skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Protection' might be the goal of physical fatigue, but it doesn't work for intellectual effort - what are you being 'protected from breaking' by not being able to write another line of code? Carpal tunnel? In that case, it looks more like it's about conserving energy or rotating to another task after having spent so much time on one task: "A Meta-Analysis of Blood Glucose Effects on Human Decision Making" http://www.gwern.net/docs/2016-orquin.pdf , Orquin & Kurzban 2016
"An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3856320/ , Kurzban et al 2013
What can happen is the for the counties / cities to provide subsidized housing for those making below a certain age and working in that country / city.

I have seen this happen and lived next to a community like that. It was a peaceful and nice place, well maintained without the associated stereotypes for a such a community. It was mostly taxi drivers, service workers, construction, recent immigrants and so on.
Read the sentence right before that one where he says no one else reads his email. The implication is that he doesn't have an assistant screening his messages. His email is completely secure in the sense that it's a private one on one conversation, which is to say it's as private as a quiet conversation in a coffee shop or at a park for example. I don't think he is implying it's necessarily secure from hackers and eavesdroppers.
Not impossible, but as a proposed government-sponsored program in this day and age, impossible.
Maybe something that copies military basic training. It has been decades, but I can still hear my drill instructor yelling, "You aren't tired until I tell you you're tired!" He was right.
How does Secure Boot enable malware to "hide in there more efficiently"? With or without Secure Boot, a compromised bootloader is in a privileged position, but not any more so with Secure Boot, from what I can tell.
From the scriptures: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
"“It’s utterly maddening because the thing about conversations is that when I say something to you, I believe I’m having influence on the conversation,”

....

"AT&T, Comcast and Verizon Communications did not respond to requests for comment."
Inside Look at Key Applications on China’s New Top Supercomputer
Tim Urban points out in his AI article that it might be dangerous to expect that the AI that we know now would still be the same AI we will have in the very near future http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...

"So as AI zooms upward in intelligence toward us, we’ll see it as simply becoming smarter, for an animal. Then, when it hits the lowest capacity of humanity—Nick Bostrom uses the term “the village idiot”—we’ll be like, “Oh wow, it’s like a dumb human. Cute!” The only thing is, in the grand spectrum of intelligence, all humans, from the village idiot to Einstein, are within a very small range—so just after hitting village idiot level and being declared to be AGI, it’ll suddenly be smarter than Einstein and we won’t know what hit us:"

Compare the images:

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http://28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
Unlike the shape of the Earth, there is no truth of the matter regarding what a word means except common usage. In certain cases a word might have a technical definition beyond the usual consensus but 'autopilot' isn't one of those words and communications to the public in, say, an advertisement have to use the common meaning of words.
Well, maybe for the same reason we need to sleep every day. The brain also experiences fatigue.
The author's name seems to be recursive...
Perhaps from bad decisions? As I stay awake, the quality of my code drops pretty fast, social decisions get worse, I say the wrong thing to people, et cetera.
My personal favourite is his analysis of Albert Michelson’s harmonic analyzer [1], a 19-th century mechanical Fourier Analysis machine.

- [1] http://www.engineerguy.com/fourier/
That is the trap, assuming that what appeals on a vacation will remaining appealing once it becomes your normal state. It isn't even just an issue of getting bored, the knowledge that this is your normal life rather than a time boxed vacation changes your experience from day one.
Yes this. Why can a history major and a programmer take out the same dollars in loans? Obviously the market isn't self regulating...
FWIW, the one time I had to use this service, they were extremely knowledgeable, helpful, and effective (and in India).
Any and all of those options sounds like a good idea
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For examples of excellent Tech. Support, I recommend GoDaddy, Infusionsoft, Managed.com (PowerDNN). These people know their stuff. And they speak English.

For execrable support, see Google.
I'm curious about the moral justification for banning things that cause harm primarily to the people who do them.

I recently learned that gay (man to man) sex is actually super dangerous - having gay sex for a year costs between 0.088 and 0.97 QALYs (due to spreading HIV). This is significantly higher than most of the estimates I've heard for a year of smoking.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/are_gays_or_guns_mor...

Should we adopt some of your solutions for that too? Perhaps reintroducing sodomy laws for people born after 200X?

If not, what principle distinguishes these two cases?

(Note: I'm perfectly ok with people engaging in self harm. So I obviously don't favor such solutions. I'm just pointing out that this reasoning is applied incredibly inconsistently.)
I am learning Russian and was just thinking the same thing. That said, I think that the differences between Russian and English lead to a different way of seeing the world (you think in your language, and some ideas that are easy to convey in one language might be harder in another. That said, the vast majority of ideas will be easily expressed in any (universal). I think English is pretty sweet but wouldn't want to have to learn it.
The Most Remarkable Mathematician – S. Ramanujan
They offer support over the phone for products they charge customers for.
Temperate weather plays a large role, too.
It does. If you live and work in a country (even if it's for a foreign company) you can be sure that country wants you to pay taxes.

