skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Very few people need to really understand all of that to "get" bitcoin

Except when a fork comes, or why control of 51% of the hashing power is bad.
The only diet that works is the one you stick to. So figure out the combination of what drives you and what you can live with, and do that.

For me, I fall apart when I'm hungry. So my diet is based around "efficient" foods (most fullness for least calories) and easy-to-follow guidelines that I can fall back on when I'm too hungry to think straight.

- Protein makes me full. Lean protein makes me stupid full.

- Vegetables make me feel like I've had a real meal. It's hard to add so much oil or butter to a vegetable to make the calories matter.

- I can eat infinite carbs. Carbs + fat is an easy way to put down 2,000 calories in a single meal.

- Most places have a salad. When in doubt, order the salad. Add protein.

- Cooking at home means meat + veggie. I make whatever I want, as long as it's meat + veggie.

- Breakfast doesn't make me full for long. Coffee is equally effective.

Figure out what works for you! Maybe keto is easy to follow. Maybe lifting makes you crave fewer pizzas. Maybe you can outrun your food habits by training for marathons. Maybe you should eat 7 meals a day, 3 of which are soylent.

It's all about the habit. If you can figure out what the happy output is, optimize for the fewest inputs that get you there.
More people die in Toronto in swimming pool accidents, than people in Tel Aviv due to terrorist attacks. Source: one easy google search away, or start with this: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs347/en/

Let's not confuse perceived threats from real ones, backed by data.
> many points in the article make it clear that you are directly comparing lifestyle to a startup and saying that a startup is inferior

True. The whole point was to compare the two. And that one comes out better than the other is from my personal point of view. But again, just because I think mountain biking is better (for myself and other like minded people) doesn't mean it's the only way and road cycling is not acceptable and needs to be banned. But I guess we understand each other :-)

> I am just wondering why is that the content? Bugfender isn't just for freelancers

This post was actually originally created for another side project of mine (O4H) but we thought it also partially applies to one of our big audiences at Bugfender which are solo developers (freelancers), so we decided to cross post it.

However in general we share a lot of our work-life philosophy on our Mobile Jazz blog https://mobilejazz.com/blog/ and despite not addressing our target audience specifically, we've managed to create a lot of awareness for our company and brand and through that indirectly generated many interesting leads and people ended up working with us because of that.
McSweeney's response to the Google Memo
Ctrl+F5, it's probably cached.
1 day later a PhD in sexual neuroscience explicitly confirmed [1] that Yonatan Zunger (a software engineer) has no clue about gender.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manife...
You're right that there is some flexibility, but the basic move is to grant credit for remediation [see below]. Whether that means turning the intro courses into multiple semester courses or giving credit for summer prep. The problems with basing placements on high school grades is why they had to create the assessments in the first place. The better solution is the early assessment program, but since California has eliminated the high school graduation exam requirement, it gets harder to see which college bound student needs help in the 11th/12th grade level.

"Freshmen who would usually be directed to developmental English or math will instead enroll in the same general education classes as their peers, but they might receive additional tutoring or take the course at a slower pace, stretched over multiple semesters. A summer program for incoming freshmen who need extra preparation will be redesigned to count for credit."
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert...
nutritionfacts.org for science-based nutritional advice.
You mean "go a full Pets.com" like in millennium dotCom bubble.
>see how a global optimization is better than the local one.

When the local maxima and global maxima do not align suffering occurs. This is why evoLuton picks a few broad things on a global scale, but at the local scale thing developed very differently
While getting acquired can be “a very good win for the founders, that might be at the expense of a more competitive landscape.”

I think about this a lot and at the end of the day a founder has to decide if they care about their own payday or the broader ecosystem/market of independent products.

If you fall into the latter camp, then assuming you are even successful in the market, you should prepare to die by your sword. Otherwise, the big 5 just keep getting bigger with more advocates and authority.

You could argue that joining them will be better in the end because you just bide your time and leave to start something even bigger, but the reality is you'll have the same dilemma in the future. So why wait to take a stand and try to compete?

The real question is if it's even practically possible to compete. Given that VC are generally too timid to fund anything which could get beaten by the big ones, there aren't a whole lot of options to growth fund something which really could compete.
Hmmm. Have you considered closing some of those and regressing away from your online presence in order to solve your evident frustration with managing so many pwds? If I signed up for all that cra..stuff, I would close some. :)
He studied mathematical biology. A PhD/MS should never indicate expertise outside of the field of study.
Intel says it will build a fleet of 100 fully autonomous vehicles – The Verge
Drink lots of water, eat a wide variety of mostly non-processed food, find physical activities that are fun and engaging enough that you will do them for entertainment.
> The people and companies in this posting are fictional. Any resemblance to any real individuals or companies is coincidental. The events described herein are solely about the fictional individuals and entities, and should not be interpreted in any other context.

