skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harry Potter. There are all sorts of similar tricks in there. They might not be in there deliberately, but the most popular books (aka "beach books") contain the same trickery.

In literature, such tricks can include a short episodic narrative that negates any need for long-term retention of information (short chapters). Reward centers of the brain are triggered by predictable plots. The reader feels smart when they are able to predict what it coming. Banal subject matter also helps get the product into the hands of kids (a book about a wizard school, or a game about farming rather than a casino). Then you wrap a community around the product. You give people the opportunity to advertise their participation and success with the product. You sell the knickknacks to display to their friends. Then you ensure the product has no end. You spread everything out over years so that, no matter how much they pay today, there will always be another purchase to make in the future.

Star Trek has been described as addictive, I think that can be extended to Harry Potter. I'd bet good money that Disney has people working to keep Star Wars as addictive as possible.
I refill it from the bottle. The bottle costed me under a fiver some years ago.
Most don't use one.

Most have access to one, in the developed world.

So there's the option, but it's a service change for many. Which is an argument against your comment.

If you're taking the broader view -- outside developed countries, or to a time when POTS / PSTN are deprecated or abandoned, and I could see that happening within the next five years given recent trends, possibly not. Which is an argument for your comment.

My experience is that both landline and mobile have their own extreme annoyance and distraction factors. So be it.

Outright dismissal may be not fully appropriate and premature though.
yasserf, keep up the good work, deepstream is great: fast, flexible, simple and solid! Although must say that your previous docs where way better than the current version. Why don't you keep the same format?
Speaking of in browser sequencers/synths:
https://www.audiotool.com/
I still very much believe in the fine-grained instances model.

Cloudflare Workers is a long, long way from done. Stay tuned... ;)
Adult content & companies have always been quick to utilize new technologies. JPEG's, first online payments, massive video services, etc. Its presence is even felt in places you might not expect, like reddit and imgur. I remember reading somewhere at one point 50% of reddit's traffic was adult in nature.

It took netflix until 2015 to beat out porn & piracy as total bandwidth consumer on the public internet[1].

1 - https://learnbonds.com/news/netflix-inc-nflx-now-uses-more-b...
A City Looks at Wastewater for Clues in the Opioid Fight
It is wrong to blackmail. Plus someone else can report you are missing instead of your parents. Why do you want to run away? Your life would probably be horrible. If your parents did something that hurt someone, you should probably report it,regardless. If you are facing difficult choices that seem impossible, you should try to find someone you can talk about it.
The Case for Writing Network Drivers in High-Level Programming Languages
> name of his favorite cartoon character, spelled Google

Source? A web search is not corroborating this version. What I can find is this, from Perfect Figures (Crumpacker, 2007):

> On a walk with Milton and Milton’s brother, he asked if either of them had any ideas, and Milton came up with googol.

> At this late date—Milton died in 1980—we can only speculate about why that was the word he thought of. Did he like the burbly, messy, baby sound of goo? Or did it sound monstrous, like a name for an ogre? Had he heard of Barney Google with the goo-goo-googly eyes?”

Seems like this explanation is at best pure speculation. (Didn’t stop someone from adding it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Google_and_Snuffy_Smith as a factual claim, improperly referencing the book quotation above. I just fixed it.)
As this thread will draw people that know 'the cloud' I'm wondering if I could get experience learning 'the cloud'?

It it as simple as taking each individual service listed in the AWS console individually and learning exactly how they work, or is there something more in-depth that matters?
Evernote's Mid-Year Review: Our Progress So Far, and How You Can Help
Yeah, but honestly, I'm fine with us taking it slow enough to see if this Cannabis thing rocks the social and health boat. I don't think it will, and I love having one more choice of things to do while hanging out with friends but it is kind of a global experiment, with other countries watching what happens to us and Uruguay
Really? That's amazing, I had no idea. Shame, since I come here more for the conversation than the articles themselves. But perhaps HN wants to discourage people like me.
yes, that's the point. the donor/agency was denying that choice by not having all the information.

but i don't get your second point. yes, people err on the side of caution, so what?

if we develop a society where having children is difficult then we are doing something wrong. and to respond to the start of the thread, if we develop a society where having autistic or handicapped children is difficult, we also ought to change things. but either way we need to make these changes by choice. we can not force people to have children, nor can we force people to take risks that they don't want to take.

this is especially critical in the US where there is little or no support for people who end up carrying the burden.

i heard someone say something like this once: "handicapped are not suffering by themselves, but they are a test for us in how we treat them". if they suffer, we are doing it wrong.
I really tried to get into Ableton. I found a Push 2 at a pawn shop and while I can say that the push 2 controller is pretty damn amazing and turns Ableton into a pretty cool device, I can't get the arrangement to feel natural to me. I am a long term linear sequencer user, and Logic is pretty much muscle memory to me now. However, Ive used FL studio since version 1.x and that also feels much easier to use than Ableton. I can create patterns super easily on Ableton but then turning that into a song is just clunky to me.
Telemetry is fine when it is included with enterprise software with licensing agreements handled by lawyers and corporate security. Telemetry is actually helpful and a good thing in that use case.

