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Launch HN: Simul Documents – Version Control for Microsoft Word
Hi HN,

I'm the founder of Simul Documents (https://www.simuldocs.com) and about 8 months ago we posted our MVP to hacker news:

Bringing the features of Git and GitHub to Microsoft Word
(https://www.simuldocs.com/blog/ben-morris/version-control-fo...)

We have since had 1300 BETA users upload over 7500 documents that have helped us to rebuild our product from the ground up. I wanted to say a big thank you to all the early adopters in this great community and we are excited to announce that we have left our BETA phase.

Your feedback has been invaluable, it has not only greatly improved our document comparison algorithms but directly led to the development of many new features including:

Document Copies / Pull Requests
(https://www.simuldocs.com/blog/ben-morris/document-copies)

Task Tracking
(https://www.simuldocs.com/blog/ben-morris/task-tracking)

Our focus is now on ensuring a stable and scalable platform and developing an enterprise edition allowing organisations to host Simul on their existing IT infrastructure.

Thank you again for helping us improve our product.
Offloading eBPF programs attached to TC (traffic control interface) or XDP (at the driver level) is possible since kernel 4.9, and keeps getting better (more complete, and easier). [Disclaimer: I work for the company working on this.]

Tools in iproute2 package are being updated too, so typically you would attach and offload programs to hardware with `tc`- or `ip`-based command lines.
You can speak anecdotally all day long. But can you show studies where controlling for all other variables, white men are less likely to get jobs, promotions, raises, leases mortgages, accepted into college, etc.?
Spark + MLlib, Python + Pandas + NumPy + Keras + TensorFlow + PyTorch, R, SQL, top placement in some Kaggle competitions. This would get you long way.
Well, that’s a common misconception, but far from the truth. If you actually care about performance, you’ll soon find out that performance wrt. database work is all about high-level optimizations: You want to reduce the times you hit the database (both reads and particularly writes).

And once you’re getting into that busyness, Core Data will allow you to create way faster coder in less time. Core Data will get you 10x the performance for 10x less effort.
I'm sorry, but this article just seems bizarre. It's not economically literate - it doesn't actually examine the cost of a house relative to earnings and access to mortgages. It doesn't make any attempt to quantify how much money foreign entities actually invest in London. It doesn't cite any evidence that prices have even started to drop!

Let me tackle this. Firstly, interest rates are still at historic lows, it's cheaper to buy a house and pay the mortgage than to rent, so that core reason to buy is still there. The only limit is deposits. The government has just handed £5k to every first time buyer in London (stamp duty cut). That's not going to cause lower prices.

Foreign investment doesn't come from Saudi Arabia, it comes from Hong Kong and Singapore and Malaysia.[0] So his entire argument there is just misinformed.

None of the evidence he sighted actually points to a price crash now - it points to long term pressures for prices to drop. You could have made that argument 5 years ago.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying house prices won't drop at some point. This just doesn't argue it at all well. It's more wishful and wishy washy thinking that anything else.

There are far better arguments that the prices will drop in 2019/2020 - when interest rates recover, buy-to-let investors will get stung by harsher taxes and Brexit actually happens.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/13/foreign-inve...
Is this the linguist counterpart of trolling? :)

Anyway I don't know, it is definitely not the English r however.
“Brain” in a Dish Acts as Autopilot Living Computer (2005)
MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks [pdf]
Back-End Developer Interview Questions
Is Pebble seen as a successful exit? I see it as a bit of a disaster, not to say that Eric wouldn't be a good VC (no opinion).
Spark sits on top of YARN/Mesos, and is used for data processing scalability that pandas can't handle.

Personally, I think two areas often lacking are software development skills and general statistics knowledge. The former is necessary for writing production-quality code, assisting with an sort of data engineering pipeline, writing reliable, reusable code, and creating custom solutions. Unfortunately, the latter is often skimped on (if not skipped entirely) in favor of more 'hot' fields like ml/dl, with the result being a fuzzy understanding across the board. (You'd be amazed at the quantity of candidates lacking fundamental knowledge about glm's, basic nonparametric stats, popular distributions, etc).
> Yes, that is right. The LAND doesn't come with the HOUSE.

