skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what worked for me when building http://willyoudidyou.com (accountabilabuddies for hire) is the following:

1. Capture everything that needs to get done in a text document or directly in a project management tool like github issues. Capture any and all ideas you have related.

2. Regularly review and prioritize that list, and adjust it as you go. Prioritize based on your interests and overall priorities. For some people thats market validation - for others, its to have something that works.

3. Iterations. Lots and lots of iterations.

4. Don't get distracted by other projects, no matter how cool, or quick they might seem. Pick it & stick to it.
> I don't get Soylent. Not only is food one of the greatest luxuries in life -- one of the greatest rewards

totally agree with this. soylent feels too much like... dog food for humans
ok. This reminds me of Neal Stephenson's snowcrash [1] , where he weaves the tower of Babel into his story, and talks of the Sumerian culture & the idea of "me", instructions on how to run civilization.

In the novel, he synthesizes academic research to speculate that Sumerian priests gave these instructions to the residents, who would then 'execute' these instructions.

The key point I took away from the book (relevant to this article) is that these instructions were actually, instructions that were followed mechanically --> not necessarily consciously.

Considering that the Sumerian civilization was extant between 4000 B.C to 2,500 BC, well before the 3000 years for the development of the human conscious speculated in the article, I have new respect for Snowcrash. I'll likely go and read it again now.

Note that, as the article says, it is a very intriguing theory, but I am not sure if the switch from a "bicameral mind" to conscious individuality due to language, writing, etc. would be so sudden. For one thing, many other animals have a sense of identity (not necessarily individuality, which, I would argue, is different), so a sense of individual identity itself is not a defining feature of modern humans.

I find it a little difficult to accept a sudden switch to explain the development of language, writing, etc. Language / communication may require evolutionary development of neural structures that seems difficult over such a rapid, short period of time. It possibly is a more gradual process. Nonetheless, very intriguing. I wonder if Neal Stephenson referred to the same work by Julian Jaynes.

Edit: Looks like Neal Stephenson did refer to & credit Julian Jaynes. Awesome!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash#Plot_summary
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_(mythology)

Edit: Added the last paragraph
Startup Next Insurance raises $29 mln in Munich Re-led funding
Consumer data mining and advertising has had a far greater effect. Consumers used to pay for software.

Now software pays for consumers. I wonder how much google spends every year on an average user.

The software is just an intermediary process step in the acquisition of consumer data and advertising dollars.
If some people get satisfaction out of living in a Trump building, as if that is synonymous with class, more power to them.

The name though literally means nothing. There is no consistency, quality, customer service, or otherwise, to any of the properties that bear the Trump moniker.
As someone who works in PDFs constantly (due to work in local government), I would say the point of a PDF is to be able to reproduce the result given a file, not to assume the file cannot be changed... you can easily edit and save PDF files using Acrobat, for example.

It is common that when you "print to PDF" you take the output of the printer and serialize that to PDF. I use this feature often on my Mac (which I think many would claim
has excellent support for dealing with PDF files) to build a PDF that is stripped of any interactive forms: so as to get an output which is only the PDF "as printed".
Productivity tips for procrastinators who work from home
You don't have to "find it in the budget" because the government is the monopoly issuer of the currency: the money is always already there. The concern is whether there's enough idle productive capacity (including unemployed people) to make goods to "back" the new money (or bonds, which are the same thing). The problem with UBI, then, is that it doesn't have a way of stabilizing deficits against idle capacity, which is where (accelerating) inflation comes from.
They're giving you a chance to win $15k and all it takes is delivering a 1000x speedup improvement to software that runs on a 250k CPU cluster?

I'll pass, but hopefully someone else can do this as a labor of love.
> It led to third-generation welfare mothers and housing projects such as Pruitt-Igoe and the Robert Taylor Homes. People have to do something to get an income. Maybe not something economically useful. But something.

The entire point of the article is: in a not so far future there won't be many jobs left, as automatization has taken them over.

Look what once provided many jobs, especially jobs with ultra-low skill requirements: agriculture (nearly entirely replaced by machines, even the tractors drive themselves now), car manufacturing (looooads of jobs vanished there due to robotics, and what's left is the stuff where robots are lacking dexterity), mining (been shifted to other countries due to environmental laws and cost issues, as well as mechanized) and metal production (as before, plus automatization).

The next huge job providers on the death list are transportation - taxicabs, trucks and even fully-automated rail are already a reality -, callcenters/support (due to ML, speech recognition and voice synthesis, plus the rise of customer self service), retail (again, automatization plus self-service, just look at IKEA) and shipping (flying drones!).

