skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the meaningful bits of engineering one can do on Earth for furthering Martian agriculture, is the recycling of water. It's going to cost energy and worker-time to extract water out of the soil. Even machinery that condenses water out of the Martian air will require energy and maintenance. (Possibly passive structures that condense water?)

For this reason, we may want to research habitats that can almost completely retain moisture in the form of water vapor and extract it out of the air. Such requirements are quite uncommon for structures on Earth, doubly so if you also add in the requirements of enclosing useful agricultural acreage and pressurization. Submarines are probably good at doing this, but the price per square meter of floor would be prohibitive. We'd want to be able to build such structures on Mars from in-situ resources.

Building such structures on Earth and growing crops like potatoes within them would constitute worthwhile research in preparation of colonizing Mars.

(One side effect of such research might be the ability to settle and develop land in places like West Texas, much of which gets very little rain and has land that sells at single-digit dollar prices.)
You may want to try my vim extension for VSCode - amVim. It works best on VSCode's insiders build now. I'm planning a big update as soon as VSCode releases 1.0(which is said to be 4/14)
https://gist.github.com/ciokan/1bb8a5a23e00d1f4344b04d88debc...

Good or bad? Have no idea what C8 should say that's why i'm asking. Dell XPS 9550 ubuntu 16.04
Hardware products. Hmm. They already have Oculus. What next in social hardware? "Sensor-embedded clothing". Injectable RFID tags?

Do not attempt to remove the loyalty bracelet.
Interesting that you want blame everything except the actual major source of expanding costs at colleges: an explosion in the number of administrators and administrative departments. Rising tuition is being spent on bringing more and more aspects of students' lives under the control of college administrators. Scandalously, almost none of the new money has gone to hiring more professors. Something is rotten in the state of higher education and it's the bureaucrats running the colleges, set free from financial reality by heavily-subsidized student loans.
There's nothing wrong with that idea, conceptually. Practically speaking, it's just a bigger pain in the butt than you might think. You've got as many as a couple thousand individual, numbered variables to look for patterns in, controlled by a few 10's of thousands of instructions. It's quite possible to do; it just takes someone with Nintendo/6502 programming experience, an eye for patterns, and a ton of time :-)
While I agree with you, I think we could get closer to "production" than is common right now.

In an AWS environment, imagine a setup where all that differs is the API keys used (the API keys of the production vs test environment). What gets tricky is dealing with external dependencies, user data, and simulating traffic.

For an example more relevant to today's issue: imagine a second simulated "internet" in a globally distributed lab environment. With BGP configs, fake external BGP sessions, etc, servers receiving production traffic, etc.

I get that it's a lot of work to setup and would require ongoing work to maintain - and that it's hard/impossible to have it correctly simulate the many nuances of real world traffic - and yet I also think in many cases it would be sufficient to prevent issues from making it into production.
> With the proviso that nobody foresaw the housing crisis in its eventual form

Believe it or not, there were a bunch of us that did and took action. See The Big Short for some other examples.

Of course, nobody with a conflict of interest managed to see it (Ben Bernanke, Fed Chair, Mark Zandi, Economist at S&P which was rating the trash AAA).

That you can miss predicting the biggest economic event in three generations and still have a job as an economist is a testament to how broken that field is.

> How does that make any sense?

Absolutely zero. And the fact that nobody is doing time for what happened is itself a crime.

/rant, deep breaths.
> People's skepticism and questions are quite understandable.

No they are not, no more than climate change denial. As I said, you can always come up with more obstructionism but that is meaningless.
Depends on the company. Heavy industry tends to promote in-house.
Late 2013 Retina MBP w/ 16GB of RAM
What tool is now used for the modeling of the optimization problem?

