skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great! I've saved the document.

Seeing now that you were a neurology prof, I have a question.

About 10 years ago I followed a diet similar to the [Slow Carb Diet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-Carb_Diet) in order to lose fat slowly over a long period of time. One of the unexpected side effects was that I felt extremely clear-headed. I was doing software development at the time and I remember being able to breeze through some thinking tasks. Years later, I was feeling foggy so I used Modafinil and it gave me a similar effect. The low-carb acted as a nootropic on me.

Is there any mechanism that you know about that could make this possible?

Or was it all on my head?
Well said, thanks for the advice. I'll be sure to reach out.
Very interesting, definitely gonna try this out as I have seen similar use-cases.

Any change Github is at anytime going to show the specific merge-conflicts for a PR that cannot be merged?
I like trunknotes (http://www.trunknotes.com/)
At my previous employer I used Jenkins with build matrices quite heavily. Lately I've been using TeamCity and we're paying for the enterprise variant. TeamCity has its share of flaws but FWIW it seems to handle more complex workflow tasks better.

In particular I like the flexibility around snapshot versus artifact dependencies, the APIs are decent (and you can do a lot of troublingly clever things if you invoke the API from within a build), and the metarunner concept seems strictly more powerful than the Jenkins equivalents, albeit with a somewhat steeper learning curve.
I have a bunch of org-mode files that I save into a Dropbox folder.

That gives me backups, and access from other computers / laptops.

Search is via ack or grep.

It theoretically also gives me access from my phone using MobileOrg[1], but I have never actually set that up.

[1]: http://orgmode.org/manual/MobileOrg.html
That sounds a lot like the org-mode concept.
I'm inclined not to see this as surprising. There are as many ways in which people conceptualise their 'offline' knowledge as there are people, and there is never going to be one size to fit all.

Org-mode is probably the closest contender, if only for its sheer flexibility - but the fact that it's wed to something (i.e. emacs) that the gen-pop would immediately recoil from is only ever going to limit its adoption to a tiny subset.
Can someone explain why there are so many satellites in a cylindrical section far from the earth and not much in-between it and the earth?
Holiday parties are often seen as good for morale.
OpenAI is about more than saving the world
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I think vendor lock-in is at least as big a problem as searching and scaling. Arguably bigger for this audience: if I have easy unfettered access to the data itself I can always try something else for search/scale.

I've tried a few and at least twice tried to write my own (and gave up due to scope creep). Right now I just have a bunch of Markdown files and a giant messy DropBox folder and an almost-as-messy set of private GitHub repos. And photos. And videos. And e-mail. And backups. (What does one do with a Zip disk these days?)

I bet a lot of people my age (mid-40's) or older have the same problem: choosing or building a system we think would work long-term, and then gathering and organizing all the "legacy" stuff (which you definitely want!) is already an enormous undertaking, and so instead we live with a bunch of ad-hoc systems that aren't in any way cross-referenced.

Nobody wants to be the sysadmin of their own junk drawer, but I for one don't want years' worth of my stuff locked into somebody's Cloud du Jour.

(Then again, I have this same problem with actual paper documents, so maybe it's just me.)
I think this could be big for environments that require it.

The stored data is encrypted, as is the data transfer path between the EBS volume and the EC2 instance. The data is decrypted on the instance on an as-needed basis, then stored only in memory.
Sorry, but I'm not buying it. You started this by asserting your experience and knowledge gove you a platform to talk down to someone else. Someone who very likely has a difficult story backing them.

You made this a topic of discussion. Now you're upset that people are judging you via what looks like an ableist agenda.

Charitably, lets assume this is all a big misunderstanding. Either you actively are avoiding expressing any empathy or you're not good at empathy.

Whichever it may be, it doesn't matter. You're implicitly picking a fight with this writer and every reader over the efficacy of chemical interventions, and doing it in a crude, inappropriate, backhanded fashion.
Very well said. Thank you.
The key problem with most of the best EU stuff is that, by the mid/late 90s, the original actors were far too old for it.

Although, I'd love to see a (live action) TV series based very loosely on the early Han Solo stories, obviously with someone else cast in the part of a 20-something Han.
That's a much better analogy.

I was expecting more of a realistic explanation about how the NES puts up the frame without a frame buffer. This falls into a mess about graphics compression, which is kind of irrelevant.
This was done because of the Republican willingness to let this happen. The children are the victims. Gov. Snyder (R) let this continue because Flint is Democratic.

Even now the state is only offering:

"has also offered more than $10 million in financial assistance to pay for a temporary switch into the Detroit system while the connection to Lake Huron is being prepared."

Questions:

1. Why did the state even let this happen?

2. Why is the state only offering "financial aid" when it be paying for the switch - since the state failed Flint when it permitted the use of Flint River water in the first place?

