skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cold turkey has never worked for me; it's impossible to sustain concentration on code with the nicotine monkey on my back. I use Nicorette gum to get through the day, then reward myself with an after dinner smoke. The first cig of the day gets later and later til it's gone, then I'm smoke free for a few months. Then I fall off the wagon again. Fortunately I've never been a 20, 30 or 40 a day smoker. Ten a day at the most.
Yeah, I think I only just cottoned on to the true appeal of WASM for certain sectors of the web industry.
Yes, but the dose must be important. Brenner [1] took 1g NR/day for 7 days during his self-study.

[1] https://medcom.uiowa.edu/theloop/news/first-human-clinical-t...
People have in some ways been talking about this for quite some time. I think I remember reading something about having hot swappable batteries about a decade ago. This way you drive up to a station, it lifts your vehicle into the air, robots swap out your battery with another, fully charged one, and you're off again.

I can't image Tesla, GM or anyone else getting on board with the idea though. Much less extending it to include other parts.
To get a feel for how much space that is, if you can get access to a VR headset, I think you'd appreciate Everest VR. You can walk around the summit and see the view in any direction across full day/night cycles.
Except in reality we get people who are bad at dev and bad at ops pretending they can do both
Well, in my second sentence I admit that government can do bad:

> Or do they think that in every case government makes more bad...
there is a reciprocal relationship of performance and maintainable code

There isn't an inherent one, it's just that writing for both is much harder than just for one.
400 volts at 60 amps floating around in there though.
You realize if you sleep 8 hours a night, you have 112 hours in a week. With careful organization it's possible to work 60 each week for long periods and still maintain some balance.

Of course if you have kids, it's way harder. But I can get close to 60 hours a week by working 50 hours Monday though Friday, and then half days Saturday/Sunday. Still time for workouts, games, hikes, fun. The reality is school events/conferences will interfere, so 50-55 is probably more reasonable long term.

It's all in what you want to accomplish in life. To me my work is my hobby so I don't need time for others.
Keep in mind that there is no 1:1 mapping between mg/kg/day for mice and for humans due to difference in metabolism. http://www.ergo-log.com/calculatethehumandosage.html gives a couple of useful formulas to calculate the actual dosage for humans and it's much more reasonable.
I'm really excited about this. It's by the creator of uWebSockets[0], alexhultman[1]. It looks like it builds heavily on his work there. Based on the performance compared to redis, this is already an impressive start. Excited to see where this goes! I also second an attempt at comparing it to ZeroMQ, even though they're obviously somewhat different.

[0] https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets

[1] https://github.com/alexhultman
Don't take it the wrong way, but there are some unresolved problems that most probably caused your current feelings, you should make a list of them and try and solve them.

It is not possible - no offence intended - that you managed to lock yourself in a position such as the one you described, where your product/company/service/whatever can't live one week without you in the office.

And by the same token it is not possible that someone - knowingly - is going to give you money for something that can only work if you are not only at the steering wheel, but also doing the most relevant work all the time (it would be far too risky).

Now that is more clear that the offer is actually largely linked to future earnings (and obviously your future work) it sounds a lot like they are buying you and your competences (and not your company/whatever).

Maybe you should really talk first with someone that can help you with your (momentary) crisis (that would be psychological support, if you can stay away from prescribed drugs would be advisable) then - as soon as you have regained some objectiveness and a peaceful state of mind - take some time to talk with your immediate associates (be them co-founders, executives or employees) and try to make a plan to solve those problems (which seemingly essentially revolve around either missing resources in the company or missing attitude to delegate some of your work).
I went through a smaller acquisition which had milestone based earn-outs. Are your earn-outs time-based or milestone-based?

Mine were milestone based and I negotiated for 25% to be time-based. The company underwent a big re-org and the new leadership had their own projects which were prioritized so the milestones were never realized.

Just some food for thought while you're nearing LOI stage.
Where do you draw the line for the "ban" though? ISPs, Google, and many of these companies collect PI for payments and associate these payments with invoices/receipts/etc. so in effect, they already have some of this info. We could ask for no analytics code on sites, but then we speculate on what code belongs to the "analytics" and what is there merely for "services". The latter would blanket everything. Besides - who's going to do the inspecting? Some inspector with his pockets full of lobbyist money? Some disinterested bureaucrat? A ban is pointless. What is really needed is for businesses to find a more effective advertising means that doesn't entail collecting so much PI.
At least the charging ports are standardized, somewhat.

Remember when car stereos used to be a standard size (DIN chassis), and you could easily swap in new hardware? That went away with the advent of nav systems.

Stuff is now too intertwined to be standardized.
Is there an equivalent to that for urls typed on the command line to be opened using whatever $BROWSER
India May Have Already Overtaken China as the World's Most Populous Nation
You can look at previous HN front pages. Here's yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2017-05-24.

