skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose you could rework this to actually encode the message in the shape much like a qr code. You could do it by having the first 9 characters be done by just moving around the 3 sides of the triangle, then the next set would have a dot in the middle, and then the next set would have a line through the middle, etc. You could then write that line-by-line or in a spiral or something.

Neat to think about though. And, unlike QR codes they look sufficiently sci-fi.
"our bodies weren't meant to eat bread."

"Our bodies weren't meant to eat meat."

"Our bodies are only meant to eat meat and nuts."

I love when a nerd forum like HN uses modern conjecture over fact.
AMD is a VLIW architecture, NVidia is not.

Correction: AMD GPUs were VLIW when I took a class on GPGPU in 2011. Apparently, AMD subsequently switched from VLIW: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Core_Next>.
Why doesn't Webkit on the Mac just set the respective system font as value for "sans-serif"?
Why do people think that it's OK to allow kids to drink coffee? In fact, why do people think that drinking coffee is something that anyone must do?

I used to drink coffee. Gave it up many years ago. Have not missed it. Have much less of a caffeine addiction now; don't drink caffeinated drinks very often, and when I do, a very small portion is plenty. I think giving up coffee helped with that.

If I want a sweetened beverage, I drink soda, sugarless or with sugar but no caffeine.

Etc.
Here come the glitches by US banks/stock market.
"The prosecution against Abacus appears to be Mr. Vance’s only mortgage-related prosecution against a bank since he won election as Manhattan district attorney and took office in January 2010."

Uhm... I deeply hate pulling the race card, but I would be tempted for this individual. Particularly, when the prosecution's star witness is the fraud master himself.
I'm so happy right now....and I don't even comment on YouTube. Quite irrational but hey, it is what it is.
> I'm concerned that one day a poor person could sustain a traumatic brain injury and just so happens to be a tissue match for someone who is rich, famous, politically connected or influential who needs an organ.

The chances of that happening to any one particular person are quite small.

The wealthy in the current system already have an unfair advantage by being able to 'multiple list', a path not open to those of lesser means. It's all perfectly legal, of course.
Thanks, that clarifies that indeed this only works in Safari.
The cost of biological weapons is likely to marginalize once the know-how is public and with things like in-home sequencers we're well on the towards home-labs being feasible and cheap. The limiting factor right now might be ordering necessary chemicals/cultures but those too are soon to be easy to manufacture at home.
I believe that the insulin spike theory has been mostly debunked: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21245879

You shouldn't swear off artificial sweeteners because of the stigma around them, especially since there's such an abundance of research around them debunking all the purported ill effects (except for maybe laxative effects and bad reactions in phenylketonurics) – you can have your artificially sweetened cake and eat it too.
This is cool, though as said in the other comments, it's unfortunate that the readability of the codes are tied to the availability of the service, like a URL shortener, i.e., not very mesh.

Did you do much research onto the actual "serialization format" of the tags? Aesthetically they are nice, but I wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes for drawable-but-not-necessarily-human-readable dense formats, which is a slightly different utility function than regular written languages. I imagine there's some overlap with the psychology of memorizing passwords which are opaque semantically, but still need to be remembered.
This is also the best path if you have something with skinned animations.

Sadly, it's not without it's own problems. It has a few bugs that make it hard to import models from Maya or Autodesk's FBX to collada converter.
Exactly my reasoning. Also an Android user.

They're the most prolific internet crawlers anyway. The Pandora's box of my personal information is blown wide open (to them), so I'm just trying to contain the blast. They also have my search history, which is a better diary than I could ever purposefully write.
I guess, it is very important for a good company to learn. Great that they are setting an example. Google and MS fighting with renewed energy is great for our industry and sets a good example.
This overestimates the negotiating position of Google and underestimates the negotiating position of the manufacturers and carriers.

In the US, the business model for mobile phones is that carriers buy phones from the manufacturer and sell it to the end consumer. The carriers have ultimate influence on what they purchase which affects what the manufacturers produce. You, the end consumer, is a consumer of carriers rather than phone manufacturers.
> why can't founders disclose more?

I expect it revolves around how people treat information.

Have you heard the paradox about if you found out that in the future you would be able to time travel, and so in the present you slack off on an exam knowing you can come back and fix it later, but slacking off results in you not discovering time travel?

There is a similar one in leadership where if you, as a leader, express doubts about the future your team will have doubts about the future and then they won't be operate at the level they need to in order to succeed. In some cases folks will believe that if they share all the information it will spook their team and make the negative outcome even more likely. Of course you can't know that until you actually try it, and once you try it you can't reverse it. Not surprisingly, one of my personal stress 'nightmares' (dreams I get when I'm under a lot of stress) is that I've just done the one thing that, having done it, it is now clear it is going to make for a worse outcome.