While the work on JuMP is impressive, isn't the fact that all major devs are from the same place worrisome?
Yeah the few are not the majority, that's what I'm saying. The Majority are deluded and believe what they are told. They are the SJW purists. They may be for change, but not necessarily power. Their leaders are often about power. More followers that leaders
...and you're basing this on what, exactly? It's easy to pontificate about what people "didn't bother to test" based on zero information.
I use Julia extensively for scientific research. It's such a great language though that I wish I could use it for more than that. I find that writing Python code irks me after programming in Julia for a day.

I almost feel like there should be two versions of Julia: a commercial version that focuses on stability and is usable in production systems, and a scientific version that undergoes constant revision/feature overhaul to produce the best programming language for numerical computing.
yes, I have a few thousand files, some of them are 50k+ line XML files. Sublime still searches my full project in many magnitudes of less time that Atom does. I use Atom for my small toy projects as well.
Nobody is advocating ESP, thought crimes, or not arresting murderers where possible. Let's stop wasting everyone's time with this silliness.
> As humans prepare to blast off to Mars, there is still the question of what they’ll eat once they colonize the red planet. Scientists who have traveled here to the Peruvian desert say they have the answer. Potatoes.

Followed by the Great Martian Potato Famine, and then signs in the windows of Earth businesses stating "No Martians."
Ask HN: Dealing with 'global' burnout
Hello all,

First of all I'd like to apologise for asking here as it feels like a pretty well trodden path at this point, but it feels like the last direction I can turn in.

I have worked hard, sacrificed, done everything that I can, and still, there is a wall, it's just not possible, it seems.

I am reasonably young, with a job that pays well relatively, but badly absolutely. I work full time and am able to save 70% of my income in a large city. I live with my long term partner who is the love of my life.

I will never be able to afford a home and have children. I will never be able to afford even a 2 bedroom flat with space for me and my partner to coexist.

This is causing me extreme emotional turmoil, a burn out, whatever you want to call it. It's a mixture of anger, helplessness, and a lack of desire to do anything, because suddenly it feels as if success is impossible, as if everything is pointless.

I can see a doctor, or a therapist, but they can't fix the external situation, they can only medicate me.

I've considered 'running away' to a country with a low cost of living. This is the most viable option so far. But I'd have to leave her behind, and I can't face it.

I can try to find a better job, but I already earn far in excess of the median - realistically it feels like this part of the economy has just failed, which makes me frustrated with capitalism, and has me questioning everything.

I can give it up and start campaigning. I can buy a field, build my home, and wait for them to come and tear it down. But what use is that, knowing that it's ultimately futile?

I can give up on the idea of ever owning my own destiny, of ever being able to fulfill my potential, of ever being anything other than a productive unit to be consumed. At that point, why live?
He said most people, just looking at McDonald's popularity alone, maybe an indication of how interested most people are in understanding the sources of their food.
> ... I know this does not justify anything

> ... wouldn't it be acceptable for humans to do the same?

Edit: Re-reading your comment, I think this isn't a charitable interpretation. I'll assume that you don't think cruelty in nature justifies human cruelty unless the animals are knowingly cruel.

I still don't agree with you however. I don't think it's acceptable to wrong someone/an animal just because they knowingly wronged someone else/a different animal.
I have been 'burned out' before, but this time it feels different. Somehow it feels as if it's literally impossible to make a life for myself in my own country, any more. Being locked out of the housing market entirely feels like my homeland has been stolen from me, the most basic necessity of shelter becomes an ever-present treadmill.

I'm just so full of anger, sadness, everything, with the whole situation - what do I do? Do I just turn off my emotions, go to work, come home from work, go to work, come home from work, wait decades for the pieces to fall into place?

What makes all of this worse is that inevitably comparisons are made with humanity as a whole - that lots of others are in this situation. And to me, that's simply terrible, but I have to turn off thinking about that, because otherwise I'll spin out completely. I can't even look after myself.
I was going to post the same comment too.

My understanding, from the odd bits and bobs of information I have, is that AWS regions are typically managed somewhat independently.
What if you could get the same delicious flavors artificially?
Reading the blog post and the Twitter thread.