You say that it "comes" as if it was a universal constant, not affected by parties that sign the contract. I'm confused - are transactions involving land somehow forbidden by law?
>typical for most data science teams

I would bet that the mean size of dataset people are dealing with is a lot bigger than the median size.
Wonder if the Octopamine acts as some kind of bucket brigade algorithm to reward a recorded sequences of stimuli/actions pairs right before a positive result.

kind of like smell this go left, smell this go right...you win...reward previous actions.
Surprisingly terse interview - lovely:)
Most of this single core improvement, if I understand correctly, comes speculative execution and larger caches (rather than shorter pipelines), which -- in the context of crypto -- means that implementations go to great length to avoid the features that speed up execution, specifically BECAUSE they leak information.
Facebook is just a giant, very dangerous social experimentation platform where none of the participants get compensated and if the experiment goes horribly wrong, the response from Zuck is "we need to do better."
Okay, so I might actually try that flatpak thingy.

ATM, I was focusing on e.g. fez from HumbleBundle through the AUR [0] and factorio [1]

[0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fez/

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/factorio/
Same thing happened with the first Pebble Time Steel I bought. I took it back to the shop and swapped it. This one's been perfect for years, so I put it down to a batch problem.
If you ask a bunch of traders to give you a fake number and then cry that it's a fake number I have no sympathy.
Halunke: dynamic, OO language with simple grammar inspired by Smalltalk and Lisp
So how close are we to applying this to our own brains and making the "I know Kung fu" scene from the matrix a reality?
The Great Dictator is one of the few films with obvious value beyond entertainment, because it's a vaccine against Triumph of the Will. Triumph of the Will is a skillfully made propaganda film, and if you have no awareness of how it works then it would be easy to leave with positive feelings about the Nazis, even if only subconsciously. But once you've seen The Great Dictator it becomes a joke. E.g. the low camera angles don't make Hitler look powerful, they just remind you of the extending chair scene. His exaggerated gestures no longer project confidence, and instead make you think of slapstick routines.

John Cleese's silly walk had the same effect on the goose-stepping scenes. It's art that makes people more rational, by transforming emotional manipulation tricks into comedy. It's beneficial even if you don't agree with all of the politics of it (e.g. Chaplin's call for open borders).
> What a Monad does is to force sequencing by creating a data dependency.

Does it really? Maybe this is another one of those famous misconceptions!

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tardis-0.4.1.0/docs/Cont...
Archive link in case the content in the original link gets retracted:

http://archive.is/cRB57
Is there a high performance OpenVPN implementation at all?
I would imagine that it's an incomplete data set. There are probably societal factors, at all points in the spectrum, that limit FB use.

Also, will we get a number showing how much addictive FB use correlates to economic status? I have a feeling the corporate benefactor wouldn't allow that.
The problem is every time a bee fly on or off your field you are committing copyright infringement.
This is definitely cool, but monads is a more general concept. It can be used to isolate side-effects, but can also be used for many other things.
More likely, the substrate on which the action can take place.
Extending CircleCI’s API with a Custom Microservice on AWS Lambda
The Toolset of an Elite North Korean Hacker Group
Thank you! Yeah that's right. I put up part of the official D3 gallery here, automatically applying EasyPZ: https://demos.easypz.io

In addition, you can get a EasyPZ demo of any visualization posted on GitHub gist / blocks by navigating to demos.easypz.io/[blockid]. Example: https://bl.ocks.org/027e163073864ef2ac4ceb5c2c0bf616/ becomes https://demos.easypz.io/027e163073864ef2ac4ceb5c2c0bf616 with automatic EasyPZ!
Try it out on any block you like, and let me know if anything doesn't work that you think should work!
Patents for plants expire relatively fast, then the problem is to keep up seed production - code can be copied forever, seeds have to be 'made'. Costly especially if your plants' yield depends on hybrid vigor, which is lost in subsequent generations, in that case you have to recross the two parental lines to make more seeds.

