skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And if you don't want your children to buy cigarettes, don't give them money, or better, educate them. It works quite well, but I guess in your reasoning you expect the education to come from the government instead of the parents?

No, it doesn't work at all well.

Tobacco companies target cigarettes at children. Strict laws, with expensive enforcement, are needed to stop people selling cigarettes to children.
the top 1% of larger corporations (i.e. VP level and CxO level) is more selective (i.e. not composed of normal people like you and me) than governments.

For both country governments and the governments of corporations, having some amount of both democratic control (through elections, or through laws that say what corporations can and cannot do - we don't want corporations to poison our kids any more than governments) as well as some economic responsibility (which is difficult - both for CEOs and for government officials it is frighteningly easy to disguise bad performance as "properties of the global economy").

taxing you to death for subpar services? Hello, Comcast and AT&T!

brainwashing your kids? Disney or Activision would never do that!

violent action? Corporations only do that in places with weak governments, which is a good thing. Never mind that the US health care system means that firing people also means taking their health care away.

can put you into deadly situations? Well, corporations would never do that. No one died in Dow Chemical's (now Monsanto) huge chemical spill in Bhopal. Also, both corporations and governments get rather bad PR when they kill people.
I would be just happy if the article would load properly.

If they want to reduce smoking then tie government benefits to not smoking. Ban it within the military; that they could do under the UCMJ. The for the rest, restrict where it can be sold and increase the taxation.

The cost has to become very high as even one hundred dollar monthly premiums on employee provided insurance do not stop people.
I'm confused - The Australian article cites the very 0.3% outlier that the Washington Post article is talking about. It's not reliable.

You say you should be suspicious, but you seem to show no suspicion of an article that starts with the sentence "LABOR’S nanny state push to kill off the country’s addiction to cigarettes with plain packaging has backfired, with new sales figures showing tobacco consumption growing during the first full year of the new laws."

Does your bias radar not kick in at this point? Or perhaps the anecdotal evidence from two smokers in Brisbane who said their friends haven't quit, and one convenience store worker in Sydney who agreed with British American Tobacco's spokesperson? Do you really consider this article to be... reliable? Did you wonder where they found these people? Are you not slightly suspicious who was feeding the info to the journalist?

It's well known that the Australian article you cite is an editorial, and an inaccurate editorial at that, by a former staffer in the Liberal Howard government. The article was highly criticized as being wrong on almost every count, most damningly by Media Watch (see here: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4026465.htm )

But here are a few counter articles from less biased, non-News Corp sources:

* http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/06/06/oz-exclusive-big-tobacco...

* http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/labor-rejects-t...

* http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/increased-tobacco-s...

The data itself was "leaked" to the Australian and is from InfoView, who supplies this info to cigarette companies. And, surprise, surprise, the full report and data it analyses was never released publicly.

Funny that.
To be clear, the issue here isn't that they want to stop the upstart solar revolution (although I'm sure that's a factor too), but the bigger problem of grid spikes due to tie ins.

Solar comes in two flavors: Battery and grid tie. When you tie your solar setup to the grid, technically you can make money back from the power company for selling your excess power and as an added benefit, you don't need to keep a bank of (expensive, heavy and space consuming) batteries.

During the night, you can draw power from the utility in lieu of drawing from a battery bank, but the idea is that you can buy back most of the excess power you "sold" to the grid during the day. This is the "net metering" they're talking about.

Battery and solar is how I'm planning to go with my cabin setup so I won't have to deal with this problem. But the subsidies escalating the issue is really the fault of the law makers who enabled it.

It would have made far more sense to promote off-grid for energy since that doesn't put the burden on power companies, but grid tie is being sold and promoted as a much cheaper panacea for both power costs and environmental benefits.
You give your doctor information you don't give your friends, you give your telephone company information you don't give your friends.

There are reasons to give private entities information that you don't want shared with the world.
Looks neat. Don't think we'll switch from Brightpod.com
Google is actively trying to hide the presence of CUDA on Android in favour of render-script. It doesn't look like they are working on it.
Examples of GoF Design Patterns
Well, if you think what the startup join join does is really awesome and you're passionate about it, by all mean go for it, passion is something I do respect. And same for your PhD, I always respect people who have one because they were passionate about something enough to do research instead of going for a well paid job (I don't have a PhD but I seriously considered doing one in maths when I finished my Msc).
If you read just eight sentences in, you'd know that argument makes no sense.

Net metering is not a free market solution, and has been imposed by governments. The "fat cats" are fighting to remove regulatory intervention. The exact opposite of what you are claiming.
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... when you have massive unscheduled energy spikes from wind and sun, that energy has to go somewhere.

Spin up GPU-equipped data center instances to mine FooCoins, or warm up glass houses to grow tulips, or whatever is the trendy way to burn energy this year.

