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I love Snapchat Stories. I always have a minute's worth of video in my story. I love it because, unlike Twitter, Facebook/Instagram and the rest, I can overpost to my hearts content, and people can totally ignore it if they want to. Most of my family does the same, and its fun to see.
I can post videos of my children doing stupid things that no one cares about or wants to see but my parents and grandparents. Oh, thats another thing: when I tell people I love Snapchat, they assume "heh, for sexting?" Well, no, my whole family, including my 60 y.o. parents and 80 year old grandparent are on Snapchat and love seeing videos of my family's activities or stupid stuff we do. The barrier for whats acceptable to post is much lower, like toddlers running through the house naked and whatnot. And it goes away. (well, probably not technically, so I wouldn't post anything that you wouldn't be generally cool with accidentally getting broadcast somehow).

But most the time, I post interesting-but-uncurated little snippets throughout the day that I think are funny or odd, and I usually get a few random comments from friends and family, and its generally fun, frictionless and competition-less way to share without all the 'like' or friend quantifiers. Occasionally a post gets upgraded to twitter for broadcast.

I also initially enjoyed the city stories, where random regular people from, say, Doha or Abu Dhabi or Kuala Lumpur post videos of their daily lives. Cool to see how people live on the other side of the world. Eventually got bored with it, but cool concept.
The documentation doesn't explain how to install binaries and the download pages don't either. Everything defers responsibility to whatever package manager you're using e.g. "PostgreSQL can also be installed on Mac OS X using Homebrew. Please see the Homewbrew documentation for information on how to install packages". And the documentation only explains installing from source code which I can't imagine most people aren't doing.

The point is that every other database explains precisely the recommended approach for how to install it on every platform.
I was thinking about Texas as I wrote that. They're the innovation leaders in the South. Another tactic of mine is appealing to the pride of local states by reminding them Texas is kicking their asses and they can't let that happen. So, we steal anything good they're doing without the... Texan stuff...

What you think? Competitiveness might help where other strategies failed?

Note: Texas has to factor into these discussions one way or another as they've shown how to get it done. I figure at least Nashville or Knoxville in TN could follow suite as they're already playing it smarter (err closer to Texas) than most of the South in IT. Chattanooga went 1Gbps, too. I'm not sure what cities are comparable in... AR... and MS.
Like another commenter said, thank you for all your work on getting F# into dotnet core!
In London a market has been at the site of Smithfield for over 1,000 years: http://www.smithfieldmarket.com/the-market/the-market-today/

Over the next few years it will see a transformation as the market is moved East beyond the existing Olympic site and the old market site becomes another block of glass offices and shops: http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2013/07/17/contentious-s...

Currently it's blocked though, local resistance did make a difference: https://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/documents/s44835/Appendi...

It's the same story everywhere, and it has a lot to do with city growth. These markets are still central to their cities and deliveries are now by HGVs which cannot fit the spaces easily. The roads around cannot take the congestion of vans and re-deliveries, and the land itself now has a very different (much higher) value if used for a different purpose.

A lot of the old city markets face the same fate.
What about the code for taking initial passwords, changing passwords, password recovery, securing login forms, storing passwords, transitioning to new hashes methods and even 2-factor authentication? OAuth providers would do all this for you in an undoubtable more secure way than most people would have time for.
> For now, if you are auctionning standing in a room with prices that fly by at every moment, computers are not the relevant tool. Same if you're taking orders while talking to someone with hands soaked in icy water.
Pencil and paper are still the fastest and most reliable media depending on what you are doing.

Reminds me of a story I saw about fairly modern aircraft carriers still using a model of the flight deck and colored nuts to designate what was going on down on the deck itself.

http://kevinmeyer.com/blog/2009/06/the-nimitz-goes-to-home-d...
That was anti-climatic.
Yeah, but what if it was substituted with art, or something similar. It's possible to produce a society which values mentally ill people without necessarily coercing them.
Depends on the region. Brick buildings / walls / roads are very common in desert communities and poorer areas. Its easier to create bricks than make steel.
It would be good to remember that he is largely drawing from hunter gatherer societies and not just "in the past" as you describe his thesis.

While valuable to look at, these agrarian and proto industrial societies also had large amounts of coercion.

As I read the other posts I see too many people wanting to T/F this thesis whereas I think it real value is as a critical tool to examine societies and the minds that have to learn to live in them.
I'm not sure I buy this argument at all. I've certainly heard the argument enough times that it's less critical to get everything right on the first pass on the Web because you can always update it. I'm not a particular fan of this mindset but it's out there. And I'd note it's the offline pubs that are far more likely to still have people in a fact checker role--however vestigial. And making errors of fact too many times was more than frowned upon at traditional newspapers.

