skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the points the article relies on is ego depletion which as a theory is coming into question because of issues with replication

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/07/31/en...

The other point seemed to be about how willpower alone will eventually cave in so other strategies like interpersonal bargaining will be required as well. That's not really news. I think we all knew that already. For example we wouldn't tell a recovering alcoholic to hang out in a bar where everyone is drinking and rely on will power alone. We also tell alcoholics to think of the benefits of not drinking and weight that against drinking. That does not show that willpower is useless or has no place, but that it's a part of a strategy to overcome addictions or build good habits.
I like how he doesn't get around to actually suggesting that you get rid of Facebook.
I disagree. I want to select with the mouse and touch type with the keyboard.

And "doing it faster" is never a concern. As a programmer I write about 5% of what I could type in the same time as a secretary or accountant. Most of the work is thinking.

Plus, the occasional chance to get your hands off of the rigid (and carpal tunnel inducing) pose on the keyboard and move them to the mouse, or vice versa, is welcome.

I don't want to replicate things the mouse does better with keyboard shortcuts, or suffer "modal" input-modes in my programs.
I personally would, because learning less tools is great.

I've had some problem applying this principle when using tmux locally on a system with i3. You kinda need to be consistent in which of the 2 you use to create new shell windows.
It's a comic that oversimplifies philosophical arguments and (often) makes fun of them.
Equinox is the one I was looking at.
Wow Thanks so much!
> 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, an Allwinner A64 ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core processor with Mali-400MP2 graphics, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of eMMC storage

Nothing about that affects what I said.

> What kind of a public would this laptop have?

Before getting my current libreboot X60, my workhorse was an OLPC XO-1: 7.5" screen @ 1200x900, 433MHz AMD Geode CPU with integrated graphics, 256MB RAM and 1GB onboard storage. That sounds like a similar sort of spec, and it served me very well for many years; the battery life and sunlight-readable screen were especially nice, as I could use it while sat in the local park.

> With those specs you can barely run a web browser.

Web browsers have been around for decades; I'm sure it's fine for accessing information (the original intent of the Web). Maybe it can't run the latest bloatware, or support spying/ad platforms like Facebook, but I'd count that as a feature ;)
The name clashes with a well known anime movie, which also uses CGI. Maybe change the name of this engine?
> Facial recognition software can only recognize you if your face is already in the database and identified as you.

Right, which is exactly what would happen if law enforcement/governments could access FB's database.
California is a shining example?! You're talking about the California that had to write IOUs to its state employees a few years ago, right? The California that in 2015 spent $1462/person more than it received? (Spending was $6451/person, so California overspent its budget by 22%!) [1] The California that has two of those unaffordable coastal cities mentioned earlier? The California where school teachers in the Bay Area can't afford to live in the Bay Area? The California that is mining water faster than it is being replenished to grow almonds in a semi-desert? The California that had 34% of US welfare cases in 2012 but only has 12% of the population? [2]

It's really easy for things like social services to look good when you overspend your budget by 22%!

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/California_state_budget_and_finances

[2] http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sdut-welfa...
Give them a task that you know is going to be extremely challenging for them, and tell them that they are the only one you know can handle something so important in such an urgent amount of time. Push their skills to the limit and let them back a sweat over it. It's good for the company and everyone involved no matter what the outcome. Get creative. They can't possibly know it all, remind them.
I've worked as an SDE at two of the big five tech companies. By far the most common route to getting a first job at these companies is to start with a college internship and continue from there. Basically with only a high school education you wouldn't get an interview, and I'd say pre-university work experience is not too important in the application process either. I'd recommend focusing on your studies first - take the time to learn about graphics or AI or some topic that interests you and will help you succeed in university. You can worry about getting a job afterwards. Personally I had small jobs making web pages before college but the first programming jobs on my resume were with scientific research groups at university.
>This strongly suggests

Do you mean that that single example constitutes strong evidence of your claim, or merely that it seems to support an opinion which is strongly held?
Credit scores are percentiles. It's mathematically impossible for the effect of taking an attribute into account to only lower sores or leave them the same. So, you could just as easily have said that they raise scores based on who is or is not in your friends list.
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J.S.G. Boggs, artist and trickster, has died
WireGuard: Next Generation Secure Kernel Network Tunnel
>Because you can't enjoy things when you're dead, and we've seen in history that inheritance leads to aristocracy, social instability, and mass destruction.

No, passing resources from generation to generation is not what leads to "mass destruction", etc. Familial/generational resources have been the sustenance of almost all free humans since time immemorial. They would live on tribal [read: familial] lands for their entire existence, cooperatively sharing the wealth to ensure that the needs of family members were supplied.