Honestly I found this to be the most telling line in the whole article. Why include it? As readers, we're under no obligation to pretend to be so stupid we can't see through such a transparent falsehood.

Maybe that's part of the problem with the larger conversation as well. Pro-manifesto articles usually lead with "look, here's all the places in the manifesto where the author wrote that they support diversity"—does that mean that, as readers, we need to accept those statements uncritically, ignoring everything that it includes rejecting diversity?

There are people out there who feel that if they preface their statements with "No offense, but ...", they are thereby absolved of any responsibility to not be offensive. That's not how communication does (or should) work, however.
That video (or at least its transcript) isn't very useful.

Nio has built a self-driving supercar. A real race car, it's doing quite well on empty tracks. Even Road and Track is impressed.[1] It costs $1.5 million. Each. They've built about 9 cars.

This is a China-based startup. Founder is William Li. Crunchbase doesn't know anything about him. Anyone have more info? Baidu is the lead investor. $600M invested so far. About 2,000 employees. This is the highest-funded self-driving startup.

It's not clear where they go from here, but they have a lot of resources.

[1] http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/videos/a33498/watch-the...
Religious flamewar, which this counts as, is always off topic and particularly not allowed on Hacker News. Nothing good can, or ever does, come of it. So would you please not post like this again?
I said make it easy, steam did make it easy. It is easy to use steam to buy and play games. Maybe it's not easy to use steam to buy a game, and then play it without steam... but then that wouldn't fit into my argument.
Why do you believe that having a test administered by the school is the only way to identify students needing remedial help? The school is arguing that they can do a better job of identification by using existing grades and test scores. What's your evidence against this argument?
This may just be selection bias. Had your father died at age 70, you'd be thinking the reason was he didn't retire early enough.

My dad retired at 55 as his health began to decline. He's still alive at 78, and there's no way he would have lived this long if he didn't retire when he did.
Given Uber's pretty tight standards for cars, I would assume that these are late-model low-mileage pre-owned cars, which still hover i the $20k value range.

I think they also wanted to reserve the right to re-lease cars that came back as early returns under the leasing plan.
Starting a computerized machine embroidery business is now easier than before
This article covers more than just fat loss, but goes over the whole spectrum of how to plan your diet.

http://physiqonomics.com/fat-loss/
> when it was practically relevant

I can completely agree with this. It was a very disruptive (not the good kind) message - he likely exasperated the problems that quotas cause for other employees. The article mentions that the diversity manager should also be sacked and, while I never like to imply that should be done, someone did hand Edward a loaded gun; a person that was hired to prevent situations like that from happening.
I meant hypothetically. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

As in, if in some hypothetical scenario, Google announced that they would break compatibility, it would be bad.
They changed their strategy?
> It's not trivia, it's trivial.

That is a great quote; I hope you don't mind if I borrow it from time to time.

The comments that this is "nuanced" or a "silly gotcha" are interesting. I wonder if these commenters have ever programmed in Delphi or Pascal? (No offense intended to those commenters if you have.)

I've never used Delphi itself (although a program I wrote was bundled with it for a while, if you remember WinSight). I did write some Pascal code 35 years ago for DOS and the original Mac OS, but haven't touched the language or looked at it since then.

But even I knew the answer to this right off the top of my head. It's so fundamental that if you don't know it, you don't know the language at all.
This is probably the worst site to ask. The replies will range from Soylent to Doritos to vegan without much moderate voices in between. A lot of insurance plans will completely cover a visit to a nutritionist or talk to your GP. Don't listen to the fads and hysteria on the internet that offer diets that are simple to describe but hard to live by.
It was quite pathetic the way they showed screen shots of the outrage on twitter, while failing to provide any links to the source.

My opinion of Guardian went down quite a bit yesterday. They are frequently pushing an agenda, but their reporting of this was pretty dishonest (I had read the original before I read the Guardians interpretation).
Until AI and robots start doing it, then you'll have to worry about the fate of the bottom
It isn't accurate to count it as $18k in realized value from cc points if you would have never spent that much on the thing without the points.

The actual realized value is the amount that one would have been willing spend on the thing with their _own_ money, if they didn't have the points.
Fun thing to think about - someone on twitter brought up that the Eminem map looks a lot like the Obama to Trump swing map. From what Maine, Michigan and Pennsylvania look like I think it's a decent match.
It's funny. Based on the responses, I can tell who has Delphi experience and who does not. Pretty good interview question for Delphi devs, I'd say. :) Sure beats 5 hour interviews about God knows what.
"gpg: "gpg" is now installed as "gpg" and not anymore as "gpg2".
If needed, the new configure option --enable-gpg-is-gpg2 can be
used to revert this."

