skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of what the post talks about is applicable to me.

There will always be lots of very interesting things to do and some things you are forced to do, such as academic work or job related. I think at some point you have to take a step back and take a look at what is it that you are spending your life doing.

So recently I had made a list of all the things I wanted to learn and have a working knowledge of: Ruby on Rails, Git and Mercurial, WebRTC, Go, Android development. iOS development, Shell scripting, Python, R, machine learning, server adminstration, Angular JS. Yes it sounds crazy probably because it is crazy. Then I reached a point where I was pushing myself to learn new technologies at an unsustainable pace. And the excuse was always "today is the last day I'll need to get by on 3 hours of sleep". Then I finally got to the point where I was completely exhausted and that forced me to take a step back and learn what was absolutely important to me (for my startup) and stop trying to learn/understand every single interesting language, framework or platform I come across (thanks partly to my HN addiction).

Regarding the discussion about commuting to and from work, it's a real drain on employees, employer and the environment as well (pollution). This might not be applicable to most types of jobs, but living far away from cities and working remotely are something worth exploring. I say this from first hand experience, living in the country side, close to beautiful farms, flowing rivers and with access to hills with trails, and working on my personal projects and constantly in touch with the outside world through the internet, I never feel like I am missing out much on city life. It's probably the best of both worlds.

I think eventually, the preference of living in densely populated cities will give way to leading a more peaceful life and yet continue doing creative work in smaller, less dense establishments. Hopefully a reverse urbanisation.
I hope they break the API and create proper namespacing. I recommend using the model from Composer/Packagist.
There are numerous barriers to optimization that mostly fall into the categories of a) too many operations break continuity of typing and data flow, and b) many small, independent compilation units.

For example: Pointers, casts, unions, casting pointers to different types, and doing all of this across procedure call boundaries all challenge/break data flow analysis. You can pass a pointer to a long into a procedure, and the compiler has no idea what other compilation unit you are linking to satisfy the external call. You could well be casting that pointer-to-long to something totally crazy. Or not even looking at it.

I was associated with a compiler group experimenting whole-program optimization -- doing optimization after a linking phase. This has huge benefits because now you can chase dataflow across procedure calls, which enables more aggressive procedure inlining, which enables constant folding across procedure calls on a per-call-site basis. You might also enable loop-jamming across procedure calls, etc. C really is an unholy mess as far as trying to implement modern optimizations. The compiler simply can't view enough of the program at once in order to propagate analysis sufficiently.
Is it only me who thinks that all this is being orchestrated. Starting from the panama leaks to Turkish leaks and now this. I don't want to pointlessly plug a conspiracy theory here. But I would like to know if this argument can be supported/refuted.
Fein­stein should have an obligation to the american people who have iphones to report security issues. I would even go so far as to say the obligation extends to all know security issues.
Nest, to me, was never about a computing revolution.

It was that someone was finally taking Apple-level industrial design and applying it to common household goods. That made me very excited, and happy to pay more for it. Finally, a common product was getting better aesthetically, rather than worse.

All the rest was noise, mainly for investors. Unfortunately, it appears that the noise may destroy what matters.
Yeah. I've been using Acme for awhile now. While Acme itself is nice, what I really like is the B/E editor embedded in it. It's just a very simple editor that can be extended with _external_ programs.

Finally, I've come to appreciate using a mouse with my editor. Until I completely got rid of using most keyboard shortcuts (other than the most basic ones), I didn't realize how much cognitive taxes I was paying to retain and context-switch among different families of keyboard shortcuts. Mousing is so much more uniform.
Or wait 2 days for Netflix to mail you a Plastic Circle.
I mean tetrasodium pyrophosphate and similar chemicals. But there may be many more that can cause such effects.
Is this sarcasm? Bash on Windows definitely comes before "Emulated Linux syscall layer from user mode processes on Windows" ... it's a great name, sure, but marketing genius?
I have always found this particular photo odd and showing up in a few strange places ... ie: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/10/how-can-international... http://www.newsweek.com/cia-having-xfiles-fun-ufos-421407 http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/britain-to-unveil-plan-for-ne...
A savvy product person (maybe with a foreign network) could see this as a massive opportunity. Eastern Europeans are lauded for their technical ability, and have been for some time.
I don't own a car and cycle to work, appointments and errands (as well as for recreation, on top of running five days a week).

Things on wheels with a diesel engine in them tend to be oversized and driven by lowlife assholes who threaten cyclists and other motorists. At times (such as when accelerating or otherwise loaded) they spew noxious black smoke from their unmanaged, unoptimized engines that run fine on 25 octane garbage due to the way they are designed, and are noisy as hell.

