skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My feeling is that the only real way to solve the problems is a lot of actual direct communication, ideally 1 on 1 conversations but that means lots of people have to be involved.

I attended a protest that ended up being a big yelling match that I didn't want to be a part of and I was able to strike up a conversation with someone on the other side (not one of the rabid in your face protesters) and I found that pretty valuable. She thought Trump was chosen by God (and some other pretty wild stuff) but my guess is I had a bigger impact on her than the angry people that were on "my side" that she saw the rest of the day. I think if we have enough of that maybe we can change some minds but I don't expect anyone to simply come to an accurate realization on the state of affairs based on what they are exposed to in the media and on the internet.
It is entirely possible that it would evolve differently, perhaps given that not everyone would be available during the 'dark' hours you might see a society evolve into dual function, where 8 hours were for 'working' and 8 hours were for 'community/family' with 8 hours split into two 4 hour segments as 'transition times'.
The elbow surgery that baseball pitchers sometimes need. There were reports of pitchers throwing better afterwards, which led to young aspiring pitchers with healthy elbows requesting the surgery. I don't know much about the actual process, I was just reading an article about the ethics of operating on a normal elbow in order to gain some competitive advantage.
While "performance" is undoubtedly top of the interest list for the HN crowd and many others, there's more to talk about.

The size of a sensor defines the fundamental "look" of the format, which is simplistically stated as the DoF for a given focal length, and not just the general field of view. That "look" is also made up of the lens characteristics, and in general, those lenses most popular or available for said format, i.e. 35/50mm for FF/35mm, 75/80mm for 645 or 6x6.

Creative decision making takes place outside of the moment of shooting, too, and having those options is a key reason my kit cupboard hosts everything from half-frame to 6x6, as well as mirrorless and FF digital cameras. In the past, fewer options have meant that amateurs and professionals alike operating on the same or similar platforms. In modern times, few amateurs that I know run digital medium format cameras. Actually, none.

While it's marvellous that my iPhone's performance is so good, but once past the pixel pushing, the tiny sensor is mercilessly exposed by my geriatric Leica M9 despite its "rubbish" sensor, because the look of FF combined with Zeiss glass is just fantastic. And it's always ready to do its job.

I think the best camera is the one that gets out of your way. iPhones are ponderous to get ready for shooting if locked, and when I need to take a picture, I need to take that picture.

(edit: apologies for any incoherence, just gotten home after 7.5 hour drive)
Neat, both this and sqltorrent. I'll have to read up on this in more detail...

Does this mean you (essentially) need to download the index before doing any searches? Or is there trickery to minimize even the FTS index pieces you need?
I would guess that the brain also does some reorganization functions while you sleep, where redundant info is compressed, and resources are freed up so that you can reuse them. Being conscious a larger percentage of the time may inhibit this.
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Wow. Pearson is the absolute worst Canadian airport for this to happen to. It's often fast to get through security, but when it is slow, it is by far the slowest to get through security. The delays were probably felt until the end of the day.
FWIW, I use XXX, and I've never come across an instance where XXX was anything but a FIXME/TODO. It doesn't show up in any project I've worked on, in the ways the author exhibited. e.g. IP addresses usually use lowercase xxx, if they use letters at all. I see a lot of network-related code, and XXX is just not a thing I see, outside of comments.

But, really, I don't have strong opinions. My editor can highlight anything I want to use for this purpose, and I think they're all (XXX, FIXME, TODO) pretty universally recognized as meaning "This code is kinda ugly, and we ought to do something about it." which is maybe enough granularity in the code itself when we already have ticket trackers, source control, unit tests, etc.
Why do this when http://bitbucket.com will host private git repos for free? They also have have Large File Storage implemented as well.

I use GitHib client using BitBucket for repo hosting with LFS and it works great, no need to host anything.
The instructions say that you can just use SQLite, though.

