skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a native English speaker, but living (relatively) close to the Alps, and I've definitely heard "up" meaning "towards the mountains into higher regions".

On the other hand, without thinking about it too long "out" means "to the countryside, out of town", "over" is mostly east/west and "in" is definitely the city centre.

"Down" is the odd one out, I can't pinpoint a direction.
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Last year, I bought two pairs of Merrell boots: A "normal" pair and a winter pair (bit more insulation, and some extra-grippy bits on the soles).

Unfortunately, trial in the store was not long enough and/or was too distracting, but on both -- different models -- the "box" of the left boot is narrow than that of right. And over the course of a few hours and/or more extensive walking, this causes my left foot to hurt from the constraint. Meanwhile, my right foot is perfectly cosy and fine.

This is not something I have experienced regularly with other brands. For some reason, that season, Merrell seemed to be making lefts smaller/narrower.

(Unfortunately, I ended up severely ill for a couple of months, two days after purchase. By the time I was well enough to consider returning them, I was too embarrassed at the time passed. And I'd gotten them on quite a good combination of sales, meaning that the store probably would have had to eat their cost, if they took them back, due to model/yearly revisions.)

P.S. I'm returning to just buying "decent" stuff from LL Bean. I seem to find less size variation in their products (e.g. jeans). And even "premium" products too often seem to be a crap shoot, these days.

Although I do love and baby my Asolo's, bought from an expert who spent an hour fitting me. Over a decade ago, now. But I'm not going to wear them out on daily tromps for exercise on our local gravel trail.

P.P.S. I also had a pair of those Chinese slippers -- looked exactly like the ones pictured. Bought somewhere in San Francisco's Chinatown. They were ok, certainly for the price, although I wouldn't run in them. Had them until I took them to a friend's, because they were obsessive about people removing their shoes. Never got them back. You can't trust your friends, either. ;-)
what does "boffin" mean in this context, is it like the US nerd, or (more recently) geek?
They're very numerous, including but not limited to:

1. A higher downpayment is required to purchase property. This means significant liquidity is taken from you immediately.

2. Investment property is often more distressed and/or requires more upkeep. Add the fact that you're not physically on the property and you'll see how you only will be reported for expensive issues and not preventative maintenance, which you can't really do as an investor (there are laws around just going in your property).

3. The biggest issue as buying as an investor is that you have to have a lot of money to cover vacancies. Under the plan outlined earlier vacancies don't matter since you'd only do it with a house you can afford with or within tenants.
First, the CDC recommends Tamiflu:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/antivirals/summary-cli...

Second, in 2003 Roche upped production. So yes they sat on it. SARS was in 2003 - and it takes 12 months to produce. What Roche was producing pre 2002 would prove or disprove the story, but I can't find this information anywhere -- I would gamble not much.

"It's pointless to look at ways for outsiders to produce Tamiflu, Roche's Reddy says. He notes that Roche can meet demand expectations faster than anyone else because it is familiar with the challenging production process. To meet current orders, Roche has quadrupled production capacity since 2003,"

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i35/8335tamiflu.html
So, what's your opinion of Boulder residents who are interested in software? They should leave Boulder? Are they not part of Boulder's character?
Honestly, skinning is probably easier today than it ever has been. With custom client-side stylesheets, there's no reason someone couldn't roll out custom skins for sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Amazing.

Wishful thinking: If this included something akin to Shoutcast (perhaps via WebRTC), it would give us back the peer-to-peer listening joy we had for small groups and teams back in the day. I miss the era when things were more commonly/naturally peer-to-peer and decentralized.
The price isn’t the only limiting factor. Right now there isn’t water at any price that you can buy in unlimited quantities through the current watering system.

As the result, new land development of more sustainable ag is effectively blocked by more senior water rights.

We even legislate into our consumer laws that you cannot use water for your landscaping at any price beyond a certain amount or risk being completely cut off.

I find this absolute limit situation highly questionable, because as we have a physical ability to not have these limits in a much more sustainable sense.
Ok? I'm glad you're doing more than is described in what you initially wrote, but I can only respond to the thing you wrote.

I think these struggles are very similar to what people doing B2C startups go through. Nobody has a fully marketable product on day 1. Early tests of the value prop are key, and people do all sorts of things to prove that the value really is sufficient to build a business on before they get cash in hand.

But I think it's always important to keep in mind that until somebody actually does pay, it's all just a fantasy. And it's also important to keep in mind that as entrepreneurs we really want to preserve the fantasy. You know your market better than anybody here, and it's your money you're spending, so use your best judgment. This could be the optimal way forward.

