skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't that indicate that you are missing out on a significant portion of your market? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what 'completely cannibalized'means but, personally, I'd probably follow the money; because that's where your market seems to be. Subscriptions can be good, especially if your product is sticky, but why ignore the demand for single orders?

Perhaps having packs of 10/25/50 is a viable road. After all, what's so different about sending out kits monthly to a subscriber vs sending one out to someone who purchased a month supply as a test?
Plus he is willing to help out when you need to nail down a bug, as I recently discovered with bcache. My first Linux kernel patch might be a fix of a deadlock in bcache :-)
Ah, good point. Capsicum is a much better example of the difference in approaches.
https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-chan... for more. Am now working on the absent operator post..!
will just wait for "Gitlab.com" to get the functionality - is there any lag between Gitlab version upgrade and "Gitlab.com" using the upgraded Gitlab version ?

Will wait it out for Gitlab 9.1 :) Thank you for the amazing work.
https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-chan... is a write up and analysis I've just done.
This article is an absurd misstatement of the research. Pretty much no-one is pushing the notion of a "pristine" pre-colonial Amazon. As the Nature article that also talks about this paper (both linked in another top level comment) points out, it's an open question "how much of an influence human activities have had on the Amazon" — not whether or not there's been an influence at all.

I've spent a lot of time in the Peruvian Amazon, and have talked (language limitations notwithstanding) with Shipibo-Conibo and Mestizo villagers about their relationships with the forest, specifically including their understanding of how that relationship might have been in the past.

That they engaged with it as both stewards and beneficiaries of its bounty should be a surprise to precisely no-one who has paid the slightest bit of attention.

EDIT: Contrasting that pre-historical dynamic with the way many treat the forest today, having internalized Western economic values, is tragic. Clear-cutting; illegal logging; and slash-and burn, deplete, and move on to the next patch, are all examples of treating the forest as a resource, instead of as, for lack of a better word, a partner. And it shows. The place is slowly dying. Every time I go back, I can see more of the sand that lies mere inches under the staggeringly fecund topsoil blowing around, and getting into everything.
this seems like it conflicts heavily with a large portion of their target demographic... Is the carbs also a double negative?
>Someone can fork FF though and make it so that the DRM looks like it's there to the websites it visits, but it isn't really there.

No, they can't. The DRM will have to be there, or the content (as is from the website) wont play.

>There's no way DRM can't be removed if I own the device that can play it.

There are several ways (including recording the analog signal if it comes down to that). But not any way of "make it so that the DRM looks like it's there to the websites it visits, but it isn't really there"
tl;dr Content is king.

And you're absolutely right.
I don't think that's true, both volumetric and mass densities for lithium ion batteries are very low (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Energy_d...).
Have to say that this mirrors my experience. Netflix as an app is ubiquitous -- it's on virtually every electronic device I have, from smart TV to Chromecast to phone to tablet to Wii U and PS4. I believe I have Flash specifically updated and enabled for Netflix (or one of the video services, HBO maybe?). If Netflix required a specialized Mac OS X, I probably would install it. I imagine browsers have less leverage when it comes to the average non-technically inclined user.
Mozilla also picked the wrong battles. Firefox languished while they chased mobile OSes and other projects. They have a much more formidable competitor in Google than they did with MS in the early days. So trying to go for both Android and Chrome's market when there isn't a whole lot wrong with those products is a hard sell.
What happened to sharing work with other developers?
Socialism measures utility to social decision-makers, and, so, in the case of democratic socialism, weights utility equally across the citizenry, rather by wealth as in capitalism; wealth-weighting not only favors the near-term utility of the wealthy but also entrenches power, since future expectation of power has utility.

