skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, chocolate may help in an indirect way...

If someone's on a diet, and never gets any 'reward', they might be tempted to cheat or give up.

If they're told a little chocolate every day is good, they'll stick with their diet, have their chocolate, and forego worse 'cheat' items (even though chocolate has plenty of fat and sugar, the amount you consume before you're content is relatively small compared to say, ice-cream, cookies, etc...).

Studies (and anecdotes) have shown that chocolate makes people happy, so that little happiness at the end might just help people stay on their diet and not stress out (stress can cause the body to store fat). Maybe it's something like the French paradox...

The study was pretty funny though, and I appreciate their honesty. And it goes to show why pretty much all research on fad diets is nonsense. Still though, if you choose between drinking a gallon of pop per day or chocolate, chocolate wins. So maybe their 'research' didn't go to waste.
Do you have some numbers to back up your claim of immigrants being the major force behind the shortage? I could imagine it simply being movers within Germany. People are leaving the country for hyped metropolis.
There have been some attempts to re-create the datahand [1], but it seems that they have stalled.

[1] https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.0
In essence "science" reporters have made it their business to not understand statistics.

That way they can turn weak correlations into strong causations, rake in the eyeballs, and then go "oops" whenever someone points out problems.
The first photo looks like a submerged, antique, sculpture of a man looking up towards the surface. Just beautiful!
Is that document available in some standard format? The player that's playing it from Google Docs is buggy, and about 20% of the slides display an error message.

"10:01:47.662 Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://drive.google.com/viewerng/img?id=ACFrOgBySwSrGvI-XLL.... (Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing).1 <unknown>
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Tags would be useful.
Tidal was the first promise of a decent competitor to Spotify and I jumped immediately. Spotify has had so many requests for features that they have completely ignored and consistently made their ux worse across every device for the two...maybe three years I've been a paying customer.

A feature request to prefer explicit over clean and vice versa when possible has been on their request board for nearly two of those. For a long time it was difficult to even select or search for the version you wanted.

They ignore their customers, break their UI, fail to optimize for conversions to paying customers, how could they expect to be profitable?

So far I've been extremely happy with Tidal. It's gotten quickly better and I'm excited to see how the artist based model plays out. It's odd to me that the author laments the plight of the starving and ignored artists while calling Tidal a joke. Their stated mission is to improve the landscape for artists, they have a real opportunity to build on top of and change the indie scene and I think they'll take it.
Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
Most people use their notebook's trackpad when in Starbucks, etc., not a mouse.
On second thought, I'd suggest that you teach (that is, mentor) some very simple number games and have him program them in Python or BASIC. If you can find it, a copy of
What to do after you hit return: PCC's first book of computer games or 101 Basic Games would do for a start.
These games are simple, fun, and don't get cluttered up with issues of presentation versus computation logic.
The UX of kwallet is awful, and everyone I put on KDE I always use a blank wallet password so they are not badgered by "enter password to unlock wallet" prompts.

Yes, its insecure to have the user session act as an unlock on a cryptographic store like that. It looks like lxqt_wallet is even worse on that front in terms of UX - yes, its more secure for every program to have its own secret stores and require prompts to unlock them, but average desktop users just want to login and have that unlock their secret stores, pretty much like Gnome does it.

What you really want is MAC on secrets. Applications that add to the secrets database get implicit access to those secrets in the future, but first access should require user permission before an application can start accessing your credentials for other accounts. You don't really need anyone to reinput a password, just prompt users "Kfoo wants to access your account neckbeard@gmail.com, allow?" with allow / deny choices, or make it an option in the wallet GUI.

You could probably even integrate it into current MAC solutions. Make it a VFS somewhere in var, and have your distro ship sane defaults like letting the sanctioned im client (both are based off telepathy nowadays) access the secrets store on a whitelist of domains, like @gmail, @chat.facebook.com, etc.
Maybe in this one, specific case. But not even really here. There are other ways they could do well.

Just look at redhat (the company) for instance - You can absolutely build a business on giving away software and supporting it.
I don't know if the theory explained the mechanism behind it, merely the correlation. There's simple regression to the mean, or the fact that you have to achieve a certain level of success to build one of these glorious headquarters, and that seems to be around the natural limit for company size.
And yet, they still aren't learning their lesson - from either the indyref or GE2015. Early polling suggests that the SNP will probably take all or most the constituency seats in next year's Scottish Parliamentary elections, and probably a good chunk of the list seats, resulting in an even larger majority for the SNP (in a system designed to prevent this happening).

