skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. My X750 sees quite randomly varying usage, and I really like how it's easy to "hard start" it after a couple weeks of non-usage. Is the Metropolitan similar?

Edit: after reading some reviews the Metropolitan is now on my buy list. Thanks for the tip.
Curious - have you done a sleep study? You may just be getting very low quality sleep due to sleep apnea or the like.
Published on June 8th with a link to jsperf.com (which is currently down).
Goldman Coder Goes Free, but Insider Trader Stays in Jail
Depends on what you want, as there's a lot of options. However, I will share the pens and paper of various kinds I like:

pens:
[0] Pilot Razer Point (Black, very fine point)
[1] Uni-Ball Stick Micro Point (Blue, ball-point but with fluid ink)
[2] BIC Cristal Ballpoint (Black, extremely cheap)

Paper:
[3] TOPS The Legal Pad (white, standard us size, wide ruled)
[4] Staedtler Engineers Notepaper (lightly gridded)
[5] Moleskine Notebooks (Large size, hardcover, gridlines)

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/Pilot-Razor-Point-Marker-Stick/dp/B000...

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/uni-ball-Stick-Micro-Roller-60151/dp/B...

[2] - http://www.amazon.com/BIC-Cristal-Ballpoint-Pen-Medium/dp/B0...

[3] - http://www.amazon.com/Legal-Inches-Perforated-White-Sheets/d...

[4] - http://www.amazon.com/Staedtler-Translucent-Bond-Pads-100/dp...

[5] - http://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-Classic-Notebook-Squared-Not...
Yeah, it's a widely accepted de facto method for interacting with the GUI. While in Server 2012, it feels like all GUI elements are just wrappers for Powershell cmdlets, most 3rd party tools have only a graphical interface.

Server 2003 doesn't support Powershell 4 or newer, nor .NET 4.5.1 or newer, and so IIS6 and other old Windows features have limited CLI interfaces.

Most Powershell cmdlets work on Server 2008/R2, but remote (WinRM) isn't enabled. There's a quick command to enable, but that's a security hole like leaving WMI open to the internet, and so is hard to push on secure environments.

RDP gives KVM, and that's been enough for decades.
That's assuming that a Chinese crash would not push more Chinese people to move their money to Vancouver.
So, who loses money in your situation? The person who doesn't realize this is happening?
CFDs are not under the same regs that stocks are. Margins, pattern day trader, stuff like that.
I have no idea if it was being smart or just making a mistake.

When does a bold recommendation become a mistake? Can human recommendations be mistakes? (Both algorithmic and human recommendations are based on models, assumptions, and partial information.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806121
I'm sorry to wander off topic, but your website just automatically redirected me to some squarespace url(
https://tracy-osborn-ic34.squarespace.com/config?frameUrl=/n...
). I'm assuming this isn't normal?

I really like how transparent you're being with the sales per platform, that's rather interesting information to be sharing. I've also never heard of gumroad before, so I'm really surprised by how it stacks up against amazon.
What is the value of the PR CVS gains by being a leader?
Updated to say the ink bleeds through. I use a Moleskine, but only with a 3B pencil.
> The difference between Ford and Kalanick is that the technological and social forces at work in their time are driving the value of human labor in different directions.

Ford's process allowed him to reduce the headcount, and gain competitive advantage even with the added expense of specialized training and higher wages to retain the specialized labor. Therefore the total value of human labor should include the workers who would've been previously hired but were no longer needed under new process.

Which is not that much different from Silicon Valley's "do more with less" mentality.
While I agree the CoC is not the GOP, it certainly heavily leans that way in practice and in policy. There are notable exceptions.

"It's pretty silly to suggest that the GOP is an enemy of small to medium businesses"

This I disagree with though. To me, having spent most of my time in GOP owned areas, my conclusion is that the GOP parades small/medium business values to their support base, but when it really comes down to someone writing legislation on K-street, it almost always favors the megacorps. The GOP is, indeed, in my mind at least, anti small/med business, but they sell themselves otherwise.

