skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, I'd have thought Heinlein would have known better. Writing yourself is a hard trick to pull off, as you can't be too perfect, nor too flawed. One of the few I think could have pullled it off was the late, great Terry Pratchett (I didn't reccomend his books to you already, as I assume you've already read him). He has the sense of humor to make it work.

A slight warning: the first Laundry Files novel is kind of in-jokey. Not that the others aren't (it is about a programmer/magician (there isn't really much difference, in-universe) stuck inside a government bureau whose job is to fight Lovecraftian horrors from another dimension, after all), but the in the first book they can be kind of grating, even for us, the intended audience.

So if the offhand references to Symbolics, Alan Turing formalizing magic, in part by disproving the Church-Turing thesis (but that may have been retconned?), Volume 4 of Knuth, and other geeky in-jokes sound like nails on a chalkboard to you, don't worry, it gets better (by the end of the book, actually. The jokes pretty much disappear once you reach The Archives).
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Anyone else watching LeBron James' Cleveland Hustles on CNBC? It's pretty great. The lesson: energy and commitment trump geography and privilege every time. And $125K goes a long way in Ohio ;)

http://www.cnbc.com/cleveland-hustles/

Re-formatting mid-size post-industrial cities into thriving locally-focused entrepreneurial hubs provides an alternative to the NYC, LA, DC, SF model. Instead of seeking to re-locate, why not attempt to foster what you value in your own backyard first ;)

Small Tech Hubs: Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Nashville, and New Orleans want your startup

http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/26/small-tech-hubs-buffalo-pi...
Except all the miners driving around in the "tiny" toyotas.
Ha! I had had that exact same reaction. Reading the actual document it comes across as factual and not biased and all sources are referenced.
If anything it's easier to stay mentally alert for longer periods of time on Keto. The body manufactures enough glucose to supply the brain with what it needs on its own, the remaining nutrient needs are covered by ketones which are produced in the liver.

If you have any significant stores of body fat (15-18% body fat is the ideal for males, ~18-20% for females) your body is expending those fat stores in order to supply itself with the energy it needs. This makes it easier to stay calorie-deficient while on keto. During the past 7 months I've easily stayed calorie-deficient 80% of the time or more. I never go hungry, I eat whenever I'm hungry, I eat until I'm full and when I tally up the calories that usually puts me at or below 1500 daily calories.

Now this was the weirdest part of keto for me: When I'm doing intermittent fasting regularly I experience the most significant cognitive improvements.
GPS is never naively used to guide cars. They ALWAYS use additional sensing and often additional high-resolution maps to find lanes, etc.

This has been well understood for a decade or more.
Neo-con libertarian? What evidence do you have to support the claim that Cato is neo-con?

Wikipedia cites Cato as being critical of neo-con foreign policy and the Iraq War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#Libertarianism....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#On_foreign_poli...

Do you know what neo-con means? Serious question
No, that's revisionism, Poettering rewriting history.
Well, exactly. That is what is terrible about this. The goal of App Store must be to help the user find the best product that is suited based on the search. It's purpose must be to delight it's users. The users and app authors are already paying Apple in many ways. So instead of seeing this an algorithm/engineering problem, Apple has now turned it's Store into some super market. The goal of a supermarket is hardly to "delight" you. And neither do they have your best interests in mind. When/what is last delightful supermarket you went to?
AI is by nature abstract. Once it's not abstract, there is typically a more useful term for it: classification, recognition, search, etc etc. What do you mean by doing AI right? Apple's track record with doing something right applies to product lines, not their technology.
So you are saying Google search is useful only because of ads?
> It turns out it is not easy to definitely detect ancient indigo. Indigo molecules break down over time and can get washed out of fabrics. It takes extremely sensitive equipment to detect it.

Tell me about it! Speaking as someone who has spent the better part of a decade wearing, caring, freezing, airing, soaking and meticulously washing indigo dyed raw denim jeans, I can only empathize with the efforts this must've taken on 6,000-year-old fabrics :)

Thanks for sharing - Peruvians definitely just earned a point in my book for pioneering this fine, still-fashionable art.
Anything to do with the recent OpenSSL patch?
That's about as relevant as talking about the DoD budget because they spend a lot of money on healthcare.

If you divide 1.1 trillion by 80k you get 13.75 Million per worker because they mostly hand out money to other organizations.

PS: If you campare US spending on heathcare per person you find the real issue is we let way to many other people in on the game. When you see a doctor chances are far more time is spent by other people not in the room mostly deciding who pays what than the doctor spends dealing with you. That's 95% pure waste and has little to do with heathcare. A doctor making 300k per year (~250k excluding benefits) only costs ~75$ per half an hour. Co pay can often more than pay for a doctors time.
This will be interesting. I have a feeling that once Apple get a taste of sweet search ad revenue, they won't be able to let Google own overall search without a fight. I know Apple have been rumoured to be working on a search engine for a long time, but Siri aside, it never seemed to reach fruition. I think this could give them some renewed focus on that, though.
Except you wrote:

>> Native? Which tribe are you from?

