skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people I've talked to or read about who use Soylent also mix protein powder into it.
Yeah, but it's the intro and outro that makes the money.
I would expect it to be relatively flavorless if the bottles are anything to go by.
Automatically written articles drawing data from feeds. I just hope the inference engine doesn't take "likes" into account. (I'm going to be disappointed.)
Maybe that guy from Utah who wants to build a utopian city in Vermont could be persuaded to consider upstate New York instead?
> Steve Ballmer was stuck in his dinosaur thinking and couldn't see the writing on the wall.

How can you see the writing on the wall when you're busing laughing at the competition with your eyes closed. I recall that he even laughed at Android.
ROFL totes awks. Upvote.
A 30+ career-oriented woman interested in marriage and children is the antithesis of who I'm trying to attract :)
You could always make it a live-in vocational school :). I thought they had more people..you're totally right, population of around 2k. Total county population might, but would be a long commute.
It is often taken for granted that optimism is a positive but I don't think that is necessarily the case.
I'm not sure how offline competition relates to the "net neutrality" topic in this thread, but any offline competitor necessarily has a physical presence in the state, so it would have been subject to tax for from the beginning.
Until you have users. :-P

For one example, check this comparison:
https://dockyard.com/blog/2016/08/09/phoenix-channels-vs-rai...
The entire point of the presentation was to talk about my journey to the place where I think this comment says far more about you than it does about me.
Same exact thing happened to the city of Los Angeles after the '84 summer games. Very few get out alive. Good food though.
Not sure where you stand on drinks but I found that gels and bars get expensive really fast if you want to refuel properly for long hard rides, and they're a pain to make yourself.

I nowadays just buy bulk maltodextrin, which works out to a dollar for 1000kcal, and mix that with water and an electrolytes tablet.
Oh By Codes[1] are 4096 characters long and can be used, inside a tweet, as a tweet expander. No URL/link necessary.

[1] https://0x.co

edit: well, not everyone knows what an Oh By Code is yet, so for now I suppose the link format is best, but eventually, just the code itself will suffice ...
The ability to downvote doesn't help this.
> value proposition of short direct messages.

"Value proposition" or stubbornly clinging to something that users do their best to work around?

Why not just cut to the chase and make this thing essentially broadcast email, or more generally yet another blogging platform?
Reginald's writing is of the kind where you immediately know you're learning from an incredibly smart and creative guy. I'm somewhat sad to have lost him to the JS-world, but at least he has expanded into 'soft' topics like management. As it turns out he's not just analytically brilliant but also full of humanity.

To have done all he has with 'a frontal lobe tied behind his back' makes it even more impressive.
Do you feel no sympathy for the crippled because the term is often used to describe things other than literal disability?
Box isn't private. http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/box
Mortgage Math Cheatsheet
Couldn't agree more.

We had more problems with sharding over the years than you could imagine...the distributed locking mechanism didn't work a lot of the time, the balancer didn't work, weird consistency issues between the config servers, configuration that didn't get replicated across all shards, stupid shard key selection (admittedly our fault but there really should be better guidance on this topic), etc.
Are you an idiot? Combine fecesbook with twitter, aol, myspace, linkedin, etc. and they are an order of magnitude less valuable than Google. Google did not start by being a voyeristic social network that anyone could copy and paste.
Migration between a OVH VPS, a local server, or a Hetzner rootserver is not really painful.

I choose a preinstalled distro, deploy my script to automatically handle dependencies and set up the container infrastructure, pull the containers, and I have a server set up and able to run my containers in about 3 minutes, and connected to a central server so it can be provisioned containers to run.