Meanwhile in the face of this the unionist press continue unabated with the same shreaking and yelling about how shit Scotland is and that "you've had your wee moment of fame" and we should "just shut up and dae whit yer telt". The debate over Full Fiscal Autonomy being the current example [0].

[0]: http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-best-and-worst-of-times/
The government manages the externalities.

For example, the sheer volume of office build out between the Shoreline and Rengstorff exits from 101 essentially installed a plug on 101 between those exits (really from Embarcadero to Moffet). MV council prefers plans that address that more. (The same problem, in reverse, happened when RWC tried to allow wetlands to be replaced with housing without improving the freeway infrastructure, which would simply have led to a clog not only for the residents but for everyone passing through).

Another monoculture risk is to allow one company to use too high a percentage of the real estate...meaning if they go under or move there's suddenly a glut of office space with all its own trickle down problems as well. It's in the city's interest try to have a diversity of employers. It's good for the general infrastructure as well.

(BTW I suspect your redneck area nevertheless had building codes at least for electrical and fire codes).
>> working while you are sick. In China, this is appreciated, people would think this hard-working. But here, this is disliked. people think you are infecting people.

> This depends on your workplace. In some you'll find the attitude you describe. In others, sick days are for weak, uncommitted people and you'll hear people take pride in never having taken one.

yup, if you work in an office and have the flu, you need to stay the fcuk home :P
Not just interesting and relevant and well written ...

... also plaesently concise
I would think that all of your so called "escape hatches" are just as brittle, if not more. Once I compile a golang program, that binary will always run the same, no dependencies on a runtime that could be updated/changed out at anytime. If you aren't testing your code before deployment, that's your fault.

The only one that actually seems decent is the metaprogramming, which, in my experience, tends to lead to overcomplicated code and worse performance.

All in all, the only times I've ever needed an escape hatch is when I've been writing hacky things, or trying to be too clever. Too much "clever" is bad when programming.
I got an example, you are likely using it right now.

KHTML (LGPL, not GPL) taken by Apple to make WebKit (LGPL), later "rewritten" and licensed BSD for 2.0.

Apple did also the dirty trick of giving a single huge patch against the previous release of KHTML making it almost impossible to integrate back to the main codebase. Even LGPL can be abused. Lesson learned the hard way by the community.

And you now have everyone parroting how great WebKit is, nobody remembers the original team at KDE. It was brutal.
tl;dr you are primarily concerned with the exploitation of dire poverty in third world countries for personal gain.

We both know that importing the best Bangladeshi talent to the United States because it's 50% cheaper than the average American is not going to help the average impoverished Bangladeshi. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Look to the nav bar at the top of the page. The source file is (purportedly) a PDF and there's a download button.
Totally have a look at Haskell next. It takes a while, but it's worth it :)
As someone who lives in a Mediterranean climate, I certainly wouldn't have minded a dome over the college campus I attended. There's nothing fun about having to walk under intense rain between buildings, whose floors get all muddy if you have any kind of walkable grass.

And I don't see what it has to do with their connection to the community; after all, people don't exactly come flying in. Whether the campus will have outside visitors will have more to do with their policies (free or restricted entry, presence of public amenities, etc) than with the dome, in my opinion.
I've flagged this comment because I disagree with it.

EDIT: Let me elaborate: This use of flagging, like the suggested flagging of political articles is an abuse of the HN flagging system. If you do not feel that a story is upvote-worthy, don't upvote it. I, and most other users, have never flagged anything. Using flags as some sort of ersatz downvote to enforce your personal preferences is abuse of the system.
Show HN: PressRise – A blogging platform with community voting and aggregation
As a side note, I love the index on the left hand side of the player, that lets me quickly jump to any section of talk, instead of having to fish for the part when he starts talking about the algorithm, for instance. An awesome feature I wish other websites had too.
This is the prototype/MVP of an idea I had for a blogging platform. It was only made public a few hours ago so it's a ghost town, and it's very basic because I want to iterate based on user feedback, but here's the idea.

For bloggers: It's a blogging platform where you can create your own hosted independent blog. Your blog will receive a built-in audience, and your posts will automatically be promoted to that audience, all for free.

For readers: It's a blogging community where you can read, comment, and vote on blog posts. The newest and best content is always easy to find because it rises to the top based on your votes.

The aggregator frontend works a lot like Reddit or Imgur, but for blogging.

I can think of a lot of advantages this system would have over current blogging platforms and content aggregators.

