skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi @shostack. We (https://flair.co) are a team of engineers and looking for feedback on the marketing side. We have some nice preorders and shipped our first few units a few days ago. We will have brick and morter presence in the next few months but our online strategy has largely been focused on reddit. Looking to do more FB ads etc but curious about tactics for identifying copy/images/audience most effectively. Also curious where to look for a marketing hire and how to best structure compensation (main advice I have seen is emphasis on commission). Any thoughts? Also happy to chat offline if you need more detail.
> (despite most crime in Japan being committed by the Japanese,)

There are a lot more Japanese in Japan than there are foreigners. Similarly, blacks in the US "only" commit a little under half of murders... but they are much much less than half of the population.
For me, this typically involves a lot of analysis as to what the obstacles are. There are typically multiple things conspiring to turn me into a slacker and it doesn't generally work to just knuckle down and do it. Figuring out the underlying causes and addressing those is what works for me.

So, you might try spending some time asking yourself 'Why?' x, y or z is failing to get done. Be really honest with yourself. Don't tell yourself anything PC. Then, if you still want to get it done, solve those issues first.
> I'm curious how you would relate your work to WISC (Writable Instruction Store Computers) and how you view WISC machines?

You know, I've never heard of WISC machines before. I think the idea of RISC though is you are basically exposing the pipeline's micro-ops to the world, and the icache basically becomes your writeable "micro-code ROM", if you will.

If you can't change how the pipeline's datapath is wired up, I'm not sure I'm clever enough to figure out how changing the instruction set would help (they needed writeable ucode in the old days, because they had so many bugs!). But with that said, one of my lab's goals has been to design and implement vector machine datapaths that are fairly configurable (say between program phases) in a way that can capture more types of compute kernels.
As most tyrants, Putin is attracted to flashy expensive projects allowing him to show off his greatness and power. Economic viability is not a big factor there, neither is the actual benefit vs. costs to the citizens - the only citizen whose opinion matters is Putin himself. This makes it attractive for some big projects - you only need to convince one person, and nothing else matters.

However Russia would not be a good place to do this, the level of corruption is astonishing and the number of local interests one will have to satiate would be enormous. And the manufacturing culture is not that great, which means most of things will need to be imported and assembly will have to be very tightly controlled, and even then screwups will happen a lot. So I would estimate the probability of success as very low.

BTW: I wasn't aware there was a "race". Who exactly is racing?
The question implied that you would not use something like this and just do what you currently do today.
> Inflatable structures are made from materials that handle tensile loads well (the hoop stress from pressurization in particular).

And conveniently, hoop stress due to pressure in a cylinder is twice the axial stress due to pressure, so you're free to add quite a bit of axial stress due to the mass of all the items in your artificial gravity environment!
This is just white people. Asians stick with asians, blacks with blacks, hispanics with hispanics, natives with natives.

I love how people love to pretend that the US is some kind of idealized place. It isn't.

I mean look at all the Black Lives Matter stuff. Look at asians complaining about quotas in colleges and lack of opportunities in hollywood/etc. The same with hispanics.
There have been quite a few of them.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=single+founder+y+combinator+compan...

Again, it's definitely a strike against you in the selection process (as it probably should be...I've started a company solo and I've started a company with a co-founder...the latter is clearly better), but it's not a deal-breaker.
It'll be interesting to see if this leads to a debt crisis in the future, as Japan's population shrinks and the per-capita debt burden increases. It'd be very tricky to deal with as social spending for the elderly increases at the same time.
That's the tiniest cost I have.

S3 is all about controlling transfer costs, so I placed an Nginx file cache in front of my attachments and avatars and it obliterated my transfer costs.
"linked to" does not mean "caused by".
Most work requires periods of repetitive and boring work. Rockstar excepted.
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The 2010 census shows the US as 64% non-Hispanic white. It's just as impossible for their social groups to be 91% white by random chance as it is for blacks' social groups to be 65% black.

You can explain the whites who have no connection to any nonwhite by saying that nonwhites tend to be concentrated in particular areas such as Louisiana or New York City, but that makes the nonwhites look significantly more integrated compared to the whites.
>We are nation with nearly 80% white population.

The US is 61.6% white, 17.6% hispanic/latino, 13.3% black, and 5.6% asian.

Source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/00
Also, wouldn't everyone start at 0X (beginner) and gradually accrue X's with time and practice? That's how most other skills work...
Do you realize your link literally repeats what I said:

"Police who pulled over and killed Philando Castile reported they thought he might have resembled a suspect in an armed robbery case."

