skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thieves break into the most commonly-used locks. FWIW there are hacks for most locks on Youtube!

There's nothing inside the locker to which to attach a hard case, which would undoubtedly be stolen.

Can't change gyms w/o losing $$ - have a two-year plan. Been going there for years. BTW all gyms have this problem - it isn't uncommon.

I _have_ considered abandoning the gym and going to a body-weight exercise plan + walking/running. I'd get more sun/rain/sleet/sunny days.
http://www.swiss-miss.com/
So if an NZ company sells products in Europe or US or Australia, they should be taxed in all those countries instead of NZ even if the product is fully developed in NZ?
I don't know if there are studies that compare those opportunity costs directly, and to me that seems like a tough experiment to set up/run properly.

I seriously doubt, however, that that is an actual trade-off being made in real life. As in, no one I know or have ever met is _actually_ making that trade-off. I've known people that claimed similar reasons for not exercising regularly, but the reality is that they just don't want to -- not that they are making a conscious trade-off based on opportunity cost.

Reality: Most people are probably better off taking 1-1.5 hours of low quality work/fucking around on their computers and use it to exercise instead.
Smart startups validate leads, others waste money
The subject matter reminded me a lot of his post about guilt, but I don't remember one about tears. Maybe that's what you were thinking of?
You seriously have no respect for private property? Could you elaborate on this - I don't think I understand what you have written as-is.
Well, there is a difference when you're in the same country as the employee: it's much easier to sue.

I think my comment is being downvoted so much because it is perceived as (possibly even) racist? That would be far from the truth. I wrote the comment because I genuinely thought about outsourcing dev work for an app I am working on, but decided against it because I was afraid my code would end up somewhere on the internet.
My oldest kids (5 and 7) happily go from playing Halo, NBA2k17, the new Zelda, and Madden to playing Mega Man 2, SMB, and the old Zelda. This is an N=2, but it does happen!
> Is this just a sort of shorthand - assigning a kind of design _intention_ to Nature as a simpler way of expressing this?

Yes, and it's a fairly common, if misleading, shorthand. It's easy to communicate and so gets spread quickly and easily but it always takes careful reading to work out if the author is perpetuating a misconception around intelligent design or merely using an easily digestible metaphor. I suspect the author is doing the latter from a cursory reading, but I might be wrong.
Take ancestral environment into account. Asia and Africa have torrid summers, but Europe -- at least Western Europe -- mostly doesn't; this is especially true of the British Isles, a temperate-rainforest zone comparable to the West Coast or parts of inner Appalachia. For US residents with mostly British (including Irish) ancestry, air conditioning is a return to ancestral environments, not a departure from them.
Could the Intel Edison be used to make a laptop?
There are similar studies showing that regular saunas lower cardiovascular risk and dementia risk up to 63% (a summary here http://outcomereference.com/causes/108 )

Like the hot bath study, these were limited to very specific populations (Finnish). I have yet to see studies of hot bath or saunas on different ethnicities or different locations.

At the end of the day though, nothing beats regular moderate exercise. It's the only lifestyle that has no side-effects, cheap, accessible to everyone anywhere, and with demonstrated short-term and long-term effects. Walk, run 5k, hike, bike to work, your heart and your family will be grateful!
No because there is such a thing as the heat death of the universe, which with the knowledge we have at present seems to be the most likely end-game.

In other words: planets and comets will eventually completely disintegrate because their component atoms and even the components of those atoms will possibly disintegrate.

You're looking at 10^30 years or so, so don't wait up for it, but it is still substantially shorter than 'forever'.
> Quite a few of these strike me as rather absurd

In a "that can't possibly be true" sense? Well, yeah, that's kind of the point...

1-3 seem like the sorts of things that even the least privacy-sensitive person can agree are troublesome.

If Google is willing to give anyone who signs a set of modest legal agreements carte blanc unaudited access to data stored on their servers, I'll begin to even remotely consider entertaining the claim that 1-3 aren't important.

5 in particular is blatantly illegal in the UK unless DeepMind is providing direct care. They claim apps == care (IMO absurd).

6 should just straight up be illegal.
Unfortunately, some other jurisdictions don't have a concept of "public domain" works. That's why the page indicates "... this project is in the public domain within the United States." in its license [1].

But you answered the main point of my question, so thanks!

[1] https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards/blob/develop/LIC...
Especially in math, a distinction is often drawn between

FT f(real) -> F(real)
DFS f(real) -> F(int)
DTFT f(int) -> F(real)
DFT f(int) -> F(int)

Only one of these, the DFT, is easily handled by a computer, but they all have an important role in both theory and practice. For example, why does JPEG use a Discrete Cosine Transform rather than a Discrete Fourier Transform? What are the pitfalls of approximating a continuous domain with discrete samples? Why are engineers obsessed with window functions? A continuous domain will lead you to the right answer. You can't easily understand the DFT (or FFT) without the FT and DFT. DFS has its own uses.

