skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sounds like a remarkably boring existence.

Eating is a boring activity. I would even take it a step further than soylent and like to be injected with all the required nutrients once, daily.

If you take into account how much time goes into buying, preparing, eating and cleaning up food, the picture becomes much rosier for something like soylent. If you cut out all those activities, you would save literally years of your life for activities that are actually fun.
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That's what the US does with the landmines ready to be used in Korea and why the US opposed the landmine ban.
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Sure you do: the problem is that you dont have the feeling of the currency: only when you pull your calculator and start typing numbers, you have an idea how high or low prices are. I am talking about a walk in the supermarkez, or a shopping mall, where you see lots of prices. Doing that en-masse and continuosly is not feasible for an individual.

Until your google glasses are translating prices in real time, give me my euro.
If I'm fiending for late night snacks, it means I should have eaten a proper healthy meal hours before. It's easier to start from 3 proper meals, with fiber and vegetables, and cutting out sugar, and then go from there to skipping meals. If you are still on sugar, low-fiber carbs, and high calorie meals, then it's just going to be really hard to transition to fasting.

To me the transition order is:

Sugar + Simple carbs + High calorie meals -> No sugar + Complex carbs + Fiber + High calorie meals -> Smaller meals + letting yourself get hungry for an hour before you eat -> Skip a meal -> Skip multiple meals
Yes, it could come to that. I fear that it will. But at this time, the comparison is inappropriate.
More like a kid flicking the light switch off and on again.

Damnit, Billy, stop messing around with the light switch! You'll burn out the bulbs.
Here is a graph of CA authorities. Who do you trust?
https://notary.icsi.berkeley.edu/trust-tree/

See also Comodo vs Letsencrypt.
https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/23/defending-our-brand.html
Did anyone go to jail? No? Well then... it'll happen again.
Would be more and more of a problem with most sites switching over to HTTPS - Cert mismatch warnings if your ad URL is https and mixed content warning if not. Besides how hard would it be for someone to add a rule to uBlock to block by-IP URL access?
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If anyone has ever tried Anthony Alicea's JS/NodeJS/Angular1 course, please let me know if AngularClass' or any other course is similar to it. I really really liked anthony's course as it gave quite a deep look into sub topics, which are usually only attainable from books, while at the same time keeping it very interesting and also contain lots of best practice material and keeping a healthy focus on understanding over imitating courses. Do let me know if you guys know any other courses of the same style.
Doesn't that mean that wifi captive portals using www.google.com won't be able to take over the connection and re-direct to the captive portal?
That's impressive. Nice job.
How does this work, being able to be downloaded from the app store and all?
Do people think these stories are anything more than mythic fiction?
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>He invited them onto the property. The property has been damaged (presumably not be those complaining, but the conspiracy minded will come up with something I'm sure):

I don't think he invited Instagram user 'sashifly' into the container to take pictures of the garbage bags inside, though you may know more than me.

It seems like he isn't keeping the property clean all day every day, but leaving the remains from a barbecue outside one night and into the next day is far from negligence, and the fact that people take his property for granted doesn't incur any obligation on his part. The business about securing the container down is ridiculous; it isn't going anywhere in an earthquake (you'd have bigger problems than that if it did), and the people who want it gone should have bought the property themselves (or made an agreement with Rhinehart). The fact that others are coming on to his land and vandalizing his property is cause for Rhinehart to complain about poor policing and behavior on the part of the locals. If the windows were broken by meteorites, I might agree that he should fix them, but when people are repeatedly damaging your property, you have a limited responsibility to clean up after them.

From what I can see, the locals want a nice, clean, flat place to hike, and they don't want to pay for it, so they've begun a witch-hunt.
"On the other hand, while the Internet is not a command-and-control environment, it probably needs one on a meta-level."

How do you mean? Isn't the negotiation of autonomous components fine principle for the Internet?
Canonical and lossless recording doesn't matter when you're listening to remastered recordings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

Most CD's sound on par with vinyl to me. More "accurate" reproduction certainly, but accuracy doesn't matter when the mastering is done by a monkey being prodded by a record exec.
"Bill Gates famously said that baldness is treated before malaria because of the aggregate economic power of the "customers"."

If he actually said that, it was a pretty stupid thing to say. Somewhat effective treatments against malaria have been available to western medicine since the 1600s (quinine bark) and pretty good synthetics since the early 20th century.

The first treatment for baldness that was even moderately effective (minoxidil) didn't even enter use until the late 1980s, and note (this is key) that its anti-baldness action was a serendipitous side effect -- the drug was originally developed for high blood pressure, not baldness.

