skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How much time do you spend on HN everyday ?
And how do you manage it?

This could apply more broadly to social media, and other online communities like ProductHunt.

A few months ago, I deactivated my Facebook account and unfollowed most of the people I used to follow on Twitter. I tried it as an experiment, and it worked out great. I dont have any urge to visit FB any longer, and I save ~10 hours every week which I used to spend browsing (mostly) useless stuff on FB (I keep track of the hours via Rescuetime).

When I look at my monthly HN usage, I can see that I visit ~8 links (on average, posts and comments) via HN everyday. However, thinking deeper on it, I hardly remember anything that I read via those links over the past month. I have been consistently spending ~1 hour everyday on HN for ~4 years now, and have been recently considering drastically reducing the time I spend here, as an experiment to see how much I would miss it. Its one of the more difficult things to do because I love the HN community, but I could probably spend that 1 hour everyday on more productive activities.
https://morepypy.blogspot.pt/2015/10/pypy-memory-and-warmup-...

https://morepypy.blogspot.pt/2015/09/pypy-warmup-improvement...
The word "git" is a Britishism for "idiot"[0], which was actually an intentional choice for the VCS. Git, by design, is not meant to be the smartest VCS on the block, it's just meant to be the one that gets stuff done. Darcs is the "smart" to git's "dumb" and Pijul is exploring if you can have "smart" without sacrificing "fast". There's still plenty of room to explore possible new VCS possibilities, just as we continue to explore things like programming language possibilities.

Also, it doesn't necessarily have to replace your existing VCS. Maybe a project like Pijul helps to develop the theory into practice that becomes an amazing new (backward compatible) backend for some future Git N+1 version, for instance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)
Friends don't let friends use PHP.

> since it's so widespread if I want a small script that'll almost certainly run "in most places" I'm likely to turn to PHP

I'm curious about this though—isn't sh literally required by the POSIX standard? How is PHP more ubiquitous than sh? I certainly don't have PHP installed.
> Seems like the right direction...

Huh? How in the world does Theranos shuffling its board(s) and issuing a statement supporting its "remarkable" founder represent anything meaningful?

> At this point, the company simply needs to hunker down and try to make its technology work. Demonstrating that it works will be comparatively trivial. Building a business if it works, relatively easy as well.

What in the world has Theranos been doing the past 12 years?
They say they don't use joins, so what's the advantage of using it?
I had the same thought. The article does mention pumped hydro storage though. And for that, watts (the capacity of the turbines/generators) is a relevant figure of merit just as watt-hours (the capacity of the reservoir) is. The article does use watts kind of indiscriminately, though.
And we're still issued Windows computers, locked down by IT, in 2015. Ritchie's desktop was from home, but it still could have been the path of least resistance in his family. Or maybe liked Windows, or gaming, or Quicken, ...
Fear can't be rational. It's definitional. The fear is justifiable in some sense, of course, as we still allow people to feel whatever they want (if not express it)
Want to help solve this puzzle? Genability is building software to stay ahead of the utilities and save energy consumers money through clean energy on day 1. And we're hiring: http://genability.com/careers/work_with_us.html
> "- enormous reduction in child mortality - increased female emancipation and economic opportunities - (direct and opportunity) costs of child-raising becomes relatively larger when societies get richer

I don't expect any of those trends to reverse itself"

Those aren't the only trends that matter. How about:

* Reduction in working hours/increased leisure time.

* Possibility for development of life extension technology (so long as this comes with an increased window of opportunity for raising kids).

* Changes to family structures (for example, an increase in popularity in tribe-like family structures, which reduces the burden on individual carers).

The point is if birth rate is only slowing down because of how our society currently is, then birth rate predictions are based on that society staying the same, and we have no guarantee of that being the case. Even if you think it's unlikely to change in the near future, humans will hopefully be living on Earth for thousands of years to come. If you were born 1000 years ago, do you believe you could predict how society would turn out in 2015?
I've gotten the same robocall for house security systems from totally random area codes every time.

I wonder if services like trello are being used/abused for these. (And is unsolicited robo calls against their TOS?)
Practical, in space. Start the ecosystem spinning, and it won't stop (essentially frictionless). Maybe a balloon/bag on one end of a rope, a weight on the other end.
Ordinarily at least, the board is the board. Shareholders can vote them out, though.
Oh god now that was a memory I had long repressed. Just wanted to thank you in advance for my nightmares tonight ;)
Here is a fairly in-depth analysis of the excessive running issue that made rounds through the press last year.

Must be read critically, particularly the argument about confounding factors, but it does a good job of introducing the various findings, actual data, and arguments from both sides of the issue.

In any case, when it comes to running, the consensus is that there are diminishing, eventually negative, returns.

http://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/will-running-too-m...
It's worked for me...
What is RankBrain, the new Google algorithm?
New solution is here: Why to track lost things, when you can never forget them
They are moving over to html5 when HLS comes, if I'm not mistaken.