To many (applied) mathematicians, the fact that a computer uses the FFT algorithm to compute a DFT is largely immaterial and not particularly worth mentioning, because they are more interested in the questions in the preceding paragraph than questions like "how many points can I take on X hardware while maintaining Y performance?"
Works fine on my phone in the UK. Depends on your provider.
Interesting. I have an early background in farming (before I got into software). What online resources or books would you recommend for the goat rearing business? and in what sort of climate do you do it?
> There are over 200 sovereign nations you can choose to live in

There are, perhaps, over 200 sovereign nations, but far fewer that allow at-will immigration such that you are simply free to unilaterally choose to love in them.
Indeed. Although I think the whole thing throws the high/low/outsider Art debate into sharp relief. There definitely is gatekeeping which turns objects into Art by the process of putting it into a gallery and thereby acquiring respect. This is what the surrealists and others made fun of. Especially Warhol with his soup cans and the famous Duchamp urinal: what makes them Art is exactly and only their signature, in the social context of a gallery. Art is socially constructed.

"New Games Journalism" was the attempt in the early 2000s at producing the kind of critique that might legitimise games as Art. But I think what happened with #gamergate bears some similarity to punk/skinhead/ultras of the early 80s: if you can't get into legitimacy, throw a brick through its window. They (un?)intentionally sent the message that the sexism and violence is inseperable from what they consider "core" gaming.

(There's also the tragedy of people who don't know who Barthes is getting upset about the claim "gamers are dead")
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Stress is not about doing a lot, it's about being anxious.

The digestive tract may not do anything, but the body gets into "we're fighting possible starvation" mode.
> brief google search suggests mobile usage is probably between the 50% and 60% of internet traffic.

Devil's advocate: author could have been making his assumption based on Quartz (qz.com) readership profile, which I would assume probably consists of a high number of mobile and laptop (also Li batteries) users – probably more than desktop (assuming we are not counting laptops as desktop).
The question of why humans cry is always fascinating, since it's such an instinctive behavior we don't seem to realize how bizarre it is. I tried a little to develop a deliberately insane theory to submit to BAHfest (SMBC's festival of bad scientific hypotheses http://www.bahfest.com) and proposed that crying exists to blind us during periods of great emotional stress, since we'd otherwise be prone to irrational and dangerous behavior. Unfortunately, compared with the real attempts to explain tears, it seemed a little too plausible to be bad! When the state of research has someone proposing "we cry because of the soot flying into our eyes at prehistoric funeral pyres," it's hard to be deliberately weird. (I eventually came up with a much funnier topic, so swing by if you're in the area shameless plug etc)
Bold claims.

>take less man-hours

Citation?

>the product will be superior

This is subjective. There are very good games to come out studios of 1-2 developers and studios of hundreds of developers.
Pedantic needling is always a relevant response to internet point outrage.
Linear perpetual (unaccelerated) motion is the same thing as no motion.
Agreed.

What I find amazing about that moment is that from any "conservative" perspective, it's really nothing special - but the mechanical bond the game has built up with the player until then amplifies its effect. It is a very good example showing that you can still use much of a medium's inherit aspects to great effect even without deviating much from the norm.

On a related note: I wonder if John Cage's 4'33" qualifies as art... ;-)
It's definitely an extraordinary claim. Even people excited about the possibilities should be tempering their expectations.
Aren't you the person who wrote about your Delphi product work in a thread here about Delphi some time ago? I seem to remember your HN username as the one who wrote that post, saying you had a Delphi product you worked on for quite a while. And your comment about software seems to indicate that it might be you. I found that Delphi comment of yours interesting (if it was you).
I tried this a while ago - its okay so long as you are doing specific, limited activities.

If you need to explore beyond the things that you have already figured out for to do it slows you down. Websites you need don't work in lynx, Android dev is slower to pick up console first, etc. People expect you to see the pictures and word docs on your mail, or contact you via WhatsApp.

You figure your way round these one by one, or give up after an hour and use the normal tool. And then onto tomorrows new distraction.

Eventually this is a time sink.
Sorry, the content might be good, but my first reaction was that's an awful looking site for a design-focused blog.
I don't understand how secrets being committed to the same repository implies anything you've written. They don't have to be compiled in.

For parallel environments we simply have multiple configs in repository. One per env (env.toml.prod, env.toml.jenkins, env.toml.dev-docker, ...). If you want to test a specific env you can copy and modify it. Just like you'd do it if they were on s3.
I'd even argue that it's easier to debug issues if you know what code ran with what env.

Yes, you have to create a new build for each config change, but in reality code changes are much more frequent than env changes so we didn't find this being an issue at all.
Taking out insurance on a random person's life is also illegal.