(We count 'day' using UTC so there's overlap with today depending on where you are.)
Who else hates Google's geotargeting of blogger addresses?
Seems like an intrusion of privacy . If someone pastes a blogger domain with .ca, you know they are in Canada. Although this is obviously not enough to locate their actual location, it does narrow it a lot.
This is creepy, but I'm not sure why.

Maybe because it's the place that gives a huge chunk of the population 100% of their news and communication also giving them "art"?

I would be very uncomfortable if Fox made a well-funded Facebook clone, but because it's the reverse no one seems to mind.
I wonder if there is any data around effectiveness of targeted advertising. How many lipsticks were sold before social-data-backed target advertising? How many lipsticks have been sold now that we know which shades and "influencers" a particular person prefers? I guess I could go search for it.

You would have to imagine there would be an uptick. However, in my own mind, the targeted ads don't influence me to spend as much money as the broad-based brand awareness type. There's a term for that style of advertising which I can't remember right now but it basically entails plastering "Tide" over everything so that the next time you think of detergent, you think of Tide.
I don't think this is a forum for these kinds of discussions. Please be more civilized about it. Ironically, your handle has "shit" on it.
It's a nice dream but I'd probably look to what's been happening in the Cell Phone/Laptop space instead.

Weight and therefore efficiency is at a premium for EVs so deep vertical integration will probably be preferred method of assembly.
Divvy is pretty nice for this.
Docker Labs
line-height of the title does not look good on my screen http://i.imgur.com/SpxLfUD.jpg (and the white text in front of the blackbord as not very readable either)
It would be interesting to see a IPC system that abstracted away where the other process was running or treated processes running on an entirely different machine or VM as another local process.

Since scalability is probably a bigger concern in web architectures than robotics, expecting to be able to use IPC to communicate between two services is unlikely. I would imagine in many web architectures being able to scale systems independently and dynamically makes up for the overhead in communication protocols.
This seems like a dumb move for FB. Why would they expect anything worth watching from buzzfeed or vox, take a look at their youtube channels - garbage content, terrible views, tons of dislikes. Yep, sounds like winning entertainment we need more of /s
Meet the Young Somali Scientist and Researcher Who Is Now Also a TED Fellow
Ya, $10m is comfortably above fu money even in silicon valley or NYC.

https://youtu.be/xdfeXqHFmPI

The size of the house you own and get to say fu from will vary, but the sentiment is the same as long as you own it.
This is cool! Much easier than trolling to domain specific blogs. Gives a way to stay on top news relevant to the stack I care about - sweeeeet!
Without reading the whitepaper (so I don't know the rules of the currency), if they are able to issue/withdraw coins as they wish, I doubt it will become a trusted coin.
So people won't be willing to pay too much for it, nor will they want to build apps with it as a base currency....at least I won't
"Then they treated the powder by heating it or mixing it with other ingredients to create the world's first paint"

Nitpick. "The world's first known paint". Future-proof and more to my taste.
FireFox on Android lets you disable autoplay on videos. This is why I switched from Chrome on mobile. Videos always seem to want to autoplay when I'm in a public place. Plus FireFox mobile has extensions so I can run adblock.

I still use Chrome everywhere else, though.
AFAICT, the car makers outsource most of their components to companies like Bosch, Denso, Magna & Delphi. Standardization would allow car makers to avoid single-supplier lock-in. Standardization would allow parts makers to expand their markets.
They aren't, but there's still a lot of irrational hate for anything even remotely associated with Microsoft, even amongst people who aren't chasing the hype. I can't really think of any other major general purpose platform that has this kind of PR problem.
I strongly second this suggestion. Unfortunately there is a stigma to speaking with mental health professionals, but I'm a strong proponent of doing so even when there is nothing necessarily "wrong" in your life.

Speaking as someone who just recently experienced burnout for the first time in his career (along with losing several friends in the past year), and is now taking it easy for a while, you owe it to yourself to speak to someone about what you're feeling.

You've gotten to the point where you're hiding in the bathroom with the water running so your wife doesn't know you're crying. There is no shame in admitting weakness, and you have a lot to be proud of in your position. Let people in who can help.

While you're at it, take a vacation (even if only for a few days) and clear your head. If you don't want to talk to a professional, go somewhere with your wife and talk about what you're feeling.
I mean the conflict only went global when UK decided to enforce Belgian neutrality with a military response. Otherwise, it would have just been a regional war between France, Germany and Russia. The war would have been shorter and UK would have kept its empire for longer.

Not like UK intervening in WWI ensured peace or anything
> I did not, but I understand why some would want to read it as such, because it's an indefensible position to claim that one should be forced to join a politically active organization (or any outside organization for that matter) to become a public employee.

