skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Selecting a somewhat arbitrary number of hours without establishing personal priorities for self well-being only fosters a more stressful situation that increases the probability for relapse.

(disclaimer: what works for one person may not work for everyone)

Nutrition, exercise, regular breaks, and a reasonable amount of sleep are what I consider the bare minimum and should be implemented with a thought out plan.

When faced with the 15 hour week. I start by creating a time budget, allocating my personal priorities first.

Here is a simplified example:

Sleep: 6 hours
Exercise: 1 hour
Meals: 30mins x 4 = 2 hours
Breaks: 8*15min = 2 hours
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Total personal hours: 11 hours

Remaining work hours: 13 hours /day

1 Day off every week to run personal errands, shopping, etc.

For me, this budget yields a 6 day work week totaling close to 80 working hours ensuring a break roughly every hour and 4 nutrient dense smaller meals.

Hope this helps.
Welsh (notable for these purposes in coming from a single root which is about 4k years old, and having branched off along with Gaelic and the other Brittonic languages around a similar period), uses the same groupings. I'm not sure at what point they turn up, but they're currently:

black – du
white – gwyn
grey – llwyd
red – coch
yellow – melyn
blue – glas
green – gwyrdd
brown – gwinau (brown to auburn shades) or cochddu (brown to the dark reddish blacks)
purple – porffor (also cochlas, which is a reddish blue)
pink – pinc or gwyngoch (for white-ish reds or pale reds)
orange – oren or melyngoch (for yellowish reds; a slight evolution from the conjunction of melyn-coch)

I'd suspect that oren and pinc are more recent evolutions in the lexicon, with gwyngoch and the associated red spectrum names, and gwyngoch and its cousins more tightly defining those parts of the spectrum, rather than having an all encompassing grouping for them. That's assumption and not based on evidence beyond my own knowledge of British linguistic evolution though, so take it with a pinch of salt.

It'd be interesting to look at common Brittonic and its modern descendants though and see if and when they change, and whether that has broader implications, similar to the point on "wine-dark".
Is that a joke? The dark side of the moon is not more often dark than the visible side. It is just never visible from Earth.
I'm not sure if this will help me. I guess I'm in a programmer midlife crisis. Every new thing is potentially a waste of time because you can't predict if it is still around in 2 years. And with Google you know that they invest millions of dollars in projects and then abandon them.

Would I be better off maintaining decade old COBOL projects? Sometimes I think so. Other times I'm glad I can chose the technology I want to solve the problems at work.

August 2015. 31 years since my first computer.
floobits is really cool, although I've never really gotten into it myself because the projects I would use it on include some large (10MB+) XML files, where floobits seems to make things slow / sync slowly (at least it did when I last tried some months ago); also, it seems to either require adding all files in a dir and using ignore-files, or starting a fresh folder – I'd rather just say "share this and that file only"
It will never run Rails. Crystal is just heavily inspired by Ruby, but has already diverged in a lot of places in terms of syntax and semantics. Plus, Ruby has "eval" and "send", which Crystal don't and will (probably) never have.
"ban porn" sounds like banning wind or sun. 35 years ago in USSR - an environment where banning things was a normal practice and frequently worked, and porn was a banned thing - in elementary school we had porn - it were texts copied on type writer :)
Swift or Objective-C? Which iOS dev is right?
I think you are mostly safe at Defcon/Blackhat. I think you have to worry if you are a target for nation state / criminals (suspected of selling vulnerabilities at the con) then your room is probably going searched.

https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/367364810729472000
Github Firehose if it was me.

Something to build tools on top of.
I believe it doesn't matter for 95%+ of users.

EC2 is used to run production services with sensitive data.

Most Android/iOS testing is done with made up data, without privileged access to production. So even if it get compromised, it probably not much different from installing an app on jailbreaked device be end user.
Given up complaining for now. They just don't seem to get it.
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As others have said, there is a major communication hurdle you need to solve.

To pick a page at random, consider http://www.nomiddleman.co/products/executive-desk-sz1509

I have some UX questions for you:

1. What are the dimensions of the desk?

2. What does the desk look like on the other side (eg the side the user will see every day)? Does it have drawers? A keyboard trey?

3. What is the desk surface like? Will I need to use coasters for my drinks? Does it show fingerprints?

I consider those basic questions when considering a table, but from the information you provide I can't answer them. You don't even provide a brand name, so I can't search for other sites which might be able to tell me.

