skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't make any sense. BMW and MB are much cheaper in Germany than the US, if you exclude VAT. I know this because some friends stationed near Bitburger bought 2 5-series, had them prepped with NTSB bumpers and lights. Then shipped them, on the Air Force's dime, to the US. 2 years later, they sold them for more than they paid. Duty was 1.5%, sales tax was 4.5%

Unless the cars were built in the US, like the X5, there is no logical way to make it less expensive to re-import into the EU.

Car manufacturers are way ahead of film distributors in the global economy. Outside of luxury cars, most are manufactured in the country they are destined for. Or they setup a bilateral trade agreement (like Mazda and Ford) where carA is made in CountryA, carB is made in CountryB and both cars are sold in both markets.

> If its profitable to ship something from another part of the world where it is legally bought then people are going to do it.

You've never had your cargo held up in customs I assume. Airports don't count.
This is actually interesting. The American Association of Pediatrics recommends transitioning kids over to skim milk at age 2. This is because they are trying to fight the obesity epidemic. See recent publications on their HALF inititive: http://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-init...

As you can imagine, this has caused some controversy in the pediatrics world. The pediatrician we go to still recommends whole or 2% milk for our toddler. She actually makes a point to tell us any time her recommendations conflict with the official AAP recommendations and why, which I think is a really nice thing for a doctor to do.
More importantly it didn't even support the argument presented.

I guess what they intended was "African Americans have low IQ and so do Africans, ergo IQ is race-related". Yet African Americans have higher IQ than Africans, because they live in a more prosperous region, with less disease, more opportunities etc. so what does that tell us about IQ and race, and racial differences within countries? That maybe it's not all about race (and generally be on the lookout for stats that don't correct for factors like age/wealth/education/sex etc. I regularly see the "headline" figure being given uncorrected.)
Soon enough you will not own the car you buy, but just a license to use it in limited ways.
Why Hollywood Resists Disruption
Like I said; not messing up would be making sure they have other jobs either at IBM or elsewhere. Not calling laying off 13000 people messing up sounds strange to me; you have a social responsibility here. People are not things you can discard when you don't need them anymore. If you have no other way, then ok, but IBM is not close to any kind of bankruptcy or situation like that.
As a German who lived near Minneapolis and Salt Lake City for a year this is exactly the same problem which I had. I _love_ milk, but it was near impossible to find good tasty milk. There was a deli shop which sometimes sold some milk which was ok, but the rest did taste different/worse than the milk which you can buy in Germany. What I also missed was cheese, bread, brötchen, croissants, ...

But on the other hand, almost everything related to meat, BBQ and burger was much more awesome than in Germany.
> The USA's first amendment of the constitutions includes no such concession nor limitations

As a Brit, my knowledge of US law is limited, but that seems pretty clearly false. The exceptions and limitations are set out in case law rather than in the text of the amendment (as they are in A.10), but that doesn't mean they don't exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_excep... lists the main ones (Miller v. California, Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, etc.). The areas covered seem at a glance to be broadly similar to those in A.10(2).

I think it's probably true that exceptions to the US 1st amendment are narrower than those to A.10 -- the US does indeed have fairly strong free speech protection -- but that's a long way from saying there aren't any!

(I don't think I'd want free speech to be an unqualified right, either. Many of the limitations in the US and EU seem broadly sensible - obvious example: there are good consequentialist reasons for restricting the distribution of child pornography).
Free markets means that stupid/wrong decisions (i.e. Google hurting people) result in competitive advantage to companies that don't do those stupid things. I'm sure CEO of DuckDuckGo.com just can't wait for Google to start hurting its customers.

And then I take corporations competition every day over Government regulation.
Massively multiplayer online Flappy Bird
Still the wrong wording. ISPs can optionally provide filtering to their users, which is on by default and opt-out. Only the large ISPs have implemented the filtering, and only for new customers. Existing customers have no filtering.
Faceted navigation best (and 5 of the worst) practices
For presenting utilize as a wasteful term, I want to tearfully hug everyone involved in this.

