skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably more bad practice by that definition, though for me the two concepts are very similar. I think the original article aimed more at process and large scale patterns, where our book aims more at small scale patterns.
Been LCHF Diet for 18 months. Last 2 to 3 months used guided meditation/self hypnosis to control hunger and eating. Lost about 47 lbs in those 18 months. Last 3 lost 15.

Exercise some and that makes me feel better as well.

This past year I have taken to napping 3 of 5 days at work 5 to 20 minutes. I have my own office and I nap during lunch break. Most naps are about 11 minutes long. I always time them. Napping helps my productivity immensely in the afternoon. I can be coding, architecting etc. within 10 minutes after the nap. Oh, I usually drink one coffee or white tea before I nap.
My current top three would be:

uBlock Origin - Block annoying ads

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

LastPass - Easily manage passwords

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lastpass-free-pass...

The Great Suspender - Save RAM by suspending unused tabs

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...
quick setup'n'go in 1999
was mostly a php/perl web provider. is AUTH_TOKEN really too
much different for having to set up a mysql
db in '99 and putting in DB_HOST, DB_PORT, DB_USER and DB_PASS ?

thats what a lot if the LAMP stacks had back then at a minimum. then make a page woth php_info in it and carefully scan the verbose output to see what your cgi renderer was compiled with
don't know if you ou will manage lift with 160kw will depend on overall weight, you also have to factor the weight of the propeller and rotating mechanism and covers so 10 to 15 kg is not exaggerated.
I can't think of a CRDT / anything that can handle your example...

but wouldn't this be somewhat (*not 100%) mitigated with UI? (e.g. showing carret positions + time-agos of different users, asking user(s) to resolve a conflict, etc.)
I feel like an alien for my lack of social needs.
Elementary Algorithms
After reading that, I don't think I'd want to work at Fog Creek.
Amazing talk.

"Markov Decision Model ... also called a story" :)

As for consciousness, I like his explanation. I personally think it is the brain that keeps a log of past decisions, so that when pain/pleasure comes, it can look back and see what decision to reward/punish (delayed reinforcement based learning). The moment a brain puts higher level things in decisions, like expectation of pain/pleasure, and even "I made a decision", is when self awareness comes in.

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I disagree somewhat when he says reality looks nothing like what our brain thinks reality looks like. With different sensors, sure it would all look very different. But not like reality is a cellular automata, and our sensors register that stuff raw, yet our brains imagine (dream) the patterns as objects and people with colors and sounds.

Our sensors see by the laws of physics, seeing objects with properties made possible by the laws of physics. That underlying those laws might be something entirely different, perhaps. But the translation from that underlying thing happened before the light hit your eye, not in the brain. E.g. color is a property of reality, not of the brain.

A completely different effect is that the "picture" we are get in our brain, is heavily pre processed and filtered and predicted. So the color that we notice, and what light has hit our eyes, those are not the same.

Would be interesting to know what he ment by that.
At my university, Facebook is primarily used for events and groups. The groups aren't used for discussion though, mostly just for informing about the events. Banter is usually done in Telegram chat groups. Party photos make great stickers..
We have all the developers using Linux, and it-ops and product management using MacOS.

For myself, instead of a laptop I ask for a custom workstation. For the same price, I get four fast cores, lots of RAM, lots of ports, huge monitors and lots of (fast) disk. I have a good sound setup there and developers usually don't do meetings or when we do it's whiteboard only and quick. I think it's very satisfying to use a minimal xmonad setup with a proper workstation, then running cmake and seeing your CPU and RAM is used in stuff that actually matters.

If I need to do home office, I use my own laptop. But I prefer to be in the office, otherwise some of my time goes to the cats, who want attention the whole day. :3
Yeah if China became like the (highly imperfect) US it would still be a major win.
Tor at the Heart: Whonix
Great talk, tempted to try some Game Boy development now! Apart from the development tools/resources mentioned at the end of the video, any others to recommend?
Exactly. Users can't even use their lightning headphones on a new Mac. The move to remove was a mistake, but there is no going back now. That would be admitting to a design flaw.
Shift + clicking on a folder in the launchbar also slows down the animation of it opening.
i think founders / promoters using stock as collateral also have to tell the regulator ?
> the party affiliation information for the Australian parliament is very strange. Not entirely wrong, but probably misleading.