For comparison, check out http://www.smartfurniture.com/products/BDI-Sequel-Desk.html I've chosen them because I bought my current desk from them (though the link I've sent is a random desk to be a fair comparison). From the product description and copious photos, you can easily answer the above questions. You also get a sense for what it's like living with the desk (what it will look like in different configurations, how you'll manage cabling with it, how hard it is to clean / how to clean it, etc). Although you can't exactly buy from SmartFurnature knowing you'll love the product, you can get a pretty good idea of what it would be like to live with it. They also have a clearly outlined return policy if things go wrong.

Okay, I think that hopefully communicated the core of my feedback for you: start doing UX tests of your product pages. Ask your users "What would it be like to use this desk?" and keep iterating until you get accurate answers.

(Also, if you haven't seen it, peek.usertesting.com will give you a couple free 5 minute tests per month. The detail provided by a full step-by-step recording of a user's confusion is IME often extraordinarily more helpful than critiques like mine)
Wow, that is totally awesome and potentially can save me a lot of time in the future. Up to now I prototyped most of my OpenCV stuff with small python scripts. I guess this has changed now. :)
Where is the donate button?
Non of the items in the author's list is a bugfix. They all are enhancements. A bugfix would fix a bug, which means something would not work as it is supposed to, fail, and that is not the case here.

Arguing semantics, maybe. But I think it is important to distinguish here. Polishing issues or enhancements or whatever you call it are things that do not need to be adressed, but they can. But bugs needs to be fixed. Choosing between what to do now is choosing between maintenance work and feature enhancement work, plumbing and UX.

I think it would be great if Github would hire and let him build these things, does not matter if he finishes in a month.
The satellite, like everything in our solar system, is orbiting the sun.

The sun-earth L1 lagrange point is between the sun and the earth (in every two-body gravitational system there are 5 lagrange points, so there are earth-moon lagrange points etc)

These points are interesting because the orbit behaviour of items in them is weird! Specifically, the gravitational effects of the two bodies involved work in tandem to produce interesting effects.

Any bodies positioned at the L1 lagrange point of a two-body system will stay in the same position relative to both the larger bodies. Normally, the closer you get to the thing you are orbiting the faster you orbit. If you are appropriately near another large body (like the earth) that second body "pulls" back on you [edit: as long as you are on the inside of it - if you're on the outside it pulls you forward, and you get the L2 point], causing your orbit to slow down. At L1, those forces are balanced, and the third, smaller body has the exact same orbital period as the second body.

That is, the satellite is always on a straight line drawn between the earth and the sun.

The main reason for it to be there is to measure the solar wind, an early detection system.

It also happens to be in a great position to take pictures of the sunlit side of the earth.
Yes, employees are expensive, but they're also the companies biggest assets. It's worth treating them well. Without them, you're nothing.

If a company wants loyalty from their employees, they have to demonstrate their own loyalty towards their employees first.

Edit: maybe calling employees assets is wrong, because you don't own or control them. The relationships with your employees (and those with your customers) are your biggest assets. Ruin those relationships, and you squander your biggest sources of expertise and revenue.
Irrelevant. It's all about expectations. If people know that they're being tracked in this manner and they're happy with it, then fine. It becomes creepy when they're being tracked by a colleague without them knowing about it. In the same way that hiding a GPS monitoring device on your partners car without them knowing would be creepy.

Hence my question: Do his colleagues know he is doing this?

[edit] I know I am being "tracked" by colleagues when they are physically present and can see me enter the room. I also know I am being tracked by my employer when I use my swipe card to enter the office building. What I assume is not happening is that any of my other colleagues have electronic devices collecting my arrival/departure times for whatever purpose, regardless of their presence.

What if he started hiding microphones in the office? Is that ok? After all, if you say something out loud in the office, people can already use their ears to track it...
I found out I have sleep apnea and it ruined my life and am now going through this process, I woke up to a new me that is several orders of magnitude more productive. I could never remember my life and would always do stuff like forget to eat, now everything is normal!
Thanks for the praise!

If you seriously consider to donate we look into a solution for that. What would the community like as platform?
One is a clear act of violence by a third party, the other might go under the radar as a software error.
The singularity bug
Reading about the humble programmer and bugs, I wonder if our society has a deep bug in it that is going to be discovered just in time for its destruction (society). The context is global warming, IA, the price of inequality, the flow of immigrants over the border of the Mediterranean sea.

Google is the kind of ads, but the new ads are going to be replaced with a "way of living", a golden garden for thought, a new culture with the deep bug to be discovered at singularity time, to late to be neutralized.
Maybe it's the wrong area to attack in that market , because people really like to test couches. Maybe the key it either find a good way to test couches virtually(how ??) ,or some social model that lets people test couches at homes of other people(maybe something like airbnb for showrooms), or create a technology or business model to help showrooms somehow, etc.
You can get the answer to all these questions by reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking

and:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon
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Of course it does.