Wow. 10 years ago it would have been seen as a comical blunder of a stupid AI. Something to be fixed for sure, but not a Serious Social Issue by any means. Nowadays, it apparently warrants several follow-up articles in the mainstream media, "social" commentary and 3,309 retweets.

From the blog post:
“The bias of the Internet reflects the bias of society,” she said.

In some cases - yes, but this one seems more like society deliberately projecting human motivations onto a primitive algorithm and jumping to conclusions about what its errors "really" mean.

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For people who disagree, here is a scenario your might want to consider. Imagine that you built an image tagging service. Imagine that someone found a glitch in your service that they consider offensive. Imagine them tweeting about it (before or instead of contacting you directly) and getting a similar kind of reaction, complete with extensive social commentary and media coverage. Nice, big crowd of people using your company and your service as a convenient example of things-that-are-wrong-with-our-society. How would you feel in that case?
Journalist Matthew Keys sentenced to 24-month prison term for helping Anonymous
> Scarcity caused by NIMBY land use policy is driving up housing costs. The fix is aggressive upzoning.

> Source: Help friends who work on affordable housing policy. This is common knowledge.

Affordable housing policy advocates are not an unbiased source for this "common knowledge".

There are piles of cash to be made in affordable housing, in the form of outright grants, tax credits, zoning variances, etc, all in exchange for the creation of a small percentage of permanent rental units that the developer will turn a profit on, indefinitely. Any loss is mitigated by increasing the price of non-affordable units.

This incentivizes government-backed arbitrage opportunities, e.g., by allowing developers to buy land for a lower price based on current zoning, and then (in partnership with the local housing authority) appeal to local planning authorities for variances.

This unsurprisingly a revolving door between government housing entities, local planning boards, development companies, affordable housing tax credit brokerages, and the lobbyists for the above.

Here, for example, the local housing authority is trying to push through a high-density upzoning variance, for a project represented by a former housing authority executive, financially backed by an out-of-state firm specializing in tax credit financing that is one of the primary lobbyists against tax credit reforms that would eliminate their value extracting brokerage position in Missouri:

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/is-missouri-s-costly-...

Upzoning in high-demand areas increases land value. Period. This raises market entrance costs to a level in which only large development companies can build. They build rental units. The government provides them grants and variances that private home buyers could only dream of. Housing becomes less affordable, not more, and fewer people are able to build up equity.
I see there's some controversy here about your points (or perhaps just your way of presenting them?). I'd like to weigh to say your advice is solid.

Employees are absolutely valued by their boss based on how much hand-holding they require and how autonomous they are. In fact, in functional companies, that's what decides your factual seniority: Not the years your butt sat physically in some chair, but how little you need to get going and have results.

It's not controversial at all.

From students who need the instructions in almost algorithmic form and understand no context, to business owners who create their own opportunities and generate time for others, there's a whole spectrum.
> People LIE, and it's rampant.

At what point did anyone expect people to be honest? That's not how our system of justice works. Police and prosecutors lie too; the question is how to build a justice systems for people, not one for saints. If everyone was honest, we wouldn't need judges and juries (heck, we wouldn't have crime).
Yeah, we should indeed take this offline. I can't see your email, you can reach me on lumzor [at] gmail [dot] com.
Does this mean we are now at a point where LXD/LXC & docker will play nicely with each other?
Try serving them a pig with the head still attached, similar reaction, next day bacon for breakfast. Don't want to think about that real animal stuff, I doubt the line has much to do with the intelligence of the species.
What other governmental institutions have released reports like this one?
Streaming your daily emotions and convert them in reactions.
It would have been far, far, far, far more difficult to do, and far more difficult to hide. That's the entire point.
This is depressing for two reasons.

1. Google's top level management is boring af. Regina Dugan imho has Steve Jobs level charisma. To see her leave, her in particular, just feels very disappointing.