However, the inability to find early adopters could also be evidence that there isn't really a market, that you're selling a nice-to-have. Or it could be evidence that your company doesn't have the sales capacity to move the product, even if you end up making something good. Until you actually make some sales (and more importantly, recurring sales), you won't know for sure. So every time you find a reason to delay that moment of truth, you should be suspicious.
at the end of the day there is an enormous market for these services, so I'm not saying they won't succeed

But from a consumer's pov, if you go to a semi-decent university, or even if you don't, there are much better and cheaper (ie price of a cup of coffee) ways of networking than paying for calls with some analyst
Hm, found this. Doesn't seem to work anymore. Wonder what happened: https://audiense.com/search-lists-twitter/

Also, scouring peoples profiles for lists (they've made or belong to) seems to be a thing according to this: https://www.postplanner.com/how-to-find-twitter-lists-in-nic...
Pretty tired of startupland using this idea as a shibboleth. Eventually, you're going to have to answer the charge of "Silicon Valley is just building a bunch of useless bullshit" with something that actually is not. Moving money from one industry to another doesn't count.
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I work at Red Wing Shoe Company, and our office has this type of flooring on the first floor: https://i.imgur.com/arWH5NR.jpg
Damn! Right in the nostalgia.

Now you just need shoutcast support ;).
When working from home, how do you 'turn off' at the end of the day?
I think Twitter was actually already giving out RSUs, not options. But either one dilutes the investor share of the company, which will push stock price down.
At least when Trillian ditched skins, I think they were trying to compete with the bigger players (MSN, Google Chat) more seriously in the business world, and skinning isn't really something businesses care much about. In fact, just having this feature available can make the app seem more juvenile and less appealing than more "serious" alternatives.

Plus, you have to keep adding skin support for every new feature you add, which means the many skins that don't keep up will no longer work for the latest version of your app, which pisses off users. And when skins slow down or stop being made (people get bored, move on) it reflects poorly on the app, making it look like a ghost town.
Oh wow. If I could get this as an Electron app I'd be a happy (nostalgic) user.
Has Justin Frankel ever commented on this project?
Jerry Seinfeld talks about New York's "On", "In", "Off", and "Out" in his new Netflix special:

http://kism.com/400-funnies/jerry-seinfeld-talks-about-livin...
I think it’s about time we turn “feature rich” around and start considering it a criticism rather than a compliment. So many products I’ve loved as a consumer and worked on as a developer were eventually ruined by relentless feature cram and their never being declared “done”.
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My ex (5 years) is a clinician who works the ER, pediatrics, and urgent care, amongst other things. She has the opposite view: Tamiflu reduces the length of the flu by a total of 12 hours and most people don't need it. Wish she was on here to defend this view, since I am not qualified to debate it.
I swam the 500 as my main event and was fairly decent at it. It is crazy how mental that race is. I found drastically different results based on who was doing my card (for those that don't know, longer events use a plastic number to show the swimmer and the ref what lap swimmers are on). I knew a couple of people who could hold a 1:10 100yd pace for a T30, but couldn't get a 5:30 on a 500. Swimming is such a weird sport and the people are even weirder (mostly in a good way).
Is everything done at compile-time?

Making UI design easy sounds great. Bundling a web browser in every program does not.
George Washington and Mahatma Gandhi might disagree that this is a "new" theory.
> it's not really news?

Yes, it is. It's a large deal for a large plot of land in the centre of a neighborhood legendarily protective of itself.
Absolutely. I think the actual issue are the OSes directory structure(FHS for example) that impedes having libs/packages isolated and coexisting with their different versions.

Containers add a heavy abstraction on top of that. For me the simpler/better dependency management solution is nix.
We use the same terms in the Shenandoah Valley, which makes sense, since many of the original settlers to Texas were from Virginia, and might explain the term "over" because many places you might go would be over the Blue Ridge Mountains. A related one I've noticed since moving to Seattle, is people using "back east" to describe the east coast. It's not just transplants from the east coast like myself that do it, people born and raised in Washington will say "back east" to describe the East Coast. An interesting remnant from our country being settled from east to west.
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Personal attacks like this are not OK on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Equifax already has 23 class-action lawsuits pending. But it would be better for consumers if a breach of this type were a crime investigated by the government, so individuals don't have to proactively go to court themselves.

By default, incumbents and big players have the advantage in the market, so without regulation I doubt anyone could unseat the Big Three agencies. They can afford to have a some inaccuracies and even a breach here and there and still be hard to beat. Remember the people whose data they lost are not their customers. Using the government to force companies to protect that data could level the playing field and increase competition.

