skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also used to be one of them, until I formed the meta-conspiracy-theory.

What if conspiracy theory sites and groups are just part of a conspiracy that exists to monitor, marginalize, and distract conspiracy theorists? What if the only thing that gives the conspiracy any power at all is the weight of the conspiracy theories behind it?

And that's when I spackled over the cracks in my pot, stopped looking for evidence of malicious intent in everything, and washed my hands of all of it.

I still think that there is a massive international conspiracy of rich and powerful individuals, but I also believe that they don't have nearly as much control as anyone thinks they have, including themselves. They have the illusion of control.

For instance, they can propel lobbying efforts to pass trade deals which would "normalize" copyright in 20+ different countries, and then everyone just ignores it and torrents the latest episode of Game of Thrones anyway. They can buy up all the newspapers, and then everyone suddenly stops reading them, so they all have to merge or go bankrupt. They lobby for strict environmental controls, to preserve their huge tracts of land. People subtly cheat or blatantly and overtly break the law whenever the cops aren't watching. Or the vendors cheat on behalf of their customers, just to stay in business. They can manipulate currencies and equities and get even richer, but a hired cook will still piss in their morning coffee or feed them a slice of doodoo pie.

The conspiracy theorists may actually be supporting them, by ascribing to them powers and abilities that they do not actually possess. When the elites gather in Davos, they aren't plotting the future course of the world economy, like everyone thinks. They're patting themselves on the back, getting drunk, doing drugs, and cheating on their spouses in posh hotel rooms, all the while toasting the fact that the proles hadn't erected the guillotines since the last meeting. They remind themselves how important they are, and then return to the world that will briefly roll its eyes at them before getting back to the work it was already doing.
They effectively did. Windows 8 mode for Chrome would actually put their Chrome apps button where users expected to find the start button, and the X at the top right would close the current Chrome window, but not the whole Chrome application.

I had a lot of people asking me what happened to their computer because they couldn't find their way out of it. It was basically malware.
The real, final, ultimate reason why you procrastinate, and how to stop
A typical wind turbine is 80m high and and generates 1.5MW [1].
Gravitational storage in Joules is (mass in kg) * (height in m) * 9.8 (gravity).
Divide by 3.6 million to convert to kWh.

Suppose we raise a 30-ton weight (i.e. a big shipping container filled to capacity with rocks) all the way up that 80m turbine.
We've stored 30,000 * 80 * 9.8 / 3600000 = 6.5 kWh of energy.

That's 16 seconds worth of energy from the turbine spinning at full speed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine#Design_and_constr...
Can a single car break a traffic jam?
Many people do that. Google Scholar, among others, can help find them better than a title search on a general purpose web search engine. For the most part, your proposal represents the status quo.

Note that my comment concerned the proposal "why not go to your peers directly instead of a proxy like these publications". Your proposal replaces "instead" with "in addition to".
That's not how it works.
I have to concur. I have a few rules for successful corporate life that, if followed, would have avoided this situation entirely:

1) Be reliable. Don't be unreliable. Corporations value consistency above all else.

2) Never work without a manager present. If there's nobody there to witness what you're doing, it never happened, no matter how many commits you make or emails you send.

3) Watch what they do, not what they say. Just because a manager says they're fine with your weird quirk of (for example) coming in early and leaving early doesn't mean it won't be held against you come layoff time.
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I always procrastinate when I want o learn something new. In this case. relearning web technologies and whatnot. The best way I see is to force myself to think up of something that I would find interesting to do.

This is a interesting read for sure
"The real, final, ultimate reason why you procrastinate, and how to stop": https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-real-final-ultimate-r...

(note: I wrote it, and please take it with a grain of humor)
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Alright, good to hear that it is within reach. In our startup what we want that we can't get from Dropbox/Google is privacy. I've been looking at owncloud which would give us privacy but redundancy seems complicated and therefore my excitement about you guys. The possibility to start out super cheap with two RasPi3 and external drives and in the future migrate to more scalable solutions like S3 would make this product pretty awesome for everyone from home tinkerers to enterprises.
I suspect Instagram are pretty darn happy with their choice of trade mark at this present moment in time. Trade mark enforcement is an inevitable aspect of becoming a large brand and here I think they have a legitimate interest in pursuing the guy. Also Instagram was not an already established word as far as I'm aware and was developed purely as a brand name for a photo-sharing app, and is therefore particularly distinctive. Happy to be corrected though.

In terms of the motivations, sure the guy is trying to stop people littering, but next thing you know, he's transitioned into selling ad space and is making his millions, all after free-riding on Instagram's goodwill in the name. I'm being facetious of course, but you don't know what will happen in the future. The context behind the use is also likely to have tempered Facebook's approach to the infringement. For all we know, they may have offered to help with the rebrand costs.

