skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens when a hikkomori gets kicked out of the house? My immediate thought running through my mind was that if these were my kids, they'd get the boot. Obviously things aren't that simple, but has anyone actually tried that? What happens? Do they just die?
Who do I go see? A normal doctor? A therapist?
I'll voice a dissenting opinion.

Doing HTML and JavaScript are commodities. Given the existence of standards, there's not a lot of room for innovative behavior. Any developments (faster, new HTML standards, etc) won't impact the market unless they're in one of the major browsers. Competition is good, but there's only room in the market for a handful of rendering engines. Maybe 3-5, tops.

Conversely, UI and human interaction with the browser is a place where there's room for an unbounded number of players. This is where the competition can actually be happening. And it's where I think the competition should be happening.

The idea of a browser as something that just renders HTML and executes JavaScript is kinda lame. I use Opera because I think it's also the browser's responsibility to include tab organization and search functionality and mouse gestures and flipping CSS in and out and synchronization. (And I like my mail integrated, but that's a personal thing.) And I want it to Just Work, instead of having to manage a half-dozen extensions.

I am guardedly optimistic about Vivaldi, because it's what I actually out of a browser. (Specifically, an updated version of Opera 12, which Opera 15+ is not.)
Is this becoming a new thing on Linux? Patch Tuesdays?
This sort of snark isn't constructive. The situation is obviously much more nuanced than this, and while this sort of reduction is cognitively convenient, it's not accurate nor useful.

For example, when the money was obviously not going to be repaid, but the Troika continued to lend them more -- at what point does the lender become at least partially responsible? Obviously I don't advocate irresponsible borrowing, but certainly irresponsible lending is also bad.

Ultimately, the bond holders are going to have to take a hair cut, or have their Euros devalued, because the Greek economy cannot possibly hope to repay its current debts. To think otherwise is to hope foolishly for the impossible (all questions of right or wrong aside).
Because 1) the USG isn't one single guy and 2) the truth might be more important to some than conclusion-jumping.
Many espionage tools are designed by organizations that then sell or license their tools to 3rd parties. Just because the NSA used it doesn't mean they wrote it.

'Some reporters were surprised to learn that the University of Maryland had a "covert" NSA facility operating somewhere on or near the school grounds. [..] "Which facility and exactly where it was Snowden worked is unknown, but the NSA has connections to several university facilities, including the Laboratory for Physical Sciences, the Office of Technology Commercialization and the Lab for Telecommunication Science."'

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/university-maryland-...

Oh, and the University's college hacking team got 1st at the Major League Hacking Championship in 2013, winning over MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Rutgers. https://www.umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/umd-students-win-major-...

There are probably hundreds of other organizations which work 'in partnership' with the intelligence community to develop programs which are essentially used to better their espionage and analysis capabilities. Almost all the Virginia/DC/Maryland area's tech companies are employed in one way or another by the federal government, usually for the military or an intelligence agency.
> Making colleges more meritocratic while preaching about affirmative action seems somewhat at odds.

Affirmative Action, by definition, is active action taken to address factors what might seem to be superficially meritocratic policies (before considering the relevant factors of the social context in which they are applied) being in-effect discriminatory on axes other than merit, so it is consistent with seeking to make things more meritocratic overall -- that's, in fact, the whole point of Affirmative Action.
Obligatory git link for the curious: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=nss/digits_....

Note that this is a HEAD link, so if there are changes after I post this they should appear. I don't claim to have spotted the suspicious code (it's not ... super-accessible), just wanted to provide a link to the file in question.
I know you are wrong. logfromblammo explains it well.

But let's hear your arguments, I'm curious.
Not till all OSes and ATMs run on JavaScript.
I'm an old-timer, and I can totally see where Jacques was trying to go with this essay, but in the end it pretty much missed the mark.

Personally, I think it's wonderful that the future I (we?) foresaw 25-30 years ago has come alive, albeit with many odd and sometimes disconcerting twists and nooks.

Remember the effort us lifers put into making tools that allowed "the masses" access to programming, like BASIC, Visual Basic, Turbo Pascal and all of that? How can we now, with any credibility, bemoan the very future so many of us tried to build?

It’s a craft and an art, as much as people have been trying to make it into an industry, without creativity you can’t make good software.

I'm a semi-professional musician, and I've been telling non-technical friends for a lifetime that programming hits of the same creative notes that playing guitar and writing music does, although they can never really feel what I'm saying.
I always find this parody amusing and educational when discussing the "is a default gendered pronoun sexist?" thing. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
It’s not too late in 2015 to get started in computers. People who got started in the 1990’s feel that way because they started in assembly language and compilers and all that, and how could anyone starting now possibly learn all that?