Of course, non-democratic (either in theory or practice) socialism (or non-socialist central planning) have unequal weighting that has the same kind of issues as wealth-weighting.
Literally, the entire thread in a nutshell. Bravo.
So here's a thought: how is this different from PNaCL and friends?
So the rear wheels are on trailing arms, but the front and middle are leading arms, which increase the incidence angle by the angle of the arm in regards to ground? So impacting a 45degree slope would have the force of say 55 degrees, as the arm is ten below level? The trailing arm would then impact that same slope at effectively 35 degrees.
Just trying to understand their conclusions.
I don't think they're demonizing anyone, let alone clicks.
Ask HN: Who else is on a Keto Diet and what's it's impact on your job?
Sooner or later you will likely be faced with having to understand code that was written by someone who had just learned about template metaprogramming and was determined to put his new-found knowledge to use.
> I have quite a few data points

Show us the data points or it didn't happen.

I am highly sceptical about your statement and am convinced that most people are willing to pay in exchange for ease of use and convenience.
Aren't compilers and runtimes automating programming (well...parts of it)?
How not to hire your first data scientist
Maybe I'm biased, as a fellow YC founder, but I don't understand the negativity.

1) Sudden is the first company that I've actually considered buying instant coffee from. In the US, there's a pretty strong stigma against it, so that's not an easy task.

2) $3 per cup isn't a lot of money, roughly equivalent to a cup of coffee elsewhere in SF. Especially if I don't have to stop anywhere and can just put it in a water bottle. Actually this would be great for camping.

3) I have no idea how they are making it, but having read numerous writings by the founders, this sounds a lot harder than I imagined.

4) Having spoken to many investors, fellow founders, and others, this is really compelling to a lot of people. Again, I live in the bubble of Silicon Valley, but "better, faster coffee" doesn't feel like an elitist product.

I'm all for Sudden Coffee being successful.
Content is indeed moving in house, and all the companies that are doing in-house production in any meaningful way DRM their content. So what does this matter?
I've scaled back my meat consumption radically in the last six years or so and in my experience, taste is just a factor of habit. Change your habits and you can change what you perceive to be delicious.

Anecdotally, eating meat infrequently has resulted in me finding chicken and turkey generally flavorless and gross when I'm in a position where I must eat them. And while the smell of a burger cooking somewhere is still nice, the smell of bacon being cooked in our building has gone from sublime to rank.

When I do eat meat that I find tasty (burger, steak, kebabs) I've slowly come to appreciate that less is best, and more can turn my stomach. A thin patty ala Shake Shack is vastly preferable to an $18, 3-inch tall burger at a hip restaurant.

I haven't yet come around to vegan cheese. But based on other changes I can't rule that out.
No, I don't. Can you help me understand? Netflix isn't preventing you from using any of the open standards already implemented in a browser.
Allergies, yes. Zero carbs, probably impossible. That's okay though. No product can satisfy everyone!
Work and video games
Explanation concludes readahead is the reason that 128KB buffer is fastest on the benchmark, while the benchmark uses /dev/zero and /dev/null which don't have readahead.

You need to redo this article using actual reads and writes. Try it with both a quiet machine and a semi-busy one.
Become a Host at the Room Xchange – Get Your Time Back
Keurig is several orders of magnitude better than instant and can be bought for as low as 50 cents a cup.

At Sudden's 8 cups for $19 it is CHEAPER for me to buy a quality pour over at the local cafe where they charge $2.25 a cup.

Also this appears to be targeting "coffee snobs"; most of that crowd isn't interested in instant coffee.
That of course depends on how you add your plugins.

For example if you use something like vim-plug[1] (amongst many plugin managers) then you can use on-demand loading to make keep start up times lean.
gog.com is actually pretty good for getting somewhat older computer games. Like steam, but with even less hassle, and fewer hassles like the steam client deciding it doesn't like your network connection.
>This is how pretty much every company in the history of ever works.

Not us. If a user comes to us with a crusty-ass Dell with its own localized food chain of insects and our site doesn't work on IE5, they'll wake us up at 2am to tell us that.
Perhaps I'm missing the obvious here, but is this going to work On Firefox on Linux on ARM? Specifically Rasbian?

