skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would need to add a web UI for configuring the server, as the user won't be able to SSH in and edit config files. (This is by design: forcing users to use shells and text editors is terrible UX.)

Currently, you would also need to request a raw IP networking capability from the user. Only admins of the Sandstorm server are able to grant this capability, for security reasons. So if you are self-hosting Sandstorm, you're good, but you wouldn't be able to run the app on Oasis currently. We are working on better solutions here.

Jason (a Sandstorm employee) has been playing around with packaging a Mumble server, proving that this sort of thing is possible: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sandstorm-dev/kfd-zcSJqb4/2f...
That's exactly how you store a tree in a relational database. Every row has a parent_id column. This language isn't just a tree though, it's a graph, so you would need a row per edge instead of a row per node. It would work with git as long as it's kept in sorted order and doesn't grow extremely large, but it isn't nice to view or edit directly; you would want a graph query language to interact with it.
Clinton pledges constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United ruling
Granted. But keep in mind that both products were made by capable companies and were used to deliver value to customers.

I would be more than happy to explore viable alternatives to traditional text-based development but so far I haven't found anything that really impressed me.
"I don't know why the company exists."
but there is no actual proven science behind the 10,000 hour 'rule'. It barely even qualifies as science, even without Gladwell's treatment of it
More suggestions - vasodilation in your feetsies [0]

[0] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v401/n6748/full/401036a... - Physiology: Warm feet promote the rapid onset of sleep

> Even healthy people occasionally have difficulty falling asleep. Psychological relaxation techniques, hot baths, soothing infusions of plant extracts, melatonin and conventional hypnotics are all invoked in the search for a good night's sleep. Here we show that the degree of dilation of blood vessels in the skin of the hands and feet, which increases heat loss at these extremities, is the best physiological predictor for the rapid onset of sleep. Our findings provide further insight into the thermoregulatory cascade of events that precede the initiation of sleep.

If you find that you're regularly not able to sleep.. (for me, 1-2 hours for unconsciousness eventually became falling asleep every ~1.2-1.5 days).. you probably should (if you're aware of risks and don't think they'd be any more ruinous than insomnia) (IANA Doctor/Psychiatrist) be taking z-drugs / benzos. Thank you, sweet temazepam.. Honeymoon stage? Probably, but still worth a try.
It's not just for western music. Hindustani music is more "quantized" around scales than Carnatic music, and many North Indians find it harder to listen to Carnatic music for that reason.
DST had no effect on day length. It has an effect on which actual hours of the day are outside of conventional working hours.
It works. So if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Something being old doesn't mean it isn't still great.
Now if you try to sue them they have correspondence and a receipt. Don't underestimate the power given by just paying for something.
I took a look at your profile and was intrigued. Check out http://akkartik.name/about and feel free to drop me a line!
I agree that you raised some valid points but I think your delivery in making those points were pretty abrasive though. At least that's how I interpreted it!
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IIRC, ASP.Net <strike>5</strike> Core allows for stand-alone deployments, and uses the same libuv under the covers than Node does. The development on the open Core version of the .Net platform has been interesting to watch, and has me actually interested in looking into it again.
I think the better way to look at it is that Apple doesn't produce gadgets to appeal to early adopters, they produce gadgets to appeal to everyone and get early adopters to try it.

There were lots of MP3 players before the iPod, and they all had lots of features, most of which were terrible and confusing. No one had made an MP3 player to appeal to the mass market, they were designing them for the existing users of MP3 players, the early adopters.

Along came Apple and designed a device that everyone could want and use, and a lot of the early adopters saw that it was a superior product in a lot of ways. After that they iterated on it to improve it and make it more appealing to more and more people.

I agree with your sentiment that Android, Windows, and, I assume you would agree, Linux, provide more customization options to the user, and there's a huge part of me that loves being able to tweak things to work exactly right. I bought a Mac to replace my Dell, however, because I was tired of having to tweak things to work exactly right and I was happy to invest in a known quantity. There's nothing empowering about a system you have to work to maintain constantly. That's the appeal with Apple's products.
Pinker is not a great example as a popularizer of science. He writes scientific books in layman's terms like The Language Instinct (which itself sometimes drifts off scientific canon into one explanation he favors over another in disputed areas). He also writes books like The Better Angels of Our Nature which are much more loosely connected to science in which he gives his opinion on human nature, politics, society etc.

I agree with the Language Instinct since it sticks with our current scientific understanding of how the brain scientifically and mathematically creates grammar. I disagree with much of The Better Angels book since it contradicts many anthropological and archaeological studies of human societies.
Self-Adjusting Stack Machines (2011) [pdf]
Travel advisories issued against America are a bit rich. (And miss the point)
GitHub of CEAL:

https://github.com/matthewhammer/ceal
But you said yourself that the s-exp storage format for your language is neither easy nor safe to modify, so how is it better than XML?

