skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wired and Microsoft... 2 dead companies with bad ideas collaborating on a get hype for pens piece. Can I just say, kek. Microsoft and it's team of "brilliant patent holding geniuses" are tired. I would rather invest in 2 random kids in a garage that think pens are stupid. Or buy the latest macbook, the space grey is more innovative than anything these group of troglodytes and their cronies will ever produce.

Plastics!
> I can understand that much, but CVS doesn't (privately) reap the returns from healthier customers.

Assuming that customer retention is cheaper than acquisition, it directly reaps the returns from not killing its customers.

> That dynamic would apply to a health insurer or provider, not a glorified convenience store.

CVS is, among other things, an insurer (or, rather, a pharmacy benefit management company serving insurers, but the incentives are pretty similar with regard to not killing the insurers customers), and also operates the nations largest walk-in clinic brand in its in-store clinics (so, its also a provider, and not just in the sense that every pharmacy is.)
Just wanted to mention that the or-tools constraint solver is absolutely top notch. It has been winning top3 places in the minizinc competition ever since it entered a few years ago, and placed first in 3 out of 4 categories last year. I've used it quite a bit, and with a few exceptions I've found its completeness relative to the Global Constraint Catalog to be excellent, especially so for open source software. Now if only they had a functional 3 dimensional Geost constraint :)
im still wondering how a intermediary dns-like server is not needed to perform the public key to ip address translation?
Add Italy, Spain & Portugal, and your "tiny fraction" theory goes out the window. Had Germany just stayed with the Deutsche Mark the euro would be fine today and the Germans wouldn't have exported so much to the PIGS + Rest of the eurozone. Their GDP would be at most 10% less than it is today.
Easier way, get zone files, compare and you've got a list of all new registrations. Then scrape WHOIS data.
Supercharging the Atom Editor for Go Development
Agree. If people smoke and are unhealthy they in theory would need a larger amount of prescription drugs which CVS sells and profits from.
The difference is that a candy bar only kills the person who is consuming it (and kills them much slower than a cigarette), while the cigarette kills the people around the smoker too.
We still treat veterans terribly. Remember that when your sons and daughters think about joining the military. [Served 6 years in the Navy, no personal veteran issues.]
Indeed. The "market price" is really the "marginal price" of moving a share, not the average price over all shares.

(For something you actually want to consume or corner, usually, if you buy 99.9% of all shares of something, the price of the lat 0.1% will be quite high. But if the market is frothy and people are bidding up shares irrationally/temporarily, while many others are just holding old shares and not paying attention, then the average price--once the excess buy-side money is spent, and there isn't excess cash available to bid for more shares-- will be lower
Agreed. It's like wearing shoes that are too small so you can have the "pleasure" of taking them off.
Yeah; I basically will not work anywhere without a private office ever again. That basically means a professional job, or a startup I run.
My+Journey+as+a+Songwriter
On Self-Respect by Joan Didion (1961)
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen TelegraphCQ previously. Following the trail, I also came across a couple other similar research projects relating to Stream-oriented DBs. Specifically, STREAM from Stanford and Cougar from Cornell, though it appears that all of these academic projects are dormant at this point.
I find amazon excellent. Either by just looking at books I like and seeing what other people have purchased, or creating a wishlist and it suggesting new books.

Apps are indeed terrible. The algorithms are shit because people buy shit, so they suggest shit. Curated apps stores have been tried (on Android) and there are blogs about apps. The problem is that most money is made from these terrible freemium games that are no better than slot machines. So the curators get paid off, or end up promoting the stuff people want (slot machine-like shit)
Abgoosht/Dizi is my favorite Iranian dish - but unfortunately the only place in SF that serves it is Flytrap, in SoMa. I tried it recently and it's not quite the traditional Dizi that one might hope for (Flytrap is kind of fusion-Persian food).

Alborz in Berkeley also serves Abgoosht, but I haven't tried it there. If anyone has I'd love to know it is. If you're just generally looking for Persian cuisine in SF, Lavash is great.

If you're ever down in Southern California, there are a few places that serve Dizi. I particularly like Hen House Grill in Irvine - the setting isn't quite right for a Dizi (it's almost fast-foody), but the food itself is excellent.
A few chapters in the book I knew nothing about before writing them (Heroku, pieces of others) and the review process also pointed out a few places where my knowledge was actually wrong. As a whole, it's been a huge learning process, and that's pretty much been the best part.
Besides HN, what promotion did you do?
I stated my point badly. I never assumed you that you were Steve Jobs but I shouldn't have assumed belief. The original commenter I felt gave people context on Gassée's background while your comment, in my opinion, contained a negative assertion with no context.
$6M for Project Juypter from three foundations
It is a litmus test issue. It tells you if the startup really is a rocket ship because it's run by people who know what they are doing, or if it's a roll of the dice.