Same thing with the other common whipping boy, V%%%%%a (not spelling it out lest it trip a spam filter). It was for high blood pressure and angina.
>infinitely (and this is not even a hyperbole) faster

Not if your HOSTS file is >135KB (the one you've provided is 373KB), you're using Windows 8 or earlier and you haven't disabled the DNS Client service.

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hostswin8.htm (about half way down)
Ha, opposite of me. I've been glued to Pokémon games (SoulSilver, Alpha Sapphire) all day outside of work. I give my personal projects a few hours on the weekend.
We've warned this account in the past, and so we've banned it for repeated violations of the guidelines.
I find it strange, too. I think it's more a magical-thinking issue, where juice is "liquid" and thus "water", rather than thinking about the nutritional impact.
If you are using Firefox you can log all TLS Master Secrets to a file so you can later on decrypt the recorded TLS (i.e. HTTPS) sessions. Wireshark supports the file format out of the box.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NS...
Given that armored IDF Caterpillar D9s can survive 500-1000 pound IEDs, which is larger than the explosive charge in any WWI artillery shell, getting mine clearing machines to survive isn't the problem. Finding said shells, which are dug deep into soggy ground, is a bigger problem.
Daily fasting and eating meat, fish and veggies makes my mind much sharper. I can see the 3 day fast improving cognitive performance but I can barely do the 20 hour fast as it is.
Does this mean that "nosslsearch" is now no longer supported?
This is a really good post which contributes to the conversation. Why make it on a throwaway account? We need more of this here!
That all sounds great, if you're independently wealthy or at least have a well-padded bank account. What if the "option" you have is turning your entire family out onto the street if you decline?

The "give back" mantra is a bourgeois affectation.
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reading The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

The book was published in 2008 and I just finished reading the book a couple of months ago. It was a wild journey into the land of science fiction. Highly recommend if you are a fan of Asimov or Phillip K Dick.
It uses Hypervisor.framework, much like xhyve does, the Mac port of bhyve.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Driver...
Describing myself as gay. After so much self-torture it's one of my favorite parts of my identity now.
I don't even open links from emails anymore, just login to the company's dashboard and find it instead. :/
waaaaaaahhhhh...... waaaaaaaaahhhh......

start your own school, lady.

donald trump did it. you're worse than donald trump?
Thinking about hard problems in terms of lambda calculus. I took a day to read about all that stuff and at some point so many things fell into place. I learned CS theory in school, learned ML, but it's not the same as being confronted by a seemingly monstrous software project and then realizing ... omg, everything is relational and I can just write an interpreter. No longer asking "how do I write this in ruby/java/js ..." but how do all of these things relate to each other and if which language would be best for encoding my invariants. All kinds of ML and AI fields go from "data science, math stuff ... disregard" to a fascinating universe of answers to questions that you already have in your head for how to solve your real world software problems. The usefulness of macros became obvious and custom monads are rewarding achievements. Closures, instead of being occasional conveniences, became a swiss army knife for eliminating explicit data structures.

Not for all projects of course, but when building something enterprisey, simulated, or creative where users can model their own domain I believe that at least being familiar with the theory is not optional. I'm also somewhat convinced now that most "10x programmers" are maybe ~2x programmers who have simply encoded their expertise into a private DSL using JetBrains MPS or something. Allowing themselves to spend more time snowballing their skills and knowledgebase, and less time doing repetitive tasks and managing incidental complexity.

Oh also, I started using linear constraint solvers for automatically solving small to medium sized problems. You'll usually see them used for UI layout constraints, but that's just the beginning! For example, say you're building a small scheduling system, or a lightweight recommendation system that lies somewhere in between an if-statement and a full blown classifier, or you're writing some arbitrary last-minute business rule for a client where several things depend on each other with varying levels of weights/importance. If you know some things are linear, and the problem is unlikely outgrow the solver, then save yourself hours or work and just solve it at runtime!
It doesn't work. I've been playing that game with Mac for the last eight years, and now I get "and I use a Mac" in my tech support requests.
Reading on with that link is so depressing. Describing 22 year olds getting married (who are old enough to be paid to go and get maimed or die) as "not yet a mature adult... You were young, dumb and full of one bad idea after another". The tips and tricks nature of an article describing basic life skills to people with guns is rather sobering.
Thank you for expressing that better than I could ever do. Outside of JS sucking but being saved by extensibility, and academic interests, I've never heard a concrete reason why LC is important in a practical sense to most programmers. Can't swing a dead cat on the internet without hitting an LC article lately, and I really don't get the sudden interest and insistence that we all must learn it.

