skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if I go above 50% Soylent for my meals, I get ultra-intense dreams -- often about eating meat

I wonder if people who do have nightmares would get the same effect. For $5 a day, replace your nightmares with nightmeats!
What are you disagreeing about, exactly?

The European "right-wing" is socialist by American standards and the American "liberals" are right-wing by European standards.

Heck, the only reasons Americans think "small government" is the solution (and that it has to be an all-or-nothing decision) is that the government they have is bullshit.

You can have regulations without having a "nanny state" that dictates every aspect of your life. You can have privacy and welfare and socialised health care and various other kinds of good things without "socialism".

Americans, generally speaking, don't care about other people. Personal responsibility is the highest good: if you made it, it was your personal achievements that got you to where you are; if you end up in a bad situation, it was your own failings and bad decisions that got you there.

But that has nothing to do with liberalism or capitalism. In fact, it's quite anti-liberal. Without regulation, capitalism eats its children: you get monopolies and oligopolies, innovation stagnates and new competitors are either acquired or driven out of the market; you also provide no incentive for moral responsibility to the consumers. Randian "libertarianism" is deeply flawed and sociopathic.
Facebook doesn't understand that humans who did errors are still humans and need to be treated as such. The goal of prison is to rehabilitate the person in order to make them come back to society. I wonder how eliminating their basic rights and cutting them completely out of the world will improve their situation. Maybe the desperate cases cannot be recovered but prisons are also full of people that can be reeducated and one way to do so is to let them be still a part of this world. Isolating them from Internet, stripping their rights and physical isolation will do only more harm in the long run.
How Tech Giants Became Big Buyers of Debt
This is why, if you ever want to extort money from someone, you have your lawyer talk to their lawyer first. I'm sure they could have set up an LLC for the extortionist/victim to perform "market research" or something.
Note that the OP also mentions rows in the segment you quoted. Rows are available to all skill levels, and are an effective way to build strength to eventually do pull-ups.

I was able to start doing pull-ups after a few months of doing bent over rows with a $25 set of resistance bands.

It is very difficult to figure all of the details out, because there is so much money to be made by convincing people to buy into gimmicks. The OP has the right general ideas, though.
I am very far from dispassionate on this subject. Like the OP and many of the other people posting, I've struggled with severe depression and I know from personal experience, talking with many others in the industry (specifically in SV) and talking to people in the medical field that there is a lot of anxiety and depression around. I am very sorry that you've experienced the loss of a family member, and I didn't mean to be hurtful. I simply meant to say that, in my personal opinion, delinking the post is not helpful as it simply papers over a problem which exists.
In that article the most startling thing was this link[0] providing situations where average citizens unknowingly commit felonies or federal offenses and are charged with them.

[0]http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.asp...
From the unfortunately dead post of TEMPLEOS_DEV

They don't have to. Structuring transactions to avoid reporting laws is also a crime. Periodic withdrawals of $9,999 won't save you.
"Fell beast" is a phrase J. R. R
Tolkien used in The Lord of the Rings [1], probably owing to his study of medieval literature. The more current usage may have stemmed from reading his works.
[1] http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Fell_beasts
> Or did that mean that details of the negotiations are secret for 5 years after signing, but the final text is not?

That is what it means. The discussion drafts are kept secret, in part so that folks considering ratification will consider the actual final deal, and not spend all their time nitpicking the details of the negotiations.

Trade agreements are balances--each country gets some new things it wants, but must give up some old things it likes. Balances like that can only be achieved when folks are free to consider and trade all the possible permutations.

Generally speaking, the best things result from a process by a small group, which is then validated or rejected by the broader market.
Retailers Who Refuse to Embrace Apple Pay Face Grave Risks
Why do you think a charity isn't a business? They still have revenues and expenses, employees, marketing, growth, a product to deliver. The only fundamental difference is that their owners don't take dividends or distributions from the business.
You should only be in a position long enough to a) learn enough to move up to the next position or b) effect the change you want to if you're C-Level.

