skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a real effect.

If you have 100 people, 95 of them are competent and put out 6 resumes every 3 years (on average 2/year), and 5 of them are incompetent and put out 100 resumes every year, then in a typical year the average hiring manager will see 95x2 = 190 resumes from competent applicants and 5x100 = 500 resumes from incompetent applicants. Over 70% of your pile of resumes consists of incompetents even though they're only 5% of the population you're sampling from. (Numbers are all made-up.)

Article in a math journal here: http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/22...
REI = Recreational Equipment, Inc. (essentially a a camping and hiking store though they do have some general sports stuff like bikes)

SAR = search and rescue
Wow that hits home. Been there, done that. Pro-tip, especially for Californians: If you're on a shoe string budget, don't go set up any kind of tax or business entity before you have revenue. Paying CA's $800 LLC tax and paying an accountant $400 to write "$0" on your tax return every year is a pointless waste of money. Ask me how I know.
Why do you say maltodextrin has no nutritional value? From a metabolic recovery / glycogen replenishment perspective it's the most efficient thing you can ingest. Pure maltodextrin (aka "carbs in a can") mixed w/ sugarfree beverage powder is the go-to during/post-workout drink for elite athletes across many sports.
When you end the day, do you have a second fake commute home?
this could very well happen, and it raises the spectre of a truly bad outcome: permanently balkanized networks. "GoogleNet" and "AppleNet" and "VerizonNet" and no affordable interconnections between them. In other words, the end of the internet as we know it.
> now survives as a zombie currency backed by the souls of all the bag-holders foolish enough to invest in it

Honestly, most of the world's economic trust is backed by similar bag-holders, just without the use of proof of stake algorithms. Yes, one could argue that hard goods are an amount of tangible trust that can represent value, but most of the value in today's systems comes from human backed trust, which itself is irrational. Take the Fed for example.

A bag-holder, by any definition, is simply an individual that believes a given fact, irrationally. Here, the irrational belief is that cryptocurrencies like Litecoin can give way to rational desirable outcomes in the future. This is based on a mostly rational assumption crytpocurrencies are designed to provide a rational and clear means by which value can be established among those who participate in a group using the technology. For example, if I send you 1 Litecoin, then everyone in our group can immediately come to the rational conclusion you now have control of 1 Litecoin, assuming you control the private key to that address, of course. In other words, we agree to use this thing because this thing appears to be rational.

It only becomes irrational when we start talking about adding fiat currency values into the mix. Those values themselves are based on human established trust, so must be irrational by definition. Again, I point at the Fed. The way the Dollar's value is calculated, in part, is by analyzing 100K different products sold on the markets. Who picked these items? Who decided how much they are worth? What ruler was used to measure their worth?

Either we can continue down the path of handling irrational beliefs the old way, by electing group leaders (or leaders electing themselves) to speak for the group and it's collective value, or we can adopt new ways of instantiating trust by letting computers do it in a way that can be proved to be almost, but not quite, completely rational.

> Can we all just agree that Litecoin is a way over-hyped and silly excuse for a cryptocurrency?

No. As I've pointed out now, the belief that our current economic systems "make sense" is irrational. I think it's far better if we all agree that something needs to be done about it, that something might be slightly irrational in the short term, and that cryptocurrencies, like Litecoin, may present a rational means by which we measure value in the economy of the world, moving forward.

As is clear from its current market cap, it would seem others agree with me, and disagree with you.

Note: I use the terms rational and irrational frequently nowadays. When I use the terms I am referring to the concept of either an "unknown amount of work ahead" or a "known amount of work ahead". Programmers may liken this concept to the the P versus NP problem. While not equivalent, they both represent an idea that an unknown or overly large amount of work can be "collapsed" into a known amount of work, and thus calculated at a given cost.
The noprocrast setting also works well. Too well.
Or on shared hosts via a genuine account on the same server?
> And for all the recent advances in neurobiology, we seem no closer to solving the mind-brain problem than we were a century ago

Er... Maybe not consciousness-brain (although I'm no expert on this at all), but it's hard to dispute that we have a MUCH deeper understanding of movement-brain, perception-brain, memory-brain, problem-solving-brain relationships that we had 100 years ago.