"Based on your choice, install one of supported databases or skip this step"
I always believed that line is intended to be sarcastic.
What's wrong with putting an economic "value" on a human life? It is something we all implicitly and explicitly do every do. Implicitly, by deciding how much money to spend on increasing our own safety (e.g., how much extra to pay for a safer car). Explicitly, by things like insurance as you mentioned.

Burying your head in the sand and refusing to understand that the world is full of trade-offs, which can most easily be expressed via economics, doesn't help at all.
Actually, I've started reading this long article, based on the comments here.

The HN comments can give me a pretty good feel for whether I want to bother reading it. For a long-form article, the comments here may be shorter, more informative, more entertaining, or even all three.
I did similar a long time ago with zip compressed TIFs and JPGs. Added reverb and the results were really unusual: https://vimeo.com/105317804
Experience 1:

Got an AirBnB in Montreal Canada in December 2016. The photos were great. The owner was quick to respond. So I booked it and reached the place.

Bummer 1: No cable. ( But in the listing it was there)
Bummer 2: No safety. The owner had converted an apartment into two, separated by a thin wall. The wall had come off and he had the gypsum wall leaning and cautioned me not to touch it.

Since it was for 2 days and in the middle of a heavy snowfall, I let it pass. Fast forward some hours, a couple of people checked into the other half of the apartment, started playing loud music, shouting and smoking. The smoke started coming into my half of the place because the wall was not really sealed.

Experience 2:

Rented a place which had a profile photo of a family. I thought great ! When I checked in, I felt it was some sort of "setup" just for the purpose of renting it out for AirBnB, I asked the owner where she lived. She said "nearby". I felt something fishy as there was no family ! The reviews even said there was a family (fake reviews ? ).

So after the owner left, I googled the address and to my surprise, I found that the address is under a rental agency. Next I found that the door lock is not working and internet is less than the speeds of dial up. I left the next day and disputed it on AirBnB.

AirBnB said, "Its legal for rental agencies to list on AirBnB". ( what was the photo of that family then ? ) Since AirBnB was not willing to refund and gave me a 25$ coupon, I disputed with AMEX and got all my money back.

That was my last & final stay using AirBnB. Deleted my AirBnB account after this incident.
No it does not. Errors shouldn't propagate more than a block
Even though its just an alarm clock, I cannot imagine the thought process (or lack thereof) in trying to fly with that.
This is wonderful.
Can't argue with the results.

http://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=176016&p=1159581
Ask HN: I got laid off, how should I use my time to work on my startup idea?
I'm an engineer and I just got laid off. I have enough savings for 2-3 months of funds that aren't my own (severance, etc). How should I use my time to maximize the chances of success (getting funded, etc) to continue working on my startup idea fulltime?

I would consider success getting a small angel investment to continue working fulltime.
Met a guy who was trying to sell a setup to plasma-fy the air along the edges of turbine wings to squeeze a bit more efficiency.

There's room for improvement still.
Wherever it says Openstack, that's Rackspace cloud. All the cloud stuff under Infrastructure is powered by Openstack, running on Rackspace hardware in their data centers.
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Yeah, I was aware of this, I did mean for a desktop. But if I want to get this, would it come with all the software tools and whatnot? I have no idea what tools it would need or whether they need more money to compile code etc...
Not only that, but doesn't MP3 remove "sounds changes you can't hear" or whatever, whereas jpg removes "color changes you don't see"? There is a parallel there, but I would imagine they would be quite different since one is based on human auditory response vs visual response.
I wouldn't describe something capable of executing something quite so flexible as shaders/kernels an ASIC. It sounds much closer to a CPU -- designed to execute nearly arbitrary software. And if we're including chips that execute software as ASICs, then it seems to really water down the term to be meaningless.
Determining who are "founders" used to be as simple as looking at the articles of incorporation. Now we have language barriers and only grammar nazis would defend the original definition?
Whose cultural values would be taught? I'd guess that the majority of the US doesn't share your particular social values, not to mention how much those values have changed over the last 20 years (e.g. on things like gay marriage as an obvious example).
Anecdotally, if you know a lot of people who act like them. I know very few that are that driven in the face of no further material wants. Not everything needs to be proven. You need to have a bit of a lust for power to want to push to those levels.

