skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably a calorie surplus is more efficiently stored as fat than as muscle (which consumes considerable extra calories too). And most food crisis events maybe aren't remedied with brute strength, especially if you hadn't been using strength before the crisis to achieve your main foodstuffs.

(But it could be many other reasons too when you factor in sexual selection, etc.)
It actually looks like the way that they should have done the pricing originally. Not that i'm a fan of Atlassian as i'd rather use open-source alternatives, but this seems fairer.

Am I wrong?
Genetics and epigenetics.

If muscle isn't needed and used, it's expensive to maintain.
Could also have mentioned Mackem: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11826/why-are-pe...
Thanks craig
I saw the CEO of Quixey give a talk when it was blowing up and was blown away by how little he understood the technology or the market behind his product. I dug a little deeper, perplexed at how Quixey raised so much money, and was extremely underwhelmed by everything. I followed it every few months till it collapsed and it really did seem like watching a disaster unravel
Assuming the number of $ initialized remains constant, wouldn't all of the money end up in with a single player leaving all other players in perpetual debt?

Since the money required to pay the interest is never created, this would create a negative sum game, as players would be charging for money (interest) that doesn't exist.
It depends on which part of the process you attribute "scarcity" to. If I drink your beer, it is gone; I have deprived you of it. If you send me a song you have enjoyed, you still have it, and no-one is deprived of anything.

Scarcity on the production side is different and real, but I'm more optimistic. The primary problem seems to be allowing high quality creators to survive full time.

Increasingly, it seems to me that people do want to reward other people for stuff that they care about. To return to the song sharing example, I've now been exposed to a creator I might care about, and decide to support in some way.

However, this is very different to people wanting to pay rights-holders groups (in money, surveillance capabilities, or attention) for stuff that they're not sure if they care about yet.

The brightest future I can imagine involves platforms which facilitate transactions (designed by the creator) and discovery, while having no stake in the IP itself. And it seems possible.
>Why can I sell a Die Hard DVD but not a Die Hard movie file?
Uhh, there are lots of valuable resources in space.

If we can mine 1 asteroid, we can get more valuable metals from that than have ever been mined on earth.
I really wish they would extend per user licensing to their on premise version as well.

It's completely stupid that if you are one user over the limit, you have to pay for the next block of licenses. It's a huge cost increase for one more user.
The point is that it's counterintuitive even to intelligent people, and that matters because politics and economics are largely driven by the accumulation of intuitive decisions.
As long as we're ok with the fact that by this definition, it's easy to make artificial life and we already have. (Take the entities from any sort of evolution simulator.) I guess you would call that "digital life", and contrast it with "physical life".

EDIT: I'm confused about the downvotes. To be really concrete, the swimmers in Darwin Pond[1] seem to me to satisfy all of OP's criteria for life. Do they not?

[1] http://www.ventrella.com/Darwin/darwin.html
> Conceivably, but 'what would be enforceable legally' is often a function of practicality and transaction costs

I actually meant legally, not practically, that's why I wrote "legally". As in, you could not convince a judge to decide in your favour.

> DRM enforcement isn't isomorphic to legal enforceability, but it's a reasonably good approximation.

Nope, it's absolutely not.

How would you legally prevent someone from diagnosing and fixing their own tractor if there were no DRM to do it for you?
Discourse has an API: http://docs.discourse.org/
I agree with you. At some point, you are bound to get into situations where writing the regex is shorter and easier to do the normal way. Some the examples are getting a little long, and I'm not entirely sure if they are more clear.

Also, it's only for Python2.
Tomorrow's headline: Oil discovered on Mars!
Because muscles take energy to power and fat is storage. In the non-modern world where food was scarcer it wasn't always advantageous to increase in muscle size and therefore caloric needs. Better to carry some fat around in case you don't find food for a while.
I wonder if projects like openblas can make use of this. Maybe it could be baked into the cpu too somehow.

On the other hand, when reading the title I was preparing for a gory Amiga article. In this case it should be on-chip memory or is my non native english fooling me here? But it was at least in the same spirit ;)
Don't feel too sad about it, he launched Ando which is the same thing but faster and with better food quality.
Bravo, spoken like a true geek, if only evolution was as simple as building machines.
Now is the time to start planning your solar eclipse activities
I'm not foreign citizen. I just added my citizen status on my resume.
Is a computer virus that mutates itself via an evolutionary algorithm considered life?
Not a single alternative is explored by this author and it should be no surprise because when you zoom out and look at the whole picture of this article its obvious that this guy is simply using these issues as a tool for popularity and self advancement. For example on those occasions when I want to do a search and not have it end up in advertiser databases, I switch to duckduckgo.
People can be smart about many other things besides quantitative reasoning and get PhDs in those other subjects.
The new pricing model does not actually seem like a "huge pricing jump", but this makes me think for how long Trello will remain free...
Do you honestly believe we will achieve post scarcity society without leaving Earth?
Hi, what's the diference between this project and a parser combinator?
Have you seen Nightmare? https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare
to quote another comment I read on this aritcle:

