skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as a counter point, for me was the opposite. Skipping breakfast was what made me be more focused.

I remember since I was a kid, I hated eating breakfast (no matter which type: eggs or sugar ridden cereals, it was the same) and growing up, I always had trouble focusing in the morning. It was only when I started to skip breakfast and have lunch at around 1-2pm did my focus and attention improved.

Long story short, different strokes for different folks ;)
Javascript is around 20 years old. In Internet years, that's roughly 130.

I was trying to say that JS and good old communism had a similar trajectory. Initial scepticism, outright hatred from the establishment, then an enormous success with some core flaws; after it's mellowed down and reality has settled in, people are trying to fix it in increasingly theoretical ways that may not do anything to address the fundamental issues.
"Your ad blocker is on." No I do not have a adblock installed. I have a hosts file which removes the worst tracking sites over the internet.

On top of this, they have a Subscribe wall. Who exactly runs washingtonpost.com? And why do they need to get personal with me?

Moreover is the content going to add to anything more than we know about endorphins all ready?
Perl's regex engine must use something stronger than plain NFAs. The expressive power of NFAs and DFAs is exactly the same. They both recognize the regular languages, which is less than what can be expressed with Perl "regular expressions".
That area would have changed a lot, if it weren't for a very active preservation effort. The Walden Woods Project, founded by Don Henley (yes, that Don Henley) prevented multiple large commercial development projects from happening in the 1990s, and has allowed the character to be maintained.
This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
How space travel became the unofficial religion of the USSR
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Reminds me of the playpump disaster, everyone assuming they know whats best for the poor.
http://unitedexplanations.org/english/2012/03/22/the-story-o...
Wondering if walking or other exercise triggers the same thing then.
Deciding between buying and renting depends on many things, like the different costs, interest rates, inflation, tenant rights etc.
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Are you worried about bears?
This would all be trivially solved if Apple would just put a goddamn SD card slot in it.

Storage size as sole model differentiation is sooo 2001. At this point it genuinely makes Apple look out of touch in a market where every other flagship quality model doesn't bother with it and includes an SD slot, partly I suspect because it's just saner from a production and inventory standpoint even besides the consumer benefits.
Infinite paging, Smart auto layout, Interface of similar to UIKit
I've never quite understood why 1999 is the inevitable comparison. Perhaps because of the emotional reaction it gets (clicks) when you use it.

2005-2007 is the more accurate comparison. The acceleration of asset bubbles in both real estate and - to a much lesser degree - the stock market leading up to the great recession (and I'm not implying there will be a replay of the housing bubble). It involved a gradual but significant venture capital increase from the bottom years of 2002-2003, and public valuations expanded significantly.

From roughly Jan 2003 to Aug 2007, the Dow went up about 75% and finally surpassed the highs made during the dotcom bubble. Companies like Google IPO'd during that run. There was also a dramatic China bubble during that era.

Valuations were elevated by quite a bit, but not like 1999. Venture capital was flowing freely, but not like 1999. The stock market had gone on a huge run, but not like 1999.

The downside to the currently elevated financial environment, will be tightened liquidity, harsher terms, and lower public multiples. That means, conceptually, instead of Facebook having a 90 PE ratio, they'll have a 40 PE ratio.
I'd rather be present and use my meat-based memory than have a "memory" on my phone of an event I viewed through a glass, darkly.

I'm going to blow your mind: you are actually allowed to do both.
Well, the German army did decide to march into Russia without bringing any winter equipment with them...
Ask HN: Any tips on finding relevant Shopify/Magento store owners?
I'm looking to validate an idea for a service targeting online fashion stores. Would like to get some feedback from Shopify/Magento owners.
Any tips on finding the biggest stores on a platform?
Here in the U.K. our right-wing government are planning re-introduce a scheme whereby those in government-owned social housing have the right to buy the property cheaply after a set period. This has always been a very controversial idea: it does increase home-ownership rates fantastically, especially in poor areas, but it also destroys the social housing programme (an attractive outcome to the nasty British right).

Rent limits, related to local earnings, are one way to increase home-ownership by making landlording less profitable. Our new opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, goes further and suggests we should actually extend this "right-to-buy" idea into the private sector. I only just discovered the idea this morning and I think it's pretty interesting.
"I'm so cool I'm going against the crowd" bullshit.
This is awesome! TypeScript has been tremendously useful to us and it's great to finally be able to use React properly.
It is quite "fun" how two people can read the exact same text and get totally opposing views from it.

