skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gaming and banking/trading are definitely the informative projects here.

Pseudo-real-time gaming is possible, but only for regional servers. Live global gaming is off the table permanently unless known physics changes; speed of light delays are larger than human reaction times. Right now, the best we can do is predictive techniques and continental servers, which have barely enabled MMO shooters.

VR gaming worsens the problem - 80ms delays in VR are nauseating and game-ruining. Global latency isn't a solvable problem via money or devotion.
Does anyone _actually_ use these voice assistants regularly (other than when it first came out)? If so, what for?

I find most people just use Siri to ask questions to show it off and see if they can get some comic relief from the answers... and then curse the rest of the time when they accidently activate it.

I do use voice-to-text quite often.
This too is not immune. I get it here too.
insidertrades.org.

I won Yahoo!'s international student programming competition in 2009 with this site. About a year ago it stopped working because of deprecated PHP functions. It had/has quite a few users but I've been too busy to fix it up. It could use a more nurturing home.
Yes, some functionality is inspired by Google Wave :) Hopefully this will not go the same way that Wave did though
No, no, Elon: you need to phrase it as a threat.

"You need to institute universal basic income, because I am building robots to take all your jobs."
The fun thing is that Mac OS X don't have the same restrictions as iOS.
The negative reaction generally comes from the implied (or sometimes explicit) argument from minimalists that everyone else is some kind of slave to their possessions, consumerist sheep, etc.
Don't these people have any hobbies or interests? Hobbies and interests, a personality, dare I might say, require "stuff". You develop a sense of style, and you get things around you that help to describe and tell your story in life.

I don't understand the people that are content with this kind of self-imposed "I can do with just the bare essentials" lifestyle. Unless you're traveling, or doing something of that nature, I am generally distrustful of people who can be gone in an hour. There's something about this kind of lifestyle (I've known several minimalist people well) that is synonymous with fear of commitment and general instability in their life.

A lot of people I met have adopted the lifestyle because it's a learned behavoir from either years of instability, an off-beat childhood, or some kind of abusive relationship. Human beings need stuff around them, and it's perfectly normal to accumulate stuff if you've lived somewhere any length of time.

On the other end of the spectrum of minimalism would of course be hoarding. Not saying that either lifestyle is "bad", but you wouldn't call hoarding exactly normal, would you?
I'm a bit skeptical. North Korea is a highly militarized state and highly dependent on military control. Surely if the military itself is starving we'd see much greater instability than we actually do.

The most important reason the North can't reasonably go to war with the South is that the South obviously enjoys US support and nobody would support the North in such an invasion.
Ask HN: Is the P2P revolution here already?
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain and all the hype.. is the P2P revolution happening?
Many states do define those very precisely.
It isn't?

At least that would be a failure at compile-time, rather than run-time.
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The history between Carmack and Oculus goes much further back and predates the company itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#Initial_prototypes
https://freeyourmusic.com - songs mover across different music streaming services (eg. Spotify -> Apple Music).

It makes around 20k$ in revenue but I am focusing now on something else.
wasn't there a counter-documentary where someone ate from mcdonalds every day and also followed a fairly strict exercise regimen and wound up being way fitter than when he started?
For what kinds of applications would one favor this over, say, the coroutines approach of libdill?

http://libdill.org/tutorial.html

See, in particular, Step 6 of the tutorial.
"And even necessary if we want to feed 8 billion people and more in the future."

It is necessary to reduce or not grow animal product production and favor vegetable diet.
Animals are a terrible inefficient food source.
We have farmer's markets all over North Dakota and many people bring prepared food also. I can only imagine what would happen if a sting operation happened to arrest all the people who brought baked goods. I would imagine a DA, sheriff, etc. would find themselves unemployed along with any politician who supported such things never mind anything during the actual arrest.
"You are 30 times more likely to poison yourself with organic produce because it allows Bt [the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis] to spread directly.

[...]

When ingested, the bacterium produces endotoxins which attack the walls of the insects' guts. In mammals, they can cause death from septic shock."

