skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was expected and means less than it might look like. All the holdover US Attorneys were asked to resign last week --- that's not unusual in a change-of-control election. Bharara refused to resign, in order to pick a fight and get into the news cycle.
You are quick to dismiss the argument in every way possible, including ad hominem attacks, but you failed to actually try to comprehend it. Just as you failed to try to verify your ad hominem attack about my mathematical ignorance. (Here is a hint. People whose expertise comes from quoting "hipster blogs and wikipedia" usually can't turn around and point to things like http://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8080/bitstream/handle/1828/277... as evidence that they actually know some math.)

But let's move on to the critical point. You said this:

The real numbers are not accessible to in a "reality" way. They lie fully in the realm of arcane mathematics. Like many other things do.

You are lecturing me on the nature of the nature of existence of things which cannot be described or verified by any process that can be carried out or imagined by any process that can exist in our universe. In a discussion about whether we should accept any existence for such things. And are failing to address the point that assuming axioms that lead to the conclusion of existence is an entirely unprovable assumption!

Do you see the obvious problem here?
The ingenuity of some people coming with titles is uncanny!
Decidedly anecdotal: Not the OP but I am brown like Indian with a non-Muslim name and have never had any extra scrutiny at security, except for one "random" screening on my boarding pass that involved some TSA swab check. I am a citizen, but I haven't heard of any non-citizen family friends or relatives that have expressed anything out of the ordinary.
I'm not an expert in either of these areas (VR or depression), but after reading this I began to wonder if virtual reality could somehow provide a solution or at least mitigate the effects of a jet lagged traveler and/or a person suffering from depression by 'normalizing' their circadian rhythm.
A product manager's superpower: seeing things people miss
> decimal positive binary numbers

Make up your mind.
I meant next for me, but yea, you're right.
there are some really great ones listed in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/31qe8n/what_is_t...
I know about LIGO, but ...

Can LIGO "see" only upwards or it can "see" downwards too? Neutrinos can pass though the Earth because they only interact with week force and gravity, and both have a very small coupling. Can "gravitons" pass though Earth?

As someone noticed in an comment a few months ago, there is no experimental evidence of the gravitons and no complete theory about them, but I think it's a good guess.

So, in other words, the minute contracting and expanding of space inside the Earth while the gravitational waves pass though it must interact with any particle with mass. The coupling is weak, but there are plenty of them. So some of the energy of the waves will be dissipated as heat inside the Earth. How much of the energy of the waves is lost while passing though the Earth?
As you probably know, the vast majority of Indians are not Sikh, and it's not clear that they assume Indians of other religions are Muslim as well.
Python – How to Tell If a Function Has Been Called
Show HN: Port scan audibilizer and visualizer
Silicon Valley, Where Mass Transit Goes to Die (2013)
Yes. Cougars (mountain lions) are a thing where i live. Also bear, black and brown. It is an extreemly rare event for anyone to be harmed, but i do run into bear regularly in the summer.
> After the funds were transferred to Panama, a family member withdrew those funds from Bank Leumi in the form of bank drafts or non-negotiable instruments, to avoid violating disclosure laws on the movement of funds into the country.

Bank Leumi figured big time in the crash of iBill, they took the money of a lot of merchants and never paid it out.
> Anecdata is that cheating, and getting away with it is somewhat common, and not frowned on by society.

It depends. The Left, for example, thinks it's perfectly fine for the illegal immigrants, home workers, people selling "loosies" on the street, etc, to have cash business and evade income taxes.

But if a wealthy person--even through legal means--minimizes his taxes, that's bad!

In my opinion, the little and the big tax cheat (here this means only people breaking the law, not those taking advantage of it) are equally "bad" and should be punished equally.
He's in disagreement with himself.