Java: http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/javadoc/co/parallelun...

Clojure: http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/pulsar/api/co.paralleluniver...

We'll have a nice slect API for Kotlin, too, very soon.
So IBM, one of the biggest consulting companies in the world, is rolling out Apple Macs to 50-75% of their workforce because they want their employees to be cool at Starbucks? I’d suggest you’re missing something in your analysis.
>2. Removed keyword "static": kills one of my favorite tricks, "self-init'ing functions".

The removal of that keyword with several different meanings doesn't mean there isn't/won't be a replacement:

http://c2lang.org/site/language/variables/#local-keyword

>4. New keyword "nil": Redundant with NULL?

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.std.c/fh4xKnWOQuo/IAaOe...

>5. Example - Base Types: Uses uint8 in place of char. This obscures intent and makes code less readable.

http://c2lang.org/site/language/basic_types/

C2 apparently still has char however it doesn't seem to be as weird as C's (distinct type, either signed or unsigned). Simply int8.
If he/she is White and doesn't look like a drug addict, I give something.
Fantastic writeup.
In the US, our system for elevating the homeless out of poverty is awful, but our system for taking care of their basic needs is good.

One of the results is that most homeless people who actually resort to begging on the street are some combination of mentally ill and addicted to something. The addiction is often self-medication for the illness.

What can you do for those people? They need psychiatric care that's tailored to each of them.

I think the most you can do as a non-wealthy individual is to support politicians who understand that most homeless people are sick, that they're not trash to be swept into a landfill, and that they can be lifted out of homelessness with the right help.
An employee doesn’t need to be 5X more productive with a computer that costs 5X more to break even. If you’re paying your employee $100k and a Mac costs $1k more than the equivalent PC they need to be 1.01X more productive with a Mac to break even.
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These pictures, at this angle, imply that the Earth regions under the moon were experiencing a solar eclipse, right? (Odd that the NASA article doesn't mention this.)

EDIT: There was no solar eclipse at the "last month" time-frame these pictures were taken. So that isn't a real earth-shadow under the leading edge of the moon, and as close as the moon seems to pass over the perspective-center of Earth, it must have actually been off somewhat, casting its shadow into space.
The moon has approximately the same color as fresh asphalt, so it’s expected. It only looks bright on the night sky because everything else (including the stars) is just far darker.
There's even an argument that separability is sufficient for most of mathematics let alone physics (http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0509245.pdf) but you're going to have to work very hard to persuade me that if we're going to describe any sets as physical then uncountable ones are less physical than countable ones.
All the languages couldn't fit in the talk, but the full benchmarks are here:

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

As always, take benchmarks with a graint of salt. We use benchmarks mostly to know how far away we are from C (1x, 10x, 100x, etc.), so any language that has a speed "in the order of" C is good enough for us, small differences don't matter much.
People do test-driven furnishing and need to see that it works for them before buying. A photo is a bad test of this.
Similar to you, i never give money because of the abuse potantial, and money itself is just a placeholder for what they actually need. Food does better. I've made experience that alot of poor people are ashamed of their situation and will even refuse when you offer something.

In German cities there is a trend to leave returnable bottles after picknicking or just place them next to trash cans, a lot of poor people collect them and are able to feed themselves on the bottles return value. This seems to be the primary tactic here to keep those folks from starving, beside from governmental support.
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To build a successful site like this, you need to either be the kind of person it's serving, or talk to that kind of person in depth: Someone who buys $1,000+ desks.
Spotify is terrible for Nomads: As my Spotify account only work in that country i created it. As i move around in Europe, my Spotify account do not work. Have had the same issues when trying to pay for a premium account.

I stay Soundcloud :)

Nico.
I don't see what these other projects you link to change to the TextSecure protocol. What I'm interested in is this part of the protocol description:

https://whispersystems.org/blog/asynchronous-security/

"At registration time, the TextSecure client preemptively generates 100 signed key exchange messages and sends them to the server. We call these “prekeys.” A client that wishes to send a secure message to a user for the first time can now: - Connect to the server and request the destination’s next “prekey.”" Etc.

How is this not giving the server chance to insert its own keys and not the ones user generated?

What the QR code thing is actually doing? From what I understand, the TextSecure/Signal in one way or another send your contacts to the server and the server stores "prekeys" and delivers them to the clients. Where is any analysis that says that all this stuff doesn't mean that we have to trust that the server is not evil?