Then you wrote:

>> You don't get to lay an exclusive claim on the arbitrarily defined geopolitical unit on the basis that you happened to be born there.

Why won't you just tell the truth: you don't like it when some people lay an exclusive claim to a geographical unit on the basis that they were born there, but you're fine when other people do it, provided YOU get to make the rules a la: "Native? Which tribe are you from?".

BTW, there's a word for what you're doing. It starts with H.
Precisely. Don't write Application code in a systems language.
But after the Fedora Technical Committee were convinced to accept it, it ballooned from there. Seed blossomed from within.
Because who is saying something colors the merit it brings. And as a healthy skeptic, knowing the direction to look for potential bias _does_ help orient my skepticism and find potential ulterior motives within the infinite space of "all ulterior motives". I certainly was asking myself "I wonder who was backing this" while reading it.

(Don't take me the wrong way, I absolutely agree with you with respect to not filtering our input, I go out of my way to find people biased against my topics to see how they look at things and for me at least the labeling _assists_ with gathering a more diverse viewpoint, and understanding the true motives at play)
>The mediocre “cogs” (9-5ers that just want a paycheck) outnumber us and I suspect 40% or less of them might benefit from pair programming, which I suspect is where all the buzz about pair programming comes from.

I don't think I've ever been so negative on HN, but fuck this guy! "Look at those schmucks who want a life outside of work. They'll never be as good as I am. They aren't real programmers." I cannot stand this smug, condescending attitude. I think it's poisonous to our community and to our profession. You can be a good programmer and be extroverted. You can be a good programmer and just want to work 9-5. I get the complaint about trying to force it down everyone's throat, but don't act like that makes you better than everyone else.
What's your strategy to source relatively large deals like that? In general terms. Are you cold calling? conferences? Is it from online advertising? offline? referrals?
James May did a series for the BBC, "Cars of the People" a few years ago that went into the history of some of the Nazi KDF programs based around savings plans to allow the Germans to save for what would eventually be the Volkswagen Beetle, a radio... and also trips to Prora.

One of the more interesting tidbits of automotive history, along with oft-forgotten plans (in this day an age) of the third Reich.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24ifq1_james-may-s-cars-of...
I'll add that I've owned both a Symbolics 3620 and a MacIvory. I was being a little glib, but I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of resurrection of the Lisp machine technology.
Holy shit, lyme disease! How could I forget posting about this! My friend had lyme disease and was told to look into keto by his doctor to help fight the disease. He's cured as of March this year.
Libertarianism, as envisioned by the Koch brothers, is AMAZING when you're rich. You simply remove all government functions that protect the poor from the wealthy, and re-create feudal Europe. What's not to love???
Sony Xperia XZ flagman with 13MP selfie shooter
AKA cash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_(Chinese_coin)

Like Wampum, Chinese cash was kept on strings.
Why is the Bechdel test morally important?

The Bechdel test can be failed by a movie which simply only had one woman in it, or was about a genderless robot, or was mostly about a heterosexual romance, or any number of other possibilities that have nothing to do with misogyny or any other form of gender bias.
I’m not sure which part I’m missing here, but I’m living in Zürich and I pay about 40% taxes, not merely 11%…?
In part, yes. It introduced a regression.
Body and Soul: Considering the Eternal Dance of Eros and Thanatos
You're spot-on about bringing genetic analysis into breeding and re-localizing. [Steve Jones][1] is an awesome breeder who is doing this in Washington's Skagit Valley.

I see there being a higher participation in local food production. There are already people who want to do it but can't afford the upfront cost. As really good food becomes more available, I think it will drive more interest in growing. It was only 8 generations ago that participation in farming in the U.S. was 90%, and now it's down to 1%.

For the people who don't grow or collaborate directly with growers to get food, I see the responsibility falling to chefs to insist on working with local ingredients. Maybe self-driving cars will also usher in a new system of delivery for getting ingredients from local farms to households.

[1]: http://css.wsu.edu/people/faculty/stephen-s-jones/
I also don't think of them as a straight technology company, but more of a best of breed product company focused on a great user experience. In that sense, high risk, long term investments that don't have an immediate application don't fit their profile.
Nonsense. libc? A microservice for every function call! Surely if you can wrap your head around a library you can wrap it around a thousand little microservices.

(Snark exists in this comment.)
There were more primitive systems of currency before authorities started endorsing coins. Hoards of bronze-age axeheads, few of which show signs of use, some that couldn't ever be, point to them as a means of moving wealth via standardized units. A standardized shape of metal used in trade... sounds like coinage to me.
Same reason we have a proliferation of white, grey, and black cars. The resale value is less likely to be adversely affected.
The study seems to be making a sincere effort to be objective and evidence-based, with proper citations and such.