I actually think this is an absolutely awesome essay exactly BECAUSE she talks about the mundane aspects. It's a fantastic take on peoples insatiable appetite for "longing" or "searching". She chases a romantic picture of solitude as a way to escape or re-shape her existence. And while the experience as a whole might do this, the everyday living will still be filled with mundane tasks.

Having travelled alone for 30 days with a backpack in Myanmar, this just rings so true to me. The experience as a whole I would not be without - but there is a lot of mundane living no matter how you choose to live your life. The only constant is you.
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Yes, that is interesting. I found it also quite interesting that when you look at their link to yearly cost to attend numbers, such as on the list "23 four-year schools with low costs that lead to high incomes" (http://www.ed.gov/blog/2015/09/schools-with-low-costs-and-hi...) they are given as net costs, for the lowest income students only, and after deducting both federal grants and loans. The loans have to be repaid so not including those in the "cost" of college is strange.
There has actually been a lot of money wasted because people rushed in without making sure they were helping. Some people argue we have actually made things worse by imposing our solutions.
http://nytimes.com/2014/04/20/books/review/the-tyranny-of-ex...
Create an NCX File
"Wen you use an ad blocker, that’s stealing. It’s no different than ripping music. It’s no different than pirating movies.” Adverisers and publishers still don't get it. They see adblockers as some Napster-like problem: people use it to get free content. Block the adblockers and the problem will go away.

Never mind the issues visitors have with intrusive adds, bandwidth hogging ads and excessive tracking and invasion of privacy. Their solution is some magical self-regulation. Yeah, like that gonna work.

They turn a blind eye to eye the real problem: people don't trust online advertising anymore. And why should they? Everywhere they go, they get bombarded with useless, "targeted" ads that stalks them from site to site, questionable calls to action to trick them into clicking and a user experience only sadomasochistic vusitors would enjoy.

There's no shame in using adblockers. It's a matter of staying sane.
You should get an adblocker then. uBlock Origin blocks all the stuff you were complaining about for me, and you should be able to use it in addition to the hosts file (or put the hosts file directly into it as a filter).
I find that I get the most mental and spiritual energy, by far, when I just "do what I want to/feel like doing." Rather than trying to live by some rational maxim like "maximize productivity." Part of what you said sounded kind of like this.
The last time I read about the subject I understood that some researcher thought that communication not just involved whistles and clicks but also movements, postures and bubbles. I can't remember where I read that though.

Like Linear-A or the Voynich script this seems to be a difficult thing to decode - if there even is a meaningful symbolic communication. Perhaps the cynic Justin Gregg is right. But like that poster on Fox Mulder door says: 'I want to believe'!

More info:
http://www.dolphincommunicationproject.org/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576514...
If the land tax increased, wouldn't the landlords just increase the rent?
Thus making life more expensive for non-homeowners?
Disregarding what the government does with the extra tax revenue.

Feel free to correct me.
How to build a multiplayer trivia game with Firebase and Angular
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It's worth noting that the Galaxy S6 / Edge / Active and the Note 5 have no SD slot. Apple definitely isn't alone in looking out of touch.
Inside climate politics
On the Multidimensional Stable Marriage Problem
From the article:

"When it becomes more important, it also becomes more scarce, and when it becomes more scarce, it puts a brake on growth, just as if oil became more expensive."

Oil got more expensive. Did that put a brake on growth? Does it follow that land becoming more expensive will put a brake on growth? Land got more expensive, did that put a brake on growth.

I don't mean to sound repetitive, but land has been getting more expensive for the past 300(?) years, and yet here we are.

That other thing the article says about land becoming an increasing percent of GDP, does that really mean anything? Are the right metrics being considered and the right data being used to come to the right conclusions?

I'm not sure I got the point of the article? Economists know what to do but interest groups get in the way? Does that make any sense? Sounds like the economists models don't match reality then. Economists shouldn't try to predict the future, they do a bad enough job of predicting the past.

I'm not really sure what I'm getting at either. I think I'm just disappointed the article ended right when I was getting in to it.
So what if someone has more money than you, and can spend a few hundred dollars on a testing device?
Inside Bangkok aircraft graveyard where families live in decaying passenger jets
I have no problems with 16GB iPhone which I've had since the 3G.
Currently I have 72 apps installed. Syncing with 8 email addresses.

I use Spotify for music, and have an offline playlist with about 2GB songs. Photos and movies are synced to the cloud, and files older than 1 month are deleted from the device. I have 3.2GB available.

So while your points may be valid for some, I can manage fine with 16GB. And it's not like I'm thinking about it, and change my habits to have the 16GB phone.
Given such a ridiculous premise they need to back their theory up with data.

We are living denser than we ever have, and getting denser but somehow that's going to just stop because land owners will do what and why?

