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If you think the IDE for VBA is awful, get ready for the tooling for Google Apps Script. I happened to be reading the first few chapters of a new book, "Going GAS: From VBA to Google Apps Script"[1]. He praises the VBA IDE, much better than the thing Google offers for GAS. But he sees the writing on the wall, and that VBA's days are numbered.

"Why Transition from VBA?

In many ways, VBA has been a victim of its own success. Its tight integration with Office and very usable and immediate development environment make it hard to beat. However, it’s been with us since 1991, the same year that Tim Berners-Lee created the first website, which is still running today, but for historical rather any aesthetic or functional reasons.

Although VBA is as far removed from its 1991 forefather as today’s HTML5 sites are from that first website, every version of Office for as long as I can remember has come with a threat that perhaps VBA will not be supported. Office 2008 for Mac did not support VBA, but it was back again by public demand in Office 2011. Office 2016 has just been released, and we can all breathe a sigh of relief to see that VBA is still there. But Microsoft’s focus is shifting to Office 365 from Office for the desktop. According to Satya Nadella of Microsoft, “the most strategic developer surface for us is Office 365.”"

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Going-GAS-Google-Apps-Script/dp/149194...
This "anti-ageing drug" is actually just Metformin, an old drug commonly used to not help those suffering from type-2 diabetes. Some people like it, some people hate it.

> Scientists think the best candidate for an anti-ageing drug is metformin, the world’s most widely used diabetes drug which costs just 10p a day. Metformin increases the number of oxygen molecules released into a cell, which appears to boost robustness and longevity.

Metformin actually inhibits cellular respiration by poisoning the mitochondria. The saturated fatty acid palmitate is an antidote for the effects of Metformin [1].

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005272812...
I would add Murakami to that list. In my experience, Japanese doesn't translate all that well to English - although some Murakami's works, like "South of the Border", feels very close to Fitzgerald. I'm now a little surprised to realize that "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" was actually written before both it, and "Norwegian Wood".

At least for "Norwegian Wood", I found the translation to Norwegian to "feel" better than (the excerpts I've read) of the English translation. It's hard for me to say if that is because Norwegian is my first language, and I learned Japanese from living in Japan, or because there are some parallels between terse Nordic prose and poetry and Japanese. I could certainly see the Nordic sagas working "better" in Japanese than in English.
I like the About me:

Hey I'm Kai Michaelis, I'm in an IT-Security Masters program in Bochum, Germany and work part-time for people who use the term Cybersecurity unironically.
> in general I create one or two symlinks a year and I'm good. The hierarchy works fine.

Same here. I have a few things that tags would be nice for, but it's infrequent enough that current filesystems are fine. Couple of examples

* Tagging the source [CD/iTunes/Amazon etc.] of my music - tags would be nice (and possibly doable as IDTags etc.) but "/music/source/artist/album" or "/music/artist/album [source]" works fine

* Multiple paths to the same file - I have various media (movies, music, books, TV shows etc.) related to a single series in one folder. Those should also be in my main music etc. folders. Again tagging with the series name to make a virtual "series" folder would be nice, but symlinks solve that and it happens infrequently enough that it isn't an issue.

Other than those edge cases, I'd say most of my data fits pretty well into a hierarchical structure.
Watch the Millennium Falcon Take Off from the Runway at Miniatur Wunderland
How about leftist anti-nuclear, anti-GMO, organic food pseudoscience? Nuclear power is the solution to fossil fuel emissions that doesn't require destroying our economy, but the left is the biggest obstacle to its development. Or how about the wage gap, which no serious economist actually thinks exists.
I'm more interested in how breakfast food became mostly garbage for so many Americans. May as well eat a Snickers, chili dog and a Coke from the gas station when you get up.
[My previous comment was of course wrong in the sense that US, UK and NATO troops are not the only enemies that Taleban or Daesh have. Other combatants - be it the Afghan army or Kurdish troops - that fight them do suffer more casualties. But also the propaganda value of those other enemies, when dead or alive at their hands, is much smaller.]
Completely agree with this. I think there is an analytics blindspot underpinning it. We don't measure the amount of people inclined to just close the tab when they see this, or the negative sentiment it incurs. We might see a nominal rise in email addresses from bots and other braindead folks who fill in these forms, but the negative effect isn't measured.
California Braces for Unending Drought
Unsure - texts have been free in the UK for years and the majority of the people I know use WhatsApp. I started using it instead of Apple's iMessage because it's just more reliable and universal.
When measured by engagement, they all devolved to distracting ads and media. Facebook now looks like Alta Vista and Lycos used to look like before Google wiped them off the map. Google has one thing right - they continue to solve the core need that created them, regardless of monetisation. The next would be either:
1. The site/s that solve the human need behind Facebook cleanly.
2. Or the government partitioning/open-graphing Facebook for rigging and silencing republican news in an election year.
Sure, but the point is there are many off chart artists and tracks that I'm aware of, or own, that Spotify provides no access to. I've also found great underground albums by artists that one day went dark on Spotify. That happens all the time on all streaming services, especially YouTube. For obscure selection, the competitors to Spotify are even worse.

