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"Self control" costs mental energy, it imposes cognitive load.

If you want to go on a diet, don't exercise self control by not opening the bag of Oreos. Throw the fucking bag of Oreos and don't buy any more.

Practicing diet hygiene by only buying healthy foods is far easier than trying to avoid eating crap that's in front of your face.

Practicing security hygiene by eliminating situations which give rise to security risks (e.g., buffer overflows, and OpenBSD's rewrite of core libraries to that effect) is far easier than trying to remember to check your string lengths on every operation.

Practicing mental hygiene by eliminating the very possibility of interruption is vastly easier than reminding yourself to resist Every. Single. Fucking. Temptation. That. Comes. Along.

See Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, first chapter or so. Covers this well.
There is many ways to think about virtual particles. From a particle point of view one can think of it as quantum mechanics allowing you to create a high energy particle for a short amount of time, even if that would not be allowed classically. From a field theory point of view, you can have excitations in the fields that are not sufficient to be a particle, but can still interact locally.
Which is an absolutely awful system, for a multitude of reasons.

One of the biggest faults that looks like it might be replicated here (the article does not specify) is that once employers (VCs) rank students (startups), the students can't see the numerical ranking they were given.

For example, if I'm a student who was ranked by several companies, I cannot see the numerical ranking they gave me. This introduces a significant bias against students for no apparent reason; employers do not lose out if we can see how they ranked us.

This is one of the reasons that UWaterloo as a school is hugely overrated (although the students are generally as good as they are hyped up to be).
More formally, a photon field contributes to the so-called stress-energy tensor,which acts as the 'source' of gravity in the Einstein equations, thus affecting gravity, as you say.
Complexities of an infinite scroller
It does. Diluted but it does. I think that 20% of the LA smog could be traced to be of Chinese origin. Sources - probably a guardian article an year ago.
> The Foundation has a wholly-owned for-profit subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation (the Corporation). The Corporation serves the non-profit, public benefit goals of its parent and the vast Mozilla community.

...

> The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Foundation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, the Corporation (collectively “Mozilla”). All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

IIUC, receiving revenue would be more complicated if the transactions were undertaken directly with the not-for-profit foundation. Certainly many "non-profits" do receive transactional revenue, i.e. hospitals, but in that case they often have a number of subsidiaries -- for example one subsidiary actually employs the physicians, another signs funding contracts with the NSF/NIH and distributes grant revenue, a holding company owns the buildings, etc. Accounting is complicated (perhaps more accurately: "the tax code is complicated").
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Which in turns get from Bing. So really, there isn't a better choice for Mozilla. I honestly don't have a preference on Google vs others. As long as there is a way to disable tracking as a preference, done deal. I am not too scared of Google's tracking, but I understand others are.
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Except that the entire team hated him. They don't talk about it since his death, likely out of respect, but they were pretty open about him fucking off to Europe and deciding not to show up for a few weeks. They were really angry about him claiming to be a cofounder and insisted that he had very little to do with reddit outside of writing web.py.

Funny how the accepted narrative changes after someone dies.

Edit: Background:
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Aaron-Swartz-and-Steve-Huffman...
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And even on relatively slow internet connections, like four players in one room on a 1.5Mbps DSL connection!
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Why do you think increasing yields greatly benefits farmers? If the pencil industry doubles its output, do you imagine their profits will increase twofold?
It's easy, imagine your friend is being arrested by speed over-limit. It's what the police has to do, isn't? The thing is, imagine, that you record it, and then show the face of the police to your friends and you go to fight him. It's well known that sometime police should be recorded, but don't forget there is people out there which is hateful. Police, in general also need security. It's by that, so hard to find the best rule for all the cases.
Em, yes and no. I am not a huge fan of tracking as much as possible for the sake of tracking because it's possible with no plan how to utilize the data in mind.

When it comes to Google Analytics and etc, I really prefer having a plan in mind and tracking the key things I need to know about. Focus, improve, move on. As the time passes, you collect more data but at the same time, it's very usable and actionable.
How about not half baked, incomplete, or restricted?

Lets be honest, Cygwin is a joke if you're doing *nix development.

Windows 10's Bash on Ubuntu is months old, we're talking historically on the order of 5-10 years.

VMs and remote systems are fraught with compromises.
Didn't catch in the article if it was mentioned, but has anyone thought of you know, asking tourists why they picked to come there, or what they expect to see? Guessing the implication they can't speak English very well?