They're just good at propaganda.
http://lowendmac.com/2006/vintage-macs-with-system-6-run-cir...
I'd bet on 'mostly cash' because the only people that have money to invest in China are the well connected ones that can actually get the money out and BC banks would likely not apply the normal mortgage rules to such buyers.
If it were 20+ basis points a year it should show up in the returns and as a failure to track the index. I am not an expert, but that isn't what I see eyeballing a chart of VFIAX over 35 years. It doesn't track perfectly by an amount that does matter, but not .20 basis points a year.

Also by this logic total market funds should outperform other indexes by a healthy amount over time. Also maybe not what we are seeing. Granted total market funds invest in something that is different from what other indexes track.
All I can conclude from that is the doctors don't seem like they understand epidemiological science.
> Especially on phones. When you click or touch something, something should happen right now, even if more will happen later.

Interestingly, Apple are really pushing this now. They've just demonstrated new predictive tech to get response time down to ~ 30 ms from ~ 60 ms on iOS devices (if I remember correctly, this is based on a publicly available WWDC talk).

That said, 30 ms is still far too much. Microsoft made a good demo showing just how noticeable 30 ms of lag is compared to none at all (linked on this page by sosuke). But it really just goes to show how poor this current generation of capacitive touch-based devices is. And Apple's software-based approach, though it helps, is not sufficient without new hardware too...
I wonder if they will ever be able to ban steganography on ham radio. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
Yay! Leanpub is my top recommendation for anyone self publishing a book, the platform is really great. Hope it gets even bigger!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
What makes you think they won't address that in the future? They do need to balance the economics of their business. There's no point in removing every negative aisle at the same time if it will destroy (or make them lose control of) their business.
I'm talking about how Apple obliterated Microsoft in the tablet and smartphone markets, which Microsoft had several years of headway in.
To my experience:

* Best kebob => Shalizaar (Redwood City)

* Best stews (Ghormeh Sabzi and stuff like that) => Lavash(SF)

* Best Kaleh Pacheh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khash_(dish) => Chattanooga (SJ)

* Best Persian Fusion => Fly Trap (SF)

Source: I'm from Iran
> it's not like like don't succeed on those products

I acknowledged that they are successful. But they aren't successful in creating new markets; they succeed in invading existing ones.
The same exact argument could be made for heroin and cocaine.
Pilot Precise V5 is the best pen for the money.
I'm super confused by this reply. The article says that the stddev of the distribution of male IQ is larger than the stddev of the distribution for female IQ, and also seems to state the mean and median are equal. GGP threw out 60/40 as their believed split of men to women being good engineers. I took this to mean that GGP was saying he believed engineering talent to be independent of gender when IQ was present, and that engineering required a higher than average IQ. More formally:

P(good engineer | IQ) * P(IQ | gender) == P(good engineer | gender)

In that model the 60/40 split comes from a conditional distribution of gender given an IQ above some threshold. So something like:

julia> women = sum([randn() > 1 for i=1:10_000_000])
julia> men = sum([(randn() * 2) > 1 for i=1:10_000_000])
julia> women / (women + men)
0.3395449535000696

Which isn't exactly 60/40, but is fairly close. It says that [iff the 60/40 split is true], the stddev difference needed is less than 2x.

If you prefer exact math, the ratio above is

erfc(1/sqrt(2)) / (erfc(1 / (2 * sqrt(2))) + erfc(1 / sqrt(2))) =~ 0.339593

and the exact solution for a 60/40 split is

1 / (sqrt(2) * inverseerfc((3/2) * erfc(1/sqrt(2)))) =~ 1.4

Though FWIW I find the simulation version more intuitive (likely because of a misspent youth programming rather than a misspent youth mathing :p).

Can you explain the model you were using to motivate the mean vs median calculation? I feel like I'm missing something interesting.
>so long as they don't directly harm others

What is second-hand smoke for $300, Jim?

E:

I say this as someone who suffered a SHS-induced asthma attack that nearly killed me when I was 6 years old. That incident got my father to quit smoking cold-turkey. Smoking can directly harm others and second-hand smoke can travel and affect those around the smoker.

Unless the point is that SHS is "indirect" harm. In which case I argue that releasing mustard gas is "indirect" harm.

