skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may give it a go. Is there anything that I can add to this list?
That's a false equivalence (at least I think that's the right term). Back then, computers were by a huge barrier to entry the exclusive domain to the kind of people who would grow up to read hacker news. Blindly typing in games from magazines without trying to understand them is the 1980's equivalent of "watching shit scroll by for hours makes me a Linux expert overnight". If that gives you an illusion of being able to create programs, it's the same kind of illusion that causes people to post Odesk tasks to build a Facebook clone with Outlook integrated for $200.

Unleashing the power of computing to the general public is an incredible leap forward and arrogantly brushing away the riff raff and their parochial consumption is like dismissing the industrial revolution because who needs cheap cloth when you can get fine lambswool tweed?

Let's not pretend that anyone of us highly skilled programmers could actually build even a small fraction of the tools we turn on and "consume" (even if for the purpose of writing new tools) on a daily basis - if not for lack of skill, although a hugely diverse range of skills did go in to it, then for sheer lack of time.

Yes, we need to demystify programming and teach at least rudimentary skills in school. Taking a few years of a foreign language doesn't make you proficient in the language, and you might never need it, but understanding the abstraction behind the existence of different languages is important and useful in it's own right - in the same way, understanding in the most simplistic ways what makes a computer tic is important for understanding much of the world today.
This was my main point of inspiration when writing shorthand. Comments that turn to code. To jquery as markdown is to HTML.
One of the problems with UberPop is that people use their regular private insurance that does not cover commercial activities. I'm a bit uncertain on what the result would be - I think the victim would still get paid, but the insurance would recover the costs from the insurance owner. Still, that's not legal.
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One if the issues I see with Agile in practice is that it draws clear lines around individual tasks. Developers become responsible for their own individual tasks but don't take responsibility for the project as a whole or how that task might fit into it. For a small already effective team the adoption of Agile really just resulted in more meetings and less cohesive end results.
It is covered by the driver's insurance. According to the victim's attorney, they offered $15000.
HN did a pool last year "full time engineer in the uk salary" try searching for it. You will see that the average is 45-50k.
> Riiiight. "Old browsers." Which "old version" of Chrome do you think is affected?

Not sure about search, but for gapps, Google's chrome versions support is the least generous of any browser. They only support the latest version (as opposed to the two most recent versions of other browsers). Effectively they only support chrome with autoupdate enabled. (Which presumably they feel they can do because they have the most aggressive - but also most smooth/invisible - autoupdate of any major browser).
It is a mistake that Google rolls out a new protocol implementation without testing it in the two known major products that support it.
I think you all missed his point. Yes he knows there are laws. He's questioning why the laws exist. There's clearly a lot of confusion about this because up thread we have people saying it's not about safety, and then we have lots of other people saying it is about safety.

To me having insurance valid for commercial use seems reasonable, but you don't need special licenses or laws to enforce that. Just have a law that says "you must have insurance valid for the kind of driving you do" (which I suspect Germany already has).

The basic point being made here is there is no technical or medical reason why the amount of money being charged suddenly makes driving fundamentally different. You're driving the same car on the same roads with the same driver. So why have governments made it so complicated?
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Google has done amazing stuff for the web, so has microsoft, IBM,etc before it. The trick is to not give any one company a lot of power and diversify the power among many corporations etc. Google is still the most innovative company out there but lets hope we realize the time when they will need to step-aside and let other more innovative companies take its place.
Was discouraged at it being OCaml, but because you made it web based so it's accessible to everyone, you win a free internet.
Makes sense, because the idea of ride-sharing is that you're making the trip anyways, and you're just lowering the actual and ecological/wear-and-tear/wasted time costs if you're taking other people with you. Uber is very obviously not doing that.
MyTaxi targets commercial drivers that adhere to legislation whereas Uber targets non-professional drivers and does neither check nor care whether they follow regulations (proper license, permits, insurance, etc.)
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Ah, you mean the desktop we already enjoy!
When I asked my 11-year-old brother what browser he used (since I saw chrome and firefox on the desktop), he informed me that he used "Firefox Nightly" (which I hadn't noticed, but was also present), because "it's a little better". He had no idea what it was. I don't know how he found it in the first place.
> Is this a mistake or Google trying to force the standards process in their favour? Users seem to be blaming Firefox, not Google.

Given Google's history around this whole HTTP/2.0 shenanigans, I see little reason to see anything in their favour.

They are probably gambling that Firefox will fold (like they forced them to with DRM) so that once again, they can have it their way internet-wide without having to wait for annoying things like feedback from others and standards-committees and such.

