skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Of course I'm not nitpicking on every usage of the word"

It is great that you aren't. The issue is that the author of the article was nitpicking a non-controversial use of the word. His son's responses to him suggest to me that his son was sick of his philosophical shit and just wanted to deal with the world pragmatically. Most people have little patience for epistemology, and I find it hard to blame them.
Wait until you try a bidet. Any form of wiping will seem like savagery afterwards.
Mobile Lorm Glove
The solution I'd suggest: mandate sticking warnings on all wet wipes sold in New York. Retailers or manufacturers must then add stickers or something to comply.
When I was still in training, I had the pleasure of participating on a software project to build a "web shop" for internal use at a large IT company. It was a pleasure insofar I was only a trainee and did not have to deal with the politics and all that. One day, a week before the first part of the web shop was scheduled to go live, the programmer I was working for came back from a meeting. Usually, he was pretty laid back person, very friendly and pleasure to work with/for. But when he came back from that meeting, he was mad, like, "Hulk SMASH" mad.

I asked him, as delicately as I could, what had happened.

This project we were working on, he told me, had been going on for about half a year, and during that time there had been a meeting every week, where everybody involved in the project had an opportunity to get together and review and discuss the progress of the project.

So there was this guy, who had only attended the very first of these meetings, without saying a single word. And the week before the thing is supposed to go live, he shows up again, with a long list of changes he wants to make to the application.

Needless to say, that programmer, and several other people in the room, told that guy how he had six freaking months to tell the programmers about his requirements, and the he could not possibly expect them to make all these changes a week before the application went live.

So that guy goes to the highest-ranking manager involved with the project, manages to pull some political strings, so that manager goes to this programmer's boss, that boss goes to the programmer and tells him, "I know how much it sucks, but you have to do this. I share your pain, but I, too, am powerless to refuse this request."

When building material things, it seems, houses or ships or airplanes or railraods or whatever, people do realize that you cannot tell, e.g. the construction company that you actually want a house with a circular outline rather than the rectangular one the company has been building for the last, what?, three months. Managers at car companies, I guess, do not storm into the engineers' offices a week before production of a new car starts to tell them the vehicle not only needs to be small and fuel efficient, but also needs to be able to work in antarctic climate and run on carbon dioxide instead of gasoline.

With other products - at least, that is the impression I get - people have an intuitive or explicit understanding of the limitations of the things they want to have built, and they also seem to basically understand that you cannot make drastic changes at the last minute. With software, which does exist in the tangible way that, say, a car our house does, people seem to have a much harder time understanding those limitations. I am not sure this is the entire problem with software development, but it is a big part.
Also there are a lot of social programs in Europe that are unavailable in the US though our tax rates are not that far off when you factor in state, federal and sales taxes. Medical alone, for a family is a pretty sizable chunk of expenditure. Factor in that many states only have rudimentary mass transit and you can see that 60K in Europe actually starts to look a lot better than 100K in the Vally where cost of living is astronomical.
Ironically, the only link to the word "income" on that page was a related story-link, "People With Low Incomes Say They Pay A Price In Poor Health".

I remain unconvinced that "Family Secrets Make You Sick" based on that article. There are a lot of ways to determine whether that might be the case, but I'm surprised, based on the article's description, that they were able to get a paper published with their method.
They don't contain alcohol. Why in the world would they contain alcohol?
I'd agree with you but,

What makes a producer PC, vs. a consumer tablet/smartphone, is actually the physical user interfaces. Namely, the keyboard and the big display (and accessorily, the mouse, since it's hard to keep your arms up to touch the screen).

Smartphones have displays that have the same resolution as desktop, namely 1920x1080.

The logic board of the latest MacBook is no bigger than a smartphone.

There are PC-in-a-keyboard such as the OneBoard Pro+ that include an Android system.

If you hook a bluetooth keyboard and mouse to your tablet/smartphone and project the display to a bigger screen,
then you can make it a perfectly good producer computer.
(granted, easier done with Android than with iOS, given the silly restrictions on software production on iOS).

Also, you may consider a 20+" desktop tablets such as the Toughpad 4K Tablet, running MS-Windows, you cannot say that you cannot produce on MS-Windows. With it, you don't need a mouse, since the tablet is flat on your desk.

No, the problem is not the hardware, is the shortsightness of Apple that restricts its system and the applications it allows on its hardware too much. There's also the problem, present both on iOS and Android (even if less in the later case), that the system restrict access to files by the applications. So it is harder to write different tools manipulating the same files on those platforms than with usual systems.
> why not help with bignums sooner

It's great that Apple and MS are on board with ES6. But even if the V8 team had implemented bignums behind a flag in 2010, do you really think that the other vendors would have also implemented it already? I find this scenario unlikely - but you obviously have a better view of this than I do.