We're still dependent on generational wealth for the first couple decades of our lives at a minimum, and there's no reason to cut it off there except a) jealousy that some people are able to do so; and b) a desire to lessen the interdependent bonds between sympathetic family members and strengthen the dependency on the cold, hard creditors, standing at the ready to collect interest and increase the cost of all durable goods by 1.5x-3x.

The fact that some things, like thrones and other official positions, may not be good fits for straight inheritance models doesn't mean that all inheritance is evil or that parents shouldn't be allowed to provide a resource pool that will persist after their deaths.

I hope that I can leave an estate that provides for the housing and basic needs of my children and grandchildren and I fully intend on passing it down to them. This has nothing to do with "aristocracy, social instability, and mass destruction", and the claim that it does is plain class hostility.
I've come to a hypothesis that technology's purpose is to gently erode the concept of "self"

Exactly, although it's being done in a roundabout and non-obvious way. There are millions of tech folks, all (in my mind) honestly trying to create technology to empower folks to do things they've never done before.

But the beauty of tech is generalization, creating cookie-cutter choices. Everything we do, and in ever way we interact with tech, it's more and more leading us down pre-canned behavioral pathways. Even when completely unintended, the place where tech is taking us unless we drastically change our ways is something like the commodification of the species. It's a freaking horror show.

The Borg are going to go from sci-fi super villains to an accurate description of our great-grandkids in just a generation. Amazing.

Will the last human please go outside and do something unique?
Hm... I think this post is trying to solve a different problem.

Markdown solves the problem of having content (paragraphs, lists) syntax free.

This post:

> What if you had to write a language where you can make mistakes, but there are no errors? Where your parser just silently accepts anything you give it. Where you'll have to carefully compare your intentions to the parsed output to figure out what went wrong.

> Do you write HTML?

> What I just described was how browsers handle HTML. They will happily accept anything you give them and try their best to make sense of it. They could swap out element places, change attributes, or do whatever if there's a typo in your code.

Looks like they're trying to make make an easy-to-write HTML for all HTML, not just content.
Inside the reactor building where it belongs, so nobody is in danger outside of the reactor building. Headline could be clearer.
Nope, not sarcastic. I understand that my comment might sound like a parody to folks that share the sentiment of the article author.
No snuff films are not legal and trying to scew that as crime scene evidence or documentary evidence to try and find the culprit is a logical leap so far fetched that I doubt your sincerity in having a rational discussion on this issue.
The real issue is that no one actually cares about others. We're all pretending like we're trying to find the best system to give everyone equal opportunity and a better quality of life, but in practice this is not happening.

Government serves itself, and voters serves themselves.

This is true of Trump and it would have been true of Hilary.

There, I just laid down the whole truth, now what? Can we really escape our human condition?
This was the problem. There weren't decent hobbyist dev options for either the Amiga or the ST until 1987, 88. At launch time (84 for ST, 85 for Amiga) there wasn't much at all. And so those machines didn't get the same kind of enthusiast love that the C64 etc. did. _So many_ of the software studios of the 80s got their start among hobbyists on 8 bit machines.
I'm archiving as we speak. Will eventually make its way into the Wayback Machine.
Regardless, the only way to know if it was a statistically fair setup is to have: 1) the rankings of all playings in the tournament, and 2) the algorithm used to match players.

If 2) matches players of similar ratings against eachother, and she is more similar in rating to women than men, then I don't see what the fuss is all about.
Terrorism is a murderous act. "Guns" is not.
That wouldn't affect line count.
Funny you mention that. I tried i3 last year but quickly realized I already have the good parts in tmux.

I am now trying to simplify my workflow by only using tmux and emacs. It's minimal and works on almost any system I log into.
I use screen, and in my book the choice of ^A for the default escape is a giant WTF, and remapping that is the first thing I do on a new account before starting to use screen (I use ^o, for no particular reason I suppose except it's not used by anything else I use). Don't the screen developers ever need to go to the beginning of a line in the shell or editor?
https://docs.nativescript.org/runtimes/android/advanced-topi...

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your concern, but it doesn't look like js allocates for the actual object just a proxy for the java.
A typo (in all likelihood) for either SSNs or "Social Numbers".
Yes. You can die.
It really sucks that this game doesn't have the ability to make custom levels. I thought this game was really cute and well made.
Maybe OT, but this helped me understand the concept of coercing an idea.
The format itself is not complex, but recovering the transaction is (very much). So better make sure to leave it clean.
Go is also a fair bit easier to get newcomers up to speed on.
> I didn't miss it, I deplore it. True "defense in depth" puts all civil rights aside. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin.

It seems, then, that the part you're missing is that in authoritarianism the authoritarians are the government? The entire concept of civil rights in general and privacy in particular is as a defense against a bad government.

