skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey whatever works :)

I've been boxing almost every day for almost 6 years now. The more into it I get, the more there is to discover and the tougher my sparring partners get. It really doesn't feel like repetition at all.

So maybe you just haven't found a sport you liked yet. Or haven't given them enough time to reach a level of mastery where it doesn't feel so repetitive anymore.
To be fair, from my recollection of freshmen challenges, a cup of vinegar, a large raw onion, and a head of garlic is sufficient to either induce vomiting, or to compel the 'winner' to self-induce vomiting.
what "normal" food contains caffeine? brewed coffee is a drug preparation. the trace quantities of it you find in things like chocolate are largely below the level of being noticeable or effectual. chocolate itself is essentially a drug preparation also. you aren't eating chocolate purely for nourishment. you eat it because it makes you feel good.

so I ask again, what is "normal" food? where do you get your ideas of normal from?
If anyone is interested in reading about Ancient Greek information technology beyond the antikythera device, this is a great post: http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/deadMedia/agoraMuseum.ht...
Couldn't agree more, this framework seems like a misnomer. How can you call it "semantic" without making it accessible at even the most basic levels? Bootstrap runs circles around this framework in this regard.
We liked cloth too, but it's a lot of laundry. We switched to disposable for the last child. I think it's more economical to use cloth diapers if you can afford the extra time it takes to manage them.
In the US, these are available from state health departments, although these services tend to be geared to the poor--not that rich babies are biologically different, but the wealthy tend to rely on private resources (because of a predisposition to avoid public health services--and poor people).

http://www.healthyfamiliesnow.net/book-one-pregnancy-through...
> So you're telling me you alter your biochemistry to become more productive without a care for how it affects your overall (mostly mental) health?

Uh? Did you read Gwern? This is literally the opposite of what he does. He is ALL ABOUT weighing risks to overall health. Did you miss the fact that half of his articles detail the potential bad effects of the drugs he's trying?

>Hell, I started smoking cigarettes at 16, which I rank near the top of my worst decisions ever, despite the fact that it helped me hack my brain chemistry

He has an article on non-tobacco nicotine (nicotine gum, patches). His conclusions are, IIRC, 'kinda useful, but has some risks'. He doesn't have a page on cigarettes. You know why? Because cigarettes are THE WORSE. Everyone knows this. It's silly to write off all performance enhancing drugs on the grounds that you once made the bad decision to use possibly the very worse one, from a risk/benefit perspective."

I grant you that brain chemistry hacking may be one step towards em-world, which is as Moloch as it gets, but if you're working on important problems it the edge may be worth it.
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If you're looking for a premium brand, a small window is not going to help you much. I don't know how good your sight is, but mine doesn't allow me to bake it and taste it through the plastic ;) and if you're into premium brands, the sight won't be your defining factor.
You seem super human to me. I can't imagine doing any of the above, well, except the last one as Ayahuasca is useful. Maybe I'll go back there with the intention of more balance. She never goes there. She didn't seem to care either way on screen time.
Very difficult to browse. Perhaps idea folders should have more descriptive titles.
How to fly (almost) for free
Perhaps it is better to use something like https://workflowy.com/ to exercise your idea muscle. You can also make your ideas public that way.
Thanks for the feedback, looking into it now, looks like they can be compressed much more heavily.
I somewhat agree but Season 2 certainly introduces more "grey".

I keep seeing comments that the show is not accessible (e.g. previous poster " I just wish it was a better and more accessible show.") but then comments that it is pandering to the audience by being unoriginal with tropes.

I would argue in large part to be "accessible" aka relevant to many is to be contextual of the current times and slightly unoriginal.

China right now is hacking the US. This is widely known. What other entity should be picked? You could go ultra scifi and go with aliens but I would imagine that would make the show fairly targeted to inaccessible (scifi has historical had a tough time in prime time).

I admit the whole evil company / sticking to the man motive is overdone but that is sort of inline with the hacking we have seen (which is what the article sort of delves into).
I use cat out of habit but yep, you're absolutely correct.
How much of it do people still read, that you'd be likely to find in a typical bookstore? Aside from George MacDonald and things that are similar but not exactly the same as modern fantasy novels, such as various collections of fairy tales and epics like the Odyssey, I can't think of any examples. The Chronicles of Narnia were published in the 50's, whereas the Hobbit was released in 1937.
> Interference patterns are the result of a huge number of individual photons interfering with each other

It's stranger than that. A single photon can interfere with itself, see for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment#Interfe...
China's space station on crash course to Earth
I find it interesting that people are complaining both about the lack of a web app and about Google keeping message history on their servers. I'm assuming they will eventually build a web app, but you can't build a useful one unless you have the message history on the server, encrypted in such a way that the web server can decrypt it and serve it to the browser.