The entire infrastructure can obviously be moved to another hoster in days, because the hoster is just providing a machine.
It's quite old and I like to say: If you think about it, it actually is.
You don't, but it helps make it real when you can acquire the best minds in that space.
Lock-Free GC Handles in Mono
I actually am struggling to see the real relevance of the military examples there at the end. It seems to be there to show that stubbornness and/or courage results in winning (to rather grossly simplify). But it should be obvious that neither stubbornness or courage are enough for military victory, and it's not too hard to find examples where the opposite was what brought victory. In fact, we don't even need to leave the Punic wars. Hannibal's winning move at Cannae was in fact to have the center of his battle formation not be stubborn, and fall back, drawing the Romans into an encircling trap. Fabian's strategy was seen as cowardly, but as squozzer notes, Hannibal didn't destroy Rome, while Rome did eventually destroy Carthage.
Yes, sorry if that was not clear. Just made me question every "4K" mentioned in the article.
Hold on a sec, I'm not at all in the group you think I am in. I've also put the word "design" in between double quotes for a reason; please be a kind reader and re-interpret it the way it was meant to be perceived. Online discussions have a way of erasing subtle nuances, let's try and resist that trend, shall we?

I am 100% for research into radical life extension. I am 100% pissed off by those who oppose (or are indifferent to) this research for whatever reason. I totally hear ya.

But I am also a realist. We have been optimized by evolution for spreading the more successful genetic sequences, nothing more. Once the machine has served that purpose, its subsequent fate is inconsequential. That's been the high level trajectory of the blind optimization process so far, for billions of years.

The human brain is absolutely optimized to peak early and struggle mightily at the game of Spread Your Genes. It's chock-full of subroutines that kick in and help it play the game and hopefully win. Once that's been statistically achieved (by the end of your 20s, according to our default genetic programming), the same subroutines sort of don't care about it anymore and slowly begin to fade out.

That's not to say this is acceptable, or we should just lay down and take it. I've very little doubt that a solution could be engineered to stop and eventually reverse the aging process. But we're unlikely to succeed if we don't acknowledge the challenges that litter the path to this goal.
Bamford's latest article (less than two weeks ago) is about the US "Cyber" army:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-election-intelligence-comm...

"The NSA cyberspies have merged with the cyberwarriors of U.S. Cyber Command, which controls its own Cyber Army, Cyber Navy, Cyber Air Force and Cyber Marine Corps, all armed with state-of-the-art cyberweapons. In charge of it all is a four-star admiral, Michael S. Rogers."

"Now under construction inside NSA’s secret city, Cyber Command’s new $3.2- billion headquarters is to include 14 buildings, 11 parking garages and an enormous cyberbrain — a 600,000-square-foot, $896.5-million supercomputer facility."

It was already posted a few times on HN but got effectively no comments.
Dropbox significantly outperforms its competitors when it comes to file sync performance.

https://blogs.dropbox.com/business/2015/10/sync-performance/

You might be surprised how much that actually matters.

Disclaimer: I used to work at Dropbox, so I'm biased.
Box is a public company: http://www.boxinvestorrelations.com/press-release/financial-...

They don't split out enterprise revenue but do talk about all their enterprise clients and that it is 59% of the Fortune 500.
Dating App Grindr Hooks Up with New Relic to Scale and Optimize
I'm not asking for examples of bad interactions between C++ templates and other features of C++--there are tons of those. I'm asking for examples of languages in which implementing simple generics was a bad idea in retrospect.

(I don't think there are any such examples, because simple ML-style generics yield a lot of power for negligible drawback, and I hope that future versions of Go add them.)
What are the ratios?
I used AWS Route53 at a previous employer where the domains were stuck at a different registrar, and thought it worked well.

FWIW, though, we've been using Namecheap on side projects for years, and had generally positive experiences. (In particular, their chat support has always been responsive and empowered to help without bouncing you around the organization -- which I wouldn't necessarily expect from a company with "cheap" in its name.) Assuming they're transparent about this issue, I won't be rushing to leave them.
Making gobs of money and making the future are orthogonal though.

