skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much the back problem mattered here. Because you see the same, in fighting sports. Every 3 years or so someone comes and starts intense practice, thinking they can just do this. And you can ...

But not if you practice hard enough to dislocate your knee in (the current record is) 2 months. Unless you're a kid, you need regular, long (as in a week minimum) breaks in practice. Every few months.
It's great to see. One of my favorite authors of all time is a woman, Julian May. Isn't it funny that in a genre that so many equate with neckbeards is turning out to be the opposite of this perception.
>Their research showed that gossip and ostracism can have very positive effects. They are tools by which groups reform bullies, thwart exploitation of "nice people" and encourage cooperation.

"Reform." Sure. Look, gossiping behind peoples' back doesn't work as a feedback mechanism for everyone. If you can't read the cues, your only option is to be ruthlessly conservative around others:

1. Never trust anybody.

2. Never introduce yourself into a social situation that you haven't been specifically invited to join.

3. Always try to remember what the people around you believe or feel strongly about, and be careful never to mention those things.

4. Always be pleasant and agreeable, never directly contradict people. Never speak your mind, and never be fully honest and open.

I mean, I guess that's a positive outcome from society's point of view. There's no trouble, no friction, no inadvertent impositions on others. That's good. But I dunno, it doesn't feel very positive. I like people, and I feel like most of my views are pretty agreeable, but ... well, I don't know. Nobody ever tells me these things.

Edit: What? I can't really pick up on these things, and this is what I slowly and painfully learned from gossip growing up. It's been very isolating, and hard to unlearn as an adult. What problem do people have with this point? Is my experience invalid?
Other countries don't have such capability to get their extradition requests obeyed :)
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>The average person isn't able to spend ~7 hours a day, every day for 4 years, on a non-salaried activity.

I basically did this over 6 years, 3-5 hours per day on a non-earning activity to eventually launch the business I now run. In the last 3 years I've averaged 60-70 hours per week at work, only recently earning close to my last salary (about 65% as of last check) as a Data Scientist.

It's doable enough. Just very hard. Can only really be done if it's your life's calling, which this was and I correctly identified it as such in year 2.
Bradbury now insists that Fahrenheit 451 had nothing to do with censorship or McCarthyism, but he used to say just the opposite. In 1956 he said: "I wrote this book at a time when I was worried about the way things were going in this country four years ago. Too many people were afraid of their shadows; there was a threat of book burning. Many of the books were being taken off the shelves at that time. [...] I wanted to do some sort of story where I could comment on what would happen to a country if we let ourselves go too far in this direction, where then all thinking stops, and the dragon swallows his tail, and we sort of vanish into a limbo and we destroy ourselves by this sort of action."

And in 1979: "Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some seventy-five separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel, which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, wrote to tell me of this exquisite irony."

Really not sure what to make of that.
Yes, its clearly not about traffic as every office building has an enormous number of car trips, maybe a bit less than homes but not by much I'm guessing, and they are clustered at rush hour.
Oh, wow! I used this website as a reference fairly heavily when getting started with RPis, and still use it quite often (the WiringPi diagram in particular came in handy many, many times as there a whole lot of pins to it)
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Quick math on $SNAP marketing numbers:
- $3.60 per existing user
- $89 per acquired user
to make revenue of $1.05 per user in... 3 months
Ask HN: How do I secure my future?
Hi HN,

I'm a self-taught programmer and I'm finding myself increasingly concerned
about my future.

I've had several jobs in the past, all of which were in the finance industry.
Back-end software for eCommerce, point-of-sale systems and such.

The last company I worked for had a very toxic environment. Extremely
micromanaged, abusive, etc.

The reason I'm concerned about the future is that I've just turned thirty, I
have no formal qualifications and I'm unlikely to acquire an honest reference
from my last employer.

Much of the interesting things I've worked on, the things that have taught me
the most, that taught me the value of many idioms and patterns, were all done
in my spare time. The kind of things I'm passionate about are those that are
often unseen such as compilers, data structures of various kinds, device
drivers, kernels, linkers and memory management systems.

I'm afraid that I'll be ignored because I don't possess a degree and I don't
have an extensive work history.

Does our industry still accept those who taught themselves?

Is the initiative and determination of a self-taught developer still worth
anything?

What can I do to secure my future?
I eat keto and just cut the sweets - my goal was to be healthier and love longer and fake sugars didn't align with that. I used to have a big sweet tooth. I quickly adjusted and sweets now make me feel gross. Wouldn't change it for the world.
I highly recommend people reading a similar story by Lyle McDonald, called No Regrets [0]. He drops everything to become a world-champion short-track speed skater, which is miles and miles less competitive than professional golf.

