skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there any reason not to just use artificial sweeteners besides unfounded fears in the public?

Most of them taste awful. The best sugar substitute in terms of taste is probably xylitol, but due to the enormous levels of income inequality in the U.S. most Americans wouldn't be able to afford the extra couple cents a can.
I have a number of Customers who have been self-hosting email since the late 1990's. The only blacklist that I've regularly had any problems with has been one-- ahem-- "fishy" company who, at least in the past, seemed to run their blacklist like a protection racket.
This website keeps trapping my text cursor, so I can't scroll with anything other than my mouse. Very obnoxious.
I just went to the Dr this morning and the prognosis was their systems are horrible and just getting worse... Apparently the Allscripts program they use gets really really slow about once a week and is generally over capacity.

It was neat that they could pull up some records from a hospital visit from a few years ago but generally it was really painful to watch. On the drive back I was thinking to myself "YC should invest in as many EHR companies as possible." Your service seems very interesting and immediately reminded me of what easypost.com is doing for shipping providers which I also love. We ship out a bit of hardware to go with our software and the shipping APIs are a huge mess too and most existing solutions need tweaked to the point where eventually you will need to do some integration work to get the efficiencies you want. I assume it's the same or worse in the EHR space. Nice work.
It could be argued that the harms of real sugar are more well established than the harms of artificial sweeteners.
Should the Chinese government have the power to shield their citizens from information and monitor them electronically?

Should a group of people in democratic, Western countries be able to subvert the will of a world superpower with impunity?

Of the two scary worlds, I guess I'd rather choose the latter. But I don't even like having to choose.

(I doubt Amazon like being asked to choose even less, and I would be surprised if they cut you any slack. Sedition is not looked upon favorably, and abetting those perpetrating it is not either.)
TL;DR: You don't have to use it in the manner in which it is packaged.

Another trick: Cut your soda with water.

I think it's still preferable to avoid soda, but if you like the taste and/or want a bit of a boost, try mixing it 50/50 with water. Or less.

I like Coke Classic this way.

Or, particularly on a hot day, pour over a glass full of ice. Slowly sip away as the ice continues to melt.

I still think this is a slippery slope towards greater consumption, including refilling the glass. But, I can enjoy a bit of cola flavor without taking as much of the sugar hit that is increasingly taxing as I continue to age.

I also agree as to cane sugar if you can as well as no artificial sweeteners.
I chuckled, because when everyone tells me "AWS is practically the internet" I can point out "The Internet is resilient at a far lower cost than Amazon".
Even if you have been working for the last 15+ years (hopefully you don't have gray hair)
You're ignoring all the well-known health hazards of consuming sugar/corn syrup that aren't present in zero-calorie substitutes. Do you even understand why the substitutes exist? Your comment suggests you don't.
10x10 magic square, I guess (tested that by summing a few rows and columns modulo 10; got 5 everywhere. Rows and columns should add up to 4950/10, so that doesn't disprove the hunch)
Search for "Oyster card journey information" on this page:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/our-feeds
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I do something very similar, but instead of using the company name (or something close to it) I use a long random string instead. It mainly prevents someone from 'company hopping' (i.e. changing 'facebook' to 'google'). The chance of that happening might be small, but I figure I may as well as it isn't really any more effort
Pebble teases first ‘smartstrap’ concepts and pledges $1M to their development
#FarmVoices Movement
How Life360 won against patent troll
Speaking of CTRL-Z doing mean things -- VMware Workstation. Accidentally have the VM window focused instead of something inside the VM? Suspends the VM. So many times I've done this in the middle of a remote debugging session...
This isn't easy. My suggestions is not to say your marketing team sucks, but show how the marketing compares to others. When you are coming from the point of hey, look at how good these look and we could really learn something here. It is a different approach then saying, damn you guys really suck at your job. Sometimes a defensive person will still react badly even with this approach, but usually when they think you are helping it is not nearly as bad. And it may take more than 1 time to get the point across.

