skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no rule that you have to do a specific amount, the same amount, at the same time, all at once, every day. Just break it up and relax.

Take a quick break from work in the mid-morning and walk outside for 15 minutes instead of drinking coffee. Go out for half an hour (or whatever) at lunchtime, go for another 15 min break in the afternoon instead of more coffee. Occasionally invite a coworker to go with you. If you can discuss business (on occasion) you can keep working while you walk. Then another 20 minutes in the dark after work.

And some days less, some days more, and extra on weekends.

The requirement to obey strict walking rules will end up CAUSING the anxiety it's supposed to relieve. Just make it a fun break and take fun breaks here and there when you can.
Previous threads on meta-compilers, including a Javascript-based workshop/demo of techniques:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8297996

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8441041
> I miss the inquiring, helpful Net of increasing yore. Enough other people do, too, that I haven't given up hope it may find a home somewhere.

Not sure how old you are, but I used to use 300 baud modems. I was pre-internet. I remember then 1997 on irc, then when the masses really woke up to the Internet around 1999-2001.

Anyway, people around that time really had hope for the internet.

Nowadays, well millennials just don't seem to have the same feeling. I figure they are in their bubbles happy to have whatever sandbox they are in keep the status quo and everything else, as long as their wants and needs are met, doesn't matter.

Give it a generation or two and we'll be just like Wall-E. Drones on basic income, with smartphones incorporated to our brains with all the corporations telling us how to live, work and think.

Seriously, this dystopia is not that far away. Just a few key ingredients for this to happen.
Building Virtual Reality Live Escape Room Game in London
The solution for obesity is self control. Any other band aid is just a crutch. I wish we could move past 'genetics' and take personal responsibility.
the narrative that puts you in isolation if you don't use facebook is just wrong.
This is the excuse that made the author of that post keeping his account, and one the reason fb is successful.
You are making your calculations based on the peak minute of the day, I'm checking now and it's around half that and it's middle of the day in the US. I imagine during the night is several times less than 260k.
Wut?

Did you even read the parent post?
China has a well known problem with not honoring other country's intellectual property. I don't see how it's racist at all to comment about the negative effects of a countries IP policies. Were not talking about Chinese here, were talking about the IP government policies of China
We see Kahn academy as a great resource for explaining concepts or methods - they do it fantastically well! Within our curriculum we might ask a child to discover what Pi means and find out how it's used. The child may well use Kahn academy as a resource to understand how Pi is used (along with other resources) but the process of discovery is something we believe to be equally as important as simply having something explained to the child. We try to provide a structure for that discovery. I hope this explains how we see the difference. Compliments not substitutes :-)
You can only have one solution open at a time. For example you may be working on a complex DLL (composed of multiple sub-projects compiling to static libs) as one solution. You may also want to have the solution for a consuming application open so you can test changes there as well.
"Tesla discontinued battery swap because people do prefer to spend 1/2 hour charging, even when traveling with sleeping children."

That was set up to fail.

There was only one battery swap station. It was aimed at people commuting between LA and SF. Except:

- you had to book in advance to use it

- you had to pay a fee to use it

- it was set up across the street from a Tesla Supercharger

- despite ostensibly being for the commute between those cities, it was actually 15 miles away from the freeway, making for a significant detour

If I was Elon Musk and wanted to demonstrate how people would much rather use charging stations than any kind of battery swap program, I think the above is a pretty good example of how I'd set up my battery swap program (for failure).
I totally understand the reason, but deleting a subreddit just hurts the community more than it hurts reddit.

Working on an alternative to reddit and then dropping reddit once that one works may be a solution.
afghanPower, figured you would not reply. Stirring up trouble again!

Shame I cannot down vote you yet!
Well, the Mankala model is not a problem.

And most likely Olkiluoto 3 had a reasonable business case before the cost overruns. So the question is more or less: is the real price of nuclear the price that was hoped for Olkiluoto 3 or the actual price that will be paid? (maybe mostly by Areva and not TVO). The "strike price" of Hinkley makes me think that it is probably the latter.

And while the trends look favorable for solar and wind, they seem less favorable for Nuclear - cf.

Historical summary of EIA's LCOE projections (2010–2016) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
One have to be blind and ignorant if you believe that the number of cars will double by 2040. I believe they will be halved, if not quartered or more. Have they not seen any of the self-driving cars appearing, and getting here much faster than most anticipated?!
In order to make this claim, Amazon, TechCrunch, and the researcher they cite must be able to accurately identify the population of incentivized reviews. How is that possible?

