skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: They sent out a survey and asked if you spent money on time-saving tasks, and in general how happy you are. They were correlated. Then they gave people $40 and asked how happy they were at the end of the day.

Self-reported happiness is a dumb 'metric' and everyone knows it. Not much meat in this article, but it does raise an interesting point. But it doesn't ever get into if people paid for tasks they disliked, or cheapest tasks, etc. I don't like cleaning the house, but if I paid someone to grocery shop while I cleaned the house I'd save $40 compared to doing the opposite despite them taking the same amount of time.
#clojure on freenode is fantastic if you are interested in the language
The intelligence community works fairly hard on this, with only moderate success. But they have active opponents trying to fool them.

One of the CIA's checks is to ask of information that confirms other information, "is this from a different source, or is this from the same source via another path"? That's a problem that could be addressed on the web, and is helpful at detecting "fake news" and hoaxes. A graph of which stories are derived from what other stories, and when, gives a good sense of where something came from.

Google is terrible at finding provenance. They're likely to list the popular clickbait site, even if it's a scraper site, rather than the actual source. Sites which are listed as "news" get special treatment, but Google doesn't find the original news story, rather than its indications. Google crawls the web so frequently that it could get a handle on provenance from timestamps alone.
Specific content. For example I follow the Laravel tag on medium, I've not seen anything regarding Laravel on HN in a fair while.
Reminds me of the Auditors in Pratchett's Thief of Time.
Probably because they realized that path would not be sustainable. Most people don't want to pay for music, period. Few would pay a monthly fee for a service that only offered relatively unknown artists. While SoundCloud does have a unique UI compared to other streaming services, it's not enough of a differentiator to compete with Spotify.
Ignorant, uncharitable, and internally inconsistent. I wonder...if a comment is downvoted enough times, does the text become completely white?
Why new startups need CTOs to be great gardeners
I seem to remember marketplaces and systems from 10 years ago that would let service professionals - mostly consultants, it seemed - sell blocks of their time. I'm seeing 'mytime.com' today as something similar. Always interesting to see new takes on previous ideas, but it doesn't seem as revolutionary as the OP's medium posts seemed to make it out to be. (or maybe I'm missing something)
Exactly. What they are paying for is a serious operator that can solve the problems that they cannot.
Loading 275M rows into Redshift using the cmdline
One thing that really annoys me is embeded gists don't render in medium's mobile app.
>I used to run a bit. Did an informal "couch to 5k" over a couple of months, before I'd even discovered that was a thing. The single most effective thing I did for my running was to buy a pair of Vibram Five-Fingers shoes.

The single most important thing I've done for my running, is run more and lose weight. This is a universal thing. Everyone who gets good gets good via more running and losing weight. Running more can be hard. If there is a shoe that helps you do it, go for it. But as pace increases sometimes a shoe as minimal as a vibram can be problematic. Its certainly isn't necessary for everybody. People set world records without ever using a strange shoe.
The move from platform.ai to files.fast.ai could have been communicated better - sorry this impacted you. (We tried to highlight everywhere we could, but we can't change the video itself on YouTube unfortunately.)

We're redoing the whole of part 1 starting in October so this problem will be fully resolved then. Until then, follow the links on course.fast.ai or the forums, rather than what you see in the part 1 videos, or just remember to always replace platform.ai with course.fast.ai.
I long for the days when all BuzzFeed content was banned from HN. BF seemed to make a bet on financing a small amount of "real" journalism in order to white wash its incredibly shady and slimy beginnings and it seems to have mostly worked, as people now consider it less of a general sore on the internet (HN now allows certain BF articles, like the one on soundcloud on the front page right now).

Of course, as one could have easily predicted, Buzzfeed has responded by slowly blurring the lines between its "viral" and "long form" content, and given the company's historically unethical control of content by the business side it hasn't surprised me at all to see "sponsored content" show up on the supposedly higher quality articles. I've often wondered, given the investigative bent they've shown how many articles have been quashed due to a timely cheque from a valued advertising partner.

