skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This isn't an argument at all. It's better for people to be unemployed than to be employed in an enterprise that makes everyone else worse off.

Are you hinting at a specific company? I don't think the people that got cured from metastatic cancer would agree that they would be better of without Merck and their PD-L1 antibodies.

To be clear I'm responding to ekianjo's
> If we could kill patents altogether that would be a much nicer step.
I'm also not in favor of patenting natural products, gene sequences and traditional cures.

I am in favor of establishing a system where a companies would have a solid return on investment while still having the drug available to everybody without damaging the incentive to invest billions to come up with only a handful of drugs.
The problem is, the drug market is not a free market, an individual has no reasonable way of saying "I don't agree to your price and I will thus not use your product." ... as consumers have with normal products.

>Of course there would. We had drug development before we had patents.
Perhaps I should say: There would be no efficient, lean very driven companies looking for drugs. Off course there may have been people who found drugs out of hobby of while being paid for by the state.
I believe there were services like errormator, airbrake or arecibo that predate sentry, and I'm sure there were others I don't remember right now :-)
I have been saying for years our Linux Package System is broken and antiquated. When we had 40 MB hard drives or no hard drives at all these systems made sense. Today we can have a system that just works like this or Gobo Linux. I have hopes that with containers that we will see some major distro switch (Looking at Arch Linux) to a non-shared everything libraries.
> We all know how Facebook has disrupted what now seem like quaint forms of friendship, [...], information, [...]

No, it really, really, has not.

> But more than that, Facebook, along with all the start-up successes of Silicon Valley, has also disrupted paradigms of success and power.

Huh, seriously? Who makes this stuff up?! Maybe the author should get out of SV every once in a while to see that in the rest of the world, the concepts of "success" and "power" have not changed in the last 10 years.
Elephants born in stressful conditions might age faster than others
Big cash piles are easy to turn into a big patent pile which can be used to fence out independent inventors and small / mid-size businesses. What proportion of patents are filed by SMEs anyway?
http://arbutusmedical.ca/ is another example.

Its only been going 3-4 years with ~10 students per year, so some of the ideas are still developing. And more so, I think we'll see alumni of the program do great things in the coming years.

I'd argue that hardware is more challenging for younger founders, and medical device more so - the regulatory, funding, and access to users is hard. What makes this program so good is it makes user access easy, and coaches students through 'translating' between engineering language and surgeon.

I was at UBC in the Biomedical Program the year before EiS started. Its a very strong program in medical device design, especially by including not just the engineering science, but life sciences, regulatory environment, and commercialization considerations.
No, this is exactly my concern with this as well, particulary the ad-blocker thing (most sites already use google analytics).
Have you checked out the NOVIX Forth Chip? That has a lot of great ideas you could apply, or at least find entertaining!

It had a horizontal bitslice architecture, and separate independent busses for main memory, operand stack and return stack, so several forth words that did some stack manipulation, used the alu, and returned from a call, could all be collapsed into one instruction that accessed main memory, the operand stack, and the return stack at the same time!

http://www.forth.com/archive/jfar/vol3/no2/article38.pdf

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/sec4_4.ht...
Maybe this will help you: http://phusion.github.io/holy-build-box/
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I believe that what JdeBP is refering to is that, before /sbin existed, the binary which is now at /sbin/init used to be at /etc/init, if I recall correctly what I once read in an old FSSTND rationale.
Filtering millions of packets per second on commodity NICs
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Hm, this is amazing and could be extremely helpful as an educating tool.
You aren't including the subsidies oil gets via tax payments to fund our wars in oil-producing nations.
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No, I'm not a forth expert btw. I find forth interesting and wanted to write something to run on the PDP-10 but I've yet to write some non-trivial forth code.
Oh look, another tool to get in the way. Of course "write" access means "merge" access, they are the same thing. How about we try this thing called trusting the developers.

If you can't trust your own developers, you have bigger problems then "merge access".
I can see how having separate AWS accounts for dev/stage/prod makes things easier. Such as not having to think about name conflicts on ECS clusters, SQS queues, roles and whatnot. We use a single AWS account with multiple IAM users and name our resources like Uploads-Dev, Uploads-Stage, Uploads-Prod, and so on but I feel that it clutters the AWS console and makes it difficult to keep IAM and roles (as well as their access policies) simple.

Maybe I have missed some developments in AWS world, but in the screenshot of the AWS Console it says you are logged in as ops-admin @ segment. So you have one AWS account with alias set to segment, right?

Do you use an identity provider to be able to log in as calvin and is ops-account a user in your AWS account named segment? And is ops-account in the segment AWS account then allowed to assume roles in your three other AWS accounts for dev/stage/prod?