Also no mention of Nrtflix's biggest dick move of late re:DRM. 4K playback on the PC only on Edge? Ugh. But the real kicker is "only with Kaby Lake Intel chips".
VSCode faster than Sublime? Are you sure of that?

VSCode is certainly nice and fast, but I've been able to do choke vscode a lot faster than Sublime.

Plus, you can't even open files above what, 100(?)mb in vscode whereas Sublime happily opens that in a snap.
No, that's not my argument, as you can see from my comment above. What you've done here is twist my argument around to introduce claims I didn't make that you find easy to rebut.
This is easier to read on mobile:
https://www.impossiblefoods.com/images/faq/nutrition-facts.p...

EDIT: Here's a link to the FDA comment I deleted, but is reference in the comment below:
https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabel...
One open plan work environment story. One and only.
Lasted three months there. Noisy, smelly (kitchen nearby),
and the head counters would come by every couple hours to see who was at their seat and who wasn't. You don't have to be uber employee to fail to appreciate the master plan and want out of this type of thing.
I haven't tried Impossible Foods yet, but I have been dabbling with Beyond Meat (both companies backed by Bill Gates apparently).

In case anyone is curious about this product category, here are my thoughts on Beyond Meat:

Beyond Meat has a normal burger replacement. Other than the factory-formed shape (easy to fix I'd think), the texture and taste approach the real thing. It probably wouldn't pass a blind test and it's expensive, but if they got the cost down and In-n-out started cooking with it I could see myself preferring it.

They also have a healthier burger (Beast). This one's not trying to be as convincing and isn't going to convert any carnivores. I don't really recommend it unless you must eat something healthy in patty form.

Then there's the Beefy Crumble. This is a ground beef substitute that isn't in patty form. It's on the healthy side and isn't going to fool anyone either, but I use it all the time as it's nice to have another protein in the rotation (all the Beyond stuff uses pea protein). Easy to throw into burritos or pasta.

Looking forward to the future of this space.
LONDON UNDER SEIGE
Platforms vs. Products
You are not alone. There are even older (40 and counting) farts out here fighting the same battle. And I agree, we need a better forum; one about substance rather than image and awesome profits.
I have to say, the Microsoft folks involved in anything driver-related have been the most competent, down-to-earth, and underappreciated folks at the company. If you're a Microsoft driver person reading this, props to you my friend.
In what scenario will the appetite for software will go down ?
Not judging your choice to be vegetarian, but do you think we could actually grow/extract enough coconut oil to manufacture this at anything approaching a global scale? There has already been a run on coconuts due to crazy demand for coconut water. [http://time.com/4488043/a-major-coconut-shortage-with-global...]
Your deleted comment from the FDA filing was interesting. I also couldn't make much of it due to unfamiliarity with the terminology.

My favorite part was the "this is submitted on a certified Virus-free CD".

Original comment:

> Not sure what to make of this doc: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabel...
I had a startup that tried something like this.

Initially we went with a similar membership concept, except people subscribed to one writer directly, and got access to the collective. It barely worked, and we moved over to more of a crowdfunding model which was about 100x more effective.

In the end we worked with major publications and hundreds of journalists, had a million dollar matching fund program, and paid out millions of dollars to writers directly, but it still didn't work as a big business.

This makes me think Medium is pretty clueless about what they are getting into - especially after raising more than $100 million.
I'm with you. I'd only want this sporadically, like when I'm camping and traveling or to give as gifts. I don't need it on a monthly basis and I feel conflicted about having to sign up only to cancel (and how easy is that?) within a month.
You can't "be obsessed with your BMI". If something makes you fatter, you should not eat it.
With ~5g of carbs per 200 calories, you would have to eat these things pretty much exclusively to break keto, the only diet I'm aware of with an actual need for virtually no carbs.
There must be some price where you would break even shipping out a single tube.

You could charge that amount for a sample, even if you consider it overpriced.

You might be surprised at how many people want to try it, but don't want to commit to a subscription right away.
People have been recording the things they watch since the invention of the VCR.

