skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe get a therapist and figure out what you actually want out of life first.

How do I keep up with so much stuff? I learn to set boundaries. If my company slack goes off at weird times and I dont want to deal with it, I turn notifications off.

I get up at 5AM to exercise. Then I do all the work that requires a fresh brain. Until 10AM tops. Then I read things I want to read. Then I babysit whoever needs babysitting at work. By 2PM I'm done with work. I could pretend to be busy until 7PM but I won't be productive anyway, so why pretend? If someone calls me out on it I show them the things I've built while they were putting in "longer hours".

The remaining hours, until 11pm can be spent whichever way I want.

Fitting your 1-4 into one schedule isnt difficult at all. You just have to learn to say no first.

Nobody in the world "needs" access to you 24/7. Not really. If you tell people that you are available during X hours, they will learn to communicate efficiently. It'll be painful at first. For both parties. But they will learn to deal with it after the third time they had to wait for a response for 20 hours because they tried to be inefficient again.

They will threaten you. Absolutely. The social norm is that you shit people tell you to do. Just don't do it. You'll be amazed.

The primary reason a startup consumes ALL your time is because the guy at the top, the CEO, is a 22 year old bumbling idiot who hides his inefficiency behind requiring his employees to be available to him at all times. Kick his butt a couple times and he will learn faster how to be a better boss.
Elon Musk pledges to fix South Australia’s energy issues in 100 days
Americans hold over $4.1 trillion in consumer debt
WSJ: H-1B Visas Keep Down U.S. Tech Wages, Study Shows
A Super Harsh Guide to Machine Learning
Recently related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13783189
Might not be open source, but household furniture in general: http://www.ana-white.com/plancatalog
Artificial data give the same results as real data without compromising privacy
Soon people will be "no platformed" off transit for political reasons.
See my comment above: it would allow more precise specification of a color by avoiding the need of indexing an implementation-dependent palette.
Maybe they were a little quieter back then or maybe they just liked me more? What can I say? :)
Hi, I have a question, probably a stupid question:
His cells have the same size as ours, so when he was weighting 1000 pounds, he must have something like 5 times the amount of cells of a "normal" person.
Where went those cells when he lost weight? Some of them (mostly skin) have been removed chirurgically as usually done in similar cases, but do you have any insight for cells in internal organs?
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Thanks for the info! It's a pity. I'd rather pay an extra for shipping when I preorder, in exchange for not having to worry about customs, as some Kickstarters do (or as Amazon does). Customs in my country are cumbersome and used to be unreliable (I have heard reports that they aren't that bad lately, but I still avoid them as knee-jerk reaction).
Sure, revocation lists are relatively small. But they need to be available to every server (replication), be proof against server/service restarts (durable), and checked with every request (highly performant). So, a good revocation list effectively requires a database. Not a trivial thing to implement yourself, and a weighty requirement for an otherwise stateless service.
I don't think this is too surprising for any person of color. For myself, I've learned that I have to plan 'extra ahead' in order to make sure I have time to correspond with multiple hosts, in order to work around the calendar being wrong or other 'reasons'. I've been cancelled too many times with Instant Book for 'reasons'.
I suppose if you have an altercation with a design you'll end up with alterations.
On the flip side, I've met a lot of programmers who decide to install Mongo or Redis to solve some data storage problem, and that works okay for a while, but they never stop and think what kind of data they actually have, how they're going to commonly access it, or what kind of trade-offs they're willing to make. This causes problems down the line (currently dealing with some right now) that could have been avoided entirely with a little theory.

I would argue that a bachelors or masters in computer science was not designed to produce programmers, in the same way that a degree in physics doesn't let you start building bridges. On the other, it's also hard to build bridges without physics.
Related paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
For number 2, you could expire them by encoding some identifier based off a hash or key tied to the user object. Change that object and have the server reject the token if that meta data no longer validates.
It's not that need an RFC standardized solution for everything, but I'd rather not roll my own anything related to crypto. Would something like crypto_auth(json(bag)) be better here?
(crypto_auth from libsodium, json being sorted without whitespace)
This article jumps straight from introduction to conclusion. Like, "there have been big issues in the past and the available algorithms are questionable because [missing part] so don't use it".

It hasn't quite convinced me.
Or shared memory: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5549190/is-shared-readonl...

(but it's a little hacky..)
Perhaps I did. When someone mentions religious people and anti-vaxxers in the same thought as people who expect to be mocked, it's difficult to not see some underlying scorn for religious people in there.

Also, religious people have been mocked, enslaved, imprisoned, tortured and killed en masse for what? 6000 years now?
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> Curve25519 is used for the asymmetric cryptography role, using the relatively new elliptic curve cryptography. It’s stronger cryptography and the keys are much smaller.