> Snapshotting would be relatively easy to do with ES6's module system. People would have to refrain from abusing the global object, or snapshotting might fail.

I guess you'd need to add some extra restrictions, such as no top level code outside of functions including variable initialisers, and no modification of prototype chains. This seems hard to do with JS as it is written today. Perhaps the "use strong" experiment will make this easier.

> ES6 modules plus the asm.js work to avoid loading too much cold code is likely to bear more fruit than a new VM's bespoke snapshotting tech

This is your intuition and opinion. Some people disagree, and have chosen to put their effort into another approach. Maybe you're right. Maybe they're right. Personally I think it's better to try both approaches, and let benchmarks settle this. From the benchmarks I've seen, snapshots look very promising.

> Dart ain't gonna replace JS in the foreseeable future

Flamebait! It doesn't need to. It just needs to provide good development tooling for some developers who prefer using it than vanilla javascript.
If farming in Calif went bust, a few things would happen:

Foodstuff would get more expensive.

We'd import more food, meaning fewer 'local' products. Localvores would have to become 'televores'.

Much of the no-education, low education jobs would disappear for people who have little other than their physical ability to offer the job marketplace.
Bidets and washlets are the more economical option anyways. Wet wipes aren't cheap. Even if you spend $250+ on a somewhat fancier "warm water cleaning toilet seat", you'll break-even in no time.

That's even true if you use regular toilet paper, because you'll need a lot less of that.
the $30 one from amazon is pretty awesome and I can't imagine not having it.
The article is right, 2 million is really cheap. We should bankroll this immediately.
I think you're talking about the anthropological meaning of moral relativism (and we probably agree there). But the rest of us are talking about the philosophical sense. There's a very good overview of that here: http://www.iep.utm.edu/moral-re/

Among other things, one of the potential consequences of metaethical moral relativism is that you and I can't actually say anything meaningful to one another about honour killings beyond "I feel they are bad" or "I feel they are good".

Or to put this a slightly different way: your culture (apparently) thinks honour killings are OK. You disagree. On what grounds? If a moral statement is true relative only to the consensus belief of a culture, and your culture says honour killings are right, then you must necessarily be wrong to disagree. (See 4f in the link for more on that).

If you reject that, as it sounds like you possibly do, then you reject philosophical moral relativism. You can keep the anthropological one, though.
E-cigarettes essentially vaporize nicotine. Hookah smoking is also pretty much a form of tobacco vaporization.
Supporters of the startup visa should emphasize how it will attract expats instead of immigrants. Amirite?
This is rather hilariously slanted. "Bigotry by subreddit". Really?

"[TumblrInAction], a subreddit dedicated to mocking Tumblr – where marginalized groups, particularly LGBTQ, post about their experiences"

Here they neatly imply r/TumblrInAction mocks LGBTQ issues when in fact, it mocks people who use identities as tools to divide and hit people over the head with. Which is incidentally what this report does:

"Overt bigotry: the use of bigoted (racist/sexist/homophobic etc.) language, whether targeting any particular individual or more generally, which would make members of the referenced group feel highly uncomfortable"

In other words: assuming everyone in group X feels the same way about what the authors consider offensive language. This ignores e.g. the vast amount of gay people on chan boards who say "faggot" for fun to each other.

This so-called bigotry is contrasted with "supportiveness", apparently a desirable trait. Yet you can easily find people's horrible behavior being supported in more hugbox-style forums, when they get into an in/out-group fight and all the niceties go out the window for the sake of victimhood. We saw this with Atheism+, with r/GamerGhazi, and the "women in tech" activists.

Speaking of, notice how they explicitly contrast r/TheRedPill with a companion "Women in Tech" link in the footnote/popup for no stated reason. TheRedPill is supposedly "dedicated to male chauvinism", where "bigoted comments received approval". Well, if you define the entire subreddit's subject matter as bigoted, are you surprised the community appears to support bigotry by your own count? I have read TheRedPill, it is the male equivalent of Jezebel, nothing more, nothing less.
Really, this is just spreading fear about certain reddits, as the summary practically admits: which communities you should avoid, according to data. Yet the most toxic subreddit of all by their own data, ShitRedditSays, is nicely euphemized as home to "unproductive conversations".

Also if the authors think they "delved deep into the darkest recesses of the inter webs," by analyzing reddit comments, they are naive beyond belief.
Do you have a good source for reading the emails that were included in the discovery process for that case? I've been googling but can't find the raw data.
You're basically arguing in favor of a walled garden that is safe but can only does what the API designers deem an acceptable use.

For some users that may be sufficient so they can sleep sound at night, not worrying about potential malware.

