skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been experimenting with moda for a few months. Started of on 100mg and was smashing through my workload, just due to being generally less chatty or interested in shooting the shit with co-workers.

My next batch I went for 200mg's to see how that affected me. Made me super moody, fidgety and I would get agitated when something didn't go right for me straight away. 100mg seems to be the right amount for me. Everyone else I asked about 200mg said they had the same side effects.

I also don't use it much now, tending to take it once every 2 weeks to crush out some work. Wary of dependence on it, and also what it's doing to my brain.
Virtualbox 3D progress has been unfortunately slow for a long time. It was kind of anticipated with Oracle's acquisition, as their laser focus on legal engagements and consulting pushes a lot of technical projects to the back burner.

I'd love to see a bit more alignment between VirtualBox and Qemu. Even though KVM and Qemu's virtualized graphics acceleration is still a WIP, having a shared code base could accelerate the project on things like SPICE (https://www.spice-space.org/download.html) and Virgl (https://virgil3d.github.io/). Unfortunately, I think it uses a lot of Linux-specific technologies (e.g. KVM, Gallium), so the likelihood of sharing at that level seems pretty low. Although, supposedly Gallium isn't locked into Windows.

Theoretically, if we could agree on a common host-guest interface for a virtual graphics adapter, it could share the guest implementations and host implementations could be added as needed. And it could be reused in multiple projects. But it always seems that this is the tech that never gets sufficient cross-project collaboration. And given the many differences between vendor hardware, a portable interface has been difficult. Maybe Vulkan will provide enough low-level functionality to ease the abstraction?
I've often said that if I wanted to run a desktop application in a web browser, then I would prefer to run it in an actual web browser and thus share the framework footprint rather than running multiple instances of Electron.
Your mistake is assuming that traditional systems can't be empirical or otherwise based in efficacy.
laughable
(author of Dgraph)

Dgraph's retrieval is pretty fast, so looking up properties is trivial. It also supports indexing various data types: supports full-text search, term matching and regexps on strings, inequality and sorting on ints, floats, dates etc.
https://docs.dgraph.io/v0.7.4/query-language/#functions

One of our users is on the path to switch to Dgraph from Elastic Search. So, I'd say try Dgraph out and see if that'd help your use-case. I think it should. And if Dgraph is missing something that you need from ES, feel free to file an issue. Happy to address it.
Unfortunately you are not representative of the market rate for salaried employees. Smart tech companies don't hire contractors at such an unreasonable price. They just hire another employee.
Maybe I've missed some key evidence here, but how do we know that the same entity is behind both TheShadowBrokers and the efforts to get Trump elected?

I do suspect a new level to the Cold War, where "Russia" was disrupting US society through many channels. Including, for example, Mad Magazine and then The Realist. We also know that "the US" was manipulating the postmodern art scene. Organizing groups, publishing magazines, etc.

But maybe I've been manipulated to think that, by some third party, which has an interest in global disorder. It's very hard to find reliable information, when nothing is what it seems.
> you get closures. That's how LISP did objects in the 1980s, before people knew better

That one can use closures for objects was demonstrated with Scheme in the 70s. See for example: Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus". MIT AI Lab. AI Lab Memo AIM-349. December 1975.

http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html

It's also a typical topic in education to show how to use closures to implement a primitive object system, similar how one learns to 'implement' numbers in pure lambda calculus.

But actual object systems in Lisp from the 70s/80s mostly did not use closures as objects. None of LOOPS, Flavors, CLOS, KRL, KEE, FRL, ... uses closures for their implementation. Even in 'Object Lisp', which is relatively close to Javascript's objects, they don't use closures:

http://www.unlambda.com/lispm/lmi-source/extract/dj_full/l/o...

In

http://www.unlambda.com/lispm/lmi-source/extract/dj_full/l/o...

you can see that objects in Object Lisp were implemented by using structures (aka records), not closures.
New kind of masculine contraception is being tested
I wouldn't trust the creative work of someone who does over 35 hours a week. Creative problem solving requires the ability to switch into a relaxed state at will, and I haven't yet met anyone who can do it while under pressure to work 60 hours a week or more.
Should come with 0.6.3 release ASAP
We currently don't know the long-term effects of this drug. There are no studies on that subject.
Free is all of those things. Transparency has recently become much more important than it was originally.
IIRC when Spotify switched to Electron there was a massive outcry from the general computing masses saying how much worse the new Spotify client was. You also have to bare in mind that Spotify is winning in it's market due to licencing (providing a range of music that other competitors haven't been able to licence). It's got naff all to do with the quality of the client.
Growing a Language, by Guy Steele
But is that a true scaling problem like "2x servers can't handle 2x users" or is it a business model problem like "every user means losing money and we can't afford more even if the cost was O(n^0.9)"?

