skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EEk! Would you be content if 0.1% of US airline passengers died as a result of the airline industry each year?

After all it would only be 700 per year, every year.

( Note: 2012 global airline fatalities were 475 ).
A better title would have been "Apple II DOS source code".
Were they TechStars?
Build your kd-tree on the vectors expressed in the eigenvector basis. If the eigenvalues decrease fast enough, you can get bounds on the dot product while going only a few levels deep.
You wouldn't have noticed, because you can compile to javascript. It would be in the same basket as Coffeescript but the integrated IDE had all kinds of problems until recently, so that was holding it back.
You are counting out lazy people. There are lots of lazy people who find it even a burden to grocery shop, unpack and microwave food.
So you swung from one idiotic ideology to the opposite one. Eric Hoffer had a lot to say about this. The Communists recruit from the Nazis, and the Nazis recruit from the Communists, because all ideological mass movements (even "opposing" ones) are made up of the same idiots and losers who can't think for themselves--who can't make an intelligent decision without submission to some ridiculous utopian fantasy whether it's rightwing or left.
I think that's really subjective. There are always ways to abuse any kind of system.

Take for example working hours. A country with strong labor laws will usually prohibit employers from making employees work more than x hours a week, and if they do that they have to pay for overtime. That will make some people happy and productive because they will feel safe having protection from the system. But some people will abuse it and slack off.

On the other hand, if you don't have control over that you might end up in a situation where people are only considered good employees and productive if they work crazy hours all the time. Instead of being abused by employees, the system will be abused by the people at the top.

And I guess that covers underperformance. Who defines what bad/average/good performance is? Is the guy who does really good work considered to be underperforming just because he works 9-5 and wants to spend quality time with his family instead of making the office his second home? That kind of thing has to be prevented by law.
They release vapors that contain nicotine into the atmosphere. There has been comparatively little study on the dangers of second hand nicotine vapor vs. secondhand smoke, but I would be hesitant to assume that there is no danger.

I could also imagine that they could reduce the social pressure against smoking, as people would be seen happily puffing away on e-cigs which, from a distance, look an awful lot like regular cigarettes. Impressionable kids, people who have quit smoking but may be tempted to go back, etc. will now see smoking suddenly becoming socially acceptable again. Some people may see it and think that smoking is allowed wherever this is, and then light up a real cigarette.

There's a further sort of puritanical attitude that many people have towards smoking, I think due to the fact that it was so prevalent and so obnoxious for much of the 20th century. Much as some people have a puritanical attitude about drinking (and we still have ridiculous laws stemming from that), that attitude may persist about smoking even if e-cigs turn out to be much less obnoxious than cigarettes.

You have to remember, there are plenty of people who were non-smokers during the middle of the 20th century, when you couldn't go to a bar that wasn't saturated in smoke, where you had to breathe in secondhand smoke almost everywhere (even in the non-smoking section of restaurants, it would still waft over from the smoking section), where if you lent something to a smoker it would come back reeking of smoke. The idea of losing ground on the fight that was just recently won, of not allowing it in most indoor public places, makes non-smokers fairly anxious.

Now, if it can be demonstrated that secondhand vapor from e-cigs is perfectly safe, and that it doesn't permeate the air with the same foul smell, then maybe their introduction would be welcomed.

After all of the damage we've done over the years by rapidly accepting new technologies that wind up poisoning the air (see, for example, secondhand smoke, leaded gasoline, diacetyl, asbestos, the Great Smog of '52 and the continuing smog problems in Beijing today), we need to be less willing to simply assume that releasing something into the air we all breathe is perfectly safe, and instead only allow it once it has been demonstrated to be safe.

As far as I can tell, e-cigs only started becoming popular in the last few years. While I'm fine with people using them in their own homes or outdoors (since there's a certain level of concentration below which it's not worth worrying about anything), I'd be very skeptical of accepting them in establishments in which smoking is not allowed without further study.
I am not having that problem, after the first load it is instant for me.
I think they were YC rejects who then went to TechStars.
This is so true. The problem with charities is that so much money needs to be raised to pay for the people that manage the people that raise money. Then the people that spend the money raised expect to be treated like heroes. Plus charities don't pay tax so it is all a bit silly.

Compare with getting into ecommerce and working with some small businesses that don't yet sell online. For example, suppose you team up with a business in the Himalayas that sells genuine Tibetan Monkey Stones to passing tourists that just so happen to be newly wed. Put their business online so that people all over the world can buy traditional Tibetan Monkey Stones for friends getting married. Get the orders in, make people happy on their special day, help some business get more than passing trade, potentially to grow and take on new employees, everyone is a winner. No inane fundraisers needed.
The CEO, Rob Rhinehart, is a YC alum.
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The biggest problem is that there are both elastic and inelastic sections of the healthcare market which we have been trying unsuccessfully to treat as if they were the same.

