skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't have book suggestions, but a few thoughts:

first, the usual:

- get more sleep

- cut sugar

- cut alcohol

- cut web surfing

second, some great ideas on how to manage time/tasks in these articles:

https://theweek.com/articles/444385/how-most-productive-pers...

http://calnewport.com/blog/2015/11/03/spend-more-time-managi...

http://calnewport.com/blog/2014/08/08/deep-habits-plan-your-...

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/10/18/the-art-of-the-f...

http://calnewport.com/blog/2013/12/21/deep-habits-the-import...

third, read books (5 hours/wk is a good goal if bookrading not already in your schedule) -- make a book list and read actual books (if you're not already) - great fiction, science, philosophy, etc. and reread the ones that resonate with you.
Instead of trying to bury it, grow more. Increasing the total living biomass would reduce CO2.
What do you run as root that isn't accessible to other users on your system, and why are you deploying Sandstorm on this machine?

If it's a single-user machine, any process running at any privilege level can trivially get root by editing ~/.bashrc and aliasing the sudo command.
Thanks! And interesting...
Ive have also had texts end up on the wrong thread. I had a group thread (with my girlfriend, and sister) and a friend texted a different group thread (with my girlfriend, and the friend), but according to my phone my friend added herself to the thread with my sister and girlfriend. I have screen shots to back it up. It happened again recently to my girlfriend.
I don't think I've ever seen a complicated OS based on SeL4, and it is the opposite of complicated itself.

I don't think SeL4 means much for macOS/iOS.
I've seen attempts made to enforce it. We call it the nuclear option because for small companies, we are talking mutually assured destruction do to lawyer fees -- and virtually guarantees the former employee will go bankrupt. And at least in my town, word gets around that you are hostile to your employees, meaning hiring grinds to a immediate halt. If you are a consulting company...good luck with the next contract. No one will want to work for you or with you, and multiple current employees will quit on principle.

At least that is what I saw happen at a former company I was with. All of this was in "Right to Work" state that invalidates non-competes anyway.
Pretentious old men playing at running the world. But the world left them a long time ago.
> I'm like exactly their target audience for this.

If you are concerned with graphics performance, you are not their target market.
Trump vs. Clinton: a machine learning analysis on Twitter mentions
I can answer any questions, whether about how to get a great Christmas present, or questions about the article!
I agree the thing carries something of a smell and is unfortunate. On the other hand, I'm not sure how much salable value there is in a typical florist (or indeed in many retail businesses) even if it's throwing off a reasonable income stream for the owners that would lead someone to buy an existing business, rather than just starting fresh.
It's always possible to revisit a decades-old project and pick up where you left off. If you don't have the time or motivation to finish it today, you can hardly blame your past self for making the same decision.

Leaving your abandoned project in a somewhat "working state" can go a long way to facilitate this.
> If anything it's the opposite: the larger the country the larger the economies of scale.

Democracies aren't businesses. Getting some kind of consensus from a huge, diverse populace is hard. I think you end up with diseconomies of scale.

> If there are diseconomies of scale then you can organise it at the state level or municipal level

This requires the federal government to now maintain 50 distinct sets of policy, or delegate to regional bureaucrats. Both of these are diseconomies of scale.

These kinds of problems are hard to solve within a large enterprise with a hierarchical power structure; the United States is a much larger, more diverse entity with a distributed/consensus-driven power structure.
Is the color palette for the site utterly bizarre or is my sense of these things just off?
Yep. Even in states like Illinois where NCAs are non-enforceable, they can still complicate hiring decisions. I've heard of a few cases where companies (particularly in trading) will choose not to hire someone with a NCA because of the risk/time/effort involved in dealing with it.
The two ideas are hardly mutually exclusive.

Unhappy/stressed => worse health than baseline

Moderate level of contentment/stress => baseline

Happy/unstressed => better health than baseline

The questions are: is that the correct order of implications and does happiness produce better than baseline health.
very nice! #Beatslaha
Very true. When you are happy and focused a lot of pain doesn't bother you.
I guess my fundamental criticism is this: how is a list traversal that doesn't check for the end of list being held up as an example of "good taste"?

You're right that they're all just examples. I'm just a random guy on the internet, and it's easy to push back against me. But we all have the tendency to nod along when someone we respect says something sagely on TED. It seemed useful to point out that the sage has no clothes on in this case. So go ahead, point at my skimpy cladding as well. I won't mind.
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Seems like they could spring a couple of bills for a technical writer to polish the requirements when the end result is likely to be a six digit salaried employee.
Patient Zero in HIV crisis was misidentified, study says
Prisma never had "ownership" of this effect; the papers of Neural Style transfer have been out for months, with this Google method being another iteration.

