skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the record, Aerospike has no association with RedHat.

RedHat took someone else's work ( Linus and the Linux community ) and commercialized it. They provide a useful service, but the RedHat money may or may not go to the developers who make Linux great ( some necessary elements, like, say, OpenSSL, are outside the Linux umbrella )

At Aerospike, you are supporting the people who do the work. Not like RedHat at all.
He did say it was worth highlighting, but certainly not that it was (or wasn't) a problem.
We're comparing vaping to smoking, not vaping to being sober.
Why would it be a problem? I just thought it was interesting and am surprised no one has opined about it yet (afaict)
I lived as a student at Beida for a full year, between 96 to 97. I saw Deng die, and the return of Hong Kong.

At least at the time, three things always struck me:

1) The pollution was awful -- we were in in Qinghuadaxue for fully one month before the sky finally cleared enough that we could see the Fragrant Hills - we literally had no idea they were there. I re-visited China again in 2013 I think, and it's just worse. There can be no overstatement of how bad it is, and this is what I thought of immediately when Mr Barra mentioned his health.

2) Culturally... No one queued. Ever. For anything. At the McDonald's at Tiananmen square, you had to physically shove your way forward through a solid crowd 15+ feet deep, wave your money at the cashier, and once they had taken your money, then you could give them your order.

In 2013, I didn't see this sort of no-queueing behavior, but I had only two weeks in country that time.

3) Social mores are a little odd. You could have a conversation in a private place with a local (like, a taxi driver in cab) and they'd talk all about how awful and stupid the government was. But prostitution? No, we don't have that here. HIV? Oh, that's a foreign disease. Gay people? We don't have them here either. And about that last, I don't think this is any longer the case, but at the time in 96, there was one gay bar in the entirety of Beijing (Yi Ban Yi Ban, IIRC), and they were raided/harassed on a semi-frequent basis.

At least in 2013, the public spitting was greatly reduced, but I still saw children being guided by parents to pee on the street.

China was an amazing experience as a student, and the Chinese people I got to know directly (i.e. outside of official functions) were wonderful and welcoming. But boy howdy, there were some rough edges to public life.
> Why are you assuming the nicotine is solely to blame, and not for example the carbon monoxide?

Good point, thanks.

I will relax my assumption to "some of the cardiovascular disease is caused by nicotine," and admit that I don't have enough information to know what percentage of smoking deaths are attributable to just the nicotine.

Do you happen to know if they've figured this out?
Pass the Ball™ to random script kiddies and hostile government agencies with WebEx!
My Mighty Light (TEASER)
Och yes - nothing specific to Scotland about those trade-offs.

Availability of decent Internet bandwidth is completely unpredictable though - one house in a rural area might be 2Mbps and another house 1km away (and no closer to a town) might, in one extreme case we found, get 450Mbps and nobody could explain to me why this was the case!
The Least Surprised
I'm on a surface book, but have a similar issue. OneNote is the best I've found, but my issues are a few things:

- Something about how changing color works doesn't quite feel right.

- I can't shuffle pages around, overlap them, etc.

- I want either infinite page size, or fixed, not the weird 'expand when you write near the edge' thing I have now.

I think I almost want a 'virtual desk' kind of thing that I can shuffle paper around on, make things overlap, etc. All the stuff you can do with paper, with the added benefit of being able to save stuff. Organization could be a serious issue though.
Or that they are of the acceptable echelon of immigrants. I wish I was joking.
Keep in mind that HPV is not necessarily a permanent infection. HPV infections are commonly cleared, putting you at risk for reinfection, which the vaccine will help protect against. It will also help protect you from further infections by the covered strains.
Facebook have produced a surprising amount of powerful tools recently, so getting into the research (as in research tools) space seems like it should be good for all (and obviously if they are deeply into AI research, having a good indexing tool is crucial).
think that might be the wrong youtube link...
According to Aerospike's internal numbers, 40% of our paying users are on Amazon. It certainly does work in that environment, provides huge benefits compared to DynamoDB. You just have to change a couple of tuning parameters, and build your data architecture correctly ( don't build a single cluster over two AZ ).
They also have worse access to screening and preventative care.
Of course, that could also lead to someone selling their phone, then having Apple provide them that same information. Would that also be a desirable outcome? If not, how is Apple to tell the difference between the two scenarios?
As someone who has friends who have worked for Cisco Security I can say with a fair amount of confidence they're not "NSA loving techno-vampires"