In my opinion, it largely succeeds. The fact that it was partially funded by someone I may not like is irrelevant (the ad hominem fallacy).

That's the entire purpose of the scientific method -- to bypass the ad hominem arguments you have made, to seperate the data and the claims from questions of whether we happen to like the person or group making the claims on a personal level.
What are you talking about?

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

In no way does it look like the cast is "mostly male", or that the women are cast into single roles.

The Simpson's were kind of famous for Bart being voiced by a woman, meaning the Simpson family has 3:1 Female:Male voice actor ratio.
They like things he doesn't like?
Lisa was an inspiring character. We all laughed at Homer and Bart but we wanted to be Lisa, with her diligence and smarts and musical ability. I think that counts for more than how many words she said.
11% in Zurich? Only at the lowest wages, like a cashier. The tax progression is steep and the rates quickly become comparable to other european countries. In Zurich marginal tax rate levels at about 40% pretty quickly for higher than average earner.
We used the standalone free Yammer that requires opt-in.
I use Android, but Apple are doing some good personal assistant stuff like tagging friends in photos, -without- uploading them to the cloud. A true personal assistant that can use machine learning locally and with discretion sounds pretty great
Greed presupposes having excess and being unwilling to share its due solely for selfish desire.

If your business can't pay more simply because the service isn't worth more then that isn't greed.

If your business can't pay more, because the money is earmarked for other things, then that isn't greed.

Basically, shuffling around monies between third parties isn't greed. It's only greed when the money is kept to yourself when others could use it, and could make a reasonable claim to deserving it (e.g. not being charitable is not greed).
No, if people like to have funky colors, they would be expecting to paint a house when they buy it anyway.

>There are enough people that someone else will want to live in it,

Sure, but not nearly as many as would want to live in it if it didn't have a purple shag carpet and black walls.

Anything you do to reduce your buyer pool costs you money. You either accept a shallow pool of offers or repaint it to undo whatever it was you did to start with when you're ready to sell, which also costs money.
> trying to avoid this pushes everyone into the loweest common denominator design which basically means "assume X11, a window and draw commands and you call a 'draw me' function, then have more functions to push in events etc.".....

No you don't need to abstract the X11 calls. What you should expose is an fd+pollmask (or collection of them) for the program to poll (+ timeout if you need it), and a function to call to make progress.

The latter you already have in C in ecore: `ecore_main_loop_iterate`

The former is a bit trickier with EFL, I guess you could create something with `ecore_main_loop_select_func_set`, but the API inside out: you really want to be able do the replacement select from outside of `ecore_main_loop_iterate`. I haven't read into the implementation to see if this is already possible.

> that's not of much if any concern to us as we provide a runtime already.

I don't want your runtime, I just want your GUI functions.
I need you to integrate with my existing runtime.

> If your source and resources are packed into a single file then the executor needs to be able to read from that file and unpack stuff from it FIRST before a single line of any lua code is run. it has nothing to do with mainloop etc. - it has to do with features existing before any lua code is run.

Why? the lua code itself can do the unpacking if it wants to.
There are tools around to do this. But I don't think we need to continue this subthread.
I thought noe-con usually meant big government / big buisiness / status-quo republican, which is pretty different from libertarian.
Is there any way this doesn't become a kangaroo court? My initial reaction is that no government will lend this legitimacy by appearing in court, and instead confiscate property in-kind while also pulling investments out of the US.

I'd be interested in any analysis published on this, if anyone has found some. I have not unfortunately.
Sure it is good for your health. If you are obese I think it may nevertheless often be better for your health to direct will power onto your eating habits to loose weight instead of using using that willpower to force yourself into exercising thinking it might help you achieving the former.
This is the socialist part of "national socialist German workers party." But heaven forfend we mention they had socialist aspects to their ideology.
How is that fascinating? Libertarianism as an ideology is overtly based on the theory that everyone ought to have extreme and full personal freedom to do whatever they like, so long as it does not affect anyone else. They have long advocated the full legalization of marijuana and all other drugs.

Neoconservativism and libertarianism are very different ideologies, by the way. Perhaps the out-group homogenity bias is at work? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity
There's nothing wrong with a little trash talk to provoke a cagey player into revealing their hand.
From https://developer.apple.com/app-store/

"The App Store makes it simple for users around the world to discover, download and enjoy your apps. "

Discovery is very much part of the deal.
> High rates of mental illness (not that mental illness is a bad thing, but I think it is at least somewhat telling about the environment)

I'd say that mental illness doesn't make one a bad person, (just like having pneumonia isn't a punishment for your sins), but mental illness is a bad thing---it should be avoided, mitigated where it exists, and if possible cured.

