skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people eat sugar. In fact, I'm willing to bet that the proportion of people in the western world who have eaten sugar is close to 100%.

Not everyone is obese. Even in the US, where obesity is at its worst, it's around 35%. That suggests that 65% of people can consume sugar and then not become obese.

Certainly amongst my peer group of middle class graduates almost everyone eats sugar and almost nobody is obese. That suggests that people are perfectly capable of consuming moderate amounts of sugar without becoming rampant sugar addicts rapidly turning obese.

The physical cause of obesity may be the overconsumption of simple carbohydrates, but the socioeconomic distribution of obesity suggests that there's many factors which drive that consumption.
The goal shouldn't be to change jobs, as in the company you work for, but to change jobs, as in what you are working on. There is nothing wrong with being 10 years at the same company as long you're constantly getting a chance to do different things, moving around and generally feel like you're developing and learning.
Not quite sure how I helped you with the latter but I am glad to help!
Exactly, how many developers can honestly say they've never copy pasted commands into the terminal without being 100% sure what they were doing?
We need more tism.

Not the kind of tism that hurts people, but the kind of tism that the US government engages in: using fear to control the population and influence opinion ("We need these percautions or planes will be jacked").

Basically, if the government doesn't brand you a tist, you aren't a threat to the status quo and they aren't scared of you changing anything. If you aren't called a tist you've failed. To win the game you have to play the game.

What we need is to hurt the bottom line of the biggest tax contributors, and we need to make it clear why their bottom line is receding (complicity with data sniffing).
You can definitely get paid to do the open source stuff you think is cool. Getting a day job to pay for your night job seems like a recipe for disaster.
Excited to share the launch of @mozilla @firefox Tiles
program, the first of our user-enhancing programs

https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156496789504

I don't know what I am concerned more about - the "first of" or the disingenuous and sleazy attempt to masquerade paid content as something that users need or want.
It seems to me that any reasonable length comment is incapable of capturing the complexity of any viewpoint.

> why are you limiting your analysis to intra-household dynamics only?

Because before industrialization:

1. Most households were businesses, and

2. Society largely functioned as a union of households, not a union of individuals (Indonesia is still this way, btw). Interestingly this was the basis of Aristotle's social theory and is generally considered to be representative of the Indo-European world before industrialization. From this perspective democracy would mean "one household, one vote" which is a fair summary of the pre-19th Amendment status quo, actually. Obviously this doesn't work if votes are private (and secret) or if women don't have the keys to power by collaborating to get agendas passed.

So intra-household dynamics is the question of power where those are the case.

Edit: the other problem is that extra-household dynamics and gender before industrialization leads to all kinds of apple/orange comparisons. How do you compare political assembly membership with collective plotting on political issues while washing laundry down by the river? Does it matter if the man's wife will likely know how he voted?
What about the charger, warranty card, manual, etc? There is space at the top of the bottle masked by a silver band which might contain something, but surprised if you could get the charger in there.
Doesn't (or didn't) Google pay to be the search engine by default? Is this different?

I've donated to Firefox. I'd pay for an Ad free version but I don't have any problem with them doing this if it funds them in a meaningful way.
It is The Same Thing.

It will be pre populated with selected sites, just like your new iPhone have yahoo, espn, etc.
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On the other hand, there's a perfect opportunity here for someone to do the Linux Mint thing and provide a ad-stripped alternate version of Firefox for people.
I'd go for the sleazy, really.
So, Mozilla now changed from non-profit into ads-profit. Oh, great.
Tort reform also has no bearing on cost outcomes, according to the data. Texas is one example. It's solely designed to prevent human beings from holding corporations accountable for their actions.

The reason people bring it up is because it's just straight up propaganda preventing them from thinking. Single payer is inarguably more effective, efficient, and cheaper. Also, "I'm against a public system because it's corrupt"? But this private system is a-ok, no corruption at all! FFS.
Freedom of Press Index 2014: USA falls 13 places (now just above Haiti)
As a single step, it doesn't bother me really.

But as a part of an overall bad strategy, I definitely dislike it.
Not on the desktop, but in Opera Mini there have been product placements on both the home screen and speed dial screens for a while.

I'm somewhat OK with it, considering it is a free product. What sucks is that they don't respect my synced Opera Link settings when on a new OM installation. Have to remove items on the speed dial screen manually at that time. The home screen ones are not removable at all, from what I can see.
and this is announced after February 11

"really excited about..." - it's inevitable :(
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There's also a huge amount of redundancy inside, and between:

- SysVinit

- xinetd

- atd

- crond

- supervisor

- syslogd

and the other things systemd replaces.

'Small, single purpose tools' is Unix philosophy. But DRY is engineering philosophy. Each repeated piece of logic doubles the scope for errors.

