skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is not a single perfect democracy. But there are countries that come very close, and others don't. In Russia, there is no Chance anyone but Putin is elected. There is no division of power, the courts and parliament are directly under Putin's control. So are major industrial corporations. Journalists are murdered by the dozens in Russia, with particular emphasis on those who criticize the government. Which might explain why there is no mainstream media that criticizes the government any more.

The opposition is ridiculous. If any oppositionals develop an effective platform or support, they usually go to jail, are murdered or disappear.

In Moscow, you can't hold up fake signs without getting arrested. Protests and demonstrations are only ever "allowed" if they are pro-Putin.

And let's not get started on the extremely corrupt bureaucracy. Putin couldn't hold a fair election or mandate a fair rule of law even if he wanted to.
> cars used to weigh twice as much which halved city fuel economy

Nit: this is actually the other way around, cars have been gaining weight - so much that it has swallowed most of the mileage improvement we'd otherwise have gotten from other tech improvements.

See eg http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2011/cars-on-steroids-0104
I read through the first 5 pages, still didn't get what the article was going on about. Who has time to read 10 pages worth of full-on wall text these days? I came here for the comments to read the tldr version.
Mailbox is a product made by Gmail users targeting other Gmail users who want a specifically improved experience. They weren't targeting just generic "email" users. This isn't a flaw in their design any more than it's a flaw in the design of a Porsche 911 that it can't haul your new dining room set in the back.

As far as the popularity of Gmail email addresses vs. the influx of AOL email addresses in the 90s; it's apples and oranges. The flood of AOL email addresses was bad because it heralded many clueless people into the Internet who were disruptive to the established culture.

It's not inherently bad many people share an email domain. That's silly.
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It always bothers me that there never seems to be any particular pattern in when an airline serves meals during long flights- sometimes it's based on the departure time zone and sometimes it's based on the arrival time zone. I think more often it's the former for some crazy reason- maybe getting airlines to serve meals based on what we now know as best practice for this would be quite helpful.
critics: stop telling me what to build. make it yourself if you feel so strongly
Not all codes are created equal.
That's great news for vendors and consultants who jump on the bandwagon though :).
I am obviously highly suspicious because I have not only searched for but used TOR. It is handy when you want to price compare flights. I also don't like Facebook, I wonder where I am ranked on the NSA's list of potential terrible people?
This

I don't remember the exact numbers, but if the sun is out there, around 10min (or maybe up to 30min) under the sun with light clothing will give you the needed Vitamin D dosage.

Now, in high latitude winter, the time needed is in the order of hours. With heavier clothing this becomes much harder.
Mapillary is doing crowd sourced street imagery: http://www.mapillary.com/map

But they, as far as I know, are not connected to Mapbox or to the OpenStreetMap project (Your phrasing groups those two things more than I would).

Here (the former Navteq, part of the Nokia that isn't part of Microsoft) is probably running the second biggest street level photography project.
The US president has much less power over you than Putin has over Russians.
> College-educated white men can expect to live to age 80, while counterparts without a high-school diploma die by age 67.

I wonder if reality is as bad as it sounds here. Factors that cause early death might very well correlate with bad education outcomes. Any kind of lacking self-control could result both in bad education outcomes as well as early death.
The theory is that taxes should not distort the operation of a free market.

Since most people are tied to their jobs and the country they live in, taxing income in progressive manner does not normally deter people from seeking to earn more, unless they are at the lowest end of the income bracket and subsist mostly on social security payments.

Capital, on the other hand, is very mobile and will seek higher returns as soon as they are available elsewhere. Higher taxes on capital therefore quickly distort the operation of a free market and causes a fairly quick dis-investment from jurisdictions with higher taxes, with a subsequent loss of jobs.
So is Sales tax which regressively Hits the poor the hardestas they spend 100% of income. This is a non argument. Tax what least inhibits growth or like alcohol and cigarette taxes things that you would like to be used less.
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If you run the number on based on an assumed 30% efficiency and retail gas costs of $0.8 - $1.50 a therm (I think that's reasonable), then you come up with a cost per kWh of electricity within the $0.09 - $0.12 range many US utilities charge. That is, on a cost-of-electricity basis it's a wash.

Mind: gas delivery networks likely would crumble (hopefully not literally) under the increased demand.

Depending on system costs, this could be viable as a back-up power generation option (blackouts, etc.), where electrical service might fail but the gas supply would still work.

Capturing and making use of waste heat could indeed be useful. I see the possibility of full grid independence as very slim, and not particularly compelling (with distributed small, renewable, and intermittent generation, the grid is a useful way to move surpluses and deficits around). Though being somewhat immune to major grid disruptions is a possibility.

