liver_damage/article.htm#...

Yes, but in rare cases. Acetaminophen is not the easiest thing in the world for your body to deal with. But this is technically correct and in the 99 percent case you're correct so this is kind of belaboring the point.

Nevertheless, I thought it was worth mentioning.
This probably isn't any different from consuming anything that contains animal products from a country with flexible regulation on farming conditions. The description doesn't strike me as being any different from the conditions described for chickens in the U.S.

Markets that suddenly emerge often have strange consequences. The demand for quinoa and acai berries, for example, have had serious economic and environment effects in South America.

There's not too much that's unique about this case, other than product. Poor conditions for animals and exploitation appear to be the norm.
Nice.

Don't add anything useful like, say, why you think it's terrible. Just go ahead and post a passive-aggressive, oblique insult at my life experience and what I've learned from it.

Bonus points for framing it in a way that asserts your right to exercise an option I clearly articulated and invited you to in my first sentence.

I don't know why OP is concerned about keeping his kids away from chat roulette. Seems to me that HN is the home of the dicks.
The major ones that I've used do - Chase and Bank of America, both through sending codes over SMS to login and perform certain activities once logged in. For BoA, even if you stole my password and browser cookie (to get past the login check), you still wouldn't be able to do anything but pay my bills for me. Anything that might send money to a new destination, like creating a new billpay recipient, changing the info of one, or adding a wire transfer destination, requires an additional 2-factor code.
Isnt Redhat more expensive than Windows? I hope Debian gets better than Redhat, if its not already :).
One such means of reseach is browsing through this site and finding what top rated brands are available where you shop.
http://www.cornucopia.org/organic-egg-scorecard/
They also have a less detailed milk scorecard.
Note, they only look at organic eggs and they weigh some things other than how the animals are treated based on their political beliefs. Still, they list every category and you can choose which ones you care about.
Best commercial I have seen all year and it's not US/European.
Also eating plants is unethical. For them to be developed we needed to destroy habitats, displace species and cause suffering too.

We are invasive species. What we should aim is low impact farming. To extract the most food with the least possible amount of suffering caused and resources expended.
There is an 'unlimited demand' for programmers skills because of demand ran out, there would be no work left (we'd have a singularity/post scarcity) - programmers automate work.

With people like you around, even the Singularity wouldn't get rid of capitalism.
The average price for unlocked premium phones is $585
Still a lot of gradients in use, uh? didn't they kill those?
I just got back from Bali and tried this stuff. The place I went to of course said little about the surely terrible environment the animals are in -- they had a few at the place but they were probably just there for the tourists to see.

Anyway, the coffee isn't anything great. Yet invariably many of the tourists around me were raving about it, I'm sure not in small part due to the focus on it and the high price it demands. It reminds me a lot of the phenomenon of shark fin soup in Asia -- the soup is mediocre at best, but because of its high price people (in my view) pretend to think it tastes incredible.
[I apologize in advance for having to go "meta" on this one; given the rest of the discussion I don't think it can be helped.]

lutusp: Do you care whether the statements you make are true? Or do you just want to not seem wrong, no matter what arguments are required to accomplish that?

When you give a link supporting your views, do you read the link first and check that it supports the argument you're making? Because it seems like you're not doing that.

In this case, the link you gave says that using the "new estimate method", there were 1 billion hungry people in 1990-92 (out of a world population of 5.370 billion) and there were 870 million hungry in 2013 (out of a population of 7.095 billion). So world hunger didn't just decrease as a percentage of population (from 18% to 12.3%), it decreased as an ABSOLUTE NUMBER. As the population went up, the total NUMBER of starving people DECLINED.

Your link also says this:

> "The world produces enough food to feed everyone. World agriculture produces 17 percent more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago, despite a 70 percent population increase. This is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person per day"

So as you said, a bit snottily, "We already can't feed our present numbers, or haven't you been paying attention?", the link you provide in "support" actually said we CAN feed our present numbers and also says we're getting ever-better at actually doing so.

In short, your link does not in any way support your argument. So the "environmental deniers" you refer to are probably correct; you are wrong. As this is starting to seem like a trend, you might want to re-evaluate your information sources; they are not serving you well.

Here's a useful tip: most people are not complete idiots. If your sources give you the impression that everybody in some huge ideological grouping (say "environmental deniers", or even "climate deniers") IS a complete idiot, then they might not be showing you the whole picture. Try to seek out the MOST credible arguments against your position - and strengthen them if you can. Don't just harp on the relatively few stupid people making stupid, easily debunked arguments and assume that the opposite of what they believe must be true - "reversed stupidity is not intelligence". Give the other side some benefit of the doubt. Otherwise you can't learn anything.