Consciousness is a touchy subject. We've been studying cancer for a long time and haven't found a cure for it either. Yet, no one thinks that cancer originates in quantum effects. "we're no closer to solving it" is not a good argument in favor of one theory over another.
Currently weak AI is winning, but you forget that weak AI has always historically won. The annals of history ( as in the last ~100 years :P ) are littered with field attempts at finding "consciousness" and mixing neuroscience with philosophy with the occasional mathematician and once in a blue moon a CS...

My skepticism comes less from a hatred of "Strong AI" and more from the fact that it has been promised over and over again with no results to show for it. In addition, every time "weak AI" makes progress, there's always someone who writes an article bashing the progress of "weak AI" and saying "it isn't REAL AI (tm)".

This is kind of similar to the reason I dislike neuromorphic architectures, you can't just assume that you're right and look down upon all others, you need to show results if you want to do that.
I am very productive in a cafe environment, I like the atmosphere and it is a nice change. I just pop in some noise cancelling headphones and code away. At a cafe there is a lot of noise, but other than that there is really no distractions.
Don't Intel's latest chips have a couple TB3 busses included?
Don't forget the weak-copyleft licenses like the MPL, where it's perfectly fine to use it in commercial projects, but all users are guaranteed access to the copyleft source code (but not the proprietary code on top).
I've said for a long time that people should choose a license they way the choose a screwdriver, not the way they choose a religion. Your comment touches on both parts of that.

Want code to be open forever, and for you and your contributors to not be taken commercial advantage of? GPL could be a good choice. Do you desire total world domination (for a new protocol, for instance) then go with something like MIT that allows both open and commercial implementations to interoperate easily, without a lot of license drama.

And yes, some people may "feel" as you say, that they only want to contribute to GPL projects. Sometimes for religious reasons, sometimes other reasons.

For my part, there are some kinds projects that I would not contribute to under MIT/BSD style license, because I would want my work to be available to some community without being taken advantage of. Certain pet hobbies of mine fall in that category. OTOH, there are many BSD license projects where I am happy to send a patch or two because I benefit from the ecosystem in numerous ways, including commercial support for said BSD software.
>You emphasized anyone but by allowing developers to take the code proprietary, their users (which are using your code) are being denied the freedom you promote. This is of course the distinction between GPL and BSD-type licenses. One gives developers all the freedom they want while the other ensures that all users (including those using derivative works) are given those freedoms.

Their users are not being denied the freedom to use my code, their users are being denied the freedom to use their code, which is their right.

The cynic in me really thinks its important to wonder why there exists a GNU, and not an organization formed around and sustained by the MIT license.
It's a quibble, but I would expect most $50 million dollar investments to be low risk. Things like power plants and so on.

You mean VC investments, the point is that VC investment is a small fraction of overall investment.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what your country can do for them.

Why worry about precedence? When I'm in power I'll just change the rules!
> I think largely because transactions can be ultra fast, ultra cheap, and can execute auditable, but arbitrary custom logic.

Blockchains are neither fast nor cheap; their value is trustlessness, not performance. The SWIFT network handled 15 million transfers per day in 2015 [1], Bitcoin's current maximum is around 600k per day/~7 transactions per second. That being said, the Bitcoin-limit is self-imposed (1MB per block), but even so the security of the network weakens as storage requirements for nodes increase, so some limit is required, in my opinion.

