skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through basic training in open-floor barracks with a few folk who insisted they were 'night owls' and would play their music to 01:00 or later, falling asleep to the noise.

Initially the rest of us endured it and would turn-off the radio when they fell asleep, to then enjoy four hours sleep. After the second week, however, we managed to 'cure' the night owls.

I am sure many people suffer a medical condition that impairs sleeping. Most, however, do not.
Microsoft to Add Flux Like Night Mode in Windows 10
Hydrogen isn't even a power source - it's equivalent to batteries, not electricity.
Hop: how instant messaging should have been done decades ago
Well put.

Let's take a look at Google: they have the browser (Chrome), they have the OS (Android), they have their cloud, they have a popular programming language (Go), they have the internet gateways (Google search + other services), they have the data (Google analytics, data mining in all of their other services), they have the hardware (Android phones, Chromebooks), they will have the car (Android auto + self-driving efforts), they want to have the ISP (Google fiber), they have the communications (several chat efforts), they have the social network (Google+, several other efforts). I'm probably missing several things.

Now Microsoft: they have the browser (Edge, IE), they have the OS (Windows, Windows phone, Xbox), they have their cloud, they have several popular programming languages (C#, F#, Typescript), they have the internet gateways (MSN, Bing, LinkedIn), they have the data (data mining in Windows and all of their other services), they have the hardware (Surface, Xbox), they have the communications (Skype, Yammer). Once again, I'm probably missing several things.

Apple: browser (Safari), OS (iOS, macOS), cloud, languages (Swift, Objective-C), hardware (iPad, Macbook, iPhone, Apple TV), communications (iMessage, FaceTime). They don't have the data and internet gateways because they're the only ones still holding themselves back from large scale data-mining.

They say the web is open because "it opposes private, exclusive, proprietary Web solutions". But the web is built with Microsoft and Google tools on Microsoft and Google clouds and viewed with Microsoft and Google browsers on Microsoft and Google operating systems. Maybe we can swap one cloud with Amazon, or one device with Apple, but that's the current situation.
The ideals of opens-source have been almost circumvented in this age of platforms.
My point is that there are vastly more environments different than Earth, than similar ones.

And that while having proof that water based life forms are possible, we do not yet know how common they are. Maybe water is, considered in astronomical terms, an hostile substrate for life.
AST Explorer
> Uh. SSDs use, what, 1/2 the power of a spinner?

Less than that, though it depends on the exact drives you're comparing and whether you're comparing idle or working. Also note that an SSD will be able to idle more since it will serve I/O requests faster (in fact that was a common fuck-up in some old benches which would loop work but not take the amount of work in account when measuring power consumption: an SSD would increase power draw because it would be able to keep the computer significantly more busy than spinning rust).
Do you have HW acceleration enabled? I found that I had to ignore the GPU blacklist[1] in order to get HW acceleration on linux. While on the same card it worked out of the box on windows.

[1] chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist
To put that 35W into perspective, my old SGI workstation has a 750W PSU...
Reality: https://twitter.com/HogeTatu/status/852452547964968960
To expand on this:

You can underline exceptional performance from an employee (or preferably, a whole team/group of employees) by giving them a bonus, or buying them a nice dinner or whatever. But this has to be a bonus: if the employees ask for it, or if it was a promise (carrot) before the work was done, the point is moot, and the psychological effect of the reward will be, too.

If your team pulls through a very difficult challenge, by sacrificing their own time (working a whole weekend, for example), without anyone in the hierarchy asking so, and it was done to address a business blocker, then that definitely demands compensation. The most obvious compensation would be to give them the time they gave to the company with a bonus 50 or 100%. Add money if you feel it is deserved and think the employees would enjoy it.

Just remember that the company can never use this in negotiations ("You're getting a 3% raise instead of 5% because you got 10k in bonuses last year"). It is proper compensation for work done. Nothing more.

