skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pay a lot of attention to realizing you (and all of us) are in "boxes". This means what we think of as "reality" are just our beliefs" and that "the present" is just a particular construction. The future need have no necessary connection to this present once you realize it is just one of many possible presents it could have been. This will allow you to make much more use of the past (you can now look at things that didn't lead to this present, but which now can be valuable).
Perhaps you've noticed the architecture of the new top top500 system. There's currently an HPC guessing game on filling in blanks in <http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/PAPERS/sunway-... but of course CPU comparisons stop at Knights Landing.

One of the things I wondered about is how Linux is adapted to such an architecture. I couldn't find anything from REX on operating system support.
Did you guys ever talk about Man-Computer Symbiosis in terms of the computer unfairly benefiting some men over other men?

One example could be, give me money and I'll give you a computer that can translate English to Spanish.

Another example could be, Apple share holders profit from iphone sales, and the iphone UI leads naive/normal people to think texting while driving is ok.
#feelingit
A lot of research has shown that you need at least a certain amount of protein, 60-120g/day on average depending on your lean muscle mass. You should have at most about 100g sugars/day. Beyond that, barring a medical condition (diabetes, pku, etc) calories are calories, for the most part. You need some fat (balance is surprisingly important here), and avoiding overly processed/refined foods is generally a good idea.

That said, mostly vegetables, maybe by volume, but if you are counting grains/cerials/starches as a separate category, then mostly wouldn't get you enough calories, and often not enough protein on average. Not to mention those mildly allergic to soy.

In general, the practice of even tracking everything you take in tends to make you very mindful of the calories in everything. Knowing what you should probably be taking in on average in combination with tracking can go a long way. I would suggest getting a variety of foods in to your diet, this should include some vegetables, but the majority of your calories will come from protein, carbs or fats. The sources may be vegetable based, but vegetable fats, specifically refined vegetable oils aren't so great a lot of the time. If you stick to fats/oils that are either cold-pressed or animal based, you're better off.
Ironically one of my motivations with exercise is to avoid being tired or fatigued. I notice a big increase in energy levels when I'm getting regular exercise. Better to be a little fatigued at the end of an exercise than be fatigued for the rest of the day.

I also agree that exercise should never be painful. Unfortunately, we have a "no pain, no gain" mentality about exercise in this country. I don't even think the exercises advertised as "extreme" (ala P90X/Insanity/Crossfit) need to be painful, but some people will push themselves more than they should (Crossfit in particular is notorious for poor trainers overpushing people to injury).
While I think Trump is a bad choice, I think comparing him to Hitler is overzealous and irresponsible. There are no doubt similarities between the two but Hitler wrote an entire book about the "Jewish Peril" and how it was destroying society and needed to be dealt with. It was clear that Hitler had an agenda that was anti-semetic, and the charisma/ability to execute on it. Trump is a racist and a bigot, but he is far from someone that would be able to implement a "Final Solution". By drawing the comparisons to Hitler, we oversell Trump and what he is and at the same time bring Hitler and his actions to a lower level which they never be at. We should sell Trump for what he is: someone who uses the racism and ignorance of the American people to cover up the fact that he has no idea what he is doing.
Since it's just one binary, what difference would this make in day-to-day operations?
Hi Alan,

Could you please answer:

1) What is your opinion about Actor Model? Does it have a potential? What is the next step for OOP?

2) Do you think software of the future should be end-user modifiable?

3) What would be the Dynabook of 2016? Smart contact lenses with a gesture interface?

Thank you very much!
Another liberal who hasnt understand Trump's appeal in the slightest. How you can put "political correctness is bad" and then say literally 2 sentences after that "he is a racist and a misogynist"
I mean the level of brainwashing is amazing.
good point but i think i mentioned that in the first part of my post.
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Hardly. Demagoguery appeals to people's emotions and prejudices, rather than rational argument. There can be no doubt that Trump takes exactly such an approach. And he has vocally encouraged violence and identified specific groups to serve as targets, based on race and religion. That description is entirely apt.
Yes, you're shit out of luck. You can post paragraphs onto the Internet until you're blue in the face but this is their reality, not mine.

Pro life tip: just get a credit card or two and nurture your credit score. Don't fuck over your utilities and make sure your payments are on time. Voila. You're a real boy. Not my rules or something I endorse but hey someone here had to say it.
Are there any non-demagogue politicians, then? Successful ones, I mean.
Given that many believe Trump to be literally Hitler, bending the facts is a small price to pay to stop him.
Help applying for citizenship? I'm sure there are some people in unique situations where an expert could be helpful, but it seemed like a super simple process when I went through it.