You dodged the point above, but the governmental agencies themselves are politically active. So are very nearly all employers.

[EDIT] my point being, why is aiding one politically-active organization (your employer) as a requirement for employment entirely fine, but being required to aid two is some abridgment of liberty? It's not like it's sprung on you after the fact. It's exactly as much a choice as aiding your employer's political agenda (i.e. you can not work there).
Solving your problem with an embedded web browser probably would not have been good no matter which browser it was given your hardware constraints.
Thanks for the tip, always nice to see the author of tools commenting on hn :-)

The (old) version of parallel packaged with Ubuntu 16.04 (linux subsystem for windows) - doesn't have --pipe-part -- but running from upstream, the speed is more reasonable:

$ time (./parallel-20170522/src/parallel -a ngrams.tsv \
--pipe-part --block -1 -j4 mawk -f map.awk \
| mawk -f reduce.awk )
max_key: 2006 sum: 22569013

real 0m2.265s
user 0m4.672s
sys 0m1.672s

(Tried a few variants with/without -jN -- and this seems typical for the fast end of the spectrum).

$ time (cat ngrams.tsv \
| mawk -f map.awk \
| mawk -f reduce.awk )
max_key: 2006 sum: 22569013

real 0m3.472s
user 0m2.891s
sys 0m2.406s

[ed: btw, did a double-take when I saw your Gnu Privacy Guard id: 0x88888888 :-) ]
I tried using tmuxp last week and there was a very bizarre lack that completely killed its use for me. Specifically, while you can set a start directory for the session and for the window, nowhere in the docs could I find a way to set the start directory for a pane. And that's a problem because I really don't want all of my panes to be set up with a visible `cd path/to/folder` at the top.

So I ended up just writing a quick shell script that set up my environment using regular tmux commands.
Improving Stripe Connect to enable more platforms
Its probably short sighted and biased, but I looked up Portland Common Data Model, read a little, saw the key phrases "Data Model" and "Ontology", and ran. Anything to do with formal Ontology specifications feels like overly abstracted databases.
I think most people research movies before going to see them, I rarely purchase something without researching it. IMO the less invasive the better, if I have to see an ad id prefer it to be general. IMO the benefits of personalized ads are far less than the cost of having them. Given your example the ad supplier would know if you have kids or not.. In getting this info what else do they know about you? Are your kids adopted? Are you married? Sexual orientation etc.. The cost is great to have personalized ads.
Explaining How a DNN Trained with End-To-End Learning Steers a Car
> Being an area that does not generate profit there is not attention paid to it, or just the bare minimum.

I don't buy that. Amazon Associates/Google adwords/etc have a long history of silently banning people who are actively generating revenue for them with no recourse.
3 batteries that may power our future
Look. I don't want to be tracked, cataloged and tailored to without my permission. I don't care how accurate they are (in my experience not very much) it's invasive and creepy.
You can get this kind of decoupling from a pub sub msg bus. And async too. Much better than point to point HTTP.
cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository
> makes it sound like users are forced to be there. They aren't. They're going there because Facebook can provide those things, and those things are meaningful.

Same arguments could be made by a drug dealer.
Much of this relationship exists in one form or another with coding, though perhaps a little inverted, with writers and architects. When you're writing alone for yourself, publishing or not, you can with certitude feel 100% ownership. The second you open the door just a crack to another set of eyes, that question is less certain. Add in individual egos and you have the cocktail that endlessly spawns "creative differences"
> Getting likes is addicting, sure, but scrolling through my newsfeed and seeing autoplay videos with obnoxious text banners in impact font ('me af rn crying-laughing-face-emoji fire 100 100') has made it so that I'm very annoyed with social media.

I have never understood this complaint. Why don't you just unfollow those people? How many of them could you possibly know? This seems like a problem that can't exist for more than a week or two if it actually bothered you, since unfollowing someone when you see low quality posts like that will clean up your feed pretty rapidly.

(Note that unfollow is different from unfriend on Facebook)
Not sure what you mean? This is already the case, all cells that you can use in the demo are actually plugins. Check this directory: https://github.com/ory/editor/tree/master/packages/plugins/c...
> No battle plan survives contact with the enemy, and microservices are making decisions early on that are difficult to change later. Because you've picked one decomposition and then erected fences around the parts

Why would merging two or more microservices be any more difficult than turning a monolith into several microservices?

I'm not implying one would be harder than the other. I'm really curious to understand the downsides of going each route.
Either Tron, a small one-off hacky script I made to automate the annoying process of cleaning up an infected Windows computer and which unexpectedly spiraled into a major open-source project:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript

or...this bad boy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/24e5xq/my_proudes...