See point #3: https://steveblank.com/2012/05/14/9-deadliest-start-up-sins/
US contest draws Swiss competitors
Does democracy make people happy?
Driverless vehicles gain momentum
I worked for an internet startup in 1999 that was acquired by a Big Company. There was no "family" or "ethnic" ties between anyone. I was on the technical side, but the accounting side was very corrupt. When I pointed out that the logging reports they wanted were misleading, I was told by the CFO that "there's no need to be pedantic here."
Should robots be taxed for stealing jobs?
Deploying FreeBSD on Linode automatically in minutes
Windows 95 and 98 worked pretty well with alternative shells. I think originally the option was there just so users could run the classic 3.x shell (progman.exe I think it was called) but it was pretty trivial to write you own ones; as I often did when I was bored.

You couldn't do much to change the title bars et al though.
The article's title (not the HN title) says: "the sleep
schedule is making you sick".

That is blatantly untrue. For a large part of the population it is not, and even the content of the article acknowledges that.
Many ravers dont drink or use drugs. They are high on the energy associated with staying ot dancibg all night, exactly like the all-night bike rides in the OP.
There's a couple of reasons. One is that it's a term with a history of being used in a pejorative manner. In cases like this, adjectival forms e.g. Jewish person are preferred over noun forms e.g. Jew.

Another problem is neither "Jew" nor "Jewish" is particularly precise. For instance, in America, it typically refers to someone of Ashkenazi extraction, not a believer in Judaism.
On my keyboard at least, if I long press % it uses the other one, and it's hard to notice when proofreading.
Given our experience with actual simulators, the fact is that simulating a world populated with intelligent beings capable of simulating another world, going into a recursive loop, requires infinite processing capacity.

My guess is that simulation indistinguishable from reality is never going to happen because it isn't possible, having nothing to do with how evolved we are.
I'll accept the who/whom complaint.

As another poster has said, your point 2 is not a universally agreed rule.
See
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001874.h...

Your point 3 is totally valid, I assumed you were quoting a wannabe noun phrase. I wasn't paying enough attention.
I have to disagree with this, I purposely hate it when applicants put information on their resumes that should have no bearing on my hiring them. It actually makes me worried as then if I decide to not hire them what if they say 'oh it's because I was too old' and try to sue.

Same with photos, marriage status or anything else.

If I shouldn't be asking it in a interview then you shouldn't be putting on your resume.
I'm not surprised... Thanks for the suggestion.
I was trying to intentionally create an example that avoided any case where "vigilance" would have made a difference, but I guess I wasn't clear.

I don't know the age of your children, but speaking of them in a general sense (i.e. they'll still be "your child" until they're 18), I presume they will at some point go to a store on their own, take public transit, etc.? That is, they will be out in public without you, if just for a few minutes, and an adult will be able to just wander up to them and coerce them. Homeschooling doesn't do much to stop this; only bubble-boy paranoia can (and even then...)

But really, even then, people can still break into your home. (Or, as I said, hit your house with their car.) You'd have to live in a bunker.
Yes in the UK 'candy' means what you would call 'hard candy' (although most people would probably use the term 'boiled sweet' instead), and what you would call 'candy' we call 'sweets'. A 'chocolate bar' is any sweet enrobed in chocolate.
In chrome, right click on the tab and click mute.

Annoying that it is hidden though.
How Trump and Bannon Could Automate Populism
Thank god someone got it. Toyota Production system talks about exactly the same thing. It's the manager's job to make sure everything is running on time.
The issue is that there's more and more information put online by someone wanting to get something out of it - and for the absolute minority who are putting stuff up without expectation of direct return, it's easier to use a proprietary service than learn HTML.
"Using hydro for mining means more fossil fuel must be burned"

Not necessarily. More renewables being used usually means more investments in renewable power are made.
> I will publish a clean dataset along with my analysis once it is done.

