skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The DSPS section is a spot-on characterization of my sleeping patterns:

""

People who suffer from DSPS often resort to their own implausible solutions that include:

-(poorly managed) free running sleep with an inevitable phase delays that ultimately result in sleeping through the day
-skipping a night of sleep at a point when the bedtime reaches an outrageously late hour (i.e. usually after the dawn)
-stabilization of the sleep pattern with medication (incl. melatonin) and artificial zeitgebers such as an alarm clock or a mom who pulls a sleepy student out from his or her bed for school"

Emergency: Melatonin: If your "protected zone" is stretched to the limit. You may consider an occasional pill of melatonin (e.g. 2 hours before your optimum bedtime). Remember that melatonin will affect your creativity and alertness, and should not be used on a regular basis.

""

I read this as I was preparing to sleep at 10 AM by taking a melatonin pill... I'll give his basic algorithm for fixing DSPS a shot over the holidays.

However, I don't think his characterization of melatonin is warranted. I take melatonin around 15 minutes before I sleep, similar to what gwern does in his article (http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin). This article suggests taking it 2 hours beforehand. It's been working fine for me for a year now, but it's interesting to see that in the natural melatonin production graph further down in the article, it peaks several hours before sleep.
Electric-powered heat pumps are much more efficient than any kind of coal burning - they run at 500%+ efficiency (they move heat around instead of generating it).
DJI Drone manufacturer opened its first physical store in China
You don't understand how mixing can work. I send money to your right pocket, you send me money back from your left pocket. At no point were your right and left pockets connected. As soon as you destroy your logs of what your pockets were, there's no way to identify which pocket was which.

Do you understand the concept of taint in block chain analysis, and how mixing can produce untainted coins?
The Beatles Coming to Spotify, Apple Music, and Elsewhere on Dec 24
The ranking puts German growth prediction to be almost zero while Japan's to be 2.8? I call this rubbish. Both countries were in the last years demographically pretty similar.

Both countries are however diverging pretty swiftly. While productivity in Japan was falling it was increasing in Germany. Moreover the recent development showed that Germany was making gains in demographics with higher birth rate and net migrations. Japan on the other hand was falling in recession several times in the last 5 years alone. Even without extrapolating the current trend, it is obvious that Japan would not do much with regard to its demographics while Germany's demographics is actually changing very quickly (and rather favorably).
I've looked at what this is, but it's not clear to me. Is this an alternative to Tor? How can it enable users in China to surf the internet for free? Is it some kind of VPN? A short intro is welcome! :-)
Wow, 154 comments and complete and utter cluelessness. Yikes. Seriously people, why are you commenting on a complex subject you clearly know very very little about? I suggest you go read the articles on lenr-canr.org before any further commenting. Better yet, get back to your day job. You have no idea how little you know about this subject. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mt-s...

Fact: Cold fusion is a phenomenon that has been studied by 100s of scientists and replicated 1000s of times by folks as diverse as the Navy and Toyota and published in many many different and respected journals.
The Ferrari 488 Spider gloriously burst onto the supercar scene
Fifteen Dogs: an apologue of rare insight. Apollo and Hermes make a wager that if dogs were given human intelligence they would die miserable, not happy. This was my favorite this year.

The End of Vandalism: a tale of a love triangle in a small mid-western town. Funny, dark, and a vivid portrait of that kind of town. A huge cast of characters, some only on stage for a moment or two and yet each integral and colorful.

The Annihilation Score: I love the series but this wasn't my favorite despite starring one of my favorite characters for the first time.

The Rhesus Chart: Another of the Laundry Files series. A sanguinary disease nearly brings down the Laundry. This one was snarky, good fun. One of my favorites from the series.

Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A creepy masterpiece of haute fan-fiction.

Without Their Permission: The tale of a privileged, mediocre man extolling the Libertarian virtues of the Internet. Anyone can open a laptop and get super rich! Without anyone's permission! Because that's why we're not all rich yet.

The Internet Is Not The Answer: A counter-point from Andrew Keene to Alexis Ohanian's unbridled optimism. Decent but not strong enough.

21st Century C: Amazing! Finally a practical book about C. The modern tool-set available, the notable language features of C99 and C11, and a few in-depth projects to pull it all together. Great book.

On Numbers And Games: A fabulous book by one of my mathematical heroes. Well worth getting through it.

Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's classic. I started collecting the new Penguin Classics line and the introductions are really insightful. These are well-researched and produced editions.

The Nature of Things: The epic from Lucretius. It was really eye-opening to finally read this book. Atomism, psychology, and poetic metaphors... from thousands of years ago.

... probably more I'm forgetting.
"Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years" - David Graeber - Bit of a slog, but worth it for an in depth look at the historic mechanisms of debt that are inexorably tied to violence and control

"Confessions of a Venture Capitalist" - Ruthann Quindlen - Peak into the world of VC, mostly interesting bc it was written in 2001 and her expertise was in tech. Not much has changed in that world it seems.