If you're not learning anymore, it's not fun anymore, or you're not having the effect you want to (or any combination of those), its time to leave.
In their desperation, the oligarchs are unwittingly sewing the seeds of their own demise.

I suppose it's to be expected; profits for the next quarter above all other considerations!

Their successors will have to deal with the fallout, not them.

The end of Greater Taylorism is nigh.
At some point anyone can use it to construct a model of you (face shape reconstruction is now, litter in Hong Kong and your face may show up on a billboard). We have just scratched the surface in regards to what can be known about someone if you have their genetic code. Or what can be done... like make people specific bio-weapons. I wonder how fast individuals will be able edit their own DNA on the fly to moot some of this.
This case is why I believe it's pointless to try to protect your privacy: even if you just withdraw < $10,000 to avoid notice, you've committed a crime. But, if you withdraw more than $10k all the time (then deposit it back in) you haven't committed a crime and that $10k you needed for hush money gets lost in the noise.
This trend of Firefox increasingly bundling more services and features is an interesting paradox considering that Firefox started as a quiet project to make a slimmed down, no frills browser in comparison to the main Mozilla browser.

I’ve recently resumed using Firefox as my main browser partly driven by support of the project but also because Chrome was taking too much RAM and causing performance issues. Of course, when Chrome first came out it was a very slimmed down browser that used a lot less RAM compared to Firefox. Everything moves in cycles…
From the article:
"It’s legendary for being the most hated building in Paris. I want to defend it not because it’s a particularly beautiful tower, but because of the idea it represents. Parisians panicked when they saw it, and when they abandoned the tower they also abandoned the idea of a high-density sustainable city. Because they exiled all future high rises to some far neighborhood like La Défense, they were segregating growth. Parisians reacted aesthetically, as they are wont to do, but they failed to consider the consequences of what it means to be a vital, living city versus a museum city. People sentimentalize their notions of the city, but with the carbon footprint, the waste of resources, our shrinking capacity, we have no choice but to build good high-rise buildings that are affordable. It’s not by coincidence that people are going to London now not just for work but for the available space. No young company can afford Paris. Maybe Tour Montparnasse is not a work of genius, but it signified a notion of what the city of the future will have to be."

I can't help but mentally find & replace Paris -> San Francisco.
Oddly, I learned about Gary Kildall a few days ago after reading a wired article about the "Halt and Catch Fire" tv series ( http://www.wired.com/2014/05/halt-and-catch-fire/ )

"Easter eggs: Gordon and Donna Clarks’ first initials and back story echo those of Gary and Dorothy Kildall"
It's not illegal to make repeated cash transactions less than $10,000.

It's illegal to make repeated cash transactions less than $10,000 with the intent to evade the reporting requirements.

So if you are not aware of the reporting requirements it is very unlikely that you are violating the law (you certainly aren't violating the reasonable spirit of the law, you may not escape prosecution...).
But...nobody walks into a bookstore and buys one because it smells nice.

That is true, but when I buy a new book from No Starch, I expect it to smell nice. I anticipate it, and I can tell my No Starch books from the others by scent. So when I'm considering which book on a subject to buy, this anticipation of a superior sensory experience (they also use nice paper, and a nice binding, that can be felt) does affect my judgement. It's not all the points, but it's definitely a few points.
Thank you, that link answers a lot of questions.
Kindergarten teacher Eliza Minnucci got the idea after
watching a documentary about a forest school in
Switzerland where kids spend all day, every day, out in
the woods.

This makes it sound a bit like a singular case. We have this kind of outdoor kindergarten in Germany too. The kids spend all day, every day, out. In summer and winter. Not necessarily every day in the woods.
> If you get into Google, Facebook or Palantir, we’ll refund 100% of tuition. No catch.

