skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will open up the jobs to teenagers- those not eligible by age to receive the basic income. They learn value of work, value of money and will be better off then many teenagers that can't get gas money/college savings since those jobs are taken by those that can't find any other work or have no more ambition to live more than to survive.
Quantified Pets. Seriously.
Stocks might crash 40-50% in the coming months
Indeed. Every trial to replace "standards" is called "evil". From this perspective, the web platform is far from open. The result is we all are in a local optimum trap. I already gave up expecting cool future and decided to stick to the native development for a while (for a decade or more).

BTW, as a game developer, it would be nice if this rendering latency issue will be fixed soon.

- http://phoboslab.org/log/2012/06/measuring-input-lag-in-brow...

- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=168459

I think this response time issue is a real show-stopper than JavaScript performance.
The vapour is primarily/exclusively propylene glycol.

Stating that it's the active ingredient in a household cleaner is a bit disingenious, I think.

Propylene Glycol is considered "GRAS" (generally recognized as safe) by the FDA. It is used as a solvent, as well as in aircraft de-icing fluid... As well as a food additive, in beauty product applications, and as part of many pharmaceuticals for drugs which are insoluble in water. Including in injectable drugs. (Yes, you can mainline this stuff.)

It's safe to eat and inject, it's non-irritating to skin, in rat studies where rats were fed as much as 5% PG in their food for 104 weeks no ill effects were observed. It shows no evidence of being a carcinogen or genotoxic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propylene_glycol#Humans
If we are going to ban e-cig use indoors because they aerosolize propylene glycol, then we better be banning Febreze too. I don't think P&G will be very happy to hear about that.
If I'm not having a problem with my eyes, there are blue(maybe green) dots between numbers.
I just tried to submit the investigation article, too, and the same happened to me. Worrisome.

Is YCombinator invested in Soylent?
DragonBox does a surprisingly good job at teaching rudimentary algebra.
Thanks for checking it out. Missing days is fine, in fact lots of people have gaps. We've only been running the project for a few months and already have a few people who have reached 100 days. Lots more are fast approaching.
I don't understand how Web can be "Open" if your choice of language is limited to JS, HTML and CSS that are changing as quickly as standards committee is managing to react. And transpilers are just a second-class-citizen hack trying to make the best of situation.
Oh yeah... these guys did office hours on stage for Startup School 2013: http://youtu.be/syoqjYLDs48?t=9m57s
The Principals of 'Pataphysical Programming'... WTF is this?
Doing some research on a new project of mine I came across this. Had some interesting thoughts. Was wondering if others had come across it and what the results have been adopting it into development methodologies.
The reports are mostly involved parties and early adopter types. Not only is there a lot of potential bias involved, but a proper study has all sorts of important elements - double-blindness, valid controls, ethics boards, etc.
With all this power surely there must some exploits for CSS? Do we need NoStylesheet, in addition to NoScript?
I used not go to bars and events for years due to the smoking. Then it got better with more restrictions of smoking. Now with the vaping, I can't go again unless it's a place that restricts it.
I really doubt that anybody here thinks that blowing in other peoples faces, with or without an e-cig or burp, is socially acceptable.

The question isn't "can I burp in your face?", the question is "can I burp indoors?"
This story comes up every now and then; I have a hard time seeing it as a “scandal”. It’s nothing more than a piece of historical anatomical pseudoscience that happens to tickle the salacious fancies of puritan America with the proximity of “nudity” and the names of recognizable celebrities.

Might as well be phrenology otherwise.
Have you tried ProcessWire? It's lightweight and as flexible as Drupal, with a simple jQuery-like API.
I wouldn't go from 0 days a week running to 5 right away, I would work my way up. In the same way, I would phase in my soylent usage.

Example phase in:

1 soylent + 2 normal meals for the first week

2 soylent + 1 normal meals for the second week

3 soylent meals from then on.
Well I think you are missing the point, no? This website is exactly that, DO. And I like the idea of forcing yourself to post a video every day, it kind of obliges you to actually DO as you say :)
Argh? Now I'm interested in hearing your personal view of Soylent. :)
Well, their adult content is also pretty different. Think about it.
I've been using LZString for data I put in LocalStorage. Obviously you can still hit the limit, but it takes quite a bit longer.
http://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index.html
I'm not quite sure it's quite the same as saying that Western designers have "mastered" the web, but my memories of Japanese websites from ten years ago are remarkably similar to how they look today. It seems more relevant that web design in the East hasn't evolved or changed over that period, when western design has.
I love the idea, the design is simple and it's really nice to go through the videos of people, really inspiring!
> they do make me question the wisdom of basing the human diet on grain

I question the wisdom of folks who seem to think prehistoric humans should be providing nutrition advice.
We've been running a private beta for a few months. Some of our users have already finished 100 days.
Doesn't seem to work in Chrome Version 24, OS X Mavericks.