I don't doubt there are times when extra transparency would be a positive, and where it would be a negative. And I understand why people, unable to predict if it would help or hurt, choose not to be more transparent.
How UBER banned me for almost 6 months because driver falsified my behavior
I haven have been banned from UBER for almost 6 months. There, I said it. Not that I am a criminal or anything or I have carried firearms while taking UBER. But because some racist driver from Afghanistan didn't like Indians. I am an Indian, and we were having a normal conversation, and apparently he told UBER that I puked in his car.

Although, UBER charged me with the cleaning fees of $200, on top of this I got BANNED. I also asked UBER to show me the pictures where I puked in his car, and the driver showed is some black marks behind his seat. How can I puke be black? LOL!

I have these conversations with Uber Support while ago and I have started the thread with them again:

Kristine (Uber)
Jan 18, 11:33

Hi

I’m happy to clear this up for you.

We received feedback that during a trip, you put a driver in an extremely compromising position, by having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle.

The Uber system works because both riders and drivers feel safe when using it. Riders trust that their drivers have been properly screened and vetted, and drivers trust that we do not allow people on the system who make them feel uncomfortable, disrespected, or threatened in any way.

Consequently, we’ve banned you from accessing the Uber system.

Kind Regards,

Kristine

Uber Support

uber.com  | facebook.com/uber |@uber

Hello:

After connecting my account today, its telling me that my account has been disabled. Can you please let me know why you disabled my account? You can contact me at xxx-xxx-xxxx.

Sent from my iPhone
I highly recommend the Xbox One streaming feature that's coming with Windows 10.

It allows you to play your Xbox games on your PC.
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I wish they would just get it right, and let me create different accounts for the apps I want to use. I just want a YouTube account. No Gmail. No G+. No tying my adwords account to anything else unless I request it.

This is extremely simple, and Google has made this horribly invasive and it's flat out broken at this point.
The arguments against artificial sweeteners seem a little like the arguments against e-cigarettes. Yes, there are plausible mechanisms by which the substitutes may cause harm. Yes, further research is needed. Yes, cutting out both the original and the substitute would be better.

But people really like (or "like") sugar and cigarettes, so the most likely outcome of loudly proclaiming the dangers of substitutes is that more people stay with the originals, which are almost certainly worse.
Problems with sweeteners? "none can be detected with artificial sweeteners" concludes the author. Plenty of peer-reviewed papers suggest that this is either not true or the issue is not adequately resolved. Sugar consumed in the quantities used by many people is certainly dangerous but there is another option which is that of abandoning sweeteners altogether. Food stripped of habitual sweetness as in say, tea and coffee, is so much more interesting.
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This is completely backwards. The wealthy primarily invest their money; it is mainly spent on non-consumer goods (servers, backhoes, research, etc). If we redistribute to people with a higher propensity to spend, then we are shifting wealth from investment to consumption. This will raise demand for consumer goods, hence raising prices, and causing inflation.

Note that an increase in the speculative value of real estate is NOT inflation - inflation incorporates the cost of housing (rent or owner-equivalent rent), not the speculative value of land. Similarly, it's not inflation if FB or MS goes up.

By the way, if you believe that money going into the hands of the wealthy is the best way to cause inflation, it therefore follows that the best economic stimulus is tax cuts for the wealthy. Do you favor such cuts during times of recession?
The article title right now reads: "Former President APJ Abdul Kalam is no more with us: Collapses During Speech in Shillong"
No offense, but it's an article in the New Yorker about an issue in California. Your comment makes about as much sense as if you had said "yeah but you need to know that California is a state in the US". Europeans might not know it, but the target audience of the article certainly does. It's not exactly an extra bit of knowledge you need to learn, it's something you already know.
I'm a former Reader user and now use Feedly. What do you use that's better than Feedly? I settled on it since it was "good enough" but I haven't invested the time to explore other options.
The problem is that the majority of products with added sugar don't really have a natural range. You might be able to come up with one for apple juice, but what about a blended fruit drink?
Well, no Google Android, no phones - Google has a massive stronghold on the market, every consumer wants the latest and greatest phone.

Their stronghold is even enough to prevent ODMs (!) from building non-Play-licensed phones - either you only ship non-play-licensed phones or you ship only licensed ones. No in-between.
$25 gift card for venting about your weeks renting experience.. interesting
I appreciate what you're pointing out how, but it doesn't strictly work since sugar arguably has a far larger affect on overall health and metabolism than caffeine. At least in the context of this story.
Why does the app require a Google+ login? What needs verification?
this is absolutely perfect. thank you
Finally! I've been shutting down the daily popup to convert my YouTube account into a Google+ Page for years. I had a feeling if I waited long enough, they'd stop asking. Hurray!
> Your comment says nothing about Dr. AK

Actually, it does. It ranks him favorably relative to others that held the same post.
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This makes perfect sense. I know people who would be terrified of the thought that their organs could be harvested while they might yet recover, but also people who be horrified that their perfectly good organs are just laying there, unused, after their brain has died, but with artificial respiration/circulation keeping some of the rest of their body going.

