skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my own experience - he was probably getting up later, going to work later, and getting home a while after her, which is where the real 'time together' was gained (him leaving work earlier). Also a lot of people like to be winding down and going to bed together, which doesn't work if one of you is going to be up for another four hours.
Virool (YC S12), programmatic advertising, is hiring a front-end engineer
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I use redshift on Fedora, which works perfectly for me. The big gap at the moment is my phone screen -- f.lux and Apple not getting along has made it much tougher to read on my phone at night without getting stuck awake.
All of it, sure. But most of it might be easier than you think. Just one bomb in the wrong place can trigger a chain of catastrophic events. Don't forget that we have nukes in places like North Korea and Pakistan, and Iran is building one as fast as they can.

Excuse me, but I'd rather worry about those threats, than about a robot uprising.
"When you consider the dangers of just getting to Mars and how long that project will take, I suspect we are a century or two away."
Compare how dangerous it was to set man on the Moon in the 60s to getting to Mars. Its just risk. You can manage risk. Getting there isn't the real problem. Staying alive is.
Coffee definitely won't affect your sleep if you have reasonable amounts and only in the morning.
It seems the migration to laptops as primary dev box was the biggest driver.

The linux driver issues were much more severe when running linux on a laptop (power management, CPU C-states, etc). I need dependable wifi, sound, video and other driver updates... I got absolutely tired of wondering wondering if X, network, and/or sound was going to work after each and every minor update.

Apple was/is the only vendor shipping a "working" system in laptop form for a reasonable price.
Databases are usually sharded by the first letter of the username. Devs like to start their usernames with a number, which causes problems.

Also, usernames are injected into their code. Therefore they must be valid identifiers. Don't name yourself exit() or ret, or you'll crash their servers. Naming yourself nop will give you a distinct advantage relative to other players, however.

I don't know.
That attack shouldn't work these days even if you can achieve a hash collision. It requires the ability to predict the entire contents of the certificate issued by the CA and I think CAs have since moved to using unpredictable serial numbers in order to prevent this.
hmm yeah I get that but still, what does an "introduction" mean? :)
And then have no chance of sleeping that night :)
USDA.
I have a similar sleeping pattern. Over time it tends to shift a couple hours. For instance, I slept from 9am until about 330PM today. By Tuesday it will likely be closer to 11am until 5 or 6pm.

It will occasionally adjust itself to something more "normal" but never for more than a week before it starts rolling again.

I work remotely and my wife is a bartender, so it's never much of a problem for me. When I interact with clients I usually end up with a multi-sleep schedule where I'll sleep for 3-4 hour stretches. As long as I don't force it in any direction it doesn't really have an adverse affect besides the occasional weirdness of not being sure if it's 6am or 6pm at certain times of the year because the sunlight is about the same.

It normalizes for me when camping as well. I went on a 3 week road trip this summer with just under half our nights in a tent and pretty much fell asleep by midnight at the latest every night.
I hope you get this fixed soon. It can be quite stressful having your exposure period potentially damaged because your software or infrastructure can't handle the sudden influx.

Stick to deep breathes and think it through :)
Very cool, I'm a big fan of Wenzel Jakob's other major project, Mitsuba. Was this developed to support Python bindings with Mitsuba?
> ... mass flooding, natural disasters, crop failures and starvation, and potentially the collapse of many societies in the ensuing unrest...

As I like to think of it, life as a whole and humans in particular have evolved to be amazingly good at not going extinct. But the way nature fixes problems can be exceedingly unpleasant. If 7 billion humans are too many, nuclear war and mass starvation both solve that, but current and future humans would probably prefer other solutions.
I assumed he meant that his wife would get home at say 5pm, while he, with his later schedule, work work until say 7pm (and then perhaps more later when she's asleep). So by shifting his schedule earlier perhaps he stops working at 5pm as well and gets 2 more hours with her.
Meh? It's a play-money stock exchange which processed over 200k orders since a few seconds ago. We're in the process of finding the parts of the plumbing that weren't sized right for hundreds of simultaneous players and tens of thousands of simultaneous actors (each bot is approximately as taxing on the infra as a human -- more, at the moment, since many folks can't read the instructions to start hitting us with orders and the bots already know how to do that).
Is Astroneer the Next Minecraft?
While I certainly don't condone fraud, I find it difficult to feel sorry for the corporations. Starbucks took in $1.3B in gift card sales in the holiday quarter of 2013(0). This is basically a loan to the company without interest, with which they can basically do what they want, including investing them.

The only real concern, for the shopper, is whether the prices of the goods they want to purchase will increase because of the frauds. Not likely, given the competition for items such as pet food.

(0) http://www.seattletimes.com/business/starbucks-prepaid-cards...
I'm subscribed to Audible as well; I generally like it.