It is not in consumer products, period. Unless you are paying me for this information (in actual money, not discounts, not services) telemetry should be banned.
What's the logic of that? If there are lots of comments, seems the content would be interesting to the community. It takes more to comment on something than to just click an up or down vote.
Why Is the Amazon Rain Forest Disappearing?
You'll have a hard time prying Webstorm out of my hands...

I was a die hard editor purist (Sublime) for a while but after using an IDE for Java I realized how powerful they can be - even for frontend.
They blew it, plain and simple. Development went dark, VS Code swept in and took its place. Sad.
I just got the daily email from my server with some metrics. It has experienced over 500 gigabytes of traffic in the last few hours and the video is only 3 megabytes in size. I definitely did not expect such a HN-effect.
With a quasi-monopoly nonetheless!
> People grumble about that money, "it's mine, I paid for it my whole career" - and you did pay for it in taxes.

In most cases the governments of the day spent all those taxes. And then they borrowed some money and spent that too.

Now the younger generations are paying the piper, while the older generations expect the gravy train to keep chugging along like it’s still 1959.
I just retweeted it just for that
I've hit basically every limit on CloudSearch when I was at a previous role. We increased the cluster count and index sizes to their 'absolute limits'. And we were still projected to blow through them by 2020.

I believe there's a project underway now to move it to ElasticSearch, but still, CloudSearch is and should always be considered a prototyping tool for proper ES implementations.
> My reaction after reading this is that if it's too much burden for the original author to keep up with updates, it's very hard to make a case for people to self-host their own services using Sandstorm. Upgrade effort will now get multiplied many-fold as everybody has to duplicate the effort that one maintainer was putting in.

That's not correct.

Self-hosted sandstorm is completely auto-updating. You don't have to do anything. I still have to push updates periodically, but I intend to keep doing that. After I push an update, all Sandstorm servers update themselves automatically within 24 hours.

Updating Oasis was, ironically, much more work for me than pushing an update to self-hosted sandstorm. Oasis is built on a much more complicated cluster architecture designed to be scalable -- scale that, sadly, we never actually needed.
Yeah. They read and we read to them as well. The 9 yr old also has extra work apart from regular school homework. Nothing on a screen though.
I optimized costs by replacing my face with a static site.
Not having comments does not weigh higher than having comments.

Having too many comments relative to the votes can apply a penalty at some point, as a flamewar detector.
Too red to be real blood, it's probably paint. Blood turns near black if it's old.
I mean, that's what it's supposed to be, except the joke is that AWS uploaded their page once in 2004 and never changed it since.
but phpstorm is just for php, right? what if you want to code in some rust, does it support it? with just a few tweaks and packages sublime turns into a half-decent editor for any language and stack.
Neovim 0.4.0
Getting experience in anything is using it enough to figure out all the ways in which it sucks.
I'd stumbled across this by way of the LSE podcast which is excellent if you can't get your fill of meaty academic economics, social, and policy discussions and (almost always) solid Q&A.

Shiller is eminently credible in the economics field, and was awarded the Nobel in economics in 2013. He's the co-creator of the Case-Shiller housing index (particularly commented on about a decade ago).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Shiller

For well over a century, the trend in economics has been toward mathematical and quantitative models. Shiller's focus here on narratives is in sharp counterpoint to the mainstream viewpoint. His focus on epidemiological characteristics of narratives is straight-up brain-candy to me.

For those interested in the audio:

Narrative Economics [Audio]
LSE: Public lectures and events
Duration: 1:17:55
Published: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:30:00 GMT
Episode: http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/pub...

Media: https://media.rawvoice.com/lse_publiclecturesandevents/richm...

Podcast: https://www.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/279428154

Speaker(s): Professor Robert Shiller | Join us to hear from Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller who will in this lecture talk about his new book which ar...
No, ES is an affordable entry level search engine in a very expensive product space.

But there is nothing new in the standalone search engine space that I am aware of. Many engines have been gobbled up and integrated into larger product suites (see: Oracle Secure Enterprise Search).
I believe Sublime does offer the brilliance of vim. And I use vim too! They take about the same time to configure to similar levels of usability. Sometimes a more native UI is preferable. Notepad++ has a bit more built-in. There's some Windows particular stuff where I might want that Win 2000 aesthetic. I'm thankful for all the options.
Or, people searching for how to exit vim.
It is possible to map most controls in a DAW via MIDI and possibly provide a touch interface, or more tactile controls (sliders and knobs). Live looping for example, only requires a few foot switches.
I always thought $.50 / month was expensive for that.?
Sorry, I was trying to say that that people have been adding more funding for generations and it keeps getting worse.

