skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on your use case. I write all my tight loop code in LuaJIT itself, rather than calling out to C. Lots of people use LuaJIT as the glue to highly optimized long lived and proven C code libraries.

The case for doing the glue in Lua is the fact that script is arguably easier to prototype in. So, depends on your particular application space. C can be a lot more error prone, at least when it comes to memory management, but this is a general argument for garbage collected vs not.
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I agree with most everything you've said, the one point that I would contest is:

> Yes, many jobs will be lost. But the prices of many goods will decrease.

If you're talking about what I first thought of, which is things like groceries, housewares, the "every day things" that we all buy and consume without really thinking, I'm not sure that A: The prices on these items could go much lower than they already are and remain profitable, or B: That the producers of said goods (majority MASSIVE corporations with impressive names and product rosters, and the most likely early adopters of this technology) would reduce the prices in accordance with the reduction in cost. The trend now among these companies seems to be to squeeze every last cent out of every last consumer, and if you're proposing to your given board of directors to buy all these new trucks (or change contracts to a company that has) why would you then cut the prices?

I would hope there would be market pressure to do so from at least one good actor, but I don't know how certain that is at all.
What use does a child have of a microscope? This is a serious question. The microscopes I had access to as a well-off kid in the US could never see anything interesting: just what I see normally but bigger, not the detail I expected. It wasn't until college I could come close to replicating anything I read about in textbooks.

Wouldn't books provide more sustainable and reliable education? What makes this the better investment?
>You just "simple" don't trust Microsoft.

It's either a mistake/or English isn't their first language, regardless your wording and use of quotes makes this sound aggressive or insulting. (This sets the tone for the rest of the comment)

You understood what was meant.

>What about other big companies, for example Google? Do you trust them or not? Why?
Do you trust Apple/Facebook/<put_here_another_big_company_with_users>? Why?

As for me personally, I don't trust most large companies very much. Many large companies have a goal to collect a lot of data on you and potentially sell that data, and that's ignoring Government snooping etc.

But I still use many of their services despite that. There's a trade off to be made and occasionally it can be worth it, I just try not to give out more data than necessary.

As for Microsoft and Windows/Windows 10 specifically the stakes are higher. Assuming I'm running a Microsoft OS I'm dependent that it's operating in my best interests, everything I do on a computer is run through the OS. If my OS is compromised by the vendor (in this case Microsoft) they can collect a lot of data about me and my habits against my will.

The counter argument is usually something around the lines of "Well Google/Apple is doing all this stuff and worse!" with their mobile operating systems, which may be true. The difference is I don't use my phone for critical tasks or the majority of them, partially for that reason.

We've already lost the battle with phones, but I still want my PC to be sacred, even though it might not actually be 100% possible.
Well as nice as it is for kids to have things, and I'm sure someday humanity will be wealthy enough in all locations on the globe to afford this, we should probably start with basic sanitation, vaccinations, nutrition, and education, ... (500 other things more important) ... and then microscopes, in about that order.
Things in nature are fascinating - seeds and ferns and sand and bark - its a whole new world. Even a magnifying glass opens up vista.
I asked somewhere here, if there is a way to extract the email addresses out of Facebook (or Twitter), of friends etc. Apparently there is no solution (probably because these locked walled-gardens do not allow such extraction, even when you have first layer of trust established, i.e, I am only talking about extracting the email addresses of friends on Facebook).

So the gist is, that it is not really technically easy to have people move back to email's personal communication. I gave up on Facebook and I am not on any of these other social networks. I'd rather just communicate with people via email or personal text.
To summarize: you have an idea which would take 6-12 months to execute on, and would not generate enough revenue to build a real business around. You want someone to pay you for this idea. Sound right?
Do you think that the majority of meat consumption is conspicuous consumption?
Interesting read, since many of this type of articles I've read are from a perspective of failed startups and entrepreneurs, in your case it has been a side project that got successful enough to fund by itself while earning you some extra cash.
Great inroads have been made in those areas. Lets not fall victim to the 'false dichotomy' - because we're doing one thing, we shouldn't be doing another thing. "Why go into space when we have problems here at home?" We'd all never get out of bed with that philosophy.
There's no need to store favicons in the session JSON. They're stored in the browser cache. If the cache gets cleared in the meantime, they can be redownloaded.
I'm not sure that we do need them, at least not to the extent that they're used.

http://darksky.org/light-pollution/lighting-crime-and-safety...
There's way more posts/articles than warranted. Human drivers are going nowhere anytime soon. There's a lot of marketing about self-driving cars but nowhere enough actual technology to back it.
Don't use the sun as an amplification vector and attract Extraterrestrial attention!
"Ground troops were not issued due to cost"

"Medical Science and the Military: The Allies' Use of Amphetamine during World War II" (http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/JINH_a_00212):

"Although amphetamine was thoroughly tested by leading scientists for its effects in boosting or maintaining physical and mental performance in fatigued subjects, the results never provided solid grounds for approving the drug's use, and, in any case, came too late to be decisive. The grounds on which amphetamine was actually adopted by both British and American militaries had less to do with the science of fatigue than with the drug's mood-altering effects, as judged by military men. It increased confidence and aggression, and elevated “morale.”"