I would be happy to add it to the torrent once you're done. :) The more cleaned datasets the better.
Spain has this issue. It is in the wrong timezone, which the government changed in the 1940s. Consequently it stays light until 6:30pm in winter. In mountainous regions such as Picos de Europa, towns in the valleys do have kids catching schoolbuses in near darkness at 8:30am. As a traveller I found the experience surreal. Although, we put the clocks forward an hour leading up to the 2000 Olympics so construction workers could work longer.
Some of these synthetic opiates are a bit terrifying. There are some research chemicals available that are hundreds or thousands of times more potent than fentanyl and they're still technically legal.

It's so hard to work with these that even the drug boards say it's suicide to try to work with them without a clean room and a hazmat suit. If you inhale just a little bit of the drug dust in the air it will kill you.

It's gotten to the point where some of these respiratory depressant drugs can be used as a chemical weapon if inhaled.

For instance:

Heroin = 2.5x potency of morphine

Hydromorphone = 7.5x potency of morphine

Fentanyl = 120x potency of morphine

Carfentanyl = 5000x to 7500x the potency of morphine

Methoxyacetylfentanyl = 30,000x the potency of morphine

A lethal dose of Methoxyacetylfentanyl is so small it's not even visible to the naked eye. Some powdered methoxyacetylfentanyl released from a drone over a crowd would be disastrous.
I wish they clarified whether this claim that humans have a 5.1% error rate is in "listen to this sentence once and transcribe it" or "study this recording however you like and transcribe it."

edit: They talk about this in the arxiv paper:

>The transcription protocol that
was agreed upon was to have three independent transcribers
provide transcripts which were quality checked by a fourth senior transcriber. All four transcribers are native US English speakers and were selected based on the quality of their work on past transcription projects.

>...The transcription time was estimated at 12-14 times realtime (xRT) for the first pass for Transcribers 1-3 and an additional 1.7-2xRT for the second quality checking pass (by Transcriber 4). Both passes involved listening to the audio multiple times: around 3-4 times for the first pass and 1-2 times for the second.
Interesting. I worked for a company that did retail speech recognition in the late 90s, I should look up how much that cost in comparison to see how the economics are shaking out.
> When weed was legalized

That is far less dangerous than opiates; I don't think it's comparable.
If your VP is unwilling to pitch in to help team members they aren't much of a leader. If they can't do design work their job is to find someone who can help.
Please link to your new updated resume, I want to make sure we set you up for success.

And if you haven't made a new resume yet then please commit to a date to do that by and tell us....and yes I am pushing you.
Are you sure? Daily standups = checking up on you every 8 hours, and then you have tons of checkups in-between. Retros, sprint planning, ticket management. Agile methodology is designed for a tech lead to know what each member of the team is doing.

Agile methodology is not "here's a large task, I don't want to hear from you again until it's completed".
We're better off the way things are, when compared to before. I'm not saying things are perfect, or even good, but we're definitely better than before.

You complain about ads, but think about what they enable. How many times do you use google per day? It lives off ads. Do you use any social network? They live off ads.

Ads are certainly not the best way for us to obtain those kind of commodities, but between having them and not having anything I still choose them.
Are you saying that the Syrian "community" mentioned in this article are not followers of Judaism? I did not know that...I had assumed that the different "sects" of "Jews" were similar to the different sects of Islam or Christianity: in that they differed in certain beliefs, but still considered themselves as Muslim or Christians.
That was my experience with agile. So, on earth in software companies :). But theoretically, agile methodologies I studied were about team responsibility.

"Some say that teams are self-organizing and that you succeed or fail as a team"

That is opposite of personal responsibility. There is very little space for making individual decisions and being responsible for them. If you like, you can force your vision, but whole team will be responsible if it was wrong - not you. If you like, you submissively accept other peoples opinions and it will still be the same thing accountability vise.

"I think everybody understands that that later part doesn't mean you can just come in and stare at the walls all day with no consequences."

No you can not and that is good thing. However, it is totally different then case described in the article where employee had to manage own long term tasks without any supervision at all. Article implies that employee was responsible for communicating delays without anyone actively asking about it.