1 out of 10 smoking-related deaths are non-smokers [0]. We can demonstrate it causes harm to other people and it fails to follow the criteria of "it shouldn't cause direct harm to others".

[0] http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/tobaccocancer/seco...
It's more complicated than that. Specifically having a mix of any CPU and I/O bound threads doesn't play out as nicely:

See this:

http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2010/02/revisiting-thread-priorit...

Or even better for a demo watch David Beazley's Pycon 2015 video (It is an awesome video even if you don't care about the GIL or socket programming).
Insider trading is buying or selling by someone with access to nonpublic information. How is HFT insider trading by definition?
Here's a bit I had forgotten about: an "appearance" on Letterman in advance of the TV show in the U.S.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoqMSr1H1ek
Pilot G-Tec-C4 Rollerball Pen is affordable and well regarded with a practical narrow stroke. Have used these for many years.
Silvine pocket notebooks are affordable and well made.
I can also recommend the excellent Gecode (www.Gecode.org). Great documentation (basically a CP book), well designed, and maintained.
The patent portfolio is a good point, I'll concede that.
Bring in some game developers. They understand latency.
This looks very cool. Although, I'm not sure I totally understand how it can be used to replace batch ETL processes. So, PipelineDB eliminates ETL batch processing by incrementally inserting data into continuous views, but the documentation says that it's not meant for ad-hoc data warehouses as the raw data is discarded. So, does that leave me still using batch processes to load my data warehouse? Is PipelineDB going to be my data warehouse as long as I only want the resulting streamed data? Just trying to figure out what this would look like and where its place is in a data warehouse environment.
Oh squarespace. That's my "actual" url, guess the custom domain stopped working. Looking into it, thanks!

Gumroad is great, except that they don't market your book like Amazon does, so they're kind of apples and oranges. Most people don't do both platforms and it's been an interesting experiment trying both the hands-off let-Amazon-take-care-of-it vs. more money yet I have to do all fulfillment Gumroad side. I'm actually traveling right now and had to hire someone off of craigslist to ship books for me while I'm gone, it's been kind of a PITA.
I agree with you; I'm one of those who suck at whiteboarding. But I can't think of a better way to weed out the slackers who ride on the coattails of others. Trust me, I've been burnt many times in my career. I've seen presentations of my work with other people's names on them; I've seen patents published on my work; I've seen top-level "distinguished researchers" take credit for the work done by my team.

Generally, if the interviewer relies on other cues _along_ with whiteboarding (like working on the problem with the interviewee in a collaborative manner), then it can be a decent signal.
> You will never be able to code email templates and that just shows how clueless you are

Totally not ok on HN. Please follow the rules and comment civilly or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Put you bank account balance in your bash prompt
Logging Go Errors to Sentry
CVS is not really an insurer, they are a provider of retail pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, home infusion, etc.

They are actually paid by the insurance companies to provide these services.
PipelineDB certainly builds on work from Aurora, TelegraphCQ, Truviso, Streambase, and many other projects and companies. We have interacted heavily with many people from these projects to learn what worked (and didn't work) for them over the years, and hopefully to build on that in a pragmatic way.

To your point about promoting language standards, we've intentionally kept the syntax as close to SQL as possible in order to keep things simple. The goal has always been to give the broadest range of developers the simplest way possible to develop realtime applications using only SQL.
The course is great, and some of the people behind MiniZinc are about to go live with another one (https://www.coursera.org/course/modelingoptimization) about Modeling.
HFT is not insider trading. If you think there are relevant similarities then by all means point them out, but a statement that is outright false by the ordinary meanings of words is not a good way to contribute to a discussion.
I personally have no problem with people smoking but for two things: smokers often smell bad and many of them seem to feel that the world is their ashtray.
> were becoming understood & popularized decades before they were anywhere close to feasible in hardware.

I think there is an interesting feedback in that (not the first person to say it), you see accounts of scientists and engineers who grew up on sci-fi like Star Trek inspired to ask "Why can't we have that?".
Let's not forget http://stackoverflow.com/a/13000176/308851 !
Just call it piano tab. It's fine for chords and pop songs. There's no way it's going to work for complicated music. I love the project though. It's a fantastic job, I hate to be negative. You did a ton of thinking on this.

