skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1. I had a similar experience - my one auto accident (though I am much younger than you) was when I clipped a mirror on a parked car after sleeping 5 hours.

I wonder if we as a society will ever come around to treating insufficient sleep similarly to drunkenness or distraction for drivers. My intuition says it's similarly dangerous.
Did you see this post about a partial C to Rust transpiler written in literal Haskell? https://github.com/jameysharp/corrode/blob/master/src/Langua...
I don't find the "I can trust them because I'm paying them" idea very useful. Nor the "If you're not the customer you're the product."

The bottom line is, if your information is valuable, then it will be in the advantage of those who possess it to exploit it whether you pay them or not. The only real non-moralistic consideration is whether you will stop paying if they start selling.

Either way, "I have a moral obligation to not sell your info, even if you don't pay me not to" sounds a lot better to me than "I don't sell your info because you think you're paying me not to." It's a horse apiece if you're dealing with strangers and you have to take them at their word.
100% agree that the point of reading is not anything to do with finishing books!
What are the security concerns with a service such as this?
How does one fast for three days?
Or to put it another way, if you feel the majority of the blame falls on Greece, I'm happy to loan any person in the world a large sum...

Provided I'm given the right to direct their, their children's, and their children's children's labor towards repaying me.

And how is bending a government towards repayment at all costs different than enslavement of its citizens? Except in this case the master happened to be incompetent enough that they made their own repayment less likely.
Listening to podcasts. Perfect for when both your eyes and hands are occoupied, but your brain is bored.

To put in in less nerdy terms, cleaning, ironing and other housework, exercise and walking will never be boring again.
There are also the mines that were placed to destroy trenches. Truly colossal quantities of explosives that were placed at the end of tunnels. Not all were exploded.
How to Choose the Right UX  Metrics for Your Product
Майнинг биткоин с облачным mining Aromine
Yes, paywall. Go to google and search for this: "Soylent CEO charged over illegal, 'unsightly' container home in Montecito Heights" or try going to https://www.google.com/#q=%22Soylent+CEO+charged+over+illega... then view first result.

EDIT: I just learned about the 'web' link under the title. Clicking that will take you to google with the same link I mentioned above.
So why is an “experimental living facility” illegal? I would assume fire hazards, but I know nothing of real estate
It does, but not insanely so. WW I explosives were much less energetic than modern munitions. A modern MRAP[1] could drive around all day and be fine. The gas cannisters are an issue but manageable as well. The economic choice in re-mediating battlefields has been to minimize economic harm (tearing up the landscape). But the question of 300 years of non-useful land? Taken all at once does it make more sense to pay the price now.

You can think of it like a mortgage with interest, if you pay it off slowly over time it takes less money per month, but the total money over time is large. If you pay off the mortgage it takes a lot of money but the overall cost is lower. What if you do the modern calculus of costing the land use, versus the cost of complete remediation more quickly.

Let me put it into a modern context. If you took 65 square miles and turned it into a city with the density somewhere between Manhattan and Aleppo, you could settle the entire middle eastern diaspora on land that is currently unused. This is fertile land which once had 9 villages. The diaspora is filled with working age people you could recruit as labor for the effort. How much would that cost? Would that be more or less than the cost of refugee programs and border management and social programs for the unemployed immigrants?

I only ask the question if anyone thinks about it this way, I don't think they do.

[1] http://www.navistardefense.com/navistardefense/vehicles/maxx...
You did not happen to go across the border to Bosnia did you? Even places that have been cleaned are bordered by places that are mined (villages in the north from my personal experience) meaning that if you are kicking the ball around in a back yard and it goes over the fence, don't go looking for it.
I don't find 2.5 million tons unbelievable.

I think you are misreading the OP. 2.5 million tons is the amount that would be required to cover a single square mile at 1 ton per square meter. Since the Zone Rouge is many square miles, it would require 1.2 billion tons of explosive for the 1 ton per square meter figure to be correct.

"I don't think the combatant nations produced 2.5 million tons of explosives altogether during the whole war" should be read as "While 2.5 million tons for the entire war might be plausible, 500 times that amount for a single front is clearly an error". My guess would be that someone along the way confused "acre" or "hectare" with "square meter".
New account, 95% of comments about politics, think I've seen this before...

> I lived there for 5+ years and as an avid reader, it was infuriating

I call bullshit. If you had lived in China for 5+ years, you would know that any book censorship there is in place is limited to only a few anti PRC titles and barely enforced. Can you name one book you weren't able to buy in China because it was censored? I doubt so.

I would too discount the bookstore counts for Hong Kong and China but because their bookstores are typically tiny.
He lives in a box container and (presumably) only consumes a substance that provides all the essential calories and macro-nutrients he needs...