They will probably win.
Someone from the HTML standard body is going to make the web better? Riiiiiiight...
I got thrown into a machine shop as part of my engineering degree at a university-in-name-but-practically-a-polytechnic in Canada and in retrospect I am super glad. It was an excellent widening of perspective and gave me appreciation for physical side of the work (feasibility, implementability, etc). It is true I didn't give it much thought before.
Good to you. I also don't test Safari.
"In my personal opinion, we will have to go back to the basics: To all the wonderful design fundamentals that were being discussed in the 90’s: the SOLID principles of OOD, design patterns, software reuse," - Err, Agile is based on those principles to. Agile takes quality above all else, a task is not finished until its finished well.

Agile has always been combined with software craftsmanship, especially XP style engineering principles.
This only happens because it was a broken idea to start with.

The web should be about interactive documents, not trying to bend it into a color version of VT100s.
It isn't really fair to compare SF with Nantes
There is lot of contradictory information, because there are food industries funding research whose results are favorable for their products. It is no longer science. Rather it's assertion of beliefs.

You just asserted your own beliefs. Wouldn't you rather want to know the truth about good nutrition? You need science to do that.
I would fault my phone company if I could no longer make and recieve phone calls and send and receive SMS text messages.

And it's not just about stuff not working on simple machines - many sites are awful to use on recent smart phones and recent OSs because they have only been tested on local networks on development machines. No one has tested them on normal machines.
How disappointing, we're at a time where security is a major impact on our lives. Why would they not at least try a little harder to make us feel secure at least a little? Ah well, there's always flip phones.
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What is the point of a May 2013 article? Do we believe nothing has changed in between?
Hold on there.

Society has already made a judgement that those overtime hours only make society better off when an employer is willing to pay extra for them. Implicit in that is a judgment that neither employers nor employees properly account for the social cost of that overtime (because of short-run vs. long-run considerations, impacts on third parties like the employee's friends and family and so on).

Making the case that the social costs have changed and revisiting that judgment democratically is one thing. Evading that judgment by trickery (especially when that can involve tricking the employee) is something very different - cheating the system by shifting the social costs of overtime where they do not belong.
It's unclear. It says here [0] that in principle you can't get unemployment benefit if you leave your job on your own, although there are exception to that, mainly if you leave your job for family reason (your partner got an opportunity in a different geographical area), or if you experimented unprofessional behavior at your previous company, such as sexual harassment.

In the link I gave, it says that you can get unemployment if you leave to create your own company, but here [1] it says that if you leave to create your own company and it doesn't take off, you will be able to get unemployment benefit ("Démission pour reprise ou création entreprise : Et, si pour des raisons qui ne sont pas de votre fait cette nouvelle activité s’arrête, vous pourrez alors récupérer le cas échéant votre droit à des indemnités de chômage.").

I am a French expat so my knowledge of this might be a bit off, but I am still interested in that subject.

[0] sorry, in French: http://www.toobusiness.com/portail/conseil/loi-juridique/all...

[1] still in French: http://allocation-chomage.fr/demission-chomage-pole-emploi/
... I think a large part of it has to do with the notion that computers are somehow "magical" and "mysterious" things that don't follow the same rules of the universe as everything else.

Excellent point. Computers are indeed like bubbles of custom universes that don't follow the rules of this one. The web doesn't have a real-world metaphor.

How do those universes and their foundational laws get created? By programming, of course. We all know that the stuff computers do is just built up from simple stuff that's been meticulously assembled into layers of increasing complexity: electrons on tiny wires, ands and registers, ifs and structs, packets and sockets, requests and threads, etc. But that knowledge is not discoverable by using a computer today.

It's no wonder that children don't know how to deal with failures that occur in the real-world interface of these custom bubble universes, when all they're thought about that interface amounts to magic gestures that trigger actions within the bubble. When a magic wand stops working, how do you fix it?
I use Taxis several times a week (in Germany). A lot of the drivers are already complaining about their income. Most of them are below the minimum wage, which will come in 2015. And a lot expect their company to shut down business. When I ask them about their opinion about Uber, many of the drivers speak positively about such an alternative. It would allow them to work without the need of a concession and to keep more money of the margin. But they also demand the same standards for such an alternative.

I prefer the Taxi (and my employer would not allow Uber in the first place), because of insurance and other minimum standards demanded by regulation (federal, country and town (via concessions)).

So I see a conflict, that is not just about Uber, but about the working conditions and the income in general. If Uber is allowed to work at lower limitations than the Taxi businesses, it will be a distortion of competition. It would make more Taxi companies to go out of business, which already struggle to keep their business and to pay their employes wages above the minimum (today and 2015).

