skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is true, there is no real freedom except for the independently wealthy. (And if you "work for yourself" you trade having 1 boss for having n bosses.) This is the world we live in. There is a saying, "life sucks and then you die"- it is certainly always possible to be more specific than that, but that's pretty much what it boils down to. Our challenge is to be happy despite it.

What really bugs me is that we can't just admit to each other that having a job is shitty, even if it's a good one. We all have to be "doing what we love" and so forth.
I think DC's workforce is thinking about getting into contracting or consulting. Anytime Republicans cut into the actual federal workforce they just make up for it with outside contracting. Then they can say they cut the workforce while still paying 2.5X+ the amount they would if they just hired someone.
Generally, none, that's why so many activist are constantly trying to raise awareness for the conditions (basically slavery & torture) that animals of both industries suffer their entire lives in order for someone else to have a nice treat.
Indeed.

> but everything lives in my butt (err, butt).

I had to open the comment in porn (er, incognito) mode in order to parse it :D.
Doesn't help me on linux, bitorrent works fine.
Put the Surgeon General in charge of it and conscript all healthcare professionals into a uniformed US Health Service. Uniforms would make the best political cover.
Does it really need to be sit there and do this for X hours and I need these results? Would "I need these results (in X timeframe)" not also work?

I'm not saying there aren't benefits to working in an office with fixed hours (e.g. despite the advent of email and IM communication is often better in person).

But:

1. At jobs with fixed hours I often spend a couple of them a day effectively doing nothing because I'm burnt out that day. And conversely I will go home at home time even if I'm being given really productive at that time.

2. I often work more effectively at home due to lack of distractions and precisely because I'm not expected to be looking like I'm doing some all of the time. For example, sometimes it can really help to get out of the house, go for a walk, and think for a bit. Doing this for 20 minutes can be more productive than 6 hours of sitting at a desk trying to work on the same problem while looking at the a computer screen. But you can't really do that in an office.
Very nice! Installed without problem. Thank you.
Whenever I hear about how loaders resolve symbols on Linux I am amazed that it works at all, and that it runs reasonably fast.

The loader on Windows has a much simpler job - it imports specific symbols from specific DLLs. In many cases the importing is done by ordinal instead of by name, to make it even faster.

I'm used to the Windows system so I don't miss the extra functionality that the Linux loader provides - in fact I find it scary.
Reminds me of "temptation bundling." Here's a primer: http://jamesclear.com/temptation-bundling . I think this is one part (of a few) that makes good habit.
Hah sorry vaste of course :)
The catch in Scotland is finding a house that is both a decent size, has a decent sized garden, is commutable to somewhere that has high tech jobs and actually has a half decent connection to the Internet.

I was amazed to see brand new build lovely houses on sale that had no broadband availability - and this was maybe 20 mins from Perth.
Creating Dynamic Components with Angular 2
Cannot repro.
Is it just me, or this is a the very least completely ridiculous?
Interesting. How will it compete with the current giants?
You probably haven't had to use it very much, then. I've been using for as long, and it took so many of those years just to be able to finally receive pictures and group texts. (I think those two have only really worked for a year or two now.) When group messaging was broken, it was really broken; I missed out on conversation entirely, or received the messages such that each participant had their own individual thread.

And even today, I still often find situations where I have a new voicemail despite my phone never ringing. I even check the call log on my phone and nothing ever came in.

The MMS updates and this new suite of UIs are definitely welcome additions if you ask me, and hopefully indicative that the service isn't circling the drain after all (which I've been anticipating for some time now).
Ask HN: Using gethostbyxxx to query IP addresses
I noticed that sites like google and facebook return only one IP address but yahoo , BBC and older sites return a couple of IP addresses(odd member twitter). What is driving modern sites to have only one front-facing IP address?
We'll see, won't we?
Didn't the Citizens United vs. FEC case argue that money is free speech, and therefore campaign finance laws limiting Super PAC's spending were overturned?