He is consistent, I will give him that. Hard to say that is the path I would want my life to follow. Sounds like a remarkably boring existence.
I didn't 'double-down'; for instance, I agreed with you that "[t]here are intellectually consistent frameworks which could justify most of Musk's beliefs".

I also agree that 'just the carbon tax' would be more intellectually consistent than the myriad of other automotive propulsion policies Musk has advocated, but he happens to have advocated all those policies in addition to the carbon tax.

What are you looking for in a productive discussion? An apology because I might have offended the great Elon?
For dealing with the thought-noise and physical discomfort, I recommend reading _Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind_. It's basically a pragmatic how-to manual for meditation. The book is refreshingly free of discussion of enlightenment and other spiritual matters - his attitude is just that if you can't even manage to sit still, what else do you expect to be able to do?
I am sure you agree that most people sentenced to death try to overturn it entirely and go free, not convert it into life inprisonment.
Was a strain of Aspergilus Niger - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0506_050506_.... Same kind of mold you find in your kitchen on forgotten fruit, but probably this strain was different enough from ones Europeans had exposure and immunity to that it killed a few mildly immunodepressed explorers and a tourist. I remember even a documentary about some of it... kind of boring though.

Ancient Indian mythology is creepy as fuck though, got to agree - they even mention units of time of sizes like 8.64 billion human years and longer mentioned in scriptures more than 2000 years old... I mean, I imagine they got to that by playing with exponentiation and logarithms for the first time while trippin' on some 'shrooms... but that's still a good creepy basis for some alternate history tales :)
Great book - sent the typography for lawyers book as gifts after reading it.
You're taking a lot of heat but I can't see where you're wrong; in any competitive environment there will always be at least one player who, legally or otherwise, figures out how to exploit any conceivable advantage, creating a race to the bottom. It's nice to imagine a scenario wherein a company by protecting its employees' quality of life somehow secures a competitive advantage that creates a market success; but I [literally] don't see that happening.
Mostly what the other replies have said. Personally I've just found everything a little easier to deal with.

Coupling with the meditation, I've also been doing a martial art. Apart from the useful Zen lessons (eg: stop seeing obstacles as obstacles - if you hit things head on, it's a lot harder than flowing around them), it's been equally wonderful for my headspace. 3 times a week for 90 minutes I have to think about something other than work, or life - because I'm rubbish at it and I'll get hurt.

I suspect you'd get a similar benefit from a team sport where you're being relied on and can't let the side down. It puts your head somewhere outside of its usual place. I find the 'space' of that, like meditation, invaluable - especially because life is so busy.
Talk of it being unsightly is useless without pictures. Which this article lacked.

http://la.curbed.com/2016/7/21/12245620/soylent-illegal-ship...

Has some pictures of what they're talking about with respect to graffiti and trash.
Testing code. I was completely against the idea of writing more code for my code that "worked". But as releases came out validating everything was in order became a pain.
Dude would be right at home up here in Alaska.
Simple. Don't eat.

Drink water. Some people will allow juice on a fast.
I will just leave this here http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

i put this hosts file on every device/router that i touch.

It works fully local. So infinitely (and this is not even a hyperbole) faster and you won't have to exchange one privacy hole for another on the "cloud".
A common problem I've had with standalone GPS units is that they get confused when two roads are very close to one another. Highway overpasses, on-ramps and off-ramps, routes right next to highways, etc. You wouldn't want your self driving car to think it's on a freeway and should do 65 when you're really on the dirt farm road right next to it.
I think at this point it is fair to say you are being uncharitable in your interpretation of my point.

I'll point out to things I take issue with your analysis:

1) The neighborhoods you are using to illustrate your point are tiny

2) I'll entertain this though. Looking at all properties currently for sale on redfin in Presidio Heights and comparing the per square foot price to Back Bay, they are about the same. In fact, the outliers are way more expensive in Boston. The most expensive in BB is $8.7M and gets you 2700 sqft. The most expensive in Presidio Heights is $11M and gets you 7000 sqft! For 25% more money you get 160% more living space in a private home with private outdoor space. This isn't a phenomenon isolated to the most expensive neighborhoods either. I used Back Bay and SoMA because I think they are comparable in that they are the most desirable neighborhoods for people that want to live in the city. I haven't spent much time in Presidio Heights but it feels more like Brookline, which is great but people don't live there if they want to be able to have 50 restaurants within stones throw and easy access to public transportation and even then Brookline is a difficult comparison for many reasons.

