skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Caribou is a chain out of Minneapolis / St Paul (the "Twin Cities"), if I recall correctly. I'm not saying they were particularly good. What I meant was, Peet's was somewhat better, bought out their local locations, and announced that Peet's shops were coming. Instead, in Dad's location, they got another Dunkin Donuts. Overall, I've not heard of Peet's actually opening stores in any of the locations they purchased.

I don't know what's behind all that. But the end result has not been an improvement in product/choice, in our area.

Anyway... I wouldn't have mentioned it, except there was the OP about the Keurig deal. My personal perspective is that if and as Peet's was once a well-regarded set of shops in the Bay area, it's quite another thing, now. As such, Keurig deals and the like not only don't excite me, they engender an actively negative reaction.

Perhaps that says something about putting growth before quality.
Recruiting and promoting their cause is threatening in itself. It seems as if the goal is to minimize the exposure of jihad groups. Considering they directly attack and oppose western culture and values, this is justified. Many people in the west are currently highly critical of Islam, which can make devout Muslims feel disenfranchised, and reach out to extremist groups. If the option to connect with extremist groups is taken away, we can get together as a society and develop strategies to reform Islam to be more compatible with Western culture. Christians have reformed their religion to be more compatible with modern progressive views over the years.
At least according to Jared Diamond, the primary killer (95% or so) of the natives was communicable disease.

The first smallpox epidemic alone killed about half of the Incas.
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>In that case, you're better off sticking to your own script and recording everything.

I'm not really sure how you came to this conclusion. You are correct about many things here, but the solution is not to become defiant; that will only result in, at a minimum, more hassle for you, like the officer writing an invalid citation anyway because he can, thus forcing you to either pay or waste an afternoon at traffic court to try to get it thrown out.
Secret URLs ("anyone with the link can access") are a weak form of capabilities. They are problematic since they can't be traced nor revoked. A good capability system allows you to audit where the capability has gone and revoke it from specific parties without revoking it from everybody. A good capability system also makes capabilities harder to "leak" accidentally, while still allowing them to be transferred intentionally.

For an example of capabilities that can't leak, look at Unix file descriptors. A process can transfer a file descriptor to another process via an SCM_RIGHTS message over a unix domain socket. The receiving process is able to perform exactly the same set of operations on the file descriptor as the sending process could, even if the receiving process belongs to a different user who doesn't have permission to open() the underlying file. Thus the FD is like a capability.

File descriptors are not secret tokens -- they are easily-guessable small integers. But they cannot accidentally "leak" between processes because the OS explicitly involved in all transfers.

(Of course, file descriptors still lack traceability and revocability, which a good capability system should support.)
EM hypersensitivity and wifi allergies: Bogus diagnoses with tragic consequences
Basically malaria was unknown in the Americas before western explorers brought it over. From there it became very prevalent in some places such as the Amazon and essentially made mass agriculture impossible there. Then pretty much everyone starved. There were also things like smallpox that devastated people everywhere in the Americas but those were more a one time thing, people were able to rebuild after they passed.
They like to have skin cut, salt pored in? Scraping their eyeballs over a blackboard until they bleed?

I think your are talking about different pain than laser burning.

Most definitions of pain of pain contain terms like torment, distress, suffering. Not what someone would like. If someone never felt pain before and they say upon feeling something that they like it, you think they really feel pain? It sounds more likely to me that she felt something different. She wouldn't know of course, if what she felt was pain.
I have a lot of friends who are professional artists - musicians, actors, painters, etc. They are all very talented, hardworking, professional-minded people who could have much more lucrative jobs in the mainstream workforce.
Former prosecutor recants: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/285/t...
I'll upvote you because I think you have a valid opinion, and you shouldn't be downvoted because your opinions differ from others. We need other opinions to have a healthy discussion after all.

I just want to say that first of all, you can certainly be productive without generating an income. All the people who contribute to OSS projects are certainly productive despite not being paid to do so for example.

Also, the idea that if you don't need to make a living, you will be lazier or less likely to work is actually incorrect, at least according to this: http://economics.mit.edu/files/10861

I'll be honest in admitting I haven't gotten around to reading it, I've only read the conclusion and intro, so please do correct me if I was wrong.

Finally, and this is more personal, I really do believe that most people will do better work if they are not pressured to make a living. For example, if university professors didn't have to earn a living, I imagine they would spend all their time doing research instead of using most of their time now doing administrative tasks. I can't imagine anyone became a professor thinking they wanted to go to meetings; certainly all the people I've met who wanted to become professors did it in spite of the fact they knew they would have to deal with a lot of nonsense because they could not imagine doing anything besides research.

