skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That book remains unsold, mainly for lack of trying on my part -- around the time that I was ready to start sending out query letters, I landed some contract work working on visual novels. Getting my first contract involved spending a week or so assembling a writing portfolio to satisfy the company I was applying to, and once I had that portfolio, I started sending it off to any visual novel company that posted a classified seeking contract writers, with a pretty high success rate. (My portfolio started as a collection of ~5 writing samples; with each opening that I applied to, I would pick out the 3-4 writing samples which seemed most relevant to the position I was applying for and just send those. Each job I completed gave me another writing sample to add to the portfolio, and the longer I kept working in the visual novel space, the more specific I could get with tailoring my writing samples to the positions I was applying for, so the result was sort of this "snowball" effect where success beget more success.) Once I had my foot in the door, my inertia continued to carry me forward from gig to gig, and visual novel work eventually became my main source of income (I quit my "day job" back in 2016).

Having a steady supply of contract work kind of sapped my motivation to continue doing any writing on spec; the appeal of toiling away privately on a novel with the hopes that it will one day get published becomes a lot less attractive when you have offers from people who are willing to pay you to write right now. Once the contract work started, I also sort of rationalized procrastinating on sending out query letters for my unsold novel with the reasoning that my query letters would be a lot more impressive when I could start them with a paragraph listing the visual novels I'd worked on as a contractor, along with information about the number of copies they'd sold.

That being said, although I never sold that novel, the time I spent working on it certainly wasn't wasted -- most of my early gigs in the visual novel space came as a direct result of the strength of my portfolio, which included parts of the original manuscript. So, while I didn't sell the manuscript, it did help with the first few critical steps of my writing career.

In an interesting quirk of fate, the editor that I'm working with for one of my current visual novel projects is also a senior editor at Tor, so despite never sending out those query letters, I somehow managed to stumble my way into a working relationship with someone at the publisher. Perhaps the moral of this story is that all roads lead to Tor. :)
Hmm, VSCode uses a web browser (and I think also the DOM) to display/edit text, and I find it to be perfectly snappy (Atom was unusably slow on my work codebase).
Neovim can't handle my obsolete terminal library in Ubuntu LTS. I've also had issues on the iMac at work. Vim works just fine or at least it's usable.
I didn't know that! JESUS that is lame.
Indeed. I'm open to the idea of even joining forces, but if the goal is to explore technology choices, it does make sense for them to do their own thing. In the meantime, xi is making progress, and I think will be a pretty viable choice for people who prefer native to Electron.
You're comparing apples and oranges.

Imagine this case now:

I own a small company, Foo & Sons. I invent a new form of widget, that's 10% more efficient than other widgets. I can patent my new widget, and now I have exclusive right to manufacture these widgets in my factory for $1 a piece, selling them for $2 a piece.

Now, a big company, Widgets'R'Us, is capable of manufacturing these widgets for $0.50 each, as they have economies of scale. Without patent protection, they could make my widgets, and sell them for $1.50 each, putting me out of business. However, because of the patent, they'd have to pay me a fee if they wanted to make my widgets. I can now decide whether or not these royalties are more valuable tham making and selling widgets from my factory.
I don't know about the restaurant business, but I've been told by people in the flower trade that the long-stemmed rose business right before Feb. 14 is full of antics, deceptions, broken promises, dummy orders, etc. that are absolutely terrifying if you're new to the game.

So much money to be made so fast. It tends to attract . . . operators.
Pitch deck notes I use with clients: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/pitch_deck

IMHO the Stripe notes and YC perspectives are especially useful when the pitch deck has a first draft. Founders and teams write the first draft faster (and better) when they use the notes above.
That's not true. If a corporation of people borrows money from you, and doesn't pay you back, you can't pursue repayment from them. The "corporation" is bankrupt, because it gave its (your) money to its employees or owners, who are not liable.
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Per MONTH*, not per day. That’s a huge difference to MoviePass.
Yes, also Azul Zing. Really anytime someone says they have a problem with GC and suggests spending a million dollars of engineer time building a new system, they should consider Zing first. It works and is a way more efficient way of spending money to fix GC latency problems.
I apologize for the ambiguity of my prior comment. To illustrate what I'm thinking: Suppose cervical cancer is caused by two strains, 1 and 2, which are equally present in the population. A vaccine works 100% against strain 1 and 0% against strain 2. That vaccine is 50% effective against all strains causing cancer, despite having 0 power to eradicate strain 2.

Therefore, it's not clear to me that being 'semi-effective against all strains' implies 'semi-effective against each strain.'

I am now looking for sources that say Gardasil is semi-effective against each strain of HPV.

Edit: Reading this source[1] I see that Gardasil protects against strains 31/33/45/51 (grouped) with 33%-51% effectiveness. Still can't find conclusive evidence that Gardasil protects against each strain.

