skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh that would be brilliant - as far as I know it was whatever order they came off of the truck they were unloaded from. Basically up at the top of the building near the roof was a conveyor belt running a rectangular or oval path around the building. It was fed from another wing where incoming stuff was unloaded onto it. All the chutes were connected to it, leading down to the various truck bays where outbound trailers were parked. Barcode readers up top would read each package's destination, and when it got to the right chute, a mechanical arm would push it into the chute. Actually worked surprisingly well, in retrospect (this was the mid-90s).

You'd have to get full dimensional info about each package... probably not that hard. But to change the order, you've now got a storage problem. Where previously your analysis was confined to just one package, now you're dealing with groups of N packages, and depending how far you want to take the optimization, N could be as big as "all packages destined for that truck." So maybe you have some kind of sort area between the inbound & outbound areas. Or maybe you use the conveyor itself as the storage - i.e. if something is out of order, it just makes a circuit around the building until its turn comes. That would probably require a bigger/longer conveyor, and to compensate for lower "density" of chute-appropriate packages, it would have to move faster.

Suddenly this seems akin to the problem of optimizing spinning disc drives, starting from slow ones in the old days and moving forward. What you're essentially calling for is something akin to random access, but instead of bytes we're accessing packages!

Edit: Or the hybrid version: you create multiple, smaller sorting areas somehow, one for each bay, located near the bay.
I use those combos when mousing left-handed (I'm right-handed, but ambidextrous with the mouse due to RSI issues).
Yeah, I think not. I could see letting them drop the delivery onto an enclosed porch and maybe putting a refrigerator (or ice chest) there, but the idea of giving delivery people the run of my house is a nonstarter.

Have to believe that's true for most other people, too.
I'm surprised they don't tear out numlock, the bane of anyone who uses a 10-key.
Thanks for the reply. Yeah there a small intersection, too early to call it depression I feel
This seems to have been written by someone who doesn't know JS. Vanilla JS has almost all of these things. A few examples:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Same here. It also makes people who are adamant about any position related to fake news (what it is, who is making it, whether it's good or bad, etc...) sound like a barking dog.
That is a very good question. I don't think I've seen anything other PR spin on the subject that felt like it couldn't make up its mind how soon The Machine may be productized.

Last I tried to read one of those PR articles (probably posted here to HN), it sounded like memristors still exist as active research, even though that was supposed to be the gamechanging basis of The Machine, but they are The Machine branding software projects now and non-memristor product tech that is kind of memristor-esque.

But again, that's merely my mostly hearsay-informed, lay readings of tea leaves.

(It's starting to feel a bit like IBM's Watson where the "brand" The Machine has multiple meanings depending on which team/marketer/sales-person/researcher you are talking to.)
The fact that someone, in 2017, would imply that addicted people could just decide to stop being addicted seems to me as reason enough to keep calling it a disease. Just to fight that notion.
This +100

One day I'll write my story. A few acquisition offers, some investment offers. Foolishly we rejected them.

Company when bust with the help of a bank last year.

Same rules as in baseball. Don't swing for the fences. Many singles and doubles win you the game.

Homers and grand slams are infrequent and elusive.

Had the same sort of capital issues. Same problem with VCs... I'll write my thoughts on them some day as well.

Take the money and run. Rinse and repeat.
Counterpoint: My wife and I mostly liked the Beauty and the Beast remake. The script changes and new songs relative to the animated original were all great and very welcome, and the casting was great, but our biggest issue with it was the ridiculous CGI/mocap beast. Using practical effects would have sold the emotional scenes way better.

I mean, how many terrific Chewbacca interactions would have been missed out on if there hadn't been the on-set interplay between the actors? Either way, it proves that hairy beast characters are perfectly manageable with a big tall guy in a suit.
1password of course.
Comment, then vote, and it brings me back to my comment.
Oh! When all of the GUIs say sound is at max, but it's either really quiet or silent, and it turns out that it's because even though the PA volume is up, somehow ALSA (which PA ultimately uses on the backend) got muted. But this is a PA box, so you have no GUI tools to set the ALSA volume!
A hospital crisis is killing rural communities. This state is ‘Ground Zero’
Talking about gaming the ratings and user reviews on sites likes IMDB, I surprised by how often it doesn't happen.

The Matrix at this moment has 1,336,956 user votes and 3739 user reviews -- and that's to be expected.

But I regularly come across movies on IMDB that have less than 10 votes and no user reviews at all. Or a single user review that happens to be negative. These are movies less than 10-15 years old and with budgets of at least $1 million.