How might that affect banking laws that require banks to flag suspicious transactions and restrict who can send and receive funds? Have the banking laws that restrict payments ever been challenged in court as a free speech issue?

Just wondering if these two dots are in any way connected. I am not pro-money laundering but also don't like the idea of government overreach. Thinking that since banks are non-government that the constitutional protections don't apply, but what about the laws that bring about the banking regulations?
See LMDB (embedded) and ScyllaDB (distributed):

The Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx1-in-a1Xc

ScyllaDB http://www.scylladb.com/
I lived in China for over eight years and saw my health progressively get worse, finally culminating in cancer. Someone who is not a native and familiar with the dos and don'ts of China will walk into a lot of health traps - you have to walk a narrow line and watch yourself to stay healthy. I left, and my health has improved immensely.
All I want is to hide the toolbar by default. Wastes several clicks and a few seconds of setup time every time I give a talk from a notebook.
If he manages to do a complete 180° and be someone completely antithetical to the person he's been thus far?

Yes, the opposition is toast if that happens.
> think countries passing environmental restrictions on companies

I don't think that was ever true about TPP to start with.
> Nicotine in itself doesn't harm anyone, that's completely made up.

Unless you take too much or have an intolerance. Sweeping statements about neurotoxins usually ignore their complex effects.
If you're loading ads in AMP, there's nothing stopping you from loading equivalent ads in your POHTML either.

Unless Google won't let you load lightweight ads outside of AMP, which is its own issue.
Single payer would be ideal for most Americans, but those in power (both government and industry) seem to prefer the high deductible health plans with health savings accounts.

Unfortunately I don't see high deductible plans working for anyone unless healthcare providers and pharmacies are required to list all prices up-front. As it is there's no way for consumers to "shop around" because they can't get prices for most tests, procedures, or even medications until they bill through insurance (which can take weeks).
I'm surprised that no one has pointed out that tobacco absorbs lithium from the ground can be found in smoking tobacco [1]. Lithium is also used as an anti-psychotic medication.

1: http://www.europsy-journal.com/article/S0924-9338(16)00128-0...
It's not free. You must own an iDevice or a Mac to use iCloud and worse if you pay for one device you get 5gig. If you pay for 2 you don't get another 5gig
>I was able to insure my family of three for $330 a month at that time, and the coverage was quite good.

Whenever I see a like claim tossed around I always ask (and never get a straight answer): What was your deductible and out of pocket maximum for your family of 3 at $300/mo?
Yes, and it raises a challenge: Who speaks for their citizens? I think the best argument is that their own governments do - that's true de facto, regardless; and foreign powers are very poor and understanding the needs of locals, no matter how good-willed. The foreign powers tell them what's good for them (and coincidentally what never conflicts with the foreign powers' interests); they don't listen so well.
That would work (and personally I would prefer if AMP went in that direction) but it would be merely fast instead of crazy fast because apparently prerendering is only possible if you use the Google CDN.
> "Are you in control if Google chooses to datamine your readers, or if in the future Google is free to show "suggested" content which is not your own, etc, etc."

Just don't use Google's CDN then, use someone else's, like Cloudflare or Bing.
There are VC-backed companies distributing binaries based on GPL code, which discourage their customers from releasing (or even asking for) source. E.g. the vendor won't sell to anyone unless the order size is six figures or greater. This reduces the chance that the customer cares about either source or the GPL. Even if the customer cares about the source, they may not want to offend the vendor, e.g. lose early access to new features.
Lucky you - that medium link was a 2.19MB download on my laptop.
Wake me up when charges are filed.
Do you have kids/elderly parents to take care of/etc.? I can imagine that lifestyle working really well for people with caregiving obligations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13461244
Not if you take it a little bit at a time.
It's a good reminder that email and video just don't have the bandwidth of a few million years of evolutionary-designed face-to-face social communication.
Yes! I second this.