I am quite positive that BuzzFeed's foray into recipes and the culinary world will soon be accompanied by a push with restaurant reviews, exposes on "trending" diets, advice on how twenty-somethings can eat healthy for cheap, etc. etc. This will also probably be given a thin veneer of respectability (i'm guessing a high profile hire or playing up the recruitment of minority writers[0]) until they've captured a profitable demographic and the corporate money starts rolling in. As many have already pointed out, they seem to see no harm in blatantly plagiarizing in order to bootstrap this product.

I guess in the end it's just really surprising to me that people are willing to forgive BuzzFeed for it's past and current crimes (seriously, they're given more leeway than venerable publications like the NYT and Washington Post, not that those publications deserve a pass) and continually compartmentalize parts of an organization that have been demonstrably proven to be ruled by the revenue department. Until people wise up and start wholesale banning all facets of BuzzFeed content they'll continue to get away with it. Fruit of the poisoned tree and all that.

[0] As a side note, since i'm already kind of ranting, buzzfeed's use of their hiring of minorities as a shield for their dishonest business practices has always tilted me the wrong way
Well, sorry by not doing my homework. However, lets analyse all those init systems "supported" by Debian:

- minit: "RoQA; no popcon recent users; abandoned 2007; not friendly" [1], so not supported by upstream since 2007.

- daemontools-run: still included in all current versions: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all...

- runit-run: removed from Debian archives well before systemd even existed (2010) [2].

- file-rc: still included in all current versions: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all...

- initng: c'mon, this package was last updated in 2007! [3]

- openrc: still included: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all...

- upstart: ok, this is the only one that may count as a valid criticism. The reason give from Debian is simply "RoQA; unmaintained" in January 2016, while Upstart Bazaar received updates until May 2016 [5].

So except from upstart, all of those init systems that you cited still exists in current Debian or was removed well before systemd exists.

My original post is wrong (Debian supports multiple init systems, before and after systemd migration). However, I don't see the problem here, you only made my point stronger.

[1]: https://tracker.debian.org/news/726018

[2]: https://tracker.debian.org/news/649008

[3]: https://tracker.debian.org/news/614059

[4]: https://tracker.debian.org/news/739662

[5]: https://code.launchpad.net/upstart
You're right. Thanks.

Pushing off with the heel is actually specifically (if indirectly) part of what I'm working on with the bodyworker I mentioned, even. I really should have completed the thought.

Thanks for catching and clarifying that.
As a Russian wanna say its true.
This is exciting! I went through Part 1 a few weeks ago (probably have to cover embeddings and RNNs again...) and felt it was totally worth it.

Part 2 seems equally strong in content (if not stronger). It's a beautiful time to be n00b in deep learning & AI, and learn via material like these. No excuses. Knowledge is power.
I saw an article from about 15 years ago that said Comcast blocked VPNs for a few weeks as a "test". Apparently the test was stopped because a large amount of businesses complained that they required VPNs to access their internal data.

I imagine it might be trickier for the US to implement such a plan vs. a country like Russia.
A New Report Shows NASA Can’t Afford to Send People to Mars
One reason why a GPL licence can be a good idea for businesses -- and BSD/MIT a good idea for employees.
There's also a difference between running (barefoot or not) in terrain, as opposed to running on paved roads - so in a sense things started to go wrong with the Romans (in Europe).
That build process can be done using TravisCI for free, provided the GitHub repository containing your Hugo base is public (and why wouldn't it be?) This removes the need for that Droplet and its associated cost.
'The United States Special Forces are perhaps the best tactical fighting force the world has ever seen. Whether it's hostage rescue, covert operations, or a Bin Laden-esque kill-or-capture mission, the Tier 1 Operators of the US military are the ones to beat.'

