skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: Why would you do such a thing?

I'm asking because I have this feeling it has become more and more common during the last years. Just because I sent a header that I can read a certain language, a lot of websites send me completely unreadable autotranslations.

There is nothing hilarous about it. If it's not a proper translation, if it's not something a native speaker would understand, then why send it at all?

Why butcher a beautiful language, put the pieces back together with random dung and then throw the resulting muck in the face of your users?

Are you that afraid that someone from France, Finland or the Faroe Islands would stumble upon your site, in the vast sea of the English speaking Internet, and then never come back just because it's not translated to their mother tongue?

Truly sorry for the rant. It was something built up. I do wonder about the prevalence of autotranslations however.
Hello, the page was created to let people know that this company has serious issues. Cloud At Cost is newer company and partnered under Fibernetics. Cloud At Cost sells this as a professional classed service backed up by Fibernetics' world class network.

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Taken from Fibernetics page:
Over the last ten years, Fibernetics has emerged as one of Canada’s fastest growing and largest telecommunications companies. Fibernetics is an operating Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) regulated by the CRTC, that has direct connectivity into the heart of the incumbents fiberoptic networks across Canada.

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Taken from Cloud At Cost's page:
We are a new Cloud company that does things differently. We are partnered with Fibernetics, a national carrier and ISP in Canada. We leverage our own data centers across the country, and our own national network to bring you the best cloud services at the best rates anywhere.

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There are possibly thousands of VMs down for well over a week. Check social media. My article explains that I run services for my friends and family. These are FREE services. I use to pay a monthly fee and when I found Cloud At Cost decided to try them. If you buy a few DEVs like I did. The fact that two different DEV2 and DEV3 VMs crashed days apart being down for a week each should be your warning bell.
12 Quiet Rituals of Enormously Successful Humans
I'm not sure that you can use LibreSSL as an example of something that is a "genuinely better way to do things", given that it's an essentially brand new project. There are reasons to believe it's a better way to do things, but we won't know how well it performs until there's time for people to start trying to exploit it.
Yeah, it made me view the whole article as amateur and stopped reading.
It's not so much the hubris of designers as the economics. Designers bring the print culture with them, where everything published gets visually polished by a human. You don't just dump tagged text from a typewriter.

The web is designed precisely to dump text from a digital typewriter. And the visual design can be universal or customized by a user.

This poses a minor problem because if actually implemented as intended, thousands of designers would be out of work. You'd need very few to make universal text display themes and occasionally improve them. And more complex UIs could be handled with something like bootstrap.

But there are far more people with the print designer mindset, recreating the old world in digital form, then there are visionary designers like Doug Engelbart who wanted to use computers to do new things. And you can't just retrain those people to not spend their lives changing line lengths and text colors to shove ads and make display cases, that's all they know. It's an economics problem.
Any chance of jsonp or CORS for reading the data. It'd allow for statically hosted frontends that consume a feed.

Edit: nm. Added ?callback=foo and saw it's already supported!
> If people don't want organic food, I could generally care less except for one thing: efforts to put legal roadblocks in the way of locally grown food.

How do you know that locally grown food is organic unless someone checks? Local grown and sold food doesn't necessarily mean "organic" it just means locally grown. Pesticides and chemicals are available for local growers too.

Unless you grow it or personally know where, who and how they grow the food you will not know what are you getting.

A lot of "farmers" I know (not in this country but in a country with a non-functioning FDA or USDA) have 2 lots. One lot to grow the food to sell and one to grow for themselves. The pesticide the shit out of one they sell. Nobody checks. Still looks good and pretty and people buy it and sellers make money.
The path towards deterministic builds is definitely not clear. As many in this thread have pointed out, it's a difficult technical problem. The difficulties are multiplied by a project at Firefox's scale.

Further complicating matters is our platform breakdown. The majority of Firefox users are on Windows. Deterministic builds on Windows are very painful. And that's before you figure PGO into the mix. Tor works around this by compiling Firefox with an open source toolchain and doesn't use PGO. But that's a non-starter for us because choosing an open source toolchain over Microsoft's would result in performance degradations for our users. Believe me, if we could ship a Windows and Mac Firefox built with 100% open source to no detriment to our users, we would. There's work to get Firefox building with Clang on Windows (but only for doing ASAN and static analysis, not for shipping to users). That gets us one step closer.