I started using Insight Timer and am now meditating every single day for the first time.
> The catch in Scotland is finding a house that is both a decent size, has a decent sized garden, is commutable to somewhere that has high tech jobs and actually has a half decent connection to the Internet.

That may be asking for too many mutually exclusive interests. If you want a large house then you're going to increase the commute. If you want a lot of high tech jobs then living spaces nearby are going to be at a premium.
Interesting that I haven't seen anyone writing about the (unusually?) large number of Indian-Americans appointed by President Trump.
Having done a bit of lisp spelunking myself, I would suggest that you dig into the source of the lisp your program ran under. Trying to figure out behavior from the surrounding context can be rather difficult when you're playing with an archaic, sparsely documented lisp.
Just anycast cdn.ampproject.org to a cluster sitting on your network with Google's supervision and cert? This is added value for the provider, just like sticking a bunch of Akamai boxes on your network is added value.
There's a nice addon for Firefox, called Priv8: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/priv8/

This is a Firefox addon that uses part of the security model of Firefox OS to create sandboxed tabs. Each sandbox is a completely separated world: it doesn't share cookies, storage, and a lots of other stuff with the rest of Firefox, but just with other tabs from the same sandbox.
> It's a 1 in 13 million chance.

Every time you have a coffee though, right? if you get a couple of cups a day, that is now 1 in 17,800.
I have been doing the same thing. I've also augmented each section with video lectures from Khan academy or other sources. For instance, their videos on the Jacobian were excellent for getting an intuitive understanding of it [1].

I also search for problems on the topic to help solidify my knowledge. You can almost always find a class that has posted problems for a section with answers.

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/math/multivariable-calculus/mult...
That article also has this to say, directly to the point at hand:

> The holdout cities — those where the earnings of single, college-educated young women still lag men's — tended to be built around industries that are heavily male-dominated, such as software development or military-technology contracting. In other words, Silicon Valley could also be called Gender Gap Gully.

So I'm not sure what you mean to prove by citing it. If you mislike and mistrust gendered rhetoric, you're welcome; so do I. But perceiving a lack of intellectual consistency on the part of one's interlocutor is no cause to hold oneself to a similarly weak standard.
I only use chromium (not even chrome!) for testing, but as an OSS developer I'm even more appalled by this.
That 80's show married with children have an episode where the kids instantly go to sleep if someone puts a cloth over their eyes. I've been using that with great success on myself for more than a decade now :)
Atomic, with First Fund, Looks to Upend Venture-Capital Model
I've never smoked but I keep nicotine gum on hand. I find it great for long drives at night when I don't want caffeine. 2mg of nicotine perks me right up for a couple hours
You can't cook a meal while talking with friends if you've got specialized rooms for both activities.
Trump’s inauguration broke live video streaming records
If he only accepted questions from organizations that cover him favourably, that'd exclude most of the media. From what I've seen so far he only seems to refuse questions from media that delve into conspiracy-theory tier reporting - Russian piss orgies, "secret communications with Russia" that somehow look in every way like junk email about Trump hotels from an outsourced service he doesn't even control, that kind of thing. (Which is probably still a little ironic given his role in birtherism.)
Is it really ride sharing if you aren't sharing a destination with the driver? How is that ride share any different than a cab ride?

I've used uber in SF, NY, and London. It's painfully clear they are a taxi service going from 1 "customer" to another.

I'm sure there are ppl that legit share their ride to work, but I'd love to see the numbers of ride shares vs serial taxi-like behavior
Manhattan still seemed outrageously expensive compared to most other places in the mid-80s or so, even if it was dirty and dangerous compared to today. That said, given prescience, I'm sure there were bargains to be had in what were not necessarily quite yet up and coming neighborhoods.
But what does Trump's PR about his workers program and now much as been accomplished have to do with it? It's just political promotion.