The only jobs left will be manual work that can not really be done with robots now or in near future: developing software for robots or supervising them, as well as some trade jobs (electricians, plumbers and similar construction jobs).

The problem: in a society where human labor is essentially irrelevant in terms of quantity, how will there be consumers for all the stuff that gets produced? Either the 1% will manage, due to using robot police/military/riot-units, to once again dictate over the masses and be eventually replaced in a revolution, or the world radically rethinks the model of capitalism. And no, socialism is not the perfect answer either - it's only a step towards a fully equal society.
Disabling it is every bit as effective as removing it, though. It can't be removed because it's on a read-only partition that pulls double duty as the factory reset partition. But once disabled it's as good as removed. It doesn't run. It doesn't get loaded. It basically doesn't exist outside of the button that restores it.
And then we had "microcomputers" (desktop PC sized). Rather disappointed we didn't call laptops "nanocomputers" and phones "picocomputers" :)
You are entirely correct that the practice is weird, but the weird part is banning prostitution. After all as the late and great George Carlin pointed out: "fucking is legal, selling is legal, why isn't selling fucking legal???"

The reason pornography is legal in the US, is the First Amendment, because the US Supreme Court has always and probably always will be very lax with the requirements for the "speech" part of "free speech" and very strict in imposing the "free" part of the bargain on the government. As such pornography is legal because it is an expression, and it is almost impossible for the government to ban these.

Had the founders of the US, when they wrote the Constitution, included the right to free trade I am sure prostitution, and many other things among it, would have enjoyed similar protection. As things stand, they didn't, and they don't.
How Nike Is Trying to Break the 2-Hour Marathon Barrier
Yes, note the tongue-in-cheek reference reference to that problem in the article:

> (Possible workaround: Copy the document after printing using a Xerox copier.)
Maybe we really should bring https://pdfviewer.io to Windows. Looks like the default app is somewhat crap :P
The comedy in this is that the Republicans will continue to scream about "the shrinking middle class" but when every policy is designed to benefit the wealthy elite at the expense of the center the middle class will not magically re-appear.
"That is the meat of why Haskell is so great. I've never so reckless refactored code as much as I do in Haskell, I just wait for the compiler to tell me what I missed and go back and fix it up. I'd never do that in C, C++, Java, etc; it'd be suicide."

That's interesting. I am pretty aggressive with C++ refactoring because the compiler will tell me what's wrong. Especially compared to JavaScript for example. In what way does the Haskell compiler provide better error checking?
> If upstream wants people to stick with the latest and "greatest" then they need to stop breaking APIs and ABIs at the drop of a hat.

"Upstream" usually doesn't care about that. Upstreams—developers who write things that get packaged—almost always have a philosophy of "eh, just vendor it." Which is where things like Docker images come from.

Instead, it's the distros that care about being able to update a package's deps out from under it; because this lets them have one copy of e.g. OpenSSL on the system and fix everything that depends on that package, whenever there's a new vuln discovered in it, by just updating that package. They're the ones trying to eat a cake and have it—even as the upstream devs take the view that you should just eat their ingredients directly and never bother baking a cake in the first place. :)

---

As a tangent: I'm almost beginning to agree with the Golang philosophy: a "package" is its ABI. New ABI = new package with a separate identifier, that everyone has to explicitly update to.

Doing this has two incentive-system effects:

1. It makes package-authors much more reluctant to make breaking changes to their ABIs, which in turn encourages them to think through their ABI before their initial release;

2. The semantics of a semver major version are transferred entirely to the package identifier itself. Almost nobody uses semver major-versions correctly; but if you collapse those semantics up a level, the package-manager can enforce the semantics. So you, as a downstream consumer, can actually be sure there are no breaking ABI changes as long as you're tracking the same package identifier.
My life is close to yours. I have 2 young kids but I work from home. But here's how I swing it: I wake up at 4:00am and work till about 6am when my kids wake up. Then I'm back at it at 7am when my wife takes over with kids. I then work till anytime between 3pm and 5pm.

That's about 10 to 12 hours a day. It's a lot but I'm usually working on contract or my own business so I love my work.

I don't really believe in side projects. I believe in taking a plunge.
I call that that "sore" vs "pain". Being sore (type A) is ok, pain (type B) never is. From what I've heard about steroids is the help you push through being sore, which lets you train more.
I did cut off your sentence, and it was inadvertent.

I am happy to rephrase my question as what is "the medium they're creating the signal in?"

You are clearly getting annoyed at this, and I don't see us making much progress. I find this "experiential medium" even more confusing, and I don't see the connection between entanglement and "unified" experience.