I'm guessing you might have meant something similar?
I like to think of it as the US justice system. I no more expect the Cato institute to argue for outlawing marijuana use than I would expect a prosecutor to drop the case against an axe murderer with 10 witnesses and DNA evidence.
Is anyone doing a GraphQL API for OsQuery for Windows?
It's only fear mongering if it's deliberate for some ulterior end. If spreading concern is only motivated by protecting the human race from destroying itself--that would be a reasonable thing to talk about. Who's benefiting from urging caution about potential bad outcomes for AGI?
At WWDC they talked about how they put AI all throughout the system. It's not just when talking to Siri. It's things like suggested apps, photo tagging, deciding when to refresh apps in the background, text prediction, and probably lots of other stuff that I can't even think of because Apple's approach to AI is to make AI largely an implementation detail of the experience rather than a user-visible component.
> Because who is saying something colors the merit it brings

Not at all; this is the "ad hominem" logical fallacy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem)

The claims being made are objectively true or false entirely independently of any personal attributes of the person making them. In other words, who is saying something is entirely irrelevant to the merit of what they are saying.
The release schedule page should probably also be updated, no?

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/schedule.html
It's just FUD. This whole thing is a boorish marketing exercise about throwing money about and which will go nowhere.

That's why Apple is out. It doesn't waste it's money.
Natural gas is often burnt off as not worth recovering in many places. It's valuable in the US largely due to low transportation costs, but on it's own is generally not worth it.
Agreed. Personally I find the moral argument, that people have self-ownership over their bodies and that it is immoral to initiate force against others (particularly for victimless "crimes"), far more compelling. You wouldn't argue against slavery on the basis of the potential for vast technological advancement decades or centuries after its abolition, would you? Nor would you cede the argument simply because it appears economically inviable.
Channels based sales and lead gen from conferences.
In this case, libertarianism led them to the right idea long before legalization was popular: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/lets-quit-drug-w... (a 1988 NYT article by the Cato Inatitute executive).
The whole point is not discovery. It's distribution. If you take away the app store, there's nothing to download.

Search ads give companies a legitimate way to promote apps within the app store, outside of editorial or bad tactics to game search results (title keyword stuffing, keyword highjacking etc).

The App Store is where the customers are, so it makes sense to allow advertising here. Otherwise the alternative Google or Facebook where you're changes of conversion are such a great deal less because you're so far removed from the channel.

It's like the difference between being offered fries at the fast food counter compared to a banner ad. It's clear it's going to be better for all involved to be offered something in the better context.
> This is really cool, but I don't understand why they'd be more popular than local currency if they're not the dominant world currency like the dollar is.

Looks like it's basically a widely used standard denomination for silver bullion.

Silver holds its value much more reliably than third world fiat currencies.
And who are you then?
>> aka the tech that currently on the road built by the non-tech companies

The level of arrogance in that is pretty staggering. Remember, I mentioned a system driving on (unmarked) dirt roads at highway speeds 10 years ago. I'm sorry, but advanced tech does exist outside of California.
No, the high compensation (and high head count) companies are HFT/prop trading firms
I sit corrected.
http://www.system-logic.com/commentary/2013/06/04/NASDAQ-and...
The entire state of South Australia (1.7M people) lost power last night
I would say though that one benefit of pairing that I've definitely experienced is that it can keep you from chasing bad ideas down deep, pointless rabbit holes. A lot of the time, when I pair (usually informally), the other person sees something quickly that I missed, or questions some assumption I've been making that turns out to have been incorrect or misguided. If I'd had that input, I might have saved a hour or two running into dead ends. But I'm not sure what the best way to balance it would be - I would never want to do the Pivotal-style all-day every-day pairing, but it's hard to know when you could benefit from another set of eyes, especially when you're already deep into something. Maybe a morning-afternoon split on alternating days or something like that?
> You seem to be repeating these weird myths that have no basis in reality.

No basis at all? I knew I was unhinged...

> You don't need to be an expert in distributed systems to use microservices.

True. Hooray for abstractions. You don't need to understand how the V8 engine allocates and garbage collects memory either... well until you do.

> It's literally replacing a function call with an RPC call.

You're not wrong.

Which is the point. Whether for architectural or performance reasons I think you need to understand your domain and model your data first. For domains that map really well to the microservice architecture you're not going to have many problems.

And a formal specification is overkill for many, many scenarios. That doesn't mean they're useless. They're just not useful, perhaps, for e-commerce sites.

But anywhere you have an RPC call that depends on external state, ordering, consensus... the point is that the tradeoffs are not always immediately apparent unless you know your data really well.

> And I've worked on 2 of the world's top 5 ecommerce sites which both use microservices.

And I've worked on public and private clouds! Cool.

The point was and still is the same whether performance or architecture... think about your data! The rest falls out from that.
We don't work with startups :).
no, -Infinity is not Infinity
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