Looking into LC I was led to Curry's Paradox, the natural language version being "If this sentence is true, then Germany borders China" which (again, I'm probably just an idiot) doesn't strike me as paradox material.

This isn't some random reverse snobbery rant, I'm all for digging deep and really understanding things (I do this all the time, probably more than most engineers). But I can't see the Emperor's clothes everyone seems to be admiring, and it isn't for lack of looking.
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Nope. http://nosslsearch.google.com/ -> 404
Sure, but my point is that this works beyond the expectations of "common sense".

The XYZ fact may turn out to actually not generalize. With mental phenomena, often how you got somewhere matters more than the thing itself. For a nice negative example, think about taste - many of us have strong repulsion towards some foods caused by random events in the past. Like, for many years parsley made me nauseous, and it started when as a kid I ate a broth and then threw up. It's a common thing that when you're sick your brain can create associations between how you feel and what you smell or eat. So you end up hating some food not because it's objectively bad, not because everyone else hates it too, but because of a random event in your life that happened to get associated with it.

I treat n=1 experiments as a way to probe such random associations. If you find out that something works for you, it doesn't matter that it isn't scientifically proven. It doesn't matter the effect doesn't generalize. It doesn't matter it works only through association and that this association was created due to you doing the experiment. If it works for you, it works for you.

But to be clear - "it works for me" is the only thing you can say in such case. N=1 experiments are ok, but trying to generalize from them isn't. Saying "it must work because it worked for me" based on such experiment is of course quackery.
Not sure if your point about the amount of things to learn is true. I prefer learning small utilities and compose them. The cognitive load is much more smaller (for me) than having to learn a giant monolith. I guess it's a matter of preference.
Glad you like it! It was a lot of work ... especially getting it ready in time for SysAdmin day -- but it was also a ton of fun!

I hope you enjoy coloring it :)
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The most recent discussion I heard seemed to be the theory that a functional oxygen pathway enabled multicellular life by providing enough surplus energy to power the entire organism in an evolutionarily efficient manner. (Add in the fact that by that point the planet was also teeming with single celled biomass to consume)
Think I'll use this generator for generating endpoints for my new open API
Hi I'm the CEO of Optimal, Rob. We use open source lists of adservers but have had to evolve from those lists since some of them are invalid or overly aggressive. We do not and will never make decisions about what to block based on being paid by any of these companies. We are building a consumer filtering system, and we are responsible to consumers. If you try it out and find any sites that don't work as intended please email us or contact support.
I was unaware of the new 'web' link feature.

"The "web" link under the title on the discussion page does exactly the same thing your search link does" would have been sufficient. The second half of your comment comes off as snarky.
Out of curiosity, why do you call yourself a nice guy developer? What and who are the bad guy developers?
How can you measure the strength of the gravitational constant if you don't know the masses of the objects in question?
Same thing with React.
This was my immediate first thought too. A lot of subway stations got WiFi in NYC and for the one directly underneath my office I always had to load Google first to get the login portal to load. Any other websites I visit (including this one) just displayed a HSTS error instead.
>...or earlier...

I've never had an issue on XP or 7 and I've used the same host file shared above with many, many more that I've personally added (my hosts file is nearly 500KB)
We get all kinds of crazy optimal spam!
Starting my own business in I.T. I spent years struggling with unemployment and job hunting after a decade and a half of solid real-world experience. Starting my own company was the best thing I've ever done and I wish I'd done it sooner.
Years ago, sick of seeing everyone else's vacation photos and how great their lives are. ;-)
> The text "icon" is simple and unchanging. I can pick it out much faster than funny pictograms that change with each OS version.

Tell that to my muscle memory that types ⌘A > iP for iPhoto and ⌘A > iCal for iCalendar.
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You should write some blog posts or something about this. As someone just finishing up their undergrad I'd love to hear about these applications and detailed examples.
Keeping one's mouth shut after asking a question is a great skill in general.

When buying used cars, I will often just ask, "Is there anything else I should know about the car?" and then wait.

It's also good for extracting confessions ("What can you tell me about this broken cookie jar, son? [long pause]").
There is no benefit nor additional insight to a view counter over upvotes.
Pihole is awesome! We love what they are doing and if you can't get there on trusting us but want a pure, local network blocking solution I highly recommend this project! On my medium.com/@robleathern page I talk about my experience setting one up.
The resources required to work on open source software: a computer for maybe $200-$300, an internet connection, and curiosity. The resources required to discover a new therapy and prove that it is safe and effective: Literally hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for tools and equipment needed for biotechnology research and to fund the salaries of the researchers and support staff. Hundreds more to run large scale clinical trials.
Not forgetting the fact that it seems like it would be substantially easier for a faintly mobile fluid filled bag(s) of DNA to survive and reproduce in an aqueous environment!
For meditation there is lots of scientific research.