I could see needing help with the green card process, as it's more complex. That said, I know plenty of people who have applied without any help and been successful.

The one area where I've seen having an expert onboard help is around the nuances of applying. Often the USCIS will publish memos that clarify requirements (the instructions are often not that clear, especially if you have an unique situation). However, that means your expert needs to keep up on the latest on a day-to-day basis to be worth their cost.
This is maybe the most Alan-Kay-like response so far. Short, simple, but a tiny bit like a message from an alternate dimension. "No, no, I'm not asking you to build the also-wrong solution someone else has tried. I'm saying: solve the problem.
It's funny how candidates can just state problems to get people excited (e.g. Bring jobs back to America, We're getting screwed by the system, Break up the banks, etc.), and yet most people care so little about the solutions.
While I agree with the sentiment of the post, I was surprised by some of the examples provided, because they are what the press said and not what Trump said. With that said, it's surprising what choices for President the most powerful country in the world has.
Crowdsourced soundtracks for board games
I am definitely going to try this! Would love to see a bit more about the creator!
Sam A. and Paul G. should be allowed to post whatever they like.
The artificial lake created by the canal (Gatun Lake) has a surface of 425km² so indeed we can effectively say that some water has been restrained on its natural way to the ocean.
Maybe it's just me, but I've always thought that being "smart" has everything to do with having a wealth of information and being able to draw connections between various facts and ideas.

Repeatedly solving a simple puzzle only makes you good at repeatedly solving a simple puzzle.
> To anyone familiar with the history of Germany in the 1930s, it's chilling to watch Trump in action. [...]
Demagogic hate-mongers lead down terrible paths. It would be particularly embarrassing for us to fall for this—we are a nation of immigrants, and we know that immigrants built this country (and Trump, of course, is the grandson of immigrants and married to an immigrant).

As Hitler was Austrian, technically speaking, he was an immigrant too.
Hi, co-founder of the OpenCage Geocoder here.

I can't speak to the opinions of others, but for me your question is a lot like asking "what's the best programming language?" The only realistic answer is that it depends on your task. We're continually facing new customer requirements, and what one customer thinks is absolutely essential, the next guy couldn't care less about.

A good example is speed. For some clients every millisecond is critical (imagine real time bidding systems), for others they are running a batch process to geocode their database in the middle of the night and couldn't care less if it takes one hour or two. Likewise huge differences in requirements in terms of accuracy. Some clients will accept only perfection, meanwhile the next guy intentionally wants a vague answer so that consumer privacy is maintained. Then obviously there are big differences across countries, forward and reverse, etc, etc. Some clients must have the attributes that using an open data source like OpenStreetMap allows, others care only about price.

So there is almost certainly a perfect answer for your specific geocoding needs, but there is no perfect geocoder.
Several large companies have sharply withdrawn support from the RNC without abandoning it completely. Microsoft used to make monetary donations to them every election cycle, this year they are donating technical support to the convention but no money. YMMV on whether that's good/bad/enough.
I think the modern thought is that it helps almost anything, there's a technical term for this I can't remember, but basically resting up after nearly all injuries is considered worse than than moderate usage as part of the healing process.
> Trump is a racist and a bigot, but he is far from someone that would be able to implement a "Final Solution".

Why? Hitler didn't implement it himself either, he had staff for that. He just told them to get cracking.

(That doesn't mean Trump will, but dismissing the possibility for grounds of incompetency seems a too easy way out.)
Then discover that since last time I installed emacs on a fresh computer, somebody with an insane opinion about indentation "worked on" python-mode. Struggle with it a couple of days, then try to find an old enough emacs package for my latest Ubuntu that python-mode isn't broken.

This has happened twice.

This upgrade cycle magit (my main reason for using emacs in the first place) broke all my muscle memory and added a ton of featurea I don't want or use.

I wish I could just freeze emacs development...without getting left behind when I want to install a new package... oh well...
The fact they aren't concerned is exactly the problem. They should be. And in fact many are. See the SSC link posted below (http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/22/ai-researchers-on-ai-ri...), or this survey (http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/survey.pdf). Certainly I am worried about it. There is far from "uniform agreement" that AI is safe. And appeals to authority would not comforting even if there was an authority to appeal to.
You should take a look at how Hitler looked like in the early 30s as he was beginning his ascension toward Chancellorship.

There are a lot more resemblances with Trump than you think.
The INS doesn't exist anymore. The USCIS is assuming its former responsibilities now.