The first part of the comment in question seems fine; the last is an ad for a politician.
> Virtually every problem is on S.O. - and if it isn't, there is usually something superficially related to get you started.

One time, I had to solve a problem that was kinda in left field; I don't remember the specifics of it, but it wasn't something common.

I soon found that out when I did my googling to see if anyone else had a similar situation.

There wasn't anything on SO, and virtually nothing else on google.

So I broke the problem down, and tried to see if there were anything on any of the parts of the problem. That started to lead somewhere.

Eventually, after a few hours of digging, googling, SO hints, testing, and cajoling around the issues - I got something working. It was crazy - but it worked, and worked properly as what was needed.

...and for every part of it that wasn't original, I linked to the source where I got help/inspiration/code, because ultimately, the whole thing was a group effort (even if those other coders weren't physically there, they were mentally in some capacity, though they didn't know it!).
Stick to a language / framework / stack / etc that you're already familiar with and focus on writing less code, better code, using fewer dependencies etc.
Your psychiatrist runs a practice and you're mad that they are practicing rather than researching? That seems like an unrealistic expectation. If your doc was doing more research, then they probably wouldn't be practicing as much. It's like asking you to be a professional developer and do cutting edge CS research -- that's pretty rare.

Tracking nicotine vs your mood strikes me as being "research" -- especially since there wasn't a previously-known scientific correlation, as demonstrated by the recently-published results! Instead... I'd be glad that there is finally some evidence to explain your observations, and be hopeful that it results in new treatments.

(Also: Pawning off laziness onto others is a cop out. You could've pushed the research forward by doing more than just telling your doctor. But you didn't, I presume. Why is that...?)
Davos 2017 – An Insight, an Idea with Sergey Brin [video]
Common sense tells me that inhaling any foreign chemical in high concentrations and habitually is not a good idea.
Predictive Analytics 101 – the basics explained for non-devs PART2
Foxconn looking into $7b screen factory in the US
What constitutes "unusually high"? Also, by your tone, it sounds like it is a problem worth highlighting when it isn't.
Meet Phoenix: A Rails-Like Framework for Modern Web Apps on Elixir
> you must explain why all civilizations collapse before colonizing the galaxy.

You're taking for granted that's it's possible and that we'll eventually make it (as does the Fermi paradox).

What if FTL travel is actually not possible? Or requires billions of years of technological advances? That would also explain why nobody has visited. There's no proof that it IS possible (we'll know for sure once we actually build an FTL-capable ship).

I hope I'm wrong, but my main point is: nobody's questioning the initial statements of the paradox, and they might not be accurate.
How much are you willing to pay for it?
This is a good generalized process for getting better at anything, but it's still awfully subjective and squishy once you try to apply it to a given domain. How do you `Identify what it means to be good`? How exactly do you `Deliberately practice`? How do you assess your strengths and weaknesses? How do you find someone more experienced? How do you know that experience has given them good lessons?

Answering all those questions for a given domain is how we have so many articles like this. Everyone has their own take, and it can be useful to look at others' so you can compare it to your own.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110871/

"Currently available evidence indicates that electronic cigarettes are by far a less harmful alternative to smoking and significant health benefits are expected in smokers who switch from tobacco to electronic cigarettes."
That's a very good point, thanks for sharing!

I will take a look into this because this sounds very interesting. I am new to "this" though, so it will take me some time to figure out how to implement this into, perhaps, a v2.0, but I'm surely taking up the challenge to learn more about this, so thank you for the tip!
I remember when YouTube was bought by Google, they put aside $1B in a similar fashion to weather any legal troubles coming their way.
> Edited to add that I quit tobacco ~7 years ago using chantix, which I totally recommend. Unfortunately my mental ilnesses have become harder to deal with over the same period.