Anyone has ever proven ECC is stronger than RSA?

> ... doing something strange like uploading my private keys onto the internet.

Which was completely unnecessary and he even admits it goes against the manual. There are many options, such as storing the copies in several physical places. But convenience trumps everything, I guess.
'vi' :-)
> It's the way this has always worked

Definitely not. Just go back a few thousands years and there was nothing remotely close.

> The author's recommendation of a world without kings is a fantasy.

Only go back 5 centuries or so for this one. This is very well summarized in writings by Etienne de la Boetie in his discourse of voluntary servitude[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Voluntary_Servitu...
From what I remember, that is actually supposed to "smooth" text in some browsers. Text used to look too sharp in Chrome (haven't had this problem in a while) sometimes. I believe that was one of the "fixes!"
The article points out that many popular libraries have vulnerabilities and unsafe defaults.
I think there are a few false dichotomies in your argument. Those who campaign against gay marriage are directly seeking to abolish the rights of gay couples that are afforded to straight couples. The consequences of this is the removal of legal protections and benefits, based solely on sexual orientation, which directly establishes gay individuals as second-class citizens. Yes, this is a bad thing. Contrasting this with your examples, taxation and gun control measures are certainly not infringing on your abilities to achieve economic freedom or gun ownership. Now certainly there are many infringements on civil rights being done in the name of keeping us safe from terrorists, to which I would also say this is a "bad thing", but then I'm certainly not pretending infringement "is a trait unique or peculiar to those voting against gay marriage."
Yes, that would be much better, and it's what I mean when I say that JWT doesn't bring anything to the table.
Religious flamewar is not welcome on Hacker News, and we regularly ban accounts that conduct it here. Political flamewar isn't welcome either, and you managed to combine the two in a toxic cocktail.

All: please keep this poison away from here. If this is the kind of argument you need to have, this is not the website you're looking for.
I had the same question and I was perplexed why project maintainers thought it was a good idea to put a 1px blur effect on text. At first, I though they were showing badly compressed .jpg for text, which would be even more peculiar.
No they don't, they can just say this person disproportionally rejects people of whatever race or prejudice. No need to state the host's race.
> ...most evangelicals I know... few well-respected Christian theologians or pastors... I've encountered...

With respect this argument (as presented) is anecdotal and subjective. There's neither data nor analysis so it's not very pursuasive.

> ...a more orthodox understanding of faith this...

Careful there, you're conflating the two meanings of the word 'faith'. One is putting trust in something, the other is to follow the doctrines of a religion (or referring to a specific religion). They're related but distinct.
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Theresa May hails 'defining' Brexit moment
Free speech should be contextualized. Nowadays it became a napkin to allow stupidity. Not to shield humans against state violence.

'freedom of speech and duty of reflection'

PS: ignorance vs intelligence tbc
You are a fascist. You are proposing to let the "useless" (people whom you deem useless) die. Perhaps consider moderating your position.

Ridicule and disdain never "saved" anyone from their "life of misery". Misery is relative. All people suffer; should we let a famous poet die at 88 by taking their medication/insurance from them because they are old and no longer produce poetry, and despite them explicitly expressing the desire to continue living?
Doctors are more likely to misdiagnose rude patients
I have heard this critique repeated frequently and was pretty sure it would be trotted out here.

I am not referring specifically to that document, but to the repeated public assertion that the intelligence agencies had reached a consensus, combined with the reality that the assertion itself went unchallenged by those agencies. They could have easily denied those claims. Yes, I am aware that this area was not the specific purview of all agencies, however, the united front represented the intelligence community coalescing around this finding.

And, you assail the document, but do you expect them to divulge sources and methods?

>But it all rests on trusting the agencies

No. It actually doesn't. You look at all of the other evidence and ask whether the agencies' explanation is plausible in that context. The strange affinty that Trump has for Putin, the inexplicable modification of key RNC platform elements in favor of Putin, the telegraphing of lifting sanctions, the connections and contacts between Trump associates and Russia, the lying about said contacts, the entire Wikileaks operation, and on and on.

Via raw common sense alone, it is actually difficult to believe any other conclusion except that found by our intelligence agencies. What are you suggesting, that we instead believe Russian denials? Or that we believe some conspiracy theory that HRC was directing the intelligence agencies or they otherwise went rogue to elect her by making up a conclusion that happened to make perfect sense, and which many observers had already reached?
Productivity is about producing something. You can read up on "all the latest" all you want but until you actually produce something with it, consider it just entertainment reading.

You may start to notice that technologies don't change all that much. Sure you may hear about some new shiny thing - the question to ask yourself is will it help you produce something faster, with more quality or help in some way? Or is it just new and shiny?

