skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evan Robinson has collected a whole bunch of evidence that long hours don't result in greater output (http://www.igda.org/?page=crunchsixlessons). This has been known for something like a century at this point.
I don't know a huge amount about fusion beyond following some of the projects and reading what they are up to.

What did you make of the German (mainly) Stellarator[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X
I suggested cRUST as name
Maybe you should shut off your lights and computer then? Not sure that your point of humans being, well, human, changes anything.
And then on the flipside there is Musk, Jobs, Gates and countless others who work(ed) all the time.

All I'm saying is I see a lot of emulation-of-success articles posted here...
Video: Quantum Computing and QISKit API and SDK Tech Talk
>15MB of DLLs! 15MB!

Life's a little different now than in the old XP days. Disk space and ram aren't as limiting as before and the slow redraw times of qt and other cross-platform libraries have been taken care of by GPU hardware acceleration, faster ram, and faster CPUs.

These complaints were valid back then and our opinions didn't change because of things like Electron, as much as our hardware is so much more powerful. I remember dreading running Java desktop apps and now I can barely see the difference between them and native win32 apps. Heck, running an app on a virtualized OS on top of my native OS is often fairly performant nowadays.
Ask HN: Why is there no movement to reform taxation of stock options?
There have been many threads on HN bemoaning the huge tax bills one can incur when exercising stock options at a pre-IPO startup in the USA. It makes little sense to treat an illiquid asset as taxable income, based on some arbitrary value. Yet that's how the law works and many options are abandoned as a result.

Among the moaning, however, there seems to be relatively few people who argue that the laws should be changed, so that taxes are paid on the profits gained by the sale of the shares, if and when that should ever occur.

Judging from the conversations on HN, it seems that the vast majority of people in the startup world are anything but apolitical. Yet, on this particular issue, that has huge adverse financial effects on so many of them, there seems to be a resigned acceptance of the status quo.

Why is that?
I heard about /r/TrueReddit here on HN. Thoughtful, interesting articles get posted there and the discussion is generally productive.
> It would be interesting to know what inspired him to write this. Maybe something equivalent to, e.g. modern string theory, which was pissing him off.

Google found this in "Prisoner's Dilemma/John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb" by William Poundstone (page 29):

"As the same time he insists that the best mathematics is usually inspired by practical problems. This can be read as a defense of game theory (among other things) to those fellow mathematicians who deprecated it as an applied field."

So perhaps more out of an irritation with condescending/dismissive pure mathematicians than an irritation with overly abstract theories per se.

Hopefully someone who knows more about Von Neumann will stumble along these posts and provide more insight.
I'm a bit rusty, and not to knock DNSCrypt or change the subject, but in the past I did a lot of reading and came to the conclusion that DNSCurve is the thing we should be pushing to adopt instead, due to some inherent flaws in DNSCrypt/DNSSEC.

To me, DNS is the current primary weakness of the internet in it's modern form, mainly due to centralization. I think we should also be focused more on secure connection techniques independent of the DNS system.
Ahhhhhhhh I'm sorry! In fact English is not my native language and I hate making these errors.

Thanks to you that specific error is not gonna happen anymore as it was public pointed out. It will help me remember next time.
Between Netflix, HBO, YouTube, and iTunes rentals I feel my Apple TV solves all my entertainment needs. Sports however, and in particular live sports, is a different matter altogether. I'd love to have easy pay-per-view access, as easy as iTunes rentals, to various sports events (think the Olympics, world cup of X, that sort of thing) and for some select sports a season pass (huge NHL fan here – go Rangers!)

Alas, there's nothing like that. :o(

I have to either get some weird NHL package, which only gets me out-of-market games since those other games are exclusive to whatever local channel may have bought the rights, and since you have different broadcasters to things like the Olympics depending on where you live, and which year it is, you don't know where to go for those either.

Surprisingly, smaller sports franchises that haven't sold off all their media rights typically do this much better. Handball for instance is pretty easy to get a live stream of, because they're so starved for attention that they put it out there just to get people to watch the thing in the first place.

In short, I would love a Netflix for sports that would also do live streams. Viasat in Europe comes close, but their subscriber deals are expensive, they don't have all the rights, and their apps are terrible.
> This is how democracy ends

If we're talking about actual democracy, we might even say it never started.
This is not making fake quotes, it's called paraphrasing. And "just don't" is impolite, I can just do pretty much as I like, as it is my own interpretation, Mr PC.
I will definitely try this because I have trouble with all other voice chat services including Skype, WhatsApp and Hangouts. Often one of those three will work but not always.

But the most annoying problem with any internet voice chat is not so much the quality but the latency. Landline phones have noticeably lower voice quality but one can still enjoy a conversation perfectly well. High latency, on the other hand, absolutely ruins the experience.

