skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Indians are mostly vegetarian because you can grow alot in India

"mostly"? I would love to know where this statistic was pulled from? Personal experience living in India for 5 years suggests that only Brahmin Hindus and a few other castes are purely vegetarian. Every one else eats meat albeit not as frequently as Americans. Wikipedia stats suggests 20-40% (a huge variance).
Agreed 100%. We want to be part of the conversation as to how to make future CSS parallelizable and amenable to modern hardware, both to educate Web authors as to how to make fast content and to shape the work done in the relevant committees.
But a lot of technologies that could be used for VR, are free, VRML and Web3D, OpenGl etc.
Wow, this is very well written. I apologize that I am not nearly as eloquent a writer as you are.

I think that your theory in general sounds good, but the problem is that you assume that the emotive comments can be easily ignored. I have seen too many cases where the number one comment is a simple casual dismissal of a new product or idea. This problem is compounded by the layout of this site such that a -1000 scored comment will still appear above the number two comment if it is a reply to the number one comment. Therefore, the amount of attention given to any comment below the number one comment (that is not a child) is very very minimal. To even get to the number two comment requires scrolling past very large amounts of replies and replies to replies.

This is not to say that I think the pending system will fix all these flaws as I dont know. I am waiting to see how it will play out. My point here is simply that there is a need.
This insurance is not free. I want the option of saving the 3% interchange when I'm dealing with a merchant I trust, like Amazon.com for example.
Well, I don't think it's a completely binary money or UX type decision, but I do know that working at a larger scale of users shifts your priorities significantly.

For example, I worked on a website that would sometimes process as much as a million dollars in donations in a single day for a nonprofit. If the site went down for even a half hour, that could be tens of thousands of dollars in missed donations. That is like someone not getting paid for almost a year.

We had a cool autocomplete feature that went out and due to a bug that made it past QA caused a on of DB queries and took down the server. It was maybe a better user experience, but the way it was implemented would cost too much in reliability for it to be worth it. The team reengineered the concept until it worked at scale.

A lot of hackers I know who aren't working on that scale don't worry about QA or bugs so much because hardly anybody is using their software and it's not mission critical. When you have millions of people touching your software and it is processing millions of dollars in transactions, the metrics that matter are different.

I am sure Facebook cares about UX, but they are a publicly traded company and if a slightly better UX delivers a significantly worse ad revenue number, that isn't just sort of bad for investors, it's bad for the employees job security (and stock value), it's bad for the advertisers who can't get the same ROI on their ad spend, and ultimately it's a little bit bad for the end users because if "good UX" doesn't make money, then over the long haul, Facebook will learn to not invest in "good UX".

I think the scale that Facebook's engineers are working at is a lot bigger than most of us can easily appreciate.
This article wasn't anti-drug from my perspective.

It warned that we're giving a fraction of those kids drugs that they don't need (which happens with other medications as well).

Neither I, nor the article, is suggesting that kids with ADHD shouldn't take pills as a treatment. It's suggesting that 1 in 20 boys is given amphetamines without a need for them, which is bad.
I worked on the moderation team at Quora, and though you and your moderators know HN better, I'd be happy to share some of what I learned there with respect to hairy comment threads. One of the main focuses of my work was pragmatic solutions that reduce the necessity of human (moderator) intervention without eliminating it entirely.
I had originally typed "to get through exams" but for some inane reason I changed it at the last minute and now conveys the wrong thought completely.
I wonder if footnote 6 of http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html was added to address this counterclaim? The last revision date is 3/14, which seems suspicious.
That's what they were designed for, but they are frequently used to do things that would better be done with flexboxes (if the support was there).
I haven't been following the case closely, but the consensus (even in the view of the plaintiff and the judge) is that the agent misinterpreted the instructions for completing the form, which led to him marking the wrong box on it.
This is interesting, I don't particularly like the tone, but I would love to see a graph of (even relative) app downloads with the release of 1024 and announcement of 2048 (and all the various forks) on it.

