skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just an artful aside; he then brings us back to the real reason he's bringing it up, which is the transit system pattern rather than the station itself. (And, the transit system pattern is not uncommon but also not quite universal either, so he went with the specific example he knew of from where he was from, I'm guessing.)
I don't see how NOWAIT gives you what you want here. NOWAIT and SKIPPED LOCKED are completely different.
Have you ever considered that perhaps there are just a lot of people with various levels of chronic pain, and, shockingly, some of them may want to manage their pain and see a doctor and end up with medication?

> "an estimated 25.3 million adults (11.2 percent) experience chronic pain—that is, they had pain every day for the preceding 3 months. Nearly 40 million adults (17.6 percent) experience severe levels of pain."

https://nccih.nih.gov/news/press/08112015
Take what is fixed and make it flexible.

Take what is one and make it many.

Take what is repeated and make it one, and fast.
Announcing Firestorm 0.9
I agree with that. Economic growth can help these issues, but it's not the only, or even the biggest, factor. As I mentioned...
And don't we just risk taking them with us?

(Theme of counless scifi, e.g. Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth)
It makes sense: The Chinese could easily cause nationwide trouble by shooting down US satellites used for GPS and internet.

Unfortunately, the military is run so inefficiently I tend to say "no" to any idea that gives them more money.

Wikipedia says there's 1.3 million active personnel. They could probably cut that to 100k and move the rest into reserve, and free up a lot of money for the space wars.
I worry that tech's gamification - gone too far for addiction - will be this generation's big tobacco settlement.
There are a couple dockerized jupyter and beaker kernels for WebPPL if you want a go at v2, but I had varied success with them.
CL's debugger is just a function, and the key is not to be distracted by the name "debugger".

As said, you can have a custom "debugger" which does not look like a debugger, but a general purpose user interface in the text terminal. For example, being "custom", it can also hide the restarts which are only meaningful for true debugging (like restart 2,3,4). (see detail [1])

It is possible for a debugger to even invoke a GUI (imagine a debugger hook which pops up a window with an OK button) or a web UI (sends a Websocket message to the client, wait for the user to click something on the browser, receive a reply and invoke the restart). In fact, SLIME is written this way: it overloads the debugger hook, and it sends and receives messages to the Emacs TCP client (thus you can click on the menu on an Emacs buffer to restart -- this action is notified back to the underlying lisp process via TCP, which then calls invoke-restart).

[1] You can obtain the list of restarts with COMPUTE-RESTARTS and filter unassociated restarts (similar to a method dispatch but is temporary / has dynamic extent -- see http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/09_adbd.htm).
I always liked this idea (reminiscent of emacs rx dsl). But I'm not sure I'd be using it that often...
California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal
Do you have data showing that those districts are rich white people, and without large pockets of Chinese and SE Asian families?

Median home price in Seattle is $722k (src: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/more-record...)

Median home price in Eastside is $880k (same source)

Home prices have direct correlation to school test scores.
How did you make it sync in the background, by which I mean when the app is not in the foreground? That's the scary stuff of service workers.
What a terrifying job.
Weight training doesn't make your muscles bigger, it inspires your body to make your muscles bigger. So my question has always been, if having bigger muscles is good why doesn't the body just do it? It certainly has to be aware that I'm operating with a calorie surplus.
If both core threads are memory (and cache) intensive, then you get effectively half the cache size and half the memory bandwidth. Partitioning may make eviction less random, but the cache size is still halved, regardless of how much "tons of cache" you start with.
I have a similar lib in JS that uses either regexps or plain strings for the leafs, and combinators to implement the various regexp operators.

It is useful for maintainability. The regexp syntax was designed for a write-only scenario (the command line), but complex regexps quickly become unwieldy.

The regular grammar is all about composition, and the regexp syntax (in JS) doesn't allow one to store sub-expressions in variables for reuse and readability.

So this allows one to create regexps piece by piece, to write tests for the sub-expressions, etc...

https://github.com/pygy/compose-regexp.js
https://www.state.gov/t/isn/5181.htm : existing treaties against the further militarisation of space.

Once the US militarises space, Russia, China and arguably India will feel they have to as well. We cannot, after all, allow a missile gap.
To me, there seems to be a pretty straightforward line to draw between life and non-life: Life is that which undergoes Darwinian evolution.

If (a) it makes copies of itself, (b) the copies inherit traits from the original, (c) the traits are subject to variation/mutation, and (d) the success of the copies at making further copies depends on those traits which are inherited, then evolution must occur.

Every other definition seems to me over-complex and ad-hoc; like specific things we have noticed which tend to be true about most life on Earth, but which might not be true for special cases, or for some other hypothetical extraterrestrial life which we might discover someday.

