skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To simplify the matter:

Prioritize and free up more time.

For some, this means (unfortunately) cutting back on family and volunteering. For others it might mean cutting back on sleep, or sacrificing a higher-paying job for one with better hours or more flexibility.

Finding little ways to cram your life full of learning is important, but just as important is cramming in time to digest/process what you learn so it sticks, as well as practice it.

Lastly, take a break. Over the past couple of years I've increasingly felt a sense of disgust with myself whenever I give in to my vice and play video games. But I also realized that I needed that cognitive downtime to reduce my stress and stay sane. Don't beat yourself up if you aren't learning every waking free moment.

Beyond that, I personally find it helpful to read what I'm learning about while in bed at night, and find related podcasts for my commute. I often also read on my phone while on the can.

Also, try mixing it up. If you like volunteering in general, but aren't married to something in particular, see if you can volunteer somewhere that will help you learn in the process. And if your family commitments require taking care of kids, consider teaching them programming activities that let you dabble in new topics you want to learn.
Wondows had security problems due to tons of design decision thar went sour.

And current Windows is quite safe. A few safe coding lessons will do wonders for a company :)
f.lux cannot ship an iOS App using the Documented APIs, because the APIs we use are not there. In the last 5 years, we have had numerous conversations with Apple about our product and what would be required to make it work with iOS.

Using undocumented APIs has ALWAYS resulted in getting kicked out. They violated the letter and spirit of the program.

I'm sorry Apple doesn't expose the APIs they need, but this is cut and dry.
My point is that while I'm perfectly eager to act in a way that affords a delusion that I'm somehow frustrating the surveillance state, the costs are still real and too much for many/most people.
Very poor communication. The managers communicate with each other but don't pass the info on to us. So one manager will ask if something is done, when the other manager never told us that it needed to be done.

Our qa environment is a joke. It doesn't match our production environment at all.

Too much of our work relies on people outside of our team. So when we need them to review, approve, or contribute it takes forever because it doesn't matter to them.
I used to think I should stay off Facebook, because I knew of such studies and felt the effects myself.

But I now view Facebook as an exercise in internal self-worth: Can I browse through everyone's posts of their 'best life' and be genuinely happy for them? Can I take in their stories without comparing my life to theirs?

I know that I would likely feel better if I didn't put myself through that exercise, but I think it'd be valuable for me if I can actually get to the point where I can browse Facebook and remain as happy, if not more. I'm not there yet, so time will tell.
I doubt it. A few million downloads is still a drop in the bucket and such software has been available for OS X forever and they haven't cared to integrate it.
"One benefit of the udemy over the pluralsight model is that years later I still have access to the course and can revisit it"

This assumes that Udemy still exists at that time. The Udemy mobile apps allow offline caching, but the Udemy site does not allow you to download videos to store them permanently on your computer. An open source tool to help users do this themselves was served a DMCA notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2015-08-12-Udemy....
I don't have a GPS. Before I go somewhere, I look up the directions on Google Maps, and draw out a simple diagram on a sticky note. I stick that to my dashboard and navigate using that.

I find I rarely need to look at the note - the act of drawing a map solidifies the directions in my mind. Over time, I've gotten a really solid sense of direction of my area; I don't really need a map.

I don't really recommend doing this if you live a precisely scheduled life or one requiring lots of travel. Sometimes you get lost, or you miss out on more efficient routes. But I enjoy it... getting lost puts me in interesting places I've never been, and puts my navigation skills to the test. GPS is great, but I love looking at and drawing maps.
Some cursory googling will probably help you tart up emacs a bit. eg "emacs fonts", "emacs colour theme"

Also look at some alternative emacs like aquamacs.
Some people buy cars without getting on the front page of Boing Boing and making the local news. (Though usually not BMW SUVs, and maybe not by paying entirely with large sacks of cash.)

Likewise, some people make apps and get them in the app store without constant drama.

f.lux is the software equivalent of my artsy, wacky aunt who's always getting into some kind of trouble. She's fun and I love her to death, but eventually you get tired of bailing her out of jail once a year around the holidays.
Why not just start work on an android version?
The market has basically failed your particular niche. Until enough people (or lawmakers) step up on privacy Apple is your best bet, all things considered.

Sorry.
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The new CEO wants to collect evidence? The new CEO is a puppet for the board of directors. The CEO doesn't care, he's just there as a public face to play pretend that the company cares.
Run Atom/ST3 with random plugins downloaded from around the web instead, that's much safer :)
Can someone put 2014 on this?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/04/09/how-your-f...