So yes! Uber drivers must maintain the same standards as Taxi businesses, if they offer a commercial service.
When I first started programming for a living, I put on an enormous amount of weight. I ended up topping out at just above 400lbs. Then I got sick.

I couldn't eat anything with fat in it. Nothing. So I flipped to a zero fat diet that consisted of very little protein. It was almost 100% bowls of Grape Nuts and sugar with skim milk. I lost 180lbs in 18 months. I took up exercise along the way and sliced off another 20lbs.

At this point, things improved and I could eat "normally" again. I took up running and worked myself up to 7 miles a day.

Life had other plans though. Work intruded. Family requirements, etc. The running stopped. These are things anyone over 40 would understand.

As a result, I slid around on the scale for a decade or so and decided to experiment with other forms of nutrient deprivation. I tried an all protein diet (result: rapid weight loss but hungry all the time). I tried a heavy fat diet (result: rapid weight loss but sick all the time). I've also tried fasting and extreme calorie restriction (result: rapid weight loss and general rending of the fabric of reality). I was a strict vegetarian for three years (result: never felt more clear-headed in my life, but I also lost significant muscle mass even though I took pains to get the right amino acids through various sources).

So, after a decade of experimentation, I've learned quite a few things.

1. Modern life is full of distractions, in fact it seems designed specifically to introduce new distractions as a way of propagating itself.

2. Any restrictive diet (and you have to be religious about it) will result in temporary weight loss that may in fact be quite dramatic. But it won't last. Eventually your body will get used to the new diet or you will develop some rather unpleasant side effects.

3. Vegetarian diets are superior in many ways, but depending on your body type, can be rather hard on the muscles (I have a large frame and look emaciated when I get to 200lb). This certainly doesn't happen to everyone, but it's what happened to me. Pity. I liked the way my brain worked on that diet.

4. A carb-restricted diet left me hungry, as in "I need to go out and hunt something now" hungry. Even after months of focused effort.

5. A balanced diet coupled with significant exercise is pretty much the only thing that consistently works with this body. Your mileage may vary.

6. Modern life is full of expectations that are unnecessary and unhealthy. This couples with point #1. Distractions and expectations tend to go hand in hand. They keep you from doing what is right for your mind and body.

7. Don't look for a fast solution. Rather focus on a resolution, a shift in perspective about what you expect from life. Then, live with awareness of this goal each and every day.
About your nokia example, maybe I'm mistaken but wouldn't it be like you couldn't send a proper SMS without upgrading your phone?
The GPSs work OK in London. The black cabbies are probably a bit better at knowing which routes will be quickest but there's not much in it. Black cabs have an advantage in that they can use taxi only lanes / roads such as Oxford Street while Uber can't.
What exactly would be the benefit of two-factor if you aren't in physical possession of your device? If someone had your username and password two-factor wouldn't protect you anyway because the code would be sent to it.
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CFS and depression can complement each other. Also the one can lead to the other.

But I second this: get a check of your thyroid gland, if you thyroid doesn't work properly, medication won't work properly!
I could argue the same, if I want to found a cocaine business in Berlin.

(I live in Berlin, too. And I prefer a Taxi.)
Why did you have to bring up the specific "CyberVor" incident that has been called out as bullshit by several people in the security industry?
It doesn't have to be this way.

If the platform is designed to cluster the users based on their interests automatically, you'd have early adopters and normal people co-existing without bothering each other.

That's what I'm working on now.
He's also a pretty active HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp
Why do you think it suggests that? (I'm not super familiar with the feature sets of Kindle models, but none of the above suggests LCD or backlighting.)

I'm mostly curious whether these results would be the same with an e-ink screen as with an LCD. I believe the paperwhite is front-lit e-ink, BTW.
> They had significantly greater reductions in body fat than the low-fat group, and improvements in lean muscle mass

I'm a bodybuilder and spend a good deal of time reading about the subject every week. It is common knowledge among bodybuilders that an increase in muscle and loss of fat at the same time is possible only with steroids. So what does "improvements in lean muscle mass" mean here?

> what foods are best to eat for weight loss and overall health.

Bodybuilders avoid weight loss like fire, and instead only focus on fat loss. What's the sense in losing muscle? This article needs to be read very carefully.

> "It shows that in a free-living setting, cutting your carbs helps you lose weight without focusing on calories. And that's really important because someone can change what they eat more easily than trying to cut down on their calories."