I'm not sure whether that agrees or disagrees with what you say, and the article proper is paywalled.

With that caveat, I read it as if they knew about it and were willing to use it, but didn't find the right mix (?yet?) to warrant large scale use. My guess is that the fact that they were winning the war also made them a bit more scrupulous in deploying it than the nazis were.
I always use the example.net/example.com domains for my documentation. It drives me crazy when I see a tutorial using something they just made up like "myfakewebsite.com". Almost always, these lead to an actually registered domain like what OP was expecting to encounter.
One thing I don't understand, why startups are not a good example?
https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/index.html is where all the builds are stored. https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rustc-1.11.0-i686-unknown-... should have both the rustc and cargo for 1.11.
Hmm different strokes I suppose, but I'd definitely interpret that behavior as aggression.

Out of curiosity, if they weren't trying to sell you anything, but were behaving like that (hissing/kissing/blocking your path), do you think getting angry would then be an appropriate response?
Google probably has excess capacity. There is nothing more to be paid if the server is sitting there doing nothing. It's actually good for Google because they get to analyze a huge amount of traffic which they can use to protect paying clients.
No. The lights aren't effective at keeping sleepy people more awake in the moment. They're effective at disrupting sleep over time by disrupting the hormonal system.

They should be banned in favor of lower-color-temperature lights.
I'm curious, could you expand on this comment? Do you mean that you run Firefox from a profile loaded over SSHFS? I can only imagine that being unbearably slow because of I/O latency. And shouldn't disabling caching in SSHFS make it much, much worse?
Diffing the disk won't do you much good, the malware does it's interesting things in memory.
Overall as I said this doesn't scale.
You can try hardcoding the IP address in your hosts file (see my comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12574428#12575021). This will get you to the site through a regular request.
This terms of use was originally written for our free library. Basically the way the license works is that as soon as you use a model in your designs (Design Exception), there is no license; it becomes your IP. You can re-post the models online in small quantities so long as you provide attribution to the source (SnapEDA). For InstaPart, we haven't re-evaluated the license, but we're open to it if you have better ideas. All our InstaPart users are professionals who are simply using the models in their designs (ie. not re-posting to the Internet), and therefore the attribution is not an issue. The models immediately become part of their IP. Basically the motivation behind our license was to be as flexible as possible without encouraging people to scrape and re-post vast quantities of the library without attribution.
This is why I don't want to raise my kids at all in the US. The system at large is doing everything for them to grow into incompetent imbeciles...the kind that live in their parents' basement until they are 40 and are too scared of making a commitment or raising a child until they're fifty...
Yeah, I'm familiar with the effect (I linked to a Healthcare Triage video on that topic in another leaf). I still think the placebo effect is likely to be very small when it comes to the restoration of movement (as opposed to reduction in pain, or other symptoms).
> Amazon bills itself as “Earth’s most customer-centric company.”

In general, when a person or company proclaims something like this, it should be viewed with robust skepticism.

If it were undeniably true and obvious from evidence, they wouldn't need to say it.

If they need to say it, it could be because no one else is saying it.

Similarly, if your boss or a co-worker says "I'm all about X," it may be that they just read a book that mentions X, or heard it in a meeting and just now decided that it would be good to be seen in that light. If they really were all about X, you'd already know it.
In the context of OS, there is really only Apple, Microsoft, and Linux. With Linux (and to a significant extent OS X), users can understand what is going on with their computer. Apps are packaged in an easy to understand format. I can look at the human readable plists that apps use to store their config, or show package contents, for example. But I have no idea what stack Windows operates on, and Microsoft has no intention of ever letting me peek under the hood of their software. That was the general idea of Windows 7, just provide the interface and something that works, and hope to god the user doesn't want to change anything without installing 3rd party apps. A lot of people spend a very significant time on their computers, yet Microsoft has decided to tighten it's grip on how personal computing is done, because the user doesn't know what they want, apparently.

