skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the author took into account the safety of the plastic in creating these, which is a good thing. Maybe more so than dentists. You know "silver" fillings aka dental amalgum? They are 50% mercury by weight and are still being used. Supposedly safe because it is inhalation of mercury that is poisonous. Removal of those fillings with a drill can be dangerous. When some guy told me about this and was talking about it being the next asbestos/mesothelioma, I was thinking "sure! That sounds like conspiracy crap!" Then I looked it up on the FDA site like he suggested:

http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedur...

Anti-vaxxers are idiots and it is obvious that vaccines don't cause autism (original study was a fraud). The health benefit of vaccines is as undeniable as the lack of correlation to autism.

That said, dental amalgum is a chunk of mercury in your mouth. FDA says it is safe for people over 6yrs old, but I personally will stay away from it for any future dental work.
Read more Bukowski books, who knows maybe slowly you will heal yourself from this addiction.
Also a great read How to Be Idle/Tom Hodgkinson
I don't understand the reasoning behind this. What possible benefit could you get from turning off all syntax highlighting?

It's useful to distinguish between language keywords and user specified names. Being able to visually ignore one of them, while focusing on the other, is a tremendous benefit. It cuts down the number of things you need to hold in your head at once, by half.

It's useful to distinguish between local variables and instance variables. It helps to better understand the dependencies that exist between a method and other methods/state.

It's useful to distinguish between mutable variables, and constants. It tells you at a glance how something is being used, and the pitfalls you need to watch out for.

Turning off all syntax highlighting destroys all of the benefits above, and I can't think of any notable benefit you would get out of it.

I guarantee you, whatever "upside" you think you're feeling right now, it's simply the novelty effect. This is a very common phenomenon in AB testing. Often times, you see an initial improvement, simply because users respond positively to the initial novelty of something being different. I guarantee you, if you continue to work without syntax highlighting for 6 months, and then turn it back on for a few weeks, you'll realize how much you actually love it.
It can also help when jumping around between many different languages, especially when they are similar.
Revenue != Income. Gross profit (before paying any taxes) will probably be a fairly small percentage of turnover in manufacturing - you have to pay employees, purchase supplies, etc...

EDIT: just looked it up and most of "industry weeks"'s Top 50 manufacturing companies seem to have profit margins in the 10% range: http://www.industryweek.com/resources/iw50best/2015/48
Root me pro
That would be an interesting challenge to the money laundering laws. Suppose you want to fund anti-bank political speech and you fear unlawful retaliation from financial institutions if they know who is funding it.

Does anybody know if that has ever been tried in court?
Nim has a powerful templating system that allows introducing new syntactic elements and semantics, but maybe you are thinking about generating output code in multiple languages (C, C++, JS...)?
It’s time to break up with noSQL, noDB is hot
Show HN: Repolabels, Dynamic SVG labels with basic stats for GitHub repositories
This whole issue should be mentioned in the article, just in case anybody ignorant wants to do this with unsuitable materials.
The list of secure messengers that run on mobile and desktop is already pretty short. Add voice and video chat to the requirements...

I'm kind of skeptical if this is the solution, but it checks a lot of boxes I want.
You need to get a spelling and grammar review from an English speaker. The spelling mistakes make the website look bad.

"What is Wrajte is the fist social network where you can win money from your likes."
I have experienced a similar thing while freelancing or design and web development. I used to work 16 hours some days and less hours others, but then sometimes I would need to work and found it hard to kick it into gear.

I think creativity is like a well, and when you do creative work its like drawing that water out. If you use too much water one day, the well runs dry. You have to wait for the goundwater to fill it up again.

Not only did I begin viewing creativity as a limited resource I create and have access to over time, but I noticed that some activities, like reading about science, listening to music, and walking around town actually increase the rate at which the well fills up.

So now I have made it a daily habit of doing things that inspire me, and I also daily draw from the well like the author said - but Im more careful not to creatively 'overdo it' and leave myself unable to be creative the next day.

Viewing it this way has helped a lot, for all the same benefits the author listed. Im in a rhythm where I dont feel I need a break on the weekend, I just still have energy.
I live in a a pocket region doesn't have Daylight Saving. This year we added the town of Fort Nelson to our little time zone. Nobody concretely seems to remember why we started to do this, but it is generally agreed on that we do it for business reasons. Much of our business is tied to our neighbors to the east in a different time zone. With the winter months typically being more busy. Coordinating resources is much easier given this system. I thought I would throw a counter argument into the ring, although I would state it is an edge case.