That said, Singapore taxes are very low, so it's likely a much better deal than paying the taxes in your home country (unless you're a US citizen, in which case everything becomes a lot more complicated, to the point where many banks in most countries won't even give you an account).
>Just because people mistakenly believe something doesn't make it right.

Tesla promotes it as autopilot. Words matter.

If Tesla itself selectively denies that the common understanding is the meaning they intend, then they appear to be trying to have it both ways: cashing in on the PR and cachet that the common meaning confers, while disclaiming the responsibility that goes along with owners actually believing it.
Ghost in the machine: Snapchat isn’t mobile-first – it’s something else entirely
Perhaps. I believe that year is around the time when I first got an email address myself, and if I recall it wasn't another 3-4 years before I knew more than a tiny handful of people who had one as well and used it regularly.
And tons of people are addicted to caffeine. Nicotine isn't so bad on its own (like caffeine).. So I guess the question is how safe the rest of the stuff in vapes is.
When you're quoting a fair bit of stuff, it gets hard to tell what is quote and what is not. I'd love it if there was a <blockquote> equivalent.
All great apes have hierarchical, territorial, aggressive societies.

Most don't have maps though.

Humans primarily distinguish themselves by their creative abstractions and rationalizations to justify fighting/killing other tribes...also imaginary friends in the sky who demand it, nonexistent differences in DNA, etc., etc. Territorial disputes are the least imaginary of the lot.

(Desmond Morris's 'The Naked Ape' is an interesting look at how human behavior relates to apes - spoiler alert, a lot of similarities https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Ape-Zoologists-Study-Animal/dp/... ... I've heard good things about 'Sapiens' as well https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/d... )
Student loans aren't dischargable in most forms of bankruptcy, why's a cosign necessary?
Another reason this will accomplish more in comparison to Arecibo is that the National Science Foundation just ordered the environmental survey of how a full shutdown will affect the local environment.

It is believed in the astronomical community that the NSF wants to defund Arecibo and is just starting the process. [1] [2]

[1] http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/04/uncertain...

[2] I've spent the last year about 20km from Arecibo and go to meetups and bars that some of the staff and scientists go to in order to talk shop.
I find this ironic that all the comments (both for and against) are in English.
I am from Brazil. When I was looking for a laptop in 2013, most non windows laptops, even when compared to identical models that had windows, were usually 130usd more expensive...

I bought then an ASUS n46vm with win8, hoping to remove it and install linux... never figured how to boot any os installer, even after disabling secureboot even memtest86 refused to boot.
When I was in 6th grade (~1993), someone's dad came to talk about our class about the "superhighway of information" or the "information highway". It always bugged me that he didn't say "information superhighway".
I gave him the SPARCbook back in the day.

http://microship.com/update-kentucky-rainstorm/
There is also a large difference between the small fry support and the larger corporate support, especially when you consider the vendor relationship that many large companies have.

In a small company the support personell can be really hit or miss but often times can have major impacts on the product or even directly submit patches to the code you are running.

At a bigger company they may pay a third party to maintain certain standards; often times they will leave a vendor if they are too good because the bonus structures are often based on how satisfied customers are and how much volume they handle.
If their vendor is too successful and they have to pay more money for their cost center than usual, signaling the long end of the contract.
I had a asus n46vm with the buggy behavior... but found noone else complaining about it on Google.

Since it also had other quirks (usb 3.0 port never worked) it might be a hardware defect interacting with the boot process.
A plane can depending on the airport start, fly and land on autopilot, you just need to tell it where to go. There is pretty much no unplanned intervention necessary. This is what the term means to people, autonomous driving. I don't think most people would draw any distinction between the two.

In a Tesla it would be irresponsible to take your hands of the wheel or not to pay attention to the road for even a minute. Tesla's "Autopilot" is nothing like what people imagine an autopilot to be like.
Just because it isn't as bad as $othercountry and because the state does not directly oppress them does not mean religion-ism doesn't exist. It need not be overt.
>https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#Integer...

The quick and dirty version is still useful (portable, works for all values) for the case of 1/2 word size unsigned versions of min and max:

unsigned max(unsigned short a, unsigned short b)
{
unsigned q = a - b;
unsigned r = ((~q) >> 16);
return r + b;
}
Volatile is never the answer if your question is about locking.
Thanks for the link to PDF. The "This URL" link takes you to a page that asks for a login.