DRM will not have any impact on that. Someone will come along, and make a video-grabbing utility that bypasses the DRM. Also, many of the content is already available via bittorrent.

DRM is pointless. But perhaps you are right about "browser vendors refusing to cooperate" not being the best possible approach. However, do you know what is?
To the extent this is true, those others aren't paying the bounty. Uber, who is paying, probably has fairly limited exposure to the bug; i.e. one insider impersonating another. To return to the main point, who exactly would pay more for this bug and why?
This is great and all, but I'd really prefer an updated benchmark on things I do on a minute to minute basis (e.g., time for a keypress to insert a character, time for tabs to switch, etc.) Large file benchmarks are nice, but usually I'm in a sub 1000 line file and it matters more how fast input is across the board.
And like so many things from ten years ago... cringe
What would you do instead? Just not tip them?
when companies do these types of posts, does that mean that they have already been accepted into the 2017 winter batch of YC companies? or is this just part of the application process?
> I'm not a frequent first-class passenger, but if I were, high-quality coffee would be a big deal for me.

Many transatlantic and transpacific flights now have a proper grind-on-demand coffee machine (allowing for lattes, cappuccinos, etc) in business / first class. Doesn't necessarily solve the water problem, although they can fill them up from bottled (I don't know if they actually do).
That's funny you will stand out cause they can nearly be your kids.

Seriously besides that basically as stray said, treat them with respect and realize they are quite smart or they wouldn't be where they are. Be willing to learn from whomever stands with you or in front of you regardless of age or status and you will never go wrong.

Also from experience, don't avoid the topic bring it up and make it a non-issue for them. Legally in an interview they can't ask direct questions as they probably want to. Do it for them to take the pressure off, that helps a lot. If you aren't hung up on it they won't have any reason to be either.
Great point.

I wonder how much better the modern version of this effect (as seen in the article) would be if they implemented this.
I can't complain about Now TV's tech priorities. They've recently added subtitles to their ondemand platform (on the Smart TV Box at least).

Amazon Prime Video runs in Chrome on Linux/Chrome OS or via Silverlight. Hopefully this news will likewise enable it in Firefox on Linux too.
And when your linter wants to provide formatted feedback, or you want to render Markdown, or you want the nice code maps on the right hand side, or you want to render the MDN page for that JavaScript method you're hovering over...

Plenty of valid uses for non-text rendering, especially in the realm of plugins.
Google Maps will let you share your location with friends and family
China Bets on Sensitive U.S. Startups, Worrying the Pentagon
I think it has a habit of changing itself to default even after the user sets something else as the default. Minor annoyance though compared to the overall pain of using a windows machine.
i don't see this as a solution, but rather as a step. Coconut oil might not be the perfect ingredient to supply a global scale (there might not be one), but it's, or better will be, the first mass-produced alternative that's available to the common man.
Good explanation, thank you. So when using dd or other copy tools setting a block size of 128 kb should also be the best choice?
They have recent ones too, as long as developers are willing to release DRM-free. I recently bought Torment: Tides of Numenera there.
That one is famous.

But in the version that I heard, the lead programmer didn't do it to be a hero. He did that because he knew that it is easier to not waste memory up front than it is to figure out where you can save it at the end. Therefore he made sure that memory became an obvious problem early on so that people were careful about it the rest of the way through development.

In other words because he did that, the game hit memory targets that it never could have had people waited until they tried to squeeze everything in at the last moment and only then found that they were out of memory.
We started by targeting "coffee snobs" but we're now realizing that they indeed are not the best segment for us. We're shifting our focus toward more everyday coffee drinkers who are still interested in great coffee.

Edit: Definitely makes sense for you to go to your corner coffee shop. However, Sudden offers you an option to drink kick-ass coffee when you don't have access to any other option
Have you considered letting the coffee speak for itself and offering a paid/free one cup sample to get people interested?
I'm not going to take a $19 leap on coffee I don't know if I'll like, no matter what people say or how good your marketing is. The fact that it's currently offered as a subscription makes it even less likely that I'll bite.

