skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's useful to think of it not as a "bad thing" but as a very high-interest loan from your future self.

In moments of weakness and pushing a deadline, I have sometimes rationalize the trade-off of future time/health to present time, and sometimes, that sticks me with tolerance that it takes time to wean off. I have made a conscious effort to quit caffeine dozens of times in my life, and the most recent time it has stuck, and I plan to stick with it. The thing is, when I gain "time" with caffeine, it's not necessarily time with high-quality cognition or productivity compared to my well-rested self, and it's easy to forget to take that into account when you're making trade-off decisions when tired. You still perform like a tired person, you're just not subjectively feeling the tiredness.

FWIW, drinking decaf gives you the health benefits of coffee with 5% (kinda negligible) amounts of caffeine.
I mean the net effect of any housing subsidy in isolation or all housing subsidies in aggregate is likely negative. By subsidies I mean any government policy which distorts the market from either the supply side or the demand side. In every case it's a subsidy -- the only differences are to whom and from whom. I am not erecting a straw-man, because I didn't representing the opposing view as "rent control is meant to lower prices for everyone." I understand that people in favor of rent control may not care that it inflates housing prices for others. My point is that the net effect is negative, based on the concept of the broken windows fallacy, which is a well-reasoned concept. I also believe that subsidies don't do a great job in housing specifically because they tend to limit supply -- and so we see a benefit occurring to those who get the subsidy, but we don't see how many more people could have had housing, but do not, in the counterfactual case.

Anyway, I think I'm making a substantive point, so I don't get the accusation of "hand-waving." Accusing someone of ignoring complexity is not an argument against the points they did make.
Nope. Go to a large Chinese police/tax building and you'll see a sign for the "Propaganda Department". Part of me respects them for being honest about it.

I think probably my (engineers in general?) distaste for "marketing" and "public relations" and "spin" is the propaganda (telling you what we want you to think) component that is often there. It sounds nicer if you say PR, and in the US we tend not to be quite so blatantly at odds with the facts, but PR and marketing are often trying to accomplish the same thing. At least the Chinese are honest about what they are doing.
how do you guys decide which "freelance game artists" to feature?

I like that the featured developers have links to dribble etc. but is there like a showcase are where they can talk about projects they have been a part of?
I can't say that I'm sympathetic to Hotwheels' situation with regard to 8ch due to the fact that his audience has quite a few toxic individuals among the ranks. Some of which have a long history of being on the wrong side of the law (and good taste).

Plus, I really don't see why he's upset with the concept of online safe spaces (what his supporters call hugboxes). For example, I'm a transgender woman (mtf) so for me to speak on certain sensitive issues regarding the matter of gender variance it's a necessity that such discussions happen either pseudo-anonymously or in moderated forums. This isn't censorship or an impediment to discussion as there are many venues for cross cultural discussion that have historically happened. But it seems Hotwheels and company demand unfettered access to the lives of others to the point of violating expectations of privacy (and property rights for that matter).

Also, this claim that the Internet has largely been like 8ch is historically inaccurate. The majority of mailing lists, newsgroups, web forums, irc channels, and other communication mediums/methods have always been heavily moderated in some capacity. It's really 8ch and other similarly unmoderated venues that are the ahistorical entities being relatively new to the Internet and to its user base.

It's all well and good to demand some public spaces for sharing of ideas and opinions but it should never come at the price of all the other rights humans need to thrive. And that includes the right to be left alone.
While I think the rounding would work with lumber, I definitely don't think it would work with things like car engines. For such precisely-measured components, converting to a metric measurement with the correct significant figures should be fine.

Repair shops can maintain tools for both systems (they already have to). For converting, I mean the dimensions of a component, not tools and fasteners that need to work with tools. Those would likely take a "metric only going forward" approach.
How are you coming up with these numbers? Humans, apes, and fish are all equally evolutionarily developed considering that our species have been evolving for the same amount of time (assuming we have a common ancestor).
So, does this compose an image and attach it to the tweet then? The page doesn't actually tell me what it does. It's not voodoo, it can't make normal text letters on Twitter fit more in a single message. So I'm assuming it makes an image or links off of Twitter. But it doesn't really say that.
A somewhat disturbing quote from the abstract of one of the journal articles linked to in the article:

High light intensity promoted the production rate of bromate, but decreased its total generation amount due to acceleration of chlorine decomposition.
Duolingo Product Breakdown
Good point! Those are inherent subsidies to property owners, I expect. In which case my answer would be that we should remove the market distortions, not correct them with more central planning.
Linux is a kernel. It has no standards for userspace, though some have been attempted for GNU/Linux in particular and there are de facto conventions, but that's it.
I didn't know HN loved cops so much. In what way is paying a ticket taking "responsibility for your actions"?
> All European cars since 1998 will have both, because immobilizers are required by law in most of Western Europe.