As for 1. that is of course regulation.
People in this thread might also enjoy this Twitter bot I wrote that tweets Winamp skins: https://twitter.com/winampskins
This doesn't excuse Merrell's quality control at all but for a bit of consumer protection: If you purchase your shoes at REI and they fall apart like this, they'll happily provide you with a refund or replacement.
Once or twice: https://twitter.com/JustinFrankel/status/961392277376692224
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I'm waiting for cargo pants to come back in style
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I think you should use a linter for sure. I look at it like spellcheck. If you allow the computer to just "fix" it for you, you will reinforce the incorrect spelling. I always backspace and retype the incorrect word so that I learn the correct spelling (and in turn, the correct combination of keys to press). I do the same thing with linters. I have it configured in my IDE that linting errors are underlined in red, like a syntax error. This forces me to go back and retype the correct syntax and style.
> You just simulate the system or just let it execute normally (but under the control of some kind of "harness")

"Simulate the system" means "execute normally" for all practical purposes. That's what TC + Halting Problem[1] essentially boils down to, absent other knowledge about the program. Hence my suggestion to let the program itself do "projection" because it could potentially be hugely more efficient, and possible (but perhaps with bad "fidelity" in the case of side-effecting computation).

Anyway... to the larger point and to expound a little:

If everything is pure, then there's basically no problem (except computational cost), but imagine our Mario is taking part in a multiplayer game.

What do you think should happen?

(Obviously, this is not realistic for the reason that you usally don't run "debuggers" or "IDEs" in a 'multiplayer' scenario, but I think the analogy holds in general. Imagine that the other players' actions are I/O operations like "what's the current time?" or "talk to a REST service", etc.)

Most interesting programs do this kind of thing all the time. Of course, there are interesting programs/functions which are purely algorithmic and rewind/fast-forward should work for them, but they are mostly pretty niche compared to most of the programming that currently happening.

A very interesting example that's somewhere "in between" is Haskell's STM monad which does have very controlled side effects and where you can just "retry" and particular computation in case synchronization fails, but it still doesn't allow you to "project".

[1] Alright, I suppose it's just undeciability for non-trivial properties of TCs languages, but Halting Problem is a convenient shorthand.
Shoutcast was amazing, I can easily credit it to opening up my music horizons to bands that just weren't played on the radio at the time(euro-metal/etc \m/ \m/).

To this day I find Spotify and its competitors a poor substitute, algorithms still can't match a well curated station.
Thanks, fascinating read!
What app store? Which OS? Do you now suddenly have to write software for all OSes to install the certificate? Something that you didn't even have to think about doing before. The entire reason you went for a webui to begin with.
I'm kinda confused. I'm wearing a pair of trail gloves right now, and Merrel has continued to make them, incrementing a version number along the way... I wear them every day, and have been rocking them for my last four pairs of shoes, using 'em til the sole wears through.
Korolev's contribution is even more impressive when you consider that he was imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag for many years (for political reasons), suffering under living conditions which probably shortened his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev
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I bet there's branding and usability reasons for Facebook to avoid allowing you to skin/theme it to the extent Winamp was skinnable. Not sure I know what those are, but I just really doubt they'll ever add that feature.
If history has anything to teach us, it's that being prolific in creating work is more successful than being a perfectionist. Alexandre Dumas didn't know he was creating a what's now considered a literary masterpiece when he wrote The Three Musketeers. It was just another of the many, many stories he wrote.
It strikes me that SW is a key reason for any shift toward a toy-first mentality. Most of the arguments in the article make sense when a (SW) product can be rapidly iterated. Physical products likely tend to be harder to start too toyish... well, except for when they are toys.
I don't, though I've thought about starting one. I tend to be a bit shy but whenever I do talk about what we were able to do people want to know more.

If you ever want to chat one on one, my email is in my profile.
> At least when Trillian ditched skins, I think they were trying to compete with the bigger players (MSN, Google Chat) more seriously in the business world, and skinning isn't really something businesses care much about.

Businesses often care a lot about it, they just call it “branding” (and it can be a big deal, even for internal tools); obviously, you need to show different examples to them than typical consumers.
:-D I'm working on Magnus-effect flying machines right now, starting with toys, for pretty much the reasons in this article.
> Tangent: eye color is very strongly influenced by natural selection...

Maybe, but then what’s your explanation for the prevalence of brown eyes due to natural selection?
Australians don't read, they wrestle crocodiles while drinking beer.

Americans don't read either, though, they are too busy eating sufficient quantities to double their body fat. (I am American)
That's funny, most of the people I've worked with don't appreciate the value of slow, methodical, thorough work. They lack the ability to predict failure scenarios and predict how small changes will cascade in a system and cause undesired behavior. Therefore the time taken seems wasted to them when in fact they frequently don't understand.

There's room for both types of people in the world, but only one should call themselves an engineer.
I view this all as a huge step backwards. This is exactly why my glorified IRC client takes over a gigabyte to run.