I can't find the posts you're talking about.
> Yes, it would. ... What are your objections?

I'm thinking that if we look at the numbers we might actually find it makes the problem worse, but in other areas. We have very heavy traffic areas currently, but spread over at least a few square miles, which allows that traffic to route to the available spaces through all the available roads. Giant parking structures at specific points along rail would move a large chunk of that traffic to those structures, but those structures are also much more condensed points for traffic

Simply put, if you think urban traffic is bad, imagine trying to get to a specific parking structure along with a couple thousand other people all at the same time. Instead of a thousand different businesses over a hundred or more roads, it's a few structures, each with limited ingress and egress routes, and limited entrances and exits. Worse than navigating the parking structure at the mall at Christmas, but every weekday as the new normal.

Much better, in my opinion, would be a fleet of autonomous buses and vans with ad-hoc ride-sharing. Since they use the normal road system, they can reach much closer to peoples homes. I actually ran the numbers on this in a comment a few months back (although not very thoroughly)[1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13172888
Take a break and if you still don't care find something else. Pretty simple really.
Citing a dysfunctional housing market like San Francisco is instructive, but only because it provides contrast to the situation the poster you're replying to was talking about. Tokyo may be expensive, but it also manages to house more than 15 times the residents of San Francisco. Not all of the almost 14m people living in Tokyo are rich.

And for those that don't like living in that kind of population density, it's surprisingly easy to live in other cities. The public transportation system there is amazing...far better than even Europe can offer. The Tokyo Metro goes everywhere in the city and the transfers between the Metro and the high-speed rail lines are timed, so you don't waste time waiting. When we took the bullet train, I saw people commuting in excess of 100 mi to/from work. That may sound like a lot to an American, but it was around an hour of commute time with their infrastructure. And since they don't drive during their commutes, they can spend the time on the train doing something entertaining/productive.

It's really eye opening what can happen when you don't prioritize cars in a city. If San Francisco were similarly prioritized and we invested in transportation infrastructure the way the Japanese do, you wouldn't have to live there to work there. You could live in the Stockton area, where the median home price is under $300k, and you'd only have to dodge the homeless people on your way between the metro and your work. And you and your spouse could share a car instead of each needing one since you'd only need it for local trips around your home city rather than commuting.
You would need a ton of debris...

The point of Kessler syndrome is that it's an exponential growth in number of objects.
I don't want to misread "if you're lucky enough to be employed at that time"; are you saying that the games industry now hires labour for crunch time and then fires everyone afterwards?

The games industry has had a poor reputation for a long time but I don't want to unfairly interpret people if things are better these days.
My last job was exactly that. I was dropped in as an almost-30 year old, working with young 20 year olds still in school.

I was fired a few months later, with the main reason being that I usually left the office 9 or 10 hours after coming in and only occasionally worked the 12+ hour days that the rest did.

With a small codebase and self contained projects, I can't really say quality suffered. Only the employees.
Windows and OSX both come with native hypervisors now. Those are what eg Docker "Native" runs on
No one else bothered by "End-to-end tracking of customers" as the primary concern? Ok then.

On the subject of scaling, I think it's good to have an idea in your head about a path to scalability. One server, using PHP and MySQL? Ok. Just be aware you might have to load balance either or both the server and DB in the future, and that's assuming you've gotten the low hanging fruit of making them faster on their own. But as this thread's top comment illustrates, learning that stuff on the fly isn't too hard. So maybe it's better to make sure you're going with technology you sort of know has had big successes elsewhere (like Java, PHP, or MySQL) and even if you're not quite sure how you might scale it beyond the defaults you know others have solved that problem and you can learn later if/when needed.
Mustache is the most limiting (not to mention ugly) template language I've seen in a long time. It allows no logic whatsoever and even writing simple if statements is tedious. We have a Swagger spec from which we generate Asciidoctor documentation via a Gradle plugin which works very nice, and generate basic POJOs for Java and POCOs for C#. That... does not work very well for our purposes.

We wanted to produce named enumerables by using custom extensions and found no way of doing it with Mustache. It didn't help that our custom extension YAML was passed into Mustache as serialized JSON. One of our developers took it upon himself to make it work and ended up writing his own simple version of the Codegen which works well enough for us. He tried modifying one of the backends preparing data for Mustache but then said rewriting it on his own was just simpler.
People even support TLS 1.0 for Enterprise clients. I feel like you'll support your legacy protocols for at least 20 years.
You can generate your own CA certificate, and then use that to generate SSL certificates.

Typical organisations who need their own CA will create a root CA with a 20 to 30 year lifetime. This CA is then used to sign a sub-CA (sometimes called Principal CA, or Issuance CA), with a lifetime of 5-10 years.

The sub-CA is then used to sign a TLS cert, with a lifetime of 1-2 years.