If your competitors aren't that good, then compare yourself to other companies that are really successful and show why it might be good to follow trend setters. Also, do this to make sure you aren't the one off base, sometimes we all get there.

The end game is to get the team to see the light (e.g. potential), not prove you are right or they are wrong. Use that as your logic and at least in my experience it goes a lot smoother.
It's not a security vulnerability in the traditional sense (eg: disclosue of secrets, failing to keep integrity), but crashes. That's what the commit log says (which is quite accurate). They're not saying it want's an issue or bug at all.
I feel like this luxury Android watch will fail for several reasons:

- the average Android device consumer has less money to spend compared to the average iOS device consumer.

- full control of the device is not in the hands of a single company, which will likely result in bad compromises.

- to me at least, Android is not something I associate with "luxury".

Some of the above points are explained by Scott Galloway in this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCvwCcEP74Q&t=659
He probably hasn't even implemented a brainfuck interpreter in Scala's type system.
Nice, thanks. How about running this script all the time, just in case there will be a DDOS?
Yeah :/. I have tons of operational knowledge of email and have been running my own email setup since 1998. My email servers were ever only used for email I typed manually by hand (due to being dumb I never even used shortcuts to auto type repetitive responses to customer messages). Then, one day a couple years ago, I realize no one @yahoo.com is getting my email anymore. Talking to Yahoo, I get barely any response and certainly no explanation. I can easily believe that my entire IP block was cut for being a hosting provider.

I now pay some company to deliver my personal mail, which is just dumb, and clearly isn't caused by them being better about spam (as I sent no spam): it is caused by a militarized anti-spam-crazed group of people who have managed to build a system that essentially requires an oligopoly for email to function. A lot of these people don't even consider it a problem to use "report as spam" as a ways to punish companies for things that aren't even sending spam (which is something I only bring up as it demonstrates the "militant" comment).

The reality is that an open internet where people can talk to each other without going through third parties requires a world in which you, heaven forbid, receive some spam. It is actually a similar construction as the one for why we should have network neutrality: large internet carriers in the world of email should, if you really believe in open access, not be allowed to say "these people can't send mail because they are too small and not paying someone". We all need to accept at least a little spam to guarantee everyone can send mail.

If this means that you have to get better at dealing with spam, as some of the heavy-handed techniques people have put in place for dealing with spam are no longer possible, well: so be it; and if that means you need to turn off the notifications for new email on your phone to keep from getting angry when you receive some spam (which tends to come up as a reason to hate spam), I hope people realize that they caused their own reason to be upset, and that getting notifications for anything is probably unhealthy, at least for you, anyway.

Sadly, the large companies who have slowly come to "own email" have no incentive to break this cycle, whether in action or in words, as the current state of affairs is what is giving them their power: whether they build solutions that can solve spam in a way that is both fair and federated, or they just try to educate users about how to better deal with spam and decrease the stress in their lives (including telling people to stop letting email interrupt them), it will just harm them. This doesn't sound like something the private sector can solve.
Using RethinkDB with Dart
Your example makes no sense to me, particularly the "find everywhere this matters" part. Working with immutable data is fairly straightforward. You perform an operation on a data structure, which produces a new version of that data structure, and then you to return it.
Nearly everyone was on the same proverbial page: Japan's population is 98.5 per cent Japanese, as defined by citizenry. While ethnic diversity has its strengths (and some academics point out that, when you analyse the population's regional roots, Japan is quite diverse), a set of common cultural values, instilled from birth, may strengthen resilience in the face of crisis and adversity.

Thought-crime in progress, citizens. Look away! Look away!
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Hi. I've been meant to build something very similar to this (with some differences that'd also make it enterprise friendly), but I've been looking around to find a team.

If you -- or anyone in this thread -- want to build it together or to discuss ideas, please get in touch.
There's a lot of companies (like mine) that aren't deliberately withholding information, but instead are training and enabling reps to walk you through a process that can't be navigated with blog posts and product pages alone.

