skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take comments like this very seriously, having been accused of "tinfoil" when pointing to evidence of global surveillance programs (e.g. Office of Strategic Influence, Total Information Awareness, etc) before journalists broke the Snowden story.

Luckily, I think most people on Hacker News are realistic people not easy to excite into witch hunts and victim-blaming like you suggest. I think most people on Hacker News believe that the governments of Russia, France, Turkey, Germany, China, and others including the United States, manage their appearance to the publics they represent, making appeals for and finding evidence to build the case for their own legitimacy. That's not an extraordinary claim, you can find media reporting that suggests a wide range of policies and rhetoric from around the world are motivated by public appearance and appeals to legitimacy. Much of the censorship that people experience in the world is similarly motivated.

The character attacks against Snowden have evolved over time: "he didn't understand the programs / he was just a low level employee", "his girlfriend was a stripper", "he's a Russian spy", "he didn't go through the proper channels", "he just wants to be in the news", "he was a disgruntled employee".

These slanderous rumors, spread by anonymous officials and PR contracts, belie the fact that there is no desire to discuss the abuse disclosed by the whistleblowing. What anonymous officials, press offices and paid PR coverage want to talk about are rumors and opinions about Snowden's intentions - topics that not only distract from the documents (which are conclusive evidence of highly illegal and unethical behavior) with inconclusive speculation but topics that have a specific effect on the public attitude and narrative understanding of the events that unfolded.

Those who think that there has to be some wide ranging conspiracy for officials to react in a self-defensive manner are unrealistic. Those who think the human nature of American officials deeply differs from Chinese officials, French officials, or Turkish officials (etc) are unrealistic and unconvincing.

So to the first question you posed: no. I have a higher opinion of Hacker News commentators than that. I don't think they are dumb or immature or unrealistic. At least, not to that extreme degree.
The view that you're trying to correct generally requires a bit more knowledge than the one pushed by an average person's education.

Simply teaching, by default, that there was an apocalyptic plague among Native Americans unknowingly caused by Europeans would go a long way towards balancing the narrative.
I sleep 2-8:30am during the week, and 2-10am or so on the weekends. I could maybe try going to bed at 1am, but going to sleep before midnight usually results in being awake from 3-5am which is stressful if I feel I have to get up the next day.

One interesting thing I've noticed, is that when I get 8+ hours of sleep, I'm happy but not as productive. On 6.5 hours of sleep, I'm a little grouchier but a LOT more productive. It's like I get into a mode where nothing feels right so I may as well just bang it out and get it done, whereas when I feel 100% mentally, I spend more time noodling and trying to find a better/perfect solution.

I'm 40 years old and a software dev, btw.
Anyone up for writing a new web framework in another language called, say, artillery? ;)

(The counter would be missile, I guess, and then icbm... followed by planetary-defense-cannon?)
How is that "winning"?
These investors got off easy as far as Ackman's customers go. Investors in his Target fund (Pershing Square IV) lost more than 90% of their money.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/119879-bill-ackmans-hedge-fu...
Yes. Although you don't need an infinite number of universes. A very large number of years and a very large number of stars will do.

e.g Q: out of billions of stars what is the chance that this discussion takes place at a planet that can support intelligent life?

A: high
Would we want to band together to fix it anyway? I would have thought smaller teams from US, Russia, China and EU could all come up with independant solutions and see which works.

If an asteroid is hurtling and don't want people fucking around in committees.
In this case Tgres beats Whisper by quite a bit - it uses 8 bytes per data point. In fact looking at the numbers for a small test db I have 2,057,275 points taking up 16,687,104 bytes, which is exactly 8.11 bytes per point.

BTW getting the total point count is as easy as:

select sum(array_length(dp,1)) from ts;

If you adjust the width (i.e. points per table row) to a higher number than the 768 default, as soon as you get above the PG pages size, TOAST (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/storage-toast...) kicks in, which PG compresses. Not sure how well this works, but at least in theory it should make it even more compact (though not sure about it being as performant).
2016 strikes again.

And it's not going to get better, so many celebrities and titans of the 60s and 70s (and even 80s) are not long for this world.
These are indeed the worst. What I don't get is the nature of the relationships such that studios don't seem to promote their own trailers.

The only things that show up are those crappy trailer aggregators that, to your point, cause you to watch an ad to see an ad. These days I tend to start with Apple's Trailers app. Brief synopsis and a list of all the trailers in HD--is that too hard for YouTube?
Appreciate the sentiment, but it was actually a quite deliberate comparison because (i) the very poor in developing countries where cigarettes are very cheap often have a cigarette budget which comes before investment and improved nutrition (ii) I'm well aware that despite the startling prevalence of smoking amongst poor men, increased tobacco use isn't a significant factor in studies of how poor people spend donor cash.