Hideous but it worked.
Off-topic: what is the theme and color syntax theme ?
That's $13 million each. If that doesn't count as FU money I don't know what does. Even what you'll get upfront might already be in the FU money bracket. Calculating that threshold actually is quite easy (as per Mr. Money Mustache): If you have more than 12 times your annual expenses in assets you never have to work again.
I have no doubt it's significant amount of money, but still nowhere near to justify growth. And even if it's one of factors it's still very small one since both big consoles use AMD hardware and in next 3-4 years there not going to be another one.
https://www.inc.com/guides/201101/how-to-protect-your-tradem...
Everything you say here is basically what I've observed.

> Unfortunately, justice is glacial, and the law doesn't protect you in the short term.

I got a court order freeing my girlfriend from the first hospital in a day and a half. Then I made the minor mistake of returning to the hospital without a police escort, and they succeeded at sucking her into the system. It's been slow-motion anti-justice ever since.

> Last time I was in, it took me 2 months of working the phone every day, until I somehow managed to reach a high-up lawyer with the state board of oversight. And they just happened to be a nice person who sympathized with my situation.

Thanks for sharing this. My current case is in the court of appeals, and is probably going to take another 3+ months. This is something I can do to hopefully get the treatment providers to stop their palliative treatments more promptly.
Have you ever heard of Ethereum? These Kik tokens run on top of Ethereum which had an ICO a couple years ago.
The Moral Technology (of Electric Cars)
Did you read the section titled "Dependencies"? That was about social as much as technical concerns.

I don't think the author disagrees with the goal of reducing dependencies or coupling between dev teams. What they disagree with is whether moving to microservices is necessary to achieve this. They think a "a monolith, composed of well-defined modules, with well-defined interfaces" can get you the upside without the downsides.
You should comment on the article, unlikely that the author is going to read the comments here.
The World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Is Now Up and Running
Apparently humor is dead.
Ask HN: What is the best programming language?
I am 30 years old non technical guy. I have never programmed anything. I want to learn coding to earn living as fast as I can. Please suggest me which langauage you would recommend that I can learn fast and start earning some money.
I was very excited to see this post since I happen to be looking for a scalable high performance MQTT broker.

The first thing I noticed when I opened the GitHub page was the lack of documentation. Then I opened the source files. No headers describing what each module does. No method headers. No code comments. Nothing that would let me get a feel of how well this could fit into my project without doing a lot of code reading...

Maybe I'm just an old fart and need to accept that this is the way code is written these days, but with my own projects I always tried to make sure that at least minimal documentation was available and that the code was easy to read and understand before releasing it to the world.
This may help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer
People seem to think climbing Everest is "more common" based on how much it gets publicized in the media. But I've been in the climbing business for a while and still don't personally know anyone who's summited. Maybe I don't have the right friends though.
Go work on a contruction site for a few days. You'll be running back to your old 'miserable life', believe you me.

What is it with this romantic view of supposedly stress free jobs of filling shelves with food or digging a hole for a garden tree ( the easiest thing in construction ).

I feel your pain since I get similar feelings as you sometimes but then I remember 20 something me doing roofing and breaking ice on a path with a big ass hammer for tourists to enjoy a walk around the lake. It sucks.

I can only offer you one solution that I would personally do if I were at your place right now... Sell asap and move on.
The Dan Carlin podcast series "Kings of Kings"[1] colorfully describes the Scythians, and many other groups.
Fascinating stuff.

1 - http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-56-kings-k...
Uber, Lyft returning to Austin on May 29, 2017
I was on the verge of buying at VW when this happened to them. I will never buy a VW now. Pretty soon I'll have to stick to bikes if companies are allowed to get away with anything. Surprised that they haven't arrested everyone involved, considering that the people from VW fled the country.
I believe they did give a suggestion, to build it before making the assumption that it works.
I assume anyone who works in mental health is familiar with the basics of empathy. Yes, I am familiar with the difference. I believe psychiatry is a subclass of psychology.
Is there some information on what makes this faster than the alternatives ?
This is hardly a crazy idea, it's basically a de facto commodity-backed currency. It's not functionally different from a bond that can be exchanged for X weight of tobacco, corn, gold, etc.

Except for the fact that shredding makes it also a lottery system: Attempts to exchange the bond result in either redemption at face value or nothing, with the probability being equal to the proportion of fake bills in circulation. Assuming, of course, that the bank has a monopoly on counterfeit-detection devices (they don't).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
I don't understand your question. The original IBM PC was built using as many commercial, off-the-shelf parts as possible in order to shorten time-to-market. The hardware was commoditized from day one, by design.
What did you buy instead?
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See my reply to the other comment that said what you said.