I've designed complex electronic devices via product pages (data sheets) and other online information sources, and sold them to the Federal government through GSA procurement. I'm pretty sure I can "navigate" your "process" without wasting time schmoozing your sales guys on the telephone.

If you have a competitor who doesn't make me do that, they have a strong advantage over your company, right out of the gate. Just saying.
I think JEDEC is in the wrong here, though. Memory
prefixes sound like SI prefixes, but they're not. That's clearly a bug.
If you mean development latency, then you're right (throughput is quite high). And there are people working on next-gen GCs and next-gen JITs already.
Pretty sure you must be the only person in the world to think like this. News is generally considered to be objective, factual etc. A journalist reporting on an event but who was paid by a company or working off a PR media release is generally not considered news. I am not saying that this is an example either way just that your definition is pretty odd.
Thanks Kyle — been wanting to share with you guys all the crap we've been doing for some time, finally found some time to write some of it down this week.

I'll think about some API ideas, but I'm not too shy about firing over ideas as they come to me. You've got great support people, the stuff always gets done.
You can run SpamAssassin at SMTP time in the DATA phase. At least, you can with both Exim and Postfix. I assume other MTA's support that too. You can run Greylisting at the same stage after SpamAssassin has been run and before the message has been accepted.
Entrepreneurship isn't limited to VC-funded moonshots.

Lots of people just want to be their own boss and run a viable business.
Why don't they just use xylitol/isomalt or any of the other natural, calorie-free, nice tasting sugars?

Presumably because they're expensive, but if sold in bulk I'm sure they could bring prices down acceptably...
Even as a non-Meteor dev, I enjoyed the level of detail in this post, and the explanation made it feel accessible still.

Love the use of Polymer and Google Charts. Did you run into any issues using Polymer in production?
Common Lisp is more pronounceable: (incf C) "ink FC", sounds like a soccer club for tattoo enthusiasts :-)
What a nauseating comment.
Is this supposed to replace an existing LIMS or be an API Layer over your existing LIMS?
Obviously this is just a short fragment and explicitly it's a straw man, but I can't help but get this incredibly strong feeling that this code is immutability bolted on instead of embraced. Lenses, yes, could be used to solve something like this, but it feels like you're facing a problem which is better avoided than fixed.

I'm not really trying to rain on your tirade---surely there are ways to misuse immutability---but I can't look at this example and not feel that immutability is telling you something about a better architecture.
Sweetener shenanigans that have gone on at the FDA: The Miracle Berry Conspiracy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/homaro-cantu/the-miracle-berry...

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-11-25/news...

We might already have a better sweetener if it weren't for stuff like this.
when stuff like this happens it would be nice if we could simply refuse to route all traffic originating in the offending countries until the attack is over.
Soltas (the author) here. What I meant by "rents are not always bad" is that "rent" is a positive (i.e., value-free) concept, not a normative (moral) one. "Rent" in economics merely implies that the profits are in excess of a competitive-equilibrium outcome/allocation. In this case, the competitive outcome is perverse -- nobody innovates because, without IP, you pay for the cost of R&D but "copycats" can steal the idea without paying. (It's a prisoners' dilemma.) So profits from a patent are rent, insofar as they come from the protection per se. As I acknowledge, I think those rents are economically useful -- as an economist, I don't have anything interesting to say as to whether they are morally acceptable, as you discuss in your post. For example, it's a fair argument to say that "ideas should be free," and that the purpose of IP is not to enrich/honor/etc the innovator but merely to give him the incentive to contribute the idea to the social good. Or you might argue the opposite of that. I don't really have an opinion. Hopefully this clarifies the way economists use the word "rent."
Yahoo Is Said to Cut 300 Jobs as Part of China Office Close
> We sent tens of thousands of emails a day.

