skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found it,
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015/07/12/3d-maps-of-every...

As comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1496485.

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Another page showing a lot of stations done in this way was shared before on HN. I remember they were like art, not misstanding any wall in your house. Can't find the HN post anymore. Maybe somebody else remembers.

I can only find http://stations.aeracode.org/ still with the search which shows the stations in an interactive 3D map showing tubes and pathways.

Found some more:
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015/07/12/3d-maps-of-every...

http://www.projectsubwaynyc.com/x-ray-area-maps/

http://weburbanist.com/2015/09/26/wayfinding-in-subways-3d-b...

But still not the original HN article.
And advertising is needed mostly to sell stuff. If there wasn't any need to sell, there wouldn't be much advertising. I don't see non-free social media of current scale possible, unless you count the telephone network and the whole Internet as one. You already pay for that.
I made exactly the same move.

I can recommend K9 as the best self-control app.

I use it with recommended settings + any social media. I thinking about adding linkedin to the list. Maybe one day Hacker news also :)

I now use a basic phone after years using a iphone.

You know why?

I had some jobs interviews 2 years ago, and I had many problem to answer basic questions. I felt a so powerfull programmer.. But my memory was not as strong that I though.

I remember how it was before, when I was in my university. I used to know how to learn new things. And at 34 I cant think its just age. I think that google already hi jack a part of my learning process...

I can't work without google or searching SO time to time but I will for sure stop using social media, and I will try more and more to learn like I used to. Like watching video and taking note on a real paper.

But for next generations that is a real problem I think
This. Aside from quitting FB, this has been the biggest win for me. I only have notifications on for sms/iMessage. Email is pull only.

And, if you can get away with it, don’t install work “productivity” apps like Slack and Asana on your personal phone.

Laptops seem just as bad now so I usually don not disturb my MBP as soon as I start my day.
I forgot the name but there's a book on the history of this computer. It's a good read. This is apparently a historically controversial topic.
Ask HN: Where to go after 'washing out' of development
What are some jobs that might utilize development skills without being a developer? I'd like to switch out to something that still utilizes those skills, but not in as full of a capacity.

Thanks
There's also the Royal St. John's Regatta [1], the oldest annual sporting event in North America. The day of the race is a holiday in St. John's (if weather permits boat races) so everyone in town knows about it.

(There's a Dingle Regatta in Ireland, there's a famous dance tune named after it but I've not been to Dingle and don't know what their regatta is actually like.)

Come to think of it, for all the talk of recognizing the word as a class thing, isn't it much more likely to be an "old coastal area" thing? You might need to be fairly rich to have a sailboat to race, but every place I've been around boat races it's been a huge party environment with very broad appeal and probably 100% local recognition. They're just not called regattas in Michigan...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_St._John%27s_Regatta
Drawing Gohan Super Saiyan 2 Anime Dragon Ball z
It was diagnosed very early, which made it much easier to handle.
Twitter on ios mobile has given me such a headache with those highlights notifications. No way to disable them, infuriating.
I think Google is a little the victim of it's own success. They are never going to be as perfect as we expect on these answers
Burning Man Light Sculpture Activated by Heart Rhythms
> In my experience there was always a counter offer, unless you are terrible :).

I wouldn't give a counter-offer to an employee if I know that I can't really offer a better salary or work environment, and it would be even undesirable for me to have him accept it as he would probably always have the thought of leaving haunting him afterwards.

Sometimes not receiving a counter offer is the opposite of being terrible. Yours is a terrible advice.
They have a more technical description of the process further down in the article, in the grey box:

"IP addresses and physical server locations are inherently difficult to find on the Tor network. So how did VG’s computer expert get the forum to disclose this information?

1. Profile picture upload

The forum allowed users to upload a profile picture. This picture could also be fetched from a user-supplied URL.

2. The leak

This is where the information leak occurs. Configured for optimal security, the forum’s software and/or server would fetch the remote profile picture via Tor. Childs Play did not – all traffic to external sites originated from the server’s real IP.

3. The IP address is exposed

By telling the forum to fetch a picture from a server Stangvik controlled, he could see in his server logs that the originating IP was with a hosting provider in Sydney – Digital Pacific. Stangvik went on to confirm that outgoing DNS requests originated from the same provider, and that the forum’s software also loaded images included in forum post previews from the same IP.

4. A proxy, VPN or Tor Exit?

The next question was whether the IP belonged to a Tor Exit Node, a VPN or a proxy server. An IP can hide just about anything. How could he confirm that this was the forum’s location, rather than just a node in a chain of redirects? Stangvik applied three improvised techniques:

5. Timing between the servers

He rented a virtual server with Digital Pacific – the same place as where the suspected IP was located. He then updated the profile picture URL to point to this server. Upon receiving an incoming profile picture request, Stangvik’s server would respond with a redirect to another URL on the same virtual server. Repeating this redirection process several time, Stangvik was able to isolate and measure the roundtrip-time between the two servers. The measurements yielded very low times, consistent with a forum server in close vicinity of his rented server.