I have seen a similar phenomenon when going to Jamaica. Our driver who was supposed to take us from the airport to the hotel to the other side of the island, happened to stop for a "break" at a road-side cafe with a shop full of what looked like overpriced Chinese made handbags, clothes and some random things. There was a woman working there who was probably his wife or relative. The idea was to hopefully get the tourists to buy some of those things. We stood there entirely too long, and he thought he was being sly but it was kind of obvious what is happening.

So perhaps some pub owner or someone owning a business in the area somehow managed to convince a tourist company to bring clients in that area? A busload full of tourists is a nice captive audience who are already in a happy spending mood, so not surprising if someone would capitalize on that.
Engineer Using Deep Learning to Detect Cats and Turn on His Sprinkler System
The issue isn't free vs. pay, this issue is free vs. no other realistic option.

It's not like you can pay facebook to respect your privacy.
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Planetside 2 IMHO is the best Starsiege Tribes yet.
Safari is not the shittiest browser on the planet that makes all your good standards based code break . They aren't making weird implementations of all the standard / standardized stuff. so no. it's not even remotely the new IE.
"Apollo: Atmosphere & Soundtracks" is an incredible album and was written for a documentary (no words) of the Apollo landing. I've always wanted to see the original but it is NOWHERE.

Here's a Youtube of somebody on the water just so you get a feeling of the music of the ether.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKw5mbcE7VY
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20 minutes is a good amount of time to determine if you like the Founders or not, but I agree that you probably want to do more digging. Would love to see YC post a "post mortem" about how all of this went.
I guess direct messages aren't available on HN. I just wanted to thank you for sharing your truth in this thread, it was relieving
So how did this guy get the source code and why is he the one publishing it?
There is no "sharing" with an employer. The employer exists to get as much out of the employee as possible for as low a rate as possible. And drawing bright, do-not-cross lines is the only way to get on with them.
Personally I haven't clicked on a single Forbes link in months after being forced to unblock them to view content that should be available to the public with no catch. I never go back to sites that implement that system.
Why is goto Bad?
Looks like everyone gets to milk the Yahoo cash cow - board, investors, business partners, execs, friends of execs and management except engineers. Yahoo still pays engineers terribly hoping to compete with the likes of Google and Facebook. Why don't they just give up at this point and expedite selling. Why bother with all the posturing.
Summer is definitely a slow time for us, lots of folks taking well-deserved vacations and lots of effort being diverted into organizing our three Rust conferences taking place this year, which I might as well plug while I'm at it:

RustConf (Sep 9-10, Portland): http://rustconf.com/

RustFest (Sep 17-18, Berlin): http://www.rustfest.eu/

Rust Belt Rust (Oct 27-28, Pittsburgh): http://www.rust-belt-rust.com/
Ask HN: Are there any app jams?
Hi guys,
are there any regular hackhathons like Ludum Dare but for app developers?

Thx.
Interesting part to me:

> Craig : So you were essentially working part-time?

> Chris : Part-time in startup hours but it was like a full-time job. I would normally work from 6 to 2. Then go to sleep, get back up, and do it again.

> You know, your 20s are a magical period of time. I could get by on four or five hours of sleep without any major side effects. Basically it was like that for all of 2006. It was like two full-time jobs.
Anything better than ENet I could investigate?
Never mind also that Chrome has made leaps and bounds. I don't know the details of the history of Mozilla and Google's partnership, but featuring prominently in a major browser was probably a lot more valuable to Google back when Google didn't have a browser of its own.
But people are vocal against pretty much every significant change, aren't they? Think of all the times when Facebook iterated and change the format of the profile.

There will always be vocal minority which will never be pleased, no matter what you do. And later they forget it and move to other thing. Sometimes you just have to carry on with your plan knowing that you will lose some users, but aiming to do better overall in the long turn.

It's important to listen to the users. What's even more important is knowing when to say 'no'.
Autopsy?? The article clearly states the police found him with a cable around his neck.
Really? No one can counter this?
beyond a certain threshold, it's all the same to a tourist. what i see in your pictures:

stone houses, thatched roofs (or whatever the modern equivalent is), cobblestone streets, roundabouts, little shops and pubs, old churches, gardens and trees, and of course english people milling about... pretty much exactly what pops into your head when you think 'english village'.

looks like kidlington meets the criteria just fine:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.8177024,-1.2723015,3a,75y,2....

this area would be very appealing to someone looking for a slice of english suburbia.
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> drawing a line at every angle through a country and then moving that line up and down.

This part is quite messy. For every given (c1,c2) city pair, you'd get 1 straight line that connects c1 to c2. Then for every city ck, you need info on whether ck is above that line or below - you can compute that by point-slope geometry with the lat-long coordinates ( given point p(x,y) & line l with some slope, is p above l or below ).