The regulation for sulphur content in the fuel and the condition of diesel engines must be a joke in Canada. Definitely I don't see such black smoke coming out of trucks, or the pungent smell, in Japan, for instance. The trucks and buses smell similar to an indoor, household kerosene-burning heater, a bit like a paraffin candle; quite different from the acrid stench I'm used to smelling at home.

So that's where I am on the diesel yes/no question.
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...you could go for a road trip!
It's typical how most people really want to immediately buy into the simple fixes and religiously believe them without knowing why it worked. Overweight? Must be the fructose (recently) / carbs (a while back) / fats (further back). Same old story. Somebody makes rounds in media and makes a lot of money after publishing a book with something "new" - a simple fix.

Fortunately we have people like Lyle McDonald, Alan Aragon, Guyenet out there talking some sanity. Unfortunately, they never make it to mainstream media.

Some Resources:

http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/index.php/free-cont...

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2016/01/testing-insuli...

https://medium.com/@lylemcdonald/highly-processed-carbohydra... (A comment by Lyle on the rhetoric posted by Ludwig)
I didn't compare him to a 4 year old, that's a strawman. A 15 year old is a child.

> Isn't it obvious that there are domains in which he is, for better or worse, exceptionally intelligent within that domain?

No, it isn't. He's rich because daddy was rich, without that leg up he'd be living in a trailer park slobbering on himself.
tl;dr claims to have a solution, writes 5 paragraphs about feelz
I don't understand the economics of this at all. Can't the country buy power from a neighbor? Or does that infrastructure not exist? Wouldn't the productivity supplied by those days recoup the cost of electricity?
The reason why these complex products win isn't because of their design, but instead because they have moats around their business. Craigslist has network effects and photoshop is an industry standard product. The author is confusing economics with design. The underlying economics are what make these products durable, not their complex design.
Russell's History of Western Philosophy is good. It's by no means an easy read but I thought it was very good at getting across the philosophical ideas as well as their development over time.

Ironically it put me off of philosophy somewhat. I left it with the impression that a worryingly large number of philosophical questions were either tautological or just very clever word play.
How would one get wine from grapes without fermentation?
Vote bernie sanders for free college and holidays every Friday in the united states!
The unfortunate part is that due to the prevailing opinion on 'running a country', they're essentially forced to assume a "control everything" position. I.e. Each subsequent failure / worsening of the conditions makes "control" or intervention more necessary in their eyes.

The option to let things happen (by removing regulation / price-controls, etc), or for scrapping and starting fresh appear to never be on the table in any meaningful respect.
Who makes sure Google never goes down
>The fund is labeled 2008 but they invested in opportunities over the course of several years.

This is not the same term as label (vintage) with wines. A vintage of a wine is the same grape and the same year.

If the grape was similar, the wine could be labelled with the type.

If the grape and year are different... it seems more like a cocktail.

Order a new glass for each glass of wine from a new bottle (even if the same type/brand/field) I was told by a French colleague. I didn't notice at first, but then I did. Not quite a cocktail, but close.

If the fund is mislabeling itself, it is common, ask questions about why so, and if you have a 5 year exit plan while the fund has as 2008+x year exit date.

You're entering a 2008 plan, marketed to investors as a 2008 plan. When 2008 +x yeas happens, which seems soon, are you just shoring it up with your idea that they will take away?
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> Dude, that's not an argument - that's a whole bunch of ad hominems.

You don't know what an ad hominem is. Those were called insults, insults are not ad hominems.

> The guy is acknowledged to have won (basically) every republican debate.. would you suggest a child can do that?

Yes actually, a decently intelligent high school child could win against that pack of dim bulbs. Republican debates are a joke won by whichever person throws enough red meat to the crowd and insults the other guy the best; they're an embarrassment to even watch.
My parents also lost all of their funds in their 50s due to the stock market crash, but they were getting close to retirement and shouldn't have had their funds in high risk.
Isn't he mostly a libertarian? You can't just label all political views you don't like "fascism".
There was also the comment about being freely available already. So a page behind username / password would not be freely available and you would be breaking the law.

Now, if a user on a private page, marked something as public, but did not publish the link, then it would be legal as you could argue that its freely available.*

* Not a lawyer, so just my own understanding.
Very valid points. I've been a remote worker for a year so I can understand many points. I haven't tried some things yet (travel) so hearing about it is insightful.

- Although my work permits being flexible, I'd rather have a normal person's schedule too! There's just too many real life things to take care of that require normal hours.

- After spending a lot of time alone, I have to find a friend to meet up with. I made another remote working friend so we meet up 2 times a week. It's odd but it does feel like there is some sort of pull towards human interaction embedded somewhere. I also enjoy the busy and loud cafe background.