Having said that, a lot depends on the person and the context. I'm sure we could all name columnists/bloggers who are more interested in being controversial than in being correct; some predate online publishing though. On the other hand, there are some contexts where you don't to state bald opinions that you can't back up. I'm not convinced any of this has to do with Web or non-Web.
I know - hence why I am having some fun with you :)
I'm excited about the sorting improvements. Large index creation performance has been an embarrassment (I often have to defend pg against Oracle!), hopefully this will make things vastly better.
The worst I've had to endure myself is "friendly warnings" in exit interviews, but I know others who have been sued or overtly threatened with a suit. It doesn't take many actual cases for the chilling effect to be felt all around.
This post makes me think I should check it out again. A lot of our (http://unikupid.com) users in India are on snapchat, thought it's just a teen fad but maybe it's fun to use
Your comment here rather illustrates the point, I think. :)
Snapchat is the first app that makes me feel like an old man shaking my fist at the young hooligans on the lawn. The abtruse interface leaves me tremendously baffled.
VR thethered to a Windows PC was never going to be for the masses. It's an awkward form factor. Mobile VR is the thing that will achieve wide adoption. Look for standalone VR devices under $500 in the five year timeframe. That's when we'll start to see hundreds of millions of users.

Even iPhone only sold 6 million in the first gen.
There is value in communicating figuratively and/or with metaphors. When creatively solving problems, looking for trends or drawing a hypothesis out of the ether, it is often desirable to avoid specifics.

I raised a couple of incredibly pedantic sons. I am someone prone to using metaphors and communicating figuratively. I learned to up my game and use more accurate metaphors that do not count on the audience already having a good idea of what I am talking about so as to let me get away with real hand-wavy, vague comparisons.

My oldest is pretty aspie. In trying to explain anger and social stuff to him, I once tried to talk about anger being like fire and explosions. He knew too much science and not enough social skills. It resulted in him leaping to bizarre conclusions (think: "If you rub two people together, they ignite" type conclusions). I was all "Uhhh. No. Forget I said anything. Let me think about this and get back to you."

If your figure of speech or metaphor is not horrendously sloppy, it can still be used here. If you are getting a lot of flack here for such things, consider the possibility that simply isn't a great comparison point and try to think more clearly about the subject and come up with a better means to express it.

HN can be kind of rough to adjust to at first. So I do have sympathy. But, in general, the overall intent of such practices here is to improve accuracy and level of discussion. It mostly isn't just asshattery.

And welcome to HN!
It is absurd model for evaluation of people that solves only one problem: how to make evaluation easy for the administrators and soft on researchers. We should rather find and implement a model that leads to best research results possible. I think one such model would be this: give tax money only to people whose results of their last work have proven to be beneficial to society (for other people outside their interest group, not only colleagues in the same field). Impose reasonable set of practical goals and supervision (roadmap) on people who want their work financed and periodically re-evaluate. Leave basic, speculative and other research of unclear significance to be financed privately, by patrons, no tax-based financial support.
I love McKenna's raps but I really disagree with him here. I doubt he had much experience with actual schizophrenia, which is horrific and debilitating, and I doubt shamans present or past actually had it. Psychedelic drugs induce a superficially schizophrenia-like state but it's transient and may not actually be much like schizophrenia at all. Visionary, trance, and highly imaginative states are not schizophrenia or even indicative of mental illness.

Real schizophrenia is a hell of paranoia and anxiety and I doubt anyone with a severe case could heal or make art or any of the other things a traditional shaman might do.
Waking up one day to find that "your" money is no longer yours is not a compelling reason? I myself had nothing but bad experience with Paypal going back almost a decade, hell with them.
> 1. Add an option to EXPLAIN that will cause PostgreSQL's optimizer to spit out multiple plans it considered, with costs, and with a description of the plan that PostgreSQL can easily parse and fit to a query.

The biggest problem with that approach is that the way query planning works isn't that a 100 different plans are fully built, cost evaluated, and then compared. Instead it's more like a dynamic programming approach where you iteratively build pieces of a query plan from ground up, and then combine those pieces to build the layer one up. Given the space of possible query plans, especially with several relations and indexes on each relation involved, such an approach is required to actually ever finish planning.

> Add a PLAN command that can be applied to a prepared statement and will set its plan. It is an error to submit a plan that does not match the query.

It's not easily, if at all in the generic case!, possible to prove that a specific plan matches a query. You could obviously try to build every possible plan and match against each of those, but that's computationally infeasible (we're talking factorial number of plans, depending on relations here).

So I think such an approach has no chance of working.