I always see these services talking about "crystal clear quality", but never latency, which is a shame. Maybe there is simply nothing they can do about it. I've noticed latency get worse and worse on the Internet since I started using it in the 90s and nobody seems to talk about it.

There are so many more sources of latency on every layer on the modern internet and it's a damn shame. I remember when interleaving got enabled on my ADSL and latency to everything doubled overnight. Then there are NATs, and all kinds of filtering shit that ISPs insist on. Sigh...
It's not a queue. Some people may use it for cases that resemble a messaging queue, but it definitely is not, and many valid use cases for Kafka would be completely impossible with a traditional message queue or Redis.

How about actually reading the Kafka documentation instead of an inaccurate wikipedia page, it's pretty good and won't take you that long

http://kafka.apache.org/documentation/
As far as I can tell this is the result of an interaction between laws, and not the result of the law itself.

It's not as if "laws being copyright-punishable" was an intended design decision when they were written up, so it seems disingenuous to phrase it as if this were the case.
Can you provide stats about these old people who are already better off? Because most of them are just kept out of poverty by social security.

Just curious where you get your belief from since the data shows otherwise.

http://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/social-security...

"Social Security Keeps 22 Million Americans Out of Poverty: A State-By-State Analysis"

"Social Security Lifts 15 Million Elderly Americans Out of Poverty"

"Social Security Lifts More Than 1 Million Children Out of Poverty"
The problem with EMTALA, is that it is routinely abused to get non emergency care.

As a result, some hospitals have found that it is better to close ERs; which of course means less emergency care when it is actually needed.
Bay Area’s high prices, traffic could spur exodus
This appears to be aware that it is solving the same problem as daemontools / runit / nosh / s6... but doesn't seem to offer anything new or better.

And it presents a solved problem (some daemons fork themselves off and the parent exits, so tell them not to do that or use fghack) as a new thing that Immortal can solve.

Is there something actually new and interesting about this that I'm missing?
> Could anybody here comment on the differences between spacex's engine, and the engines on the space shuttle?

It's sort of apples vs oranges to compare the Shuttle main engines vs the Falcon 9 engines, because the Shuttle main engines were on the the crewed upper stage of the Shuttle stack and the Falcon 9 booster is the boost stage of the Falcon 9 stack.

The direct comparison is comparing the Falcon 9 booster (first stage) with the solid rocket boosters of the Shuttle stack, and comparing the Shuttle with the Dragon. Dragon v1 has a heat shield (like Shuttle) and then parachutes (unlike Shuttle). Dragon 2 will have reusable engines to land propulsively, which means it will land on land like the Shuttle.

The Falcon 9 booster is much, much more sophisticated than the Shuttle boosters. The Shuttle boosters were solid fueled; once lit they could not be turned off or throttled. They just burned at maximum thrust until they ran out of fuel, which is why they needed parachutes to land in the ocean.

Unfortunately NASA learned that salt water is terrible for engines, even if they land gently, and the cost of refurbishing the boosters after each launch (and the amount of time it took) was much higher than anticipated. Falcon 9's Block 5 booster should (hopefully) reach a point where it can land, get refueled, and immediately take off again, like a 747.

> I was under the impression that SpaceX was trying to make the first re-usable rocket stage, but I've recently found out that that isn't true. The space shuttle already holds that title.

For the reasons I have above, you were right the first time. SpaceX is trying to make the first reusable booster that achieves orbit. Both Shuttle and Blue Origin's New Shepard are reusable, but neither of them can reach orbit by themselves.

> I'm also kindof curious why they decided to go with a vertical-landing-design, instead of putting some wings on it and having it glide home like the shuttle did.

Scaling laws. Vertical take-off, vertical landing (VTVL) rockets scale to any size. Wings don't. The Falcon 9, the Falcon Heavy, and future mega-rockets will all be able to use the same basic technology. Wings don't scale well at all.
Take a look at PowerDNS. I use it for my day job and it causes very little trouble. I can only recall one annoying bug and one security issue in about the last two years.

It also has an OK, if not great, API for integrating with, e.g., your provisioning system, inventory system, etc.
This is correct, RenderMan is a path tracer which is more physically correct in a lot of aspects (light bounces, caustics, conservation of energy, etc). Before that it relied on the Reyes architecture with ray tracing extensions according to Wikipedia but Pixar stopped supporting it in 2016.
Chrome plans to Dismiss JavaScript dialogs on switch-away
I have zero experience with Qt but have heard that it has problems with High DPI presentations. Now It seems that they did something in that regard in Qt 5.6, but do you have anything to say or an idea about the maturity of it?
> I imagine unlimited cheap energy would help facilitate moving us off this floating rock we call earth.

With a working small scale fusion reactor we could colonise the entire solar system, the raw materials are all out there but energy is always one of the main issues.

