skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are many things that government won't do and there is no market for it e.g. Polio vaccine

From my reading of [1], the Polio Vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#History
Do you get your hair cut or order pizza? Take a taxi or visit a bar?

Service or entertainment type jobs where you interact with the person for most, if not all, of the time usually get tipped and you're tipping for good service/entertainment. Although some restaurants have this nasty practice of including the tip in the bill...

In the US, most pizza drivers pay for their own gas and the tip covers the gas. Tipping them is a courtesy for delivering your food to you out of their own pocket. They choose to deliver because more often than not the tips pay more than enough to cover gas expenses.

The "interaction" is why you might not tip your plumber but you will tip your hairdresser. You probably aren't making small talk with your plumber the entire time they are working even though they are providing you a service.
Good point. Do you have any idea why they didn't opt for a Hilbert curve, like others suggested here?
Major Internet Service Providers Are Fueling Their Own Disruption
Fun! The confetti effect was one of the first things I learned to do in JS, though it was a few years ago before React. A lot of finding splines manually.
Sounds like a weak radio signal! I wonder if we could pass it through a deringing filter to remove some of that noise, eg, like these guys have done: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~oztanb/Papers/spie07paper.pdf
Also, the Curb app works really well. I haven't yet used to request a cab, but when you get in one you just enter the a six digit code from the screen into the app and it automatically takes care of the fare and adds a default tip (which you can adjust).
Yes.

If you are a large multi-national where your product pipeline is shallow due to competitors creation better products than your R&D.

I think the Xeon Phi is an example of something which fell flat.
This wouldn't work for open-ended sandboxes like Minecraft or Dwarf Fortress, and not just because you can build a Turing machine in those.

I'm talking about adventure-style games that have a defined solution and way to "win", and the complexity of computing that solution. In that regard, games that require a full backtracking search and aren't amenable to shortcuts tend to become tedious.

As an example, it's entirely possible to build an adventure game puzzle equivalent to an arbitrary SAT problem.
Thanks for this url. I am studying the paper now.
>Any time there's a power differential, we need regulation.

The biggest power differential is between the government and "everything else." Far too many people think regulation is the right answer, right up until the "other party" gets their hands on it. People say regulations are bad because they see the results of the bought and paid for regulations that our governments are writing. One need only recall the Princeton study which demonstrated there's a near zero correlation between what voters want and what gets enacted into law.
Did he run a Tor exit node?
I'd guess the complexity is dependent on the decision graph complexity: cyclic vs acyclic, entrance/exit points...

If it gets to conditional / puzzle evaluation that starts to get Turing Complete, then it will hit the halting problem, which I believe is thought to be noncomputable for nontrivial graphs / code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
Yeah, looks like the submitter was not the author.
I think the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game had a dead end very early in the game. If you didn't solve a non-obvious puzzle you'd be off in the weeds not getting anywhere interesting.
Ask HN: Is it ok to talk to your co-workers about your side project?
On one had you work with them daily and you may know a few intelligent people whom you can have good conversations about.

But on the other hand they may start to suspect that you are working on your side project during business hours.

What are other pros and cons?
That's more for a Do Not Fix label: http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
You have a giant list of common typos, making you a worse and worse typer as years go on, until you are mashing your head on the keyboard to type anything.
On an only mildly related note (as a lover of CYOA books):

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/169984/stowaway-52
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/192729/jump-ship
Red Hat steps up its Kubernetes game with OpenShift Container 3.5
No, because things aren't gonna live up that nice.
Did you really just "Double right on" the need for smart regulation and then proceed to armchair quarterback your way to another useless regulation?

Look, we don't have a problem with overbooking in this country (USA). I saw a chart with numbers of how many voluntary and involuntary losses of seats there were on each airline. Even if you add everything together for all the airlines, for the whole year, it's like 10,000. And a huge percentage of those are voluntary rebookings.

Do you know how many people fly every day?

You've just introduced an idea for yet another regulation to fix a nonexistent problem that will screw up the airlines pricing strategy and most likely raise ticket prices for everyone.

Just let the market sort it out, and it appears it already has. Most of the airlines have already revised their rebooking procedure.

We. Don't. Need. More. Regulation. Smart or not.

This is exactly the problem. Everybody wants smart regulation, and everybody thinks they are the smart ones.
No more so than caffeine consumers.

Instead of scare tactics you could look at actual costs: https://www.gwern.net/Modafinil#costs
> The problem with the Passenger Pigeon is that it was very common everywhere, and its behavior came to rely on this fact. An individual will leave its flock and just assume it can find a new flock. Once the population level dropped below a critical threshold, it was doomed.