Unfortunately, you really do have to choose between privacy and having a web app. I'm not sure which I value more, TBH.
There are links in the README. But thanks for pointing it out :)
EU releases revised directive to end roaming charges in 2017
The current best practice of simply hashing passwords with bcrypt is fine, and anything past that which doesn't doesn't involve (probably per-password) use of an HSM adds only marginal value.

I wouldn't want anyone to read this and get the impression that "secret peppers" and multiple hashing rounds and HMAC were important components of a password storage system. They are not: they're things that message board nerds come up with.

If you want to be a step better than just storing passwords with bcrypt, your next step is to create an authentication service that runs on separate hardware with an "is this password valid" and "enroll this password" API and nothing else. The stuff people do instead of this is basically cosmetic.
Because they are not the same company. They were specifically kept as separate companies and the deal at the time would have probably been stopped by law enforcement, if it wouldn't have been this way.
Company spokesperson: "Oh no, we didn't design or manufacture the advanced ultra light weight winning bikes - we made the resin and sensors."

Next thing we'll hear about how they helped design the athlete's antiperspirant.
That's what Google Labs was. If they had kept Google Labs and released some of these products under that brand, people might not be as worried about them killing the full-fledged Google projects when experiments are ended.
Fiction books are another era's addiction, if you believe the theses being presented here.
Is half a Beats just one Beat?
Personal computers are perceived as the last vestige of this sort of freedom in a consumer product, hence the outrage.

None of those other examples are sold with the intention of the user changing the system in a way unexpected by the vendor.

PCs are supposed to be open-ended, and for this you typically pay more for the hardware capability than a product which serves as a gateway into a walled-garden ecosystem (phones, gaming consoles, etc.)
Yeah, this has really bugged me. People treat the phrase as though the proverb was "there will always be a few bad apples, no big deal, toss them when you notice them" - precisely the opposite of the point.

Not that reasoning by proverb is great in the first place.
One thing I've noticed on Weebly, Squarespace, Wix and other similar "DIY without any coding" website platforms is that all their themes depend on having excellent photography.

Excellent photography is great, but many of the small businesses who are primarily targeted with these services, don't have it. And stock photography looks like, well, stock photography.

I'd love to see a service like this embrace themes that don't depend on great photography. Themes that make good use of typography and other non-image visual elements.
Except, you know, a lot different.
I've found every app I've tried somehow difficult to be used. Using a stupid json file makes me think a bit about what I'm writing. But probably you're right :D
I would like to give individual feedback on some ideas, but there is not an easy way to do it. Perhaps the next idea should be about a tool that enabled this kind of feedback-sharing (I want feedback on my ideas too).
VAT "Value Added Tax" is designed to avoid exactly that issue.

Imagine a product which requires two processes, A and B.

Raw materials cost 1
After process A is done, the value of the intermediate output is now 11
After process B is done, the value of the finished product is now 21

If you are vertically integrated:

you do A and B, so you collect VAT on (sale price less cost of inputs) = 21 - 1 = 20

Whereas if non-integrated firm One does process A

A will collect VAT on (sale price less cost of cost of inputs) = 11 - 1 = 10

And non-integrated firm Two does process B

B will collect VAT on (sale price less cost of inputs) = 21 - 11 = 10

So the VAT is calculated on 20 "value added" in both cases meaning that vertical integration gains you nothing at all.

Big companies can and do manipulate transfer pricing to minimize VAT payments but this is "playing with taxes" rather than a problem with the concept of VAT.
Silicon Valley Brits: 'We Had to Leave the UK Behind'
Yes! You can absolutely do that and customize quite a bit, although the payment flow is not fully customizable. Check out the docs here: https://dev.weebly.com/use-partials.html
Well, I'd think that in terms of the overall complexity of the device, there would be a complexity ratio of roughly:

100:10:1 for gasoline engine: suspension: everything else.
Hindsight is 20/20. While it's true that the Confederacy didn't want to give up slavery, the civil war and reconstruction were vastly worse for slaveowners then giving it up peacefully would have been.

The classic communist script hasn't always resulted in genocide. Much like how the classic imperialist script hasn't always resulted in genocide.

Besides, Moscow hardly had a monopoly on sponsoring and/or training political death squads.
Really cool, thanks! :)
Phoenix Todos – Transition to Redux
How do people survive without Facebook? How do I keep up with what everyone's up to? Sure, there's a lot of mindless posting on there but for me the good outweighs the bad.
> Hill Climbing or Simulated Annealing for optimization (hill climbing multiple random shapes is nearly as good as annealing and faster)

Great to see the author is using this instead of the GA / evolutionary algorithm code it was inspired by.