I'd also keep an eye on natural gas trends. Supplies aren't endless, though the US EIA's estimates suggest a reference resource case of increasing extraction through 2040 at least, the less optimistic low resource case suggesting a peak by 2030. With fracked oil extraction very likely to peak before 2020, a transfer of fuel and energy uses onto natural gas will change market dynamics considerably. I've got my doubts as to how long gas will remain cheap. And suspect that its increased use in transport (EIA sees a large role in trucking) other uses may be limited.
Your coworkers must be really sensitive (or mine are really tolerant). I've used brown switches in a Filco Majestouch for over a year, never had any complaints. I don't bottom out the keys, but there's a noticeable clack when the keys come back up to full extension.

IOW, I don't think brown keys are unreasonable for shared work environments; they're not much louder than a standard Dell rubber-domed KB.

The blue switches in my DasKeyboard at home however... I think I'll have to upgrade just to get something a bit quieter.
Some thoughts on this as the former head of electronic trading product management at Deutsche Bank

http://dave-hunter.com/why-barclays-lied
This is incorrect: unlike Sublime, Atom does not persist unsaved files across restarts.

(If step (2) is "create new file", Sublime will preserve it, even if it's not saved.)
I thought the researcher in this case was Jeff Hancock, who had approval from the Cornell IRB?
Never noticed that problem, although I do habitually click my mouse to wake from sleep...
This is a nice graph (but does the X axis have a meaning?)

But the important thing there is that they're measuring their role as a supplement, however, most of them are needed (and present in a healthy diet), while some aren't

Potassium is a needed element of a diet, and as the article mentioned, there seems to be a lot of deficiency, but maybe a better understanding of deficiency/needed dose is needed.
Or maybe it will end up as a high-tech version of the Stasi archives (if it isn't there already).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
This. Right Here. For the longest time I could not figure out why my Ctrl-r (history) was so messed up.
A referer field would let "them" see it for what it what. I previously did a hn-submission on how to do this without leaking a referer field.

http://bracka.se/hn/csrf.html

Since then, onion.to has gone down, so the first iframe wont work, but the second two will.
Nice to see something I've gradually learned about by gut feel summarized.

Why do some distributions use /opt a lot while others don't seem to use it at all?
I don't know the answer to that. However, assuming you are correct, I live in a country where direct sun exposure is a rare commodity even in summer, so the recommendation to my parents could still make sense then.
> and AFAIK OSM [has] nothing

Some of us are working on fixing that.
Blues are very loud. Depending on your environment obviously. Quiet office, or personal study near a bedroom (if you share it with someone)? Stick to browns.
True. There's also not much use of showing more source code on screen (or config files as it looks in this case)...
Unencrypted, because I want to be able to restore the rest if a bit flips in some file.

Is this a realistic concern? Is a bluray disc at risk of flipping its bits?
Wikimania: Wikipedia's hackathon
Anyways, if they are trying to justify doing that by fighting with terrorists, I'd say the terrorists have already won.
I use C-r constantly. But sometimes I need to find a command, and then edit it before running it. What is the proper way to exit "search mode" and go into the normal "edit" mode?
In bash fc will open your $EDITOR with the last command you just typed. Just like Ctrl-x Ctrl-e but you don't need a command in place to edit.
The flood of AOL email addresses was bad because it heralded many clueless people into the Internet who were disruptive to the established culture.

Firstly, that's just plain elitist. The notion that the internet would be somehow better if clueless people weren't able to use it is ridiculous. Arguably the fact that AOL (and others) lowered the intellectual barriers to entry by taking an exceptionally complicated system and making it easy to understand was just a forerunner to today's UX revolution - taking complex, and consequently expensive, products and services and making them trivially easy to use is the USP of many, many start-ups. We don't say that Dropbox users are clueless when they choose not to manually configure file replication across their computers.

Secondly, as someone who was writing web software in the late 1990s, I can absolutely assure you that there were clueless people on every ISP. AOL was the biggest but the fact that someone had a non-AOL email account was not an indicator they were any smarter.
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actually, several programs of the OSX stack behaves like this, take the Notes app for example
Vitamin A and D are more problematic because they are fat-soluble and the excess can’t be flushed away in pee. Other vitamins, like vitamin C, are water-soluble so a little excess is not so bad, but IANAMD. http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10...
One that I needed to use a lot in the old days, and still occasionally need:

If your font is all messed up, echo C-v C-o. C-v puts you into a literal mode, and C-o gets you back into the normal character set. (You probably got there by emitting a C-p at some point.)
Building a tool to enhance the experience of another service isn't the same as building or supporting a walled garden.

That's like saying "developing for iOS||Android||Windows Phone||Symbian is supporting a walled garden!" or "making a petrol||diesel||electric car is supporting a walled garden!"

No - it's like making something that improves something else, for a demographic that you've decided has some kind of benefit to you or your interests longer term.
I have my facts straight, thankyouverymuch. Here's an article from golang.org itself:

http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article

"The language was designed by and for people who write—and read and debug and maintain—large software systems."

