skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this conversation (European 'let's walk everywhere' vs. American 'don't tell me how to live') is that it tends to rely on wrong assumptions from both sides, though obviously I can't read the minds of parent and GP. In the US we aggressively subsidize low-density living through school busing, infrastructure, the secondary market for federally insured single family home mortgages, and many other programs. So Europeans have a hard time recognizing that telling us to live in walkable places is like telling us to spit into the wind in so many parts of the country (after all, if a commute is bad for family, how about moving hundreds of miles from relatives?) Meanwhile, we Americans have a hard time recognizing that we're making choices on a severely biased playing field that discourages the living patterns that humans have used since the dawn of civilization.

We'll get back to the old way eventually, but it's going to hurt bad for a lot of people.
I don’t think the main human behavioral problems are limited to cars.

The things that frustrate me most during driving are equally present when running on a trail, waiting for a subway train or observing cyclists, for instance. They are:

1. Not knowing where the heck you are and what you are doing. Many people seem utterly unaware of themselves and the effect that their actions have on others.

2. Refusing to either speed up or move out of the way (doesn’t really matter which of those you do but if you refuse to do both then you will become a huge obstacle, whether it’s a sidewalk or a road).

3. Believing you are better at multitasking than you really are.

If you’re blocking a sidewalk, you’re exhibiting poor “driving” in a walking scenario. If you’re blocking the entrance to the doors, you’re exhibiting poor “driving” in a train station. If you’re prioritizing your texting and interfering with me, you’re exhibiting poor “driving” in just about any situation (driving or walking or social for that matter).

Automation is not required to fix the biggest frustrations with driving: rather, human beings need to start paying a lot more attention EVERYWHERE in life and being a lot more reasonable to one another.
Let's look at the single data point we have where this sort of system is in place - China.

It's approximately as wide as the U.S. and it has a single timezone - Beijing time.

As you can imagine, if you are living in Beijing, Beijing time works pretty well. It also works pretty well for everywhere else on the east coast.

It's not so bad in the middle either.

For the people living in Urumqi, or even further west such as Kashgar (or actually pretty much anyone in Xinjiang province) it's a mess.

Everything is offset a couple of hours and there is a kind of unofficial 'xinjiang time' that you have to convert to and from in your head depending sometimes on the ethnicity of the person.

It's not a good idea.

http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/11/china-only-...
This is not a prediction about peak oil but about peak demand.

It has ties to fear about converting to solar and battery powered economy too fast, when more than 3 trillion dollars of debt is tied up into fossile fuel economy.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-18/batteries-...
Related discussion from yesterday on Gizmodo post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12882311
http://www.mithrandir.com/Tranquility/tranquility.html

I think you're proposing this, 13 months named for scientists, one day outside the year.
Thanks for answering!

I was wondering what part you think the mass media had in encouraging this sort of thing. This seems like the result of massive corruption and confused currency controls, not because of media manipulation.
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I find this comment unexpected, being Irish, as I would've associated the attachment to 12 hour intervals much more with here than with the US. But I guess it's a British colonial throwback thing; I'd be curious to hear of au/nz/ca/za/in/etc. habits.
> Most workers today would prefer going to work in the dark and having daylight after work.

Daylight in the morning suppresses the action of the pineal gland. This helps you wake up. Getting up in the dark may sound like fun but it's fighting against your own body.

http://www.more.com/lifestyle/exercise-health/finally-humans...
> The underlying assumption is that rudeness is sometimes necessary for effective conveyance of information

I see this sort of thought come up a lot, but what situation requires rudeness to be more concise? For example, you could take Torvald's emails, cut out the rudeness, and they'd be much shorter and to the point.

The idea that rude == direct doesn't really hold up in my experience.
> Kiss complex oceanic life goodbye - 2C warming will already be enough to pretty much kill all the coral reefs.

If only there were some process by which living populations could "adapt" to a changing environment.