It's totally puzzling why the director, producers, actors, friends of the cast, or anyone else connected with the movie didn't bother to add a user review. Someone had enough passion to make the movie, spend all that money, work on it for months or years, and they haven't heard of IMDB?
(Interesting, after meeting the wave of slower readers, all of my comments in this thread were massively downvoted except this one, I guess since I was initially agreeing with someone on HN who is "famous".)

Stay meritocratic, Silicon Valley. Every post is evaluated for its worth, not its sender.
In a good-faith effort to clarify: my edit was in response to the additions that you made to your comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15315553), not to this reply. When I first composed my reply it consisted only of the line I quoted.

When I see that a discussion is not progressing constructively (as I observed from your first response to me), I try to make clear in a response that am indeed dropping the thread: I'm not interested in tit-for-tat back and forth, and know that it takes both parties to work toward a common goal for such discussions to be productive: I'm as much responsible as any other party. I do hope you find the constructive discussion you're looking for, and apologize for taking this off-topic as far as it has.
Any plans to go back to selling subscriptions for managed instances?

I'm leeching on gitlab.com today, but not enthused about it, if only because I've become disillusioned with GitLab itself.

I pay for email, and I'd be willing to pay for code hosting, too, on the following conditions:

- it's running something like Gogs/Gitea instead of GitLab

- whatever software's on the backend, my subscription needs to allow me to choose the community edition, not some enterprise version

- priced at XX/yr instead of X/mo
It doesn't matter if you feel like you can diagnose yourself or not. If you're feeling weird and you don't like it, it's a good idea to see a therapist. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Even if it's just a dip in motivation or some low-level anxiety or something, it's worth it to work on it with a professional. Everyone has things they can work on.
He addresses this at about 4:05 into the video.
Basically he wants it working, not as a standing display
If you just want to do an occasional one-off async http request, then tokio is probably overkill, at least until async/await end up in the language.

The simple way is: spawn a background thread, make a channel, pass the write end to the background thread, issue the http request synchronously using whatever crate you want on the background thread, write the result back over the channel, and exit the background thread. In the main thread, poll the read end of that channel from your event loop.

Rust decided not to ship with a scheduler/runtime built in like Go and Node.JS have. This makes you do a little more work for this kind of thing, in exchange for finer control than a language with a runtime can provide.
Yes, then keep doing what you wanted to all along.
>And who gave women the right to vote? The evil, patriarchal, oppressive, misogynistic... men.

Yes. Women were not able to get the vote until men assented to it. That is a textbook example of men oppressing women. You might as well argue that slaves weren't oppressed because they were eventually "given" their freedom by white men.
Sometimes. But the odds aren't good.

HN is trying to solve this by getting good articles reposted, but from the viewpoint of somebody running a pipeline that scans everything that gets posted on HN, this is just adding to the noise.
I hope so. Although other communicable diseases will still be a significant issue, as time progresses it should be easy to love a person, even if only for one instance.
Trial in absentia - literally just charge you under their laws and convict you without you ever being involved.

They can apply to your country of residence to have you extradited to face punishment, but chances are the country you are residing in is not going to extradite you. Canada, for instance, will not extradite you for anything which is not also considered criminal in Canada.

If you ever leave your country of residence, they can apply anywhere else you travel to try and have you arrested and extradited. One of those countries may have different rules, or the person getting handed your file may make a mistake or not care since you're a non-resident/non-citizen.

If you are ever extradited to or intentionally travel to the country in question, you will face your punishment there. If you ever unintentionally travel to the country in question (plane lost an engine and you diverted there for emergency landing?) you will face your punishment there.

All-in-all, not a big deal for most people. Not something I'd want hanging over my head though.
But he's not "marching to a $400m valuation", that's what he believes he can grow the company to. If you get a 20x multiple on 14M for 400M, you have grown less than 50%, and raised a ton of money.

You're not magically getting diluted into the ground because you raise a bit of money.
Addiction is a health issue. Experimenting prior to addiction is clearly not.
Pizza?
When my dad was doing some UI work back in like the late 70s, maybe early 80s, for call-center workers no one knew how to do UI yet. But he quickly realised that if you put people in a room and asked them for their feedback after using it for 20 minutes, what they told you would become useless when you actually deployed the software. So he pushed to have the software implement recording features like how long a person is on at which page and which page they went to next. I'm surprised more people don't do that even today when it shouldn't be that much of a technical challenge. Just "here's a trial copy of the software: use it for two weeks and come back to us with your data."
I haven't dared pressing F1 for a long time now but I remember Visual Studio versions where pressing F1 would completely stop your computer because it starts up the "Help Server", lots of 7200 spinning rust churn, more churn, an Electron-style app opens..
Then you tell your movie player to just make it louder, discarding that beautiful dynamic range. If you're paying close enough attention to the movie to care about the loss of dynamic range, then you probably aren't doing something else that might make sound, so you won't mind turning the master volume up.
Let's develop radio sensitive panels and enjoy the free radioactive energy everywhere.
Further, even if you did "eliminate" the cartels, more would pop up.

