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I think the sleep and productivity times vary with age, food, and stress levels. I used to be a late nighter almost all of my teen life into the early 20s. But have now become early(rather super early) riser.

As expected light plays a huge role in altering sleep cycles. All my devices go into blue light mode around 5:30 pm, and same with Hue lights at home. And the lights turn on to 6500K ~30 mins before my alarm goes off. If for some reason my lights do no turn on I still find in hard to wake-up at 2 just with an alarm.

As for food, I've noticed on days my diet is heavy in red meat, and fats I tend to sleep longer.
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> Who is going to want my 78.94 year old organs?

There isn't an age limit on donating organs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8226709.stm

> Professor James Neuberger, associate medical director of NHS Blood and Transplant, said: "The belief that there is some sort of age limit on becoming an organ donor is a complete myth.

> "Organs are successfully transplanted from people in their 70s and 80s, and the oldest cornea donor recorded was 104 years old.
Yeah, I know, Sadly doesn't work with the new engine.
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I can understand your point. But here is our belief at webpack: The community owns us, sponsors and backers are our shareholders, yet at the same time, they are all candidates to expense and fund the time they sacrifice contributing to our community. Until Sokra (Tobias Koppers), went full time (thanks to our continued growth in support) we have expensed more of this sponsor and backers funds to our external contributers than to ourselves as the core team.

Our community is growing so rapidly that there is no reason why any person shouldn't be able to receive the same recognition and appreciation for their work, than we should as a core team.

I have been in charge of finding sponsors, backers, and partners for our organization and I always focus on this first: don't for funds but instead relationships, opportunities, and ways we can use their contributions (whether it is man hours or funds), as a vessel to mutually benefit those individuals through increased learning, mentorship, marketing value, support, and more.

An example of this would be our application to the MOSS Grant board to support an initiative dear to Mozilla to add first-class module support for WebAssembly. This not only allows us to potentially be awarded over 100k in funding, but also helping Mozilla support their initiatives, and finally, putting a feature such as WebAssembly in the hands of Developers in an accessible and pragmatic way.

As a project when you focus on money and who is sponsoring your project, you lose sight of the true beauty of open source.

In the end the only thing that matters to us is that you give a shit about our mission and want to find any way to give back to the organization, contributors, and users.
The video is amazingly inhumane. Things that presumably took many person-years to create are shown for such a small fraction of a second, and in such rapid succession, that it hurts my brain to watch.

I know that they are doing some fascinating work --- I own a Hololens, and I think some of their research work is potentially game-changing.

But who is the audience for a spot like this? Do non-devs care about their "design system"? Would devs not rather see something substantial, instinctively dismissing this kind of razzle-dazzle?
The font rendering was my biggest beef with Windows, I like them smooth while most Windows users seem to prefer sharp. I used to use GDI++, then MacType, for over 5 years until two years ago I switched over to OSX. I have been quite happy since then.
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What does the court's opinion matter if you don't have any roots in their country?
I'm sure Indian and Chinese people must be delighted by the prospect of being 'voluntary' livestock to produce meat to replace the failing body parts of wealthy Americans, and that no financial or emotional pressure will be brought to bear on anyone to participate.
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You're talking about doomsday cults, not major world religions. The existence of even a single church-run soup kitchen is the black swan that destroys your argument. Major world religions are very much concerned with the here and now and taking care of the people in it.
Outrage, obviously.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
Uber has hugely optimized the way I get from place to place. The only thing I need is a phone and there is no messing around with cash. While I don't agree with all their policies (like a 30% tax on drivers), their user experience is several orders of magnitude better than a normal Taxi.
I'm currently in Costa Rica and the drivers are always friendly and courteous. They usually have new(er) cars and are happy to offer you some candy or change the radio station to your liking. None of that has ever happened in a Taxi.
In the long run, Uber's business model is to get rid of the drivers and operate self-driving cars. I think we are close to that day, they just need to survive until then.
What's wrong with "mov esp,0" ?

It makes sense.
Maybe you don't mind about this specific invasion of privacy, but you should be extremely mindful of setting a precedent for future laws. When does it end? What will they be forcing you to do in the next couple of years? What will our children have to endure?
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The good period was Apple hardware and NeXT software.
Can you expand on this please, because as noted by other comments, many other Europeans are disagreeing with you.

1. When you say "evolving fine in Europe," can you clarify what portions of Europe, perhaps specifically countries or cities? Or can you expressly state that you mean the entirety of Europe?

