skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And some plenty of products lauded for their design have me wanting to smash them into little pieces in frustration.

> The short answer: The most interesting part of an engineer‘s job is the obsession with the possibilities in the solution space (all the cool stuff you can make computers do); engineers don’t want to make choices that limit power and flexibly (a design); engineers value adding potential functionality higher than removing unneeded complexity; engineers want to engineer their way out of design problems.

"Oh you want to do this? FUCK YOU, I'm the designer and I've removed that option. There is now literally no way for you to do what you want unless you hex edit the binary."
What if there was a single app that could communicate in your natural language. Would you use any other app?
for some reason I get

"([True,True],fromList [('x',1.7500000780766642),('y',-0.24999969839074443)])"

when i run

print $ show $ solveSystem
[ ((2 * x) + (3 * y)) * (x - y) === 2
, (3 * x) + y === 5 ]
$ Map.fromList [('x', 0),('y', 0)]

which doesn't match the suggested solutions.. using this code: https://gist.github.com/80e982016a267b1f2e48

* edit - lowering the precedence of === fixed it
Didn't a competitor introduce a better version of the $750 pill priced at $1? Isn't that proof of free market efficiency working?

Indeed much of the rising insurance costs appear to be government-mandated purchasing of a highly-regulated service, a la affordable care act. That's just elementary economics. The FDA-imposed regulatory hurdles to medical innovation also drive up costs and protect the price gougers from competition.
Ask HN: Found cofounder, cant' find idea. What to do?
Has anyone been in this situation? How did you proceed?
That's fascinating.

If anything, this is precisely what I've been looking for for years.

I can't believe there's nothing like this here.

Thanks a lot for this link.
Huh. I woulda thought wikipedia links would lead you to "Hitler" more often than not.
Check arubacloud for s3 alternative and constant.com for cdn.
>> I have not looked closely at ntimed but I have little doubt it is high-quality work, probably as good as anything I am capable of producing, possibly better.

Ok, that is just precious. =) One is a kernel hacker and time-nuts regular with one of the world's most precise clocks in his home, and the other recently wrote:

> There’s a longstanding legend that only Dave Mills ever really understood the Byzantine time-synchronization algorithms at NTP’s heart, but I used to be a mathematician and I think I already get most of it outside of a few arcana about statistical filtering of noisy signals.

From a purely technical standpoint, I know who I'd bet my money on.

By the way, phk recently mentioned that he was getting back into ntimed, so fingers crossed that we get two safe and correct NTP alternatives in the observable future.

https://twitter.com/allanjude/status/635635386832715777
I came here to say the same. These people are economics masters; if the incentives are wrong, they'll take full advantage of them.

Make the fine 1.5X the profits, and watch the problem dry up in a flash.
> As much as I hate socialism

I think it's funny that people think insurance isn't a (distorted) form of socialism. It's small-scale socialism - you pay into a pool, and those who need resources get it. If you really hated socialism, you wouldn't have any insurance at all.
You make a good point, but where did I say that I believe that associating philosophy with science is pie-in-the-sky ridiculous? What I did say is that the metaphor is weak without bringing precision to how it should be interpreted, and your particular interpretation is sensible but a bit forced. Does being the progenitor of science make philosophy the thumb of the hand?

No, there may have once been a time when that metaphor was applicable, but I wouldn't say that it's the case today. As for the idea that philosophy guides decisions on how we practice science, well... a book or course on the forces of economy, which is offered by most major universities, is recommended.
This is because Intel is tricking you with the core count. I'm guessing you have an i5/i7/whatever with 8 cores but just two memory channels. Since it only takes two or three cores to saturate those memory channels, you will never be able to max out 8 cores on anything that processes much more than $CACHE_SIZE (~4MB) of data. So you can use 8 cores for stuff like finding primes or bruteforcing RC5 (like distributed.net), but not much else.
This is sometimes a big-team problem, and open source and distributed teams make it worse over time. Everybody adds their own "feature", but nobody can take stuff out.

The history of pretty products in consumer electronics isn't that good. Olivetti products from the 1960s and 1970s can be found in art museums, but were never in many offices. Bang and Olufsen consumer electronics are works of art, and designers admire their work, but the unreadable black on black buttons introduced made the devices almost unusable. Apollo Computer's workstations were much prettier than Sun's. NCR and Wang had nicer looking personal computers than IBM. Apple currently sells a desktop computer in a round can, just to be different, but it's overpriced for the performance.

Clean simplicity in design has its uses. There's a current tendency towards very spare products. This is recent. Now that we have more complexity than we know what to do with, the problem is hiding it. Compare, for example, an 80's boom box.[1] There, complexity was a status symbol. There's still some of that in automotive interiors. Read Lutz's "Car Guys vs. Bean Counters" book for a sense of how that industry thinks. What sells cars is quite different from what makes cars work well.