You couldn't get rid of complex oceanic life if you tried, no matter what you tried.
My argument as well, keep local time in sync with solar events, mean solar time for practicality.

School should start relative to sunrise. Work depending on preference, relative to sunrise/noon/sunset/timezone or utc.

All other events that need cross metro region syncs, trains, planes and tv schedules should stick with time zones.

I kept a sunrise calendar sheet in the kitchen to be able to bike at sunlight home and to work, it's really all up to flexibility of your workplace and not about DST and "more" daylight.

In the Northern hemisphere this is mostly relevant for the months around winter solstice, since otherwise there is enough daylight. I just see no reason to send kids to school in the dark.

http://www.aasmnet.org/articles.aspx?id=5176
People don't appreciate the consequences of far away activities in general, until you make it explicit like the NSA segment on Last Week Tonight.
re-branding != a logo.

This is like whinging that an entire e-commerce system was just the compiled index.html
I press it even though I'm out of insert mode.
About 8% of the world is color blind, so having standard positions on traffic light is indeed very important.
True. But as I mentioned in my example, it relies on having a phone and internet connection ready and available to process the information, which is really the issue here.

On two occasions recently, someone mentioned an event to me when I wasn't connected up. Once at a bar late at night when my phone battery was dead, and once while a colleague and I were out literally in the outback driving around a remote area outside of internet coverage. Both times I had to wait until much later to figure out the event start time so I wouldn't miss it the next day.

If I am travelling home on a non-WiFi long haul flight and the guy in the seat next to me says "Oh, don't miss the qualifying for the Bahrain GP - I think they are running it at 11am their time", I don't want to go diving for my phone and ask the internet to resolve it.

Adding 9.5 hours to a UTC time datum though, is so extremely trivial.
Thanks for your contribution! Gorgeous photo. Mind me asking what technical specs went into snapping that?
From the link:

"According to the 2011 census of India, the population of Delhi is 16,753,235."

There is no source for the figure of "Delhi metro area" so not really very scientific is it? 2011 was the last year for which there was census data.
More parking lots but not roads? An I missing something?
It looks wrong, particularly since for DDR3 signaling there are typically very strict design recommendations for the placement of the memory chips in relation to the CPU.

It also seems to work, so maybe the recommendations are just that.
Here's a quick script I put together which downloads a random image every hour and sets your wallpaper. Only works with Gnome 3/Unity/Cinnamon. Adjust line 5 for different resolutions (currently set for 1920x1080) and adjust line 7 for different update frequency:

https://gist.github.com/fpgaminer/bdd493ce84eafb7886e08d20c2...
I thought this would be about the tiny models like the Toshiba Libretto
Okay okay I get it - you're all gently breaking it to me that I'm now officially old. I, too, used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too.

(sorry about that ;) )
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Email is the hold up? I must be missing something because that's never been the "must have" app situation to prevent a user from going linux in my experience.
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I started out agreeing with your sentiment, then found myself disagreeing with the premise behind it.

Yes, a lot of companies are founded around a single product or family of products. They can afford to use a building block that isn't re-usable across different projects. They're not making things for public consumption, or have multiple very divergent codebases.

But these aren't small web shops, and people building blogs. In the DC area at least, the above describes every midsized company ( midsized as in > $1 monthly revenue < $50 million monthly revenue). These guys are makers of the software that runs in doctors offices, hotels, non-profits, political organizations, and government contractors.

They're already bigger than most SasS companies in SV, can ever expect to be.
Wouldn't this be incredibly easy to discover? If number of published apps divided by account age is greater than threshold, raise review red flag when user attempts to publish new app.
Nature will be fine, she's been through worse. It's humans who are in for a rough time.