Incentivized reviews, if I'm using the term correctly, are designed to be indistinguishable from 'real' reviews. The reviewers aren't going to reveal which ones are incentivized.

If you think you can identify them, what you mean is that you can identify the ones that you identify; it's literally that much of a tautology. You have no idea of your accuracy, how many true and false positives and how many true/false negatives.

What Amazon is done is the same; they remove reviews that meet certain criteria. Amazon claims the criteria are an accurate proxy for incentivized reviews but I doubt they can confirm that.

At best they are raising the bar so that only better written incentivized reviews remain, and incentivized reviewers will adjust to the new standard. Users, no longer seeing incentivized reviews that they can identify, will assume the situation has improved. Really, they are still being conned but now don't know it.
I'm curious about this game. Is it online?
And then the next step is to talk to the grid in realtime and soak up any excess wind energy when demand is otherwise low and pause charge if there's a sudden spike in demand and get a discount from the utility company for helping them out. This is already built into some chargers, but should be standard in cars in future.
"Fighting to suppress war" has got to be one of the best examples of false consciousness (wrong term? I mean a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy based on internal contradiction) ever...
This article missed a very important point: Iran encouraged and supported the invasion of Iraq. They supplied the evidence and polticians that would topple Sadam and take over his goverment. The Iraq was a major Iranian victory.
What Makes Software Good? – Medium
Land value tax is aimed at suppressing land speculation. I'm not sure why you are contrasting my mentioning LVT to the original topic, as I put that in because the parent poster said, in a very supercilious way:

> Can you propose an alternative for capital allocation? Perhaps some magic central planning AI?

The system we have is fundamentally flawed.
You're right, it's a larger question of validity in these nuances. I knew I'd get in trouble saying "101", but I hope people will read that in a sympathetic light. (Ha!)
I had this idea a few years ago.
2 very big things.

1.

> How big was it before compression? - CyberDiablo

> Just over 200kb iirc - yupferris

2. Avoid the standard library is a whole lot of effort.

With C, and code elimination with GCC or clang, using fairly standard optimisations that require next to no knowledge of the native code being produced, I can have the following libraries, without bloating the executable:

<assert.h>

<complex.h>

<ctype.h>

<errno.h>

<fenv.h>

<float.h>

<inttypes.h>

<iso646.h>

<limits.h>

<locale.h>

<math.h>

<setjmp.h>

<signal.h>

<stdalign.h>

<stdarg.h>

<stdatomic.h>

<stdbool.h>

<stddef.h>

<stdint.h>

<stdio.h>

<stdlib.h>

<stdnoreturn.h>

<string.h>

<tgmath.h>

<threads.h>

<time.h>

<uchar.h>

<wchar.h>

<wctype.h>

Though you are incredibly unlikely to use all of the above at once, and occassionally some are unavailable on more limited embedded hardware (e.g. threads), C and its current compilers are light years ahead of rustc in terms of optimisation, even more so when you look at the massive list of supported architectures: GCC [0], Clang [1]

I love Rust, and I do look forward to seeing more of it, but avoiding libstd, or using a different malloc, and being forced to use a nightly, or any of the other little things you can do to mitigate large binaries are just not something that is easy compared to C, or easy to pipeline when making embedded software.

Relying on executable compression not directly supported by the compiler, is asking for trouble.

You can do the same insane things like no stdlib in C too [2], but it doesn't mean its a good idea. (See the IOCCC [3] for some truly crazy manipulations of the C language!)

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/backends.html

[1] http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/classllvm_1_1Triple.html

[2] http://ptspts.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/how-to-make-smaller-c-...

[3] http://www.ioccc.org/years.html
On a related note, the first GWAS hit for anorexia nervosa has been announced just today:

"Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals First Locus for Anorexia Nervosa and Metabolic Correlations", Duncan et al 2016 http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/25/088815

"Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious eating disorder characterized by restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, resulting in abnormally low body weight. It has a lifetime prevalence of approximately 1%, disproportionately affects females(1,2), and has no well replicated evidence of effective pharmacological or psychological treatments despite high morbidity and mortality(2). Twin studies support a genetic basis for the observed aggregation of AN in families(3), with heritability estimates of 48%-74%(4). Although initial genome-wide association studies (GWASs) were underpowered(5,6), evidence suggested that signals for AN would be detected with increased power(5). We present a GWAS of 3,495 AN cases and 10,982 controls with one genome-wide significant locus (index variant rs4622308, p=4.3x10-9) in a region (chr12:56,372,585-56,482,185) which includes six genes. The SNP-chip heritability (h_SNP^2) of AN from these data is 0.20 (SE=0.02), suggesting that a substantial fraction of the twin-based heritability stems from common genetic variation. Using these GWAS results, we also find significant positive genetic correlations with schizophrenia, neuroticism, educational attainment, and HDL cholesterol, and significant negative genetic correlations with body mass, insulin, glucose, and lipid phenotypes. Our results support the reconceptualization of AN as a disorder with both psychiatric and metabolic components."