Please kill 'utilize.' We should reach out to stakeholders and incentivize the sunsetting of the leveraging of the word 'utilize' from all slide decks.

Slide decks - the (not) new version of the tri-fold foam presentation board. It's the clear binder of our age.
Is it just me or does this feel too soon to really give two hoots about? 30 years is within my lifetime, just kinda feels like Mom pulling out old baby clothes and saying 'look at your old onesie!' Wow, looks a bit different to my own babies onesie which is still just as utilised today, but it's by no means a relic. Having said that we still get interested in 30000 year old excavated skulls (which most of us have and still use today). I guess it's the time / evolution factor. I'm just not that interested in this find. Seems more apt for HN readers in 3014.
Making this an API that WordPress, Draft, Ghost, and other writing platforms could pull in would be awesome. Maybe you could add plugin support or something for people that want it integrated into their blog/cms?
That's illegal in most if not all of the US.
What's with layervault when this is just a post on medium? I guess it's one way to get around the HN downfilter...
Have you ever tried warm whole milk mixed with honey? That's my favorite drink for cold days.
I've read your comment twice and I cannot see any pertinent connection between it and what I said.
What's the Most Frustrating Aspect of Being a Scientist?
'Citation'. 'Cite' is the verb.
Sadly, I completely agree with you, and more specifically on the part about IBM going so low on the hiring process as to hire people that can not do their jobs. I would add that to add insult to injury, their level of english is terrible, to the point where many times you can not even understand what they are trying to say. This for both, India and China workers. Again, like you say, it is probably not the India and China people's fault, but IBM's own fault, either because they hired the wrong people, or they did not train the people they hired. By the way, IBM Domino is so much more than a mail server ;)
Shit, 40s? I had to start busting my ass at 28 to not be a fat land whale.
It's European companies that get interfered with by their governments and that is a big part of the problem. There is no such thing as "secret assistance" in the US, and "level playing field" is another bullshit buzzword which means governments get to device about the companies they like best.

Your economic woes are all your fault, own up to them and start changing things, ignorantly blaming others won't get you anywhere.
> What about that French comedian that has your government exploring ways to ban his act?

Well, what about him? France is not the US, you have hate laws here. Nobody is trying to ban him because he is criticizing the government.

That's not parent is saying anyway: Perhaps they'll uses the French model and make it illegal to say anything critical about the French government. Last time I checked, the Figaro and le Point (conservative newspapers) were alive and well.
Um, what is happening in Syria is a slaughter, literally.

What is happening in India is mass layoffs, sad and unfortunate but "slaughter" ?

When AOL and other US corporations outsourced all the call centers to India in 2000-2010 , there were mass layoffs here too.
Amazon and the Perils of Non-Disclosure
With the added benefit of being able to chew it all day.
We already do. I think most people in this discussion aren't realizing that the current sysV init system is an extremely small pid 1 /sbin/init, and most of the logic in external rc scripts. Moving rc scripts to systemd declarative syntax is fine.

The important part with respect to software architecture is less complexity in pid 1. Subprocesses of init can be safely updated and restarted. More code in init is a real problem -- that's why systemd as pid 1 is controversial.
Sounds like a perfectly balanced source of information.
I didn't understand it before. I do now that I can see a working implementation. Words are wind, functional code is powerful :)

At least there isn't a supplied list of ntp servers.
Its about expectation. Pick up a glass of milk thinking its orange juice, drink it - it's gross! Then you look - oh, OJ, that's ok then.
+1 also from within eshell cd proto:user@location:/filepath
where proto can be ftp, ssh , and some others
The troubled history of the Bitcoin exchange MtGox
Unix ELF File Format
That's where the EU is actually great.

Car manufacturers (notably VW and BMW) where punished with 100s M Euro fines for enforcing that their Italian dealerships do not sell to Swiss customers, even though Switzerland is not part of the EU.