How many PhD students in CS end up in industry because the academic environment is awful? I suppose you could argue that by joining industry they are more productive but I'd argue that both are productive, but an individual would be more productive working where their passions align.

I think most people here would not be doing what their job requires but instead contribute to OSS, and honestly we probably have better software as a result.
[2013] Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100M
Helps that sodastream doesn't try to chill the drink, which you can just do ahead of time by refrigerating the water
I think a comparison could be made in the "dumbing-down" of the cooking (McDonalds)/brewing (Starbucks) process. I was surprised last week to see that the barista-side of a Starbucks machine consisted of a few buttons and that's it. The machine grinded, tamped, and pulled the espresso. Much in the same way a cook at McDonalds puts raw food into a machine, presses a button and the computer takes care of the rest.
Yeah I mean why should they assume he has a forged ID? How common are forged IDs for small time criminals?
The great thing about software is that each new piece of software that is written opens up more opportunities for writing new software than it closes off.

And the great thing about software writers is that each new writer creates more work opportunities for experienced code maintainers and rehabilitators than they could possibly create for themselves.

Combine those two great things, and you realize that as long as the software industry can grow wider faster than it can grow deeper, it must. The tide of crap software with huge technical debt that will eventually have to be fixed by someone with real experience will only abate when everyone with the aptitude for writing software has already been doing it for a while.

At that time, people will be able to distinguish between a software writer that can maintain an existing CRUD app and one that can write new business-infrastructure software that scales across the entire enterprise.

That last category will be able to demand high compensation well into the foreseeable future, simply because the type of personality that has competitive advantage there is relatively rare in the general population.
It's against HN's rules to get friends/colleague to upvote posts, so please don't do that. It tends to get stories flagged and accounts penalized.

This is an interesting article so we've turned the penalty off.
"I will volunteer to teach at this school," said Diablo, while cackling madly.
I'd disagree on politics making the space shuttle more expensive - the shuttle would have cost about the same no matter where the factories went to built it - it was a deeply flawed concept from the start, and one borne largely out of politics.
> Bob would have to go out of his way to be a confused deputy.

Exactly. :) Sure, you can still get it wrong if you try, but it's a lot harder.
I like Soda Stream and own one, but the syrups aren't very good if you ask me. I'd happily pay more for Syrup if it was the branded stuff that tastes right.

Part of the reason why, I suspect, is because they aren't aiming for 1:1 parity, they want "healthier" so they can put it on a billboard. Ultimately result is that they taste like diet drinks (only with more sugar).
I'm always sad that lists like this from tech people never contain any fiction.

I have often seen the sentiment that everything you read should have some kind of educational value or it's just a waste of time.

Does Bill Gates not read fiction? Perhaps he understands that he would be looked down on if he were to include some in his list.
That's not correct. There are tens of millions of Native American ancestors living across Latin America today. Latin America has roughly 600 million people, they are not all European and African.
IBM getting the hairdryer treatment
Yeah weird, works for me too. Here is it on Slideshare though too: http://www.slideshare.net/zahidtg/15-105-06112015-google-inc...
The 'nails' in this case are dollars in a budget. The ISS consumes a very large number of dollars on an annual basis, and 'burning it down' would free those dollars up for other purposes.
It's pretty much impossible to just book an appointment with a nurse right now in the US.
This Gmail strategy helped me transition from Mailbox: http://lifehacker.com/this-gtd-workflow-is-how-i-finally-got...

Essentially use Multiple Inboxes as well as some filters/labels to create the basic GTD categories. I've modified it to use Labels since I find the various stars inefficient. I have inboxes for "Work On" (label:Priority), "Someday" (label:Someday), "Waiting" (label:*Waiting), and "Reference" (is:starred). This combined with services offered from Boomerang (http://www.boomeranggmail.com/) get pretty close to what I was trying to accomplish with Mailbox. It's not as elegant but I don't have to worry about using a proprietary email client that might not be around.
When Mailbox first came out, there was no Google Inbox, no snoozing, and the ios e-mail experience was lacking and sluggish in general. Mailbox fixed all that, and it was the first to properly do so that we trusted. We trusted it as it was by the well established Dropbox.

But since Inbox came out, I have seen no reason to open Mailbox, and I would say that Mailbox actually inspired Inbox.
I moved from offlineimap to mbsync (part of the iSync project) a few years ago and it has fixed most of the issues I had with offlineimap (mainly high resource usage).
One huge problem with Venus, even if we could "fix" the atmosphere, is that there's no working plate tectonic system. It's hypothesized that the build-up of stresses actually leads to the crust liquefying every couple of hundred million years. There's also the slight problem of the Venusian "day" being 116.75 Earth days (compared to a year 243.69 days long). It's not tidally locked but there are some pretty fierce winds in the stratosphere (at ground level the atmosphere is so dense -- 92 bar pressure -- that wind speeds are on the order of 1 m/s).