This means that you only trust the root CA. Whether the TLS certificate gets compromised or not is irrelevant and completely besides the point, because the CA doesn't get compromised, and can revoke the compromised certificates.

I can go into detail about a few banks and governments whose CA I setup. Especially the smart card/PIN code distribution to unlock the root CA and sub-CAs was fun.
Then I'm not sure to what extent nw.js solves the problem.
> That (logically) means that your body either retains something it should have gotten rid of or the opposite, meaning your are changing the composition of your body.

A change in the chemical composition of urine strongly suggests a change in the body, but doesn't "logically" prove it. In the simplest case you could imagine consuming some kind of dye which is simply excreted and not metabolized, which could change the appearance of your urine, kind of like in

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

(where the urine change itself mainly reflects what the body did not absorb).

Another possibility is that the body breaks down the drug and excretes all of the reaction products. In principle, that could occur without consuming any other substance, just by applying energy to cause a reaction to occur, or by providing a catalyst.

Also, some chemical changes in the body are beneficial (though the typical random change is most likely not).
Work or sitting at their desk? (or staying in office doing 'stuff'). From my experience and some studies knowledge workers peak at around 30-35 hours a week.

Astonishingly still many client CEOs ask me how they can make their developers work more, marketing also works 60h they claim.
So my wife was on modafinil for a time, due to being very sleepy for unknown reasons. The doctors figured it was better than whatever stims they had her on before. Within a year or so of starting her on modafinil, they told her to discontinue use because there are indications that long-term regular use causes neurological damage.

I don't know what their sources were for that, and it seems likely the doctors would be very conservative in prescribing experimental drugs, so there was probably an abundance of caution in play there. That said, the long-term side effects really are not well understood at all, so I'd think twice before making a regular habit of modafinil use.
You're being taken advantage of. Someone has convinced you that this is normal and acceptable (quite possibly you have convinced yourself).
Hell, even in the states, I haven't seen a cash-back card with a reasonable rate (~5%) in years. Most cash-back cards I see are slightly less than 2% back, while with 'rewards' cards (e.g. Amazon) you can easily find 5%. If anyone can point me towards a nice cash-back card I'm def game, though!
I see a great degree of superficiality in all comments.
Uber has been banned for breaking the italian law, period.
That the law for taxi and similar services might be too much restrictive and could be improved in favour of the market is a completely different matter.
In Italy there are precise rules regarding where and how you can pick up passengers and Uber is violating them.
This is why it was banned. The sentence even states this explicitly: that the duty of the magister is to apply the current law and not the enter in the merits of how it could be improved for the benefit of the market. Did anybody read the sentence before commenting?

Uber has been also banned in Berlin and Amburg and I haven't seen any similar comment here. I would be very curios to understand why.
Bugging and tracing phone
i wanna check my gfs call records and text withut any paid app, i need info to create a malware, plz i beg u to help
Trust When All Conspiracy Theories Are True
"A mathematician is a device for turning meth into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős
What is it your processor spends its time on? Perhaps those parts could be rethought and redesigned?
Perhaps heroku is the wrong solution for those tasks even if it is good for the rest of the app. Would it be possible to find something cheaper for just those parts?
I don't really see the difference between direct cashback, and accumulating points and cashing out every year at 2 points to a $.

Rewards cost less for the company to deliver to you, so they "give" you more of them by advertising their cost as the public listing price, and not the price they actually paid for it.

Cashing out, if fair, essentially gives you the money they set aside to buy select rewards with.
Does Access actually work well for 20 users?
Virtualbox is so far past dead to me, terrible networking issues and performance, dreadfully poor IO performance and oracle to top it off.
Difficulties accessing medical services as an EU immigrant in Germany
Quote: "No programmers really work 60-80 hours a week, especially in a 5 day span."

Wow -- this person doesn't know about hackers (granted that it's a term with multiple definitions). The problem with hackers is not getting them to work, it's getting them to stop.

A true hacker will work on a project far beyond any practical termination point, perpetually thinking of ways to improve the code in ways that meet private aesthetic goals unrecognizable to others and having no bearing on earthly considerations.

Programmers that quit after eight hours and go home may fit well into a corporate culture, but they're not the kind of programming addicts about whom legends are born.

Poets have a saying that poems are never finished, they're abandoned. It's the same with programming, but only if you're a hacker.

p.s. found the original quote:

"A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned." -- Paul Valéry
Thanks for feedback. This issue should be resolved now (I had to use window.location.replace() instead of window.location.pathname).
Fundamentally disagree with the ethos of this article. What about ambition? What happened to that?

> You won’t make the cover of Time Magazine and you won’t be ordering a private jet but that Ferrari is a definite possibility, if that’s the thing you are hurting for. (college education for your kids is probably a better idea ;) ).