[1] http://cvi.asm.org/content/early/2015/01/29/CVI.00591-14.ful...
Actually, we've had to add "Mozilla" in the user agent of one of our program because users have been complaining being blocked by some proxy.
I really struggle to run Lightroom on my 8 GB Macbook Pro.

To be fair, Lightroom and Photoshop have an excuse: dealing with 20+ MP photos is memory intensive. Atom doesn't: dealing with 2 MB text files is not hard.
What this shows is that judicial decisions are not based on "lies" or anything else. They are opinions; judges make decisions and work backwards toward reasons. The very existence of dissenting opinions shows that any case can be decided any way a justice wants. In the 19th Century, that meant that justices took away rights that the 13-15th Amendment tried to to protect.
Curious to know the cons of using it, except being commercial.
An interesting property of word vectors (which are usually 300-600 dimensional vectors) is that most are quasi-orthogonal. That means when you sum them up, they compose well representing all the meanings of the component parts, and strangely, multi-sense words such as "bank" contain all the senses overlapped, yet distinct.

Another interesting property is that high dimensional space has many shortcuts, or that at any point there are many paths. It's like a kaleidoscope with infinite reflections or like a mirror house. Or it's like any point has many close neighbours which can, paradoxically, be far apart between them.
Thanks! Will correct it.
> Some studios also send out DVDs

in packages filled with bribes.
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Which brings up the topic of responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities and leaked credentials.
Exactly. Developing GC aware code is still easier and safer than c++ memory management. Particularly because when you screw up in c++ you get crashes or data loss, and when you screw up in Java you mostly just get GC pauses.
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Thank you for correcting my misunderstanding!
Take this source from 2014 as you decide, but there have been mainstream news articles in the past stating contrary:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-re...
Neovim is mostly still Vim, but with some built-in extensions and packaged plugins. Vim is still great if you don't mind managing a few preferred plugins yourself, and (at least on Arch) it comes packaged with some pretty sane defaults. Overall though, Vim has made huge improvements in the area.
Afaik, none in the US let you bring food in, but it's trivial if anyone in your group has a hoodie or a purse
There is std::array<T, N> in modern C++ standard. It is meant for static arrays which know their own length.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/array
See, I thought you were complaining about software complexity when you posted your original comment about "why does a text editor need so much abstraction". Nope, turns out it's just another run-of-the-mill anti-Electron rant.
In our household, we make a fair number of restaurant reservations at 11:30 p.m. . . . and some more at 9 a.m. (Two-career couple; hard to align schedules, etc.) Online services like Open Table don't mind this at all. By contrast, restaurants are not eager to keep staff by the phone at those hours, just in case we call.
In my experience, most uses for dynamism in Python are concentrated at initialization time. Features that make dynamic changes like namedtuple or decorators are usually only executed once when a module is imported and essentially implement a kind of code-generation that directly creates the intended objects.

I wonder whether it might be feasible to import a Python module (running all the initialization code) and then walk the reachable object graph to serialize it into code in a more static subset.
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By what factor/magnitude p99 was improved ? Any idea ?
Uber and Lyft both did it to each other during the early days.
Sounds like a something the EFF might be interested in.
RT's increasing popularity has created pressure to make more mass-appeal mediocre movies, as movies are rewarded for being "watchable" and get no bonus points for being "excellent" (and excellence which might turn off segments of the audience if any controversial choices are made en route).
Isn't it a wellknown and solvable problem with help of backpressure?
>... works best if given prior to any sexual activity,...

Not entirely correct. The HPV vaccine works best in the young for the best immune response. If I were a 40 year old virgin and wanted the shot, the vaccine probably wouldn't be effect as my immune system would not respond.

Yes the shot should be administered before sexual activity, and it just happens the best immune response happens in these youngish teenage years, far earlier than a lot of parents are comfortable.
Haha, please enlighten me. Let's see what open source license Microsoft picked for their generous efforts to restore socioeconomic equality:

https://code.visualstudio.com/license
I mean, Chicago pays something like 100 million dollars a year in police misconduct settlements...
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Good Q. You might like to check ScyllaDB written in C++, which is supposed to have considerably better performance than Cassandra (also low tail-latency) and a level of compatibility with it: https://www.scylladb.com/
Moral of story.. don't leave nice shovels in the yard and don't install crappy spyware OS like Windows on nice new computer.
“Air for the jet enters the car through the two side windows and the sunroof. It's a little windy inside but not unbearable.”
This seems like a big deal. Assuming it could collect more than it needs to keep itself in orbit, it could refuel a tank and skip from atmospheric body to atmospheric body. Something like this could make it to Neptune and back, though it might take an incredible amount of time.