For pop music, fake books are easier. That's how you play pop music.
I think you're right.

Sorry for the tangent, but posting to HN seems a rather passive-aggressive way to show someone something. The submitter could have just linked it to the discussion they were having. Instead it's like OP is desperate for attention.

Or at least that's how it works on Imgur.
Many people smoke and don't have any sincere desire to quit.
Good for them. But I find it hard to take seriously their claim that they are committed to improving public health when their shelves are stuffed with homeopathic products - more all the time. Pushing this fake medicine is a direct threat to health. It preys upon the naive and poorly educated, who will waste their money on this quackery rather than seeking effective treatment for their medical problems.
Welcome to HN! I'm sorry you were greeted so rudely. That's against the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. But the vast majority of us do our best to stay civil and are even outright nice most of the time, so we hope you'll continue to participate here!

The relationship between marketing and engineering that you described sounds both unusual and promising. Maybe consider writing about that as you gain experience working this way? People here would probably find that interesting.
And indeed I would make that same exact argument.
It is specifically Oberon-07[0], a 2007 revision of the original Oberon from 1986, which is still being worked on by Niklaus Wirth with updates as recently as this year.

Component Pascal is a superset of Oberon-2, itself an extension of the original Oberon that tacked on limited OOP support and a handful of other tricks. Component Pascal was not a Wirth-designed set of extensions, however Blackbox Component Builder is quite the nice piece of kit in its own right.

Unfortunately the availability of modern implementations for the Wirthian languages leaves something to be desired. The only implementations that cover both 64-bit platforms and any semblance of cross-platform support is the Vishap Oberon Compiler[1], Gardens Point Component Pascal[2], GNU Modula-2[3] and m2c[4].

There's also an Oberon-07 to JavaScript implementation[5].

At this point, the very small Wirthian languages community has been mostly focused on Oberon-07. It's worth noting there are a few Modula-2 fans about still poking at things, such as the Modula-2 R10[6] effort.

[0]: http://oberon07.com/

[1]: http://oberon.vishap.am/ (Oberon-2 compiler, limited Oberon-07 support)

[2]: http://gpcp.codeplex.com/ (Component Pascal for .NET)

[3]: http://www.nongnu.org/gm2/ (Modula-2 GCC front-end)

[4]: http://nongnu.org/m2c/ (Modula-2 to C compiler)

[5]: http://oberspace.dyndns.org/oberonjs.html

[6]: http://bitbucket.org/trijezdci/m2r10
> I'd just like to ask why in situations like this, governments tend to intervene?

I'm not an economist either, so consider this a case of blind leading the blind.

My interpretation is that market crashes lead to public turmoil; and given China's history of revolutions, the government isn't too keen on a large, unhappy public. I've read that a lot of people entered into the market late, and often borrowed funds to do so (I have no citation, unfortunately). I bet those people would be pissed if they lost all their money and then some.

Reminds me of the last dot-com crash. As the saying went, when grandmas start jumping into the market chasing hot stocks, it's time to get out. (No offence to any grandmas out there!). I have a feeling the same was happening in China recently.
Excellent, logic-driven critique.
Corporations have been arrogantly curating music for a century now. Didn't stop jazz, hip-hop, punk, or electronica developing, thriving, being sucked into the corporate curation machine, and then spawning a dozen rebellious reactions outside it.

Curation doesn't mean 'have someone pick out the top ten best'. Curation means things like 'have someone knowledgeable pick out fifty underappreciated forgotten masterpieces'.

Also, 'apps' includes 'games', not just tools, and you could replace the word 'music' in your rant with 'videogame' pretty easily.
Context shifts.

Back in the days, people wanted tools to do serious things, expensive tools. And computers were nothing yet. Easy to dismiss. Now, computers are used for entertainment mostly, cost 400$, so who cares. Most of this industry is driven by the shiny, so it's easy to overlook lowly basic details.

Even when people care (Android Project Butter etc etc) it seems a bit too late, the culture shifted a bit and there are too many layers.
Whether it's done in private is an entirely separate issue.
Your message length is sent in plain text and unauthenticated. Does this present a problem?
> The main problem with using a public key as your identity is that once it is leaked, you no longer have an "identity" (or more exactly, it's not uniquely you). There is no way you can change your identification without changing your identity.