More specifically, with endocrine components (https://twitter.com/psychgenomics/status/802254444154892289).

(Of course, you don't need any GWAS hits to do research on the genetics of anorexia nervosa or to look for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_correlation with other traits, since that can be done with polygenic scores sans any hits or with twin/family studies, but it does help motivate research.)
Well, I am guilty of using stock code photography on my websites in the past, but thank goodness I've never copied and pasted blocks of code from them... I only exclusively do that from Stackoverflow...
> We just don't provide Linux binaries, except Ubuntu Snaps, because it is extremely difficult to do.

Why is it so hard? Do you mean that it would be extremely difficult to make the large number of binaries required for all the different Linux ditros?
What to do about fake news?

Some suggestions[1] from John Bothwick Jeff Jarvis.

I particularly like #4. "Make the brands of those sources more visible to users".

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[] http://buzzmachine.com/2016/11/18/call-cooperation-fake-news...
Honestly given Antirez's response I'm genuinely surprised no one has written a TLA+ or similar formal verification proof. Then the outcome is binary; either redlock is sound and works as expected, or it is not.

Amazon's AWS Architect, James Hamilton is a big fan of this approach, as are most of the heavyweights in distributed systems:

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2014/07/challenges-in-desig...

EDIT: prefaced URL with http
I just checked a couple of their items, and they say "Sold by AnkerDirect and Fulfilled by Amazon", and it's very much Anker's option to not commingle their inventory, and I would expect they've chosen that option, they have a brand to protect.
I just want to stay at home programming, so it does not matter much
That's a social construct that requires social reconditioning. Indeed, if everyone around me was pursuing their own interests free of concern, I might cast aspersions away from them and toward my own lot, asking what the hell I was doing wasting my life away in a crummy job when I just want to work on cars all day.

It's going to take probably 100 years to get there, but frankly we have no choice. It's either get with the program or buy into some form of population control.
Much worse that 2x. Closer to an order of magnitude worse.
I'm guessing most of their money comes from businesses who purchase licenses for their developers. I've personally been responsible for four license purchases (my own + 3 companies bought a license for my work computer).
Money sitting in a bank account is invested via loans and gets returns via interest. If the bank is savvy and makes good investments they keep the spread between the interest paid and the interest earned.

From the perspective of the business owner it matters little of the cash comes from a bank or as an equity investment. The cash spends the same and they will prefer whichever they can get that is most favorable to them.

Even though public equities get all the news they are a relative latecomer to the party and are frankly a pimple when compared to the bond and cash market. Even if the entire public market disappeared tomorrow the vast majority of companies would have no issue raising cash either through private equity, bonds or bank loans.

Almost all (99.999999+%) trades on the public market have nothing to do with raising corporate equity (i.e. newly issued stock) and instead are transmitting price information about the markets current beliefs about potential future earnings. That is valuable in aggregate because it allows good companies with strong prospects to raise funds at a lower cost (if needed).

But is transmitting pricing information around the globe via dedicated links to shave off tenths of seconds really necessary? Does any company need to raise funds at a micro-seconds notice?

After all the markets close at the end of the day but somehow the world continues to function for the next 16 hours without sub-second pricing information at everyone's fingertips.
And no reason that the most widely deployed kernel in embedded and server worlds should be the same. But it is, and written in C. Its called GNU/Linux.
The reddit CEO played a prank.

Google actively helps China censor dissent.
Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Add some useful information, or move on (possibly down voting if you can and are so inclined).
I believe that battery swap was effectively a scam. There was some arbitrary full recharge time that had to be met to access some rebate program, and Tesla did exactly as much as they needed to do to meet the terms and then stopped.

Electric cars are the future, and Tesla's are cool, so don't take this as a negative. The complexity of battery swapping was in ownership of the batteries, not in the physical swapping. It maybe makes sense for big taxi firms, but not for standard consumers.

edit: adding a link with some corroboration since I got downvoted: http://insideevs.com/carb-zev-program-changes-tesla-takes-la...
Peter Thiel taps a principal at Founders Fund for Trump’s transition team
> Editing user content is beyond offensive

Get over yourself. In the grand scheme of things, a guy editing a handful of posts on a public forum is beyond trivial. There are about a billion things going on in the world which are worse.
But looks like there are some bits of Go in there somewhere... https://github.com/tobi?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tab=repositories&q=go...
Yeah, you're probably right... generation on board ship doesn't make much sense. Unless the ship is stopped for some time I guess.