Stop building up? Stop subdividing? Because why? they hate money?
According to economic theory they would not as the supply of land is fixed.
Reading this one could think you would be a fool to use TCP, yet some games (such as World of Warcraft) use TCP exclusively with no problems... What gives?
Sounds pretty thin.
Those who don't learn calculus have to reinvent it, poorly. C.f. so-called "AUC" [0], which is apparently an important metric in medicine.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_under_the_curve_%28pharma...
Very interesting as it entirely contradicts apples recent statements in interviews that 16gb is fine as a base model (Tim Cook, Phil Schiller and Jonny Ive stated this if I remember correctly). This is clearly not true if it means that 17% of their ENTIRE iPhone 6 users is low on memory, or 37% of their 16gb iPhone 6 users.

It's factual evidence that Apple does indeed play games and tries to maximise profits and obsolescence of its devices, despite always claiming the opposite. All because they're unwilling to add a couple of dollars to their bill of materials.

They should be ashamed.
Pretty sure this is an export of a Google code project[1], at least the date and message of the latest commit matches the github version.

Previously on HN for the Google code project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132682 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2698685

Two days ago on HN: The init system from the same source code tree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10206309

[1] https://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/
I don't see any reason to take the "so be it" comment of a defeated, distraught Hitler as a deeper expression of his philosophy than his proclamations of a "thousand year Reich" or the motor cars and holiday camps planned for a peaceful post-war Germany.

The other problem this theory has is that whilst the Jews have at various times been accused of conspiring to impose ideologies as conflicting as capitalism and communism, the notion that they were in fact responsible for maintaining the ideas of peace between nation states and love for ones neighbours is actually the polar opposite of the usual anti-Semitic narrative of them being destabilising, war-profiteering Christ-killers. Was Hitler's anti-Semitism that different from the anti-Semitism of his contemporaries, including many responsible for actually implementing his Holocaust?

Then again, I've always thought that attempts to "understand Hitler" in isolation from other expansionist military leaders might be missing the point. Hitler was exceptional in the number of simultaneous wars he managed to start and people he managed to kill (and unusual in his activities taking place in many living people's memory) but that seems to have as much to do with geography and technology as his worldview being more inherently destructive. The general mixture of personality cult, rigid organization of domestic society and accelerating expansionism and ethnic cleansing fits a pattern of empire builders that stretches back across millennia, as do other things. Indeed Hitler fits this pattern far better than most of the other butchers of the 20th century, not least when you consider his obsession with monumental architecture and fondness for Speer and his "theory of ruin value"[1].

The bigger cause for concern for humanity might be that many of these admired earlier empire builders - their victims dead in some cases for millennia - are as admired today as they were in Hitler's day.

[1]Of course Snyder can posit an alternative explanation for that last bit.
It's intentional on Apple's part. They're trying to hold margins artificially high by putting increasing pressure on users to spend more money on greater storage (and to rely on Apple's Internet services more). Except they've jumped the shark at this point and let the 16gb linger too long. A pretty classic mistake when you're making the poor business decision of trying to walk a dental floss width tight rope between margins and pissing off customers, all over $5 in cost.
"It's not all in your mind - it's leptin."

I sense Descartes here.
A quick note to the author (in case he reads this): I think the "4/8" node should be "5/8" in all images.
First there is Photo Stream which stores backups of your photos on the same phone -- even those you delete. Not even sure how it got turned on. Don't even have another iOS device.

Then being "savvy", I was copying and deleting photos directly through explorer. Well, this leads to ghost space, which is resolved by setting the clock back to reveal deleted but unpurged photos in the recycle bin [0]. Wack.

Then found Dropbox Carousel. Victory of the cloud, no more local storage needs. Except still kept running out of space. Turns out Carousel uses as much as it can as cache (in my case 4GB). WTF!

So yes, I'd wholeheartedly agree that 16GB is a bad user experience. Users are basically in constant competition with Apple and other apps for space, and at 16GB the user is constantly losing.

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[0] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6560594?start=45&tstart...
Sure, great if you configure it correctly.
37% of 16gb iPhone 6 users are unable to deal with it. So good for you being able to deal with it. A large amount of users can not.
Yes, because the mortgagor (banks / etc) don't own the property. They just have a lien on it.
it starts promising with:

> Landlords are eating the world.

but it then falls short, by only pointing to the tip of the iceberg, the rising prices in city centers. But the problem is much bigger in the rural, in 2nd and 3rd world, where former small farms are replaced by big agriculture corporations.

> To understand why, we have to look at the reasons land has value in the first place.