3. Why did the citizens have to protest at all? Why wasn't the state proactively step in?

4. Why isn't the state providing emergency water supplies immediately?

These are Republican "values" at work.
Summarized nicely by @whitequark on Twitter:

the details of this are amazing. by pressing backspace you overflow a variable, which overwrites the return address with zero & jumps

the code at address zero Just Happens to be a valid self-modifying loop (!) that also Just Happens to jump somewhere into grub_rescue()
I could absolutely be wrong about some of those! As I said, I'm not familiar with the Rust Belt. My view is almost exclusively superficial.
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That makes me think that applying a machine learning algorithm to suggest conflict merge fixes would be a fun little project.
That's a good answer.
If you want to understand why the topic of lead brings out a lot of political comments when it should be something fairly uncontentious then you need to understand the history.

Also I make no apologies for calling out organisations that literally lobbied to kill people.
I never managed to get tiddlywiki working right - pity, because I really wanted it to work for me, but couldn't seem to get to a stage where I'd trust it to have saved something when it said it had.

This was five years ago at least, mind - I've no idea what the problem might've been, and even if it wasn't user error, I suppose it might've evaporated by now.

(note to self: try tiddlywiki again soon)
My main problem with org-mode is the lack of good display for math notations as well as multimedia (picture/video etc). Did I miss something that I can use with it?
I too was reached out like for for their Software Engineer and Software Engineer in Test roles. Honestly it was an experience both good and bad. Plus, I enjoy flying so I got a free trip out of it.

Also for me, every interview I had after my Google one felt like a cake walk.

Whatever you do with it, congrats for being reached out to. You don't know what you did but you were doing it right ;)
Sure, Active Oberon is pretty advanced, and Modula-3 had all sorts of things, including generics — but to my knowledge Wirth was not directly in those languages (or with Zonnon or Component Pascal), and he was unhappy with their complexity. (He apparently prefers the entire language's grammar to fit on a single screen.)
This. Best organizer I've ever used!

I'm a Vim user, but thanks to SpaceMacs/evil-mode I feel right at home. Actually, it works so well that I've come to prefer evil-mode over the real Vim!

http://spacemacs.org/
Flint has been devastated like Detroit by Republican governors and Republican* trade policies that export jobs.

* And unfortunately NAFTA ( signed by Clinton )

Thank god Obama saved the automobile industry in 2009
I am from flint. In your fifth link, if you turn around and see the building with the bright blue painting, that is a medical marijuana dispensary called Michigan compassion care center or something. About 1 mile from that is Kettering university one of the top flight mechanical engineering schools in the country. Also Michigan flint, Mott community college, and baker college are all within 5 miles of each other. I lived in flint and the greater flint area for the first 22 years of my life. Such a sad, sad place. My family worked at the GM plants there now they are abandoned buildings.
Terrific analysis, thank you! I love reading your posts.

I also think that the dynamics differ based on the mode of interviewing viz. Faceless (like http://interviewing.io does) vs face-ful (like normal onsite or video interviews, or the way http://interviewkickstart.com does).

I have an observation to share for the latter kind of interviews:

When I was hiring at Box for one of my teams (or even now), I'd generally go towards the end, to meet the candidate and talk to them about how the day went. I'd ask them about specific interviews, the interviewers and how they think they did on the given problems.

I found that it was surprisingly rare to get a candidate who was aware enough of how things went (positive or otherwise).

Digging into it, I realized that the correlation of what the candidate perceived, was simply to how expressive the interviewER was. If the interviewer was friendly and chatty, the candidate would feel like they have done well (or at least forgivably well). If the interviewer was more silent, the candidate would feel they haven't done very well.

Now that I do interview training for a living, I try and hammer this point home: that interviews are like a date. It depends a lot on the other person (in this case, the interviewer). Understanding this well often works like magic.
Well, formalizing them isn't too hard, and model-checking them is quite easy (once you have a good formal spec), but proving them is another matter altogether...

People prove specific algorithms (distributed, concurrent or sequential) with TLA+, but once the spec is of a real system, things get much, much harder to prove.
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Good point, unless I know a search term it doesn't work out great.

I've been thinking of switching to some kind of wiki format, like maybe creole. Then finding an app that can understand links between files or something.
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No. I'm not. But minimal distros are the primary surface area linux exposes for many people these days. The desktop userbase is (justifably) almost non-existent, and most core cloud distros don't even come loaded with curl by default. It's even more extreme as you work with docker.
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Yeah this looks like upstate NY; you can see this just an 1-1.5 hour drive from Manhattan.
Tell that to the folks in Friesland (they speak West Frisian).
I learned about this via a RadioLab podcast episode. interesting listen http://www.radiolab.org/story/312245-rodney-versus-death/
No, and yes. It's proprietary and Windows/Android/iOS-only.
Thanks for the reply...I've been doing Javascript for a little more than a year and while it's fun I was planning on moving to C++ as there'll be more opportunities to what's possible especially in the coming years with AR/VR becoming more popular and the the development of Web assembly. I also have interests in robotics due to my mechanical engineering background which is another reason why I'm choosing C++.

