skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as others have noted, these things are a negative feedback loop when you start slacking on them. so i think its important to make them as easy as possible, and externally enforced as possible. i think they truly do help alot of people, of course not all, but many. im really not sure how to solve that chicken and egg problem tho- you dont do these three things because you are depressed, which begets more of the same. for me, basketball was a panacea, since i discovered i enjoyed playing it immensely. so i got exercise without having to force myself. i got so hungry from exercise that i couldn't avoid eating alot (for me, eating regularly and enough was the challenge), and of course, being so tired from exercise helped me sleep. i guess its a parable in treating depression as much as its a parable in how valuable sports can be.
Is that a GDP problem or did they have an income distribution problem? I'm going to hazard a guess that since slavery was the backbone of the Roman Empire, they had an income distribution problem.
Amazon pays almost no corporate income tax because they have almost no profit due to reinvestment.
There's a precedent I'm aware of for a wholesale move. RAND Corporation did this in the 1950s, moving from the east coast to Santa Monica, putting entire families on trains to head west (young man, and grow up with the country...). Mentioned in Martin Campbell-Kelly's book:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/from-airline-reservations-to-s...
My pencil has lower power consumption than all of them. It also processes zero instructions per second.

The ability to ramp up your speed at the cost of higher power consumption is a feature, not a bug. You finish the workload faster and therefore the total energy consumed will be lower.

It's funny that no serious person from Qualcomm who works on Snapdragon will with straight face support your point of view about the processor comparison. In fact, they would shit their pants looking at A9 in 2017, let alone A11. I know cause I have talked to a couple. :)
>10kgs of gold is about $40k, so is entirely consistent with Khivan GDP per capita being in the $1k-$2k range

10kg of gold worth around $0.5m USD today. You are off by 10 times
> The proper way to critique these languages IMO is to do benchmarks. For example, the author of the blog post could state specifcially the problem he is trying to solve and then perform the solution in two languages or more languages, including an APL, including both the code size and the timings.

Here's the hobby thing I'm doing with this. I have an initial investment in Vanguard and contribute X additional per year. I'm at 90/10 stocks/bonds ratio and plan to, between now and retirement, gradually shift to a more conservative ratio. I have a rough distribution of RoR for both stocks and bonds. With all of these constraints in mind, I want run a few thousand simulations of expected savings at retirement. I want to easily compare these simulations to more pessimistic RoRs.

(No real reason, just seems fun.)

I'm pretty far along with the J. I've also written a bit of this of python as comparison, and from what I can tell so far it's an order-of-magnitude difference. I don't know numpy, though, which probably makes a big difference.

In the end, though, the benchmarks don't matter as much to me as the sheer delight in snapping my brain in two.
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I think you're crazy to believe that if you go build a bunch of very dense housing anywhere, you won't shortly thereafter have a bunch of bureaucracy as a lot of people have to figure out how to live in close quarters.

Again, as near as I can tell, the best possible outcome of ultra high speed tunnel transport is you move the dense housing problem (or the traffic problem) elsewhere. That's not actually a solution. I also think it only appears easier than eg fixing sfbay's housing problems.
>It looked a lot like a whiteboard with sticky notes translated into a web browser and an iPhone App.

That's pretty much it. It was an insanely easy idea to copy, you can already do it with sticky notes if you work in an office. I don't really think you can improve the service beyond that; It's a note tracker, it tracks notes.
Headset's are getting much lighter. The new versions being made for MS are much, much lighter than the Vive.

IMO as a heavy user of VR whilst developing the critical problems for prolonged use are eye strain and heat. Neither seem to be about to be solved in the short term at least.
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I was expecting something similar too. I'd just like to point that deforestation does not displace people.
I recently had a similar encounter where I was slipping back into a bag routine and then looked in the mirror and freaked out. I'm back on track to being healthier and happier. It ends up taking way more of my time to prep my food in a healthy manner, go to the gym, and shower again but I think it is all worth it for both my mental and physical health to be in a good place.
GDP is less about what the average person has than it is the capabilities of a given society. Liechtenstein may have a very high standard of living, but it can't exactly fund a space program with a ~6 billion dollar GDP.

Also, median also has issues dealing with things like the US's vast undocumented workforce. So, you really want to slice things up by income percentile, family type, PPP and non etc.
As a bipolar for whom antidepressants can be destabilizing, yeah to 3,7,8,9,10.

I've had a hypomanic break from learning some Buddhist meditation.
They should really look at how OCaml modules work, since they solve all the same problems already, with desirable properties like separate compilation and easily discoverable mapping of module name to source file.

The drawback of OCaml modules is that all dependencies must form an acyclic graph, which can be a pain sometimes although there are well understood workarounds.
It's also impossible to know that you don't have celiac disease unless you've had an immunoassay that comes up negative. Not all celiac cases show severe GI symptoms. As such assuming that someone does not have celiac disease who has not been tested has a 1-2% false negative rate.