2. Can you name the personal transportation companies with cute apps that make Uber unnecessary for the regions indicated by (1) ?
I'm super excited about this but the windows store is cancer :(
Anybody tried it to publish paid Android apps on Play store from unsupported country? What are costs/taxes?
I want Nix and Nixpkgs. A genuinely innovative and different package manager / distro alternative.
And we're hiring: http://grnh.se/ki3mcf1
> turning what used to be a fairly decent job into something that's barely enough to scrape by on

That hasn't been true in the US. In NYC Uber drivers make $30/hr and don't have to work under the existing exploitative Taxi system where they could actually lose money on an unprofitable day. Also, Uber has brought car service to smaller cities (e.g. Mountain View) where there used to be no Taxi system at all (in fact airport taxis would price gouge you for going SFO -> South Bay). Maybe Europe is different but I don't think you can make blanket statements like that.
This seemed like overkill until I remembered their hololens work. Now it makes perfect sense and seems like a smart play.
Sounds interesting. Is the fasting something you do every week or just when trying to lose weight?
What Microsoft is doing with Windows today is not just "competent evil," it's "deliberate competent evil." 90's Microsoft was tolerable. Since Windows 10, they've destroyed the entire Windows ecosystem for anyone that cares about privacy. IMO, that's orders of magnitude worse for everyone. But hey, at least if we find a keylogger in Microsoft software, at least we know it's a feature, not a bug or debugging tool.
I don't know, at the end of the day what are ambition and drive really doing for you? Maybe you don't need it. You can just be you and get what you need.
This is default behaviour in i3.
Is anyone else bothered that they spell 'distros' with an apostrophe?
these two guys have been at the SV Computer History Museum :)
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It is more than unsafe. It is plain stupid.

There is no resolver running on 127.0.0.1 ... except on a couple of systems. If I have to make an educated guess, the guy who wrote that is running on Ubuntu.
What is this guy's opinion on BlaBlaCar? It's been quite popular in Europe for a while now. Is Uber being legally challenged only because it directly competes with taxis while BlaBlaCar doesn't?
> I think kids will pick things up faster when being taught one on one by a parent as opposed to a stranger.

I would actually disagree with that. To a kid, a teacher is its own mythical authoritative being solely focused on instruction and keeping the class orderly. (ymmv for poor unruly schools) It's always world-shattering for a little one to see their teacher in "normal life" at the store or wherever.

A parent is more familiar, and is somebody that you have arguments with. Being at home also has its own distractions, because you're usually not locked down to one thing in your own house.

I agree that factory-style education is pretty terrible, but some of the nuggets are useful, like getting away from the home to a dedicated place & people of learning.
EU, where millions of hours go into accepting cookies popups - says it all about EU legal system.
I love this, because it obliterates the "but why should I have to do anything for other people?!" argument of my conservatives friends here in the USA.

They always dance this weird line between "the deep state run by the rich are destroying this country for their profit" and "people should be allowed to make money however they want, and do whatever they want with that money."
That is a very valid concern. But your concern also has an answer.

> Fast-forward 20+ years, and it'll become expected part of life,

Yes. I think people will probably have a reverse mortgage like thing where they will be able to borrow (but lot less) money today with a promise that they will have to donate their kidney when the time comes. People with certain ethnicity, blood group, genetic makeup etc. will become more valuable and hence will be able to derive more value and hence "rare type" will stop being rare type. This is a great outcome.

At the moment rich people from developed countries hunt for organ donors in Mexico, China, India and Africa bringing a lot of misery to those countries and money for the politicians and smugglers. Do you really like little Indian kids kept in a basement forever only to be killed like chickens later for their organs ? Or would you like to see the American justice system being applied to maximise individual freedom with full protection of law ?
Not if you want to make money.
Uber is an amazing example of the Silicon Valley bubble trying to solve a problem that exists for them but not others. Just because taxi service was abhorrently bad in San Francisco doesn't mean it's that bad everywhere. VCs didn't really seem to know that and threw billions at them, they failed to live up to the promised growth because they ran into local competition that they didn't anticipate, so they pivoted to a margin play and are now spinning tales of how close they are to being able to fire all of their (already underpaid) contractors.

Can't wait to see them crash and burn and be replaced by commodity ride-share services that have a better connection to their service area.
This is very interesting. What are the limits on this?

The prior sentence refers to inheritance, so it's clearly about personal property also (if not exclusively). But if someone inherits a Porsche, in what way is it supposed to serve the public good?

Also, the following sentence discusses expropriation (which appears to be what is known in the US as eminent domain). And the title of the section is "Property — Inheritance — Expropriation".