"One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking" - David Trott - Pithy treatment of design thinking from a writer with a staccato style.

"The Best Interface Is No Interface" - Golden Krishna - The best book on design out there IMO. Make it invisible. Plus the dude's name is fucking GOLDEN KRISHNA. Winner.
Has it never occurred to you (the obvious) that punishment is one of the things (if not the most important one) that keeps people from committing crimes? It's a matter of disincentive. Not only that, it's part of the reform, since it's a form of reprehension. I can't understand how you can't see what is basically common sense.
If you were released the average of 55 days early, my guess is that you are not re-incarcerated unless you commit another crime sufficient that you would be returned to prison. At that time the first 55 days of your sentence would be for the first crime, not the new one.

Just an assumption, IANAL.
You're free to set up a corporation provided you can pay the incorporation fee ($100-250), but who's going to loan money to an entity without assets for collateral?
Hero worship is stupid, but everyone is different. We all couldn't be Elon if we worked as hard as he does.
When the drone runs out of power, then what?
"Given a longer sequence of repeated interactions, it might be possible that members of a hierarchically organized group would partially overcome mistrust of higher ranked individuals in those that establish generous reputations and these individuals might be able to elicit more contributions from their lower ranked partners. "

To be clear about the implications of this study: Society = longer sequence of repeated interactions. This study is not relevant to thinking about organizing society. It acknowledges it has zero relevance to whether hierarchy is good or bad for human society.
Reading for technical knowledge
Helpful to keep in mind that India recently changed the way it calculates GDP by updating its base year and moving from a cost-of-input calculation to an expenditure calculation. This will give it a nominal boost as many currently non-market activities (cooking, cleaning, child rearing) enter the realm of the market as paid-for services, and are thus counted in the GDP calculation.

More on that in this previous article and discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10649925

One thing that high growth inevitably brings is the negative externality of pollution, as we've observed in China. GDP figures still do not account for this hugely important factor that degrades the quality of living of those in the affected area, as well as the spillover to the oceans and the atmosphere from improper disposal of waste (burning, dumping). It will be interesting to see how bad the pollution gets as manufacturing continues to ramp up, according to the higher "economic complexity" (read: diversified basket of exports) per Harvard's analysis.
This is misleadingly phrased. We have precise, verified models for quantum tunneling and at what rates under what circumstances it does and doesn't occur.
And people like you have some entitled thinking that you have the right to deny people like me (I am from a third world country that is mostly ignored by copyright owners) the right for culture and education.

I pirated thousands of stuff, and I am proud to say it, because pirating thousands of stuff is how I educated myself, and how I got cultured in things that don't exist in my country, and now allow me to do the amazing stuff that I do (including participate in the international economy, that has more money available than local economy, and earn enough money to sometimes be able to legally buy something, instead of pirating it).
Not only that, but Alpinestars sells a street jacket with an airbag system - along with their race suit. Hit Air (a system worn over your suit) has been in use by track riders for a couple of years now.
Airbags have been in use for equestrian sports for quite some time. A number of the manufacturers offer models for equestrian, power sports, or both.
I too agree it is ridiculous that you were given choices as to what to eat.
Does nissan.com meet the criteria for the sort of thing you're writing about?
So, Facebook says they "fixed" the issue of showing notifications to people outside India -- How exactly would they fix this? If an email is delivered to TRAI's mailbox, it stays delivered, doesn't it?
In addition to lordnacho's point, see things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15 .

You can't stay in orbit with plane wings because of air resistance, and with so little air you need rocket propulsion (for now, at least). But that's not to say there aren't some interesting games to be played with wings on the way up.
They also don't have Google in New Zealand.
I'm loving Click too.
More bullshit almost hits.

Exactly the same as 'scary thing' could..... But never happened.

Why does HN become crap whenever tech is the boogieman.

It's good to know dangers, but this bs upvoting nothing is pointless.
According to the chart, it will also be the decade of Africa -- which is sort of a nice change. :)
The same flamewar that suggests that when someone with a gun shoots people, the fault lies with the victims who were not carrying their own guns for self-defense?

(ducks!)
Not only that, but wasn't Armadillo one of the "straight-up-to-100KM-and-return" (suborbital) designs? If so, then there is no money to be made in that (except for wealthy people that want a 20 minute thrill ride). It is the "lateral velocity of Mach 25" type of rocket that gets you satellite launch contracts.
Show HN: Steps into Bitcoins
Is there some reason that we should believe that Harvard put little thought into their predictions? An hour doesn't go by on the Internet where someone isn't calling something rubbish based on their limited understanding of a given subject.
Google launching new AI Facebook M rival?
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1994/0143/latest/D...
So if I order my next iced chai without ice I will get more? :)
I couldn't get any flavor of almost any soda, that's what's wrong. Do you want to continue living in a world where you can't have a raspberry diet caffeine free root beer mixed with lime cola?
https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/learn/

It’s a distribution to run on a small “plug server” in your home.
1c/GB is a tenth of the price of datacenter bandwidth, a hundredth of residential DSL or cable access bandwidth and a thousandth the price of mobile bandwidth.

