skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am more optimistic - the various revolts and revolutions, numerous events in the past of destruction of the aristocratic classes, the modern phenomenon of electing party insurgents (Trump, Sanders) shows people giving up power is, in the long run, a free choice. Authority must be at least somewhat benevolent to continue to be.
The owners on that show still get paid though. And every one of them gets the location printed in big letters on the screen, which is more than some of these streamers are doing.
Although failed, the Sinclair C5 electric 'car' was built by the Hoover company in South Wales. Hoover made vacuum cleaners in the UK at the time rather than just offload them from a boat.
That's interesting, but it takes away a lot of the advantages of working remotely. I would rather go to the office than working under this kind of surveillance.
Do you have a preferred sketching tool? One thing I've yet to figure out remote is a seemless whiteboard session.
That's right. People who contribute to human knowledge by editing Wikipedia are vastly undercompensated compared to the movie industry.
Exactly, because there are huge differences between people in HN and other people on the internet. most (not all) stuff in HN is quite good and the links to books/papers are my favorite ones.
In the Soviet Union, and I imagine the other Marxist–Leninist countries, people were sometimes diagnosed as mentally ill for not believing in socialism.
> If we must die, if we construct our own world, and if each of us is ultimately alone, then what meaning does life have?

Whoa. That definition sounds like super depression.

The reason I suggest meditation is because it gives you a focus on the "now". That is, by practicing thinking about one thing, your breath, you enhance your ability to focus on whatever is in front of you. When our heart races, as in animals, it's because something appears that we did not see approaching. The solution is not to anticipate everything; rather, it is to accept what is happening and adjust to it. No amount of thinking can give you the perfect foresight to know precisely when a tiger will approach. You just need to see it and move. That requires intense awareness of your surroundings. Awareness and focus are enhanced by meditation, exercise, hobbies, studying, work, etc.

What this article calls "superficial day-to-day aspects of life", I would call "now". Now is equally important to other things, if not more important.

Growing up I would often think of other things while doing superficial day-to-day things like folding laundry. I'd make a mental list of other things I needed to do. If someone came in while I was doing laundry, I could not give them my full attention because my mind was trying to memorize something else.

This article argues that gifted children in particular need support and "touch" from parents. I'd add that we could all also benefit from increased awareness. Meditation can help with that.
Thank you for the references!
I suspect (I don't have evidence I will admit, I'd be interested in any real evidence that exists!) that you have far too rosy a view of hunter / gather lifestyle.

Mostly, it was more important for people to follow the rules, or people die. You (for example) couldn't keep quiet when you had to (while hunting, or hiding)? Food would escape, people would die. You felt some days you couldn't face going outside to hunt or gather? There wasn't a safety net for people to keep bringing you food until you felt up to it again.
What happens when all of your DNS name servers go down?
If the developer can't keep people from sharing the content, they're going to have to recover their costs from the relatively few people who actually buy the game, which means stratospheric prices. The only people who would by are the streamers who can commercialize their copy of the game, and rich people who just want to play. The rest of us would be stuck.
Show HN: Simple Colorful HEX, RGB and HSL generator.
I don't think it would.
since material is supposed to enter the public domain after a time(its been a while as copyrights get longer, but thats another issue), if it was on an automated blacklist, it likely never would removed from the list, making copyright effectively forever.
Go to any office in the UK and they'll have a Numatic Henry. Go to any factory and they'll have one of the bigger Numatic models. Get a professional cleaner to come to your house and 9 times out of 10 they'll bring a Henry.

It can't just be because of the cute face...

https://www.numatic.co.uk/

(no affiliation by the way, I just wasn't sure how to put the link inline!)
Sorry, didn't know it had condescending connotations.
Definition of mental illness is relying on whether a condition conflicts with society. Therefore, as a function of 19th century western society, it was a mental illness; thankfully, now it is not.

Without a context of environment a definition of mental illness can not possibly exist. For example, paranoid schizoprenia wouldn't be a mental illness in an environment where all paranoid fantasies turned out to be true.
The information advantage is when you know something that's true that most people haven't yet realized to be true, often accredited to Peter Thiel. Examples from the past:

- Smartphones > dumb phones (invest in AAPL)

- more dollars spent with online ads than TV and Print (invest in GOOG)

- cloud computing is better than managing your own servers (invest in AMZN)

- eating Chipotle is a better option than McDonalds (invest in CMG)

These information advantages are not necessarily gained by spending many hours of research, but a side effect from every day living and working. Will a research analyst realize the impact of a scalable computing API more than engineers that relies on it for their careers?