Overall access is still a ways out. Access is taken away as easily at it is given. Without ownership you lose the ability to ever share that experience you once had access to.
"of all merely asks a simple question about the evidence for climate change"

i am working on 'an investigation into the sex life of sterile coat hangers with particular reference to climate change' myself.
Pro-Putin Biker Gang Revs Up Russia
Does OpenBSD have good SMP support yet?
Eggs won't get salmonella if they are refrigerated promptly after they are laid. Japan has higher food safety standards, so eggs produced in Japan are less likely to have salmonella than those produced in the US.
Postgres has fairly robust support for temporal-style data. In particular, with 9.5 BRIN indices are often a great fit for heavy write workloads where most queries are range scans. It's not the best database for it, though.
We can even use string interpolation

let x = "\(number)"
For me, there are two major barriers to voice-to-text dictation:

1) when I'm writing a message (probably due to laziness), I don't always have the full thing formed in my head. If I were dictating to a person, abortive words and phrases would just be ignored, but when dictating to a machine I have to manually go back to erase / correct mistakes. This can be a lot of work for a long message.

2) I don't always feel comfortable speaking my messages in public; it feels a little exposing. The nice thing about text-based communication is privacy.
I'm working on a chrome extension to kill exit intents, I'll share it
> ...because of their use of insecure third party services...

The OS is partially to blame for that. I've got all my external services separately jailed in FreeBSD, with firewalls tuned to each service. Unless they come packing a 0day jailbreak exploit - a compromised service will spread no further, the web server isn't going to be SSHing into the kerberos server. Having your DB dumped sucks, but the really embarrassing compromises (HackingTeam, AshleyMadison, HBGary, etc) involved establishing a beachhead on a vulnerable service and then pushing in further.

You can manually set these thing up in any OS, but the easier an OS makes it to be secure - the more likely it is that the machine will be secure.
Is it built such that a different event notification thing such as libev, libevent, kqueue could be swapped in without too much effort? Well, it's not even that much code.. looks nice
Nice work! But you may want to remove src/#lib.rs# :)
AGB – Schlüsseldienst Stuttgart – ToS
How is that different than today with human drivers? A laser to the eye will cause lots of swerving.
International team launches vast atlas of mathematical objects
I'm pretty sure that's the primary question the article answers. Heavy marketing of highly sugary cereal.
Good AR is going to be a long way off. There are many technical challenges that aren't even close to being addressed yet.
VoltDB isn't a column store. It's designed for serializable OLTP workloads with really fast index updates, neither of which characterize column stores. You may be thinking of one of Stonebraker's other projects, Vertica.
Not disagreeing necessarily, but having many different databases has a cost.

Data has more value when combined, so a wise database choice also depends on what you already have. You can combine data from different systems (e.g. FDWs, which postgres has great support for), but something is usually lost along the way.

I think postgres is a good default, because it is good for a lot of things. But sure, if you make an informed decision otherwise, there's nothing wrong with that.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1555005/Seven-chil...

Can we really call trolls evil if within a community they counteract group-think, wage a war on cliché, and subvert unthinking and tired stereotyping?

Perhaps Aristotelian virtue theory can help us answer these questions?
My respect for Thiel just dropped.
I just realized the video doesn't say. The artist is Wim Delvoye (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Delvoye).
Thanks! Yeah, only a few days into using emacs. I keep forgetting about those files.
Truly a sad day when Eco passed. While all his work is well worth reading, his writing on lists should be of particular interest to people on this board. If you are looking for a good art book, a good coffee table book, or a good bathroom book, you could do a lot worse than History of Beauty, The Infinity of Lists, or On Ugliness.
> And now you're saying that not only should the site operators make their content freely available and accept that some visitors will circumvent possibly the only way they have of generating revenue, those operators should also be actively responsible for vetting any third party content they incorporate within their site in case the third party is hostile

No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying it's unethical to have ads with malware on your site. I didn't propose a way not to have malware on your site.

The way you propose, by vetting ads, has been used successfully, but it's not a particularly imaginative solution. What about donations, freemium, PWYW, subscriptions, grants? Or what about giving your work away for free and using that reputation to get jobs?

> Making Joe Blogger responsible if some massive service's CDN version of jQuery got hacked doesn't seem like a good way to encourage Joe Blogger to spend their time sharing their writing with the rest of the world.