I bet there's an effect there.

I bet it's in Three's favor.

And I bet any freshman-level stats student could rigorously show it.
> Eat food.

Question begging.

> Not too much.

Question begging.

> Mostly plants.

Actual recommendation, although vague and unsupported.
> However, the article presents no evidence that Ibrahim's name has actually been removed from any lists.

Well, they can't say it was removed, because that would admit that she was on a list. /sarcasm
Angus Davis learned how to fly airplanes and grew $800 million company
Both of them are basically clever ways to reduce your calorie intake. There is nothing magical happening here. You do Keto, you get satiated sooner, you eat less. You do intermittent fasting, you eat less because you are skipping some meals.
Why is everyone looking at VR in terms of what exists? VR is not gaming, though it shares many aspects of gaming. VR is not social, though it will overlap with a lot of how we use social today. It also won't be the Web, though, if it takes off, it will need to borrow the same open network-anyone-can-set-up-there-tent-where-they-want infrastructure.

But will Facebook be the company to make that happen? The great walled garden will turn into the great walled immersive world. If Facebook manages to pull that off we will all be poorer for it.
> The thing with 2048 is a bit different though. It wasn't just a game craze, it was people playing with algorithms. Making a funny/curious clone of the game had become the game for some.

This is the critical point missed by calling 2048 a clone. Of course it's a clone, and that's what makes it so interesting.

2048, in isolation, isn't that much fun; it captured interest for a while, but what made it gain popularity was being so simple that it lent itself to a hundred variations. Every one of those is, in some ways, more a "clone" of 2048 than 2048 is of Threes, but the meta-game has become fun in ways the game itself isn't. Just look at things like Flappy 2048, or Numberwang 2048.
A fair point in terms of ethics. I guess I was talking about originality.
They are trying to solve the same problem: gatekeepers to any mutable data that affects your DOM -- but they do it in pretty different ways: (1) under the hood, Blaze tracks the DOM changes and applies them directly whereas React diffs the resultant HTML and applies the difference. (2) Blaze uses declarative templates for injecting HTML; React requires HTML to be built using virtual DOM elements in javascript.

Here is one of the React core developers (Pete Hunt) on React integration with Meteor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqVbr_LaCIo (note this is before Blaze)

Regarding performance:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/meteor-core/-px_AGhj...
Offered $500k + 3-year contract. How should I respond?
Shame you can't crowdsource it. We could all vote up or down who gets no-fly'd.
I think they're implying that the term ripoff is suitable regardless of whether he knew there was a link between 1024 and Threes.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/google_mariadb_mysql...

Also, I read somewhere that Google is contributing engineers to work on Maria. Although how many and for how long (compared to the GOOG's internal databases) remains to be seen.
On that note I'm very excited for my piper wallet to arrive this week!

http://piperwallet.com/

Easy and secure way to print out paper wallets. Built on the rasberry pi.
because if you use those terms you are not really a precious snow-flake but just like everyone else!
No, it's not, but Haskell's type system is what allows quickcheck to work as well as it does. The implementations in other languages mostly lack a lot of the power provided by the type system.
Google and Facebook Team Up to Modernize Old-School Databases
> the amount of attention given to any comment below the number one comment (that is not a child) is very very minimal

This seems more like a UX issue. Maybe folding replies after n levels will fix that problem?
The last major hurdle for 1.0 (as I understand it) is final integration work with Atmosphere and updates to the package management system. While this is no small feat, it is far less of an engineering hurdle than either Blaze or the opLog tailing which was implemented in 0.7.0.
The "simple mistake" was not the "intentional and exceptional" bad conduct here. The intentional and exceptional conduct was in not having a clear, transparent, and straightforward process for a person to find out they're on the list, find out exactly why, and appeal.
Bingo. FPGA routing is NP-Hard; Compiling software is generally P.
Ok, but it may be completely different from using the actual app.