Since I'm basing this choice just in some Google searches and don't understand quite a bit of what they talk about, would you happen to have any input on this? Is C++ a good choice? As opposed to C?
We use it to run a bunch of periodic report-building tasks. Compute internal metrics, archive support tickets, that sort of things. Compared to plain cron, we get proper tracking and history of the runs that failed, and a web UI to access the results (generated reports, for us).

I wouldn't use it for production-sensitive crons, but for administrative stuff, it works fine.
The word "debt" is not just a financial term. There are debts of gratitude, debts to society, debts of honour, and so there are also technical debts.

Objecting to the name "technical debt" on the basis that it is not the correct financial use of the term is like objecting to the name "work day" on the basis that it isn't measured in joules. It's a category error.
Is Europe really going to ban teenagers from Facebook and the internet?
One? Many: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper
Story of how we got first set of paying customers within 3 months
@spatten and @kristiandupont - orgzly is a nice android client. You can sync the org files with dropbox or with git. You could also run a linux locally and install emacs. A keyboard is essential though when you're using emacs, orgzly works ok with touch but is less full-featured. Just as with vim i only use a small subset of what's possible with org-mode: clock in/out, tables, nested outlines, tags and priorities, links to other files and images.
Camlistore is where I'm expecting to go. They've got some basic things modeled in their world, and the rest I'll fill in using inspiration from schema.org.

My plan is to land PDFs of research papers, web bookmarks (and archives of those pages), ebooks, book scans, textfiles/markdown documents, imports of social networks (favorites from Twitter, mostly) and scans of written notes I make to myself in Camlistore. From there, sync to devices and publish to the web as appropriate.

I don't expect that I'll ever find the time to build this all myself, so I'm hopeful that either my data will be in a format that other Camlistore apps can read, or if I get the format wrong I'll be able to write a translator to whatever the Camlistore community decides to model for that specific data type.
> Finally, we removed the old implementation — which frankly is the most gratifying part of this whole process.

On average, I get much more satisfaction from removing code than I do from adding new code. Admittedly, on occasion I'm very satisfied with new code, but on average, it's the removing that wins my heart.
> People who pay and attempt to cross the border from Mexico to US? Those are counted as people being human trafficked.

Well, sometimes, if they don't have the resources to pay a later charged number they'll be sold. I can not remember the name of the documentary where I saw that. But basically if you're crossing the border with the help of a 'pollero' (who most likely has a connection to the cartel), and you or your family don't have resources to pay a fee after you're across the border they take you until you pay for it with work (sexual for women) which can take years regardless of how fast they get that amount due to your work.
If you had to build a windows GUI from assembly code, almost all software projects would be too expensive. Instead we reuse high level languages and frameworks to start with the basics a program needs.

To extend the metaphor to milk, what if the milk industry had to invent the glass industry in order to make the bottles which it comes delivered in? Consumers would have cows not refrigerators.

The dis-economies-of-scale-software are programs where normal glass simply can't be used to hold the milk. A whole new custom type of glass has to be developed. And this usually for a type of milk only like 1,000 people even drink it.
This reminds me of the automatic pitch correction (auto-tuning) in the recent pop music. Hopefully this will not signify the dusk of the art of acting.
I am from flint and now live in Rochester hills. There are some OK parts of flint but really there's is nothing you can say that is nice other than the colleges.
TFA says it only affects mobile-optimized layouts, and only on form elements and links.
Yep, that's it I didn't mean to sound condescending. Just think it's sad to see what seems to have been a pretty cozy neighborhood fall apart like that. And no, I haven't seen anything like that here in Sweden but I don't think it makes us better than you.
Yes, the failure is not that a town decayed post-industrialization, it's that the federal government doesn't believe in supporting the people who are left behind after these busts. No re-training funds, no relocation support, housing placement, etc.
> ...that is a high-risk approach that is usually without correspondingly high payoffs

That's probably true, but it's also true that over a long enough timescale (100 years, to trigger a reductio ad absurdum) there is a very high risk that not replacing or rewriting that code will sink your technology and possibly your organization.

Just because the risk will be realized in the long run doesn't mean it's not a risk. And if the worst-case scenario is death of the entire organization, then the math could very well add up to a full rewrite. Most business managers are not prepared to think strategically about long-term technical debt. It's the duty of engineers to let them know the difference between "not now" and "never". And the difference between "urgent" and "low priority".
It's not that bizarre, the suburbs surrounding Detroit include some of the wealthiest areas in the nation. Also, downtown Detroit is booming. I visited in July and it was night and day compared to when I previously visited three years ago. I went to school in Ann Arbor and if I wasn't tied to my current location I'd move there in a heartbeat.
[T]his (perhaps wrongly) smacks of appeal to authority.