[0]: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/no-regrets-part-1....
Wow, I didn't know that slack did that, any idea how they did that?
ITT: people who don't live in areas that routinely get hail and periodic roof replacements.
On your comment about homeowners leaving the grid, electrically --

I personally haven't heard this promoted by Tesla/SolarCity, though I have heard them promote reducing loads on traditional energy sources.

I have however heard it promoted that people with installations like these roofs will be able to earn dividends on a microgrid. I haven't worked out the numbers yet myself (as it's kind of a mercurial interest, but something I keep my eye on), but I have heard a few good talks on the subject and noted a few experiments ongoing relating to just that model.

In the microgrid model, electricity contributors and low-energy users stand to earn for their habits and are paid by other users and excess users on the same microgrid -- I hope I'm summarizing this correctly.

In this last deck there is particular mention of excluding the utility service from the energy trade by utilizing blockchain tech to aid in the trade operations, so that the homeowner directly sees the benefit (at least, directly in some sense.) I recommend looking him and that centre up, there's a lot of interesting work being done -- it's just unfortunate it's not happening faster. It's hard to maintain the public's belief.

I guess I digress from the issue of the cost of the "invisible" roof vs. mounted panels. I wanted contribute to questions of the cost rebates, though.

--

(0) Brooklyn Microgrid - http://brooklynmicrogrid.com/, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/business/energy-environme...

(1) Ryerson University Toronto - http://www.ryerson.ca/cue/research/sponsored-projects/contro... (more info: http://www.ryerson.ca/ryersontoday/data/news/2015/03/2015030..., http://www.ryerson.ca/cue/ )

(2) I know of number (1) because I recently heard a talk by Dr McGillivray on microgrids -- he's the former executive director of the CUE at Ryerson and current "Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering & Architectural Science" there. I didn't know this, but he has been promoting the idea since around 2010[0] and is still active in research and promotion of the system[1a,b]. Ontario (Canada) is running programs open to funding these systems for research and social benefit[2]

--

[0] I couldn't get the file to link properly, sorry. Here's a download link: https://send.firefox.com/download/245d16f808/#tFZ6GdEh1l2B1v...

[1a] https://eda-connect.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Trends-in-...

[1b] http://www.thinkingpower.ca/PDFs/Roundtable2016/Microgrid%20...

[2] http://www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/Ge...
There are plenty of songs whose words I've interpreted in a way that was probably not what the writer was thinking of, but is nonetheless deeply meaningful to me. Of course meaning is in the eye of the beholder; it's certainly useful and interesting to ask what the author intended, but that doesn't invalidate other interpretations.
He's one of the world's most pre-eminent bioethicists.

His writings on animal welfare (e.g., The Way We Eat) and fighting poverty (e.g., The Expanding Circle, The Life You Can Save) are fantastic and should be required reading.
> Johnson quotes Bradbury describing television as a medium that "gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was,” spreading "factoids" instead of knowledge. “They stuff you with so much useless information, you feel full.”

I wonder if books bypass this by giving so much information that you need to summarize it to follow along. And the compressed representation is closer to knowledge.
Unfortunately, busses in many metropolitan areas run on staggered schedules. It's why middle school starts at 7:20am while grade school starts at 8:10 in some cities.

A typical service day for a school bus can be pretty packed.
Paul Graham's Quote on the Biological Basis of Intelligence
So, I just came across Paul Graham's quote on Twitter :

" I wonder if, as the biological basis of intelligence becomes better understood, it will start to seem wrong to call people stupid. "

Does he mean that it is ok to call people "stupid" in their face if they have a low or average IQ ?

Also, what is Paul Graham's IQ ? Is he a genius ?

Can we work hard in our lifetimes to increase our IQ significantly ? For example, if I study very hard and practice 10-year series's for Mensa tests, can I increase my IQ significantly. For example from 100 to 130 or something ?
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I'm guessing if you travel by car in major european (and most major cities of the world) rush hour will be similiarly bad. The main difference in European cities is that you often have better options, including better public transit or bike infrastructure, also more housing in the inner city and less endless suburbia. I don't have sources for this but my thoughts are that if traffic was much less more people would elect to use the roads and drive private cars and it would end up as congested as here, as it does when more road infrastructure is built.
i think these two things probably imply that vehicles traveled much faster than on the freeways of the 1950s, extrapolating from trends he saw (car travel becoming faster) in the same way that he extrapolated the wall-sized televisions from early tv screens increasing in size, or people readings fewer books for that matter
> I hate those games, because the moment you become human, and try to do something intuitive but undefined and unwanted by the programmers, you get penalized.