Seems kinda backward to me ... we'll teach you how to do this well, and if it works we'll refund you?

I get you aren't the only variable at play, but saying you'll refund if they fail the interview would be much more compelling! (But economically unfeasible I'd guess)
Hence my parenthetical. But since you mentioned amendments, you should look into the Corwin Amendment [1], which was written to preclude its own repeal. The amendment was an all-in attempt to appease the slave states and prevent the Civil War, but was too little and too late. The purpose may be distasteful to the modern reader, and may not have held up in court ('Can Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he cannot eat it?'), but it's there.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corwin_Amendment
but without some contract that keeps them from shutting down the API

Hello. Welcome to every API ever.
I hear curtains on your windows may prevent others from looking in....
>Related: Technical Leadership at Mozilla - Today, I am starting my role as Mozilla’s new Chief Technology Officer.

This is amusing.
Because that run-of-the-mill inmate will undoubtedly be vulnerable to coercion from kingpins and gang leaders?

And pretty soon it's "Send the following codewords to my goons on the outside, or I'll break your knees."
That's the Valley redefinition of a startup. You don't need rapid growth to be a startup. "A startup company or startup is a business in the form of a company, a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model."[0]

Nor do you need to be a for-profit business to seek rapid growth. If we're going to measure based on "rapid growth", GiveDirectly has been a far more successful startup than most YC companies.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company
Performance Profiling Node Apps
Right, but that's the case with all APIs.

If your business model is entirely dependent on margins with other companies' APIs (free or paid), a price increase for those APIs would put you out of business anyways. The concern shouldn't be "What if they charge more for this API?", the concern should be "Why is my business so dependent on this company's APIs?"
I mean in the case of _source field that elasticsearc uses. But seems that is separate.
My usecase is I want to do querying+filtering on all fields of the document. In this case you have to:

1.store the field or document so you can get back the value (ex: when querying the document)

2.index the field for filtering

3.separately index the field for aggregation(doc_values)

While in rdbms you only need(1).
Again, no aid was done for these toilets. Seriously, get the point. A team was sent to check out the crappers for the sole sake of the comfort of a senior official in CIDA. CIDA employee was complaining about it. Yikes.
Highly recommended (though the Gary Kildall bit is very short):

- A movie: Pirates of Silicon Valley (https://youtu.be/BI-nzUIYIX4)

- A documentary: Triumph of the Nerds (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLudrw8Z7-gFa7Is4YZitO...)

- Not involving Gary Kildall, but about open source, gnu, and linux: Revolution OS: (https://youtu.be/fxjElWL8igo)
According to Ron Kirk, Obama's former top trade official, the reason he opposes making the text public is "doing so, he suggested to Reuters, would raise such opposition that it could make the deal impossible to sign".

The stated rationale is literally "because the public would be against it".

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/opinion/obamas-covert-trad...
I've checked around various forums and I've found a number of reports that indicate drinking lots of Soylent can bring on intense dreams - I wonder how much more common it is.
At least in my opinion, it's unnecessary bloat - just like that video chat thing they added a couple months ago.

Remember when Firefox, the lean, scrappy browser, first came out and ran circles around the bloated Netscape browser/HTML editor/IM client/mail client/newsreader? The Firefox team seems to have forgotten.

If anyone is maintaining a "Firefox: Browser Only Edition" fork, I'd love to know about it so I could use that instead.
Zanzibar's 'Solar Mamas' flip the switch on rural homes, gender roles
Scott A. Horstemeyer Abandons Defamation Case Against EFF
The Most Essential Ingredient in Interaction Design? The Words
Yeah; I doubt that most people actually commit 3 felonies daily but prosecutorial discretion is a bit shocking.

Basically, if they want to get you on something, they will, which is quite scary.
This. I think most Mozilla employees approach stuff this way. I've seen folks leave to form a startup other times too, and that's not because Mozilla is bad at keeping them.