Debatable. There are several fearsome special forces units around the world. I don't think any one of these is generally acknowledged to be pre-eminent. They are all tough as nails.

Also, US SF have particularly close links with UK and Dutch SF. No doubt the US is getting some benefit from this, and the learning goes both ways.
> I don't think we'll find a fix.

I hope we don't find a fix. The last thing this world needs are immortal god-barons running around extending their greedy agendas.
Would be interested to see how the results on take-out stack up for people who self-report as enjoying cooking. Maybe there's a greater-than-average overlap between the wealthy and people who don't get taught how to cook, and might therefore not enjoy it as much.

The better question is: is cooking just not as enjoyable as I think it is, or do the times when I don't feel like cooking offset the enjoyment from the times I do? Is there some maximal happiness from part-cooking/part-takeout?
I've almost always been towards the lower end of the healthy BMI range for my height (to the extent BMI is even a meaningful metric), so that wasn't a consideration for me.

That said, absolutely: if you're at all overweight, you specifically need to account for that in your regimen, and train up to running with that load. If you don't, you won't be running for long — one way or another.

I was also never running for pace. I found a comfortable pace and incrementally increased my distance. YMMV.
You're misinformed. North Korea got atomic bomb tech from Pakistan.
Let's say we collect $1B for the Amazonas. Who will decide how to spend it? Let's say we collect another $1B for the penguins. Who will decide how to spend it? The same people or other group?

What happens if both groups decide to increase the tax rate? Who decide which groups can increase the tax? Who decides how many trees or penguins are enough?

What happens if I don't pay? Who will force me to pay? Sooner or later you need some tanks to collect the taxes, just in case. Tanks are centralized, and that's the government.

Actually, each region can decide to have it's own group of tanks and fix it's own tax rates. Just like now.
I'll use my Father as an example. He works for Autodesk, before that he worked for Revit (when they were a tiny startup before Autodesk bought them out). He writes code in C++ mostly (I think some C# these days). He doesn't use HTML or CSS, and has never learned either. Not because he can't, just because there's not been any point and because the amount of effort that would take is large enough to not be worth it. Why spend several hours or days of extra effort just for a blog post? Not to mention the extra money needed to buy a domain and hosting.
Wonderful! You picked a really nice selection! Can't wait to do them all! Thank you!
Oh and about the teaching philosophy video - until we posted that we had quite a few students express confusion about the top-down approach. After posting it, we've received a lot of positive feedback about it. I understand it's not helpful or interesting to everyone, but overall it seems to have been a successful addition for most.
Ever since hearing about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch[1], I've been getting interested in what people are doing to try to reduce the amount of plastic waste that is landfilled or is released into the environment. This weekend I came across the challenge I linked, which seeks to fund promising ideas to implement a "circular economy". I've become a little dismayed about the limited benefit that most of the proposals there would have on the plastic pollution problem.

Take Funcap[2] for example. Their idea is to turn the plastic caps of drink bottles into Legos. Unfortunately, this doesn't reduce at all the demand for plastic bottles (and thus bottle caps), and so we're still left with untold numbers of bottle caps to do something with. Sure, kids will probably end up using some of these, but (a) eventually they'll get bored of them or just have more than they really need (like Happy Meal toys) and (b) ultimately they'll be disposed of and probably not recycled (even plastic bottle caps today are often not recycled because it's hard to sort them efficiently at the recycler[3], and Legos are made out of ABS, which is harder to recycle even that bottle caps).

Many of the other ideas submitted so far propose some form of reusable packaging, in particular bringing reusable containers back to the store to be refilled (for example [4] -- bonus: IoT buzzword bingo!). This is such an obvious idea (evidenced by the number of submissions to this contest using that idea) that if it were feasible and actually desired on the consumer level, it certainly would have been done. Trends are pointing in the direction of more disposability if anything -- people now would rather have Amazon deliver their goods to them and throw out the packaging at home than go to the store for any reason, let alone lugging containers to reuse them.