All that being said, there has been exploratory talk lately of serving segments of our user base with specialized Firefox builds. e.g. a build with developer tools front and center that caters to the web development community. If that ever happens, I imagine a deterministically-built Firefox with things like Tor built in could be on the table. The way you can make that happen is to direct noise directly at the Mozilla community. Send a well-crafted email to firefox-dev (https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev) explaining your position. Anticipate that people will likely reply by asking you to prioritize this against existing goals, such as shipping 64-bit Firefox on Windows and shipping multi-process Firefox. We don't have nearly unlimited resources like some of the other browser vendors, so we can't just do everything. Again, I implore people to directly contribute to Mozilla any way they can. https://www.mozilla.org/contribute/
Dell releases faulty laptop and offers users to pay for new "fixed" version
That's very interesting. I haven't looked at AsciiDoc before.
Indeed, this frees us from dependence on highly priced internet in developed countries and has so much potential in emerging markets.
Until you start getting "oops, you don't have our theme you can't view this site properly" prompts and some enterprising spark releases a browser with a bunch of proprietary extensions that give designers more flexibility that suddenly every site WorksBest! with.

See Internet Explorer & Flash.
No I'm using the specific definition of arbitrary: "based on or determined by individual preference or convenience rather than by necessity or the intrinsic nature of something"

My point point being there is not intrinsic nature of something that can make it "organic" in the organic food definition. If one pesticide is allowed in the US and not int the EU definition of organic that is arbitrary.

So when someone says GMO it assumed to be what exactly? Targeted gene inertion? Mutagenesis? What about marker assisted breeding? Each one of these is a continuum of progression from "conventional" breeding. All of them are human induced genetic modification, drawing the line at targeted gene insertion is arbitrary.
Likely a shit study like all the others that try to do this. The reality is that there no real difference. This has been proved over and over again; but these idiots have an agenda and will never quit.
How viable is it to offer a surveillance camera installation service while in college? I'm sure there are people who own an expensive house and don't know how to setup an advanced DVR such as ZoneMinder.
Amazon's letter to the FAA requesting sUAS/quadcopter exemption
Dark patterns: uTorrent installer takes over web browser settings
I'm more than surprised about the hostile tone some contributors seem to use when they talk about LibreSSL lately.

LibreSSL is an OpenSSL fork done by the OpenBSD team primarily because they don't think OpenSSL is the right software to include in their OS. That's their decision, if you don't use OpenBSD, you don't have to care. They have done an insane amout of work in pretty short time, and since that work might benefit the larger OS community, they kindly decided to start work on a portable version, which you don't have to use.

Even if you don't use LibreSSL, you might still benefit from their work as there is a healthy collaboration between OpenBSD/LibreSSL and Google/Adam Langley/BoringSSL.

Now, there's a first preview release of portable LibreSSL, and nitpicks are used to demonstrate how supposedly incapable the OpenBSD team must be. They hardcode -Werror, they obviously don't know how to write a configure script. They don't provide a PGP signature for the preview release, they obviously don't know how to distribute software securely. They use Comic Sans, they can't be taken seriously at all.

If you think LibreSSL will benefit you personally, you might consider showing a little gratitude. If you don't think LibreSSL is of any use to you, why do you even bother to write about it?
> you can create a value just like any other iterable sequence that happens to be a generator for the infinite series of integers...

I know that. Almost every language out there has some kind of generator/iterator protocol for "lazy" sequences. But they're not a list like any other list out there. You can (usually) iterate through them only once.

And you can't apply a generator/iterator type of deal to, say, a tree structure or any other non-linear data structure.

In Haskell, every value works like that (unless you explicitly tell otherwise). This is what the "primes" example is trying to show.
Weird... I just just randomly looking at this a few days ago upon a search for "js multiline" when wondering about the common way to spell multiline (multi line vs multi-line vs multiline). I was intrigued by his code though, ultimately in awe of the cleverness and conciseness of it. Very cool hack! Crazy coincidence to see the very code on HN only a few days later.
Can anyone explain what it means to have "a single division of labor" in Wallerstein's short definition? "multiple cultural systems" is easy to understand, but how can you have multiple divisions of labor? What would that look like and how does it distinguish itself from a world-system?
Reminder that JavaScript frameworks are useless bloat that kill page load times and degrade user experience. Plain HTML/ CSS/ JS already does everything just as easily.

In what other language is it a good idea to compile the entire standard library each time the program is run?
Looking forward to seeing where this goes. This well recieved paper[1], discusses converting reference & set type mechanics into persistent and partially persistence data structures. The model is quite similar to what is going on here. It be great to write algorithms and convert them to immutable, mutable or partially mutable at will.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/papers/Persistence.htm
Compiler warnings can come down to things that are purely style, like unused variables. It's more than likely that an unused variable could sneak itself into a program, not be found for a few years, then suddenly trigger a warning when a compiler added the check (of course, compilers have been checking for this for a long time, but this is just an example).