A lot of your questions focus on what other people are doing... what is it that you want to do?

Specific answers:
1. Learn ML and AI for what? what are you going to produce with it? How would that apply to your field? My guess is 95% of software engineers have no use for this since we are doing Information Systems, not science. Where is the line between logic tree and ML/AI?

2. Master's Degree. This is a good way to get into debt. Sure you can tick a box on the resume that states Masters Degree. Try to get your employer to pay. I doubt this will advance your career at all.

3. Get a life - yes - do more of that. There is way more to life than writing software. Find things that interest you outside of tech.

4. Startup: not a way to financial independence. Read stuff on this site - talk to people about what % of companies get to an IPO/buyout stage vs ones that fail (if that is your measure stick)

Keeping up with stuff I answered above - a lot of it is just noise. The way to become financially secure/independent is to reduce your spending and save money. Google Mr. Money Mustache for some good reads on that.
200 years ago, people said the exact same thing about Catholicism.
Like COBOL
Some have!

WordTsar [0]

Write & Set [1]

[0] http://wordtsar.ca

[1] http://www.writeandset.com/english/indxf.html
Could you elaborate? What changes has technology brought about that people dislike and can't be stopped? Not saying there aren't any, just trying to get a better idea of your point.

My impression is that this kind of general dissatisfaction with government is more a result of the globalism brought about by technology, rather than the technology itself.

I think the reason governments end up doing things people don't want, even before you consider blatant corruption, is that global companies are too important for individual economies to ignore. So governments end up in a race to the bottom to attract global business.
Flask-Diamond – Python framework (like Django but decomposable)
Not the hosts race, the potential renters race. In order for Airbnb to say someone of race {race} got rejected, they have to know, or guess, their race. Whether they ask for that on the application or look at the pictures, its probably illegal.
"Arguments, that is to say, have come to be understood in some circles not as expressions of rationality, but as weapons, the techniques for deploying which furnish a key part of the professional skills of lawyers, academics, economists, and journalists who thereby dominate the dialectically unfluent and inarticulate." - Alasdair MacIntyre

It's not surprising that people turn to demagogic populist buffoons when "rational" managerial class tell obvious lies in order to increase their powers.
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Distributed systems are hard, especially with poorly documented inter-system protocols for coordination!
Also, 71.5 stone for UK readers (nobody seems to have heard of this unit elsewhere, but it's the standard Imperial unit for human body weight)
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I wish someone could port Julia's parallelization notation to python. That's the only Language that struck me as "wow".
Is there a reason this doesn't take a microSD card?
What about it doesn't support Windows? Not disagreeing since I haven't used it much and I'm on Linux, but they have "Quick Start" instructions for Windows.

https://buckbuild.com/setup/getting_started.html
Most people I know would assume that London is what you would refer to as "East London" if they talked about going to London.

Not sure why this is such a big deal for you.
There's nothing insightful in the quote from John Zimmer or this article. Not owning what you use has been possible for centuries and technology hasn't suddenly enabled it.

Renting houses has been done for millenia, Libraries has been around for centuries, Radio has been around for a century and TV has allowed you to watch films and videos for decades. Renting a car as you need it has been possible for decades too. It's just inconvenient and expensive at the moment.

Why do people still buy houses? Why did they buy records? Why did they buy books?

People like owning things, having control over them. Owning a car grants you independence, a mobile base, that a self-drive rental can't grant. Are all rented cars going to come with pre-setup kiddy seats? What about the dog cage in the back?

I can see families using a self-drive rental for a secondary car, but not their primary car.

And sharing has negatives, especially if automated. How long before shared cars stink of McDonalds as the previous rider just bought one? Or skunk because the last occupant was on a munchie run?

Cars aren't prohibitively expensive, owning one is a status statement, the future of cars isn't going to be like Spotify without heavy penalties happening for owning a car.
EU consumer rights laws state that such clauses are not valid in consumer contracts, and that's it, no contract can change that.

e.g. EU directive on unfair terms in consumer contracts back from 1993 (implemented in relevant national laws separately in each country) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX... :

Article 3-1 "A contractual term which has not been individually negotiated shall be regarded as unfair if, contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties' rights and obligations arising under the contract, to the detriment of the consumer"

Article 6-1 "Member States shall lay down that unfair terms used in a contract concluded with a consumer by a seller or supplier shall, as provided for under their national law, not be binding on the consumer and that the contract shall continue to bind the parties upon those terms if it is capable of continuing in existence without the unfair terms."