You're off by three orders of magnitude.
>But 50% of the rest of India doesn't pay for internet and it thinks there is no need to because that is ALL the internet has to offer.

I think you underestimate people's intelligence. More so, if they only want to use Facebook, or don't want to use anything else enough to pay for it, what's the problem?

>A young founder launches a new education app to teach reading/writing to poor villagers. But she first needs to get a 'license' from facebook.

Only if Facebook is the only ISP, which could only happen if government passed a law or regulation that made that so. Or if people are not interested in anything else, in which case they should not be forced to pay for anything else.

>They use other forms of communication to get their daily, unfiltered news.

Are you implying they wouldn't without net neutrality?

>The startup scene in India is growing at its natural pace and the culture has become more innovative

Not, it isn't. It would be more innovative if it was forced to compete with Facebook.

In Brazil where net neutrality is sort of in place the only thing that happened was people being deprived of "free WhatsApp + Facebook" mobile data plans (which didn't forbid them from acquiring a more expensive plan to access other things as you suggest it would!). Now you just have to pay expensive prices even if you just want to chat with your friends.
Hierarchical systems absolutely DO scale well. They are just not efficient in the task of adapting to a changing environment.

The proof that hierarchical systems do scale is in the military. They operate in absolute hierarchical fashion. In the past they did so with very limited communication, with headcounts unimaginable in today's organizations.
This sounds like a case of "Pascal's mugging" - the idea that we should be willing to pay for a very small chance of an extremely good outcome, because the expected value is high. There are arguments over how to resolve it, but taking it literally certainly leads to bad outcome. There is a virtually limitless supply of cranks claiming to have cold fusion, and I would bet a lot of money that none of them do.
My few problems have always been that a part of the screen is unresponsive, either by not being cleaned recently or being less sensitive due to the amount of use. Even then, pushing harder or holding your finger on longer generally does the trick (and probably exacerbates the problem if it's normal wear and tear).
Robert A. Heinlein, not Valentine Michael Smith (although he features heavily in the story).
I read a lot this year, so I'll just point out some highlights:

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante - The highlight of the year. I'm now partially through the 3rd book in the series. And amazing portrait of the friendship between 2 girls as they grow up and try to escape the violence and poverty of their small town in Naples.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - My guess is that plenty of people here have read it. Great read about the fall of civilization due to a massive flu outbreak.

Room by Emma Donoghue - Beautiful, heartbreaking, troubling and uplifting.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - A classic, glad to finally read it.

The Room by Jonas Karlsson - Absurdist take on corporate life about a man who finds a room in his office building that shouldn't be there.

Welcome To Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor - For fans of the podcast. I highly recommend both.

Uglies/Pretties/Specials by Scott Westerfeld - YA trilogy about a future in which everybody is made pretty once they reach a certain age. Not great literature, but a fun read. Although the second one is a little blah.

Get In Trouble by Kelly Link - Excellent collection of fantastical yet mundane short stories.

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine - Powerful exploration of race in America. I feel like I need to read it a few more times.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - Still one of my favorite authors. Story of a baby whose family is brutally murdered and ends up being raised by spirits in a graveyard.
"Chasing the Scream" - a timely and interesting summary of the war on drugs and its (in)effectiveness.

"Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard" - a fun book about fungi from a mycologist with a solid sense of humor.

"On the Move" - Oliver Sacks's biography. Insightful and uplifting, especially if you enjoy writing.

"Ready Player One" - a dystopian cyber thriller. Reminded me of Snow Crash. Good stuff.

"The Last Place on Earth" - a good (if labored) summary of the races to the north and south poles and their geopolitical impacts.

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - been on my list for years. Long but good.

"Steve Jobs" - needs no introduction. Got me interested in Isaacson's other books.

"Hallucinations" (Oliver Sacks) - insightful analysis of the prevalence and for-reaching effects of hallucination. It's a lot more common (and puzzling) than most of us realize.
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This is an odd paper. It reads like a so-so experimental game theory paper written by an anthropologist. The task was designed to produce Nash equilibria that would fit story they wanted to tell. And they as though they are surprised to see "the behavior of the two partners is only qualitatively similar to" the behavior the game was designed to elicit.

I think that the most interesting finding is buried halfway down.