Feynman said some of the necessary stuff better than I could:

http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html

Good luck to you!
Human brains didn't evolve to deal with these kinds of problems, so when we encounter them, we take mental shortcuts, like "There are three doors. There is one good prize. The odds are one in three".

It's actually a really big cognitive leap to get from there to the idea that, because the gameshow host knows the answer, that the visible answer differs from the mental shortcut.

I've got a good friend who speaks at a lot of risk management seminars, and a good deal of people who deal with financial risk every day get this question wrong. He's got a really good blog at http://behavioralrisk.net/
As with truffles, could we not just train a dog to find these choice cherries and place them in a bin?
What advantage is there to running something like this on Xen rather than running an almost equally self-contained process on a general-purpose OS kernel like Linux or BSD? Is Xen's resource isolation that much better?
The problem is then nobody would ever write a Windows Phone app as they could just keep users happy with (and monetise) a Android app running on Windows Phone.
Sounds like that part of the system could be written once (in any language) and then encapsulated and treated as a local service... (analogous to using a local copy of SQLite if you need a db). Then you can use the "best tool for the job" on the client and-or server?
Freeciv 2.4.0 released
They're not pretending, that's power of suggestion. They believe it.
HTML5 version available on http://play.freeciv.org
The glaring issue can be summed up in one statement. College roi is detached from student roi in the near and mid term.

If these were strongly linked by design, the magnitude of the problem would be substantially diminished.
Nice. A similar (in spirit) hack I've used is to host the pixel on a CDN (like Akamai or Cloudfront) and run map reduce over the logs there. You don't get real-time, like this, but look ma, no server! CloudFront is especially useful since it can log directly to S3 and you can run elastic map reduce directly on those files.
No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the solution to side channel attacks is to eliminate the side channel, not to redesign the cryptosystem around it.

I keep telling you this: you can reuse AES keys. Reusing an AES key does not in any intrinsic way reduce the security of AES (at least, not unless you encrypt a truly staggering amount of data with it).

However: you should not be working with encryption at this level of detail anyways. Sillysaurus 2, please go download Nacl and play with it. You'll be using 2012 crypto instead of debating implementation flaws in old crypto.
Great Reply, thanks.
JS 1.7, already available in some browsers and bleeding edge Node, has iterators and generators.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
You're talking about the business owner's relationship with the IRS. I am talking about what happens in the real world between the business owner and their large clients, who will indeed sometimes try to withhold if they aren't actually incorporated.
Doesn't work for abbreviations.
> most of the userland part of my OS

I was careful in picking my words. I don't think Javascript is suited to express kernel level system control. There are many windows managers written in dynamic languages (lua, python, lisp). GDE = Desktop Environment ?
I don't know if computing Package Manager dependency graphs be that slower if written in js, probably.

Beside the point was not about micro benchmark performance but about separation of concerns and reuse, more than a third of ls is output formatting.
Understanding this problem means you can differentiate between the two scenarios below:

(1) If the host reveals an empty door at random, your odds are 1/3 and you should switch.

(2) If the host reveals a door at random that happens to be empty, your odds are 1/2 and it doesn't matter.

The reason that so many people get confused is that they read the words and their minds automatically jump to scenario 2.
"Item not found. This item may have been removed by its author."
Chipotle Launches an iOS App That is Surprisingly Deep
Talk to them about browsing responsibly. The last thing you want to do is create a relationship of distrust between the parent and child. Once you cut off a communication channel, chances you aren't going to get it back.

I don't think censoring the internet or preventing the child from browsing in private is the way to go. It's going to happen, so might as well embrace it.
You can "hide" the space added for justification better between sentences, since most readers would notice and be distracted by too much variable space between letters and words. That looks to be what's happening in some of these.
There is no design trend I hate more than buttons redesigned to look like normal(not even clickable) text. Simply insane.

Flat designs represented by these screenshots are a depressing step back in usability.
iOS morphing
You found the one exception. There's a fuzzy line when dealing with shell scripts.

If you're just iterating over a directory and checking some files, that's great shell script territory. If you're making a launcher script for another program to set the environment, check directories, fix permissions, and run pre-flight checks, that's great for shell script.

But, sometimes we end up with feature creep. You start out with "Well, this shell script just has to parse some CSV and insert into sqlite" then before you know it, it also has to check another pre-existing DB for redundancy checks or constraints, then you're 100 pages into the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide trying to make Bash do something that would be a six liner in Perl 4.