Exxon makes tons of money but is likely irrelevant to the future.
Box isn't private, they IPO'ed around a year and a half ago I believe.
EHANG184 – autonomous aerial vehicle for one human passenger
You call the above high-level, vague (and mostly obvious) predictions - "a precise vision"?
Fyi, the parent of the OP (http://themacro.com/future/) has a header image that breaks on mobile.
I think their goal is to support the average person living a 'normal' life.
Q: Given how often people misunderstand what "optimism" means in Seligman's work, why do you think he repurposed an existing word instead of inventing a new one?

A: I don't know, but if I had to guess, I'd say that he is a data-driven man, and some simple A/B testing revealed that people were more likely to read a book purporting to be about "Optimism," than something they'd never heard of.
(afaik) He retired around the Go 1.0 release, though he showed up as unixken on reddit during a Go Ask Me Anything.

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/46bd5h/ama_we_are_t...
The term may be overused, but depression unfortunately does have a specific clinical meaning. Depression is not simply being sad. In fact, people suffering from depression often describe it less as sadness and more as feeling nothing at all. One of my favorite examples are these Hyperbole and Half posts (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-..., http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-par...).

This isn't a perfect test, but the linguistic cue to pick up on the difference between clinical depression and mere sadness is whether the person describes it in terms of temporary emotional state ("I'm so depressed") or something more permanent ("I live with depression").
This reminds me of the infamous Dropbox comment

(See the second comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 )
"It's what you do after you build a great business that matters"
I meant free market.
This is my planned use-case for the Soylent bars also.

My biggest concern is that it might not hold up in hot climates (see: Texas) during rides. I've already tried other bars that turn to mush in heat.

I also agree about the cost, since you can buy clif bars in bulk for less than $1.50/ea. And lately I've just been taking bananas with me on rides, which are like $0.10/ea.

I ordered a box earlier today, so we'll see how it works out. Worst case scenario, I keep them around for when I travel.
I have bought a Lumia just to play around with the WinRT platform, as was positively impressed by the SDK and Visual Studio tooling, versus the usual chaos of Android releases specially for NDK users.

The C++/CX + XAML experience feels like Visual C++ finally catching up with C++ Builder and finally becoming visual.

Also the component model allows for an easy interaction between .NET, JavaScript and C++, similar to Objective-C++ / JavaScript Core on iOS.

So I really like the WinRT model.

But alas, with all the mid-steps specially the last one of ditching the 512MB Lumias, Microsoft should just drop WP from the UWP supported platforms.
Goebbels’ 105-year-old secretary gives one of her first in-depth interviews
Box is public, but they don't break down "small team" / individual revenue vs enterprise.

They are, however, pushing hard not just for enterprise customers, but for service contracts and "Box Consulting" services. These are where companies like IBM, etc. really make bank.

So this suggests that individual accounts like those Dropbox is more well-known for, are either unprofitable or very low-margin. This may also explain why Dropbox charges more than everyone else.
How is that snobbish?

How is it bold? It's a fact. You have no right to be in Canada. I have no right to be in the US.

That's why I try to behave myself.
Yeah. I remember thinking a few years ago that it tries to be three totally different products at the same time: a straight NoSQL k-v store like S3, a SQL-like OLTP relational thing ("rows are sorta like documents, right") and an offline analytics store with the map/reduce functionality.

It's like they wanted to be all three but couldn't quite commit to one, and the end result is the proverbial "tankicopter" that's neither as strong as a tank, nor as maneuverable as a helicopter.
Relay and GraphQL: Demystifying Optimistic Updates in Rails
I wish he had reinvented FriendFeed. Or maybe not because I'd be wasting too much time on Facebook.
Go Back with Backspace
so not DVDs at Walmart then. what about satellite or cable TV?
What else does it support other than Lambda? GCP?
It's a problem under scrum as well. Just because the sprint is ending doesn't mean the case will finish. They just get dragged into the next sprint
He's a dumb fuck.
This is interesting. Why would a source of complete amino acids be totally ineffective?
> the former is a proper superset of the latter

Exactly. Just like static typing is a proper superset of dynamic typing. More generally, structured X is a proper superset of unstructured X.
"Windows windows windows windows windows windows windows windows"

This was Ballmer's response at a conference when he was asked what Microsoft's response would be to the iPhone. Verbatim.
I was making a reference to the outage at Delta https://www.wired.com/2016/08/computer-outage-can-take-whole....