Now, back to the matter of motivation: your team decided to do the work. They are motivated. But having to do this will drain that motivation. It is your job as a company to make sure these situations don't occur again. One way to re-motivate people is to show them the steps you are taking to make sure they never have to sacrifice another weekend. Make sure they understand and agree with the steps. They made efforts, now it's the company's turn to do so as well.

Startups often burn people out because they assume that employees are motivated. But being a paper millionaire only buys so much motivation. Engineers (and others, but I don't manage profiles other than engineers) are under tremendous pressure to deliver. Their motivation disappears because they aren't privy to the founders' vision, or don't understand how their work affects the bottom line.

The biggest indicator of people lacking motivation is asking for more means/resources. When people say "we need to hire more," or "we need more hardware," or "we need a better office;" those should be red flags that there is a problem with motivation. That's not to say your office doesn't really stink, or that their laptops are melting during compiles, though. Asking for resources as a bandaid to productivity, I guess, would be a better indicator of low performance ("I'm slow at writing this feature because I only have 4 cores on my computer").
It's in the judgement! Search for "intent":

"Faced with this record, we can only conclude that the North
Carolina General Assembly enacted the challenged provisions of
the law with discriminatory intent."
Burger King Ad Missuses Google Home and Wikipedia
Thats like saying living in the tenderloin is a kind of bad place to live but noe valley is not. Both are in SF just like both Santa Monica and downtown LA are considered part of the same "greater LA"
Why keyboard navigation in Google search results didn't work for me in years
For many years, it had been bothering me that keyboard navigation in Google search results had seemingly stopped working for Firefox. That is, using tab, arrow keys and enter to select and navigate to result entries. Judging from a recent HN comments thread, I was not the only one experiencing this, apparently.

Just today I happened to see my girlfriend using arrow keys navigating through results in Firefox and started investigating again. As it turns out everything works as expected in a private tab, so I figured it has to be related to my search settings. After some fiddling with them, I came to two somewhat weird conclusions:

- Keyboard navigation is coupled to Google Instant, i.e. will only work if that's enabled

- Google Instant was completely disabled in my settings

This is kinda weird because I cannot remember disabling that, nor am able to understand why keyboard navigation shouldn't be possible without instant results. Are there maybe some Googlers around here who have insights on why this is?

Anyway, re-enabling that feature ("if my computer is fast enough") brought back keyboard shortcuts, so I thought I'd share and it might help someone else as well.

TL;DR: If Google search keyboard shortcuts don't work for you, go to Settings > Search Settings and enable Google Instant.
About the only time I ever _liked_ looking at LA was when I did Critical Mass. It was amazing.
The regulation caps what the airlines must pay, not what they can pay.

The moral, outrage isn't because United made a mistake. The moral outrage is because, rather than pay $800 more to correct their mistake, they resorted to force.

The moral outrage was compounded by the president of United not delivering a sincere apology. "I'm sorry your dog was run
over." isn't the same as "I'm sorry I ran over your dog."

There seems to be a case to be made that United wasn't even in the right contractually. It certainly struck many people that way at a gut level i.e. when you take delivery of a product or service you don't expect the seller to come back later and take it back. This also contributed to the moral outrage.
Yes, certainly not a normal nor common view, but as you said, a lot of people seems to share it.
Areo – Google Android App for Food Delivery in India
A protected computer system.

The Information article suggests that driver IDs were available in the clear to anyone who'd bother looking at API payloads.
Xerox these days still make photocopiers, but they also work as really nice printers and network connected scanners.

I imagine a lot of their employees are in the service division. When you buy a high end printer it also comes with a service contract where someone will proactively come and do things like clean the printer and make sure toner is stocked.
I get your point, but I posit that this is a very human point of view. Once you've cracked the energy needs for interstellar travel, what's the point of raising a war campaign light years away (especially if you need generation ships to attack)? Furthermore, it doesn't seem very intelligent to me that all capable species just hunker down in their own gravity well to die off unnoticed and without having explored the universe. Humans have thus far always endeavoured to go one step beyond; why stop now?