6. Measuring intermediate nodes

Stangvik also paid attention to so-called «Time To Live» values on the incoming data packets. These provide some insight into how many intermediate parties are involved from the sender to the recipient. In this case, the values indicated that there were at most one intermediate – a typical result if the servers were located in the same room.

7. Measuring packet size

The final test started to get advanced: Measuring MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) and packet fragmentation.
Each packet in a computer network has a maximum transmission size, based on which intermediates it passes through. Each encapsulating technology, such as VPNs, can result in the total packet size increasing beyond the maximum size, and local networks usually have larger maximum sizes than the “tubes” found on the internet. If the maximum size is surpassed, the packet will be broken into multiple fragments.

By crafting long profile picture URLs, and setting specific packet flags, in the redirects returned by his custom web server software, he could see that the MTU was consistent with that of high-speed local area network traffic, and also ruled out VPN configurations."
Vespa vs. Lucene
You may be interested in these slides from a lecture (yet more information to consume) on how to find answers to grad level math like using oeis.org to identify sequences, where to post on stack exchange/mathoverflow to get answers, using the inverse symbolic calculator ect http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15751/2016-lecture1.pdf

That lecture drastically reduced the time I spend now finding answers which usually I found myself drifting into the attention economy while I stopped working to search for things.
It's amazing that people can add so __little__ to a conversation other than vapid platitudes. Amazing.

And so I can be a little less pedantic, if you read the article, you would have seen that scientists have known about this for decades. So please only speak for yourself when you talk about how much you don't know.
This reminded me of https://www.timewellspent.io
Also on Safari (both the books and the classes)
By the same token, other countries could try to extradite them under their laws, broken through the international, online distribution of CP.
I know some Windows 7 holdouts, who either prefer the interface or they're against telemetry. That was a defensible position as long as 7 was still under security support, but these findings put an end to that. Time to switch, and -1 trust in Microsoft's lifecycle statements.
I'm assuming you mean without disabling twitter notifications entirely. I have the entire twitter app's notifications disabled just fine on iOS 10.
Author here -- I'm glad you like the post! There are more like you describe out there, though they tend to be scattered around the Internet.

https://jvns.ca/ often gets mentioned on HN and has a large volume of posts that follow the format "let's assume both you and I don't know anything - how do we figure this out?". http://jamie-wong.com/, a coworker, has a few good ones on graphics/numerical stuff.

Characterizing unique IDs with emojis instead of an abstract number was inspired by Tim Babb who has a good blog post on Kalman Filters: http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures...

Explaining a concept in person really helps, as you get immediate feedback if they look confused and it helps you figure out in what order you need to introduce concepts. In the case of this project, I was working on it alongside other people who were working their side projects. So I had the chance to explain what I was working on very frequently as we asked each other what we were up to, but I'm still learning to write this way intentionally.
He also had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer.
Actually, you are likely right. If I was in Berkeley, the ANTIFA and left wingers will attack me because they can do that with impunity.

Good point.
When I said I want to leave my manager offered me his place...

But the directors said only people who come to work before 11 are allowed to be managers
If you like your employer...

One option you have is to prepare to ask for a raise, and then pitch them on why you're worth more before you accept the other offer. They might agree with you, and simply give you the raise you're asking for. Using this approach, you're making it about the company before you make it about yourself. If you don't get the raise, accept the other offer. If a counter offer comes your way, you can decide whether you wanna deal with it.
Wikipedia says that the rate of primary (not associated with lung disease) spontaneous lung collapse among males in the general population is 7.4 per 100k per year.

The article says there were at least 6 cases in the last 7 years among high profile players. Anyone know how many players are "high profile"? If it is less than about 11.5k, then the rate among them would be higher than that of the general population.

To count as "surprisingly common" the rate would have to be quite a bit higher than that of the general population. Maybe 5x? So then the question is are there less than about 2.3k "high profile" players?
The False Prophecy of Hyperconnection
Once panda hit they massively scaled back the content side of things, started going more editorial if you want to call it that.
> Wayne May (not his real name)

Don't want to use his real name, probably for his safety considering it mentions death threats, but half a page later there's a super clear picture of him?!?
lol Okay, Freud. Tell us something every marketing student in community college doesn't already know. People can be persuaded. People have addictions. Cool story, bro.
But why don't they just switch to Windows 8? It solves all their problems.