We have to make the difference between Bt bacteria, and Bt toxin. Bt toxin is a protein produced by the Bt bacteria. As far as I understand, the professor here is talking about spraying the crop with live Bt bacteria, and apparently the bacteria can produce other toxins than just Bt proteins.
People are qualified to choose who they trust to say that a particular GMO is ok. Then they can avoid that GMO. You know; exactly like how we handle everything else that we are not expert in.
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So, my perspective comes from over a decade fighting wars as an infantry soldier, so you'll have to keep in mind that my perspective is one-sided. I think that the success of a ceasefire depends on the people sent to the round table, not the people on the battlefield. And the failure of a ceasefire depends on the people on the battlefield, not the people sent to the round table. This is an oversimplification, but I think you won't be provoking ceasefire failure by continuing to build out your defenses and digging in to hold the ground you have. Or preparing for defense in depth, or whatever. Maybe the terms of the ceasefire would have some special rules which make diplomats happy, but I think to every man on the ground with a gun, a ceasefire only means literally to cease fire, and you should not expect anything else. Clearly, from the numbers presented here, one should be prepared for the near certainty that if the ceasefire fails there will be an attack. It sounds reasonable to me to continue digging in while the ceasefire takes place. And certainly, as an infantry veteran, I fully expect the enemy to be making similar defensive preparations, as well, and planning for the tactical situation on the battlefield to reflect those kinds of changes upon the resumption of hostilities. The infantryman's motto: "Hope for the best, plan for the worst".
For one thing, if this is research, the subjects should know that and the protocol should be approved by an IRB. Instead, they are selling it as a product, so it should meet the standards of safety that other food products do.

Personally, I'm not sure they've failed that, but it shouldn't be allowed under the guise of calling it health research.
You might know more Graeber than I do, but from what I remember his point is only that historically there's been a very wide variety of systems and many of them are far more interesting then the hypotheticals economists have been advancing for ages (fictional barter economies etc.)

I haven't read the he believes any system imaginable can be applied.

Its true many of the examples he gives were for small populations, but the principle of sharing in small tribes was reciprocity. You give something you get something back. The issue with reproducing that in bigger groups is that you can't hold people accountable anymore. But of course, maybe with modern information technology there is a way.

Anyway as I've said on my other comment (and getting back to the topic of discussion) it seems like we both know the data but arrived at different conclusions. I'm not sure how to convince you of anything other than ask you to reconsider. If current trends continue, the cost of global capitalism might end up being democracy itself.
Is the book loading for you? It just shows a spinning circle.

UDPATE: I found a working link in the source: https://dlcs.io/pdf/wellcome/pdf-item/b19111319/0

Seems to be just a bunch of names. So "Scottish witchcraft book" is a pretty misleading title.
The idea behind the objection to that is that "Contains GMOs" actually tells you very, very little. It doesn't tell you what was modified, what the modifications are, or what they do.
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> I would also like to live in a bedroom with not much more than a futon and a desk. But it's going to be hard because my girlfriend doesn't share my enthusiasm

At least in my n=1 experience, it's not that bad. Just have to accept that 99% of the stuff will be your girlfriend's. One positive is that she'll have difficult time complaining to you that you need to clean up, since it'll always be her mess.
The main point of that documentary was to make the creator famous by doing click-bait style journalism in long-form.
Well in the sense that the powers involved in the ceasefire are also arming the belligerents that's probably true.
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I am mostly a backend developer but I hold my own at frontend development as well and have worked on some interesting web and mobile based projects.

If you have a project you think my skill set will be of use for and you are located in the bay area then let me buy you coffee to talk it over. Even if you are not in the bay area then I am happy to Skype you to talk it over.
Have you thought about putting it up on Github and asking people for help? Seems like a good site that could use a community behind it.
I downvoted on behalf of your parent comment. It said something like "I took a look and felt sad", as a limerick.
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> What should we call the 13th month?

Undecimber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecimber
They're comparable in price if you're buying in bulk.

I guess if you want quality assurance you're going to have to pay for it.

2015: https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/3o1uit/a_note_abou...

2016: https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/4tabm4/found_mold_...

2016: https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/55q9ga/is_this_mol...
Similar case for me. I spent a long time on this but never followed through with marketing. It's a web app for English language learners:

https://www.lexical.io
It's easy to take too far.

For me, good minimalism is selling things I haven't used in a long time, or furniture that doesn't "fit" in the floorplan of my house (for example, no one needs two kitchen tables). Stuff that just occupies space.

Bad minimalism is getting rid of decorations (art, photos, plants) and key furniture.

I want my house to feel like someone lives there, so a bare room with a laptop in the middle is OUT.

A much easier razor than "is this minimal or not" is, "am I going to wind up selling this in six months because I don't use it, god that'll be a pain"
My question as well. This doesn't look like something that will have a long life - and that uncertainty is bad.
Maybe people downvoted your post because you threw around a nice, round number without any reason or rationale.
https://www.playplay.io

A Slack bot leaderboard for ping-pong, chess, etc. Open-source, written in Ruby, https://github.com/dblock/slack-gamebot, with premium features. A handful of paying customers at $29.99/yr. No time to work on it.
This is the wrong frame to look at it. If you are conceiving of minimalism as aesthetic taste, you miss the whole point of the Buddhist and Stoics, or any of the ascetic practices.