The ability to kill all your other competitors does imply something about your intrinsic properties. But I don't think that's very apt in this case, Musk and Bezos aren't intentionally killing lots of competitors in the cradle. The ecosystem comparison might be a bit more apt, and there are certainly a number of people who are very driven and long-term-focused who never achieve the same heights, because you can only have so many megacorps in each field. But I think those people that don't achieve the peak still end up much better off financially than pure luck and circumstance would imply.

I was mainly arguing against the sad-sack sour grapes tendency I've noticed recently to say that very rich people are just luckier, and are no more deserving of their status than anyone else. That is, frankly, bullshit, unless it's inherited.

That's not to say we shouldn't strive to give the educational and financial resources for everyone the opportunity to thrive, I certainly think we should do more there. Bolstering our state university system so that it once again offers everyone the chance for a very cheap high quality education would be a great start.
This rings true to the spirit of Ahmed Mohamed
There are probably apps that target what you're talking about and I don't know what they are. But I do use an iPhone app for weight lifting (stronglifts.com) and I can tell you that an app definitely helps immensely.

Instead of me wandering around wondering what to do next, I leave that to the app. 90-180 seconds between sets? Keeping track of progress? Increasing progressions? Took a couple of weeks off and need to reset? I leave that to the app. I leave the details to the app. I still take responsibility for decisions like whether, when and how much to increase.

So I'd encourage you to look for an app. I just don't know which one.
My wife and I have developed a vacation strategy we call "M&M": markets and museums. We usually book an AirBnB near good transit and food markets. We buy food for breakfast and dinner at the markets and cook it or have a picnic. So a real kitchen with a fridge and full size stove and often a dishwasher removes a lot of the hassle of eating out every night when we're tired from exploring 8 hours a day. Last place in Paris even had a washer/dryer. Two weeks in heaven. We did have the stay from hell in Queretaro, MX, though.

As for the hosts, with one exception they have been extraordinarily helpful: pickups at the airport/bus station, free tickets to a Paris musical(!!!), free lodging with the owner's friend after a devastating hurricane(!!!). I generally have an ongoing conversation with the host via email over the course of the stay, and the cool local tips flow freely.

We intensely detest corporate hotels these days. Gonna be in one in Atlanta for two days this week. Yuk.

I was in the middle of scoping out the area around the Fair Market in NYC when they passed that recent anti-AirBnB law.
This will definitely help some co workers who aren't CLI-savvy and always tell me their commands "didn't work".
Interesting, I've never seen any XXX that was deliberately put into code and not just forgotten to be removed before a commit.

I'm equally likely to put asdf or www or aaa or yyy. Just to grep in debug output when doing println debugging.
Your personal problems (and health and family) should always come first before work. Any reasonable manager should be able to recognize that and help you out. Worst case take a day or two off to solve your problem. Long run - day or two won't make a difference.
>The loss of Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef alone costing that region 1 million visitors a year, imperilling 10,000 jobs and draining $1 billion from the economy

This is terrible for Queensland, but it doesn't support the $1T global cost. Most of these tourism dollars will go to other attractions that are slightly worse on the margin--they won't just disappear.
To be a cartel, you simply need to agree to limit supply to keep prices higher. So it sounds more like a cartel of survival rather than to make obscene profits.
Like "Built on Windows NT Technology" which expands to "Built on Windows New Technology Technology." I believe this appears during the install of XP.
Capitalism.party is a paid Mastodon instance
+1 for not being PC
I had the same reaction. Then realized he meant a pint-sized cat burglar scaled the wall, snuck through a window, and lifted a wallet. To me this is extreme considering it would be far easier to be a pickpocket or scam artist.
This.