Next, there's a huge amount of heat trapped in the atmosphere. "Fixing" it isn't just a matter of dumping comets full of water into the atmosphere, there's the slight matter of Venus being a whole lot closer to the sun that Earth, and receiving a much higher level of insolation.

All in all, the lack of a magnetic field is relatively minor compared to the other issues.

Flip side: Earth atmospheric gas mix at STP is actually a pretty efficient airship lifting gas on Venus and would provide about equivalent lift per unit volume 30-40km up in the stratosphere as hydrogen provides to a terrestrial airship at sea level. (In other words, you could in principle build a zeppelin where you could walk around inside the lift cells of in shirt sleeve conditions.) And there's still a chunk of atmosphere above that to provide radiation shielding. So a human "base" in the Venusian cloud tops is conceivable, albeit technically challenging.
I buy brands that make their pods biodegradable. This one specifically is cheap and doesn't harm the environment. I can throw these into my garden and they disappear pretty quickly: http://www.amazon.com/San-Francisco-Bay-OneCup-Coffees/dp/B0...

The problem with taking a few minutes is that some of us who drink coffee don't have a few minutes. Not a morning person - and that's why I drink it in the first place.
Amongst the parts of Phobos having an equivalent in the C++ standard library (algorithm, string, etc.), which ones still require garbage collection?
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You should probably add HTTPS too, especially for the account login page. Since you are using CloudFlare you can add it for free and this is best practice.
But it takes up less space, you don't need to resupply as often, and you can set the mixer on your tap to add more or less ratio of syrup to water.
Here is one example of fiction: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/The-Rosie-Project
The advantage of an open-source app is that there will almost always be a way to get your data out of the application/service if it does shut down.

With closed-source/proprietary apps, you're at the mercy of the provider for getting out any data.
I have nothing against affiliate links, but you should try to add value rather than just copy Gates' list, and you really should declare their use explicitly rather than implicitly via a link shortener.

[Update: Rather than delete your post, you could have added your impressions of the books (or recommended better ones) and merely mentioned the use of affiliate links.]
side note on Amazon Indians:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dna-search-firs...

DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous Australians.
a researcher in Reich’s lab, noticed that the Suruí and Karitiana people of the Amazon had stronger ties to indigenous groups in Australasia—Australians, New Guineans and Andaman Islanders—than to Eurasians."

I wonder how much was lost by the Amazon peoples by the invasions of the Clovis peoples from Siberia.
Common Lisp's foreign function interface (either implementation specific or cross-platform a la CFFI) allows for the explicit definition of how a foreign structure should be laid out in memory.

Even if I'm not using Lisp for the end product, whose SLA may not permit a runtime with garbage collection, I always find it invaluable to define low-level structures with a Lisp whose machine code compiler is available at runtime for experimental interactive development.

A free and open source Lisp that you might enjoy experimenting with is SBCL, available from http://www.sbcl.org.

Load up the REPL, and follow the manual available here http://sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Foreign-Function-Interface.

SBCL also allows you to interactively augment the machine code compiler, install new intrinsics, and disassemble any function interactively.

Even if you never use it for production code directly, it might become an invaluable tool in your low level development process.
I think part of it too is feeling qualified to (publicly & prominently) judge fiction, which doesn't come as naturally to as many folks as judging "ideas" on a nonfiction list like this may – & particularly with the extended write-ups Gates is doing.
I would also point out that there is a danger in perceived complacency (a.k.a. honeypots).

Here's a metaphor of sorts: An MMORPG has a large number of "bots" which farm valuable items and in game experience. Player A bots and does not get banned. Player A tells Player B he did not get banned. Player B starts to bot. The botting problem intensifies.

People will see the persistence of social media presence by terror groups as an ineptitude of western governments. This will motivate them to try to exploit this weakness in whatever way they can think of.
> It is deceptively hard [...] The set of abstractions required to do it right are unobvious and nontrivial ...

I would be very interested to hear more about this aspect, if you would be willing to share. I'm always curious about things that sound like they should be simple but end up being surprisingly complicated if you want do do a good job :)
Disagree. Like any framework or medium-to-big library, D3 does take some time to learn, but totally pays off once you learn it. If you're just doing a single viz, then sure, rolling your own is ok. But if you're doing lots, and especially if they need to be interactive, I'd strongly advise against reinventing the wheel.