That's what I loved about Ultima Online. Characters were basically "Here are 100 possible skills to learn and 5 base stats. You get 700 points to distribute among your skills. Good luck"

My fav part was that doing things that require strength made you stronger, doing dexterous tasks increased dexterity etc.

While fun, the game was also an absolute nightmare for beginners. You really needed to find friends that knew what they were doing to help you out. This of course created a wonderful community.
But what's the solution here? Without an escrow service which verifies the contents both ways, the best they can do is arbitrarily choose the winner.
That probably has more to do with her nationality than her age. Many Japanese websites still look like this, in particular for small businesses.
Or: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_bicycle
Is it about making employees healthier, or about increasing the amount of abuse without loss of health?

Are cows healthier because of antibiotics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_tKYvPKN7U
A fair statement. However, can we make a blanket statement about all policies or all possible such policies? Some of them are quite blunt (i.e. direct quota specification) and others attempt to address conditions that contribute to unequal outcomes and/or opportunities (i.e. hostile working environments). Each policy attempts to address the problem differently with different effects on those seeking to enter, work in, or leave the field. Could some clumsily implemented policy somewhere unjustifiably exclude someone or make conditions worse for them because of something they can't control?

I think the answer to that question is certainly a yes. Is it possible that some of those discriminated against identify as male? Again, yes. We shouldn't make blanket statements or dismiss complaints about specific possible injustices. To do so is to forget how we got to the worse place we were at decades ago and risk going back there (in any direction). I can't imagine any of us want that.
In Japan the last company to have employed someone is on the hook for some retirement benefits. Thus one often sees hiring cut offs entering the fifties.
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Or a bike trailer[1]. There's one for every job. Cheaper [than a low volume bike] and you get to keep/have a regular bike for when you're not carrying freight.

[1]https://www.treehugger.com/bikes/bicycle-cargo-chapter-2-bik...
Not looking up a domain name cannot constitute circumvention.

Imagine a DVDCSS-like system that used remote servers to convey permission and defaulted to ALLOW. Would users who unplugged their DVD players from the Internet be guilty of circumvention? Now imagine that DVDs for said player were handed out freely on the street, stuffed into people's mailboxes, etc. Would people who played those DVDs without connecting their players to the Internet be guilty of circumvention?

That's the same thing, in principle, that's going on here. Claiming that it's circumvention (whoever makes that claim; I don't know if you are) is preposterous. This is obviously an abuse of the DMCA (not hard to do, considering the DMCA itself is an abuse, but I digress).
>Do all my arrays have the same origin?

When I was learning Haskell, I actually was able to answer no to this question. The Array [0] data type in Haskell lets (requires) you to specify the bounds (upper and lower) when you create a new Array, and I ended up mixing 0 indexed and 1 indexed arrays throughout my program.

[0] Which you should almost never use. Use Data.Vector or Data.Sequence instead.
There has to be previous discussions on HN about this. Does anyone have a link?

I'm probably going against the grain here, but do we need to teach kids to code? Heck, does Tim Cook know how to code?

It's been 20+ years now where kids have had access to computers in schools. In the late 90's they taught typing, Word, Excel, and Power Point.* Looking at most of my friends from high school who aren't in tech, that's all they use--if that. I was a bit surprised when my brother in law mentioned my nephews, who are about to go into high school, had never used a desktop computer. I was a bit surprised at first, but don't think it'll be a problem for them and it's probably common.

I think the expectation 25 years ago is that the average workhorse applications would be way more scriptable. So "a little" computer science could be done to automate repetitive things and lead to more computer science. I hear about Excel wizards and I've seen managers who are fantastic with pulling data into Power Point, but they seem very specialized to their profession. I've never had to use VBA inside of a Microsoft app. Every time I try and use AppleScript I have to dive in way more than the average person would bother (and I don't see options like that for Windows). Outside of work I might write a small Python/Shell script to scrape some web pages, or sort some data. I just can't see someone who had a class in high school doing anything useful.

I do think it's good to get exposure to computer basics and even programming if they're interested. Maybe, like the article says, it's comparable to higher level math and science classes.

* I thought it was a bit silly they were teaching Microsoft programs because who knows what would be around 5 years from then--I was wrong about that
Also the "10,000" hour rule (which has obviously been debunked) isn't really about 10,000 hours of focused practice on the task alone. Focused work and previous experience in other domains transfers into the activity/goal you chase.

Being a Data Scientist gave me a huge leg up about understanding data structures and statistical analysis, huge in my field.