If you want to poke around, the dataset is here: http://seer.cancer.gov/popdata/
I can't believe you people. FPGAs? Seriously?

HFT is an abomination. The fact that it's not banned is proof that the entire financial sector is the cancer of society.
How I used social media in real-time to support a sale
Florida investigators found a laptop in deadly Tesla Autopilot crash
Not being a racist makes it acceptable to not take race or a surrogate for race into condition for a loan ;-)

(Please don't take that the wrong way. I am not accusing anyone of racism. Simply stating that at some points our ideals is more valuable then an additional point of profits for the bank).

Disparate impact and it's use in credit scoring is mostly governed by Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), but most of the banks I am aware of go steps further in ensuring that disparate impact does not occur.
In short, it's not. A robust scheme should be secure if the attacker knows the algorithm or not. The secret should not be the algorithm, the secret should be a sufficiently long secret value.
Didn't we just cover this on HN?

It's sort of halfway between C and C++, with constructs like

array_ptr<T>
Watch a cyborg stingray made of rat heart cells swim using light
I've just upgraded from Rust 1.8 -> 1.9 -> 1.10 using rustup.rs without any issue (at least I didn't see any issue :P). I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 amd64.
I do wonder sometimes if it's a gift or a curse to know that your eventual death is coming soon. Death is such a weird concept that at least I personally feel I lack the hardware to fully comprehend or be at peace with (as of right now anyway).
In ideal case, yes, but there's nothing to prevent from just downvoting things that are against your personal opinion. Therefore, it would be abused/ignored.

It's not that most of the people are rational and self-critical - many people think that their personal opinions are right and others are nonsense :)

You can't design system on the assumption that people are rational.
Interesting, maybe I should get back into it.
You know this kills people right?
Installing UEFI Arch Linux
Given that the statistician's mantra is that no model is true, it's just that some are useful, I would expect to see a sensitivity analysis of any claim being made as to the effect of choosing the wrong model on the accuracy of parameter estimates or predictions. Instead, what we get here is mathematical smoke and mirrors, 'cause ultimately what the paper says is that even when you have a very large sample, people might reasonably disagree about how to model that sample and that the data itself won't be sufficient to decide which model is best -- hence "statistical undecidability". Okay, yeah, sure, interesting point, but not exactly shocking to anyone who has ever used any sort of statistics.
"Supposedly?" I would have thought inevitably.
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Can't you? Maybe not today, but soon. https://webassembly.github.io/
If I may, I'd like to inject a plea for sanity here. Please, please, pretty please with sugar on top, don't reinvent the wheel when it comes to chat protocols. Right now, on my desktop, I have 5 different windows open dedicated to various chat networks and chat protocols. I have steam chat, a window with my irssi session, a pidgin session with connections to a slack session and an aim session, a telegram session, and a skype session. Yes, implementing someone else's protocols is complicated and sometimes painful, but when you end up needing a half dozen different /types/ of connections, there is something wrong and broken with how we're approaching the whole talk to other people thing.
Take every car off the road and those satellite images look almost exactly the same.
Splitting hairs, but when Quinnipiac broke out Catholics who were weekly communicants as opposed to merely 'identifying', there were significant differences.
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This is what Bitcoin is
It's really not. Fuck social networks.
But reddit's "Vocal Minority" is much larger, and much more vocal than most. Almost to the point that it might actually approach the majority of active contributors.

Yeah, no matter what there will be naysayers, but the majority of comments in the announcement thread for the affiliate links thing were negative.

Combine that with the reddit demographic's love of a controversy (no matter how trumped up) and you have a ticking time bomb that makes mistakes hurt for much longer and much worse than most platforms.

Just look at their previous "algorithm change" fiasco. They changed the front page algo, and after about a week they changed it back because of outcry. For the next several months people continued to complain about how everything was worse now, and that they were lying about "reverting" the algorithm. It's insanity.
Oh boy, I hope it solves the job draining/triggered downstream builds problem!
It is easy to miss the point with such articles. OP touched upon it in chapter "So Why Use Python?". Raw speed, while sexy, is not a deciding factor in most cases - not everybody is working on HFT. And when it is important to be really fast, you can always write an extension in C (or Rust I imagine?) just for that single tight loop and get raw speed without sacrificing maintainability. Seriously, most bottlenecks (in other people's software of course ;) I came across were either due to bad architecture or unreadable code, which lead to not noticing that too much work was being done. So yeah, Python might be slower than alternatives (though I have a hard time believing that it is slower than Java), but it is fast enough.
Thanks. An example of poor business thinking, IMO.
That's basically putting on blinkers and saying "oh, Linux is only for servers", which is pure bull - unless they had some valid technical reason for not wanting to support GUI apps on Linux.
C'mon really...? People need to be told it's nice to not have a house laden with junk? That's worth Trademarking a name?