I (non employee; student+volunteer) certainly do this. I've drifted between open source projects and communities, reducing participation drastically when I find something I learn from more. Im pretty involved in a couple projects and I really want to stay because they're awesome, but it's quite possible that in a few years I'll be somewhere completely different. At the moment, I hope not. But only time will tell.
And don't forget the income tax; according to the article, even extortion must be taxed as per the Supreme Court, 1952.
A lot of people don't like it and sell their stuff on eBay so you could try there.
Did not know it was that difficult to read for those with dyslexia.

Would have been neat to see an example of numbers as well.

People with dyslexia should untie!
Can you elaborate on being unprepared? Do they struggle with algorithms and data structures? Do they not grasp the computer at a lower level?

I fully agree with the mediocrity part though.
I tried out MealSquares when they were first available. Ate three of them before I ended up throwing the rest of the package in the trash. Really unappetizing and inedible, unless they've changed the recipe since then.
Could you explain why the trade-off of 'just-html' vs the overhead of pre-processing so you can use this not-quite-html-with-weird-parens syntax is worth it?

To me it looks considerably worse than other nicer-than-HTML syntaxes like Haml and Jade and I'm not sure what the supposed benefits are of writing it in a lispy, paren-y style -- is there really a homoiconicity benefit here as that seems especially unlikely when dealing with already-declarative code that is designed to be dumb.

Aside: I always feel like the homoiconicity argument is completely the wrong trade-off -- sacrificing readable syntax for the ability to write easier macros? What team has ever been happy to find out that one of their team members thought themselves smart enough to start writing macros?

Don't get. I bought the Clojure book and I less-than-half-get-it (as demonstrated by my above stance on homoiconicity) and if someone held a gun to my head and made me write a web-app in ClojureScript I'm pretty sure I'd still use a conventional templating engine for my HTML templates (mustache-style + HTML).

Would love to be persuaded otherwise because I'm thoroughly confused by this everything-as-an-s-expression mentality of lispers and I'm concerned about the amount of dust gathering on my Clojure book.
Paying down the debt
I will try that! Thanks.
Interesting idea, and could be interesting to experiment with.

There are a lot of practical challenges though -- to provide a useful API you'd have to reverse the string at the end, since socket APIs don't generally provide streaming "WriteReverse" functions, and for good reason, because it would force them to buffer arbitrary amounts of data.

So we'd have to reverse the entire string at the end. The question is whether this would be cheaper than doing a second pass over the message tree. And also keep in mind that you would need the first pass to decode everything -- including UTF-8 data -- in reverse. But since the UTF-8 APIs for Java strings probably don't support this, you'd probably have to encode it, then reverse it to put it in the encoding buffer. That way when it gets reversed again at the end, it would be proper UTF-8.

At the end of the day, this probably wouldn't end up faster than what we do now. But can't say for sure without trying!
Really? Facebook runs their datacenters with only IPv6. Comcast has deployed IPv6 to over 60% of their customers, and that should be >75% by the end of the year.

TMo and Verizon have huge amounts of IPv6 deployment. TMo android + windows phone devices are IPv6 only. iOS 9 if it supports 464XLAT will increase that hugely.

There are soon going to be no IPv4 addresses left to have.
Can insurance companies in the U.S. still reject or charge more for new customers based on the patients' prior conditions?

That was one of the major reasons to keep patient genomic data offline.

Edit: Nevermind, looks like it's not a problem anymore (http://www.genome.gov/24519851)
"Later this morning we will be reverting back to standard Surge Pricing for riders..."

I'm not sure why you believe the "lawlessness" of a region changes the laws of arithmetic. Scarcity is scarcity, regardless of whether the UN refuses to recognize your government.
It may be true that "startup" success is mostly random in the YC/modern Valley-VC culture of throwing a fistful of darts at the board and hoping that at least a few stick.