So will some cars produced before 1998. The Audi S2 (listed in the article) is one of those, and was built from 1990 to 1995.
I-19 in southern Arizona has its distance signs in meters and kilometers as part of a test during the '70s. There have been plans to change it for a number of years but local opposition has stalled it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_19
I always love reading his blog posts. I honestly don't know how one finds the time to write that well at that length and still turn out guile et al., plus whatever his "day job" is.
I would be extremely impressed with a javascript solution. The reader part of it boils down to: "Hacked baseband can discern two special PC memory access patterns from each other" - which, if you're willing to transmit for long enough, is all it takes to exfiltrate.
Downvoted already! Sexism in tech is alive and well I see.
So the annoying PCMatic ads were right???
>how accurately a cell phone camera can reproduce that spectra

Not accurately at all. In terms of spectrum analysis, they're essentially as useless as the human eye. You're trying to get information from a detailed continuous function that varies wildly all along visible wavelengths (and beyond), and all you get are three data points. In fact, I've already analyzed the spectrum and I can confirm: Yup, it's red.

I suppose you could try gathering the exact spectral response of each camera having filmed the same thing (something like this [1]) and combine the resulting data to attempt getting a more detailed spectrum, but it would be very difficult and likely to yield disappointingly vague results.

[1]: http://www.gamutvision.com/docs/images/Kodak_KAF-10500-CX_re...
Yes, Oberon is referenced here: http://research.swtch.com/acme.pdf
Reminds me of Go strings: they usually store UTF-8 but they're actually 8-bit clean:

"It's important to state right up front that a string holds arbitrary bytes. It is not required to hold Unicode text, UTF-8 text, or any other predefined format. As far as the content of a string is concerned, it is exactly equivalent to a slice of bytes."

https://blog.golang.org/strings
Well I think you're talking about something different. From what I've heard (and in my experience), I can skip a full night of sleep with Modafinil and then fall back into my normal sleep schedule the day after.

You'll probably fall asleep earlier in the day, but you'll only sleep for 8 hours. This is why it's useful for offsetting your rhythm.

Ritalin/Adderall is very different. If you use it to stay up for 8 hours, you'll sleep for 16 hours the next time you pass out.

Again, though, the data is ambiguous AFAIK.
> The lawns and fields were green, the backyard pools all full and people were washing cars like normal.

The reason for this is that lawns and pools aren't the problem. The problem is, and continues to be agricultural use of water. You could rip out literally every single lawn and golf course in the entire state of California today and the impact it would have on statewide water use would be within the margin of error for measurement. We're talking literally less than 5% of total water usage.

The scope of this problem is so massive that most people have difficulty comprehending it, both due to the massive amount of water involved, and the massive amount of land area involved. People think all the lawns cover a huge surface area. It's a rounding error compared to the size of the industrial farms in the Central Valley and the amount of water they use.

Some crops in particular use far more water than others as well. The two biggest offenders are almonds and alfalfa. If we temporarily stopped growing those two crops in California, the crisis would be literally non-existent. The entire cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco use about 800,000 acre-feet of water per year COMBINED.[1] Alfalfa growers in California are using 5.3 MILLION acre feet of water.[2]

On top of that, Alfalfa contributes so little to the California economy that we could buy out the entire Alfalfa growing industry in this state and it would only cost a total of about two dollars per resident.

Most people are already fairly water conscious, and don't go around wantonly wasting it, so when they're asked to further cut back an additional 20% on their water use and threatened with increased fees and fines if they don't, they tend not to be too happy about it. Especially when you take into account the fact that household water use(drinking water, showers, toilets, cooking, lawns, swimming pools, sprinklers and such) accounts for roughly 3%[2] of total use in the entire state, why should we all suffer, cut back, put up with low-flow showerheads, drain our pools, let our lawns die and leave piss sitting in our toilets to save 20% of 3%? All that to save 0.6% of the total water used in the state? Sorry, but no.

Read over link [2] below in it's entirety, it has great data and really provides some excellent perspective on the state's water issues.

[1] http://www.pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2013/02/n...

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/11/california-water-you-do...
I've encountered this prejudice against specific-width types before. It confused me then as now.

It seems to me that porting apps that rely on default types like int, where the int size/behavior changes between platforms, have about 1000x more chance of compatibility issues when trying to get the same code to run on new platforms. Sure there could be a performance hit on, e.g., a system that is optimized for 32 bit and you specify 16 bits. That's what types like fast_int16_t are for in C/C++. But porting the code is just easier when the types can't change out from under you.