It's utterly ridiculous to claim this is about Joe Blogger. Joe Blogger is quite often happy to do his blogging as a labor of love and let blogspot/livejournal/whatever reap all the ad revenue. And small-time bloggers who do make money are frequently more sensitive to their readers' complaints and explore alternatives to big add networks that serve ads. The problem is big content providers who are under shareholder pressure to produce growth each quarter, so they try to squeeze out every bit of ad revenue with no concern for users. They're also too risk averse to try alternative monetization strategies to ads. It is well within the capability of those players to provide ads without malware, but they don't because it doesn't hurt their bottom line enough.

Serving up malware to your users and readers is unethical. I'm all for supporting content providers; I donate to NPR and to artists on Patreon frequently. But if you can't run your business ethically, then you should shut down your business.

If you really think serving up malware to finance content is okay, then why don't you propose that content creators just hack some small percentage of their users and sell the data online? The effect on users is the same, but it cuts out the middlemen so it's more efficient.
Because NoSQL is a hype.

Many of the NoSQL essentially takes us back to 60s before Codd came up with relational model[1] These ideas tend to come back once in a while [2][3], but so far nothing is better than relational model.

NoSQL still makes sense in many cases (generally when your specific use case does not need all guarantees of ACID), you can get in return higher performance or horizontal scalability.

MongoDB is aim to be generic database but rides on the wave of NoSQL "coolness". It was created by people who had no experience in databases and are learning as they go[4]. As they started adding things that are essential for database they realized it's not that simple.

Currently MongoDB is outperformed by Postgres. In fact there is an application called ToroDB which provides protcol compatibility for Postgres that emulates MongoDB and even that outperforms Mongo. Mongo also doesn't scale well horizontally, so essentially you don't really don't get any significant advantage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_database_model

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_database

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_database

[4] For example they started with mmap'ed memory regions to store the data. Did not initially use fsync() to make sure data is saved on disk. In a way it reminds me of MySQL several years ago. It's much better now than it was in the past, but it has a lot of warts left of from the past.
>This company produces great, great content.

What they made is a spammy, irritating popup.
If I'm not mistaken, Eco had a good hand in translating most of his works, or at the very least he was on good terms with, and selected, most of his translators. Given the character of his work, I'd find it hard to believe otherwise.
Thanks, but it only uses epoll :)

mio is a crate that offers more platform agnostic async I/O.
You might be right. I set the rice cooker on a timer the night before so that it's finished before I get up. Miso soup takes not much longer than the time to boil water, and I often leave it overnight and just re-heat it. Almost every kitchen in Japan has a fish grill/oven, so that only takes a few minutes to wrap the fish in foil and turn it on...ready in about 5-10 mins.

Back in the USA, I used to eat oatmeal with fresh fruit and honey every morning, and it took longer to prepare.
> And yet, despite his downfall, Conrad is still a coveted name in Silicon Valley. People want to meet the man who created a $60 million company in just three years and made good on his promise to shake up the insurance industry. Dalgaard says he’s been getting e-mails from people eager to work with Conrad since the day his resignation went public.

This just shows how many unethical, delusional, or ignorant people there are. The guy sounds like a nightmare to work for and completely threw the law and business ethics out the window. Who in their right mind would work for or with him?
I would also like to mention Objection[1] it is very minimalistic and doesn't get into your way. Most of the time you are writing queries with Knex[2] or you can write raw sql if you feel like it. I tried a lot of ORMs for node and this is the one I liked the most. The guy working on it is also very responsive and have superb documentation.

1 - http://github.com/Vincit/objection.js

2 - http://knexjs.org
High-quality educational content has never been popular. So it seems a bit silly to try to monetize high-quality educational content through a popularity measuring platform, doesn't it?
Interesting, though especially for the entries in the list that are frameworks, you could conceivably just bury all of the ugly stuff in a `framework` folder, and have only one ignore.
Obviously the textual description is limited (e.g. a video would settle this question), but that description alone is hardly unnatural. The behavior of the Google car is behavior I make all the time, and one I see drivers making all the time: inching forwards in the right-hand lane to look at the traffic on the left, then stopping because you've decided not to go for it.

The fact is: slow speed rear ends are really common. I've had them happen to me several times during one year where I commuted every day. I've done it myself on another car.

I would not be surprised if over the course of the next few years Google cars get rear-ended at light to moderate speeds hundreds of times.
I'm curious what you mean by Postgres not having a "scale-up" strategy. Are you saying that eg MS SQL works better with a few TBs of ram and 128 cores than Postgres does?
It's pretty common to eat raw eggs here. I would hesitate to do it with the wan-looking eggs in American grocery stores, though.

Japanese people eat a lot of eggs in general: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2014/09/16/food/raw-appeal-...
Yes.

This post gives me words to express what I always thought: They killed Socrates for trolling.
Honey, I shrunk the BeagleBone Black
Yikes. Curious around details, how did they get access to backend systems?
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I love these metrics that are 99% meaningless but you still want to know how your language compares. Like average identifier length, source tree directory depth, etc.
What does that even mean?