"There is a pretty strict dividing line between watching something and wanting to do that something in real life. A lot of porn is based on scenarios (incest, teacher/student, etc.) where the idea is taboo and hot, but in reality you don't actually want to fuck your teacher."

also

"I know it's already been said, but only a special kind of idiot doesn't allow for the possibility of big differences between porn viewing habits and interests and real life sexual appetites and proclivities. Maybe that's not true for everybody, but it's absolutely true for many."
Massive problem in Fortune 500s. If they have to Atlassian, Git, and Microsoft ecosystems then bean counters cut off access to large sections of the company. Programmers are then siloed away from the rest of the organization.

There needs to be a casual read access tier.
Patreon is an interesting model here. Not sure whether it rewards talent but I pay my creators because I want them to create more and I would suggest this will only happen if their creations find an audience. If that's not talent, I am not sure what is.
Based on what I know of them, I think I'd have to describe their target product as "small electronic devices powered by rechargeable batteries and connected via Bluetooth." That's a really vague area to focus on unless you have some great and protected technology that fits best in that area, and even then you'd probably be best off licensing that out.
There is a PR fluff piece about this book on HN every week. -1 spam.

In the US version of this article had a big focus on apparently secret attraction for overweight women. I wonder what the "darkest secret" is that pushed the author to focus on whether people are gay or not in the U.K.?
New Research Estimates Value of Removing DRM Locks
Maybe. It seems like a parallel concern.

For example, if I get hold of a textbook about baking bread, and go to my farm to produce crops for the bread and then bake it myself, using only the things my soil provides for me, I'm still using the accumulated knowledge and experience of thousands of people. If I decide to buy the same bread from someone else, I'm adding more accumulated human touch into the mix. In this way, there's a difference between services of contemporary people and the sum of accumulated human experience I can access. The second one is additive, and I believe society progresses as fast as it can add to it. Here, DRM directly slows humanity down.

That said, I agree - we're not too autonomous anyway, and modern lifestyle is directly dependent on being plugged into the socioeconomic machine. Still, economy was meant for man, not man for the economy; I'm worrying about how much economic interests restrict us for no other reason than lining someone's pocket. Technology enables individuals to do cool ways, to build the world around themselves as they see fit, but then comes the business models that start restricting these abilities in order to squeeze more money out of people.
"Tab" got adopted by the new-ish tabloid student newspaper The Tab (nice double meaning) which since opened several franchises in other universities.
Really cool concept, yet not practical in my opinion. The classes and functions called to replace the regex I consider to be harder to learn than the initial regex. With regex there is a standardised, succinct way to query strings, while this system adds unneeded complexity for the sake of using English words. For quick uses integrated in other programs I can see the usefulness, yet as a standalone I'll stick with regex.
I have no difficulty solving this problem you posted.
Just TV. Bundle savings vs just internet = basic package + DVR + Movie channels + fees & taxes. Actual bill over 120/mo.

1k/y or 83$/month is on the low side for just TV. A 200$ a month cable bill was actually fairly common a few years ago once you have multiple DVR's and premium channels etc.

Note this is really deceptive and even then it quickly hit's over 83$/month before getting HBO, or equipment, or fees, or taxes. https://www.verizon.com/home/fiostv/
Sock puppetry is disingenuous, whether or not you allow it in your terms of service.
Why didn't you sell your computer to donate to the starving children?

Why did you even buy it in the first place?
So ... DRM is completely transparent if it doesn't get in your way when you only do what the DRM allows you to do?

That's a whole lot like you are completely free to do whatever you want to do, as long as it's what we told you to do, isn't it?
When you can't spend money fast enough
I mostly agree with all of this and felt like it was covered by:

> Economic growth, although not by itself, helps alleviate a lot of these issues. There are other factors that also impact this, and I'd argue a lot of the economic issues we face aren't from too much growth but from these other factors (taxation etc.) not being handled properly. So in general more growth is advantageous, but we have to other things going right as well.
> timing

> products that seem stupid or annoying at first. In addition, there should be a small group of early adopters who really care about the product

saved you a click
You can book a flight to Ukraine and go on a tour of Chernobyl yourself. It's kind of a standard tourist thing now, no law-breaking required.
By just leaving out the DRM?

I once thought as you do. Then I ran a business that invested significant money, some of it my own, in making original content. We really tried to avoid going down the DRM path, because I didn't like the idea of risking inconveniencing any legitimate customers. Today, in light of the experience doing that, I am much, much less sympathetic to claims that DRM doesn't do anything or should be abolished or whatever.