Early versions of C couldn't even decide whether char was signed or unsigned; how is specifying uint8 or sint8 not strictly better than a char that you couldn't be sure whether it was signed or not? How is specifying uint16/32/64 or sint16/32/64 not strictly better than saying "[unsigned] int"?
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There is so much truth to government being left in the dust technologically. When I was in the NSA, I built a bunch of programs that saved a dramatic amount of time by automating a lot of message passing, formatting, etc. When I made my first application, I didn't even know what a database was, so I built it using a bunch of interconnected perl applications using the Tie::File library on flatfiles and operating on them as arrays. With such little knowledge about creating applications, I was still able to have a major impact on people's workflows, showing how even the barest use of technology was extremely impactful.

A big part of why certain organizations fail on the technology side comes from how they perceive the use of systems on their network. For instance, in the NSA example, I asked if I could make programs to make things easier (having never made an application in my life) and the grizzled old veteran analyst handed me the Perl Cookbook and said "Go to town.". Compare that with my CIA contracting job where I was explicitly told not to program, programmed anyway, and proved that we could effectively make programs in-house instead of waiting for months on a separate contract to fulfill our needs. That programs savings to taxpayers dollars, by the way? About $10 million.

We do take for granted that we can do something like type `npm install` and programs magically get pulled from disparate parts of the internet and work. On government networks, you have to work with code that's been vetted over a 3-6 month process, leaving you with the baseline items (the node binary, for instance) but requiring you to rebuild the modules you need. I'm of course referencing networks that are completely air-gapped from the internet, that is.
Wow, it just kept going and going. I've done scavenger hunts like this, but easier and short, and I still didn't finish before declaring myself too exhausted to continue.

I wonder what the reason was for not giving the message found on the wooden skull?
Luckily, the easy mental arithmetic is a main benefit of the metric system. I really doubt people would create "new inch" tapes. They would probably hang on to existing measuring tape for personal projects though.
> you're never vulnerable to predators

Except prior to artificial light sources, you would still be forced to stay sheltered or spend your time huddled up with weapons at the ready.

> and you get twice as much working time per day.

Until our work consisted of something other than hunting and gathering this would likely not have been all that much of a benefit.

On evolutionary timescales it would seem most of our evolution has happened in conditions where we were severely constrained with respect to what we could safely do during the night anyway, and so there'd be relatively little benefit to working around whatever the problems of avoiding sleep are.

I don't doubt that cutting sleep will pose all kinds of challenges we're not even aware of yet, though.
Efficiency? What efficiency?! CA farmers are increasing nut trees acreage because nut trees require a lot of water, and thus nut prices are going up in the current drought, and thus the farmers are rushing to increase the production of such profitable product. (Heard on NPR)
Funny, it struck me the opposite way: individually prone and helpless for 8 hours a day, vs being in a community where one is theoretically protected.
That, plus increased efficiency in the use of food (less waste).

I wish there would be a good way to link related stories on HN, because what you describe is what I was referring to in a comment to a story about plastic-ball-based sun roofs for water reservoirs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10052633
Lady hacker here. Bring it. We'll see who pwns who.

(Also, thank you for proving a point in an amazingly effective fashion - as if "college degree holding males" are the only people capable of working with tech. Your testicles don't automatically make you superior, and my vagina doesn't automatically make me inferior.)
Hanselminutes Podcast with Omoju Miller on Redesigning Comp Sci 101 Education
I was thinking more along the lines of something scalable like the hexayurt project (hexayurt.com). Having five sheets of inexpensive plywood is "cursed with ability" is it? and having a FirefoxOS smartphone phone that cost $20.00 is spy apparatus? Hardly.
The brain only conserves 15–25% [1] of energy during sleep and does not appear to be a reason sleep evolved. It seems that the pressure between the cerebral spinal fluid and the interstitial fluid cannot build up to the required level while the brain is awake and fully active.

[1] http://jap.physiology.org/content/70/6/2597
At the very least it's an opportunity for people to interact. I'd say our daily standups produce useful communication and at least once a week solve a cross-team issue.
Yeah that definitely makes sense. The reason we haven't put much work into the homepage is we are not focusing on consumers or even SMB, instead focusing on bigger brands and influencers who will create a pleasant interstitial UX. Those types of clients are white glove and are dealt with personally by us.

Any thoughts on the interstitial experience?
There is value in a C replacement, but it would need mindshare even more than features.

I think Go has a good combination of mindshare and features for system software development. Rust may as well, though I know less about it.
> If Oracle wins, Google's going to change the API for Android.

No they are going to pay Oracle, they don't have much choice. They should have bought Sun years ago but Google was too greedy and thought it could get away with anything.
> It’s long fixed, and only a tiny set of cars (only high-end models with keyless entry) were even affected at all.