... and from the examples of terms considered unfair per se:
"(q) excluding or hindering the consumer s right to take legal action or exercise any other legal remedy, particularly by requiring the consumer to take disputes exclusively to arbitration not covered by legal provisions"

You can have dispute resolution by arbitration in most cases, but you can't mandate dispute resolution only by arbitration, you can't waive the right to sue.
The reflection on American intellectual history in this comment is welcome. Its trollish and uncivil aspects are not. Please edit those out if you're going to keep commenting here.
Interesting, I did not know about other religious courts.
What I had in mind however was the opinion that Sharia should replace the country's court system.
OT but I need a wake-up call here. Upon login I'm sending back a generated UUID tied to the account and saves it as a cookie in the client. What's wrong with this approach?
I think that family of ClearType bugs persisted for like 5 years on Chrome for Windows (I only noticed it fixed last fall?) so I'm not surprised people were attempting extreme fixes. The text looked really bad.

EDIT: Sibling post suggests it was fixed in 2014. I wonder what was wrong with my home laptop then, haha...
It is very simple. Instead of improving <insert make edition>, they started yet another brand new one.

From my years and years at large companies, these things start because they don't want to share anything in the first place, and then it's just pricey to maintain.
"Black Friday"

The fleet issue is critical to the failure of shared cars. The problem of the rich young urbanite traveling a few blocks on a statistically random time frame (bar hopping perhaps) is solved by car sharing services, yet they're a vanishingly small fraction of the population. For example the kind of employer that is so geologic in thinking that they don't allow remote work is going to be so backwards as to forbid flex time hours, so two hundred 9-5 jobs implies someone has to own two hundred individual cars, and if the employees don't directly own the two hundred cars all you get is a useless middleman skimming off profit. Public grade school isn't remote or flex time and observation shows roughly one parent-car per kid. No matter how time flexible life is for rich young adult urbanites, normie life isn't like that. Too much of normie life involves hundreds to tens of thousands of people running on a tight fixed schedule.

Back in the bad old days of limited long distance telecom bandwidth, you couldn't financially provision to survive mothers day, for example, so on mothers day people got fast busy signals sometimes. That also made it extremely expensive and encouraged companies to set up their own LD routings. In the long run this will happen with shared cars and after enough firings for failure to get to work and enough CPS calls for failure to pick up little kids people will get tired of the expense of shared cars and save a lot of money by owning their own car.
Excellent article. I've always loved watches, but not as much as tech. I've got several beautiful watches, and one of them I'll wear at my wedding probably. Every other day of my life it's currently the Garmin Vivoactiv HR.
Jeff Bezos assigns former Kindle VP the role of his top adviser at Amazon
Needs IPC - not interested due to comm. bottleneck. Anyone got experience with Jython? How drop-in is it?
At 37 and having suffered some truly bad burn out between 33 and 36 I think your view is being colored by your current employment. Lots of places treat code and programmers as a commodity. As soon as one burns out, replace with another. Those are just shitty places to work. What you're describing feels very familiar.
> I'd rather see a scheme in which the practice of rule is the province of those trained and skilled in that very specialized profession.

Arguably that's what happens in many places. The UK has a large, non-partisan civil service supporting whichever the government is in power.

But we don't let them decide our goals, because democracy is not primarily about choosing which way to solve widely-agreed problems. It's about deciding which things are in fact the problems that need solving. Training and skill are not critical to this.

Incompetence and inefficiency are secondary problems, and any attempt to fix them by weakening democracy itself is a dangerous project that puts the cart before the horse.
It appears that Oracle doesn't really believe in these clauses: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/26/oracle_sues_employe...

TL;DR; Arbitration clauses are for exploiting the little guy. If the arbitration goes against the big guy, he sues.
The reddit/r/watches community is pretty active with a wide range of watches (automatic and fashion). Good resources to find quality watches and avoid marketing hype.

I admit, I love the smooth movement of the second hand on an automatic watch. My sister-in-law got me my first automatic and I thought it was broken....until I put it on.

They are tiny feats of precision engineering, even the cheap ones. I'm partial to a Seiko Men's SNK807 Seiko 5.
Apropos of the Asimov's remarks, I find it rather sad that a literature major is completely ignoring that literature can only exist in a cultural context.

Sans culture, written text is just that: written text, and there can be no "literature".

And given that literature is 'machine code' for the 'psychological machine' of the Human 'reader', it should have been clear to OP from day 1 that if there is such a thing as "software as literature" it must be 'read' from the pov of Machine, SICP gods' notwithstanding.

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The Japanese architects have figured out how to do exactly that. Japan experiences earthquake after earthquake, but Japanese cities are full of skyscrapers and I haven't heard of any of those having any catastrophic issues of the sort that you seem to be implying.
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