They are, in the meantime, settings things up to make the transition easier, e.g. moving the video controls out of the video, moving chat out of flash, etc etc
This really makes me curious as to how this works and how complicated it was to setup lol
The quantity of the available resources is not nearly as much of a problem as the allocation. Subsistence farmers are not as productive on the same plot of land as industrialized commodity farmers.

We have more than enough land and water to feed everyone, but the (simplified) problem is that when one person does all the farming for the whole world, nobody else can afford to trade for any of it from them.
>So someone who is poor is of less "merit"?

With the word in quotes like that? Absolutely yes.
Apple has sold more than $1.7B in Apple Watches
Not quite search-related but in my most common usage, I run across similar practices with copy/pasting URLs in general.

Some friends and I have a running multi-person Hangout that we use as a sort of simplified chat room. It's obviously got none of the control of something like IRC but it's easier and more convenient for most of them. About half of us already have Hangouts on our phones by default (Android) and the iOS folks can install it and alternately, many of us keep Gmail open in a browser tab at work anyway.

Getting to the point, we use the chat for just general BS throughout the day and we post a lot of links. I have a habit of seeing what I can strip off an article or other link before it doesn't resolve. But some chat participants are primarily phone users and don't often sit down with a laptop or desktop. Almost all of the links they post are these elongated strings that take up 4+ lines in the chat box and contain all sorts of Facebook references and other bits and pieces of the "path" they took to get to the actual article.

I've mentioned it before but usually just get groans about how I'm paranoid/anal retentive. It's probably no big deal but on principle I don't like clicking on anything that essentially lets Facebook or some other network track the spread of links even when I'm not on Facebook. If I'm actively on that site or something similar, sure, they can go right ahead and track what I do but when I'm just sitting at work and want to click some news story a friend forwarded, I don't need all the referral links and tracking.

The problem is (as has been mentioned above) a lot of people just don't think about what's in a URL and sorta just look at it like "that mess of gibberish text that points to the article or funny picture". The problem has only gotten worse as more people are primarily phone/mobile app users.
The player controls run in HTML5, but for me (using Chromium with no flash), videos still do not play.
It takes time and money (among other resources) to convert the energy emitted by the sun into a form that we can use.

Are you suggesting that we should not pay the companies who do the conversion, routing, and storage of this energy because nobody owns the sun?
Classic misdirection move. The fundamental issue with this Sham company is that people claim their Testing Methodology gives inaccurate results - How do we fix that?

By changing the irrelevant board to a sightly smaller size.

I think this kind of move strongly indicates that they are in very big trouble. Walgreens should shut down their existing Theranos branded centers or risk getting sued...

An incorrect number on a blood test could be a potentially life altering event for some one - NOT something you want a fraudulent "unicorn" to be putzing with.
"Video Doctor Bill Frist", I can't help but read it that way. Look it up if y'all are too young to remember.

The fact that anyone would associate with Bill Frist in any way has always let me to skepticism about Theranos.
this was really really depressing to read. Feel bad for the man and I hope the prosecutor suffers the rest of his days
It's never been. Caller ID reads whatever the person placing the call wants it to be.
I am a Java dev, I heard of PyPy a few years ago, I find it amazing and often tell people about it when talking about performance and other related topics.

The thing is I've never found another developer that new about it, something is very wrong...
Rearranging the deck chairs of the Titanic. How long can they last with their cash burn (have you seen the new office?) and the loss of Walgreens. The last valuation may have been $9 Billion, but they are not that well capitalized.
If surge pricing is enabled in order to temper demand until supply can catch up, it promotes supply from places Uber may not like (Lyft).

No app yet to query Lyft and Uber, see who is cheaper at the moment, and launch the cheaper provider?
It's interesting to note that even though Kepler is exclusively remembered today for his three laws, Kepler himself considered them a somewhat minor result. Most of the book in which he describes his third law, Harmonices Mundi, is concerned with astrology, music theory, and (for lack of a better word) mysticism.

An excerpt from the Wikipedia article gives a flavor:

'''

While medieval philosophers spoke metaphorically of the "music of the spheres", Kepler discovered
physical harmonies in planetary motion. He found that the difference between the maximum and minimum
angular speeds of a planet in its orbit approximates a harmonic proportion. For instance, the maximum
angular speed of the Earth as measured from the Sun varies by a semitone (a ratio of 16:15), from mi
to fa, between aphelion and perihelion. Venus only varies by a tiny 25:24 interval (called a diesis in
musical terms).[6] Kepler explains the reason for the Earth's small harmonic range:

"The Earth sings Mi, Fa, Mi: you may infer even from the syllables that in this our home misery and
famine hold sway."[9]