The benefits of over-programming bash scripts is extensive portability though (if you make sure you aren't using features only in very late version of the shell).
Technically speaking my point was "it's more unethical to consume animal products than it is to consume plant-based products".
I had civet coffee many, many years ago (nearing a decade) and it was a lovely cup of coffee, but not enough to justify the ridiculous price. Now that's become industrialised it's even more awful to consider having a cup, I do hope this helps remove it from the market.
This, without a doubt, is my favorite idea in this thread. Wow the kid with your "magic" powers.
Yes, but data you can't measure may as well not exist.
I'm also not a parent, same disclaimer as jessedhillon.

I'd posit that that the harder you try to shelter a child from something, the more shocking it is when they inevitably get exposed to it. You hope that maturity will help with the exposure, but that may not always be the case.
One of the core 'assumptions' is that the host would never reveal the door with the goat behind it. Therefore, in your scenario where you choose the winning door in the first place, there is only one option for the host: reveal the door without the goat / car / whatever.
I don't think there's lots of exceptions. In fact, the exceptions are exceedingly rare.
A more sane approach would be to script nginx using lua and lua-resty-redis.
This is a good question. We have the same problem at my house, with a 14 year old and a 12 year old. A couple years ago we thought about doing a product around it, controlling and monitoring access to our wifi in an unobtrusive and (reasonably) privacy- respecting way.

Our biggest problem is how engrossing the network is. It competes with homework and invariably wins. The only thing that works for us here are rigid rules that keep the computer unavailable during any time in which it is even possible that they might theoretically have homework that they could have forgotten about.

What clearly doesn't work is the "net nanny" stuff; it turns you into an (obnoxious) sysadmin for your kids. And, honestly: I don't want to know.

My general belief here is that the approach that will work here is to create the understanding that Internet usage is watched, that the kids are accountable for how they use it, but that in "the normal course of business" that capability isn't used; we don't actually want to see their chats or read their history.

I won't let my kids near Reddit. Not because I hate Reddit (Reddit's highs are higher than HN's highs), but because, like high-proof alcohol or cannabis, I think it's something you need a degree of emotional maturity and self-awareness to properly metabolize.
A lot of schools provide that sort of data but of course it is biased. You could also use proxies for this such as LinkedIn and other self-reported data like https://angel.co/colleges
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I'm not a big fan of R6RS, but it is still fairly minimalist. One of the good things that it did was divide the standard into a core language, and standard library built on top of the small core language. The core language eliminated many things from R5RS, but the standard library adds a lot more.

The main issues I have with R6RS are the library system (which I think is too complex, and it frustratingly adds an extra level of indentation as you need to wrap everything in one big expression), and some of the libraries in the standard library, like the I/O library, the Unicode library (which standardizes on such things as char-upcase and char-downcase, which are fairly useless in a Unicode context, without adding much that's actually useful).

R6RS is this kind of weird, awkward beast that's not sure what it's doing. It neither strips the language down to a minimal core, nor does it build up a comprehensive set of libraries containing all of the basics that people expect from standard libraries in a language these days.
I think it's kinda sad that Google Code is abandoned and so far behind the competition that even Google teams use Github instead.
I have no idea what Nokia did, but the Mac OS X statement is extremely wrong. OS X is a descendant of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP which always ran on IA-32. From 1989. Rhapsody (the unreleased OS X precursor which added a more Mac OS interface to OPENSTEP) ran on IA-32. Even Mac OS X Server 1.0 ran on IA-32. Mac OS X 10.0-10.3 were not released for IA-32, but support was maintained internally by Apple, fact easily checked because the Darwin releases from that period worked on IA-32.
I agree, that is a clever way to shed light on the problem. It's easier first to see that the host is giving you 999,999 choices for the price of one, and then see that the same logic applies when there are only 3 doors.
> "Which might explain why some people describe their purchase as watery and bland."

This is true.

The other part of the explanation is that many people just don't appreciate the coffee that is anything different than what they are used too. Just watch someone from the US in Europe drinking an espresso, or the other way around. People have different opinions based on their personal habits, and saying it is "watered down" should mean nothing without context and references.
http://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/1ayed6/is_milkegg_pro...

http://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/1kkn05/as_a_non_vegan...
I have no idea how anyone could arrive at that conclusion. By going to work every day and paying taxes I'm exploiting people who're staying home having kids they can't afford? I can't wait to hear how you connect those dots.
Arguing with a Slate article is probably the wrong place to start for this discussion. The Wikipedia entry on sentence spacing is probably a tiny bit better.