Business success, however, is not mostly random.
Vice video on soylent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8NCigh54jg
The real question is, who is stepping in? Mozilla is very important to keep the major browser vendors honest (beyond being a great piece of software). Seems to me it needs deep technical leadership.
What's the best way to make this more prominent for Mozilla to see?

I made a bugzilla account and added my name to the CC list, but is there anything else I can do to help this get more recognition?
I thought Lua was already a toy programming language?
Attribution of motive is never helpful or appropriate as part of a supposedly-technical discussion.

Disagree. Here's why: Other people's motives should never be a deciding factor in technical discussions. However, questioning participants' motives can be a very useful heuristic for deciding where to look for potential traps or previously unnoticed disadvantages of complicated proposals. Simply put, it's a heuristic that helps discover trojan horses.

The point is that technical discussions should be decided on technical merits, but it's important that everybody understands what those merits are. Looking into motives helps to achieve this understanding.

If it were, then maybe someone should also mention Fielding's own interest in enabling insertion of ads by proxies.

Absolutely. All those interests should be out in the open.
http://dam.io/real/

It's a game where you can play on your own drawings

It's not really ready for non-ultra-technical users but it's quite nice! You can send me drawings if you like it!
Poll: Topics to See in PostgreSQL Conf Silicon Valley '15
The Call for Proposals for PGConf Silicon Valley is open; and the Conference Committee is looking to hear more on both general and specific areas of interest from PostgreSQL users.

http://www.pgconfsv.com

If you have topics that aren't covered in the poll, please leave a comment (or upvote a comment), and I will try and edit the post.
You should ALWAYS talk to a lawyer before speaking to any law enforcement.
I would be worried of buying food secondhand. Nobody can prove for sure that I'm buying Soylent powder and not ... powdered caffeine mixed with whey and anthrax
I just wish there was some neighborhood like La Défense where 'all future high rises' in the Bay Area are exiled, where people prefer a vital, living, high-density, sustainable city to the preservation of the aesthetic of their sentimental notions of the city.
It has a read later service? There's a new Readability button but it doesn't seem to sync anything. Edit: according to chimeracoder, there was one in Nightly for a little while but it was removed.
Free books section
Drunk Shopping: The Shopping Experience That Delights in Sloppy Judgement
What you've described is known as smurfing, and it is quite illegal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring
OK I must be really lucky. I find NetworkManager just works. It does ask for my admin password when it doesn't need it but I find that if I just ignore that prompt then everything is fine.
Uhh... "orange juice and a lot of cheddar cheese" for "at least a couple months" is not doing "fine nutritionally".

You probably won't die...
I don't buy that definition. I prefer Steve Blank's suggestion that startups are companies set up to identify repeatable and scaleable business models. This could extend to a charity as easily as any other kind of business.

http://steveblank.com/2012/03/05/search-versus-execute/
You shouldn't spend that much time obsessing over every new library or tool. If you try to drink from the firehose, you'll either dehydrate or drown.

Instead use a filter. Pay attention to the stuff that makes it to HN, Reddit or DailyJS, yes, but don't wander off reading a dozen articles about every new shiny. Think like a medic during a disaster: learn triage. Learn to quickly assess the general idea of new projects and make a mental note that it is out there and whether it is relevant to anything you're currently doing or planning to do.

If it really is useful, you'll hear about it again. There's no point in getting invested in something nobody else is using. You don't have to be an early adopter of everything. If you see something new you could immediately benefit greatly from, sure, you may want to give it a try right now and see whether you switch everything over to it. But that should happen very rarely.

Your job isn't to know everything or to understand every new technology and be fully prepared to answer any possible question about it. Your job is to get things done. If there are technologies that help you be better at doing that, sure, you should probably be aware of them. But you don't need to evaluate every single one.

If you adopted every single new technology that could be useful to you, your productivity would crash to zero. Adopting something new creates overhead -- unless you're fairly certain that adopting it will save you orders of magnitude more work than it creates, you're not missing out.