The 2 credit per month plan covers my needs pretty well. In some occasions I've had to buy extra credits, but it still ends up being much cheaper than buying individual audiobooks.

It definitely pushes you to strike a balance between longer and shorter books, though. It's kinda crazy that a 4-hour story like The Magic Goes Away and a a 50-hour novel like A Dance with Dragons both end up consuming 1 credit.
This is great. Any implementations available yet?
Alas, random serial numbers are only a "SHOULD" in the Baseline Requirements, and not all CAs use them.
Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response (2008)
That's my thing too -- I very much enjoy going out evenings & nights, often fairly late, most weekdays. Getting up reliably before 9am when I'm out until 12-2am (perhaps followed by working for a couple hours, or just winding down), is difficult enough to be not worth trying for me. I'm single right now, but when I'm with someone who goes to bed much earlier, I suppose I do sometimes shift my schedule earlier as well. (I guess that's similar to one of the OP's justifications of doing this to have more time with his wife.)
I really like this guy's approach to open source projects:
http://runtimelegend.com/abitopen.txt

Assuming this approach would relieve a lot of the stress I've experienced on my more popular projects. I'm seriously considering it.
Sequence of events:

1. You play stockfighter and get the highest score this year.

2. patio11 emails you and says "hey, you're awesome. are you looking for a job?"

3. You say "yes!"

4. patio11 emails pc (CEO of Stripe) and says "hey 2oi4j3 is awesome, here is proof (i.e. your stockfighter score)"

5. pc emails you and says "hey let's talk about what job you would like at Stripe, and let's bypass most or all of that technical interview crap because we already know you're awesome"

6. you and pc decide that you would be best on the X team, you start next week.
It isn't _completely_ broken. That is why FB is still advocating for a two tiered approach (SHA2 when possible, SHA1 everywhere else). SHA1 hash collisions are indeed now within the range of well funded governments, but it is not within the range of your average script kiddie to find possible collisions. To prove my point, I'd ask you to find an arbitrary Root CA cert which uses SHA1 hash and attempt to clone it. I think you'll find that this takes still a considerable amount of effort and/or it is completely out of reach.

I should be clear that SHA1 shouldn't be used for cryptographic purposes that require high amount of trust, but for your average everyday FB status updates it is probably fine when coupled with other protections.
I always roll my eyes a little bit when people say they get extra "free hours" by waking up earlier. In this case it works for the OP, because he has another motive, which is syncing his schedule with his wife so he can spend more time with her. But the extra hours don't come from nowhere... you need to compensate by losing a comparable amount of time at night.

My waking hours are usually 10-11am until 2-5am. It's not a perfect schedule, by any means, and sometimes I consider trying to hack myself into getting up earlier, but it's usually not worth the effort. I'm lucky that I can work flexible hours, and I get some of my most productive work out in the evening and late at night. Not saying that I don't have the potential to be just as productive in the early morning (but I suspect I wouldn't; even on days when I do go to bed early and wake up early, I feel foggy for longer after I wake up), but being a night owl is just how I am.

I just always am baffled that "becoming a morning person" seems to be considered such a laudable goal. It's not. It's just your sleep schedule. If you're changing yours to sync up with a partner, or to be more available at work, or something like that, good on you, but I don't see how it's somehow special. I was curious enough about the OP's method to read the article, but when I see something like "How I became a morning person", I think "Aww, poor guy; glad I don't have to do that".
> I can't imagine having it every day, I'd get nothing done and hate myself.

Yup. You'd do exactly that. You learn to live with it (while putting down fire after fire that lack of productivity causes). Source: personal experience.
Ah, but SHA-1 certs are actually being deprecated for publicly-trusted roots. Symantec wanted to push the deadline back because of their "very large enterprise customers" who had legacy clients, and they didn't get it. I don't think the Facebook/CloudFlare proposal is going to fly either.

Of course there will still be heaps of SHA-1 out there from private roots, but at least the rest of the world can move forward.
They are contingent recruiters much like any other. They generate leads to companies for their hiring pipeline. If that lead makes it through the interview process they get paid (likely priced as a percentage of first year salary).

They differentiate themselves in that they claim their game will generate better leads than email spam, trolling LinkedIn & scuzzy phone sales.

I believe them, but I'd still interview anyone they sent me.
The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Theoretical Physics: Why Gravity Is So Weak
FAQ says Jibly[1] is the studio behind Emono. Interesting concept but there are no games on Google Play under Emono and only one under Jibly[2].

[1] http://jibly.com/
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Jibly
Don't underestimate how valuable "meh" post mortems are. I for one, would love to see your usual writing ability applied to one.

Weeks from now when this is all a funny anecdote of course...
I've noticed that as well. Even on (rare) days when I wake up earlier than usual, I don't find myself getting tired enough to sleep earlier than usual. I just want to make the day last longer. And even if I am a bit tired, I've found my ability to find a second wind to be reliably excellent.
Looks like it supports X and W32. Unless it's using a lot of the crufty "draw a stippled line" sort of functionality that X provides it would be pretty easy to port. That is, if all it does is construct a bitmap in memory and hand it off to the compositor, it's practically Wayland-ready.
Paul McCartney at a computer (1997 or so)
There are lots of tools that already do 2D diagrams with AWS icons.
The MRI C extension API is non-existent compared to Lua or CPython.
Starbucks and these other companies aren't doing anything shady here. Everybody who buys a gift card knows what they're doing and how the cards work. So I don't really understand why you'd even bring this up in this context.
You sound like me, (also adhd). Jack of all trades.

So, novelty seeking, I do this:
- work part-time on something i'm passionate about as it's products that help others. Research based, which brings more novelty naturally. Also, passion for me was the most important thing to keep my focus, not "interesting" as "interesting" gets boring.
- spend rest of the time mostly building random side-projects that won't be finished, but I don't care, that's not the point.

Seems to be working well.
"I was all for forcing others to upgrade their technology stack until it was inconvenient for me"

Yes it is a chicken and the egg problem (and, I guess, evolutionary offshoots with no genetic future...), and this is exactly the kind of thing that is inconvenient about it. The decision was that it was worth the pain to be rid of SHA1 once and for all (just look at all the CA objections in the various threads about this to see the very strong objections to sunsetting SHA1 in the next year instead of five+ years from now).
>This is basically a loan to the company without interest, with which they can basically do what they want, including investing them.

It's not really that simple (under US accounting practices, anyway). When a gift card is purchased, the value of the card increments a liability on the company's books; Gift card revenues are recognized on redemption of the card for goods, not when the card is purchased. From an accounting perspective, this is somewhat messy, particularly when consumers leave a balance on a card with no intention of spending it.
Elm by Example
Cloudcraft has some pretty output for diagrams.

https://cloudcraft.co/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722942
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Why are you Qt averse? Is it the C++ or something to have to do with Qt itself?
I don't have children either, and I oppose any subsidy in general.

I interpreted you as arguing in favor of it.
Story of a File (2007)
Without interest but not without cost - selling and redeeming isn't free.
7. pc sends stockfighter a bunch of money
I'm in a similar boat, and I've never understood the patronizing attitude lobbed at night owls by morning people.
Calling gift card sales 'basically an interest free loan' is a bad comparison as well. Aside from overhead costs associated with the logistics of running a gift card system, gift card sales are historically a source of confusion and headaches when it comes to financial reporting (due to rules about how revenue can be recognized on paper), which adds another layer of complexity and cost.
Who's Profiting from $1.2 Trillion of Federal Student Loans?
Conflating "climate model" with "parameter fiddling" seems like the more significant logical failure.
Yes, quite right. I forgot that part.
The author comments, "We enjoy dark chocolate after dinner most nights, but I learned the hard way about its surprising caffeine content."

It's worth noting that some people find (fortunately?) that caffeine does not disrupt their sleep.

Caffeine's relationship to one's chronotype (and genotype and sleep quality) will hopefully receive more study, since it's becoming clear that not everyone needs to heed the "don't consume caffeine before bed" common wisdom.

Here's a short article in Scientific American on one such study.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/caffeine-disrupts-...

The paper referred to is behind this paywall. Didn't pay; can't read. It claims preliminary evidence.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389945712...
It took me too long to realize you weren't serious
>I was prepared to read something truly dreadful in the samples that he gives, but (while they're far from well written) they actually do have meaningful content. It's not content I necessarily find valuable

But that is exactly what Noah says too! That there is content. Just that it has been made needlessly complex to keep people out and wages up.
Syrian hacker here, it's indeed a tough time to be a Syrian. we lost our homes and got no place to go, with almost no country would grant us a visa to enter even for work or business.

I just wanted to raise a point that this crisis not only affects immigrants and asylum seekers, but there are also hundreds of well educated and business founders who are faced with discrimination everywhere on grounds of their nationality.

for instance, last week many German banks rejected my application for a personal account due to my nationality. (although I have obtained a gmbh licensed company ).
it is always fine until we pull out our passports. and the response is always "sorry we have no information but we can't open the account".

I really wish if the west would stop putting all Syrians in one category, many of us are educated, smart, hard workers and willing to contribute to modern societies. we really just want a way out of our pain and to feel safe again ..
Yeah, there are plenty of those... an even bigger problem.
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Yes, which is why legalized cartels are one of the most heinous abuses of regulation that exist.
The Placeholder files are actually more deeply integrated into Windows 8.1 than you might realise: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn3...

The choice to remove them in 10 seems partly driven via user metrics and support calls - users were confused about which files were available when.