Having said that, there is the Open Source Seed Initiative: https://osseeds.org/ (you still have to buy the seeds since there is a cost associated with production and shipping)

There are also special licenses for some GM plants, for example, if you're a seed company from a poor country you can get the license for golden rice (extra Vitamin A) for free, not the seeds themselves, you have to make those.
MikroTik Router Hardening (2017)
Off topic, but I have never understood Wikipedia's intense drive to rid itself of anything interesting or unusual or esoteric. It's text in a database, you're not running out of space, nor are you diminishing the quality of other articles!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex.Taxi
This is probably good for some balance:

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2012/02/atrazine-syngengta-...
And don’t over use viz. Pictures do effectively communicate, but often people visualize without understanding. The result is pretty pictures that eventually people realize communicate little effective domain insight. You’d be surprised that sometimes simple and ugly pictures communicate more insight than beautiful ones do.

I don't necessarily agree with this. Yes, a sound understanding of the domain and knowledge of the mathematics and statistics are vital to gaining insights. But. I would make a very clear distinction between exploratory data viz and explanatory data viz. Data visualization when presenting those insights is an important part of driving decision making.
Development of an effective team
In addressing the question of the best means of developing a team, the start is a definition of teamwork and in this case, entails a group of people who possess a significant mutual performance opportunity or need although they do not have a focus a collective performance.

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Plus the additional stamp duty on second properties, reducing the profitability of BTL
I adore my original Pebble and Pebble Time Steel. I'm curious to see whether Rebble [1] can pull together a new ecosystem.

I was under the impression Eric and the original Pebble team had deliberately ensured enough openings for that to happen, when the Fitbit acquisition news broke. Thanks to them if so.

[1] http://rebble.io/
> Very (very!) roughly, if long term mortgage interest rates half, we would expect property prices to double.

This is only really true if interest payments dominate capital repayments. A move from 10% to 5% (which happened in the years 1995-2005 [0]) might cause prices to double, but a move from 0.5% to 0.25% won't.

On the other hand, it's instructive to play with a mortgage repayment calculator. You can get a five-year fixed rate on a 25 year mortgage for 2% per year at the moment: that means £424 / month. If the rate increases to 3%, you pay £474/month. That's an 11% increase in mortgage payments - i.e. an 11% drop in purchasing power. So either people pay more on their mortgages or house prices drop.

The market is only pricing in a rate hike of about 0.4% in 2018. All other things equal (which they never are) the pricing of swap rates suggests a drop of 5%. It's worth remembering we're in a hiking cycle.

[0] http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/iadb/fromshowcolumns....
Live Coding in Julia with the Juno IDE
SpaceX to use a net boat called ‘Mr. Steven’ to recover next rocket fairing
Or in the case of maize, whenever the wind blows.
That's not actually true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...
It was an 'exercise' for evaluation purpose. In the instructions I was told that a database was not necessary (I'm assuming the interviewer didn't want to have to setup a DBMS just to evaluate my solution).

The obvious solution to me in this case was not to eschew the use of a database. Since Clojure runs on the JVM, there are many 'embeddable' databases one can use (H2, Derby, et al) that do not place a burden on the person running your program. Hacking together a poor implementation of an in-memory database myself seemed silly.

Indeed, a major use of embedded databases like H2 and Derby is in prototyping - with the intent of moving to a 'real' database in production.
You Need Live Chat for Your Website – Here’s Why
Selling advertising online could be automated for the most part, unless Twitter really does offer personalised offering to ads buyers—which I'm not sure is the case.
BitcoinCash MiniPOS Server – 30 second transactions with 0 confirmations
Or the wind carries seeds from the adjacent field... or... or...