Prisma was just the first polished app released using style transfer. (However, since the technique is public, it will make an acquisition of Prisma less worthwhile)
Bloomberg rarely does proper math. Melt both polar caps and the ice of Greenland, and you barely get global sea level rise by very few inches. Antarctics as a whole is 90% of the world land-based ice. 29 mln cubic km. All of the floating ice is around 3 mln cubic km. It may look that it can cause 60m high sea level rise, but most of this will be evaporated into milder global climate and stronger rivers. We shall have larger Caspian Sea, larger Aral Sea, perhaps green Sakhara, and perhaps come catastrophic rains in the temperate zone. Picture is very distant and very different from global warming speculations anyway. The Earth seen past with no polar caps, it also seen ice ages, these will inevitably happen again.
The 2G is symmetric, but I'm not sure about the 1G
Las Vegas has 600,000 people and the same thing. While less extreme, Chicago has over 2.5 million people and farmland is very close by.
It'll almost have parity with Java once Core support .NET Standard 2.0.

One admittedly unpopular area it'll be missing is options for desktop development. I know that the trend these days is to use web interfaces, and web development makes up about 95% of my professional life.

But just out of curiosity, I picked up a WPF book from the library. And as I was reading through it, I remember thinking how nice it would be to be able to develop web apps with something like that. I suppose Silverlight would've been close, but it's dead these days.

It looks like JavaFX is broadly similar to WPF over in Java-land, and it appears to work fairly well cross platform. It doesn't look native on any platform, but that isn't always a deal breaker. Using Intellij's non-native looking Swing UI on my MacBook doesn't bother me, though I appreciate that not everyone feels that way.

I suppose this is my roundabout way of saying I'd love to have a decent cross platform .NET GUI framework. For anyone who wants this too, Avalonia looks like a good project to follow: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

It doesn't appear to support .NET Core yet, but last time I checked they expected to be able to relatively soon.
Like where?
Who for?
For what purpose?

I cant think of a single example that this would be useful.
I run https://IndieHackers.com where I interview developers/entrepreneurs about how they make money from their apps and projects. There are tons of examples there that fit into the "passive income" category as you define it ("making something that makes you money while you sleep").

A couple of good examples from the site:

- park.io (from Mike Carson) makes $125,000/mo taking domain backorders; he essentually wrote tons of scripts that buy expiring domains on behalf of his customers for $100 and that allow customers to bid against each other

- Instapainting.com (from Chris Chen) makes $32,000/mo allow customers to commission artists to turn their photos into hand-made paintings; it took him years to get to this point, but it's almost all automated and he rarely has to step in

Indie Hackers itself is my passive income source, although right now it takes a lot of work on a day-to-day basis. I'm writing a blog post about that that I hope to put up on my timeline (https://IndieHackers.com/timeline) by tomorrow. I'm doing just over $1000/mo right now, mainly from sponsors.
See my comments regarding blindly removing "duplication" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12798796 (point 4)
The Bible gives no good reason to deny climate change. The leaders of the two largest Christian groups, the Catholic Popes (specifically Benedict XVI and Francis) and the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, have long been supporters of green policies.
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The Social Physics of Trump’s Shock Tactics
> You could cover 90% of the population of Sweden while only covering a small fraction of the roads.

Is this just a guess or do you have anything to back this up with?

> You could probably cover 98.5% of the population without covering much of the road network.

Here's a map of xDSL coverage: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/20110...

Let's see how you propose to cover that land area without also covering much of the road network.
> unlike e.g. civil engineering

It isn't like people don't wonder why it takes so long or costs so much to, say, build a road, either. It seems like everybody massively underestimates how long it should take to do something that they don't know how to do and won't be doing. I characterize this mindset as "I need _x_ to be true, therefore _x_ must be true." It's endemic in all of the people who don't actually produce anything.
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Prisma was a land grab because the original authors didn't make an app. Hell I started working on my own version at the time since it was such an obvious app.

The original authors finally got around to making their DeepArt app, so we have at least two players in this space atm.

I think either of these two players will incorporate this research, but there's no clear incentive for anyone else to try and get in on this market now. It's not clear that there's a whole lot of money to be made here, but who knows maybe usage will explode. I mostly expect an acquisition.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12798272
ASPNET Core 1.0 has dependency injection built in. Is there something similar for non-aspnet core apps?
Inverting the effects of Facebook
And here I was hoping the service would be extended to Canada :/
"is threatening to force millions of people to become refugees and spark major wars that could “completely destabilise” the world, a leading general has warned"

Climate change isn't threatening anyone right now. Evil government regimes and terrorist groups are the biggest threat. We should focus on this first.