This definition is an unambiguous binary classifier, and it seems to correctly categorize everything we would intuitively call "alive". (Also, under this definition, viruses are unambiguously life).
This is one of the reasons I love my country (France) : because I do not even have a bill to tweet. Literally : there is no obvious financial trace of serious medical items.

Sure, when I go to the emergency with my child and his swollen ankle, I get charged 28€ (IIRC), which later get reinbursed. This is the highest medical bill I can think of (except dental and optical). A 100,000€ bill would not appear anywhere.
Regex combinators are quite common in functional languages (where it works quite better than in python). One particular advantage compared to Regex syntax is that you stay inside the language and only use function calls, so you get the documentation, typing and checking property of the language. I said a bit more about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12385840
> I don't see why it would be inherently "wrong".

Because it prevents people from creating wealth for themselves in order to make sure that other people can profit from selling to them, thus creating a privilege that hurts the common good. Aka "protection of a business model".

> Wrong is for humans to decide.

So ... you are not human?
I'm curious. Please, what's so "wholesome" about him?

I like him, he's fine. But I'm curious what converted you to stream-watching in him.
Reminds me of Viceland where they toured the area around Chernobyl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INAlUGn0RYg

Except this was like a million times more hardcore, and more awesome with space shuttles.
It converges there pretty quickly. So I put together another video starting out with an imbalanced curve (maybe due to a rolling app deploy) smoothing back out. As you might expect, it gets there rather quickly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvnwx4r2ERA
> As someone who used to naively believe in legalizing all drugs for recreational use, this addiction epidemic has opened my eyes to why that's a horrible idea.

You may be surprised to learn that opium and cocaine used to be sold widely at pharmacies over the counter. Curiously, there was not a widespread "epidemic" of addiction. Why is that?

Alcohol and nicotine are legal and ubiquitous, where are the epidemics of their addiction? Curiously, smoking has been declining despite it being widely available and very addictive.

Blaming the existence of a substance for addiction, and then harassing doctors and patients as a result, is nearing the height of absurdity.
Hmm, I guess 'extrovert' is an acceptable spelling nowadays, even though it's the wrong Latin root.
>eventually

can be a long time
Congrats on the transition. Your call for assistance might yield extra results if you create a landing page with a mock screenshot of Quixotic.

Any hesitation to open source it now even if the project is in its early stages?
It's definitely used in other contexts. The main two that come to mind are the alumni email service (...@cantab.net) and the Cambridge MA (shortened to MA (Cantab.)).

I do occasionally hear it mispronounced as "Cantabridgarian".
David Chang owns equity in Maple and is their brand icon [1].

[1] http://www.bonappetit.com/restaurants-travel/article/maple-d...
You can't inject a content script into another extension's page but the last time I used it the webRequest API could intercept internal requests, including those from extensions. Although they're planning to crack down on e.g. extensions redirecting search requests from the new tab page and the omnibox.
I'd have to have opened a grand total of one channel over the past four years, personally - I have a suspicion that most people do not regularly gain more income than they've ever had before, as they spend it at a broadly similar rate as they gain it.

In addition to this, as I said, the fact that Lightning Network is a protocol that allows cross-blockchain transactions between any two chains supporting Lightning Network means that if, as you say, Bitcoin has severe problems, everyone will just jump ship to another currency, as there will be far fewer switching costs.
Wrong is always for humans to decide.

In your example, it wouldn't be wrong, because this machine enables severe violation of one of the fundamental things people agree on - the wish of individuals to live, and live without fear of getting killed. On one level up, for humans as social animals, there are pretty universal concepts of fairness, that seem to include personal property rights (communism tried to do away with that, and it created a disaster) and the desire for reward for one's work. Societies tend to enshrine those desires in laws. We also have desires for sharing and social expectations that it's good for people with surplus to share with people who have less than they need. Moreover, the concept of helping those in need is also pretty fundamental as humans go.

I bring it up because your example with murder-machine deals with a different set of concepts than the replication machine.

The replicator example was meant to show that retail business model doesn't make sense when there's zero marginal cost of producing and distributing a good past the very first item - retail stops bringing any value to customers. Trying to artificially limit replicators to save retail would be wrong, both by going against the fundamental concepts of society and by making something trivial and good much more difficult to perform.

By the same line of thinking, it's worth considering whether DRM and IP laws aren't protecting some business models that don't make sense anymore, and by this causing damage to society.
Stop calling women "females".
The question is are we simply automatons?

Yes we are automatons ("a really smart meat" per Ready Player One) but is that all there is to human life?

1. To me the mystery lies in the awareness.

Modern neuroscience/psychology/cognitive science/ are aware that subconscious accounts for most of brain's activity.

The aware part is such a small part that it is reasonable to ask whether it is needed at all.

Anecdotally we all have heard stories of people doing things on auto-pilot unaware of doing them(driving, blacked out shenanigans, etc).