The subject is self-hosting a _small_ email server. When you get into 10K/day range, you are bound to have false positive spam reports - both automatic and from pissed users - and this in turn can lead to RBL listings.

I've been running a mail server since 2004 and not once had I have any issues with RBLs. It's a low-volume server though, perhaps several thousand emails per month.
>And then there’s the view. Whether it’s the outskirts of Queens on the way from New York’s JFK airport, or the fringes of the Los Angeles highway off-ramps by LAX, everything seems a bit run down and decrepit.

Even on the train from Narita Airport to Tokyo, you'll pass plenty of comparatively run down "commerce areas" adjacent to small train stops. The buildings are old, and made of nondescript concrete that have been stained by the rainfall over decades. It makes me uneasy every time I see these sort of buildings.

Taking the Narita Express or the Limousime Busses will largely insulate you from seeing those things though.
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Or even non-artificial, like stevia. We use it as a sweetener and it's pretty good. Or is there some regulatory barrier?
I wonder why there's such an obsession with ZERO calories. Why not a middle ground? Maybe you could achieve a better flavor and attract health conscious people with like 50 calories.
> Why does the story say "video game"?

I would be because for a large number of people, including the people writing the New Scientist story, games played primarily on or with dedicated or general purpose computers are all "video games".
Discover attack surface through passive DNS recon
Google calendar sends alerts to your Android device (and is available from anywhere). So that's one-upped paper already imo.
Yep, and I define it at the top of the most that way. Rent = profit in excess of opportunity cost of the production factor.
Because diet = 0 calories.

Xylitol = 66% of calories of normal sugar. It has dental benefits and LESS calories but it doesn't let them put the magic zero on the can.

Similar deal with isomalt.

Both also tend to cause, erm, digestive issues in larger quantities as well.
It does but half the crap they have us use runs on flash and only works in ie8...
I think what that means that if some Japanese folk are in a crisis, they (within obvious limitations of individual personalities and capacities) can generally count on each other to "do the Japanese thing". That brings a certain spontaneous efficiency and order into a chaotic situation, compared to having to deal with clashes of different mindsets on top of the crisis.
"Is there any other... You wretched woman"

The full quote :)
Hey @andymoe, thanks for your comment and your kind words!

You're absolutely right that EHR's have a whole host of problems that could be solved by smart app developers! There's a ton of opportunity unlocked by providing safe and developer friendly access to health data.
I have also wondered why xylitol isn't used more. For example, in Korea there are major gum brands that are entirely xylitol based. Where as US gums are fractionally sweetened with xylitol.

Health Benefits of xylitol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol#Health_benefits
Hi All, Life360's CEO here. I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has about this patent case or trolls in general.

I firmly believe if we as a community collectively stand up to trolls and never settle this problem can go away overnight - no need to wait for the government.
I got stuck on what TFA calls Len. I didn't need it to solve the problem but I couldn't have modified the file without knowing what it was. Luckily a friend of mine saw it almost right away.

A fun problem!
I had to dig in a lot of libraries and bookstores for knowledge on armor warfare when I joined up way back when. I found a book that actually gave me a great baseline for setting up interactive scenarios called Armor Attacks: The Tank Platoon. I still use this for armor wargaming.

http://www.amazon.com/Armor-Attacks-Interactive-Small-Unit-L...
The New Docker Based IronWorker Development Workflow
Regarding what is perhaps General Mattis's finest work, the First Battle of Fallujah:

Burhan Fasa’a, an Iraqi journalist who worked for the Lebanese satellite TV station, LBC and who was in Fallujah for nine days during the most intense combat, said Americans grew easily frustrated with Iraqis who could not speak English.

“Americans did not have interpreters with them,” Fasa’a said, “so they entered houses and killed people because they didn’t speak English. They entered the house where I was with 26 people, and [they] shot people because [the people] didn’t obey [the soldiers’] orders, even just because the people couldn’t understand a word of English.” He also added, “Soldiers thought the people were rejecting their orders, so they shot them. But the people just couldn’t understand them.”