I hope that you can understand that my argument isn't that Boston is more expensive than SF on purchase price terms but that your money actually goes further in SF on a per square foot and amenities basis. I know it's not intuitive when Zillow is telling you that SF is more expensive than Boston in pure dollar terms but they don't answer the question of what does that extra money buy you and the answer is extremely tangible benefits.
Isn't the EU being gone their alternative?
I've never looked at proto3, but proto2 has at least the following issues:

* No clue about namespacing. If you pick the wrong name for something, you can have name clashes within a protobuf, across uninterpreted option classes, with protobuf source code, with your own source code; and it's different if you're in Python or C. Nowhere are naming restrictions defined.

* The API is maddening and inconsistent, especially in Python. (It's totally different between Python and C.) Some things look like lists but really aren't (e.g. you can't assign a list to a repeated field in Python). Even basic reflection (e.g. to get at uninterpreted options) is a Lovecraftian nightmare, and the docs are wholly unhelpful.

* Good luck serializing a list. There's not really such a thing, despite that the API pretends like there is; there are only repeated fields. So you need a separate flag to distinguish "empty list" from "not present list".

* Abstruse implementation. There are so many layers of indirection in the generated source and the core library that I wouldn't know where to start debugging.

Not sure if they fixed any of these issues with proto3.
The problem with pinning, as I understand it, is that it prevents me from being able to see traffic from my own computer (via HTTPS proxy). Pinning is fine as long as I can turn it off, but I don't want to completely lose the ability to audit the traffic coming off my computer, phone, etc. Related is the recent supposed change in Android disabling the ability to add a trusted root certificate, that also screws the ability to audit.
You mean like the grey goo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
If you can, then read the vedas, the upanishads, ramayana, mahabharata (bhagvad gita) and other texts which do mention such weapons.
What exactly do you not need?

What does "single page app" mean to you? The term is not a description of the amount of features.
Can you describe the basic structure of your 3 day fast? Do you not eat anything for 3 days?
'SELECT * from depesz'[1] is another great resource for weird sql capabilities and performance-related stuff, focused heavily on Postgresql

[1] https://www.depesz.com/
s/tanks/mines
Ask: Has anyone on HN deleted their Facebook account?
Has anyone on HN deleted their Facebook account? What was your reason?
Same problem, I never check any notes I write on a computer or phone. A physical planner for me is the way to go, I'm not sure why I tend to check it more often but I do. I also enjoy writing in it quite a bit more, I can draw diagrams or doodle if I feel like it. I bought a notebook with a dot grid for this reason.
A couple of points:

1. In a normal election, you can "vote the bums out" in the next election. This has much more serious and long-term consequences, more akin to a constitutional amendment, which in countries that have a constitution usually requires something like a 2/3rd majority.

2. In a normal election, the side that wins by making promises (false or otherwise) then has to actually deliver on those promises, and be judged on those promises, because it is voted into power. This is not the case here, and in fact the new PM wanted to remain.

3. The lies and false promises in this particular case were quite extreme. Although there probably were some, I can't think of single "leave" promise that was truthful.

4. Yes, you do hear this all the time, but the general idea is that since you can reconsider next time around, the lies should be left to stand and the people voted into power judged by their performance relative to their claims. Again, there is none of that here, as the people behind leave aren't even generally going to be in power, so no judging them against their claims, and this will be hard to undo.
While I agree with the premise that open source could, in theory, serve the long tail better, I think the barrier to entry of pharmacological research is far higher than that of software development. It should be noted that this is not without reason. Controlled, double-blind studies are necessary for development of medicine and they are hard to do without a substantial amount of funds.

This barrier to entry may decrease as biological models become cheaper and more accessible, but even as a hopeful bioinformatician, I am skeptical of this happening in the near term (10-15 years).
Local municipality code of ordinances. Land ownership does not convey unlimited rights.
The author of the article never mentions what faculty or program they're in, or references any of their work. No doubt this is a real problem, but in this particular case they could just be a lousy researcher in a faculty that doesn't have a high demand for new professors.

IOW the "psychology" / "liberal arts" over population.
I'm not trying to knock any of those studies, but there is a large excess where I'm from.
how do you know that you've 'built something people love' vs 'built something you think people will love if I spend enough on marketing'
I experimented with this idea back in March, https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns

It turns out to be a pretty bad experience. There are tons and tons of legit domains that serve normal content that also serve ads. I used a subset of urls from a popular ad blocking list (https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns/blob/master/lists/easypriv...).

After only a few hours, using the web normally was near impossible. Just a very broken experience. Sadly, since you can't pass a path to a dns server, there's no finer-grained way to allow certain requests to a domain to go through and block others.
I'm convinced now :)
It would increase sales too. Seems that would heighten interest. How would the mine know when to start degrading through? Having that happen during storage would be unfortunate.
Mayyybe he shouldn't have chosen bright red.
That's a lot of shoulds.