/s
Previous discussion (10 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12317525
Great writeup!

Just one point regarding this: "The sales team will bid unrealistically to get the contract" - this happens also a lot in construction industry.
Why I Joined GitHub
I just did the same. Such a strong feeling of nostalgia
Also the memory usage is killer.
He is back, at least temporarily.
It has been for several years now and this is how we went from the Big Mike to the Cavendish.

I wonder what the next popular banana clone will be?
HN fits the pattern of addictive behaviour. (Trigger -> Action -> Variable Reward).

You are triggered to come here when you’re bored. Your action is simple loading (or reloading) the page. The variable reward is that you get interesting content and discussions...but you never know what they will be.

Over time this pattern of behaviour becomes habitual. You probably open Hacker News at similar times of the day in similar situations.

This basic pattern applies to all social media products. It’s very well understood and a key part of modern software design.
You are correct, most pancreatic adenocarcinomas are rapidly fatal. He had a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, which is more treatable with resection and chemotherapy.
Yeah, companies sometimes bully and intimidate, but all those links point at baseless lawsuits that didn't legally succeed.
Basically are if they’re moving to 10. It’s more or less a re-skin with added telemetry & Cortana. Personally I preferred 8 to 7, I guess the touchscreen oriented metro interface was enough for desktop purists to recoil in horror. Was really only “hardcore” gamers who were holder-outers anyway
What happened to the Sandy text editor?
>Let's be very generous and say an hour of typical exercise burns 350 calories.

This isn't being generous at all. Once you get past the initial few weeks of not being physically able to put that much effort into exercise, 350 calories for an entire hour would be on the low end of what I expect most people to burn.

>I honestly think the net impact of promoting exercise as a weight loss option is people getting and staying fatter. People have a tendency to dramatically overestimate the calories they're burning, people want to use exercise as a way to avoid having to eat less, and people use exercise as an excuse to eat more. It also causes an amount of disruption and discomfort in people's lives that's probably the number one cause of people giving up on their weight loss goals.

Virtually everyone that advocates exercise as a way to lose weight mentions in the same breath that it has to go hand-in-hand with a diet. It is an objective fact that if you burn more calories in a day because you exercise, that you will get away with eating more food. How much more depends on how many calories you burn when exercising.

The concept of weight loss is very simple. Burn more calories than you eat. People need to start somewhere by making an estimate of how many calories that they burn on a daily basis and then adjust it slowly if they don't lose weight.

Its silly to act like the concepts of physical fitness and weight loss are so complicated that people are being manipulated and/or confused into gaining weight. The only thing difficult about losing weight is the consistent execution of an incredibly simple process.
The problem I ran into when I had to do this on a prior project wasn't the algorithm for worrying about individual characters. It was dealing with how to manage people highlighting entire paragraphs or documents, and pasting over them with new content, at the same time as the other editor(s) had been changing things.

Ultimately, while there were algorithmic answers to just about any scenario, we ended up just declaring a business answer instead - the editor only would let you into edit mode one paragraph at a time, and you locked that paragraph while you were in it. We found that almost nobody was actually editing the exact same paragraph at the same time anyway... they were working in different parts of the documents. So not only did that resolve all possible copy/paste insanity, the algorithm became brain-dead simple -- when you update or leave the paragraph, send those changes to everyone else's editor.
It's mentioned in the article.
That's some brutalist website for sure
Now for #20786 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAiVsbXVP6k
By this standard it would be rare that we could talk about anything.

This morning there was a question on /r/AskHistorians:

"How did the writers of the Declaration of Independence write in such straight lines on line-less paper?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/74sfhn/how_d...

Someone with my political inclinations might reply, "How can you even ask such a question? Sure, the signers of the Declaration had good intentions, but you know what road is paved with those: look where it got us! [Insert my list of the terrible things the United States Government has done not only to the rest of the world but to its own citizens.] And you're asking whether the lines were straight?"

But can't a question be interesting all on its own? How the heck did they get those lines so straight? And was every document in those days like that? (Read the thread to find out.)

At the height of the Cold War, I was into ham radio, and I had friends in the Soviet Union who I would have Morse code QSOs (chats) with. It being ham radio, we couldn't talk freely about everything, but at least we could compare notes on our radio gear, find out the weather, and ask how the family is doing. It wasn't perfect, but it was something. And I always signed off with:

_ _ . . . _ .

(MIR) [Peace]

I won't dare compare my situation with someone living under the DPRK, but I'm fairly confident that the graphics designers who live there are not murderous dictators. Maybe we can grab whatever little chances we have to get to know each other as people?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14964855
The comparison to a relationship with a girl out of your league really makes him come off as a bit of a twat straight off the bat.
I think his definitive piece on the subject is E unibus pluram: television and U.S. fiction (1993) [0], definitely worth a read if you have the time. Wallace's "six hours a day" refrain is an interesting contrast to our now dominant usage pattern of dozens of 10 minutes chunks of daily social media consumption.