The degree to which some people will just blatantly rip you off and even lie to your face about it afterwards is staggering. The arguments that if people are going to copy your stuff then they're going to get it somewhere else anyway so taking steps to make it harder have no benefits are simply wrong. There is nothing hypothetical about this. It is not conjecture or thought experiment. It is based on cold, hard data and experience with real money at risk.

Incidentally, in the entire history of that business, as far as I'm aware we've never received a single complaint from a legitimate user that any of our safeguards was interfering with their normal enjoyment of the content. There have been one or two cases we couldn't absolutely prove but were pretty sure about, and otherwise basically 100% of people who complained about not being able to do something turned out to be trying to violate our terms and getting upset when our safeguards stopped them. BTW, in case you think we're just being paranoid, we have literally had people asking us why they couldn't access our material with well-known ripping software, to give one example of how blatant the abuse can be.
I misunderstood what the heck the article was about at first. I hope this quirky analogy may help:

"I am implementing a database for a bank.

I open a transaction in a special active_customers table when the customer first joins the bank, and commit the transaction when they close their account or die. In this way, I use postgres transactions to keep track of which customers are active customers.

I am having problems with long-living customers forcing us to wait up to 120 years between autovacuums of the DB."

Clearly, that's not going to be a good way to do things.

Rossers comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=14731214&goto=threads%...) is very helpful.
well this works fine for a single host. but if you deal with a cluster or inside a cloud you better use kubernetes for that.
I wonder how the OS is supposed to deal with this complexity. It probably needs an API for processes to reconfigure the cache. But then the cache can be private to a process or to a group of processes. Complicated stuff.
There's a lot of reasons to go to space other than trying to fix problems or run away from them. If the latter is your thing you're much better off with a forest than space.
The slack model of only paying for active users is so much better than paying for users that may not actually be using the product:

How users are counted towards billing?

"Once users are created they are automatically counted towards billing even if they don't accept the invite or ever login. A user must be explicitly deactivated, deleted, or removed from a synced user directory (if you have Google sync) to not count towards billing. Learn how to add or remove users."

With slack, they are strongly incentivized to keep the product engaging enough to hold onto users.
DRM only hurts legitimate customers. It seems increasingly rare that people aren't able to crack DRM's fairly quickly. So the only people that even see the DRM are the paying customer, and there is always some sort of inconvenient drawback for them.
That's not going to offset fetal alcohol syndrome or people raised by drunk parents or recovered alcoholics living with health issues for the rest of their lives.
Too many... What topics specifically interest you? I might have suggestions, if it's topics I am familiar with.
A postgres API to specify query plans directly, bypassing the planner. I usually know exactly what algorithm makes the most sense, and it's not uncommon for the planner to choose something considerably worse, forcing me to break queries up, write them in strange ways, or disable strategies.
Having a second basket for our eggs?
Or the well known phenomenon that when people are asked how many lifetime opposite-sex sex partners they've had, the average reported by men is about twice the average reported by women (though, by construction, they ought to be the same - just imagine a bipartite graph (undirected!) and count the lines going from left to right and compare with the number of lines going from right to left).

See eg. David Spiegelhalter, Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour, chapter 3.
That's a whole lot like you are completely free to do whatever you want to do, as long as it's what we told you to do, isn't it?

Well, since that's fundamentally what copyright is about... yes. What were you expecting?
Oh yes, per-seat licensing can be a huge problem.

I experienced a case in which a customer, for which most of the projects of our company were done, was requiring us to use a particular tool with paid licenses. They provided 2 or 3 floating licenses for the entire team of 30+ people, making that tool a huge bottleneck for us. They kept arguing that licenses are like 1k EUR each, but I don't think they ever realized they were wasting more money each month by slowing our work down.
> While "Both you and the Eiffel Tower are simply bunches of quarks." is a true description (according to modern physics), it's not a very useful one.

Except that in this case, the molecular details of life are useful. If you want to know why people need salt you need to know about ion channels. (This is in contrast to your Eiffel Tower example, where you don't gain much insight by looking at molecules than you knew at the material-science level.)
Video Games.

There are a few, but none provide some important information or have a reliable, complete data set. In particular, box art, UPC codes. From my research the Giant Bomb and Moby Games API's seem to be the most complete, but neither have the UPC. The only place I can find that is another API which is rather lacking in completeness and data.
It's $1 a month per user after 250 users. If that's not "casual read access tier" pricing, I'm not sure what is.
Funny enough Amazon has turned Seattle into that, but much worse.