Formerly a software developer, I was able to install, configure, and hack together a workable WooCommerce/WordPress PHP/MySQL CMS that generated content and still is our main shop, selling millions of dollars of merchandise per year.

I used to work retail and retail management when I was young and putting myself through high school and college. Lessons about stocking, shipping, marketing, sales, logistics - all transferred into my online retail business.

None transfer perfectly, but all make an impact. True, I knew nothing about "sports science" at the outset. But I had a big leg up from my limited college education and my extensive work history. That cut the "10,000" hours down significantly.
He wasn't completely off, even just a few years ago the speculation of wall size TVs becoming common place was a very real possibility.
> 1. you can see hell of lot more interesting things in 5 hours or less from Boston than almost any other city in the Midwest or even California.

Within 5 hours of LA, I can get to both the lowest and highest point in the continental USA, I can see deserts and forest mountains, not to mention oceans, surfing, beachside houses that make cape code look cheap. Vegas is only 4 hours away, at most 5...
You can actually "hire" a company to put solar panels on your roofs. They not only install it for you and maintain it, but they take responsibility for the upfront costs. "Hire" is in quotes because in many place you don't pay them anything so much as pay a portion of the savings you got by using solar.

To me, that isn't really a technology thing. It's a financing thing. Banks and insurance deal with smoothing out costs all the time, and I think that's all you really need to make it work. All you really need to do is mortgage the solar panels and the panels will pay for their own premium.
What's all the space in the middle for?
Well, yeah, an area that routinely gets hail and requires roof replacement more often would not have as long of a window for a solar roof to recoup the investment.

And the parts of the US that one would expect to dominate HN are overwhelmingly those that don't get hail.
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This is a crucial point: the software is not blocking their ads, neither are the software's authors--the users of the software are. And the users have every right to not connect their computers to any other computer they please.

It's interesting to compare this to Second Amendment arguments. Do ad blockers block ads, or do users? Do users have a right to keep and bear ad blockers? Of course it's silly, and ad blockers are passive tools, but there are some striking parallels.
I'd hesitate to blame you if you're on the engineering side. This doesn't sound like a technical problem, necessarily, but rather a policy-level problem. The whole sordid affair seems to have taken place because the reps either didn't comprehend the issue or weren't empowered to do anything about it.

At a minimum, Bezos needs to have a come-to-Jeff meeting with the people answering email in his name. It shouldn't be necessary for a customer to start a Twitter debacle or a social-media shitshow in order to receive good customer service.
Flying commercial is about 43% more efficient than driving.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2014/07/dri...
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Agreed.

One stopped car on the shoulder, a cop handing out tickets, or worse a 'standard' accident or stopped car...

There are many ways to double the commute time.
Slaves were forbidden to read it was so dangerous. Nat Turner's ability to form an uprising came from learning to read and consequently preach. Frederick Douglass had to learn secretly, and what he read inspired him to escape slavery.

Now, we as a society are becoming illiterate, incapable of basic reading comprehension. We are voluntarily enslaving ourselves.
> users of your list will not get this. And will stop using your list. This ending up not serving your purpose nor theirs.

I disagree. Users use adblock lists to protect themselves. This company has proven that they are actively hostile to users. Blocking their entire site, all of their domains, etc, is a sensible precaution for users to take. I have no doubt that this company serves JavaScript (i.e. executable code) that serves their purposes, not users'. And any other sites that insist on using their services are also hostile to users, and blocking them is sensible as well.

If some users just have to see that site, they can either find another list (who cares, no one's doing this for Internet Points), or they can click the "Add Exception" button.

We need not submit ourselves to be effectively held hostage by hostile content providers. It's just content.
You're forgetting that they're expected to outlive the usual roof's lifetime, which can be several thousand dollars.
While I'm not typical, I think there are a good number in a similar position:

I've got a house with a roof approaching it's end of life. I use 4MWh/month. My electricity bill goes between $1.2k and 2.4k. A Solar City roof is about equivalent in long term (20-30 yrs) cost with a much better warranty.
RoR would be the easy one to get along with.
First world problems. Beijing has worse traffif than any of these cities, and if you try to get out on a holiday, it could take you the whole day just to exit the city. If they do construction on the highway in and out, multi day traffic jams are possible, the longest one being 8 days (mostly for trucks, though).
> ...and a Japanese manju 饅頭 is a fluffy, sweet confection filled with bean paste ...

...which is called 만쥬 manjyu in Korean, following Japanese sound. I had no idea the word was related to "mandu".

Dumplings go round and round...
9 years old: Q3 2008

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