skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The maps of the US lights at night show that there is a line running down the middle of the country. East of that line it is essentially solid light, with little islands here or there of darkness (often large state or national parks). West of that line, it is opposite. Mostly dark, with islands of light at major cities.

What is puzzling is the location of the line. As far as I can see comparing maps, there is no obvious geographical feature that would have halted dense development at that line.

A good map showing this is the light pollution map at DarkSiteFinder.com: http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html

The line runs from Winnipeg in Canada, down through Grand Forks and Fargo, then Sioux Falls and Sioux City, then Omaha and Lincoln, then Wichita, then Oklahoma City, then down to Dallas and San Antonio.

I wonder if that line was just where westward expansion had reached before the Gold Rush and the rapid increase in migration to the far west, and afterwards people who would have otherwise went slightly west were instead going far west, and so we ended up with a sparse area in between?
We have 80 years of data from giving children low doses of stimulants.

>In such a case, the medication is actually hampering their development.

Again, the actual data say otherwise. Medication tends to help children develop proper coping mechanisms. Not medicating is more likely to result in social rejection, drug abuse, depression, dropping out of school, and so on.

Most of this anti-medication sentiment is unscientific unfounded FUD.
My local grocer has a self-service machine that will copy a key in a minute or two.
Cool. There is no VM, just a runtime not much different from the ones from other compiled languages. It compiles your code piece by piece, and optimizes during that compilation.

This is a very interesting solution for JavaScript, but I think it's constrained by the language and could become better if it were fully compiled.
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It looks like this is a Google project. Controlling a somewhat popular ad network places it in a rather unique position in regard to creating a liquid market between readers and writers.
Ok. I accept your individual experience. I would then tell you that what I've written may not be for every single heterosexual male in every conceivable case as the permutations of gene combinations are quite daunting and its possible to have so many varied outcomes that are atypical.

The working out thing isn't about hubris or for women. Its for you. What happens when you change your body's chemistry makeup to promote testosterone, rather than lots of fat having the effect of creating estrogen and lowering T and your outlook in life... the methods to increase T change your personality so you are more of a risk taker and are better able to have that boldness to talk to women and take action in general in life, while also being more attractive, if that was your problem in the first place. You may be horribly shy etc but at least you are more embolden to take action than being out of shape, creating estrogen and logically, you will have less reason to have lower self confidence. Its a good place to start to become more social as your physicality is primed for it.

It is not shallow to promote an optimized version of yourself and I would talk about more areas of finance and giving as well but that is outside of the subject. Taking care of yourself is something that you will regret if you don't.

I'm very past even worrying about women now, I only worry about one and have 3 young sons. However, my strategy worked so well with such dramatic results that I felt the need to share that experience. Maybe the writing style should be more IMO-style, "careful to not offend everyone", but again, I'm still doing the lifestyle health thing and will do it till I die. I have plenty of boldness to go around, now focusing that energy on attacking the business world.
thank you, I'll look into it as soon as I can :)
Pinterest Acquires News-Bookmarking App Instapaper
> you should read the post

>> As we focus on the future of the user experience, we’ll be sunsetting our developer product, Instaparser.

This seems to be about Instaparser, not the core product Instapaper?
While I still think it a bit unfair, the exact quote is "...but to a first approximation, no one is using it". So I think (assuming fijal's numbers of 0.5-1% are roughly correct) it is not completely unreasonable to say that PyPy adoption is very limited to date, which was the point of what he was saying (although I think it could have been said more diplomatically).
Detailed document to learn node modules' APIs?
Nodejs's documentation has some examples for its built-in modules but it's kind short, is there a verbose document somewhere that I can use to learn how to exercise the modules' APIs more thoroughly?
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You're just being pedantic at that point. Wind turbine / mill is used interchangeably in the populace, and they are the ones you need to convince that these projects are viable.
Wasn't CO2 much higher in the past, hence why plants were so massive and could support big dino's.
It seems the scientific bits of Python have been moving at a much faster development pace though. Do you have any insight as to why?

Personally, I started using Anaconda for everything and just drop down into pip when I find a package that isn't in there already, and it's been working very well.
One thing that has definitely changed is the level of academic expectations for young kids. Working with educators, it's apparent how much expectations have changed even in the last 10-15 years.

