skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left this comment in the blog:

I'm sorry but this doesn't make sense for me nowadays. I'm not a big account (close to 1.5k followers) and I suffered serious trolling, threatening and harassment due political ideology (striking harder on electoral campaign). My notifications were full of their tweets.

First, I blocked them and report them to Twitter. I got their accounts suspended but they came back within a few days. This lead me to a different strategy and mindset. I saw their tweets but I "felt" them as what they were: noise.

Do you know that pain-in-the-ass noise that you ignore after a while? Somebody drilling, i.e. That kind of noise.

When I realized this, I didn't care about them. I just passed through them, ignoring actively. They eventually stopped harassing. They became powerless.

With this experience I developed a fine sense to detect useless discussions, allowing me to even get in one on purpose if I'm bored enough. Even if I'm in the mood I can answer them but when I do it I use to be right on the spot. They tend to stop after two or three tweets.

I think everybody should develop this kind of mindset around Twitter. Obviously, this won't work in other types of harassments beyond "intellectual" one. They should be dealt in more severe ways.
There are plenty of illnesses that require a driver to temporarily hand in their driving licence.

A yearly health check will look for signs of those illnesses.

Examples might be poorly controlled diabetes; epilepsy; sleep apnea; etc.
Ask HN: Correlating bad startup names with failure?
Whenever I see startups pick a bad name, I think "If they can't even get the brand right, forget about product!" Especially names that try to be clever or fail a basic phone test. For example, "Toodu" is a local startup that closed recently and it's a spelling nightmare. Anecdotal cases aside, is my correlation spurious? Has anyone correlated the clarity of a name with likelihood of failure? What are some good counter-examples of startups that worked despite a bad name? (Reddit is one)
I'm reminded of this passage from Mark Pilgrim's Dive into HTML5

> But none of this answers the original question: why do we have an <img> element? Why not an <icon> element? Or an <include> element? Why not a hyperlink with an include attribute, or some combination of rel values? Why an <img> element? Quite simply, because Marc Andreessen shipped one, and shipping code wins.

> That’s not to say that all shipping code wins; after all, Andrew and Intermedia and HyTime shipped code too. Code is necessary but not sufficient for success. And I certainly don’t mean to say that shipping code before a standard will produce the best solution. Marc’s <img> element didn’t mandate a common graphics format; it didn’t define how text flowed around it; it didn’t support text alternatives or fallback content for older browsers. And 17 years later, we’re still struggling with content sniffing, and it’s still a source of crazy security vulnerabilities. And you can trace that all the way back, 17 years, through the Great Browser Wars, all the way back to February 25, 1993, when Marc Andreessen offhandedly remarked, “MIME, someday, maybe,” and then shipped his code anyway.

> The ones that win are the ones that ship.

I'm not convinced it's a mistake, and it wouldn't be the first time a browser maker tried to influence the direction of web.
To paraphrase: Why can't we just let surgeons state the degree of medical training they have and explain how often they get training and who does the training etc? Then let people decide who they want to have surgery from. No gambling required. We can even expect surgeons to freely offer this information themselves, because it will make their services more attractive.

Remember we are talking about interactions between free individuals here. No one is forced after a critical, life-threatening accident to go to the nearest location such as Bob's Discount Surgery, "Where sterilization is for sissies. Check out our 50% off amputation special."
Would you mind explaining the trust/umbrella/Ltd schemes? Probably not familiar for folks from outside the UK.
i got a 20% lower salary in paris than i did in SF.
but with costs of living, health care, 401k, free education and all, the difference is actually not significant and in fact probably null or negative...

if you need none of the benefits you get in france, you'll get slightly more in SF.

so its not really a clear cut
The rules have changed a bit a few years ago. It is now possible to negotiate a separation with the employer and still get the benefits of unemployment (sorry I don't have the details in mind). It was part of a set of changes intended to make the French job market a bit more flexible.

Then I can guarantee that as a co-founder of a start-up you can get unemployment benefits, as I've been in this situation.
The user-agent is the biggest cluster fuck in the history of the web and has nothing to do with HTML. Once you understand this, you'll learn to ignore it.
You can pay your taxi ride in app as well. [1]

[1] https://de.mytaxi.com/en/fahrgast.html
This is a pretty big wall garden, with three shelves about two feet wide. We're talking about a four feet high, three feet wide wall of green you can stick your head in :) Can't provide a picture, sorry.

The varieties of basil we grow start out slow but grow really fast after a few weeks. The individual plants reach a height of several feet in a month or so.

We have started out by planting a few seeds and once those plants reach some height, we take cuttings to clone them and fill the entire garden. I've had an almost 100% success rate in cloning basil, much better than any other plant I've tried.

Do not trim the growth nodes (you won't eat them anyway), just pick as much leaves as you need from the lower parts of the plants.