Google and Facebook offer services that I can choose to not use if I want to. The average user can't switch between OS' without at least a certain amount of knowledge, and Windows is taking advantage of its still gargantuan market share to snoop and embed things and install updates even after the user decides not to.
Apparently so.
Does Elm Harmonize with F#?
Yes, enough to see enough. Like artificial moon-light.
It's perfectly "seen". LED without filter has blue spike in spectrum. http://www.ledsmagazine.com/content/dam/leds/PrintArticles/v...
The blue light also burns out retinae. It's been linked to cataracts. It seems like an industrial regulation is needed to me.
The same way that the unions in NYC have forced the MTA to keep the hugely expensive, 100 year old backup control & signaling systems on the fully-automated lines even though it's 100% not necessary.
FDE leaves very few if any opportunities for accidentally spilling cleartext secrets onto the disk.
If by home encryption, I assume you mean some encrypted container (or encrypted document). Consider what you "DO" with the decrypted contents.. often you are copying them out to perform some action (authentication, etc).. Are you certain the apps you use and your clipboard won't be paged to disk temporarily? If secrets are in memory, then get paged to disk, is your swap encrypted? It is more likely you are still protected if using FDE (depends on your setup).

All that being said, thats a certain level of paranoia which i dont think is productive.. but perhaps for targets of the state or what have you, I'd rather not chance it.
While that may improve sleep, it may also made driving less safe. With blue light it is easy for eyes to focus. In fact there is a theory that significant increase in myopia during the last 100 years is caused by eye work under artificial light without blue color, like from ordinary light bulb...

Edit: I should have written "without blue light in spectrum eyes work harder". Basically any deviation from the spectrum of Sun have cosequences for eyes performance long term

http://www.eyedolatryblog.com/2014/02/myopia-may-be-reversib...
This follows tit-for-tat the story of every other street lighting development in the past. It gets invented, implemented, lauded and then disappointment sets in. At least according to a fairly exhaustive book on the topic called Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century[1]

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350025.Disenchanted_Nigh...
I think they mean that there is a lot of blue light emitted, but it is not super obvious because they emit longer wavelength light as well (reds & greens).
That's an excellent idea. Will talk to our developers and see if we can re-purpose it this way.
I'll pass on the recommendation that previous HNers have to me: if you haven't read Masters of Doom yet, do it. Whether you're an entrepreneur or an engineer or both, it's a really inspirational and informative tale. It also talks about these .plan files.
Whoops, it's supposed to be an arxiv link:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07127
Because actually people are neither.
I am getting tired of people putting themselves or others into a certain box because this causes a lot of trouble in forms of limiting beliefs.

Categorizing people is like trying to square the circle. You're bound to get it wrong and if you truly belief you've succeeded then you are under a delusion.

Personality traits are nothing but abstractions.
Abstractions generally can be useful. For instance, when it comes to programming or engineering. But for stuff like personality traits they are not healthy imho.

I am not big into Christianity but I like how it says in the bible that a.) god made us in his image and b.) you shouldn't have an image of god. Maybe, whoever wrote this, was onto something.
I love the sentence "I just can't justify (to myself) wasting that much time on a problem I don't find interesting (even if it made me 10k/month recurring profit..."

If you can't justify to yourself, how can you hope selling such an idea to someone? oh, maybe you are a commercial actor :D
Point dad towards gog.com![0]

You could probably use the gog.com version of the game on your Mac if you don't mind configuring Dosbox on your own. On a Windows machine they work flawlessly off gog and for $10 for the whole pack.. well, I have a copy. And I have a shrine to HQ/QFG in my computer room with all the originals on a shelf.

I followed all 5 games from 89 to 98. Sierra's Interaction magazine is what kept me in the loop. HQ was the most charming by far and an amazing effort for a preliminary title. QFG2 was the best overall in the series. The combat, story and settings were more epic than the rest. 3 wasn't bad, I appreciated the setting and the large overmap continued on the epic feeling from 2. Lots of people like 4 the best, but I think it's the combination of green grass/castles theme that certain people seem to love and it was definitely Lori Cole at her best with the storytelling. While the peak of story for all the games, the dreary atmosphere wasn't my favorite. 5 was a little wonky compared to the rest. While I'm biased and do I prefer EGA>VGA>3D, it basically served to finish up the story. I just don't think VGA aged well at all and 3D doesn't either unless it's cartoon-style (think Zelda Wind Waker[1]).

Keep a lookout for Lori & Corey's new game, Hero-U[2]. I don't know what's wrong with major publishers who won't hire those two and give them free reign.

[0]https://www.gog.com/game/quest_for_glory

[1]https://duckduckgo.com/?q=zelda+wind+waker+&t=ffsb&iax=1&ia=...

[2]http://hero-u.com/
Do car headlights while you're at it.
Don’t Brake for Fonts
Actually that is an area the Gates Foundation is active in: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development...
I thought this was already common around the world, say in Europe.

Where 4 lane / artery / highways get brighter, whiter (bluer) lights, while 2 lane feeders and smaller roads have warmer yellow lighting.

It produces an interesting nighttime aerial effect as the color indicates the nature of the street.