They might all be crowded into a small room, but if the founder says "we believe in collaboration and will never put developers in silos" instead of "we'll be getting individual offices ASAP, but you can work from home if you need to" then you have some visibility into the companies chances.
First they came for the heroin and cocaine.
> actually made by the same person who initially wrote Pascal

Niklaus Wirth, for those interested.
Perhaps I should qualify what I mean by difficult: growing something with a doubling time of 6 hours is fundamentally more difficult than, say e. coli (40 minutes) because you have to worry about things like sterility, because other things can outgrow you. This is one of the primary concerns in a garage environment.

I mean, I'm not a complete idiot here. I do have a PhD in biophysics/chemistry/biology and four years of postdoc experience. I've designed expression constructs nearly from whole cloth; I've done spectroscopy on metastable peptides; I've produced, characterized and sent for testing a mutasynthesis product; I've improved an enzyme four-fold. Of course all of those things were done in 'real labs', but the last two were done under budgetary pressure where there was a strong emphasis on getting things done cheaply (UMD is not very well-funded, J. Craig Venter Institute was making a painful transition from hard money to soft money). A lot of those lessons I learned under budgetary pressure translate to doing things in the garage, except, more extreme.

I think the primary obstacle to people doing garage biology is not that the biology is hard, but that there are generally two classes of operators, those who have little biology experience, and those who have worked under coddled environments. The real trick is to find things that are maybe a little hard, but not insurmountably so, but with one or two difficult pain points. And which are also interesting. The first class of operator is not generally capable of identifying those qualities, the second class of operator is out of the habit of identifying those qualities.

Biology really does mostly work, you're just looking at a biased system where people are just throwing money at problems and also looking for reasons to justify continuing to throw money at them (so they have to do hard things). That also creates silly folkways like the 'biology is hard' trope which makes the operators miss obvious things because it's just easier to say 'biology is hard' than to think about the problem and figure out how to solve it cheaply and effectively.
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> Sure, nearly-bare-metal OSes don't soak up much in the way of resources, but that only works in very narrow market segments, and computers are totally mass market now.

And we had Amiga. And BeOS. And Plan9.

All of which had very good latency. All of which Microsoft displaced with monopolist behavior and marketing money.

Microsoft is only interested in fixing the problems they caused now that they aren't the 800lb gorilla anymore.
I can see how businesses and its representatives (the chamber) may make the case that companies ought to have freedom of speech. Just like citizens united, businesses have lately been able to lobby for certain rights that were originally created for people.

But I disagree. Free speech and the right to vote protections were given to individuals as basic human rights, and corporations are not people. More money should not equal more voting or lobbying power. I realize that is impossible to avoid entirely. Still, the more we let stuff like this happen, the more we dilute the value of our individual democratic rights.
I bought your book on Kickstarter! I love it and would recommend anyone starting out.
I agree. Language is just a form of communication, it can be used or misused.

It would be a fiction to downplay the power of academics in modern society. Academics has the power to mold and frame the minds of the next generation of leaders, alter government policy and to influence an entire populace from childhood.

I see your point that academics has been demonized at times, however I think it's more appropriate to judge it on outcomes.
It seems PipelineDB doesn't have a clustered version, all the data must be sent to one server similar to Postgresql. Considering the fact that stream processing feature is usually useful in big data (if the data size is not that big and the data can fit in memory, complex aggregation queries usually don't take more than 1 second using a columnar database), is it possible to use PipelineDB for millions of events per second?
I've had periods in my life when I exercised extensively (U.S. Marine Corps) and other times, including now, when I definitely don't get "enough" exercise. Regardless, I've needed 9-14 hours of sleep a day to feel awake during the day. So no, exercise has never had even a moderate correlation with my sleep cycle.
This is precisely my point. For almost all of human history, public health was indeed a luxury rather than a necessity. In many parts of the world, it still is today.

The details of a specific proposal are not relevant. No matter what specific items you choose for these categories, eventually people will want things you say are "extravagant luxuries" and call them "needs".
> If people smoke and are unhealthy they in theory would need a larger amount of prescription drugs which CVS sells and profits from.

If people smoke and die sooner, they will in theory (and practice) need no more of the prescription drugs which CVS sells and profits from. Heck, statistics showing that smoking reduces total health care costs (and, less relevantly to the immediate discussion, pension costs) by killing people younger have been used by cigarette smoking companies as part of campaigns against government anti-smoking campaigns around the world.