Basil is really easy to grow in hydrocultures, it's much more difficult to grow in soil. Rucola is the opposite, I've had zero success putting it in the hydros at the office but grows really well at home in soil.
A few precision about this "35 hours" law.

First, since 2000, the "cadre" workers (the status pretty much everyone working in IT or services has) don't count work hours by the week, but annually in days. Which means in practice the law only result in employyes having more days off during the year.

Secondly, in many cases and especially in start ups, employees don't take all their annual leaves, and instead "choose" (sometimes they don't really choose it) to have their "days off" be paid instead.

As a result, for IT workers, this 35hours a week law only results in a few more holidays and a bonus.
While the plural of anecdote is not data, I've seen pretty much these exact same figures. The Uber's here look identical to our normal private hire taxi's though, so I'm assuming their drivers are in fact legally compliant?

For the record, all the drivers I've spoken to have worked for a local company beforehand and, while earning about the same amount, are far happier now.
> Germany is not a direct democracy.

That's not true. Elements of direct democracy are for example available at the local level. Here in Hamburg the politics is supporting it. For example the mayor of Hamburg is openly supporting it:

http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/deutschland/article12940132...

http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/deutschland/article12939565...

If people here in Hamburg/Germany would be unhappy with it, then they could vote over such a topic, if there is enough interest.

We already have elements of direct democracy.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksentscheid

For example we voted here to buy back the energy utilities, sold a few years ago.

Just recently a non-binding public voting was a done about a new possible tourist attraction.

Here you can see the list of `Volksabstimmungen` we had here in Hamburg in the last years:

http://www.hamburg.de/contentblob/104078/data/volksabstimmun...
+1. Exactly. Not all legislation is bad.
I really dislike your approach.
in reality developers are hired as "managers level" (called "cadre") which is not 35h above 40h and close to what you'd do in the US time wise (you do get 5 weeks of holidays vs 2 tho!)
Prioritizing has to be done automatically, there's no way you could do that manually. And yes indeed, this is what has to be done. A system that "hand picks" exactly the items (not the whole feed) you'd be interested in, automatically, from a cluster of like-minded users.

I am working on it.
Of course no responsible observer (not me anyway) is recommending obsessive dietary adherence to some arbitrary nutrient ratio. Obviously optimal nutrition is not a single static point but a range and a rather broad one at that.

There can't be, and there are not, absolute rules. The research I'm talking about has nothing to do with arm wresting over dogmatic rules shouted out by people insisting they're right and the other guy wrong.

Nonetheless, when nutrition drifts far enough out of range of optimum to the point it is clearly associated with harmful health effects, and it's alarming when an ever greater segment of the population is affected.

That is exactly what's arousing so much concern. The rates of obesity, metabolic disease and diabetes have risen sharply in recent decades. Diabetes alone burdens the US economy (total costs) to the tune of $170 billion a year. The ever-growing burden of disability has been linked (in part) to dietary factors.

The problem is not going to be solved by medical science primarily, but rather the commitment of individuals to save themselves by altering dietary patterns, increasing exercise, and being an active participant, a real-time partner in their own health care.

Where science can help is teasing out the factors that contribute to the problems. The medical community must get behind the educational and political challenges that have a chance to reduce the unfavorable food industry practices that contribute to the problem, and increase individual change.

It would help to substantially reduce excessive sugars and trans-fatty acid content in manufactured and fast foods. Efforts at education of the public aimed at choosing one thing that's better than another must be attempted. These can work, but not quickly. Think of tobacco--it's taken 5 decades, but headway is finally being made reducing tobacco use.

Obsession over arbitrary dietary rules is not the idea. In severe form, it's tantamount to an eating disorder. That's not at all what we mean in any way. Fanaticism has no place in my world.
Toodu and Reddit aren't bad name. They are simple bi-syllabic words that are completely original. If you want your company to list easily in Google, this is how you do it. I suggest you think a bit more deeply about names before calling them out.

Plus it's fairly obvious that name is a small factor in success. A simple, original name (Google!) is simply best practice.
It's also possible to do this in python with the intern () builtin.
Sorry, I live more than half way across the globe. Basil isn't really easy to store either, it's not nearly as good if you bag it for a day or two.

And I have some reservations about carrying green leaves in small baggies :)
Theoretically, your are right.

But there is no surplus in UberBlack, UberPop, UberX.

The surplus, ride sharing, exists only in UberPool.

Why? Because the surplus, as you argue, is: there is a driver who wants to go from A to B. I need a trip from C to D and it happens, that C and D is along the ride of A to B, or even match with A and B. That is called ride sharing. That is nothing new. This kind of business exists in Germany for years. There are also nice Apps that integrate with your navigations system, like http://flinc.org

But what Uber offers with Uber{Black|Pop|X} is not a ride sharing. I still want to go from C to D. But there is no driver who wants to go from A to B. There is only a driver who wants to make some money. So the driver may come from A to pick me up at C. But after D, the driver is either going back to A or will pick up another client. This no ride sharing. Without me as the client, the drive would not have taken place in the first place. So there is no surplus.