I don't know of many companies who adopt a completely over-zealous approach to trade mark enforcement. Do you know any that fall within the type you describe in your post?

Finally, I don't know who your lawyer is, but in the unlikely event the matter went to court, or to a trade mark authority's dispute resolution process, you would run an argument precisely in line with the one you describe. You would look to have the trade mark registration invalidated on the basis that it is descriptive and was therefore not suitable to be registered. I don't think you'd get very far but you'd make the argument all the same.
Correct. Invest in a foreign country as dispersing revenues into all kinds of industries by cutting taxes can still have a negative impact.
I was about to reply to you but now that you reminded me of Wikipedia... oh goodness, OK, this can wait :-)

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/214/
This article misses a key point: increased muscle mass correlates with increased calorie burn.

Not all exercise is created equal. Exercise that doesn't build muscle is indeed ineffective at burning fat. But exercise that DOES build muscle has a compounding effect on burning fat. Your muscles require more energy to maintain, so they will burn more calories just by existing.
So tell them no. I don't want your clients knowing my street address.

I mean, for all you know, I'm in a domestic abuse shelter. Are you going to take responsibility for my well-being if your clients' database gets leaked? And are you confident that your clients know how to competently secure a database if they can't even use HTTPS?
The lack of self-awareness here is breathtaking.
I think this is a perfect example of why one needs to learn to not get emotionally involved with "the job". I've made that mistake, once, and it cost me 5 years of my life (long, now boring story), but to blow up so publicly... Not cool at all.

I can appreciate the OP's enthusiasm and idealism, but in the real world, one needs to learn the limitations of that. And to be dealing with so many health problems at the same time... Psychological stress is typically a factor in "acting-out"; I've been there myself so I'm not entirely unsympathetic... Being diabetic sucks, let me tell you. The stereotypical stuff associated with IT (long hours, stress, free garbage food, diet soda galore, pizza..) are counter-productive when you're diabetic.

I hope the OP takes a vacation and gets some perspective.

At the end of the day, it's only all about business. The people who control the money do not care in the slightest about doing things 'the perfect way' if it seems it would cost more money or impact profits. This is something engineers have to learn (or they have to run their own company, which will teach them some hard lessons in how business actually works). As others say, a contractor who is obviously costing more overall than being productive is a liability, so to expect a business to care about you as a "human being" is a little naive. HR is never your friend.
Was an interesting site in the beginning, but got stupider and stupider. My guess based on this article is that it's a 419-style strategy; stupid people don't use adblockers as much.
The problem with gmail + emails is that it's well-known those are aliases, and anywhere you signup can just strip the "+xxx" part to get your permanent address.
Something I've noticed with my own procrastination is that it often has a strong emotional component. For example, I'll often procrastinate with anything to do with taxes because, even though I know I HAVE to pay it on an intellectual level, it's emotionally difficult for me to part with money.

Often when I've rationally examined the underlying anxiety it becomes much easier to accomplish things.
You are paying $300/year for access to information that was given to the world freely, and sacrificing your time and effort to get it? Do you see the problem here?
This seemingly destructive segmentation of the Internet is precisely what will lead to its successor: a collection of "overlay networks" built on top of the existing IP stack. We're already seeing it in many ways, with Tor and VPNs as two commonly used examples. But overlay networks are not just advantageous for packet transport. They can represent any decentralized network. BitCoin is an overlay network, in that it's literally a payment network, is a payment network, built on top of existing IP infrastructure.

We are going to see more and more of these "overlays" as the Internet "re-decentralizes". Sure, what we know as "the Internet" is becoming increasingly centralized, and people are right to be concerned. But there is nothing to fear, so long as we can build more abstractions on top of the Internet as we know it. Let Amazon, Google, and the big "clouds" centralize as much of the Internet as they want. They are only digging their own grave, because the next revolution, the "Internet 2.0" will be as decentralized as its predecessor. Only instead of being built on the "dumb pipes" of copper and fiber, it will be built on the "dumb pipes" of the existing, increasingly centralized, Internet.

The more the Internet infrastructure consolidates itself, the more it provides an opportunity to re-decentralize on top of it.
Leaving aside the tastelessness of phrasing the question this way, you may be underestimating the prevalence of mental health disorders in general. This is the NIMH's page on the prevalence of schizophrenia in the general population, for instance:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/prevalence/schizop...

It sounds like the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders is a bit over double that, but as the article notes, that includes "functional" autists whose symptoms may be hardly noticeable to those around them.
The article talks about three different levels of optimization.

- Detect and trap overflows.