I remember reading back in the 80's a plan for extracting metals, creating metal foam that would float and then dropping them into the ocean (some would be lost to rentry heat but it was a tiny percentage) where a drone ship would sail out and tow them in.

I would love to see something like that in my lifetime.
A Redefinition of the Derivative
Brothers funded by loans from Swiss banks and citizens of a Commonwealth island. From the paranoid angle try s/FSB/GCHQ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov#Life_after_VK
Thats just a challenge to a construction worker. "Stupid pointy headed geeks got it backwards again dale! Help me get er in there right." Meaning only to keep the project rolling. This is why choice of crew, not just management, is critical in building.
E.P.A. Chief, Rejecting Agency’s Science, Chooses Not to Ban Insecticide
Besides all EU legislation being available online I think there is an obligation for member states to publish their legislation for free as well.

I dunno about other states but in my country there is a small federal agency whose only job is to publish legal and civil information, including some very good books about the legal and political system; the state pays for most of it, so they are quite affordable (couple Euros).
On a national level have a look at Iceland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Iceland
Ask HN: Website to collect customer enhancement requests
I'm looking for a Website that offers the following services:

- A software developer makes a list of proposed or possible features and enhancements to his product.

- Customers login and vote on their favorite enhancements. Each customer gets a limited number of votes to insure (s)he focuses on what is truly important to him/her. The votes could be weighed (first vote is worth 5 points, second is 4 points, ... fifth vote is 1 point).

- A customer can only vote once. In a really sophisticated system, a customer could change his vote.

- Customers are also given the opportunity to originate their own requests.

- The results can be viewed in real time by all customers.

Most survey and polling sites are too elementary.
I'd say even in these samples there's still some errors. The intonation on "brown" in "quick brown fox" is still wrong. "AllHipHop" is not pronounced as a human would, though I'll grant you that's a made-up word so I wouldn't even expect a non-native human speaker to necessarily get that one right.

Still, the quality is such that I'm only observing this in the spirit of scientific analysis. It's some good quality.
Yeah, I have a 16gb iPhone 6 and it's gotten unbearable in the past few month. I don't even keep many apps around. No room for my music anymore :(
This article has an interesting point buried deep down in the middle of it (that really isn't the point of the article), in that all of the new-ish things, like Sling or Vue or YouTube TV or otherwise look suspiciously like cable packages on the Internet. And that's something I can't quite get over.

I've used Sling in the past, it can be a good bridge if you've cut the cable and want to hop back in because you miss it, but besides the delivery mechanism — I can bring my own device and it streams over the Internet — I don't see that much of a differentiator from cable. With either package of Sling, I'm still getting a bunch of channels I have no interest in, and while the price may be less per month than cable, it still _feels_ like 70% of the money I'm paying is going towards channels I have absolutely no interest in. Not to mention all the commercials I have to watch with it, not just in live viewings (because that's part of the stream, I get that), but even in on-demand things.

I ask this honestly: is there something I'm missing here? People that I know that haven't cut cable because they would miss this or that laud these products as "the thing that may finally get them to cut cable," but this feels like cable just over streaming.
> For some reason, our generation (GEN Y / Millennials) don't seem to care much for their pensions or retirement planning.

Really, the generation that normalized the concept of FI/RE (financial independence/retire early) has no interest in retirement? I find that hard to believe. I think it's more to do with the segment that is burdened with high debt loads. Those with the income seem excessively interested in retirement, while those of more modest means just want to get ahead.
This is a good point. I could almost imagine a live social site where you could "watch X with friends" like a meetup and chat on a side channel. Of course you could do this wholly out of band but NF could certainly be involved.
> the signal-to-noise ratio of quality-to-sub-par in certain genres is abhorrent

Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crap

re: overnight success, Ted Chiang got a Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990) which was his first published work when he was 23. He wasn't writing for extremely long before he was recognized for his talent.
They WERE a symptom, but now they actively work to protect their existence via lobbying against any simplifications and common sense changes to tax code. So I don't personally have any issue with how and why they came to exist in the first place, but I find it despicable that they actively work against larger society now. It's well-known that they lobby against simplification efforts, and why they do this.
That looks useful. I do not know F#, but can't you still use ordinary float and have the same bug?
Indeed. Wrapping a browser control is not "native".
Offline web pages by persisting DOM to IndexedDB/WebSQL
It really depends on the situation. If you are getting a company started, you will need to work long hours until it's stable. But after this, it shouldn't be your normal schedule.
I've been using Google Photos for this. They offer unlimited storage (though they compress photos), and the sync process is hands off (just have to open the app).
Someone up thread posted the figures, human energy is 12 terawatts, the earth receives 172,000 terawatts a day, replacing all of energy usage with fusion and then doubling it to 24 terawatts would likely result in a cooler planet (since we'd be producing far less carbon dioxide).
Interview with John Muratore: Rebuilding Mission Control and Spaceplanes (the X-38)
This is a very naive question, but considering the artifacts you have on the GAN-generated images, you are trying to generate the whole "palette image" at a certain resolution.