But powerusers often have eccentric use-cases that can only be tackled in ways that API designers didn't foresee and thus require unrestricted access to, well, everything.
It's not malicious by default. It's dual-use.

If you want to be in the former group, fine. But you shouldn't argue that the latter group should be denied access to their tools.
It's hard to predict market demand they only use statistical prove.
> Web wipes aren't cheap.

Asterisk-mart sells 48 sheets for $4. If you go macro first with regular TP and thus use one wipe per session, folding it over as needed for coverage, let's say you max out at $6 worth of wipes for a month because you don't know you're sensitive to gluten yet and you also wipe up some cat vomit every few days.

That's still only $72 a year, man.

Now: How many bathrooms does your house have? Let's say you have two bathrooms and want to use both. $500 on toilet seats? Better hope you're not a 300 pounder who rocks back and forth a bit when he's in a hurry, cuz you don't get Apple Care with those seats I'll bet.

If you travel every once in a while, or need to use bathrooms at work, there's that factor too.
I used WePay early on when they offered invoicing (which was the service I needed). I never had a problem with frozen funds or any other issues. Was sorry when they shut that service down.
I've never used the Twitter API or Meerkat, but it seems that the 'choke' could be bypassed by scraping followers/following info from the publicly accessible profile pages of users.

Eg, sign on to Meerkat via Twitter, get username, scrape user's Twitter profile page for connected users, check if these connected users are on Meerkat, ask the user which of them he/she wants to connect with on Meerkat, then add on Meerkat.

Am I missing something? (I'm sure I am.)
Wet wipes are produced as air-laid paper where the fibres are carried and formed to the structure of paper by air. They are moistened with water or other liquids like isopropyl alcohol depending on the applications.
NOM. I read the original post some time ago. It's definitely worth republishing an edited version of it.

I might be too sensible if it comes such nuances in referencing sources, but the usage of "inspired" to refer to the original was surprising, since it implied for me that the post author actually created content under the stimulating influence of Craigs article, which might be not the case here.
As I see the article was changed; think the relation of the two posts stated in a better way.

Speaking of nuances in wording, I agree that my initial comment could have been more tactful...
Show HN: Upfund
Hi all, this is a project my friend and I have been building as our senior years come to a close. We're both pretty new to web development, but we both have experience in the field of finance, and we're learning every day. Basically our plan is to have a community driven investment strategy where people can research and vote on stocks they like, and then we invest in whatever is voted for. We're planning to have an alpha out pretty soon to test the model with fake money, so if you're interested sign up on the site!

A little me: I've been interning at quant hedge funds since the summer after my freshman year, working close to the model building process. While I have the utmost respect for the people building and testing the model, I was ultimately not impressed with the results. It's just fundamentally hard to predict a system that changes its behavior every day. For a lot of quant funds the key to succeeding is marketing to people that you have "the secret" inside your black box, but, as many people suspect, no one has that firm a grasp on the "truth". Instead we'd like to make the process honest and inclusive, and since the community builds the model, we'd like to let the community keep more of the profits. A normal hedge fund or mutual fund is going to charge you 2% of your total money invested per year and 20% of the returns you get, our goal is to do all this for 1/10th of that.

Suggestions are welcome. Thanks for listening.
The sample program on the Haxe main page demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of the value of dictionaries. Not exactly inspiring one to learn more.

class Test {
static function main() {
var people = [
"Elizabeth" => "Programming",
"Joel" => "Design"
];
for (name in people.keys()) {
var job = people[name];
trace('$name does $job for a living!');
}
}
}
IBM's planning to harness Bitcoin for its own payments platform
I've been playing with/learning meteor for the past week. The reactivity is no doubt a great feature. It's a great joy to develop with meteor too, with hot code pushes, the app automatically updates to include your file changes on the fly. It's great.

The ability to create custom reactive objects is sweet. Plus you can stop reactivity on the fly. Thus far I'm really enjoying it.
>>atom is mostly empty space

What exactly is "empty space"?
I live near to where the legendary 'Fatberg' was found and, after reading this article, I would not be surprised if a more accurate name for the 'Fatberg' was 'Wet Wipe Berg'. The 'Fatberg' concept is new in the story of sewer blockages yet people have been using less fat in their cooking rather than more. Ready meals and microwave ovens have cut the amount of greasy fry-ups. What has changed is the wet wipe.
Crucially the wet wipe is marketed differently nowadays. You can get a pack of 100 bathroom wipes that are larger than the original branded Wet Wipes and have people use 1-2 of them every time they want to use the seat just in cleaning that seat.
As far as the consumer is concerned, flushable means it goes over the U-bend. If the packaging didn't state it was flushable then most people wouldn't flush these overgrown 'Wet Wipes'. Simple solution - don't have any products be sold as 'flushable', ever.
I think the more important point is that tumblrinaction mocks people. The same is true of shitredditsays. Both subreddits believe they are mocking and hating people for good and justified reasons, but the fact is, they are communities built around hatred.