Otherwise, completely agree with you. You don't want to fuck with these guys. A mistake in your application randomly triggers either them asking for more doc, or them rejecting the application altogether. A rejected application can have very severe consequences indeed.

I read a lot of horror stories in this thread about bad attorneys, I guess I was lucky with mine who was completely awesome.
Actually, although Monaco is still shipped with mac os, the default monospace font has been Menlo since 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_(typeface)
Hi Alan,

You have an interesting reading list at http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp. However it seems that it was created long time back. Are there any other books that you would like to add to this list ?
That's the price you pay for Electron.
What's the point of writing this article now, after all of the legitimate candidates have fallen? What do you want us to do?
This certainly doesn't match what I've seen. All the people who think Trump is unfit seem perfectly willing to say so. All of the people who support him seem to be completely sincere in their belief that Trump would make a good president. I don't see anyone giving any indication that they think Trump shouldn't be president, but that they're afraid to say so. There is no "charade," as the author puts it.

It's possible that certain Republican leaders fit the description. But plenty of high-ranking Republicans have been willing to speak out against Trump, and those who endorse him mostly seem to be sincere about it. And of course everybody on the opposing side takes pretty much every opportunity to trash him (IMO rightfully so).

What's scary about Trump isn't that people are unwilling to speak out against him. What's scary is that so many people actually want him to win. Trump isn't the problem, Trump is the most visible and frightening symptom of a massive wave of ignorance and insecurity among the American electorate. He's the blood in the stool. Speaking out about how bad the blood is won't really help, you need to go in and kill the cancer that's causing it.
> Let people opt in to the court system

You can't "opt in" to a system that exerts coercive power (in the dictionary-definition sense) over everyone in a jurisdiction. You are already in. The system will not let you out, because that would interfere with other civil and criminal processes (for example, bankruptcy proceedings) and in doing so harm society as a whole.
Good post, Sam. It's much better that we break down the issues at hand and move beyond the name=good/bad binary discussion.
Get this political crap off of HN
I like the idea, but the pricing is prohibitive. While it might be acceptable for a green card application, the price is the same for the citizenship which is much simpler
The power source thing is an instance of unreliable narration. Their account of what happened is pieced together and passed around like the mythology and religion that underscores the movie.
That's not how you stop someone like that. That's how you become them.
If there were a worthwhile contender, then perhaps I'd consider voting. As it is, I don't see how casting a vote for Johnson does anything more than legitimize the election and thereby our totalitarian democracy. And that's exactly what Trump and his rhetoric are - inevitable products of late-game democracy.

If he does beat Shillary in the finals, it will at least be nice having most of my peers back to an anti-government slant like during the Bush years.
Tangential sidenote, Burke never said that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#False_quotations
Not directly related, but this seems like the right thread to ask: I've been trying to move from Linux to OS recently, and the one thing I can't stand is the .DS_Store and other files which OSX just throws all over the place, in every directory whether local, network or external drive.

Is there a way to stop it? (installable on a fresh system? I've been experimenting with reformatting, so that's not a problem)
He's right that we're drowning in political correctness...

Trump's casual racism, misogyny, and conspiracy theories are without precedent...

That's some impressive cognitive dissonance, sama. Those are two aspects of the same thought happening in Trump's mind.

EDIT: Stewart Lee's smart (and amusing!) bit on the idea of "political correctness": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmsV1TuESrc
I'm curious why this comment has been so aggressively down-voted. Do we now eschew fact-checking on HN?
Or read a few paragraphs of Lyndon Johnson's biography.
If we slip we'll probably get beat down by everyone.
Too Cute for Their Own Good, Robots Get Self-Defense Instincts
I certainly don't think of music along these lines. Or even theater. I like developed arts of all kinds, and these require learning on the part of the beholder, not just bones tossed at puppies.
Just realize it takes a couple seasons to get good. Don't quite after the first few shows.
> Such posts always get heavily flagged

That says they get flagged, not that they aren't allowed. I have no doubt this post is getting many flags as we type.
Did you use a lawyer?