From some of the pentagon reports, it sounds like major wars over food and migration start breaking out at 2.5-3C, if not sooner. At 3-4C it's likely to no longer be confined to developing nations.

http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/612710
author here - not just email, it's plugging a projector into a linux box (I'm a trainer) and praying it might work. There are a dozen small things like that making linux great for dev, not so great for everything else.
Does this actually have a 64-bit kernel to run on it? The Raspberry Pi 3 has a 64-bit CPU, but no way to actually use it as such! There are some efforts to produce a 64-bit kernel for it, but it's not yet generally usable.
the difference is that the former fristration can lead to injuries and serious accidents. the latter is just a minor inconvenience.
This whole article read like astroturfing, and I agree -- if you're going to complain about something not working on Linux, it isn't email.
Since you're worried about server load on Unsplash there is always (as I'm sure you're aware) the option to periodically ding their server and store a rotating cache of their images instead of having the user hit them per request.
Microsoft is moving 30% of its New York workers to WeWork offices
I would imagine for many places, a normal 'day' would actually be split across two dates. That would be confusing!
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One thing likely contributed to their downfall was US manufactures moved operations overseas and many Japanese manufacturers kept production in Japan making them expensive to the Us market --that and Apple and others catching up in terms of "sleekness" and aesthetics. People would buy Vaios despite poor hardware because they were thin and looked cool.
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Answering emails is work. It's also often a lot harder than it sounds at first blush.
I also don't find the syntax coloring to make a big difference for me. What does though is the semantic feedback/navigation in the IDE.

When I joined a Java shop for the first time I was all gung-ho about sticking to my 80x24 terminal and emacs and to heck with the point-and-click crowd who couldn't do their work without a graphical UI. Then my new manager got me to try Eclipse for a week. I humored him and discovered that I was an order of magnitude more productive with Eclipse's semantic features like on-the-fly compile error underlining, code autocomplete, and navigation. It really was a humbling experience.
I hear you on peak supply, which has always been a moving target due to discovery of new source or method of extraction.

But projecting oil consumption has been fairly stable. In fact, it's basically been a straight line for the past 50 years, with couple of temp spikes.

And based on that, predicting peak-demand might be a bit easier, though 5-15 year sounds overly aggressive given the fact that much of the world is under developed.

But who knows... there could be a miraculous discover7 in alternative energy (or battery tech)
Brilliant, keep up the good work
I feel like I'm too dumb to understand any of this. And I've been writing python for 12 years.

Just give me greenlets or whatever and let me run synchronous code concurrently.

async def proxy(dest_host, dest_port, main_task, source_sock, addr):
await main_task.cancel()
dest_sock = await curio.open_connection(dest_host, dest_port)
async with dest_sock:
await copy_all(source_sock, dest_sock)

Are you kidding me? Simplified that is

async def func():
await f()
dest_sock = await f()
async with dest_sock:
await f()

Every other token is async or await. No thank you.
Approximate dynamic programming
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Apps that show the popup aren't planned to be removed - at least not yet. Only apps that crash on launch are being removed outright for now.
Thanks for the picture, nice. I see it's from

http://blog.poormansmath.net/the-time-it-takes-to-change-the...

As the picture shows, Spain and the parts of France are the extremes in the Europe, in the rest of Europe the Sun is closer to being at 12:00 (not counting DST) not too different to Tokyo.

Yes, the map you link shows is that some parts of the world have wider time zones than it would allow all the people living there to have the Sun very close to 12:00. But your "Tokyo sunrise" argument is still not a good one. All the areas (and cities) in the map that are "relatively white" have Sun at the highest point around 12:00 noon. Tokyo is "relatively white." New York and LA are also "relatively white." So I still don't know what is your perspective for Tokyo being strange. Can you please explain? The dramatic example would in fact be Spain or even Argentina.
Most of author's difficulties simply stemmed from not understanding how modern android works and boots. Easily fixable by reading more about it.

And no, nobody hates guys like you. Problem is that what you want to do is very similar to what malware might want to, and since malware is more common than guys like you, choices are made that way.
But Delhi is also an amazing place! There's nowhere else quite like it in the world. Its colorful, rich in culture, in history, in food, tradition and experience. The city is more than just its air quality!