I'm sure it started as research. Many things do.
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Having a numbering for a specific account is also possible with Brazilian boleto system, but it is common only for credit cards, which can be paid at any time and at a wide range of values.

Gas and phone codes are always bill-specific. However, if you pay a boleto like this twice, the provider will be informed and generally will give you the chargeback in the next bill. I have already used this as a trick to pay a bill when I was travelling and wouldn't get the most recent bill.
> - 'sort | uniq' to check for duplicate lines

sort -u
j.py? The original is autojump: https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump/
One reason people like burning wood is that it is inexpensive.

There is also the pie in the sky reason that it is low-infrastructure.
Right, that too, no first-class lvalues in Rust.
Minimal Viable Feature Set.
Support those well, decide later if it makes business sense to support others.
Admittedly I'm not well versed in TOR and how secure it actually is but surely it would be more actionable for major intelligence agencies to operate a number nodes in the network and use them to attempt to track and mitm requests?

As for encryption I haven't seen much to indicate a deterrence strategy, but maybe I'm not following the media as much as I should.
especially when your site is so weak - can't even handle HN visitors (5-7k users is a very small traffic).
You are free to disagree of course, but it is not silly. Centralizing into a locked garden or into an established monopol-like platform has negative aspects to the field as a whole. Just look at RSS before the google reader shutdown and compare to now.

Trusting the whole email-communication to one company with a direct link to the NSA can't be a good idea. To foster that development with seemingly unnecessary restricting focus onto gmail is fine to criticize.

It is not like they had to choose.
Next, they'll just filter out those attempts to make noise.

It's a cat-and-mouse game and also needs a solid (i.e. political) solution.
I have

for cmd in $(compgen -c); do if [[ $cmd =~ ^[0-9a-zA-Z]+$ ]]; then eval "alias $cmd?='man $cmd'"; fi; done

in my .bashrc to alias command?=man command, saves some typing to get to man pages ( which I do very often )
Does this mean that you don't sell or use aggregated data? Others TOS in this space often seem to permit that and it has put me off in the past.

Will definitely consider keen.io on next project.
Admittedly, the biggest news is that they might produce a cogeneration heater for <$10K.

A nice thing with cogeneration is that it works best when photovoltaic panels work the least. My case isn't typical, I live on a boat in Europe. She has panels which could push 5-6kWh/day on average in summer (they don't because our batteries are full long before that), but only 1kWh/day in december. We need 2-3kWh/day to be comfortable. So, we need more than what PV panels provides exactly when we also need to heat the boat, so a cost-effective CHP solution would be great.

Also, I'd like this to run on wood pellets, or diesel fuel: replacing the electrical grid with the natural gaz one is a bad idea, especielly considering that the expected yield of non-conventional extraction methods is continuously and rapidly adjusted down.
You are definitely onto something huge here [1]: you could be improving the livelihood of millions with an app to allow people to fill in on temp jobs at competitive wages with the click of a button. Talk of a massive impact...

The road ahead is steep, though. At first I thought Leah's TaskRabbit would eventually head that way, but to me it strikes me as if she's still massively underestimating the potential of her platform. Justin Kan's Exec and its postmortem doesn't bode too well, either (but it's still an insightful read) [2]. I'm pretty sure though you and AB have what it takes to figure it all out.

[1] http://www.propublica.org/article/the-expendables-how-the-te...

[2] http://justinkan.com/exec-errands-post-mortem
What if you are interested in geology and are looking for granite tors?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28rock_formation%29

[NB I am interested in geology and I probably have searched for "tor scotland" or similar at some point]
I have had many co-workers I suspect of being mostly banana.

Literature I'm seeing suggests humans and neanderthal were related subspecies. I suspect one measure of "not existing" is when there's no clearly distinguishable neanderthal clan or trait cluster. Though there are people who have features which look strongly neanderthalic.

I've been reading bits and pieces of various aspects of anthropology and human evolution. It seems that cro-magnon man were likely an early sub-species or tribe which settled across northern Africa, as far out as the Azores, and along what's now the Spanish-France border region. All of which now show similar linguistic roots. And suggest that the Basque language, unrelated to others in Europe, is derived from cro-magnon.

The Roma people migrated from India toward southeastern Europe.

And there's solid anthropological evidence of settlements in what is now the Black Sea, living on what was then dry land, prior to it being flooded and inundated about 5600 BC. Now if only there were a flood myth in human tradition ....
Wouldn't it be shown on American / English media then?
Yes! Unless, whilst we're here, we just stop releasing anything at all until it's absolutely perfect and implements all possible features in all possible scenarios across all possible platforms from day 1.