Aha. I was wondering if this would be deemed a mere sequel to GPG 1 forever.
You can't, really. Not in the US. There's no way you can budget health care for that many years.
Bringing it back to the manifesto: he used the gender difference as an argument against special programs to hire more women, but this should only apply if Google has already achieved the optimal ratio.

His argument is moot if Google still does need further optimization in its gender ratios. I don't know what the real-world ratio is for this problem, but it appears the author of the manifesto doesn't either?
This is intellectually dishonest. You're pushing all the work and rigor on others while accepting none for yourself. You're saying "I don't understand this subject, but I still have an opinion, it's your job to also explain the subject to me in addition to explaining why I'm wrong". This is unacceptable in an age where access to the internet (Wikipedia, etc.) makes educating yourself easy. Do better.
$ dig -t mx ycombinator.com
[...]
ycombinator.com.	300	IN	MX	10 aspmx.l.google.com.

Looks like ycombinator.com is a Google enterprise domain. Three guesses what pg's email address probably is.
Wikipedia[1] reports deficit was ~1,250 bilions in the 2011-12 timeframe, dropping significantly in 2013. Wayback machine[2] seems to indicate the author wrote the page in the 2013 timeframe, so the figures probably need updating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20131210100653/http://superchimn...
Save files and settings were sucked into the cloud as well (sometimes). Great for little games I like to play on multiple computers.
I've seen lots of people try and it does seem to work for weight loss short turn but the effect does not seem to last. At some point you start liking the food and weight comes right back. (ditto for pretty much any special diet)

As for the health benefits, I'm not so sure there either. I eat a mostly meat diet and my wife has been vegan for last 10 years and vegetarian for the 15 years before that and my numbers are better pretty much across the board.

Sure it seems like a vegetarian diet should be better for you but with nutritional science in the state it is it is hard to know much of anything for sure.
If you don't find shakes appetising you could eat the berries separately, and make a salad with the greens and plant protein, and eat some almonds, and skip the bananas. Eating it in this form will also be more filling with fewer calories.
I'd hate to feel like I wasn't part of the team for not getting our kids together or not wanting to holiday or spend a day off with colleagues.

This may be simply a cultural difference. In the past five years I've worked in a office, we did that about twice a year, if that.
Ask HN: Can JavaScript be treated like machine language?
I'm wondering if it's possible to treat JS as if it's a CPU instruction set and then building a compiler back-end for Clang or GCC for it.

Even if it's not possible for Clang or GCC, any reason(s) why JS cannot be treated as a machine language, potentially using a subset of it in the beginning.

I imagine the "model" would be centered around DOM manipulation and AJAX facilities.

I'm sure I'm not the first one to ask this, if people have relevant links to share, would love to see them.
Except that they are now allowed to take other classes at the same time, which was previously disallowed.
The author has spoken against Trump vehemently on multiple occasions. I'm pretty sure the unspeakable opinions referred to in this post aren't Trump related.
Wes Bos is doing an AMA on dev.to right now
We're using Optimizely for that. We'll look into it and see how easily we could put it inside the content or at least at the bottom. Thanks for the constructive feedback :-)
I don't think you know what a pyramid scheme is.

How about learning the definition of the words you use before throwing them around?
Jonathan Rauch, for example, in the New Republic in 1997, wrote that "quietly, gradually, the workplace has become an exception" to the general rule that in America the law does not seek to restrain wrongful opinion and expression.

And Rauch explained the indirect mechanism by which this has come to pass: "What the government cannot do directly, it now requires employers to do in its stead: police 'discriminatory' speech."
If I already had several cases due to hiring discrimination against women breathing down my neck, and this person would at the worst point in time publish an article that casts a shadow over every hiring process he has ever been involved in, yes, I'd definitely fire him.
Your bookworm Assistant
Aha! I was wondering if there were some "gotchas" to watch out for in the real-world systems.
Seriously, how can we make matrix multiplication and gradient descent safe?
‘Critical’ evidence in near air-disaster at SFO erased
Well, bitcoin makes people who think that they are smart, realize that they are way less smart than they thought they were. The author understands that he could impossibly understand the underlying mechanics of bitcoin. Hence, he came to realize that there must be other people, who are substantially smarter than he is.
Curious what type of products you're talking about?
Fair point, the example of BCH may not have been a good one. I stand by my more general point that grim trigger isn't a strong incentive in crypto because a rational, selfish player can profit from pulling the trigger.
Don't get diet advice from engineers.

I appreciate the interest in knowing what your virtual colleagues do, but honestly some topics covered on Ask HN simply cannot be answered with the same expertise as tech related questions.
You are also required to pay taxes on profits from illegal activity. Breaking one law doesn't exempt you from following another.
I put a comment after each quote. Sorry if the notation wasn't clear.
> no?

Very likely, no.