2. And joining Facebook?!! She might as well have gone and setup a research lab for the Porn industry.

Nothing makes sense anymore :(
It's harder to make a news story out of "director promoted to VP" than it is out for "Google VP leaves for Facebook". I think at all of these companies, a large portion of the executive team was promoted from within and has been with the company for many years.
You know, standardization is a great thing. But, fuck, another major release with huge changes... What ever happened to stable architectures with hardening burn in periods? What new bugs are going to creep in due to these huge changes? How is this going to break our work arounds for previous versions?

It's a great time to be in operations, containers are a huge step forward, but how are we supposed to be confident in a technology with so many major changes every other month? Even Node.js has LTS releases.

And yes. Get off my lawn, too.
People are constantly having issues with Japan building freeways over their populated areas, going right through their rice fields. The only difference is nobody can claim racism because Japanese are homogeneous.
There are very few companies that do pair programming. It will really close down your funnel if you make pair programming experience a requirement. I would wager less than 1% of programming jobs do any significant amount of pairing
Yeah, well, sounds like you and I go on the same rant. I'm not even ranting because I'm an aggrieved deficiency defendant; it's just the principle of the thing that offends me, if you can believe that, utterly unrelated to my personal financial liability. Nobody in my position should be getting boned from all sides simultaneously when the banking sector, enabled by the easy-money Fed, caused the whole phenomenon.

Of course, an aggravating factor in this case is that Atlanta was understood to have a massive glut of condo development even before the subprime price collapse. That's why condos in Atlanta still haven't recovered to anywhere near pre-crisis levels, unlike freestanding houses. As of last summer, my unit was worth 48% less than I paid for it. The point being, I was paying $1400/mo in mortgage (mostly interest) (+$300-$400/mo in HOA dues!). A qualified buyer can finance my place for $85K at like $350/mo now! :-) And I'm the one getting sued.
First this isn't a user survey, as they aren't users yet. That would be different.

I'd start with general questions about how things work currently. You can then use those for improvement metrics.

For recruiters, I'd consider. How long, from first coming across a candidate to deciding to hire them, did your process take on average? How long from first starting to look to deciding to reach out to the first candidate? How long was your process overall? What aspect cost you the most time, if any? (multiple choice with fill in the blank option) What aspect cost you the most money, if any? (ditto).

For Hiring Managers, I'd want to know if things that would be nice to have but aren't required are included in their job listing requirements. I wouldn't ask that directly though.

For Candidates, ask them what bugs them. Ask them about their best interview experience where they got offered the job, vs their best when they didn't, and then the worst for each. I'd ask them what surprised them about working at a company as compared to their impression interviewing there. I'd ask them what they would consider helpful feedback if they didn't get a job.
I think the 'vetting' is in buying products that are sourced through Amazon's supply chain, rather than vetting third-party sellers.

Unfortunately, there's not a "hide 3rd-party sellers" preference toggle.
I am planning in buying a 4690K

LOTS of people keep nagging me that I should go for a Skylake instead, just because it is "newer" and "better because it is new"

I really don't understand that logic.

Beside the thing pointed in the article, Skylake has other problems:

Win7 don't work properly in it (and Win7 is the last Windows to emulate old DirectX versions correctly on Windows itself).

Skylake wasn't design to support analog video at all, something that is still common in third world countries, specially as people keep using old monitors that never break, and are frequently superior to almost all reasonably priced new monitors.

Skylake doesn't support OSX (and there are people with reasons to want that).

Skylake uses DDR4, that in third world might not be even available for sale, or might have some insane prices (2, 3 times the DDR3 price).

Skylake has a couple bugs, and more might pop up in the future.

except in US and maybe some EU countries, the price to build a Skylake system is higher than the speed benefit it gives compared to Haswell (usually at most 10%, frequently less...).

EDIT: I would also like to point out that Devil Canyons has been reported to work with DDR3 up to 2666 with no issue, some mobos allow Devil Canyons to go up to DDR3 2800 without erroring or being unstable.