I wish I had a good answer on what specifically should be done.
There is no way on Earth that we get to these dreams on the financing of a company that makes money off advertising sugar water and diabetes drugs at the same time. Hypocrites much?
From the how-to:

"Contain a <script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script> tag as the last element in their head (this includes and loads the AMP JS library)."

This is the big no go for me here - why would I need an AMP library, hosted on a third party domain I have no control watsoever. They can inject what they like, track initial script load etc.

The same goes on if you want to include further content such as tweets etc.

What do other folks think about these requirements?
> No, it's more like the Pythonic "There's one way to do it."

Nope, because it's "There should be one obvious way to do it." and you can still do the non-obvious way if you prefer.

It doesn't force anything upon you.
Is Sam consciously mirroring Mark's body language and style of dress, or is that just a weird coincidence?
Refreshing advice: Work on a problem you care about and don't worry about the rest until it's working.

> Sam: So you were 19 when you started Facebook. One question we hear a lot at Y Combinator is, "I'm 19 today. I really want to do whatever I can to make the world better. What should I do?"

> Mark: I always think that the most important thing that entrepreneurs should do is pick something they care about, work on it, but don't actually commit to turning it into a company until it's working, and I think that...if you look at the data of the very best companies that have gotten built, I actually think a tremendous percent of them have been built that way and not from people who decided upfront that they wanted to start a company because you just get locked into some local minimum a lot of the time. A local maximum, sorry.
In the context of Seligman's work, it is interesting to note that you can't just ascribe everything difficult in your life to temporary things. A symptom of depression can absolutely be temporary, and part of managing depression is to recognize this. Depression itself, for many people, is effectively permanent, and part of managing depression is recognizing that as well.

So, thanks for a comment that seems quite germane to the talk!
Worth noting for any Mac users, the version of gpg2 available by default in Homebrew is 2.0.30. If you want 2.1 you can install it from Homebrew/homebrew-versions/gpg21 at the risk of possibly breaking other formula that expect 2.0.
We developed that flag after the incident I referred too.
It says on their site that it is caramel flavored
Nice article, learned a new design pattern today. Wondering what are some practical use cases of memento design pattern ?
thats a false analogy though, is it not? the word 'depression' here is not used as a metaphor like crippled. I am not talking about depression as in 'economic depression', I am talking about depression in terms of how the author is using it.
Do you have any sources for the disturption? I hear this from time to time, but whatever I read points to possible connections relating to very high consumption of soy products. But I'm cautious.

I half believe the dairy industry actively spreads the negativity.
Serving others tends to help out with my own happiness here. :)
Since we're on the subject, other things that help: reading scriptures, meditation, relationships (others, family), etc.

And those typically don't cost much money LOL
I agree with you that accuracy should be the goal, but Seligman doesn't. I read most of the book, he thinks that delusional optimism is good, because it will make you happier and more productive.

He's used his research to teach optimism to soldiers so that they are more effective. But perhaps it is appropriate for soldiers in the middle of a war to not feel super optimistic?

>If the premise is that the effects upon your past success are equally likely to be general or specific regardless of their sign

I don't know if that's a true premise. It's an empirical question. There's no fundamental reason why the universe should be even-handed.