Also, I am thrilled about news being at 11 again.
Those are supplementary laws -- since all country also have similar copyright laws too.

And 99% of those you mention are for avant garde, classical, jazz, traditional and other endangered species of art.
Some people are definitely in the camp against syntax highlighting.

Some examples:

1. Linux Akesson (LFT) wrote an article quite some time ago about it: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/

"A case against syntax highlighting:

Do you rely on syntax highlighting when developing software? If so, you may be shooting yourself in the foot. In this post, I will argue that syntax highlighting, while aesthetically seductive, moves focus from content to form, and discourages those who look at the code from trying to understand it."

2. The Acme text editor does not support syntax highlighting and probably never will. Prominent contributors to golang use this editor.

On my own, I started to program without syntax highlighting, then used it and now I use a much weaker one. I like to be able to track individual variables by color as a form of semantic highlighting and to bring up comments rather than dimming them like it's often done.
And most individual people, especially those involved in an industry only as consumers, have naive and ridiculous ideas of what would work.
They have comparison table on "Privacy" page:
https://wire.com/privacy/#table-competition
They're not really silly moves, it's just that in order to get into a good state for AlphaGo, Lee Sedol would have to miss the obvious response to those moves.
They say "No advertising" on the front page.
This post misses, for me, the greatest benefit of programming without syntax highlighting enabled. I went through a period of doing it for 5 years or so and the biggest effect was ultimately on how I wrote code, not how I read it.

Without syntax highlighting I gradually became more focused on the legibility of what I was writing, because none of the visual cues were there when I read stuff back. Function length, module size, naming and vertical whitespace were are all things that I began to think more deeply about.

I turned syntax highlighting back on a few years ago because I was getting so many complaints from co-workers when pairing on stuff at my machine. But I definitely think the experience made me a more considerate, better programmer and I'm glad I did it.
Your occlusion/teeth position is not arbitrary and it impacts other parts of the system like the maxilla, the mandible, and even your tongue. Changing it only based on aesthetics can unbalance the forces that you were applying before the treatment and other issues can appear.

This doesn't mean that every dentist really cares about this issue but you should search for a professional who cares about this.
I agree with this article mostly, although 3 hours a day might be too little to make good progress with work for some people.

This article reminded me of my previous workplace (about 7 years ago) where my manager discouraged engineers from working for more than 6 hours a day. He recommended 4 hours of work per day and requested us not to exceed more than 6 hours of work per day. He believed working for less number of hours a day would lead to higher code quality, less mistakes and more robust software.

Although, he never went around the floor ensuring that engineers do not exceed 6 hours of work a day, and some engineers did exceed 6 hours a day, however, in my opinion, his team was the most motivated team on the floor.
I'm not sure where the 17% is coming from either. The linked study talks about 300 deaths over a 10 year period. That's 30/year which, relative to the 30K or so automotive fatalities in the US per year is 0.01%--i.e. a almost vanishingly small percentage. It's actually not implausible to me that there would be some tiny effect associated with switching time/schedules even if it were only because of "OMG, I forgot to switch my clock and now I'm late for a meeting!" [EDIT: If you apply the 30 annual number against weekly fatalities you can get up into the few percent range. But you're really in the noise with these kind of numbers.]
Good point. I'll add some info about this.
I try and plug http://concurrencykit.org/ whenever I see someone looking for something like this. It's built around providing portable atomic intrinsics for parallel code, but the data structures are also very well done and work just as nicely for single threaded code.
> burnt out over the years and their extra hours made no difference because the business success was determine by something outside their control.

If you're answering in this way, maybe other posters also interpret my post as "advice" or "prescription" that you must work 80 hours a week to be successful.

That's not what my downvoted post was about. Instead, it was an observation of founder psychology that the questioner may not be aware of. I'm saying that there's a species of entrepreneur where there is no dichotomy of "work" vs "life". Their work is life. If the founder has that mentality, there is no "life to give up" and therefore, the OP's question is nonsensical to them. That type of crazy passion is in the peer group of entrepreneurs. That's the competition.
Well, some source code is on https://github.com/wireapp

But it seems that only some crypto libraries are opensourced, no frontend and things like that.
The difficult, and often brutal reality of startups is that success isn't a direct result of how hard you work. There are no rules.
No thanks.

I started using syntax highlighting still in the MS-DOS days, and hate when I am forced to downgrade my developer experience.

But to each its own I guess.
If I understand this correctly, this could keep government agencies from continuously monitoring devices. It'd be more like a snap-shot rather than an uninterrupted timeline. I'm quite sure this is not what government agencies want.