That is the distinguishing element between business and ride sharing.
Or more realistically, your experience is on small projects, with only you coding so it is worthless, try opening a large C codebase and fixing all its flaws: good luck.
Ada and its better strict typing is a pain for small projects which is why students don't like it but it really shines on large project (no, it doesn't fix all the issue but it helps).
IMHO what should be done is to take Ada's semantic/strictness and wrap it around a less verbose syntax (1) because if the beginners hate the syntax then the language, no matter how good it is will NEVER take off (and even if it starts taking off it will fall down quickly: see Lisp).

1: yes, I know this was done on purpose but the lack of adoption of Ada EVEN AFTER there was free compilers available show that (IMHO) it was a mistake.
Unless you've actually tried and failed at cold calling, that sounds like a typical excuse (which I used to use as well). If you're scared, you'll have to get over it by just trying it a few times.

And contrary to your belief, being in university is a great advantage. You can say you're a student doing some research/looking for help, and people are generally much more willing to help.
There is a difference between banning and regulating. If a certain culture finds that certain businesses better be regulated for whatever reason (and your exsmple is actually a good one) that's OK and must be followed.

Take for instance the FDA that heavily heavily regulates the US market. I could argue that I as a customer should be able to choose myself what I eat and drink, yet that's not the case.

You may call that cartel, mafia, whatever you want but it's how administrations work..
Paris is expensive, but the rest of the country is pretty cheap. Nantes isn't even in the "second biggest" city league. So you can expect something like 25% to 50% discount on the cost of pretty much everything (especially rent, but not just that).
I think this is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

That's not to say it's not a great bit of effort, but I can't think of anybody that has a job to build widgets like on the demo page, yet cannot build them via pure CSS2/3 or JQuery.

I'm no designer, but i'd find it easier using CSS examples I find off the web combined with the information-glue that is StackOverflow, if something goes wrong with UILang, I'm on my own.
Hmm. I guess many free market proponents also conflate these issues, when they claim that free markets and wealth redistribution are opposed to each other.

That said, I have sympathy for the idea that markets and welfare can work well together. I've long suspected that "the welfare state is a libertarian's wet dream", e.g. a system of universal basic income would allow more people to become entrepreneurs because the risk would be lower. Not sure how Ayn Rand missed that point.
I watched a Noam Chomsky youtube video recently, where he said something similar about TV news. The amount of time you get is only about enough to throw out some half-baked soundbite i.e. "XXX are terrorists", "All benefit claimaints are scroungers" and if it doesn't reiterate whatever the perceived wisdom of the day is, there's no way you'll get enough time to make a point.

I don't use twitter but i imagine the 140 character limit must be much worse. Facebook might be generally vacuous but at least there's enough space and persistance of thread that it's possible to have something of an intellectual discussion.
Sure, to some extend yes. But Ubers public line of defense is "this unfair law should not apply, have mercy with us." (which is incredibly whiny). Now if the CEO would say "I believe this is unfair and I'll go to prison for it.", that would gain some respect with me :)
Right. We definetly need a wider cost-benefit analysis.
A very good point.

Also true,some folks may want to make less and have a bunch of things "pre-digested" for them. Others may want more and be able to purchase goods and services (like college educations) as they choose. There is no right or wrong here. This is a "do you like ice cream" question.

Additionally, simply because you're making more and living in the U.S. doesn't mean you can't have a laid back lifestyle. Or if you're making less in living in France you're as free as you want to work and play as hard as you want.

These broad generalizations don't mean much.

Having said all of that, in my own career when I was young I chased the money. Not to get rich: I simply found that people who pay a lot of money for stuff are usually doing something very interesting. There's a lot more stuff going on in SV than in Lyon. This was my choice. Others make different ones.
That's not true. To be eligible for the unemployment benefits you must not break your contract with your employer. That is, you can leave if you respect the terms of the contract.
Probably not. In my experience I've found that images are usually higher res (and bigger file sizes) that on mobile devices.
It wasn't really a choice in favor of "easier to author." It was a choice in favor of "will this actually get implemented, or just be fancy theorycraft?"

No browser vendor was going to ship new features only in XML parsing mode, because that was author-hostile enough that it would lose them authors, and thus users. (Browser game theory.) The choice of HTML over XML syntax was purely practical, in this sense.
Wow, that's a lot. In Bristol UK I can get a taxi from a taxi rank to home, which is just over 5 miles and takes about 20 mins, at 4am, for £10 max. Not tried Uber
Clever idea, but please don't use it.
I did something similar on my site with a list of terms.

http://researchtrep.com/research/trep-terms/
8 is correct, the actual rule is '9 including the driver', so you're spot on.
This is a neat extension of CSS to allow designers to create simple interactions. I like it as a mechanism targeted slowly at that use case, and I like it even more for determinedly limiting itself to solving that use case well.

