skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a tough one. Kickstarter incentivizes over-promising. If you don't over-promise, you don't go viral and you lose out to others who do.

>Now, I would rather pay the 10% more for a product after reviews

I always thought the point of Kickstarter was to help an early stage company by throwing a few bucks their way and getting a small (cheap) reward for it. Instead it turned into a pre-order system where backers expect heavy discounts on the final product. This can easily become disastrous for hardware kickstarters. Not only are you taking on liability at an early phase of development (when you really have no idea what it will take to take the idea to production), given how easy hardware products can incur cost-overruns, those companies will incur a heavy loss on the final product. Ideally early backers should expect to pay a heavy premium on kick-starter 'pre-orders'.
Tell that to the NHS.[1]

[1]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3222588/Thousands-...
I was wondering why they specifically chose Julia for this (since I know little about Julia at all), and found an answer in a previous article:

> Julia has two main advantages from our perspective. First, as free software, Julia is more accessible to users from academic institutions or organizations without the resources for purchasing a license. Now anyone, from Kathmandu to Timbuktu, can run our code at no cost. Second, as the models that we use for forecasting and policy analysis grow more complicated, we need a language that can perform computations at a high speed. Julia boasts performance as fast as that of languages like C or Fortran, and is still simple to learn.

http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/12/the-frb...
Ha - I chuckled when I saw the [video] tag. I remember when Scrimba was first posted here and it is indeed great -- but the really fun part is the fact that they aren't really videos!
Did the plan you had before have annual and lifetime spending caps?
The General Lee? I see a few with that paint job every so often.
Now they're much closer to solving 'smart home assistant' online shopping. Communication only via voice results in two uncomfortable options: either you're blindly believing that you'll get best price/option ("order xyz") or you may stuck in very slow listening of options (try to read search result list). That barrier will be stepped over with this little screen enhancing shopping experience, if needed.
"While we await the results, the best course to help fight that middle-age spread hasn’t changed. Eat right and follow an exercise plan that you know you can stick to—it will make you feel better. Take it from me, a guy who decided eight years ago that it was time to shape up, stopped eating honey buns, got into a regular exercise program with a trainer to keep me accountable, and lost those 30 pounds. You can do it, even without a DNA-PK inhibitor!"

I'm glad the article finished with the above paragraph because while the study is interesting, Americans don't seem to have unique physical traits that cause them to gain weight, we just don't have healthy habits. I wonder what the weight gain in the same time period is in different regions of the world
Companies with closed platforms do have a track record of collaborating and integrating.

However, if you are making a case for standards in this space - I agree.
I'm gonna be really blunt here - IPFS isn't going to be the turning point in a revolution. Neither is Keybase.
Leaving intentional bugs in code for testers to find
I have. "LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. "

I don't need or want any of that. In fact when I write music, music engraving is the least of my concerns. Actually music engraving is generally the least of my concerns period.

Also I find the current music notation to be kinda idk outdated. I can read it, but I feel like it's a system designed by someone who had the mathematical knowledge of a 15th century farmer (which is probably how it came to be).
I wonder how this "middle age weight" gain interacts with practices such as intermittent fasting, keto diet, 1-meal a day. These practices impact metabolism.

I also wonder if FDA recommendations of calories per days should be split not just by sex, but also by age.
Good points, both! I think it's telling that the e-mail one is a relatively recent development. Is that also the case for SMS? I'm not too familiar with the history of short codes, but I have the impression that they're newer too.
I use Thunderbird as my main email client and I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with it! I have a complicated email set up with 1000s of folders, and lots of mail accounts and filtering and by and large it does a great job.

I still use mutt when I really want an email powertool, but I can't use it as my daily email client any more (and haven't for years) now that HTML emails are so prevalent.

I use lots of plugins with Thunderbird (Copy Sent to Currrent, Enigmail, External Editor, Nostalgy, QuickFolders, Identity Chooser, Mail Redirect, ...) to try to bring back some of the functionality I'm used to with mutt and it works quite well now.

In recent months I find Thunderbird needs restarting once a day which is frustrating. It goes into some kind of internal loop processing an email and never returns. Probably a consequence of too many plugins!
It's been 30 years since I was in High School and I still remember being taught back then that studies showed that length of prison sentence didn't have a noticeable deterrent effect.

Most crimes are committed by people who feel they have nothing to lose.
Well yeah and if you're t-boned by a drunk driver the mistake is the person driving drunk, not you going for a taco bell run. Unfortunately your spine is still shattered regardless of who actually was making mistakes.
Great idea, but do remote employees get paid the same? Say 100k+ for an SF based company?
insulin imbalance will also cause weight gain.
I did not write "if and only if". :-)
Text messaging? No thanks. I need free international communication from my computer, not paid clunky international messaging only from my phone.