Thus I can very well imagine a Chalmer's zombie which functions identical to most humans.

2.
The biggest problem with simple reductionist strategy into automatons is what it means for morals/ethics.

It's not only that everything becomes "vae victis" or localized majority consensus. No globals left not even the golden rule.

Even worse everything becomes almost nonsensical.

Nihilist ISIS suicide bombers trying to escape the matrix then make as much sense as Elon Musk trying to expand humanity to Mars.

Just some automatons trying to make sense of it all.
> Maybe something that could easily be interpreted as social mockery and making fun of people

A victim of sexual harassment points out the irony of Twitter recommending someone who sexually assaulted a woman?

That isn't mockery or making fun of people. It's just pointing out the irony that sometimes happens when an algorithm recommends social connections.

Besides, I think Dave will survive.

> It's not a fair treatment

Sure it is. She didn't even accuse him of anything.

> who has made an enormous contribution for startups

Who cares? He did it to become rich and, perhaps, famous. He's not an altruist or a saint. You don't get a pass for attacking people just because you are successful at your job and your job affects a lot of people.

I'd actually argue Susan Fowler has done more for the startup community (and more to make people's lives better) than Dave has.

> It can also harm/dilute the cause women are rightfully fighting for.

How so? I find this claim to be preposterous.
Ask HN: Solutions for editing Microsoft Word docs in webapp?
I'm looking for a solution that allows users of our SAAS webapp to edit their uploaded Microsoft Word documents within our webapp.

Dropbox seems to have achieved this by integrating with Microsoft Office Online [1]. However, it isn't clear to me whether Microsoft supports this for any old SAAS app, or whether it's only for internal business use-cases where each user has an Office365 subscription.

Has anyone achieved this integration with their webapp? Alternatively, are there any other SAAS integrations that would allow users to edit their uploaded Word docs online?

[1] http://wopi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
I disagree, please provides examples of commonly used and almost completely transparent DRM.

I use several major business software packages. I run the program. It loads and I use it.

I put a DVD or Blu-ray into my player. I play the disc. I watch the movie.

I'm not a big gamer myself these days, but I've rarely heard anyone complain about Steam's DRM in years.
anyone got any contact details for said wealthy Chinese businessmen (and women!) ?
"No, she went of her own accord!"

(oops, wrong punchline)
>And the really weird part is that while the propaganda puts it as "protecting property", it really has exactly the opposite effect.

I think the comparison is entirely fitting if you remember that in this model you (the consumer) don't own the property and therefore DRM is not about protecting your rights either.

Viewed from the perspective of a non-owner, the effects of DRM look quite similar to the effects of physical property protection.

People are working on fields, in factories and in offices they don't own, with equivalent they don't own and produce things they don't own. They live in space they don't own and increasingly use transportation they don't own. I don't find it hard to imagine at all they'll also consume entertainment and knowledge they don't own.

Continuing the private home ownership example, the landlords would certainly see it as a bold defense of (their) property.
What is the correct spelling?
Because if I worked for say Apple and lived on the Apple campus I would feel like my life revolved around Apple. There is more to life than work, and I feel like having your own home away from work is a part of that.
> If we can't solve our serious problems on Earth, what do we expect to gain by going into space?

A colony on Mars! I'm sorry, I really don't get the question.
Interesting suggestion.
I whipped up an interactive simulation of this effect in K:

http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/ike/ike.html?gist=f974a638c4...

Source, for the curious:

p: 72 / players
s: p#100 / score
c: {(+/(!#x)=/:(+/t)?#x)-t:0<x} / change (per round)

b: {[c;p;y;x](p+0,2*y;;x#c)} / draw bar (color;pos;y;x)
g: {x'[!#y;_60*y%|/y]} / draw graph (bar;data)

tick: {{s+::c s}'!20} / iterate several steps/frame
draw: {g[b[3;10 10];s@<s],g[b[2;90 10];s]} / graph sorted, raw value
Team work. You point to the full guidelines. I cover the people in a rush who want a ;TLDR. ;)
Its not huge price jump for everyone.
Its just different pricing model. Companies pay per user instead of ranges like; 1-100 user, 100-500 user, 500-1000 user.

So with the old model if you had 101 user, you would pay the same price as someone with 499 users. Thats unfair.
I wonder how things will play out once AI picks up on these kind of algorithms.
Underrated Startup Success Factors
I don't really think this is more readable than the regex itself once it starts to get complex, like they all do.

Maybe if this was implemented on a prefix notation language it may have would looked/read better
"Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!"
Gives that google news is filled with spam (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14730945) it would be useful if there was a good alternative.
Eventually the correct spelling is driven by usage, and 'extrovert' is currently listed in dictionaries so... it's correct.