You can see it in the results too, they are gorgeous! Annealing (and, apparently hill-climbing too) are just faster to converge, allowing to tweak better optimizations for the hyperparameters.

GAs are an attractive idea because, well, if you look around, evolution gives rise to such clever solutions and beautiful shapes. But people tend to forget natural evolution took billions of years, especially (sort of) the big leaps in complexity. Annealing is almost always a better solution, with the possible exception if your problem space is biologically inspired and you come up with a sensible crossover operation. If the crossover operation (or without one) doesn't have the right properties, a GA is basically equivalent to annealing (except in parallel), but much harder to tweak for fast convergence.
I agree completely. I use google voice and also like to send text messages from my computer.

I'm sitting here all day long at work. I do not like reaching for my phone and typing long messages on there.
Well, your counter-argument is just as old.
I believe Wolfgang Tittel was simply defining a picosecond for the readers of the article.
This is, very confusingly, "teleportation of the quantum state". Not unlike how merging a pull request is "teleporting the software state of your repo", but instantaneously. Essentially this is just entanglement at 6 kilometers, described by a blustery article.
Get multiple gigs going. It's not too hard to get > 300K if you are willing to work all the time! I've been able to do it with just a couple clients. I don't really recommend working all the time because it does take a toll. But there is a benefit to having multiple clients in terms of diversification, i.e. if one goes away you're not left in a lurch.

How'd I get here? Worked at one startup after another in Austin for about 20 years. Then started working consulting jobs. Not nearly as exciting as startups and in fact most of my projects now are rather boring. But good SE's are hard to find and when companies find someone that can reliably deliver the goods you are in and it can become stable work.
I'm pretty sure it does. It just doesn't replace the local copy with a reference to the cloud version. Otherwise it could't synchronize between computers.
> You mentioned the first two on the list, why not the rest?

Huh? I mentioned the Macbook Pro and Mac Pro. All the others fall in my "less than two years old" segment.
Delegation with BasicObject
Algorithms: Design and Analysis Part 1 – Stanford University
Ask HN: Is anyone having problems with Couchbase?
We use Couchbase at my current gig and I have discovered a few problems with it that a disconcerting. One, if the bucket size reaches about 70% capacity, the database will basically in effect become unresponsive as new writes come in. Second, if the views require non trivial changes then the database becomes unresponsive.

The position from Couchbase is basically, retry and back off.
Statistics bureau in my country does not publish median income, but I have a good guess on what it looks like based on averages and quantiles. I would consider 40% of that a good deal on rent in urban area. Add communal bills on top of that and you easily get at least 50% of median household income spent on having a roof above you alone. Add food, clothing, an occasional treat for a child and it gets pretty difficult to survive till next paycheck without constantly thinking about reducing price of everyday meal.
I would guess that most HN readers are (and it would be strange if they did not, actually) disconnected from a below average/median person to a level that they only exist in some urban legends of a student living in a cupboard under some granny's stairs and having ramen on holidays. That's a bit superfluous, but median income in urban areas is not something easy to make a living of. Your mileage may vary.
> So many people fail to grasp the difference between the law, and reasonable behaviour.

The difference is that our justice system should only be concerned with enforcing the law. Even if one concedes (I don't) that his behavior was "unreasonable", that's not sufficient for the police to involve themselves.
Are you still comfortable with this explanation if the photons are released with a 1-second gap between them and the tally is visibly shown building up into the interference effect on a computer screen? "Interfering with each other at an enormous rate" might mislead you a bit; neither "each other" nor "enormous rate" is particularly important in the double-slit interference pattern.
I liked season one of Person of Interest but for me it started to get old after that so I stopped watching somewhere in season two (but that didn't yet happen with Mr. Robot).
I can't say I can claim any credit for the idea, no, this is what is you learn once you chase the QM rabbit hole deep enough. But it's maybe not a common explanation in Intro to QM class or in popular science writing?

Actually (technical nitpick) it's even more lovely than what you describe: people have done the two slit experiment with verifiably single-photon sources... and you still get interference patterns. Really, we know that only a single photon exists between source and detector for the entire lifetime of the photon, and yet you get interference. The only explanation is that it interferes with itself, which is what QM says happens.

The original "Wow! QM!" two slit experiments were done with electrons, which were thought of as competely particle-like, whereas light was thought of as completely wave-light. QM of course says both are both.
Complete freedom of communication harms some individuals, but the harms of "right to be forgotten" laws are far greater. No matter how they're tweaked, they must by their very nature punish people for:

1. …conveying public information…

2. …that is true…

3. …to someone who requested it.