Plus they want to censor and control the conversation; private texting is not happening.
While I understand what you're getting, bear in mind that in the context of a discussion about Thunderbird specifically and not just in general that Thunderbird is currently best described as being built on "A now-very-deprecated vaguely web-esque technology stack with no future". Moving to web technologies is a step forward even if you don't personally like them much. (And I'm at least sympathetic to that viewpoint.)
Not everyone has or wants a TV.
Fair. I am almost diamond and play like its a full time job when my girlfriend isn't around.
> it should be required to state what data is shared with whom in clear human language (and not in a 20 page wall of legalese).

I am not sure there is a human language equivalent of what the legalese says. The company won't even know in advance what ingenious uses of your data they'll be able to cook up.

> the legalese often boils down to 'you will sell your soul'.

Okay, maybe that works.
In my experience, yes. Any good company will not want to lose the right person because of location or pay.
I'd pay to watch a movie about the Redneck Mob.

"Hey, Vinny. Hold my beer and watch this!"
Yes, perhaps the wording was odd. There is an actual... er, sequence of events that did happen. In other words, a reality. There is reality and speculation, but seeing as I can't know for certain, I can only speculate. The options I listed appeared to me to be the most probable.
No! I'll feel bad to cheat someone else - and I don't like to feel bad:)
Amazon subsidizes hardware by collecting information on the users, so they can't open their hardware. It's ironic because, like uBlock on Chrome, only a small percentage would change the hardware/OS anyway -- and those are the people who could try radical experiments and show Amazon what works.

Hopefully Google, Samsung or Microsoft(?!) will sell open hardware/firmware that isn't subsidized by collecting information.

Amazon is basically following the CueCat strategy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat#Failure

> The company's response to these hacks was to assert that users did not own the devices and had no right to modify or reverse engineer them. Threats of legal action against the hackers swiftly brought on more controversy and criticism.
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I found the thesis interesting and plausible: that innovation is fetishized.

But on a slight tangent I wondered whether the "innovation" that they complain about is a particular variant, one that we're all familiar with here: a pseudo-libertarian start-up variant

"Innovation ideology is overvalued, often insubstantial, and preoccupied with well-to-do white guys … in a small region of California"

It seems easy to argue against this tired representative of innovation.

By contrast there are those that would argue that most of the major technological and scientific gains have arisen, not from these VC hype-machines, but from large-scale state planning and investment. One of the best expositions of this argument is from economist Mariana Mazzucato: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPvG_fGPvQo
They provider may not even be allowed to tell you due to contracts with insurance companies.

This kind of thing is outright criminal. We need transparent pricing regulation!
A better question is, "Why not?"

Is there something you'd like to share with us, Johnanneskanybal?
> While the enzyme is known for its role in DNA repair, their studies show it also slows down metabolism, making it more difficult to burn fat.

Already known factor and a completely misleading sentence. All this means is that you have to consume less to get the same results. We already knew that metabolism slows down as you age. It's a factor in BMR (base metabolic rate) TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) calculation.

Sadly, articles like this mostly give overweight people another excuse, rather than a greater understanding of their predicament.
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Aight. I wasn't comparing btw, just wanted to have your point of view.
It's not arguing by authority, it's arguing by counterexample. Robert Henke doesn't represent all musicians, but he is a musician, so it's not possible that Ableton doesn't reflect the perspective of any musician.

All the things you mention relate to a certain workflow. It's not my workflow, it's not every musician's workflow. It'd be great if Ableton had good SysEx support, but it's not accurate to say it has a "complete disregard for music" because it doesn't fit your workflow exactly. Ableton is designed to simplify working with repetitive beats. If you don't want any of those, of course it's going to be difficult to use.
Author here. The doc does acknowledge basic auth as a valid approach for server side usage, but the language was a bit too pessimistic about basic auth.

I just modified it to say the following

If you use HTTPS, then basic authentication is a good choice for server side only applications. It is the easiest to get started, and is well supported by clients and server frameworks.
I haven't seen a mechanism for lowering price without collective bargaining. That's why I see a single payer system as a must for the problem you've described here. I'd like to hear more alternative views on this though.
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iPhone for grandparents? or Echo for grandparents.

For me this product makes sense for elderly in the digital age to keep them connected.
There's a link between iPhone screen repairs and Apple's 2-year upgrade cycle
> I guess though I did find the idea of using pygame just for SDL to be kind of... blunt

Yeah, I think this was a pragmatic choice (it was before I was involved at all), but it was never that great. SDL2 has solved a lot of problems and is much easier to support.

> I was actually thinking of Renpy or python-for-android.

python-for-android is Kivy's own Android build tool, which nowadays is a separate project. It supports multiple backends, but doesn't really support pygame except as a Kivy backend (which is not maintained much any more). It does support SDL2, so you can use e.g. PySDL2 to make Android apps.