Unless those companies somehow got very good on your "a" point and told nobody, their more filters they add the biggest the likelihood of having one that is anti-correlated to competence. And just one such filter can be enough to cut all the extremely few great candidates.
Pytest's fixtures have ruined me for other testing frameworks.
How does the business case of such a "lifestyle business" look, i.e. the numbers? I'm not sure whether operating out of a sailing boat is affordable for small companies and the $6500 MRR of bugfender can't be covering it...
Yup. Most of the story of ridesharing (and the sharing economy in general) is a massive shift of profit out of the hands of monopoly rentiers (cabbies (or more accurately, medallion owners), hotel owners) and into the pockets of consumers.

We're all paying much less for car rides than we were a few years ago, but the basic underlying cost of providing those rides has not changed much at all.
Stop eating once you're no longer hungry.
US only - we don't have a way to hire FTE's internationally
Fact vies with fantasy in 'Black Death' model kidnap case
Let me quote that thing you linked to:

"As with many of the utilities that deal with filenames, the output of ls for multiple files or in one of the long listing formats must be used carefully on systems where filenames can contain embedded white space."

POSIX is such a system. If you try to parse the filenames output by ls, it will break when you encounter a filename with whitespace in it. Use a shell glob instead—it will actually work right.
> You're using the word album, you're referring to "owning" music, and appears you're unfamiliar with any new music from the last 20 years.

"Album" is just a collection, and applies whether or not you own it. The word is used all over Spotify, iTunes, and other online music services as an organizational unit.

Fun fact: "Record album" used to mean a literal album — a bound collection of sleeves containing records. This was necessary since 12-inch 78s only held about 4-5 minutes of audio per side.
Automated Testing with Rest Example Part 1
Do not connect it to anything that would make it dangerous.
Where is the proof on vscode being "fast"? And compared to what? I can only talk about my and some of my friends' personal experience but it won't praise vscode's performance. It's maybe less glitchy(latency) than atom but it feels like it's still far from sublime/emacs/vim.
Upper middle class isn't normal. It doesn't just happen. Example: Only 32% of Americans have bachelor degrees.
This sounds really interesting, do you have any examples or a blog post explaining this in more detail?
It's just like the housing bubble. Risky bets turn out to be risky. Putting a whole bunch of risky bets together doesn't reduce the risk, it just makes the problem bigger when it crashes.

In some ways this could be seen a very charitable on Uber's part. They're giving these people who don't have the personal assets a chance to work for a living despite their past behavior. If you're willing to concede that the company is willing to take risk to help the most disadvantaged people, then the only thing I can fault them on is doing it at the wrong end of the equation. They should have had the people make conventional leases at the higher rates and then tack on a "lease premium" on the fares they collect (supplied by Uber, not the passengers) to help pay for the car. This would prevent them from going to work for Lyft (where they wouldn't get the bonus money) but still gain the advantage of a steady job and hopefully get their credit back in order in time.
Does that really exist still? Can you have a house, a life and kids on one income? It seems to have vanished in the U.K.
James Damore Discusses Google Memo with Jordan Peterson
The amount of anti-free-software FUD in this thread is staggering. Did Microsoft buy off all of you?
This is great advice because every additional ingredient you add reduces your risk of colon cancer.
+1 this is exactly how we did it. Not that any of that was planned, but it worked out quite well for us. Although now we're struggling with that every business is struggling that makes the switch from services to products: the need to put more resources on the product to facilitate growth while the service clients also have their needs. But we're getting there, step by step. The good thing about being a profitable lifestyle business is that we're in no rush.
Do you know how people take photos of themselves voting at "secret-keeping" poll-stations? How about politicians, which publicly give lucrative promises to their particular electorate?

If they want to sell their vote - it is their choice. I'd only say that the right of citizens to secede from such a society must be respected too.
I think it looks a lot less paradoxical if you ask "why do interesting things (seem to) have 'intermediate' levels of entropy?"

It is not exactly the same issue, because the original formulation suggests that everything with an 'intermediate' entropy is interesting, which appears to be a tougher case to make, though I imagine there's some definition of 'intermediate' and 'interesting' from which an argument may be made.
The latest js tooling is certainly light years ahead of where it was last decade, but it's a double edged sword, because now it takes a lot more effort to get something going.

Indie hackers like myself are still better served by vanilla rails + turbolinks, it gets you something that feels fast wtih a lot less effort.
Regarding 4, did you ever consider trying a gaming laptop? Razer is coming out with some pretty insane builds at very small form factors.

As for tools, yea that was always a bummer. Some cities have hacker barns or whatever but it really depends on where you are. As always, I recommend digital nomads that like buildin shit to check out Taipei, the maker crowd is HUGE there (relatively).
Curious case of the model, the fantasist, the Dark Web and the Black Death gang
If you were programing in Pascal for 5 minutes, you would know the answer. It is a technicality, but a plainly accessible one.

If "knows Pascal" is one of the job requirements, it's actually a good question.