If you switch to ops-admin @ stage for example, and then go to the S3 page in the console, will you get a listing of all buckets in the stage AWS account even though your login session as calvin "belongs" to an other AWS account (segment)?

Sorry if my questions are confusing. I am very interested in knowing what the relationships among the identity provider, AWS accounts, and roles look like.
MakerBot appears to have gotten themselves trapped between Printrbot (proprietary, entry level) and Lulzbot (open source, more expensive). Well, and about 40 other competitors.

I own a Printrbot Simple Metal, which is a nice machine. But the simple reality is that this is not a consumer machine:

- Given a choice between driving to town to buy a part, and firing up the printer, I'll drive.

- Given a choice between buying on Amazon, and firing up the printer, I'll buy on Amazon.

Where 3D printers are awesome is when I'm in "tinkering" mode—when I've taken out my toolbox and my calipers and my Arduino and I want to make something that doesn't exist yet. I can design a part using OpenSCAD, mess with the tolerances a bit, and run off two or three generations of prototypes in an afternoon. When I'm done, I can upload the schematic and some images, and other people can download it. It makes hardware almost as much fun as software.

But the reality—at least for machines using hot plastic—is that you need to learn about how plastic heats and cools, about what kinds of shapes are easy to print, and about how to model things using CAD software.

Until the open source laser sintering printers come down in price, the only "mass market" for 3D printing will be the kinds of people who have always hung out around RadioShack and Home Depot, or who browse SparkFun and Octopart regularly. 3D printers are awesome because they encourage hacking and entrepreneurialism, not because they give you a push-button desktop fab.
Another double-edged knife. Amazing things can happen if this data is used wisely. I don't even think what could happen if this data falls into the wrong hands though.
They can say that, but this is clearly targeted at the ad blocking conversation that is occurring.
I am sure Musk is really worried.
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A large fraction of people in the "developed" world (perhaps a majority?) work as something like a cashier, for an employer they don't really care about. And they are all aware that most other people they meet are working similar jobs. So they don't ask, because they know they'll probably get a reply like "I stock shelves in a department store", which isn't going to lead anywhere interesting.

Because of this, if someone does ask them what they do, they can be pretty sure right away that that person does something "better" than what they do, and (wrongly or rightly) it can make the situation uncomfortable for them.

Obviously the extent to which this is relevant depends on the demographic of the group in which you're socializing at a particular moment.
They are different words. The only difference is that words in tonal languages may differ only in pitch.
There always is sense in self-renewing energy sources. Especially, when it comes to saving our environment and lives. Implementing of such batteries would be beneficial for everyone. And it would finally let the mankind get rid of petroleum fever, which is now a source of all evils and the main cause of all wars.
Technically, it's an image quote of a meme.
How is pitch more complex than vowels?
TLDR; I mostly agree with monopoly idea.

We had WML for mobile devices before mobile devices were powerful enough to render HTML. Then we got smartphones better than my computer bought 5 years ago. AMP in my oppinion is a step back, yes you can do a lot of things in CSS. But in reality there are cases where it needs to happen dynamically. For example: javascript input validation, you cannot validate data using CSS. Are we then going to reinvent Javascript using some new fancy name?. Also, how about backwards compatibility(IE7-8 I'm looking at you)?

Those companys could spend their resources on better things, like implementing ways to load viewport dependent images(it seems it's already done using picture tag). Because multimedia takes huge chunk of the website.

And like always there are ways to write performant websites using existing technology and even more ways to write slow websites using all the "bleeding edge" technology. It's up to the developer mostly.
Not true at all. Look at Bio drugs for example. Even when they are to be generiqued, there is almost no company jumping in to make them because it's damn hard to make in the first place and there is very little incentive to do so, so the major players stay in place. A good example: all injectable diabetes drugs, but there are others out there as well.
And I'm sure there are financial institutions with Natural Language systems trying to "read" these stories.

Humans just get in the way.
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I have a 45 Mbps line (with low latency).

Even so their crappy webfonts took like 1-2 seconds with a FOIT before that, while all the text was available almost immediately.
I should give a try to it. Looks interesting.
Agreed, so the question then becomes "how likely is the data to be used responsibly?"

... and I'll leave it at that.
Re [1]: From a probability perspective, wouldn't it be better for the insurer to get a new customer right after an event? P(cat|cat) must be much smaller than P(cat)?
Funny comparison :-)

That said, it's a little bit different. When you plan to buy something, the advice of past buyers is really helpful. But when you read something, you usually don't need other people advice to extract value from what you read.
It's not a subset, it's not a superset. It lacks some HTML things and adds new ones.
> The car was only blue booked at 5k at the time, but we had to replace it with a 25k car, so I count that as a decent amount of loss.

