skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this should be worded: Why are American adults so busy.

I've been living in the US for a couple of years, and have thoroughly enjoyed it, but it occurs to me that life is more "rushed" than I'm used to from Denmark.

RE: 1) Have Money

The standard work week is 37 hours. I love my job, but this leaves me plenty of time to do other stuff I enjoy.

RE: 6) Bills, Bills, Bills

Living in the US for a couple of years taught me this: cheques are a real thing and most payment processes are manual.
Denmark: I no longer receive bills. The banking infrastructure allow consumers to "subscribe" to businesses, who can then withdraw the correct amount. If the amount increases the consumer won't have to change a thing. And it is easy to unsubscribe again :)

RE: 8) Transport + 9) Staying Healthy

Get a bike and combine commuting with exercise ;)

RE: 11) Taxes

Paying taxes in the US is A PAIN. Ordinary people need to hire an accountant (and still do most of the grunt work themselves) to make sure they pay the right amount.
Denmark: fully automated system. Yes, the government has access to my bank account and investments (!privacy!), but my only tax-related action is to click "Accept" once a year.
The Free-Time Paradox in America
He agreed that targeted surveillance is necessary (I do too), not this indiscriminate 'collect it all' bulk surveillance of entire populations that we have now.
For the life of me in my household nothing else than my computers will be connected to internet, not because I'm a security and privacy oriented person, but because it's essentially unnecessary. I think IoT is creepy futile tech living on hype, and it also vastly increases the attack surface of a house (i.e. an attacker can theoretically remotely inspect or damage it).

But these comments, the sort I make now usually attract lots of downvotes and criticism becomes invisible. Especially common phenomenon with the IoT stories and Tesla ones, praise or go away.
I am not a manager. Why do you ask?
Our halo is getting younger, spatially speaking
I explicitly divide my "cooking" into two categories. Food I make to sustain my body, and food I make because I like it as an activity. Most of the meals I eat fall under the former category, and so I personally prefer to eat meals that make themselves (e.g. drop some wieners into a pan, light up the stove, come back in 5 minutes, done) or to order - any time spent on preparing them is time wasted for me. Cooking for pleasure is something I'd put into "hobby" section, and thus not count it as a chore (cleaning up after it - that's another thing).
You don't even have to bother loading it in memory. Just use `sendfile(2)` and let the kernel do all the work for you.

You can't really do faster than that.
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They aren't very valuable if you are already using and liking the advertised service.
An additional perspective: most of us don't leave and rejoin our jobs, so we have no downtime, long fluid moments of activity and rest. Also we forego most healthy time now for a massive payoff at retirement with diminished health. We fear this constantly.

To fix it, we should become contractors or 4 day week workers.
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As I said last time, I have one major qualm about this.

There seems to be a confirmatory bias among the academic community that a measure of intellectual success can be found in the percentage of individuals who earn a PhD. Sure, it's true that you need to be reasonably smart to earn a PhD, but I think that someone can have a lot of intellectual success (potentially just as much or maybe more) if they don't earn a PhD.

I think you could even argue that, depending on the field of study, a PhD is the "easy" route for someone who is intellectually gifted - it's a simply a continuation of what you have been doing. I would be more impressed by the intellectual who not only realizes that they can conduct their own independent research, but also has the creativity to come up with a use case that can improve and contribute to the world (and presumably, make a living doing so).

My point here is that, given two gifted cohorts, one which has a 45% PhD graduation rate and one which has a 50% PhD graduation rate, I don't know that you can conclusively say that one is more gifted than the other without looking at other metrics associated with intellectual accomplishment."
The word "community" is now where the phrase "enterprise software" used to be. The first thing you do when you hear it is groan.
Well, in Italy it's all either for espresso or "moka" (percolator), used more or less interchangeably (with different results of course).

http://www.lavazza.co.uk/uk/at-home/blends/caffe-espresso.ht...

(Lavazza has a number of other "100% arabica", including Qualità Oro that is more or less the golden standard - pun intended).

http://www.segafredo.it/it/a-casa/caffe/moka/emozioni-100-ar...

Illy we already said.

I personally don't wander beyond these three vendors (Segafredo is from my hometown, Lavazza is the most ubiquitous, Illy is the mainstream high-quality choice), but there are likely more. To be fair, there are also a lot of Robusta mixes as you go down, but the "100% arabica" brands is firmly at the high end.
This is what it’s like to ride in a self-driving Uber
I'm not convinced this is true. To give a tongue in cheek example, how many countries have someone "in charge" with a PhD (in a STEM field)?
I'm working on some communications software myself - so one of my hobbies is writing down as many UX issues as I can find with slack/hipchat/etc etc

Have you noticed anything that you'd change? I actually like slack for the most part, but I still find some UX smells in it.