Besides, I'd rather we risk ending up on the galactic buffet table for the chance of finding life forms we can "compare notes with". We're all going to die and go extinct regardless.
Woman don't prefer the shy types. Even if they claim they do. Masculinity is defined by assertiveness, aggression and confidence and it works like a nature's built-in override switch in women, even if they claim it doesn't.
It's really all just guessing, with only one data point. It may be that you're right, and alien life is all incomprehensibly weird in different ways. Or it may be turn out that only semi-Earth-like conditions can produce life, and it all looks rather familiar. Or it may be somewhere in between. I hope I live long enough to find out.
Sure. Exactly that. If Nintendo puts that FPGA into an ASIC, in volume it could cost less than 20 USD per chip.
The secret of the tera-keyboard
Nothing is better than Gogland or their (JetBrans') plugin for IDEA.

You can also try
https://github.com/derekparker/delve
Aren't Twitter, FB and selfies a sign of the opposite happening at the micro level?
A lot of mountaineering gear costs a lot, but lasts for a really long time. It's like buying a car in some ways. So your go-to solution should be to buy used.

There's no shortage of people who bought an $800 backpack along with $2000 of other gear, who thought they'd be using them regularly, who later find out that they made a significant investment in a hobby they don't care much about.

Unless you're swimming in money buying gear from those people should be your first choice.

Knowing what to buy is also a huge factor. E.g. the market for backpacks is a bit like the market for racing bikes. You can easily end up spending 3-4x what you actually need because you're convinced that you need the latest & greatest. A bit like the weekend warriors who buy $4000 carbon fiber racing bikes to shave of a couple of kilos, which, unless you're competing, is a complete waste of money.
Tim Ferriss and the Rise of the Email Miser
Lemberg's Advice on Mobile App Development
Entity Framework 6 Extensions You Might Be Unaware Of
I think that is a little unfair, unrecognisable would only really apply after a revolution/war, and even 1955 Germany would be recognisable to 1935 Germans (as one example).

To say that the changes have been merely superficial understates the case.

Online dating, online gaming, the disruption of existing media companies, Facebooks influence over the election, a president of the united states who tweets from the can, khan academy, youtube, the fact you can learn almost anything you can wish to learn by pulling a device out your pocket that is attached to an appreciable part of all human knowledge.

Computation on demand, I can pull out a credit card and have access to computing power that would have been unimaginable in 1997.

Social movements that have leveraged the web to achieve greater reach.

Those are things that mostly existed prior to 1997 but not in the sheer scope and reach that they do now.

The social changes in current teens who live an always connected life (I'm not sure that's a good thing but I'm 36, I'm too old to judge without it sounding like 'back in my day').

I think when it comes to the web things are just getting started, the utility of the network is so great that barring the fall of civilisation I can't see it ever going away and the impact will just keep growing and we'll just keep connecting more and more stuff to it until it becomes a planetary zeitgeist.
do any of the solutions allow you to a/b test, collect metrics, and compare?

that'd be pretty sweet to have, and it would potentially be a multi-hundred million dollar company.
I feel like Apple's culture is one of extreme secrecy even where its counterproductive or unnecessary. I once worked at an ad agency who did a lot of work with Apple and it was ridiculous. People working on banner ads for artists to be shown in iTunes had to go and sit in a windowless office behind a card lock. This wasn't highly secret stuff, this was stuff like "You can buy the new Coldplay album on iTunes".
Self driving cars are worth 40+ billion to the economy every year. That quickly pays for quite a bit of work.
Building image search engine for interior design
They did great groundwork for Apple, they monetized on it while Xerox was left behind empty handed.
Wikileaks posted this excerpt from an NYT article, saying that these strikes hit a network of tunnels originally funded by the CIA for the mujahedeen. The Tora Bora tunnels are in the same region as the recent airstrike, but I haven't been able to ascertain if it's the exact same tunnel complex.