I worked in insurance. I am not a fan of it. But you need insurable interest in someone to take out life insurance on them. Otherwise, people would just insure random strangers and then kill them.

This is not hypothetical. One of the forms of insurable interest is key employee life insurance. There have been cases where a business decided to call entry level employees "key employees" so as to take out life insurance, and then these "key employees" kept dying." There have also been historical cases where female serial killers were offing relatives for the insurance money.
If you loved Narnia as a kid, and just couldn't go back when you tried to re-read it as an adult because of all the Christian allegory you missed the first time, it's pretty damn good. It also helps to have had a dream, attained it, and had it fall apart in front of you.

I had both of those experiences and I devoured the Magicians books with glee.
UberPool and LyftLine tell you prices up front, before requesting the ride!
Netflix contributes in a much more valuable currency, cold hard lines of code.

From the new ssl-enabled sendfile syscall, general scalability and performance work to the IO-scheduler they required because they shredded the SSD garbage-collection - it is all upstreamed. They actively try to run the smallest Diff they can.
> is routine and commonplave

Then go ahead and try to get access to a similar data set. Unaudited access to fully identified and full medical records going back a half decade for 1.6 million people, without obtaining individual permission or providing any individual notice. For nothing other than the promise of some diagnostic assistance software. As a for-profit company.

Good luck greasing those wheels ;-)
> de-indentifed data on 40 Million patients

This is not how this works. You can't really ensure anonymity with data like this.
I'll chime in with a "met too!".

i3 + tmux (it's the only sane way to manage servers.)

I'm a sysadmin (not a developer like most of the HN crowd) so I usually have 10+ terminal windows open (depending on what project(s) I am working on.

I think it would make for an interesting poll to see what the demographics are like for the 'power-user' crowd that exists here.
How long is the stress response ? is it only transient before switching to a "fasting" regime or is it long lasting ?
I believe that these kinds of debates necessarily boil down to an argument over the definition of art.

One essay on a similar subject that I always think back to is Orwell's essay, Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool: http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/lear/english/e_ltf

Orwell's argument is somewhat hard for me to swallow (because I tend to be opinionated about what constitutes good writing), but I agree that "Ultimately there is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion." I think that same concept can be applied more broadly to question of the definition of art.
Reminded me about good old https://codon.com/programming-with-nothing
> Having multiple currencies is okay as long as there is liquidity between them.

The bond market in that entire economic region was comparatively underdeveloped and has attracted massive liquidity improvements since 1999 stretch far out down the yield and risk curve

But yes we can write a whole dissertation on various aspects of the monetary union
In the case of dogs, we should probably look at wolves to see if the whining was a response to domestication. But I don't know if wolves whine, so I'm not much help there.
This is parenthetical to the discussion, but reading this article made me deeply nostalgic for 15 years ago, when we still had Freshmeat and Slashdot was decent and Mozilla was fresh and the web was largely full of information, not javascript.

Back on topic, I wrote this back in 2006: "What's old is new again, the quest for distraction-free writing" (http://therandymon.com/index.php?/archives/181-Whats-Old-is-...). The topic remains relevant, and maybe more relevant than ever. It's super hard to arrange time and materials and commitments so that you can concentrate deeply on the task before you. We are perhaps not making much progress.
I see! Yes, this is something I miss a lot on Google Scholar (I have to go to the article page to search for the DOI field). It would be nice to also display the DOI link somewhere near the author list since it seems standard practice, but in the citation section would be good as well.
>Humans, unique among all animals, have an instinct to resist aggression even when it's directed toward other members of the group (even non-kin).

I'm not convinced that this is a unique to humans.
That's a noble decision!

Call me a cynic, but I think you're in the minority, I doubt most people have the moral fortitude to forego $200 in free Uber credits...
>I'm supposed to feel guilty about that admission, but I do not.

It's not the admission that's problematic. It's that, until said magic bullet is found, this mindset leads a person nowhere health wise...
It has no video hardware, so it couldn't drive a monitor / panel for a laptop. It's more like an Arduino than it's like an RPi.
If insurance company doesn't care about customers nothing happens because of power imbalance and fact that market is not rational.
Actually, with meowing, adult cats not raised around humans don't do it, but kittens do it; it's a behavior of kittens that continues being rewarded in domestic situations after maturity and so isn't abandoned.
I don't know if I agree or disagree with the comment you're responding to, but I'm pretty sure you almost entirely missed its point.

Tyson was called a "pendant" not a "pedant." A "pendant" as in "symbolic token."