Example: declining student enrollment, increased spending https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/per-student-spending...

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/general/elemsec/quickfacts/2016...
The research has shown multiple other ways to reach the current results without r>g (housing stock is one method, if I recall) and authors have shown r>g leads to results we do not see.

Thus it’s not true to claim existence of rich people implies r>g. If it were that simple people before Piketty would have reached that conclusion earlier.

The papers linked in this thread show the flaws.

It’s also the case the rich don’t get richer, if you mean a rich person gets richer. For any dataset where you can track rich individuals over time, pick a level you call rich, track everyone meeting that definition, and you find they get poorer, reverting to mean. That is why most millionaires are first gen. It’s why the Forbes 400 is mostly first gen; the rich that were top 400 lose wealth. It’s why St. Louis Fed has papers showing the majority of the top quintile or the top 1% are not there 10 years later, or from generation to generation.

Sure some rich keep wealth. But for any level called rich, if you track all those in it, that group mostly falls out.
FWIW I'm on Firefox as well and the site loaded just fine.
A Hammerhead Shark Caught in Lagos
I wonder if he does realize that CS uses this thing called O-notation, it's really useful. So a 10x factor by the very definition of complexity theory is a zero sum game. Nobody cares. You implementation might be faster if it is optimized for a certain architecture, CPU instructions, CPU cache and so forth. It literally doesn't mean anything, it has certainly nothing to do with being more "efficient" or with Knuth not being able to make it more efficient. Optimality is discussed in O-notation, not some contrived laboratory constant factors in front of it.
Free Open Source VPN – Curve25519,ChaCha20 – WireGuard and OpenVPN
I think you just mean they have oil
Even though VSCode is my main driver, I like textmate for browsing large numbers of files, and emacs for Lisp. When I get back home after my travels I am looking forward to the update.
Stop Trying to be Perfect – Live your life as you want
Let alone Cthulhu is on a pond https://i.imgur.com/CbgqpkF.png
External Drive Backup Encryption
A problem for city kids maybe? My parents were smart enough to raise me somewhere more suited for children. All I ever took out with me was a wallet, house key and my bike - I never even used to lock my bike up, I'd just throw it in a bush or behind a wall so nobody could see it.
The Naming Game
That is the thing about such a highly dynamic system. "Let's just add this dampening right here." Then, we have a system that is very slow to recover.

This is all made more complex by the fact that many of the components of these systems have really non-linear behavior. Like a dam spill that hits a hard boundary.
Show HN: Ledgersight – Bookkeeping Using Pandas and Airtable
This is a very early version of a tool I am creating to help accountants/bookkeepers in the tasks of matching data from multiple sources (bank statements, ERP reports, invoices, and so on), by automating what is possible and streamlining the rest.

Any feedback with be much appreciated!

https://ledgersight.com
Two partial answers: there's a newer better thing thats now the default and splits the building, but even under old js_library, there were some gains from not globbing everything together...
Very cool concept. I remember reading about a YC company in a recent batch working on something like this. Can't find the HN post though.
> Chances are they are going to type .com at the end.

I really doubt most people do that these days. They’ll usually type a few letters of the name and the browser will fill in the rest. Type ‘wikip’ and you’ll get to Wikipedia.
It's amazing how you've said so much but so little.
> Tesla is sexy

I found them banal in most cases, at least including 3. Also they are technologically pieces of shit in terms of value for money since it's not worth giving at least $60,000 for a car that isn't even enough for very long trips without stopping to recharge.
Wait, were you arranging in the session view and not in the arrangement view?
> Putting them together is a recipe for yelling and conflict.

Unfortunately that reflects more on the parents than it does on the children.
Hah, I got the same one and panicked!
The same reason that you can tell if someone really enjoys your cooking, because they will be quiet while eating it.

People tend to leave comments when they disagree. It's easy to disagree; it's harder to agree while also adding something interesting to the conversation.
.NET to Flash Cross-Compiler
GrapeCity open-sources dotnet to flash bytecode cross-compiler available now on GitHub at https://github.com/GrapeCity/pagefx.
And if you only ever do what is directly taught, likely at best you will be proficient but never great, and often not even entertaining.

I used to have a Fijian flatmate at uni who played guitar, totally self taught.

Played ukulele from age 3 with his sisters in acts in hotels back in Fiji. Just one thing (of many, many things) he could do musically was play along to most songs first time he heard them, anticipating chords/keys, no formal training.

He did say they had so much spare time on their hands as kids it was all he did, but he could play so many songs and lead breaks, bass riffs etc etc note for note, perfect timing.

