skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that's what you enjoy, that's fine. But many people don't really enjoy their work, it's just work. What they enjoy is done on the weekends or holidays. How many people waste 2 or 3 hours commuting each day, time away from the family they ostensibly want to be with, for work, and then lament, when their children are grown, missing out on those years?

If Star Wars and your job are the things you want to be doing, do them. That's fantastic. If dancing or drawing or rebuilding a jeep are what you want to do, but can't because of work, find some other job or some better way to do your current job.

And don't feel beholden to others to do things or enjoy things because that's what they expect of you. I fucking hate the Star * franchises (or, more accurately, what they've become and their fanbases). But I work with people who love them (in their current incarnations). But in this field (computer programming), everyone thinks I'm weird. Same with video games, I enjoy them to an extent, but I've played them enough to know that I want to do other things. OTOH, don't listen to me if that's what you enjoy and I tell you to stop. If it's what you want to do, do it. But if it's what you want to do, and something in your life is holding you back that you want to change (as opposed to certain obligations, like an SO, that you shouldn't or don't want to change), then find a way to get that time back.

EDIT: Hell. If your work and Star Wars memorization are what you really want. Make that commute work for you. Ride a train and get more work done. Or listen to the movies on your drive. I'm doing that with my current attempt at learning Italian. That's one of the ways people miss the point. The time is there for you to do many (though not all) of the things you want to do now, you just have to realize it and take it back.

EDIT Further: And I guess, with regard to having something to "show" for it. At the end of your life, do you think that you will be happy with how you led it? Did you achieve all, most or even some of your goals? It's not just a result to show to others, but also an internal understanding of where you are and what you have achieved (or not) and why. If I get married and have kids, I probably won't achieve most of the travel I want to in this lifetime. But I'll probably be happy to have made that trade. But if I can't achieve that goal because I decided to work until I was 70, then, for me, that will have been a failure. So I've set myself on a course to avoid that.
The guy is still a winner though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jurvetson

He's made more good investments than bad at the end of the day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situat...
Except people don't like it at all http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/technology/facebook-meets-...
Well, it wasn't much of a bail out: Pillar was acquired with 100% earn-out -- in the words of the SEC filing on the acquisition[1] "we will not make any upfront payments to Pillar Data or any Pillar Data stockholders, including Mr. Ellison, or option holders upon the closing of the acquisition." (Pillar owed Ellison $544M at the time of the acquisition, and even that was converted into a slice of the earn-out.) The decision to buy Pillar wasn't without controversy (and indeed, there was a shareholder suit over it[2]), but that was also a much cozier situation than EMC. So the shareholders might revolt -- though seeing the Axis-like power of a combined Oracle/EMC, they also might not...

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/0001193125111...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-03/oracle-s-e...
I'm interested to see how Brian will approach a business model built on open source. The most common ways to do it (selling a "pro" version of software that is closed source, running a hosted version, or selling support) all fall short for me in various ways. I'd love to see an approach that maintains the user's privacy and control.
This is just the same old issue of DRM as before: create a system that works when the user is running it like they're supposed to, but doesn't reveal anything when they're not. And it's never worked. Probably can never work. Cory Doctorow talks about it in his talks on eliminating DRM. Basically, at the end of the day, the only real means we have of making DRM "work" is using laws (which, of course, doesn't stop criminals, only people who are trying to do things legally).
I don't know why a theory has to be labeled "new" to be worth discussing. (I'm know I'm hyperfocusing on Shermer's phrase "a new theory", sorry.)

Hoffman's argument is remarkably close to Plantinga's (1993) evolutionary argument against naturalism, and Plantinga himself asserted, rightly or wrongly, that "Darwin himself had worries" about the compatibility of natural selection with the ability to reach true conclusions. And of course, the notion of "percepts act[ing] as a species-specific user interface" was discussed in voluminous detail by Kant.

Just to be clear, I don't have any problems with Hoffman proposing this idea, and I don't have any problems with Shermer criticizing it. What I don't like is the suggestion that this is somehow an idea that hasn't already been discussed for centuries.