Storage for hydrogen can be really large, in the TWh size. Because they can use natural gas storage tanks. There's nothing that big for batteries. The big Tesla solar installation on that Samoa island was six megawatt hours, with 60 battery packs.
I find layout to be the hardest part of CSS (as it deals with how elements interact).

This online book was helpful for me: http://book.mixu.net/css/
... and are also considered inferior (and are certainly different) than European truffles.
A wild guess, but a lot of the advances in neural networks can be directly applied to control problems normally be handled by PID controllers. It will be interesting to see where this leads
It's a lot easier not to be vested in old technology when the replacement runs for longer without new infrastructure and doesn't cost a couple of months' wages to upgrade, a few more if the old technology is rendered obsolete...
Uhh what? Do you have any data to back up this claim?
Thanks! Looks like i didn't have an email address registered. Maybe that caused it?
> Better make damn sure the background color of the body is white because otherwise who knows what it might end up.

You would be surprised. I believe it was xhtml, or if you didn't supply a document type, that IE and Firefox would have different default background colors. One was grey, the other white. This was a decade ago though, so I don't know if it still stands.
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I was discussing with a few friends and concluded we might use something like this - would love to hear what you guys think?

Here's the idea: You get a daily digest (in email inbox or through fb messenger) of 9gag posts that people you follow upvoted.

I don't spend much time on 9gag since there's too much content for me, but I'd like to see posts that were picked by my friends.

What do you think?
Marx's contributions to sociology are definitely relevant today, even if they're not in vogue. Even if they're wrong. This is human behavior we're talking about, and people have memories that they act upon.
> They supplied the evidence

Can you please elaborate? Some links?
Facebook should be nationalized and then the government should remove all advertising from the platform.

When a company has a monopoly over something, bureaucracy actually works - It slows things down, reduces risks, makes life better for employees and improves moral ethics within the company.

The fact that CEOs are legally bound to maximize profits doesn't make sense when the company already has a monopoly over its industry - The only way they can keep increasing profits is through scorched-earth policies which are damaging to society.
Not sure country counts at all when looking at this stuff, because individual sites very rarely reflect national trends.

However, that particular site is Australian, where Chrome makes up ~50% of traffic.
Fiddler, chrome devtools, Wireshark, postman and other chrome extensions. Many languages have hooks for viewing raw http requests and responses
I keep in contact with everyone I want to and don't need facebook to do so. It's a bubble, albeit a billion+ user bubble.

The reality is that every second you spend on facebook you are dying and the faster you realize that the further into humanity's future you will reach.
I worked at a couple of small ISPs in the mid 90's, and built the dialup infrastructure of one from scratch. I remember using Xylogics Annex terminal servers connected to either 16 or 32 individual USR modems. There were stacks of modems, each with its own power brick, serial, and RJ-11 connection.

This was a few years before everything went digital with PRI lines (T1s that let you do digital modems, basically.)
> The Iraq [war] was a major Iranian victory

Agreed

> Iran encouraged and supported the invasion of Iraq. They supplied the evidence and polticians that would topple Sadam and take over his goverment

I haven't read that, and I've read a lot about it. Would you point me to something credible and expert that I can read about it?
The constant supply solar of energy (and finite supply of mineral energy sources) also means that we won't be able to grow the economy indefinitely and need to find a way to transition to a system that thrives at equilibrium.
Submission titles "belong" to the content, not the submitter, and that has always been the case.
One good reason not to have this hiring rule is that many employees work under contracts that require them to cooperate with patent filings; I had one that required me to cooperate even after I left the company.
Yes, but that usually means 2, not up to 5.
Not only will electric cars reach parity for new cars, it seems likely there will come a point where even buying an old second hand vehicle will be uneconomic since the primary cost will be fuel. This will tank the resale value of ICE cars, making them competitive again, but the process will continue.
I would like to start a developer-first payment processor in my country, where we do not have access to PayPal or Stripe.

What would you guys say is the biggest hurdle to overcome to get off the ground? Finding a bank to back your transactions? Securing customer card details and connections? Dealing with fraud? Insurance in case of data breach? Or none of the above?

Also, what kind of upfront costs would I need to factor in? I've been looking at local compliance requirements and regulations, and they seem doable (on the order of $1k USD). I plan on working on this alone, at least initially.