- Taxes suck :( They have been very confusing since this is my first year. Still working on them :'(
People with no tables or chairs?
https://imgur.com/yNG8Dab
Perhaps people thought science had "solved" how people get fat (eating fat) and ate more assuming if they avoided fat, they wouldn't get fat. "I can eat an entire box of snackwells and there's only 5 grams of fat!"
Peter Thiel said recently in an interview[0] that when he made his initial $500K investment in Facebook at a $5M valuation in September 2004, he thought it would be big on college campuses, but didn't anticipate how successful it would actually become.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryFB6mvy4uE#t=3m18s
Quite. It seems rather misplaced guilt if anything; the investors presumably saw enough of an upside across all of their investments to make up for the majority that failed. Yourself and your employees, not so much.
Windows doesn't provide consistency between versions at the interrupt level, and Wine doesn't provide any interface at that level. It's basically a COFF loader, and a bunch of regular userspace functions in DLLs that do everything.

Linux, on the other hand, provides exactly that, and this wrapper makes it so that you can actually run "movl $1, %eax; movl $0, %ebx; int $0x80" and it will actually call the equivalent of exit(0).
Oracle, chat and raw code found in Mossack Fonseca offshore web portal
Everquest started doing this long ago (~2006 I believe?), where people could progress starting at the first expansion. They would slowly move a server through the expansions. EQ2 looks to have it now as well. It's pretty successful in context, if I remember right, though naturally much of the original Everquest magic wasn't quite there
The Chemistry of Kibble
I haven't checked out the high-level synthesis part, but I've been using Vivado for a project recently and it's absolutely horrible. To name some of the issues I've had;

- Memory leaks (grows from about 1GB to 11GB and starts swapping in a couple of minutes when editing existing IP)

- Single-threaded synthesis is slow (though isn't limited to Vivado specifically)

- Failing after 20 minutes of synthesis because of errors that would be easy to check at the start

- Placing debug cores can result in needing to synthesise, find something went wrong, delete debug core, re-synthesise, re-add debug nets, synthesise again...

- Aggressive caching results in it trying to find nets which were changed and no longer exist, despite re-creating the IP in question from scratch

- Vivado creates a ridiculous amount of temporary files and is a royal pain to use with version control (there is an entire document which details the methods to use if you want to create a project to be stored under version control)

I've been playing around with IceStorm for the iCE40 device and it's an absolute joy to use: fast, stable and simple. I appreciate that there are a lot of complex tools and reports which Vivado provides, but I would much rather use an open source tool like IceStorm for synthesis alongside the advanced tools from Vivado.
So we're going to buy power based on our theoretical peak consumption? Like if I want 100 amps of 220V single-phase service to my house that's $X and if I want 200 amps of 3 phase 220V that's $2X? Or however it works?

I'm not necessarily opposed to something like that, but then we'll be getting back into the "you sold me unlimited internet but it's not really unlimited because even if I use it at 100% capacity I can't consume infinite bandwidth, so there is in fact a real limit"
In other words, you haven't yet spent the time learning to read music, so you'd rather trash the system that evolved over several centuries and pretend that it's ridiculous.

Nothing has been "denied to you". You just haven't spent the time it takes to learn. Have foreign languages been "denied to you", too?

What, precisely, is ridiculous about music notation? It represents time, on the x axis, and pitch, on the y axis (on a basic level). Seems reasonably logical, to me.
On the flip side I'm exactly their target market. My house has two heating zones - one for the main floor and one for the basement. In the winter the basement defaults to 60 degrees because it's not a regular living space. That being said if I go down there to watch movies or play video games on my office computer... I don't want it to be 60 degrees. Rather than freeze for an hour while that zone heats up after manually setting the thermostat, I can just adjust it from upstairs.

Is that lazy? Sure... but the convenience is worth a couple hundred bucks.
So much of "SmartHome" is solutions in search of a problem.

In the case of Nest, I suppose I can imagine that I took off on a trip and forgot to turn the thermostat down. But I balance that against the cost, the "it ain't broke" thing, concerns about decreasing the reliability of my heating system in a cold area of the country, and a sufficiently variable schedule that I challenge any non-omniscient device to learn my patterns.

There are some useful things like leak detectors, low temp warnings, and general piece of mind visibility into what's happening with my house when traveling that I've installed. But most of the non or minimally automated things (I do have a couple wireless X10 lights) around my house work well enough that they're pretty far down on the list of stuff that I wish I could improve to make my life easier/better.
Facebook Live: More Valuable Than Messenger?
It's because he doesn't aim to actually solve problems or provide meaningful answers. Simples words are good if your goal is to be rally a large number of people. But it's not practical if you want to build a car, honestly debate about social issues or describe how un cell works.