Although President Obama recently said at SxSW that what law enforcement agencies need is the equivalent of private property search warrants I think what the actually want is more akin to a master key that allows them wholesale access whenever they want. So, they probably won't resign themselves to anything less.

Besides, this approach still doesn't solve the problem of who will do the safekeeping of those keys. If such keys exist they will be abused.
You either learn to live on less, or switch to billing by project ;)
So the RPi foundation deliver the first mass-market hackable board, capturing the imaginations of children and adults alike to start delving into the guts of computing instead of seeing computers as magic black boxes, make barebones devices easily purchasable where previously you could only by via B2B channels, pour money, heart, and soul into doing public outreach, educational materials, and more, and keep updating the system to provide accessible mass-market devices to tinkerers the world over.

But their entire work is 'lipstick on a pig' because they used an ugly hack to work around the byzantine mess that is embedded firmware code and licensing, and people should go out and buy another board whose entire existence is only possible because RPi demonstrated the market existed. Way to go giving people credit for their hard work..
The media has hyped up Mayer and Elizabeth Holmes too much, so much so now that their companies are embroiled in difficulties they're still the first female CEO's I can think of, when there are better examples where the female CEO's track record has already been proven.

In my mind, to think of the corresponding female CEO to Steve Jobs, Holmes immediately comes to my mind, who leads a company with smoke and mirrors...
One thing that improved quality of life was for me to define success. Ask yourself: What do you want?
I wasn't smart enough to come up with that question, it was a friend who asked me point blank. Took me about a year to be able to answer it. But things are now much better and I have a more positive outlook for the future.

Businesses come and go. So does money. But you are not eternal. Figure out what you want and then work backwards from the end goal to the present. Set yourself small goals. Be patient. Learn to forgive yourself for mistakes l. And above all, just try to be happy.

Must you have no life to run a successful business? No, but you must make sure to have a life. Whether you have a business or not.

Best of luck OP!
>Sunrise here in Chicago was after 8:00 am, which put school children out on the street at bus stops before dawn in the dead of winter.

Well, that's no longer a problem because children are never left unsupervised anymore.
The machine beat him 3 times and was more or less expected to win again. It didn't, which would imply that Sedol played an exceptionally good game. Seems pretty obvious to me.
"live your life as though your equity is worthless"

that is really nice to see in an offer letter. a lot of hipster-y startups do the opposite, and act like its an alternative to hard cash.
How long until you had any mentionable cash flow? Or are you still floating on savings? Two years of lost cash flow for me would be impossible, not to mention, if somehow entirely saved, would more than pay off my mortgage
This is one of my gripes about working in an office. More often than not I cannot work continuously from 9-5, and end up wasting time just trying to get myself back into working mode - which usually descends into browsing HN/Reddit/etc or just working half as effectively as I usually do.

When I work remotely and have freedom over my time, I can take a few hours off to go for a walk, sleep, go for a long lunch, meet friends, or even play games. Afterwards I feel recharged and can be 110% productive, and usually end up working more hours than I would in an office.

I did this for a lot of last year, as I needed to overlap with teams in India and PST, so I usually worked 10am - 10pm taking a few hours off in the afternoon. I was able to get so much more done because of that extended break.
Yes, everybody kind of agrees on what are the right answers in common situations (like "murder of a human who does not present a threat to others is bad") but for every principle which aspires to be general its detractors have been able to present an example where it leads to conclusions which can not be universally accepted as ethical. For me that is strong evidence that there is no such principle.

An apt analogy with software engineering! I guess I believe that there are no universal principles there either. If the OO-evangelist and the lisper then each go on to develop useful and robust applications then they are both right (and that puts me squarely into consequentialist bucket with regards to software :)).
Of course there is. X1C flexes like it was made out of rubber. I can hold the edges of the display and it's terrifying what how much you can twist them. The aluminum case of the MBP tolerates heat better, the X1C get really loud under load while the MBP is much quieter. Touchpad is just incomparable.

And of course, if you need OSX for work then only MBP provides that.
>I don't understand the reasoning behind this. What possible benefit could you get from turning off all syntax highlighting?

He explained his reasoning (and theories why it would work) in enough detail. You might disagree, but I can't see how you can't understand it.

>It's useful to distinguish between language keywords and user specified names. Being able to visually ignore one of them, while focusing on the other, is a tremendous benefit. It cuts down the number of things you need to hold in your head at once, by half.

That's the conventional thinking. The whole point of TFA is that it's not useful -- rather it's distracting, making eyes automatically focus in such distinctions while losing the bigger picture.