The value of crypto currencies is in the decentralized/trustless medium of exchange. I think, in the end, we will use various clearing protocols on top of Bitcoin, in order to circumvent the slow on-Blockchain settlement (just like VISA handles consumer-to-merchant transactions instead of SWIFT). It's very much like gold: perfect as a store of value, but relatively cumbersome to transfer from person to person.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interban...
Very true! if you every look at http error logs on a WP site it's full of bots trying plugin paths.
It does require forethought, planning, a knowledge of how to cook food, and the ability to source and store ingredients, however. All of which sounds like too much of a hassle for me, to be perfectly honest. Rob Rhinehart, the creator of Soylent, doesn't even own a refrigerator (not that I'm suggesting people should be more like Rob...). While you may find it sad that others don't have the time or patience to cook, for a lot of people it's just one of those things they'd rather not have to deal with -- and for those people, Soylent isn't an alternative to cooking real healthy food, but rather to buying a burger at McDonalds.
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I'm not sure what they mean by "interface"..
I have a sous vide, but it doesn't have bluetooth or whatever Joule has. It seems unnecessary to make all appliances smart when a knob to set the temperature and a timer on the phone works just as well.
Very interesting comment. Definitely food for thought.

One thing to keep in mind is it's not only depresssion that could cause the poor time management that Soylent benefits from. The whole "gotta be working every minute of every day" ethos of SV can feed into this very easily as well. Which isn't also to say that the two can't be intertwined...
You were depressed so everyone is depressed? I don't think that follows.
> If you do that in the app store (ios or android), prepare to get thousands of 1-star reviews for your old version from people who believe they are entitled to updates for their lifetime.

As I user I've had the opposite problem: developers who radically change an app that was perfect. I have no way to revert to the older version I preferred. If the developer had created a new app, I could have stayed on the old one. It's unfortunate most other users want unlimited updates. Paid upgrades and version selection remains an unsolved problem.
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Unless you grow and prepare all your food yourself, you have this problem with anything.
Now that I've experienced the start-up world twice I have to say: What's the big deal about working full time in big corp? Not all of them have cubicles and ask their devs to wear suits. T-Shirt, free coffee, huge desk, free hardware, other smart people who are just like me, reliable income, some level of attractiveness to the other gender due to stable life.

Honestly I don't know why I didn't do that from the start and worked on my projects in my spare time.
Any meal you can cook without the Joule using other cooking methods. 8 oz of chicken breast (~$1.50), 6 oz of brussel sprouts (~$0.75), 8 oz of potatoes (~$0.25). That's a $2.50 meal. Add half an onion, some bell pepper, some spices, and oil for cooking and it probably comes out to less than $3.

Of course, those are average food prices in the US so YMMV. If you're in NYC or LA/SF, it's going to cost more than that no matter where you shop.
limitations make people think outside of the box.
I've survived as a solo dev for the past decade by driving cabs, living on the streets (mainly West LA/Santa Monica), dumpster diving, etc, and now its starting to pay off as I conquer the world with a new kind of operating system!!!

Check it out: https://linuxontheweb.appspot.com/about
Yeah, just like ketogenic dieting and no-carb diets are supplements.

What?
Netflix isn't paid per movie, it's a monthly rate.
When we went to raise money for RhodeCode which was GPL at that time, it was no issue for investors. Nowe we're AGPL and switching the license was no issue for current investors too.

Also so far no questions about AGPL beeing a problem for our customers.
> ...people seeing eating as a nuisance that should be optimized away versus something that should be savoured and enjoyed.
> In one world, Soylent could eventually dominate, in the other, it will remain a niche product because eating and food is too important too most, also culturally speaking.

This is a false dichotomy. I savor and enjoy food, but not all the food I eat. If every frozen burrito was replaced with Soylent, Soylent would be far more than a niche product, yet society would not have lost it's appreciation for the cultural, social, and culinary aspects of food.
The kinds of things I'm referring to is almost always around relinquishing power to the investors on the board. Founders end up with very little control even if they have board seats.
> Drinking Soylent was ruining my health.