I sure hope they aren't insinuating that the current refugee issue is due to climate change.
I can expand on this a bit.

Non-competes [0] are a tragedy of the commons. There's no incentive for any single employer, in a jurisdiction that allows non-competes, not to require them of most employees. Any employer who did that would be unilaterally taking a loss (the potential employees they can't hire because they're subject to their current employers' non-competes) with no corresponding benefit. But if all employers require non-competes, we demonstrably wind up with a less vibrant economy.

So, what is the libertarian response to a tragedy of the commons? Is it not to create and assign property rights so that someone has a legally defensible interest in protecting the common property? In this case, I would suggest that by outlawing non-competes, California has asserted that workers have a property right to the general skills and knowledge that they acquire by working. The word "general" is important here; companies still have IP rights to their specific techniques and processes. But companies cannot claim ownership of the worker's general knowledge; it belongs to the worker.

[0] I'm using the term as shorthand for "non-compete restrictions that don't require the employer to pay at least a substantial fraction of the employee's salary for the duration of the restriction".
no consistent way of selecting from cursor to end of line

Cmd-shift-right arrow. There are others, but that's the one I use and I don't recall it ever not working.
“It seems warfare created intense pressure that drove these societies.”

This seems backwards. Wouldn't the intense pressure of societies bumping up against each other drive warfare, and not the other way around?
/rolleyes
SSDs have a definite positive performance impact for editing photos, especially when using programs such as Lightroom that also manage photo libraries/databases
If it's at all unclear about why your behavior is bad, imagine me replying this to any comment you've made in the thread:

> I mean this sincerely: if you feel like all men should be killed you should find a professional to talk to. I'm not qualified to diagnose you and if I was I wouldn't do it over the Internet,

Obviously:

- You didn't write that

- It couldn't be interpreted from what you /did/ write

- It looks like an attempt to change the tone of the conversation by creating a straw man and attacking that rather than actually contributing anything to the conversation

- It's a thinly veiled and childish insult
Microsoft Finally Created a Launch Video Better Than Apple
This is so, so true, that I wish there were enough beer in this world to gift you with. There's a lot of cruft in XNU, and there's even more of it in the rest of the system, but all this heap of hacks isn't just useless cruft that we'll be better off without. That heap of code also contains almost twenty years' worth of bugfixes and optimizations from more smart engineers than Apple can hope to hire and get to work together in a productive and meaningful manner. All this unpleasant cruft is what keeps the system alive and well and the users happy enough to continue using it.

More often than not, systems that get boldly rewritten from scratch end up playing catch-up for years. Frankly, I can't remember a single case when a full rewrite with an ambitious timetable wasn't a full-scale disaster. The few success stories, like (what eventually became) Firefox have taken a vastly different approach and took a lot more than users would have wanted.

A lot of idealistic (I was about to write naive) engineers think it's all a matter of throwing everything away. That's the easy part. Coming up with something better is the really hard part, and it's not achieved by just throwing the cruft away. If you innocent souls don't believe me, come on over to the Linux side, we have Gnome 3 cookies. You'll swear you're never going to touch anything that isn't xterm or macOS again.
> Microsoft were late to the smartphone OS market, but they were making headway.

Late? They were among the first. I also remember Danger OS. Oh - and the Palm Treo.
Surely those aren't good ones to compare against due to bias. A more fair way to judge would be to have people rate unknown artists' work as well as the machine output. Then see how that pans out over time.

Judging from some of the stuff on display in galleries right now, I'd be shocked if machines can't outperform or match. And they'll only get better, right?
do you see deep learning artistic services as competitors to real artists? e.g. https://deepart.io/
I love my Lumia 929, but Microsoft has essentially abandoned Verizon, so even I'm having a hard time staying here. (The idea that Microsoft is targeting professional users in the US without Verizon is COMICAL, since Verizon is the number one carrier for enterprise use. Selling to non-Verizon enterprises in the US is basically selling to a non-existent market.)

Windows 10 Mobile currently does have all the apps I need, but it seems very few people are willing to give up Google's apps (particularly Gmail and YouTube) to switch, and Google refuses to allow another competitor into the mobile space. As long as Google's monopoly persists, they'll decide who has a successful mobile platform.
Meta-Meta – A meta list of meta ressources
Maybe for visual content.
The music technology classes I teach are a sea of MacBooks.
Find the people who are claiming that the sea levels will rise and destroy our cities, and attempting to sell you things based on that. Buy stock in their company.
Ug, is it just me, or does that he took money before actually having anyone to paint the pictures seem unethical? Would people have ordered if they had of known there were no artists as yet, or for that matter the artist were going to be friends of the website owner?
Blockchain and AI. Pack your consciousness into undeletable network of computers distributed in outer space and go take a break on Mars.
My grandgrandsons will do ok by flintknapping, the usual means of exchange will be booze. There will be plenty of water for it.
In Montana we're having success installing fiber, but we aren't outsourcing construction and using cheap electronics. I do wish we could use Google's set-top ONT though.
If I could get this screen (along with it working with the pen and the other accessories) but hook it up to my existing desktop I would be all over it. Even if it was still $2,200. But a 980M is just not going to cut it as my primary graphics card...
I wonder if the Chromebook issue in Europe is about trusting a foreign company with holding your data.
> Until there is an element of randomness fueled by context, they aren't creating anything new.