The thing is, those DDR3 can ALSO reach much lower latency than similar bandwidth DDR4, the few DDR3 vs DDR4 benchmarks done so far, show that usually there is no difference, and when there IS a difference, is usually DDR3 winning.
Sounds likely to be https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/18180

If so, it's a bug with a particular (newer) version of AUFS that has been fixed in most distros.
The point is that if Electron itself (i.e. using Javascript and the DOM) was the issue then both would suffer.
We're working a React Native port for Ubuntu (via Qt/QML). It's still early days, but many things are working.

Source is here; https://code.launchpad.net/reactnative-ubuntu
If you use a grid of regularly-spaced points, you end up with a pixelated/mosaic image. Here's a (sadly Flash based) tool for applying a quadrilateral/triangular/hexagonal mosaic effect to a photo: http://damienclarke.me/code/mosaic-maker
Any good resources for getting started with WebGL? I'm going to start transitioning a large amount of slow <canvas> drawing to WebGL, and I'd love any pointers for someone getting started without any experience in graphics and gaming (which seems to be the starting point most tutorials use).
The wikipedia page has a nice section on what these are used for.
That is nice until you observe what actually happens in the raw nature itself - I had a "joy" observing two crows killing a sparrow with the utmost cruelty, prolonging its suffering as much as they could, and then leaving it there without "eating" it.

We simply have to transcend nature if we want to feel good about ourselves. Maybe once we master technology, we can reprogram the mess of this Universe (at some point we will be dealing with pure computer science instead of physics, which will be just a consequence of some mathematical structures and algorithms running on top of them). I never understood why so many humans worship nature - nature is broken, it's like a fairly balanced pathological system, showing some wonders (Moon-Earth distance allowing total eclipses) as well as atrocities (basically all what is nasty about life itself).
Even in the US, it doesn't really make sense. Especially with the Xeon parts. You do get a much nicer integrated GPU though, if you use that.
Intercom's first pitch deck
Thanks for making amVim. It's the only usable vim extension right now. It's a shame you aren't being featured on the marketplace
Please read up on the difference between 'total benefits' and 'salary' before posting this kind of thing.
> Tough spot for Kyle to be in, but I'm shocked with his prior startup experience that he didn't get this resolved earlier.

Same here. I'm equally shocked that YC didn't notice the missing founder when the program started and ensure the proper paperwork had been handled.

I guess the lesson is that even experienced founders and investors can make really huge mistakes.
Do you have any insights on helpful therapies, or really any advice on what you think is the mechanism?

My significant other experienced the same kind of unexplainable paranoia/anxiety that also had a sudden onset that didn't seem to be triggered by anything. In her case, alcohol is still the most effective medication, combined with anti-anxiety drugs for the "bad days".
Also goose fat for ultimate deliciousness.

Edit: Geese might disagree but they're mean.
A little bit non-standard, but I used them to generate a map of the nearest vehicle spawn points for the game DayZ: http://i.imgur.com/GryW1fz.jpg

In the attached map, the red dots indicate a place where a truck might spawn. The polygons show the places nearest each truck. If a player wants to obtain a truck to drive, this map shows them which direction to run.

This was more a proof of concept than anything else, and is sadly outdated. In any case, it never took into account the steepness of terrain, which influences player running speed.
Having an advantage implies they can do equivalent tests with their proprietary methods, which has not been rigorously proven.

If the tests aren't actually equivalent, they haven't improved anything. Charging less for vaporware doesn't mean it's better, it's still fuckin' vaporware. :P
Why does Hanlon's Razor exist when it can just as easily be put the other way around?
You can use `apm stars --install` for the package syncing part of this. It's reasonably close to what you're looking for.

http://blog.atom.io/2014/06/09/stars.html
A large majority of Indians are vegetarians and the rest only eat fish, chicken or goat. Cows are holy and worshiped!