But, hopefully others will make up their own minds based on our words.
I just moved to the States from Canada. Surprised me how far behind payment technologies are here. Swiping is at least as common as the chip readers. I have been to two places that accepted tap and it blew the employee's mind both times that I had a card capable of doing that.

I find this an especially entertaining juxtaposition with the transit systems. In Canada, you swipe on the bus and tap in the stores; in the US, swipe in store, tap on the bus.
Well I can't argue with the contention that there's a level of subjectivity here. However your definition of expressiveness is most likely positively correlated with the one I provided;
furthermore, while you may be able to more quickly "express an idea" in a dynamically typed language, your ability to precisely enumerate the idea will be less than a statically typed one.

I've been writing haskell for only several months, yet I would say I'm already more expressive with it than other languages I have more experience with, like javascript or python, outside of domain specific languages like sql.
From the very first paragraph of the article you linked:

"Research firm Cowen & Company analyzed the state of the beer industry in Colorado, Oregon and Washington—states where both recreational weed is legal and craft beer has become popular".

And:

"MilllerCoors have seen the largest drops. Sales volume of premium brews like Coors Light and Bud Light dipped by 4.4%, while economy brews—the regular forms of mainstream beers like Budweiser or Coors—dipped by 2.4%."

Sales of craft beers go up, sales of draft beers go down. I'm not putting all of that on weed.

I really don't like how all the sources of articles on the impact and results of weed legalization link to... other weed legalization articles.

P.S. A large amount of this "information" is just normal if well disguised click-bait. Please, please, please, link me to hard data if you want to change my mind. I will read every sentence of it!

P.S.S. Also craft beer has EXPLODED in places like Portland and it seems like a natural outcome that, because craft beer is much more expensive, that people buy less of it and enjoy it as more of a social delicacy then a weekend event.
I don't know why HFT exists at all. I would just pass a law that forces a bit of random latency/noice in the market data, in the order of seconds (in a similar way as GPS has artificial inaccuracy). Normal people are not gonna notice and all this HFT garbage is completely eliminated. Win win.
I sometimes do miss the functionality of touching/swiping my laptop.
Could you do a chart with cumulative change over those years?
I mean, then you change CC providers to someone more reasonable.
right, so now you're back to the whole "we should respect property rights... except in this one case, but I'm totally not going to just tell you it's because I prefer it that way! nosirreeeeeeeee! It's because after lots of hand waving morals and 20 years and coOOoooooOOOoode.".

The 20 years is irrelevant to this discussion. Blizzard owns the IP to the software and since ownership itself is a fairly central idea in our legal system the rest doesn't matter anywhere except in your head.

People should be allowed to own things, and they are allowed to own things, and they are allowed to protect themselves from people like you who think your rights and wants as an individual should outweigh their rights and wants as an individual.

Furthermore, just because you make a claim such as "there's no purpose to it being against the law" doesn't make it so.

IP rights go all the way back to the days of Rome, and you'll be hard pressed to find a society who doesn't have a system of laws surrounding IP. That's pretty fucking consistent for something that you claim "has no purpose".

Or maybe it does have a purpose and you're being purposefully obtuse because you want to put your grubby fucking hands on something that isn't yours.
Have tried the newest version? I couldn't reproduce this delay.

And btw. it's version 0.2 not 2.0
It is possible to find a closer job, but I kinda like it here where I am. I have an awesome team mates. I was thinking about remote job, but this is another story, because the lack of personal contact changes you I guess. While I love my wife and my two kids (son - 2 years old, daughter - 5 months) I guess it is healthy to change environment from time to time.
Electronic arbitrage. Interesting, scalable with compute, and highly risky, if you aren't careful or fast enough.
Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine
"They balk because there's usually only one major version of a package that's still receiving security updates upstream."

This is not entirely true, because this one version usually can be configured to produce a lot of slightly different versions of that one version. For example, even simply swapping glibc with musl gets you two different versions of the same version of every package. There are a lot more issues though, nix's paper explains some.

Package management is a huge mess at this point, docker even managed to capitalize on that.
You must be thinking of something else. This is just a card reader that you type a number into that your bank tells you to type, and that in combination with typing your PIN in (and having your card inserted) spits out a number on a little screen, which you type back into your bank's website.

Takes about 1 minute to do, and you don't need it for every action. E.g. you use it for adding a new account payee and for making a first (or very large) payment to a payee.
> ... sucralose

Funny how that information buried on the site. I've re-ordered a few times based on its (prominently featured) use of Isomaltulose, thinking that is where the sweetness came from. Some evidence that sucralose will spike insulin. Seems to jibe with personal experience. Will probably hold off until they eliminate sucralose. Perhaps trehalose?
Chris: What do you do at a Young Republicans meeting?