The killer app is if this was all done at compile time. Use common web technologies to design the UI, translate that into lightweight GUI code.
あこ is an archaism. あそこ is used instead these days.
Unless I'm misunderstanding they did that by partnering with a CA. Becoming a semi-trusted CA themselves. This is not an option for most organizations.
Almost everyone who could afford to leave Detroit has left by this point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit...
Why don't you just download the real Winamp 2.9 and save yourself the potential GB of RAM usage?
Symfony 3 (and recently 4) is a very effective, focused tool that gets out of your way and let you get the job done, once you understand and give in to dependency injection and single responsibility principle

https://symfony.com/

Killer feature: you can use every symfony component in your own app without the framework if you want (console, http router, service container, templating, etc.)
My friend, the company you need to go visit is Vivobarefoot. They are not as cheap as your Chinese shoe, but they are the wide-toebox, no-support, tough-as-nails-soles that you have been looking for.

https://www.vivobarefoot.com/

Because of them, every shoe that I wear for every occasion can be minimal and I get to feel everything under my feet everywhere I go. I even have fancy black leather shoes for special occasions.

They are wonderful.
The same thing happens on the San Francisco Peninsula. People think SF is north of San Jose, when it's actually northwest.

So everything tends to be off by 45 degrees here too, and very often a full 90 degrees. For example you can drive west on North 101 and turn south onto West 84:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4877668,-122.213475,14z
Your link directly contradicts your claim that labor and protection costs are 'at least as high':

> Costs for permitting, connecting the systems to the grid, and having them inspected are also far higher in the United States.

and

> U.S. installers also spend more on labor during actual installation (in some cases, higher winds force more expensive installations). They pay more in sales tax (German installers are exempt).
No runtime. ReasonML is a language that has decent interop capabilities with javascript through the bucklescript compiler. You can use it to write drop in ready code segments into an existing codebase.

Hello world in ReasonML will get you a single line javascript output. Last I looked, the Elm bundle is in the 10s of kbs for something like that because you get the whole architecture.

Add is ReasonReact and it's a little more comparable obviously.
This brings me back to a recent conversation on advertising not being informational.

If the makers of $tool also said what their greatest deficiencies were then buyers would be much more able to decide. Instead they're motivated to hide their flaws and make the sale, hoping -- if it's profitable to do so -- to fix those errors/flaws/shortcomings later.

In a slightly related note it grieved me to see the presenters/producers of the SpaceX launch hide the partial failure of landing the core (I swear you can see one of them set up to tell us, then they get a message in their ear). I thought it was a more progressive endeavour - targeting the end goal rather than media gloss.
Not necessarily and probably not given the amount of historical data we have. This is why you should start from 0: https://flowingdata.com/2017/02/09/how-to-spot-visualization...
I am not advocating anything in particular as I am in the process of choosing the next language to learn. That said, I have watched some talks by Cheng Lou and some others about ReasonML.

Elm is just "Elm"... that isn't a bad thing and it seems like it is more mature at the moment.

ReasonML is Ocaml that plays nice on any screen anywhere thanks to Bucklescript. It also plays nice as a systems language. That is, unikernels... I am not even sure what they are, but they sound awesome and I want that.
> A former residential solar company CEO blames American red tape

I'm sure there's an army who would call that red tape "important safety protection regulation."

It's telling that the bureaucrats who put this NREL report together to reduce costs look at market maturation, business model integration, product innovation and economies of scale, but--shockingly!--not reducing regulatory overhead. Inventing new forms of photovoltaics is considered more realistic than addressing rent seeking.
I have never used "up" and "down" for north and south, but to be fair, that is solely to be contrarian in the face of people who used them as synonyms for north and south.

Of course, growing up in central Indiana, it was a long while before I even knew what a hill was. People frequently used "up" and "down" directionally, probably because they're nice and short, and there was nothing else to use them for. There was no "over/out"-like distinction for east and west, though. East and west were both "over". That might be related to the general north-south orientation of the state, too.

...And it just occurred to me that north actually is up and south actually is down in most of Indiana. All the rivers run south, to the Ohio, except around Gary and South Bend. Facepalming at my teenaged self right now.
Why proofread?
2.alternative: Coffeepot connects to the coffeepot cloud service to register a dynamic DNS entry (e.g. user1.coffeepot.com) to point to its LAN IP address and sends a Certificate Signing Request for user1.coffeepot.com?

If you are already registering a dynamic DNS, a CSR shouldn't be that much additional overhead?
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As a native of... nowhere in particular, I think "up" and "down" are pretty universal among Americans for "north" and "south." I wouldn't be surprised if they're near-universal to inhabitants of the northern hemisphere, since that's the way maps are drawn. A possible exception would be inhabitants of mountainous regions saying e.g. "up to Leadville" or "down to Denver."

Having lived in Houston, I didn't notice "over" and "out." I would personally use "over" for "within city" and "out" for "outside of city."
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