For example, GMail app is way slower and irresponsive in the iPad than accessing directly from gmail.com in Safari.
"""
Ben Wizner <snip> remarked at SXSW that problems with the no-fly list aren't going away; the world we're facing will look more like Kafka than Orwell. <snip>

Wizner said:

And I worry about a world—not a world that looks like Orwell. """

I have noticed a tendency for US-media to use "world" for things which are essentially US-only phenomena. (I have never heard of the equivalent of a no-fly list outside the US and UK). The same statement, but referring to "USA" instead of world, would carry more impact to US citizens reading it, might make (some of) them work on the cause. But saying "World" depersonalizes the problem, and distances all readers from it.

I have not seen this "USA is the World" tendency from media in other countries. Seems unique to US media.
2048 is the #1 free app

http://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/app/840919914/rank-history/...
No I meant on the other side.
He was explicitly copying _something_, in a chain of direct borrowings that goes back to Threes. You seem to be taking issue with the pejorative implications of "rip off" that the original article is using to demarcate the difference between an exact clone and the near-but-different copies we're seeing now.

The innovation appears to have advanced enough that some of the 2048 variations are more akin "Doom clones" and "Roguelikes" than they are to "app store clones". But the 2048 apps that have flooded the app store and are mostly direct clones of the web 2048 versions. And they exist in a previously unnamed space between "clone" and "variation".
Or, he's a smart man with a lot more experience than a typical kid fresh out of college.
From the post, it looks like they used Unity to build the game, which as an engine is rather overkill for a 2d puzzler. The loading times are probably tied to this.
Read Crossing the Chasm. Twice.
I think part of the issue is that they let it try and run on hardware where it really shouldn't, given the performance issues it seems to have on older iOS releases. (I don't know about current iOS releases, since I haven't tried Threes on them yet.)
Even Indians who eat meat still eat a lot of (and probably more) veggies. I didn't say "most indians were vegetarians."

The semantics police are out in full force today :) BTW, The Microsoft cafeteria in Bangalore is pure veg.
> After seven years, exactly one person gets off the gov’t no-fly list

Sounds like they know what they're doing.
rodgerd, this comment really annoys me. It comes across so smug and, IMO, so wrong.

Windows is not the dominant computing platform, because PCs are not the dominant computing platform. Smartphones have been outselling PCs since 2011 – not even considering tablets. Windows is obviously still the dominant PC OS, but unlike the 1990's, that doesn't make it the dominant platform.

This is an article about Microsoft releasing Office for smartphone and tablet OSes. To ignore them from your evaluation of the "dominant platform" seems foolish.
Let alone making it with a sentence in the form of: "Bla bla bla, BUT something that directly contradicts bla bla bla."
They can already shop in the digital world with prepaid Visa, Master Card or even AmEx cards. Going after people without bank accounts is big business.
I rarely buy apps, but I bought Threes. I would hope that anyone who's played and enjoyed 1024, 2048 or the myriad knock-offs would at least go and buy a copy of the app. It's a great little game and totally worth $2 (indeed, I'd say it's on par with the quality and playability of the early Nintendo "Game Watch" devices, and that's very high praise BTW. IIRC they retailed for around $25 in the 80's, so Threes is actually underpriced.)

Threes invented a wonderful game mechanic, and I'm reminded of the amazing indie games particularly on Kongregate. It's really something special to see all the creativity and joy that a great computer game can create.

My advice to the Threes inventors would be: rise above the imitators. Indeed, see them for what they are, gestures of respect (with the exception of 1024, who's makers are just assholes). One concrete step I'd take if I were you is to request that the web knock-offs in particular at the very least mention and/or link back to Threes (perhaps an iTunes link[1]).