The situation is, of course, exactly the opposite in that Swiss customers profited from cheaper Italian prices.

The EU commission takes a very dim view on attempts to subvert the free market by manufacturers.

This seems exactly the opposite from the US, where big business is protected, but not the customer.
Nobody is seriously saying that this is censorship. The main worry is that it's a slippery slope that promotes, technically and culturally, censorship in the future.
When IBM did their layoff action in 2013, people in Australia received 2 weeks pay for every year they had worked at IBM. I was there, saw those people leave, saw what they got offered. Was really sad about it because one guy in particular was possibly the best project manager for our department in all of the Asia Pacific region. They gave the most critical projects to this guy. He worked hellish hours to get a severely important project done, as well as managing the network program (project portfolio). Email was sent out that he'd go on a well-deserved extended vacation, and when he came back, he'd be reassigned to another critical role now that everything in Network and other stuff are under control. When he came back, he got his 2 weeks pay per year worked. That really pissed me off. If you're going to fire people, fire the worst guy, not the best guy. He was capable of doing the work of 3 project managers.
Precautionary Principle and Application to GMOs
Which way do you mean that sentence?

* The statement that 'all adults should' is false.

* For any and every adult X, X should not.
True but plenty of other foods are Vitamin D fortified. Most cereals and other dairy items like butter or margarine or yogurt.
That's pretty mean. The recommendations given to doctors (doctors are not normally nutritionists, they just pass on recommendations) changed three times while I was raising kids. So maybe the doc was just behind the times.
Wish I could upvote this more. The health difference between pasteurized milk and raw milk is roughly equivalent to the flavor difference between the two - huge. If you must drink pasteurized milk, full fat is your only option.
It may also be underpaid and underappreciated hackers in a variety of countries who are contracted by criminal organizations.

If I was a senior exec with Hell's Angels, I would offer a few hundred dollars a day to Moscow cab drivers,e.g., who happen to have Ph.D.s in computer engineering, mathematics, or other equally interesting degrees - people who are more than qualified for this sort of work, but who cannot find work in their fields and have mouths to feed.

In fact, I would probably establish a JV with an appropriate organization, have them recruit, manage, and build, take the product for my criminal uses, then allow the JV to market it to others, and split the profits from that use with my JV partner.

Business is business, even when it's crime.
It is quite short sighted to think that all digital currencies are "forked" from bitcoin: see http://www.openudc.org/ for instance:

"The OpenUDC softwares are designed to manage a free money system as described by the TRM (Théorie Relative de la Monnaie), that means a money system where no human has privileges in front of money creation either in time or in space."

The concept is therefore quite different from BTC which clearly gives some people a huge privilege in front of money creation in time
The UN is the last organization on earth to be given control or dominion over the net just based on the results of the Human Rights Council.

Its fine where it is, at least the US leadership can be picked on with near impunity if not vilified by the press to get a reaction, other countries less so
Java 8 Cheatsheet: lambdas, method references, default methods and streams
I agree with your second paragraph, although this is following Hemingway's specific rules, so it's good to be strong with them. And of course, you have to know the rules before you can break them.

Aside from Hemingway, it's fun to paste in other classic literature and see what the tool makes of it. It hated Lolita.
But the milk of a different species is OK?

The thought might repulse, but human milk at least contains things a child human needs and that other humans can benefit from.

Milk is strange... best not to think about it too much. Best also not to visualise it, which is kinda the problem with human milk.
I wrote a tool to integrate GitHub pull requests with Jenkins builds called Leeroy: https://github.com/litl/leeroy

This new feature will make things so much easier to set up and debug, I'm thrilled. Before, you could not create a pull request hook without using the API, and this caused a lot of people confusion. We set up the hook automatically in Leeroy, but this will allow people to set it up manually if they want, and debug when it doesn't work.
In Germany it is actually quite hard to find skim milk. I guess at least 98% of the milk you see in a supermarket has either 3.8%, 3.5% or 1.8% fat content. In some supermarkets you can find 0.1% milk, but that is quite rare.
I like the idea of the app, but I'm not totally sure this kind of "review" will be very useful.