That's twisted logic. There was a loss of perhaps somewhat more than $5k all things considered, but you didn't have to replace a $5k blue-book-value car with a $25k car. That $25k may have been a big outlay if you paid cash, but it's not a loss for that amount. So far, you've only lost $25k-(current bluebook value), which is much less than $25k (as long as the car hasn't been damaged) even if the car was new and dropped a thousand or two the moment you bought it.
It was great to be able to directly ask questions to Jason Fried. I know we can not make any suggestions but i'd love to see Joel Spolsky in your list anytime soon :) Looking forward to next session..
>Remember who actually killed it? Yeah, that was also Google.. by discontinuing their Reader - a very good tool with lots of users but no revenue.

If a single company killing a sigle product could kill RSS, then it wasn't that alive in the first place.

The fact is, after 10 years of RSS being available in blogs, news sites and elsewhere, Reader still had an insignificant number of users in the web scale of things. A few tens of millions (all estimates put it in the low tens, like 20 to 40 millions).
>"targets nearly 300,000 Americans a year, most of them elderly, and has enticed them to send an estimated $300 million annually"

In this case, the scammers took advantage of an elderly man, inflicted with Alzheimer's and diminishing mental capacity. Sad.

But that can't be the case for the majority. How on earth do "normal" people fall for this? I can see, maybe, when the internet was young and this was new. But it's a pop culture joke now. Those numbers are staggering.
You don't need insurance or a burglary, you need insurance for a disaster that is unlikely to ever happen such as the building burning down. And having a mindset like this means you can get insurance cheaper by having exclusions and a high excess.
WML reborn?
>Most languages spoken in Asia and many African ones are.

It's the other way around: http://wals.info/feature/13A#2/28.6/152.8
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> I hate it when pages suddenly change their scroll position

This problem gets worse and worse :(

I also hate the trend to forcefully remap my old trusty middle mouse click from "open link in new tab" to "open link in current tab" via javascript.
Wow, that's great! I have missed something like that, not just for designers and developers to connect, but also for single developers to reach themselves. Sometimes I want to visualize for myself in order to see what works, and to see what I want.
it's called an image macro. if you're going to be pedantic and annoying, at least get it right.
Yeah, but

* mips didnt have predication to begin with

* arm didnt have delay slots to begin with

* and then afaik 64b arm uses more registers and removes shifter operands

So definitely more mipsy.
Sounds like DB for The Machine from "Person of Interest" TV Show.
You would think so, but if it is being done on a blanket basis then it would suggest that not too much looking into the individual situation is being done.

Competition only works if at least one of the parties involved is trying to compete. If all the insurance companies are happy to slap on a blanket risk premium then there is no competition. This is great if you want to disrupt the status quo.
When withdrawing from weed I found one of the only effective substitutes is exercise, really makes me feel the same way.
>Secondly if the guy was so unstable that he kept sending money why didn't his family intervene by taking away his ability to send money

One day you're going to be old, and we'll see how easily you give up certain perks of being an adult. And let's hope you have loved ones to "intervene" and care for you.

>such sever Alzheimer's

It doesn't sound like you know what severe Alzheimer's looks like.
It opens the file. In which particular way it opens that file of course depends on the system in question – I don’t have Emacs on my phone, I don’t want xdg-open to attempt to open text files with Emacs on my phone.

Whether or not the apparent distribution default of opening text files with Firefox makes sense is an issue somewhat orthogonal to whether xdg-open works – in that particular case it may have been misconfigured to open files with Firefox, but that doesn’t mean it a) didn’t open the file (it did) nor b) in a completely unreasonable way (the file was still displayed and such).
You talk a whole lot, but you've never addressed his point that "it would rock being rich in China". (I am not taking a side).
Are all Chinese businesses run by "creative" foreigners who "understand the root of the problem"? At some point in the hierarchy someone has to be making the meaningful decisions, they can't all just be heads down technicians all the way to... where?

A culture of hierarchy and following orders from above is orthogonal to whether or not people understand the issue. You say "they rarely ask why" but that doesn't mean they don't think why.

I know in American business it's common to agitate and question your superiors at all levels, but that doesn't necessarily translate to better outcomes. For example, the American military doesn't work that way (it works much more akin to Chinese businesses, really). And the American military is quite good.

edit: I say this as an MIT grad who has been mightily impressed by Tsinghua students. I still think MIT is better, of course, ;-) but it doesn't surprise me that Tsinghua is at the top of the list this year.
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This is a detailed log of major changes for 0.4. There is also a summary release announcement here: http://julialang.org/blog/2015/10/julia-0.4-release/

Binary downloads are available here: http://julialang.org/downloads/
Not just browsers, but Facebook and Twitter both killed their RSS feed at some point.