I read a good portion of Learned Optimism a while back. I think it's a dangerous book to read for certain types of depressive personalities. Ironically, there's a reading of the book that reinforces pessimism.
> Migration between infrastructures is always painful, so I don't think vendor lock in is that big a deal, if you keep APIs small and their I/O well documented (and designed).

hmm, not if the only thing you have to do it upload an image on a server, there is nothing difficult with it. And yes the vendor lock in is a big deal unless all you write is throw away code. But it looks like it's the purpose of "Serveless servers", throw away apps ...
It's funny that this focuses on email, while email itself is being rapidly replaced with other technologies. I'd be more interested if this was focused on Telegram, Slack, etc...
Yup, and you can always rename vendor/ to _vendor/ if you want to ignore them temporarily.
The Psychology of Design: Perception in the Digital Age
Why is government software so bad? Also, why did you put in minimal effort?
A scope of pea protein, three tablespoons of hemp hearts, a tablespoon of mct oil, a tablespoon of peanut butter, a banana. This works out to about 500 to 600 calories, 45 grams of fat and 45 grams of protein. The carbs (banana) is about 27 grams and the sugar is about 15 grams. Skip the banana if you want to save the carbs for other foods.

Blend it with water if you have a blender, but if you don't just mash the banana before peeling it and squeeze the puree into a glass. The rest can be mixed with a spoon. Add a little water on the last sip to get the dregs
Exactly.

Funny thing is, quitting is just 'q', or classic ctl-c! Searching is ctl-S.

Also, I can't remember which pretty basic utility has a manpage that indeed redirects to the info page... which is just a copy of the manpage, down to the including the 'see Info page for more'. That said, that may be a packaging issue or just a good old documentation fail.
I live in SoCal, so I also have to avoid bars that might melt. Chewy granola bars do not handle well, but cereal bars do. Looking at my pantry, Trader Joe fig bars have 27 grams of carbs, but only 2g of protein. Honey Stinger waffles have the same amount of grams, but half the protein. Why are they around $1 per waffle? They do taste great and love that they pack flat.

I find Clif Bars junk, mostly sugar, but they do hold up in the heat. It might be hotter in Texas, but you are in the flats. When I am climbing Mt. Wilson on a bike, there are no stores to replenish my food supplies, except at the top. I cannot deviate from the only road just to grab something from a store. There is a ranger station halfway for water.

BTW, Clif Bars should be $1 at Whole Foods or Trader Joes, or at least they used to be.
what does it tell about me?

>Those of you who have not had this affliction may question this

Do you think there are people out there who don't suffer from 'depression' ? Is depression not common to all of humanity?

>I have had many high points in my life, but I also have had many low points

Do you think there are people out there who believe they never had any 'low points' in their lives ?

Aren't you doing great injustice to people who need genuine (medical) help due to depression by lumping yourself with them just because you had 'low points' in your life?
This is a tool for running your own "serverless" backends.
100 GB is just the size of my family photos archive.
cute enough, i stand corrected.
I dunno, I've been a Linux kernel guy since Linus posted to the minix-list, and I have to say that things seem easier than ever. I mean, pick your distro, figure out how it boots the kernel, use it to build a new kernel, boot it. Repeat, ad infinitum.

The problem seems to be a rather hefty "NIMBY" factor, imho. If you want to get into the kernel these days, you have to realize: its a done thing. Nobody cares if you're a rockstar.

Learn the tooling and methodology, or gtfo...
SAM: analyze network traffic to create a visual system architecture map
It's not that different in the states.
I use Dropbox on 2 machines which means I have 3 copies of everything. I use Github for source code (in Dropbox and Github) and I use Google Photo's for my pictures (free and also in both places). I would feel pretty good with just Dropbox but with the combination I'm pretty well covered with the stuff I care about.
Well of course not everyone agrees it's bad. The people on the inside I'm sure think it's a great idea! The entire system would collapse if it was completely legal for business insiders to profit off investors, without the latter having any knowledge. Why would anyone invest if it was guaranteed you'd get screwed over?
I see. So you've completely transcended any desire for physical attractiveness? Impressive.

Did I say anything about men or women in particular? I said its desirable to have a mate who can provide for offspring, which is exactly what you've said here in slightly different words.
"I think Peter [Thiel] was the person who told me this really pithy quote, 'In a world that's changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk.'"
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I do use the tool which created the images for large functions (100.000 nodes was the max) and with zoom, search, etc it is fine. With graphviz it sucks, though.

Unfortunately, our yComp tool is not Free Software. http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/yComp