(i) pretty much underlines my point about the things people choose to spend their money on not necessarily being what's best for them. And in the short term it's not an inexplicable phenomenon because cheap tobacco probably does provide more pain and stress relief than slightly better nutrition.

(ii) is partly because surveys like those you've posted accurately represent people tending not alter their habits of smoking cheap cigarettes (or frowning on tobacco) after receiving a sudden windfall; there's a limit to how much one can smoke and stockpiling makes no sense when for people who don't even have a waterproof roof. But it's also because poor people are smart enough to realise that people quizzing them on their lifestyle and unexpected windfalls from foreign donors aren't unrelated, and the natural response is to tailor responses to what they think the foreign donors want to hear, resulting in any increases in spending on cigarettes and alcohol (whilst likely low relative to increases in spending on roofs or microbusiness investments anyway) being systematically underreported.
I appreciate the reviews btw, thanks. More useful than just a list.
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Hey anish, using these (and giving back) were great. I'm glad to see that Gavel has progressed significantly since I contributed.
For most of my life, if I wanted to be productive, I aimed for 10h of sleep. Yes, really, ten hours. There is nothing like a good amount of sleep to make you productive. If its about achieving a certain goal, without pouring a specificed amount of hours into it every day, it is the best solution to let your brain refresh every night as much as it can. I don't hold any self-optimization approaches in high esteem; I found that, indeed, nothing helps as much as an healthy amount of sleep. This is not only important for my brain, but also for my stomach, and, especially, my eyes, I have found.

When "working a specified amount of hours every day at a minimum" is the modus operandi, I tend to make sure I get at least 8 hours of sleep at night.

Recreational days are strictly exempt from this policy. If my intellectual output does not matter, e.g., during holidays, I do not care whether I sleep 7 or 12 hours, then I strictly care about my well-feeling only. This might indeed involve vast amounts of cheese, red wine, and whisky. ;-)
I read the whole thing. Taking it at face value I don't see what you're talking about in it at all. Maybe he meant it in the way you're saying? Maybe he didn't? It's usually best to speak in literals on the internet and not hope to someone to fish out implications.
Interesting. What exactly do you mean 'desktop app that integrates with a service'? Any examples?
>presumably give them a cut.

You just made this up. As already clarified in this thread, Apple doesn't own Thunderbolt and Apple gets zero (0) licensing fees. There is no "cut".
How so? If you're running a widget factory, you can't just close it and open again with the same machines and staff under a new name. Your investors would have good reason to sue you. And in any case you're not paid a proportion of your shareholder's returns.

With a fund, which is a separate vehicle advised by a management company, the fund can be closed with the knowledge (typically code, and who is gonna know if you take that?) kept and used to run another fund.

And it needn't be terribly blatant. If a guy has a reputation as a stock picker, he can do something like open a new fund for another geography or sector.

Investors can be strangely loyal, too.
You don't have to, there are no rights to ideas in the first place.
6-8 hours on weeknights, 8-10 on weekends
Maybe, but God uses emacs

Naturally, Satan uses Evil mode
People also avoid people who are very overbearing. It's easy to be overbearing and not realize it.
Wow! It truly is. I wanted to make a snarky comment about ivory tower Lisps but the Guile site is awesome: down to Earth, practical and relatable.
"Safe Spaces" and "Political Correctness" are not censorship. They are about changing cultural interactions. I'm not a real "supporter" of either ideologies, but I believe its good to be nice to each other.
That is due to your exposure to sunlight, which helps set circadian rhythms. It's pretty well known that a bit of camping can help insomniacs or people with poor sleep.

Also, sunlight helps you wake up. I'm not a morning person, but when I went on an island holiday where the sun beamed into my room at around 5am, I never had any trouble waking up at that time. Also, I was spending all day outside, which supports my first point.

Aside from that, physical activity, and lack of artificial light exposure helped you fall asleep early.
Glad to see investors are starting to push back on these ridiculous fees. For decades, the whole hedge fund industry, along with more traditional actively managed funds and financial advisors have been charging fees that can't possibly be warranted by the "value" they add.

I don't doubt that there are strategies and traders who can add skill-based alpha to broad market returns, but the catch is that it is essentially impossible to attribute performance to skill or luck. You may say consistently outperforming the market for 5, 10 or even 20 years is the mark of a great investor, but given the number of funds and players in the space, simple statistics would conclude such outcomes should routinely occur. You see it again and again where some manager has a remarkable run, raises tons of money, and proceeds to encounter mediocre/terrible performance. Some former "genius", do-no-wrong managers have actually lost way more client money than they've ever made because they attract tons of money after a lucky run and then proceed to tank.