Anecdotally, I've also used webMethods, SSIS, and several other visual dataflow programming languages, and they look remarkably similar to FMJ.
I actually was asked this problem in a programming interview. This is first I've read that it is an unsolved problem, which definitely makes me chuckle.
>That same argument gives you Zeno's paradox.

I believe Zeno's paradox is on the rationals, not integers.

>You can sum a pattern of numbers in O(1) time if you use logic instead of brute force.

There may be closed solutions for finite summation patterns, but infinite summation patterns of integers have no solution (by definition).
That's good to hear and I see why those would be popular. I'm a bit surprised that a kanban board is so important.

I'll put in my vote for replacing Wekan with Jupyter -- it's more strategic to win mindshare outside the closed circle of developers. The average unsophisticated user who just wants apps, your target market, doesn't want their very own kanban board. A photo album yes. I speculate your early adopters are predominantly developers themsleves and that's why it's popular. It does fit my comment about private data being an important use case for you, of course.

Sharing homework assignments or spreadsheets of data would be more strategic for you, imho. It could help you break into the 'educational shared docs' submarket -- every school I know uses google docs right now for convenience. And don't forget homeschoolers, and teachers setting up courseware sites. I would think the educational market would be key for you to gain mindshare and grow beyond the community of early-adopter developers.

Anyway, best of luck. This is some really good work you are doing.
I agree, sadly. Between home and business I've spent like $750k on Apple in the last couple of years, and won't buy anything but an iPhone right now.

Apple software for photos (you cannot order different size prints in the same order) and music is half complete crap.

They can't ship a decent new Mac. They can't do incremental updates on old Macs. Even the most inept competitors (HP) are catching up hardware wise.

They need to ditch Jony and Cook.
Autocomplete globally for every command and its subcommands
> I'm more mentally exhausted by the endlessness of pure contrarianism on the Internet.

This is because 'skeptic' content is by far the most cost effective to produce. You're piggy backing off someone else's fame, and the only demand you're making of your readers is that they not read the original source material for themselves, which isn't exactly a difficult sell.
Will no-one post/courier the supplies to Vietnam? That would surely be cheaper than a flight.

If I'm looking at the right advice [1], insulin is £1.50-£3 ($2-4) in the UK, so that may be one possible source.

(The UK suppliers I found don't have information on overseas delivery on their sites; it's probably worth a phone call.)

[1] http://www.diabetes.co.uk/insulin-pumps/buying-an-insulin-pu...
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Those are the best known configurations, we don't have proofs that they are the lowest possible.
every social community I've seen eventually has to give up the downvote as a tool and just have upvotes or likes, or else they peak when the downvoting gets out of hand. I think HNN passed that point about 1-2 years ago. I see more and more worthwhile comments greyed out and I'm sure good contributers who advocate unpopular languages or discount the latest hotness are now driven away.
Needless to say, there has been a lot of work on this subject from a number of different directions, and any particular new paper is unlikely a priori to be a revolutionary breakthrough. Look at Google Scholar or a similar citation graph and you can find thousands of papers about it. (Some key words: “spherical cap discrepancy”, “Fekete points”, “Riesz energy”, “logarithmic potential”, obviously also “Thomson’s problem”, etc.)
> Test strips in the US can cost $1-2 per strip; we spend about 20-30 cents per.

I have type 2, and don't know much about type 1, but I am assuming that the test strips are the same. If so, you can do better than 20-30 cents in the US.

The key is to avoid the big brand name meters, like Contour, FreeStyle, AccuCheck, and such.

Get a meter from True or ReliOn. These are available retail online and at major brick and mortar pharmacies for around $10-15 for a kit that includes the meter, some lancets, and around 10 test strips. Example: [1].

Strips are available retail for around $16-18 per 100 strips. Example: [2].

The big brand name meters are nicer. My Contour just feels higher quality than my True, and it shows the results a little faster, and the lancet device that came with it works a lot better...but the True gets the job done too, and there is no rule that says you have to use the lancet device that came with the meter.

It's easy to overspend in the US on health care. I'm on Metformin. I have insurance. If I get that prescription filled at Rite Aid a 30 day supply is about $90, with the cost to me being a $20 copay.

If I get that prescription filled at WalMart it is $4, and there is no point in bothering with insurance.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/TRUE2go-Blood-Glucose-Starter-Kit/dp/...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/TRUEtest-Test-Strips-100-Count/dp/B00...
Exactly! I grew up thinking school is "my thing" and when I saw people with other skills (music, drawing, acting, cooking, etc.), that must just be "their thing". Yes, people have natural strengths and aptitudes, and there are some things that I know I'm just not inclined for, but it is a very empowering feeling to believe that I can choose to dedicate my time to learning a new skill and become proficient at it. At the same time, the "rule" also should tell you that each new skill you pursue has a serious opportunity cost, so choose carefully!
Who Designed the Hamburger Icon? (2014)
> Unless you control the TLS terminators

Nope, this is all about trusting vendors. Unless you're building your own computer chips and laying your own fiber, you're just blaming a vendor for what seems like personal issues.