If the QR code means "yes it's the person you want to communicate to" but the contacts are on the server and the prekeys are delivered from the server, am I any better?

I need to read somewhere that the server is not weak point and why it is not. Any link?
Why don't we see the Moon's shadow projected over the Earth in the pic? I guess it has to do with the relative distances of the 2 bodies to the Sun and the Moon's penumbra or something. Can someone make a digital image simulation of this to verify?
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You undererstimate Human diversity.
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+1

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Many countries, eg much of Europe, already have largely deregulated taxis, eg the complaints in London are just about the legal requirement to declare the fare upfront for private hire vehicles. In Sweden taxis are completely deregulated. People seem to assume that the situation is like the US taxi monopolies everywhere.
And hence I commented, in kind, with not addressing this at you. There is a wide and diverse audience in HN, and I wanted to point out they need to travel and see the world to better understand their culture and themselves, and the biases through which they evaluate the world.

I am not being critical of you, I just wanted to give a good example of a deeper look at this particular example. I upvoted you and I am glad you gave space to such opinions, as tangential as they are to the article.
I thought that too. I'd love to get more sleep: being woken once or twice a night and then having to get up before 6am to look after the kids or go to work makes that a bit tricky.
Interesting, thanks. I understand that the satellite needs to have some form of propulsion to keep it at L1 (it is unstable), so it must have a limited life. How long?
Decentralized does not imply secure. Obviously both are desirable, but one does not imply the other. Although some will (rightfully) argue that a centralized system can never be fully secure, so you might say that secure implies decentralized at some level.

Although, to be fair, of all the above only (the old) Skype and email come close to decentralization.
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As a rule I never give anything to homeless, they are homeless because they like to live like that. There are plenty places where they can seek help, many of them founded from my tax money. Only requirement is to be sober. Giving them money, food, clothes etc it only makes worse since they can spend all day to get hammered.
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Well, who actually does packet-level analysis of every connection they make? Maybe some troubled/paranoid individuals are constantly running tcpdump and analyzing all the traffic to/from their computer but that can't be a large subset. This sort of discussion is also hard to come by - people/organizations rarely, if ever, actually advertise what kind of traffic analysis / security systems they're running, yet it's extremely interesting (at least to me) and I've always wondered.

To detect (and actually analyze) some sort of unknown zero-day you probably need to have entire network packets/connection streams stored so you can see what sort of traffic and data was incoming? Who does that and what sort of system can do that at large enough scale?

The topic of moving beyond protection (firewalls etc.) and into actual detection (log analysis, traffic analysis etc.) seems to be rarely discussed.
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I can only conclude those who want to 'regulate' Uber for the 'betterment of society' are severely long Taxi licences, or are hardcore socialists who abhor any economic freedom of agency, or maybe both.

That's a pretty stupid thing to say.

Regulation of taxi services does exist for a reason other than corruption or general malfeasance. On the one hand, deregulation might increase competition and reduce fares. On the other, regulation might help to avoid price gouging or ride refusals. There's a coherent discussion to be had there.

Your shallow dismissals of all attempts as regulation as by 'hardcore socialists' or 'Taxi licenses' contributes absolutely nothing.
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>North Korea - under the current leadership - will never end its nuclear programme.

well, Iran wasn't going to too (and add to that that there was Israel against the deal). I wonder what are the chances that in the time left Obama would do NK too, after Iran and Cuba (each will prove to be at least a regional history changing events).

Obama seems to be dropping the blind following of the ancient dust covered principles which were inherited from different epoch and acts pragmatically with open mind, and this is exactly what NK situation needs to. NK is already a nuke nation and they obviously wouldn't give it up (giving the history of their region, and the current regional situation..., and among other they obviously aware about the fate of Iraq who failed to develop their own and Ukraine who gave theirs up voluntarily 20+ years ago - the world is a tough place). Bringing them back into civilization though would let them to enjoy its fruit and thus would increase their perceived cost of using nukes, it would make them into situation where they would have a lot to lose while less reasons to use, thus decreasing the probability and interest in using the nukes.
If your here to quote Says law then you have my support. But while growth in specific investments must always stop, eventually, aggregate growth will continue unless people opt for a lower standard of living.

It's easy to look at a particular assets class - say railways- and show zero return over a long period. But looking at all improvements across all industries shows growth is always coming from breakthroughs somewhere. Healthcare, rocket science, these are two major fields wher rapid change is evident, even if it is of the incremental kind.

I think you've mixed up the concept of compounding interest and specific assets classes ability to return positive and withstand time. They are really two separate topics.
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