The same design taste is evident in the project webpage itself.
I hope you're right. Low-carb (meat-based as practiced by most) is amplifying climate change and world food shortages. Not to mention the needless gigascale animal suffering.
Little anecdote :

A few years ago, a contact in one of our customer working at a Very Big IT company in silicon valley (and i mean VERY BIG) happened to be french. He had a high role in that company, so he presumably made quite a lot of money.
Well, one day his wife was diagnosed cancer, so guess what he did : he went back living in France for her. And i didn't ask so I may be wrong, but i presume it wasn't for the air quality.
So... Tearing down a straw man then.

You could've just said "yes".

(The operative part of that reply was "hours after it was amended". Your rant, and 90% of the other replies on this thread, added nothing at all to the conversation besides typical red pill douche-baggery.)
> Responsive images could have been an XHTML module with a javascript implementation. The browser vendors could catch up and provide native implementations in their own time, but that would not postpone immediate usage.

This is exactly what happened, except without the XHTML nonsense. JavaScript polyfills of the picture element were created and in use before native implementations eventually caught up. (And native implementations are very necessary, in this case, because they need to hook in to the preload scanner, which is not JS-exposed.)

More generally, custom elements and extensible web principles in general enable all of this. Again, without XML being involved.
this; afaik Uber takes no responsibility for the drivers themselves

Not exactly true, they provide insurance for when drivers are between rides: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2454988,00.asp
Also you get to live 2 years longer... 79.4 for males in France, and 77.4 for males in the USA. Women about 6 years longer in France, and 5 years longer in the USA. You get almost 2 years extra holiday over the working lifetime too.
Yesterday, I tried uber in berlin for the first time. It was a professional limousine driver, with insurance and a permit to work as a driver. So, for uber black that's true, while it's not for uberpop. i guess uberpop is really the problem.
"Which leads me into one peeve, who thought that gray cubes and dark carpet were appealing?"

The cleaners/the people who try to keep the cost of cleaning low.

They're not that bad, though, as long as you have sufficient daylight (building not too wide, large windows, low cubicle walls)
Yup, agreed, yet customer satisfaction doesn't cover for you in case of an accident. And since cab companies comply with the regulations what Uber is trying is to create an unfair competition by ignoring them.

So the way to do it is to follow regulations first and then find a way to 'disrupt'. Yes, that might slow down the growth. Thats probably why they chose to ignore it and that's why now the state is hitting them back.

Actually this is business as usual. Uber will continue to fight the decision, a compromise will be found and the prices will go down, which is good for the customer.
Université Orsay Paris-Sud XI, ranked as the best university in France in the Shanghai rankings in 2011 (doesn't mean it's an absolute best, but still somewhat of an indicator). So yeah, rather top shelf.
Sorry I'm not getting it. Feel free to correct me at any stage if I'm wrong.

1) You can drive a car in Germany if you meet some basic legislative requirements (Führerschein etc.)

2) You can carry a friend as a passenger - perfectly legal.

3) You could carry a stranger who asked you for a ride - perfectly legal.

4) That stranger could give you gas money - perfectly legal.

5) But if you use your smartphone to find strangers willing to pay you for a ride at this point your activity becomes so unsafe that you need to jump through a whole bucketload of extra hoops? Why is that exactly?
Maybe if "you're no designer" you're not the target audience? There are definitely a wide variety of other ways to do this, but extending a designer's knowledge of CSS to include minimal interactions is a nice way of leveraging existing know-how. jQuery is a bit of a mess conceptually, outside the core.
I think a character limit is a good idea, but it should be closer to 400 or something. It should force people to be concise, but not force people to divide their message in multiple posts. I don't really know where the sweet spot is, but I don't think it's 140.
I tend to do this on Reddit. I'll try to have a meaningful conversation with people who demonstrate they want one in return, but all those little glib snarks, gripes or quips that the lazy (ie me from time to time) post get ignored, even if they really do warrant a response.

Reddit has a mechanism where you can tag individuals so familiar trolls can show up in comments like a sore thumb. Twitter needs something similar. Not Block/Unblock, but some kind of user-controlled colour-coding so the eye knows easily what to skip.
I really like this. I think its an interesting approach to a problem designers have.

I personally teach all of our designers enough jQuery so they can animate their designs. The issue is its a steep learning curve and to be honest the Javascript is normally throw away as once we come to build the interface we normally use a framework like Ember or Backbone.

Nice work Benjamin!