If there is a demand, someone will find a way to make money off of it.
It is $14-$19.50 to see a movie where I live (probably closer to $30-40 after popcorn), I am not going to take a chance with my money on a middling movie when I can just pirate an HD copy in a month now. I will take a chance with my time however.

Everything is being made for international audiences now. Everything has to try and be one of the 30 movies a year let into the Chinese market. Plots and messages are dumbed down the lowest denominator now. I can't wait to see what movies are like now that Disney is using face scanning technology on audiences... It is a horrible time for art.
The PARTNER study studied 767 serodiscordant couples, with the HIV positive partner undetectable. All participating couples did not use condoms at least some of the time. They found zero cases in which the undetectable partner infected the negative partner.

http://www.aidsmap.com/No-one-with-an-undetectable-viral-loa...

Frequent testing and early intervention are very effective to achieving an undetectable viral load. The adoption of these as public health policy, as well as making available of prophylactic measures for at risk populations, has been effective at combating the spread of HIV - e.g. in San Francisco, where infection rate has been declining significantly over the last 5 or so years.
That's not really a meaningful argument. You're talking about a large multi-cellular organism that has tissues, organs, and all that and comparing it to something that doesn't even have cells.
Can someone please explain why Flexport’s software is being played up as “irreplaceable by the incumbents”? If they’ve proved it’s benefits, only a matter of time before the incumbents have an in-house version.
Not the one who downvoted you, but if you understand what's written there have you considered letting them know? (email, github or maybe twitter)
The Chinese government would not allow WeChat to exist if this weren’t the case. They already have a difficult job managing Tencent, which is arguably China’s second in command after the Party.
You don’t get that big without some serious concessions.

I use WeChat every day, but I hesitate momentarily before writing anything negative about the Chinese Govt... just in case.

I suppose they’ve done their job.
I've often thought that substance access needs to be completely deregulated, for drugs of abuse as well as other medications. This would increase access and competition among providers, and avoid rent-seeking kinds of economic problems in the health care market. It would also lead to better treatment of substance use problems, and kill cartels by decreasing their monopoly on production and distribution.

In doing so, you could move to a kind of competency-based system akin to what happens with people who have dementia or cognitive impairments. Basically, you're legally entitled to buy whatever meds you want, until you're deemed incompetent to make that decision. Processes could be set up whereby mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists), ethicists, and the judicial system could make determinations that an individual is not competent to make decisions about the substance use purchasing due to addiction.

This might sound kind of draconian, but decisions about competency could be make pretty thorough, requiring a petition, stringent evaluation criteria involving panels and a judicial decision. It would also be dramatically less restrictive than the current system, that basically assumes everyone is incompetent to make drug-related decisions based on the specific drug.

It would also emphasize that the lack of competency is a health-related problem, and not a criminal problem.
My guess: Since the bezel is thin on three sides, they didn’t want to give the phone a big forehead by planting a comparatively big black bar at the top.

I think their solution is bad. The inset makes the front of the phone look busy/unclean/techie. It’s lacking elegance. They should have reduced the left and right bezel to nearly zero and added a small bezel at the bottom that matches the one at the top to create symmetry. Basically, just shrunken iPhone 7 bezels on all sides and a rectangular screen.

Edit: If rumors were true and they wanted to put Touch ID below the screen, their goal might have been a phone with the same bezel thickness on all sides. But Touch ID below the screen didn’t work and they had to add sensors to compensate – compromising by creating an inset.
Not sure if you are trying to distinguish a difference but, surely you aren't suggesting that drug experimentation or recreational usage should be criminal?
Drugs are a social justice issue. Not a health issue.

Drug abuse is a health issue. Most drug use is not abuse.
Which isn't surprising, considering that Laser Socks uses Victor's team's codebase.
[video] Actors for concurrent computation
The way things are setup is also designed to make me feel like I’m being ripped off.

Go to see a brand new very popular movie. They know high ticket prices scare people away, so I can easily get tickets for $9/each (no 3D) for most films. That’s perfectly fair.

A small bottle of water is $6. A small popcorn is like $10.

So the total cost is about $25 but most of that is hidden in two cheap/basic snacks.

How about just charging me the real price for the ticket and fair snack prices? Charge $25 for a pack with a ticket and some snacks.

A low upfront price and high snacks feels like bait-and-switch.