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/threes!/id779157948?mt=8
Except that it doesn't measure the actual using at all; I seem to recall there being rather more interesting stats than just vanilla "market share" in the iOS vs Android comparison that show that while more people have Android devices, more people with iOS are spending more on, and using more Apps.
So what you are saying is that the "everyone acts in their self interest" free market ideology is bullshit and that we are all in fact people after all? Avoiding the ravages of the market is important for profit. Capitalists always hated the market when it comes to their own business...
Is this legit? Or are you just collecting info? Please point us to the article that has this link.
I took some time to read through the architecture document[0] on HTMLbars yesterday and parts of the Blaze description sound very familiar. As a general observation, both libraries are focused on outputting DOM rather than HTML strings, which is interesting for various reasons. Maybe I'm missing some of the history here re: interaction between Meteor & Tilde, but I wonder if HTMLbars could have been useful in building out Blaze had it been in the works sooner?

[0] https://github.com/tildeio/htmlbars/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE...
Microsoft Office for iPad launched
Oh, Servo certainly isn't a production-ready browser engine yet, if that's what you're looking for; the incomplete DOM code and network code prevent many sites from working.
Even though I know large portion is bad for me, I still get annoyed when I go to a restaurant and get unexpectedly small portion.

So I think the trick is to eat out less, because portion control is much harder, restaurant food is much more caloric. And when you eat dinner at home, eat early, and light.
Oculus is owned by a public entity now, it would be a disservice to Facebook shareholders.

The whole situation is FUBAR, wasn't the whole point of crowd sourcing so that companies wouldn't have to sell out like this?
NUKEMAP3D:  A nuclear weapons effects simulator for Google Earth.
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The point of the article is to say that it is sad that people do not care about craftsmanship. To proclaim that people do not care about craftsmanship is only stating the obvious.
Also the trend is wrong. Old mobile devices needed icons. But then you have a 1920x1080 screen on a new mobile device, you can read and distinguish truly tiny text quite easily (I'm finding a lot of websites are much better in desktop mode on my S4 these days, for example).

Text works just fine in most applications, because the shape of a particular word is itself iconography.
the point is that you cannot download an iOS app without encountering its description, so to say that you know about 1024 and not Threes is deeply suspect.
As in, Indian food is mostly vegetarian, not that most Indian people are strict vegetarians.

When I was working in Delhi, the office canteen offer only veg food 4 days a week, with an optional meat item for a small surcharge on Fridays only. Down south, 100% veg food in restaurants is pretty much the rule, not the exception, although it's not hard to find fish/meat if you look.

Also, a good Indian friend of mine is nearly 100% vegetarian, except that every now and then he gets a craving for a cheeseburger. That's "mostly vegetarian" in my book.

...and getting back to the health thing, it's kind of striking how many obese Indians are Brahmins, who may keep veg but like to slather everything in ghee (clarified butter).
Yes, in the end you still need a caloric deficit, and you can lose weight simply by doing that. However, unlike the caloric deficit, these diets maximize fat loss and minimize muscle loss.
Are there any sites with runnable Servo binaries? Or is it seriously just the engine with absolutely zero browser chrome?
http://imgur.com/T6kIRzj

confirmation page looks legit
> If you want a good measure then look at the carbs. More carbs approximates to less satiety.

Any source you can refer to ?
http://www.reddit.com/r/finance/comments/21jdkf/robinhood_ju...

same thing
Might be. But I see some other phenomenon: The World is adopting more and more the bad things in the US but never the good things of it.

That one worries me.
For many US citizens, the country is their 'world.' They may never leave the country in their lifetime. On the other hand, it's much more difficult to call your own country 'the world' when you border three other countries in such a way that you can live in one, go our clubbing all night in the other, and then have breakfast the next morning in the third...
Looking through the Blaze wiki I'd say that Blaze is more concerned with calculating updates based on changes in data (either by user action or networked bindings) and React is more concerned with managing the entire lifecycle of an element.

React will probably be easier to reason about down the line (despite the initial learning curve), while Blaze will "just work".
Cloud computing: the affordable era
I believe they were planning to expand the number of countries they operate in. The US also has terrible credit card systems compared to any other developed nation.
"It is at least a different product, not better or worse."