A man named Khalil, who asked not to use his last name for fear of reprisals, said he had witnessed the shooting of civilians who were waving white flags while they tried to escape the city.

“I watched them roll over wounded people in the street with tanks,” said Kassem Mohammed Ahmed, a resident of Fallujah. “This happened so many times.”

Other refugees recounted similar stories. “I saw so many civilians killed there, and I saw several tanks roll over the wounded in the streets,” said Aziz Abdulla, 27 years old, who fled the fighting last November. Another resident, Abu Aziz, said he also witnessed American armored vehicles crushing people he believes were alive.

Abdul Razaq Ismail, another resident who fled Fallujah, said: “I saw dead bodies on the ground and nobody could bury them because of the American snipers. The Americans were dropping some of the bodies into the Euphrates near Fallujah.”

"Fallujah Revisited", Dahr Jamil, November 2005

http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-jamail151105.htm
Yes, and you you absolutely have to ship proprietary software that connects to MySQL you can use libdrizzle[0] which is a BSD licensed cleanroom implementation of the client library. Alternately you can go dig up the old original public domain version of the client library that existed before Monty got the clever idea of using fear of the GPL to sell more MySQL client licenses.

The license issue is FUD.

[0]: https://launchpad.net/libdrizzle
Practical Algorithms for Incremental Software Development Environments (1998)
Isn't that what Coke is trying with Coke Life?
I often wonder if the world would be a better or worse place if (somehow) companies were limited to something like 5,000 employees. Is there a threshold which allows diversity and efficiency but restricts dominance?
There is a distinction to be drawn between a) malloc/free, b) RAII as with Rust or modern C++ and c) garbage collection.

We can have a debate about whether RAII is "manual memory management" or not, but it's clearly safer than malloc/free without the inefficiency of garbage collection.
if we suddenly stopped caring about human rights and political consequences (I.e., we're starving), it's a different approach completely. It's not like we unleashed the full force of our military (our came anywhere near).

Of course, your entire premise is flawed as we could support ourselves Not sure where you got your numbers from, but they're wrong.
one of the paragraphs that really struck me was regarding the founding fathers' awareness of the moral reprehensibility of american slavery:

> Some of the slave-owners, like Jefferson, appreciated the moral turpitude on which the economy relied. But he feared the liberation of slaves, who have “ten thousand recollections” of the crimes to which they were subjected. Fears that the victims might rise up and take revenge are deeply rooted in American culture, with reverberations to the present.
Hey @buckbova, thanks for your question!!

Akido doesn't actually replace anything - it's an API layer that lives above any electronic health record (EHR) system, and provides a far more developer-friendly and secure means for accessing data than the current state.

Feel free to check out our docs to see what you can do with less than 10 lines of code!

https://portal.akidolabs.com/v1.0/docs/getting-started
We'll have a more readable write up available on ePrint, soon.
Print Data to Paper or PDF Using Ionic Framework
I wrote this story, and can confirm what Thomas says (although I suppose you have no reason to believe me).
Japan's Herbivore Men
Related: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-28/google-hel...
Here's the main issue: he's the owner's brother.

Sounds like you have some complex familial issues to overcome, unless he's open to feedback, before you can really influence change.

Does the owner know it's bad? Probably so. But the guy is still his brother :/
As someone who has purchased bags of xylitol and added them to lemonade, tea, etc.:

It's because it tastes bad. Odd that any sugar could taste bad, but it's true. It's not _that_ expensive, but normal sugar is so cheap (not to mention HFCS, which has got to be even cheaper) that price is still a plausible issue. But more likely, the taste preferences of Americans is just so sweet that we can't appreciate xylitol as a sweetener.
See link at end. 271 HN comments await, from about 1078 days ago.
How is that different than cryptDb then? CryptDb only reveals ordering as well (and only if the client requests it.)