The problem is that, in some cases, you need complex sentences , passive voice or adverbs. And that means that a perfectly fine article won't be pristine.
I had a similar problem when facing syntax correctors that show a lot of warnings. Yes, they help you make less mistakes, but they also give falso positives, which can be distracting. I want to clean up and get to zero errors, after all.

So, this can reduce your writing to be "too conformant".

Man, writing is hard :_(
WildFly 8 Final is released
Excellent use of my taxes.
Awesome comment. I think of this as the difference between Jesus and Buddha, which I have riffed about in other HN comments. Jesus says: You stand alone judged before God. Buddha says: Your supposed self is an illusion, the collectivity is all.

EDIT: I had an Alan Watts phase growing up, started by cool Episcopalian seminary students who lent me his books; Watts got ordained, then (I think) subsequently defrocked for his carousing.
That is indeed my point. The reason: pid 1 is special on unix. Here's a pretty decent article on the subject: http://ewontfix.com/14/
You'd think I was writing Wikipedia jargon after a Wikipedia URL or something.
Then again, the fitness life has never really been considered the epitome of healthy living...

Don't get me wrong, your focus on the GI index is definitely better than an obsession with low-fat, and something tells me your dietary program is much more than that even though you spared us the fleshed out details.
Here are the important lines from ntpdos.py:

> #Magic Packet aka NTP v2 Monlist Packet

> data=str("\x17\x00\x03\x2a") + str("\x00")*4

> packet = IP(dst=ntpserver,src=target)/UDP(sport=48947,dport=123)/Raw(load=data) #BUILD IT
It's limited to educational institutions.
Not really. There are many states that allow farmers to sell raw milk; some only for pet consumption. The illegal part is generally about 'smuggling' raw milk across state borders.
So, when tourists enter the US, do they need permission to leave with souvenirs?

It depends on the export restrictions. A couple of decades ago, if your "souvenir" was a device capable of encrypting data with a key larger than a few dozen bits, yes, you would need permission to leave with it.
> Plus there is generally a month notice, in theory so you can find another job internally.

This is not really the case, it seems there is usually a hiring freeze for the month between when people were notified and when people are let go.
It would be great to have a low-level binding to LevelDB in the browser for developers who want to implement their own indexing and transactions. I have been working with WebSQL and IndexedDB ever since they launched and performance is often an order of magnitude slower due to design decisions taken by browser vendors.
Spamassassin.
All I see is the assertion that "money isn't real" interspersed with rambling anecdotes.
and here i was, thinking my timemachine finally worked :/
Been there, done that. I guess it must be an acquired taste :)
wrong. bitcoin has a smart contract system in it. its not just a unit of account. ripple is about as good as eGold. actually Watts had tremendous foresight when he says here: "
And one of the reasons that our technology is impeded and prevented from feeding the world properly is the failure of one of our networks. It's an information network and it's called money" here we are, and now money is a network.
I think you nailed it yourself. Here is the message you get every day for years while working for big-corpo like IBM:
> YOU'RE PART OF A BUSINESS

And here is your "thank you":
> You don't get notice (on purpose), you have to turn in company-owned property and they want you out the door

Why you IBM would or any other big-corpo follows this scheme of laying people off is beyond me.
There are plenty of ways to kill pid 1. The major concern is simply software error, which is another reason why the current systemd design is poor. But if you'd like a concrete example, go ahead and attach gdb and use your imagination.
I like it. Is the grade level calculated with Fleisch-Kincaid?

$5 is a reasonable price (to me) for a minimal text editor with this feature, though I would prefer something meatier and more expensive along the likes of Scrivener.
Well, this is great.