As far as I can see, the only real solution to the plastic waste problem is to make it economically feasible to separate plastic waste from the wastestream and turn it into products whose value will repay the effort of separation. Ideally, we could even "upcycle" this waste into raw materials that are more valuable than recycled plastic, especially because recycled plastic is lower quality than virgin plastic and eventually becomes too contaminated to reuse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

[2] https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/circular-design/id...

[3] https://livegreen.recyclebank.com/because-you-asked-what-s-t...

[4] https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/circular-design/id...
GitHub's UI is far superior, for one. You're also placing your code in an ecosystem of other OSS projects, which I believe is a good thing.

Also, GitHub private repositories for an individual are far cheaper than running a H/A GitLab on DO, AWS, Linode, or any provider worth mentioning. By definition of running a H/A solution on DO's cheapest offering, you're paying $15/month for three VMs, and we haven't started talking about backups yet.

It's not worth it at all.
That seems interesting, but there are so many papers and little indication of which ones are more important (or which ones to implement first). I realize this is for advanced learners, but some guidelines, or at least a section pointing to survey papers would be really helpful as a starting point.
Do you have some more information on this? Are you talking about running on paved road, or in (rough) terrain? I admit I have some difficulty visualizing how you combine landing on the ball of your foot with pushing off with the heel (so I at least agree that it doesn't feel natural :-).
To all the people posting here who are thinking this certainly couldn't happen to them, please, read up on some psychology and neuroscience; you are just like all the people who thought only the Germans could have done what they did in WW2, until Milgram and co proved the world wrong (it could have been any of us). TLDR lesson here? Our brains are not built for multitasking. Safeguard yourself from human error, don't multitask! Laser focus is your friend.
The point is whether they actually offset the emissions enough, not whether there's any effect at all. If they only have a marginal effect but provide the feeling of a solution, it could get in the way of a more profound but more difficult solution.
"The findings suggest that spending money to save time may reduce stress about the limited time in the day, thereby improving happiness."

More time for doing non-boring stuff makes you happy. Who'da thunk it?

On a related note, the Norwegian central statistics bureau released today a study on free time and happiness, and in particular how happy various demographics are with the part of their free time when they can do whatever they like. "Me-time".

What stuck out very strongly to me is that they found a very strong correlation with age: couples over 45 were 30 percentage points more happy with their "me-time" than couples under 45, but this was completely independent of whether they had kids or not. Couples without kids vs. with kids were within 1 percentage point of each other in both age groups. I strongly expected to see couples without kids more happy with their "me-time", but apparently they're not.
Oh, another thing: $20 water shoes last only slightly less long than $100+ speciality 'barefoot' running shoes. :)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Z7EOK8/ref=oh_aui_deta...
It can be enforced reliably enough to make it too hard for most people to keep circumventing censorship. Even with only current capabilities they can gather metadata on everyone's internet usage and see into a bit of data if needed, which is enough to statistically detect most attempts to hide traffic in something else.
Hey there, thanks for the feedback!

I know the website is not perfect yet (and we're not looking for people to buy yet, maybe that should be clearer?), it would be interesting though what in particular you're missing?

Regarding DNS, I'm a bit unsure what you mean. You point your own domain to our servers via a CNAME. SSL can be enabled as well (via LetsEncrypt), the certificate gets generated automatically via a DNS TXT record or, if you've pointed the domain over to us already, without any effort on your side. Of course you can test your setup before changing any DNS entries by using the *.portal.lambdacult.com subdomain we provide you. Load-balancing is done via ELB, not on the DNS level.