For Australia we get our information primary from http://www.openaustralia.org.au/ — if you can give any pointers to where things are wrong, we can correct them.
It will be for compatibility with those old encodings.

Otherwise, these two codepoints should be used:

U+6307 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6307

U+20DE COMBINING ENCLOSING SQUARE

To give this: 指⃞

That can work on any character, and there are other enclosing options:

X⃝ circle

X⃞ square

X⃟ diamond

X⃠ backslash circle

X⃢ screen

X⃣ keycap

X⃤ triangle

So we can make an escape key: ␛⃣

U+241B SYMBOL FOR ESCAPE; U+20E3 COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP
Here's the sunshine list for Ontario:

http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/ps...

Police Officers in places like Cornwall, Ontario, pretty far out there, where the average home price is probably just above $100K ... often earn well over $100K.

Nurses, Teachers, a plethora of questionable Directors (the Director for 'Clergy Services' the hospital earns a lot. How many staff? And how big is that responsibility?) all earning well north of $100K, esp. in rural areas where cost of living is low. Private sector salaries will be lower to reflect lower cost of living, but public sector wages are not.

Average wage in Canada is just above $40K.

See the groupings by trade:

http://www.livingin-canada.com/work-salaries-wages-canada.ht...

Note that 'public sector' employees are near the top.

The group earning more is 'utilities' - which in Canada are 'Crown Corporations' (or de-facto), meaning essentially public sector.

Where I live in Quebec, the 'best career path' for most people is 'Government', as it turns out, we have almost the lowest wages in North America, just ahead of the other Canadian Maritime provinces.

One of the most overlooked factors in government work is the 'riskless' nature of it. In finance, we learn that 'consistent payments' have quite a lot of value, which is why companies that pay very consistent dividends are worth more. That you have 'a zero chance of layoff, and a very low chance of being fired' is actually a benefit, and it's economically measurable. It's a premium and it's worth a lot.
> those who go AirPods way will forget jack ever existed

I'm pretty sure that this market segment, while surely it exists, will never overlap with those who care about good sound quality and a good music listening experience.

In other words: they're leaving significant market segments behind.
The question put to the British people in the referendum was: “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?”. A clear majority voted to leave. Was this a cynical and basically fatuous exercise in wasting everyone's time for many months prior to the ballot because whatever the British people decided could be trumped by (some) self-interested MPs (jobs, pensions, travel and other perks)? I think not.

As Jacob Rees-Moog explains:

Parliament passed the referendum bill under the clear understanding from David Cameron (a fervent Remainer) that Article 50 would be exercised immediately.

The then-PM’s view, as stated to Parliament, as stated to the country, was that he would exercise Article 50 on Friday morning.”

So that has been slightly delayed but that doesn’t change the fact that Parliament gave the responsibility to decide whether we remained in the European Union to the British people and the British people decided to go.

The advisory aspect was advice for the Queen (who else? certainly not parliament. That would have been ridiculous) to proceed with the democratic wishes of the British people.
The thing that interests me about Cargo Culting in general is the extent to which it is actually a means of learning - admittedly a very inefficient means.

I wrote down my thoughts on this twice:

http://www.selectedintelligence.com/post/42868061516/cargo-c...

http://www.selectedintelligence.com/post/52795739838/cargo-c...
Winglio – Rent a Company Service
I don't share these experiences. iOS in my experience is by far the best mobile operating system out there and I am constantly using it and not experiencing any issues (this on my iPhone 6). I cannot compare experiences with you in terms of 3D touch though.

As for auto-correct, I forget that even exists as it is the first thing I disable on a new phone (I type in 3 different languages on a daily basis).