I think a sane default is to require opt-out for organ donation after brain death (what Europe does now, I believe) with an opt-in "sliding-scale" for the rest of the possibilities.
> once the Meshtag service goes down or closes for good, all tags become impossible to read

That is my concern as well. Also, what problem does meshtag solve? Why wouldn't I just use QR codes? I mean meshtag is neat and all, but seems like a novetly to me.
That comes across like marketing speak that does not in any way reflect the aggressiveness that Google tried to push G+ and it's features on google/youtube/misc google service users. I personally held back for about a year before youtube insisted I assign a blank G+ profile to my youtube account or I will lose my commenting prividges, so I lost the ability to comment until one day they just made me a profile anyway.

I've personally lost a lot of respect for them and I know a lot of people that feel the same way. It went way beyond offering a new product to people to see if they liked it or not.
> strategically you don't fight autonomous weapons by attacking the weapons, but by attacking the people controlling them.

They are autonomous, so human control might not be a factor.
I think this is a massive downside for Linux, and saying "use unstable" just puts the onus on the user to solve it for themselves. Stuff like PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres and Python isn't part of the OS anywhere else, but it is on Linux. Making tons of third-party userspace software part of the OS distribution causes the distribution of that software to lag behind on Linux. I don't see any reason that what version of Debian you use should lock you into a default version of Erlang, instead of simply letting a user install whatever version of Erlang they need quickly and easily. For all the bleating during the systemd flame war about how Debian and Linux is about choice, it's a very constrained form of choice.

EDIT: Well, that's not true, I see the reason -- Linux isn't an OS so much as it is a family of OSes that are assembled from a lot of independently developed projects and are loosely compatible with each other, so the reason you need a Debian-specific version of Erlang is because Debian isn't quite the same as Arch or Fedora or what have you. I just don't think that it's such a great reason that users should just accept that it'll never get better.
It's a layer of abstraction. Like Uber or APIs or development frameworks like Rails. The layer of abstraction allows other people, services, companies and ideas to be built on top of them.

For example, Instacart and Uber allow neighborhoods that aren't near grocery stores and transportation hubs to be more viable because they can replace the functionality of needing to have those near by.
That's an interesting read, but I fail to see how it has anything to do with Google+.
Not simply charging ahead scientifically, but actively hawkish.

"If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o' clock, I say why not one o' clock?" - John von Neumann
Hopefully google paid and/or blackmailed carriers into filtering these mms messages. I think that's really the only possible remediation when at least 50% of android phones are functionally un-updatable.
Microsoft and Dell aren't touching the data and building PCs hand-in-hand with the company to ensure the computer run exactly as the company needs them to. Microsoft and Dell don't need to know what anyone is doing with their PCs. Palatir needs to know what people are doing with their software so they can structure models around that exact set of data.
>That way, a bag can't be thought of as four servings, one bag = one serving.

How is that any better, really? You still have to do the same basic math if you eat less than the full package. Knowing that a large bag of chips is 1200 calories is irrelevant to the serving size I'll actually be eating.
In other words: "Same as before, but you can opt out of the G+ feed."
> and solves a lot of the problems with QR codes. Not just the hand-drawable-ness

Who is trying to hand-draw QR codes? Why would you need/want to hand draw a QR code? The aesthetic thing for me is just a personal preference. I don't see how meshtags solve any problem that isn't already solved.
Another self-serving Libertarian-themed post that works under the flawed premise that market forces can replace all natural monopolies efficiently, as well as surpass the laws of physics.

There's a whole bunch of reasons why you don't want infrastructure to be privatized, the biggest of which being because infrastructure will not be profitable everywhere, yet that doesn't take away its strategic value not the idea that there are some fundamental services that should be reasonably available to all citizens.
It's simple.

1) Killing people is false. See the UN charta.

2) Killing people remotely is still false.

3) Killing people autonomously is still false.

If people in power didn't read the UN charta or didn't get it, start at 1) - don't kill people and you can't be false.
One factor was an attempt to counter the GIFT (http://www.penny-arcade.com/S=0/comic/2004/03/19) by preventing anonymity.
You know, there's no (non-psychological) link between sugar and hyperactivity- it's basically the same as giving kids fizzy applejuice, saying it's beer and watching them get "drunk". They act hyperactive because they expect that sugar will make them hyper; thus they do.
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The problem with rules is that someone always has it in their best interest to break them.