Here's a whitepaper on one of their newer products that is fully end-to-end encrypted (meaning anti-NSA): http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/collab...
I am not a lawyer, but I don't think so. Citizens United didn't rule that money was literally speech, but instead that laws prohibiting the expenditure of money on speech (i.e. a political ad) are impermissible impediments on protected speech. Fraud isn't protected speech, and money laundering isn't speech at all, so I don't think the first amendment comes into play at all. And yes, I don't think constitutional protections would apply to a bank simply refusing to be the medium for a financial transaction.
Not to take away from this (I'd probably use it if I used markdown), but RestructuredText has file inclusion out of the box.

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html...

$ for f in main.rst include1.rst include1.1.rst; do
echo "$f"
cat "$f"
done

main.rst
==================================
Demo of RestructuredText inclusion
==================================

.. contents::

First include a file
====================

.. include:: include1.rst
include1.rst

This is the first included file
-------------------------------

Which includes another file.

.. include:: include1.1.rst
include1.1.rst

And this is the last included file
..................................

Fin.

$ lynx --dump main.html

Demo of RestructuredText inclusion

Contents
* [1]First include a file
+ [2]This is the first included file
o [3]And this is the last included file

[4]First include a file

[5]This is the first included file

Which includes another file.

[6]And this is the last included file

Fin.

References

1. file:///home/aaron/tmp/main.html#first-include-a-file
2. file:///home/aaron/tmp/main.html#this-is-the-first-included-file
3. file:///home/aaron/tmp/main.html#and-this-is-the-last-included-file
4. file:///home/aaron/tmp/main.html#id1
5. file:///home/aaron/tmp/main.html#id2
6. file:///home/aaron/tmp/main.html#id3
Exactly this. It's a falsehood to think that HSA/HD will cause you to be a better consumer because you can't be a better consumer when the sellers refuse to provide price information. We had our first child this year and the hospital coded some things to my wife and some to my daughter which caused us to pay two deductibles. I tried to get an itemized breakdown repeatedly from the hospital and was met with "we can't do that."

Never mind the fact that you can't exactly shop around for places to deliver when your OB/GYN only has admitting privileges at one hospital. I'm about as free market as they come but when the providers flat refuse to tell you what they are going to charge you. Try going to one of those corner ERs, you'll have to sign a form saying you are solely responsible for all charges but they sure won't tell you what those charges are until you sign it.
Cheap short-term (nightly to weekly) housing used to be all over the United States in the form of dormitories (YMCA was huge), SROs (single room occupancy), cage hotels, flophouses, and boarding houses. Because of zoning and building code changes this kind of housing essentially stopped being built after WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flophouse#Cage_hotels_in_the_U...
> I live in flyover country, and people legit believe that letting the market make choices is best

There is a large segment of the population that worships the free market. They believe it will fix anything. Any flaws are because it's not a truly free market, but we can fix that and make it free and then it will work properly.
Money being returned to victims - or perpetrators going to jail.

Which is more important?
I love the idea of the touchbar (that is, I'd get an external keyboard with one if it had the Fn keys too...).

I can think of a lot of uses for it, though maybe not making full use of the display capabilities. When I first saw it, I immediately thought "programmable ribbon controller".

Think of a virtual slider/fader that can output absolute position or relative movements, with (here's the kicker) the Fn keys selecting what the control is connected to.