As for the iPhone 7 (which I will soon upgrade to), I've tested the phone and it feels fabulous. Lack of an ancient 3.5mm jack does not bother me. The DAC should be as close to your ear as possible, so it makes sense to most audiophiles. There is a dongle for that and I do not see an issue bringing that along if I need it.
The jobs link contains ads too
> In addition, you may be able to access your spiritual dimension

Spiritual dimension is just vague new age rhetoric. I don't want to be fear mongering but you may end up with a psychosis as well. Recommending random strangers to use recreational psychedelic drugs under the guise of getting "similar mid- and long-term effects to those of meditation" is flat out irresponsible.

For those who are interested in using psychedelic drugs. First of all, never use a full dose the first time you use it. Second, get a sitter aka babysitter. That means someone who does not use any drugs (that means nothing in the sense that the sitter(s) need to stay awake during your drugs usage, and worst case the sitter(s) should still be able to drive you to the hospital if its needed). Consider to inform your doctor and discuss with them the alternatives.

Instead of LSD and other psychedelic drugs I want to offer an alternative. If you want something akin to mindful meditation: do it more, or follow a 10 day Vipassana course.

> Certain "edge cases"/people should not try it.

This disclaimer is too vague. Some people don't know they are, or are young and will do it anyway because young people's brains (age < 25) are not yet fully grown up.

If you're into mindful meditation and want to take it much further, follow a 10 day Vipassana course instead. You will get guidance from the people there, and if you really get over the edge during your 10 day course (you're likely to experience difficult times regardless), you'll at least not be under the influence of drugs and will be surrounded by specialists who are sober. Also, a mindfulness instructor (such a course might be worth paying for) has followed a 10 day Vipassana course as its part of the requirement to become one.

Finally, I can highly recommend yoga together with meditation. (Without any spiritual BS, as that is unnecessary/distracting and excludes those with different religions including atheism. A good yoga or mindfulness instructor will include everyone, and avoid using such rhetoric.)

TL;DR do mindfulness, yoga, Vipassana don't do psychedelic drugs.
Only if you define it so broadly as to strip almost all meaning from the term.

What about manageability, i.e. can a user fit a mental model of the system in their head, or is it too complex to do that? What about the related concepts of consistency and predictability? What about comprehensibility of the metaphors used? The clarity of language? What about ergonomics? Directness of manipulation? What about delight (think pull to refresh)?

Elevating discoverability above all other concerns means that there can be no hierarchy of information. Every feature becomes primary. Everything is on page one, everything is above the fold.
Adapting BulletJournaling.

I noticed that everything digital is starting to distract me if I'm not careful. Even if I just go to my mac go check OmniFocus, my brain automatically wanted me to do other things on my Mac at the same time, while I'm already using it. Same for my phone.

I discovered the BulletJournal as a fantastic planning tool. Instead of having note apps, calendar apps, todo list apps and so on, I just have my nice Leuchtturm1917 notebook and a pen with me. It's destressing me, allowing me to be more analog and man, I completely forgot how nice good paper can feel.

It also helps me a lot fighting perfection and OCD. Every pen stroke is permanent which makes me appreciate mistakes more. Instead of an error, every wrong line gives the notebook more personality.

Lastly I was so surprised what a engineer brain can do with simple dotted paper. It's so easy to create new modules and layouts to expand the system further to solve another specific problem. It made me became creative with inventing new spreads for planning my months, tracking my daily habits or just scribbling down all movies I still want to watch.

It's a perfect non-digital companion for a digital guy like me and I love it. Just sitting in a cafe without my Mac or phone and reviewing my paper based system started to become a regular ritual that works like therapy. I'm very excited to start 2017 with this little guy in my bag :)
It requires you to have an active connection to the server all the time.
Move over Raspberry Pi, here are a dozen, better alternatives
:℅s/before four days/four days in advance/
Nice. I like the passion you clearly have for this topic
Sounds kind of like ゴミ (Gomi) too -- trash in Japanese.
They don't even have current data on who is currently in parliament for many countries and in the case they do that data is essentially worthless. I really don't see the point of this.