There is a narrative here, which appears at first very compelling, especially to readers of HN: gentle intellectual persecuted by hysterical ignoramus...

But the narrative gradually reveals holes and inconsistencies which makes it at best inconclusive, and in my considered opinion, strongly supports a radically different interpretation: Menzio behaved like a demented nut-job, terrified his fellow passenger, published a self-serving narrative on facebook which was picked up by the Washington Post and spun even further.

Where is your skepticism?
My theory on WhatsApp is that the U.S. is that the iPhone is more popular here than anywhere else and many of the early adopter types that are needed to help a social network gain momentum use iPhones and have friends who mostly use iPhones, so iMessage is what is naturally used.
Anybody else notice that 82 feet ~= 25 meters, an approximate figure guessed by the original reporters who use the metric system? We simply translated the exact conversion of an approximate number into standard.
Dear Sam, What Are You Doing About This?
For reference:

http://theundercurrent.com/the-guide-to-legal-tax-evasion/

http://theundercurrent.com/global-tax-evasion-you-cant-trust-white-people/

How many of Y-Combinator stable of Unicorns are headquartered in the US but incorporated in Ireland or engage in other "legal" forms of tax dodgery?

Some of the biggest "legal" tax dodgers are former Silicon Valley startups (including Dropbox), and actively continue to contribute to a culture and a practice of global corporatocracy. When are we putting our foot down? Corporations can solve many of the worlds problems, but only democratically elected governments of, for and by the people can represent or act on the people's behalf. And to do that, they need people and corporations to actually pay taxes.
It's funny. The last reason I received my tattoo was for any sense of individuality or to define my identity. People get tattoos for all sorts of reasons.

Sitting down with a good tattoo artist can mean many things. For some people it is getting a tattoo in the spur of the moment and making sure it is what they want. For others it is building a complex relationship and speaking your design through the artist. Other artists rather just do their own thing and have people lend their bodies. Cheap technology will never replace a good artist, and good artists won't be threatened by it.

I'd argue your salty response to tribal tattoos as proof that they are an effective form of art. Not exactly my taste, but still legitimate art. What else offends you?
P.S. On Ugliness might be the most metal book ever published.
Siri is often powerless. It's impossible to make Siri open a certain video on Youtube. It doesn't even know about the existence of YT, and if you don't have the music locally on your device, it says it didn't find it.

That's why I am excited for more services integrated into personal assistants. I think both Apple and Google have been stagnating. How many years have passed and Siri only just knows how to send a SMS, make a phone call, set an alarm and look up trivia. And all that with very simple phrases, that don't combine multiple requests into one or ask a more nuanced search question and filtering criteria.

Even a regular person knows it should be able to perform such tasks (as opening an app with a specific request), they are not AI, just basic integration.

Another example: go to Google Now and say "Search Beatles on Youtube". Ok, it searches for Beatles in the YT app, but doesn't start playing. Then I say "Play the first result". It goes to web search and displays pages containing "play the first result" text in them. Stupid! I was already in the YT app, asking it to "play".

So what is this? Laziness on the part of Google and Apple, that's what it is, not a difficult AI problem that can't be solved. And the API is closed so I can't add any new behavior in it. I hope Viv kicks their butts and launches them into action.
Zomato has become crap. I used it for discovering restaurants but they changed their entire searching and browsing experience to push restaurants which have online delivery, so much so that it is just not usable anymore.
Similar to GP, if one of these sites throws something in my face I'd rather just leave the site.

Not only is it often (though not always) indicative of other nearby antipatterns, but it's my small way of protesting the lightboxes. Same thing goes for interstitial.

I intentionally do not use any ad blockers and when this how you treat me, i'd really rather not.
That says nothing about driver expectations, and is a poor interpretation of statistics.

About 23-30% of human accidents are rear end collisions. It is entirely possible that the car drives so well that other types of collisions are minimized.

That leaves rear-end collisions - the type the car can't control - misleadingly seeming to be abnormally high.
My thought was that fatal accidents are much more prevalent in manufacturing jobs than the service industry and the drop corresponds more to manufacturing jobs leaving the US than anything else.
Why Not Use “BOINC-Like Credit System” Instead of Bitcoin?
Mongo actually has worse performance than postgres, including inserting data.

You can of course improve Mongo's speed by using weaker write concern, but you can also disable WAL in Postgres too.
As a web developer I frequently get offers for 50k+ in UK you are seriously underpaid
Show HN: An interactive, in-editor keyboard shortcuts tutorial for Sublime Text
I eat muesli at 7:15 and don't feel hungry until 12. Maybe people don't think of muesli when they hear the word cereal.
I've never actually done any mobile development, but I was under the impression that mobile GPUs typically used tiled rendering to save memory usage because they were already tight on VRAM.