skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pasting mmanfrin's comment:

It's specifically Beef that is the massive drain. Chicken/Pork/other meats are magnitudes of orders more water-conscious per calorie. (Pork uses 75% less, and is yet the most wasteful of water outside of cows/bovine)[1].
Beef is astoundingly wasteful of water. You could take an hour-long shower and it would use about the same amount of water needed for a pound of beef. [2] and [3].
[1] http://gracelinks.org/blog/1143/beef-the-king-of-the-big-wat....
[2] http://www.wsscwater.com/home/jsp/content/water-usagechart.f....
[3] http://blog.epa.gov/healthywaters/2012/03/virtual-water-real....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8117761
I actually like Illustrator a lot and can't see this or even Inkscape as actual alternatives to it.
Guantanamo is (now, just) a military detainee facility, something which is permitted under international law for states undergoing armed conflict. In the U.S.'s case, they've been in a long running armed conflict with Al Qaeda and the Afghanistan Taliban.

The camp could just as well be in Kansas at this point for all that the law is concerned (just where we kept German POWs back in the day), the detainees wouldn't get any substantive additional rights.

Likewise, unless you can show that Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian non-combatants then there's not going to be an international legal basis for sanctions. That certainly wouldn't stop individual countries from applying sanctions if they wish due to their own norms, but that's arguably a double standard as by that logic the world would have to sanction essentially everywhere but western Europe and maybe Canada.

Iran can have peaceful nuclear tech, it's explicitly permitted by the Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty. If you seriously think this whole thing is just about turning the lights on in Tehran you need to pay more attention to this issue.

Even the Western media doesn't refer to DNR/LNR as "terrorists", but as "separatists". They don't even simply call them Russian puppets either, they're always referred to as rebels or separatists of DNR or LNR, and only then possible ties to Russia mentioned. The one time I did see "terrorism" bandied about regarding either DNR or LNR, a Malaysian Airlines Boeing was burning on live TV...

Where is "ethnic cleansing" going on in Ukraine?
Google Barge Sold For Scrap
They don't report your temporary living location to the government though. At least not in majority of Europe as far as I know. It's definitely not the case in the UK for example.
Indeed. Taxpayer-funded broadband has its allure, but the risks of something going very wrong with private data are much higher, in terms of what is at stake if not in terms of odds of a breach.
Startups Must Embrace Coopetition For Rapid Growth
All kidding aside, Yo's use case is real. We just typically call it a ping. But implicit in a ping is a response. I assume that typical use of Yo also involves a response. So, someone please do the right thing and implement a "Ping" app which, upon receiving a ping, gives the user an explicit option to respond with "ACK".
most of these seem taken/stolen from Clients From Hell

http://clientsfromhell.net/
Yes, I have some advice, I'll start by telling you what I did. I had my mind set on going into high-tech for the same reasons you've described. I met with a startup that was bootstrapping his BI product at 2008, and convinced them to let me do sales & PS for them - for free, meaning I would only get paid if I sold the product and managed to sell some PS hours. In return they supplied training on their BI tool, naturally I had to learn a whole lot by myself - basic things that were then new for me - DB, sql etc, but I didn't mind since I loved computers since ever.
After a few months of not selling almost nothing (wow, great surprise) my funds were running low, but I was already a different person. I knew what is a product, I knew what is a DB and how to connect to it etc, so I've found a junior job at a Qlikview (another BI tool) PS company. I picked up QV very fast and became very good with it, and after one year at the job was already the company's lead on financial BI.
After this year I already had the technical expertise to get a job that combined my new career with my old career and became an IT economist, no longer a junior, in charge of migrating the organization's financial systems to SAP and maintaining the existing systems until the change.

My advice - just get in IT. Don't mind starting from the bottom, in the grand scheme of things 2-3 years of reduced salary is nothing. Look for a job in the IT of your field, for example, since I had financial background it was easy for me to get a job in financial BI, but I could get a job in any financial IT system as helpdesk, PS etc. To get this job you might have to get into a course or even learn some new skills at home after work.
If you want specific ideas you can write here or email me your experience.
You get distracted lining up <div> tags. :)
I am willing to sacrifice a few MB per program for the convenience of copy-and-run.
How do you access the source?
I could be wrong, but I think uTrim is designed with professors in mind -- namely, the ones that publish their research. They'd be the end users. I honestly don't think students would care enough (maybe grad students who are publishing research).

It seems like the monetization strategy would be to get the university itself to purchase the product (licenses or something) and then that would allow anyone affiliated with that university to publish trustworthy, shortened URLs (to their research, or in their research to whatever resources they used).