Still, atmospheric fuel scoops were still sci-fi until now, as far as I’m aware.
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The thinking on this has been changing recently as more discoveries are made. The linked article even alludes to it by calling viruses the fourth domain, implying that they are indeed life.
So they believe the employee acted alone eh? His name wasn't Oswald by any chance? Well I'm glad they got rid of the only dishonest person in the company. Phew!
How much of Jetbrains' IDEs are not written in Java?
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It's nice but it's kind of limited to simple apps. No polygon or geocorridor points of interest and you'd need a database anyway to store historic data. For anything more complex tgan point on map apps, I'd use PostgreSQL + PostGIS.
Whoops! Yes, I fixed it. Thanks for noticing. :-)
That's easy enough, but it changes the total area, which means some kind of drainage is required, which complicates the demonstration of equal-area squares.
That sounds like the bulb that Philips won the L Prize with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Prize#/media/File:Philips_LE...
Bing for me: they open brace on the same line as a control statement/function declaration.

Allman style forever! [1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style#Allman
Yes, which makes it far more sustainable.
I had to reread this headline a few times, believing "Electric Truster" to be the esoteric job title of someone recently fired.
7 hosts in that poc, that is not "at scale"
> Why doesn’t someone make a better native editor?

There are plenty of people who keep trying to do that, but a lot of people have moved away from it because “native” means one of:

(1) excluded important platform for developers, or

(2) multiplies maintenance effort and new feature development difficulty by requiring the project to maintain large amounts of platform-specific code for several different platforms (which ends up turning into a platform abstraction layer.)

It's a lot more efficient, in developer time, to choose an existing, well-supported engine that already abstracts the native platform, and focus on developing and maintaining the unique features of your editor instead.
but it's unclear that this definition really means anything, because you can say that humans lack the facilities to replicate itself, without access to food and water and air too!
Constant depth volume is mathematically identical to area.
great writeup, got a website or portfolio?
Any order of magnitude change fundamentally changes the problem. Computers are not just fast calculators. Scaling to a millions users is different than 100k.

I'd say that power corrupts even the most well intentioned and that history has many examples of this. I don't see how tech is differently immune.
Here's a controversial view, but any good comments section needs a few of them:

Viruses are no more "life" than bacteria are "life" or amoeba are "life" or ants are "life" or mice are "life" or humans are "life"... We're all just chemical machines, nothing more nothing less.

Giving the word 'life' some special significance is misleading and confusing. In order to not confuse ourselves we should be talking about functions and descriptions of those functions as implemented among chemical machines.

Do viruses reproduce? Yes, by hijacking cellular machinery. Do bacteria reproduce? Yes, by cloning themselves. ...

This sort of thinking about the world allows us to stay close to reality without abstract and ultimately meaningless distractions like 'life'. Heaving the burden of abstraction onto 'reproduce' is still dangerous, but much less so than allowing 'life' to lurk as an abstract category in our minds.
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It's not a full equivalent to Stripe Atlas for LLCs, but you'll find a nice range of "a la carte" options for forming and running LLCs from this registered agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/
Well, usually poor resource utilization means bad design all around. You can always buy more powerful hardware, but it won't fix something that is fundamentally flawed. Text editors are very personal to me. I spend a lot of time learning shortcuts and tricks that are easily cross-platform and portable, and Vim is very easy to do that and is still actively maintained by a great community of well-versed developers that aren't just getting another paycheck from a mega-corporation pretending to do some social good.
https://hackernoon.com/to-start-thinking-about-load-testing-...
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> "Easiest way to avoid this? Block payments/checkouts from demographics notorious of these practices - China, Pakistan, Africa, Egypt, etc."

These types of blocks by country don't seem right. Why no just block by behavior?
While I totally agree with you, there is some value in having a clear definition of life if you're trying to do something like determine if it exists on other planets. In that sense, you're looking for some kind of self-separating chemical unit, which looks very different from a homogenous soup which happens to undergo complex chemical reactions.
Bought my house around 2000 and it had a GE Combination Fridge from the mid 1960's. Looks like this one [1] but in turquoise. Still going 20 years later and all I have done is clean the lint off the cooling fins a few times a year. My Kill-A-Watt says it is about as efficient as a modern fridge.

I think it is just very hard to impossible to judge the quality of an appliance just by looking at it. All external signals a seriously gamed by manufacturers. Even consumer reports does not do a total breakdown by electrical and mechanical engineers to let you know how good something is. Then, at most, 1% of people would care enough to read a quality guide. Price is easy to look at and compare.

Want to by a copper tank water heater that will last a century for your home. Good luck. I've got one from the 50's but I had to know to replace the thermocouple when that breaks once a decade and not just throw it out when it stops working.