Edit: I guess I should always make sure I've eaten something before posting. This came out angrier than I intended.
To be fair, push brooms are rather large and clunky to store.
This seems very odd to me - isn't this regulated or standardized?
Dear Roomba, please make this a real product. xoxo
I don't know of any modern source of health information that I trust completely. That goes for the articles in Natural News and even the things Mike Adams himself publishes. I will admit that it is not uncommon for his reasoning to be biased and one-dimensional. However, I think overall he is really knowledgeable about health and is one of the best sources to learn from. He seems to be really trying to find out the truth about health, and I trust his opinions more than most others. Go back and listen to his earliest radio show episodes. Then look at some of the recent stuff he has done with doing his own independent scientific testing. He is a great source of information about health, but definitely question the reasoning of his arguments and do other research.
My take on this is that theranos started out with good intentions, and just hasn't been able to make it happen so they are trying to buy time. The early stage investments were probably sound, but later rounds are a little questionable. Sometimes you have to know when to fail.
It's not as if Google or anyone else needs to go find the person and forcibly detain them. Google can steer people towards more ads or inject websites for treatment into the search result pages.

Also, the hue detection was triggering on people who clearly had temporary issues and could have been helped instead of subjugated. Some of them were far more interesting and "healthier" than the sheep, like Kogami. It's more of a problem if someone doesn't get angry about something like Kogami has.
MIT already covers the copyright attribution:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
It seems to work equally well for advanced and non-advanced students, it's just that the normal track students take a little longer to figure what the "right amount" of homework for them to do is.
Check out Planet Coaster, they seem to have a much more impressive ambition and scope than the RCTW devs have displayed so far, and are using the same crowdfunding model that Prison Architect has used so far.

Video on Crowd Flow and Guest Animation, using what's essentially a fluid simulation. This game really seems like the logical and superior spiritual successor to RCT3, after more than 11 years since the last game this is what we should be expecting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tyWUT0UsZE

Their last game, Elite: Dangerous has been quite controversial, since the mechanics inherently lack much depth and the core loop is very repetitive, but it has a lot of horizontal content and completely NAILS its atmosphere, being one of the better titles you can purchase for the Oculus Rift right now and one of the better optimized games on PC for the time being.
As someone with a biology background, it's really funny when physicists dip their toes into studying life. It's like: "hmmm, what massive oversimplification can we make!"

They're intelligent agents that can choose whether or not to hold onto their neighbors, so of course they are both solid-like and liquid like.

I'm kind of expecting the next headline to be: "wood can be both solid-like and liquid-like, depending on how much we pulp it."
My Job is "Full Stack Web Developer" at Void Labs and In my side project I am currently doing PollPK.com, A website which let user publish polls and other user can vote on those polls ( just like Reddit user can post links and other can comment ) Here is my early beta http://beta.pollpk.com/ example polls would be like anything e.g.
Who is the top football in the world ( Ronaldo, Messi etc )
Who is the current best actor ( Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio etc )
It's really, really late (8-10 years) but not too late?
If their tests work, why not just show the world? Invite the press. Invite doctors. Livestream it. Whoever it takes to validate what they say. What's the downside?
Heck, virtually any C++ compiler was a big pile of sharp edges back then, by comparison to just a few years later. Especially if you dared to use it for embedded work, not so much due to the "embedded" part but just because the embedded suite compilers were just so much further behind the C++ curve.
I do not know, how the US carriers fare, but the "just line suppliers" of Europe and particularly of Germany are faring very, very well! They still make tons of money for sometimes lowest-level service.

Of course, when you have much, you still can fare better and make even more profits ...
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I remember reading an article a while back that Sweden was also importing.

Randomlyish chosen relevant link

https://sweden.se/nature/the-swedish-recycling-revolution/
“Formal specs should be as obvious as the need for blueprints of a skyscraper.”
Check out Coursera Full Stack Web Development Specialization
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It worked pretty well for DirecTV, which is a more analogous scenario than normal computer software.
Well sure, people wanted more. Facebook offered something for free, and people said "that's not enough, I want more for free!". Not a new story.

You might not want to use the service. Fine, then don't! Is your life any worse because it exists?

I try to avoid complaining about things which are free as in beer.
While I agree with the premise of all of this, when it comes to modifying car software, who now maintains the liability? If a hobbyist were to modify something incorrectly and cause a malfunction of the car which in turn injured another, or damaged property, who is liable?

Surely it cannot be the automaker, they did not intend for that. Insurance companies are going to fight it, maintaining that unauthorized changes were made which would release their liability.