In the case of Gentoo, this would manifest itself as packages compiling cleanly with one compiler version, then suddenly lots of packages failing to compile because the build processes were stopped due to the, now reported, unused variable. If these were just warnings, then the packages would still compile, someone would notice (or even the original dev), and the problem can be fixed. Note that before the compiler upgrade, there was no bug - the program worked fine.

Except for a case such as libressl (preview release so they can get comments), having -Werror hardcoded in the build process clearly makes no sense.
Reminds me of the GNU documentation - http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/index.html

I feel like I was taught at one point that the web was supposed to be flat HTML/HTTP and that interactive stuff was supposed to be reserved for applications. Did that used to be a thing?
"Amazon shares Congress’s goal of getting small aerial vehicles (a.k.a., small unmanned aircraft systems, or “sUAS”)"

AMZN is:

* "Testing a range of capabilities for our eighth‐ and ninth‐generation aerial vehicles, including agility, flight duration, redundancy, and sense‐and‐avoid sensors and algorithms;"

* "Attracting a growing team of world‐renowned roboticists, scientists, aeronautical engineers, remote sensing experts, and a former NASA astronaut."
How well paid are the people who jump in to these threads to astroturf on behalf on a lobby? Are they on-call to deal with weekend work?

Is it the same players that have been doing this since the 80s, or is there someone disrupting the industry?
You might choose not to eat the non-organic food but you can't avoid the Atrazine [1] in the rain, which is enough to turn the male northern leopard frog tadpoles to turn into hermaphrodites.

The families of the people who work in the factory farm system are also affected.

You can see talks [2] on both these subjects in the Edible Education course from Berkeley [3], hosted by Michael Pollan and Raj Patel. I can recommend the whole series, and the ones from previous years.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine

[2] http://vimeo.com/album/2192316/video/87586462

[3] http://vimeo.com/album/2192316
Fair enough. That being said:

1. It matters to me because I see this as a waste of resources (hardware, software, brains) for something that is near obvious. While it's anyone's choice to consume the way they want, I am just morally opposed to it.

2. What these apps address are general health/fitness metrics, in a very superficial manner. As I said, once we have more meaningful tracking I'll be onboard, for now these are rudimentary toys.
>An optimally readable line should contain only ~66 characters, which corresponds to ~30 em.1 To reduce the amount of scrolling, this can be augmented with a multi-column layout and pagination.

Err, no, multi-column layout sucks (you have to scroll back to the top to read the next column). And pagination sucks too.

Just make the text take 70 or so characters wide.
I had a similar experience living in a non-anglophone country ordering english books. Whenever I heard "we can order it" I stopped listening. It always arrived in more than a month, cost tons, got stuck in customs, and wasn't in the catalog anyway.
Unfortunately this paper isn't limited to the US or to data after the NPO was established as far as I can tell.
Science: clearly doesn't matter unless it informs consumer decision-making in a valuable way.
I'm pretty sure the pronunciation comes from Count Duckula's translation to Spanish.

Listen to the first 5 seconds of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AR58I40_Os

That's how you pronounce it.
As the owner of a chinese-language website, I've read this guide (alongside many others) several times and found it extremely useful. However, I still have issues getting the same (standard) fonts to show up in every browser. I wonder if this is an issue on my side, or due to browsers not handling Chinese fonts adequately.
Possibly the most pretentious post I've ever read.

The issue may be simple, but it doesn't have a thing to do with what you're talking about. Amazon operates in France. It's a local business. Next question?
One thing's for sure, today's air-conditioning is one of the most energy-wasteful indulgences among electrical appliances.

Growing up around Tampa, as a native in the old days not
only did very few residences have A/C, but most businesses
did not either.
Mainly just banks and supermarkets.

Most people were from up north anyway, and among them there
were two interesting extremes.

"The Adaptable" good life lover. They retired or moved to
Florida because they wanted the clean air, slower pace, and
natural beauty of the sub-tropical resort environment. They
let the fresh air in all the time, and only complained
slightly when there was a heat wave and they had to use
window or ceiling fans around-the-clock.
They weren't about to consider air-conditioning though since
they had worked all their life for the resort atmosphere to
begin with and had strong desires to get what they were
paying for.

"The Snowbird" migratory variety. Can not conceive of
adapting to the sub-tropical environment very much, so
they only spend winters that far south, generally while
it is freezing up north.
They didn't need A/C either since they weren't going to be
there in the summer.

Kids love A/C though. We would plan our bike routes to
include stops for rest at the buildings having A/C, where
they had lobbies for us to gather with the retired people
to cool off before heading back out.

