skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s easy to fall into habits like slacking off with Youtube, HackerNews and other social platforms – but have you ever stepped back to think how destructive it is?

> I call it the “social loop of death” where you make your rounds on various sites and before you know it, 3.5 hours have past and you haven’t gotten anything done.

> You end up getting 60 minutes worth of actual work done in an 8 hour day.

I feel like someone installed cameras in my home. This is exactly me. What's even worse, I know that I have this problem and nothing seems to help. Scheduling, website blocking, working out of home all failed after some brief time. Any other suggestions?
Very, very cool – thanks for sharing!
"The 3pm crash" is well documented and extremely common. Personally, I set up my schedule so I am not trying to do intellectual work between 3 and 4. Eat a snack, walk to the Starbucks down the street, go to the gym, take a boring meeting - anything, and then resume programming when my body is ready (usually around 4/4:30).

The Spanish have siestas.

There is nothing wrong with you - this is human nature. It's in the scientific literature, TV commercials for energy bars, and even some European cultural identities.
Terrible and misleading headline.
Appreciate the effort, but this one seems waaay too strict for mere mortals:

CHECK #53: JavaScript disabled in the Safari web browser.... FAILED!
Nope - they aren't good enough. It's not easy to install. What I would love in a browser:

* An organization set up to oversee it that does not need to care about money (pipe dream part here).

* Easy to install.

* Standards compliant.

* Open source.

All in all, Firefox is the closest (imo). What rubs me wrong about chrome is that originally it was to be monetized - at least I don't remember such.
Reminds me of buying the Toshiba Satellite 1805-s201 in August 2001. It was the first sub $1000 laptop I saw: $995 with $100 manufacturer rebate. Celeron 800 mhz, 128mb, and 20GB of spinning rust. It was the cheapest laptop and ran the current version AutoCAD without a problem [actually, ADT2 which had a much higher load than typical AutoCAD].

To me, the way to weigh value is relative to workload. Few users are hardware bound and today the most likely bottleneck for ordinary people is going to be GPU, not that I'm saying ordinary users are going to run up against it.
What if you judge a team based on the revenue it brought in vs the cost of the employees in the team? Since profit is the real measure of success, it makes sense to use that as the metric. Measuring individual contributions is problematic, no matter the system you use. Measuring based on the entire team is much easier.
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Pretending to work often ends up as long term low level stress which is surprisingly bad for you.

Stress is there to deal with physical lions; think long term sacrifice for short term survival not superpowers. The extreme version might be combat, but hyper awareness around threats can apply for much longer periods. Sure, a few hours a week is no big deal, but that's not 4-10 hours a day for decades.
I don't disagree on these particular points. My contention is solely that lack of IPv6 is not a showstopper.
No, the US doesn't export its armaments with any sort of remote disabling functionality, who would buy arms like that?
Since he considers it not ethical to continue, my guess is that there is some kind of government action attempting to force them to sniff or backdoor the service.

As for why he is announcing he is shutting it down rather than just pulling the plug, pulling the plug may well be considered obstruction of justice, but just refusing to donate materially can't be prevented by the government. It may well be that lawyers have advised him that by announcing his decision to not participate it gives the government reasonable notice to be able to find an alternative or take some action, and counting on there being no practical way for the government to respond without revealing that they are involved.

Edit: It may also be possible that he has become aware of a 'looming' threat to de-anonymize the service but can't speak of it, and he is announcing that he is pulling out since if he is subsequently compelled not to pull out it will act as a canary.
I think it was actually "00000000" ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link#Develop...

Edit: Unless you mean that bike locks that the UK used to secure nukes, these days we just trust our submarine crews not to do anything rash.
I've found that adding {floor} round-trip to any questions someone could have figured out by reading the first result on a search to be excellent for the productivity of all involved.
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The same goes for wordpress plug-ins. Once you're approved, you can push make are to hundreds of thousands machines. Or whatever you need to do - back links, redirects and other crap.
For some reason that link wasn't working: Try this:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/15/only-5-of-mac-user...
Very concise and easy to read, I like it :)
Declaring 'what' structure should exist

- vs -

Declaring 'how' this structure is created
I think the sample size may be too small to draw any general conclusions.
So this is like the space shuttle in concept, right?
I can't remember when was the last time I rebooted my Win 10 PC because of an update. With Windows 7, it was like twice a month.
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Time to uninstall from my phone.
Change your browser? There is research (I'd have to find it) that says addictive behavior is strongly attached to your environment.

The example I heard is that soldiers who got addicted to drugs overseas have a much better time at home if they quit before coming back - then the addiction is associated purely with where they served overseas, and not at all at home. We're talking an order of magnitude more successful.

Sadly, I don't remember many details - so take the above with a grain of salt. I think the above was in relation to vietnam, but I'm not sure.