For example, iTunes could use it for seeking position of the current audio. Tapping along the ribbon would drop you at that point of the audio (like moving and dropping the needle on a record). The Fn keys could switch it to Low, Mid and High EQs, let you scroll through your folders and playlists, etc...
This is a pretty compelling point!
While those works, they can leave some traces. The guy behind Wipebook made a video about it [1]. See also the Tips and Tricks videos from the same company [2] [3]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-hE6VDAG_I

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQtGd0YkMos

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PWw7G1jfg
> I will park and walk in to the desk

Um, how else do you get the desk without parking and walking? Can you drive straight to your desk?
Can't wait for Silicon Valley Season 4.
Perhaps things have changed since I was a kid growing up in the suburbs, but back then it worked exactly the opposite way: once you get used to using your garage as a storage unit, you won't go back to parking your car indoors.

I think the 21st century trend is more that garages will shrink and in some cases disappear because "once you get used to not needing to own a car, you won't want to go back". Car ownership is growing rapidly less essential for people who live in big cities and can afford to use uber/lyft for personal mobility and delivery services instead of going out for errands.
When I polished the extension with a custom Icon, I went to the Chrome Store with a big smile on my face, it asked me to set up settings, let me set up a custom icon, forced me to think of a good informational text, and at the "moment supreme" of hitting the Publish button it asked me for a credit card. Luckily Mozilla returned that smile and had a suprisingly fast review-proces, it only took around 12 hours I think.

Anyway, now I can first see how popular it will be on Firefox before I decide to try find a 'throw away' credit card.
I didn't get anything negative from GP. I think they were just wondering at the lack of comments from a likely over-represented HN Indian population about Trump nominating a decent number of Indian Americans... I had not noticed (yes, I'm a white guy) and now I have so I appreciated the comment.
This account has been posting a lot of political and ideological comments, and accounts that do that primarily are abusing the site. We're not here to do battle on such grounds, but rather to indulge our intellectual curiosity.
Did she file a complaint? Others have mentioned that the money is establishing a fund to refund transactions, but I doubt you'll get far into that process if a formal complaint wasn't filed.
I think this is the greatest obstacle to the "...and Replace" part of Repeal and Replace.

The ACA was already the workable compromise.
I agree. I think it is partly because the quality of prose is more subjective than that of software. Not thought a lot about this point though. It is an interesting topic.
Reminds me of F.I.R.E. (financial independence and retire early) from:

www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence

Really interesting stuff on that sub.
I sincerely hope this succeeds, and is ultimately extended to recognize software as being just another part in a modern device. Especially once a manufacturer stops supporting a device with software updates, they should have no right to prevent users from fixing defects in those devices on their own.
"Healthcare is not a market."
Places where gravimetric density is more important:

- Electric vehicles

- Aircraft

- R/C

- Anything that goes into space

- Large scale energy storage (good energy density typically = less lithium used)

- Generally: anything that moves

Places where both are equally important:

- Consumer electronics (you don't want an ultra slim 2lb phone, or a ultra thick featherweight phone)

Places where volumetric density is more important:

- Batteries in smartcards

- Some medical devices

- Certain flashlights, IoT devices

You'll notice that there are a lot more things where people care more about gravimetric density.

Also, the best Li-Ion cells for volumetric density that you can buy are rather inconvenient shapes; a favorite is the 18650, an 18mm diameter by 65mm long cylinder. Yes, the best 18650 technically has much better volumetric density than the iPhone batteries. But if you swapped the iPhone battery with an 18650 you'd have a hilarious looking semi-cylinder protruding from the back.
What’s Next for Transistors: New FETs, qubits, neuromorphic & advanced packaging
I don't know.

I am uncomfortable with some of the other comments in this thread saying that nicotine is harmless. :-/
They really don't even try, do they?
If only I could disable ONLY 3DSecure transactions.
Most people don't own stocks, either directly or indirectly [1]. Everyone needs a home.