I think Renpy also moved to SDL2, probably also due to issues supporting Pygame, although last I checked they use a fork of Kivy's older python-for-android toolchain.
Sorry no, do not use the VM, it is outdated. Additionally, buildozer has improved, and has worked well on Android in my experience.

I don't find apps to be slow, and I'm using it primarily on a several year old nexus 10.
What you said about learning melodies and beats and chords kind of confused me. Do people actually learn how to make up music? I always thought it was just some natural ability that people have. For as long I can remember if somebody told me to write a song I would just spit it out after a while. Am I unuiqe in this respect?
Wow, this looks really cool! On my list to check out.
I'm not sure I understand why, in design terms, add_first_element doesn't return ownership of the vectors given that they don't seem to be passed in mutably?
I went here with the intent to delete my history but I actually kinda like being able to see this. I've got mixed feelings about it..
After reading about rainloop I could see wanting to run it locally, but as soon as you put it on a VM somewhere you're create a very public access point for all of your email accounts if that server gets compromised aren't you? Seems like creating a weak link on purpose.
Except that huge inequalities exist in socialistic economies as well, and capitalism means the middle class of today live as well or better than the richest people in the world did in the 1920s.
I would never bring something like this into my home, I just don't trust big corporations enough for that.
FireOS is just Android with a UI skin and some Google services ripped out. I'd be surprised if an x86 fork wasn't always maintained, if for nothing else than ease of debugging!
The FDA recommendations are mostly bogus since activity level and base metabolic rate differ enough between otherwise normal people to make some people fat on the recommended amount of calories and others too skinny.
Office distractions could be costing more than $30k per employee each year
Profession: Laravel Developer - Remote

[7:45] First alarm.

[8:00] Second Alarm.

[8:15] Third alarm...sometimes final..sometimes I wait till 8:25.

[8:45] Morning Standup.

[9:00] Spend an hour on hn/reddit.

[10-12:00] Try to get an hour in.

[12:00-1:00] Lunch

[1:00] Try to work if i'm in the right mindset, or HN/Reddit.

[2:00] Ditto

...

..

.

[1:00 AM] Bed.

I'm usually always at computer trying to get work in, and catching up on the weekends--my wife hates that part, but can't grep the fact that my mind can't just code like a machine whenever I'm 'on the clock'..

I have aspergers/add and focusing is a major issue. We use a time clock tracker for work that tracks activity/time so I just pause that when I'm in distraction mode.
I can see how this would go south really quick once skype meetings / in-person events start to collide. I think for the RIGHT type of remote work one may be able to pull this off for a while, but I can't imagine that full-time, well-paying remote dev roles could be juggled like this.
We have pretty successfully engineered almost all physical activity out of the normal daily life of a middle-aged suburban American, who move from bed to car seat to desk chair to car seat to couch to bed with as little walking as possible in between.

Most other societies make walking (including to and from public transit) and bicycling much bigger parts of their transportation landscape, rather than designing new communities to make driving as easy as possible and other means of transportation impossible, either intentionally or implicitly.
Oh, man... I'd totally forgotten about that game! I played it a _ton_ as a kid :) Now that you mention it, the sights and sounds are coming back to my mind's eye.

Aaaand now I know what I'm doing with my free time later this week :)
I heard second hand about a guy at a Carribean resort who was doing this. I've been tempted to do it myself :)
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I use NancyFX on the old .NET/Mono for that purpose and it works well. I keep hoping to switch to Core and it keeps not happening, but the old way seems to have a lot of life left in it.
In absence of any valid science what criteria should used to sort out BS from "the good stuff"?
Lasp: a little further down the Erlang rabbithole
Productivity app that blocks push notifications, social apps, websties and more
As a current serving herokai - things are still very much like this. Things are fine.
Lol I had to negotiate to get about a quarter of that salary. I know Travis CI limits your pay to your region. GitLab as well. Difference from Mexico to San Francisco is about 4x.
I do that, I try to find loopholes and edge cases to better define my mental model and then test them against the knowledge of people who know better than me.

I figure GGP is trying to do the same, and not sending in a paper to Nature right now.
I use Alexa integrated with SmartThings and that allows all these automations e.g. lights switch off automatically when I leave, thermostat turns down heating/cooling etc.
Perfect for viewing and browsing recipes and recipe videos without having to touch the screen.
Well this could end up being a sort of devil's bargain.