What they don’t realize is that people who got started in computers in the 1960’s feel that since they started with soldering and electronics and radio and circuits, nobody could possibly learn all that.

It’s easy to start in computers at any time. You simply ignore all the stuff that’s too low level to be worth your time to get bogged down in.
The UI is nice, but they keep referring to it as their "product" in the marketing material, so I'm not sure if it will become pay software at 1.0. Perhaps they'll sell the services around it, but they don't say anything, so it's hard to do anything but guess.
In my personal experience snacking makes you consume a lot of (ie. more than you need) food, but never leaves you feeling full. Which is bad.

If at all possible, it's better to just have a meal which leaves you feeling full for the next 3 hours. It's also easier to focus on work if you aren't constantly thinking about food, which is what happens when you're hungry.

The assumption I'm making is that you're having 5 to 6 meals a day. If you call the meal between lunch and supper a snack, then yes, carry on snacking. But don't do that thing where you get up every 10 minutes to put something little in your mouth for four hours straight.
I agree. I was a Google cheerleader for years (and still hold some GOOG, though one of these days I'll do some research and find a new company to move it to). But, I have lost a lot of trust in them. I use DDG for search, Firefox for browser, though I still have a lot of data at Google. But, in this case I don't think Google's behavior is misaligned with user interests or with those of SO.
Is there a price difference, and will folks who pre-ordered get a refund?
Some of the best experiences I've had developing have been with the uncool languages where we've had the ability to design the system end-to-end, get feedback from stakeholders, and adjust as necessary. Crunch was rare because we knew the system in and out, and could easily manage our technical debt as we went. These days, everyone [here] thinks programming is little more than throwing as many ready-made pieces at a problem and duct-taping them together to call it a solution, because productivity and don't reinvent the wheel and community.

The result is mediocre products with bog-standard interfaces (productivity), suboptimal architectures (so devs are easily replaced), and speed prized over quality. We cling to design fads, rather than creating original designs.

In short, it reflects a culture-wide lack of ambition. It's easy to create a cat picture sharing app. It's not easy to think beyond that because we're mentally beholden to the idea that there isn't enough money, and we need to get ours now, and then we can go after our big ideas.

Tech was supposed to be transformative. Now it asks us to be impressed with business models that prey on addictive behaviors, advertising, and annoying users because we lack the imagination and will to do anything better.
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The idea is cute. But I know what years I went to elementary school, high school, and so forth. And it links to fewer songs than the Billboard website.

The other problem is that it doesn't ask what kind of music I listened to when I was growing up. I went to a Fundamentalist Christian high school. So the groups I listened to -- Petra, Stryper, Michael W Smith, Daniel Amos -- wouldn't be in your musical memory lane.

Good luck making a "musical memory lane" of nostalgia.
That most mammals are color blind is nothing more than a myth. A few select are, like the marine mammals, but the vast majority are dichromats with red/blue color receptors.

The last common ancestor was in fact a trichromat, having one red and two different blue receptors. When mammals diverged further, monotremes lost one of the blue receptors while other mammals lost the other.

What did reevolve in groups such as marsupials and apes was the green color receptor, which was present in older ancestors, but had been lost in the first mammals.

source: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/364/15...
It's only lazy if it's part of a chain
If you are willing to swap it out when you leave there shouldn't be a problem just because you rent. They have an option called Key Match mentioned on their website (didn't see it in the article) that allows you to match it to your existing key. They don't say whether you can later change to a different key or not, but you really shouldn't have a problem just because you rent.
Yeah... I find stuff like this funny enough, but I'm sad to see it on HN.
Same here (CentOS / Chrome)
"Red meat is linked to a heart disease...reducing red meat consumption is a no brainer"

"Linked" doesn't mean much (correlated maybe?). But you believe that red meat statistically causes heart disease. Why do you believe that? Is it generally true, or does it only increase the risk for some people?
Pseudo: A 2.5d Roguelike in Lisp
It's hard to read get your actual points through your comments but I'll try to address what I can.

Right-click new tab is available when you click the link icon available from the burger when hovering a title. That burger holds sharing options. That also holds a link to the thread.

Click the bubble with the number of posts at the bottom to keep loading comments. We've found most people don't need or want pages. The search is typically good enough and new/active threads are bubbled to the top so you're not constantly searching for that active thread you were on last night.

We also send email digests while you're away from the forum to keep you informed on new replies. You can watch/unwatch any post or subscribe to all new posts.

Muut combines forums and commenting and works really well for aggregating comment threads on blogs, for example. Many of our users use it support as well. It also works great as a standalone forum. Is it vBulletin? No, but that's on purpose and in an attempt to make online conversation better. So no, it doesn't look like the traditional forum of the 90s.