A future example: If you're a programmer using Github for every job in the past 10 years, maybe buying Github stock if it IPO's wouldn't be so bad.
Well it's only a matter of time before being a 'homophobe' is considered a mental disorder and will make the person liable to be sent to a mental 'hospital' until he recants his viewpoint.

This was a favourite strategy of Stalin, by the way. If somebody didn't like communism enough then surely he must be a loon.
I'm sorry to be so pedantic, but prevent an argument from anyone looking
for confirmation, the quote is from the HN FAQ [1], not the HN
Guidelines [2]. Both are linked at the bottom of most HN pages.

BTW, Gus, at least some of the time I've been trying to use your
preferred "Previous" format with points, days, and comment count when it
seem relevant and useful (i.e. when it won't be killed as a dupe). You
suggested it in a comment a few days or weeks ago. It's more work, but
I'd bet it's more helpful, especially for new users. Most of the time,
adding dupe links is simple and should happen quickly since it prevents
split discussions and manual merges.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Two of the models that Pepe alluded to are Mueller's Ratchet and Kondrashov's Hatchet. We know that sex is powerful because it persists despite the high cost.

Mueller's model assumes that fitness decreases as a linear function of deleterious mutations. In simplified terms: Got n bad mutations? You're more likely to reproduce than someone with (n+1) bad mutations.

In an asexual population, individuals will have the set of mutations plus those acquired by mutation from their time of divergence. When you add sex to the mix (ha!), your population stops looking so flat. It introduces variance and selection culls the maladapted individuals. What's really cool about this, is you can model the deleterious mutations being driven out of the population.

Kondrashov's model is even more powerful. Basically, it says that there's some capacity for deleterious mutations. A couple of things wrong? Yeah, you'll reproduce. Too many? Well, you stepped off an mutational cliff and you aren't long for the world. This step function actually removes deleterious mutations from the population faster than Mueller.

The advantage of sex is obvious even on an individual basis. We all should have a chromosome that's "worse than average". When you mix and match them among your gametes, you'll end up with some non-viable gametes and some superstars. By failing fast, any parental investment can go toward offspring who are more likely themselves to be viable.

[For more information, check out Gillespie's Population Genetics]
Show HN: Better code review for GitHub
The return profile is not the end-all-be-all for an investment. There's different strategies for tax avoidance, income generation, and for handling inheritance situations.

Most folks here are clever enough to work these out on their own, but the question is whether or not it's worth it for them to do so if a small portion of that money can pay someone to do it for them.
>Definition of mental illness is relying on whether a condition conflicts with society.

This just sounds like a scientified social inquisition.
> but that's what psychology is really for... for enforcing, disciplining and punishing people that don't conform to the economic or social norms...

This is quite fallacious. You are essentially describing fundamental peer/societal pressures, not psychology, in some sophomoric attempt at wit. There are individuals who truly suffer from deep psychosis and other troubling issues. Let's not be so callous with our broad brush strokes.
Absolute numbers don't matter, only frequency, as in evolution you have to assume that individuals are reproducing fast enough to exceed the carrying capacity of the environment.

And yes, once you get to more mutations then sex is more advantageous for a number of reasons. No one is claiming that sex is not better over long enough time scales. The question is how can it be advantageous enough to become fixed in a population over the span of a couple generations.

And yes, sex did evolve gradually. Slime molds have optional sex (and more than 2 sexes!). But still keeping the machinery around is expensive. One would expect that individuals that ditched it would outcompete those that kept lugging it around unless there was a relatively short-term benefit to sex.
I understand what you mean. For me it was not a problem. If you are working in office people can count the hours you are sitting as well. I didn't view working remote different.

And you can still turn the stream off if you want to concentrate. I can't do that in open office.

If the monitor was turned off for some reason it immediatly turned into eavesdropping as people simply won't feel that you are there. So I think it was important that audio would only travel if person listening was being seen. That really helps the lizard brain to sense that someone is present.
https://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance...
Lawmakers say NSA plan to expand sharing data ‘unconstitutional’
Punctuated equilibrium is a reaction to your claim that evolution speeds up exponentialy with the size of the population. In practice, it's more like you need very small, separated group to move things forward. It's explained by the fact that one gene contribution to fitness is heavily dependent on other genes, so an in-one-context-advantageous mutation has problems with crossing-over destroying some conditions of its success.
Would the downvoters care to explain how I'm wrong? Maybe I am, but if so, I'd like to know how.

Edit: Oh, maybe because "speeding it up" is not the primary reason for the parallelism. OK, fair enough. The parallelism is to subvert the 10 attempt limitation. Point is, you're still trying 10,000 times.

Or am I missing something?
I don't believe we are that close to running out though, are we?