Was Soylent ruining your health, or enabling you to let your health decline by isolating yourself? If the later, I don't think that's any reflection of the product itself.
They are wrong because of the marketing aspect at least. An expensive shoe can be the same as a cheap shoe in quality.
I know. OSGi needs to die. I'll quit a job before I subject myself to that level of pain and despair ever again.
And how did you measure that?
> instead it's the general communications (including for banking) that the rest of us perform online that will be made vulnerable

Hardly ironic at all, since as long as someone stands to gain either money or power from doing so, they will simply do so under guise of the former.

Not ironies, just tactics.
Keto might not be for everyone, but unless you're a type 1 diabetic it's not nearly as dangerous as you're describing. It's just a low carb high fat.
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> I want a non data transferring power plug that can't be used to compromise my machine should a manufacturer opt to do that.

At least in Linux you can disable automatic binding of kernel drivers to devices like so:

echo 0 >/sys/bus/usb/drivers_autoprobe

You can plug in a keyboard and even though the device is recognized and listed in "lsusb", it's not used as a keyboard (or network device, soundcard, scanner, ...)

# dmesg
[ 1017.031703] usb 1-10.4: new low-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
# lsusb -s 1:8
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 046d:c30e Logitech, Inc. UltraX Keyboard (Y-BL49)

I can type on this newly connected keyboard, but no key presses are recorded on the console or on X-windows. My other (also USB) keyboard that had been connected before is still working fine, though.

This can even be done with a different mechanism on a per-bus basis as described in https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/authorization.t...

If I decide to use the 2nd keyboard, I'll manually bind this device to the usb hid driver like so:

# echo 1-10.4:1.0 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/bind

(the :1.0 comes from the different functions one single USB device may offer) And from this point on the keyboard works normally.

I have no idea why no one bothered to make a nice gui for this feature (which also works on other busses), or why it's not standard to popup some message-box on other OSs (e.g. Windows) whenever something is plugged in a port, before even trying to load any drivers.

(edit: added 2nd part where I manually bind)
You're both right.

The problem is, his side is "winning". Linux is quite hostile to proprietary software, so not that many people will use Linux since apps > OS. So if OSS doesn't push for better apps even on proprietary systems, it won't even get out of this catch 22.
I've never tried Soylent, but I do have to drink Ensure many times a day.

Ensure has a massive market, $billions in annual sales, and medically proven results.

The medical market is not where Soylent is going right now,
But it is massive and proven.

If they could market to younger, hipper folks who've been prescribed Ensure, but would spend their own money for something nicer... That'd be me.

(BTW: I finally ordered some huel just now... Really sick of Ensure, will give that a try)
Eat some fruit and vegetables.
> and (soon) Flex Grids

If you mean CSS Grid, and you can afford to target only modern browsers (with usable fallback CSS for the others) then you're good to go right now. Even Edge is working on bringing their implementation up to the spec right now[2].

I agree with your other points too. CSS frameworks don't bring that much, and end up clouding your ability to write and understand raw css IMO.

[1] http://caniuse.com/#search=grid
[2] https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-dev...
While valid, that is a totally different scenario from what the OP wants to protect from. I am just pointing out that when connecting a phone and a laptop to an USB the default is that phones are unsecure and laptops are secure-ish. 0days, badUSB and all applies of course.
Democratic centralism FTW!
You're forgetting responsive design, which I would argue has always been one of the most important aspects of a CSS framework.
Be careful to avoid mixing in the DNA that comes with the wood pulp that the paper is made from..
Interesting thought, but if I may ask, can you really blame Soylent for that?

The only person that I know drinks soylent only to surpess the hunger until lunch, and doesnt plan on drinking only soylent. So far they say its doing its job good enough.

What's your opinion on that ?
I haven't had a use for it myself, but it seems like it would be a nice thing for Github/lab to facilitate.