Inspecting auto software for problems is great, allowing hobbyists to tinker with their software seems problematic.
Except that you get slow connection speeds pretty much everywhere as soon as you move outside your house. Subways, commutes, etc. For crying out loud, you even go to EDGE on AT&T when commuting in Sillicon Valley on CalTrain!
Ad blocking will improve response times on slow links by about 50%. More for really bad sites.
For the RF geeks here - can't manufacturers implement some kind of anti-hijacking protocols into the RF I/O between the radio and the receiver? I understand it's hard to defeat jamming if the attacker has more power at hand than you do, but it seems like it would be easy to defeat devices that want to try and MITM or otherwise usurp the actual control commands.
Or he could be viewing the phrase "true reality" as a linguistic construct without a referent. This even makes sense since 'truth' is more of a property of represenations of reality rather than a property of reality itself.

> What can you say? "You're wrong"?

I could say "ok, show truth to me or explain why you think truth exists"

I could also say "What value (fitness) does believing that assertion provide me"?

Obviously, if you assume that truth is necessary to evaluate statements or beliefs, then stating that truth doesn't exist will lead you to contradictions. However, there are plenty of other methods of evaluation are frequently used.

I would in fact argue argue that 'truth' is very rarely directly among the properties of an idea that we commonly use when evaluate it. The reputation of the source, coherence with other beliefs, effects on social identity, and cognitive efficiency seem to be the most common properties.
Channeling the other comment tree, Groundhog Day never introduces any Nice Guy. The idea is that Phil develops into one over the course of the movie, although it's only apparent in the last (!) scene.
The State of Web Type
See also "Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots."

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11454870-plotto

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146941343/plotto-an-algebra-bo...
The description here is pretty good: http://benefitcorp.net
Exactly. Knowledge and insight is what you get when you take the facts you've been taught (or learned yourself) and internalize them. Schools nowadays focus too much on the first at the cost of the second, because former is easily testable and the latter takes time.
> Arguably you could cover everything again the next day but thats hardly a graceful solution and doesn't cater to that variance of time needed for homework across different children as contact hours are very limited as it is.

Repetition is important. But kids are already at school for 7-8 hours a day. If that is not enough time to engage in adequate repetition, the solution is not to shift work to home hours. It is:

1) Do less, by cutting less important subjects;

2) Do more with the time given, by cutting students who disrupt class.
Is everyone at FB so young that they don't remember 2G in America?
Which wireless over ultrasound scam? I haven't seen anything about that one.
There's a huge problem with honey labeling—often the packaged product labeled as honey is indeed mostly a cheaper sweetener.
Insurance policies already cover this as "after-market modifications" (the terminology I've generally seen used already).

There really is no cause for concern; things that used to be purely mechanical are now electric. Any modifications made mechanically before could be equally disastrous.

Yes, software modifications are easier to hide, but that it is a price worth paying for the greater general freedom of everyone.
> yeah except I'd have someone there to train me and help with things to keep pushing me

Ask your Mom for help then.

Seriously if you want it then go get it. Make it happen.

You don't need a fancy computer (your're just editing text).

You don't need to know everything all at once (even the pros use google as their second brain).

You don't need to be perfect at it to get a freelance gig (just be honest with the customer that you're getting started and there may be some delay as you work and learn).

What you do need -- and lots of -- is perseverance. Try. Try harder. Try whatever pops into your head. Find a way to Make It Happen. When it's 2am and you've been at it since 8am and you have to finish so you can bill the client so you can pay your rent -- and you finally figure out how to fix that javascript bug or the database query or whatever -- that's when you know you're doing it, you've got the power to keep going.

Most of all, don't give up.
Harder DRM? They've tried that already
To defend against this, just change the password (3DR) or set a password (DJI) on your quadcopter's wifi access point.

For homebuilt drones using Futaba or Spectrum links this system is ineffective in its current form.
Yep, but the commercial compilers generally had better STLs (particularly for debugging), debuggers that could properly mangle/demangle symbols, and precompiled headers --- in addition to different sets of C++ features that did or didn't work properly.
This is not really the point of the thread and I know what you are trying to say but your example is bad. You don't need to eat any carbohydrates at all. Your body can manufacture enough glucose for your brain on its own.
Ha! Char. I love it! =)
Yeah they have for many years now, e.g. one of the more popular vendors is Futaba: http://www.futabarc.com/technology/fhss.html

But others use similar.
Copyright works in mysterious ways...
Ask HN: Best Payroll Service
What is your preferred payroll system? I'm evaluating options here at Nootrobox.

Some factors that matter:

* Price

* UI / ease of use

* Comes coupled with other useful related services?

Thanks!
"Hunger" is subjective and a completely different topic to the discussion at hand.

I don't see how the knowledge that the body functions based on balancing energy is in any way useless in practice. If you're overweight, with that knowledge, you know that you are overconsuming food or under exercising and you can take appropriate steps based on that knowledge.