An interesting thought exercise is to presume this is written about the Homo Sapiens at some point in the distant future by a neutral 3rd party observer.
Thanks, I watched the whole video. A great success of natural capitalism. I wonder how drone surveys, satellite mapping, and synthetic biology could extend this 35 sq-km success to 3,500 sq-km and beyond, augmenting people's needs and efforts. As said in the video, let's "properly understand the miracles performed by trees" to make this more
profitable and spread everywhere.

I also agree with the farmer who said "what about our children, they can't eat trees!!". There's an opportunity for climate change solutions need to be communicated at human timescales (days, months, years). Decades are too hard to imagine.

Thanks for the video!
You are right about Polish economy less likely being at risk than Greece and Italy's. This is mainly because Poland is not part of the EMU and retain control over their currency.
> What I have learned in this short period of time is that the pervasive narrative of “if you work hard you will get on” is a complete myth. It’s not true and we need stop saying it. This is because “working hard, and doing the right thing” barely gets you to the starting line

The author misses the point. It's true that only saying “if you work hard you will get on” is not enough. But it's only half the picture - working hard will only get you somewhere - the starting line. Then you need to continue and improve and adapt. Whether it's worth that time and effort is another question.

But simply accepting a half truth as a whole and ignoring the whole picture is harmful "It’s not true and we need stop saying it." is the completely wrong thing to say. Better: "it's not the only thing that counts, and we need to give tell our children what they really need to do"
I took a year off to travel in my late 20s. Five years later, it hasn't been an impediment in my career. My timing was in part because I was about to move out anyway, and hadn't yet bought much furniture, because I had roomates.

It doesn't sound like you really want to travel for a year. I'd suggest taking a month off to reflect and decide what you want before you commit yourself.
If we want our kids to grow up as good coders, we need to remove all the XXX content from our codebases.
I skipped the WiiU, precisely because the one game that might have motivated me to get one got delayed so long that it was also available on the Switch.
Actually, it does appear to work on PCs.
For a low data capacity network, I don't see why home data connections shouldn't work. I have a 130Mb connection at home, which would support plenty of voice calls simultaneously.

The real issue here is the control ISPs have over the networks. In my imagined future where we have crowd sourced cell towers, the tower operators have their own fiber connection at home that is essentially unregulated. Because that's a future I want for other reasons.
Toot – Mastodon CLI interface
Starting a Distribution Business (in 2017) – Starting a business in 2017
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

s/technology/science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

At some point, people on HN will get over their fear of words like "toxins" and embrace the Tao Te Woo as the advanced science it is.
Interesting, but -from the repo description- why this is limited to Go source code files?
I use Lyft these days primarily _because_ I have the opportunity to tip the driver for great service without using cash. I don't believe ratings (especially Uber ratings) are meaningful at all because it's either five star or you're fired, and as a customer you pay the same rate for terrible service as you do for excellent service. I don't believe tips are an excuse for getting around the base fare in this case or for avoiding min wage laws.

Being able to easily tip a driver for exceptional service is great, makes me feel better as a customer, and provides an incentive for drivers beyond stars. What's the harm in making it easy if your base rate is the same? As long as it's not an expectation I think it works quite well.
Puzzle Dependency Charts
I don't care what GPU my mobile phone runs. It's fast enough, I'm ok with it.

I also don't care about servers. I'm not a dev-ops/admin person.

On my laptop/desktop, where I DO care, I don't see Intel going away anytime soon.

Even if we switched to some ARM devices, it would be a regression (if not for anything else, for having to run most Windows/MacOS stuff under some kind of Rosetta-like interpreter for many years).

Besides, as soon as ARM CPUs approach the limits of various manufacturing processes, they will face the same issues Intel does. Moore's law is not coming back.
There a lot of programmers in my company who are in super early and leave by 2-3pm. But I think most of them do it out of necessity because either they have kids or they have long commutes.
Dagnabbit I remember using outhouses with the whole neighborhood! You spoiled whippersnappers!
That is what I have read on this topic, yes.
I like how you named and styled the command after how many terminal users actually approach these situations.

1. Hurriedly type something to solve a pressing problem. It doesn't work but tells you enough the fix should be obvious to a machine.

2. Mutter or shout "Fuck!" in head depending on how obvious problem was, how often it repeats, or just how long it takes to redo it.

3. Perform the correct action.

Your model is like the Underwear Gnomes model for problem-solving applied to terminals. They always missing step 2. Except, on step 2, you just "fuck" to get profit... err, you get to finish at Step 2 with one word. Finish faster with this technique to move on to next job in workflow.
I certainly agree that auto-play videos and analytics JS takes it too far. But a little CSS to improve readability of code, some markup that allows links to be clickable, etc, seems reasonable to me at no performance cost.

