skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's simply no relation between the constant death-march described in this article and "practice" in the sense of personal improvement and skill-building. In fact, they're antithetical.

Even the strongest advocates of "practice makes perfect" doctrines, such as Anders Ericsson, talk about something called deliberate practice, which is an expertly designed regiment, requiring exhausting mental and physical effort, the close tutelage of a veteran teacher, and adequate rest periods for its positive effects to properly ripen.

These authors typically assess that even a top motivated and well-rested individual can only engage in "deliberate practice" for 4 hours daily at the very most.

So if you want to do that, then far from almost doubling the length of your workday, you should actually cut it in half, and ensure plentiful rest and light recreation before and after your workday. Basically, mimic the way top athletes train.

Otherwise, don't delude yourself that you are "practicing" or "improving". You're simply working, chugging along sub-optimally, doing what you already know without substantial improvement or room to grow or learn much.

These very same authors predict that by working a punishing 10-12+ hour daily schedule, your skills will not improve, and likely will deteriorate, since you will become deeply disengaged (cf The Power of Full Engagement).

The idea that perpetually over-worked, over-stressed, nearly-exhausted engineers are "practicing" or "improving themselves" is a romantic wishful-thinking with no basis in reality or scientific research.

Anecdotally, I've seen such places up close. Most people there burn out and/or move on quite quickly. Turnover in these companies tends to be very high, and they only keep those who can't find a better job.
Don't get me wrong, what you've done is cool, and everybody's free to just love this or that "pundit" (PG is a lot of things, but I wouldn't call him a pundit). It's just that here on HN sometimes PG's writing's treated like the fifth Gospel.
Sorry if it came out harsher than I wanted, I had a hard day with a hard client. :)
You seem a little paranoid there, no I’m not a Russian employee, I know RT will be pro-Russian. Don’t fool yourself western media ha bounds to it’s criticism too, due to the way it’s structured. Anyway the piece in question is on a well known Soviet hero, I had heard of him before. Cheers to him.
I am way less sad about HHVM now (specially after React license debacle). I think Facebook now has opportunity to think about this fork as a fresh take on PHP and maybe make the language awesome both from syntax/performance perspective. I don't think living with a weird hybrid with current language landscape is an option.
With the heavy push for linking it almost everywhere, the government could also use it against individual citizens (dissidents) to cause "civil death" - can't drive, can't use bank accounts, can't study in schools/colleges, can't have a cell phone number, can't have a salaried job (where tax is deducted at source and PAN is expected to be linked), can't get pension...can't even conduct a funeral for a relative (this is the latest move - death certificates require Aadhaar of the dead or that of a close relative).

It's truly "one number to rule them all"!!! In the hands of an oppressive government, dissent can be easily stifled and quelled!
I don't know nearly as much about stock as most people on this site, so bear with me because I have a potentially dumb question.

I agree that the timing of these sales looks really bad. However, I've heard that these guys are executives with an enormous amount of stock and the sales were for a small percentage of their overall stake. If they were intentionally breaking the law to avoid losses, wouldn't they sell all or most if it? Was most of their stock not vested and they just dumped what already vested? Or is the claim that it was a small percentage of their stock not true?
If it's stationary (both cases were) a bow & arrows works fine. They're legal in a lot more places than guns.
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You realize that the offending post was making a remark about a fat person, not terrorism.
One business day is required in the Payment Service Directive. You still occasionally see two days from German banks, only few of them actually can manage a zero day transfer. I operate a Dutch bank account solely for the purpose of making fast transfers to German accounts which works really well.

Once I tested that I was able to do a zero day transfer from a German bank to the Netherlands and then to another German bank. The same without the Dutch intermediary was a day slower.
Misleading title. While technically lawsuit names the requesters as defendants, what is implied - that they are under threat of civil or criminal penalties as retaliation for requesting the info - is not what in fact happens. What in fact happens is that the agencies ask the court to keep the records unpublished. Which sucks, but it's not an action against the requesters - it's just an attempt to keep the records from being disclosed, and in no way threatens people personally.

It indeed sucks that you have to go to court, at your own expense, to defend your lawful right to see information that has to be public. But that has been the case for years, nonprofits like EFF or Judicial Watch has been doing this for years, supported by donations. There's nothing new in this.
Yes, the mods have been known to reset it anyway. It’s too bad, really.
The BBC is quite balanced, I watch Russia today and find it similar in tone to most western outlets, both state owned and private ... screeching on about terrorism. Repetitive, mundane. They’re all quite openly propagandistic from my point of view.
At a practical level acceptance in The Philosophical Review arguably the top Journal does not require some sort of mechanical formal verification.