There's always something that can be done with extra spot energy that is perceived as valuable, but traditional industries and utilities probably aren't going to come up with it because they're wired for projects that take 15 years to build and last 40 years in use.
I'm pretty skeptical of the study on which this essay bases its premise that economic mobility in the U.S. is limited compared to, say, France. The most detailed information I can find online is the executive summary[1], which has to handwave that it found Italy with a strongly negative correlation between parents' and children's economic outcomes! That suggests to me that their methodology is not particularly robust.

I've found similar attempts to establish parent/child economic correlation equally suspicious when, for example, they measure income correlation with percentiles rather than in adjusted dollars (it's much easier to be "mobile" if there's only $10K in income separating the 40th and 60th percentiles!)

[1] http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_as...
> iOS lets me use [...]

And Web Components are bringing innovation (component based app building) to rusty world of web dev which is not restricted to rich western society (Apple).

I stopped ranting on JS - just use lang with good enough IDE like Dartlang (DartEditor or IntelliJ)

PS: previous comment was not "ad persona" - but if you think transpilation is "lame" - you don't know how hard it's to make performant transpiler and how wonderful piece of tech are some of those transpilers
Reposting an old comment of mine on the subject::

The path to a standard package manager starts with a standardized protocol for package management.

A service protocol that is able to serve a repository of packages over http and ftp. A client protocol that can keep track of installed packages and can index, search and look for updates on installed packages.

Split package management into layers and only try to standardize bit by bit. People will never agree on deb vs rpm. People will never agree on using json vs python vs Makefile vs ruby vs shell vs whatever else - they'll always want their most familiar language for their package manager, which in domain-specific packaging means the domain-specific language.

So don't try to standardize those. Standardize the rest. Give us the protocol that can power all of this and increase interoperability. Separate the repository layer, the package format (deb, rpm), the packagefile format (setup.py, Makefile, PKGBUILD) and the package manager (interface: yum, apt-get, aptitude, pip, npm) from the rest of the protocol.

Make this potentially usable for things such as browser extension repositories, android package management, vim bundles and what not.

Someone please work on this. I'd do it but it just occured to me I have to clean my oven.
-280C would be -7 Kelvin, and therefore impossible.
New Computing Curriculum Has the Potential to Be ‘Transformational’
I don't understand the correlation you seem to be making.

Let's take the fact that manufacturers are making e-cigarettes addictive as a given. I'm not entirely sure how that works and suspect you're talking about the juice rather than the actual device, but the distinction is not terribly relevant in that conversation.

So, ok, let's assume e-cigarettes are becoming more addictive. How does that correlate to more harmful? there are plenty of things that are highly addictive and not bad for your health in themselves - sex, say, or running for some people, or programming.

Your point about addictivity is interesting, but I don't think it tells us anything about the dangers of e-cigarettes, real or imagined.
The best minds in ML don't have to work on Ad Tech – Mattermark is hiring
Yes, there are Russian soldiers unofficially in Ukraine. There are US soldiers there too: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/22/pentagon-tea...

Doesn't mean the US has invaded Ukraine.
This is Google themselves IIRC. If you don't turn it off they will show your ads next to terms which they deem "related" to the ones you've chosen supposedly via some deep Googly machine-learning analysis.

Said analysis seems to have worked because I don't see any ads at all for that search on either desktop or mobile - presumably everyone carrying out that search knew exactly what they were looking for & it wasn't any of the displayed ads so Google stopped displaying them.
Has Capitalism Reached a Turning Point?
That's not a bad idea. But I won't back it because "Shipping within New Zealand only".
Increased costs have some drawbacks.

People spending money on tobacco are not spending that money on their children or paying their necessary household bills

High cost tobacco encourages criminal gangs to produce and import counterfeit products or to smuggle regular product. Smoking is harmful, but smoking some of the counterfeit cigarettes smuggled into England is even worse.

2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4096911.stm

2012: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4096911.stm

> One brand had eight times as much lead as normal cigarettes.

> All contained higher levels of cadmium, which can severely damage the lungs and is linked with kidney disease.

2014: video http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28940681
Making Firefox non-sucky? Isn't https://github.com/servo/servo good enough for you? Creating a new programming language and using it to build a modern browser rendering engine? I understand that Mozilla is going lots of different directions with its projects but come on, they can't be accused of not putting the effort to make the web better.
I wrote this article a year ago, and you hit the nail on the head - that is what I was getting at.

I didn't submit it here because it wasn't really meant for an advanced crowd, obviously most people would be aware of the dangers.