Plus, just because you've colored "language keywords and user specified names" doesn't mean it's now easier to "visually ignore" one of them while focused on the other, it can mean the exact opposite: the extra color distraction makes you jump from one to the other -- unless you put extra conscious effort.
Ask HN: What are some back end heavy side projects?
A lot of web developer side projects I see are either open source libraries, or very front end heavy things that focus mostly on visual design and interaction.

What are some side projects that you've built, where the element that made it special was on the back end?
Yeah, this is rather the problem with the Raspberry Pi. For example, the Pi Foundation recently started work on a firmware that uses a well-known, common technique that's in almost every modern audio DAC to increase the audio quality of the sound output hardware they've been using since the original Pi. Because sound output is part of the incredibly proprietary GPU firmware they're the only ones that can do this.
I read it more of a letter of disappointment. As I'm talking to both hobby users (makers) and people using the Pi for work or in startups that work on top of Pi, the differences in opinion are glaring. Users have almost nothing but positive things to say about the Pi and the Foundation, while the serious people have a much more skeptical view, and keeping a distance as being burned multiple ways by working with, or trying to work with them. This post is more of the latter, though maybe with more bold font and exclamation marks than usual.

I myself am an observer in it, have experiences in both camp, and think that people shouldn't take it too seriously - neither the positive comments (the occasional over-the-top enthusiasm), nor the criticism.
NN = nomen nescio ("I don't know the name") You use it when you cannot name the source of a quote, or when you would like to protect the source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomen_nescio
So, philanthropy?
>What is your point?

You don't know what they value most, only they do.

>That wasn't the question.

True, to much hypotheticals

>And your IP address and which comment threads you are interested in and which opinions you express and which comments you vote on in which way ... but I guess that's besides the point anyway.

Your right about that, but if I cover my tracks I give a lot less data then say a Facebook.

>How is that a choice you have regarding other people being manipulated against your interests?

You don't and you never will. People have been manipulating others since the the dawn of humanity. My point is that if people have choice they can take in many inputs and decide the best way to make decisions for themselves instead of being forced to use a service.
That one does is not mass produced either right? I guess I am the only one who finds Ratpoison on Linux far better than Windows any day which is what I use on my Openpandora and it does allow me to be productive.
Do you have a link toward this interview?
It is an hipster thing, coding without syntax highlighting, no completion, only CLI and the original Vi.
That is blaming a symptom for a problem. The fact people "expect" the sun to rise between 4-6am and go down between 6-9pm is just a product of a broken timekeeping system from two hundred years ago.

"Time" is not a thing that cares what side of the planet you are on, and it makes international scheduling and communication literally hell when you have to calculate time zones.

If we are going to fix time, we should switch everyone to UTC time. If you want to go to work in the dark and leave when the sun rises, have your company schedule hours accordingly. Changing DST now doesn't change that, your business is still setting hours arbitrarilly based around an archaic model of "wake up at 7 work 9-5 go to bed at 11" no matter where you are on the planet. It just makes no sense, and is simply culturally normative so people expect it and structure their internal model of time around it.
> Well, there's no true scottsman after all.

This isn't a no true Scotsman fallacy, because parties do have official, stated platforms. And to my knowledge, this is not part of the Libertarian party platform.

Being able to find some members of the party who support an idea is not the same as saying that "many members" support it. And frankly, I'd be very skeptical of the notion that this idea has widespread support within the Libertarian party, given the rest of their platform and values.
Absolutely. There is a challenge here and we must acknowledge it. The challenge is how do we ensure people can sustain themselves? One part should be universal basic income so we can ensure people don't physically starve to death. There is a second part here as well though. People need to feel they are doing something worthwhile, that they are productive. Basic income won't solve that. My hope is as we reduce inefficiencies in the labor force, we will be able to put more towards infrastructure building and repairing as well as (like someone else said above) taking care of the very young, the very old, and those in need.
>> So the RPi foundation deliver the first mass-market hackable board

I take issue with this.

They certainly managed to capture people's interest but they were not the first and they absolutely still have black boxes on their devices. And no, there were many previous devices available through normal online retail channels.

The 'Plug Computing' phenomenon from a few years previously, while not on the same scale, did some of this.

And did you even read the article linked? At no point does the author say their entire work is lipstick on a pig, just that some of the way the Pi 3 works may class that way.

Open(ish) embedded computing existed before the Pi, they did good work taking it more mainstream, but please don't credit them with everything.
Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society
> And the ability to install whatever OS I want trumps everything else.

Agree, along with the ability of actually developing and compiling, and running your software directly on the same device. There's just nothing else out there in this kind of form factor.