Unlike dropping a nuclear bomb, you could break the rules here for years without even being caught. It's more like Germany in the 1930's than the cold war.
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Generally agreed with the article, but I'm surprised when I see parents still giving their kids soda these days, diet or not.

We generally drink water and it's just fine, when we want something "fancy" we get the sparkling water at Trader Joe's that has the orange or berry essence. They are available at other stores as well, no sugar or artificial sweeteners, and kids still love them.

It may seem like we need everything to be sweetened from habit, but you can easily start a new habit. Once you get used to something, it becomes the new normal.
Considering how little we know about nutrition, you should try to eat food that is as little processed as possible because that's what our bodies have adapted to for thousands of years. So an apple is better than apple juice which is better than apple drink (which is a processed food item that may or may not have anything to do with apples).

In spite of our desire to reach for the stars, humans are not isolated creatures, they are figures in a landscape. Remove the landscape and you remove the human (or in this case, the heath of the human).
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As a prospective organ donor, I am comfortable with "dead enough" organ harvest for myself as long as my living will and my family's wishes (subordinate to the living will) were respected.

I can't draw that line for anyone else, though. From my perspective, the moral thing for the government to do is to make it legal and require an extra opt-in above and beyond the typical DDR version of organ donation enrollment we have now.
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Yup QEMU is vulnerable. Various details and patches in the Red Hat bug here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243563
>Make more than a million dollars a year? 95% marginal tax rate.

That is just a bad plan. You are essentially outlawing income over a million.

If you didn't apply it to capital gains, you are just fucking over lawyers, bankers, consultants, and CEOs. It would actually lower tax revenue. Because all that money that is getting taxed over a million a year would disappear. And the truly mega rich would actually be better off. No more having to pay high priced lawyers, bankers, and CEOs.

If you tried to place that restriction on capital gains, everyone ounce of capital in the this country would flee.
> No. Unlike QR codes, meshtags of any color on any background can be scanned. There just needs to be enough contrast between the meshtag and its background, and the background must be a solid color.

qr codes can be any color, just need to have enough contrast, also depending on the redundancy level of it you can actually omit a significant fraction of the qr code and still have it scan
Disclaimer: I'm a mobile dev, almost exclusively native apps.

I think the motivation of users doesn't align with the idea of web-apps, or at least not their current incarnation.

There are a few variables here:

- Frequency of use: you won't install an app for something you use once a week, you will install an app for something you use every day.

- Performance of webapps: hint, extremely poor, though largely as a result of bad decisions rather than bad tech.

- Pain-in-ass-ness of installing native apps: extremely high, but we know this already.

The problem here is that modern websites perform extremely poorly because of a bloated reliance on JS and a completely un-contained explosion of HTTP requests to load something simple. Multiple people have complained about it[1], and the complainers themselves are part of the problem[2]. Even with a warm cache modern webapps still require a ridiculous number of requests before rendering/becoming interactive.

The problem is exacerbated in the mobile context where the OS is throttling the number of simultaneous requests, this is why apps that are little slow on desktop become unbearable on mobile. Users, once they have the app installed, largely prefer native because native apps are so much faster in general.

This isn't a limitation in the tech - well optimized pages not filled to the brim with extraneous JS imports and bullshit tracking pixels render quite fast, and there's no reason they can't work well on mobile (as an app or regular page), but we seem incapable of doing this.

Native apps are still preferred by users (barring the PITA install process) over web-apps not because of some inherent technological advantage, but because native apps generally do not do the bullshit things that make the web nearly unusably slow.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/20/9002721/the-mobile-web-suc...

[2] http://blog.lmorchard.com/2015/07/22/the-verge-web-sucks/
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You might have had less visible problems on other architectures as well.

setjmp()/longjmp() are not guaranteed to work with local variables not marked volatile.
This has worked for things like chemical and biological warfare

I think the Kurds and some Syrians would beg to differ.
Sure, but the GP is arguing against soda, when there's a perfectly good alternative: sugarless soda. He doesn't provide any argument as to why one should cut soda completely, he just says "sugar is bad, therefore you need to cut soda".

I don't even think he's saying that, actually, he seems to be saying "I don't drink soda so neither should you".
I don't disagree with that, but it doesn't really answer the question. "Infrastructure" doesn't mean the same thing as "layer of abstraction", there's an essentialist quality to infrastructure.

You could build an infrastructure _using_ self-driving cars (as an example), but they are not an infrastructure in and of themselves. There's not a huge heap of difference between Instacart and bike couriers (except they provide slightly different services), and while couriers are a very useful service they're really not infrastructure.