25, so I grew up reading most of my content on wikipedia or forum posts, which is about the level of markup I mean (minus the ridiculously huge banner signatures that people were so fond of on invision forums ;) )
Actually there is plenty of precedent for that conclusion. Scaling CPU cores up (=efficient but high performance cores) is super-hard -- making low-power cores is pretty simple in comparison --; almost everyone fails or failed at it. Currently there are two companies on the planet that do that sort of thing, and not so long ago it was only one. Notable names that failed hard in this are: Intel, DEC, Sun, Fujitsu, AMD, IBM, HP, Intel, as well as SGI, IBM and AMD.
The current system is a reverse-disincentive to screw the customer.
Headless Chrome on AWS Lambda
Not worth it in my opinion. Giving off the impression that you want to leave your job (even if you don't) is a bad look. Find literally anyone else to talk about it with.
Yeah, that's the way I've been using it too:

FIXME - something is there, but it doesn't work

TODO - something that needs to be there but isn't yet

XXX - something is there and works, but should be cleaned up.
Are you a developer? If so, at your age and in today's market - it's called a career suicide :)

It's gonna be tough to pass the recruitment process in a year from now for so many reasons. The competition is stronger than ever and will increase over time. Everyone applies for dev jobs today. Add-up a lack of practice, being outdated and wanting to take a year off. All these are red flags for recruiters (not even interviewers). Personally, it will feel even worse when you'll start re-applying if you're burnt out today. Dev interviews are ridiculously annoying now and require a few months of practice.

If I were you I'd do that if you have a strong plan coming back and not simply applying to jobs. Or, if you're planning on building products while traveling, you won't carry that one year gap in your resume.
Jet Blue is generally very pleasant.
First they ignore you,

Then they laugh at you,

Then they fight you,

Then you win.
Yes but only if computed on fpga with open-source tooling. (thanks to Clifford for that also !) no this is not completely nonsensical...
>README is markdown formatted

Is it? How do you see that? Or is that a different link?

Why doesn't my browser render markdown?
FYI - waiters also get _really_ mad if you only tip 10%. That's basically 2% less than minimum wage the way the IRS taxes waiters.
Yes, he did. (according to meduza.io)
Who said we aren't milked as consumers too?

Those are two segmented markets. If Intel's revenue is above their R&D and other expenses, then whatever profit they make milking enterprises/server companies is independent of what they make milking us.
Andrew Plotkin (aka Zarf) wrote and published PlotEx[1] while working on Hadean Lands.

[1] http://eblong.com/zarf/plotex/
Oh, I didn't know that, thank you.
Honestly it depends on your employment agreement. If your side project is making money I would not discuss it with anyone at work.

If your employer decides, now or in the future, to take a substantial interest in what you are doing it can cause you no end of headaches. Also please note that it only takes one or two individuals within an organization to stir up trouble. The founder/ceo may not be that interested but if one party along the line decides it is best for that work to cease it will be a HUGE pita.
Out of honest curiosity: What is your take on human life, then? A sittuation, let's say, where I cause you suffering in order to improve the quality of my life? Or vice versa?
TL;DR for anyone wandering by:

> We hypothesized that PS would improve UX, which is defined in this study as the emotions that are aroused when a user interacts with a product or technology. The PS website was perceived to be more fun than the no-PS website. With respect to perceived usability, enjoyment, satisfaction, and visual appeal, there were no differences between the PS website and the no-PS
website.

Great that someone formally studied it, though I'm a little put off by their subjects demographics as compared with potential customers of any given business. That is, I feel like students at a university are more adept at using interfaces than "the average user" who is going to be your potential customer.

1/5 factors they tested did signal added value, the 1 being "fun". More fun, but not more usable. I'm not yet convinced that fun correlates to sales in this context as much as usability, ESPECIALLY once the initial wow factor wears off.

I assume by "trouble" you mean motion sickness. Two of them had motion sickness, not just run-of-the-mill confusion from the usability of the site.

All that said, the main point I was making was that often designers spend a great deal of time trying to get PS working just right not because they think it will bring in more customers or make their site more usable, but because that's what other designers are showcasing and they want to emulate that trend.
I think the original taxol was made from Pacific Yew, but the synthesis is from another kind yielding a precursor molecule.
> Everyone is focused on targeting WASM with several languages but is missing the big problem: lack of a standard library

I'm not so sure that's a problem that would benefit WASM to solve. Right now the imports Emscripten provide are the defacto standard lib, which does shape how other projects approach WASM.