What explains the pointlessness of most published TV criticism is that television has become immune to charges that it lacks any meaningful connection to the world outside it. It's not that charges of nonconnection have become untrue. It's that any such connection has become otiose. Television used to point beyond itself. Those of us born in like the sixties were trained to look where it pointed, usually at versions of "real life" made prettier, sweeter, better by succumbing to a product or temptation. Today's Audience is way better trained, and TV has discarded what's not needed. A dog, if you point at something, will look only at your finger.

[0] https://www.thefreelibrary.com/E+unibus+pluram:+television+a...
I had the same impression while reading the article. I think that somehow, author is equating crowdfunding to charity (which would explain why they would think it's outrageous rich companies are trying to take advantage of it).

To me, crowdfunding is more about testing market fit, which is especially critical when building physical products that need manufacturing - so it's for everybody. Actually, the simple fact that refund is automatic when campaign goals are not met is probably better than any usual presale.
Child development?
You misread my comment, and in fact took away kind of the opposite intervention and perceived response to the intervention that I was referring to.

I don't blame you for not following, because I was sort of glibly/ironically summarizing a lot of other things I've written about[1] as a single very complicated sentence. However, I sort of do blame you for jumping at the opportunity to litigate affirmative action on this thread.

If you re-read my comment and come to understand what I mean by this, would you please take a moment and write a short comment to acknowledge that? Thanks.

[1] a starting point: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
"how old is the US president" gives the correct answer. Most other inputs don't try to return an exact value.
Loved the book and highly recommend, especially to hn crowd.

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...
This is really on WSJ? There are a million little tricks and tactics out there like this and this is no more interesting than the next one.

It’s a one time thing, it’s pretty unsavory, and like many other shady growth tactics, the mileage one business will get out of this will vary dramatically vs. another business.
I consider it a luxury to not need to carry a phone. I only know where my phone currently is because I made the effort to find it.

I have a couple of dollars and can afford lots of luxuries. Yet, it's the things I don't do that seem the most luxurious.

I spent years tethered to my phone. I was on call, at all hours of the day and in pretty much any location. To not be beholden to a cell phone is true luxury.
Expanding on this a little more, it's actually broken up into hexadecimal pairings (or 8-bit numbers).

00 00 00 = R(0) G(0) B(0) for Red, Green Blue

FF FF FF = R(255) G(255) G(255)

That makes 16,777,216 possible combinations (256^3).

For pure red, that's FF0000; green, #00FF00; blue, #0000FF. Mixing those is how you get intermediary colors: red + green = yellow; red + blue = magenta; green + blue = cyan.

When the colors are referenced as single-digit hex numbers, that value is applied for the pairing. This would make #F00 (red) actually be applied as #FF0000.
> Musk didn't say that and neither did anyone who works for Tesla.

"It's looking quite promising that a solar roof will actually
cost less than a normal roof before you even take the value of electricity into account," Musk said at the event. [1]

> Literally just made up by you, right now.

No [2], and if you know anything about lithium cost and weight its pretty obvious. To match the range of a normal long haul semi with 300 gallons of diesel your looking at a million dollar battery that is basically the size of the trailer with no cargo capacity.

> And yet both are still leagues ahead of their competitors.

Space competitors are running at more than 10% profit margins [3]. Boeing might also beat them to Mars [4].

>Yeah well the government built the rails, the roads, the internet and put a man on the moon. The government beats private industry on overhead and cost. The government does just fine.

I agree, it wasn't meant as a disparagement of the government approach. I just don't like it being held up as some example of a good business and the stretching of the truth constantly annoys me. No one can seem to accept the government running a deficit to do big things, but Musk, take my money.

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-tesla-solar-roof-cos...

[2]: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-trucking-exclusive/e...

[3]: https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/02/05/how-profitable-is-...

[4]: http://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-spacex-mars-elon-musk-...
What we didn't get: Science fiction and science history
On a serious note, it seems like I was the only one who actually liked the Windows 8 start screen. Being able to rearrange your start menu was a killer feature for me, instead of searching for everything or pinning all my stuff to desktop.
Wow I had no idea, assumed it was JavaFX, it has a much nicer feel to it than the other 2 IDEs. Has Swing remained the same or has the API been overhauled since idk, SE6-ish around last I perused? NetBeans certainly has had a nice bit of a facelift last I saw of it. Eclipse I won’t say too much, looks like their splash screen is the only thing has had much of an overhaul.
Captain D is basically the best thing on the internet.