"The first time bin Laden had seen the Tora Bora caves, he had been a young mujahedeen fighter and a recent university graduate with a degree in civil engineering. It had been some 20 years before, during Washington's first Afghan war, the decade-long, C.I.A.-financed jihad of the 1980's against the Soviet occupation. Rising to more than 13,000 feet, 35 miles southwest of the provincial capital of Jalalabad, Tora Bora was a fortress of snow-capped peaks, steep valleys and fortified caves. Its miles of tunnels, bunkers and base camps, dug deeply into the steep rock walls, had been part of a C.I.A.-financed complex built for the mujahedeen."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/lost-at-tora-bora...
Cool, thanks for the link, I didn't think about looking in the Mono source

It'll be interesting to see how the Mono implementation compares.
> I don't really think much has changed.

I think that is the trap of having been there through the changes, you are acclimatised to them, for what it's worth I was born 1980 and also was around during the birth and the web and I do think much has changed.
VisualAssist has a hashtag feature that also works nicely: https://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W574

Eg: // #TODO refactor
>> without the lock-in

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

>> The V850 controller software was built to only listen to the CAN bus and not write commands to it.

If the hardware was intently designed for sniff only, you'd think a simple uni-directional buffer between the V850 and CAN bus would have mitigated this risk in one fell swoop. Maybe it's hinde sight bias, but directly interfacing a complex, OTA-enabled embedded accessory to a bus used for safety-critical control sounds about as sensible as strapping a Raspberry Pi to a flight control computer's 1553 bus and thinking it's all gravy because the former's software is designed to "only listen".

That being said, I understood from a former Delphi engineer who designed engine control modules that there's a pretty strict and expensive approval process for electronics in the automobile industry, and reliability predictions are taken quite seriously. I suspect even if an engineer were to design in a true read-only interface, it'd probably get nerfed during design review as a consequence of lacking traceability to a hard requirement.
These will be useful for your next game of Scrabble.

Ki, the plant Cordyline fruticosa from the Pacific islands and China, this word coming from Hawaiian.

Chi or qi, the life force in Chinese philosophy.

Li, a Chinese mile.

Mi and ti, represents the third and seventh notes of a major scale.

... maybe more, I've just found a page on Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/i%CB%90#One_sy... (Fi, ghi, gi, shchi, ski (!) and maybe Twi.)
I seriously doubt that's why HN posters flagged this article.
We are currently overfitting the public datasets. The only valid test is a new never been used image set.
Could you ellaborate? That's in the movie, what is in the book?
Interestingly in the Microsoft research paper they indicate that the algorithm could be used for other scenarios, seems they were right
Bizarrely, about the nicest commute I ever had was to El Segundo. I lived in Santa Monica by the beach, and worked in El Segundo by the beach (crappy job but that's a different story).

It was a 13 mile cycle down the beach, with the terrible exception of Marina Del Rey, where you had to go inland.

I saw bonfires every Friday after work; an episode of Wilfred being filmed; and once even a pod of Dolphins swimming along and jumping out of the water as I cycled along this unusual formation: https://goo.gl/maps/WXaZm1Kb5Lu (long and narrow with water on either side). I saw numerous beautiful sunsets, drum circles in Venice beach, homeless encampments waking up for the day (I always liked the idea that the homeless at least got to sleep with a ten million dollar view), and the occasional tallbike. Of course, my own recumbent got a fair amount of attention.

This all took about 50-55 minutes. The drive down 405 was 40-50 minutes by comparison.

All the while I inhaled loads of particulates, no doubt, and my rib still hurts from the crack put there by an inattentive driver for the 1 mile stretch between my apartment and the beach. I got screamed at the few times I tried to cycle down Lincoln, and one guy got out of his car and threatened to punch me. I was buzzed too many times to count by gigantic brodozer SUV's and lifted pickups.