That's much worse than Google killing Reader, because reader is just a reader, you can still switch to a different one. If the source doesn't provide an RSS feed, there's not much you can do.
The search engines just need to penalize sites or result pages that have all these piles of bloat in them if they want to be a forcing function in the mobile web getting quicker. Push crappy experiences lower in the results and you can be sure news and aggregator sites will clean up their act.

That Google et. al. are publishing a parallel framework to HTML indicates their goal is not just making mobile web faster, but in controlling that experience, to whatever end they may have in mind.
Your direct threading approach sounds like a good technique for the PDP-10.

The NOVIX chip is way different that what you're doing, since it has its own instruction set and a pretty fancy compiler. The set of FORTH words it chooses as its instruction set is a good example of a minimal FORTH kernel.
Looks great. Very clean, simple, great UI.

However, I would be very interested in knowing your strategy to compete in this VERY crowded space (https://www.google.com/search?q=Share+your+travel+experience...)

Goodluck to you.
I thought `xdg-open` is the Linux' variant of Windows' `start`.
No, that's what you're experiencing I think. And 'news flash' makes you sound very condescending, can't help but wonder if this was intended.

Anyway, you might feel disconnected. I actually was disconnected, multiple times, from my friends, environment, and had no other possibility but to start from scratch. So I don't even understand why you feel the need to compare, to be honest.
Having worked in tech here in the states for 18 years, I'd say the same thing about most engineers I've worked with here.
Strongly dislike this trend. Comments are audit in a badly-regulated industry. Open discussion of content will undoubtedly play a role in the future of journalism. This is clearly a step backwards, not forwards.

I don't think this is really about trolls for trolling's sake. I think this is about being called out on sloppy content.

We all know that online journalism is a seriously tough business, especially for anyone trying to maintain some sort of reputation for quality. For these guys, it's economically infeasible to make sure every article is high quality because the headline is <insert very big number here> times more important than the body and there are plenty of competitors taking advantage of that.

So when a site starts publishing empty content because they feel that they have to, comments are rightfully merciless on calling BS. Writers get demoralised and publications look for ways to save face. As pointed out, removing a comments section is far preferable to heavily moderating against unfavourable comments. But still, I hate the trend we're seeing.

The Verge is an interesting one. They selectively open comments but many articles remain closed. It's not entirely clear how they decide which articles to open but there at least seems to be a tendency to open comments on the longform stuff they're proud of.

Longer term, everyone is looking for a model where quality is rewarded or at least some sort of rebalancing for the internet publishing economy. Blendle wrote a nice article about their experience getting consumers to pay: https://medium.com/on-blendle/blendle-a-radical-experiment-w...
If that's all you can think of, think a bit harder.

I'm guessing you don't know anyone who's old or vulnerable, or not nearly as well as you do. You're just going to have to take it on trust that that a determined and skilful individual can get the upper hand over a vulnerable person.

Also, not everyone lives in an environment where people are caring for them or looking out for them.
Nothing new - Ever heard of CHTML, WBXML etc? 90's standards.
I have never experienced it. Even when I was very physically fit (I was a martial arts instructor in college), I never got any pleasurable sort of feeling from working out. I enjoyed the activity itself, but the end result was always exhaustion and a vaguely nauseous feeling.

Considering other things that are supposed to make you feel "high, aka good" (like the Vicodin I had been prescribed when I got my wisdom teeth forcibly removed from my skull) also only seem to make me feel generally nauseous, I'm guessing this is just me in general.
> I wonder if this says more about our sensor technologies than how the galaxy actually looks (the visible, infrared and microwave images look far richer than the others).

There are definite effects from technology. The radio and far-infrared observations are at much lower angular resolution than the optical and near-infrared, for example. So there's less spatial detail in those. Also, some surveys have been carried out in more than one filter/color (e.g., optical, near-infrared) and so the optical image shows some information about the color of objects in the optical. In contrast, the radio image appears to be a single frequency, and so doesn't contain that information for the radio sources.

However, there is a lot of information there about the galaxy. The distribution of sources, for example – you can see the well-defined disk of the galaxy in all bands. The dust lanes corresponding to gas clouds are apparent in the optical as the dark patches. You can also see that there are some sources which emit brightly in X-rays, but are not seen in the other images. So that tells you about the types of objects in the galaxy.

So, despite the fact that the technology affects the images, I would not say that the map says less about the galaxy than about the technology.
I wonder if this is related to using space-filling curves for indexing: http://www.drdobbs.com/database/space-filling-curves-in-geos...

One of the professors at my institution is big in that field.
> Even better would be to show a large chart of all those images at once, so they could be compared on a large display without needing to scrub a slider back and forth.

See the "Multiwavelength Milky Way" poster from NASA: http://mwmw.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmw_product.html#poster
They're still false-color and only show the plane of the galaxy, but you can at least see them all simultaneously.