At least, that's what makes the most sense to me.
WTF YO
I have no idea what Yo is. Can someone explain it to me? (I'm a windows phone user, there is no Yo app)
Well, no, I'd really prefer the tyranny of no one. As in: if I have a political view that differs from the majority, I'd like to be able to hold that view and still keep my job based on how well I do my job.

What if I have a family, need my job, and don't have the luxury of being a Gandhi or an MLK?

I don't know what kind of dream world you live in, but most people are just trying to get by. If given the choice between speaking out and perhaps facing consequences or keeping quiet, I think most people will just say forget it and keep quiet.

You may see this as a feature, but this outcome is contrary to the stated goals of the founders of this nonprofit.

Seriously, I really don't want to live in a world where I have to be a Gandhi or a MLK on every issue on which I disagree with the majority.
I agree, personally for me I think the default admin app should be stripped of all styling and JavaScript and made into completely bare HTML so that it's essentially nothing more than a base set of templates that developers can style and modify.
But that's not what the law aims for either. It's just supposed to make finding those results harder, so that you don't accidentally stumble upon them, but have to actually search for them.
Cool! Email justin@coffitivity.com
I somewhat agree. LongCal seems like a neat little tool, but I would not pay money for it nor would I use it for very long. The defining feature is being able to scroll in and out to see shorter and longer periods of time at a quick glance, but that's about it. You said the emphasis was on long term planning. However, I don't personally do any long term planning further out than a year, and I feel as though most other people are the same way. The only long term things I can think of are planning to take a vacation in two years or saving enough money to buy a house in four years. I don't think a calendar app is going to help with these goals because they are too big to forget. Also, the calendar app market is dominated by big players that provide integration with email, Facebook, etc. It's fine for a learning project, but I'm not sure how you are going to get anyone to switch from using their Google calendar to yours.
There is a lot more interesting data in the NTD that I wish someone with more programming skills than me could put together in a graphical way. For instance, you can calculate the amount of CO2 emitted per passenger and per passenger mile. You can calculate the subsidy per rider and per passenger mile. You can even determine the average utilization of the system by checking the average number of riders on each bus.

From doing some of that work manually, I found that many (if not most) public transit systems are emitting more CO2 than if all of the passengers had ridden in a car, with the national average of 1.7 riders per car.
Common Mathematical Misconceptions
6 Men Died That Day (They Didn't Trust Each Other)
I honestly looked that up. Sigh, Poe's law.
I was thinking racks of Alcatel-Lucent and stacks of Sagem, but perhaps you have a point.
Wii U user space exploit
Excel FIZZBUZZ challenge
OK so inspired by a post I saw on HN about 'FIZZBUZZ' a day or so ago I was inspired to send out a challenge to my department. I thought i'd share with HN to see if anyone can do anything impressive with it.

My Challenge was as follows:

OK, so everyone uses Excel right, but how good are you with your formulae?

The challenge is to write a formula that references the cell to the left, which should have a number in it. If the number is divisible by 3 then the cell with your formula in it should show ‘FIZZ’, if the number is divisible by 5 then your cell should show ‘BUZZ’, if the number is divisible by both 3 and 5 it should show ‘FIZZBUZZ’. If it’s divisible by neither 3 nor 5 then the cell should show the number in the referenced cell.

The Actual Challenge!

So some of you may find the above hard, some of you may find it easy. To separate the men (and ladies) from the boys (and girls), the challenge is to write the formula using the least number of characters possible!

So, for example, if the challenge was to add the number 1 to itself, then the formula =1+1 would beat =SUM(1,1) because the first only uses 4 characters to do the job, the second does exactly the same task but uses 9 characters in the formula.

The person that come up with a working formula to perform the ‘FIZZBUZZ’ action described above, using the least number of characters, wins!

Note: No scripting or anything other than native Excel functions allowed! It needs to just be a formula that can be copied and pasted on to any sheet.

Go!
From 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8094351
You send "Yo" to your friends.

That is the app.
If people like the app then it is useful. I don't think Apple should be trying to censor apps that people like.
Getting crushed by Kevin and Qasar (Startup School Europe)
The OP was referring to how Microsoft seized domains from another company under the guise of security.
This is one of the best essays addressed to programmers I've ever read. It speaks to you on a very personal level. Highlights:

> Haskell wasn’t built on great ideas, although it has those. It was built on a culture of how ideas are treated.

> In functional programming, our proofs are not by contradiction, but by construction. If you want to teach functional programming, or preach functional programming, or just to even have productive discussions as we all build libraries and projects together, it will serve you well to learn that ethic.

> Believe in everyone, attack nobody, even the trolliest.