The silliest part of the hedge fund industry is seeing all these funds and media retro-fit all kinds of rosy superlatives and sophisticated explanations onto a good year or two run, without ever acknowledging the likely role of luck and randomness.

Warren Buffets essay "The Superinvestors of Grahm-and-Doddsville" perfectly captures so much of this dynamic in a fun hypothetical exercise:
http://www.tilsonfunds.com/superinvestors.html
DeepMind: Streaming the right info to the right clinician at the right time
The making of Boombeastic: a Raspberry Pi-based connected speaker
For a million years I was a 'night owl' and did 2am, 8am or so sleep.
I changed about 2 years ago to more like a 11pm, 6:30am or so.

I know that a lot of people think it's a good idea and all that, but I think my productivity overrall is way down than it was before.

Twist in the story is that, being aware of that, I'm unlikely to change back, as the new schedule gives more more time to do /other/ things than being productive... For example, I hit the office at 7am, and leave at 3pm, and have the whole afternoon 'off' technically.
Why is Mail Online going after the fact checkers?
Why would someone swap one good idea for ten bad idea?

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."
> The only approval rating that matters is the approval rating from their own constituents

A good point, but remember that most are in single-party districts; they need to please people in their party primaries but the voters in the general election have no choice.
The only thing I disagree with is making an extra dependency sound like such a bad thing. Nobody uses fetch directly. You always wrap it into a more suitable api for your project. So either you're going to do that yourself, or add in a small library like this.
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> Does one second matter to your application?

Yes. And it's not just real-time; even when just displaying dates and times, an off-by-one error at any granularity can bump it into the next year.

I guess what I'm wondering is how does the decision to add a leap second here or there find its way into system clocks, such that it knows whether:

new Date(1483228800000).getUTCFullYear()

...is 2016 or 2017?
Average views per channel (with >10m subs) might be down, but that doesn't mean total viewing time on YouTube is down across the board. Views might be spread out over different channels (This data only represented changes in 49).
Draft Uber bill contains apparent blanket Freedom of Information Law exemption
> Plus the pdf is usually around

It's a bonus that you don't have to compensate the creator of a useful product?
Those aren't examples. One politician vowing to do it and the entire Senate actually doing it are entirely different; Congress had never done it before this year.

And that assumes you believe the Federalist, a highly partisan source.
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There are many good principles that come from social sciences and such. The problems are:

1. It's difficult to make a career in it unless you apply it in a non-traditional way. Many kids are often misled by that.

2. There is a lack of rigor, politics-under-the-color-of-science and experimental reproducibility problems in the humanities and social sciences, and it's the negative downside you have to look out for.

3. Postmodernism tends to be toxic and makes you ineffective. People repulsed by it go into more concrete things like STEM by instinct when they are young.
Tldr: testing in space, single digit milli Newton trust, major benefit is much lower mass for fuel.
When I had a regular job, I could do with about 6hrs of sleep, but eventually over time slept debt would accumulate, and I'd sleep one day (usually Saturdays) about 10hrs to catch up.

Now, that I work on my schedule (getting a startup off the ground), I regularly sleep 9hrs, sometimes 10.
Time to time I have coding marathons (when I am doing something exiting), that might cut my sleep to only 5-6 hrs a day, but that usually lasts only about a week and my productivity drops.
I noticed with 9hrs a day, building muscle is easier, I have less body inflammation, and no stress or anxiety.
The quality of my code is substantially better as well.

Bottom line: I thought 6hrs a day was enough, but I see that naturally my body wants about 9hrs of sleep, and the 'plentiness' of sleep affects my mood in good ways. This is probably some of the happiest times of my life, even though it is the middle of winter here in NYC.
It was a beautiful story - and one that I wasn't familiar with. I do hope there are more such waiting to be revealed!

I'll never forget seeing that comic in The New Yorker in '93. A colleague of mine clipped it out and pasted it on the wall behind his desk.

Also in that year, the New York Times asked readers at the end of the year how many times the word "internet" had occurred in the newspaper during the year. I believe the answer was ~200.
There seems to be discrimination[0].

[0] https://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/04/women-preferred...

Edit: Wrong link. Someone could have told me explicitly.
My journey to improve disk performance on the Raspberry Pi
JSON-Patch [1] can be helpful here. You can maintain a list of changes that need to be applied, such that they only touch the parts of the document that need to change (other changes to other parts can be interleaved). If necessary, you can include tests to assert that some value in the document is what you expect it should be, and the patch can be rejected if that test fails.