I feel a large reason behind seeing so many interesting toy projects that use WASM (and it's quick cross browser adoption) is due to it having such a small scope. Define a portable, easily optimizable VM.

The big challenge there is to support higher level concepts like GC, you need to make that work at a machine level, not a standard library level.
I believe Lyft allows tipping (or editing the 'given' tip) up to 24 hours after the ride.
Yep, travel agents can do that for you.

I'll forward the suggestion of having this information (seat dimensions, extra legroom) more readily available to agents when booking (I work for the largest "traditional" travel agents group remaining).
That's weird because I bought the WiiU specifically for third-party Platinum titles - Bayonetta 1&2 and The Wonderful 101. BotW was just the cherry on top.
There's a Doctor Who episode that sort of goes there a little, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_No_More_(Doctor_Who) . It isn't one of the better episodes and the main plot is rather ridiculous but it does touchy upon your argument tangentially.
Here comes the Terafactory™.
By wrapping links in anchor tags, for starters.

Maybe some CSS to font-color the code to make it more readable? I like that in my IDE and I doubt it would cost much.

Maybe in-document anchor tags to allow linking to certain sections?
Thank you!

I haven't even tried the wahwah effect, you've definitely piqued my interest.

I had a look through the SoX effects list[1] for the wahwah, but can't seem to find it. The closest thing I found was the 'flanger' effect[2].

[1] http://sox.sourceforge.net/sox.html#EFFECTS

[2] https://allg.one/zKMP
> Personally, I just wish some airline would test "the market" for a premium level of services (few more inches of elbow room is "premium", apparently) that doesn't cost 5x the money for 10% more space.

puts tin foil hat on. I wonder if the fear is that if they improve economy with more leg and arm room and charge a little more, they will lose first class customers to the better accommodations. Essentially the intentionally make economy a bad experience so that people upgrade to first class which is multiple times more expensive.
Hi there, this is Ralph with Mender.io. Thanks for the kind words! We've met a few people from Resin at conferences and they are very nice folks. We very much appreciate your technology's approach and look forward to seeing your open source platform.
Within reason, sure.

But declaring the overwhelming majority of electromagnetic waves to be the purview of the state and its friends is, to my way of thinking, far from reasonable.
Spectrum auctioning is really bad policy.

Spectrum is like the road network. Why would we sell it to the highest bidder for them to sell it back to us?

Instead, spectrum should be public and free, like roads, for those that follow the usage rules.
The things I think would improve the functionality of the OP article would require no JS whatsoever, just a CSS file and HTML tags. Really, just HTML tags at minimum. I wasn't suggesting including a JS file.
Generally speaking, your chance of failure is probably around 99%. Starting a startup is essentially buying a lotto ticket.

Like jacquesm says, finding a new job and running your startup on the side is the safer bet. If that's viable, then I'd suggest you find a new employer that has a contract friendly to side projects.

As an aside, there should really be a list of companies that are friendly in this regard. GitHub was recently in the news for allowing employees to work on personal projects using company resources, which is awesome.[0]

[0] https://qz.com/937038/github-now-lets-its-workers-keep-the-i...
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I said this elsewhere, but I wonder if offering better economy seats would reduce peoples motivation to buy expensive first class tickets.
Sure, that's going to cause anyone to do a double take - this thing is obviously a cartoonish imitation of a bomb. What's amazing to me, though, is that after they realized it wasn't a bomb, they still bragged about it on Twitter as their "catch of the day". That's kinda like if you were fishing and posted the biggest boot you reeled in that day.
Thanks for the comment.

>>> without the lock-in

>> Anyone know more precisely what he's talking about? The article doesn't specify.

Apologies for the confusion, yes I had meant vendor lock-in. That is usually a blocker for many embedded projects starting out. This is why we've created a open source project with both client and management server licensed under the permissive Apache 2.0.

If you are interested, we are always looking at ways to improve our project and if you'd like to participate in a one hour user test, we conduct those over Google Hangouts:

https://mender.io/become-a-tester
Back when I was trying to make the uberman (and eventually the everyman) sleep schedules work for me, I ran across a person like you, it made me incredibly jealous. He seemed to think it was that his brain only went into REM mode for some reason. As the other comment mentioned maybe it's just a simple gene mutation, if so perhaps CRISPR can replicate the effect... Lots of stuff if you google "Short sleepers".
Thanks! I hadnt heard of Paulownia before. 3-10x more sequestration than the average tree: http://paulowniabg.info/?page_id=56

One challenge with plant-based sequestration is that the carbon is released when the tree dies/decomposes. I wonder how planting more trees will balance out at the decade-century scale.
I use my initials when I'm getting to grips with a new code base. It's not for committing, just as an aid when I'm jumping around following the code.