Having now read the article, I stand by my original point. There seems to be no verification that the proposed method does indeed identify (in some cases) cases of elections that were independently known, as a point of fact, to have been fraudulent.

They seem to be claiming two things, but you cannot have it both ways :

a) This method can identify fraudulent elections and we proved it by analysing elections in Russia

b) These elections in Russia that we analysed using this method were fraudulent - as proved by the method.

I would expect to see a control that takes data from elections that were already known to be fraudulent. e.g. by confession, video evidence or some other reliable means to show that the effect was observable in some of those demonstrably fraudulent elections.
I think cadence marching/running is pretty helpful too. You just focus on left foot, right foot, and the words.
Anyone who sues an indigent cancer patient in order to recover some vanishingly small fraction of the state's budget is a predator, and should be treated as such.
Suppose that we discover tomorrow that animals are not alone in feeling pain. Are plants then deserving of such consideration? What about bacteria? Fungi?

Where would we draw the line? Should we quit eating and die of starvation? It seems like there needs to be some acknowledgement that one form of life has to die in order that we may live. What gives us the right to declare that animals are the "higher" form of life simply because they're less alien than plants?
Agreed; my point was more of that they are comparably bad; India is not orders of magnitude worse. By some yardsticks, India is better, by others the US is. That should be enough to call India a democracy (if you call the US one).

Totally agree that direct democracy won't help. I'm saying it is the only way that you have a chance of getting rid of the kind of identity politics present in India by changing the system itself. I made that point just to highlight how the undemocratic nature of identity politics was not a feature of the system. I mean, with a direct democracy propaganda can and will still entice people to vote against their own interests, and minorities will be in a bad situation as you said. It introduces new problems; but it is the one way you have a chance of getting rid of this problem (identity politics) by changing the system. The actual fix for this lies in social change.
Can we all agree that greed is evil?
Lessons Learned from Plugin Support
I'm saying it more as a matter of a stark contrast between the city I just moved from and this one; not as a disregard for the serious condition facing the homeless population.

I used to work for Amazon so I took quite a few trip from San Francisco to Seattle. I actually remember a guy stringing a hammock up between the corner of a fence the first night I was there. Even though the weather was amazing, that night; it really broke my heart.

As for Pittsburgh, the winter here was definitely cold for me. I moved in January and the first day I got here it was 8℉ for the entire week. I can definitely see your point about how the climate can impact the number of homelessness. While I have seen a few people here; nothing I've seen in the U.S. really compares to San Francisco.
Presumably if these people are referred to him by their clerics then they have agreed to have his report sent back to those same clerics.

Priests, lawyers, physicians, surgeons & psychiatrists are all members of a professional class, who presumably may refer their clients to one another & may consult with one another as appropriate.
Most of the Premier engineers are in India as well.

If they're outsourced, they are a very good outsourcer. I have had many good experiences with them.
> For example Comcast has on demand, but once you watch a show you have to literally go back and search for the TV show name again before you can watch the next episode.

Netflix and HBO are similarly terrible. There's no way for me to click on an actor's name and see all the films he's been in, nor navigate and see a studio's corpus. This sort of thing should be table stakes, but for some reason it's not.
I have been looking for a good dental vacation, any advice?
Rackspace is amazing as well. Which they advertise, but it's 100% true.
No, I think you are anecdotally supporting the posted article: you worked your muscles to physical exhaustion but you did not feel "fatigue", ergo, the conventional theory that "fatigue" is caused by lactic acid or other muscle chemistry is disproved.
Ask HN: Tiling Window Manager for Windows?
There are many tiling window managers available for both Linux and OS X that have been shown and discussed on HN. There is also this post from about 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8165924

Since quite some time has passed, I was curious if anything has changed. Does anyone have recommendations of tiling window managers for Windows?
I had a $12k quote in California, $9k in rural southern Illinois...and I ended up going to Costa Rica and getting it done at a fantastic office (clean, modern, upscale, English-speaking, and very friendly) for just a bit over $3k. I got in on Saturday, did a city tour on Sunday, dental work Monday/Tuesday, rainforest excursion Wednesday, final dental work and adjustments Thursday/Friday, flew home on Saturday. Hotel + airfare + food + tours came out to about $1200-1300, and the dental office drove me to and from the airport and all dental appointments.

Perhaps the best and most unexpected thing about it was that the dentist only worked on my teeth during each appointment - none of the patient-hopping my dentists here in the US always did.