Even as kids we knew Houston was the most air-conditioned
city in the world at the time, then when the Astrodome was
built it just emphasized so much the excesses that oil money
can make possible.

Anyway, after being in Houston now for over a dozen years
without A/C, I can't complain since I've adapted OK myself.

For me it's a no-brainer, I simply can't afford waste,
especially wasting overpriced energy.
Even Houston natives sometimes have an incredulous reaction
and think I must be suffering, especially on 100 degreeF days like this.
So more to satisfy them than myself, I invented a solar
A/C where "the hotter it gets the cooler it gets" would be
my trade or service mark.
Don't expect to be building a prototype any time soon, with
other inventions more pressing, but it's going to be a good
one when the situation is right.
Couldn't Amazon provide a frequent use reward card that provides buy 20 with 1 book free to have a similar discount? It has the added benefit of enticing repeated buying.
When the situation is reversed: (e.g. 'Non-Organic foods are just as healthy as Organic foods') there's often ad hom's directed at the researchers and an alleged 'whoring oneself out' to Big-Agri.

I wonder if people think it's reasonable to consider the hidden incentives in study that come up positively for Organics? After all, organic is usually:

- much more expensive (ability to charge a premium / higher margin)

- suppliers can maintain a semi-monopoly by limiting who gets to use the label "organic"

These characteristics, are afterall, a business's dream, not the ability to sell a commodity in an int'ly competitive market.
Instead of a "navigation bar" use a drop-down selection. The standard HTML "select" thing.

Takes minimum space, works great on a mobile phone, you can type the first characters to jump to a certain point in the options, has good accesibility support, etc.
I understand why designers would want to protect the jobs they currently have, but I personally think that it would actually be better if talented coders and designers were freed up from the [unnecessary] work of creating themes for every website in existence. There's plenty to do in this world that we don't need some of our smartest and best people doing unnecessary work.
So in your view people with valid criticisms should just shut up and be thankful?

All the points in the blog posts are real problems. Pointing them out just means that fixes can be made and software can be improved.
for some reason this page reminds me of dcurtis's home page some time ago.
Sounds like a great thing to submit a pull request for.
There is a lot of other data these apps collect other than just the calories you eat or burn. Of course almost everything is a approximation but better than zero data on anything.

Nobody gets overweight overnight. You might not end up being 'overweight' if you know your certain eating habit will end up being bad for you ( everybody has a different metabolism rate ) so you cannot say eating xxxxx causes your friend to gain weight so will it you gain weight if you eat it out of moderation. All the data being collected individually and studied/analysed over time for 'you' is what could change.

Everything you say is right and approximations have been working good for everyone till now, but there is never harm to move from approximations and assumptions to absolute certainty about a few things we can measure ( now ).

This data could help you know when is the right time to test your blood maybe?
Julia I think :-)
Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ changes the face of battle
People in this thread seem to be under the misapprehension that organic farming doesn't use pesticides or 'chemicals'. Everything is a chemical, and organic farming in particular uses some nasty ones (rotenone, copper sulfate, pyrethrins). Pesticides are not automatically bad - in fact some of them are almost unbelievably benign to humans and/or to the environment.
This hypothesis just has to be tested. I'm hunting for an enamel jug/pot tomorrow. I reserve the right to revert to my moka pot though.
Would you prefer they used non-peer-reviewed publications?

Also, it was a metastudy, which can address non-systematic variation in poor studies (it wouldn't necessarily protect you against systematic variation, for example if "all peer reviewed studies were flawed in the same way".
>If only it was 1994 and people could resize their 'viewport' to get the line length they prefer, instead of having snobby designers force it to be what they value.

Only it's 2014, and people have 10+ tabs open. They can be bothered to resize the browser size for each and everyone of them. And some prefer the browser to be full screen, etc.
France furious: foreign firm formerly fined for free freight feigns fee!
Stop using floating point
Your taxes (as well as mine) are subsidizing the profits of a heck of a lot of firms.
Why excluding Iceland all the sudden? Iceland and Denmark have traditionally been included in the Scandinavian "zomg bestest democracy!!" model.
Is there any type-set technology on proving possibilities for redacted texts?
Missiles have the problem of collateral damage. Anytime you explode things, shrapnel and shockwaves will endanger people you may not see nearby.

What you'd like to do is put a drone in the air where you can lase 5 people, and have it precision assassinate them. Then have it loiter and wait till their colleagues show up, who, by observing their actions, you can assassinate them to.

The size of a bullet means you'd have a lot of operational time would be very long - you could carry hundreds of rounds on a drone, that would still be just as capable of disabling vehicles or hitting passengers.
"Everything" ? Unless you publish a daily graph of your sperm count, it is not 'everything' !