But it works so they keep it up. And I feel ripped off every time I go because of the psychology of their pricing model.
Is this surprising? I've known for a long time that WeChat chats and data could be read by the Chinese government, given that they censor the chats in real time and the close ties between Tencent and Beijing. I guess it's nice to be confirmed but it was already a given considering it's a Chinese company.
I am fully aware of those. Despite all of them, cutting a part of a child's penis is barbaric and once again - I'm shocked that it's treated as this completely normal thing in the US.
Leaked European ePrivacy with strong privacy now being watered down
If you eliminate one two more pop up in its place. The demand it there. If you cut off supply it will go somewhere else. If you treat it as a disease then you look at why the demand. Reduce the demand (or give a legal supply) and drug cartels can't operate.
Yep. Triple therapy is now standard in HIV treatment. The odds of developing mutations to 2-3 agents simultaneously are very low
One viewpoint is that "depression" often presents with only a small set of symptoms. For instance, in middle-aged men it frequently presents as only physical symptoms. Also it is very possible to have some of those symptoms and not realize it or have your doc realize it.

Just keep it in mind. Maybe you need a vacation.
I'm a seed stage VC. If you want feedback on your pitch or cold email, please email me at leo@susaventures.com. I'd be happy to help.

My fund might be a fit as an investor. If not, then I might be able to suggest a few firms that could be a fit.

Also, 4% is a low open rate, but that might be misleading. For example, I set gmail to not open images by default, which could affect emails that use tracking pixels.

Finally, selling something for $10m+ is a really amazing "last resort." :)
The movie industry never want that. If you go to a movie theater with your friends, everyone has to buy their own ticket. However, if you can share a movie, a lot of people can split the cost of a single viewing.
That seems like a perfectly reasonable angle of attack, but the number of assumptions in play make the whole thing meaningless.

My original point was only to highlight that certain people really are almost hilariously over prepared for just about any eventuality, and any assumptions made should probably take this into account. I wasn't suggesting they were right, or wrong.
You don’t need to. They seem to have a sensible default.
Bland movies don't actually rate all that highly in practice.

Spiderman homecoming got a 92% from critics and 89% from fans because people got what they expected from the movie. The Hitman's Bodyguard on the other hand rated poorly 38%:71% because it failed to deliver.

And really, general ratings need to be in the context of the kind of person that might like the movie.
Showing Google trends for a keyword is now considered a "study" ?

Personally I've noticed that my iPad slowed down after upgrading to iOS 10. I wasn't planning on upgrading but a restore forced me to. I believe it's because devs develop on latest devices and tend to ignore the older ones.
Are you getting quality sleep at least 7 hours a day? If not, fix this. If you are, don't think you need to be worried either.

Uninspiring work can cause sustained and unhealthy stress in the best of us. And stress is known to deplete cognitive abilities. It's probably stress.
Firstly, have you tried an analog synthesizer ?
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A Whale's Guide to Crypto Trading (2014) [pdf]
off-topic: there was a text based game featured on here some time ago. It was black and white, and the goal was to farm more and more energy and eventually screen would black out and system would reset. Does anyone remember the name of that game?
i remember a similar issue for desktop computers from ~15 years ago, and a keyboard with a helpful shutdown button. i think it was located a bit to the right of F12. from memory windows just started shutting down and there wasn't a way to interrupt it. pretty funny. not something you'd hit often, but possible to hammer accidentally if playing a full screen game that used a bunch of F1-F12 keys.

after hitting this a few times while playing games i levered all of those extra helpful keys out.
Don't forget the obligatory World War 2 epic XD
Perhaps it's better thought of as a social disease or a social pathology, but you're largely right. Addiction is a chemical dependency, it is not a random occurrence.
So how do you ensure that one tab wasn't much louder than the other?

In this case, it doesn't make much sense to treat the browser as a single application, but each site as one (does Chrome export each tab as a separate source to PA? IDK, I haven't checked). And, I can't think of a single thing that I actually want producing sound (and don't mind just muting) from my web browser that doesn't have its own volume control.
Interestingly, most cheeses that don't use rennet are soft, but some of the hardest of all cheeses are the Mongolian cheeses Bayaslag and aaruul. Both are rock hard, but use acid to coagulate the proteins instead of rennet. They are often consumed after soaking in tea, or are sucked on, not chewed. Their shelf life is apparently over years long.

Just found that earlier today after doing some research inspired by this thread.
I mean, this topic is pretty far from any reasonable assumptions, so if you want to base your doomsday survival plan on charging into the killings fields of a crazy dude with pallets of ammo and AR-15s be my guest.

I was just highlighting the point that some people are exceptionally over prepared for just about any scenario, not trying to argue the merits or morality of it.