We need a payment conduit/tax structure for the elastic portion and something that actually behaves like insurance for the inelastic. The system we have now does neither well at all.
I have been using git for source control with no issues (haven't tested in a team environment however).

Not sure if you were aware of this already but theres a non-default setting in the Unity preferences for enabling "Version control support" that basically makes Unity save metadata in a text format instead of its standard binary format:
http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/ExternalVersion...
Me too. I eagerly await my order to come in January.
Not true. Ask Lauryn Hill.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/04/showbiz/lauryn-hill-releas...
Thanks for the advice! Upon a second reading, I realize that the way I expressed my point lacks many of the nuances present in my own head. My next task will definitely be concentrating the essence of the argument into a form that's less politically charged and easier to explain and understand.
As I pointed out above, you are bringing the negative context to this, not me. Fearmongering requires intent. I'm flatly stating that was not my intent, no matter your interpretation.
I don't see that really. I see something blue-ish when there is a zero or an eight. On those numbers to the left there is a small 'thing' on the left side of each.
Then you making your thing could be okay, but someone using it is still probably not. :)
Eh, I wouldn't recommend Coinbase. They deemed one of my purchases from them as "high-risk" and have been holding my money hostage since. Support team has been taking 3-4 days to reply to each email in the thread.
What if I told you that you don't need to borrow money to live a comfortable life?
Oh yeah: if you haven't already, always get at least level 2 doors ASAP when heading into a Mantis sector. Almost every one of those mean motherfuckers carries a teleporter, and you do not want to get up close and personal with them.
I agree that demonstrating the stuff that you're doing is really important. Everyone benefits when people share the cool things they're up to.
Your comment reads like you're living in the 60s. I don't think that modern families have the kind of "ritualistic" meals you're describing.
I'll tell you who. Everyone should decide together. Like mature adults with a brain. This is how society is and always has worked.

Parents decide how to raise their kids.

Bosses decide how their employees will act.

Elected leaders decide on what norms the country will have.

You are promoting a kind of ridiculous individualism that is completely disconnected from reality. No one is an island. We all exist in a community and a society and the rules of our society are determined--ideally--through mutual discussion, thinking, negotiation, agreement.

"Who should decide for someone else?" WTF are you talking about? Society should decide social issues. That's who.
+1 for coinbase. As long as you transfer the bulk of your coins to an offline wallet (Electrum is pretty simple), you can buy from any exchange like this pretty safely.

I've been doing dollar cost averaging through coinbase for the last three months (buying $20 worth every week), and with the recent surge my ~$300 investment is now worth over $1,000.
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For younger developers, you might try out the Intel XDK - it has a really simple interface and emulator for Android, iOS and web browsers (for building HTML5 apps). It includes publishing features and its totally free.
How many meals in week do you eat alone? How many with other people? I think most people will simply use this product to replace the meals they'd eat alone, and still go out for food with friends.

As a bachelor who eats out almost every meal, including the lunches and dinners when I eat alone. This sounds perfect for saving money and thus leaving more money to spend when I go out with friends.
Quite a bit being basically twice as long. So you're up to localstorage being usable with 6-10MB now which is nothing to sneeze at.
It is not open source, then?

And Java is controlled by whom?
How about if you get a real life of your own instead of worrying about others fake lives?

I believe the concept is called live and let live.
No, that is not what OP implied at all. "For example, I owe a credit card company $20k"
That's it. I had to read this far before I realized that's exactly what their core is: "trying to normalize liquid diets" (as in make them normal, acceptable, approachable, I think?). There's nothing natural (as in biologically normal, desirable or standard) about a liquid diet, so that's going to be an uphill battle.
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During lunch time? Yes, I would be absolutely fine.

During working hours: no.
It would be useless if it couldn't, since then sites that use Dart instead of JS wouldn't run on most browsers.
I think people would appreciate if you elaborate on which browsers were problematic. I assume the old Android 'Browser' and iOS<6 as well as oldIE?
Yeah, but in most of those cases, it's as easy as get the author based on a key from his content.

It's only when you want joins (e.g. give me all of the titles of all the content and their author's information at the same time) that things get hairy.

Agreed it's not always going to be true for many CMSes. I meant it as a particular CMS, not the general class of CMSes but didn't make that clear at all.
Where would you rather eat on the go? Mcdonalds? Or a Soylent vending machine?