The barriers to entry are no less difficult from it's absence, but the barriers to accuracy are defiantly lower.
So basically, since you could not pass that "pesky IQ test" you decided to break a law or two by hacking into a private site. Hum...
CoffeeScript does not do anything framework- or library-specific. It simply compiles your code to JavaScript, which is then parsed and executed as usual.
I haven't _seriously_ written code in about 15 years. That said, I hire and manage people that do code (and do it damn well!). So, we discussed this article and the question was posed "How do you keep up with the newly-minted-hipster-cool-named widgets that get produced, every two weeks?" The answer: "Most of that stuff is trendy and flames out in a matter of a couple of months, just wait and watch..." Some good wisdom, I think.
So they're converting light into phonons and back and using the slower propagation of phonons as a buffer in an otherwise photonic processor? Clever!

For those wondering, phonons are lattice vibration quasiparticles, they aren't elementary particles.
I read the article in full, thank you.

All methods detailed within are totally bananas and not ones a reasonably experienced and responsible animal farmer would think of.
Yes, which at the very least could be the actual cost of the paper and the cost of the person's time fulfilling the request.
Why is raising chickens unethical in her situation?
Opossum.
That is good advice. Not invented here is always a dangerous trap to fall in :)
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule successfully returns from ISS resupply mission
Here's a link to the video interview from CISO Susan Mauldin in 2016 that was erased from YouTube a few days ago, on September 10 after it was first reported:

http://evilrouters.net/media/susan_mauldin_cazena_interview_...

The HN thread that found another copy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15262026

The first story that I saw breaking this interview, drawing attention to this story before it was wiped out by "user":

https://hollywoodlanews.com/equifax-chief-security-officer/

I'm reposting this information, there's nothing earth shattering for me in the interview but I smell a coverup (I hope it doesn't sound controversial when I say this, it appears to be that material information has been wiped off the public record during an investigation, and that's a coverup! Not mincing words.) This has hardly been covered at all, so I'm going to mention it again. I figure the story probably isn't going away anytime soon.

I think it's criminal (possibly quite literally) that this information is being suppressed by whoever has taken the original interviews down. It should be a case study, we should all watch it. I want to hear more from Susan Mauldin, but the appearance is they want her to disappear.

I am interested in the stock sales too, but I would like it to be a thing, where we all can learn from what has happened and fix our issues to be better at this kind of thing. There are obviously technical and greedological issues that own some blame, but let's not be hasty and sweep the cultural issues under the rug. (There was a second interview from that day, which to my knowledge has not been recovered yet.)

I'd like to be charitable and say that CISO Susan Mauldin did nothing wrong, but it's hard for me to make that argument seriously without more data and I don't hear anyone calling for her to testify in front of Congress yet. Maybe they'd like us to forget she was ever involved in the company, that just makes me want to know more and it should you too, if you've been following the story (but who could blame you for not knowing, just look what they're doing!)
Linux is used by these members of the Linux Foundation [1] because they earn money with it and not because the world is going to be a better place. Among these significant members do you see any company that is building products or services around the Linux desktop and is having a major success with it?

There is no money to make with the Linux desktop and therefore the director of the Linux foundation does not need to promote desktop Linux by using it himself. Just who is going to build the next AWS or Cloudfare with Linux just because he saw the latest Gnome/KDE on some dude's laptop?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation#Members
I was under the impression Azure was also per minute, and AWS was the last hold out of hourly billing among the big three until today.
i wish cities would also issue black out dates to give residents a day of the year to see the sky. I live in south philadelphia, and the light pollution is so bad I can walk out unto my deck at midnight and read a book.
What's puzzled me over the years is that the Supreme Court has, in the intervening period, taken suo moto cognizance and action on other issues/topics, but hasn't really come down hard on the government about this. Despite media coverage on people dying without getting pension or food rations, the central and state governments have been pushing ahead to cut expenditure on welfare schemes heavily through this route.
Even mathematical proof is a relatively low standard in practice.

Just look at all the retracted papers that have been published. Erratum are surprisingly widespread for such a formal system.
It's not the end of the world. I really like Thinkpads of old, but can do without the clunky optical and legacy ports. And as I said, Dell's keyboard (on the XPS at least) are really working well for me.

My point of reference for what a keyboard can be is the Model M keyboard (no less!) I had the pleasure of using early to mid 90's. Compared to that experience the difference between a ThinkPad (any generation) and a good non-ThinkPad keyboard is gradual at best.
I feel like karoake has a bathtub distribution. My favorites are the people who are outrageously good or outrageously bad. As long as they are outliers, it's fun. The ones in the middle who sing well enough to not embarrass themselves but not good enough to be an exciting performance are boring.
Interesting.