1: http://www.cnbc.com/2014/09/08/the-stock-gap-american-stock-...
Auction Your Time – Connecting Pros and Clients
By comparing actual with predicted results, I should think. I'm not sure how past programming experience, most likely in an environment very different from the one in which one's reports operate, necessarily translates into a close understanding of how one's reports go about actually doing what they actually do.
White House reporters aren't in the room because they lack the tech-savvy to be there; the New York Times can throw down against any Y Combinator startup in building technology.

Reporters are in the room because they're trained, professional reporters who have dedicated their careers to reporting on the White House. Diluting their influence is not necessarily a good thing.
20th-anniversary reply tot eh Wired attack (Ted Nelson)
You must not have encountered much Bukowski.
I agree. Every major human civilizations in history that has arisen has eventually collapsed, usually due to resource exhaustion. It's arrogant to think that ours won't. It's just going to be on a much much bigger, global scale this time. It will take ~200 years from now to bring the average surface temperature of the earth up to a boiling point.
Super high-resolution photo of Trump Inauguration
I keep my table saw at the local makerspace, along with most of my other tools, and the tools all the other members have chosen to share. I go visit them whenever I want to work on something; in the meantime my house stays tidy. It's a great system.
It's a business. They aren't going to risk their career to help you.

I had a conversation with a psychiatrist who had done Skype sessions with patients while he was in Australia. That was okay with his malpractice insurance. He turned me down on the grounds that his insurance wouldn't cover the patient being remote. He was willing to take a risk on a former patient that was interested in remote sessions. For what its worth I would be willing to sign away my rights for progressive care.
And this is why browsers keep on pushing more and more features into the web platform: to get rid of people writing extensions and plugins like this.
> Also, there are several MAOIs in tobacco smoke. MAOIs are used as last-line anti-depressants, because of their side-effects when taken in large doses. But with tobacco products, a user basically gets a tritrateable MAOI.

Reversible MAOIs are safer than the irreversible ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_inhibitor#Re...

There were some articles in the Boston Globe in 2000 that pointed out that the SSRI Prozac was known to contribute to suicides. I think it was a mistake to allow this drug onto the market.

> If we suddenly discovered nicotine today, I'm convinced that either it or a close chemical cousin would be a the next miracle drug for anxiety and depression.

Niacinamide (Nicotinamide) is somewhat similar to Nicotine.

Considering these striking homologies, the craving for
nicotine might be due, in part, to a misplaced "hunger"
for the nutrient, vitamin B3, [...]

-http://www.highfiber.com/~galenvtp/vtlnctnc.htm
I don't understand why they did this. I have used Voice as my primary number for maybe 5 years now. Hangouts was working fine with it. Now I need to decide between using hangouts or google voice? Honestly google, what the fuck.
It is a feature that is useful for many standard C library functions, a few functions in other commonly used libraries, and next to no functions in application libraries in cases like the parent's OOo example.

A reasonable approach to designing shared libraries would be to allow interposition as a non-default feature for explicitly marked symbols, and use fast direct binding by default.
Disagree. Drivers are being paid. It's commercial. They are providing transportation to the public on public roads, therefore qualifications of the drivers and fatigue, etc. are matters of public safety.
They can trade off speaking during the filibuster.

Say only 20 of the minority decide to be completely intransigent. How many weeks do you think it will take to exhaust them when they each only need to speak for ~9 hours a week to maintain the filibuster?
There are only a few possibilities for what (cadr hunk) could mean. One way to solve this is to try them all and see which one runs successfully.

Based on †, it sounds like (cadr (hunk (hunk 1 2) 3)) should return 2.

Is the old LISP code available online somewhere? I'm curious to see it.
Yes, indeed. Cofounded with Ann Johnson and fellow ex-Facebooker, Bobby Johnson, who led the infrastructure team for many years.

Interana draws much of it's inspiration from Scuba combined with learnings of analyzing massive amounts of data at scale.

Many high-growth companies use Interana for behavioral analysis of their event logs (Asana, Reddit, Imgur, Nextdoor, Bing, Azure, Tinder, SurveyMonkey, Sonos...).
> California might be able to try it.