That argument could be said about any innovation.

The Google paper is an iteration on neural style transfer; just because it doesn't mimic the "soul" of art doesn't mean the field is not worth pursuing.
Well. Nda protects the company from losses.

Ultimate loss is the loss of the business.

Thus my example.

No, not really an NDA issue but I shared because I was interested and also signed many a NDA in my lifetime.
She had apparently talked to Colin Powell about how to handle information and it seems like the advice he gave her was to just try to not send or receive any classified data and that's what it looks like she was doing as there weren't any emails that contained classified headers or footers that I know of (which are how you generally would know if something was classified). I doubt Obama knew she had classified information on the server unless he dug through all of her actual emails.
Restaurants to eaters: Please, for the love of god, stop using Seamless
Build large libraries with lots of paper books.
I have a question! (Even though I could've just asked you this during the interview itself.)

You say that you've automated most of the process of running the business: "I've gradually adapted the software over time to automate every process, and generally I only have to step in in rare instances of high-level disputes."

How much time do you spend working nowadays? And on what? What's your typical day look like?
Surface Book has 3000x2000 resolution screen and a fantastic touchpad. Touchpad is on par with MacBook Pro IMHO.
Well, people who want more sophisticated UI elements than HTML gives them, but don't wanna implement them themselves?
To real artists, perhaps, but we currently only offer direct photo to painting services, which mean the only services offered by artists on our site are directly copying photos and turning them into physical artworks.

So unless deepart.io is combined with a painting robot, we don't feel threatened.

And in fact we already released both a painting robot and the first free-to-use neural network style transfer demo.
>a DSLR from 2008 is probably more than fast enough for most non-enthusiasts today

I was selling some older DSLR equipment recently and it made me think that someone wanting to learn photography with a "real" camera today can do quite well with older gear. It won't autofocus as well or have as good a sensor but it can be plenty good to learn on. Lenses of course don't degrade in value quite as much but there are plenty of lenses that enthusiasts may sniff at but are plenty good for a beginner.
I was (mostly still am) a big fan of Google BigQuery. Especially since GQL supported some Regex, plus native URL parsing. That is one of the coolest services that Google offers that no other service can match.

However, having used Big Query extensively at my startup, getting external data into it via Google Cloud Storage was a royal pain in my balls.

My broader point, is that Google was able to disrupt the Ad industry because it dominated web search by way of having a large number of exceptionally brilliant engineers. In 2016, that is no longer true--many other big (and small) players have invested in hiring their own equally brilliant engineers.
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The problem is that for a lot of us, some apps have become necessary for day-to-day life.

For example, I cannot get around without using Uber and Lyft. I need to carry a phone on me with these apps at all times. Windows doesn't support either of them, so I can't use a Windows phone until it does.

I'd love to use Windows on a phone -- I'm actually starting to fall in love with the new MS -- but I simply can't.
You could say the same about construction projects that are 30+% over budget. Kitchen renovation IMO actually has more in common with software development than home building. Homes are generally built for generic people, kitchens are renovated to meet specific needs.
I'd like to seem the same thing done for food.

Show it how to cook a cake.
'Feed' it a large set of edible ingredients.
Enjoy random cakes in various styles
> Are you saying you would really write your own django? jquery? react? chef? git?

No, I think it should be fairly obvious that that would not be my choice, rather the opposite.

But why django? Why not rails? Or symphony? Or Yii? Or Spring? and so on, why git? and not subversion, or tfs or mercurial? and so on. For every one of those choices there are 10's of possible choices and none of those will be something akin to an industry standard. And so we muddle on. Well, at least git seems to become slowly the standard in revision control, but because git was yet another fresh start project a lot of the lessons learned from other revision control systems that were not readily apparent to the git author(s) had to be re-learned the hard way, resulting in a lot of delay and frustration (and to this date the git command set strikes me as ill thought out).

Leveraging open source in a smart way is exactly the right thing to do, now if only there would be some kind of mental penalty to start a new project when an alternative is already available which could use some TLC.