If you want to bother at all, you should have data on the level of http://abgeordetenwatch.de (for Germany only but surely similar projects exist in other countries). So how they voted, which committees are they part of, which jobs (beside being a politician) do they have. If you can get it, even which lobbyists they've met with (http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/).
having a user base and monetizing and succeeding as a profitable business are not the same, this was not much after the 08 crunch , there could have been a repeat of 2000s bubble, VC money could have dried up, sure guessing it would work out was cool and all, it certainly wasn't the obvious outcome
It's based on bunnie's blog but one of our editors poured her heart and soul into this. She's a EE with incredible passion. In other words, this isn't just a print out of his blog. It's a real book.
buffer_num += (elements[i] < pivot);

Is this really branchless though? I'm curious what the generated assembler code looks like.
Secure your site from the “not secure” chrome/Firefox 2017 warning with this app
The mouse they ship -- the Magic Mouse -- issues a right-button click when you click on the right side of it. There's no slight of hand: it's a two-button mouse.
eViacam: mouse replacement software that moves the pointer as you move your head
Is that a YES to "REAL remote" or no?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/india-rejec...

FTA:

“At a broad level, it might be useful to really, really reckon with the history of western corporate powers enforcing their desires on a broad swath of the Indian population, especially India’s poorest,” he suggested. “There are things that India, Indians (and those of us in the diaspora) place a very high value on, for historical reasons, that should be obvious with some thought. A colonialist ‘Trust us, it’s for your own benefit’ pitch is a hard sell with good reason.
MeMaker: create an avatar
So now you need two dongles for one set of earphones.

And how is the quality of the DAC in that adapter?

Sure sounds great!
I've found these extensions to be super helpful for me since my Chrome window always ended up with hundred of tabs opened.
Now, it's only 10-15 tabs the most.

Clutter Free - to avoid duplicate tabs

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clutter-free-preve...

The Great Suspender - suspend unused tabs

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

Toby - Replace the default new tab with a much better tab manager

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toby-manage-your-t...
Plex (premium) works surprisingly well for me with music. Can sync or play from server. Should work in Linux too. https://launchpad.net/~plexapp/+archive/ubuntu/plexht
Audioverse: multiplayer text storytelling framework with 3D positional audio
Apt: please make the moo reproducible
Chromium: Deterministic builds
The beliefs are not based on the chemicals in the horns, but rather on a spiritual level. It's rather difficult fighting belief and tradition with international trade and anti-poaching policies.
Is there anything you need to do / configure, as I am not getting that sort of battery out of my X1 Carbon running Mint. (I realize I usually leave bluetooth on, and the screen at mid to high brightness and have about 20-30 tabs open in firefox but I would still be lucky to get 5 hours out of it.)
There is also Paletton: http://paletton.com/
I was at this talk in Hamburg and it inspired me to tidy up a gameboy dev project I started in Feb. I wish I'd seen this before I started.

BGB (mentioned at the end) really is the best emulator for development, and it works pretty flawlessly in wine (on both OSX and linux). http://bgb.bircd.org/

Aside from that, there is a gameboy cpu manual / cheat sheet (handily printable as an A5 booklet) [1] and by some incredible stroke of luck, there was a university course in Wichita that taught assembly programming via programming gameboy roms [2].

[1] http://marc.rawer.de/Gameboy/Docs/GBCPUman.pdf

[2] http://cratel.wichita.edu/cratel/ECE238Spr08

shameless plug: the project I started is available on github here [3] - i'm working on figuring out how to build native ruby extensions so I can have the assembler be built on install, rather than dirtily bundling pre built binaries for OSX use.

[3] https://github.com/rkachowski/rubygb
besides he is not violating ISP's ToS only Wikipedia's,
It is. You can use the `setl` instruction to conditionally set a register depending on whether the previous `cmp` was less. Then, you simply do an `add` with the produced value, which is either 0 or 1.