Historically the term was 'extravert' in psych literature. I feel like more technical usage probably still leans that way.
Multiple choice question and answer API for an e-learning site, for mini-tests and full exams. Ended up using classmarker, but wasn't able to customise it to the look and feel of the rest of the site.
That's pretty condescending. Plenty of geordies are familiar with the term novocastrian.

edit to add: Not a term in common usage though, granted.
I'm not really sure what you're arguing here. As I've mentioned in other posts, there's obviously a balance, but suggesting that the credit markets could go away entirely and be supplanted by "friends and family" loans is a gross misunderstanding of the credit markets, and certainly would not at all benefit the lower class. The entire premise of TARP was that this is true and economists on both sides of the aisle largely agree with it.

> It's perhaps not a coincidence that the last few decades have seen ever increasing credit availability while the middle class shrinks.

I don't think so. I think it has much more to do with tax law.
It makes sense intuitively: one bit of information (i.e. which machine to assign work to) splits the space into two options and you pick the better one at every comparison
Patent suggests Red's modular phone will scale to full cinema camera
Is the solution to threats against satellite technology to militarize space or to build more robust systems that utilize ground, airborne, and space infrastructure?

Do we need the ability to destroy earth from space when we already have MAD (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction), the nuclear triad (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_triad), and are currently engaged in proxy/brushfire wars like Afghanistan that have been leaching resources for over 16 years now?
We have > 300k members deployed outside the US alone, so I don't think we could trim down to < 10% of what we have today. You're talking about more than a trimming; this would represent a major shift in US foreign policy (ignoring the fact that such a proposal wouldn't get a single vote and whoever proposed it would likely lose their next election.)
I may be missing something (I am an amateur dev) but isn't this made easy with Vue?

I use it when I need to process a form and just send the relevant "data" part (or all of "data") upon "sumbit" being fired off.
Extravert. Extra- meaning out of; outside.
I am building a set of Nodejs ipy notebooks to do this kind of stuff: https://github.com/megamindbrian/jupytangular

Eventually I want to wrap it in an Angular interface.
Thank you for a good summary.

The real problem in my understanding was that I wasn't seeing that the article author REALLY IS using long-running PG transactions to as a way to enforce external queue items running to completion (or not). I know they say it in the article, indeed it's the point of the article, but it seems so strange.

Hence he's getting these long-running transactions in PG in the first place. The phrase 'sledgehammer to crack a marshmallow' comes to mind.

At 50 items/second I guess I'm totally baffled over why you wouldn't simply use e.g. an exclusive table lock each time you connect to the DB to add/take/remove a task from a task table, with a timestamp to allow aborting and rescheduling of tasks.

I just ran a test to check the performance of exclusive table locking for this purpose, and despite the slowness of having everything dumping to the console while running, and the slowness of setting up a completely new psql session for each connection (i.e. no pgpool etc), using a BASH script, and running on a crappy 6-year-old mac, I got over 100TPS.
Simply maintaining muscle mass requires a considerable amount of calories. Our bodies evolved to function with the least calories possible. So, if you aren't using your muscles often, the body will catabolize muscle to save energy. If you are using your muscles, and thus signaling to your body that you need more of them, your body will devote energy to hypertrophy and increase muscle mass.

The current regime of near universal caloric surplus is not something our ancestors ever faced and evolution left us very little tools to deal with instinctively.
But the causes of poverty are not an insufficiency of economic growth, it's the distribution of the fruits of economic growth. In many places the wealth and/or political power (which are to some extent proxies for each other) are hoarded by a small number of people who have no interest in distributing them.

In their view it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a larger pond. Of course this isn't a foolproof strategy (dictators and kings sometimes come to ignominious ends) but holding onto as much wealth and power as possible while keeping the majority of people disenfranchised is a much safer strategy than spreading the benefits as widely as possible and hoping that everyone will love you enough to assure your future security.

Well a lot of people disagree about what things like quality of life and adequate environmental care are. One of the beauties of capitalism is that it allows people with wide disagreements about what's important in life to coexist and even benefit each other.

Yes, but it doesn't assure that, and that's where it gets ugly. If too much of capital is controlled by someone who doesn't care about the environment and is fine with cutting corners or actively polluting, then the less well-off people suffer and die, sometimes horribly. If that problem gets bad enough, then everyone could suffer as the whole environment is wrecked - like the population of a country whose leader foolishly enters a war and gets bombed, or a world where reckless fossil fuel production/use continues past the point of long-term sustainability.

You'll recall that Keynes said 'in the long run, we are all dead.' Capitalism would be great if everyone lived long enough to have their day at the top of the pile, just as it is enjoyable to play Monopoly as a board game because while you might lose one game today you might have the pleasure of winning tomorrow. But people are not economic abstractions; if you're poor and you can't compete effectively in a capitalistic economy then there's a good chance that your life will be terrible, and then you'll die.