Man, I usually say I hate LA but those 8 months of commuting were amazing. I really wish I'd gotten a helmet camera. Paradoxically every commute I've had since has been under 10 minutes and kind of dull. At the risk of being melodramatic I weep to think of the city it could've been.
Benefits of Using BBW Dating Sites for BBW Singles
Cleantech Innovation you should know
About two years ago I stumbled across Paul Graham's essays and started reading my way through them. One of them was "What I've learned from Hacker News" (http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html)... That introduced me to HN.

(At the time I was in a Third-World country with very limited Internet. HN, at ~10kb per page load, was one of the few sites I could afford to visit regularly. That helped to get me hooked ;-) )
`done right`

does not explain in any way how this solution is pertinent

forces you to use inheritance

forces you to use RelativeLayout as root

yeah, right.
What's the best way to add this to an existing project?

Going through all code at once would destroy all relevant vcs history and git blame. Maybe before each substantial edit on a file first run it through prettier and then make your real changes in a separate commit?
Every Vimeo Video
Could you (or someone else) help me out here? I'd rather like getting an error in this situation, but in my code, with strictNullChecks turned on, TypeScript seems to be fine with the above... What am I missing?
Much of modern LA was inadvertently planned to be auto-dependent through parking minimums, single-use zoning, and before that, redlining. All of those shape neighborhoods and structures. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/housing-discrimin...

[edit: redlining didn't necessarily cause auto-dependence but it is an example of planning]

After all, if every structure has to have 2 parking spots per apartment, you'll get far, far fewer apartments in the same space, forcing things to sprawl.

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/420062

I think they might finally be learning though. The Expo line goes to the beach now. And they spent $1 billion+ to widen Sepulveda pass and now it's slower than it was before. Perhaps next time they'll put rail in instead.
What do you think is going to be Snapchat's next move?
It's interesting (to me at least) how much of the ideas they had back then are still waiting to be expounded on, they (and people like them) did the foundational work we still build new things on now, I read a book (I wish I could remember the title) about the architecture of the 2nd and 3rd generations of IBM's mainframes as they battled with the problem of "how do we keep the same software running on different hardware" and came up with virtualisation etc.

I wonder how many dusty copies of papers sat in university libraries contain ideas that brushed up and given a new coat of paint would be considered revolutionary.

The other side of it is I still use stuff those guys wrote every day, while typing this I switched a bash terminal to run an install command using a program that is pretty much identical (if a superset) of a program written in 1977, 3 years before I was born.
We share 50% of our DNA with a banana. That doesn't mean that a banana has all these incredible human characteristics. Stats about "percentage of DNA shared" are meaningless. A very small change in DNA can produce very large changes in the organism - ones fundamental to its nature.
The .AGENCY new gTLD is doing good
Courage is the most important resource you can have
Here's a crazy idea:

What if we picked a domesticated animal such as a pig or dog, and began to breed the species for intelligence? Or any other suitable animal. Only intelligence (and general health), over an extended period.

It's believed that all of the modern dog breeds came about in the last hundred or so years. Modern domesticated dogs are definitely intelligent, especially socially intelligent. They understand words, they look you in the eye to get your attention, they understand their name, they seem to have simple emotions. How fast would they evolve if directed scientifically by humans?

... and at what point would we have to stop, because they're approaching human intelligence, making the program unethical?
Good thing we're keeping so quiet then... :P /s
A colleague and I spent a couple of days setting up high-fidelity webpage->PDF rendering, and by far the best results were got with SlimerJS and xvfb.
100+ mile weeks are not that hard. It all depends on how fast you run them. There's a world of difference between running them at 8 minutes a mile and 5-6 minutes a mile. I've run multiple months of consecutive 100 mile weeks, but mostly at a gentle pace. I wouldn't call that pushing myself.

I do agree that many Olympic runners have a gruelling training regime though.
> Programming is an inspirational activity best learned from reading books written by great authors.

Or by doing and reading others code.