For blogging platforms the advantage is obviously the built-in audience. It's hard to get that by submitting your blog to current aggregators because of rules against self-promotion, difficulties in finding the right subreddit, domain loyalty, and hug of death.

The advantages over current aggregators might be less obvious though:

1. Users would be able to post almost any form of content imaginable, not just external links or images

2. The content is hosted, no hug of death ever, + all the other benefits of hosting the content yourself

3. Content moderation would scale much more easily, because blog owners would each be responsible for their own blog. This could lead to faster and greater diversification of content. On reddit for example I feel like there's a lot of content that people miss out on because it can't be done at a scale that's active and moderated

4. If this ever were to be monetized, the monetization plan wouldn't be murky. It'd actually be really straightforward and proven

5. Content has a life beyond its 12-hour expiration date. Blog posts are naturally formatted for SEO and it actually makes sense for Google to index them, unlike a Reddit or Imgur submission page. So traffic can be referred internally or externally, and continue to receive steady traffic over long periods of time

I'm really interested to hear your feedback on this. I'm wondering what the biggest flaws are with the concept, and what challenges I will face if I pursue it. I'm also hoping to get some direction on the design and features so I can get back to development. I'm also anticipating the mother of all chicken-and-egg problems, so advice on how to overcome that is appreciated as well.

If any developers or designers are interested in joining me to develop this idea, there's a contact form on the main website, or you can email me directly at my username on Google's email service.
I expect Blackberry will spin off QNX, which should be an IVI/IoT play. Trying to make yet another first-rate mobile UX if you have not got hundreds of millions to spend on R&D and developer relations ain't gonna happen.

Security and device management are still a relatively open field. If you don't want Samsung's bloatware but you do want manageable, secure devices, your choices are thin. There is room for a vendor with focus to do well in this potentially large niche.

And the above + BBM is the right thing to do to retain existing customers.

But here is the wild-ass possibility: What if Blackberry's idea of "Android" is the Android middleware and UX on QNX? They already have that mostly implemented in the form of Android compatibility for their QNX devices. What if this move just flips the UX to be Android-first, with Blackberry compatibility?
Thanks.

To clarify the generated code is invalid HTML 4.01 (20 errors according to W3C HTML4 validator https://validator.w3.org/check ) and the first view lines look like this:

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14">
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 14">

Microsoft split Frontpage in two products SharePoint Designer and Expression Web (the later with a new web render engine), though both products are either a shadow of the former self (no WYSIWYG view anymore) or abandoned (free download without support): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Web
I would highly recommend the book 1089 and All That. It won't teach you much math, but it is an excellent book to read while getting started. Measurement is also a good book that starts from scratch.
Is that true? You could not have a clause that allows people to see source but pay to run it?

I know Chef now has a new revenue model where version 12 is free but if you want various modules enabled like a webui you need to pay.
The issue with this is how it calculates deaths per terrawatt.

Nuclear has the whole waste storage (and, in some places, drinking water contamination) issue, while coal has the whole climate change issue.

Both are bad, but just saying that one of them has less short-term, but more long-term deaths isn’t a good argument.
Replication is hard and expensive, particularly in the medical field, and does not get the researcher any real science points.

Besides, it's more fun to do a meta-analysis on a flock of sorta-vaguely-similar studies.
The sad thing is that it isn't especially unbelivable.

We know that the US used torture, and this is acknowledged by the government.
An Experiment to Evaluate Maintainability of Object Oriented Software (1990) [pdf]
FSF and others were safe because they used a GPL-derived IcedTea codebase (earlier Sun code). That license protected from patent abuse and many other things. Apache and Google didn't take that path and it came back to haunt them. There were many threats. If I were Stallman, I would've died of a stroke lauging (ASF was very harsh on FSF/Stallman and anti-GPL).
These kinds of issues don't boil down to the objective of size and space needs, but the subjective of what everyone else is doing.
I also have a Kinesis Advantage. I use colemak keyboard layout as well so I've customized the layout a bit. Because capslock is backspace in colemak, I changed the backspace key to control. VI sucks with colemak so I eventually moved to using emacs. It works very well for me - your thumb is always on control.
I started on these books (we of course called them the NEETS modules) when I was 19 in electronic warfare school, and they are the exact same books that my dad used when he was an 18 year-old sonar technician in training. As others have pointed out in the thread, these are targeted towards an audience of those with an aptitude for electronics, and are therefore meant to give them a practical understanding of how to work with complex military electronic systems. You'll see mentions of things like electricity flowing from positive to negative and more complex concepts reduced down to simpler ones.