No one is suggesting that you get all your calories from skittles, but the notion that a portion of ice cream is going to make you obese in the presence of a well balanced diet is idiotic.

> processed snack that puts one on a glycemic rollercoaster rather than an unprocessed item which will tend not to have the same effect.

Actually there are lots of high glycemic foods that are 'unprocessed'. Additionally if you're consuming a mixed meal (p/f/c) the glycemic index of any one food is irrelevant and tends to be evened out by the presence of the other foods. There's also not a lot of evidence that high glycemic foods are inherently bad for you, couple that with the fact that glycemic index gets 'evened out' in a mixed meal and it's one of the minutia that can be largely ignored. I find it interesting that you focus on a small detail like glycemic index and yet dismiss scientific research in general and a concept as important as conservation of energy.

It just seems like you read through the thread, saw something related to total caloric intake, and felt compelled to weigh in with your personal belief on how it's an unimportant detail to be concerned about.

The point was that correlation is not necessarily causation and often study methodology is overlooked when interpreting evidence.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367001/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945587/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716748/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826507/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113752/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23651522
You know I hear this all the time, even from my students who I never gave much homework to when I was teaching. I wonder how much of that "time until 1 am" is spent staring at a cell phone. I know a lot of time in class is.
how do you compete with free?
uBeam---the laws of physics are not favorable to their technology working as claimed.
It is Turkish for fly.
One of the challenging things about software development is that it requires a great deal of self study. In a boot camp or university you will have regular assignments as well as teachers and peers alongside you to help. But if you are not willing to sit and put in the extra hours solo, you will never get as far as those who will.

I am quite lazy myself, but I have tried to be discipline when it comes to projects and learning. One chapter a day or create some new functionality by some date. Setting small digestible goals makes things easier.
They'll screw it up anyway.

I believe the core issue is just about agency: kids will enjoy and learn from anything and everything if they don't feel forced to do so. The best way to absolutely ruin a book? Make it a required reading in school. The best way to make a totally crap game that is neither fun nor educating? Make an educational game.

If you want to kids to learn and have fun at the same time, you have to accept the model of "entertainment first, education incidental" as opposed to "education in game's clothes". But that's hard to do because people assume, probably based on their own experience in the crappy school system, that learning must be about hard work. Yes, learning involves a lot of work, but it's not hard if you find it fun.
Part of the impetus for that is also the existence of Dwarf Fortress, showing how deep a simulation like this can go. While nobody else goes to the depth DF does, it is a rich source for game mechanics that can form the basis of other game ideas. Planetbase is a good example in this style, of a simcity-like experience with much simplified, DF-style inhabitants.
There can be roaming charges and roaming data caps inside the US although they're not very common with the major carriers. The only time I've specifically encountered a cap with AT&T (I have a grandfathered "unlimited" plan) was when I was in Furnace Creek in Death Valley. (For those not familiar, Furnace Creek is quite isolated but it did get cell phone service a few years back.)

As others have said, international roaming is very expensive without a specific plan. I left early on a trip to Europe last winter because of a snowstorm and before I knew it I had a big bill because I had used my phone in Toronto airport and my roaming service wasn't scheduled to begin for a couple of days. Fortunately, AT&T moved the start time for the international service earlier for me.
New Gold-Plated Silicon Array Can Transmit Data Faster Than Light
I've heard people talk about there being two basic plots:

- stranger comes to town
- stranger leaves town

You could similarly say that there are two basic plots:

- love
- hate

Or even:

- love/hate
- indifference

This is all very silly. Why not say that there is only one basic plot:
- something happens (or not)

There are no classifications that are both neutral and useful. A useful classification corroborates a thesis, and, in this case, asserts an ordering or structuring of some set of objects.

We could pick any arbitrary, discrete attribute and classify plots by each gradation of this attribute, like the above. Putting items in this classification is fun, but it doesn't generate knowledge if the classification does not convey some additional meaning.

A phylogenetic tree or a periodic table impute some ordering on the natural world that allows us to make meaningful predictions about undiscovered animals and chemical elements. They also support scientific theses about evolutionary biology and modern chemistry. They are not neutral (purely descriptive) classifications.

What additional knowledge do any of these story plot classifications give us?
frequency hopping spread spectrum radios do have a pairing that results in the transmitter and receiver sharing a PRNG key, and switching frequencies at a high rate.

They can still be jammed with broad spectrum high power transmissions, though.
Actually it's disputed wether carbs are needed at all. It might be possible to function on fat alone (for energy) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis