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I've become a morning person very recently (past two weeks). The hardest part for me was waking up earlier. I started researching sleep trackers and decided they were too expensive. I thought the sleep tracker apps for your phone where it uses your microphone or accelerometer didn't work.

But, with the app Sleep Cycle being free, I gave it a shot. And it works. Surprisingly well.

Placebo? Maybe, but I don't care. The point is the past week I've been waking up from 4:30 to 5:00 AM easily. Before with my usual double alarm setup of apple watch on table across from room and phone on night stand, I'd wake up at 5:30 AM, turn off the phone alarm and walk to my apple watch and turn it off. Then promptly went back to bed because I was groggy. This doesn't happen to me with the Sleep Cycle app.

Some people in this thread are saying you don't actually get extra hours because you end up sleeping earlier. While that's true, I've found that I am much more productive before my work day and can get my side tasks/work out of the way. Normally, after work, I can't get anything done due to being tired and constant distractions. Now, I get things done before work and still manage to accomplish nothing after work. A net gain of a few hours.

Just a final thought, I used to love being a night owl because there weren't any distractions for me. I'd have to wait til everybody in the house fell asleep to focus on work, and by then I'd be tired. I'd push on a little bit, sleep, and wake up for work the next day tired. I'm finding that I get mostly the same benefits if not more by waking up early.

Long story short, try the Sleep Cycle app. Maybe it'll work for you too.
The two parties agree to a large extent, although they would emphasize different points.

Those who expect dire events should attempt to empathize with "the other" enough to imagine a convincing argument to e.g. forego the diesel generator that would allow children to do homework at night, rather than write off such concerns as "ridiculous". The other option, of course, is brutal occupation, which is why one sees the bloody fingerprints of the military-industrial complex all over much of the recent warming hullabaloo.
This is part of the game. To beat this level you sweet talk the founders into letting you help them fix their scalability problems. If you get the site running in 3 hours, you get a bonus score of ∞.
Here are 7 simple tips for finding an excellent tech co-founder
It is absolutely reasonable to fear how ML may be misused by a human, and those concerns fall mostly in the realm of political theory and economics.

My claim is that I have seen no evidence that it is reasonable to fear a fictional self-aware autonomous AI (what I call HGI). The evidence people point to seems to have a very tenuous relationship with the reality of AI research.

Once we have even an inkling of an idea of how one might approach creating an artificial HGI, we can discuss how we can prevent it from being evil and taking over the world. Until there's actually a proposal for how one might construct one, though, any such discussion is worse than useless.

How can you talk about the risk of something when you literally have no idea what it is you are describing or how it's built, embodied with magical properties imagined by science fiction authors? To me, this makes about as much sense as talking about stopping aliens which could very well exist and could very well wipe out our civilization, i.e. great subject for wrapping up a party or going to the movies, but not exactly material for peer reviewed journals.
Cool. Pro-tip: Use the actually machine-parseable version I maintain at https://code.google.com/p/php-iban/ ... the officially issued text and PDF versions differ and the text version often has inconsistent formatting to boot.
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Through 15 years I was working on OS X, Windows up to Windows 7 and Linux (KUbuntu, Mint, Arch). In the end Arch Linux won.

There is no argument about the fact that OS X / Windows are much easier to use by people who start their jurney. However at some point cons are simply overtaking all the pros.

Although I disagree with some other commenters that Linux is hard to use on laptops (linux went through long way - "normal" people can enjoy it just like pros). I also do not agree comments about sharp look or battery life - I personally use Samsung Ativ 9 and find it way way more aesthetic than mac book. No problem setting up Arch on it. No waste of time to make things working.

And none of my devs is using OS X. They went through long way themselves and probably know better than me.
My observation is that Macs are much more popular in US so since I'm based in London my view may be biased.
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I've tried this one once or twice: https://jujucharms.com/
You are seriously suggesting that a 7 billion plus population is going to just roll with a level of increase that quickly like it is nothing? So I guess you feel that all of this 'forestall global warming' is hullabaloo... Most of the world lives at or below sea level. If 2 million 'refugees' can cause an unprecedented crisis, what do you think will be the effect of entire islands, countries, and regions mass migrating Inland will be?
Fair point. I meant the industry that is selling geothermal water heaters and solar panels to consumers for the poorly made suburb houses.
Most of the benefit of open source projects is that they are open to collaboration, I would avoid even using a project with policies like that if I knew about them.
Seriously, you're sending a 33 megabyte gif on your landing page? If I hit that on mobile I'd be so pissed off. Use a gifv or something maybe?
Interesting. My personal experience is that I can usually 'choose' if coffee will make me be more awake or make me sleepy. I just wonder if it affects sleep/REM quality regardless.
It looks like the x11 specific stuff is sectioned off in four source files, so I doubt it would be that hard to port to a different display server.
In the US, Muslims have already got more rights than non-Muslims, for example Christian. When you criticize Islam/Muhammad you will be called islamophobe, bigot, racist. When you criticize Christianity/Jesus you will be called progressive.
Seconded – you could see the trend start rolling in the early 2000s at conferences, meet-ups, etc. I knew a number of Linux / BSD users who switched and every single one of them cited driver issues as the primary motivation – having a coherent UI is _nice_ but not having to choose between an hour of battery life or daily kernel panics, playing audio/video easily & stably, etc. was compelling.
I'm on the instructions for level 2 and it points to the API docs (http://starfighters.readme.io/) but that URL is giving me a 404.
"have history of trying to profit off of someone else's copyrighted material"

That's quite a strong claim - could you provide evidence for it? Are you referring to HPMOR? HPMOR has always been given away for free, both online and in print, and J.K. Rowling has explicitly allowed non-commercial Harry Potter fanfics.
Probably the thought, "Next time I'm bringing a machine gun!"
There's an extra 's', try https://starfighter.readme.io/
The rationale described there for pybind sums up my experiences with boost. Now that much of the best parts of boost are available in C++11, boost ends up being more trouble than it is worth. In general, I think it is best avoided if you're writing software that you expect to still need supporting in a decade. And you can always borrow ideas from it - we have our own lexical_cast like template for example.

I also find from past experience that seamless interoperability is not always a good thing because it obscures the interface boundaries. It can make it hard to replace one side of the interface and can lead to programmers not familiar with the full design of the software doing things inefficiently. I once worked on a huge project using Corba and it wasn't always easy to know which calls were remote.
The Moon shot was an awesome feat. If we threw our Iraq/Syria/Afghanistan budget perhaps we could overcome the logistical challenges, such as the massive amount of weight we would be sending. The food bulk, return fuel, zero-g health effects, cosmic ray brain damage and timing the return voyage.
Current discussion (URL bbc.co.uk): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10709748 (42 points, 14 hours ago, 54 comments)
Does boost-python now support pypy?
You might be a good candidate to teach at a coding bootcamp.

PROS:
1. Your energy level would match the students
2. You could make sure the curriculum stays up to date, and every few years transition some large parts of the curriculum to a new language/framework.
3. You have tons of experience to draw for the many left-field questions you would get
4. The consistent new influx of students might feed that need you have for novelty

CONS:
1. Not sure if you could teach each session knowing 80-90% is the same content as the last, but you're just changing 10-20% for this batch.
2. Could you handle answering some of the same newbie questions every 3 months?
3. They would, like most jobs, want you to stick around, but this isn't a total CON, they are likely more amenable to you leaving than almost any corporate gig.

So maybe it's something to consider!

I do think you might need some more help in managing this, but in the meantime, you can always find work that fits what some part of you needs right now.
Will a Lego reproduction [1] of Difference Engine No. 2 computing 2nd order differences to 3 digits (the reproduction in the UK [2] evaluates 7th order polynomials to 31 digits, true to Babbage's design) suffice?

[1] http://acarol.woz.org/LegoDifferenceEngine.html

[2] http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/modernsequel/
that business model... if you've nothing nice to say, say nothing, i'll keep to that
It needs no coordination, that's why futures markets exist. We get estimates of future prices of these products. If the future prices make storage attractive, speculators can purchase syrup to store for sale in the future, each based on their individual assessment of the prices and risks involved.
"If you're serious you cannot reason" is such a great projection.
AngularJS and Bootstrap and Authenticated User Access
I do understand your point but I still feel you're missing something. It's not pure coincidence or random that there is not a lot of advice out there about how to stay up late and sleep in. Nor is it completely irrational that there is a lot about waking early. There's something to being in sync with nature and the sun, maybe, or the psychology of the /idea/ of getting an early start, even if it is just an idea. I would stop short of prescribing the precise reasons why this is a goal, but there are reasons.
It'd just be nice if they released a system whose CPU/GPU wasn't obsolete on day one.
Yup, I got it now from the API docs link in the level. Seems like a typo in the level 2 instructions.
Object Oriented Mathematics (1995) [pdf]
How I became a morning person? I had kids! They completely resynced my whole day. I don't know if this works for everybody but It worked for me and I can't belive now how I could take lunch at 5pm before.
System76. I use a System76 laptop right now.
Because of its entrenched political power.
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Why don't uber/cabs charge by euclidian distance of start/end points?
So it's exactly as simple. Loans also appear as a liability on the balance sheet. The only accounting complication relates to breakage (balances that will never be redeemed), which is free money for the company, so I'm sure no one cries over the accounting work involved.
Yes, anytime something makes it from a third-party library into the language, it's not worth the hassle of a third-party dependency.

Of course, this "hassle" is off-loaded onto the language, ie all C++11 users having to learn it.
The numbers the US uses for calories in fat, protein, carbohydrates and alcohol come originally from a man named Wilbur Atwater who around the turn of the 20th century calculated them by measuring how many calories someone was consuming and measuring the calories in their feces.

They've been modified over the years for specific ingredients, but we still use the Atwater system today because it is very easy for food manufacturers to use.

Europe and elsewhere use Rubner factors which are slightly different.
Modestly less trivial if you happen to put your chat server on the box with Rails because Rails is certainly not going to fall over and your chat server attempts to open several thousand websockets on a box with a not-too-generous number of open file descriptors, it appears.
The universe of Unix filters never ceases to turn up things I haven't seen before. Other examples for those inclined: tac, sponge, pv, join, paste.
this is one of the reasons I'll probably never get on the tablet trend. It's really uncomfortable to use a tablet for even 20 minutes for me, even with a keyboard attached the screen is still too low and too small to do anything useful
Minimalism is overrated - that site looks ugly and has nearly no features. Just compare it to the default Pelican look (a static site generator, link below). No doubt which one looks better.

Pelican also has loads of plugins. I wonder where I get more resources for pandoc + make site generation.

http://blog.getpelican.com/

https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins
Are you aware that the API docs have the subdomain "starfighter" on readme.io rather than "stockfighter"? Seems... strange.
I usually sleep crazy hours, in bed no earlier than 3AM. I also am affected by lack of sunlight and seasonal depression (SAD). Both combined were terrible, I'd get up to the sun setting, and then spend most of my wake hours in the dark.

3 weeks ago I decided to wake up at 5h30 every morning and go to the gym until 7h, when the sun rises. It's been really good and making the most of light hours in this season has been a major boost on my moral.
> Mozilla was in the best position to pursue FFOS in the purest possible manner

Well, maybe philosophically, but they didn't have enough influence, money, or manpower to actually make it successful. The first version of FXOS shipped without a calculator app because they couldn't work all of the bugs out. Clipboard support didn't make it until sometime around v2 or 2.5. Apps never got API support for things like front-facing cameras or bluetooth, or even access to which wifi networks were available. One constant complaint was that the Alarm app would sometimes go off at the wrong time, and sometimes not at all.

There's also other components to FXOS that simply weren't free software. The everything.me integration (which was a for-profit service baked in) was truly abhorrent. Hardware vendors refused to provide open drivers in many cases, leading to chunks of FXOS not being open source. Operators and carriers insisted on installing their own crapware on devices and forced the OS to lock them down so they couldn't be uninstalled. At the end of the day, FXOS as it was sold wasn't nearly as free as it was made out to be.

I don't want to pick on Mozilla, but despite having a great vision for FXOS they ultimately were vastly underprepared to build a solid mobile operating system. Even worse, Gary Kovacs bet the farm on FXOS and let Firefox proper rot in a corner.

You really make a tradeoff with FOSS. You can have software that's free in the most pure way possible, but it's ultimately going to be terrible unless the company putting it out is fiscally incentivized to make it great. If Acadine keeps FXOS as open as it is today, that's still a great win for the community and probably most of the users.
A toolkit like this is only another option in your basket if you can ignore real-world considerations like:

- Internationalization: The edit control doesn't support input method editors. On Windows, wide-character functions aren't used; that means Unicode isn't supported.

- Accessibility: Here I'm talking about the ability for users with disabilities, most notably blind users but also users with mobility impairments, to access a UI via assistive technologies such as screen readers or alternative types of input. This requires the GUI toolkit to implement an accessibility API such as Microsoft Active Accessibility or UI Automation on Windows, or AT-SPI for X11-based environments. This is something that practically everyone who sets out to implement a lean, mean, simple toolkit just doesn't pay attention to.

- Native look: The toolkit doesn't attempt to mimic the look of the rest of the system at all. On my Windows 10 machine, the demo looks like a throwback to Windows 95. This is also an accessibility issue, for low-vision users that need a different color scheme.

And there are probably other considerations I've forgotten or am unaware of. You'd probably be better off using one of those big, bloated C++ toolkits, like Qt or (better yet, IMO) wxWidgets. Not GTK, since that doesn't cover accessibility except under X11 via GNOME.
That doesn't even rise to the level of proof-by-disbelief; it's proof by hypothetical future disbelief. You've given no more reason to be confident in your hypothetical than the concerns about hypothetical self-improving AIs.

You're failing to sell this argument to someone generally inclined to agree with you about the outcome.
Congratulations!! Really happy for you Patrick
I feel the same about their UI/UX and every time I see a PayPal button I start thinking like "are they even aware of the UX of their service?". I was curious to see if I'm the only one who thinks like that. Thank you very much for all the explanations!
I'm unconvinced that we have any idea what a temperature rise will do. We've already had mass flooding, natural disasters, crop failures, starvation, and societal collapses for thousands of years. People apparently survived during the Ice Age, which was quite a bit colder than 4 deg, so I'm guessing the +4 deg is handleable, too. The lush plant growth and large animals of past hot ages makes me think it must be pretty livable. I doubt the food chains in the ocean or land will break down; we've seen plenty of robust food chain in previous hot ages. If the ocean can support huge dinosaurs and giant ammonids in hotter ages, seems like the food chain will do just fine.

People might have to move and change their habits, though. And national borders might change or societies collapse if people don't move/change.
true :)

and for those who are wondering - to be more specific on his expected behavior from my perspective (besides just generally being more proactive, thorough and genuinely showing interested in my story ) - case 1) "oh that's a tough one but let me research other cases where a transfer had been granted and let's see if there is anything we can do - instead he said i'd probably have to leave within 24hrs and if i don't then he'd be open to talk about if running out of status might me an option (WTF?!) case 2) "sorry it didn't work out - wanna hop on a call and see if we can go the B2 > H1b route? might E2 be an option? Or can i learn more about you and see if you're qualified for an O1? instead of just sending me the invoice with a higher rate. Why did i have to come up with all that myself? that's why i am so disappointed.
I successfully transitioned from a night owl (bed at 2-3am, up at 8-9am) to a morning person VERY easily -- but I cheated:

I moved from NYC to SF, but I didn't change my natural sleep schedule when I did ;) I just didn't let myself slip -- so the first week, I woke up at 5-6am every day and started to get tired around 11, and 3 years later, I'm on the same routine.
They are nice laptops but unfortunately not a viable option if you don't live in the US.
I don't particularly like the title the NYT chose. The kidnapping ended when the protestors chose it to end. That, and the fact that when it mentions the occupation, you would think they used math to do it, when in fact it was hardly relevant. Not really clickbait, but not the most clear of titles.

Still, an interesting read of perspectives from a specific time in history. Very interesting that they would choose to target a computer of all things, though I'm guessing one of the men arrested must have been aware of its value.
I am a very happy owner of a print copy of the comic, and I recommend it at every opportunity possible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrilling_Adventures_of_Lo...

It is an amazing work of art and scholarship. It's so much fun. It is indeed thrilling to imagine Ada as an accomplished horsewoman and lady of adventure, wrangling engines both within and without. In one of the stories, she's something of a parkour artist running through the gears of the difference engine. And it's all full of footnotes to primary sources that explain more about her actual life.

I find it more fun to read than Wolfram's blog post. Certainly more fun than, "in apparent resonance with some of my own work 150 years later, he talks about the relationship between mechanical processes, natural laws and free will."
https://starfighter.readme.io/ top navigation "Stockfighter" link links to staging.
Brian Kernighan uses Pine and stores his mail locally.

https://usesthis.com/interviews/brian.kernighan/

The screenshots are of Rob Pike's Sam editor.

http://sam.cat-v.org/
A Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency (2009) [pdf]
The hardware is pretty solid, you can literally beat up someone with a MBP, and 8+h battery life when coding (on the shell, not phpstorm/idea)... nothing even comes close to it.

And it's reasonably enough unix-y (and modern if you use macports to install current versions of core tools) to allow daily work on OS X instead of Linux.
"Make sure you've turned up the file descriptors" is the single-process socket server equivalent of "Turn off HTTP KeepAlive" for Apache sites. :)

(Yeah, I've had outage because of this too.)
It's pathetic that the appearance of a single word 'Islam' can now trigger reflexes like this, but at least the comment was flagged.
What they should do is wait for PS4/XB1 to come out, wait a year, then release a console with the same specs at a much cheaper price (due to economies of scale) but with Nintendo's titles and new control system. At least that way they still get the cross platform titles coming across.
The levels of fraud must not be that terrible compared with the profits made from legitimate gift card sales. Otherwise retailers would fix obvious stuff like this:

> The only items he was trying to buy were several $200 gift cards. When the first card he swiped was declined, the man fished two more cards out of his wallet.

Obvious solution is to ask for photo ID when selling gift cards. It needs to match the credit cards and the customer's face.

As for giving out gift cards for stolen merchandise, it should be possible to add a unique bar code on every high-value item and scan it on purchase and return. Then stores will know if they received money for the item when someone tries to return it. This also fixes the problem of people returning items bought at another store.
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I could see this being an issue if there were penalties for PI storage violations like there are for PCI.

PCI is the main reason to use something like Stripe.

Right now, if you store pi and get hacked, you just apologize in a post mortem blog post and move on.
I'm getting "Level Instance is not running" on the first level.
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We're products of evolution and thus we have physiologic reasons to have our sleep/wake cycles tuned to the sun. There's a decent amount of scientific evidence in favor of "sun-conscious" sleep patterns.

e.g. this review article http://www.nature.com/nrendo/journal/v12/n1/full/nrendo.2015...