And he totally fails here. He fails to explain, that land ownership depends on the state monopoly on use of force, and legalization of murder, rape and genocide during the time the state acquired the land. He fails to explain that money equals debt, debt is often preferring land as security, and therefore land prices are doomed to rise globally.

I do not expect a Marxist analysis in Economist, but I would at least expect some in deep comparison of how different countries cope with this problem. Point to massive buyout of agricultural land in eastern Europe, point to the housing bubble in Spain, point to how Hartz IV stabilized the German housing market, ... but this article is only pointing to the iceberg in front of the unsinkable.
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This absolutely beautiful inspiring clip "Wanderers" comes to mind: https://vimeo.com/108650530
Hans Rosling always presents data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYnpJGaMiXo
Not sure why it says "Linux/UNIX".
I encourage you to think in terms of what is achievable thiout a CS PhD. What areas don't tend to be dominated by PhDs, and what areas are dominated by PhDs.

My conclusion: Theory, algorithms, cryptography, and machine learning.

There are tons of world experts in operating systems, graphics, databases, distributed systems, compilers, programming languages, computer architecture, security, and HCI without PhDs. In fact, I would argue some of these fields are dominated by non-PhDs (see: Ken Thompson, Linus Torvalds, etc.) I don't see a lot of non-PhDs doing cutting edge work in CS theory, algorithms, cryptography, or machine learning. Probably because these fields involve lots of theory and mathematics.

Just a thought.
In a game state where your opponent will be choosing the next move, you should select the next state to expand based on a UCB formula involving your opponent's expected payout, not your own.
Looks like this could do it: http://magento.com/customers/customer-showcase

Surely, other platforms have similar sites.
Trendspottr. They were the first major player in this space I could remember. Their API can be found here https://trendspottr.com/api/
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They're doing more than that. People in government-owned social housing have had the right to buy the property cheap for about three and a half decades now in the UK, thanks to the previous right-wing government, and it's already destroyed that social housing program. In the long term, most of the houses ended up in the hands of private landlords, including government ministers. Some of them were even bought up directly by investors through agreements that made use of loopholes in the right-to-buy rules

The current government is extending this to housing association homes, which are owned and let by private non-government charitable organisations. They're now forced to sell their homes off, and local councils are forced to subsidise this by selling off yet more of their housing stock.
https://1024monkeys.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/game-servers-ud...
You say "nasty right" then go on to appear to support the idea of forcing property owners to sell. Nasty left!

I'm only half joking. P.J. O'rourke's has a chapter called 'Why I'm Right' in his book 'Don't Vote! It just encourages the Bastards', I found it helped with a similar attitude I used to have.
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And the Old Red Cracker... great memories :)
i thought it was because of elevated anandamide levels
World of Warcraft can work with big latencies. He is talking about time critical games
Articles that have titles like "Scientists have proven that ___ will make your life perfect" I find are often misleading.
Apple's 3d touch – an evolutionary perspective
And they break selection. Urgh.
Land should be from the country not owned by a private entity. This fixes a lot of issues.
That raises orphan rates: https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinxt/comments/3jziu5/satoshi_c...

For "faster transactions", even a 10/8 min is too long and people would still have to rely on mempool transactions. It doesn't raise the security because the proof of work is still the same.
Pretty-formatted PDF version of the article: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1980000/1978559/p62-modha.pd...
A blog post about this would probably be interesting to many on HN, especially if you can remember the details.
I don't believe that the answer to this is "because the task is difficult".
I actually think the answer is simply - because the life sciences are in their infancy. It's like asking a medieval astronomer why it's so difficult to fly to the moon.

At the end of the day we do science with our brains, and our brains are not built to understand biology. How could they be? To really be able to understand even the simplest, isolated biological process, you probably need to hold at least a thousand bits of data in working memory. You can build a model on a computer, but we still don't know what the important bits of data are out of many millions, we don't know when they are missing, and we don't know when our model begins to be valid and ceases to be valid.

In contrast, a physicist can gain deep insight about the ENTIRE universe while sitting under a tree with a pen and paper and some cogent abstractions. Furthermore, this insight is valid backwards and forwards in time except in clearly obvious extreme conditions.

This is actually completely amazing when you think about it. We would like to think the same about biology, and scientists act this way, but we would be mistaken. Abstractions fail in biology. Even the most basic and obvious abstractions made by humans, like the concept of a gene, are too simple to act as a foundation for ongoing discovery. And we don't have any alternative framework.
I have an 8GB android phone and have no problems with it.

If you want to take a lot of video and photos with your phone, buy one with a lot of storage. If you aren't in the habit of photographing your lunch before you eat it, you can get by with a lot less.