This. California democrats recently achieved a supermajority[1] making such an experiment possible. If California cannot push state legislators hard enough to give it a shot, the idea that a fractured national Congress will is fatally flawed. Voters rejected the idea in Vermont[2] (Bernie country[3]) -- so, can California be different? Granted, a California experiment must balance the fact the CMS money originates from federal sources, but that should not completely inhibit an experiment.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essentia...
[2] http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/single-payer-vermont-1...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Democratic_primary,_20...
If said middle-age man had expensive chronic conditions to treat then that $70/mo policy would quickly become a $10840/yr policy. That might be workable for a high-earner but even for the average-income American it likely wouldn't be.
I like your analysis here but how is this related to the article?
For true diehard Star Wars fans check out this treat
firefox.com has a relatively low score because of a goal to keep it accessible by older browsers on older operating systems (i.e., out-of-the-box, you should be able to load it on the oldest systems Firefox supports, which I believe include XP SP2).
> I exercised, read, watched TV, relaxed. I was constantly amazed by the number of people who said they'd hate that sort of routine.

I'd be board out of my mind. You'll never pull me away from computer(s), programming, terminals, and all the lot. I know many people in computer science like me. Computers are not a job, they are a way of life so much so that I find ways to fill my free time with more of them.

I know many people like me. One such (retired) person, who I will not name, has actually spent money to work for my current employer. He's done construction/demolition, data processing, data agregation, and goes to the north pole for us sometimes. He's a great guy who loves what he does and I don't think he'll be able to stop... ever.

I'm very much the same way. I love the work I get to do and I've done a lot of it for free just because I enjoy doing it. I also do freelance work with computers and I'm trying to break into other fields like machining, welding, and electronics. When I retire I'll keep doing that. Making things is just fun for me.
It's a poisonous culture, where it's more important to look smart than to be smart. Note that Ulrich's answer was not just completely self-assured but also technically incorrect, that he didn't respond to the polite questions about his answer, and that prelink eventually turned out to be a big misfeature.

I suspect they're quietly pentagonizing all the fongebanglers every time they install their systems, confused why there are only five points instead of six, and too worried about their reputation to suggest that maybe someone should make fongebanglers automatically figure out the right polygon, because then they'd they'll admit they don't know actually how to fix it themselves.
I'm generally for Net Neutrality but you seem to be suggesting that regulation drives technological progress. Modulo things like natural monopolies, unaccounted-for externalities, etc, isn't the opposite usually true?

Also, are you suggesting that Ajit Pai represents "regulatory capture" and has no regard for the consumers of the industry he helps regulates? Perhaps it is the case that he's a terrible person, but it might also be the case that he has a different perspective on how best to drive innovation in the telecom industry.

I'm not sure how I feel about Trump but he's a new President and I'm going to root for him and for his team until he makes an actual mistake and not a maybe-could-turn-into-a-mistake-someday choice.
Just to chime in. If you have concerns because you've heard that "vaping is bad", do some research into it. While there are billboards and other advertisements against vaping in the USA, Public Health England says that vaping is at least 95% healthier [1].

http://notblowingsmoke.org/

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-le...
High-deductible plans are not the answer. They are a symptom of the problem. You assume risk up to say $10,000 (your high deductible) because you don't expect to need it unless you wind up in the hospital. If you have a chronic illness, high deductible plans don't do shit for you.

As long as we view this as a "not my problem, I'm not sick" issue, this will never be fixed.
These days, I would think they would recommend vaping over smoking. Vaping is apparently much safer, and only contains nicotine (plus glycerin/glycols). In my experience, cigarettes are much more relaxing and calming than vapes. I would think that the other compounds in cigarettes add to the overall soothing effect. Something about pure nicotine doses like through vapes just doesn't feel as good as a cigarette. One of my friends with cancer said the same thing about THC pills compared to smoking marijuana...