One could also argue that 'doing one thing well' is handling services.
Sponsored content is newspeak for ads.
I think he was suggesting you try out FreeBSD, which I also recommend.

It's a solid server environment.
With kdbus (dbus in the kernel) on its way it is largely moot anyway.

"Disconnecting from dbus" at that point will not be very meaningful.
Lustig's point is that you don't know you're eating sugar when you actually are. Up to 10% corn syrup in white breads, sauces, any precooked meal, sausages. If you eat BBQ sauce, you're eating sugar.

Salt and sugar save low aroma food (>80% processed food). Their combined power on the human body is vicious.
It seems he's routing calls to print the code into console.log and eval-ing that string, which is quite interesting.
I have, but I have no reasons whatsoever to consider a switch - the potential upside is way too small to be worthwhile.
That’s exactly what bothered me so much about it. Of course now the ads are still in a kind of unobtrusive placement. But once they’re started... Where will this end?
I dont't think Stripe is being misleading, but many people might be overstating the importance of this feature.

Even without this conversion, you can always (try to) accept payments denominated in U$ from people with Brazil-issued (or Uzbekistan etc) cards. Say you charge 10USD for a product. You get paid (10-fees)USD. Later the issuing bank will convert (say) 10USD into 20BRL and the customer will pay in BRL as usual. But the customer doesn't know beforehand what is the exact exchange rate, so at the time of the purchase they don't exactly how much it will cost them in BRL.

With currency conversion, you can instead charge some of your customers in BRL. In this case, the customer knows exactly how much the cost will be in BRL. Instead, the USD value you get becomes variable. But this doesn't solve the problem of Brazilian (or Uzbekistan) banks denying the payment (due to fraud prevention or because they aren't connected to Stripe's acquirers or whatever), and it doesn't solve the problem of accepting payments via Stripe as a Brazilian-based merchant.

(To be clear, this is not a critique of Stripe)
Yes? Reset my Safari gives the following stock tiles:

* Apple homepage

* iCloud homepage

* Facebook (third party, commercial)

* Twitter (third party, commercial)

* Wikipedia (third party, non-profit)

* Yahoo (third party, commercial)

So half of what a reset Safari gives me are pages of obvious commercial interest and probably bought by those companies.
That is a really pedantic response that completely misses the point.

You can't deny that there wasn't any real, marketed involvement used by the top Internet companies to promote the cause.

Yes, the execution of this topic's awareness was very lackluster, so what exactly is your point?
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No, you're still serving the same assets. It's only really an issue if your users like seeing where network requests are going and spot the cloudfront URL.
Veering wildly off topic, but I haven't heard much from the jilted Google Reader crowd for a while. Have they found something new, or are we now living in a post-RSS world?
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It's not recommended as asset precompilation usually requires access to the environment (e.g a DB connection), and thus isn't deterministic.
The actual answer relates to the email protocol. Sure, you can setup your private messing system and there are plenty of them out there, but if you want to receive email from someones gmail account you need to hook into DNS which is under a government's control you also need a few dedicated machines to handle the load. Granted you may trust .TV or wherever, but as the pirate bay found out when the US and it's allies really want something it's surprisingly hard to find someone that's really willing to stand up to them.
The inability of most HN commenters to consider long term benefits of including unobstrusive sponsored content in Firefox or opportunity cost of not including such sponsored content is suprising to me.
Migrated to feedly without any issues at all. Still using RSS happily.
Say something comes along at that point and kills systemd. Now everything below it is orphaned and has init as it's new parent.

Sysv-init does not know what to do with those processes other than reap zombies.

Now you have a system full of unmonitored processes, just as without systemd, and no standardized way of restarting the services.

This is why systemd needs to run parts of its logic in pid 1 to be most compelling.

You can launch systemd without letting it be pid 1, but you lose functionality it can't provided outside it.
Only caring for yourself isn't helping your others in a global society, ever.
Technically, they're not even UTF-16 problems they're extended UCS-2 problems (aka UTF-16-treated-as-UCS-2-with-surrogate-pairs). Logically, a UTF-16 interface wouldn't expose code units first and foremost.
OS X is an Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product since Leopard and given this it can be considered "complete." It isn't shipped with a compiler but your can install the cmdline tools (without all the XCode bundle) typing:

xcode-select --install

on (Mavericks) Terminal.
Mozilla doing "ads" is not the same thing as Google doing "ads", yet no one gives a flying fuck about Google's intentions.

Sometimes the tech world acts like a bunch of 4-year old children. I am sick of it.
I put it up on my community site as well, and to be fair... the response was underwhelming. A few people found the site ending up being unusable (on mobile), others found it annoying, and others thought their computer or the website had been hacked / infected with malware.