And I actually use it for incident logging too.. never really thought about it but it's one of my favorite uses for it - and it helps the client on that job see the response times and get a general overview.
Forget about sending anything else but, basically, text-based messages.

What's the downside?
I'm going to go against the norm: I recently bought my first car (I'm nearly 30) and am amazed how much time it saves and freedom it gives me. I've always lived in European cities with good public transport, but even here having a car is worthwhile.

Instead of taking a train and bus 30+ minutes to work, I leave when I want and know it will take me around 15 minutes to get there. Maybe I'm weird, but I find driving a lot more relaxing than public transport (at the moment it's really hot here so AC helps). If I want to get groceries I can stop in a supermarket on my way home from work, instead of walking 15 minutes each way (bonus: it also has a bigger selection and cheaper prices).

If I want to get out of the city it's easy, I can drive for 20 minutes instead of taking trains and buses for 1 1/2 hours and I'm at the sea. Before if I wanted to do that I'd book a car from a rental place, go collect it, return it hoping I didn't get any scratches, where as now I can be spontaneous.

Having a car can be expensive (I estimate over the life of my car it'll cost me around €2000/year + fuel) but for the benefits it provides, to me that is a justifiable cost.
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It can be used for that. You can configure the tag you want to fetch and build if the repository is version-controlled, effectively allowing you to follow an external project: update your local settings when bumping your requirements, and it should follow along.
I accept that I've probably said enough nice or not-bad things about Ed Snowden that I'd probably never get a security clearance as a U.S. citizen; and as a dual citizen I have no hope at all to begin with.
> all of the ethnicities in Soviet Russia were declared equal

Declarations and actual policy were very different things
in USSR (should I tell anything about Constitution of 1936?).

There were very brutal deportations of some Caucasian nations, of Germans, of Crimean Tatars based solely on ethnicity in 1940s. Many people died from cold and hunger, many children lost their parents. The forced labor (Labor Army) and movement restrictions were in place until mid-1950s and even children upon reaching age of 16 were required to report to local authorities as "special settlers" (I have archive documents from NKVD of such reports for my family). The practice of oppression was in place until end of 1980s: for example, Crimean Tatars were not allowed to return to their homes and were able to do so only in 1990s. Restoration of Autonomous Volga German Republic or creation of German autonomy within USSR in any other form was never allowed despite public demands.

These historical events are well-documented and recognized by government of Russian Federation, which rehabilitated the victims and in 1990s even paid small compensations (in form of increased pension) for these crimes.
>Which ones are those? I'm from an European country and one of the biggest sources of internal stress for me is just noticing how much of my life gets wasted by having to have a job.

Check out most small towns (200K or less) and villages in places like France, Italy, Spain, Greece, etc -- the one's I know off.

Or are small town residents not "adults"?
package management is not version control. it is release control and the two concepts are different in their semantics.
I was not a gifted child, but I remember the odd pressure of being told you were smarter than other children. It's paralyzing. You're so afraid to finish something because if that thing isn't amazing it ends up hurting your perceived value.
Pardoning would at least validate and justify what he did.
And what do you do if an error happen in the middle of your iteration while the server already answered with 200 OK and sent half of the response?

Your only option in those case with PHP is to truncate the response which IMO is the ridiculous choice here...
There's some truth to that as well, but I often feel that the large, organized sellers/renters are better able to articulate what they want in a way that individuals cannot. They know the market better, they know what people want to buy, and can leverage economies of scale to craft their marketing message to co-opt the successful one-off sellers.
>>I would love nothing more than for Bay Area congestion to be solved by self-driving cars

How would it do that though? I'm still going to take my car to work, except that it will do all the driving. Unless you are talking about theoretical, far off in the future idea that we will remove all traffic lights and speed limits because autonomous cars will handle intersections and speeds much better than humans?
Just another iHater on the Internet, having fun with custom roms made by 16 year olds to run a newer version of Android on your $800+ phone, and Bluetooth doesn't work?
Hahaha thought the same, some kind of 3d-ish resume.
Search for the history of the discipline, find the crucial names and study the papers + listen to talks, then think all by by yourself and decide whether / to which degree things are applicable to the contexts of your interest.

That would be the best way.

Names would be: Dijkstra, Parnas, Kay, Booch, and many others. Once you assemble a nice collection of notes, links and questions, you'll be allright and will never fall for "OO is A, B and C!" oversimplified nonsense many books attempt to sell.