> problem is generally not in the network latency

Again years of research has shown this is one of the biggest issues on the web. Read https://www.igvita.com/ for some good info.

> Yes, both technically use reverse proxying technology in their stack, but in the end they are completely different approaches.

Nope, this clearly shows you don't have any understanding. CF is a CDN. That's it. Instead of like other CDNs that offer a CNAME that you point your DNS to, they just offer a free DNS service that automates the CNAME entry into a single button.

All CDNs today are reverse proxies that will either return a cached response or proxy the request to the origin if the cache is empty. You can also use every CDN to proxy dynamic requests and many do. And yes, there are a few that offer a push model where you upload assets explicitly but this is the exception, not the standard.

You're talking about CF as if they're something unique when they do exactly the same thing as everyone else. Use them on a subdomain if you want and leave the main domain unproxied, use them only for static files or for dynamic requests, use them to proxy everything or cache everything including HTML. It's all just configuration. Why is this such a problem for you?
I don't have to do anything to take a server out of rotation. Browsers automatically try all IPs, and then stick with the first IP they find that works. Even if some servers are down, your HTTP requests continue to all work. This is a standard browser behavior. For a really extensive outage (2+ days), I would probably bother to manually update the DNS records.

Thanks for the feeback about making the code browsable. Will consider.
Thanks, I will act on this feedback.
Forget the cool kids. Geeks are now shaping new products and services
Don't forget the "rip. Mix. Burn." Marketing campaign that mainstreamed cd ripping and that Pepsi giveaway of music.
It didn't read that way in Outliers, where he implied there was a linear relationship between practice and ability, without preconditions. When confronted, he had to offer a clarification clause that the rule only applied to those who already did 10,000 hours, but that thousands of more hours are needed. Suuure whatever you say, Gadwell.
Isn't this an optimization problem that can be solved with computer to solve a high degree equation?
NTRU itself is patented.[1] Given this is just a tweak of NTRU, you're getting yourself into a legal mess very fast if you run out and implement it.

[1] http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/pub/Patent_Letters/15....
As far as I can tell and if IIRC its across reboots too. I can't remember all the reasons I moved to fcron (10+ years ago) but the @# syntax was one factor
They also have plenty of competitors, the CDN space has more companies than the ISP space so the internet is already more centralized at a much deeper level. This a silly claim by the OP.
Hacking group claims responsibility for bringing down Pokemon Go servers
They bombed the presidential palace, not his "holiday home" in Marmaris, which is where he was.
The other commenters are right, the time limits were a non-issue if you chose the right algorithm. It might be the difference between solving it in 30 years and 300ms.

I'm probably misremembering that specific problem, but they were typically very easy problems, but with a huge n and some small 'gotcha' to the scenario that allowed an algorithmic or dynamic programming trick. Not realistic at all, but they were lots of fun. All of the problems weren't like that, but those were the hardest to get.
> I find that much more tolerable than the hassles of UTC servers, where you can't instantly translate between server time and wall time in your head

Background: we moved all our pan-US servers ( Windows, Unix, AS/400 and MF ) to UTC back in the early 2000s, instead of following the local TZs.

I didn't experience any particular instance when I wanted to convert a server incident to wall-time. Since all events were scheduled in UTC it was a direct look-up between (1) unusual things happening on server and (2) any jobs scheduled at that time. What time it was in the office or in the customer's TZ didn't really matter.

The only time we converted to wall-time was internally within teams to determine when our maintenance shifts would start. With globally-outsourced support teams, the server load charts dictated the UTC time to start the work which was communicated to the appropriate teams who performed local conversion for their shifts. Once they were in the office, everything was executed on UTC.
Since this is a core part of their business, I don't see how they would risk it with this tactic. If you have evidence, let's see the details.
In this talk https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12101908 they said their toolchain can output layouts for the CPU on silicon, and it would cost about $25,000 to have photomasks made, and I think about $0.50 per chip.
Caruana- as a more constructive comment, I would say your question is more one of marketing retire than investment strategy. In that sense, one advice I would give is to focus on customer education. The majority of funds, whether they are institutional funds or retail funds, do a poor job of educating clients. Especially with technology involved - a client who understands, is comfortable and truly engaged about your technology will probably stick around longer in the not-so-good times. From a sales point of view, education is a differentiating factor. My 2 cents, Canadian.
> Idea: proper graphics for data/image/video display.