For example, take a look around at the pirating world. Many sites that help you install projects such as Couchpotato, Sickbeard, Sabnzbd etc rely on people curl-piping bash scripts. The people installing from those scripts likely do not know any better.
How to redirect HTTPS to HTTP without certificate
> Solar and wind are causing major issues in distribution networks

It's a lot less dramatic than you paint it to be. In Spain, 23% of generation comes from wind and solar and they manage just fine. Of course you need to spend money on technology (coordination, forecasting of weather, real-time communication between power plants and a control room [0], etc). So 0.4% of solar is pretty trivial to handle. Of course it hits the profits, and Iberdrola fought hard to get a "grid-tax", because their profit had gone down by 0.9% to only 4bn (EBIDTA) [1]

But since you seem educated about electricity and power generation, maybe you can tell us what the grid costs are. Take $0.10/kWh in Texas for example. What percentage is fuel, CAPEX, distribution and profit? That information would make the debate more meaningful. "But think of the grid!" is not specific enough.

[0] http://black-capital.com/news/2010/09/cecre-a-control-center...

[1] http://www.iberdrola.es/press-room/press-releases/national-i...
Far too often, people anthropomorphize AI or draw from fiction. Bostrom does his best to dispel these notions.

The algorithm just does what it does; and unless it is a very special kind of algorithm, it does not care that we clasp our heads and gasp in dumbstruck horror at the absurd inappropriateness of its actions.

— Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

This is the key point Bostrom is trying to make. If general AI research is successful, we'll need to build agents with some very carefully chosen goals. Even something as silly as "make paperclips" can result in a universe tiled with paperclips. Earth and its biomass could be turned into said paperclips, ending humanity.
gvoice is still around but it was axed a few times (talk with google voice users in canada, it was start and stop and start again)

send to phone was a firefox feature. it was axed. the functionality is now only available in chrome.

wave isn't built into the browser, it was axed. but as others have pointed out it wasn't my best, most shining example
https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl#browsers
the firefox version of it was axed. you have to use chrome. perhaps chromium can be hacked to work with the service, idk, haven't tried.
Thanks for the information - I'm about to trawl through the google settings to find it and turn that off.

I can understand ebay turning up. I use ebay. I have no idea how a geneology site turns up - I have no interest in it and have no relevant searches and haven't, as far as I can tell, visited any pages or watched any videos that are relevant.

Also, just to be really clear: you're saying that Google is inserting paid ads into organic search results with no indication that they are paid ads?

Edit: if this is true, and if there is a setting to turn it off, where is that setting?
Lets not forget that Sony Music/Entertainment kept hobbling Sony Tech. Which supposedly is why Sony had a few brilliant mp3 players, and then ... nothing. For a few years.

It's ludicrous -- the company had the music rights, movie rights, patents and technical know-how -- but just refused accepting the way the trends were going.
The antipode of Krakatoa is Bogotá, Colombia. I wonder what the news reports from there said at the time?
Well, since it's an old comment your oven should be clean by now :)
(One of IPython dev here)

Having better integration with IPython would be super meet. Will be happy to provide help and get feedback on API. Using ZMQ API could allow to use this with our Julia, ruby, Haskell... Backends! Would be happy to chat with you durring one of our google hangout.
Well since you went for a technical argument... if you really want to get technical.. it doesn't display anything and just sends the raw bytes to a stream.

It doesn't 'display' all bytes, because not all bytes are displayable. hexdump would do a better job there.
Very very nice. Does it work in windows too ?
On the other hand -- I'd be happy to pay to avoid ads on youtube. It's one of the few streaming services I'd consider paying for (if I could) -- precisely because it's mostly user-curated.
Care to provide a link to the direct report the Australian quoted from? I'd like to be able to read the report and its data in its entirety. And, no, a quote from Scott McIntyre, the spokesman from British American Tobacco, is not good enough for me. Data please.
How does it compare to bpython, then? That does syntax highlighting and has support for multiline editing IIRC.
As long as you have a skill set that the market wants... you won't have any problems.
Projects Specific Settings with Vim
The argument just circled back to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8383247
>Thanks! We'll totally try that.

oops maybe I spoke too soon, allow me to backpedal a little. I still recommend minimizing KL-divergence.
He is saying that they blamed the protestors for inconveniences caused by police actions not that the police in the US blocked cell service.

The strategy for dealing with the protests in the US was just to wait them out and then when the media got bored they sent in the police to clear out the camps while people weren't paying attention.
Nice, finally hassle free service. No registration, proprietary clients etc...
Is diffraction the reason why soundwaves could travel around the whole Earth? My previous understanding of diffraction was that obstacles cause waves to propagate in different ways. But the thinning of the atmosphere isn't really an "obstacle." The molecules that soundwaves use to propagate are simply further apart from each other, meaning waves are more likely to disperse and lose energy than to keep traveling or bounce. That would imply the boom from the volcano should disperse into space and go silent rather than travel around the Earth. But since that doesn't happen, it seems like the waves follow wherever the atmosphere is thick.