"If someone is "checking up on you every four hours" it's almost 100% certain that whatever process you're using has absolutely nothing to do with "agile"."

Tasks are supposed to be split into small tasks of maximum of half day length, you report on them as you go, there is daily standup and progress is supposed to be evaluated every week.
He clearly stated this more than once.
LeMay almost started WWIII. I don't think he's a good example in this context.

I'm in the "tone deaf management bullshit" camp. It starts with the assumption that your people are basically incompetent losers and it's up to you to stomp around and whip them into shape.

It doesn't work in most areas, and it especially doesn't work in software dev.

If your people aren't acting like responsible professionals, either your culture is broken, or you're hiring the wrong people for the wrong reasons - or both.

Given the chance most adult professionals will be adult and professional. Some will even take pride in doing a good job.

If that's not happening, unprofessional management won't fix it.
-1 Netlify

I found the netlify was slower than github pages and surge.sh according to google's speed tests.

Netlify also wants complete access to your github account. You either need to make a separate account or give them access to all of your repos.
AWS is highly inefficient to mine Bitcoins. A 4-GPU EC2 instance will mine less than $0.50 per year(!)

Realistically the proportion of miners who steal power is likely very small, as in one or two percentage points.
Fentanyl is commonly sold in place of heroin with 'spacers' that are (hopefully) non-active compounds like talc or something else to mimic the difference in mass between fentanyl and heroin. Or heroin is 'boosted' by adding fentanyl to make it seem more potent/pure.

The problem with fentanyl is the dosage is in the micro-gram range which is why so many opiate addicts die from it. You simply can't gauge the dosage with such a powerful compound with any sort of accuracy.
Window Maker was my first encounter with virtual desktops and since I started using it I can no longer imagine working efficiently without virtual desktops. Was Window Maker the first manager that had virtual desktops?
It is if you allow for rotation of the hands as well as rotating the entire clock itself. If a clock showing 6:00 is rotated 90 degrees you get horizontal hands. Similarly for rotating a clock that shows 3:00 or 9:00.
i wonder if this post demonstrates a sort of nihilism.
I think it is a shame for America. In a state governed by fair laws, people should not fear arbitrar individual decisions. This fear concerns the non us travelers, but this fear is more and more present for us citizen (for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE). This fear is the symptom of a broken democracy.
If you aren't afraid of losing your job, you either work for the government or have a strong union.

For the rest of us, setting clear expectations produces the opposite of fear, it gives you confidence in what you are expected to do.
Indeed, "some" do. Also, some would have you take your Blame America First group-think elsewhere instead of shitting up HN with it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/ is fun, but can be a bit hard to follow if you're not well versed in the field.
For some on the world it's today.
Well as I said in my disclaimer, that would be the case for some. But I promise you it was only a minority of those who attended the club's I used to DJ at for the 10 years I was actively involved in the clubbing scene in the UK and mainland Europe.

Most people there weren't sober. But who cares what adults get up to as long as they respect one another. :)

You also cannot understate just how significant the effect music has on one's mood. I'd wager that alone would have a more significant affect than sleep deprivation alone. Plus exercise releases endorphins too

So I really don't think raving is a good example here since there's a multitude of other significant and well studied effects also at play.
No of course not. The whole problem that Steve is talking about here stinks of mismanagement of some sort tho, that isn't really fixed by telling people "stop giving me excuses on delivery day". Something is wrong with the whole organization, but he isn't able to figure it out, so he's telling people to put up or shut up. He's attacking the symptom, not the cause.