Small family run restaurants have been replaced by restaurants run by business-minded chefs serving overpriced and mediocre fare. There still exists some of seattle's former self, however Seattle is trending towards the bland and generic eastside, just without the parking and good schools.
Make sure to add Blue Apron, it's only a matter of time!
Not scary at all. Check out this article on Background Sync [0]. It's not supported everywhere yet but the fallback to sync when the page is open is good enough. Of course you can also do sync on push events (they have broader support) but then you have to show a notification.

Service workers have access to Indexeddb but not to local storage. That's something to remember.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/12/background...
> With the exception of GNU Emacs none of the console clients I examined had any built in support for scripting with a real language.

"mh"[0] might be interesting to some.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
> ledger scientist

That's a thing now? :o. Please explain :).
Of course it's randomly distributed around 45 -- conservation of money at work there.

As for the std deviation, the normal rule of thumb is "95 percent of samples fall within 2 std deviations". So basically, all but the highest and lowest. Well maybe two highest, because of the 0 dollar lower bound. A standard deviation of half your starting pool seems pretty high, even if we all have equal chances of being at the far end of the spectrum of results.
In case you aren't aware of this, what you've made is very similar to the rx.el[1] that's shipped with Emacs since 21.1 (released in 2001).

Many of the comments here are speculating on what this might/could be used for, but could simply look at how it's used in various Emacs modes compared to writing raw regexes in string form.

It's not fully comparable, since a large reason to use rx.el in Emacs is Emacs's nasty regex syntax coupled with having no native quoting construct for regex, making writing anything an exercise in bashing your backslash key.

But it also makes it easier to programmatically generate regexes, which as your Python implementation also shows can lead to much clearer code.

1. http://doc.endlessparentheses.com/Fun%2Frx.html
I've heard good things about Autohotkey, but every time I try to do even the simplest of tasks it becomes a hassle. Like even just clicking on a specific point on your screen you have to know the exact coordinates of the place you want clicked. It seems like it'd be very easy just to record where you want to click.
I don't believe that most of these food delivery companies are actually tech companies. They are just food companies trying to leverage tech to get an edge. Food delivery has been around for decades.

None of them are particularly original, they're all just variations of the same thing. Fundamentally there's little difference between Maple and Dominoes Pizza delivery.
I don't have R installed and don't want to spend the rest of teh day setting up packages and trying to get animations underway, but I'd like to explore two other scenarios:

a. Same rules (100 people, 100 dollars), but everyone has to give away 1% of their wealth instead of $1 each round.

b. Same rules as the original, but anyone who has $0 at the end of a round 'dies' and is no longer able to participate.

We have simulation games like Simcity, Civilization, the Sims and so on. I wonder why there aren't better economic simulation games. I know of various academic tools but I mean games that would be accessible and enjoyable for consumers while also allowing them to easily explore simulation spaces. You can mess around with tax policy in simCity type games, for example, but it's really primitive. Academic economic simulation tools tend not to be very engaging (since they're not built to entertain) and also have ugly visuals and user interfaces.
Evolution is building machines. What is often missed is that the machines that survive best across many scenarios may not excel in most scenarios. You can build a robot that moves 60mph on wheels but it can't take the stairs. Evolution could have built humans that naturally carry far more muscle, but those same humans would die massively in the event of a famine.
there is a whole ton of shitty thinking here that is the problem.

>There is a vast qualitative difference between the output of ten thousand amateurs and one highly trained and exceptionally talented artist (working in whatever medium.)

this is itself an elitism creating a meaningless distinction benefitting the gatekeepers. fuck off.
> "Monthly pricing is progressive

Our monthly pricing is progressive, meaning that we offer volume discounts as you add more users"

Just to nitpick: It's actually regressive pricing. The larger your corporation, the less you'll pay per user.
Even if you are operating with a calorie surplus, you'd need to eat an optimal mix of nutrients to maintain extra muscle. Most people (most likely) cannot simply ramp up amounts of what you currently eat.

For example, if you suddenly require 5000 c/day, you cannot simply eat more pizza, MT Dew, etc. You have to eat 5000 c/day of nutrient rich food. Your muscles do not only require calories. This is actually very hard to do (imagine how much actual food volume you have to process)!

You also need many more macronutrients to keep things going (all that extra food needs to be processed), and clean (significantly more waste byproducts produced).

Your cardiovascular system needs to grow in conjunction with the extra muscle -- it must keep up. As does your skeletal (bones, ligaments/tendons).
'"Walkable development" led to two-bedroom apartments in SF averaging $4637/month.' - citation massively needed.

If walkable areas are expensive, that's presumably because

A) people want to live in them and will pay a lot for it.

B) there is more demand for said areas than supply.

Which, in effect, means exactly the opposite of your assertion - forced sprawl (making most of the bay low density suburban) is what led to the aforementioned $4637 /mo apartments.