The very fact that it's different makes it worse for me. I can use Excel 2010 for Windows without thinking about the tool. Small differences like startup behaviour, position of things on the ribbon, and keyboard shortcut force me to think about how to use Excel for Mac, rather than focusing on the task at hand.

Some, but not all, of this is down to differences in the platform and platform-specific design conventions.
Inventing a new game is a creative exercise. I see it like writing a book. iPhone development took years. This reminds me of all the evidence that is pouring from Apple these days on the conference rooms, sketches, mockups etc.
That's a terrible idea. The problem here is lack of due process, not lack of transparency. (Yes, there is lack of transparency, but the reason that's bad is that it interferes with due process.)
"You have to write your design in an HDL language"

What????
There is a very mature set of tool for converting MATLAB to HDL.

http://www.mathworks.com/products/hdl-coder/

http://www.mathworks.com/products/hdl-verifier/

http://www.mathworks.com/products/filterhdl/

I'm sure there are similar tools for other languages. It requires you to program in a slightly different way (certain operations aren't optimal for FPGAs), but is extremely user-friendly.

At the company I work for, all FPGA programming is done in MATLAB. Unfortunately I work in a different department so I can't give you any technical details, but from what I understand, no one has written things directly to HDL in years.
I am eager to hear who is jjoe's "we", but these two services match the description: http://www.mininodes.com/ and http://www.nx-box.net/en/.
Keto is more complex than just calorie reduction. The theory is that it flips your metabolism into a different state. You are burning different fuel, ketones directly from fat stores.

I don't know if keto is solid science, but the theory cannot be represented as merely calorie reduction.
> due to marketing stupidity those phones have 4-8 slow cores instead of 1-2 fast cores.

Beyond marketing, wouldn't more slow cores consume less battery power than fewer fast cores?
Office anywhere finally makes sense
When Everyone Wants To Watch 'House Of Cards,' Who Pays?
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It sounds as though you are seriously promoting using drugs to control children's behavior to solve the problem of poor schools.

Downvotes? Am I misreading the parent?
> sustainability, I think that's a bad idea.

Does not look like it. Humanity and Meat production have scaled pretty well in the 20th century. And we have way less food shortages that we have ever had before.
Ouch! Acid2 is broken on my Firefox too (but in a slightly different way). :(
yup. making no money.

and, as the threes guys point out, with no longevity. it won't be at the top of the heap for long. then, unlike threes, it will crash out the bottom instead of hanging around.

so, again. meh.
I got the link in an email. Not sure how to link to the email. Anyways the questions are specific to brokerage I dont think it is of any use to anyone other than them.
What is the objective diagnosis for ADHD?
Just at a glance it got skin color, gender, hair color, and the smile.
My girlfriend is a psychiatrist and we've had discussions about over medication. One thing she said to me stuck with me and may be of help to you in your current situation. She says stimulants work right away (unlike medication for depression) and she said that if the drugs do work you'll see this within a few days. If they do work then talk with a psychiatrist about long term plans and long term health affects of the medication.

The teachers are not professionals and their opinions do not constitute a diagnosis.
Recently I installed this "Kill the News Feed" Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-news-feed/hjo... Now I waste way less time.

Maybe you'll like it :-)
I'm a huge fan of Braces (http://braces.io/). It solves the how-do-I-get-my-site-files served problem perfectly. But I'm also a huge fan of Dropbox sharing, and it's sad that I can't collaborate on my Braces sites with my friends.
no one here is saying that ADHD condition is not real.. It's just that some people like me have a problem with the way they decide to treat it. Pretending that this is all "genetics" written in stone and the only way to not go crazy and end up a poor underachiever in jail is by taking these expensive pills and call it "treatment". Your body has absolutely zero need for pharmaceuticals. Drugs are only masking the problem up and as soon as you stop taking it, all your symptoms will come back. How do you people not fucking get it? Why not get to the root cause of this condition instead of taking an easy way out?
I see that you are convinced that meat consumption is detrimental to health.

Also health and lifespan are not the same thing.