Maybe it'd be possible to somehow do it cleanly from within git? Have a license-transfer file that reading

FOR ALL WORK PERFORMED ON THIS REPOSITORY THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE TRANSFER ALL COPYRIGHT RIGHTS TO [name of owner] :

John Smith

Bob Bobberson

Whatever Whateverson

etc.

It's a little clunky.. a better solution would need some git integration I'd imagine. Maybe someone has a better idea? :)
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I would be inclined to agree that it's a poor solution to lifestyle/mental health issues. otoh i have appetite problems which soylent DOES solve.
I used to run ownCloud, however I switched to Open-Xchange for mail support.
Or value types, which would remove some of the need for native code(yes yes, I know it's coming in Java 10 which means we'll see it in 2030 or so).
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I've heard several stories about problems with USB-C to DisplayPort. To be honest it's been one of my main concerns when looking for a new Ultrabook, HDMI (as practically implemented) mostly doesn't work with 2560x1440 and higher res external displays. Wonder if that's a reason to why they went with USB type A and separate miniDP?
Do you even know what a ponzi scheme is?
There is also geopolitical reasons for this. There is a high chance that east asia will be embroiled with some war coming soon, which will disrupt both manufacturing (either in china or Taiwan), or transports of goods.

Even if the North Korea problem gets solved, the China problem is still there and it wont be solved anytime soon.

If you have some streamlined manufacturing here, it is easier to fork it in case the main area of supplies goes offline due to regional wars/embargoes/troubles.

Right now relying only on east asian manufacturing is a single point of failure for apple.
Thats what irks me about these statements. Nowhere in my post did I even allude to the fact that I may consider this a bad thing. Not remotely. I'm just stating a fact. People get a bunch of welfare.

The one thing I do have a problem with is that europe has managed to engineer its population into a situation in which the majority of folks are forced into positions where they can't move out of welfare even if they wanted to, in a reasonable fashion.

In my opinion, both healthcare and internet access have achieved utility status.
Handheld screen time linked with speech delays in young children
See, I promised myself I would leave this thread before people started toting out the arguments isomorphic to "you only eat Soylent 100% of the time! You monster!"

You announced this at the outset, and remarkably have left a number of comments now. Yet you were the one who keeps bringing up this strawman, and exactly the same circle of argument happens every single time. You, as is the rote cycle, are trying to argue both sides at the same time.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221430.h...

"If you deprive cholesterol from the brain, then you directly affect the machinery that triggers the release of neurotransmitters," said Shin. "Neurotransmitters affect the data-processing and memory functions. In other words -- how smart you are and how well you remember things."

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More saturated fat, less dementia.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-optimalist/201310/y...

"Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat. In the Mayo Clinic study mentioned above, it was found that those individuals consuming the most saturated fat experienced a 36% reduction in risk for developing dementia. And this comes on the heels of data now indicating that saturated fat consumption has absolutely no relevance in the area of cardiovascular risk as recently described by Dr. Glen Lawrence in the journal, Advances in Nutrition."

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This study seems to imply that large amounts of dietary cholesterol may not be needed for brain function though...

http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/1880610
Naively this seems like a PHP bug, using the UA submitted host? Is that necessary?
The choice of m and C need not be exact. It is enough to choose them so that

1. If there are no ratings, Bayesian average is close to overall mean, and

2. If there are many ratings (how many depends on how big the site is), C and m do not affect the result much.

You probably can do a little better if you have a lot of data and ability to run A/B tests, but for vast majority of cases pseudocounts work just fine.
Agreed. This whole "you might need it to survive" stuff is such a total fantasy, it's as realistic as "you might need to learn klingon to survive on a bird of prey some day".

This fiction about civilization collapsing, but then surviving on your wits and hunting skill, is the stuff of YA novels.
Thats measured by the fact that we dont have 30 million opioid addicts who turn to hard opioids becaue seeing a doctor is way too expensive.
I think you nailed it. It's almost like that Yogi Berra quote - nobody writes software anymore because it's too competitive.