What's more realistic is a running queries in a "training" mode. That training mode would, matching on the specific parsetree, store the resulting plans in a table. Before exiting training mode you'd mark all these plans approved (after looking for bad cases obviously). After that preparing a new query still does the original query planning, but by default the query stored in the "approved plans" table would be used. The cost differential and the new plan would then be associated with the currently approved plan. Regularly the DBA (or whoever fulfills that role), checks the potential plans and approves new ones.

Based on a configuration option queries without approved plans would error out, raise a log message, or just work.

Now even that has significant problems because e.g. DDL will have the tendency to "invalidate" all the approved plans. But that's manageable in comparison to being woken up Friday night.
What about a "seed" option? Perhaps someone wants a different image for two identical sized places, but don't want that the image change with each reload.
Many use ray tracing and path tracing interchangeably and consider path tracing to be a form of Ray tracing (Old school RT would be called Whitted Ray Tracing).

Single bounce ray tracing isn't very interesting, what we want is real time global illumination such as with park tracing. For simple scenes this is possible on a gpu today, at least with low res and a reasonable amount of noise. If this chip can do with a million triangles what a gpu does today with a hundred, then it's very interesting (not saying it can).

Real time gpu PT today:
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4lfGWr
And apparently at least one commentator on Hacker News has no sense of humour :)

And if they don't agree with you, so rather than respond with a refutation they'll just downvote you instead.
And all are students, who are going to be generally middle class and young.
How do you like your double? My company is wanting to buy a number of remote robots--- they were one of the ones I was considering.
Are you only reading the first few words of my comments, and ignoring the rest? It's right there. A new rule that reduces the term opens up old works earlier than if the contemporary rule is left in place.

Let's consider something other than copyright. It is bad to retroactively prosecute people for new crimes, but (for example) should people convicted of sodomy prior to 2003 have to serve out their (up to life) sentences, or since the act is no longer illegal, should they be freed? Surely, if an act is no longer a crime, it's abhorrent to treat people who have committed that act as criminals.
Check this out for a good quick description of Tsukiji:

http://www.cookingissues.com/index.html%3Fp=5630.html

(The author is Dave Arnold, the host of Cooking Issues and operator of the Booker and Dax bar in NYC; Nastassia works for him, and Mark Ladner is the A-list chef-operator of Del Posto.)
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you might want to fix the link, it has edit in the url.
Yep. Third person games like Metal Gear and Grand Theft Auto just need a rewrite to he camera system and the UI and they should be good to go. Racing sims should be easy ports. FPS's are dead in the water.
ProShares provides a convenient way to get short exposure to large Chinese stocks that trade in Hong Kong (you buy the ETF to get short exposure): http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=YXI
If it is, it's backed up by quite a bit of evidence.
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"Matlab, SAS, and Stata, all of which R makes look like APL" -- I am a little confused, what do you mean by that?

(and tbh, I would not call either SAS or Stata matrix programming particularly graceful -- it's pretty hard to beat Matlab at that though)
Related: Why Innocent People Plead Guilty (written by a U.S. federal judge) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/why-innocent-peop...
Huh. You learn something every day. But for the most part, everybody still links against libc dynamically. Solaris has actually stopped providing libc.a!
China is an interesting case of thousands of years of relatively modern social order with high coercion in many ways.

However, it's also a society that maintained high levels of family and clan based organization which counterbalance the atomization and individuality that you see in modern "Washington Consensus" societies.

I highly recommend "The Search for Modern China" if you are truly interested in thinking about these things in context. It's very pleasing and readable.

Modern China isn't as straightforwardly authoritarian as you might want to compare against.

North Korea might be a better choice.
The first Mac OS X package is the Graphical Installer. [0]

It looks like it takes you to a link that lets you download a .dmg file. I assume those are basically one-click installers for Mac OS X programs?

[0] http://www.postgresql.org/download/macosx/
But I thought time IS money ?????
I do agree with 1. 2 is optimistic.

Depending on the situation, some "weasel words" (may, could, probably, etc.) or other ways of adding some fuzz to your arguments are appropriate. But formulating cogent and precise arguments with defensible data and references is better when possible.
Yea, they didn't call it "Windows as a service" for nothing.
Yes. Actually one of the most effective ways would be to study in the same room that you will later be tested in. Basically information is never learned independent of the location and the location bleeds into your memory of the abstract concept. When you think about how memory evolved this makes perfect sense - you want to remember how to fish for example, but also where and when to fish.

The same thing apply to things like addiction where location plays a very strong role in reinforcing the addictive behaviour. One of the ways of helping to overcome addiction is to change your location so the environmental cues are removed.
Yes, we are going to hire someone. We now have the position open and are looking for candidates. We already have a couple of folks interested and we'd like to get a few more so that we can find the best fit.