Best decision I've made in a while.
I've dropped similar SLAs on 3rd party contractors. They can hire exponentially more support people, or fix their shit. The latter is usually cheaper.
My conspiracy theory lately has been that Netflix's search and basic UI is terrible on purpose, to make us not notice the shifts and declines in the streaming catalog quality. For the life of me I can't imagine why else they would ignore calls to improve it.
AS a cancer survivor, I would agree. Particularly for childhood patients, who cannot legally be responsible for ridiculous costs.
She consigned. So she owes the money. This would be the case on any loan.
Doing general inbound customer support (not tech) for a telco for a couple of months, I had the opposite time-related experience. I had a low number of daily calls, and was occasionally upbraided for it. But when I got a customer, either their issue got fixed, or it got escalated to the next level[1]. They didn't have to call back unless there actually was work to do on their side. The usual experience was a couple of callbacks, as note-taking was seen by the couple-of-hundred staff as somewhat optional. A colleague of mine came through the same training process and was terrible for the customers - didn't know what he was doing, transferring calls to the wrong department just to get rid of them, never left any notes at all... but his daily call count was high, so the higher-ups loved him. Nice bloke, we'd go drinking together, but he wasn't who you'd want to get on a call.

[1] Arthur was the escalation point. I loved Arthur. I would go to him with a messed-up customer problem and he'd say "hand it to me, you don't have to worry about this anymore". I'd hand him the paperwork and I'd never, ever see the problem again (he actually did something with it, he didn't just bin it :) ). It reminded me a bit of the jedi mind trick: "You can go about your business..."
Manual memory management is the weak point of Pascal. It limits functions to never returning newly constructed objects, which really limits the expressiveness of APIs both in the standard library and in custom code.

The manual reference counting system in old objective-c provides a better solution which while still cumbersome, doesn't prevent good powerful APIs.

The automatic reference counting capability of Delphi interfaces always seemed like a good idea to me, but seems to be rarely used.
I'd find it hard to navigate life competently without learning geometry, algebra and trigonometry. Calculus as well.

Painting a room, taking out a loan and (in ways) driving a car all incorporate those skills. You can do each task without any knowledge of those math subjects, but you can reason about them much better with a solid understanding of the fundamentals.
Facebook is obsessed with optimizing for engagement. If you tend to engage with things that make you angry or are against your world-view, Facebook will show you more of it.

I've personally seen this when I commented on a cop killing video. Over the next few weeks I was shown a lot of the same thing, I assume because their machine learning algorithm had found out I had engaged with it before and was goaded me to engage again.

Some people don't engage in that kind of content and as you'd expect they don't see it. I'm not sure what's worse, deliberate filtering or self-filtering.
Unfortunately, the most recent tmux will not build statically.
This is how I feel about car insurance in Ontario (think $5000 a year for a teenage male).

On one hand, it's great that if I get in a crash I get crap loads of money for physical therapy and what not. On the other hand I wasted 2h every day of high school waiting and sitting on the bus and so did everyone else. Hours I'll never get back. Would rather have taken my chances :/
This is fucking awsome. Thanks!
I think it is a new phenomenon. The old news networks at least made an effort to present both sides of most issues. These new filtered feeds just confirm what you already want to believe.
The big difference seems to be the risk of AIDS is not an intrinsic part of gay sex, just a consequence of what diseases are prevalent today. Also, safe sex is an option, but "safe smoking" isn't. Finally—and I realize this is subjective—I think people feel like regulating sex is more invasive than regulating the purchase of tobacco.
Let me clarify: The author mentions that his father was killed in Pakistan. That doesn't sound like an apologist for Pakistan.

But the last vote was not exactly close.
I would recommend reading the article, it is fairly interesting and suggests based on the body of research that the brain (subconsciously) creates the emotion of fatigue prior to muscle "exhaustion" to prevent injury.

"These sensations of fatigue are unique to each individual and are illusionary since their generation is largely independent of the real biological state of the athlete at the time they develop."
> Why would Bill Gates say that? Surely he knew their e-mails were going plain text through a host of providers, network operators and mail relays, or weren't they?

He had to rewrite his 1995 book The Road Ahead to cover the Internet better (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_%28Bill_Gates_b...), so it's entirely possible that he didn't actually know all that much about how email worked in 1994.
Comparing colonial America to today's free societies is laughable no matter how they "account" for the work of enslaved people.
I don't know why this is down... the article is from 2012.
Facebook outsources support to certified regional specialists.

You can find contact information for your region/niche on their partner directory site: https://facebookmarketingpartners.com/
Just went through the latter. Would have been so much nicer if there was a way to just regrow it. The attendant swelling in the knee causes the quad to shut down, and atrophy before you get to reactivating it, which precipitates a year-long process of physical therapy before you've got a full stable and strong leg again.
The government can start with improving customer support at DMV Currently, it's 4 months wait to schedule a driving test and 2 months wait to schedule an office appointment. Of course, if you have an urgent issue you can just visit DMV without an appointment but you should be ready to spend 3+ hours waiting in line.