Also, I think the nit pick about the use of "intelligent" is incorrect. You can "act intelligent" as in "act like someone who is intelligent" and you can "act intelligently" as in "take actions that are intelligent." The original post's use of "intelligent" works with his use of "pendant."
I'm a committer that works for such a commercial outfit, and I certainly don't get to work on FreeBSD full time (though I do work _with_ FreeBSD full time). Most of my contributions still come out of my spare time. I believe that's true for many others as well.
Ah, I see - I've never tried those services. Not even sure whether they exist in Seattle.
Seattle PD’s Dashcam Problem
ONE PARAMEDICS’ JOURNEY COMES TO AN END
I had read that about Iceland, the US mortgage sector, etc. But I had no clue that aggregate global derivatives were so huge.
It's enjoyable. I have some problems with the decisions of characters and the world building, but overall I think they can be mostly overlooked. I hate to say it's a more mature Harry Potter, but it really feels that way.
Groovy – simple social music application
You keep linking to US stuff, and people keep reminding you that this case is in the UK, subject to UK and EU data protection law.

The laws are very different, and there are much stronger protections in the UK.
>Does this take into account the time she could have spent learning new programming skills?

Because she can't find 30 mins per day (or less) not devoted to programming skills or other stuff, to do exercise?

Does the question takes into account the less years of practicing those programming skills because of earlier demise due to bad shape?
>And what do you call it when a city becomes a place that only the wealthy can afford to live in? There are so many people that contribute and make a city function who are not even remotely middle class. Where do they live?

I'm not sure how this is a problem. Shouldn't it be self-limiting? You're absolutely right: you need lots of people in a city to make it function who aren't high earners: janitors, retail workers, cab/bus drivers, etc. So what happens when a city becomes so expensive these people can't live there? For a while, they live farther away and commute, but at some point even that won't be viable. What then? Well, that seems like it'll be a big problem for the wealthy inhabitants of the city to solve, right? Why is it our concern? Those wealthy people are the ones who created the problem, and also the ones with the most resources to devote to fixing it. The rest of us are struggling to make ends meet and pay the exorbitant rents that are the result of these wealthy people; we certainly don't have time or money to deal with the problems they've brought on themselves.

So if I'm missing something critical here, someone please point it out to me because I'm not utterly convinced of the correctness of my argument. I can't think of any historical examples of places where rich people priced all the service workers out of an area completely; I think this is a modern phenomenon. But it does seem that this should be one area where "the free market!!" really should work, in a way, though it might result in a bunch of wealth people really losing their shirts in the real estate market (which is fine with me; lots of people, including non-wealthy people, in 2008 learned that lesson the hard way, that real estate does not always hold its value; I'm especially not concerned about a bunch of wealthy foreigners losing their investments).
Are you sure about the meowing? I have heard and seen cats meowing at magpies and to each other.
As a result government agencies have developed a set of legal requirements and contracts to be used when sharing such data.

That still doesn't matter. If Royal Free shared personal health data with Deep Mind without the data subjects' explicit consent, and if the arrangement doesn't fall under other permitted conditions for processing sensitive personal data under the DPA, then someone is breaking the law. If there were not at least some legitimate grounds for concern about whether that is the case, it is unlikely that the ICO would have opened a formal investigation into the deal. Again, nothing written in any contract between the organisations involved supersedes our primary data protection legislation. As for standard processes for handling such situations developed by government agencies, another substantial part of the report was about how the various regulatory bodies do not seem to have been consulted in ways that would normally have been expected before starting a project of this nature.

There is nothing routine, in the UK environment, about transferring complete, multi-year medical records for large numbers of identifiable individuals to external organisations not run by medical professionals for such open-ended purposes as those described in the agreement here. This is not a small thing.
I said the "launch" was a flop. Not the euro itself. It launched at $1.19 and sank to $0.83 within two years. The launch was a flop and got investors worried.
Nobody Said It Would Be Easy
I once won $100 from their competition, but never figured out how they are going to be profitable. Independent mobile app search makes little sense when there are two App Stores (Android and App Store) with builtin search.
Fair enough. Maybe a personal anecdote about how a non-economist could find a housing crash plausible isn't the best evidence for the availability of signals that something was wrong with the housing market. I can go through the FCIC report [0] and annotate to demonstrate, but their conclusion was the crash was avoidable. I can pile on more sources if that's desired. It'd be more entertaining to watch 'What I Learned and (Un-Learned) at the Financial Crisis' by Mark Blyth.

I object to Sumner's choice of time points in his blog, as they leave out the peak, and the historical norm. To observe that an already abnormal market is only a little bit more abnormal after ten years serves his point, but misses the story. That might be my meta-critique of economics.

[0] http://fcic.law.stanford.edu/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhldDOp77QA
far far more meaningless than any other introductory statement
We're talking about the UK. HIPAA is irrelevant.
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I disagree. The amount of time it takes me to produce art at the level of polish required to suit the games I develop is far longer than it takes my artist friends to create better work. Same with music and just about everything else other than the design and (arguably) the programming. If I had the budget to hire one person for each major discipline, I would.