> we also launched a new web site that hosts the latest version of the .NET Reference Source, called http://sourceof.net

I think http://referencesource.microsoft.com/ might even be a little bit older.
it's also one the greatest digital publishing platforms ever invented... sooooo sorry that every once in awhile they enforce some rules to keep it so. The alternative is Android. Which, if you ever tried to program for, is literally worse than going to the dentist.
The fetishization of "energy efficiency" in this context is weird, like the old joke about a machine whose only specification is that it should run noiselessly. Houses don't exist to be energy efficient; they exist so that people can live in them. If those people want big houses and can pay for them -- as well as the additional energy they require to operate, of course -- why shouldn't they have them?

If there's an argument here at all it's for having energy prices take into account whatever externality Vox is specifically concerned about, not for forcing people to live in smaller homes.
So, then, your anecdote completely exemplifies OP's thesis: a house double the size and much more efficient uses the same energy. Vive la différence?

You also mention foam filling, and by proxy, sealing. Many high efficiency homes achieve their efficiency by becoming effectively Tupperware® containers. Which isn't good for the occupants (unless living in Mordor is a goal). Air exchangers are required, muting the gains on efficiency.
Well, I agree with you there (in general I mean, I don't know the miPhone). I would love to see a truly open source handheld computer. I've thought about picking up a Firefox OS phone. I just don't think it's Apple's job to create it. That's not what they do.
Its very practical to do that. I've been free of it for four years and despite most of my friends and family still being on it its trivial to talk to them when I need and want to. We got along for 200,000 years as a species without it. It's not necessary now.
Given the information we have, it's certainly possible that some of that one percent used insider information.

Nevertheless, given the number of players that draft kings and fan duel have acquired through their indefatigable marketing campaigns, I would submit that a not insignificant portion (if not a majority) of that one percent figure out the bets others wouldn't make all on their own.

Further, math and computers can most certainly help with this given that all the relevant data is public.

How long 'til this goes the way of HFT in the stock market?
The relationship between energy use and size of a home is hardly linear.

The area goes up by the power of two compared to circumference (which is what matters for heating/cooling).

> US homes have gotten huge — offsetting the gains from energy efficiency

Quite the opposite, I actually see the data in reverse - energy usage per square foot goes down BECAUSE houses are larger! Since energy usage is pretty much constant (per family), if you increase the size of the home your ratio looks much better.

They should actually measure energy per person to see if energy usage went down.

I suppose a second refrigerator would consume more energy but I don't agree that a larger home and a second refrigerator necessarily go hand in hand.
So if rights are bestowed upon someone by another person, who bestowed those rights to the grantee? And who bestowed them to that person, and so on?
I've been inching away from facebook for the last year or so. Nobody contacts me via it anymore, I could ditch it today and I wouldn't feel the pain.

Although, I don't know why I would ditch it. At least now I decide what they have in the profile on me. (afaik)

I don't run it on my phone. Only log in when I hear there is an event I need to organise, or a message i need to send to a long lost friend or something of that kind.
I agree -- I would totally fly on a plane with uncomfortable seats but an engine that would get me from Tokyo to Seattle 40% faster.

And I am not saying the renderer doesn't matter. My contention is just that the featureset and the UI probably matters more today, for most people. Historically, that wasn't true. (I consider switching from IE "historical". I don't know anybody who uses MSIE today, except for one-off reason like accessing some legacy banking system.)
> That's quite an odd thing to say, isn't it?

It's that how many viruses and pieces of malware get around? The user is tricked into installing something and then it goes bad?

Isn't that how most every exploit and virus seen on Android work?

Is that how the problem apps found in the jailbreak app stores for the iPhone work?

Isn't this exact restriction why the worst we've seen on iOS (despite MASSIVE deployment numbers) is social engineering attacks?

I know many people hate the restrictions, but the App Store on iOS has a pretty amazing track record for security (in regard to problem code). Basically the worst we've seen is apps abusing system APIs to get more information than they should and those have been closed relatively fast. No worms, no viruses.
"Yes! My friends' choices are completely my fault!"

To be honest, yes, indeed, when it is in your power to help to not to make the mistakes (or at least try). Say for example you see that your friend is drunk and wants to go driving. You have taken the keys but you still return them and your friend dies. I can say that this was also your fault then.

"I should never have allowed my friends to use their telephone in the way they want!"

I think that one should at least make a honest attempt to explain the situation to your friend. Say your friend has installed a hypothetical (but real and fully functional) "Meet the serial killer" app and is hyper super excited about it. Would you then at least somehow try to say that this is maybe really not a good idea? Or not?

I should in fact terminate my friendships with any hooligans who don't use my preferred choice of social network!"

You mean a Facebook friendship? Or could you maybe explain why you should terminate your friendship with your friend? Sounds silly to me, to be honest.

(To be honest, this sentiment doesn't make much sense to me)

I am sorry.
The qz report suggests that users were more happy and less worried/sad if they stayed off Facebook, but it doesn't mention the (imo) more important part of the study.