The celestial choir Kepler formed was made up of a tenor (Mars), two bass (Saturn and Jupiter), a
soprano (Mercury), and two altos (Venus and Earth). Mercury, with its large elliptical orbit, was
determined to be able to produce the greatest number of notes, while Venus was found to be capable of
only a single note because its orbit is nearly a circle.[6]

At very rare intervals all of the planets would sing together in "perfect concord": Kepler proposed
that this may have happened only once in history, perhaps at the time of creation.[10] Kepler reminds
us that harmonic order is only mimicked by man, but has origin in the alignment of the heavenly bodies:

"Accordingly you won’t wonder any more that a very excellent order of sounds or pitches in a musical
system or scale has been set up by men, since you see that they are doing nothing else in this business
except to play the apes of God the Creator and to act out, as it were, a certain drama of the ordination
of the celestial movements." (Harmonice Mundi, Book V).[6]

'''

We had a very interesting colloquium in my astronomy department a few years back by someone from the music department who had studied Kepler's musical theories in great detail. Evidently his musical theories have inspired a few modern composers. Here are two such compositions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neJ9qViszVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLkmMEEiNBk
Your comment essentially demonstrates why setting public policy based on relative death counts is profoundly silly.

How many Americans had the Nazis killed when we invaded N. Africa? Surely a tiny, tiny fraction of the number who had died in coal mine accidents that year. So?
I personally like very much how Golang and Rust have started to make low-level (mostly old and very important) applications more maintainable for a wider range of contributors (and readable for me); I see (coreutils)[0] as a great example. Also, I would throw Lua into that mix too, at least on some level. As it applies to this particular case, for instance, a repo object management function for lua-git, git implemented in Lua, (`Tree:checkout(path)`)[1] seems like something I could understand. I failed to find git's checkout function, even with a good bit of energy put into it.

0:https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

1:https://github.com/mkottman/lua-git/blob/d64218a227fe26b1fc9...
Anyone can lobby and so groups who have similar interests raise funds to send people to speak to government officials about what they would like to see done by the government. It's pretty simple.
I can almost guarantee the people against ALPR are most likely the same people who have no problem throwing a camera in somebody's face in your local Starbucks or something, and then when asked to stop recording, they say "but bro it's a public place".
I was gonna reply until I read your last sentence and figured it would be pointless, since you deny simple facts.

It's too bad comment threads are locked after some time on HN. It would be swell to come back to this conversation 2 years down the road.
As Snowden twitted: "This is not a blow against the US Government, but an open hand extended by friends. It is a chance to move forward." I hope the US stops for a second and hears the rest of the world and its own citizens.
Germans don't cross an empty street against the light, hardly comparable.
What a great idea! Every monday I take a picture of myself. I think I'll add a photo of my computer desktop and a picture of my physical office space, too. Those will be fascinating 10, 20, 30 years from now. (I'm 53 so I don't know how much further I'd go!)
"You can't check it on your desk the same way you might be able to check software with reproducible builds (not that more than a few people do this anyway)."

Everything you just said applies to software as well because you have to trust what your machine shows you. And it might be subverted.

"I don't think it is easy to achieve verifiability to be above nitpicking of the kind we're seeing here."

The most basic verifiability for open HW is to use components that have documented, open HDL with rest of what was produced open for 3rd party verification. Gaisler already did it for a CPU and whole IP library. Rocket RISC-V team did their part. Magic-1 guy did it with wire-wrap on TTL chips. None of these people had $10+ million. Gaisler shows it was just a matter of getting money together to do the development cost-effectively, licensing to commercial users to sustain it, ensuring any I.P. could be re-synthesized for new use cases, and simply offering source for re-synthesis or just verification.

Now, we can go much further than that and tools like Qflow OSS Synthesis are a step in that direction. However, most likely approach given EDA complexity is doing it with industry standard tools with third parties checking those results. Might even do it totally in high-end tools but in a way that end result can be verified to large degree with open tools. Many ways to do that but all need work. Good news is that there's no Snowden leaks, etc suggesting EDA tools are subverted. That helps. :)

So, you're creating one strawman after another to justify either (a) not trying or (b) calling something open that's not. The minimal requirement has been done repeatedly in other projects by other people. It takes no extra money on top of a normal HW development. It can even be done both proprietary and open source as Gaisler illustrated for some of his stuff. The result merely has to be open and done in a way that 3rd parties can verify. Optionally, that they can integrate and put on fab of choosing if they desire.

That's minimum for open-source hardware. A project does the minimum, I call it open-source hardware. If it is not doing it, I'm calling it something else. I'm calling a project that heavily depends on black boxes from DOD-connected and scheming companies as opposite of open in operation as is possible. If the board is open, I'll call it an open-board or open-PCB design. Novena seems to be an open-board system with OSS software. It's not open HW.
To what factor would you attribute this observation if you are not buying the law enforcement competence theory?