Things that children were once expected to know in 1st grade are now expectations of children in kindergarten or even pre-kindergarten. Kindergarten is the new 1st grade, in terms of reading, and that means children have to spend more time sitting and copying letters and words.

In kindergarten, some children will be a year older than other children, and a year is a massive amount of time, developmentally speaking, when you're talking about 5-year-olds.

The biggest risk factors for an ADHD diagnosis are being in the youngest quartile of your grade and being male. Neither of those are actual medical problems.
Or a bookmarklet like this one:

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which strips out basically all the ill-considered design choices you're likely to find on a page, including best-of-1993 color palettes like that under discussion here.

If you don't want to go that route, most modern browsers have a reader function built in, which extracts the page content and displays it with high contrast, a readable font, and no annoyances.
Also, Big-O notation is a theoretical construct for thinking about complexity that works well for academic proofs but glosses over many real world considerations. Those ignored constant factors can be large and the datasets are not always large enough to amortize their cost.
Great comment illustrating the big picture of a few years. Now we just have to figure out which of those is the best for arbitrary, use cases with easy maintenance, unlimited scaling, and high availability. Whoever figures that out will finally be "Right." ;)
Because the devellopment path used by Japan and South Korea is very close to the one used by Zaire and pre-1980 Brazil or Syria and many other places where it failed.

And in many cases, those attempts failed by the 70's
Big O notation is typically counting comparisons, and ignores constant factors. It isn't that memory hierarchy is ignored so much as the equating of comparison growth (in n) with performance.

The field of cache oblivious algorithms is focused explicitly on memory hierarchy, and accounts for cache misses.
BeOS is the reason I learned C++. I don't recall exactly, but either I didn't understand how or there was no other option but C++ if one wanted to hit the BeOS API. Pity Be Inc. got shafted so bad by MS monopoly abuse.

They had zero vendors willing to put their OS on a box and resell it because MS threatened the vendors with pulling their right to sell Windows if they did. This wasn't particular to Be, but to any other OS.
It was announced in April and is being shut down in August. Do the math.
> we will keep Instaparser running until November 1, 2016.
Lighting is pretty small potatoes compared to transportation and agriculture and climate control. Your efficiency improvements, while great, are vastly outweighed by increases in global population and standards of living.

If you were to wave a magic wand and put a complete stop to human CO2 emissions today, the consequences of climate change would still be felt for decades. Never mind some technological change in the next 30 years, we needed something in the last 30 years. It's too late to stop it now, the only question is how much it can be mitigated, and how to deal with the consequences.
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My comment is independent of your discussion of medical bankruptcy, which I find abhorrent.

I take issue with your statement that housing should be exempted from bankruptcy. As someone who rents and doesn't own, and thus has a net worth that is more concentrated into savings/investments, why should a house be protected? I'm not protected from losing the savings that I haven't invested into a house.
You would if you literally didn't have $600 for the brand name version.

Maybe $600 is an amount that everyone can get with some sacrifice but there are other drugs/devices/procedures that cost $10,000s or more where people just have to go without because they're not allowed to take a chance on an unregulated alternative.
gRPC core libraries for C++ are written in pure C. We need to extend these to use a pure C implementation of Proto and create a C based generated API. We have experimented with this and some users have also tried it. We are looking to add this in future and also welcome contributions.
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Even triple, that seems like nothing in the grand scheme of something as large as power generation.
I'm a C#/MVC developer working on a fairly large e-commerce site. It's a distributed system using message based microservices tied together using https://particular.net/nservicebus. There is also http://masstransit.readthedocs.io/en/master/

Some great tooling Visual Studio, Octopus Deploy, red gate SQL source control etc

C#/F# - The languages are very nice. Huge inbuilt library.