The main problem with using a public key as your identity is that it's a horrible string of gibberish that people can't remember. What you want is some way of mapping some friendly name to your key.

But you can resolve friendly names to keys however you like. You can update that mapping however you like. That is orthogonal to what snow does.
lol - 1997 on the way back machine!

https://web.archive.org/web/19970530212007/http://www.berksh...
GOP tax policy strongly favors small business owners. They support lower rates across the board, and in particular disfavor the Democratic party's policy of boosting revenue with increased taxes on higher brackets (business owners are disproportionately in the highest marginal bracket). The GOP also wants to eliminate the AMT, and retain the mortgage interest tax deduction.

GOP health care policy strongly favors small business owners. For instance, the GOP opposes the employer health care mandate.

The GOP's stance on regulations strongly favors small business owners: they disfavor them pretty much across the board. On a message board, it may seem like environmental regulations matter primarily to giant extractive industry companies, but most industrial businesses in the US are small businesses.

I'd be interested in some specific examples of policies the GOP supports that the Democrats don't support that aren't beneficial to small businesses.

Two caveats:

* I'm a Democrat. "Do what's best for the public school system shalt be the whole of the law" is roughly what I believe.

* The calculus is different if by "small business" you really (perhaps accidentally) mean "small tech company".
A reminder of how curious it is that PARC had all of Kay's, Smith's and Wirth's handiwork under their belt, all the rudiments of today's PC with mouse-controlled icon WYSIWYG GUIs back in the late 1970s, and never had the imagination to go anywhere viable with it (but give it away as dramatized in 'Pirates of Silicon Valley'). Same could be said of PalmPilot and the smart phone.
Or exercising strenuously so you can have the pleasure of being in better shape later.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but... Sometimes people are jerks. It happens. The issue here is systematic jerkiness towards sentient beings based on whether they have an A or B dongle. ...It boggles the mind!
I downloaded the OSX .pkg installer and didn't see anything in /Applications or /opt after running it and telling it to install to my root drive. Just glancing at some docs on your site I see pipeline-init, so doing a find on / to find out where it placed the binaries see it installed to:

/usr/lib/pipelinedb/usr/lib/pipelinedb/bin/pipeline-init

Is this intentional?

EDIT:

After playing around with the .pkg file it looks like the packed Payload contains '/usr/bin/pipelinedb/usr/lib/pipelinedb' which is probably the problem. I see broken symlinks for pipeline-init etc in /usr/bin pointing to /usr/lib/pipelinedb, so I'm guessing this repetition of the path above is a mistake.

Also I see a postinstall script creating a symlink from pipeline to psql. This seems like a bad idea as psql is pretty universal already as the name for the PostgreSQL CLI binary, maybe 'pipesql' might be better?
this one is the 4th installment.
That's all true, and like I said, it's more than "cigarettes kill people."
Something like http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Conflicting-detail...
A free market can't handle limited liability. It's only government intervention that can provide things like orderly bankruptcy proceedings. If the government is obliged to be a lender of last resort then it seems reasonable for it to take less binary steps before that eventuality.
Probably not, because messages are authenticated cryptographically, and the lengths are validated before being passed to libsodium. You can't truncate an authenticated message.
I'm going to go out on a limb and posit that most "social smokers" are physically addicted.
If you had the stomach for such a thing, you might want to look at YANG, a 3x leveraged bearish China ETF, which is up about 30% over the past 3-4 days. Careful though - it will move just as quickly back down if the Chinese market recovers at all. I think the quote "markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" may apply here...
Why would someone be motivated to do this?
Thanks! 1 more thing, Which laptop would you prefer/which one is better: Lenovo Thinkpad T430 or the X1 Carbon?
Shareholders of the ETFs. Again, I'm not saying this specifically actually happens in the case of Vanguard, but all kinds of other conflicts of interest like this happen all the time, and reporters should be ever skeptical, and not just report he-said she-said, "oh Vanguard says they got this covered."
What about YAML?