I've had enough Mcdonalds for this lifetime. Bring on the Soylent vending machines!
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Sorry I think there's been some confusion. Forex refers to the currencies exchange markets, not swapping holiday money at a bureau de change or doing the same through your bank. (As an aside it's pretty straightforward to open a USD account in the UK.) While HN is great and all it sounds like you need to consult an accountant.
I've used Corona to develop a hobby project in the past and its great for 2D (easier to use and more programmer friendly than Unity) but completely unsuitable for any 3D work so its really just depends on what kind of game you're making. With Unity 4.3, the 2D experience should be much better (before 4.3, you needed ~$100 addons for decent 2D sprite support in Unity).
I have Safari Version 7.0 (9537.71) on Mavericks. I don't think I have strange config/filters...
Very interesting. I am building a service called Datalanche (~2 weeks till release) which sounds a lot like what you describe. I would love to further discuss this with you offline if you have time.

If so, please contact me: rpedela [at] datalanche [dot] com
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In this case I think hipsterism is used in the sense of complaining to complain, which is very apropos
It also adds the ability to have, for example, multi-threaded code. That's especially nice when it lets you avoid having to port old code from threads to an event-driven model.
Yup, same thing happened with the New York Times (1995) earlier today, it was originally a linkjacking blog post.
Not exactly strange. We still employ people to stare at nudes at the new airport scanners after all.
>it was a previous article of Bill's that made me want to become a scientist

I'm sorry that you had to take inspiration from a lowly businessman to become a scientist.
That man was against open source software just a decade ago.
Gate One already does this (though it sends whole files not just the diffs). Once a client has an asset (JS, CSS) there's no reason for it to be re-downloaded unless there's a change.

Another improvement in Gate One's implementation is that it uses IndexedDB instead of localStorage. This is significantly more performant--especially as you add more/larger assets (localStorage blocks--always--whenever it is used).

It also downloads all assets over the WebSocket connection which has significantly improved performance over multiple GET requests. It's quite fast.
I eat 4 meals alone per week, mostly because I eat lunch at my desk and am not super tight with my new co-workers (mostly because except for fridays I don't eat with them, see how that works?) Breakfast is with my partner, and dinner is with my partner or friends and family.

Why are you eating alone... let alone eating alone as a bachelor?

Make food for friends, go out with friends, not eating alone will change your life for the better (IMHO).
I feel like the author wrote this article with a bias that Western websites are better and more aesthetically pleasing because it's simpler.
But those are all subjective matters and Asian users probably prefer what they have.
I come from a Korean background and I visit many different Korean and American websites daily, including the ones mentioned in the article.
While some of the reasons given may seem plausible, non of them were actually convincing.
There isn't really a solid reason why Asian websites look like that.
That's just how it was and users are familiar with it.
Some people like Hacker News because it's simple, while some people don't like it because it's too simple.
There's no better or worse, it's just a preference.

Also, those patterns are not unique to Asian websites.
If you go to cnn.com or msn.com, they're not that different either.
I assume that the content-to-presentation stack would include something XAML-ish (or indeed XUL-ish) near the presentation end, sure.
And then you complained – silently, quietly, without any expectation of fame or fortune.
Am the only one that thinks it shouldn't count as a one-liner if you need to use a semi-colon?
There's a build of Chromium with a pretty-well-integrated dartvm (Dartium) in every dart-sdk download.

I don't know if/when this will show up in mainstream Chrome builds, but technically it's been possible for a while now.
I haven't worked on one, but when I try the rMBPs at the store I find text more enjoyable to read. I have a retina iPhone, and I like reading text on it (though it's small). I value aspect ratio and total area of screen. A 3:2 15" retina screen would be perfect. If I could afford an 15" rMBP I'd get it (if only to run linux on).

My current laptop is a TN screen Thinkpad, and I loath the screen. I'm embarrassed to show it to other people. I haven't gotten a new laptop because 1. I'm on a shoestring right now, and 2. I want a better aspect ratio than 16:9, which is all Lenovo provides. Ugh. I hope the Chromebook Pixel inspires other manufacturers.

Edit: Actually, I should say I like the screen because the color temperature is so freaking awful that it doesn't bother me to work at night. My iPhone is shockingly blue compared to this dying-ass CCFL-backlit screen. I've never articulated this point before. I know I could change the color temperature manually, but there's something appealing about this being the stupid way it is.
Another reader emailed me and pointed out that as developers, we tend to want to perfect what we are building before we show it off, which is totally understandable, but that urge to make it "a little bit better" needs to be fought back sometimes. MVPs are very valuable in this case as one needs to decide what is important to release and what can wait.
In a way NaCl offers better backwards compatibility as the code can be compiled to both NaCl and Javascript simultaneously. asm.js javascript offers subpar performance on non asm.js platforms as it is optimised to a specific subset that would have no benefit on those. Also long run asm.js sounds like a terrible format when you consider the extra overhead of massive javascript files that could be concisely encoded like NaCl.
That is how it works currently. For example, say I have good credit, and it is very easy for me to borrow. My brother has ok credit, and has to borrow more expensively. My parents have terrible credit, and they cannot borrow at all (right now, at some point, their poor credit will fall of their history).
Um, done in 18 hours rather than days or weeks is (or can be) a huge advantage in it's self.
Awesome - hope to see you on the site soon!
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Why we need responsive images: part deux
Is every single meal a social event for you?