Looks simply too risky for me. Health reasons aside, you're becoming dependent on the GMO producer.
Idris, dependent types and IO
That's what Haskell calls "ST" and is far less powerful than the general notion of monads.
What are the benchmarks you are looking at? On what kind of hardware?
> As far as I know Rust has just two major success stories right now

Here's a bunch more. Dunno what your definition of "major" is though: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html
Most people aren't sending their kids to private school, I stopped reading at the point where they talked about school fees - this simply doesn't affect the majority of people.
And it may be that the best bit is that with 'leasehold' you have legal protection from responsibities (often due to said leaseholder) which lie in the province of the freeholder. It's not always such a smart idea to have a freehold property in a city.
Citation needed. This is listed as a myth in a NPR article about GMOs:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/to...
The BSE crisis rather changed people's opinions on offal as well.
Define "gun control" with specifics? I'm not against gun control for the reason most people are. For me, it's more practical. The government has never been able to successful ban anything that people wanted - e.g. "The War on Drugs". When they do have a "War" on anything, it's usually not evenly applied.

Ronald Reagan was all for gun control in the 60s as was the NRA when the Black Panther Party started legally walking around with guns in California (the Muliford Act). You want to see gun control? Start encouraging as many minorities as possible to apply for open carry permits.
I would go as far as saying the tidyverse is an essential piece of working with R. Base R sans tidyverse is not a pleasant experience.
I still fear the potential censorship response to these russian bots a lot more than the bots themselves. After a few more years of these articles, who knows what people will sign off on?
Income inequality?
Does risk of dying on the job count as something worth higher pay?
If so, then I think you should reconsider the mantra of "wage gap".

Have a look at the death gap!

https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/how-come-nobod...

Note: this is just the first hit on google, I'm a bit reluctant to write down an entire arguement here because you have very like already made up your mind...
Regarding GMO and health benefits it may be interesting for others to read about Golden Rice [0].
Especially interesting is this line: "In June 2016, 107 Nobel laureates signed a letter urging Greenpeace and its supporters to abandon their campaign against GMOs, and against Golden Rice in particular."

Greenpeace has much publicity and their uneducated views are sadly picked up by media without further investigation. As the post linked here shows, GMOs are not the evil thing people usually connect it with, and people developing them don't seem to want to kill/poison/whatever the world.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
That's OK, farmers using Monsanto product are sorting out those pirates^H^H^H bees too.
Get a remote job (and keep getting them) that's interesting enough, move to a smaller town. That would free up so much time and energy to help experience life with my family by spending time with them, travelling etc. while also allowing me to have both the time and energy to learn about stuff, which is the only other thing I care about really.

A somewhat hedonistic pursuit but whatever works.
BRINGING COMPUTER GENERATED OBJECTS INTO THE REAL WORLD
That is, frankly, bullshit.

For a rebuttal of that myth see npr: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/to...

This dates back to a time where a farmer planted 95% GM canola on his field without a license, and when Monsanto told him that he had no right to do so he said it all blew onto his field.
Kind of an interesting thought from the article:

" If you love Google, you should hope the government sues it for antitrust offenses — and you should hope it happens soon, because who knows what wondrous new creations are waiting patiently in the wings."
ASSESSING THE “WORTHINESS” OF COMPANIES' MISSIONS
I wonder if that creates more volatility in the economy, business is much more likely to reduce or end a freelancers hours than a full time employee in a downturn.
Because in practice it usually makes little difference.
Ground rents are often as little as £10 a year.
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> As a bonus, choosing MySQL doesn't make you smugly dismiss everyone else's database choice, unlike some other databases.

Maybe, but in my case I was smugly dismissive of others before I ever encountered Postgres.
> The less some kind of food wants to be eaten, the healthier it is.