"Another interesting observation is that for greater rank differences (lower k), the higher ranked individuals are prone to share an amount larger than the Nash prediction." This means that the player in the dominate position behaved more fairly then they needed to.

Given that finding I think this would be a better titile: "Hierarchy is Not as Detrimental for Human Cooperation as You Might Expect"
> Would anyone choose a language solely based on whether separators were required or not? Is your productivity dramatically increased by the choice of required separators? Of course not.

It may if you have to switch between languages. Getting syntax errors because of dummy separators can be quite frustrating at times. So the choice is mandatory separator or optional separators. I designed a language once in which most punctuation characters where treated as blanks.
Much of conservative charity is to churches and religious causes. It's the difference between praying cancer away and investing in cancer research. I can go on for a while about the difference between state offered social services in Massachusetts being far, far more effective than church offered social services in Texas. This difference in approach also has to do with 45.83% of people in Massachusetts are Catholic and with political beliefs in line with the Kennedys and only 18.72% of people in Texas are Catholic with many people from other forms of religion at war with government that wants to teach children science and evolution in schools and treat homeless people with medication, stable housing, and education rather than treating homeless people with prayer and preaching about Jesus.
This is their goals/capabilities page:

https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/goals/index.en.html

But nothing on this page is clear exactly which software packages are included, or how the distributed filesystem is federated, etc.
So I have been considering this. does conda track pypi or does it lag it? I have been concerned about moving over my requirements.text for a webapp with lots of dependencies
Good luck. I was just getting back into regularly reading a couple years ago. Tried for 1/month. Then it was 1-2. Now it's 3-4. Feels great - although I have to remind myself that it's okay if I don't reach some sort of quota each month.
When a Unicorn Startup Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt
Check out the video, this was actually a close call.
Finland Is Turning a Big Negative into a Bigger Positive
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway ( great book )

Hooked How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal ( great book very insightful )

The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg ( interesting topic, long book )

Bandit Algorithms - John White ( great book, very short and easy to get through )

Ask - Ryan Levesque ( interesting ideas on sales funnels for websites )

Predictable Revenue - Aaron Ross ( so so, I liked some of the sales ideas but I see them used too often now )

Sherlock Holmes Adventures - Mike Ashley ( good book if you like the original and want some fresh material )
That's interesting; shouldn't cost-of-input, income, expenditure measures all equal the same amount?
Changed my view on hacking.
I'm trying to work this out in my head, but I believe that this holds if m is a rational such that its numerator and denominator are not both perfect squares (e.g., √(2/3) is irrational but √(4/9) is rational). Am I wrong?
Or that they have screwed up themselves somehow. In '89, there were several labs which claimed to replicate P&F's results, too.

They were eventually found to have calorimetric or similar problems.
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Ultimately, what this paper means to me is that there is evidence (based on simplified conditions, granted) that people collaborate better when they believe they will receive a fair share of the outcome. This makes a lot of sense to me, especially when comparing to real life.

For example, why is it that in many cases it is the small startup that creates innovative new technologies compared to large and well funded established players? I guess there are many factors at play, but I would argue that at least one factor relates to a more successful collaboration within the smaller environment, which in part is sourced upon the fact that there is promise of a higher payout in the case of success (equity as part of the salary).
>flat hierarchies become the most effective organizational form

Luckily, as folks with an understanding of data structures we can see this is a very naive approach. 'Electric services' must have seemed very new and frightening to inspire this scattered response.
It slightly lags, but you can include pip requirements in an environment.yml file, and they install normally.

I really only use conda for the non-python bits of our stack: numpy/scipy/pandas etc - packages that are a pain to install on Heroku.
I would like to see messaging app that is as good as FB messenger with sophisticated AI capabilities that would help me make useful queries and have fulfilling responses. Plus, if they can implement data compression to reduce traffic in video and voice calls, that would be golden .
Are long-term GDP growth predictions ever anything other than completely wrong guesses?

Why do we take any of this seriously? Even the Federal Reserve and the BEA estimates going out a single year are usually little better than noise.
This is a C problem in general. You can create your own data structures and use str.buf + str.len.
My reading slowed to a crawl this year. Here were a few:

- Chronicles Vol 1, Bob Dylan. Inspiring, I felt very open to the world after. I loved his descriptions of Dave Van Ronk: "No puppet strings on him ever. He was big, sky high, and I looked up to him. He came from the land of giants."

- Peregrine, J.A. Baker. Intense, spiritual, like some sort of modern Moby Dick, but sparse, focused, elemental.

Next year I hope to read more Roberto Bolaño and start Elena Ferrante.
Definitely a good perception on what hacking really is. Thanks for the share.
Link to first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mKd3tPr9As
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
We have to use a mix of pypi and conda since quite a few of our dependencies are not in conda. We have a script which checks conda first, then falls back to pypi, all from one requirements.txt