I'd like to be on the cover of fortune or as Russ Hanneman might say, "I wanna make a fuckton of money all at once".

I don't see any problem with being ambitious or wanting that private jet.
I think there is a problem defining what is effective when talking about creative work.. I did some contract work a few years ago and while I worked from home and tried to be on task during working hours I was not always at the keyboard during that time. Sometimes I sat on the couch with my eyes closed, and I went for a walk on the beach regularly but I was always thinking about the way in which the code I was writing was developing, the shape of the algorithms and how best to interface to other modules. I even thought about that stuff out of hours (which was unbilled time, though I got a hefty bonus..).

When you take this concept of effective working time to the statistician who sees only the time you spent actually at the keyboard and tells the MBA that your effective time was 2-4 hours out of an 8 hour shift, and that MBA wants you to increase this effectiveness by getting it to 100% of the time that he is paying you.. then thats not going to work.
In case an employee has little overhead, get 2 "part-timers" and let them each work 30-40 hours per week. And cut all other distractions where possible.
6 Reasons Why We Probably Won’t Bomb North Korea
More heavily than ever, I have every bookmark in my bookmarks toolbar, all in folders such as 'home' and 'work' for local URLs, 'checkout' for things I've found but not researched, 'git' for URLs to my GitLab / GitHub projects etc... pretty much every fancy bookmark management service or replacement has massively disappointed me, overly complicated or requires running background services (like xmarks) etc... the only reliable one is the built in Firefox sync, then I use a plugin to export bookmarks to HTML on quit which exports to a directory in my Dropbox directory.
It's not an either or - the second (money) merely is a lot easier if the first exists. I've seen startups soon dominated by thoughts of the private jet for the executives and all thoughts dominated by money, wealth and power. Guess what suffered: Actually developing the f...ing product. Lots of internal power struggles, because fast growth leads to a lot of fancy new job titles and offices.

If money is the #1 motivating factor you'll create the company mirroring your goals. Doesn't mean you won't be successful - one of the companies I didn't mention was eventually sold for hundreds of millions (but that was down from billions of projected value earlier after they screwed up due to what I mentioned) - but you can increase your chances of success if your actual product is actually important to you, and if it solves an actual problem.
How a Large Customer Can Kill a Startup
What aspect of the law did they break? I can't find any meaningful details in the articles. They all just say that Uber was banned for "unfair competition". The primary source of the English articles seems to be a Reuters wire with scant details. Anyone know more or have a link? (Including to something in Italian?)

Are Italian court transcripts generally available online? If this was in the US, I'd normally try to find and read the court docket.
I live in France, it seems to cost between $50 and $60 [0] so 300 times your price! That said I certainly would not take any Modafinil.

[0] http://www.lepharmacien.fr/produitafine/medicament/vdf/231
Healthcare.gov was a site that failed and suffered due to scaling issues.

However, it was an anomaly because unlike a product someone this article is intended towards would be building, that site had an immediate audience of millions of users from the get go.

Also, the fact that it took a few weeks to be rewritten to handle the load at which point it became extremely successful, strengthens the original article's point.

By the time scalability becomes a problem, you will have enough resources to tackle the scalability problem.
Performance of Solaris' ZFS LZ4 Compression
The marginal cost of a single passenger is fairly low to an airline. That's why they have blackout days, and restriction on where you can actually fly with earned credit-card miles... in order to make sure the cost of your flight is always to their benefit or at worst break even.
Really?

I was at one point trying to get GPU passthrough working with LXC and I could never get programs to actually run. Ubuntu 16.04, CUDA 7.5 or maybe 8.0, and a cheap GTX 730.

Maybe I'll have to try again. I was also trying this so that I could run my desktop environment in a container too.
The parent isn't talking about not using banks. They are saying that using debit cards (or cash) to do transactions when you could be doing the same transaction on a credit card and getting free points is akin to leaving money on the table.

This year I made several hundred dollars worth of points for which I did not have to alter my spending behavior at all. I am buying plane tickets and staying in motels and filling gas and renting cars and eating out and blah blah, credit card or not, points or not. It's ridiculous to not want to get back 1-3% of that money as long as you have even a bit of control on your spend. If you actually have a decently paying job so that you don't have to rely on credit cards to borrow money that you can't return, it's perfectly rational to have credit cards and pay the points game.
> but don't let it distract from the important battle to modernize and disrupt an entrenched industry

In Europe, we actually have working public transportation. Taxis are therefore mostly a comodity for affluent people : most never use them. Uber is neither important nor a progress in terms of mass transportation.
Indeed, OSX is almost ready for launch (0.6.3 release), while Linux branch is stalled because of main contributor disappearance. Still looks very promising ;)
I can still see your actions on Google Maps over SSL