Using the number scheme, this person calculated^1 that (assuming Amex starts issuing 16 digit cards) there would be 3*10^14 + 10^11 or 4.001e+14 possible combinations.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/3wj8eb/requ...
Depends on the file type, there are a few that ignore anything in certain areas and if you change the extension should just work.

Pretty sure, with gifs and zip you can just combine them together with one append command and you are done.
I'm not sure anyone has much to learn about fonts, and design generally, from web designers.
Very nice. Anyone could point me to LLVM's code coverage and whether they use TDD?

"Amount of unit tests is pretty small comparing to regression tests. One reason behind that decision is that LLVM internals constantly change all the time. Supporting tests under such conditions is very time consuming."

Isn't the whole promise of testing is easier maintenance in the long run?
Also, regression tests seem to run much faster, is it because of the Google Test?
> It is the integral over Omega in the rendering equation [1]. This is expensive to compute.

The approach would be just exhaustive summation, I suppose. Would symbolic integration be equally expansive for simple enough geometry? Simplified approximations to the geometry, i.e. bounding boxes, would probably not look real enough. I get, there are all kinds of approaches.

I heard Monte Carlo method used to limit the search space to a random subset.
Henry Hoovers have serious fans :

http://i.imgur.com/fscSWvA.jpg
Next somebody is going to be telling me their camera has 20 mega minecrafts.
Again, it's the exact opposite. In an asexual species, a disadvantageous mutation will be flushed from the population very quickly, as those without the mutation will outcompete those with. You'll never get an individual with ten disadvantages.

On the other hand, in a sexually reproducing organism, a disadvantageous mutation can be masked if recessive, and selective pressure will only remove homozygotes from the population. The end result is that harmful mutations can stick around for a long time, and even accumulate in individuals.
There is a dedicated authentication coprocessor, to which the communications will be authenticated, so yes.
Yes of course. I did it because my wife got job offer in a different city 6 hours drive away and I wanted to stay with her but still keep workin for my old company.
Why Every Woman Should Become a Mentor
The prevailing ideal of a commercial software team is a tight knit tribe. Members are selected for "culture fit", ability to do pleasant small talk around the lunch table, personal hygiene, and so on. The team should huddle around every day for status updates, bonding, and small talk. Communication should be frequent and face-to-face collaboration is considered the ideal.

You can adapt this ideal to remote work situations and there is lots of material about how to accommodate that. But many people who gravitate toward remote work are probably trying to move away from this ideal.

For some it may be because they've experienced open source collaboration and don't see why commercial development can't be done in a similar way.

Open source projects tend to use low-bandwidth, asynchronous communication, perhaps as a cultural heritage from the days of slow internet. That enables collaborators to schedule their work in whatever way suits them.

Many programmers are psychologically introverted, which means that they function best when they're allowed to be by themselves, instead of being constantly communicated with. These programmers are often unhappy in the office environment, especially those with open plans.

If you take a step back and look at contemporary software development offices from a kind of anthropological perspective, it's actually quite a bizarre and extraordinary way of life.

When everyone is in the same house for 8 hours every weekday, the demand for social compatibility is, in some sense, even greater than with most families and friend groups... one way to get around that is for each worker to wear headphones all day, which is also quite a strange situation, socially...

I'm personally yearning to be able to work remotely in a way that suits my introversion and my preference for asynchronous independence—or to be frank: I just don't want to be in the same house all day every day with 10 other dudes, and I really don't want to be on conference call with them all day either.

Nor do I really want a strong "team spirit" in the sense of social bonding. I think work would be more sustainable and enjoyable if team relations were less tight, and if my lifestyle allowed me a wider spectrum of daily social interaction.

I'm motivated by helping to do good software development. I'd rather do this in a way that's like the open source model, preserving my basic independence in terms of location, time, and communication.
Property ownership is an ideology. it's the most innate version where as intellectual property is a forced concept for people. I can explain "mine" and "yours" to a two year old doesn't mean it's the only way to do things.
So, basically Witcher 2.
The article is full of gross approximations and falsehoods. The author later states things like

That link lies in the fact that mitochondria are not just cellular batteries. Billions of years ago they were actually independent organisms. They are an example of how the human body is not entirely “human.”

and (quoting someone else):

“Until recently, science has basically ignored the fact that we are all walking around with two genomes in every cell,” Dowling says, “that of our own nuclear genome, and that of the mitochondria.”
Ask HN: Do you flag HN posts in the absence of a downvote button?
There already is such a (voluntary) system for child porn.
Your point about a remote-first culture is 110% true. It has to be in the DNA of the company or else remote workers end up as second-class citizens. While it does not have to be the case, it does seem to be true that if a large portion (~50% or more) of the team is not remote, the culture will rarely end up being remote-first. If the culture is not remote-first, you end being just that guy who comes into the office every few months. I'm working now in such a situation and it's not pleasant.
Alternative implementations will probably surface, but those will almost certainly be packaged as extensions as well.