As for c2prods updated response I'm not sure how much profile management c2prods needs. That's one of the areas we're currently working hard on along with ACL. Muut isn't the right fit for everyone; but it is a legitimate suggestion to the original post.
At least their preorder process didn't require advance payment like so many other recent hardware "campaigns" of late. Still a bummer though...

I got tired of the delays and bought a Kevo; doesn't fully satisfy all the things I wanted from Lockitron but hey, I can buy it at the local Home Depot today.
OP was references something so horrid that he would physically not come into contact with said device. The article mentions smoothed-over growing pains for a new hardware company.
Stephan Guyenet has a 6 part series called "Is Meat Unhealthy?" In his last post a few weeks ago he addressed this study and here is part of the relevant section:

>This study needs to be interpreted in the proper context. First, it was conducted in mice. Second, the amount of Neu5Gc in the diet was equivalent to a diet composed entirely of beef-- and not just any beef, but the highest-Neu5Gc beef measured in the study (beef Neu5Gc ranges 10-fold). The exposure to dietary Neu5Gc was therefore some 40-fold higher than what most red meat eaters would experience. Still, the study outlines a plausible mechanism for a link between red meat and cancer, and that helps increase our confidence in the observational findings.

Part VI: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2015/01/is-meat-unheal...

Part I: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2014/10/is-meat-unheal...

I can elaborate a little more, but in short Guyenet is incredibly balanced and professional on this sort of stuff.
It's always the "save the children" sort of thing, isn't it?

The problem I've got with it, is I have a very difficult time believing Cameron and gang are just so disgusted with "the bad parts of the internet" (including porn) that they felt so strongly and brought down law... "to save the children!".

Coupled with his latest tirade of banning all non-backdoorable encryption so that "we can save our children faster when they're kidnapped!"... it's just not genuine.

I believe in reality it's a blanket filter which can and will be used as regular government censorship under guise of "saving the children".

Websites that "accidentally" get blocked one day when they haven't been blocked before, etc.

Arguing against it only serves to make one look bad in the public eye, "He doesn't want to protect our children", "He's OK with his children stumbling across porn while online!"
Try https://room.co

Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers
I just assumed it was a misunderstanding of TPMS. Apparently some tires have RFID directly embedded as well for tracking purposes, but from what I can find it doesn't sound like it's all that common yet.
I would assume so. This type of thing:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/greece-spends-bailout-cash-eur...

...is against everything Syriza stands for.
This is so true but isn't limited just to your technology stack. Marketing and sales are also prime candidates for chasing the latest shiny object...but the fundamentals are fundamental for a reason and what you know best should be your first avenue of attack.
Snowden and others have also shown that other countries' intelligence agencies will happily take over from the NSA and spy on you. For example the Chinese and Russians.

Hacking tools are not mass surveillance technology. Trojans just don't work for that.

And if you can't control how these agencies use their abilities, how do you propose to take these away from them? Adequate oversight is easier to achieve.
Funded vs. Bootstrapped: There's More Than One Way to Skin a Startup
Try to make your body die equally everywhere.

Like the "One-Hoss Shay":
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/deacons-masterpiece-or-...
Well, from what I understand, the hierarchy is basically entirely political / tribal. It clearly works for them, but let's not idealize it as a utopian dream without the typical petty human inter-office struggles.
The husband is a Chechen Muslim:

> Few tourists visit the gorge, a notoriously insular region with a reputation for drug and arms smuggling, and radical Islam - one of the top leaders of Islamic State (IS), Abu Omar al-Shishani, hails from here.

Once you realize that, the rest of the article makes sense.
It seems it was made public by accident, so it is not totally surprising that information is sparse :(
> Technically, we could claim that we are HIPAA compliant, as we don't store PHI

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

There's a lot more to being HIPAA compliant than how you store PHI. As an engineer, you might view not storing PHI as compliance-by-default (the null case), but I don't think a lawyer would agree. Even if you're correct and HIPAA doesn't apply to you (which I'm not convinced is the case), it'd be like saying "we're PCI-compliant, because we don't store any financial information or process any financial transactions".

For what it's worth, I founded a company that does store PHI, and we had to get a BAA with AWS (though we ended up using Aptible (YC S14)[0] for hosting and compliance, as it's much easier. Using Aptible is like using Heroku (git push to deploy), and they manage not just the data backups/retention/etc. from a technical standpoint, but all of the human training and paperwork aspects to compliance[1].