However, if I tasted your coffee and found it reasonable, I would probably sign up, even for a subscription. If you had an option to just buy a $3 sample cup I would, and if what people say about your coffee is true, I'd probably turn into a customer. I think a lot of people would be in the same boat, as well. Just something to consider.
Amen to this. I would be much more inclined to try Sudden Coffee out if there were an option for a one-time purchase, especially if registration were not required (I really don't want to deal with yet another password).

As a side question: what's the shelf life of Sudden?
Can you eat a 500g burger? I can't. In fact I wouldn't even want to eat a 300g burger unless I was very hungry. That's 10.5 oz. 500g is 18 oz.
I'd like to echo a huge need for this in backpacking and travel areas. For instance I went on a cruise recently and could not get a decent cup of coffee for a week. I would have loved this option for travel.

If I saw this at a premium price and it was marketed and positioned properly as a much better alternative than Starbucks Via at REI or some other outdoor retailer I'd definitely buy it. I wouldn't subscribe for it simply because it doesn't meet my daily needs. I already have a nice electric grinder and do either pour over or Aeropress for coffee. Maybe I'm not your target market, but I think I could be if I can simply order it for travel and backpacking or on the go use.
> And what are those exactly?

Providing a lower-level platform; directly exposing open web APIs. The first may not seem like an advantage, but it means more flexibility in the higher level systems (including runtimes like JVM or CLR, if you wanted to) that can be usefully run on top of it.
Netflix would not have the option anymore to use plugins now. They are gone, and browser would not bring them back just for Netflix.
Because Indian law is arcane and inconsistent? In order to figure out how the 'person' of a river should be treated in Indian law, you would first need to figure out which religion the Ganges belongs to.
Devops is a highly automated sysadmin job. When we automate something, we write code. When we write code, we want to make it maintainable, which developers are usually good at, but sysadmins are not.

Most of good devops who I worked with came to this field from development, not from sysadmin.
Who is your target? If people want good tasting coffee, like a connoisseur, one would like the option of selecting the type of bean, where it is sourced from, how it's roasted, how it's ground, how it's brewed etc. People even vehemently oppose and stand by brewing methods, which to an ordinary person who doesn't care about coffee, wouldn't care about.

And if someone is buying instant coffee anyways, I doubt they care about the taste, or have preferred methods of milk/cream and sugar that would make any drown out any nuanced/bad flavor of ANY coffee.
What's the biggest title any developer has released direct (or "recent") to Gog without DRM?
Will be 70 and happily oblivious.
Of course MS is unable to tell the difference between code that works and code that doesn't... on an unsupported platform.

Incompetent? "MS: We support Platform X, Y, Z." ... "Mob: MS must be malicious or incompetent because they aren't testing and pushing new code to Platform 9 3/4"

Unsupported. Means exactly that.
I ditched Tesltra for the Aldi (Telstra 4G reseller) year-long pre-paid plan when they offered it for a short time.

42GB for $250 = $6/GB.
cheques are gone in the UK. You don't get a cheque book with accounts by default anymore, I guess those ATM's are leftover from when cheques where cool.

They where due to be phased out entirely by 2018, but it seems like that's been extended a bit.
No, they're not. However, the standard itself is now tainted with this.

By forcing their way into the standard with EME, yes, they did. You cannot implement the full standard without getting their blessing.

They profited from the entire work done by hundreds of persons on an open standard, and implemented a proprietary solution on top of it. And made it part of the standard.
I was trying a bunch of different editors last year and tried Atom out. I have used it ever since. It just seems nice to use.

I am not really seeing the performance issues others are. I use it on a 1st generation i5 laptop with 4GB ram on Ubuntu, and in an Ubuntu VM on Windows 7, so I'm doing alright on low end hardware.

When I have to open very large files, it is usually log files on a server and I tend to us grep and tail etc...