C# is probably one of the best statically typed, OO languages there is. For functional languages you have F#,

C#/F# is starting to run on many platforms including iOS/Android/Linux etc See Xamarin

The .NET platform is the home of CQRS and event sourcing if you want MASSIVE scale.
I got my diagnosis for ADD (and a few other stuff) a little more than a year ago when I was 19. For me, it's always been really "weird". I suppose I could share this personal anecdote here, in a hope that people stop seeing everything as binary. Sure, there is "big pharma" problem. I buy 150 USD worth meds on my own to know that (insurance does not cover it). But that doesn't/shouldn't hinder those who genuinely are in need of help, be it in form of medication, therapy, or just plain ol' family support.

Without and before the stimulants, absolutely nothing was urgent to me. Not showering, eating, getting work done, studying. Nope. It always came as a surprise when I used to see other folks deciding to do something, and then _actually_ getting it done! How is that even normal! Now, though, I realise that that's what "normal" is.

But that's just probably what others see as laziness? I don't know. Perhaps it is Executive dysfunction? But I am glad that I managed to get help, and ever since that, actually able to get myself together.

Having lived in India, mental illness is still taken as a taboo, at large. Nobody at my family, myself included, knew about even the existence of ADHD, let alone see a psych!

I remember my parents always being told: "Your kid can do better, but he doesn't study! If only." And this went on all the way till my second year at University, when the night before my end-term exam, I ended up with a breakdown because I __just could not__ manage to focus and study the material. I ended up barely passing the paper.

Not everything has been bad, though. There's always this phase of "super focus" for me -- I find something interesting, and then obsess over it until it isn't interesting anymore. Channelled in right direction, I managed to learn a lot in math, computer science and of course programming.

I do think that a lot of mass-education is needed with this regards.
Nice. When are you planning to start building your RPMs and DEBs properly
instead of making a mess with FPM? Now that you appear to earn money, you
should be able to afford a sysadmin to teach you how to do that.

But your download page is awful. You mess with my mouse scroll, so it moves
just a tiny bit on each move, and pop up the annoying survey on every
refresh/page load.
It's up again ;-)
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Pedantry aside, if you're as big as Instapaper and you launch a product that 50 people use for side projects, you can safely say that nobody uses it.
I didn't mean to challenge your attachment to bacon. I was just saying that I would tell my younger self that I would get the same pleasure I used to get from bacon from other foods (as I've been a doing for the last decade).
I don't really care that much about living a little longer either. I realized that I'm happier not supporting the industry that exploit animals.
Yeah, every website needs to be plastered with big Fisher Price[tm] Facebook buttons and have unreadable hipster light-gray-on-white text.
I actually got my keys copied last night and the whole process took 30-60 seconds.
Is "internet scale" the new "web scale"?
Not only that, but it's cumulative, all the CO2 from the past century+ is not going away very fast.
You implied that the reason one cannot hang drywall with machine bolts is specifically because they're bolts. If being called bolts vs screws were such a reliable indicator of functionality, then one would expect sheet metal screws to be much better at hanging drywall than say flat head machine bolts.

BTW I personally call them machine screws. To me, the difference has more to do with what kind of drive they take, whether they're self-tapping, how big they are, or really just what kind of mood one is in.

I'm well aware of many types of threaded fasteners, which is what makes trying for a general formal distinction between bolts and screws seem ridiculous. To me, it seems like more a matter of personal taste and dialect, bureaucrats attempting to force their prescriptions onto the world notwithstanding.

Any one definition can capture most of the distinction, but leaves a remainder that's outright wrong. The CBP definition seems intuitively decent until you realize that the same item will be a screw or a bolt depending on the intent of the user. That's exactly the kind of ambiguity that keeps lawyers entrenched and erodes the rule of law.

If a welded nut breaks free, does its screw become a bolt? When a nut gets tight enough to not spin on its own, does a bolt change into a screw?
Rachel Nabors: WTFUK
You're tickling vague recollections of some programme which was rediscovered by just such a route, though I can't for the life of me recall which.
I lost much more with web, email servers or databases going down, than anything on one if the big social sites. Google code was a big loss but had a nice exporter.
This assumes it was their plan from the beginning. Is that the case or did they later pivot based on new information. If the latter is the case then any company would arguably have billion dollar potential
> One thing that has definitely changed is the level of academic expectations for young kids. Working with educators, it's apparent how much expectations have changed even in the last 10-15 years.