Anything less is building a walled garden!
I like the autocompletion of fish, isn't there a way to get this in bash?
I'm still an emacs rookie, but I've already been 'converted' to the point that I try to use emacs every time I need to write text - programming (at least if no IDE is available), text files, LaTeX (what little I've written of it, anyway), word processing if it is feasible to write the text in the editor and then copy paste into a word processor to do the formatting later, editing text boxes in web browsers via a Firefox plugin (`It's All Text!').

The primary reason, at least for non-code text, is that I find it annoying to go back to using stuff like the arrow keys for navigating now that I'm kind of used to the arguably more ergonomic C-f, C-b and friends. So I can echo the sentiment that sticking to the basics of emacs at first can be well worth it.
The negative letter spacing is a little jarring imo.
Changing a personality completely is next to impossible. There will be deeply ingrained opinions/thoughts/patterns that will remain. But there is something called epigenetics or "heritable changes in gene activity that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence".

By power of habit and meditation, a limited change can be made.
Any movement key will do the trick. I usually use cursor-right or the end key.

It's so ingrained I had to actually do it in a shell to know what it was I did.
It's a really neat idea, though I'm not a big fan of having it as a browser extension.

Two observations:

1. Password strength is really, really important now, since it is deterministically transformed into your key pair.
It's not like the passphrase for a GnuPG key where you'd have to steal the private key in the first place, in order to do something evil with the recovered weak passphrase.

2. There's another big caveat re: password. In most systems that we know it doesn't matter if you have a non-unique password, as long as it's not guessable.
In this scheme your identity will be merged with everyone else who has thought of the same password.
No it is available to anyone with an internet connection.
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I always used 'reset' for that.
The effects can be subtle: http://www.csam-asam.org/sites/default/files/impact_of_marij...

E.g., earlier onset of psychosis symptoms, etc.
> Secondly, as someone who was writing web software in the late 1990s,

That's well after the great AOL flood happened. Which was mostly on Usenet and mailing lists.

If you weren't there of course it sounds just like a bunch of jerks being jerks, but really it was pretty horrible. Once AOL gave out Internet access to all of its users, the signal to noise ratio on Usenet and many mailing lists went to crap. Usenet never really recovered and became mostly a place for binary distributions of questionable legality, rather than discussions.

In the long run of course more people on the Internet made the web what it is today, and for a short while it heralded cheap, high performance home internet (which then stagnated at least in the US.)

Look, the whole AOL thing is old news and I pretty much never bring it up unprompted. But the author brought it up. And he misunderstood why the flood of AOL addresses on the Internet in the mid 90s was a bad thing. It wasn't just because aol.com was ubiquitous. It was that the aol.com email address usually signified an ignorance of Internet norms, technology, etc.

Pre-AOL, most people on the Internet were either there because they were at a college (student or faculty), or because they purposely sought out a provider which usually wasn't advertised or widely known.

Really AOL is to blame for giving their users access to this new place without telling them any of the etiquette of that place. It's like WalMart buying country club membership for all of its customers without letting them know they need to step up their normal attire.
> A watchlist with every human, and its friends on it, is kinda useless.

In the right circumstances, it would be very useful. Not for catching terrorists but for putting pressure on the people on the list.

"We are only monitoring her because she is on the terrorist watchlist."
"She is only restricted from air travel because she is on the terrorist watchlist."
"She is only denied a fair trial because she is on the terrorist watchlist."
"Please cooperate with us Miss President, unless you want us to tell the press that you have been on the NSA terrorist watchlist since 2001."

Having everyone on the terrorist watchlist is very useful, when you are able to selectively choose if and when you are disclosing the fact that someone is on the list.
Pure unadulterated sensationalism. The NSA scandal is a moneymaker. No surprise that it's coming out of German media after the leaks about Merkel.

It is in the US government's interest for Tor to thrive, it even uses Tor.
I don't know why the developer of Mailbox decided to only support Gmail and Apple iCloud. But I do know that making an IMAP client is extremely painful. I once had to, and I can't remember having to deal with a more confusing or frustrating interface.
Unfortunately, I regularly see that kind of articles on HN and reddit. It's that kind of feeling: "Hmmm. It seems that I've already read that."
Scroll down the page and you'll see a description.

"This image is a “balloon race”. The higher a bubble, the greater the evidence for its effectiveness. But the supplements are only effective for the conditions listed inside the bubble.

You might also see multiple bubbles for certain supps. These is because some supps affect a range of conditions, but the evidence quality varies from condition to condition. For example, there’s strong evidence that Green Tea is good for cholesterol levels. But evidence for its anti-cancer effects is conflicting. In these cases, we give a supp another bubble."

edit: Apologies, I misread your comment. The X-axis can be modified on the interactive version to sort by: alphabetically, popularity or scientific interest. The static version is alphabetical. Beyond that, it's just to help spread things out to be readable.