Edit: You could probably do a lot with this - you could change your broswer theme, get a plugin that applies a theme to websites, switch up your desk layout, move your desk area, etc.
Vulkan could very well be a different story, it doesn't have OpenGL's shortcomings.
My father bought the first family computer, an IBM PCjr, when I was 4 or 5. Donkey.BAS made a huge impact on me, although its easy to overlook as a crap game these days. Sure, there were "better" games that I played on that system: my older brother purchased Sierra's Black Cauldron–which I played the shit out of. My uncle wanted me to grow up to be a pilot, so MS Flight Simulator was in order, too. Jordan Mechner's Karateka is still, to this day, mind blowing to me. And lest we forget some Broderbund and Microprose classics.

But donkey.BAS was, which all those other things weren't, is my _first_, real introduction to programming. I was too young at the time to really recognize the value in being able to not only consume, but read the code, change it, learn from it. Unlike more polished games, I learned way more about programming from changing, breaking, and subverting donkey.bas than anything else on the PCjr. Sure, it wasn't _the best_, but it was the first time that someone pulled back the curtain and I was afforded a glimpse at what was possible, and what computers could _do_. Between that, pouring through the "Hands On Basic" book[0], and typing in basic programs COMPUTE magazine, I'm not sure that I'd be a programmer today, as hyperbolous as that sounds...

And some overly nostalgic part of me kind of misses doing PEEKs and POKEs in physical memory and the summer I spent learning binary math because I didn't understand the relationship between the AH and AL registers of my 286 years later. Then I go back to writing CRUD applications in whatever javascript library is the flavor of the month.

I just hope that kids today have the same access to shitty, but accessible, chunks of code to help inspire them and show them what the machines they interact with everyday are really capable of.

[0]: http://www.brutman.com/BasementCleanout/IBM_Hands-On_BASIC/H...
This is absolutely true, and why it can only aspire to science at this stage. Many factors were involved, such as network effects.
Did you know that a number of "the masses" that earn little money smoke a pack or two of cigarettes per day? How much do you think this costs on a yearly basis?

In NYC they are $12-$14 per pack, but even in the rest of the country at its lowest cost it has to be several dollars per pack * 365.
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What would you suggest instead?
If my employer's interests are better served by a 1 hour workaround, rather than an 8-hour open source contribution effort, professionalism requires that I do the former.
Feature request: Before you can flag a discussion, you have to give your reasons for doing so, which will be published.
Do you have any good resources for diet things? I'm interested in this.
It might depend where in the flight the engine fails, assuming we're talking about the first stage. If I had to guess, a GTO mission (placing a payload in a 36,000 km x 350 km elliptical orbit) could still be successful with an engine failure in the first stage after 65-75% of the fuel had been burned, and the vehicle was generally lighter, allowing the burn time to be adjusted longer to reach the same velocity at the point of first stage cutoff and separation to ignition of the second stage. But this guess comes from dozens of hours spent playing Kerbal Space Program....
Produce is expensive because it's minimally subsidized and it takes a lot of people, land, and care instead of a lot of energy. Dry corn is extremely hardy, fresh lettuce wilts.

At the extreme end, roses are not actually much plant matter, they are expensive in large part because you can't treat them like bricks. On that continuum Produce is closer to flower than grains.
Shameless plug: I have been proposing this approach for long. I found that the missing piece is how to generate the actual geometric information starting from data, hence I wrote a library to this effect https://github.com/andreaferretti/paths-js

For the animations, it is often just a matter of continuosly updating the state of some component, something that I did in this mixin https://github.com/andreaferretti/paths-js-react-demo/blob/m...
The stipend is paid by Google, not by gnome-games. From their perspective they are getting help for free. If they don't want to encourage that, it's their loss. Putting "n00b" contributors down is an easy way to make yourself feel good, but it doesn't ever benefit the project. This kid could have chosen to do 1001 other things beside contribute to gnome-games. Now he's probably wishing that he did. Who benefits?
I've got to say I learned something rather strange from this. I've never heard of ReactiveX and I'm glad to see someone's made it.

I've been writing the same functionality with less safety and features for years. I'll be switching to this. Great find for me. Thanks!
As much as I agree with that I'm still at a loss as to why butts in seats management is still so dominant today.

It's almost as if everybody wakes up, reads Dilbert every morning thinking "Wow, that PHB guy certainly is a role model to aspire to."

It's not as if these patterns can't be changed:

The required technology has been available for more than a decade now.

There are tried and tested approaches for organizing work in a more productive and healthy manner than 9-5.