I eat out at least a few times a week with friends. But if I'm stuck at the office working late or home alone one night, I don't cook. I order off seamless, and a lot of it is garbage. Sure, I should learn to like cooking, but I've failed to do that and that's unlikely to change.

So in my mind, replacing the shitty delivery meals with something optimally nutritious would be great. And then on the weekends or when I have time, I'd still of course eat out with friends and family.

Soylent is not aiming to replace every meal. But as a replacement for grabbing a slice of pizza on the way home from work by yourself, what's the problem?
I'm not saying anything about the safety of the vapor one way or the other. I've seen people cite studies saying it is safe, I've seen people cite studies saying they are not safe, I've seen even more people say that the whole deal has yet to be studied. I don't use the things, so frankly I can't be arsed to get to the bottom of it.

All I'm poking at are what I do perceive to be irrational arguments against them.

Arguments like:

> "Impressionable kids"

Ban real cigarettes in movies and outdoors then.

> "people who have quit smoking but may be tempted to go back"

No special considerations like this are afforded to recovering alcoholics.

> "The idea of losing ground on the fight that was just recently won, of not allowing it in most indoor public places, makes non-smokers fairly anxious."

Their anxiety is irrational, indoor smoking is not making a comeback. If second hand e-cig vapor is a concern, it is an independent concern.
> YC owns a portion of Soylent.

No they don't. Unless you can point to something that shows they do?
Responsive images – end of year report
s/system/service

they read bits from the camera api, transmit them, and draw them on the recipients screen. they don't need to be compatible with any 3rd party like DRM-restricted systems.
I love this idea so much and you two really owned those clips! It's so rare to get a glimpse of how a startup went from day 1 to day 100 on this level. And it looks like you had fun! :)
Actually I think it's the other way around: Institutions benefited enormously from open source software. They saw the chance to get rid of proprietary systems and use the force of the community and they took it because it was PROFITABLE for them to do so!

Why did IBM, Google, etc. Choose Linux as a platform? Out of courtesy? :-)
>(governments in their role as social planners) enact policies to alter the risk landscape to achieve desirable social/economic ends and sometimes rents for specific interest groups.

Yes. And this is a GOOD thing. Because society as a whole (not to mention the human fucking species) is better off when certain special interest groups are advantaged: Children. The Elderly. Parents. Altruistic people. Social services. Healthcare. Investment in basic science research. Space exploration. Protecting the environment.

...and when certain people are disadvantaged: Killers. Psychopaths. Rapists. Thieves. Bullies. People who exploit market inefficiencies. Monopolists. Oligarchs that buy elections and bribe politicians. Aristocrats who throw their weight around to abuse and bully.

If you think certain types of people ("special interest groups") should NOT receive advantages or disadvantages based on their value to the human species... well... then you are f u c k i n g d u m b.

Who decides these things? WE DO. SOCIETY. YES, LIBERTARIANS, SOCIETY IS REAL.
Are there any civilizations you're aware of that, after soil rehabilitation, wouldn't have a local source of food? Except for the poles and extreme elevations, this entire planet is well suited for life.
If I have a copy of some information or software, and I can easily copy it to my friend, and my friend needs it, why should I deny him? Would I not be mean in denying him? If I would, then would you not be immoral for coercing me to be mean to my friend? That, in essence, is the argument.

You could argue that your business model requires me, i.e. all your customers, to agree not to give their friends (or anyone else) copies. But the world does not owe you a living. If your business model requires you to ask people to behave badly towards their friends, then it is destroying the social fabric of society, and you could rightly be called immoral.

Anyway, see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html if you truly want to read more.
> Grains not good for anything except acting as an "energy drink" to fatten up livestock animals. Grains are good food for our good food, at most.

This is so absurd, I'm not even sure how to respond. Most of the global human population gets their daily calories from staple cereals. A diet based on energy and time efficient calories from cereals is what allowed civilization to flourish.
Most chemicals can do nightmarish things to the human body. It depends on the dosage.

(Heck, even human bodies do nightmarish things to other human bodies.)
CyanogenMod is in Google Play
csvkit is awesome. My only complaint was that it correctly parsed a file and left my confused when I had half the number of rows I expected because I didn't realize each row contained a line break.
Why not TypeScript?
MacRumors breached in smilar manner to Ubuntu forums
Why I've all but given up on Windows