So yeah, on the one side, the big players didn't participate; on the other, the banner was ineffective or confusing for a lot of people, and finally, a lot of people simply either didn't get the message or simply didn't care.

You know what happens when people do care? Open revolt, violent protesting, revolution. See also: middle-east. Whose people are a lot more emotional / angry than western countries are, and more inclined to take affirmative action for what they stand for.

In the case of the US, this should be the gross violations of the constitution's amendments, and the lack of action from the higher legal courts to stop it in its tracks. That's when the amendment of the right to bear arms kicks in, allowing the people to overthrow their own government. In theory, anyway.
Agree. Although a lot of the news is about NSA, and very American-centric, this is really a global problem. Not many people pay attention to blacked out web sites unless it's Google or Facebook.
The inability to see a slippery slope is suprising to me.
Eh? Who is "he"? What do you mean routing calls?
> Building an alternative to Gmail? Nope. We can’t do that. We don’t have the resources.

Agreed. We don't have the resources.

> Basically what we need is a new Internet. We have to change everything.

But that would need even more resources!
I'd argue almost anything can be part of a healthy diet, when consumed in moderation. But in itself, there really is nothing in a doughnut your body needs, except energy. I wouldn't even call it 'food' in the sense that you eat it because your body needs it.

The OP seems to make a really big point out of justifying sugar as 'not a toxin' just because you can consume sugar without killing yourself or instantly getting fat. There's probably some denial and 'I like eating sugar' sentiment going on there or something.

I didn't find any convincing arguments as to why adding sugar to processed food, or consciously consuming suger because you think you need it is warranted. Alcohol can be part of healthy diet as well, or motor oil, for that matter. That doesn't mean these things are healthy, or that there aren't any health benefits not consuming those.
The Full-Fat Paradox: Whole Milk May Keep Us Lean
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I am also considering to use Parse but I am still tempted to use StrongLoop (http://strongloop.com/mobile-application-development/loopbac...)
In userspace the Unix way is about disconnected utilities connected by pipes, but that hasn't been uniformly true at more of the "system" level (well, GNU did originally have that philosophy all the way through, even down to the kernel, but most Unixen haven't). The BSDs, for example, generally pride themselves on tighter coupling in the core OS than Linux has traditionally had. You can swap out some components from a default FreeBSD install, mostly more application-level ones (sendmail->postfix, clang->gcc), but the base system is integrated and does things one way, supporting some customization but not every kind of wholesale surgery you might want to do on it. You certainly can't swap out the init system for another one in any kind of supported way. The same is pretty much true of most other Unixen, such as Solaris (which has a pretty integrated init system, too).

I generally like the utilities+pipes model, but for system stuff it's seemed like false advertising to me for a long time anyway: the Linux kernel is monolithic, and many of its features (like cgroups) don't make much sense unless you have some userspace counterpart configuring/arbitrating them and a uniform way of making sure everything gets set up consistently. Traditionally this is handled by a tangle of shell scripts with distribution-specific conventions to make sure they don't step on each other's feet (Debian has piles of this in Debian policy). That's a unified system in practice, because you can't really arbitrarily rewrite the init/configure/reconfigure scripts or swap things out and still have a working system that is Debian-integrated. The scripts are literally separate files on disk, but in practice they're a spaghetti-code implementation of Debian Configuration, a monolithic system that handles initialization and services and package configuration and can't be modified without extreme care if you want things to keep working in the way all the other packages (and apt, dpkg-reconfigure, the diversions system, etc.) expect.
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Well the words `slippery slope` are usually followed by `fallacy` on this site, so I wouldn't be too shocked.
I assume the certs are delivered over ssl from the CA to the client requesting the webserver, is that the case?
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are you sure that deleting the whole grapheme is actually what the Tamil or Korean user wants?

I'm not, but I think it's the only sane thing for a text editor to do if you don't want it to incorporate a ton of language-specific rules. The UAX actually does make a distinction between "legacy" and "extended" grapheme clusters---if you're handing "delete", you'll want to use "legacy clusters" to separate the two Tamil marks; but for text selection, use "extended clusters" will combine them (it's a little bit more complicated than that, but there are properties of Unicode that allow you to handle the "preferred" method for editing a script, while remaining mostly language-agnostic).

Hangul is trickier, but input happens through an IME that "composes" the characters before they are committed to the editor.
The IME will perform component-wise deletion, but once it's committed, the editor will operate on the grapheme. It's not a perfect solution, but keeping the composition/decomposition rules for the language in the IME seems preferable.
You Only Need The Right Customers.
Seriously, what happend to the world. Mozilla was always my loved open source Browser of choice. What they are doing now with arguments about Costa is such a step in the wrong direction and cant even find suitable words.
I will find a replacement.
Rip firefox
Let’s get realistic here shall we? Building an alternative to Gmail? Nope. We can’t do that.