Really, I think this needs a reference/citation?

We didn't read a classic English book until 7th or 8th grade when I was in school. In contrast to say my parents education in Russia where they read Pushkin in ~2nd grade. Math education was several years behind what they were taught as well.
I wanted to learn some things a while back (can't remember what, I think it was laravel and angular) and set about creating a dev environment for it. Whatever I started out to learn fell by the wayside and building a shit-hot, easy to use, modular, containerised dev environment became my soul focus. I'm getting ready to open it up to the world any day now[1].

I'll post about it once I've ironed out a few more quirks. It makes life so much less unpleasant in so many ways.

[1] yeah we'll see how that goes
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Looking forward to 1.0 final. InfluxDB is great, our only gripe so far is that it changes so fast that we just don't have the time to keep up with new versions. Hopefully with 1.0 final the team can finally have a stable version with somewhat long term support.
Happy to share.

At list if we look at IKEA(maybe the closest to compare to P&G) - they do have R&D(every year a new lineup, optimizing manufacturing and supply chain), and at least when they grew they did alot of advertising - and they still do some, but maybe they need less because of their strong brand an that they are considered monopolistic locally in places they reach.

But don't take the Dollar Shave Club literally, the point is more the lack of capability of companies(and their ecosystem) to move ahead, because they are deeply integrated/dependent in the past with it's old assumptions.

But now a lot of the old assumptions might be broken : no local monopolies(and monopolies over large areas are much much harder to create), no limit to product variety, much more customization becomes possible, targeting highly focused niches becomes possible, software may enable AI interior designer service for free, the supply chain looks very different for that, etc.

Maybe that's Burrow's future.
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Sure but there are many other situations for instance first responder which allow for best allocation of human guards by being able to better monitor where they should be.
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hasn't that been true forever though?

isn't the problem that these people can't afford even cheap housing, and no one is buying it for them?

these are already current social problems and don't appear to be enough of a business opportunity to be getting solved by capitalism
It's a perfectly fine analogy. They're both problems which are problems because of our society.

You're suggesting physical illness is more "real" than mental illness.

>We're demanding kids do something that makes them unhappy, and any reaction to it, is labeled a disease.

It's far more than kids not being able to pay attention in class. ADHD affects many aspects of a person's life—and adults too. Living independently with unmedicated ADHD can be incredibly difficult. Everything from social life, working, to driving, is harder/riskier.

The argument against treating ADHD is based on unfounded fears of psychiatry and medication. "What if this, what if that". Well this and that isn't happening, peoples lives are being improved, and people are suffering because of dangerous FUD like this.
Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it.

Now it's sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don't bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine.

What else operates in this space? Pocket, I remember. ReadItLater used to exist, maybe still? Does Pinboard do this somehow, maybe with an RSS reader? Or do I have to pay for Paperback?
i'll believe it when i see it
The challenge isn't the startup. It's the not-shutting-down.
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You're paying for a super ninja ultra special internet connection as well? Yikes. Interesting concept though.

So your strategy for scaling up is building a data center then?
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I know exactly how you felt.

I was diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, and tourettes quite young, my mother and father separated when I was very young, and my mother had the habit of moving to a new town every 2 years. All of this lead to a less-than-stellar experience in school. I eventually made it onto the short-bus. As you were ridiculed as an individual in class, I was ridiculed by group association.

I don't know if my "IQ" was up there , but I was the kid making web-pages while my class-mates were doing the word-processing class. Obviously this meant I'd get terrible marks in class as I'd never get around to doing the work but that's the over-reaching theme of my experience in high-school.

So. Bored. Every. Day.

Except I didn't listen. Nope. When I was interested in something you could bet I'd be in the top-of-the class. If I wasn't, I'd probably not even finish it. Unlike you, who got though it, between my home life and everything else I didn't even finish. I dropped out in grade 10.

However I never really did have trouble focusing. I focused on what was important to me and now I'm in a place in my life where I'm happy and working in a skilled, knowledge-based career making great money for my age and I'm doing the things I've always wanted to.
You should also check out https://conda-forge.github.io/, which is building high quality, community curated conda packages for a lot of stuff that isn't available from the main Continuum channel.