As much as I'd love to see a properly executed experiment where reading speed, enjoyment and comprehension was evaluated between groups of people reading the same material using single or double spacing after a period, I'm guessing it ultimately it comes down to preference.
Why not have a tested Gentoo image and all servers with two root partitions to alternate between them on upgrades? The image can then be updated, tested and deployed (using pxe) when you feel the need.
Also, using puppet or chef or even emerge of binary packages (by an in-house built deployment solution), one can install supplemental packages on a running system if needed.
From my experience, having a fully source based Linux system is good for performance, security and - last but not least - stability.
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:) Completely agreed on the best cooks.

And no apologies necessary! I feel I owe a giant thank you to all involved in this entire thread. Has been a joy trying to digest all of the facets covered. In this subthread, it comes back to what is the program trying to accomplish? Communicating exacting steps to the computer to perform (as few computers will "ignore imperative steps"[1]), or communicating to the next programmer what was intended. Or both? Seems we both feel it is both, and hence needs a hybrid approach.

[1] I realize this isn't even strictly true. Computers are free to reorder some instructions, for example.
As others have pointed out there's no such thing as 100% certainty. But I agree with the thrust of your post - having children when you can't provide for them is irresponsible.
Good job by Mr. Motto. I especially liked the scroll to read intro. Most of the comments on RS about the layout seem positive.
When the listener isn't paying, there will always be someone else to foot the bill: the artist. This is already happening on a wide scale. You forget the primary function of a music production company is to act as a bank for the artist, they'll sign a contract with anyone who is willing to re-pay a loan. The point I was making is that it's not things like Grooveshark discouraging those practices, it's cheap technology which has made it more cost-effective for artists to just avoid production companies all together.

And this is a GOOD thing. We don't need them. Those companies filled a needed economic role before when cost-effective recording and distribution was a problem, but it's not anymore. Keeping them around is just encouraging economic abuse, i.e. rent-seeking in the form of royalties and licensing fees.
I'm not a fan of this style as implemented in Apple's own UI, but some of these aren't bad. I still think the translucency is a net loss in legibility and usability though. There's a reason this was tried and rejected in other operating systems.
Well, maybe you live in some place especially prone to natural catastrophes :) I live in France, and I certainly have lesser chances to loose all devices at once than to have a single one compromised.
I imagine the female are probably used for Milk. The male calves probably end up being slaughter.
Exploring HTML Imports
There is no true free market in the world. One of the defining characteristics of a free market is perfect information. This is one of the downsides of market imperfections.
GTA 5 & Amazon - Some People got it in the post this morning WTF
We humans are really twisted.
This is text with a few hyperlinks. It is exactly what HTML and the web were originally intended for. Why can't people just put some damned text at a URL? I'm too annoyed by the fact that I have to interact with this godawful, pointless JavaScript nonsense to actually read this article. There's a time and a place and this is not it.
I answered your question in the first line: "Regulations that politicians pass after pressure from environmental groups that disagree with cleaner, safer technologies based on their beliefs." If local communities pass local regulations, that no longer make it profitable to build a plant there, they won't build a plant there. If every community does that where it would be profitable for a plant to be built, the plant doesn't get built. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed operating licenses and existing plants have purchased new reactors, but all of that is just about maintaining the plants that have already been around for decades.

The tangent was not about atheists, deists, Republicans, and Democrats. They were examples of "people with extremely opposing viewpoints."

I'm not sure where you got the idea that I'm a sailor. In my profile it does mention that I am a mariner. There is a difference in the maritime industry between the two terms. A sailor is an enlisted person or commissioned officer in the Navy. A mariner is not.
>> ... the fact that humans are known to greatly increase the prevalence of all of those species ...

> Not only is that not a fact, but the opposite is the truth. Humans are wiping out other species at an incredible rate.

Okay, now I'm definitely confused: Is English not your native language? Are you very young, perhaps in high school? You don't seem to be reading the claims that you are with such great confidence declaring to be wrong.

FWIW, the phrase "all of those species" in context pretty clearly referred to THIS list of species:

> raccoons, crows, cows, pigeons, rats, mice, dogs, house cats
Please note what Apple is now calling the tint color, used to signify a tappable button, much like blue text on the web means it's a link. You think the web is "simply insane" now that most have abandoned underlines?
Says you. I was fine with it being the same when I learned to type (on a typewriter) and having text-presentation software do some micro kerning on certain abbreviations doesn't bother me in the least; automating such drudgery is one of the main reasons to use computers in the first place.

A third option is to dispense with the punctuation marks on abbreviations and simply refer to 'Mr Jones.' This took a little getting used to, but since real grammatical consistency would involve abbreviating 'Mister' as 'M'r,' (a practice which you can see in some older books and which persisted with obscure words like f'c's'le) dropping the period seems simpler. It's good enough for the Economist, whose style guide I prefer.