Too late. xterm already has it for a long time (I remember seeing it working
as long ago as in 2003 in rxvt, and it was nowhere new thing then). See the
screenshot of w3m, a lynx-like web browser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m

My today's rxvt-unicode also supports this mode.
Understanding Understanding Mathematics (1978) [pdf]
These are posts that always repeat the same thing: don't use Flexible SSL. Fine, that's your choice as the site operator to use or not use that option. Why blame the provider for your configuration choice?
Do you know anyone who has practiced drawing for, literally, thousands of hours and is not competent at it? I find that difficult to believe. There are people who can't form mental images, but that is considered a neurological condition (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554894). I believe such people may never be competent at drawing, but that's not usually what people mean by "visual thinker."

Personally, I think people put too much emphasis on "natural talent." There may be such a thing, but yes, I think that dedicated, deliberate practice over long periods of time is what makes the biggest difference, and it can beat out "natural talent" in the long run. But, I'm not entirely convinced "natural talent" is a thing. I'm unsure what is real and what is perceived and cultural myth on this subject.
Genuinely curious: in what ways does Better Angels contradict studies of human societies?
Having grown up near Seattle, how does the color black represent death? To me, it has always represented either nothingness, like the void of Space, or opting out of an aesthetic choice - I don't know what color car I want to drive, so I'll just get a black one.
Good post, but one nitpick: the author of the submitted piece made a point that the 10,000 hour was for music students at about 20 years old who were not yet masters.
Try this: what color is death to you?
It's easy to take the 10,000 rule too literally and never end up excelling. Take for example, my Grandpa who's been learning English for over 20 years, whose proficiency level has been at a sad plateau for greater than a decade, despite subscribing to a "How to Learn English" program daily. What he isn't doing is going out and failing, speaking, and deliberately focusing on areas that he's terrible at. He's become too comfortable at learning English and not practicing with intent.

I think we can all conjure up examples like these in our everyday lives. The casual Dad who plays tennis every weekend but hasn't won a Round Robin tournament ever. Or the entrepreneur that jumps from idea to idea, never really following through and taking a risk.
I don't think recommending long-term benzo / z-drug usage outright is a good idea. They should be the absolute last resort. I have never met anyone who hasn't used them long term who was aware of their risks. These are some of the most prescribed medicines on earth and even the doctors prescribing them have no idea of their effects, let alone how to get you off them.

This is, most likely but not necessarily, a life-long addiction one enters into where the risk of going without can cost one's life. Also, some people have paradoxical effects: basically, the opposite of sedation / sleep. Getting off them takes at least a couple of months, if you're lucky, up to a year or more during which you can't really do anything like work, etc. They are especially nasty to people suffering from depression, something quite common (if not actually the same underlying condition) in the sleep-deprived.

At the very least, one should exhaust all other possibilities, including much safer sleeping aids like melatonin and cannabis, before making a plunge into what is almost guaranteed to be a life-long dependency.
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Well sort of. What's the opportunity cost of doing nothing? That's what most of us end up doing.
But isn't it the part where you assert in good faith you own the copyright? How do you get around that scenario of a malicious takedown request against a random site?
I use XYplorer on Windows. It is heavily customizable, which has allowed me to turn it into the File Manager I always wanted. The free version has everything I need, the pro version adds some features like scriptability.

On Android, I am using X-plore (free again), which is also very innovative (it takes a bit to understand its design philosophy), customizable again, and very good. Only issue I see with it is that whenever it is running, battery drain is measurably higher. Thankfully it has an exit button in the GUI.
Accessing Google Sheets with Ruby and Google Apps Script
Great comment, thank you. I love the idea of education as a differentiating factor, so my question would be, "from a customer's perspective, does the educational material have to be original content or would it be better to reference 'non biased / not affiliated' material?
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Just: A library of dependency-free JS utilities that do just do one thing
Default support for control-f searching output
0 is divisible is by 100.
I find commonwealth bank (Australia) even better. They're like anz without silly limitations. For some reason anz mobile app people think they improve security by making you log in via separate pin that's input using their custom keyboard, without the ability to paste, and which clears all input field when you switch apps. I see how each of those components sounds like a good idea in isolation, but put together, you simply cannot log in if you use a password manager.
Python vs. Ruby
He didn't oversimplify it, he simply misstated it.

10,000 hours will make you an advanced student in a very competitive field, if you are the kind of person who will put in long practice into that field. It might still be a question of musical talent; the students in question would certainly be the ones born with talent.

Further, it's dedicated practice, not noodling around and not performing.

Finally, 10,000 hours isn't any kind of magic number. It wasn't enough to make those students masters, and I would bet that you haven't put in anywhere near that many to achieve a level of skill that satisfies you.

About the only thing that comes out right is that to develop a skill, you need to practice. Which, to quote my own least favorite phrase, we already knew.