The contents of your living area is a reflection of the contents of your mind. Memories inside of you are attached to the external objects. A disorganized room tends to be a reflection of a disorganized mind. I've seen myself and others leave trash on the floor for months, because it is anchored to some piece of trash internally that one is reluctant to get rid of.

This stuff has more to do with your experience as a consciousness rather than social signaling. The article here, and many of the comments here discusses minimalism as social signaling. Yet the people who originated the ascetic practices got rid of stuff not as a response to social trends, but as part of their personal practice to pare away the wrapping in their _consciousness_ and find their true selves. Going against the social grain is a powerful way to detach your identification. Yet if you blindly follow minimalism or boroque as a social trend because other people are, then you're still jumping from one attachment to the next.
Were there the changes since 2014? Anybody knows?
The linked page is loading for me, but if it's seeing a lot of traffic there may be a lot of factors involved.
It's not a long book, but it certainly isn't an easy book, either. I've been doing C for several years and some of the exercises still give me pause.
Did they detail if they heard anything back from Atmel? Or did they reach out to the Zigbee alliance? I'm reading through the paper and haven't found it yet. Only that they heard from Philips.

This is also why you're starting to see more and more devices opt to a completely device to cloud infrastructure instead of local communication. More control of the stack on device and in the air.
Aside from mis-valuing Magic Leap, these examples are completely implausible.

Ask Pixar how much time goes into draping a single VR garment on a single body. It's hard work, regardless of how good your imaging tech is. The ongoing hurdles are about modeling, based on cloth properties and personal anatomy. The margins on "try on at home" absolutely don't justify modeling every singly piece of clothing into a technically-accurate VR solution, and if you do anything less people will return your produce when it looks nothing like the VR visualization.

Asserting that a good VR technique will justify real-world modeling is downright stilly, and it leads me to ignore non-tech assessments of whether that project is worthwhile.
I generally charge 80/hr to do ReactJS / React Native work. I have been doing this for the last 6 months on and off.
I don't think that the GPL or the FSF is bad or evil. I've released and maintain several projects that are GPL licensed.

GPL is by definition more restrictive than Apache and BSD, since there are more requirements to use the code, so asking if the developer is willing to consider a less restrictive (not "better") license shouldn't be met with hostility.

My motivation for asking is simply because the project looks interesting and potentially useful; however, the proprietary nature of my current work means that GPL licensed code isn't really an option for me. I absolutely wouldn't hold it against the author if they chose GPL for this or any other reason.
> Having listened to your concerns and seriously pondered them, all I see is fear. Unbounded fear. Nothing in here leads me to think these fears will be calmed by study. The nature of science is that there's always another unknown to point to, and GMOs are seen by many as inherently scary - unlike safe, cuddly natural plants, obviously.

What you said above exactly sounded like those scientists and studies sponsored by Monsanto.

I am no expert on biology and chemistry. And I am aware that majority of the studies on GMO so far has yet to prove any harm to human races. However, I don't know any study can address the long term effect on humans? When I said long term, I mean the a few generations (so hundreds of years) ahead.

Testing long term effects on animals or insects are easy because their generations lasts only very short amoubt of time, but average human life span is 71 years[1] according to Google, so how can you be so sure that GMO food won't affect my great grandchildrens a few hundred years down the road? (We all know that evolution sometimes take a LONG time to appear[2])

Perhaps someone or some new studies can enlight the few of us who does feel uncertain about GMO products?

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=average+life+span&oq=average...

[2]: http://phys.org/news/2011-08-fast-evolutionary-million-years...
You just proved my point: cGMP relates to drug safety, not to food consumption. It is not regulated as a food.

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/Manufact...
Note: Published in 1984.

Past discussions on HN that may be of interest:

- Discussion of the paper itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9502049

- Discussion of an article about the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8776383
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You'd think, but considering how much shared code they have between the different systems, they ended up following their maximum constraints.

Thank god, then, for HomeBrew/MacPorts/Fink/et. al. A 'chsh' and I can have a modern Bash as a shell.
"Don't ask the author of a library why it is incompatible with proprietary licenses. Ask why your codebase is incompatible with open licenses."