Secondly, gluten can aggravate FODMAPs sensitivity:

http://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(13)00702-6/f...

This study is often cited to "prove" that non-celiac gluten sensitivity does not exist, but what it actually shows is that most "NCGS" cases are caused by FODMAPs and that gluten can aggravate the symptoms in a person who has not cut out FODMAPs:

>In all participants, gastrointestinal symptoms consistently and significantly improved during reduced FODMAP intake, but significantly worsened to a similar degree when their diets included gluten or whey protein.

Gluten increases GI residence time in everybody, which is not an unhealthy effect on its own, but which can increase the duration of exposure to any dietary irritant:

http://www.gastrojournal.org/article/0016-5085(83)90374-8/pd...

>Hydrolyzed gluten prolonged intestinal transit time, and this effect was reversed by concomitant administration of naloxone

It's seriously that easy to just look up "gluten sensitivity" on Google Scholar or SciFinder or (insert academic search site here) to find these sort of studies. And frankly it's kind of annoying to see people who won't even go to that level of effort degrading the actual personal experiences of someone who is simply trying to improve their own life.
One of the biggest automation arena improvements I've made in my life is creating visual cue reminders and systems for a sort of stateful orderliness.

When the laundry basket gets full past the painter tape line, I do a load.
I load the dishwasher after dinner, and unload it in the morning regardless of the volume. Got a roomba that runs every other day and cries when it's full of dirt.

I have NFC stickers that link to start webapp timers in my smart phones browser (just a url to googles timer web app, pre populated with time, I get push notifications and all that) tea brewing timer, Laundry+ Dryer, cooking, all cheap NFC sticker+ webapp

I also wrote a bot that alerts me when 3D printer deals from trusted retailers are going on. I just bought two for $160 each, with free shipping!
I agree. It's the same major factor that killed "3D" TVs - no one wants to put on special equipment just to watch a movie/play a game. I personally don't think headset-based VR will ever see mass market adoption in the same way that AR/MR will.
Yes, the pain is only there before your nerves get burnt out, but even just a minute of being burned alive is enough to make any normal human being, including you and me, react involuntarily to the pain.

And yes, I have been in high pain incidents. I recall the pain happening during and after.
This is a very bad idea .. there is no need for so many people to sit in one place and terrible for housing and commute. Amazon should come up with a better idea .. this is so not like Amazon.
I'm not an economist or a historian but I wonder if there is an aspect to Roman wealth here that isn't captured well by GDP. As an example, Roman roads are famous for their durability, whereas modern highways (which experience very different traffic) need to be repaved on the order of years or decades. For the same distance of road, it would seem a great deal more economic activity in the form of labor, construction, and materials is needed to sustain a modern roadway. If key Roman infrastructure investments simply had a longer lifetime than modern infrastructure (because of design, requirements, etc.), wouldn't that imply the per capita wealth of the empire could be high without a particularly high GDP? Curious if there is any literature about this.
That's a fixable problem - if Detroit wants Amazon, they can simply forgive/defer the taxes.
It would even apply to a single socket send() of say, a 4k buffer, which is pretty common.

Broken MTU negotiation could easily result in twice as many packets as needed in that scenario.
That's one of the major reasons I think handwriting J is more interesting and understandable than typing it. You can more clearly mark which pieces are conjunctions and what they operate on, you can present the explicit expansion tree as a reference, etc.
It's free for developers. Has a limit on compute time, but most usecases won't run into it.
I don't think Palmer is part of Oculus any longer; I could have sworn he left earlier this year, or maybe last?

Facebook is still there, though.

Despite my being an early backer of the original Rift KS (I have the DK1 and the FB branded CV1 - both unused), I over Oculus' offerings, ever since they dropped Linux support. It was one of the main reasons I supported the KS to begin with, but then when it got big, they just decided our market segment wasn't worth supporting.

I will never, ever understand why hardware companies have such problems with this - I have yet to hear a truly convincing argument why hardware API specs can't be released to the community in order to allow them to create drivers - instead, the community has to go thru an arduous round after round of reverse-engineering the protocols and API just to get (at best) 2nd-tier support of the device (usually with buggy and/or missing results). It's been a huge pain with graphics cards, and now its continuing with VR headsets.

Also - why isn't anybody supporting or mentioning OSVR? There's another player in the headset market nobody ever mentions - Razer - who seems to be the only one who does support OSVR, yet their product is given virtually no coverage anywhere.