Can I recommend picking up a copy of William Dalrymple's "City of Djinns"?

https://www.amazon.com/City-Djinns-Delhi-William-Dalrymple/d...
AKA "Oh don't worry about regulating us and protecting the environment, it will naturally happen in five years when your need for us will surely peak!"
Do the power consumption numbers cancel out the up-front price advantage?
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As an even more surprising example of this, "alright" isn't even a real word.

Tweening actually goes back to traditional animation where the keyframes (another borrowed term) were hand-drawn by senior artists and the frames in between were added by junior artists. This process was called inbetweening, or tweening for short.
(pardon, meant to write "originating server" above)
You need energy to make stuff and the US GDP is 14x that of India.
> Twitter had a chance to become a sort of de-facto API for lots of other applications.

The problem I see is that there doesn't seem to be any way to make money from this, for Twitter.

And really if everyone started using it this way, the privacy concerns would be even greater than the concerns people have about Facebook.
maybe it has something to do with sundials.
So, I too learned of sshuttle from this thread, and was wondering why anyone would want to use sshuttle over just the built-in socks5 proxy of openssh? ( -D: http://man.openbsd.org/ssh )

Why and how do you use sshutle? The doc-page for shuttle claims it's smarter than port forwarding - and I guess that might be true for some subset of protocols that isn't quite real-time (builds on udp), but yet isn't something simple like http?

http://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/stable/how-it-works.html
But India's CO2 emissions are some 15x greater in terms of GDP. Assuming a straight-line consumption path, as India continues to grow economically its CO2 output will -- much as China's did -- start outpacing the US. (This has, incidentally, been at the heart of BRIC arguments against multilateral ecological controls: "You WEIRDOs made your fortune without caring about the environment, and now you want us to stifle our own growth!")
Here's a less ugly PowerShell version of your script that doesn't have any external dependencies and compares the version of the currently installed driver with the latest (non-beta) driver on NVIDIA's website.

$URI = 'http://www.geforce.com/proxy?proxy_url=http%3A%2F%2Fgfwsl.geforce.com%2Fservices_toolkit%2Fservices%2Fcom%2Fnvidia%2Fservices%2FAjaxDriverService.php%3Ffunc%3DDriverManualLookup%26psid%3D101%26pfid%3D815%26osID%3D57%26languageCode%3D1078%26beta%3D0%26isWHQL%3D1%26dltype%3D-1%26sort1%3D0%26numberOfResults%3D10'
$Download = (Invoke-WebRequest $URI | ConvertFrom-Json | Select -ExpandProperty IDS)[0].downloadInfo.DownloadURL

# Installed driver version (21.21.13.7570) > NVIDIA driver version (375.70)
[Version]$Driver = (Get-WmiObject Win32_PnPSignedDriver | Select DeviceName, DriverVersion, Manufacturer | Where { $_.Manufacturer -eq "NVIDIA" -and $_.DeviceName -like "*GeForce GTX*" }).DriverVersion
[Version]$CurrentDriver = ("{0}{1}" -f $Driver.Build,$Driver.Revision).Substring(1).Insert(3,'.')

# Latest driver on NVIDIA's website
[Version]$LatestDriver = ([System.Uri]$Download).Segments[-2].Trim('/')

If ($CurrentDriver -lt $LatestDriver) {
Write-Output "New driver available"
Start-BitsTransfer -Source $Download -Destination "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads"
(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell).Popup("New NVIDIA driver downloaded",0,"Update")
} Else {
Write-Output "Same version. Nothing to download"
}

Improvements welcome. :)
The stock price collapse.
IRC is a protocol. Slack is where the money is at.

(Don't become an software architecture astronaut. IRC is also a terrible protocol. It was still successful)
And yet by the time i leave my work at 5:30-6 pm, it is pitch dark. I personally would prefer having some daylight after work.
I find these articles and the recent trend of "Macs used to be cool" kind of strange.

Macs have terminal.app, bash, a handful of proprietary command-line tools (hdiutil) and that's about it.