It makes using OneDrive pretty much impossible in bandwidth or disk space constrained environments, though.
Translating this to: If it was trained on a uniform corpus of pictures sampled across the space of "likely things people take pictures of" and then used on photos from that same distribution, what would you get?

The answer is: The same kind of things, but with a more balanced distribution across puppies and "other things."

Possibly the easiest way to think about how a deepdreamed image might look is to look at the microstructure of an image in one isolated patch, and then look at what that patch seems most like. Is a close-up, 50% crop of a button on a shirt like... a button? an eye? a donut? And then magnify the high-level concept evoked by that microstructure.

The key in getting the psychedelia of the deepdreamed images is to go up the DNN to the right level. If you go all the way to the top of an Inception-style classifier, you're left with a single (or small set of) outputs: "surfer." "dog" "cat." Letting the network propagate back down based upon that gets you just an output of what the network's canonical input is for that -- see, for example, what Deepvis outputs: http://yosinski.com/deepvis

If you stop at the first level, you basically get a lot of fancy edge detectors and sharp/unsharp masks. (The first layer is a lot of convolutions, so think about the effects you get by applying a convolutional effect in Photoshop.) Can look nice, but not exciting. See the examples in the Wikipedia article on kernels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(image_processing)

But if you stop in the middle, you get things that are mid-way between "pure concept" and "concrete feature", and that's where the cool happens. It's still localized within the image, but it's able to propagate up to entirely different types of images within that local region. So eyes in hands that are still kinda shaped like hands.

DD trained on a uniform set of images would have much more diversity in what it "imagines" in images. Christmas trees in forests; UFOs in pancakes; and lots and lots of human faces showing up everywhere (because real photos are heavy in human faces). Faces in faces with eyes in more faces in more eyes in more faces. ahh!
One obvious thing is OSX runs on top of a BSDish architecture. So while using Macos 9 or Windows could be painful in some respects, OSX has a shell etc. similar to Linux already.

Prior to Ubuntu, this was a no-brainer, setting up things like a wireless adapter could be a trial. I run Ubuntu on a System76 laptop and have been happy with it. I like being able to get the source for everything I use and be able to patch it.
>People who live in poverty aren't miserable. Far from it

You know this how exactly? I'm guessing you have never lived in poverty, but even if you have, you're making a demonstrably false generalization. Poverty permeates every aspect of the human experience. Studies have shown a clear correlation between it and suicide, likelihood of arrest and imprisonment, depression, and virtually every other negative thing a person can experience. Impoverished parents are inflicting their poverty on defenseless children that had no say in the matter.
Because Apple products are very popular. What laptop/pc comes with Linux preinstalled?
Disney's crazy 'FaceDirector' software can change actors' emotions in a scene
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This is a study of 18 people.

Take that with a grain of salt, but also realize that many studies on people tend to have really small numbers of people.
This is strange to me since our attention spans are getting so much shorter.

I read only fiction, slightly less than a book a week. This year I've read books between 75 and 1200 pages and I dont think there is any correlation between length and my enjoyment.

I do notice that for many authors their self-proclaimed 'masterpiece' tends to be their longest book. And in many cases, not their best.
Been pondering this the past few days.. I use Mailbox everyday and the alternatives just don't do it for me. Would love to create something that I actually use everyday.

However I question, if dropbox can't make a successful business out of it with their resources, can anyone?
My position is that possession and use of cryptography won't protect individuals against government's illegitimate actions if citizens let that governments rogue agencies continually amass more power, surveillance, and control over IT.

If you're against that position, please tell me why crypto alone (not active democracy) is all one needs to be safe against state abuse in a surveillance state that targets crypto users. I'm sure any activists aiding Chinese and North Korean dissidents will appreciate your tips, too. They, like I, have been under the same delusion that TLA's legal power matters and must be dealt with.
You're mixing up two separate things which the cartel offers: insurance and quotas.

You can also roughly split the "membership dues" into to parts. The 12% can be thought of as a fee for "all-in" crop insurance, which pays for things like storage for later sale during bad years of production and so on. Production quotas can be thought of as the fee for cartel membership.

The insurance issue is a purely financial problem, it can be fixed by financial products like crop insurance and futures contracts. That's how modern agriculture works. With a competitive market, the cost of this insurance would go down for farmers, since it would be provided at competitive market rates. 12% is an enormous fee. (The fees of financial products are harder to measure, since they are measured implicitly through things like futures prices and so on. But they would be much less than 12%.) 25 years ago these financial innovations not as developed as they are today. Quebec is still relatively isolated from these markets in all likelihood, but I bet we'd see good alternatives being marketed to farmers if FPAQ were dismantled.

The only benefit to farmers of a cartel vs. competitive markets is price-fixing. That is wretched and immoral, and self-destructive by its nature, as we see here. The fact that farmers can freeload on both the fees and the insurance makes it even worse.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10664998 (52 points, 10 days ago, 8 comments)