I can't find any source to corroborate so I'd love if someone with more worldly travel experience could corroborate.

I first became aware of the phenomenon playing Cities: Skylines, a European developed city builder game which features the multi-colored street lights in European skins.
A Decentralized World Has No Kings
This assumption that everything will be cheaper seems a bit disingenuous, because why would these companies want to automate themselves so badly if they weren't going to keep most of the savings as profit?

Even if prices were lowered by a few percent for some goods thanks to cheaper shipping, that's little help when you have no source of income. This will only exacerbate the demand-limited economic slump we're currently experiencing.
>They should be banned in favor of lower-color-temperature lights.

As the article indicates, they are less effective at disrupting sleep than a LCD monitor or smartphone.

If we're banning an outdoor light for being less disruptive than your phone, should we also mandate Flux style warm color phones at night by law?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12574172 and marked it off-topic.
You are way more likely to be killed by deer than by sharks, bears, or gators
"Least Bad" is often quite good.

When comparing governments, one can't use a vacuum. It's not A vs. hypothetical B.

For example, fighting WW2 "completely ethically" (such as waiting for absolute precision bombing, absolutely zero civilian casualties, etc.) would have lost the war.

Yet, I'm happy that we didn't. Because the alternative would have been much worse.
Top of HN traffic peaks at maybe 50-100 visitors per second. Unless you're serving a bunch of data, it really shouldn't be an issue. One problem I've run into is (I suspect) running out of sockets because they weren't getting recycled fast enough. This went away when I switched to Snap or Happstack. I used to have to "fix" this by killing and restarting my server every five minutes.
You mention that you use a newsletter and weekly blog posts as part of your marketing strategy. Content marketing can be such a time suck. Have you found ways to automate any parts of these processes?
Because it works. Its simply experimenting with different reactions until achieving the desired effect. I want to communicate disinterest in buying from street vendors. I try various forms/styles of communication until I accomplish my goal. I've had this problem in the USA, and merely looking unfriendly is often sufficient. In your situation, that's clearly inadequate.
OK, but why not a violin? (Or an inexpensive flute or recorder?)
What do the * and + mean?
The article mentions searching for gravitational waves. Anyone have info on how they might accomplish that via radio telescope?
Or an LED video light. Slightly more expensive ($13), but is flat and comes with a diffuser to provide pretty uniform light, so should me much easier to use with microscope slides. This one even has adjustable brightness:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00SWIKYIU/&qid=1474820232
Well, there's always something like this Finger-to-Twitter proxy:

https://gist.github.com/mcroydon/519344
the turnover in that career is pretty damn high. having met many truckers, especially newly set on the road from school and such, like 9 out of 10 don't stick with it.

Wait for the shit storm when they attempt to fully automate ports
> built on landfill

Silly question, but does this mean "built on reclaimed land" in the US? Where I'm from it would mean "built on top of literal garbage."
Still, the difference is that most countries play realpolitik 100% of the time, while America plays it (say) 50%.

That's quite good.
My ISP's resolver has them too. Apparently it's somewhat common for ISP-run resolvers to impose minimum TTLs (the nominal TTL on the record I get is 5 minutes).
I wouldn't be surprised if that last part was true. With my electricity costs, I pay about 4 cents per mile. If that's typical, and if the average Tesla driver does 1,000 miles/month with 10% on Superchargers (which I think is vaguely close to the truth) then the electricity costs would be something like $4/month/car.
In case you were interested in the frequencies they were sweeping though:

We reproduced a state-of-the-art FMCW radio designed
by past work on wireless vital sign monitoring [7]. The
device generates a signal that sweeps from 5.46 GHz to
7.25 GHz every 4 milliseconds, transmitting sub-mW power.
The parameters were chosen as in [7] such that the transmis-
sion system is compliant with FCC regulations for consumer
electronics

I wonder if you can use lower frequencies? Since we are surrounded by radio waves maybe you can use use on those cheap SDRs and look for the 50-150hz space to see if you can pick up heart rate.
>"If you're talking about what I first thought of, which is things like groceries, housewares, the "every day things" that we all buy and consume without really thinking, I'm not sure that A: The prices on these items could go much lower than they already are and remain profitable"

This is the wrong analysis. Price of goods is say, (Supplier Cost)+(Transit to Store)+(Profit Margin)=MSRP

You're saying that MSRP can't go down without hurting Profit Margin.

He's saying, Transit to Store will decrease, allowing MSRP to decrease without affecting Supplier Cost or Profit Margin. (Or Profit Margin can increase while MSRP remains the same)
Only a small percentage of drivers are union members, mostly those in the LTL segment of the industry.
Sometimes Amazon uses a courier service that delivers to my work address at 9pm. They decide the building is closed and I never see my package again.
Pulsar timing arrays: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_timing_array
congratulations :)