For which reasons did you not use a 5x1 pixel RGB image as the target, that would have been orders of magnitude faster to train?

Thanks!
Nope doesn't make it fail-safe at all and I don't think that is very hard to accomplish. What can be accomplished is fail-operational, if one sensors goes down using other sensors the car can navigate it-self to safety.
I still get this feeling for some shows, like House of cards and Stranger things for example. Most people (that are commenting online, or talking about it at work anyway) are binge watching in the first week or two, so you know quite a few people are watching at the same time as you, even if its not exactly in sync.
>who work(ed) all the time.

Except as executives, their work is different than a skill workers' work. I mean, they don't have a manager busting their ass about TPS reports, they made their life their work. So a two hour lunch meeting that is 50% bs'ing is 'work.' Leaving at three to go golfing with a few guys, one of whom who is vendor, is 'work.' Going to the birthday party of a partner's kid is 'work.' Staying late for a meeting where you sit quietly munching on a bagel and watch those below you sweat through a presentation is 'work.'

They're human just like us and only have x amount of productive hours. Low key managerial tasks, networking, socializing, and sitting through meetings isn't exactly the same thing as sitting at the compiler agonizing over someone's legacy code and burning your brain out. If you're doing hard skill work that requires serious concentration, you simply can't do that for 8-12 hours a day. You can push 4-5 and then you're done and if you don't recognize your limits you're entering burn-out zone. Unlike a high level executive you can't take a 4 week 'working sabbatical' to a Greek island and work by answering emails on the beach when the stress catches up to you. You have your vacation days and that's it and you better hope its not crunch time when you do burn out.

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It sounds like they are still intent on riding cable into the ground, as they are "planning to roll out a Netflix-like interface for a section of the ESPN app that’s limited to cable customers." Seriously? Wouldn't it make sense to just offer an OTT service at a pricepoint slightly higher than what cable providers give them per sub? If they cannot get enough subscribers at that pricepoint, then why not offer pricing per event?

I'm a cord cutter. I follow a single NFL team. They are on MNF maybe once a year. I'd pay $25 or so to watch that game (legally) at home rather than go to a bar or deal with a flaky illegal stream. They're leaving my money on the table.
Indeed. Having "cut the cord" for 10 years now, I find commercials extremely grating: loud, frantic, and stupid. My watching has plummeted to almost nothing, precisely because when I _do_ watch it's very deliberate, knowing what I'll see and how long it will take - contrasted with a flippant/reflexive "see what's on" and settling for whatever drivel vaguely catches attention.

I honestly don't see how anyone can spend the average 40 hours a week "watching TV" now. My time is so crammed full of things having priority over "sit and watch" - because I'm evaluating the content & time before I watch, and comparing it to the value of what else needs doing. I'll get in a few hours a month of video, usually movies because I perceive a need to "be done with it" rather than having more to see and little time to see it.
In my defense, it appeared to be a harmless looking sequence of special characters (not quite, as I found to my dismay). Explain Shell didn't help much
Reactive Time with Vue.js
I think that the space shuttle is really a re-usable second stage, albeit one which is firing its engines for the entire ascent. The aerodynamic demands on a reusable second stage are much greater, so comparing the space shuttle to the Falcon 1st stage isn't exactly fair. The Falcon 1st stage is more analogous to the Solid Rocket Boosters, in that it's a very high-thrust, high-density launch vehicle.

The Solid Rocket Boosters are strictly speaking doing exactly what the Falcon 9 booster is doing: being recoverable. However, the Falcon 9 boosters have much greater capability to be re-used without refurbishment, since they don't encounter salt water.
Of course, not only are markdown style links unsupported, nothing but raw urls are supported as links. For whatever reason, the majority of people here choose to relate links to locations in text using a particular footnote style. Since this format is no more blessed than the common markdown style, they could have easily chosen that instead. Presumably, they didn't because it breaks flow when using long links. For short links, like the one in the GP, inline links work just as well as footnote based ones, and provide the extra benefit of not requiring scrolling to follow them.
But this one is written in Go!
As an aside, I'd be interested to hear more about how you started and grew the business.
The guys on the article were walking about on huge familial estates and had servants.

I on the other hand have a mortgage to pay.

Out of the box creative thinking as the result of leisure is great. Sometimes it pays off. More often it doesn't. Sadly most of us don't have the luxury of finding out. At least for now.
I would also be interested to see how this is being interpreted as not "educational".
In redux I use functional lenses to create composoable getter/setter functions to handle deeply nested data safely. I do that even without redux, but it is very useful there. Take a look at the lens functions in Ramda, or safety-lens