Still, it isn't happening at a larger scale. While the reasons might simply be risk-aversion or - on a more sinister note - a somewhat implicit understanding that our society is built around a 40 hr work week and we'd face serious upheaval if that was no longer a given, I find those reasons to be tenuous at best in the long run.
It follows Betteridge's Law of Headlines[0].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
The same guy is giving a series of 15 minute talks this week via webcast (first one is tomorrow at 4 pm London time)

http://undo.io/become-gdb-power-user/
Thanks, I'll try that out.
As purchased supplies? That would be disasterous for the industry, no?
Except employers can't capture the value of eliminating that waste, because people who can actually do 40 hours of head-down intellectual work in a 40-hour workday are unicorns.

It's employees who get screwed by this - if their managers are too concerned about waste, they can't do anything like read a book or go for a walk, so they're on Facebook and Reddit, which are much less effective as breaks from focused work.
90 Mpixels at 9m by 5m (if the sensor matches the format) would be sqrt(2) Mpixels per metre.

That's a dot-pitch of 1400 dots-per-millimetre or 36000 dpi; standard magazine print is 300dpi.

I really can't believe that something higher than that can be useful resolution for billboards unless you're cropping to a very small section of the full image. The stretching of the image with the glue is going to give you lots of distortion, never mind the ridges they usually have in them. http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/3651/what-d... suggests a max working ppi of 75 for an actual reproduction of ~9dpi for a billboard.

A very large poster that you want to see close up I can imagine doing at 600dpi, maybe even 1200dpi; but you're going to need a magnifying glass to see that pixelation with normal eyesight I feel.

Even for film reproduction other errors in the process would seem likely to wash out any higher resolution, like dust on the lens in the cinema [do they have some sort of laser cleaning mechanism??], or indeed dust in the air in the cinema?

E&OE.
You can't compare the ST and C64.

C64's competition were the Atari 400, 800, XL and XE lines. Most games came out for both platforms. Atari's player missle system was both an advantage and a disadvantage in some respects.

The ST and Amiga were competitors but completely different platforms than their respective predecessors.

When you're talking Mac - the Apple II would have been the contemporary of the C64 and Atari 8-bit lines. There were games on Apple computers as well, but I suspect not as many. They were completely dysfunctional and the Apple IIgs was a really fun machine.
The Toyota Hilux isn't an aircraft. The B61 is an air-dropped dumb bomb. Any aircraft that can load it and drop it in the air can deliver it. If you didn't care about accuracy you could roll the thing out the back of a C-130 and successfully deliver it.

The point is, there is no equipment required to deliver the B61 other than a standard weapons rack with any air-to-ground aircraft has. The only A/G aircraft I am aware of that can't deliver the B61 is the F-22A, and only because the bomb won't fit in the weapons bay.
> Two countries, China and India, hold approximately one-third of the entire human population alone, with 1,318 million and 1,312 million people, respectively. The United States of America is third with 302 million.

This sort of "breaks the fourth wall" for me, using national boundaries defined by human culture/civilization in a biological definition of humans.
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At least it's the most cross platform low level graphics API.

DirectX 12 is Windows only and Metal is iOS/macOs only.

Hopefully we'll get a standard API for graphics one day. Lack of it is holding us back.

Maybe Vulkan can be the TCP of graphics APIs. Something that provides stable foundations for building fancy graphics stacks on top.
Same; I've always had more problems with Python on Windows, rather than Perl.

With Perl 5, both ActiveState's and Strawberry Perl just worked, whereas Python can't even print to the console [1] without workarounds or an extra library that's not installed by default.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5419/python-unicode-and-t...
Where I work we hire 40+ almost exclusively.
The Chinese company Kunqis failed to aquire Opera because it didn't get enough shareholder approval. Therefore this is the plan B, where Opera sells some assets, including the browser, to Kunqis.

Source:
http://e24.no/boers-og-finans/opera-software/opera-gaar-for-...
Also this was a sub-orbital flight, aiui that places far less stress on a vehicle since they don't have to shed orbital kinetic energy.
there was creative..and that popiah skin manufacturer?
That won't work for all jobs - I work in the actuarial department for a (very) large insurance company. We can't directly affect profit. You could argue for whether or not our projections are correct, but they can be affected by many things out of our control.

I'm guessing that's true for a lot of areas in a large company. What about the department that takes care of buildings or HR for example?
I found the supposed plagiarism and I'm not seeing it. From what I can see, it's all original code and while what you made is thoroughly useful and certainly took a lot of work, it's not exactly uncommon. You've created a very comprehensive, plugin-ready, Mac-specific bash config. Yours handles numerous cases, this person wrote their own handling a smaller set of cases that works better for them. Traceur[0] was one of the first major JavaScript transpilers. Does that mean Babel[1] is plagiarism?

[0] https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler

[1] https://babeljs.io/
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Is Opera fairly popular in other countries? I have a feeling this won't go over well with a large portion of the U.S.-based power-users that use it...
Hi jonkiddy,

Thanks for your comment.
Do you think that I can do something by changing the license on my open source project?
> Can't be sure, of course, but I would not feel comfortable with using TOR for anything sensitive anymore.