He was not stopped over a broken light, police _thought_ he could be armed and dangerous. (I can not judge the validity of their suspicions)
If they tie just make an arbitrary decision. E.g. pick the least fun one. Or more analysis on which should win if that is appropriate.
Yeah, I was curious about that as well. I wonder if the internet and the resulting increase in spread of knowledge about diseases, symptoms, etc. has played a statistically significant part? I'd wager that at the least, it has helped people to realise they need more of an experts opinion when certain symptoms arrive that are linked to more serious illnesses.
RS1 is mostly frozen.

I think Win10 is quite good, and that WSL is quite good given its age, and will be extremely useful for a lot of things.

Still, if you try some workloads, WSL is way slower than a Linux VM. I don't expect it to change for the release. I don't even expect it to change for the 2 years to come. Sill, of course, I could be wrong.

But even so; I insist: WSL is actually quite impressive.
If you have a Pebble, Solanum is fantastic.
Portugal upset France to win Euro 2016
I was surprised to see the city afforabilty/size chart tracks political parties so closely. Almost all the high growth, affordable cities are Republican leaning, while the high growth expensive cities are predominately Democrat.

I wonder how close the correlation actualy is.
I think the OP's original complaint is bore out of the idea that: if the client is already storing the logs in a structured format with a schema to accompany it, and the data engine has query features for that data which is powerful like grep (as SQL does), and it's already using that engine to power search for the immediate buffer - it seems a bit odd then to not build 'global' search right into the application, for all logs, based on the same mechanism.

I think it's nice you can do all the SQL dumping/munging stuff, given the implementation. I just don't want that in 99% of all use cases - the application doing search itself is enough normally. It's not like I use any of grep's more powerful features when I search logs, 99% of the time it's just something like "| grep foo" and I narrow it down iteratively or just pick out the result.

Honestly, technical specifics aside, this is also a matter of usability, and is something Slack gets very right: you never have to do anything for search to work well for the vast majority of use cases, even for very long histories. You just type the words you want and the results always come back, even from weeks or months before. Telling users to enable logs and then search text files is just much more activation energy. Telling them to do that after exporting their data from SQLite, even more so.
"expansive cities versus expensive cities"
I've just spend 30 minutes examining the cities on your site.

Great work !
The correlation is one of the strongest there is, and indeed, causal -- there's a almost perfect lag time of ~20 years [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_cancer#/media/File:Cancer...
Grabbing an anaconda with your hand is a bad idea
TODO: follow-up for brainpicking session

EDIT: in the spirit of proper forum etiquette, I will add to the conversation.

Currently spent 4 months 'funemployed' and aggressively pursued my side project full time, a side-scrolling action platformer. I became rather quick to pick up the necessary art skillset and have demo-ed my alpha at local venues. It's received solid praise regarding fundamentals and playability - peoiple just want 'more polish' to give them a reason to buy it and play.

Subsequently networked and found an audio engineer who I've found to fit my needs. I cannot stress how hard it was to find one i liked, which kinda justified my decision to pay him a dec. amount.

Total nominal expenses thus far: 12k

considering I own vice renting, a good portion of that is tax deductible so really it's a net expense of 10K, plus the added benefit of flexibility and pursuing passion.

If I were to sell > 2k units, I would seriously consider a campaign of 1 game a year on the side, as I feel I have a grasp on the process. I still aim to be a moonlight dev vice full-time, for risk-mitigation and life reasons.
Sure, but the reagent tests are really just qualitative, there's no good way of telling that the heroin I just bought from the nice man on the street corner is twice as pure as last weeks. I suppose there may be some tests that can tell if there is fentanyl present, which might help...?
Then they can not opt-in to research. But continuing personalized results are also what you pay them (or Promethease) for.

http://i.imgur.com/kh3bOi8.jpg
Sure, integration is usually the hard part, but that's engineering for ya'. The point is that there's no new science at play. In other words, this is less like going from horse-and-buggy to the moon, and more like going from the Model T to F1.

Edit: Though it's worth noting that both those transitions were achieved in less time than since the original NYC pneumatic tubes and now.
The first advert was in 2007 and was probably just some html in the theme sidebar. Now I use an ad plugin for WordPress to handle the mechanics of it.

My favorite office is mine because it is well-suited to my needs :)
Change a C program while it's executing
Beeminder (https://www.beeminder.com/overview#how_beeminder_works) has been life-changing for me, taking me from zero to working out 3x/week and meditating 4x/week, and currently helping me learn to blog more regularly.

It's in the same category (habit formation) as Daisy and Streaks but with a somewhat power-usery focus. You commit to any number of quantifiable goals (e.g. "work out three times a week for the next 6 months"), it reminds you to stay on track, and if you fall behind, actually charges you money. The idea is to tie your long-term goal ("work out regularly") to your short-term sense of immediate priority ("work out today or it'll cost ya").