Guess lots of folks were never told to clean up their crap growing up. What's next? A book deal for some weirdo who starts a movement about using bidets to get a really clean butthole to "center your rectal chi"?

The nonsense people will subscribe to in order to pursue a quick fix for the struggles of being an adult never ceases to stupefy me. No matter how organized you get, the reality: life == hard, never goes away. Accepting the challenge with dignity is much better than giving all your money to trendy cult-figures like this one.

Oh and: clean up your crap!
Skiing was a bug - friction didn't apply to players while the jump animation was playing, but gravity equations did, so players slid downhill a bit. During beta, players learned to hammer their spacebar to maintain this frictionless state, skiing incredibly fast. Eventually, a script was released to automate this, repeating the jump when spacebar was held down; other games might consider this a cheat, but the community embraced it, and so did the devs.

Xtremeski came later...
Except of course of the fact that visible minorities can not in fact afford to live there, or get a loan to live there, because they currently live in a poor neighborhood.
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It's definitely hyperbole in a sense because Safari is certainly nowhere near the Enterprise monoculture that IE once had, but it's a fair comparison not in any way to deride the work that Safari does, but to point out the things that Safari could do better to learn from past mistakes to help the web and web developers.

I think it's important to make the distinction between Safari and iOS Safari. It's iOS Safari that is the most comparable to the issues with IE in the past, particularly IE6:

- Updating it is tied to iOS releases, which in turn is tied to hardware model. Thus real world usage of iOS Safari drastically lags behind "Safari latest" as users stick to hardware that works and for various reasons cannot/ upgrade iOS.

- Safari on the iOS is as much as possible intended to be a monoculture on iOS devices.

- iOS still has enough marketshare and share of total browser users and to a lot of people the "smartphone" is still nearly synonymous with "iphone" and "tablet" with "ipad". (That's a lessening concern these days with Android doing well enough, but it was definitely a big problem in early "mobile website design".) So web developers need to develop with it in mind, sometimes from an "iOS first" mentality when their businesses have invested much into iOS hardware. (Some businesses do have an iOS mobile device monoculture and probably will for several years to come.)

That last issue is the one where the comparison to IE has been the scariest in the past and the one where Safari will likely leave its mark on the web "geological strata" in a similar way to classic versions of IE: there will be some things like notable -webkit prefixed CSS rules that will last a long, long time on the web and the other browsers have simply had to adopt checking for the -webkit version. (Edge and Firefox both have lists of -webkit CSS rules they follow.)

The reason to make the comparison is to especially remind web developers to test outside their personal monoculture bubble. To remember that there are mobile devices that aren't iOS out there and there are many users out there not using Safari (or Chrome or whatever the flavor of the month is among developers) as their daily drivers.

"Safari is the new IE" is hyperbole, but it's useful hyperbole.
hey there Brendan, thats a pretty awesome presentation (I m only 20 minutes into the talk as of now ).. But you mention that the Apollo Engineers expected the CPU load to be about 85% during descent. And the Guidance computer's Kernel ran "Dummy Jobs" when no real jobs were run.

What are these Dummy Jobs ? And Why did they have to do this instead of just leaving the CPU idle ?
Kinda. I allow JS to work locally on the site, but do not allow third-party JS, nor any access to third-party ressources from sites by default.
The BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life) Guido Von Rossum himself put forth the idea that he would consider a patch removing the GIL in 2007 [1]:

> "... I'd welcome a set of patches into Py3k only if the performance for a single-threaded program (and for a multi-threaded but I/O-bound program) does not decrease."

Unfortunately, experiments thus far have not succeeded to meet these requirements.

There is some work being done by the Gilectomy project to try and meet this bar as well as some other requirements currently though [2]. But it is currently grappling with the afore-discovered performance issues that come with removing the GIL.

Also at PyCon 2016, Guido himself mentions the Gilectomy project and it's potential consideration (if it works) for Python 3.6+ [3].

So when you say Python leaders declared the GIL a "non-issue", I think you are oversimplifying the actual reality of what removing the GIL means and why leaders (like Guido) have been reluctant to invest resources pursuing.

[1] http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=214235

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AyI_u66Bw

[3] https://youtu.be/YgtL4S7Hrwo?t=10m59s
In the past, apps were often launched from read-only media such as a CD. If an app tried to modify a file inside its own bundle, the OS would not permit the operation.
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