From the top of my head, the Garland Texas terrorist attach was foiled due to the officers competence who shot down the two terrorist who were about to go on a rampage a la Charlie Hebdo at the center.

That's just one example to support my argument
Hey there, I'm the lead developer at expii. Thanks for finding that bug! Would you mind telling me what browser you were using when you encountered it?

Thanks
I remember having competitions with classmates and such with several hundred days of uptime on Win2k :). We were rather chuffed with ourselves at the time. Those were the days.
Couldn't this low demand peak noon energy be used to power something of value to someone somewhere? Perhaps a folding at home type setup? Maybe its a distributed cloud computing platform of some sort? I would think there are many clever ways that this low demand power could be used to generate some income that offsets the price.
Isn't this what Deadmau5 was doing before he took his operation solo for more money direct to himself[1]?

I've been using Periscope as my method of broadcast, and its tie in with Twitter has been helpful. Then I can download from my device, tweak, and upload to YouTube. This goes for live jam sessions with friends, talking through making recordings in Ableton Live and other software, and doing DJ sets / guitar jam sessions for fun.

I mean, if it's got a better value proposition, great, might be worth a look...but there's a lot of fatigue in constantly chasing different outlets. Any thoughts would be welcome to consider, thanks in advance.

[1] Edit: Solo as in using his subscription / pay me model in ways that 'normal' Twitch Creative accounts probably don't have access or demand for right now (see replies below)
Seems like perfectly sensible decision to me. Perhaps you should try to find objective reasons for this product development approach instead of insinuating incompetence of "brand" people?
I've been on vacation in China this summer and a tourist guide told me that they can have as many children as they want, but 1) they have to pay some sort of one time fee for the second and successive children (maybe 10,000 Yuan? can't remember) and 2) school, healthcare, etc are to be paid in full for those children. Basically if you're not reasonably wealthy you can afford only one child.
Spam and the like are going to ruin telecommunications like they've ruined email. It will be a slower process while they get bolder about skirting rules but they're going to get there.

Wait until these spammers and debt collectors get your social graph, your contact lists and the like, from failed mobile startups. You're going to start getting fake caller ID from friends and relatives.

The endgame is a balkanization of incompatible proprietary telecommunication clients all running you and your devices through a reverse Turing test to confirm legitimate communications. Oh, you'll still be able to get calls if you like, they'll all go to voicemail so your own neural networks can pick out the ones worthwhile to listen to.
Not really a definitive guide, but more like a neat introduction. Can someone approaching 30 switch to this with a CS background and a professional background in web development? How much self study would one need before being taken seriously for a data science (or similar) role?
Anyone have any insight into how they were able to operate for so long without a formal medical advisory board? In my own experience, that was something that potential VCs wanted, either in place or in place shortly after financing happened.

Also interesting that the new governing board has (as far as I can see) zero medical expertise. The medical advisory board is still odd given Theranos' technology: Simons makes sense with a background in hematology, but Helfet doesn't make a lot of sense as an orthopedic trauma surgeon, nor does Frist (a carry-over from the old board) as a cardiothoracic surgeon, nor does Foege (another carry-over) as an epidemiologist. Personally, I'd expect to see perhaps a mix of hematologists and pathologists and endocrinologists, as well as some chemical and biomedical engineers and statisticians on a scientific advisory board.

I'm left scratching my head trying to figure out what sort of due diligence was performed. (edit: the tale of The Emperor's New Clothes does come to mind however)
This is right around the time I used a Mac for the first time in years and was blown away. Everything else looked and worked like this stuff, clunky. Or perhaps I just prefer a different sort of clunkiness.
It was also an objectively terrible name. I thought it was just iJustine's personal webcasting site.
It's available to be turned on for individual blogs:

https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/6284029?hl=en
According to articles linked from this one - there was also a lot of other evidence withheld:

* a strange van lurking in the neighborhood

* the wife's credit card turning up in a different city after the events

* dna evidence from semen in the bed

* dna evidence from a bloody bandana

(both things with dna point to the same person who wasn't morton)

And from the article you linked:

The investigator also received evidence that the attack was committed by a third party intruder -- a neighbor reported that she observed what appeared to be someone staking out the house and someone attempted to use the victim’s credit card in San Antonio. - See more at: http://www.innocenceproject.org/news-events-exonerations/pre...

That Anderson had all of that is enough to point to a reasonably strong suspicion of knowning, if not stricly knowing of Morton's innocence.
Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering
It has been 5,161 days since 9/11. Every other day would be 2,580 9/11 sized attacks.

The entire country would be in ruins. There would be no more cities, and the economy would have ground to a halt. We would all be living in a post apocalyptic nightmare, with knock on effects leading to far more deaths than the direct numbers from the attacks.

This is why I hate these comparisons to heart disease and whatnot.