Worked in Safari though.
Neat stuff juxtaposicion.

Seems like this is how Numenta's AI works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNMbsvK8Q8Y
While health concerns are an obvious concern for second hand smoke, for me, the smell is a huge issue, and drives me away. If the e-cigarettes are accompanied by any odor, please keep them away.
It may have a positive impact on people who eat McDonalds every day, but what about people who eat real food?
I like how Shaun Inman describes some of the benefits of journaling in "Lift Off. The Last Rocket Development Diary". He wrote, “By documenting your creative process regularly, you can identify patterns that make you appreciate the too infrequent peaks, help avoid the pits and hopefully make future creative climbs a little less daunting.”

There are things to learn from an accounting of history. A development journal is among the most personal of histories (not personal as in "private", but personal as in "relates to my daily life"). If you're not going to study your own history, one may ask why study any history at all?
I remember seeing something similar to this a while back called Diffable http://googlediffable.blogspot.com/. Looks like the same thing but maybe I'm wrong... Still cool though.
I love the hover to play video! Simplicity of a gif without the horrible loading of everything at once.

Small heads up: many of the avatars are not loading on the front page.

Good luck!
That's exactly what they're already doing. You can contribute to their operation: http://rollingjubilee.org/#contribute
And what exactly makes your 'sensitivity' override someone else's will? We haven't banned peanuts entirely from society and the effects on those who are allergic is much more severe than your symptoms.
Such a cool idea, congrats on your early traction. It reminds me of that video I recently saw of the dude who filmed a few seconds of each day for xdays.
I know Objective-C since the NeXT days, even before Apple dreamed about buying NeXT.

As for Dylan, it was going to be Newton's application language, before the project was canned.

So playing "What If" scenarios, if the language stayed in Apple's control, and if NeXT was still bought, Dylan might have had a life in whatever form Mac OS X would have shaped itself.

Although this is a very unlikely scenario, Apple was actually not that sure that Objective-C would take off as it did.

This is why there was a Java/Cocoa bridge with first class treatment on the early days of Mac OS X, before focusing only on Objective-C.
Better to have a fridge monitor that pops up when you take the Red Bull out of the fridge and before you drink it. (Or coffee machine...or phone with GPS that recognises that you just entered starbucks...the trick is it should pre-empt the caffeine to affect your behaviour in the moment).
There seem to be a lot of "bros" involved in startup culture these days with sickening attitudes.
Work for a medical device manufacturer, or something similar in health care.

I have a BSCS and I work in SWQA for a medical device manufacturer. Most of us carry around patient testimonials in our badge pouches that were given to us when we hired in. The testimonials can be overwhelming when you really think about them.

If you were going to code here, you'd want to be good at C++ on embedded systems. There are probably other technologies at other places.

Peoples' lives are often literally saved by what I work on, and at least vastly improved. It feels pretty good, and helps keep my head straight when I have the inevitable encounter with BigCo administrative nonsense that goes with the territory.
Yeah. I have or could reacquire comfort with those topics.

I live in the Boulder, Colorado area, and I've even applied recently for a job at a biotech firm. There are plenty around here. Only saw that one job opening, though.

Beyond that, I just don't have the vision or lack the key insight on where to go or what to do next. That's where your item (1) would come into play, I suppose. I need to be guided. It's a difficult position to be in. I'm basically saying "I have skills and want to contribute, but need a step by step guide, and probably continuing guidance along the way, before I can contribute anything valuable."
Seriously, you created an account just to flame someone else?

What if I told you that documenting your progress actually motivates some to keep going, to do more?

Why is your generation so obsessed with "complaining" instead of actually "doing"?
Soylent will likely become a billion dollar global enterprise, and even "disrupt" the food industry.

It will also ultimately be a failure and frowned upon in modern society. Why? Because a Soylent-saturated world would rob families and loved ones of the ritual and benefits of eating together.

Eating together civilizes people. It's emotionally and socially edifying. Studies show that families that dine together stay together [1]. Their children are healthier and get better grades. It also lowers the risk of weight problems and alcohol and substance abuse.[2]

Eating real food persisted throughout human history because it's more than about eating.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/24/family-...
[2] http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/family-dinners-a...

EDIT: I'm glad to see so many people disagree with me. It means I'm on the right track.
Wow, you made a new account just for this?

I think what Give It 100 does is that they take away a lot of the overhead from documenting so that you can focus more on the doing. Like, it lets you be publicly accountable for your progress in a simple and enjoyable way, without needing like... a youtube account?
Has Dart gained much traction? It doesn't seem like it's been picked up nearly as much as Go or AngularJS but I may just be looking in the wrong places.
Will be quite interesting when that's ready. The leaked memo is 3 years old now, by the time Dart for Chrome is ready are the original reasons for developing the language even going to be applicable any more?
No. You are missing the point. I can see people signing up to DO, say, Learning to Play Ocarina -- https://giveit100.com/@LylyB -- and then OBSESSING with making the Giveit100 Video for the day more than actually LEARNING to Play by DO-ing!
It was great to meet you, and the site is exactly how I imagined it from your description. Great work!
What sort of bars are you going to that it is that frequent? I can count on one hand the number of people I have seen with these things in the wild.
It is a "Java" that Google controls, that is the main point.
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Recording, editing and posting the video takes as much (if not more time) than the activity. No?
Because sometimes you want a product to be available to real users while it is still rapidly developing, especially in an environment using Lean principles.

It's kinda of the opposite of the delivery-date-and-it's-done style of project.
You are saying that the economic policy of twenty years of socialist government, under which the majority of the growth of the Chilean economy actually occurred, had more or less the same tax and spend policy as envisioned by Pinochet. Pull the other one, it has bells on.
As long as you are talking metaphorically, yes, I agree.

But there is a certain amount of danger that they'd better avoid. And, the best way to avoid danger is by learning the safety procedures. That kit could be used to make the world much safer (and more interesting) for them, but one can't just give the kit to kids, and letting them loose.
Google Chrome has had native support for SDHC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Dictionary_Compression_O...) for a long time now, but it has had near zero adoption.

CloudFlare also does something similar within their own network, they call it Railgun: http://blog.cloudflare.com/railgun-in-the-real-world
Lisp + JVM = Clojure

I'm sold. This is really cool! (Though it's worth noting that a Google search with the same terms returns the exact same result...)
The same could be said of perfume or cologne.
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I have been pondering the op's question for over two years, and this is the route I will probably take. Some websites like TicTrac do a reasonably good job at aggregating your stats from the web, but, like the op's example of electricity, will obviously never be able to query every service.

Much of my quantifiable data is sent to Google's Fusion Table, but I do not feel this is a good long term solution.

My intention is to define a base set of criteria for how a certain database needs to be formatted, similar to another comment here, and then let anybody make their tools available as either for "collection" of "visulisation/analysis". As long as some core fields are standardised, e.g. "quantity" and "date", then the data can be easily analysed. Each individual would control their own database, either on their own host or as a DBaaS, but tools to collect and visualize data could be shared.

I am leaning towards a document store (e.g. CouchDB and Cloudant), as that would allow any tool to push data in without knowledge of the schema. One of the nice things about some of the DBaaS is you can easily create individual username/password or API keys with specific permissions, so a third-party tool could write records, but not necessarily read any of your data. A standardised database would also benefit by having other tools able to utilised it, unlike something like Google's Cloud Datastore (which I do like!) In particular, I am thinking about the CouchDB and ElasticSearch integration.

So, why not just wait for apps like TicTrac or Saga to support every service? I have two reasons. Firstly, many of the other tools to aggregate data seem to have gone out of business. Secondly, there are some services I do not like to give third parties access to; email is one example, as is the ability to log keystrokes on my computer. However, I would like to see the summarised data from these services recorded with the rest of my Little Data.

Another option would be to dump everything to text files and upload them to Google's BigQuery, but I am leaning towards a shared tools / individual database model, as it would probably encourage better collaboration with other people.
https://github.com/PurposeOpen/Platform
Because it is never done in collaboration between browser vendors.
It's always this argument that comes up, and it always seems like bullshit.

First off, yes, our brain offers us an interpretation of the outside world, but no, that's not 'its' interpretation. We are it.

Second - dreaming is not as real as things get. Yes, our perception determines how we react to the world, but it does not actually change the world on its own. In a dream, our perception is expressed as actual physical changes to the structure of what's around us. In other words, in life, I can imagine a house on fire, but it's still standing - whereas in a dream, that bitch burns to the ground.

Third - whether or not I'm dreaming does matter (and the way you try to explain that doesn't really make a ton of sense). If I shoot myself in the face in a dream, I wake up. If I shoot myself in the face at my job during the day, it's a bit different outcome.

Fourth - I can ponder what is in a dream, and I can perceive what is in a dream. This does not carry the same weight as perceiving and pondering the world around me. At most, the dream perception is just fancy navel gazing, it's introspection at its finest (or worst depending on your view). Whereas perceiving and pondering the world around me can directly impact how much I have to eat today, whether or not I get hit by a car, or whether or not I'm on fire.

The argument that dreams are the same as reality because our brain offers interpretations of both has always, to me, seemed to be the 'whoa man, check out how big my hands are' type of stoner bullshit from college. Arguing that our dreams should carry as much weight as our interaction with the world around us has always come across as just a miserable person's way of saying that they're not happy with where they're at in life, but that's okay because it's all about how we interpret the world around us.

I didn't intend for that to be as hateful as it came across. I've read it three times and can't make it any less hateful. Take it for what it's worth.
I wonder how long until we find out that this is actually being operated by the very banks that own the debt.
I was pretty excited for Dart before I found out it could be compiled into javascript. Is this a superficial feature, or is Dart built with this capability in mind? I was really hoping for a replacement entirely.
It is. It is a point in favor - relative to countries of relevant comparison. Which is relevant since credit ratings and investment advice is always relative.

And why do I think that the original post is relevant to HN - besides being interesting, well argued and factual? Because of this: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/28232.html
This should just be part of graceful degradation practices already in use.
Thanks! Yea AFAIK twitter doesn't provide a uniform endpoint anymore just for retrieving profile image url. I need to write a script that will periodically fetch the "fully hydrated" user and update the profile.

Unless there's another way...?
This along with the fact that you can't avoid GC when handling browser events makes it really hard to hit a consistent framerate for sure.
Saying no to sax
Just Sayin'.
Is hacker news becoming boring and slightly creepy?
Makes me wonder if he wasn't a prolific tech debt producer who was seen by management to GTD.
It's a related story; it's not the same one. This is basically Soylent's response to the previous story. It's the second chapter in an ongoing dialogue of sorts. I can't claim to speak for everyone here, but I speak as one of the 36 people (at the time of this comment) who upvoted this story. I think it's interesting.

Flag a post because it's inappropriate -- not because you don't care for the topic.
There are folks who negotiate the terms of the credit reporting. Paid-in-full is paid-in-full if you make it so, regardless of the terms of your repayment.
You mean WPF?
AFAIK, their lawyers checked to make sure this wouldn't happen beforehand. During the discussion of this when it started, I saw a mention that they had actually consulted the IRS directly on the matter and were told it would not do so.

A quick search yielded me these statements:

http://my.firedoglake.com/phoenix/2012/11/18/will-ows-rollin...
That's an excellent way to put it in perspective, I completely agree.
Representational state transfer (REST) vs Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
m8r-fhf8r1@mailinator.com (apologies, would prefer not to share my public email address here)

I'll reply back from my personal email account.
One must remember that the Laffer curve is a theoretical discussion that can help to explain economic phenomenons. It's not a law of nature.

Laffer curve may point us towards the general direction, but real world observation have showed that there is no simple, smooth curve that predicts tax income versus tax rate - human behaviour is far to much stochastic for that.
Just to be clear: the advice of "consider that possibility" is intended for the author of the article. quchen clearly knows the "easy" way to do this kind of thing with Haskell.
Justin Bieber Just Shot My Startup in the Face
McDonalds only recently (last year) stopped using 'pink slime' in their burgers: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mcdonald-confirms-no-lo...
It is implied that the purchaser would be a third-party with the ultimate intention of waiving whatever debts that a traditional debt collector would pursue.
I feel like there are probably a lot of people in that position. I'll write up some ideas and post them.
Mouseover playing videos. Not cool man.
I cook breakfast for my kids every morning. We eat together every night. For lunch, I'm at work and I typically microwave some junk and get on with more important things. For me, it'd be nice to have another solution for the mid-day meal. So, I've bought in for a trial. I'm not expecting it to be a 100% replacement for regular food. My hunch is that most people will not replace 100% of their food with soylent.
It's more like not covering your mouth while sneezing on someone.
I'll put together a blog post and link back
Honestly, I just don't get Soylent. What is the purpose?

As a health measure? The market for weight-loss shakes and other dietary solutions is saturated, and most of it appears to be complete shit. Dietary shakes are easy to come by, and are almost universally reviled because they don't work as advertised and taste disgusting.

Is Soylent a supposed to be a remedy for malnutrition? Why is drinking a bunch of vitamins a better option than taking a dietary supplement? How does Soylent account for the fact that nutrient absorption is less efficient in artificial supplements? Why not just eat quality, healthy human food?

But, far and away the worst and most appalling argument is that soylent is "convenient," and that it's beneficial to people who "don't have time to eat." I'm sorry, but if you can't find time to eat human food, the issue is your schedule, not the food. Correct me if I'm wrong, but eating is pretty fucking important. If you are in a position where feeding yourself actual sustenance is inconvenient, then there is a probably a severe deficiency with your schedule and a problem with your priorities.
That reasoning is circular: If they are already in default, the debt is being sold at a discount, so if the debtor buys it at market value, there is no perverse incentive, and the debt holder gets market value.

Incentive is only perverse if it would induce an otherwise non-defaulting debtor to default to get his debt to be sold at a discount.