The motivation to put up the mirror is that the creator of the original project has no interest in changing his project to work with the languages' package manager, but has endorsed others mirroring it. So I could mirror the original project on Github and add the files needed for the languages' package manager to work with it.
I found this while Harvey was rolling around my hometown in Houston. After someone asked how many people in Florida are without power, I went looking for this site through Google. I have no idea how I originally stumbled upon it, but the only results I found on Google all point to electricity business websites. No government website and not this one.

I really wish this were at the top though. It's super handy to have the aggregate data all available right there.
Parse, react and now this. Why would I now learn any new Facebook tech?
Looks at select parts of the HC systems around the world and allows you to pick YOUR favorites. Would be interesting to anonymize the countries, submit as a poll to leading pundits on both sides of the fence, and see where the end result comes in.
From the blog post:

HHVM will not aim to target PHP7

If you don't plan to support PHP5 anymore and HHVM is not targeted at PHP7 ... then my ask is to just make a better language and drop ALL of PHP baggage.

When you say:

We're unlikely to change the PHP builtins

That concerns me. Because why even break support from PHP7 if you don't plan to change (fix) the builtins?
Alan Kay: The computer revolution hasn't happened yet (20y ago)
Pickaxe would work though. Cordless drill would work but be very messy & inhumane. If you have one a bow & arrow works fine, and is a lot more likely to be legal than a gun. The only disadvantage there is training, and a stationary target at short range is not that hard to hit.
Eh? How long ago was this? He couldn't write a cheque? He couldn't do a simple BACS/CHAPS/FPS transfer?

I'd have thought it simple without even walking into the bank...
That would be really nice, but CoffeeScript will probably not be adding types unless they start adding them to JavaScript.

It is a dilemma, but so far I have gotten by without type-checking.
Population differences in interest and population differences in variability of abilities

may help explain

why there are fewer women in the applicant pool, but the women who choose to enter the pool are

just as capable

as the larger number of men in the pool. This conclusion does not deny that various forms of bias, harassment, and discouragement exist and may contribute to outcome disparities,

nor does it imply that the differences in interest are biologically fixed and cannot be changed in future generations.
Question:
I live in San Francisco and I have recently become pretty obsessed with going to a place like this. I want to go somewhere extremely dark where I can see the sky in a form that's similar to what someone might have seen before the invention of electric lights.

Does anyone know a good place in America like that? Ideally it would have other good natural features to entertain me during the day.

I just can't help but thinking that looking up at the sky a thousand years ago must have been absolutely awe inspiring. A civilization without artificial light would look up and see a dazzling display of starlight. it's no wonder they all believed there was a supreme power above them.
This is somewhat old news. This was originally started back in 2011 by a Cornell researcher through kickstarter, called KickSat:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zacinaction/kicksat-you...

The spacecraft was supposed carry a number of these sprites inside and launch them out once in orbit. However, there was a malfunction in the spacecraft and it burned back up in the atmosphere without launching any.
My parents were getting way too many apricots on their apricot tree and many were going to waste, their arborist suggested, and then implemented, cutting back the tree and grafting on some other fruits (as I recall it was plums and peaches) which had different fruiting times. It was a big win for them.
DRM will unravel the Web
If everyone added their favourite software it wouldn't be so tedious.
Walks are very productive in exercise and clearing head. I often try to take a walk with some people on my team. We just talk about whatever comes into our head - life, hobbies, etc. Sometimes it's work and we end up brainstorming.

We joke if we get caught walking we tell management that we're in a meeting.
Our species has been killing animals for thousands of years. This should be in the realm of something you can look up online and do yourself.

I'm not saying she went about this the right way, but as someone who has tried and failed to kill an opossum, you realize it's pretty freaking hard to do humanely.

I'd suggest hitting the possum with a stick or shovel once—not enough to really injure the guy, just enough to make it play dead. Then you can grab a metal trash can, and shove in there. Preferably with a stick, as they are really smelly. Ensure it doesn't tip over, and call Animal Control in the morning.
Totally. I was merely making an aside about the claim, casually made, that San Jose is bigger than San Francisco.
> Furthermore, they focus on small niches (gender, police brutality, etc)

Neither of these is a small niche. Police brutality is a huge, huge issue. It may seem like a small niche to people who are not members of targeted demographics, though.

> and are otherwise totally content with modern society.

What leads you to believe this? From my personal experience this couldn't be more wrong

Anyway, if you want real counter culture that middle aged people will still clutch their pearls over... what about Antifa?
I believe if they weren't telling the truth, _somebody_ would've caught on by now. We have lots of people in sec watching court cases involving police trying to break into iPhones. If somehow a department was able to access a phone without a user complying and no known backdoor was exposed, I'm sure we would've heard of it by now.