One of the reasons it works for me is that it fits with a flexible schedule. I don't have to work out at 8am every Monday; I just have to work out sometime early in the week. I can build up a "backlog" and "spend" it later. Conversely if I have a crappy week and let habits slide, it reminds me to make up for it the following week.

The Beeminder team also blogs regularly on the subject of habit formation and self-control - e.g. http://blog.beeminder.com/flexbind/ which goes into more detail on why they've designed the system the way they have.
Thanks, this is the setup I suggested to a customer that wanted to move away from JRuby because those issues on the dev systems.
Japan is the 10th most populous country in the world.

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

> Will China invade?

Why would they invade? China and the rest of the world is doing what japan is. What japan is doing is moving to cities and depopulating their rural areas. Young people and even old people want to live in cities.

You are misreading the article.
@Antirez please please please let this thing have a future: there is a great need for a modern, simple and usabile CLI editor.
And if cars are overvalued, then Ford needs a new business model. Kind of a tautology there.
I generally just use [1]. Press the `fx` button and you can construct equations using the GUI that work in LaTeX. And if you click on the image and copy the address, you can send the (very long) link to a friend and share the equations too.

[1]: https://latex.codecogs.com/
You can't comment like this here, and HN is no place for political rants and flamewars.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12066283 and marked it off-topic.
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Why do we allow people to make a profit selling habit-forming drugs? The system that protects Purdue's profits also creates this horrible incentive.
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Not gonna happen. The last MS attempt at FS is ReFS, and it certainly won't support WSL given its by design lack of some features WSL is using. Not even talking about WSL, I don't think you can even put the system on ReFS, you sill need NTFS for that. MS approach at FS is a little bit odd, I think. There is a lot of confusion between the abstract features NTFS provides (and the rest of the systems needs), and the actual concrete NTFS filesystem.
Currently, South Korea and Japan have the highest incidences of stomach cancer. It's typically attributed to cured foods and processed meats. Prior to refrigeration, wide consumption of these foods were out of necessity.
I'm a lot more optistic about a world where everyone is socializing on the internet than one where everyone is burning carbon.
I hear xamarin's toolset compiles to multiple platforms, if you know csharp. kinda the route im going for my game.
Have you ever had more than a minor annoyance result from some company's use of your data? I understand the instinct and ick factor, but I've rarely seen an actual practical consequence.
Well I don't do full stack, so I personally would not use it.
Longmont looks like it has no downtown and seems a bit on the less affluent side--is that accurate? Hard to tell from online research. But a much better commute to Boulder than Denver.

How would you describe it? How does it compare to say, Cherry Creek?
Hunger should be correlated with calories expended, our metabolic system is homeostatic. the unnatural consumption of refined carbohydrates, and in such large quantities, is what is causing the Diabetes II epidemic and widespread obesity, both likely symptoms of the same disorder.
That's my goal as well, as long as I can make a comfortable living, hack on a bunch of stuff from nice places all over the world I'll be more than happy!
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There is some sort of cultural attraction in play also. All of the cities in red would be considered some sort of high profile cultural hub.

I live in a very cheap city that's very close to the price baseline on that graph. Land here is cheap. My girlfriend lives on close to 1/3 acre, in the city, for less than 200k. The city is seeing a large influx of on new businesses looking to relocate cost centers here, ie lots of call centers. So there are jobs, there are houses, there are all the amenities of a normal city.

But there are next to no cultural outlets. Nightlife is confined to 3 or 4 strips in the entire city. Most festivals boil down to parents and kids buying food from trucks and tents. There are no major music festivals. Craft beer is pretty much limited to IPAs. Natural attractions are woods or lakes. Any sometimes during sporting events in our city, broadcasters show the visiting team's skyline, because ours is so lackluster.

I am looking to move cities, but after factoring in an astronomical rise in housing cost, and a price of living adjustment that does come close to matching, I am having second thoughts. Why move to a city to do stuff, if once I get there I cannot afford to do anything.

Side note, the article is not particularly informative. Its pretty basic info: look at these cities that cost a lot, and the reason is because new builds are limited. Seems like an excuse for someone to make the infographic.
Apparently Parkinson's disease has been on the rise over the past several disease, some say due to the decrease in smoking. Which is fascinating, as smoking has been shown to be actually protective against Parkinson's.
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The insight the parent offered though is pointing out the tautology in the former case. Because while everyone knows Ford == cars, lots of people see SV/Google and miss that most of it is in the selling ads business and much less in selling tech.
Oxycontin was simply a massive dose of oxycodone, enough to kill an opiate-naive individual, wrapped in what might has well have been a candy shell.