[1]https://retrorenovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/60s-G...
The problem with that analogy IMO is that machines can be comprehended by humans, whereas even the most primitive forms of life are more sophisticated than anything human created.

Reproduction is an astonishing feat in itself - if only we could create a machine which could reproduce, but it's not so simple!
The problem with making a general purpose DB is you have to have general purpose defaults. The Cassandra defaults are "dont crash anywhere", not "be super fast and low latency". You can definitely do 5x better than the default with some basic jvm tuning.

That said: the IG folks certainly know how to tune JVMs. There are IG (and former IG, I saw rbranson post) folks in this thread that know how to tune the collectors, so assume that the 10x they see is beyond what you'd get from simple tuning.
Neither do rickettsia or chlamydia, two bacteria. Honestly, whoever was deciding on the definition of "what is life" knew ahead of time the kinds of things they wanted to include and they worked backwards from there.

We want to exclude viruses because they are too mechanical. There's no magic to them. That's the way it appeared before we started finding all these giant viruses anyways.
That's incorrect. New Math was about teaching math from axioms, not the experimental mathematics parent poster was promoting.
To spell this out so it's a bit more obvious, given a Thing at head of a list, you could have:

- a List<Thing>
- a List<ThingSuperclass>
- a List<? extends Thing>
- a List<? super ThingSubclass>
- a List<IThing>
- a List<ILiterallyAnyImplementedIFace>
- a List<IHaventForgottenInterfacesCanExtendOthers>
- a List<Object>
- a List<I'm probably forgetting some possibilities>

And you have no way of knowing which it is.

So yes, it's a boundary, which is significantly more than nothing. But far less useful than it feels like at first.
>We don't consider something "alive" if its behavior doesn't change when its environment does.

I think this is too vague. A cat may continue to sleep without responding to changes in its environment but may respond to an internal stimulus (hunger) and get up and go. So response or lack of response to the environment may not be a good criterion to define life.
why should it have tax implication (in favour of Pearson's), if it is full of strings attached?
Robots respond to stimuli within their construction / programming. It's what distinguishes them from dumb mechanisms.

Anyway, the term "life" is poorly and inconsistently defined and really only means "what we generally think of as life".
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It's clearly both.
How much does Amazon love dogs? Just ask one of the 6,000 pups that “work” here
OpenTable is not just reservation software for diners... it is also the software that the restaurant uses in-house to manage their seating.
It would be immeasurably useful for Firefox to have support for Chrome DevTools Protocol (or have something with the same functionality).

Anyone from Mozilla know where to follow the work for this?
I thought this article was a very interesting take on the subject: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/why-life-doe...
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Yeah, I can see that. Basically you've got two options, go the Haskell way and have zero runtime reflection support and full type erasure, or go the C# way and have full reflection support and no type erasure. Java it's just painful because you get runtime reflection except it's incomplete because half the type info was erased at compile time.
And here I spend a good minute staring at the title, looking for the (now gone) spelling error.
So, just to be clear (because I don't see it mentioned anywhere). Are we taking about the EMDrive here?
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Of course it’s not the only way to produce pharmaceuticals, as pharmaceuticals are thousands of years old. But without patents the number of new drugs pharmaceuticals over the last 50 years would be probably 1-5% of it actually was.
https://superuser.com/a/1300809/879305
After Losing China, Jeff Bezos Really Wants to Win in India
Do you know of good sources, articles, documentaries, etc exploring this or these events that attract “operators”?
I consider legal entities such as corporations to be living organisms. So I don't agree that life is limited to organisms with a visible (biological) body.
Thanks for the insights (I have never implemented lazy loading myself so it's interesting to read about it).

> As for that blur, medium definitely overdoes it with that, doing it on the canvas and all.

Yeah I find it really hostile from a UX point of view.

P.S. I just looked at your imgur and the ones that are more intelligible to me are the smaller pictures in the bottom raw, while I wouldn't be able to say what's in the first two larger pictures (interestingly, it seems that with blurry pictures the larger the picture, the harder it is to guess the contents).
If you think that you are extremely uninformed about the many useful pharmaceuticals out there and are probably thinking of a few Longreads articles about fentanyl abuse and ADD overmedication.
https://www.bestmastersprograms.org/50-universities-with-the...

Most Nobel Prizes (per "unnoficial" counts that have some weird inflation for some universities but not Chicago!):

1. Harvard

2. Columbia

3. Cambridge (UK)

4. Chicago

5. MIT

6. Berkely

7. Oxford (UK)
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Doesn't look like it. This type of drive has been around, but the issue had been that it would run out of propellant that powered it to keep the satellite in low earth orbit. This is the successful testing of a drive of the same type, but it collects that material from the atmosphere so it hopefully it won't run out for a long time and keep missions running longer.