Aside from the moral aspects of that argument, the financial aspects work exactly the opposite for people selling health care services -- which CVS does, both as a pharmacy and a clinic operator -- as they would on people funding health care costs.
Others have alluded to this elsewhere in the comments, but the draw is that this is a programmable rdp client in Node.JS. You can use this to write host scripting code, you could use this as the basis for something like Screenhero, etc.
How did you design the book? Did you use Adobe InDesign or something else? Whatever you did use, what was your reason, and was it difficult to learn?
A finance writer that actually knows what he's talking about, and it's here on HN. This is nice.
Another difference is that cigarettes STINK and are disgusting.

If you want to do something disgusting do it in private.
If all those Californians (the ideology) are so "angry about death" how come they don't give some of their money to help save hubndreds of millions NOW, in Africa and elsewhere?

"Angry about death" here is short for "angry about my particular personal death", which is not as noble as angry about death in general. It can even mean: "if I could step all over others to live forever, I would".
I want Peter Thiel to get angry about poverty.
Thanks for linking that. What surprises me is that in their simulation which they base the results on - the early 10 years are way different than the later 10 years. The early years show fairly steady growth (although most of it is concentrated in the middle), and the later years (except for one outlier) are really flat.

This suggests to me that while it was a practical strategy, it isn't so much anymore. With index funds smearing their buys over long enough periods the effect shouldn't even be noticeable.
Is graphical remote desktop really the primary systems administration tool in the windows server world?
Awesome! Apologies again for the delay in fulfillment. :)
I can, if I want to make sure I (or anyone) can read it back.
Then you've known a manager who was mature and professional enough to place the welfare of the company above her own ego. Such managers should be the norm; unfortunately the actual state of affairs is that they are rare and precious. I hope her employer realizes how lucky they were to find her, and does whatever it takes to make her happy enough to stay.
'Old man’ at Amazon gives advice to interns: Find a better job somewhere else
"He’s built a computer with almost zero latency—when you do something, the computer reacts instantly. Here, Bathiche has solved that infuriating problem where you write or draw on a screen, and the ink is always a half-second behind your finger."

So few people get that. Alan Kay once wrote in the 1970s that it was as unacceptable for there to be a delay between user action and response on a computer as it was unacceptable on a piano. Now we have several gigaflops on every desktop and still can't get that right.

We really need this in web browsers. Especially on phones. When you click or touch something, something should happen right now, even if more will happen later. Touch a link in Firefox for Android and see what happens, or rather what doesn't happen.
I detail that in the linked post - the biggest was product hunt, and reddit was huge too.
> You have not considered another factor. The non-smokers who will stop going to an establishment when their smoking friends go somewhere else. Drinking is often a social activity.

Yes. Selecting a place to go is like the old days of renting a movie with a group of friends: it's the most insistently intransigent who get to make the choice, and the nicotine addicts will falt out to refuse to accommodate the non-addicts.
"Progress" is a nebulous and heavily opinion-based concept. It is not a well defined factual, monotonic process whereby society invariably moves from "bad old ways" to "better new ways".

This is not a game, and I'm not arguing the merits of any specific proposals. It's an empirical analysis of what has actually happened in world history.

Things you think are "needs" today were considered extravagant luxuries for almost all of history, and many of the things you personally view as luxuries will be called "needs" by others. Thus, the parent comment's plan to divide the economy into "wants" and "needs" is not tractable, since these categories are both shifting through time and also heavily disputed from one person to the next at any given point in time.

I am not arguing in favor of this arrangement. I'm pointing out that that's simply the way it actually is, regardless of our personal preferences or judgements of the situation.
Can you elaborate on "get zone files"? Is there a way to get all authoritative zone files for a given TLD or equivalent?
>>I think it would actually manifest as a failure to track the index

No, because the stock was added to the index on the same day. So the fund is tracking the index, and the index is doing what it said it would do. It's just that they're both buying in an inefficient way that costs more than it might, and others capitalize on that inefficiency.
Most people agree that this view was decisively refuted in 1929, do they not?
What makes you think being called evil by Steve Jobs is a bad thing?
Well no one is going to get a drug approved for the FDA exclusively from the garage, but there is a reasonable amount of initial stage research that you could conceivably do from your garage. My project is to push that out to the 'xenograft' stage, which in my opinion is close to the limit, if not the limit. Full disclosure, I'm doing the chemistry in a rented chemistry lab space because I don't want to suffocate myself with chloroform.

Five arms, refers to an experiment with three dosages, a null control and a positive control.

Yes, you can outsource things, which is exactly what I'm doing (it's cheaper and more ethical), but also the model has become really good where you don't have to sack an animal for each time point. That cuts down on costs by a lot.
Precisely. I'm a non-smoker, non-drinker, non-narcotic. I am quite fond of chocolate.

I find it disingenuous to vilify cigarettes and smoking when alcohol is considered not just okay but popular and socially acceptable. In social routines, as a non-drinker, I am an outlier.

Neither alcohol or cigarette smoking appeal to me. I personally find being around a smoker to be slightly more annoying than being around drunkards. But neither is pleasant.