Do not believe any comment in this thread either, rather take things with a (huge) grain of salt -- remember, we're dealing with a Holy Grail here, and everyone interested is quite opinionated :)
We tend to forget every evil, the off-shore banking accounts, the oil and banking ones, but the TPP... can we just agree we don't want the US bullshit in the rest of the world? And can we try and contain it and suffocate it?
No one wants to go back to the age of ascii porn.
Why it doesn't sync? Uninstalling.
How about Notrh Korea, Russia, China, Syria, ... ?? The list is going on..
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I say pardon him at this point, you'd be better off having him in America than somewhere in Russia being forced to leak further info for continued asylum
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Also ISTR he had a column in DDJ, I first encountered him via an articld there.
jajas must think that he has uncovered a secret hacking network.
Four Beeps
I'm a resident of 1M city. May be a part of the problem.

> Or are small town residents not "adults"?

Didn't mean to imply that. I was just whining about my own life ;).
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Heh, didn't know it, no offence meant.

Was mostly referring to all the urban poor, crime, domestic violence etc that goes on in large parts of the UK.
Pharma Bro and Valeant do innovation? Come again!
Convnet benchmarks say that a 1080 is only like 5% faster. 12GB of VRAM seemed more important. I just spent yesterday evening sticking a cooling rig onto a Titan X I bought on eBay. Great value atm if you're willing to get your hands dirty. Will admit that it was a struggle though.
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Delivering beneficial bacteria to the GI tract
Of the 3 possibilities for granting pardon (Obama, Clinton and Trump), the only real chance for Snowden is Obama.
Overlooked C++. My point stands for managed runtimes. ObjC/Swift don't have to deal with the following laundry list of things the managed runtimes need to implement:

- Explicit instrumentation for null pointer checks (slow)

- Explicit instrumentation for stack overflow checks (slow)

- Explicit instrumentation for GC safe points (slow)

- Exceptions and unwinding implemented on top of cxx_throw instead of signals and setjmp/lonjmp (slow and error prone)

- Defensively generated trampolines for reflection for any thinkable parameter type permutation

There are quite a few more details that make managed runtimes under bitcode suboptimal.

Taking away things like read/write register access, signals and system APIs like setjmp/longjmp puts managed runtimes at a huge disadvatage.

Neither Swift nor ObjC (and to a large degree C++) need to solve any of these problems.
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Not sure how your fifth paragraph follows.

First, it is at least somewhat avoidable. Banning management companies would be one solution. Only allowing users to post their homes for a fraction of a rolling 12 month period would be another. Only allowing users to have 1 or 2 simultaneous postings with different street addresses would be another. These are the things Airbnb should do and doing so honestly probably would have prevented them from getting totally screwed by NYS/NYC legislatures, which leads to my second point.

Of course it harms the normal rental market. What else could it possibly do besides that? Not only that, but the backlash against the system harms those of us who do wish to actually legitimately rent out our homes while we're not in them. Airbnb should've been more proactive about this from the get go, but I don't think it's necessarily too late. With this news, though, it seems they don't even think this is a problem despite getting them outlawed in the largest city in the US.

It's really a bummer, but it's not unavoidable and not unfixable.
If the market were free drugs would be commoditized, like aspirin.

The reality is:

* As a pharma company you can't compete because another player is holding the patent for decades

* Governments around the world will indirectly spend trillions by way of social insurance on your products, so prices will balloon because that money has to go somewhere

* The barrier to entry is so high thanks to regulation

This is a made-up situation of artificially low supply coupled by propped up demand.

How is this a free market exactly?
I shoot all RAW with my Canon 60D. All photos are stored in a single Lightroom library. Everything is stored on an external 2.5 inch hard drive, which I clone to a second external drive.

The entire library and all RAW files are manually synced to an S3 bucket whenever I added new photos.

I export JPEG files of the best photos of each set and upload them to Google Photos to share them with friends and family, and show them on Chromecast.
We started our first production systems with 9.3. When we started migration process and until it ended we used 9.4. Right now all our production clusters are 9.5.
It won't happen because Apple won't give you the option.

Swift 3.x has a large amount of syntax changes. The compiler helps with the refactoring but it's still work.
I find it hard to compete against you in the job market, haha. I have a gazillion things I'd want to do if I had the time and energy.
Sandi Metz is great.

This talk is such an amazing example of clear thinking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE
Care to make a point?
Or you recognize that destroying your product offering in the name of "scale" is in fact destroying your product, not scaling it.
> It is somehow simultaneously sad and infuriating that it is not only socially accepted but seemingly ok to be _proud_ to be stupid in mathematics, computers and science.