JFK
https://market.playplay.io

A Slack bot that gives Yahoo! Finance market quotes and lets you track stocks. Free 7 day trial, 1.99$/mo after that, virtually no paying customers but hundreds try. No time to work on it.
Saw this set of polls from @zedshaw on twitter and had JUST read this article. Seems relevant. https://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/795687259861172224
In PA we have a ballot question that reads,

"Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to require that justices of the Supreme Court, judges, and magisterial district judges be retired on the last day of the calendar year in which they attain the age of 75 years?"

If you think that forcing judges to retire at a certain age is a good idea, you will be inclined to vote "yes". The problem is that PA already has mandatory retirement for judges, only at age 70. So the way that the question is phrased is very misleading, and could easily lead to PA raising the retirement age for judges from 70 to 75 despite voter intent to the contrary.
So he was cold, frugal, petulant and severe? What did they expect? A genius that was easy to get on with? Was there ever such a one?

There's such a relish nowadays for pointing out how bad people were in private who created marvellous stuff which produced and produces unlimited benefits to society.

Especially unsocial geniuses. They are described as cold or inhuman despite perhaps being more human than the rest of us. After all it is only their integrity that allows their inner worlds to flourish.

(I suspect that sociable people are secretly afraid of other humans. Which is why they designate a subset of other humans as 'friends' and are nice to them on condition that they are nice back. They then project their personal issues onto humans outside that set.)
I don't know if I can trust homebrew, I hear their implementation of reversing binary trees is weak.

On the other hand it's been pretty darn good for me.
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I was thinking Al-Khwarizmi.
Lastpass stores your password encrypted. If in your threat model you're unwilling to use Lastpass because of the leakability of the master database, you should avoid Lesspass since trying to guess your password on Webstie X given Lastpass database is more/less the same as trying to guess it given you're using Lesspass.
I freelance part-time in addition to my 9-5. Mostly doing WordPress sites, with the occasional ASP.NET app for projects that need something totally custom. Some other web/mobile work as well. I've been averaging $40k/year the past 3 years in a row.
It's like meat. I don't think people realize how addicted to meat they become. I have literally seen people get this revulsion on their face when they think about eating a vegetarian meal.

Here's a more insightful blog post that is not really about minimalism, but about Gollumization: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/01/06/the-gollum-effect/
> It's true that McDaniel didn't make the law. But the people who did probably intended for her to exercise discretion in cases like this one, where the alleged perpetrator didn't really do anything wrong.

...but this is the exact reason that these things can't be left in the hands of the executive anymore. They don't make good decisions, and with the internet, promulgation and understanding of the laws is much easier than ever before.
Labels that say "Contains GMO" do not hold back the tide you fear.

Also, have you heard of plant breeder's rights? Are you aware of golden rice?
> but I tend to regard the latter as a bigger problem simply because the amount of money and lobbying involved

As the current US presidential election has shown, when money and lobbying collides with emotions and FUD, the latter wins every time, and thus I consider the latter a bigger problem.
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Yeah, it is a little consuming I'll admit. Hoping to be able to relax emotionally once I get a month or two of living expenses built up.

Minimalism, I think, is a great aspiration but I personally don't think is something you should try to live as a lifestyle.

Time will tell I guess.
To me, the worst part of the Austin one is not the rather complex ballot question, but the way the answer choices are written. By choosing "For the ordinance", you're actually voting against the ballot measure (which repeals "the ordinance"). Some people might be excited when they hear that there's a ballot measure to bring back Uber and vote "For the ordinance" without understanding that that means keep things as they are now. The options should be something more like -- "YES -- repeal the ordinance" and "NO -- keep the ordinance as is".
Why not just use StateThreads? A comparison against other options would be illuminating.
Surprised not to see much comparison to Joyent Triton on here.

We evaluated Triton, and while we encountered a depressing number of show-stopping bugs doing really basic things in the first week (like any container that installs `curl` failing due to a utf-8 character in the default ca set), it was pretty cool to use the native docker CLI to provision nodes. Local == remote on Triton.

Triton runs on top of SmartOS inside Zones. To me, this is the only setup I'd actually trust for production. The security story is a whole lot of hand-waving on Linux. What does Hyper run on top of?

Unfortunately for Triton, it does take as long as a minute to provision and the cost is 2x Hyper's for equivalent hardware. I haven't done CPU benchmarks on Hyper yet but the CPUs were anemic on Triton. The I/O perf was unbelievable, though, due to local SSDs and no virtualization layer.

Will keep an eye on this at least for dev and CI. Good luck!
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Even if you have 10 candidates, how hard is it to just list them on a sheet of paper with a nice big box to draw an X in next to each. The computer can then just scan the boxes and see which one has a big X in it.
You have hit the nail exactly on the head. This is exactly how I feel about minimalism now.