I hear government spending on research as part of the defense department is super effective.
A Duolingo for development. Interesting...
Please don't comment on the paywall.[1]

The "web" link under the title on the discussion page does exactly the same thing your search link does; there is no need to 'Google' things for the rest of us.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> It is perfectly consistent to believe that damage is being caused, and that a tax is a bad reaction. It would also be consistent to believe that there is no damage being caused, and that a tax would be bad.

You advocate for lawsuits by everyone against everyone else which could be simplified and applied consistently by a tax.

The fact you don't understand that is, effectively, a very inefficient tax is confusing.
I hate having to enable JavaScript just to read a website.

It was worth it for this one though, just one main thing; still I almost didn't click it, I often don't.

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I see that same mentality reflected in far too many places, no one wants to hire for a career anymore; and that's what 'tenure' is at a college. The 'contract' in society between the working class and those who employee them is beyond broken.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12151004
I think Hawking has said many important things about wealth and economy in the past. Many economists are very narrowly focused, not considering the bigger picture.

Society and the field of economics have always had to make major changes in response to significant technological change. The industrial revolution ripped apart the old order and fundamentally changed the way people thought about economics.

As Hawking has talked about, I think AI as well will make fundamental and lasting changes to the field of economics, and to how we organize our society.

E.g. I don't think libertarian ideology can survive an AI world. Free market economics makes most sense for the present world but socialist economics might actually make more sense in an AI world.

It depends on how things evolve. Either a rich elite will end up controlling all the means of production without needing workers, creating masses of unemployment, or we end up in a world where everybody is a capitalist. Nobody works, but everybody might own capital they invest in production.

The outcome will depend largely on the marginal cost of production. If 3D printers, robots, AI etc allow production to happen at small scale with similar marginal cost to that of large scale production the capitalism might get dramatically democratized. If not instead we risk a Blande Runner like Dystopia.
For better and for worse, installing a private root in most browsers causes pinning to be disabled (for certs signed by that root?).
Assuming that's all he eats, I agree that aspect is boring.

Regarding the container home: I'm not sure it's totally boring. These things are often about the size of a typical mobile or modular home. It's more like they've repurposed the space. It could be well-done on the inside (no pictures, can't say in his case). And you could (with proper permits) place them in a lot of interesting locales.
Apparently, they're worried that the unsecured container would roll down the hill in the case of an earthquake.
An academic career should never be your only option. Make sure you study something that is useful in the real economy.
Wow, 7cm/yr seems fast. I thought I read once it was 1-2 cm/yr, about the same as your fingernails grow (it was a rule of thumb). Probably different plates are moving at different speeds.

I think it's exciting to see examples of continental drift on the human scale. Usually, all the models talk about Pangea and hundreds of millions of years, and our brains have trouble seeing the context.

But I wonder if we don't need a more flexible system, maybe like leap days and leap seconds that get added much more often. Or just have a global reference and an offset for the local datum that can be updated yearly.
The `git` thing is huge for me, too. It kills me thinking back to all those CS homework assignments where I had a build working, but then broke it adding the next feature. Spend the next 4 hours frantically Undo'ing and copy-and-pasting from "copied folder" backups. That's no way to work. Source Control should be taught on day 1 of any CS class.
Yet those programs would happily take on more than their replacement rate, while at the same time not being upfront about the actual chances of getting a job.
Yea I agree with this point. $5 is almost never a good price point for a product that is supposed to increase the value of a business (GA).

If you are really only worth $5 of value, then you are probably not worth the business' time to implement. Try to make your product worth >$50/month.
Thanks for commenting, daenney.

> Shameful? Sure, if you know about the vulnerabilities.
Maybe from a non-secure mindset you're right, but my point is about strategies for a security program. And it also has another problem, without prior checks you'll end up paying much more money. Facebook and Google paid millions already, but that amount would be much higher if they didn't check for vulnerabilities in their home.

Talking about security strategies, you don't really need to know about the vulnerabilities in order to consider this very act "shameful". It's just that you're lacking due diligence. You shouldn't blindly trust bug hunters as a single mechanism to reduce the number of bugs.
Maybe I got carried away. Maybe not the poorest, but a very poor man today has resources at his disposal (via modern societies, no matter how poor) vastly greater than the resources a very rich man could get millenia ago. He can be cured of various deseases, can move around with incredible vehicles, can talk with people very far away from him, has incredible amount of knowledge at his disposal, and already knows things (“the Earth is round“) which are very valuable (as in “we invested huge amounts of resources to get to know this“). His power is enormous.

Human nature is such that we feel poor because we only have a bike, while our neighbor has a Porsche, without realizing that a bike is an incredible thing.