Is it true that there's a line in it where one is allowed to change one's name?
What did he do that proves he is racist or bigoted?
Many people use full IDE's to do their work - JetBrains, VS, etc - which are dramatically more resource intensive than Atom.
Trump's bibliography is revealing:

Crippled America, Time To Get Tough, The Art of the Deal, The Art of the Comeback, The America We Deserve
The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life by Ivanka Trump, The Way to the Top, How to Get Rich, Think Like a Billionaire, The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received, Why We Want You To Be Rich, The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received, Think Big and Kick Ass, Never Give Up, Think Like a Champion, Midas Touch
"can't do his job because of his heritage": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKwps5fjjCY
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Sam, what do you think about YC companies whose founders support trump? Or on the other side Apple not supporting GOP convention?
Gosh. It's almost worth it to never resell anything. Just throw old electronics away even though that's bad for the environment and squanders value both for the owner of no longer needed gear and the potential new user of it. The world would be so much nicer if everyone were honest dealing.
If it's audible in headphones I suspect that the fix would involve soldering HF bypass capacitors at the inputs of the onboard headphone amplifier. Doable, but will the owner agree to this? Well... ;)
You're better off not contributing but recording what contribution value you're missing.

Every dollar removed from the 401k costs a significant amount due to taxes and penalty. If you can, always avoid taking money out.
Why not ask them? It's an interesting question, and I've noticed similar things with business analysts I've worked with in the past.
Why High Earners Work Longer Hours

"Between 1979 and 2002, the frequency of long work hours increased by 14.4 percentage points among the top quintile of wage earners, but fell by 6.7 percentage points in the lowest quintile."

http://www.nber.org/digest/jul06/w11895.html
This study argues that people recruited to use Brain Training score higher on fluid intelligence than people recruited to participate in a study for a reward. That is, Brain Training works for people who believe it works.

So, shouldn't it be used by people who believe it works?
Take a look at the HN discussion on this -- perhaps someone will supply a URL?
Should it be necessarily with Node.js? I've tried to find a good toolset in JS, but it seems other languages (e.g. Python and Java) are a lot more mature in scraping.
Mine is called "apt-all.sh" and installs gcc, clang, qemu and some libraries:

https://github.com/vmorgulys/sandbox/blob/master/stackcity/t...

It's a big list of "apt-get -y install".
Before Hitler was around I wonder, who was used as the model of living evil.
Take a look at rkt in that case: https://github.com/coreos/rkt
> Kubernetes is painful to install from scratch

Fair comment, and AFAIK, this is recognised and being addressed.

For example, minikube [https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube] to easily run Kubernetes on the desktop.

There are efforts underway to simplify cluster bring up, but this is not an easy problem because Kubernetes has to abstract away the underlying differences in O/S and cloud providers (example: load balancers on AWS vs. GCE).

I think they are getting there, but if you want dead simple "it just works", GKE is a great option.
This year's race for president can be summed up easily by two well-known quotes (one in Sam's essay):

Edmund Burke - "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Albert Einstein - "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
> ... but Hitler wrote an entire book about the "Jewish Peril" and how it was destroying society and needed to be dealt with

https://www.amazon.com/Crippled-America-Make-Great-Again/dp/...
The reason we're talking about Atom on this thread is because VSCode, which also uses electron, does not have performance issues.
[Apologies HN but I Must] Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Brexit (HBO)
I feel like both companies are trying to "solve intelligence" by aiming for true AI, in which case there has to be some overlap in the work they're doing to get there.
I grew up in the 80s with 8 bit computers and started collecting them in the 90s-2000s (when you could pick them up for free as long as you picked them up); I started repairing and extending them picking up video cards and old mobo's from dumps and 2nd hand markets. You can still buy boxes with mobo's from < 2000 which have usable things like memory for much older systems for next to nothing. Using a cheap digi scope, some bread boards, wire and analog electronics can get you quite far in playing around with slow (70-80s) digital components and hooking them up to others. On ebay they sell kits with old processors as I wouldn't recommend soldering apart 80s computers anymore => they are collectible and much appreciated in others or my museum.

That said, it is a good start... If you can find a cheap one, find the schematic online and start checking out the components and measuring the signals. I am lucky to have many systems that have 74series logic + memory + cpu in them which is really easy to follow for any programmer. Most machines from that era won't have that unfortunately.

If you cannot or will not risk that then simply buy a power supply, some packs of analog electronics, digi scope (few $100 one is enough), a box (2nd hand you can get them cheap) of different 74series, breadboard and a computer kit like [0] or [1] or [2] and start experimenting.

[0] http://www.ebay.com/itm/Zilog-Z80-Colecovision-Kit-8MHz-Z80-...

[1] http://www.ebay.com/itm/Zilog-Z80-ZX-Spectrum-Homebrew-IC-Ki...

[2] http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mixed-Kit-6502-or-63C09-or-Z80-CPU-S...
I would also like to know if he uses emacs or vim, or whatever. And if he thinks the editor is relevant.
It's now off the front page.

I didn't flag it as it's their site, but I'm happier that it's gone.