I learned from someone here (about 4 months ago [1]) that nicotine is not so addictive by itself. It is the combination of MAOI-like chemicals in tobacco that makes it hard for smokers to quit. MAOI's were the "first generation" anti-depressants. They were reasonably effective, but caused high blood pressure when combined with fine aged cheese.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12527585

No new drugs are needed to help "schizophrenics", the industry just needs to implement what's already known. For example, niacinamide [2] is a form of Vitamin B-3 that many people find helps reduce their need for tobacco. It is structurally similar to nicotine.

[2] https://purebulk.com/niacinamide-powder/
>besides the robots will be driving for us shortly.

Maybe in California. Up here in Canada, "the robots" are still paralyzed by the snowy roads that cover the huge majority of our roadways in the winter. I suspect that this is also true in large parts of Europe.
That's the kind of choice left when "You like your Doctor/Plan, you can keep them" comes to fruition. It's also hard to afford better plans when the $2500 a year in savings turns into $2500 a year more in premiums... and then you have to pay thousands in deductibles before you can even "use" your insurance.

Oh yeah... the Government Option is a real winner.

Wait... I know... lets go to the VA model where people aren't dying... while on waiting lists... and the administration spends millions on Bonuses, Art Work and Vacations.

Lack of choice? That's from lack of ACTUAL 'free market competition'.

Taking away more choice and removing more competition isn't the way to solve the problem caused by removing choice and competition.

The worst thing you can hear? I'm from the Government and I'm here to help.
> extrapolate the popular vote over the rest of the non voting population isnt fair

I don't know what you mean by "fair", but the non-voting population has much less influence over politics than the ones who vote. Regardless, we have surveys showing the opinions of non-voters and Trump, at least a couple weeks ago, was at record levels of unpopularity among Presidents-elect.

But I don't see how it's relevant to the point, which is that elected officials are compelled to and do respect the opinions of voters.
I don't disagree with the the underlying points, but I do think it's hard to take a full stock of something like this. Workplaces as places where people work is a fairly big piece of culture to just change.

It's clearly true that work can be done elsewhere, but that doesn't mean workplaces are something we can just abandon and leave everything else the same. Imagine if a parliament decided they didn't need to see each-other in person. The whole system would be different.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't get a remote job. Maybe whole companies should be built this way from the ground up. Companies are cultures of a sort, with their fair share of cultural pathologies. Being in physical proximity is one of the ways companies function culturally, at present. All these things will need to be resolved some other (probably cultural) way for companies to function remotely.
Because someone who chewed nicotine gum got a cyst we should ban vaping in offices? I'm not sure I follow.
Obama spent 2122 days as president. Trump has been president for less than 3 full days so far.

It may turn out that you're correct, but there's not enough data to make a meaningful comparison yet.
This is pretty cool news to be sure. About time we had an administration in line with modern tech reality.
Not sure about Santa Barbara, but many areas at about that latitude get frequent sever storms with hail.
I would read the fable, The Ant and the Grasshopper.
Because it goes against the leftist portrayal of Trump as being racist. So they remain silent.
True, but being healthier than smoking is not exactly a high bar.

If you must take nicotine as a nootropic, take it orally. Vaping is much more addictive than letting a 2mg lozenge slowly dissolve. Relative addictiveness of different ROAs is directly correlated with how quickly the drug takes effect, and when you vape the nicotine hits your bloodstream within seconds.

Also I can't mention enough that if you take an MAOI you should stay far away from nicotine.
Lol um... I use Blogger as my platform right now. I'm going to be doing a migration to SunSed soon. I don't think it really matters these days. I guess they might think I'm impatient, because I refuse to spend hours and hours maintaining WP!
I would like to expand on atroyn's reply:
Every choice you ever make is self-reinforcing.

If you choose to do the "right" thing or the "wrong" thing in any given moment, that will reinforce your tendency to either persevere or to give up, in the future.

So while some moments of decision may seem more important than others (with obvious / immediate consequences), these moments are in fact all supremely important.

Over time these decisions solidify into habits and character traits. Ultimately, they will determine your fate in life.
His statement suggests they lost a trademark war.