Alyssa: We help those who already have the means to help themselves. Also, we perpetuate the idea that Jesus chose America to destroy non-believers and brown people.

Chris: I don't know why, but I feel safer already.

Edit: clearly many on HN haven't seen family guy (http://www.familyguyquotes.com/quotes/779.html)
People are tirelessly explaining to you that this wouldn't be a universal basic income anymore.

The good news is that it would be funded by taxing people with higher incomes more. So people with high incomes wouldn't see any benefit from the UBI, they'd be paying for it. The difference is largely administrative and exactly how the benefit tapers off, not whether the (effective!) benefit tapers off or not.
Did gender bias drive code review differences at Facebook?
It seems almost willfully ignorant to miss this point. No one making >$50,000 a year is going to see a net gain in their post-tax income.
Have you tested that? In my experience using a system webview actually consumes more resources than Electron, and is noticeably slower, at least in OSX/WebKit.
People who are pro-HFT see it as a way of increasing the 'liquidity' of the market. In their eyes it makes it easier to move volume of stock, and moves the bid price of the stock closer to the ask price of the stock.
I have three young kids. My experience has been:

1) sleep (a normal amount, not extra)

2) being an OK parent

3) a house that is almost always fairly clean

4) side projects/learning

5) friends

6) a relationship with your partner/spouse that's doing OK

7) actual solo leisure time

Pick four. :-/

[EDIT] Oh, and "staying halfway in shape" comes out of your "actual solo leisure time" hours or possibly "friends" hours if you have the right kind of friends for that.
Somehow I knew before opening this article it would be from Baqend
My confidence in that belief isn't related to the study; I only referenced the study to point out that it had been misrepresented. The study has nothing to say about the effects of cannabis on a healthy liver.

The reason I believe it is admittedly anecdotal, but I still find it compelling: I've simply never heard of someone experiencing liver failure from chronic heavy cannabis use alone, whereas chronic heavy alcohol use alone is known to practically guarantee liver failure.
I've been in few famous tech $megacorp.
I've seen Open Source projects with many companies behind them perform poorly because of BSD/MIT.

It's in the best interest of a large company to contribute until the project gains a large userbase willing to pay for extra features, while selling forks (with added proprietary features).

Then a company quietly pulls out of upstream development to focus on developing and selling their fork. Chain reaction and the other companies quickly follow the example.

Customers trusted that they were using a "mostly" Open Source project but suddenly end up having to choose between proprietary products with an open core.
Very much looking forward to see which Republicans in swing states get the boot next year.
Advanced aircraft fly faster than mountains too, but somehow those mountains manage to hit them.
"my wife and I would review accounts and lease to renters who had given more positive reviews"

That is exactly what he/she is saying. I'm not actually surprised by this.

5-star ratings are a poor means of actually ranking things as they are generally currently implemented - especially when there is no guidance as to what each star means.

Big issues include:

As per this post, if PartyA needs high ratings and can see all the ratings PartyB provides to other PartyA types, they will certainly favor those PartyB types who rate higher.

The "average" on most of these 1 to 5 star scales is not a 3. E.g. the average Uber driver rating is 4.7 (or something) stars. So what does that mean to the user? I need to remember 4.7 is ok but 4.8 is good? Shouldn't the app provide guidance to users? Say to the user, "if you had a good overall drive - rate this 3 stars".

Why doesn't the AirBnB app "curve" ratings as well? Meaning apply my ratings to a bell curve with the average being a 3 - i.e. if my average rating is 4.8 with a high of 5 and a low of 4.6 - why doesn't the app just translate my 4.6 a "1", my 5 a "5" and curve the rest of my ratings so my average fits on the scale? Then users would know that a "3" is average - which for AirBNB might mean "good"? And a 4.8 is truly exceptional?

And of course none of this addresses the problem where my "exceptional" does not match yours. Maybe I like I like eco-tourism and camping, and you like Ritz Carltons and gold martinis. Or maybe I like slow and safe drivers and you like fast drives who run yellow lights?

Regardless, I'm tired of all these meaningless inflations.
Interesting that you "don't know" something and would immediately start passing laws about it...
We did, once. It was called the Works Progress Administration. It built roads, civic projects, and most of those art deco post offices that are still around.[1] The program was quite successful. It ended because WWII eliminated US unemployment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
What data? They say "source: Cowen" after showing a graph and laying out inferences in a video. Even if the data is correct there is a ridiculous amount of projection and FUD put out around the economic impact of weed in no small part to the fact that many people want it to succeed or fail regardless of what is actually happening with it.

Sorry but I am highly skeptical of economic projections by biased parties. Especially when politics are involved, which in the case of weed, it is.