Even in Murmansk I visited few months ago, airbnb 'studios' meant, a guy, who bought big apartment and divided it into three to four separate 20m studios. All ikea refurbished.

The only folklor I got, was local 'manager' who arrived in ultra old (suprise it still worked) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZAZ_Zaporozhets
Do you know of any good resources to play around with RubyMotion? I went through the quickstart for an Android app, seems pretty simple, but I am not too sure how I would structure an app or change views.

Ionic 1 seemed pretty straight forward to me and I haven't tried React Native.
Audioshop: Process images as audio
seatguru.com is where I go to check seat dimensions. Spirit has a seat pitch (the distance between rows) around 28", two inches shorter than major carriers. And few of their seats recline. You get what you pay for..

I can't fit in there - I'm 6' tall (183cm), so I fly Delta and buy their Comfort+ seat upgrade. But I'll also look at their 1st class fare, because after checking a bag and getting the upgrade, sometimes going all the way to First is only like $100 more (and the bag check is free, and you're first off the plane, and first to get your bag at the carousel).
Ask HN: What task or process would you like to be 10-100x more efficient?
Pigeons as an API?
> The fact that airlines aren't responsible to take care of stranded passengers during weather delays is inexcusable

I had read elsewhere this is specifically to avoid an incentive that would otherwise exist for airlines to fly in potentially unsafe conditions.
Or gitlab.com which offers private repos and also allows you to self host your own gitlab instance if you need to.
> Some of the most valuable education one can receive isn't offered at school.

Yes, but all the rest of it is.
Or am I so spoiled that I don't even realie that 191 megabytes is a thing

I think that's the most likely option honestly. I don't mean that to be snarky, by the way. Most of the dedicated VR users now are still largely in the early adopter space and are heavily high end PC users - so they generally have higher levels of technology ubiquity.

To reach the vast majority of people, the costs, in both money and accessibility, need to drastically come down. Practically, for facebook and other developers, that means reducing the overhead on these systems dramatically.

Mobile is the nearest term approach to this - though still unsolved. Again, this is why Carmack is focusing heavily on GearVR development and says so himself [1]: "There is no way that a PC peripheral or a game console winds up being the path that billions of people interact with."

[1] http://www.reaxxion.com/7793/carmack-announces-that-oculus-r...
I guess a simple PC power supply can look like a bomb given enough curly wires.
That thing looks like it began it's life as a power supply.
Every day:

$ git pish

$ fuck
In George Church's book Regenesis, he recounts the interesting story of resurrecting the Pyrenean Ibex by somatic cell nuclear transfer and surrogate pregnancy in a closely related species. The source article is a great read [0].

The animal that resulted died of lung complications shortly after birth, but apparently veterinarians indicated that these complications were totally within the norm of ibex ontogeny, and probably not a failing of the underlying cell biology.

So, for just a few minutes, an extinct species was brought back to life.

[0] -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19167744
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Short answer: code them ;-)

Long answer:

The Algorithms and Data Structures course is one of the foundational courses of a CS degree. Even if you think you don't need to be able to implement the algorithms you learn in your work later on, it is important to have some idea of which algorithms exist for a given task.

Also, and perhaps even more importantly, understanding how these algorithms work really hones your problem solving skills. You learn how to abstract the information given to you as part of a problem into an appropriate data structure, and what kind of operations you can carry out with which data structures. You learn how to cope with several different layers of abstraction and develop an intuition for programming approaches that are fast and/or light on memory. Basically, the ADS course doesn't teach you how to be a programmer, but how to think like one.

As for studying for this course: there's nothing like doing it yourself. Chances are, you already have to do so anyway as part of your course work. Take the programming tasks seriously and really do try to do it yourself. (Get friends to help you by all means, but don't let them do the work for you.)