Don't dismiss appeals to authority so easily. As it happens, not giving extra weight to experts in proportion to their track record is a provably suboptimal strategy in an adversarial setting (see e.g. [1]). So, in this sense, deferring to trained medical opinion might in fact be the most responsible thing to do.

Note however the bounds in [1] also (indirectly) imply you are better off with a diverse ensemble of expert advice. So if you can afford it, always get a second (or third) reputable medical opinion. And weigh their advice accordingly.

[1] http://www.mit.edu/~9.520/spring08/Classes/online_learning_2...
A friend of mine who's a civil engineer says its because the freeway exits are a mile apart rather than 1.5 miles, so that creates a lot of very short merges and ramps up traffic heavily. What really gets me is the travesty that is 405 between renton and bellevue, feels like it should be 5 lanes but its only 2 full-access lanes and there's a crash every 4 hours because of how much the road bends suddenly.
I'm curious, at what appears to be GEO (Geostationary Earth Orbit) there is a ring of green "operational" satellites that align with the equator, then there is a "belt" of non-operational satellites that seem to have spread out from them.

1. Is this because the non-operational ones can no longer station keep and slowly spread out?

2. Why are they in a belt shape?

3. Why is the belt not centered on the green ring? They seem to be all "moving" in the same direction? (When I looked at it, their orbits tend to "dip" south while above the western hemisphere and north while above eastern hemisphere)
Jenkins Job Builder is, IME, the only way to keep complex Jenkins configs sane. Did you know that Jenkins is constantly rewriting its own XML config? We've had Jenkins itself corrupt its own config (with some combination of active plugins).

Keeping your configs in YAML in source control is such a win. Not a fan of Jenkins, BTW.
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Confluence is... okay. I think Atlassian have successfully managed to sand down a lot of the sharp corners on older wiki-type packages that tend to act as a barrier to the non-technical types - from my perspective, that seems to mean that my non-technical colleagues can be persuaded to contribute to documents held in Confluence markedly more easily than to contribute to a MediaWiki instance that we previously had.

So, while Confluence itself as a piece of software makes me grumble more often than not, I'm more than happy to trade that off against the easier sell to others.
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Have you tried the firefox save plugin? You could use it to save to a synched google drive so you don't have to think about that.
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Interesting; a quick glance at the home page, and it looks like it's for planning. I'm happy using JIRA for that, where I have customized workflows. But again, this is just because I'm familiar with JIRA, not because it's necessarily the best tool.

Also, I'm a vi user :)
Exactly, did you know you could install a special spacemacs org-mode layer?
>A lot of other solutions I've seen are more like concept maps, which are great for project management, but not great for knowledge bases.

I've never understood this preference; would you be willing to explain it? It seems almost exactly backward to me: I model tasks as trees of sub-tasks, and knowledge as a general graph of connected concepts.
Interested in your thoughts, HN. I tried to write from a place of compassion and not be all haterating.
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So the mystery was because the original paper had flaws in it's methodology? That's anticlimactic.
> why would you run these experiments offline when you can run them online?

It probably doesn't apply in this case, but many bugs cannot be replicated in the production environment. At least, you don't want to break things in production to see if your software does the right thing in adverse scenarios.
This also works well for reversing many cryptographic hashes.
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This. As a near 40 person, I now need to search in 5-10 places for that thing I know I wrote down in Markdown, Vim Notes, Workflowy, Tiddlywiki, 1Password, Confluence, or email at some point in the last 20 years. But maybe we just need to give up on finding one tool to store them all. Instead we need to build more federated search across all these platforms. That way I can have one searcher that returns results all my various old "brains."
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Does anyone have a system for managing their relationships? Kind of like CRM but on a personal level. Keeping track of people's details - like their family, their passions, their history etc.
> Four, get good at working in the small, optimise your processes, tool, approaches to do lots of small things rather than a few big things.

Why, I think I've heard that before...

"Do One Thing and Do It Well" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

Edit: Strange post to be down voted on. It was an interesting connection to me.
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You can display images in-line if you're using the graphical emacs.
Ok, we added 1993 as the year above. Thanks!
Ionic + material = sexy hybrid apps
I think there's something to the acid/base thing and I think it's connected to inflammation.

I recommend a vegan diet. Juice celery, and everything else.. drink it soon after juicing don't put in tha fridge. Juice about a half pound of raw cannabis per week if you can (it's not cured so it won't get you high)

and uh.. drink lots of h2o.