> Citizens fight back. The outcome that tyrants dearly wish for is a population that simply doesn't care, or that can be frightened into submission. It's my hope that we're not that population.

Except that you didn't object to Facebook having all your information, so when the jackboots march in and seize their servers, they get everything they need to know to identify anyone with the inclination to resist and can dispose of them before they can organize.
Some important distinctions of the statements made in this article have been published by the Safecast team, who have been independently measuring radiation levels in this area for years: http://blog.safecast.org/2017/02/no-radiation-levels-at-fuku...
"Willpower" is the thing people supposedly have when there is something that is "very hard" to want to do in the moment (or very hard to resist doing), but they still manage to make the "better" choice in the moment anyway.

"Willpower" isn't usually used to refer to ways to plan the context of your decision outside of the "very hard", tempted-to-give-in timescale, so that the temptation to give in is lessened (i.e. the decision is no longer "very hard.")

Of course, you're still correct in a sense: it requires willpower to even take the steps to work on your life to fix problems. This is the point of prescribing antidepressants to depressed people: usually the drugs themselves aren't enough to fix someone's life, but they give them the boost they need to start fixing their life (by attending therapy sessions, getting out of bad relationships/jobs, etc.)
> There is no application that has a 30 years lifespan.

You literally made me "chuckle out loud".
But there are very few people in the world who make it their business to lie and cheat every day.

Actually there are quite a lot of them.
Yep, exactly my experience. I love React Native but if your not used to the Javascript style of million's dependencies your in for a world of pain.

It's critical to spend more time vetting third party React Native/Javascript libraries as the quality level varies way more than with native libraries.

As a native developer I hadn't spent a lot of time working deeply with npm. One thing to be careful about when saving packages to your project is the use of ^ versus ~. See:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22343224/whats-the-differ...

" the tilde matches the most recent minor version (the middle number). ~1.2.3 will match all 1.2.x versions but will miss 1.3.0.

The caret, on the other hand, is more relaxed. It will update you to the most recent major version (the first number). ^1.2.3 will match any 1.x.x release including 1.3.0, but will hold off on 2.0.0."

Considering the volatility of some third party Javascript libraries, this can cause quite a bit of pain.

It's worth doing the following in your home directory add save-prefix=~ to your .npmrc and all npm install's in the future will automatically add ~ instead of ^
By far the most interesting game in this genre (somewhat broadly interpreted) is Robozzle. Some of the puzzles made by contributors there are just pure genius.
Clinton strongly favors free trade and mass immigration. You could despise Trump yet vote for him if you think those trends are sufficiently harmful, because the only signals you could add to this election were Clinton, Trump, and Don't Care.
You'll be OK. The first answer now is about the link between SQLite and the Airbus A350 but even if that wouldn't be the case... Make regular dumps in plain SQL [0] and the data will survive changes in the architecture of your host system and even to the end of SQLite. In the worst case you'll have to write a script to upload them to any db we'll be using by then. Or the db will look at the file and figure what to do with it :-)

[0] Command .dump a https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html
corruption is unlikely here (famous last words) and if it happens, it should be generally recoverable (data copied over several places and versioned so that accidental corruption can be rolled back)
Ah understood. In that case, I'll echo the comments below - I would choose SQLite to preserve data relationships with automated dumps to plain text (maybe JSON? Something parseable, anyway), since I can't imagine utf8-encoded text going obselete to the point where no programs exist that can read in the foreseeable future.
Pretty cool. This is the first time I looked at the blockchain and his explanation was immediately understandable.

Having said that, he mentioned that everyone has a copy of the blockchain. So, is that really true? Wouldn't "everyone" be overwhelmed by the number of blocks?

Is there a specific example where blockchain is used, other than bitcoin?
I could just as well be hit by a car tomorrow but I don't worry about that.

I don't "worry" about getting hit by a car every day, either. But still I always look both ways before crossing a street. Even one-way streets.
Three books I tend to re-read every 3-8 years are: Farmer in the Sky[1], The Chrysalids[2] and Dune[3][4]. Read them as a teenager and thirty years later still re-read.

Others I’ve re-read recently are:

* Camouflage [5]

* The Green And the Gray [6]

* The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August [7]

* The Martian [8]

* I Am Not A Serial Killer series [9]

I plan to re-read in the near future:

* Touch [10]

* The Hollow City [11]

* Pulling Up Stakes [12]

Yes, I read a lot. [13]

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[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50851.Farmer_in_the_Sky

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826845.The_Chrysalids

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1000049.Dune

[4] Only the first book in the series. Really disliked all the rest. Last couple of times I’ve listened to the Audible audiobook version which is excellent.