The whole point is to get someone from knowing nothing about electronics to being able to troubleshoot a system down to an offending circuit card, and replace the part. There are more advanced schools, such as the journeyman technician school, which works on breaking down some of the wrong information they might have picked up on over the course of applying these practical concepts, and building up enough knowledge to troubleshoot down to the component-level. That course will get them through things like back-plane wiring, ohm'ing out bad pins on cables that run through the ship (and therefore are impossible to easily touch end-to-end), and sometimes even gets to desoldering individual components on cards and replacing them, in order to save on paying Raytheon $4000 for a card that cost them $1.50 to make.

With that in mind, almost no one that goes through these courses actually goes on to become an engineer, or really strives to understand the true nature of the forces that make their systems possible. For the most part, you can take these students and give them a broken system with hot-swappable components and the schematics for it, and they could fix it. To me, that's the true measure of success of these books.
Ask HN: Are non-freemium games an obsolete business model?
I'm trying to develop my first, small game for iOS. The sensible choice would be a freemium based model - ads and in-app payments. The thing is - I absolutely hate this model.

If I were to make a decision based on my personal feelings, I'd just choose to sell it for $0.99 for the complete game.

But does my game even stand a chance with this model - I don't have any kind of target earnings. Pretty much anything above $0 would be a success, but I would be disappointed if my game didn't get into the hands of any users.

Are non-freemium games possible? Am I shooting myself in the foot by choosing this path?
If I remember correctly, Snowden himself said in Citizen Four that intelligence agencies use aliases for assets and not targets. Which would mean that if any agents had actually been named in the docs, their masters saw them not as assets but as potential targets, which is damning unto itself.
Yes and no. The original plan intended that Philae would have power due to being in the sun, but the lander bounced off of the comet and landed in a different place then expected, in the shadow of rough terrain.

Due to this the original set of experiments had to be completely run on battery, although the battery capacity was not intended for this.

So ESA had to hibernate it early, hoping one day it would get enough sunlight to be able to operate again, and allowing them to do more experiments – which happened now.
And this attitude is one of the bigger reasons he was able to do it.
Make the 80k and 4k after tax :)

"$40K in savings with an average life is highly preferable to $3K in savings with an average life."

Your comparison is meaningless, unless they are in the same country with the same cost of living.

"You could very quickly find $3k/year of savings obliterated if that $1K goes to $4K. It's a lot harder for a $40K cost of living to go to $60K or $80K."

Again, meaningless, unless they are in the same country with the same cost of living.

That's what PPP is for.
and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9715062
ADHD Hunter versus Farmer Theory
Right, for example you rarely see younger, MacBook owners with the external mice. But when you find middle-aged folks with PC laptops, they are often using little travel mice.
Technically, due to having a Google Account, there would be a way for that.

And if you set a master password for Chrome mobile, you can still access everything without this password on desktop chrome, and in reverse.

As you are logged into your Google account anyway, though, they should just use your account identifier as seed for the key if no other option is available.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0233 (and the references within he cites by Gerard Ben Arous)
This is why I always loath buying a new laptop. The first thing I have to do is look at the keyboard layout. Where did these designers try to fit the cursor keys this time? Where did they try to innovate on space efficiency using those 'disposable' keys: Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Ins/Del?

I learned on an IBM compatible 101 (now 104) keyboard. I trained my hands against the 'correct' cursor management key layout: the inverted-T and the cluster above. It's not optimal, but neither is the saxophone. That said, you don't see too many saxophone designers changing the placement of the keys or inventing new fingerings. Not so for keyboards. Most of the innovation happens because of some industrial design requirement or some designer's whim (e.g., why do we still have this insert key here? Nobody uses it! Let's get rid of it and add a larger delete key). I'm not referring to the more interesting innovation happening on behalf of heavy keyboard users, like those mentioned in the article.

It used to be somewhat difficult to find modern 101/104 keyboards. I thank the code gods often, now that we have such a rich ecosystem around conventional keyboard designs. I now have a problem where I look for an excuse to buy a new keyboard to try out for one of the spots that I program at frequently, so I can just move my laptop and plug in. My favorite so far is the Cooler Master QuickFire Tenkeyless.
Did you guys consider Erlang or Elixir? Elixir might have especially been a good fit given the history with Ruby.
The problem was fixed - we found the root cause of API becoming unresponsive and returning 503 responses and then fixed the issue.

The issue was to do with the averages endpoint re-calculating every time it was called, this ate up alot the resources on the dyno - we've cached this now so this no longer happens.

It is still running on the same resources, no 'throwing' more anything at it at this point.