Any law of that sort is inimical to free expression and ripe for abuse.
Then I'd have to face the holes in my life. That kind of sucks.
> following the Google Analytics debacle

I didn't even realize Homebrew was sending my info to Google Analytics :(. I am a huge fan of Homebrew, but they really should make this opt-in vs automatic by default.

Edit: To opt out (the second line is just for confirmation):

$ brew analytics off
$ brew analytics
Well, depends on what "risk" means...default risk? Inflation risk? How about currency risk? What if the dollar gets weaker? You need a totally different hedge for that...a savings account would not help.
by whom
You're barking up our tree! Having experimented with many of those strategies too, we believe the best solution is to change the menu altogether.

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Visualizing 665 GB fully loaded Ethernet cables bundled together - wow.

Whether they would have succeeded or as it looks failed. This was a 665Gbps publicity stunt by his opponents only catapulting Krebs to #1 spot. #fail in more than one way.
So why are we looking at Google to scrub the record of factual information, and not looking at shitty employers who think that this level of research on their employees or potential hires is appropriate?

I think "The right to be forgotten" is a ridiculous "right". You don't have the right to dictate what other people know and talk about. Perhaps make laws that prohibit employers from using news stories older than 5 years old against you during the hiring process, with exceptions for certain things. For example, a bank should be able to refuse to hire someone who was convicted of financial fraud 10 years ago, but perhaps shouldn't be able to refuse to hire someone because they got a DUI 10 years ago...

The difference would be if someone intentionally keeps republishing dirt about you with the intent to harass, in which case libel/slander torts could be used to address non-factual information, and harassment torts could be used address irrelevant/dated factual information.

Scrubbing the internet of factual information to protect people's feelings is a very concerning form of censorship. It's obviously abusable and actively being abused, so companies like Google aren't even going to try to comply.
You're probably right. However, the article is written in a way which at the very least heavily implies something else.

>“The challenge was to keep the photons’ arrival time synchronized to within 10 pico-seconds,” says Tittel. “That is one trillionth, or one millionth of one millionth of a second.”
At least where I'm at, its more that most girls with multiple younger siblings or cousins have probably dealt with them under parents, aunts, etc. supervision than boys. Mommy and daughter bonding time (sometimes Grandma and Aunts).

Learned behavior reinforced with toys of the same nature. Lots of girls these days don't have that extended family or siblings to learn with.
I've tried to switch to signal, but the lack of a desktop app when using iOS is a major problem for me. I'm probably in the minority with this concern.
In 1984 they weren't trying to adjust the vocabulary to be more inclusive and make every feel more comfortable about open discourse in a fully optional way.

They wanted to erase words that could denigrate the party, change the meanings of words that could be used against the party or add new words that could only say good thing about the party.

Things libel laws that stop free speech, how many politicians wiggle through the truth or how people who try to mandate political correct speech like extreme SJWs seem like the problems indicated here.
Bitcoin is by definition depreciating. Precious metals have very little utility and are only used as stores of value. They can not generate dividends and are therefore likely to under perform in the very long term: http://www.businessinsider.com/buffett-on-gold-2012-2

Real estate can be a decent way to store money long term because of the rent you can collect. Because many people are highly leveraged with real estate, selling before your mortgage is paid off can be very volatile.
I felt like the author allowed the reader to draw their own conclusions but my takeaways were in the same vein: awareness and outrage don't immediately solve problems.
I pointed this out in another comment - most work actually carries negative externalities and side effects that you're not accounting for. Disagree on Moloch, I defer to the fish pond example. It's not zero-sum, it's negative sum (everyone ends up worse off).

Ever met someone who has burned out? It's not pretty. Did you know that work-related-stress is amongst the largest threats to (particularly men's) health? Have you seen workaholism, stress-induced alcoholism, general-burnt-out-ness ruin relationships? What makes you think nootropics won't cause these problems as well? After all, ex nihilo nihil fit.

Ever think about how much gas you burn getting to work, how much plastic trash you create at lunch or coffee, how much coal it takes to keep the lights and the AC on for you to do what you do? Ever think about how many people died of weird lung diseases to produce that coal? Again, nothing comes from nothing.

Unless your work really is curing cancer, de-acidifying the oceans, or colonizing Mars, it's likely that your work is actually a negative sum game. You're worse off for it, and so is everyone else.
Best part for us about the Ikea crib was when we moved to a different country, we just bought an identical one and our daughter instantly went "Sweet, my bed is here!".
The problem I have is: What's the alternative? I've yet to see a decent linux-capable computer. I'm hoping someone can point me to one