I wonder if this means this section (including the intriguing sentence you quoted) is just talking about rules for inheriting and expropriating property. That is, perhaps it's not a general rule for property to serve the public good (just that it may be called to do so in cases of expropriation).

I would be very interested to know how other people interpret this sentence and the section in which it's found.
Well, this article brings a very insightful perspective into view. It's not often you come across content that might profoundly affect your world views!

Also, at the opposite end of the spectrum here is a reference to a show called 'Black Mirror' with an episode which is about the need to constantly be seeking other peoples approval (for self-esteem boosting):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5497778/

I highly recommend watching this, very sobering.
A classic HN thread on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554889
I feel like if social sciences held themselves to that standard we'd end up with eugenics? There's some inherit benefit to recognizing that social sciences aren't strictly 'hard-logic' sciences.
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When I'm trying to lose weight. I'll be honest, it's very hard to do without pigging out in the evening. It takes a lot of will power.
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Yes this is a really useful comment. It's so good to know what your plans are, and really says something about the link. Thanks...
Where are you getting the 40000 core number from?
Can you explain why this concept is difficult for you to believe?
POTUS has great power relative to any other singular person in the world. But relative to the total power exercised by the government, they have little (especially with regards to domestic policy). Trump's ability to actually "drain the swamp" is extremely limited, unless he pulls off an unprecedented and insane power grab. Yes, he can tinker with things, and those tinkerings will impact millions of people, but his ability actually bring back jobs to the rust belt, fix the economy, fix healthcare, make Washington accountable, etc, are all extremely limited.

Aside from that, he or she can issue Executive Orders, which "have significant influence over the internal affairs of government, deciding how and to what degree legislation will be enforced, dealing with emergencies, waging wars, and in general fine-tuning policy choices in the implementation of broad statutes."

Except that when those orders go to far against the wishes of the permanent government, the orders get blocked by the courts.

The issue is that it takes virtual all of a president's political capital to fight the permanent government (the bureaucracy, the courts, academia, the credentialed media, the party apparatus). So while in theory they have quite a bit of authority, if they wish to use that authority in a way that goes against the interests of the permanent government, they will find themselves in a huge battle. They can win at most, maybe one or two of these battles a term, and only these in a limited way.
the real question is why are you advocating for some tech company (companies) backed by millions of dollars of VC money be able to pick and choose which laws to break?

How about Uber for drug dealers? Or Uber for prostitution? Why stop at illegal taxis/ride sharing?

While you are enjoying the rides and Uber the real profits: have you ever stopped to think about drivers who are being fined $1,000's/ even arrested for nothing more than being an Uber driver? Or the fact that Uber turns around and fires these drivers for not effectively evading the law?
Perhaps they only used it at the very beginning, when network requests were horribly broken, to the point that you couldn't even do an npm install. I haven't had any issues lately with NPM however.

Don't want to speak for them though so let's see
Have a local DB and sync when online.
Yeah I don't understand why people are freaking out about this. I know the icon is there, but I never "see" it and I'll never click on it..

So who cares..
I used to do something like this on Downside.com, but only for public companies where you could get the financials from the SEC. Then you have some hard data. Startup Graveyard seems to be listing companies that failed before they even launched. There needs to be some minimum qualification, such as "actually had at least one paying customer".
I dislike when news try to talk about research but do not cite the source. The actual paper can be read here: https://faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/11...
Right, the WSL still uses the Windows kernel, so anything at that level (filesystem permissions etc) will be handled either by the kernel or by the "pico provider" syscall translators.
Uber didn't invent ride-hailing apps and they don't offer any meaningful difference from Lyft or Didi Chuxing.

They brought this negative focus on themselves by not respecting local laws and ordinances. It's unfortunate, but after Uber takes on the brunt of the backlash, another ride-hailing company will swoop in, respect the laws, and reap the rewards.

That's the risk you run when your philosophy is move fast, break stuff, and ignore all the rules.
I'm not sure AT&T syntax is much better.

movl $1, %esp
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Even that's now returning a 508 error.
Pretty cool!

I was curious, in the article it mentions difficulties navigating through glass environments, could they combine visual information with sonar to avoid crashing into glass and other transparent barriers?
Keto is interesting though it seems like it could be hard with social activities. Have you had any difficulty?

Best of luck!
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Putting organs on the market will make those existing structural ethical dilemmas (which I fulminate about here pretty regularly, going back a long time) more obvious because it makes them worse. Making things worse is not, in my experience, the first step in making things better. How many innocent people do you propose to sacrifice on the altar of your intellect in order to persuade the 'casual bystanders' to adopt your position?