Communities built around hatred, justified or not, always end up being toxic. Hatred is sometimes - rarely - justified and necessary, but it is not a healthy emotion to be the main focus on an entire community.
Wet wipes are terrible for the environment. There are plenty of other alternatives. Please look into them. The real luxury is clear, warm running water.

Wet wipes do not biodegrade, no matter what the package says.
The `most celebrated Post wood [0] of all time: "Headless body in topless bar."`[1]

[0] Wood is a banner headline, because the largest handset letters were made of wood to save costs.

[1] http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2012/01/5137028/...
I love that when you get down to this level, things actually look like the models and diagrams we've all seen before.
This just made my day. If I ever meet you I will buy you a beer!

Unless you are underage, in which case that's too bad
Key quote: However, there do exist several
users who have amassed friends dispersed around the globe.
For these users, our approach should not be used to infer
location.

So yeah.
Franklins is tasty but what made it the mega-hit it is today is the wait times.

"I waited 2 hours yesterday."

"I waited 3 hours and they ran out of brisket!"

"I got up and in line before dawn and wasn't even 15th in line!"

People talk about the incredible wait times they or a friend have experienced and certainly someone else in the conversation or nearby has a similar story to share. It fuels a Frankslin's must be the absolute best kind of mythos.
Hydroponics?
Square Kills Square Order, Its New Food Pickup App
Text, iMessage, and Wi-Fi
Living Without a Cellphone
Hm. This looks nice especially now TitanDB is abandoned.

But the lack of updates for json/jsonb data remains a problem. It's really the only significant problem left for using Postgres for almost-everything, but it's a real issue.
A bidet attachment for your toilet is only ~40 dollars and will make wet wipes seem barbaric as well.
Under moral relativism, you can accept that other people have different moral tastes, just as you can accept that other people have different tastes for food. But you cannot accept that such tastes are subject to normative assessment, making them 'right' or 'wrong' in any meaningful way.

So a moral relativist can say something like "I dislike your approval of female genital mutilation", but this is not a claim about the rightness or wrongness of the approval of female genital mutilation. It is instead a claim about their own sentiments. This is just like saying "Well I don't like sushi" in response to a friend saying that they like sushi. You'r not saying that them liking sushi is wrong.
Although you should be doing it anyway, you should especially want to be friendly in on-boarding the transitioning customers… so PLEASE release all of Stripe's client-side JavaScript as free/libre/open software so that GNU LibreJS recognizes it.

In other words, while I and many others may wish you to actually get to Balanced's level of public commitment to transparency, the essential item is to allow people to simply use Stripe without being forced to run non-free code on their own machines client-side. Fixing this is as simple as making the source just for the client-side JS be available under an appropriate license and including some header or license file indicating this appropriately.

Please consider this, it will win you a lot of good will and is the right thing to do.
In a business on-time and on budget are pretty damn important. I'd argue for most software disciplines (note: I didn't say all), probably more important than technical quality.
I actually saw this posted on Reddit earlier and was super impressed! Glad to see it here posted as well :) I was silently wondering if you were aggregating MLS data.

I run SimplyRETS[0] - we provide a normalized API to MLS's RETS data. I'm not trying to sell you anything, but I'd love to team up - You should shoot me an email (cody@simplyrets.com)!

Best of luck and great work on the product!

[0] - https://simplyrets.com
https://github.com/solidsnack A guy with such an epic Unix beard probably isn't underage. ;)

Though iirc Jason doesn't drink. You might need to buy him coffee instead!
That won't stop many people from buying them.
Human beings’ ancestors have routinely stolen genes from other species
This is definitely concerning. I used to wash my car and truck about every week or two when they were new. Today, I haven't washed them in over two years. During the last "big" storm in the bay area, I was hoping to go outside and wash my truck during the rain. I was down with the flu and couldn't do it, but didn't miss much. I don't think I could've washed the truck, unlike many years ago when I actually washed my car during a rainstorm. The other day, I rinsed off some bird crap from the side of my truck, it was a huge mess but I used the leftovers from a plastic bottled water. Just trying to conserve water. I feel sorry for Uber/Lyft drivers who have to keep their cars clean.
I found myself nodding in agreement with the school and it's separation of values/morality/opinion from facts/truth.

It's all just words, lines we use to divide, but they seem to be drawing nice solid lines --- whilst the parental unit that wrote the article seems remarkably confused about the factualness of his own beliefs.