Again "weight loss". Every piece of bodybuilding knowledge states that you cannot lose fat without a calorie deficit. Here we read that the people in the experiment did not limit their calories, but "lost weight". This couldn't have been fat. If you want to lose fat, then just eat less - it works for all bodybuilders, why would it not work for the rest of the population. I don't see how there can be some more "easy" method than just eating less.

Furthermore the article does not state how the amount of fat in the body was measured - most methods are said to be highly inaccurate. I believe this article is a misleading piece of bullshit.
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> In my personal opinion, we will have to go back to the basics: To all the wonderful design fundamentals that were being discussed in the 90’s: the SOLID principles of OOD, design patterns, software reuse, component-based software development.

Many of us are doing just this while practicing Agile. It's not an either or situation. Are people really this out of touch with contemporary software development practices?
> "1. Life is about the continuous cycle of our human species development and where we fit in that as individuals."

If you create what feels authenticate to you, it will fit in with humanity as a whole.

> 2. Religion as purpose.

I'd say purpose is drawn from philosophy in general, and religion is an instance of philosophy.

> 4. Justice.

There is a political dichotomy of merit-based systems vs. egalitarian systems. I lean towards merit, and equal opportunity.

> 5. Adequate regulation.

There is an overregulation bias. If in doubt, a new law is passed. This is especially harmful to innovation: see AirBnB, Uber/Lyft, Synthetic Biology.

> 6. "University education should not be a replacement for auto-didactic learning."

But the emergence of MOOCs makes autodidactic learning a possible replacement for university education. In an unbundled form, of course, as you still need to develop your network (w/o the campus) and build your reputation (w/o the degree).

> 9. Authenticity vs. social convention.

Again, given the dichotomy of authenticity vs. social convention, favor authenticity. ("if in doubt" is more of a stylistic element)

> "11. "Risk-avoidance is the riskiest strategy." does not fully respect the logic."

It would not, if we could control all of the risks. However, we cannot fully predict and avoid the occurrence of extreme events. Hence, it is better to embrace them via antifragile systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile. Moreover, not taking any seemingly high risks, usually leads to not making any progress at all - and stagnation is the ultimate risk.

> 12. Creative destruction vs. conservation

The comparison is to be understood on the level of "where should I, as an individual, focus my limited attention and energy on?" Environmentalism or Technology? Answer: Technology.

> 13. Technology-driven extinction

Many people primarily see the dangers of technology, whereas - imho - the benefits outweigh the costs. In fact, the opportunity costs of not advancing technology because of naysayers would be higher than the damage that is done by technology itself. (extinction is meant on the level of humankind)

> 18. "Humans will step over their biological limits, but that will threaten our cohesion on a species level."

Threat and opportunity usually go hand-in-hand.
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even if agreed with your point i think we can agree it's more the execution is what's stupid- not the idea. not to say i think either is stupid.

the idea is that JS, and probably HTML/CSS by extension, are not the ideal tools for rapid prototyping, and this is a small step in the right direction.

>> The target audience of uilang should never, in my opinion, try to build websites.

why not?? everyone should, in my opinion, be able to build websites.
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> zero fat diet

A zero fat diet is very dangerous. You need fat for organs to function properly, and vitamins to dissolve in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat#Importance_for_living_organ...
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> If Uber is allowed to work at lower limitations than the Taxi businesses, it will be a distortion of competition.

Let's stop talking about "competition". The issue here is "the regulations". Are they too broad? Or too narrow? Or ineffective? Or inadequate? Or just fine?

It Uber is allowed to work at lower limitations than the Taxi businesses, then either the Taxi business is too regulated (then some regulations should be dropped) or Uber is taking shortcuts somewhere damaging the costumers or the workers (the reason why the regulations exist in the first place).

I think that, if the current regulations are justified (and this is to be seen place by place), then there is no other outcome other than Uber becoming simply yet another Taxi company, maybe the one with the nicest website.
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Your point is valid, but using imagealpha allows you to have alpha channel in 8bit pngs. www.pngmini.com
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I'm working on a platform that leverages exactly that.

Here I'm just showing the problem of Twitter getting mainstream and pushing what's popular on us: https://github.com/ducu/twitter-most-followed

We need an automatic tool that filters out the noise by figuring out the interest graph for each user individually. I plan to use Twitter for that.
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Sadly the lifespan on wikipedia is not sourced:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halocaridina_rubra

If they indeed life up to 20 years the Ecosphere can hardly be very well balanced if it keeps them going for only 2-3 years.
> I don't know how he found it in the first place.

4chan, directly or indirectly. They have some crazy obsession with it.
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