But it's missing something.

If I'm to learn how to write clearer, I will need to use this more often.

Could they create an API and a chrome addon?

Ubiquity is the killer feature of any communication tool.
> It's easy to accuse anyone of hate speech for example and get him banned and fined.

Are you trying to say that laws against hate speech are a bad thing, or that they are abused in France? If they are abused in France, I'd appreciate relevant examples. Not Dieudonné, as this unfortunate character has made his bread and butter of antisemitism the last few years.

> There's also offenses against the president

Fair enough. I'd like to point out, though, that the last person to be condemned for "offense to the head of state" had to pay 30 euros after insulting Nicolas Sarkozy. That's not exactly financial ruin, but I'd like this law to go away entirely.

> journalists getting mysteriously fired all the time because they were a bit too critical of the government.

Which ones in particular?
Cool, I think you're the first person I've heard from who's actually seen one! Are you in NZ?
Maybe for a developing country. Here in Europe I'd expect 3 months' full salary as a minimum.
Mozilla was involved with the standardization of the LocalStorage and IndexedDB APIs. If this is the API that users really want — and I'd argue that it is — I wish they would've realized it sooner and lobbied to standardize a simple, asynchronous, variable type key value store.
Why I signed up for a one-way trip to Mars
Just tried to understand the last bit myself.

So he's doing 0["constructor"] which gives the constructor of a number, Number.
Then he's 0["constructor"]["constructor"] gives the constructor of Number, which is like a function, so he gets Function.

var y = (0)["constructor"]["constructor"];
y == Function; // true

Then he basically does this ($.$ == Function):

Function(
Function(
"return \"alert('I love you');\""
)()
)();

The inner function just returns the string "alert('I love you');", which then becomes the body for the outer function.

I don't know why they didn't make it:

Function ("alert('I love you');")();

Maybe they needed more chars for the heart. That was a good little crash course in javascript Function constructors!
Do you apply updates? If so, have you ever seen how it breaks functionality of legacy code? Never seen problems with third party tools like Delphi or Java? Never seen Trojan or a virus?
> What I would like to know is if those not eating high-fat dairy compensate with high-carbs dairy.

That's an interesting point. I have noticed that a lot of low-fat foods in the store seem to try to compensate for flavor losses by adding sugar. Totally non-scientific observation, but I wonder if there's something more to it.
I thought the same thing on first glance. However, maybe the use case for this is rather to filter entire blocks of solid color text. One complex (red) sentence every now and then is perfectly fine, but I would rather see a whole paragraph of them, say 4 or so in a row, as a problem.
One other thing to watch out for - if you're using the sort of regexes the author suggests, be VERY careful about any minificiation / uglification steps. I recently had to chase down an issue where uglify was replacing Unicode escapes with literal characters, causing strange "Invalid regular expression: Range out of order in character class" errors on load.
Pump your brakes, here. clarkevans didn't say why the pediatrician recommended the switch. Maybe his four year-old was struggling with a weight-related issue? Maybe it had to do with trying to encourage increased milk consumption (clarkevans says she "more than doubled" her consumption). Or maybe you're right, and the pediatrician just wasn't up on current information.

Regardless, I think you should be a little more careful when making that kind of claim without any other additional information.
There is nothing wrong with the passive voice.
New Way to Report and Discuss Bugs
If you had a machine which would charge $1 for a 1% chance of winning $1000 in 1 year, you could fairly charge people somewhere between $5 and $9.50 per pull of the handle. You'd have an exceptionally long line waiting for that deal.

The whole point is rich people, investment portfolios, etc. have an entirely different risk profile than individuals. For an individual, low-probability high EV (high variance) is dangerous, which is why you buy insurance -- essentially negative EV (a 100% chance of losing either $1 or $2, but not losing your $1000).
What part of this is 'illegal', exactly? Is it a violation of the export law, or what? Or is it just that you get to say what the law is in the US if you have enough money?