This sounds little different than the failed Marxist strategy of 'sharpening the contradictions of capitalism' in hopes of awakening class consciousness among the proletariat. Your eschatology seems to suffer from some glaring ethical flaws from where I'm sitting.
I'm happy you seem to have this figured out. You could spend all your time in anxiety and horror (I guess I could too, I have no idea what is in my future) but it's so unnessary. Hack on and enjoy the sunshine.
No, they aren't. Unless you think everyone building them is stuck in the past and wasting a lot of money, unaware of Amazon's offerings.
I didn't realize staying on the bleeding edge kernels was such a performance boost, that it's worth shying away from an entire ecosystem. It sounds a bit elitist.

Alternatively, when I use Windows now I'll get both PowerShell and a full Unix environment. For my development work so far, none of those arbitrary drawbacks have stopped WSFL from being a champ. On the plus side, I don't constantly have to edit configuration files after every update because my wireless card/window manager/etc broke.
They don't necessarily make it easy to turn off all the weird ad-type-stuff, but they don't make it impossible either. A quick tour through settings on install can get rid of it all.

There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them. You have to do esoteric shit in the registry editor to disable this. It infuriates me.
I formatted a few weeks ago. After installing Chrome and opening it, a popover appeared over the Edge icon in my toolbar explaining how much faster it is. I've also seen a few OneDrive ads.
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Mind Maps are definitely not a great way to be a 'canonical store' of information, but that does not mean that they are useless at all.

I find them to be great at brainstorming, for example. Dumping several related aspects of a project into the mind map feels very intuitive to me, no overhead involved at all. And it eases the cognitive load of several concepts floating around your subconscious and taking up your brain CPU.

For learning, I plain disagree with you. I even see your point that information may be better 'first presented' to a learner in other ways (although I've had good experiences with mind maps being a 'discovery' tools as well). However, learning has other moments other than the discovery. Mind maps are great at teaching how concepts fit together, and also good as a studying tool in the recall moment (rather than linear notes).

You may also view them as an 'index' to information presented elsewhere. Once a book was posted here on HN which had a 'graph of chapter dependencies' inside the book, which people loved. A graph of chapter dependencies is at least very close to a mind map.

By the way, since you mentioned UDC and DDC, even library science and information science courses do teach mind maps as tools as well. Because they have their uses, even if you know UDC or DDC.
Without Uber, I can take a taxi (or a more Uber-like pseudo-taxi rental car with driver) anonymously, instead of being molested by a hostile company through a hostile app. So, apart from illegal pricing, they cannot even compete on quality of service.
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It's actually not possible to accurately composite subpixel AA using the GPU since you can't configure blends per-channel. To do it accurately, you need three different alpha channels.
At borders is a huge limitation. The government can pat you down at a border as a normal procedure, it's like entering a prison. Historically, flying was something of an exception because it started as something rich people did and governments tend to treat them very differently.

Consider what happened to people that showed up at Ellis island. Some people would be forced to strip, take a shower, and undergo medical examinations. Remember, this was published as perfectly reasonable things that confirm to social norms. Further 1-2% of people where deported often due to physical deformities. https://books.google.com/books?id=OyL6JatN5KwC&pg=PA129&lpg=...

PS: I don't mean we should go back to a system like this, just crossing borders is very meaningfully different than sitting at home or driving down the street.
Sir, I wish I would be able to think so clearly when facing this issue.
> SOTA started including some new feature you didn't know

if you sign for 2 versions, changes in 3 would not brake you. and the point is MANY things right now could be safe to turn on for 99.99%, e.g. XFO. So, not much effort
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Between 7 and 14 hours a week. It depends if I can dedicate one full day on the weekend to it. That happens rarely. Otherwise I stick to one hour every morning before work to do the most important thing. My side project is my website where I attempt to teach about web developement (JavaScript, React) https://www.robinwieruch.de
Anybody manage to make their Bash/WSL actually look good? I've got it just running in, what, cmd I guess? I don't know. Anyway it's fuckugly. I had to just set all the fonts to white on a black background because otherwise the returns from npm installs and git status and stuff would be unreadable deep blue.

Don't get me wrong, I love using it, but it doesn't beat the aesthetics of a terminal on a mac or a nicely configured ubuntu terminal.
Even if I wipe my phone, I worry that they'll plug it into some rootkit-on-demand Cellebrite device. What if I remove one of the data pins from the USB port so that it only works as a charger? Is that enough to protect the phone from one of those Cellebrite boxes?
He really sells it with that cheat day. Thanks for the link!