The study says that most people "post their good sides on Facebook"

The study also says that many facebook users "envy" the amazing, happy and success related notes posted by their friends on facebook.

So it seems like you can stay happy on facebook and not feel worried if you

(a) understand that you should not envy your friends

or/and

(b) understand that you shouldn't take all facebook posts as face value and understand that you shouldn't assume that these posts represent your friends lives in entirety. You shouldn't assume that life is a bed of roses for your friends just because they posted the best parts of their life. It is likely that they have just as many problems and troubles as you do even thought their facebook posts may not capture all of these problems.
Flight was going to happen and was pushing out of the ground like so many grass sprouts. This ridiculous tale is about the absurd flurry of activity to own a basic concept. It would be better that people had cooperated as well as researched this for the common good. This is why universities should not be trying to make a greedy buck off patents and IP, and why there shouldn't be, say, an 'Amazon Professor of Machine Learning' at the University of Washington. Lack of greed is why we're all enjoying tools like Linux. Let's hear it for open source software.
You should not use Gmail anyway. Privacy issues and security issues. I still have several Gmail accounts. Daily warnings in my Thunderbird (Someone has your password....--- Yes, guess fucker, it is me who has my password).
I have one Gmail account that I can not access anymore besides knowing my password, the previous password and a security question. Unfortunately I have a domain registered with this email. This domain may be lost.

Pay a few bucks and get your own email. External email, hosted in Switzerland (high privacy, not EU or US jurisdiction) costs me 15 Euro per year. I can use my own (even external!) domain.
You sign an agreement when you start up XCode for the first time. I imagine it was covered there.
> Do you have any idea how much mindless, painful, miserable work the people of Earth do to allow you to have a computer connected to the internet, with food in your belly, streets to your house, a house to live in, with electricity to turn on?

That's why Basic Income is a topic now and not 100 or 1000 year ago. We know we could automate most of that survival-level task, at least in principle; at minimum reduce it to small amount of maintenance job while we push for development of self-healing materials. Also, UBI seems inevitable now - because the market starts to incentivize automation of everything, and that means most people will be out of jobs soon anyway. You prefer them to starve and/or rebel and trash all our progress, or shall we just skip that bullshit and go straight to something better?

> Only on a site for programming could so many people honestly believe such a white-collar-centric hypothesis.

Or maybe this "site for programming" is acutely aware of our current level of technological development.
I wonder if this is actually required for the private equity bubble to pop.
The most important skill is to know how to look something up.

No one knows everything; or even a majority of things. How fast you can find an answer is what determines your productivity. Whether its via a book, a man page, google, stack overflow, or asking the right people doesn't matter.
Goals are different than objectives. We can expend so much time and effort working to acquire money (objective) to be able to buy the tools we need (objective) to do something (goal), that we don't have enough left to actually use the tools to actually do the thing.

A lot of people have basements, garages, or closets full of tools that they've obtained for various things but never really used. It happens in businesses too. And now they have sunk costs, so they need more money.
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> Protecting knowledgeable users from running arbitrary code is generally a pretty solved problem.

Surely you're joking.
That uses an overlay instead of actually changing your screen gamma (essentially it's adding more red instead of directly reducing the amount of blue). I definitely agree that it's more useful than nothing at all like on the iOS App Store.
Facebook was a great form of communication in high school and college, for events and meeting up with classmates and things. Afterwards, people drifted apart and it became kind of an empty place - hundreds of friends but only a handful I kept in touch with.

As time went on and as my friends list stagnated, facebook kept me attached to the past ("that was so much fun, wasn't it?"). It covered some 7-8 years of my life. Logging on was a bit like falling backwards in time. It makes me remember mistakes I can never undo and moments I can never relive. I was following the events of very old friends I'll most likely never see again. I decided this was not very valuable, so I stopped using facebook.

Deactivating facebook brought my attention back to the present and the future. I'm a bit less distracted. There's no more thoughtless, routine clicking of the facebook link in my bookmarks. I focus a bit better at work. I've put better effort into my proximate relationships (family, friends, coworkers). I've put a bit more effort into my own health and fitness.

These are all small changes, mostly due to a change in my own mindset. But, while it was easy because my close friends and I post very little, deleting facebook was a good first step.
There are very good reasons for Apple to sandbox apps in this way. It provides a controlled, consistent experience for users.
That's way too hardline, surely some people are wrongly accused or some cases are borderline. This sort of "zero tolerance" nonsense always just ends up removing human judgement and common sense from the equation.