Out of curiosity, what alternative(s) would you use?
Windows 10 may be the Windows version that gets me to switch back to Windows from Linux. The interface is gorgeous. I can run a Linux environment. It's got multiple desktops.

Cannonical loves my data as much as Microsoft. Unlike Microsoft, they love sending to Amazon for sales purposes and the search engine du jure for "personalization" and to websites to download their Ubuntu "app" things.

TANSTAAFL.
You might think that, but apparent reality is that no one needs you. Or me. Or anyone else for that matter. With some rare exceptions, of course.
I'm convinced "bigness" in any form, is evil. Big government, big corporation, big lobbying groups, big egos.
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Yup, uninstalled this morning.
Ah, interesting. Apparently this is true even if some constructors are explicitly '= default' (for the T x{} and T x={} list/aggregate initialization cases only).

But I believe that rule doesn't apply for any objects where adding an '= default' constructor would be useful, because it requires that there be no user-defined constructors or private/protected members. Otherwise that syntax ultimately calls the default constructor, which won't do any zeroing.

See http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/aggregate_initiali...
I'm skeptical that the PALs are as easy to bypass as this article says. It's possible that the arming code includes critical information necessary to properly detonate the bomb, such as timing info for firing the various detonators. Even if it doesn't, the critical PAL hardware is deep inside the bomb, requiring the bomb to be disassembled to get to it, then reassembled afterwards, and that's not quite as easy as swapping out your car's spark plugs.
My CPU fan begs to differ. Or maybe you meant something different by overhead?
I know of a company that has a "#sbrocco" channel suited to unleash your rage and just let it out.
"Right now, 1 Megabyte of memory costs about $45 retail. This will not drop by an order of magnitude in the next decade without a breakthrough, or an economical Gallium-Arsenide process to replace Silicon."

I love this line. Even in 1990 people didn't believe Moore's Law.
Actually it should be a simple as expiring whatever API key the jets use to communicate back to the US-based control servers. So when it POSTs to a StartEngine endpoint or whatever, it wouldn't start.
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Oh yes. Wrote my diploma thesis in it, on a Schneider/Amstrad PC with an EGA greyscale screen. At the time no other word processor had comparable WYSIWYG formula editing support. Almost three decades have passed but I can still hear the sweet sound of the matrix printer at 4 am the night before the deadline. Those were the days...
I don't get where you're going with this. The extension has the "<all_urls>" permission which explicitly allows it to do this. It also explicitly turned on unsafe-eval.
This is true. My mistake. At our company we added https://github.com/django-json-api/django-rest-framework-jso... to get DRF conformant to jsonapi spec.
I added

0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
0.0.0.0	www.gizmodo.com
0.0.0.0	gizmodo.com
0.0.0.0 www.drudgereport.com
0.0.0.0 www.reddit.com
0.0.0.0 news.ycombinator.com
0.0.0.0 lobste.rs

to my hostfiles.

Sure, I can remove them if I want, but the extra effort keeps me from doing it. I left messenger.facebook.com open so that I can talk with people.
Some projects aren't directly profitable, but are important and must be done. Infosec for example. Using this metric, important jobs may not get done.
I've seen this, and it's a ridiculous pre-requisite. If I'm going to work on side projects they need to be things I find interesting, and that I'm willing (and able) to work on when I'm tired/hungry/cranky/otherwise worn out at the end of a day of paid work... which pretty much means they need to be my side projects, rather than dull PRs on some OSS uber-project where I maybe have to deal with a load of politics, jump through a load of hoops, or perhaps the barrier to entry for useful contribution is too high (e.g., due to project complexity).
> If successful this could lead reduction in developers needed in companies that use say AWS lambda.

How so ? to me it makes development even more complicated, cheaper relative to hosting fees maybe, but simpler ? I don't think so. What if I want to use language XYZ not supported by lambda ?
Thanks for your comment. My concern is that all the changes introduced by the other project could have been done through pull requests.

Also, the other project wouldn't exist if my project wasn't there. One thing is being inspired, another one is creating a separate project that is dividing the community effort in two, instead of focusing in one project.
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That's my experience as well. Windows 10 is significantly less crufty than 7 or 8. The interface is gorgeous to boot. Not sure I'll switch from Ubuntu for day to day, but it's possible.
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If you look at the younger generation, I doubt it. Korea is a wonderful country full of extremely bright and nice people. But they're caught in an education arms race that is legitimately terrifying. Kids are schooled with incredible tenacity from 9 to 5 and then once they are finished school they attend night classes and weekend classes. I think putting a much higher weight on fluid intelligence over crystallized intelligence in the CSAT might be useful for mitigating this dynamic. However, I'm not sure what could be done do avoid the equally terrifying working hours dynamic.