I think it is mostly fear. I believe almost everybody can be good at it at a highschool level. I got sucked into computers by my peers, I was told that my father is good at mathematics and that I am, too. My sister on the other hand was told that girls are not good at it. She realized by accident, that she actually was.
Even so, that can be reduced to twice a day if you cook in batches (i.e. have leftovers for lunch). That seems more optimal to me without compromising the healthy aspect.
The colour change is pretty interesting - it an nice example of genes for colours hitchhiking with the behavioral genes, that the foxes were selected for.
Good article, it makes me regret that I didn't bet on GM instead of Tesla.
Choose the Right Agile Method
You suggest these features (people detection, timeline scrubbing etc.) are possible with a locally hosted solution - are you aware of any such alternatives?

And please don't mention things like Motion or ZoneMinder unless you've actually tried them. And if you have tried them, well, why are you still arguing with me =). It's sad, and I wish it were otherwise, but there are not very many good OSS solutions I'm aware of in this space.

There are commercial solutions (e.g. Ubiquiti's Unifi Video line, or Blue Iris) that handle the NVR side well, but don't really do the extra stuff well.

I suspect you are under-estimating both the infrastructure required to do this well, or the engineering effort.

It's like say, a search engine. Yes, you could write a web crawler in your basement, and host it on a few commodity servers. It would return results when you put in search terms. It might just take a while to react to updates on pages. Or it might only crawl a subset of the internet. But you could argue that there's no need for a remote "cloud" service to do it, when you can do it yourself on-premise. However, my argument is that there's a difference between doing something well and just doing it.

Or take Netflix - yes, you could transcode video yourself into various formats, and serve that up from your home server. However, if you wanted to share this with somebody in another country, unless you also had geo-proximate caches in those countries that mirrored your home server, you might find some issues there. It's workable, just not very good.

> It shouldn't need to. Detecting people on video streams is something your smartphone camera now does on-chip. At most it requires a DSP unit.

There's a difference between detecting a face in a photograph (and even that can be tricky sometimes), and identifying people (versus say, large animals etc.) in arbitrary video footage in realtime with a reasonable degree of certainty.

Or are you aware of phones that already do this kind of thing? (If so, I apologise, because I'm unaware of this).

> That's just a video player with some added precalc on the video stream.

It's actually not..lol. There's a public blog post which I admit is a bit market-y

https://nest.com/blog/2016/09/08/we-ve-changed-the-game/

But essentially, they use ML to figure out the most "representative" shot for each block, thus distill several hours of footage into several hundred key frames, and allowing you to scrub through them quickly. The blog post has an animated GIF that shows the UI in action:

https://d2qxwxxauf5yxr.cloudfront.net/blog/images/2016-09-08...

The trick isn't serving up the image stream - it's figuring out what to put into it.

(I admit I'm slightly biased here, because I watched a presentation from some of the engineers involved, talking about how they implemented it, and the effort that went into it).
I'm not sure about computational, but their optics and the part of the brain that processes it is well used to low light conditions and navigating in space where there isn't just an X and Y axis, but also a Z axis.

Octopus are familiar with scuttling around on the seafloor and navigating around crazy terrain. Squid are used to using jet propulsion.

I've always thought that both species would be interesting to emulate in silicon for space exploration purposes.
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>Didn't mean to imply that. I was just whining about my own life ;).

Heh, I added that part to refer to the original parent's question.

From what I've seen (and lived myself) in such places, work is mostly something you do, quite casually, for 8 hours or so, and then (or even in between work, e.g. with "siesta" etc) there's lot of socializing, slower everyday pace, etc. And everybody knows everyone else. People are not "ambitious" in the stereotypical "make it big" US idea.

That said, this also holds in "smalltown USA" too -- well, except for the unfortunate souls who work as employees in nationwide firms like Walmart, et al. But for those with own businesses, farms, etc, it's mostly like that.

Of course in larger cities you can easily work 14 hour days for shit pay.
Kind of difficult to let your elected sycophants know you don't want it happening when nobody knows it's happening.
I don't see the problem of owners outsourcing the management. For me the most important thing about airbnb is, that it allows better utilization of resources. I don't care about the other details that much, I still choose my accommodation based on excepted quality/price. Now I just have more choices, thanks to airbnb.
For me it's basically pushed the US far down the list of places to go for leisure. I see the risks as still being very small, but why take the risk when there are so many other great places to visit too?

US immigrations stands out for the least pleasant experiences I've had on entering a country, and that includes entering places like China, despite most of the time being perfectly fine (I used to fly in/out of SFO every 6-8 weeks for a period of about two years, so I got to compare them a lot).

For business, I will still go if necessary, but I'm finding that I'd take the same precautions for the US as I did for China: Make extra sure to have a full, recent backup, and move "everything" off my laptop onto online storage, just in case they decide to seize it.
How would you develop the language specific skills?
> The thing I hate about all petition sites is that they ask for my personal information

Yes, that's how any petition works. People really need to learn the basics of citizenship at school.