> If you make even the most modest (to your mind) mistake, be it in social interaction or technical detail, be quick to apologize and retract, and do so freely. What is there to lose? Only your pride. Who keeps track? Only you. What is there to gain? Integrity

> Your self-esteem doesn’t need your help. You may feel you need to prove yourself, but you don't. Other people, in general, have better things to do with their time than judge you, even when you may sometimes feel otherwise.

> Be glad that others are charting other paths! Who knows what they will bring back from those explorations.

> Every time we learn something new and want to share it, we face these issues all over again -- the desire to proclaim, to overturn received wisdom all at once -- and the worse the received wisdom, the more vehemently we want to strike out. But if we are generous listeners and attentive teachers, we not only teach better and spread more knowledge, but also learn more, and enjoy ourselves more in the process.
This is damning data, proving that the "startup revolution" of the past 20 years and of the Valley is a fraud. Of course, many of us already knew this, but it's nice to see data that proves our point.

The main role of the VCs, at this point, is not to empower companies but to fund the competition (an extortion dynamic: "take our terms or we throw 'rocket fuel' to your competitors, who might crash and burn but will take you down before they do"). Subtle distinction. Management-wise, VCs take away far more than they add. The money (ahem, other peoples' money) that they infuse should be a commodity, but they're going to fight as hard as they can to make it not so. Thus, they've created a "startup" economy in which they:

* Build crappy "throwaway" companies not built to last, with the hope
that one will latch on to a genuine new technical idea and go 100x.
* Increase the entrepreneurial activity of one sector, slightly,
in one location while draining the rest of the country and society.

Also, the power of the VC oligarchy is enhanced by the fact that bank loans (the traditional way of starting a business) are completely broken at this point. Getting a bank loan requires personal liability, which makes it a non-starter for anything that might actually fail.

Business is becoming a generational aristocracy at this point. You don't need to look any further than the absurd propping-up of boy kings Lucas Duplan and Evan Speigel. (They even look like Joffrey Baratheon!) I don't have any prima facie dislike for capitalism. In fact, it's a necessary core component of any advanced society. But corporate capitalism is a dinosaur and it's time to go Yucatan on its ass.
Another question is "how come this is not an internal function of HN?".
It should be noted that Yo has been consistently falling down the app charts since it hit the peak during its 15 minutes of fame. It's currently #65 in category on the App Store when it used to be #5 overall (and received the funding).
Can This Israeli Startup Hack Your Phone?
FWIW - There's an app call CheatSheet[1] for OS-X that will display the foreground app's shortcut keys if you hold down Option for a few seconds.

[1] http://www.cheatsheetapp.com/CheatSheet/
Same here. Now it only needs the capability to share items (lists in particular).
Azure will hit $5.77B run rate by December, surpassing AWS and Salesforce
Mednafen is a multi-system emulator, driven from the command-line
> At work, it sucks to be better, because I'll get the harder bugs, deeper work, more work, tough refactorings, architecture planning, and everything that programmers who can't even write decent PHP can't do.

At many workplaces, its awesome to be better, because -- while, yes, those kind of assignments come with it -- so does more advancement and security.
Crowd2Shelf – Fundable Teams Up with Staples to Crowdfund New Products
And it's not arrogant to say "it's too hard"?
Teens Youth Ministry: Gracious Tempest (Live from Youth) – Hillsong Young and Free
Light Table and Atom both run on node and they're pretty slow/jerky for me. Slow enough where I'd rather use IntelliJ for general purpose editing, intellij has a decent startup time compared to those two but it's way faster after that. Plus I always have it open when I'm working anyway so another tab doesn't really make a difference.
I believe that thread has been botified as well now.
Dating has been legal for years though
A quick suggestion if you want Vulgat.com to succeed you seriously need to build out your website and put some focus on SEO. A pretty landing page with no detail no content will have a huge bounce rate and never rank for any terms that are relevant to the product. Your site does not even rank for its own brand name.
Someone should open source code and people should submit similar apps. Copyright infingement is a little far fetched when other apps are specifically parody/satire apps.

My app would be called something like fuckyo!
The actual report is now linked here:

https://www.recordedfuture.com/al-qaeda-encryption-technolog...

First point: AlQ is now using well-studied encryption algorithms (possibly in the correct way, but not investigated in this story)

Second point: Some claim about the software not being malware. Could not deduce the technical point they want to make here.

But it is an embarrassing analysis that DOES NOT support their headline-seeking claim.
> 1. CL interface is abysmal. No way to tell people stuff already sold or to automatically repost.

While I agree that the CL interface is bad, it's quite easy to delete your post after the item has sold. Reposting is also quite simple, though like you said, it's not automated.