EDIT: You can see this here https://godbolt.org/g/ssy4am
Apple seem to have a terrible blind spot for mice. Ive-era keyboards have been consistently excellent, but the mice have been consistently awful. Remember the horrendous hockey-puck mouse that shipped with the iMac?
Sure, but having already invested goodwill and money in Lighting, the benefits of switching to USB-C would have to be substantial before it makes sense for Apple to do so. To reality is that for most of Apple's users, USB-C offers no discernible advantage and quite a few disadvantages (having to buy new cables and peripherals again).
So? You aren't gonna get the miles. Otherwise, why aren't you already calling through all of your friends and adding your FF# on all of their old flights? Because the airlines aren't completely stupid and you aren't the first person to want free flights.
Is rejecting cash legal in these countries ? I get they do not want handle the cost and difficulty etc. But refusing cash should be illegal for public establishments at the very least.
And if you want more information about Members and Senators for Australia you can get a CSV with way more data over at: http://www.aph.gov.au/senators_and_members under "Contacting Senators and Members". I used that dataset to build a very incomplete project called http://reviewmy.mp as a way to learn Phoenix/Elixir. The data is missing a bit but the search results[0] have everything else and it's scrapable!

0: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian_S...
A critique of Accelerate (XLR8) by John Kotter
> On Windows, if you are using Docker Toolbox, you can keep using VirtualBox.

Oh awesome, thanks! I looked when Docker for Windows came out and (thankfully) spotted the "After Hyper-V is enabled, VirtualBox will no longer work" (?!) warning before trying it. I didn't dig any deeper.
Rsync works well for me but I don't use much of the android specific apps. I think now that they fucked around with the storage permissions it might not actually be possible without root.

Phone OSes aren't rocket science, at this point I just want a phone that has buildroot support, even if that means it lacks a GUI.
> there is no going back now. That would be admitting to a design flaw.

What's wrong with admitting that you took a bet and it didn't work out?

People do that all the time. Reasonable people, at least.
This mostly seems to be about a new CEO at Fog Creek.

I have never heard of him but appearantly he has a big following. And it appears that a very large number of people don't like him - enough to create a bunch of new accounts here at HN just to comment on his persona.

Fog Creek has to me always been about Joel on Software. And to me they always got a lot of credit and extra attention to their products because of his excellent writing. It must be hard for a new CEO to follow up on that.

As for the product; it has already been announced and discussed here earlier.

Personally I fail to see what it adds to an already crowded space of online, web-based, collaborative development environments. Honestly I think has too few features and is kinda ugly. But given that Trello and Stack Overflow has very large user bases maybe it is able to push thru and gain critical mass.
> I get the appeal of 3D touch but it has absolutely no discoverability

I've had an iPhone for a few months now and I still have no idea what this is about.
From the site's UI:

> Find representatives from your country:

Expected to use the box to find representatives. Instead it's a place to enter your country.

You should already know my country. Let me type in a representative's name.
Bollocks. I have plenty of Mac uses at work asking me for help setting up their Macs with peripherals.
Funny Teacher's hobby
My learning notes
I maintain a page <http://tarrsalah.github.io/notes/> where I share what I learn, is there any similar pages?

Can you share yours?
The USB mouse ("hockey-puck") was particularly bad, as it wasn't easy to orient. The Might Mouse trackball was pretty bad, too. The others didn't have major deficiencies in my opinion. What in particular do you find fault with the others?
This is very similar to Akshell (http://toughbyte.com/akshell/) which we worked on more than six years ago with @korenyushkin and that made the front page of HN on a number of occasions.

Despite being promoted by Fog Creek, I suspect that Gomix will run into the same problem that we did: professional developers won't use it as they already have the tools they prefer, whereas hobbyists won't be willing to pay. Without a viable business model, a service like this won't grow.

I hope I'm wrong though! AppJet, a similar service from a YC team (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppJet) was the reason I got into JavaScript.

PS. If you're looking for something similar, but simpler and geared towards backend apps and micro services (think AWS Lambda), you should check out https://unitcluster.com/