Some of the models on the list feature neither keyless entry, nor are high-end (the Audi A2, for example). While the Audi S2 may be considered high-end, it certainly wasn't available with keyless entry, and I wouldn't be suprised if the Audi 80/90 (which the S2 is based on) were affected, too.
Oh well if they promised then I'm sure there's absolutely nothing to worry about.
Crashing in the "/* oops! */ exit(1)" sense is great. Crashing in the buffer overflow sense is not. OpenBSD treats all of the latter as potential security vulnerabilities.
Show HN: Infinity
How about a dog that barks on command?
Do you have a reference for that? Cold engine starts cause a lot of wear, but warm engine starts should cause very little wear, especially in an engine designed for start stop.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/stop-start-long-t...

While a home light bulb may not stand up to continuous on/off cycles, a bulb that's designed to do so (like a low-voltage bulb with a heavy filament) can last for a very long time.

So I wouldn't retrofit an existing car with a start-stop system, but I wouldn't have any qualms about purchasing a car with a start-stop engine as it would have been designed for the purpose.
Show HN: FocusGroupIt – The “SurveyMonkey of focus groups”
I manually select them and the majority are music videos.

I have a rating system but I only gave a higher rating for a few of them. I might make the higher rated videos be added to the playlist more frequently.
You export your data, then import it at the new provider? Or is your question about which commands to run specifically (beyond the scope of a hackernews discussion).
It also contained a bunch of oxidizers like potassium nitrate. In fact, I was a bit confused because I didn't pick up the calcium carbide -> acetylene generation, and just a huge amount of oxidizers wouldn't cause such an explosion without sufficient fuel.
There was a startup doing just this - https://AutoPay.io - that was advertising in Boston and Cambridge back in March.

Amusingly, they seemed to follow around the people issuing tickets, and slipping fliers[1] under windshield wipers. There were a bunch of cars with a bright orange ticket under one wiper, and a bright green flier under the other.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/5tgbhPY.jpg
For me, on Chrome Linux, typing into the editors is a bit problematic because pressing BACKSPACE navigates away from the emulator.

There was a copy of Oberon for Linux bundled on my original Infomagic CD set back in the 90s. I played with it a bit, but without documentation there wasn't much I could do, and it was closed source and so doomed to die.

To me, Oberon looks like the Wirth version of Kay's Smalltalk system, where they both developed an all-in-one GUI system, from scratch, with completely different philosophies. It be interesting to do a detailed comparison of how they differ and why...
> So businesses that could have been great bootstrap businesses will grow too fast with too high a burn rate and flame out at a series A or B crunch.

Smart, patient entrepreneurs can take advantage of this.

Let angel and VC-backed companies validate markets, and pursue the markets they vacate after the broader crunch occurs.
For me it was Messiah. Written in the 50s, and presciently anticipates scientology, and other pseudo religions. He had tone, style, wit, vision, and cockiness.
There's no way you really can tell how much of the effect is due to the sleep deprivation and how much is due to neuronal loss.
Only Florida shows up for states (for me at least)
Yes, I just found it actually. The article targets short stories specifically.

A. Kazantseva and S. Szpakowicz, "Summarizing Short Stories." Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 71-109, Mar. 2010. [Online]. Available: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2010.36...

There is a PDF available. It's about 40 pages long.
You still have plenty of arbitrary-ness in your definition of a (nano-)second. :)
Yeah, and even for non-clothing things, you might be able to make a really cool system that retailers can sign up for to list their inventory with you, so that people have an awesome online way to find things they'd otherwise just buy on Amazon in a brick and mortar store, they can get to today.
See, this attitude is bullshit.

If you're asking people for help, you need to treat them like professionals and not children. That means don't get in the way them doing their jobs, don't impose bullshit requirements like literally asking people for their urine and don't do many of the other counter-productive things that government agencies have etched in stone as essential policy.

If you can't do that, your system is broken, and won't get as good of people as it ought to and that's the problem of the people who created it, not the people who are interested in doing you a fucking solid.
People (in fact only a small section) quickly forget "martyr"s and the government could take a bet on that with confidence.
Runit is fantastic. If you are using Chef - the runit cookbook integrates very nicely. https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/runit
Shutting down RetirementPlan.io
I think OP is thinking of using an Altair 8800 to play music on an AM radio.
you guys do anything special for festival setlists?
They could instead award him 300+ years in jail.
A kibibyte is a fictional unit invented to make computer scientists sound like their lips were still asleep after a dentist visit.
Liberal bias? Ridiculous article. Show me the republican version then we can reconcile.
Very nice and clean implementation. What might be good is to also include and quantify benefits - a lot of the debate is that you get a higher rate when you're on contract but you'll have to get your own insurance plan, etc.
Prenda-linked copyright trolling lawyer Paul Duffy dead at age 55
Show HN: Gitective – Record your daily activities and grade yourself
Hey HN - Matt from FocusGroupIt here. Would love to hear feedback from the general HN community, and especially from Kevin Hale @ YC given his background in the survey software market at Wufoo and SurveyMonkey.

A direct link to sign up and participate in a demo focus group is here: https://focusgroupit.com/groups/cf966c0e