Read on the Toyota Production System for alternative solutions.
I do realize this, and agree that a saner drug policy is to legalize them and regulate them rather than the prohibition we have today. My point is that between the time we can get to that point, and now, a lot of people are going to end up dead unnecessarily and that they are worth trying to save. Sometimes this sort of 'look how horrible it is' type of article can help with that.
North Korea confirms “Time Cube” is real
Count me in. 1 month of insomnia and I'm googline for a safe way to go to heaven.
Does anyone know of an HN client that works well with Voiceover?
As someone unfamiliar with the terminology, are the speakers isolated in single tracks, or is there a mix on each channel and due to the differences in relative volume, the system is able to distinguish speakers? The latter seems tremendously valuable if difficult to accomplish.
/r/mistyfront ... subreddit where a bot posts top posts of other subreddits. Very varied, good content.

/r/tulpas ... People who try to make a sentient being inside their mind using practice and self hypnosis. I don't really follow it, but it's a weird and cool idea not many people know about, and it seems to work for some people.
A Turing Machine Implemented in Conway's Game of Life
Sorry, I incorrectly assumed you were in medicine so the whole "this is all based on B.S. data" would have been self-evident.

The data from which the peer-reviewed empirical studies is flawed. I know, because I am the data. I -- and almost every other surgical resident I know -- routinely falsifies their work hours. Why we do this is a _long_ topic for another thread.

Please confirm with your local surgical resident; if you can find her. ;-)
Equitorial regions also have light on December mornings, given that their days don't vary much throughout the year.
How, specifically, is the OC Weekly having access to your GPS / ICBM coordinates useful to you?

As for my generally excellent sense of geographic location, I make no apologies.
My oldest will soon be thirty.

I fundamentally do not agree with you. My sons were raised with real agency and genuine respect from the get go. They did not cave to bullying by adults, even as children. When away from me in public school, they inferred that they were entitled to enforce the standards I had set at home and they were not inclined to take shit off anyone.

This is not an argument you will "win" with me.

Suffice it to say that I acknowledge that I am fortunate to have had latitude and insight that many parents do not have. I try like hell to not blame other parents when they fail and, instead, to empower them to do better. But my children are grown, I know the results of my handiwork and I basically am a kickass parent.

We should probably just end this discussion here. No one ever wants to believe that any parent can meet the standard I consistently set for myself as a parent.
And libertarian-ism!
I agree with the sentiment, but with a slightly different angle. I think one of the things that made the early Internet interesting was that it was populated almost exclusively by enthusiasts (geeks, artists, etc) with little commercial motivation. Stuff was quirky and interesting. Today's Internet is a fantastic platform for commerce. I'd be very sad to see it go, but I also think there's a need for the weird old quirky net we had before marketing took over. What I'd like to see is the emergence of a new enthusiast network that's inherently difficult and inconvenient to commercialize alongside the existing net. One is good for getting eyes on content and marketing stuff, which is important, and the other is good for just putting up whatever you find interesting simply because you want to. When I want to buy something I'll use what we have now, but the other net would be more interesting to just browse around and share stuff on.

I think IPFS [1] or something similar might have the potential to resurrect the geek net. IPFS with a distributed mesh network infrastructure seems like it would be slow, inconvenient for commerce, and probably attractive only to the kind of people that made the early net interesting, especially with the current net as competition.

1. https://ipfs.io
I don't think this is anymore a valid concern. From the Wayland FAQ:

"How can I replace Wayland's Window Manager?

The Wayland architecture integrates the display server, window manager and compositor into one process. You can think of Wayland as a toolkit for creating clients and compositors. It is not a specific single compositor or window manager. If you want a different window manager, you can write a new one. A 'libweston' effort is underway in order to allow new environments to reuse Weston's codebase and mechanics, whilst providing their own look and feel."

And here's a list of "alternative" WMs already in progress for Wayland/Weston: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland#Window_managers...
i thought the radio feature played a fixed set of five random songs over and over and over.
/r/enlightenedbirdmen/ VS v/r/MadMudmen/
Two communities locked in an eternal battle
Does it really surprise anyone?
Talking about Conway's. I've seen a small talk by Nicolas Schabanel about gliders with DNA bricks. Quite madenning.
No, it's not falsifiable. Santa Claus is actually more believable since there are many children who can swear they've seen him.