- Assume that two's complement math is a thing, and overflow can lead to additions producing negative values.

- Assume that overflow never happens, and optimize on this basis.

Rust does #1 in debug mode, #2 in release mode except when explicitly told not to. C compilers do #3. #3 is what leads to developers screaming at their compilers.
Your compiler, or rather your architecture definition supplied to the compiler, is broken. NULL should be an invalid pointer value — it need not actually be memory address 0. (The explicit constant 0 in a pointer context should be automatically translated by the compiler into this special invalid pointer value.) There have been several such architectures already, so this should not present an insurmountable problem.
The down vote is not justified, IMHO. He is talking about potentially more advanced civilizations, and the complains is about our current limitations.

This is human behavior: The explosion was too small? Let's try harder!
Right, so there are situations where it's not a bad thing. But let's get real, we know we're not talking about hiring teenage kids for after school work. That's not the core problem and not why people are discussing this. And that's something employers can account for during the hiring process.
Fyi: john Crudele reports on employment at the nypost ; he gets inside info from census (which he blasts)
Years ago he reported on plunge protection team(ppt- market manipulation) that i was skeptical about. I no longer am.
The title says "you shouldn't exercise to lose weight", which seems to suggest that exercise will negatively affect your ability to lose weight.

There isn't a single study here that proves this rather lofty hypothesis.
For all I know, that could be the primary factor. I'm not well versed enough to speak with any authority. I just tossed an idea out there based from my sphere of online observations over the past 5 or so years.
> I would enjoy in using fMRI or other diagnostic tools to see what physiologically happens when I do those things. But I have no qualms; that shouldn't be in any academic paper until my recommendation of measuring it is done.

That's not how science works...
It baffles me how a publisher that doesn't create the content neither pays for it, was deemed by the law as the copyright holder of the works they didn't create neither did they pay for.
Death of Apple worker found after poor results WAS suicide
The real reason I procrastinate is because I hate my life, and I'd be better off dead.
Another thing to consider is how the money is spent changes how much profit is made.

If Amazon reinvests into assets, that money isn't considered a loss. So it doesn't reduce profits. So when Amazon buys a video library those IPs are assets.

You only deduct spending that are expenses.

As Amazons business changes it might be harder to hide their profits in expenses.
The biomedical sciences have bioRxiv:

http://biorxiv.org/

It is not used as broadly as arxiv.org, but that may be starting to change.
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Unless you're Micheal Jai White[0] or Dwayne Johnson[1], you won't burn 4000 extra (kilo)calories a day.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fylDp1VtZbA&t=2m30s

[1] http://www.muscleandfitness.com/nutrition/meal-plans/smell-w...
It's a chicken-and-egg problem, but it's starting to improve.

Honestly if google really wanted to push this, they would do something to penalize http only ads. That would really pressure advertisers to upgrade or lose.
Graham's number is a round off error for zero compared to the lower bound for TREE(3) (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%27s_tree_theorem#Fri...)
Reminds me of something a former co-worker told an incoming revolving-door CTO. He said there are only three things an employer can offer to recruit great technical talent - a great work environment, really interesting work, or lots of money. (Our former employer had a crap environment and dull work)

If you need to recruit, you need to offer at least one, preferably all three.
window.navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function() { console.log(arguments); })

This shows me the coordinates and no Error is thrown.

Chrome version:

Version 50.0.2661.94 m
I disagree. I don't have an interest in digging through ZH posts to prove my point, but in general the spin of the site is conspiratorial in nature.

Whether it's the Fed is in it with the banks to provide free money to prop up the market, or the BLS number are not to be believed or trusted, or any other number of reoccurring themes, ZH is a conspiracy site.
The contract you sign with the owners of Science and Nature preclude publishing elsewhere.
The keybase key is encrypted client side. You are asking for it in cleartext.
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> you could say "Any user can delete our entire database and steal all of our data".

See the problem is that all/most vulnerabilities wind up with this sort of description, which can lead to Bob building up an immunity to it.
The real problem is all the alfalfa and the cows. Per pound of protein/carbs/whatever, cows consume way more water than pretty much any plant. And much of our alfalfa is just being shipped to China.
i would say that it's just extremely, extremely difficult to exercise away a bad diet. not impossible, but a strategy that is basically guaranteed to fail if you're a normal person with a normal job and life.
I think what you are noticing is a broader shift in the libertarian community: people are noticing that an open libertarian society isn't possible since most people aren't libertarians but would like the material benefits that more libertarianish societies offer.

Many libertarians I know are now "nationalist libertarians", opposed to large scale immigration, increasingly skeptical of international free trade, and so on. A lot of ex-Ron Paul types are now Trump supporters.