The protocol is called IMAP and the client is called <insert-random-email-client-here>. Email is old and just about every email client does its job sufficiently good to achieve what it was made for: writing and sending emails.

With IMAP, everything is even synced across all devices. Gmail is actually the LEAST important thing to use in my opinion. If people are unwilling to sacrifice a relatively unnecessary software like Gmail, I don't see any chance in boycotting products/companies at all.
this^^

i spend all my time in front of my computer(including my train and bus rides), but i also do sports almost every day.

the problem a lot of us face is that they can't stop thinking about work related things. be it political, company hierarchy(or architecture), or a soft/hardware related problem, that you didn't manage to fix in time.

personally i find running or working to allow me too much time to think. i find my balance in sports, that require 100% attention. that is the only moment during the day where i don't think about solving some problem, but instead focus on something else.
Around 90% of mozilla's budget comes from the search deal with google.
Systemd is controlled by Red Hat in a way in which critical system components including kernel haven't been controlled before. Not by single corporate entity.

That's what we know about this company from an old (2007) article:

> “When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open

> source,” General Justice continued. “It may come as a

> surprise to many of you, but the U.S. Army is “the” single

> largest install base for Red Hat Linux. I'm their largest customer.” [1]

It is better to go with a grass-roots solution, even the one technically inferior, that isn't being influenced by one single vendor or government (especially the one that has a tendency to indiscriminately infect other people's systems [2]).

Also, the Interface Stability Promise [3] by systemd team is just a promise, nothing more. Will Red Hat keep it if it is to decide at some point, that it no longer serves it's bottom line? I wonder if it can be considered legally binding.

[1] http://archive09.linux.com/feed/61302

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILAlhwUgIU

[3] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceSt...

Originally posted in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7210064
In the snippet posted by tshadwell. The code outputs a string into the console via console.log(), then executes the snippet from the console via eval(). Presumably to avoid to avoid Facebook's protections against console copy\paste execution.

Edit: I'm wrong. Need some sleep.
But if systemd was pid 1 and something killed it, you would have a kernel panic. How is that better than a system with a bunch of unmonitored processes? At least with the latter you can safely bring down the system, instead of having a hard crash.
It's perfectly possible to get an important point across without being an asshole, and it's really an indication of the social dysfunction that some hackers are unable to. Maybe that's what working with code and little in-person human contact for decades does to you.

I've seen the same tone from crypto hackers, also under the guise of writing "mission critical" software. It's not an excuse. You don't see airline pilots or doctors yelling at each other for making the occaional honest mistake, which happens in every field and can with the correct routines be caught before it causes any damage.
Of course we can!

It looked like Internet Explorer was a permanent browser monopoly just over a decade ago.

The Spread Firefox campaign - a crowd marketing campaign - fixed that. Combined, of course with a well made browser.

The result was that Apple and Google could later compete on another level with Microsoft (without Spread Firefox, websites wouldn't have worked on iPhones or Chrome).

Something similar can absolutely be done again.
I'll just be positive here and say that it's Mozilla and not Facebook. They'll likely think of a good solution.
Brainwashing youths to this or that habit of thinking and then to use them for a great good is an idea as old as humanity. All sorts of religious sects, political fractions even hobbyists are doing this.

What is going on around YC is absolutely nothing special from a psychological point of view. "If you want loyal workers pay them less, so they would escape from the pain of cognitive dissonance by leveraging the big idea" a textbook says, and goes on about in-groups dynamics and notion of us versus them.

What is interesting is that all this was not created and orchestrated by the evil mind of Paul Graham, and it is not even a sect with him as a great guru. The whole thing was bootstrapped applying that very same bottom-up process he advocated in his technical books about Lisp.

Another part why the whole thing works, which was not mentioned in the pamphlet, is analogy to insider trading. PG has reputation and connections so he could sell teams and/or technologies to "friends".

So, YC is rather remarkable example that good ideas work, while banal practices of housing young naive fools are exactly the same in investment banking or politics or whatever. And it is not risk offloading, it is mere business among connected guys in a valley.

One more subtle difference. Contrary to investment products, which is a cheating by definition, teams and technologies YC selects and sells are "fair" and we could see and use them in our everyday life. We also could see CDS and HFT and mortgage and stock market scams all over the place. This is the difference between finance and tech - it is much more difficult to cheat, and hence succeeded in tech.

YC is the same kind of success based on proper ideas as viaweb was at its time, you like it or not. The analogy with banking is selling piles of java crap to ignorant fools.
> I think that not just Internet activism, but political solutions in general are, at high level, universally total bullshit.

More specifically political solutions beyond a certain modest scale fit that distinction. All of our political issues are scale issues.
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