Just some random research below, there is lots of more if you use google.

http://www.davidwolfe.com/meditation-rebuilds-brains-gray-ma...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/05...

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/11/meditations-po...

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to...

Also

https://scholar.google.fi/scholar?q=meditation
For the record, I was not complaining about there being a paywall, just informing others that there was one. And for the record here are dang's comments pertaining to paywalls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

"It's ok to ask how to read an article or to help other users by sharing a workaround. But please do this without going on about paywalls." Sorry I wasn't aware of the new 'web' link feature.
Nice work M. muscle :)
I should probably do that too, I'm somehow staying skinny despite eating a lot but I know I'm not healthy.
We'll be adding more info when we prep things for a wider consumer release. We are working to learn as much as we can and are looking forward to everyone's feedback!
Math is just obfuscated code that doesn't compile or run.
Here's how to have a great starting point in less than 10 seconds:

npm install -g create-react-app && create-react-app hello-world
Where's the redundancy? When you pull down a project from github, grabbing all the specific versions of libraries it needs in a way which doesn't interfere with the versions of libraries used by other projects, is a different use case than the one system package managers perform, surely?
I was going to type a reply about how I'll never take another Uber (not only due to this, but everything else associated with that brand too), but I realized I'd be lying. It's too convenient and available in locations lacking alternatives. My moral outrage won't stop me drunk and wanting to get home to give them more money.
Yeah, but... smoky bones...
Oh you know, just some silly little use cases like...

* building on not-linux -- you know, where almost all personal computers exist. Gee, wouldn't it be nice if most computers could actually compile your code?

* Having only one build config, only having to maintain one publication (ugh need to maintain deb, rpm, nix, chocolatey, brew, whatever the hell arch and suse use...)

* reproducible builds -- distros are well-known to randomly modify libs, making "foo x.y.z" in yum and apt basically random. It's not even clear to me I'll get the same thing from apt on different days!

* Iterating and collaborating on fledgling projects which rightly wouldn't be accepted into a distro -- or just iterating on a timescale smaller than "months"

* local deps -- using system-global deps (as preferred by most linux package managers) is known to be a huge nightmare for any language package manager that's tried. Hence pyvenv. Hence why so many have thrown up their hands in disgust and just started dockering all the things.

(inb4 someone comes to explain that Nix or whatever probably magically solves all these problems)
Question for you and everyone else that recommends fasting: What sort of exercise regimen to you maintain? Mine is fairly active (~5 days per week) and consists of a mix of cardio and strength training (mostly running, climbing, and weights). I feel that any level of fasting would quite negatively impact my performance in all of these.
Academia expanded enormously between 1945 – 1975, when virtually everyone who got a PhD could get an academic job. Since then, time-to-degree for PhDs in all subjects has increased dramatically, post-docs have become the norm, and academic jobs have become scarce. I wrote about this in "What you should know BEFORE you start grad school / PhD programs in English Literature: The economic, financial, and opportunity costs" (http://jakeseliger.com/2012/05/22/what-you-should-know-befor...), but the overall point can be generalized to a large number of fields.

As you note, academia has become increasingly exploitative, even when most individual professors remain well meaning.

In addition, many people considering grad school or who have recently begun it seem not to know quite how bad the situation is, or quite how bad it can be to be in your 30s and to have effectively wasted the career part of your 20s.
This is a great parody of Silicon Valley.
Mine was making sourdough bread. I had no idea you could catch wild yeast in your house and use it to make amazing loaves of leavened bread with just flour, water, salt and captured yeast.

I haven't had store-bought bread for 6 months, and each loaf I wonder why I didn't know about this earlier! (Here's a good starter on making a starter! http://www.theclevercarrot.com/2014/01/sourdough-bread-a-beg...)
You're not meditating if you stop to write it down.
This is a slight issue, we are looking at ways to make this easier. The reality on the hosts file approach we think is that we can be far more dynamic and help protect users from bad domains as well, but time will tell.
Dealing with forward- and backwards-compatibility with enum changes has bit me many times in the past. So has required fields.
Acknowledge that your mind has wondered (maybe say to yourself "thinking") and then don't make a big deal out of it and try to let it go.

Try to only focus your awareness on the part of your body above your eyes. Something that helps is to pretend like you are carrying a basket on your head.

Also look for meditation MeetUps in your area, maybe being in a group will help you.