I would advise you not to slack either: based on your information and the ADS course at my uni, I'm guessing that you're still at the very beginning of your degree. It isn't going to get easier in terms of workload, and the algorithms you learn about later on in the course are a lot more complicated than those at the beginning. But if you've made the effort to understand the first bunch of algorithms, you'll be in good shape to understand the latter ones too. So yes, it is hard work, but you can do it :-)
After staying in AirBnB, I realized why I have to pay more in hotels. In hotels, we take things like security,clean beds,heating,cooling, a 24 hour reception etc for granted.
But in AirBnB I have to waste my time behind all those things rather than enjoy my vacation or fulfill my purpose of the visit.
I think they meant that a child (noun) cat-burgled (verb). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat_burglar
I have heard of at least three believable theories of why we sleep.

- To turn short term memory into long term memory, to consolidate long term memory, and prepare the brain to learn new things.

- To clean the brain of harmful waste products (which is what this article says. By the way, it is old and from 2013).

- An evolutionary artifact of energy conservation in resource-low ecosystems.

Are there some other theories too?
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For me it tends to be

$ git poop
Really? What do "most people" think when they hear "hotel"?

edit: for all you down voters, he is the dictionary definition of the word "hotel":

"an establishment providing accommodations, meals, and other services for travelers and tourists."

Which means every "Airbed and Breakfast" is a hotel.
True, that could be one way of framing the whole "using adderall/modafinil for productivity" issue. What is a "regular user" though? Someone with ADHD taking adderall in the morning to boost the "executive function" of his/her brain during the day? (as someone with ADHD, adderall sedates my hyperactive brain as opposed to its intended effect, look up the stimulant paradox for more on this) Someone who takes adderall the night before a big test to pull an all-nighter of productive studying? I've personally never heard of anyone (without ADHD) who regularly takes amphetamines to boost waking-hour productivity. Modafinil has related but different effects, regular modafinil users take it to offset the reduced mental performance brought about by sleep deprivation. There might be some nootropic effects of modafinil unrelated to its wakefulness promoting effect (cognition-wise), but like all nootropics, whether there's any actual increase in waking-hour cognitive ability is debatable.
How could it possibly take so long to confirm that this was not an explosive?

I'm asking that sincerely.
The important bit of party games is to meet your friends face-to-face and sit on the couch together.

Its rare to find 8-player party games with simple controls that anybody can get into.
AirBnb is also collecting occupancy tax in many cities [0]. I don't have a view on whether this tax is well justified, but it does seem like if hotels are required to charge it, then full time airbnb hosts should be required to charge it as well.

[0] https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/653/in-what-areas-is-occ...
Geez that term is becoming more nebulous by the day
No you don't need to download the indexes beforehand. The download always starts from the first piece/page (0). From there it essentially performs binary search and only downloads the least amount of pieces possible in order to satisfy the query.

SQLite is already optimized to minimize disk-seeks, so it already knows to do the bear minimum amount of reads - which translates great for even slower I/O such as this (network access is much slower than disk access).
Two examples:

You'll find a lot of part-time workers that work 30-35 hours/week, including in IT, because that is the most they can work without being entitled to benefits. The difference in the nature of that work and the benefits may hide any significant differences due to total hours.

There are also plenty of companies where the employees only work a few hours per day but are in the office for 8-10 hours. Take Google, for example. It's fairly easy between gym, meals, massage, sports league, etc to only actually have 30 hours/week allocated for work, even though a person is in the office for 8-9 hours. However, it may be a huge psychological difference to be trying to fill your work day vs. having full control over time.
IIRC the story Manhole 69 by JG Ballard references a requirement to divert neurotoxins in men whose sleep centres were disconnected/cauterised.

Ballard I presumed was just speculating. But based on his relatively high level of scientific knowledge I imagined it was rooted in some sort of real world science.

That story was written in the 1960s...so has the state of research on this remained slow or was Ballard just making a lucky guess?