It's useful for engineers to have some sense of design. And vice versa. When you're in SF, go through SFMOMA[2] and look through the industrial design section. Their web site demonstrates a classic failure of design to consider functionality. The museum is closed for remodeling until May 2016, but their home page does not mention this.

[1] https://messageinabottleblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/boo...
[2] https://www.sfmoma.org/
Please pay me per hour or give me a salary, I must be missing it. Oh wait, drivers are paid per ride, can start and stop work at any time, and can work
But why?

Is it because philosophy is an abstract science?

On a side note: me and a buddy I used to work with used to play a game where we would start on a certain wiki page and try to get to another page just by clicking links in the page, and do it in the fewest 'hops' as possible.

You can get to most pages from most pages in a dozen hops or so, if you know which ones to click.
How do you decide what is "science" in the first place? How do you distinguish science from pseudoscience or religion?
Interestingly, there's quite a bit that's needed to ensure you bypass some compiler optimizations. Here's an ey-opening (for me) talk[1] on benchmarking C++ and compilers which touched on it.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXaxk27zwlk
Benchmarking Cloud Storage Providers: S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob
Please pay me per hour or give me a salary, I must be missing it. Oh wait, drivers are paid per ride, can start and stop work at any time, and can work other apps simultaneously.

What job lets you work with competitors while you are working?
The existence of parallel construction is huge problem with the idea that the only result of gathering evidence illegally is that that evidence is excluded from legal use.

The police/NSA/whomever can still use that information to inform their investigations to discover other legal evidence that they could otherwise only have found by chance. Not to mention the possibility of just leaking information like this later to discredit or punish a political enemy.
The only funny thing here is that most people who hate socialism just do so because they don't want to pay taxes.
Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) [pdf]
Ruling that wikipedia's traffic is insignificant when it is one of the largest and most trafficed websites ever is so absurd that it's hard to interpret the ruling here as anything other than motivated.
Because single-payer systems have enough bargaining power to get much better deals from drug companies both theoretically and empirically. A few years ago when I was taking a health care policy class and actually looking through the stats, drugs cost ~2X in the US vs G20 averages. Not sure what it is now, but I would be very surprised if it had shrunk.

It's one of the reasons for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

Others: having one predominant type of insurance nationwide cuts down on administrative costs (figuring out different plans costs consumers and hospitals money, these costs aren't minimized by competition), the cost of 1/sqrt(n) risk, and "bandwagon" risk (if a market plan is particularly advantageous for any given group of people, those people all sign up and "sink the ship," whereas national boundaries largely prevent such movement).
You should have found an idea before a co-founder. Your co-founder should complement the direction of the business and bring what's missing in your personal skill set.

First step now, is to figure our what each of your strengths is/are, and then create a list of potential ideas that spark each of you, then choose the one that (a) ignites you both, (b) has a realistic revenue model, and (c) can be built without the need for investor capital.

Make sure you choose something that actually has customers you can get to, not something that has revenue potential when you say "If we can just get 1% of the population..."

Lastly, enjoy the journey.
I needed to implement tagging a while ago, particularly looking up a row with multiple tags. As far as I know, the main way to do this is usually to put the tags in another table and join multiple times (once per tag) to find a row that has them all. This performed rather badly (100s of ms for 5 tags from memory).

But with Postgres, you can put a GIN index on an Array column. So I moved my tags into an array column and suddenly querying for every one of several million rows that had matched a set of 7 tags took ~10ms.

Postgres is awesome.
I wonder, if an organization had access to the set of all emails sent through a link that crossed the U.S. border, how much information that organization could collect about the children of all federal judges. I also wonder how hard it is to credibly demonstrate that you can persuade the FBI and local law enforcement not to investigate a missing person case. I also wonder if an organization has multiple members are willing to prolong the existence of a disease such as polio in order to fulfill their duty--would they also be willing to threaten to kidnap only a single innocent person in order to protect an asset they believe is critically necessary to keep 300 million people safe?

If hypothetically there was such an organization, each member would be faced with something of a prisoners dilemma: Do I defect and go to the media, or do I stay silent? Given that going to the media means at best that you doubt if you really did the right thing now that you are in Russia and can no longer see your home, friends and family and at worst that you end up in solitary confinement for the rest of your life, I am curious how large such an organization would have to be before the chance of one member defecting rose above 5% a year. I also wonder how many people would need access to credible proof of such a pattern of action.
The fact that it's the first link is important. The articles reasoning makes sense.
No need for hypotheticals. Just look at how much change Binney was able to accomplish in the last decade after going through proper channels[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_%28U.S._intelli...
Scientists confirm a cornerstone of quantum computing
What do you mean "can't find idea"? If you didn't have an idea, why look for a co-founder? I hope you are not looking to start a startup just because you want to do one.
> As much as I hate socialism, the only solution appears to be Single Payer.