While we were at uni he cleaned up because he could just roll up to any house band for the night and fill in on almost any instrument, pocket a hundred bucks or more, free drinks and at least one girl.
"Shows up #1 in Google Search" is impressive if the term it's showing up for is "coffee." Not so impressive if it's "bologna and whipped cream sandwich on pumpernickel."
Why use route 53 vs your registrar’s dns? Or use Cloudflare, it’s free
> I was given a ticket in Seattle for being hit by a car while in a dedicated bike lane.

Could you be more specific about what law you violated according to the ticket? That is, what ordinance/law was listed on the ticket itself?
A little off topic: but when I was in uni our instructors insisted that we use vim for all of our development during the freshman year CS courses. Did everyone actually use it? Of course not, but a significant amount of class time was spent teaching keybindings, macros, etc.

I really built a habit of vanilla vim usage, and to this day I have yet to find a "modern" text editor that really supports everything that vim has to offer i.e. "vim mode" being more than binding the arrow keys to hjkl and providing modes.
I imagine it must feel great to be a modern wizard. This is magic.
If you're talking about a bunch of people paying into a fund to cover the cost, then all you've done is reinvent taxes. The only difference is who you pay them to, and that people on the lowest end of the income spectrum can't afford coverage even if they wanted it.
I don’t find ES that bad, considering its power, but I haven’t had the best experience with the AWS service. Could be user error though....
Then I don't understand. Which strategy is like the 737-max ? Banks generally don't build systems that crash and lose your money.
Wow, I had no idea how much the relative stature of Vim and Emacs had changed over my career.
> COBOL really excels at foxed point decimal operations

That's one of the best typos I've ever seen.
Everyone thinks they're working toward tamper proof connections for the benefit of users, but it's really for the ad companies IMO.
There are a bunch of us out there that still believe in the vision. You were just too early. This needs some sort of WRT54G kinda moment, synology or ???, you needed to have a last mile partner or a host (vpn in to services). I thought containers were going to take over cloud in a pervasive way and it hasn't happened yet.

I can't say thank you enough for what you have done. None of this was a failure.
By noting that gitmo is legally controversial, has a bunch of asterisks next to what can happen there (afaik they cannot send people on US soil there), and it's been used on a grand total of 800 "enemy combatants" In the last 20 years.

It is in every sense an anomaly, and is not even remotely comparable to what is discussed here.
The difference is usefulness. Scientific models are based on observed behaviour. The model tries to predict the behaviour. If it gets the prediction wrong, then it's not a good model to be using in that situation (but we might still use it in other situations where it does make good predictions). Whether you believe in the model or not is completely irrelevant. What matters is whether or not you can use the model to achieve some goal.

Religious people often asks me if I only believe in things that I can prove. I reply that I can prove nothing other than my own existence, and I can't even prove the nature of that existence. I accept things that are useful to me and abandon them when they are no longer useful. I may later come back to accept them if they return to being useful (as they are likely to do).

Like most other people in the world, I believe in lots of things. Life is pretty uncomfortable without belief. I don't happen to believe in the things that major religions believe in, but I don't see it as a problem. Believing something, or not believing something is neither here nor there. I am 100% OK with the idea that my beliefs may be wrong. In fact, I rather suspect they are. Why should that worry me?

How important is our belief of something vs the acceptance of something that appears to work? Are we invested in the unknowable truth? Does it matter to us if we are wrong?

I feel that it's the importance we assign to being right in our beliefs that defines our religions.
>There is clearly no reasoning going on in those samples.

other people in this thread don't hold that opinion.
Expectation of being able to work as a day labourer given being over 65 is less than expectation of being able to work as a day labourer.
None of those are small. And they are not that cheap either. I think this is an obvious market opportunity -- small, cheap, open devices doing one thing well. No need for massive screens, touch screens , just a couple of buttons, a battery, DAC, USB and headphone jack, SD slot. I am agnostic on bluetooth support, not a deal breaker for me without it, but if it did not add too much to the price, then sure.
Quite true and same time it is hilarious. Does anybody use aws workdocs?
If portability is a goal, the mmap approach will require a higher investment with more documentation on system tuning to recognize the benefit. But if you're deploying to one architecture with strong support for mmap, go for it.
DST rules change all the time, all over the world. Any software that gets DST right today must be using a library. Even if you only look at the US, ten years ago Congress changed the dates that DST starts and ends and it wasn't a big deal. There's also many places in the US today that use permanent DST or permanent non-DST, so that's not even new, really.
My understanding is that SCOTUS has found gitmo prisoners to have a right to due process in Federal courts.
Victory Verticals (G.I. Steinways) – Pianos specially built for WWII U.S. troops
With this recent vaping controversy, I think Canada’s methodical and slow moving system has been a great success. These products use THC which is tracked directly back to the seed. No mystery illness problems going to pop up here.