Never had inherent package management, we have homebrew and macports to thank for that. App Store isn't quite the same and doesn't fulfill the same needs.

You can still run Linux on your MacBook, if that's what you want.

macOS is fine and it's not Windows, that's what this is about right?

Apple makes some pretty decent hardware when it comes to build quality, appearance, and battery life, if it's not your cup of tea maybe look into ThinkPads, they're great machines too!
Without time zones, we'd still have clocks and a universally consistent description of time, which allows for coordination. What specific problems are you thinking of that would harder/impossible to solve without time zones?

I guess you're right that the things I describe would be possible with or without timezones. It's just that the premise of abolishing time zones is what made me question whether the heavy dependence of our lifestyle on the 'local time of the day' is justified.

We could just "ignore" the local time, but some activites seem to be mutually exclusive in the same neighborhood, such as sleeping and operating loud heavy machinery. So if there's no widely accepted temporal separation, we must take spatial separation more seriously. Also, if everyone "ignored" local time globally, then time zones would become obviously meaningless :)
Cool, but the example has a few errors. "students" in spanish is "estudiantes", the example is missing an S.

Also, "more" is "más" in spanish. Accents are important for meaning in a lot of languages.
Not who you asked, but the two biggest questions that I ponder along this line: (1) How can I preserve some of my savings in real assets so that they won't evaporate when the bond market finally crashes and takes the dollar with it (probably a few crashes from now)? (2) Given the nature of just-in-time logistics and our complete dependence on trucks, will I be somewhere that I can limp along once oil hits a price that makes that all infeasible? Or will I be a sitting duck, waiting to die of hunger, thirst, or heat exhaustion? And (3) am I preparing myself with skills outside of work that will help me sustain myself when I have to work a little bit lower down Maslow's pyramid (first and foremost, maintaining fitness?) I don't work in programming at the moment, but my job ceases to exist if we lose our ability to have high-precision manufacturing and logistics chains spanning an entire continent.
James Burke said in one of his shows that the 12 hour clock came in because it was ridiculous to have clock tower bells strike 24.
Perhaps Hackers News is the wrong audience to suffer this problem, but coordinating meetings between companies (i.e., sales calls) is a mess. When a call winds down and you've got two people on the phone coordinating their calendars, there's this hilarious, awkward dance that happens.

"Great, sounds like we have a plan. When should we touch base again?"

"Let's aim for Monday. How's your afternoon?"

"Monday is no good, but Tuesday morning is free."

"Um, mornings are no good for me, I'm on the west coast. I could do anything after 10am your time."

"OK, 1pm works."

"1pm your time, great."

"Oh, no, I meant 10am your time, 1pm eastern."

"Oh, right, ok. Great, I'll send a meeting invite."

Time zones make this SO INSUFFERABLE. I'm in the Bay Area now, and everybody still reverts to ET just to speak about the same thing. I actually have a biweekly call with people in DC, New York, Chicago, and SF, and it's hell to try to move by an hour. Everybody ends up speaking relative language, about "push it back an hour" or "same time tomorrow?". There's still going to be problems with the east coast thinking 10am is a good time to meet, or people who are on the hook to spend money dragging their feet for no reason, but I would love to get everybody working on the same system.

(As a side note, meeting invites that work over email are god's gift companies. Getting on the conference call at the wrong time is remarkably rare, and nobody ever blames time zones, because software takes care of the problem once you've picked the initial time.)
This is addressed in the link, but basically, the extant codebase is extremely crufty, to the point that a rewrite would be the suggested course forward (and, indeed, the other formerly-active major contributor started his own clean codebase to implement similar functionality).

So one of the two active contributors left to start his own rewrite of the project, and this post is the other active contributor saying he definitely doesn't have enough time to keep doing this on his own.

If there's no association with the old project's name or references from it to the new project, then whatever came from it would probably not use the name "FindBugs", and either way, the original project ends up dead.
Is it possible to optimize more on Amazon Redshift and Tableau?