[1]: http://jsonpatch.com/
I'm not sure that this answers the question. Where did the ~7m answer come from, if the Earth rotates 12km in 26s?
Why do you think that individual smaller efforts are more likely to succeed than a single unified global effort. I see no evidence to support that. We're obviously going to spend a few years researching this before we start figuring out how to stop the asteroid to determine if we should be fighting this asteroid menace as a whole, or individually.
These are the sorts of forms that fill the empty spaces in my notes for work and school.

Getting the shading and proportions exactly right is an exercise of both aesthetics and calculative reasoning, and so I find it's uniquely delightful.
Well, I suppose it would be kinda hard to rule when your potential subjects don't have the necessary discretion to be capable of being ruled.
Interesting stuff, and it was worth the read. I took some good ideas from it.

However, as I read it, I also wondered if his principles were used to test his principles.
Published? Link?
To extend this even further...

~This~ morning Joe rolled a dice, and it came up 1, so he hosted a board-game party.

During the party Joe hints that the die he rolls may be very large, but stops short of outright saying so.

Joe also refuses to say whether he rolls the die every morning, or if it was just this morning.

The interesting questions are:

How big is the die?

How often is it rolled?

Does Joe do anything at all if he rolls almost anything other than a 1, or does he just lie in bed?

If the very large die is only rolled once, and all non-1s are very boring, then it is remarkable that we're here.
8 or 9 hours.

Moderate exercise and a clean diet, along with reduced stress have improved my sleep markedly (I've had sleep problems for almost 2 decades now).
I sleep from 9pm to 4am, +/- 30 minutes. I was never a morning person but having a kid changed that out of necessity. From 4pm until 9pm, my life is absolutely frantic: commute and/or daycare pickup, feed, cleanup, bathe, and by 9 I'm exhausted. My partner stays up to work after my son and i go to bed. I tried that approach but was totally unproductive. Now I get up 2 or 3 hours before anyone else and in that time I get more done than I used to do in a normal 8 hour workday.

My team at work mostly get in and stay late which is sometimes difficult because I'm basically out of commission after 3pm. But I like to think I compensate by getting so much done in the early hours. I got dinged on a performance review for ignoring slack messages sent at 6pm. It was hard to swallow because I basically work 11 hours a day. I have to refuse meeting requests after 3pm, and if I get pushback, I offer to reschedule for 5am. Oh that's too early for you? So I have to accept your schedule? Fine, cut me a check for $80 because that's what my daycare charges for late pickups. Oops, this got a little off topic. But as you can see, work/life balance should really be renamed work/sleep balance since I'm working basically every waking minute that I'm possibly able to.
I'd take 2016 over 1968 any year.

Don't get me started on 1942.
Here is another possibility for something to work on. We are deploying IoT at scale without much concern for security. Effectively, we are building a massive weapon for our enemies to use against us -- one that is distributed, fault-tolerant, and built into our infrastructure. We would not be able to escape the consequences of such a weapon.

In addition to serving society, this would also be self-serving. I have to imagine someone working on this would become fairly wealthy or at least very eminent.

As far as I know, something close to nothing is being done about this problem.
The industry term is "creative", i.e. this app is for creatives. Author is generally applied for written material.
Please, SpaceDingus9000, do not drink this Kool-Aid. Media Creation Suite is just fine here in the real world.
It's best to learn through practice. If you're working on a web business, define a growth objective and use your development skills (AKA problem solving skills) to achieve it. So a good example would be to try to improve new user activation from 20% to 30% in the next 30 days. We had a similar goal in my company recently and our VP of engineering generated and implemented an idea that gave us a 300% improvement in new user activation. It was a new onboarding flow. Generally you need to run a bunch of tests to find a handful of things that really make a difference. Other objectives you might want to consider would be improving customer retention or customer referral or even building embeddable widgets for 3rd party sites. Developers have an advantage with growth hacking because they can not only have good ideas, but they can also execute relatively complex ones. Reading can help, but doing is really how you learn it.
Personally I don't like domain-specific sugared syntax. I prefer clarity above all, especially since I hope to spend the least possible amount of time in the networking domain, and this means I'd otherwise have to relearn the syntax whenever I have to dig into the code again.
It's still been a very minor year, even for recent memory.
Some people will say there is no discrimination anymore.

Who's saying that? There's discrimination everywhere you look, and it doesn't have to take the form detailed in the article.
I can't imagine a single person whose life would be better in any significant way with an extra $100. Not even a homeless person would find this quantity helpful over the long-term.
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Just below 1942.