Technically a time-release mechanism, it was easily defeated by anyone with a razor blade or a wet paper towel.

They aren't different drugs, and I'm sure Purdue has a finger in the oxycodone pie other than simply brand-name Oxycontin.

A little bit of old-fashioned police work would easily reveal what prescriptions a person was prescribed, a search of their personal property would reveal paraphenilia related to their drug use. Empty oxycontin bottles would indicated an oxycontin overdose. An empty syringe would indicate heroin abuse. Spent patches would indicate fentanyl abuse. etc
I'm hoping Android without Google takes off, and we can get a good ecosystem no matter whether GApps are good or not.
Work on something you would be really excited to work on even if you were a retired billionaire. Great projects pull work out of you.

The important thing is not to fool yourself into working on something you think you're excited about but deep down are really not that excited about.
>where everyone is socializing on the internet

Or, as we used to called it in my day, not actually socializing.
An ugly mess happens. Which is why I think people would be asking themselves those questions before repealing Obamacare / breaking ADA. I think there's a limit to which politicians can pull tricks on people beyond which society's self-preservation instinct kicks in and people vehemently repeal harmful ideas. I doubt you can create a dystopian future with a single vote; it needs to be done very sneakily so that people won't notice until it's too late.
On the one hand, I understand the rationale. I even remember something similar being written into an episode of "The West Wing".

On the other hand, the U.S. citizenry has had it "up to here" with "too big to fail".

Too big to fail politics? Political careers? (Not to mention all the other "too big to fail' careers we seem to have, these days, particularly at the top.)

Enough.
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I've asked this question before and it is typically answered with nothing more than hypothetical "nightmare" scenarios.
Climate change also serves to hobble their rich industrialized enemies and provide an excuse for building nuclear plants.
Criminals abuse technology and people are stupid are the 2 takeaways here. Neither is really news.
Nope, a python-like language written in C.
> In your car, do you move the turn signal lever up or down to indicate a right turn?

You rotate it the same direction you're about to rotate the wheel. The vi navigation keys have no such convenient correspondence.
Nope. Reserved to Win7 (and then; only Pro). Even third party VM software able to run it implements a custom check to make sure your host is Win7 otherwise they refuse to run it. This is quite concerning, from a backward compat POV, because it means that it only has deferred the incompatibilities it proposed to solve, and that deferring is completely artificial.

Honestly MS is not that good on backward compat. They are good on the story, so/so on the facts. But I prefer that to being stuck in the dark ages of poor design and the poor security which comes with.
There have been a number of meta studies which have tried to link the removal of lead from gasoline and the drop in violent crime. The correlate well.
Agincourt by Juliet Barker
The story of a nerd, who loved forensic accounting and was thought unwarlike; but was knew an innovation when it was shot through his face (during an earlier battle in Wales) and used it to end the Age of Chivalry - i.e. Henry V.

What I learned was "always take enough arrows": even if your (relatively few) knights have to walk 'cause the horses are laden with literally millions of arrows. I'll write up a review one of these days, fine book. He was fighting piracy (it wasn't a needless war) so I don't he'd have liked Tor.

Skills - need to exercise the ones I have, not pile on more, just now.
I am a firm believer that example code that serves as a reference should illustrate the absolute best practices. "mkdir -p" is the best practice to create a dir that may or may not already exist, therefore this is a bad example (you are teaching some devs who don't know "mkdir -p" a bad practice). If you want to demonstrate the file_exists function, pick a better example.

This is the same reason why I dislike, for example, seeing the documentation of a library showing how to perform actions X, Y, and Z, but a footnote says "by the way, there is no error checking in this example". Well then, why use this code as an example?

Anyway, sorry for the rant. ShutIt does seem interesting :)
Smoking rates are only decreasing in developed nations. Globally it's increasing by ~1% each year.
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You wouldn't know what the practical consequences are because you are entirely in the dark where the data goes.

That is kind of the point.
Wouldn't you prefer if 23andMe to offer the data to all scientists and not only pharma companies paying millions?
Or maybe you die from something smoking related before getting Parkinson's.
Previous submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12066749

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12066134
You might be thinking of CETP inhibitors. This class of drug modifies cholesterol levels to numbers associated with better health, but so far none of them have conclusively improved health outcomes:

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

Anacetrapib is still in stage III trials so it's too early to consider the concept a failure, but I think the bad results so far are evidence that hyperlipidemia is a symptom not a cause of cardiovascular disease, and that statins have some mechanism of action beyond just modifying cholesterol levels (eg. anti-inflammatory, as some people have suggested).
There's several things I self-identify as that I wouldn't want a stranger calling me.
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