The problem is, "How do we establish a market that provides medication to patients who may not be able to afford it while still generating enough profit to allow research and development of new drugs 10 years from now?"

Establishing a monopsony doesn't actually solve this problem. It changes the flow of money slightly[0], but it doesn't actually solve the fundamental problem: in the aggregate, R&D costs more than patients are able to provide.

Since we're talking about a national scale, we can't use the argument that adding external money to the system - taxpayer funds - would solve the problem, because the two sets - "Patients" and "Taxpayers" - are the same[1]. The funds are still coming from patients, whether they come in the form of insurance premiums or tax withholdings[2].

[0] but a lot less than most people think! Health insurance in the US already is much more like a monopsony than most people realize.

[1] Technically not exactly the same, but close enough that, economically, they can be treated as one.

[2] One might argue that taxes can vary with income. Aside from the fact that insurance premiums already can (and do) explicitly vary with income, this actually already is the current state: patients on private insurance (and especially the ones with very expensive, luxury health plans) already subsidize patients on public insurance. Changing the system so that we collect these subsidies through tax funds doesn't change the problem (though ironically, it does increase the risk that those funds will be diverted to other government budgets).
I'm only two months into this regime. I want to see durable results and maybe I'll start. But my town is not big. Is there a way to make an online workshop?
What's more common is gradual failure of the heatsink: dust on it, fans wearing out, thermal paste losing effectiveness. This means the device can't run as fast before triggering thermal throttling.
The biggest argument I've seen for uber drivers being contractors is that they can work for competitors at the same time. Any employee would get fired pretty quickly.
IMO, the problem still remains even after reboot or reset. You are still hamster on a wheel. You might decide that you are drifting off course and course correct through reboot/reset sooner and later you will drift again, course correct again, and keep repeating the cycle.

You can't keep doing the same things and expect results to be different. You need to look inward and see what is causing the drift.

Last night, I watched an interesting talk by Guy Spier, a value investor. I was expecting the talk to be focus on value investing, it turned out be much more on making life choices, changes and gaining wisdom.

Guy Spier: "The Education of a Value Investor" | Talks at Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDCmRBElPY

Guy Spier, The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment http://www.amazon.com/Education-Value-Investor-Transformativ...
This was a game at 4chan a while back (coming from 4chan is not that surprising).
I hope this doesn't come off as negative, I'm honestly curious: Why are there so many Medium stories on HN? There seems to be at least one story a day on the front page if not more. They usually have very few comments and the content often seems a little bit of a mismatch from what normally gets on the front page.

I'm happy to ignore the stories and skip over them but to me that's not the point. Is someone gaming the system? Is Medium a HN subsidiary of some sort? Has anyone done an analysis of how these types of stories get onto HN in the first place? Are Medium stories really that interesting that there's at least one Medium story worth posting on the front page of HN a day?
Best smartphones ever made
It's 'poor people have refrigerators' in another guise. It is apparently a laudable goal to decay our social infrastructure till large parts of our cities will resemble African poverty.
Sorry, I didn't mean that if that's how my comment came across.

What I meant was, of all the people I know that have both positive things to say and for that matter anything to say about Light Table, they've been professional Clojure developers. Therefore from my view, if I were guiding Light Table at the moment, since it has been three years, I'd really look into pleasing and making those people a very happy customer base. I would do this at the cost of other support, because in my opinion the other languages aren't being used professionally or personally with Light Table. (Perhaps they have different metrics, but if I were them, I'd double down on making a very happy set of Clojure evangelists and then re-visit support for other languages)
It would only trigger compaction if sst tables have overlapping keys. And if you only write new items, goleveldb implementation would just create 3.7Mb sst tables by default without trying to merge them into bigger chunks (what's the point? they are all sorted and non-overlapping). When you have queue consumption workload it would start merging tombstones with sst tables and since tombstones are also in sorted order it would not pick up multiple sst tables at a time, and just either completely or partially remove stale sst files. I added some more benchmarks including queue packing with 200M messages of 64 byte size, and benchmarks of consumption of 200M messages. The speed is sustainable. https://github.com/bogdanovich/siberite/blob/master/docs/ben...
Thanks. I will put that together. Really I should have done that from the start.
Yeah, also the big difference it seems to me compared to say the idea of legalizing drugs is that this is a market of theoretically finite supply. Therefore, as the supply shrinks it increases the incentive to find other sources. This is in contrast to a legal drug market which would include legal production and therefore, in theory, crowd out the illegal supply.
We can’t allow the tech giants to rule smart cities
Pretty good article, as a genuine "old guy" myself the thoughts expressed resonate with my experiences. Key thing is the willingness to keep on learning, accepting the challenge of new ideas, glean from them their essential merit, incorporate into our knowledge, and in that way increment the value of old ideas.