[5] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21607.Camouflage

[6] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216455.The_Green_And_the...

[7] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18295861-the-first-fifte...

[8] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian

[9] https://www.goodreads.com/series/49883-john-cleaver

[10] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23561543-touch

[11] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13034956-the-hollow-city

[12] https://www.goodreads.com/series/94696-pulling-up-stakes

[13] http://www.michevan.id.au/content/reading-habits-of-2015/
And since they gave away a free upgrade for the life of the device, at a considerable cost in terms of servers and bandwidth, it wasn't profiteering either.

Pro tip: when a for-profit company does something that appears to be uncharacteristically altruistic...

...Aw, heck, you know what? Never mind. Enjoy the garden.
Well, it's a French statue...

Also, it sounds awfully like "libertarian". Not a big fan.
This is one of the best write-ups of all time.

In a way, Python is foolproof C. (I am thinking about the syntactic stuff around indentation, braces, semicolons, which is what I mean it about. I think if you can code in both syntaxes, read the article carefully, and generousy try to follow what I am talking about, you know what I mean.)
That's why I have public dotfiles. Also this situation happens rarely. The whole beauty of software is that you can customize it and make it your own.

The only downside I see with customization is that it can be huge timesink.

I guess to each his own, but I think you're really missing out.

P. S.
Backups.
Facebook suggests a lot of people to me. Overwhelmingly they're people I don't recognize. Are you sure this isn't just confirmation bias making it seem like they're more successful than they really are? I'm not saying Facebook doesn't do some creepy things, but even at worst this is innocuous enough, and this has enough other really innocuous explanations that this would barely make me think twice.
I like a good podkast!
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I still prefer not using the mouse for a basic operation like scrolling, thank you.
only if you sold the compiler, and someone else stole it and sold the output without paying you, but go on, make some more lines in your reasoning.

you're all idiots.
One thing I've been doing is limiting my 'true discussions'¹ to ones where I can reasonably say that both parties are acting in the specific discussion like they would approximate the conditions required for Aumann's agreement theorem².

What follows is that every disagreement should be followed by new information. At the point where disagreements are close to "agree to disagree", I know that at least one of the two participants (either me or the other person) is not participating in an honest rational manner allowing me to note that the conversation should not be a means to inform myself. This is not an indictment of character. It's merely the nature of our minds that we are not always capable of usefully transmitting information to others.

Repeating the discussion with a sufficient number of people will allow me to consider whether I'm the poor partner or whether it's the other people.

Of course, the practice of this is somewhat removed from the description above, but I believe it's improved my ability to truth-find (judging by the degree to which my new opinions match reality) to even attempt this approach, even in a flawed manner. I _am_ doing better on the market now, but naturally it's impossible to tell if that's because I'm more well-informed or if that's luck.

¹ discussions where I'm attempting to actually expand my knowledge, as opposed to ones I'm participating in for social reasons

² people familiar with this will argue that you can't find people with the same priors as you, but is this really true? Shouldn't all rational agents arrive fully formed into the world void of any knowledge? If so, all you have to accept is fully conditioning everyone's statements on their entire experience from birth. Fortunately, this shouldn't be terribly hard if you both otherwise meet these conditions: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/agree-econ.pdf
It it's an immediate decrease in output but they are planning on moving from 60 robots to 1000 robots in 2 years. so the 2 year expected capacity is 21,000,000 with a 5% defect rate vs. the 5,200,000 units with a 25% defect rate and wages/benefits for all those people.
Vim. Since it would be possible to do something like this:

:! sudo find / -name "python" -exec rm -rf {} \;
Your links provide more support than you comments regarding folklore. Other cultures are no stranger to superstitions, quack remedies, and non-scientific religious practices.

China has also progressed quite handily economically and technologically, areas that don't admit to too much reliance on things that don't work. Cautious skepticism isn't the same as out-of-hand dismissal.
Constructive discourse with rational minds wins and protects.

Do you suppose that the LGBT community ultimately won their rights through a patient campaign of engaging their opposition through debate clubs, paid advertisements and letters to the editor? Or through actions like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

The moment a police baton cracks your head is the moment you can be pretty sure that the time for "constructive discourse" -- and for patiently "asking" for your rights -- has ended.
Except that you do have a bunch of tagged photos with your friends in them, because they're your friends.

And the idea that someone who I haven't shared my photos with can still use them to tag me in other photos is not something that I would describe as a feature.
Look into proper IEMs, they're generally made for wearing on stage and tend to do a great job blocking out external noises.

I've got Shure SE535s for flying, they do a better job passively cancelling noise than any active "noise cancelling" headphones I've ever tried.
I expected this article to be with all the political garbage that is posted now that Trump is president.