[0] http://www.appfolioinc.com/jobs-openings?p=job%2FoZ1c2fwY (it says Santa Barbara, CA but really anywhere in the US is ok)
"In this human-robot team, the robot is responsible for the more rote tasks: picking up bricks, applying mortar, and placing them in their designated location. A human handles the more nuanced activities, like setting up the worksite, laying bricks in tricky areas, such as corners, and handling aesthetic details, like cleaning up excess mortar."

"One human plus one SAM equals the productivity of having four or more masons on the job."

A downside I can see is there isn't really any room for apprentices or entry level workers in this model. I imagine with four human masons a couple of them could be learning the trade as they did "the robot's part," eventually developing the skills to be the "human" in the team.
Check out https://getmondo.co.uk/docs/
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I have been playing a fun game where I see if a financial article on YC has bitcoin mentioned in the comments. It is in basically every comment section of anything related to finances. Personally I speculate in Bitcoins as a hedge against variations in cash and stocks. I like to think of it as e-gold that has some advantages and disadvantages versus a solid asset like gold. Due to the increasingly global and digital nature of our existence I think BTC has a very high potential upside.
23andme. It's funny because I always thought I was some kind of X-Man.
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Ah, that's an interesting idea! I'll definitely think about adding something like that.
Interestingly enough, satoshi's paper never mentions the term "anonymous" though it does describe separating one's identity from the transaction.

Some other cryptocoins (Monero, et al) use ring signatures to truly disguise the path that the money takes through the system.
Ok let me clarify my position completely so that there is no dispute, and then I need to get back to work:

Formal and informal study participants have noted that when you ingest N,N-Dimethyltryptamine certain strange contact-like phenomena tend to occur within the biological-psychological interface known as Consciousness, and that these experiences -- which have an internal consistency -- seem to be inexplicably independent of culture, background or time. These contact experiences were so shocking that the lead investigator, Rick Strassman, discontinued his study. Meanwhile, nearly 20 years later, there are still legal barriers in place for the further study of these results due to the War on Drugs. My position is: the phenomena -- based upon my own personal experience -- is deeply strange, and in when put within the context of Fermi's Paradox, the Drake equation, etc, it might be time to approach the subject of consciousness from a different angle. Its so simple, its merely to investigate.
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I'm missing something. I have it installed. My plugins are executable. I've Reset. I've changed the folder. But BitBar says "No Plugins Found"
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No stronger than the claim that such things do exist.

It seems fair that an assertion offered without proof can be dismissed without proof.
That's a good question. Both ASN.1 and Google's offering have more limited language coverage (ASN.1 is ancient, but venerable, now in the hands of NCBI), but maybe we should expand that list. These are tools that serialize buffers with razor-sharp binary specifications. I, too, use HDF5 for all of its features, but maybe someone who is rolling their own, for instance, under Spark, should have a solid binary specification.
Truly gorgeous imagery and formatting. Kind of sad to think many will experience this on a mobile device. These images really same alive on my big old monitor : )
For what it's worth, I'm at least one person who bought tickets on Tickets for Less instead of StubHub because of this. This kind of goodwill PR works.
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It isn't at all groundbreaking, but we haven't figured out how to apply the concept to society very well. Bertrand Russell's 1932 essay on the topic has been discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6513765

What we need is an inversion of the "diminishing marginal returns" concept to permeate economic theory. Maybe some people just call that Keynesian theory?

I think the real takeaway isn't about upper middle class versus regular middle class. Rather there is quite a lot of negative value / lost opportunities by drawing the poverty line so low.
Very close to my reaction. Having whichever you value is a big factor in happiness. Rich people have money and crave time. The unemployed have time and crave money. No surprise which of those is happier. The more interesting cases are people who don't have a lot of either but give up time for money (most of us) or give up money for time (ski bums, monks, bohemians of many kinds). Which we pursue is a strong statement about which we value, and - again - those who pursue time seem happier overall.

Personally, I've been much happier since I dropped to part time, giving up (some) money for (some) time. I'll be even happier when I take that next step toward full retirement.
What would be your dream application or service?
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ditto. :)
Whenever I see "in a study of N people..." I translate that to be "in a study of N university students..."
A thing to remember in this are the sizes of the various markets.

NYSE, the largest in USA, has a combined market value of 20 trillion dollars, whereas the largest in China (Shanghai Stock Exchange) has a combined market value of 4 trillion. This is for two economies of about the same size.

This means that when the Chinese market drops (or raises) the overall impact for the wealth of the country is much smaller than a similar change would cause in the American markets.

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