I consider manual intervention to repost a good thing. Since so many people don't even delete their postings, I can only imagine how bad it would be if re-posting were automated.
Interesting to see these comments about transparency suddenly (after an entire 12 hour period) slide waaaaay down the page... I think this is the very [lack of] transparency we are talking about!
RTFA. Direct quote from the linked page:

"There Are Good Reasons Not to Want the Government to be Your ISP

"Just because a local municipality might own the fiber infrastructure does not necessarily mean it is also best-suited to act as an ISP to residents. Residents might rightly wonder what sort of information sharing practices would become policy, particularly information sharing with law enforcement.

"This challenge can be addressed as well. Cities can help resolve privacy concerns by adopting the open access model described above. On this model the local municipality merely leases the fiber and never has to have access to the data on the fiber. Local ISPs that lease the fiber can be held accountable by users that encourage the ISPs to adopt privacy-protecting policies and terms of service."
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Tipped to Launch on September 3
What I've found, from my development, is that if you use the node-webkit executable to run the folder without packing/unpacking the app, it's faster. Also, killing the application before launching a new instance/using the already launched instance is faster.
It looks like you're a great engineer but not an "idea" dreamer (that's not bad news, since most people aren't).

I think the best you can do to ensure your success is to make sure this is a problem with real demand--a great way to get started, since you're a great engineer, would be to do some software consulting for someone under the premise of you building software for your startup to sell and doing additional custom work for them (IP reasons). This is awesome because you essentially keep the lights on while being assisted by your customer in creating a product that has an actual need; whether that need extends beyond your customer is another story entirely--though, doing this a few times, you'll probably land on something universal.
The quantum eraser demystified
It's a double-edged sword, but Apple does provide certain end-user guarantees about the quality of software on the App Store and overall, it's a net win compared to the vast amounts of garbage that can be found in say, the Windows or Android ecosystems.

It's a win for both developers and consumers, because less competition at a higher standard means more market share goes to developers that genuinely innovate and deliver value and less goes to those that just game the rankings system by spamming with cloned crapware and fake reviews.

The fact that the platform is a complete walled garden is the real problem, not whatever Apple chooses for their quality/decency standards. I am very happy that Apple chooses to enforce those standards within their own ecosystem. I'd just prefer if they allowed access to alternatives as well, which hopefully will happen in the future as they become a larger monopoly and pressure on them to open up becomes more of a mainstream concern.
Buying women to use them is wrong (and vise-versa).
Honestly, it's going great. I've been a Mac user pretty much forever (the first home computer I used was running System 7), but now I'm on a Surface Pro 3 with Windows 8. It's a fantastic computer. The last thing that made me think "Oh shit I'm living in the future" this much was my first iPod Touch.

I'd been dual-booting OS X / Windows on my desktop already because Apple's GPU drivers are garbage, so it wasn't a huge step. Dropping OS X completely was mostly based on being a game dev hobbyist who's doing a lot of 3D work and digital painting. OS X had turned into a web browsing and email platform for me, and I can do that just as well elsewhere.

The experience with 1password is far from unusual though; Windows doesn't have a lot of developers making software of any quality. For every Mac program I try to find a substitute for, Windows has 30 different options that are all equally bad (looking at you, IRC clients that aren't Colloquy). So if you rely on a lot of little 3rd party software, it's not a good ecosystem. But if all you need is Firefox, blender, Unreal Engine, and Substance Designer, it's not a problem.

And that's not even mentioning the price of a Mac with an upgradable GPU. I could do yearly GPU upgrades on my desktop and still be cheaper than a baseline Mac Pro.
Seems to be broken after signing up and logging in.

JS console shows websocket errors from your Pusher account being over quota:

Error: Invariant Violation: unmountComponent(): Can only unmount a mounted component. application-2f12875292642440acb371cf86b33623.js:16
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at wss://ws.pusherapp.com/app/91e530f27b964fcff907?protocol=7&client=js&version=2.1.6&flash=false. pusher.min.js:71
"Pusher : Error : {"type":"WebSocketError","error":{"type":"PusherError","data":{"code":4004,"message":"Account over quota"}}}"

It's probably not a good idea to depend on an active Websocket connection for reading the customer messages/inbox. Plain XMLHTTP requests may work better (more compatible with firewalls/browsers).
BadUSB turns your USB drive into an accomplice for evil
Maybe give some examples? The question just seems odd to honest.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.
It looks like I'm one of the few people on here not excited about Haskell. Functional programming is great. Static typing is nice, yes. Hindley-Milner type-inference even moreso, but I often find the language getting in my way. Now, I'm not a Haskell expert, but I have used OCaml for some fairly sophisticated problems in the past (basic optimizing compilers). So I'm curious for the people who have used Haskell for something substantial whether they've found their experiences match with mine.
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Has it occurred to you that perhaps people aren't looking for real love from prostitutes?

Evidently not.