I hope you're not expecting them to open source the secure enclave.
Don't forget how much money Saudi Arabia has put into Uber. At the end of the day tech companies don't give a damn, its all about the money.
Equating speech with terrorism builds fear in me. According to your logic, your own comment is terrorism. Unless you really want to split hairs.
There's a way to get the old windows 7 games working in Windows 8/10, you can find it on the winaero forums.

Personally I just have windows 3.1 installed under dosbox, as it gives me the entire WEP and Crystal Caves. If you decide to do this, I recommend dosbox-x, or other unofficial release, as official releases are old.
Wow! Haven't seen this one before. Quite a crazy claim!
Serverless advocates/engies are probably the only people celebrating this, everyone else keeps waiting for self renew instance reservation... last time i forgot about them it was too late.
Oh sure, she's experiencing it, now that she raises chickens. The rest of our society that doesn't raise chickens are just as clueless as she was.

People in a modern urban environment (in the US, anyway) don't understand how to grow a vegetable, raise a chicken, filet a fish, mill flour and bake bread. Less than 100 years ago, everyone knew this, because almost everyone did this. But modern urban creatures are like the possum's babies - constantly feeding from the teet of a system that insulates them from real world concerns.
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Though I don't know much about philosophy of science, I'm studying for a doctoral degree in philosophy and study foundations of math and related topics in philosophy of mathematics and logic (i.e., an allied subfield of philosophy). There are a couple of things to say about your experience with philosophy of physics. I.e., that philosophy of physics is not sufficiently well-informed by the details of the physics it is supposed to be about.

There are definitely philosophers, both in philosophy of physics and in philosophy of mathematics, who are far better thought of as just studying philosophy simpliciter. These philosophers tend to use relatively trivial examples from science and mathematics in a pretty flat-footed way in order to make philosophical arguments. For example, arguing in favor of Platonism on the basis of purported facts about mathematical objects rarely takes into account mathematical reasoning beyond what is accessible to an average 7 year old.

But there are also many philosophers who study the exact sciences (i.e., math and physics) that actually take the details extremely seriously. Take a look at graduates and faculty at the Pitt HPS department or the UC Irvine's LPS department (for just two examples). There are quite a few people who even get doctoral degrees in both philosophy and physics. And, at my not-at-all-HPS (but technical-leaning) department, one of my colleagues who is just finishing with philosophy already has a doctoral degree in math.

Now, obviously just bc one has a doctoral degree in the exact sciences does not thereby make them cautious in assessing what philosophical content there is to be found in studying the exact sciences. The point is just that there are plenty of philosophers who, in contrast with the experience you had (at UCLA?) in philosophy of physics, know the details well enough to have contributed original research in the exact sciences.

Two very legit philosophers of physics to check out are David Malament and Howard Stein.
How does this interact with device compromise?
You're right, but SOP for euthanizing rodents is CO2 after anesthetizing them.
Hyper.sh runs docker containers, not VM's, and has per-second billing with a minimum of 10s.

I really want to use them to parallelise CI test runs, but haven't gotten round to setting this up yet.
> In countries like Saudi Arabia, it almost certainly is jail-time in very brutal facilities.

Doesn't sound accurate at all. Please cite or present data.
Heatmaps on state and county levels are really difficult to get right.

For one thing, the dataset does not do a good job of conveying uncertainty, specifically that caused by low-population counties. The second-highest mortality rate county - Buffalo, South Dakota - has a population of 1,912 people, and the "City" which is the county seat is remarkably the least populous county seat in the US with a population of 14. The various mountainous locations (appearing to be mostly ski towns) in Colorado which top the list of lowest-mortality counties have similarly low populations.

For another, size and population density are often misleading. That small, orange blotch in the lower left? That's LA County, with a population greater than the 10 lowest-population states combined (including such large areas as Montana, North and South Dakota, Alaska). Information in these low-population areas is over-represented, while the largest cities are under-represented.

I suppose those caveats are just something to be aware of. Because I don't know of a good solution for to how to accurately and concisely convey this sort of information.
Well, I'd say NoScript (or equivalent) and HTTPS Everywhere are rather important, too. I believe a resource blocker and HTTPS redirect could both be things built into browsers, true. But as it stands they're extensions, and pretty important ones IMHO.

And this is assuming you only use your browser for general web surfing; there are a plethora of other extensions I use that really simplify my browsing experience, but that I wouldn't consider crucial. I similarly can't live without RedditEnhancementSuite for reddit, for example. There's just so much that extensions have to offer.
5 years old little girl helping officer to cleaning up road after Hurricane Irma
> The company had conversations with textile factories interested in building an industrial version of the device. The team was essentially offered carte blanche to build a device big enough to fill a warehouse, but had to pull out because some members couldn't countenance relocating.

Some people weren't all in. I'm guessing relocation was to somewhere in China.