Usually plants that "don't want to be eaten" express this through actual toxicity. Mushrooms are the obvious example but there are plenty of plants with parts normally considered toxic and inedible.
Just don't let an application to connect to the Internet unless you actually want it to (i.e. I would only allow the browser, the SSH client and the messenger). Good news this policy is rather easy to implement on Windows (Sphinx Windows 10 Firewall Control and many alternative application firewalls), Mac (Little Snitch) and Android (DroidWall, XPrivacy). Bad news it seems quite hard to implement on GNU/Linux desktops (I don't know about any practical solutions).
Samsung unveils world’s largest SSD with 30TB of storage
Haskell has the ST type for this, which is a stripped version of IO in which we can still make proper mutable inplace updates like in other languages, but there is a »runner« function called »runST«, which guarantees that the computation it contains does not leak any state to the outside – in other words, »runST <impure>« is pure from the outside. This allows embedding of mutable algorithms, e.g. inplace sorting of vectors, into pure code.
This is like saying “100 years of data confirms coal provides lots of power cheaply!”

Yeah, we know. That was never the issue and it’s a red herring from the real issues. For GMOs there’s multiple issues with the licensing programs and how it affects farmers. But more importantly to me is the potential side effects in terms of these new strains going wild or interbreeding or being a monoculture that is potentially extremely succeptible to future problems and in the long run makes our food supply weaker instead of stronger. (See banana fungus problems, which is not due to GMO but due to the banana supply being a monoculture.)

Also saying broadly “GMOs are safe to eat!” seems as naive to me as broadly saying “GMOs are not safe to eat.” It totally depends on what is being modified and how.
Like the workplace death gap?
How about quota for that? </sarcasm>

Men and women both suffer, yet men suffer in silence...
Monads in TypeScript: Maybe
You could simply state what you're describing: a true flat rate income tax.[1] Which a lot of people do not agree with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax
What specific universal property?
Show HN: Selenium.Academy, an online course for automated web testing
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16420004
Maybe too soon, but this framework[0] claims to be 2x faster than spark

[0]: https://datafusion.rs/
Election Security High Priority–Until It Comes to Paying for New Voting Machines
Thankfully there's some research on this
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/01/ask-hackaday-which-balaclava...
Sony chases SoftBank and Toyota in taxi-hailing fray
How to Add Facebook Send Button in WordPress
The Deer Cull Dilemma
That's the crazy thing: Antitrust is the best path for everyone who isn't a billionaire corporation. Because not only will those of us who don't want to deal with them have options, but the former trust will be forced to compete again on merit, which means they'll have to step up their game. A lot of Google products coast by on their monopoly status alone, but if they get broken up or even just their behavior heavily restricted, they're going to have to get back to doing what originally made them great: Making the best web apps and services, like they used to.
What Google’s Acquisition of Xively Taught Us About the IOT Market
I am not sure if it is that bad. If your Linux partition is some file system unknown to Windows (like ext3), it'd be very hard to come by from a running Windows image (at least for Win7, where I had problems doing this).
My bank was involved with the LIBOR scandal but they won't let my wife pay small amounts of cash into my account just in case we're up to something dodgy.

If I temporarily have a large amount of cash in the account then they send me brochures trying to lure me into some premium 'exclusive' club which feels more than slightly greasy.

I would switch banks but it's a lot of hassle. Plus I don't get the sense that any of them would be working for me. They're working for the regulator, or for the forces of darkness, or for someone else.
If they really want to try something progressive they should explore male/female quotas in prison populations.
I agree i hope at least they use more data sources for the study. Personally, i'm too lazy to update my information like my current job and so on, so my data would be totally wrong.
In theory, yes, but delivery of the CRISPR enzyme to all the infected nuclei is still an unsolved problem. Also, it doesn't cut its target every time it does get in - some of the protein is inactive (probably just broken/malformed/misfolded) - but increasing the dose to compensate leads to more instances where it cuts the wrong target.
It does run in wine. I have been playing it this way for a while.