I think the model could work in this case, both for the business and for PostgreSQL in general.
In Search of good Indian food
"a disadvantageous mutation will be flushed from the population very quickly"

In asexual case, an individual with one advantageous mutation and ten slightly disadvantageous will be flushed out.

In sexual case, such individual will produce some survivable offspring and the advantageous gene has good chance of flourishing in the population.
The definition of mental disorder is a permanently context-bound construct. There is no inherency in nature or physics which requires a classification of disorder. However, the construct is both useful and abusable.
#1 Misha parrot bird let's play wit
Young People Bringing Affordable Internet to South African “Townships”
That could be very interesting, not just for having 3DS, but also for a few other things you mention on your web site. That site, at least in the English version, seems to be missing some important details, such as:

- what your fees are

- how international payments in different currencies work on your system

- how reliable transactions using your optimization tools typically are, and how this compares to other payment processing services

- an explanation of how an integration with your APIs and webhooks can be tested.

Do you have more information available somewhere?
Maybe it's important to distinguish "remote" working from "flexible hours" working. Maybe people would be more accepting of remote if it wasn't also perceived as unreliably available.

Not that there's anything wrong with flexible hours. I'm just thinking it should be a different conversation. In those cases it would make sense to me to have "mandatory times" where the video stream is active (meetings, team working, etc.) and other times when it's off.

In some cases flexible time is the only option that makes sense- I've worked with people from 6 to 12 time zones away, but never on a full-time basis.
The Innovator’s Dilemma and Enterprise IoT Platforms
[Citation needed] Do you have links to these independent tests you cite?

A cyclone is a long established method of dust removal industrially, and an efficient method of doing so. Compared to a typical Hoover at the time they were introduced they are orders of magnitude better and more reliable. Since then Hoover and all the other manufacturers have basically copied, as far as they are able, everything Dyson does. Hardly indicative of a terrible product.

They can lack longevity due to use of plastics that tend to age harden over a decade, but that's about all I can fault them for, aside from moving production to Malaysia - but that's hardly unique in manfacturing.

Some of their other products have been less successful - the now discontinued washing machine was another transformative product miles ahead of alternatives. Sadly they couldn't make them profitably. The fan heater is much harder to like being 10x the cost of alternatives but not 10x better at heating a room.

Dyson cleaners frequently get Consumer's Association (UK independent home appliance tests) Best Buy. They are always towards the top as far as performance goes.
What I Learned After My Online Bank Account Was Hacked?
I have a one word name. I was recently pulled over for speeding. When I called the court, the ticket had already been dismissed. Because the officer hadn't properly filled out the ticket; he had copied my (one) name from my DL.

So, don't fix that particular system, thanks very much.
My team (I'm the project manager/tech lead) is roughly half remote, with the remotes including my product owner and lead test engineer (among others).

As noted elsewhere, thinking remote-first is required for non-co-located teams to be successful.

Technical items, in no particular order:
All meetings are conducted with full video teleconferencing.

Most meetings are configured to default participants as muted (help stop random noise on line).

When we white-board, we use a webcam (or lacking that, frequent cell-phone pics) to keep remotes in the loop.

Heavy use of IM tools, online wikis/notes, etc

Social Things:
Try to meet in person occasionally. Obviously doesn't work if people are truly global, but I usually see my team in person at conferences, client meetings, or we fly them in every so often (project kick-offs, major high-level design efforts, etc).

Find team building activities that can be conducted via video-conference. Commit to doing them regularly.

If you conduct 1-on-1s, make sure part of those meetings is social. Take the time to do some "water-cooler" chit-chat.
The Vanguard Cyborg Takeover
Even Fortran has modules though hahah.
No. You should not flag stories as a way to down-vote them. If you do that regularly, you will lose your flagging privileges.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>"If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)"
If you're a partner, you're either getting profit distributions that are taxed at ordinary income rates, or you're getting dividends that are taxed lower, but the corporation paid 35% tax on profits (plus state), which makes it much worse than just ordinary income rates.

The only real ways I'm aware of to get taxes much lower is capital gains, or perhaps real estate where depreciation "losses" defer a lot of taxes on your income.

But neither of those would really be available for partners in a law firm or medical practice.

So again, please elaborate on how partners get taxed at 20%?
Braintree has a Canadian product that allows you to present and settle in CAD and USD. You can check out the documentation for their best integration here: https://www.braintreepayments.com/v.zero. They also have a support team that will answer any questions you may have by phone or email as you investigate different payment processors.