Also the idea that "the system is underpinned by the notion nobody can cheat" is absurd. Cheating is rampant! Even in the ivy leagues. Especially in the ivy leagues! But people still value college degrees.
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That's my conclusion as well. I use an iPhone but I'm not terribly happy with it. It may be the best choice, but that doesn't mean I can't complain about its many deficiencies, among which Apple's stupid "security" policies are some of the worst.
Ask HN: How to become an infrastructure engineer?
Since infrastructure is a crucial part of companies and has little wiggle room for error without impacting a lot of users, how does one gain experience? I find devops and infrastructure to be interesting, and involves a lot more critical thinking than regular application programming, but it seems every job opening for it requires at least some if not years of experience. I'm currently an applications developer (full stack).
> We have been as polite as we can to Apple in hopes that they will open up the platform to developers like us. The demand for f.lux is certainly incredible.

This doesn't seem to be a winning strategy with Apple -- they move at whatever pace they want. A better move might be to continue to offer the download and show overwhelming interest in the product, enough that when they shut down the taps the users revolt and force Apple's hand.
This is awesome, the back button hijacking isn't though. right now theres a history entry for every word in the query.
Lighting would generally increase in a larger home fairly close to 1:1 per square foot. Water heating would more or less ignore home size, so it's fairly complex change.
Master/master looks good on paper and glossy product hand-outs, but it doesn't work out well in production. You'll find every case or performance problem that causes it all to break horribly.

Facebook doesn't do master-master on their MySQL instances. It's all master-slave(s). Why? Because it works, it's reliable, and it's easy to change masters quickly when you have Facebook's automation infrastructure.
How is 'not publishing unlisted APIs that have been unpublished for years' Apple 'doing terrible things'.

These guys blatantly violated the TOS. There should be no surprise here. If anything what they did was basically a stunt.

> I have talked with startup founders time and time again they tell me their iOS apps are more barebones because Apple's policies or permissions prevent them from implementing the same features they can implement on Android

Apple implements things at the pace they want. That's one of the reasons things in iOS are generally well thought out and it's so hard for a rogue app to destroy battery life or violate your privacy.

Apple chose the trade offs they want to make, andnit seems to be working very well for them.
People bought Android instead of WebOS and killed the most open platform mobile has ever seen. Hell, you could boot a kernel over USB, and Palm gave you the tools and commands to do it. On their official website.
I'm not sure if this is the intended purpose, but how about you add the TPP agreements and post the link to Reddit.
I think there is alway an engineer in the car.
> Like I said. People don't want to work.

No. You said, I quote, "99% of people would rather be screwing, drinking and watching TV all day long".

My examples are all kinds of things you can get paid for if you are lucky and that use skills important for providing value to society.

> Who tars the roof? Who wades through clogged sewer lines?

Initially people, for additional money. Later, machines.

> Who mines the rare metals in your cellphone? Who farms the maggots for industrial fisheries? Who makes the textiles? Who slaughters the cattle?

Machines.

> Proctologist? Who embalms our dead?

People, for additional money.

> Who does QA for your phone's RAM?

Machines.

> Who cleans up the remains at violent crime scenes?

People, for additional money.

> Who solders together your alarm clock?

Machines.

> Who tears out asbestos?

We don't use it anymore.

There's a spectrum between "no one working anymore" and "UBI giving you other choice than work or starve".
Thanks. 9 years here, never read this :)... Cheers!
Sorry, your comment is grandiose enough that I couldn't help but comment.

The platform is just another package manager under the hood. No doubt based off of the hard work from the unix community on which iOS is based.

Apple fanboys have a long history of taking credit for the whole cake when all Apple tend to do is put on the icing.

It is delicious icing no doubt, but credit where it is due.
No, seriously. Even today, you don't go to space without informing the rest of the world about it.
Haven't you noticed all of Microsoft's latest "cute" apps are all face-based?

* We can guess your age from your face:
https://how-old.net/

* We can guess your emotion:
https://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2015/11/11/happy-sad-angry-...
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App sandbox is just one layer of the security model that iOS employs, and another is not allowing JIT'd code, in case someone finds a way to drop a payload into W&X memory. There's no reason to increase your attack surface if you don't need to.
Interesting perspective. I've always thought the lack of an appstore in 1.0 was just pragmatic. It definitely made it easier to launch the first version of iOS and cope with the very limited resources -- 128MB of ram!
> Honestly, I'm surprised more people aren't responding "Wait, why _isn't_ this possible in iOS? Windows has had the necessary tools to do this for years."

Not enough people care. On the grand scale the number is tiny. I'd imagine that's because so few people have heard of this. As you said Windows has had it for a very long time but the vast VAST majority of people dnot use it, it's still niche.

When enough people want some (say user swappable keyboards, or Notification Center) Apple adds it once they have a good design.
Um, I have been an emacs user for a long time. I have done all that; still it does not look good as Sublime or Atom. I am looking for information on how it could be improved and what Emacs is lacking