I don't know why that is, either.
ledger-autosync [0] does similar things with more data sources available

[0]: https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync
Very cool! Can you share the hardware setup you have?
Yes, people were saying for long that if Khiva was still a country today, it would be joining ranks of places like Andorra, or Luxembourg. Yet, people had to spend a big part of their income on simply food, water, clothing, and fuel
"With large transfers, the most packets will have the maximum length"

There is no universal "maximum length" among the links in a route. Some link will have a smaller maximum forcing the previous link to fragment nearly every packet; instant 2x (or more) packet overhead. "Large" transfers exacerbate this as nearly every packet is max size when it leaves the origin host.
We only remember the stuff that actually lasted.
This couldn't backfire. I like it.
This, like a lot else in this thread, is good advice for people who are not depressed.

Have the blues? Cut the fast-digesting carbs and experience less blood sugar fluctuation.

Have bipolar depression that flips into florid mania after a day-long hike? Hoo boy.
Hey if it works for sports stadiums why can't it work to create a company town (but where cities take the hit if the company town fails)?
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So I've built a SaaS MVP (B2B enterprise). I guess the next step is private beta, because we're not ready to open the floodgates to the public. How are private betas usually managed? Would really appreciate anyone's experience with this matter. What does the funnel usually look like? Is it ok if we don't have automatic credit card subscriptions yet, and I manually invoice our private beta customers? What are the expectations at this stage in terms of customer experience?
Would jumping into the shower and saturating your clothes before running through flames retard the burning of synthetic, if fully saturated? I ask cause I sleep in 100% polyester and nylon exclusively as cotton makes me sweat under a blanket.
I automated the birth announcement of my child using Tropo. Basically I had an app where, when I sent it the magical command ("here"), it generated a text and call to all family members with a canned message. Saved me a bunch of time :)
I have a morning routine script that has some yoga exercises, guided meditation, some aerobics, journalling and one hobby that alternates with the day of the week. It is basically a python script with some timers and some TTS from a text file.
The better question is how did GDP for a Roman citizen compare to a contemporary barbarian or slave?

The productivity difference between a modern worker is multiple orders of magnitude more than an ancient one. GDP comparisons are of questionable value.
The vandals don't care whether the tree lives or dies; they care that nobody enjoys the tree while they have to be aware of it.
I don’t think we disagree with each other.

Room to grow housing and office space requires a whole lot of development to happen. My greater point is that there is very little incentive for most people to move to Detroit compared to other locales that are further along on actually having a lot of the type of housing that is popular on the west coast, some semblance of working public transport and infrastructure, etc. The M-1 Rail is a good start, but I think we are still years from Detroit being a truly viable choice.

There are better options than Detroit for this largely just because Detroit is very far behind other cities that can offer some of these needs now and grow into the future ones. Detroit is still at the stage of needing to grow a bit more to support the influx.
Do you believe in Austrian economics or Young Earth Creationism too?

I mean, it's within your rights...
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I have access to several different libraries for borrowing books. I made a webpage that would let me type a search term once and search across all of them at once.
There is no need to have a server at all. Any configuration can be run locally without ssh.
> Sleep, eat well, keep active. Nothing about that advice is dangerous

except if the response to "I tried, but it doesn't work for me" is "your depression makes it even harder, but that is literally irrelevant".

Your parent post didn't leave enough room for "try something else, but don't forget these once you're fit enough".
No it's fully standalone probably using mobile graphics hardware which as noted by the Daydream etc. is already fine. It won't have the fidelity of the tethered versions but not being attached to anything is a tremendous win in terms of making the technology usable by anyone.
I can't wait to see the obvious-CG-with-Voodoo2-era-textures eruption!
I just bought a roomba:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008LX6OC6/ref=oh_aui_deta...

Highly recommend it to anyone with a large amount of hardwood floors. We have a couple area rugs, one is pretty thick and it handles the transitions fine.

Floors have never been cleaner, no longer need to vacuum animal fur everyday.
It doesn't need root access. It's just that most of the useful things to do on a server require root.
I was certain that this would be some sort of JS library filled with buzzwords. Instead, the very first hit was this: https://github.com/k4m4/movies-for-hackers. RIP my time management for the next month...
Perhaps it’s made complex by searching for perfection when really you just need something that makes a high percentage of builds better.

You’d be crazy to create a final release of something without starting from a “clean” state, which means they DO NOT need a module implementation with 100% accuracy in all of C++’s asinine corner cases. I wouldn’t trust that accuracy even if they claimed it, I’d “clean” anyway.

This means that compilation speedup just has to ensure that MOST incremental rebuilds perform better without adding insane development overhead (such as having to respecify things).

If 60% of the time my incremental rebuilds are faster, I’d say that is more than enough to justify a C++1x release. They need to just move forward.
I have a script on AWS which scrapes the UK National Rail website for my commute every few minutes between set times in the morning and afternoon, and sends me a Slack notification if there are delays or cancellations.