Still, although I personally wouldn't be directly affected by alcohol prohibition, I am glad that I didn't live during the United States' experimentation with prohibition and I don't want alcohol prohibition today. Similarly, I don't particularly like the current prohibition of narcotics due to secondary effects. I also don't like where things are with tobacco—wherein smokers are essentially painted as evil or weak, and certainly not partaking in a habit they actually enjoy.
You had me until you tried to sell me v-necks at the end.
roughly 20 earlier HN threads on libOS -

https://google.com/search?q=libos+site:news.ycombinator.com
Hmmm, if you don't know what garbage collection is (and I don't mean this as sneer) how are you sure that you understood everything else said?

In the sense that garbage collection is a pretty basic CS term, and the summary contained lots of CS terms and implied knowledge to understand it (modules, interfaces, persistence, etc).
Responsible Disclosure After Data Breaches
very impressive what you've done!
The historical cost of artificial light
> They're saving money on dev time by asking users to put up with a lower-quality experience

I think that the idea that somehow if the UI is written in web technologies that it's somehow lesser quality is a false dichotomy. Web developers and native developers can make UIs that look exactly the same to the point where they are indistinguishable.

You have 2 hours after posting to edit a ~~commit~~ comment. Not my favorite "feature."
An interesting thing about Oberon is that the most recent revision removed some basic elements. Like multiple return statements… Wirth really likes his minimalism.
Sure. The Washington Post link establishes that. That you refuse to read it is your problem. Google it.
I don't have the link anymore, but there was a good article talking about a bunch of the big guns wanting a fund/exchange that was "slow trading"--buy and hold, mostly--to avoid the HFT traders whom they regarded as skimming their profit. What big money wants, big money gets. So, they, made the fund.

And nobody could trade since there were no sellers.

In the end, they had to allow the HFT guys in so that they could make the market.

Since, HFT is, by definition, insider trading, it clearly isn't all that detrimental.
Exactly, it's why I still reach for a pen and pad if I know I'll have to take notes on something remotely more complex than just text. The worst feeling is to be busily typing notes only to realize you could clarify something by drawing a couple arrows or circling something.

Also, no digital task list has ever been able to replicate the satisfaction for me of writing out a to-do list with checkboxes and checking them off as I complete each task.
Can I get the Hacker News recommendation on the best affordable pens and notebooks?
"Cigarettes kill people. That's it. Deciding it's ok to not only sell these death sticks, but actively fight against the championing of healthier living and longer lives is absolutely, totally, and completely shameful."

Cigarette makers shouldn't be allowed to lie about their product or mislead the public, but I believe they should still be allowed to sell it. Freedom means having the ability to do something that other people disapprove of or even to do things that are self-destructive, so long as they don't directly harm others. I hate cigarettes but I would not support a legal prohibition against them.
Please don't forget the Serval Project (http://www.servalproject.org/) that meshes over Wifi and does end-to-end encrypted voice, text and data transfers, has some serious backing (ie not a single developer on their free time), and is open source.

I think I like Wifi more because it allows true meshing on long distances, and the Serval project uses simple phones with the application as routers.
Second hand smoke has a much weaker connection to health issues than actual smoking.

And the "collective cost" argument is silly, because it can be applied to any personal liberty that negatively affects health.
Where in the south bay?

I've only been a couple places and found Lavash to stronger.
I've noticed that whenever discussions about smoking come up, people tend to reference other things that are also bad for health (vehicle emissions is a common one, as is junk food) as though it shouldn't be addressed unless other things are being addressed in the same way at the same time.

Obesity through junk food is a problem as well. It's being addressed separately.
That's a terrible comparison. Most people eating a candy bar are doing do because they like candy and want to eat it. Most people consuming cigarettes are doing do because they are addicted and wish they weren't.
You say that like the TPP has passed?
Essentially, when people think back to how responsive computers were "before windows", they are recalling computers which had no networking, and disks which were so slow that you would never write software which depended in real-time on getting that data from disk. You'd pre-load all the data you needed into your meager RAM and then, yes, for doing the one thing that was loaded into memory, with the data that was already in memory, the computer would be very very responsive. But when it came to saving or loading, you could go and get a coffee.
I have a graphic design degree and room editorial design at university, so I definitely had a leg up there. I indeed used indesign, a lot of stuff I remembered but I also touched up on it by taking some skillahare classes on laying out books.

Indesign is very powerful, and ergo a little intimidating. For a newbie though, it shouldn't take that long to get a handle on it (by doing some tutorials and whatnot) but harder would be learning about typography and getting an inmate feel for good editorial design. Not something that can be taught in a day, unfortunately. Still, I recommend skillshare, they have a lot of great design tutorials.
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