Right now, all Portal is doing is to call your Lambda function and returning its response over HTTP(S) - no rate limiting or any other extra features. Those will come as people (like you) try out the service and request those features, everything is possible :-) It's certainly interesting for us to hear that you consider IP-based rate limiting the #1 missing feature from API Gateway, might be possible soon! ;-)

The AMI idea is certainly interesting, but our goal is to provide a no-brainer service that doesn't need any setup or scaling. I can see this solution work well for small APIs, but don't you want the same flexibility and scalability as you already get with Lambda? Isn't that the great advantage over "traditional" server-based infrastructure? What happens if you get featured on the App Store over night? Also don't underestimate the necessary overhead for monitoring, outages, software updates, EC2 instances being shutdown, etc. - probably easier to manage over a service than over customer-owned EC2 instances.

Regarding screenshots, why don't you just try it out? It's free for now (and hopefully simple), let me know if it takes longer than expected to setup :-)
That's definitely an interesting method. I'm always surprised that I don't see more people relying on checklists in day to day tasks. I use checklists religiously at work and have incorporated them into my daily life as well. I have a number of friends who are constantly leaving things behind(cellphones, wallets, house/car keys), I don't think I'm any less of a naturally forgetful person than them, but because I use simple checklists I rarely forget things compared to them, even when I'm exhausted or stressed out.

Whenever I babysit my two young nieces I now just add an extra step to my checklists; don't forget kids in car.
Yes, I regard cooking/baking as "non boring stuff".
It also removes 99.9999% of the reward :)

Moonshots should be moonshots
By that logic, tennis courts, swimming pools, and other recreational facilities do the same. Not everyone uses a gym to run on a treadmill, or even to do cardio-based exercises.
This is super interesting and I'm still going through the paper. For folks with a "Cool, but why" reaction, the introduction elaborates:

For example, the P language [10] is a language for describing verifiable asyn-
chronous state machines, and used for example to implement and verify the core
of the USB device driver stack that ships with Microsoft Windows 8. Compiling
to C involves a complex CPS-style transformation [19, 26] to enable async/await
style programming [5] with a receive statement – using the effects library this
transformation is no longer necessary and we can generate straightforward C
code instead. Similarly, we hope to integrate this library with libuv [29] (the
asynchronous C library underlying Node [43]) and improve programming with
libuv directly from C or C++ using async/await style abstractions [12, 27]

Since the linked abstract doesn't actually mention this practical application, consider this comment as a goad to encourage more people to click through to the paper :)
> I'd compare it to YouTube. People could theoretically host their own videos, but the main reason people use YouTube is because it is so much easier for others to discover your videos.

I appreciate the effort to create a comparison or analogy here, but hosting video is a far, far bigger problem than hosting some text. Bandwidth costs will reach into the thousands of dollars per month video that gets a few thousands views, which isn't hard to get on YouTube's platform.
I disagree. There are lots of different kinds of "comments" on blogs. I agree that pingbacks and one word reactions are awful. However, comments that are a few sentences, or a few of paragraphs, of good thoughts are fantastic. Often people can provide additional info on a topic, or they don't have a blog themselves but want to contribute to the conversation. Besides, as a sibling pointed out, HN comments are basically off-site blog comments, and I think a lot of HN readers enjoy them.

I'm sure moderating comments is hard. But when it's done well comments are great.
Intuition informed by the truth that it's far easier to program a chess-playing computer than to make a hand that can gently move the pieces of the chess-board.
That's sort of my wider point. It's not that it's because it's under a permissive license, it's because —being super racist here— they just don't care whether it's copyright or not. The type of license is irrelevant.
Do you have a photo of you with a pack of cigarettes that you could access now? Probably not because if you dont smoke you probably dont carry them often enough to be photographed doing so.

Clear survivorship bias. If she didn't have a pack, you probably wouldn't even have known about the picture. So the number of people who carry without getting photographed is irrelevant.
> Totally agree. Code embedding is also limited on Medium, I think they still lack syntax highlighting.

Limited how? I find embedding GitHub Gist's works perfectly fine and is automatic -- just paste the link to the Gist in your post and you get an embedded object.