Two aspects of becoming older deserve mention. It came as a shock when people started to regard me as the "go to" resource to help solve problems the less experienced workers didn't know how to solve. Getting those queries left me wondering who was this "senior authority" they were talking to. Then I realized it was me.

OTOH there's also the phenomenon of younger people tending to discount input of the experienced worker, as in "you can't possibly understand what I'm talking about". Perhaps this is the natural inverse of the first aspect, though it seems terribly disrespectful.

Ultimately both phases must be handled similarly, that is, with grace and patience. This requires a good measure of self-respect and accurate self-assessment. Luckily, these are skills we are better able to acquire as we continue to grow into true maturity.
He should because there are no rules against it.

If you think it's unfair it is useless to flag this guy. Your representatives are the one that needs to hear your discontent.
Consider the possibility that it sucks because there is no money for an update and/or it isn't a priority. Try to verify that this is a viable business and that an update would at least pay for itself, preferably more than pay for itself.

Consider the possibility that obvious need of an overhaul (in your eyes) is not very good evidence that these are good prospective clients. If you are offering charity, obvious need is a good metric for whom to target. But if you want a healthy business relationship, that is insufficient. A healthy relationship is symbiotic. It is one where both sides benefit. If they can't afford to pay you or just do not care, the suckiness of their site is not a good argument for viewing them as good people to target as future clients.

Don't hesitate to email them and pitch them. But don't be shocked if the success rate is low. You may need to come up with additional metrics to define "good prospective clients."
NSA paid tech companies like Facebook millions to cover cost of Prism
This is cool and stuff, but the real question is "what value does a super complicated format like ELF add?" I guess the same question could be posed about Mach-O or PE (a.k.a. COFF) executable file format.

Seriously, ELF (and Mach-O) have all kinds of capabilities (Mach-O can specifiy starting multiple threads, rather than just giving an entry point) that compiler systems and programming languages will just never use. Why bother with such complexity? Note that I don't want to argue that we should have just stuck with a.out format, but rather that the formats mandated by custom and standard are just really complex, and have a lot of features that are never used, and just might cause real security problems (http://cs.dartmouth.edu/~bx/elf-bf-tools/slides/elf-defcon20... and http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/pubs/sbs13.pdf come to mind).
The same story with a less misleading title yesterday got fewer upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10442755

(and even the arteries they printed are probably not actually functional)
Tech Era – Dream or Money?
Its sad that day trading attracts these geniuses that could otherwise use their brainpower to solve more important problems in society.
The Music That You Are Listening to Is Impacting Your Mental Health
I think I was most surprised to see that fork used to take a label. How did that work?
An article I recently read helped me make sense of the low carb/low fat dichotomy we see in the literature, both peer reviewed and popular, with plenty of anecdotal evidence on both sides.

The flowchart at http://rockstarresearch.com/these-5-genes-predict-what-kind-... helps you determine the better dieting approach of the two from your 23andMe results. It appears your genotype determines which you best respond to. According to the flowchart, I should best respond to a low fat diet: and I have seen great results from sticking to that.

On the other hand, I saw no results from almost a year of keto (with strong social support: must of my co-workers were on the same diet, which made sticking to it easy), which is in line with the predictions of that chart.
Yes, that breaks the guidelines. All: please don't editorialize when submitting titles. Use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait, and when changing a title, make it accurate and neutral. Use representative language from the article itself wherever possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "FBI director's defense of mass incarceration".)
A coffee in the morning is OK if you like coffee. Once a week I either have two 8oz coffees or skip entirely, subjectively. Most days I have one or two teas in the afternoon, but none after 4pm. Food wise I never eat after 7pm, and usually dinner is light fare like a sandwich or soup and a salad. Lunch is the bigger meal, but I usually eat that after biking/running because eating before exercise gives me cramps. On days I don't exercise I don't eat anything before noon and just have lunch and a light dinner. No exercise, no breakfast calories are justifiable.

Sometimes when I was in the process of losing weight this way, that I would be a little bit hungry when it was time for bed. But this is ignored. If it's more distracting then I have ~150g yogurt, usually skyr, but sometimes plain greek and sometimes that I'll mix in a teaspoon of honey or jam. Most U.S. yogurt is a massive sugar bomb.

Often this has more to do with discipline (do the exercise, don't eat everything on the plate or don't fill it up to begin with, or don't eat out often) rather than motivation. Needing motiviation is understandable but it's a weakness to rely on it; having discipline is more powerful.
Annotated by whom?