I also have not found it too hard to step outside of/modify the online examples, though I guess it depends on the particular viz you're trying to create.
They surely contain fiction, just the authors' don't admit it :-)

-from a fellow fiction lover
Plus it doesn't take 90 seconds to get a can out of the fridge!
Landlines are limited to whatever quality 100 year old degrading copper lines can carry. It's the bare minimum. I had thought for a long time 3G and better had wider bandwidth. I'm not certain though.
Dell XPS 13 review: The best Windows laptop just got better
Not sure how to interpret this, are you suggesting the hindi नि should be two code points because when translated to English it is 'Ni'(two letters)?
My first "real" computer was a VIC-20. I used an optical detector hooked up to the joystick's ADC input to observe that my fluorescent lamps were not "steady" but instead flickered at some frequency.

I became an embedded computing guy later on... :)
Swift's Unicode support is sufficiently awesome that my web browser was having issues rendering the documentation for their string class due to the epic working examples ;P.
Recruiting Framework for Startups from Greenhouse's VP Strategy and People
Did anyone read the books he recommended last year? Were they worthwhile?
I was at $FAMOUS_SCIENTIST's house one afternoon and there was a large box and a hairdryer occupying a large amount of the living room. He and his daughter were using the hair dryer on the code setting to build a wind tunnel and test aircraft designs.
I do wish the historians/reporters for this article were more accurate in their use of "decimation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)#Curren...

The 1491 book put the death rates at around 1 in 20 surviving - ie 19 out of every 20 people dying from disease etc.
By using percentage values?
> I think we need multiple grades of doctor.

Don't we have that already?

Doctor / Physician

Physician Assistant

Nurse Practitioner

Registered Nurse

Nursing Aid / Nurse Assistant
KDB is simplicity itself. It doesn't get much more elegant.
I really hope this protocol takes off and gains widespread adoption.
> You also can’t go by whether or not it’s open source, because open source apps get abandoned.

But if it's open source, you can (FSVO "can", depending on your skillset) fix critical problems yourself.

Let's say I get Mailborg for $10 and move my mail over to it. Mailborg gets acquired. Dropborg eventually closes Mailborg. Next month, Apple releases OS X 10.12 and something breaks. I'm SOL.

Or I get open-source Thunderborg. Borgzilla stops development of Thunderborg. Next month, Apple releases OS X 10.12, and something breaks.

No matter. I'm still not SOL. Either I have a chance of fixing it, or more likely, someone smarter than me will find a fix and post it, maybe even with a new binary.

I'm no Stallmanite, but this is the whole origin myth of free software, for goodness' sake.
In more common terms, they'd be medics. That's a bit broad, as some medics are far more capable than others, but for those who are primarily intended to provide first aid (rather than long term care or surgery or diagnostics), they're typically called medics. And 8 weeks is enough time to train someone in the basics of that field (especially 8 weeks of full-time training).
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allard, muglia, mundie, and lots at the baby VP level. The path windows 7 was on was largely sets before him. Windows 8, which was his baby led to him leaving the company.
Cheatsheet, without the affiliate links (another commenter posted these with affiliate links then deleted it after being called out):

The Road to Character, David Brooks - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081299325X

Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544668251

Being Nixon: A Man Divided, Evan Thomas - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812995368

Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open, Julian Allwood - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/190686005X

Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?, Nancy Leys Stepan - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801450586

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345472322

Honorable Mention:

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life, Nick Lane - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393088812
Isn't Marc one of the people who kinda caused this?
Yeah why work at a crappy McJob when you could instead do what you find interesting, making weird pottery and selling it on Etsy while relying on the minimum income to cover your rent and food?

I think a significant result of these sort of minimum income ideas would be an explosion in the amount of people that opt for risky entrepreneurial ventures (eg. a startup) instead of working bad jobs for the basic necessities. I think many people would rather make art or pursue other risky, generally low income, creative careers than do low skill, uninteresting work.

A result could be that companies offering low skill, minimum wage jobs could have to raise wages or improve their jobs in other ways in order to attract workers.
That's a great link / experiment, thanks.

By just counting the literal airtime of the beacons, I think it underestimates the effects a bit, because it doesn't account for the contention of the remaining air time, which would be reflected in increased collisions and small delays which (sorry to be hand-wavy again) can add up. I think if he ran some application-level tests at the same time (perhaps iperf, perhaps something more sophisticated) he would see a bigger impact to "good-put".
If I ever get a chance to revamp an email system I will probably use rspamd instead. Those "add-ons" are painful.

https://rspamd.com

https://rspamd.com/rspamd-slides.pdf
> Noble people will better themselves under either system.

No true scotsman.
On similar topics, but with even more detail, there is "The Digital Antiquarian" (Ostensibly mostly about the history of adventure games, but with some amazing articles about the home computer revolution thrown in): http://www.filfre.net
If you look through past years, you'll see that Gates does indeed read and even occasionally recommend works of fiction.