Lower weight, better athletic performance, but increased DNA damage leading to other problems (I'd guess cancer being high up on that list).
See also the case study on the JC website, which includes a talk from one of the developers explaining some of the rationale:

https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/ny-fed.html
My use case is walking around the house, remembering we need something at the store, telling Alexa about it, and then looking at the Alexa app when I get to the store. I don't walk around the house with my phone in my hand.
The Ableton hate is pretty unfounded. Most people use third party synths and effects anyway so who cares about what the DAW comes prepackaged with.
> I can't use [mutt] as my daily email client [...] now that HTML emails are so prevalent.

Whats the problem? What prevents you from viewing HTML emails as plain text? Often, that's more readable anyway.

Just put the following lines into your ~/.mailcap file:

text/html; w3m $(grep -qi 'content-type.*charset' %s || echo '-I UTF-8') -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput

Feel free to skip the encoding fix, or to use another html-to-text converter than the text browser w3m.
Yes! So many examples of why.

What if I want the sound of rustling leaves to come and go across the course of a song?

What if I wanted my piece to happen over a drone tone similar in function to a tamboura or a constantly feeding back electric guitar?

What if I wanted to have another sort of loop and while playing it back, experiment with different tempos against it to see what sounds right?

And a zillion other things.
Commits are a really terrible metric when it comes to measuring productivity for this exact reason.
Between the changes that we keep seeing that show many of the current climate change models to be overly optimistic (!) and the complete failure of any substantial efforts to change things, it seems like it only makes sense to treat climate change as being not just inevitable but also faster and more severe than originally expected.

Where are the temperate areas with terrain that can handle "hundred year" weather events every few years and vegetation that can adapt quickly enough? Because regardless of what's said by naysayers, Rapturists and people with the resources to remain at the top of whatever we end up with, we've embarked on a high-speed terraforming project - it's just not the one traditionally talked about in science fiction of the past 50 years.
<vanity>That moment when you realize that your JS implementation supports conv nets and others don't :D </vanity>
Huxley though... I don't think it's really about whether Orwell was right or Huxley, I think they both are.
Because it's not entirely clear from the title and introduction, this essay is actually arguing against extending Rust's type system to include linear types, rather than critiquing the type system as it currently exists (which people often colloquially describe as having "linear types" even if it technically doesn't).

EDIT: The intro has been updated to be clearer, so now I just look like an idiot. :)
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That's messed up. Unless there's a separate component like local-cost-of-living-adjustment where you get extra for living in a high-rent area.
If at all possible, people in this sort of situation would be much better served by joining a credit union.

I was under the impression that most people using these cards were using them because:

a) They distrusted banks because of a prior history of being screwed by them, or

b) They were unbankable because of a ChexSystems report preventing them from being able to open a traditional bank account.

Is this not the case?
Right. Cube, Ping, etc
From powershell (on Windows 10/Server 2016, possibly others):

(Get-MpComputerStatus).AmEngineVersion

Also, from powershell:

Update-MpSignature

to just go ahead and run the update process
If you want to get an interesting take on the 'Live' part of Ableton Live, look for 'Kid Beyond Ableton' videos. He builds up tracks live on stage by beatboxing all the instruments, and uses something called a Hothand recently as his controller.
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I agree with you completely that cost reduction is fundamental, but I disagree with you that the problem is more technical than ideological. Who pays is just as important as how much it costs, because under some regimes we get spectacularly unjust outcomes because of ideological constraints on who pays.

In other words, a privatized system will always fail to adequately cover certain groups of people: the poor, those with unusually expensive conditions, the unemployed, the elderly, etc. Providing coverage for those groups, motivated by humanitarian concerns, is the reason there is so much ideological debate. The system as it is currently constructed uses a combination of limited-scope public services (medicare for the elderly, medicaid for the extremely poor) and heavy-handed regulations (various acts of Congress) to cover those groups.

That is why we have so much ideological debate and why it needs to continue. Cost reduction alone won't solve the totality of issues in the system.
I haven't listened to the podcast, but according to the backchannel article linked above, the money came from the funds themselves

> The $5 million that went into launching River Studios came from Rothenberg Ventures’ second and third funds...One LP says that in a phone call with investors in August after Rothenberg had told them about the River Studios investment in an email, one grilled him on why River Studios wasn’t in the annual reports, and says Rothenberg responded that he was still getting around to the disclosures. Rothenberg’s employees also say they were kept in the dark. Two former employees tell Backchannel that when they asked Rothenberg how River Studios was funded, he told them only that there were outside investors. Another recalls Rothenberg saying he paid for it himself. Rothenberg disputes this, saying that all investors had been made aware, adding, “We’ve been very public about it.”

[https://backchannel.com/mike-rothenbergs-vc-firm-was-young-s...]
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Ask HN: Where do you buy your domain names?
Where are you all buying your domain names and why? And for what? Do you have a favourite for personal projects? A favourite for enterprise stuff?
Will this have any support for external VSTs like Massive?