What a lot of smart people don't understand though, is that in politics, not trying to solve problems, but trying to appeal to people is the goal. And you don't use the same tools at all for that.
Release 2.8.1: Spine Animations with V-Play and Qt and New File Wizards
It is amazing that Knuth still had time left for some mathematics, between designing fonts :)
The general answer to this question for any accelerator-type program is: talk with someone who went through it and you trust.

Alternatively, look at outcomes of the companies from (recent) batches, but be careful -- that can lead to attributing too much to the program vs. innate qualities of those founders.

If you can't find a connection to someone who went through it personally, try a cold email.

Many founders will give you a short call or respond to a well-written email that briefly and directly asks about their experience and recommendation if you can prove (briefly) your qualifications. If you're going to take this approach, expect to be very open with sharing details of your idea.

With the Thiel Fellowship specifically, you may consider reaching out to the founders of Sprayable Energy. They ran a successful Kickstarter campaign [I was a backer], and are pretty cool dudes.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/sprayable-energy/
This isn't working, is it? Where is the script supposed to get the files ..., linear_algebra.pdf,... from?
The big downside with the Unicode option is the poor handling of fractions. It's not so apparent with the Quadratic Equation, but if your have a complex divisor the / notation starts to fall apart.

Even properly formatted that MathML version is just awful. You could help it a bit by combining some of those <mi> elements on a single line maybe, but it's way too much mental effort to parse that mess.
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As an employee I used to subscribe to the no sleep model, deluding myself into believing that I was being productive.

The truth is that I was probably being productive, but the reality is that I was being productive toward destructive ends. I learned a lesson and, unlike every other developer where I work, I stick to it. If I'm doing overtime it is because of exceptional circumstances. My company has learned to respect that - I'd wager that many would.

Just the other night I had a meeting with my brother about some design issues around an API (usability and guidance toward strong patterns for 3rd party devs). We have very similar brains (thought patterns and overall intellect) but unlike me he still overworks himself. Once I grasped the problems, the solutions were strikingly obvious to my well-rested mind. He'd been struggling for at least a week.

I wish we could have some more science done on this stuff (specifically relating to tech). I have a huge amount of experience-based evidence pointing toward the factuality of this article, but anecdotes and personal experience are not how you sway decision makers.
so I guess questioning the merits of democracy makes one a 'fascist'. there is no in-between
> Jack Lalanne (American fitness guru) stated "If man made it, don't eat it".

He also said "if it tastes good, spit it out" which is just retarded, as there's plenty of things that taste good that are good for you (bananas, apples and broccoli jump immediately to my mind). I respect the man for his accomplishments, but those two quotes aren't among them.

> The lymphatic system which helps rid the body of waste substances is 'pumped' by respiration and physical activity.

This I've always "felt" to be true, as it seems to me that my allergies get better with exercise. That being said, you can't outrun your fork, and even if you're eating "healthy", if you eat too much, you will gain weight. I'm not saying you can never have a tasty treat again, just don't try to compensate for it via exercise. Work it into your daily calorie budget.
If a site owner chooses not to do this, it's safe to assume they intended to allow deep links, [..]

Or it could mean that the site owner doesn't have the technical expertise to block deep links in the manner you describe. I agree that it's silly to block deep linking but there are people that want to do so and a lot of those people don't know how (other than not publishing those links).
It's sociopathic to not feel guilty that you accidentally made rich people slightly less rich?
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I remember DeltaGraph!

I'm also at the same crossroads- 44, have some money, want to push FP and TDD and the languages Elixir/Erlang more, maybe just do it by starting a new company? Encountering too much current trying to push for it in existing orgs as a "mere" programmer. Figure if I think I'm on to something, I should just start a development consultancy or programming shop specializing in the things I think will matter down the road, now.
That's imperialist and counterrevolutionary! Proceed to the nearest reeducation booth. Have a nice day.
NSA backs up your data for free.
Just realized the second link is broken and can't edit the original comment. Fixed link: http://bright-green.org/2013/06/25/my-public-school-days-the...
Apache Storm topologies with F# using statically-typed streams
Khan Academy has excellent material covering Probability and Statistics (https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability) and Linear Algebra (https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra).
I beg to differ, my last sentence suggests compulsory licensing to solve this. Pay musicians just like radio & libraries from the existing media taxes. This would allow all modern expression and access.
Very few public, true fitness instructors and dietitians are following the simplest rule ever - decrease calories to lose weight.
This method is not that popular, its to tricky since it requires for person to calculate foods, which makes it unpopular for lazy. But it is absolutely the best method to lose weight fast, decrease calorie intake and create shortage.
Agree, getting out and working with friends that work remotely too makes a huge difference, meeting them for lunch, etc.