I could check manually but train problems are actually infrequent enough that I usually don't bother, although they are highly disruptive when they do happen.
Odd choice of analogy, since many people did not prefer 3D films when those were put into wide release, and 3D televisions were a huge flop.

Edit: I don't disagree that VR will be extended to a wide range of mainstream applications...just pointing out a problem with the analogy of color/B&W film.
There are a lot of places around Detroit for people to live if they weren't comfortable in Detroit. There are some extremely nice suburbs that you can commute to/from in 30-45 minutes which is still somehow an acceptable commute time compared to most other large cities in the US. You also have to consider that you can live in a 3k sq/ft house with a nice yard for 200-300k. That's very appealing as a tech worker looking to get out of SV or other "hot" tech areas.

As for importing workers, I think you'd be surprised how many tech companies are in the city already, I've seen a lot of people who suggest that Detroit is a top 10 city in the US in terms of work, one example is here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2017/03/16/technolog...
AI will be limited to the hardware it's on, just like our own intelligence is limited to what our brains can do. We will always be able to limit what AI can do by limiting the hardware it runs on.
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1. IFTTT turns off all of my Hue lights at sunrise (task: turn off forgotten lights)

2. At one point last year, I felt that my mornings were getting slower and slower (causing me to leave later), so I set up a Dash button where I hang my keys. When I left for work, I'd press the button, and the script would log the time to a Sparkfun data feed. After a month, I reviewed it to see just how bad it was (pretty bad). (task: life tracking I didn't have the brainpower for in the morning)

3. The worst part about D&D is keeping track of all the little variables and math, and none of the character sheets are any good (or if they are, they have 1 or 2 glaring problems, like only allowing 3 classes), so I wrote my own. Uses KnockoutJS to update all the little formulas that change every time you level up or gain skill points, etc. Here it is, though it's not exactly polished for public consumption: https://github.com/imnotpete/character-builder (task: fiddly math when I'm trying to have fun)

4. More IFTTT -- if my Roost fire alarm battery detects an alarm, I should receive an email and all my Hue lights will turn on. Unfortunately, the whole Roost process is slow enough that I just get confused when all my lights turn on 5 minutes after I burn the pizza. (task: turn on the lights so I can see to put out a midnight fire or escape my burning house)
Thank you for the links. As to laziness on searching for gluten sensitivity" i wasn't the one making the claim that it cures depression.

Have an upvote anyways for your efforts.
What UX?
Someone mentioned that it may be due to our first exposure being a medical doctor and that makes some sense. I really don't know why this is. I've noticed this for years, to the point where it has even made me tired of responding that I'm not a medical doctor.

You and I are probably sharing similar experiences. In both our cases, we probably have had much more exposure to doctors who aren't medical practitioners.

Yet, I don't immediately think of medical doctor.

Caveat, I am not sure if I used to immediately think medical doctor before I noticed the assumptions being made about me. I don't know if I assumed doctor meant medical doctor before I was exposed to the bias.

I may have, but my brain doesn't function like that and I don't remember.

shrugs

It's been a bit of a personal mystery since 1991. Technically, probably sooner.

Edit: Removed sentence that could be interpreted as a pejorative towards my ex and added nothing to the post.
I would only want this if it could serve as a kind of augmented reality. Show me very large screens as if they are infront of me, but let me move my head and see everything else normally.

I think that is a long way away, though.
I'd love to see the code for this, happen to have a public repo?
Speaking of a daily driver, in Seattle we already have a problem with people VRing while driving. At least it has really helped the homeless cope with the bleakness of their existence.
As I said - that's without getting into the Privacy angles.

Facebook hasn't burned their trust in their support of their new products like Google has. In fact, if anything, they have a better track record for that (granted, via acquisition, but still).

I know many non-technical types that refuse to adopt Google's new products because they don't trust them to stick around. Outside of their core Google Docs suite they have a real perception problem.

The fiasco that was Google Glass hurt them too. Android support is... weak at best (and yes, that's not all Google's fault but they own the brand so they own the backlash).

They just aren't a company you can trust in their products.
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> Perhaps there is a language barrier as English is my second (or third) language.

Ah, that's understandable then.

As someone else said in another comment, passing the work off to another human is usually referred to as "outsourcing". Automation typically refers to passing the work off to a robot or computer.
IMO, they will probably add dual cameras so you can still show the outside world while you work. Like AR, with VR goggles.
He said "seeing if I could go without" medication, which I think is different than saying he's cured.

But your point about bipolar II is really important. Taking anti-depressants (SSRIs) when bipolar can induce rapid cycling--a speeding up and intensifying of the depressed-elated cycle, which can be very dangerous, as I learned the hard way after being misdiagnosed. Bipolar II is often treatable (I'm deeply grateful that mine is), but with different approaches and medications than depression.