I'm having trouble understanding how diffraction would cause that end result of "waves go where the atmosphere is." If waves could bounce off of the thin atmosphere near space, that would make total sense. But they can't bounce due to thin atmosphere, only disperse, so it seems like there's some other phenomenon in play.
I really like http://fh.tl/ because you can also easily send shell output

[/] $ ls -la / | curl -F 'paste=<-' http://fh.tl/

Your paste has been saved!

Share this URL:

http://fh.tl/MO

[/] $

helpful when trying to debug someone on a remote workers machine
When There's No Reason Something's Impossible, It Ends Up Being Possible
I would love to use this for my own files, without expiration etc. Do you have any plans to open source this?
Gilad Bracha: A DOMain of Shadows
2 more epicly failing profiles:
@friendzis
@algimantas69
Great job!

I really like the multi-line editing and IPython-style prompts. The syntax highlighting feature is nice as well, and it can be turned off with a flag. I am not a fan of auto-completion, however, so I wish there were a flag to turn it off as well (perhaps --autocompletion=off).
It'd be interesting to learn the depth of study related to spectrum of scenarios in which human race will be facing apocalypse.

Few things that pop up in my head:

- disease

- nuclear (or comparable) war

- depletion of natural resources

- natural disaster

- extra terrestrial influence: asteroid or alien invasion

- artificial intelligence

- anarchy / disruption of social security

hmm...anything else?
Hi Nick,

I would recommend taking your time to select your co-founder.
I believe it is not only about finding someone that loves your idea, and that has matching technical skills.

Sharing equity with someone, even if you can provide the security of an income, is like entering a marriage. Any confusion, lack of communication, conflicts (and there will be no matter what) will impact your team (this comes from a start-up team member that witnessed poor decision-making due to a lack of cooperation between founders).

Make sure you both have a similar vision of entrepreneurship and take your time to work with the person so you can both experiment difficulties together and see if you trust your co-founder.

You can find contractors to get you started (with an open-source framework like web2py so that your CTO will easily be able to pick up the work).

I have applied this to my project, selected potential tech co-founders because I enjoyed working with them on various occasions (work, school, start-up week-ends ...) and asked for small, paid tasks that a mentor verified for me.
It is supposed to be the hardest part in entrepreneurship so I wish you the best going forward on this search for your co-founder.

I know Europe has less Tech/Start-up events to attend (I live in France) but if you can I would recommend networking, meeting as many programmers as you can. There are a lot of events registered on Meetup.com in London.
http://www.meetup.com/cities/gb/17/london/tech/

Good luck !
I'm sorry about this, at the moment there is no Windows support.

However the architecture of the library decouples the input and output from the rest, so it should be possible to plug in something to make it compatible with the Windows terminal.

For me personally, it doesn't have priority, but maybe in the future I will have a look.
At least in the UK, I haven't noticed any negative social reactions. I think this problem may fix itself over time, where it exists.

I'm quite delighted that some of my coworkers use e-cigarettes, since I can spend time around them without having to stand the horrific smell.
I use CloudApp for OS X for sharing files and it's pretty convenient. The best part is sharing screenshots with it. You take a screenshot, it is automatically uploaded to the cloud (no pun intended) and the link is copied to your Clipboard. You could not ask for anything simpler.
Steve Jobs – The Lost Interview
Thank you for the feedback. I'll add an option to turn off the automatic autocompletion.
Never expect things you upload to the internet to be private. There are so many vectors where this can go wrong. The host might list directory indexes, s3 buckets can be open, sites can be hacked, etc etc.
Which scientific study that was quoted do you consider problematic?

* University of Stirling's study into plain packaging at http://phrc.lshtm.ac.uk/papers/PHRC_006_Final_Report.pdf, or

* The British Medical Journal's review of Australian Plain Packaging laws, found here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3710988/ - or...

* Perhaps it was the BMJ study into plain packaging, linked here? http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/17/6/416.full
Interactive Sailplane Simulation
That's great, you can encrypt stuff then as follows (on a Mac).

brew install gpg
gpg --gen-key
gpg -ac < file.unencrypted | curl http://transfer.sh/file.encrypted -T -

To decrypt, take the returned URL:

curl https://transfer.sh/1nKXr/file.encrypted | gpg -ad

Someone can probably improve this!
As a weh developer, I need photoshop, thus I'm stuck with either a Mac or Windows system.

I'd much prefer to drop the VM's and go full Linux. I can't. Because of Photoshop.
+ for 2n7002

and why LPC1830? LPC1768 seems to be far more popular
I use curl.io from time to time and it has a big drawback: you need to visit curl.io to get your upload URL. transfer.sh got it right.
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Nice Analysis:Apple App Store: A Colour Analysis
they are articles surveying people's opinions about plain packaging. they don't provide direct evidence for plain packaging <<causing>> a decline in smoking rates.
First evidence that reptiles can learn through imitation