To me, this seems like the political/intellectual story of our time. It isn't happening in the mainstream media, of course, because libertarianism has never had the high ground there: you see it in the blogs and, of course, in the chans & reddit.
This effect is pretty small. Like 10 calories a day for a pound of muscle (which is quite a bit of muscle to add).

It still matters, a few calories a day for a year ends up being pounds of weight, but adjusting calories out of the diet is going to be a better first strategy.
> Start by telling recruiters, up front, that you don’t do trivia interviews and the like. Be firm and explicit about this, as in, “if they start asking me to describe merge sort, I’m going to thank them for their time and tell them I need to go.”

Wow, OK. I suppose this is fine for someone who doesn't actually want a job, or in those rare times when the hiring market favors candidates. But in most cases, the company will just move on to the next resume in the pile. Why bother with this kook when there's a line of people outside eager to have a shot?

>“Hmm… you know what? I’m really sorry, but I think maybe we got our wires crossed somewhere here. I’ve had experience on the hiring side of this sort of interview style in the past, and I’ve seen it result in some really sub-optimal matches, so I’ve adopted a policy of having certain deal breaker cues in the interviewing process. So at this point I can safely say I’d be unlikely to accept an offer, and I really wouldn’t want to waste any more of your time."

Expected response: "Well........ Bye."

I appreciate the effort put into wording that nicely, but really all you're saying is, "Company, you need me more than I need you, and I expect YOU to jump through MY hoops." This is only true when you're a one-in-a-million talent. It's not going to work for the other 999,999 people.
I think they're being a little silly. If you use a relatively mainstream word from the language in which you do business (and which happens to be virtually identical in all languages anywhere near where you do do business), you don't (shouldn't) have a leg to stand on, IMO. You can't reasonably arrive at Dropboxe independently. But is everyone at Dropbox really supposed to tip-toe around being careful not to name a project after a common word if it's pronounced the same as a company that was accepted to a tech incubator just 2 years ago?
+1 whenever I really need to get stuff done at work (and particularly helpful when working from home), I split my time into pomodoros. 25 minutes is a short enough time I can fully concentrate, but long enough to actually get a great deal of "knowledge worker" work done.
> Does anyone actually still think that the extra energy consumption caused by exercise will cause you to lose weight and not just eat more?

Plenty of people on HN strongly think this.

The nutrition discussion on HN is normally fucking terrible. (See this thread where someone talks about "the science" and links to the Guardian as a reference).
It's actually legal to work for foreign companies whilst in Canada on a tourist visa. If that helps your situation.
Can confirm. Did a year long dirty-bulk on a ketogenic diet while lifting heavy weights, got fat (and didn't really put on that much extra muscle either)...
> I see this as a big advantage of Go.

What, the advantage that Go doesn't give the choice to compile and link dynamically? Oh yeah, the advantage to treat the developer like an idiot who doesn't know what he is doing.
Dan Simpson: Why more suicides?
Well, it's fair to take issue with the idea that ZH provides any information whatsoever, but I get the feeling that that's not what the parent commenter is upset about.
This is exactly the same stuff going on in Thailand. Post something on Facebook the gov doesn't like and receive a 6 years[1] to 60 years[2] prison sentence. The new cybercrime billed was just announced with harsh penalties for posting anything that embarasses anybody or damages the image of the country. The junta doesn't give any cares at all anymore and just abducts people who say anything they don't like[3]. You would think that western governments would at least pretend to be strong against this kind of thing.

[1] http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/thai-man-jailed-years-...

[2] https://advox.globalvoices.org/2016/01/25/meet-the-thai-face...

[3] http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/950073/regime-wield...
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"Rather, what if you simply placed a creative constraint on the organization that it could not grow by hiring strangers or unknown commodities?"

So...make tech even more of an old-boys club than it already is? Because that's what people will be complaining about if the only way to get a job is to know someone or be known.

Really, there isn't a solution here. Any system you use to allocate desirable jobs to an oversupply of applicants will result in folks who believe they were unjustly excluded. What would fix the problem is for people to define "desirable" in different ways, with a bias toward "the place that I actually ended up at". Love what you do, don't do what you love.
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"walled garden of academia"

The walled garden of academia is not so fruitful as outsiders are led to think it is.

We struggle year after year to pay salaries and still have money to buy the equipment and material we need for the projects, we don't have that much left to spend on buying access articles that we and our peers wrote and that we and our peers reviewed, all for free while some publisher makes millions on it.
An "even a broken clock is right twice a day" method of viewing a content publication is a funny way of explaining away dangerous "journalism" for a couple of stuck clock hands.
Ignoring the fact that moderate exercise will most likely increase your appetite and disturb your body's constant strive to keep homeostasis.