[0] https://www.aptible.com/

[1] Which, to be honest, is the tough stuff. From a technological perspective, HIPAA doesn't really mandate much that developers of robust applications shouldn't already be doing, but it's the matter of actually demonstrating that you've done everything in compliance with the law that makes things complicated. Having the 'rubber stamp' of a third-party company that specializes in this matter gives immense peace-of-mind as the CTO, compared to the DIY approach.
For the 850AD lineage, it seems like the formation of the Holy Roman Empire would seem a prime candidate for an "event" in europe that led to the "modern european". Was Charlemagne a profitable pater for his family?
I have trouble imagining this sort of mechanical device working reliably. You can hardly compare it to Nest, which really has no moving parts. Our front door has quite a bit of wiggle room, and if the house settles after locking the door you find that you must push the door about 1mm out or the weight of the door rests against the deadbolt and it's pretty much impossible to move by hand. Similarly, most doors and the surrounding frame are subject to seasonal and even daily expansion and contraction based on heat and humidity. It just sounds like a very temperamental device.

Does anyone know the reality of how well these work?
Uninstalled.

"Vivaldi End User License Agreement

7. Without limiting the foregoing, you are neither allowed to (a) adapt, alter, translate, embed into any other product or otherwise create derivative works of, or otherwise modify the Software ; (b) separate the component programs of the Software for use on different computers; (c) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Software, except as permitted by applicable law;"
This paper is from a few years ago, but I think that for folks who aren't quite as in to the net/info security side of things, it's better to think of "rubber hose attacks" as a polite way to say "having to fight too many subpoenas from a more wealthy adversary".

Hopefully doesn't apply to your businesses, but it sure delayed a lot of things in the 80s and 90s before the EFF/CDT/and so on helped settle a lot of the law that we take for granted now.

(No I do not work for the EFF, CDT, or any other TLA. I just think that programmers and painters both need to be cognizant of copyright)
Has anyone been able to login yet? what is the benefit of signing up?
Ford’s Ken Washington on the Evolution of Mobility
I was taught that it is a bad idea to override native controls. That being said, in the "modern web" it is getting harder and harder not to modify at least some aspect of native form controls.
Mrs Thatcher had a chemistry degree from Oxford and Jimmy Carter was a US Navy trained nuclear engineer.
I wonder if it would be possible to use eigenface analysis to produce a 'typical' face borne by men who carry these particular Y chromosomes. That would be interesting indeed.
The example given in the article is an MTA, but I'm there there's others.
If they stop making interest repayments that will free up a lot of Euros.

Additionally, if you don't pay for pensions, social services and create jobs then people don't have any money. If they don't have any money they don't spend. And not spending isn't sustainable for any economy.
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> "The justification for having them doesn't really apply to self-driving cars anyway."

Because self-driving cars will be in constant contact with some central digital infrastructure that will be tracking everything ("for quality control purposes") and the authorities can far more easily and effectively tap into that data than place license plate readers along the roadside. Tying the "session" together between purchasing information (that's already centralized and freely accessible), car route, and user history, is a piece of cake.
Since you live in a country with heavy censorship, I'll try to be sensitive to the fact that you and I have different cultural norms as relates to acceptable trade-offs between free speech and access to personal-communication networks.

In the United States also have popular, elected officials that from time to time choose to censor the citizens which put them in office. Neither the fact that we live in a democracy nor the current popularity of the elected official are popular reasons given as to why we should not protest the infringement of basic rights such as the right to free speech, the right to assemble, or the freedom of the press. The right to protest is granted by our constitution, the same constitution which determines our form of government and the grants the authority of the elected officials. Outside of elections, popularity is not a constitutional basis for authority. So that's the legal side of things.

How about the sociopolitical side of things? Well, stepping into your shoes, some foreign company coming into America and telling me what I can and can't say. Nope. Not gonna fly. Twisted or whatever, this is America, fuck yeah. There's gonna be a world governance organization? Fine, put it in Manhattan so we can keep it in line. We're gonna spy on our citizenry? Fine, but only because we must fight foreign terrorists. And, if we're gonna do it, we're gonna do it right, with contract employees. No boobs on the television, that's cool too; it keeps my super prudish mother-in-law comfortable while I still have easy access to the best porn in the world (uncensored Internet baby, because why, that's right: FREE EFFIN SPEECH). (disclosure: i actually take issue with the objectification and commoditization of bodies which serves as the foundation for the vast majority of pornography. but hey, you can't pick and choose when it comes to free speech.)

I know that at this point you're already convinced and are rushing out the door so that you and your friends can begin building your own pirate wireless mesh network with which you'll be open the flood gates to the world's miracles and evils. But let me give you a few more reasons to say: “Fuck censorship!”: David Lee Roth, Stanley Kubrick, Mark Twain, Hustler, Rambo, Deep Throat (Watergate), California, Malcom X, Will Ferrell. America. Fuck yeah.

And in the end, you just might even be able to speak your mind in public without being thrown in jail and denied due process. Ahhhhhhh, the little things.